Hard for me to believe that after 53 years I am still discovering live Woodstock clips that I have never seen. I never realized how influential Butterfield really was until some years back I finally got around to picking up "The Paul Butterfield Blues Band" and "East/West". Only then did I realize that half of the material that I ever heard blues artists do @ JJ's Lounge in San Jose was from those two records. Does anyone know who the guitar player is in this video?
Wikipedia: "In 2006, Butterfield was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame, which noted that "the albums released by the Butterfield Blues Band brought Chicago Blues to a generation of Rock fans during the 1960s and paved the way for late 1960s electric groups like Cream".[32] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 2015.[14] The induction biography commented that "the Butterfield Band converted the country-blues purists and turned on the Fillmore generation to the pleasures of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Willie Dixon and Elmore James".
I think that is Buzzy Feiten. He played in Gregg's band at some point. Might have been the Playin Up a Storm lp.
@steved: You are correct sir. Wikipedia:
"Feiten replaced Elvin Bishop in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band,[2][3] and recorded on the group's fifth album, Keep on Moving.[3] With Butterfield, Feiten toured internationally and played at the Atlantic City Pop Festival and the Woodstock Festival."
Wikipedia says he's also played with many other prominent artists including, as steved said, Gregg Allman, and Aretha Franklin, David Sanborn, Jeff Lorber, etc.
@robslob Apparently Buzzy Feiten was not on Playing Up A Storm from Gregg. But Buzzy is on Queen of Hearts on Laid Back. Buzzy came up with the opening guitar riff that sets the mood for the arrangement.
Buzzy has been on a large number of artists albums. And has put out a few albums of his own.
Buzzy Feiten also is in the guitar business. He builds and markets a line of electric guitars.
Here is Buzzy Feiten playing one of his company's guitars. Buzzy Feiten guitars. This model is designed to appeal to Strat and Les Paul players. ( Sounds like Paul Reed Smith's idea)
Buzzy also has a tuning system his company markets.
I've never heard of a Buzzy Feiten guitar. Apparently they don't have them at the be music store in my town.
But instead of trying to fit between a Les Paul and a Strat or be a Telecaster except better or a better SG type guitar, why not just do what Leo Fender and Orville Gibson and Les Paul did. Come out with something that is new and all its own. Instead of being a so called improvement or slightly different twist of what is already out on the market.
