"Killing Floor" is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guit… Read Full Bio ↴"Killing Floor" is a 1964 song by American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Howlin' Wolf. Called "one of the defining classics of Chicago electric blues", the song was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1991 in the "Classics of Blues Recordings" category. The song has been covered by many artists, with the 1968 version by The Electric Flag opening with an excerpt of a speech by then U.S. President Lyndon Johnson promptly cut off by the music amid derisive laughter.

Killing Floor
Electric Flag Lyrics

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I should of quit you, a long time ago
I should of quit you, babe, long time ago
I should of quit you, and went on to Mexico
If I had of followed, my first mind
If I had of followed, my first mind
I'd of been gone, since my second time
A

I should of went on, when my friend come from Mexico at me
I should of went on, when my friend come from Mexico at me
But no I was foolin' with ya, baby, I let ya put me on the killin' floor
Lord knows, I should of been gone
Lord knows, I should of been gone

And I wouldn't have been here, down on the killin' floor
Yeah

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Electric Flag's "Killing Floor" describe regret, acknowledging that the singer knows they should have left their love interest a long time ago. The "killing floor" metaphorically represents the pain and suffering the singer has experienced by staying with their toxic partner. Instead of listening to their "first mind," or their initial instincts, the singer went against their gut and stayed with their love interest, even allowing themselves to be placed on the "killing floor." The singer recognizes that they should have left when their friend came from Mexico, but they didn't, leading them to their current position at the mercy of their partner.

The song's bluesy sound conveys the pain and sorrow of the lyrics, with the intense guitar riffs and fast-paced rhythm reflecting the chaotic and violent nature of the relationship. The lyrics reflect on the consequences of staying in a bad relationship, stressing the importance of following one's instincts and leaving when necessary. Overall, the song paints a picture of the danger and destruction that comes with remaining in a relationship that is no longer healthy.

Line by Line Meaning

I should of quit you, a long time ago
I regret not leaving you a long time ago

I should of quit you, babe, long time ago
I regret not leaving you a long time ago while addressing their partner

I should of quit you, and went on to Mexico
I should have left and moved to Mexico

If I had of followed, my first mind
If I had followed my instincts

I'd of been gone, since my second time
I would have left after the second time we met

I should of went on, when my friend come from Mexico at me
I should have left with my friend when they came from Mexico to get me

But no I was foolin' with ya, baby, I let ya put me on the killin' floor
I was playing around with you, and I let you hurt me

Lord knows, I should of been gone
I know I should have left already

And I wouldn't have been here, down on the killin' floor
I would not be in this dangerous situation if I had left you earlier

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Written by: CHESTER BURNETT

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@shlomoshunn3597

9y↑15

I was there, too.

When the Electric Flag started, a tiny fan blew a small flag above Buddy Miles' head.

Mike Bloomfield had to leave early. People started to boo. He said we'd like his substitute. Out walked Jiimi with a long feather in his cap.

Steppenwolf played, too.

As did Quicksilver Messenger Service.

The cost of the ticket?

$2.50!

I remember a recording of Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy" playing as people took their seats.

http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2009/12/june-7-8-fillmore-east-electric.html

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I should have quit you, a long time ago
Yes I should have quit you, babe, a long time ago
I wouldn't be here now people, down on the killing floor
If I'd have listened to my second mind
Yes if I'd have listened to my second mind
You know I wouldn't be here now people, down on the killing floor
If I'd have listened to my second mind
Yes if I'd have listened to my second mind
You know I wouldn't be here now people, down on the killing floor
I should have gone on, when my friend said come to Mexico with me
I should have gone on, when my friend said come to Mexico with me
Well I wouldn't be here now people, down on the killing floor
Yes I should have quit you, a long time ago
Yes I should have quit you, babe, a long time ago
I wouldn't be here now people, down on the killing floor

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Songwriters: Burnett Chester / Howlin Wolf

Killing Floor lyrics © Arc Music, Arc Music Corp, Prestige Music Co Inc

All comments from YouTube:

@dbrinkm1

13w↑9

I bought this great album when a senior at Illinois state univ. in 1968..still have it !..a great presentation of horns, drums and vocals...all in one I learned to read music and play trumpet , coronet and baritone since age 11...you can bet I gravitated to this great band. great artistry is here presented...enjoy !..I have for over 50 yrs. !!

@cathsalazar9930

3y↑64

Damnnnnn this brings me back to my age 16! At 71 now this is just as it was then killer!..... love this album!.... where’d those awesome days go?..... this is so dope!......👍🇺🇸💯❤️👌☮️

@jeffreybank5006

They went down the tubes with Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift.

@larryleitch3803

3y↑1

I hope you are still in the same frame as I really have escaped to the present, salvaging only my favorite memories that surface, at around now ....

@cathsalazar9930

3y↑2

@@larryleitch3803 me too dude! Pleasure reading your reply! Awesome memories of this great song & time! ❤️from🇺🇸👍

@stevenalbertbartlett2688

2y↑1

@@cathsalazar9930 wore this 1 out..way ahead of itz tyme..played itleast 1nce a day..Horn sexshun..hot..( istill du trumpet & keyz)..sum guitar..

@cathsalazar9930

@@stevenalbertbartlett2688 awesome dude! One of the greatest music ever! Have or had the album!...

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@lwhite1523

3y↑36

My roomate and I saw the electric flag at the Filmore East. Mike had the sunburst LP and 4 Fender Twin reverbs ganged. He got the "killing floor" tone with that rig!! After the show was over, we heard some of the staff whispering "don't leave." The curtain was down. about 5-8 minutes later the curtain came up and buddy miles and Carl Radle(bass) were standing there. Some weird guy came out, plugged his strat straight into the twin rig and turned around. Jimi Hendrix and the other two played the blues, no vocals, for a long long time. Outrageous. I could never get either of their tones out of a single twin reverb. . . I just saw the post below. I think the date was 2nd week of June '68.

@boyermatthews2177

49w↑1

My old man put me on this shit yrs ago. He heard it for the first time in Vietnam. Thanks pop. Love you.

@jimmymoosic

I would have done anything to be there. That is great. Summer of 68 this album was on replay in my bedroom.

@lwhite1523

7w↑1

Yea, I still have the original vinyl. The record is as good as the show was - just missing the smoke in room and the ladies.

@Augmuse

1y↑7

Some of the best blues guitar playing that you will ever hear. Mike Bloomfield sure can bend those strings.

@coltkitt

10y↑8

A real "feel good song", makes you wanna get up & dance, even when you`re 63 & your body feels 93 !! Everyone rocks on this tune, especially Bloomfield (rip).

@FourHbcaps

and his solos on "Wine" are even better!

@theearlynovember12

9y↑22

how could someone dislike this????? a treasure from the 60's

@benburma6112

9y↑5

alexis Poisoned by rap/hip-hop?

@haloskater24

Ben Burma hip hop has nothing to do with this. Stop the BS

@benburma6112

7y↑2

Since you seem to need some elucidation, alexis asks how someone could dislike this and I reply as above. Jeeze, it was a joke man, lighten up! (Or be more attentive in your reading so you don't come off as an a$$ -- this is experience speaking. :)

@checkandraise1

it musta been a Clapton fan.

@davidsandler6235

4y↑16

Saw the incredible Michael Bloomfield at The Trip on Sunset Blvd, LA, with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 1966.

@hswatnik

13y↑18

the best solo guitar riff ever by Mr. Bloomfield 2nd to none - a grand jam!

@leegenix

7y↑2

Amen...

@traffiquest1094

👌🎸👍

@barrycohen311

25w

Whoops, you forgot about this one- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9QCBUzWRo0

@musik102

7y↑34

Nick's singing in this track is terrific!

@stevemiller1203

4y↑1

As always!

@MrBiscotti2011

2y↑2

It sure is! Love the vocals here!

@tonfan

6y↑14

Still powerful AF 50 years later!

@brucehorn1820

3y↑8

There was a lot of talent in The Electric Flag!

@markbridwell8972

8w↑1

that's the understatement of the millennium .

@eldorado96

2y↑4

Holy crap! I hadn't listened to this in decades. And I've got the original vinyl. Guess I better finally get that turntable repaired. Classic!

@radioPete444

10w

One of my favorite concerts ever: The Electric Flag on the last Saturday in February 1968 at The Trauma, 2121 Arch Street, Philadelphia. The band played for just under 3 hours. The interplay between Buddy Miles and Mike was something every fan of blues and funk would have devoured (On "Funky Broadway" Buddy and Mike scorched the air by themselves - - just Buddy's drums and Mike's - Les Paul - guitar).

When Harvey Brooks started playing the bass line to "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay," I nearly lost it. It was 3 months after the Otis Redding plane crash.
Sweet-but-bitter memories.

@larryhudspeth4072

52w↑1

Never heard a better version of Killin Floor! These guys rocked!.

@timhays332

5y↑38

And let's have a word for bassist Mr. Harvey Brooks who just drives the killing floor from beginning to end! And goes on to play with Miles after he heard this cut.

@ronnyrono782

2y↑3

Tim. There are parts in The Killing Floor where Harvey is duplicating the kick drum beat of Buddy Miles. It's incredible!

@jimmymoosic

2y↑1

@@ronnyrono782 they were in sync. Great bass player. Drives the song w buddy

@ronnyrono782

2y↑3

Tim, Harvey was simply one of the best of his generation

@OspreyD40

I have listened to Harvey Brooks' fantastic work here probably well over a hundred times and I get the same kick every time. The patta-pat pushing, pumping sounds Buddy Miles produces mate beautifully with Brooks' climbing scales and syncopated desceding lines. Just beautiful musicians. They're not in sync as much as complimenting each other for a more complex whole, but so full of feeling!

@arthurblackhistoric

2y↑1

Harvey Brooks was the bass player on the seminal SuperSessions album. That's where I first heard him anyway. Great bass player!

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@fredupchurch2704

8y↑62

Buddy Miles on drums - driving and pushing and hauling, ya'll!

@tonyfreeman1339

5y↑3

Birthday lad.Sept.5

@stevemiller1203

4y↑10

One of my all time favorite albums!

@danielwillametz4453

3y↑2

My older brother brought this album home over fifty yrs ago i kept playing it damn lol

@stevenpeters6909

3y↑6

The bass man is tearing it up!!!!

@nigelchadwick994

thats harvey brooks, he was with every session everywhere then

@susansquire7968

I guess SO! Killer!

@stephennharle4946

4y↑38

Some of Michael Bloomfields best guitar playing here folks!

@stephennharle4946

4y↑1

Before heroin killed him......

@tippimail1

Check out "My Labors"by Nick Gravenites;Bloomfield is way above the clouds on this one.

@MUSHROOMCOLLECTOR1

2y↑1

@@tippimail1 thanks for the tip, indeed stellar playing.

@AtomicLobotomy

9y↑59

One of the truly great albums of the sixties. Saw Electric Flag perform at Fillmore East -- at end of set Jimi Hendrix came out and jammed with them for another hour -- one of truly great concerts of the time (I saw many). Am wondering if anybody out there was there that night and remembers the date.

@shlomoshunn3597

9y↑15

@AtomicLobotomy

9y↑5

Tickets seemed cheap but I was student living on $150 a month ($60 for rent in apt). I think I snuck in through side door late in the concert so missed the earlier groups. But definitely remember the flag being blown by the fan. & remember Jimi Hendrix coming out -- Fillmore East was not sold out that evening -- but we all went bananas.

@jerrygoldfarb7739

8y↑2

+Atomic Lobotomy I know it was in 1968 but don't recall the exact date-I worked as an usher at the Fillmore East then -what great music I heard and all for free-that was an incredible night.

@jerrygoldfarb7739

8y↑2

+Atomic Lobotomy was working as an usher then-lucky I didn't catch you sneaking in-would have made you share that joint with me.

@AtomicLobotomy

8y↑1

Yeah, many thanks for turning other way. Yeah, too bad this stuff was not recorded or videoed -- a lot of great moments in rock, but that night was, for me, a real high point.
Are you still living in NYC?

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@bigbadfitter

8y↑51

Mike Bloomfield could hold his own, in his day, with damn near anyone.

@AtomicLobotomy

4y↑14

Mike Bloomfield is greatest white blues guitarist that ever lived.

@johnnieguitar5724

4y↑8

@@AtomicLobotomy AMEN to that!! Mike left an affluent white home to play the blues in Chicago! He was accepted by all the blues player there because he was the real deal, and routinely jammed on stage with Muddy, Howlin Wolf, etc when they played in town. He spent time in their homes and on the road. He lived the blues. There is no comparison between Mike and the Brit 'blues lovers' like Clapton, etc. The best ones played great blues, copying licks from records, but Mike dedicated his whole life to living the blues and playing the blues. And in the end it took him too soon. A truly remarkable individual.

@stevemiller1203

4y↑4

@@johnnieguitar5724 You make a lot of good points, too bad the drugs did him in

@jameslonley

still .les paul baby.

@DucksDeLucks

4y↑2

@@johnnieguitar5724 he would be the first one to tell you he didn't live the blues. but he had a tremendous talent for it.

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@roy19491

11y↑10

Mike Bloomfield on guitar....one of the absolute greats

@phillip6408

12w

This and a track by PG&E are memories of my late teens here in the UK.

@aleleeinnaleleeinn9110

2y↑1

love using that clip from LBJ. The great society speech.The great society was a casualty of Vit Nam.
AND Mike Bloomfield absolute nails it. Rock/blues/R&B perfectly blended. the song NEVER GETS OLD.

@nikolaosmosxakis3395

9w↑1

very very good...................................................................................................................................................

@jimmymoosic

4y↑5

One of my favorite bands Full of talent and funky!!!!!

@karlmahlmann

9y↑22

Wonderful album. Great memories.

@jfellowskats

Avalon Ballroom & Fillmore Auditorium

@ericdreizen1463

2y↑1

John Hammond, legendary A&R man, signed Mike Bloomfield, who had played on Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone," to Columbia. This album was the result. Most likely recorded at Columbia's famous "church" recording studio, a converted church in Manhattan noteworthy for it's acoustics, where many Columbia classics like "I Left My Heart In SF," all of Mathis' albums, & the entire Columbia stable of artists, mixed all their albums.

@cathsalazar9930

Keep coming back to this hot song killer to the max used to have this album! Great memories now at 72 when I was 16 then!........ fur F**King real!!!! Superb!............ he’ll ya! 👍❤️🙏🇺🇸💯☮️🔥😻🦊🎼🤩💋🦋

@DucksDeLucks

4y↑7

magnificent arrangement and performance

@rinskepv

Still have this album!

@rexsexson5349

6y↑4

From The Electric Flag to Jimi Hendrix to The California Raisins what a strange trip.

@pleximars

11y↑7

i would also like to recognize buddy miles on drums, what a guy!

@AtomicLobotomy

Yes and Buddy Miles put the band together.

@patrickcostine

9y↑12

Sensational track - great guitar from Mike Bloomfield.

@mrc6182

the LATE Michael Bloomfield, unfortunately!

@SandraGonzalez-xi2sv

Harvey brooks on bass justs kicks ass
.I saw them at new port sixty nine

@jerrygoldfarb7739

8y↑6

Still have the great A Long Time Comin on vinyl-picture of group on back near a trestle with a quote from Michael that starts "The Electric Flag is an American Music Band..."-he then goes on to explain that is "the music you hear in the air, on the air and in the streets; blues, soul, country, rock, religious music, traffic, crowds, street sounds and field sounds, the sound of people and silence."

@jerrysullivan113

6y↑6

BLOOMFIELD... WHAT AN ACE!!! One of the best!

@traffiquest1094

👌🎸👍

@reefrunner9

4y↑1

Loved this Album cover from day one.

@eargasm1072

6y↑6

Also played the solo on dylans "tombstone blues"...another classic rip

@jerryjohnson28

8y↑9

The flag were a super group and this album was there only real good one play on Mr Bloomfield Bloomfield were still listening✌😎

@rippi37

Such a cool song !!! Can't sit still while listening to it ..get down everyone ..and get up again

@ATMABRAHM

9y↑18

MICHAEL WAS DEVASTATING ON THIS SONG! DOWN ON THE KILLING FLOOR.

@jantrieger4500

9y↑22

mike bloomfield, MY favorite white boy guitarplayer hands down! so sorry his playin' days were cut short by the white death,smack, so sad. i still dig his stuff.

@checkandraise1

pure, rabid genius.

@bobswabski3590

Love Mike Bloomfield.. From the Paul Butterfield days, the flag and everything else he. The most underrated blues guitar player.

@electricchurchmusic4298

3y↑1

Brilliant.

@rafe9897

Master class in bass playing.

@ralphvillanueva8724

4y↑1

Saw them at Winterland in SF, Mike Bloomfield was on the stage telling the roady how he wanted his amp setup. You don't see that stuff today. Great show. Still have the album.

@asd36f

5y↑1

Discovered this on Mark Kerr's "Blues Nation" podcast - great song!

@brucemcrae7395

2y↑1

Subotai Michael's solo on 'Another Country' is, to my mind, the finest blues guitar solo I've ever heard and I've heard my share believe me.

@SoulDaddy33

47w

Absolutely right. I wish that segment of the song stood by itself, it deserves to be a cut all on its own.

@adamguilford649

45w

Most under-rated band in rock and roll history

@kathrynwilson3985

5y↑1

UNREAL SONG!!!!

@jerrymcgeorge4117

24w

Mikey, how you inspired us!

@marcdymond6488

7y↑15

Got arrested right before I could go see The Buddy Miles Express.........back in 68

@larryleitch3803

Dude, sorry the man showed up, did you ever get to see Buddy's Band of Gypsys?

@marcdymond6488

@@larryleitch3803 hey !! Actually it was April 69.....but no I never got to buddy miles haha. Had to do 180 days then 3 yrs on a short leash for possession with intent acid first offense.

@larryleitch3803

@@marcdymond6488 Marc, any time you served is you know... not in the cards. And keep it real, 180 days is nothing short of a lifetime. Peace and take care of yourself.

@marcdymond6488

@@larryleitch3803 haaha.... I was 17 and just 2 months away from 18 which was a lifesaver as I was still legally a minor but 6 months to a kid who'd never been in the pokie was a real drag as I was used to breathing free air lol . It was a lifesaver though a I had a nasty crank habit at the time.

@marcdymond6488

@@larryleitch3803 didn't need no diet pills lol....went in a mess and came out clean and about 40 lbs heavier @165 !! Aiint gone near none of that shit in over 50 years since. Little drink a little weed and it's all good. Had to grow up and support myself etc etc and my folks wouldn't let me live in the basement and get high so what was I to do but go out on my own 4 months after I got free haha

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@garyives1218

3y↑1

Believe it or not I came across this album by chance. A few years ago I was at my local record/media store to get an album I'd already planned on. I noticed this album cover and thought; well, that has to be good so I grabbed it. Cover was still pretty solid despite being pretty warn. Not sure if it's original, but I'd guess it's at least a 70s release. It was $7.99 and it plays phenomenal with my great GRADO phono cartridge. Someone took great care of the vinyl. So glad I came across this phenomenal band. I cherish this record. Same with the copy of John Mayall "Jazz Blues Fusion" I stumbled upon ($8.99) that has a slighty worn cover but sounds unbelievably good.

@patrickfoster3229

i first came across Electric Flag on a £1.50 sampler album in the early 70's.Haven't looked back since

@pabloprieto5381

38w

Mike is the most savage guitar player of all times!!!

@tombrning

8y↑3

Lived in the City and loved Owsleys Blue Flats and this album. If you lived in the city I'm sure you did some or know about the King of LSD :)

@1953taggie

5y↑2

I want this played at my wake...

@TZKeyz

6y↑2

When I listen to my second mind I listen to this!

@peterhaley2836

one of the 60s great sounds,, Bloomfield guitar soaring , Buddy Miles drumming, great bass by harvey brooksl??, Nick Gravenites singing, and those horns!!!!

@jamesnella52

Harvey Brooks walkin the dog

@robertmbruno

13y

Yea man , you just keep em coming . Roll over Buddy , right behind ya .

@RoyFive

5y↑4

First version of this I heard was by Howlin' Wolf.

@rmtex2437

Sure hope you're listening to this, RO! RIP, Bro....

@danielwillametz4453

4y↑1

Killin it damn

@marcelotalamo2158

6y↑2

Una genialidad increible

@chrislarcovic1554

7y↑3

played the shit outta this album

@leegenix

7y↑1

So did I. This album changed my life.

@sandsoftime1954

6y↑2

On any Saturday night in any major city you could go and listen to great show bands like these guy. I guess those days are over, too expensive to be hauling large bands and their equipment all over. I don't even know if Millennials have an interest in this art form.

@dougsheetz6525

3y↑1

Went to San Francisco to be part of an anti-war parade. Stopped over afterward in North Beach for some Chinese food, then happened upon a tiny club called Keystone Corner. Name on the marquis is Mike Bloomfield. Go in, about thirty people there, ordered drinks. Mike and a couple of others from the Flag were jamming about twenty feet away. A great day and a great night. Long live Electric Flag!

@sandsoftime1954

@@dougsheetz6525 enjoyed your comment. One bitter cold night many years ago, I wandered into a place called The Psychedelic Supermarket, just outside of Kenmore Square in Boston. Place was empty accept for a few people and the band . The group was The Young Bloods, who I had never heard.at that time. a couple of weeks later they broke into the Top Ten with "Get Together". That type of thing happened to me several more times in the sixties and seventies. All you had to do was be in the right place at the right time, no effort on my part at all.

@LMHS63

8y↑7

The Fillmore, Mc Sorleys Old Ale House, Bleeker St, the Harleys, Bob's Bar Wappingers Falls NY, 1969-70 if you weren't there you missed it all. The "Flag" goes better with Matuse, Ripple, and Zeller Schwartz Katz & other "things" ! Yeah, I survived !

@j1thom

Anybody who refs Zeller is aces!

@jeffcassell1236

I was born 87. I missed everything good. Its a shame the way things are today. Social media is ruining the social fabrication of are society, & much much more that's obviously not great.

@johnfox5225

9y↑11

Just saw the movie "Selma" tonight, primarily about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement of the mid-1960s.

The climax of the movie is Lyndon Johnson giving a speech to congress to enact the voting rights law. I about fell out of my seat, as the speech began with the intro to "Killing Floor".

Since 1968 I had always wondered where that came from. The irony is that I always felt it was making fun of LBJ from a counter-culture standpoint, yet it signifies one of his most liberal actions.

@leegenix

9y↑1

+John Fox My brother and I got the biggest laugh when we first hear the Johnson speech intro and the laugh track. We rebellious and the only brothers that got into music. The best decision I ever made.

@jerrygoldfarb7739

8y↑1

+John Fox Agree that was one of LBJ's most liberal actions but believe that they were sort of making fun of the whole deal i.e. how long it took to convince the government and its leaders to actually enact legislation giving blacks the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. There was quite a controversy regarding the director's quite negative portrayal of LBJ in the movie Selma

@FourHbcaps

+jerry goldfarb So who would have been the most politically-inclined person in the group? Bloomfield? Miles? Gravinites? Goldberg? Or perhaps their producer?

@jerrygoldfarb7739

+FourHbcaps beats me

@jaimejaimeChannel

+John Fox yes - good point - some people don't make a lot of distinctions.

@stevenward6453

What more do you fucking need perfection God bless them all

@ericswenson322

DATE
Apr 26, 1968
VENUE
Winterland (San Francisco, CA) I am pretty sure I was there...Ha!

@larryleitch3803

First show at the Fillmore. A 30 foot flagpole in the middle of the floor. Would have liked to see Chocolate Watch Band.

@1953taggie

That sax break...

@PetieFr

11y

Thank you very much :D

@unklegeo

12y

Man, I love this! I bought it on the day it came out! (Geez, i was only 18!)

@1200wpc

I played several songs off this album in a group we put together my senior year in high school. I love that until this day and forever more. Darn George we're getting old.

@makeit7579

4y↑1

the trip

@randalmcmurphy1893

ace!

@asd36f

Toss up for me between the funky bass line and the driving horns.

@charlesschlumberger6482

4y↑12

ELECTRIC FLAG IS ALL-TIME ASS-KICKING BLUES BAND

@cathsalazar9930

3y↑1

U betcha bro!!! ☮️ & ❤️

@heybabe8438

Great music from very talented musians , but I always wondered who the beautiful girl was on the album cover .

@danielwillametz4453

The wolf

@martinbaker305

If you listen to "Another country " on this album,you will hear a great guitar solo.He out Santana's Santana

@roy19491

11y↑2

how about "Tombstone Blues" on Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" album, Mike did great work on the entire album

@richintalent

8y↑3

When I first heard this I could swear it was Clapton.

@danielb7074

4y↑4

Don't disrespect Michael like that

@danielb7074

4y↑1

Clapton couldn't shine Michaels shoes

@AtomicLobotomy

4y↑1

@@danielb7074 Clapton did some great things with guitar, but Bloomfield made his guitar sing. I've never heard anyone imitate what Bloomfield does. Lots of house bands do Layla.

@dawo8506

Bloomfield!

@michaelbrandt5416

Great tune. Is there a studio version ?

@Lifeblesser

11y↑3

I wonder how many Led Zeppelin fans have ever heard this version of The Lemon Song?

@bobramirez588

Frank DeMasi
It’s the other way around. The Lemon Song is a version of Killing Floor

@nathanantelope3222

@@bobramirez588 I Didn't Know That.
Thought It Was The Other Way Around.

@bobramirez588

4y↑1

@@nathanantelope3222
Killing Floor was released by Howling Wolf in 1964.

@Vivacior

Even though i have "Autoplay" turned off, this video came on. Gonna keep posting this until this crap stops!

Grrrr!.... WTF, Google?!!!?

@AS5A

11y

Also check out Buddy Miles Express

@rahulreddy3761

@Widkey

Led Zep covered this song in the Lemon Song..

@PetieFr

11y↑1

could someone recommend me other funky bands whi play a style like in this one?

@redman840

PetieFr Tower of Power?

@trout1212

Cold Blood

@AtomicLobotomy

I like some of what Tony Joe White was doing--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt0RFrDXZU0

@thedrugstorecowboy2948

0:18
1:02
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1:45
2:07

@theccarbiter

Ah Zeppelin did this song as well

@allanmoulton6815

Introduction by LBJ 36th President of the USA

@brucemcrae7395

bruce mcrae

@jerrytan8860

4y↑1

To MAGA

@lefaudiovideo

Butterfield was a great band leader! Mediocre musician. (Don’t agree, listen to Toots on the harp). Anyways, the Electric Flag was the Best, and still is, the best R&B band, period. Sam & Dave, Mitch Rider, Bo, Ike $ Tina, the Hallabloes (sp) you name it! Put a bunch of white blues rockers + Bloomfield + Buddy Miles …… lordy look out!!!!!