...changes...

Goodnight drummy-man.

I liked his version of "Sunny" with the Electric Flag.

/rimshot

Amazing that he was only 60. jimi died almost 40 years ago.


I'm the one that's gonna die when its time for me to die.

So let me live my life the way I want to...

Peace on the other side Buddy, say hi to Jimi.

How many drummers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Twenty. One to hold the bulb and nineteen to drink until the room spins.

I'll be playing these albums tonight in honor of ol' Buddy Miles.

Next thing you're going to tell me Miles Davis is dead.

/at least we've still got Miles Long? Right?

Muddy Biles is gone?
Crap!
Should have seen him when he came through town last.

/breaking out the LPs tonight...

As I was a young musician with a face and poofy hair made for radio, Buddy Miles was my inspiration.
Hope he rests well.

/puts on my Message to the People tape
//first finds a tape player

I knew it. Always in threes.

Tookie? (new window)

Buddy? (new window)

A friend of mine did some time in "the joint" in California in the 70's. He met Buddy there. They played in the prison band. He was a great drummer. Band of Gypsys was the BEST !!

He pissed off Jimi enough for Jimi to fire his egotistical ass, but BOG era was Jimi at his finest, I think. Buddy gets credit for his time served. RIP dude, you are a part of music history.

For a moment I thought that said Buddy Guy. A shame, and he was not that old.

I liked his singing voice, too.

It seems weird he was only 60.

I am not real big on drummers, but even I appreciated Buddy.
On the other hand, I am SOOOOO over rock and roll.

This is a big thing for me, I was a southern boy, born in 1958, I grew up in the sixties, came of age in the seventies and had as big a pile of vinyl as you can ever see.

But over the years I came to realize that nearly every good rock song I had ever heard had been overplayed. Either I heard it forever on classic rock stations, or it was pimped out to TV comercials and elevator music.

Some of the acid/hair rock I thought was good in my youth is totally unlistenable crap.

The gist of it is, I now listen to Blues, reggai, bluegrassm, and old school country, in that order. If I ever get the desire to hear any rock it will be some techno punk or something mindless.

/end rant.

Sorry about the Tolstoy copy and paste.
He was very influnetial, and anybody that can keep company with John McLaughlin, is pretty amazing.

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Buddy Miles Biography:
Best known as the drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, Buddy Miles also had a lengthy solo career that drew from rock, blues, soul, and funk in varying combinations. Born George Miles in Omaha, NE, on September 5, 1947, he started playing the drums at age nine, and joined his father's jazz band the Bebops as a mere 12 year old. As a teenager, he went on to play with several jazz and R&B outfits, most prominently backing vocal groups like Ruby & the Romantics, the Ink Spots, and the Delfonics. In 1966, he joined Wilson Pickett's touring revue, where he was spotted by blues-rock guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Bloomfield had left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band earlier in 1967 and was putting together a new group, the Electric Flag, which was slated to be an ambitious fusion of rock, soul, blues, psychedelia, and jazz. Bloomfield invited Miles to join up, and the band made its debut at the Monterey Pop Festival; unfortunately, the original lineup splintered in 1968. With founder Bloomfield gone, Miles briefly took over leadership of the band on its second studio album, which failed to reignite the public's interest.

With the Electric Flag's horn section in tow, Miles split to form his own group, the similarly eclectic Buddy Miles Express. Signed to Mercury, the group issued its debut album, Expressway to Your Skull, in 1968, with Miles' fellow Monterey Pop alum Jimi Hendrix in the producer's chair. In turn, Miles played on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland album, and later took part in an all-star jam session that resulted in Muddy Waters' Fathers and Sons album. Hendrix also produced the Miles Express' follow-up, 1969's Electric Church, and disbanded his backing band the Experience later that year; shortly afterward, Hendrix, Miles, and bassist Billy Cox formed Band of Gypsys, one of the first all-black rock bands. Bluesier and funkier than Hendrix's previous work, Band of Gypsys didn't last long in its original incarnation; Miles departed in 1970, replaced by Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell, but not before his powerhouse work was showcased on the group's lone album, the live Band of Gypsys.

After backing John McLaughlin on 1970's Devotion, Miles returned to the role of bandleader and recorded his most popular album, Them Changes, in 1971; it stayed on the charts for more than a year, and the title cut became Miles' signature song. From December 1971 to April 1972, Miles toured with Carlos Santana, which produced the CBS-released concert document Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live!; recorded inside an inactive volcano in Hawaii, the album sold very well, climbing into the Top Ten. Miles cut a few more albums for CBS, participated in a short-lived Electric Flag reunion in 1974, then moved to Casablanca in 1975 for a pair of LPs. Aside from a one-off album for Atlantic in 1981 (Sneak Attack), Miles kept a low profile over the next decade, partly to battle personal problems.

Miles returned in 1986 as the lead voice in a TV ad campaign that featured clay-animated raisins singing "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; the ads proved so popular that a kid-friendly musical franchise was spun off, and thus Miles became the lead singer of the California Raisins, performing on two albums (mostly R&B covers) and a Christmas special. Additionally, Miles rejoined his old friend Carlos Santana as the official lead vocalist of Santana during part of the late '80s, making his studio debut on 1987's Freedom. In the early '90s, Miles played with Bootsy Collins (both solo and as members of Hardware), and in 1994 he formed a new version of the Express and recorded Hell and Back for Rykodisc. Miles Away From Home followed in 1997 on Hip-O. Miles toured steadily through the '90s, and subsequently formed a more straightforward blues band called the Blues Berries with guitarist Rocky Athas; their first album, Blues Berries, appeared on Ruf in 2002.

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He shall be missed by many.

pat boone pat boone, bucket o fish, bucket o fish.

RIP.

BEST DRUMMER EVAR


/I know, it's inappropriate, but had to be said
//Drummer

Is not impressed

I used to wash Buddy's car when I was going to school in Texas. It was a black Cadillac with gold trim. He was always listening to Richard Pryor tapes.

DimensionalPunk
I used to see him driving that Cadillac around north Omaha.

I thought Buddy Rich died a long time ago?

Pinner: Muddy Biles is gone?
Crap!
Should have seen him when he came through town last.

/breaking out the LPs tonight...

Actually I did a major fark up on that. Miles played at this club converted from Mafia restaurant literally right down the street from me. Tickets were $60 and I got all uppity and said I wasn't going to pay that I'd catch him next time. He was dead about a year later.

NANCY'S MEAT PUPPET: I thought Buddy Rich died a long time ago?

That was the first thing I thought. Like man he was only sixty? dunno who this guy is...

I guess that's what I get for my smartass thought about William Buckley earlier: Good, one less smarmy asshole in the world.

And so the world remains in balance.

Man, Buddy Miles was talented.

So sad, RIP Buddy :(

I got to see him once at a festival in 2001, I consider myself very fortunate for that

This gets greenlit and Boyd Coddington's passing goes unremarked? Not anymore.

/That's one '44 classic that won't be restored.
/,

Was sad to hear this. Immediately put on the live version of Joe Tex.

God Bless him, I hope he's chillin' with Jimi or something.

Weird. I was just thinking about him the other day; he lived here for a year or two back in the late 80s, early 90's.

I have 'Them Changes' (on vinyl, mind you), one of my favorite's as a kid.

I met him when he was with the Electic Flag. He had an antler filled with coke and was a prolific perspirer. Thats all I remember.

wtf? seriously. just listening to band of gypsys right now when I saw this.

anthonix: BEST DRUMMER EVAR


/I know, it's inappropriate, but had to be said
//Drummer

Joe Morello. Hands down.

And Myron Cope doesn't get a green?

Something is rotten in DenFark.

I got to work with him about a decade ago, he was just amazing. He just walked around as though he was larger than life, and played like he was still 20.

He will be missed.

2wolves: And Myron Cope doesn't get a green?

He's green on Sports. (new window)

Blues

Joe Morello?

Elvin, Tootie, Klook, 'Tain, Jo Jones....

I call him for my Dead-Musicians-Dream-Team-Band.

Always thought Nick Gravenites hogged way too many of the lead vocals on that first Electric Flag album.

Buddy Miles also played on some of Stephen Stills' tracks on the last Buffalo Springfield LP, "Last Time Around"... "Special Care" comes to mind.

RIP Buddy.

When he toured, Buddy Miles liked to go to the hole in the wall bars in town if it was jam night. My father in law was a drummer and counted Miles as a major influence. One night he was at the open jam and in walks Buddy. Buddy was playing guitar and singing and he got to back him up. One of his favorite stories and proudest moments.

RIP

In the pocket....that guy was probably my biggest inspiration on drums. no frilly artsy shiot, just a solid foundation and structure for us all to funk on. Prolly my favorite Jimi era too, for the same reason.

anthonix: BEST DRUMMER EVAR


/I know, it's inappropriate, but had to be said
//Drummer

Not even close man....

he was lame as hell and would do anything to make money off jimis name. remember those piece of shiat bat shaped guitars he endorsed in the 80s? 'jimi wouldve been playing THIS guitar'. yeah right. he also played with leon hendrix. thats really all that needs to be said.

I thought Buddy was a fictional character...

RIP Buddy Young, Jr.

I loved the live album he did with Santana way back in the olden days. Awesome.

carmody: I loved the live album he did with Santana way back in the olden days. Awesome.

I have that album. R.I.P, Buddy.
You will be missed.

I played with him about 6th months ago. What an honor it is to have made music with him. Thanks Buddy