To What Are Yee Listenin' Right Now?

I had no idea Mickey Thomas was the singer on this song until tonight seeing the video.
Also, who is that guitar player in the cowboy hat? I have a guess, but am likely wrong.

Hunting the answer on my own, I pulled up some info on Elvin and the song and time period etc. I found this and wonder if I am right. DB

"By the end of 1960s, the Butterfield Blues Band was starting to buckle beneath an overload of talent, so Bishop decided to jump ship and headed for San Francisco, where he formed the first version of the Elvin Bishop Group. He initially signed with Bill Graham and released two albums on his Fillmore label, and then released an album on Epic, and then two on One Way. Bishop was then brought to the attention Capricorn Records prexy Phil Waldren by the Allmans' axeman, Dickey Betts. Capricorn, at that time, had effectively taken over the mainstream music scene after facilitating the platinum success of the Allmans and the emergence of Southern rock. Bishop was now on a label that could give him the financial and promotional support he needed to break through. "Travelin' Shoes" was his first hit off 1974's Let It Flow, and then "Fooled Around" exploded on the charts during the tour on which this King Biscuit show was recorded. "
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
I had no idea Mickey Thomas was the singer on this song until tonight seeing the video.
Also, who is that guitar player in the cowboy hat? I have a guess, but am likely wrong.

Hunting the answer on my own, I pulled up some info on Elvin and the song and time period etc. I found this and wonder if I am right. DB

"By the end of 1960s, the Butterfield Blues Band was starting to buckle beneath an overload of talent, so Bishop decided to jump ship and headed for San Francisco, where he formed the first version of the Elvin Bishop Group. He initially signed with Bill Graham and released two albums on his Fillmore label, and then released an album on Epic, and then two on One Way. Bishop was then brought to the attention Capricorn Records prexy Phil Waldren by the Allmans' axeman, Dickey Betts. Capricorn, at that time, had effectively taken over the mainstream music scene after facilitating the platinum success of the Allmans and the emergence of Southern rock. Bishop was now on a label that could give him the financial and promotional support he needed to break through. "Travelin' Shoes" was his first hit off 1974's Let It Flow, and then "Fooled Around" exploded on the charts during the tour on which this King Biscuit show was recorded. "
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I'm too young to remember when "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" was a hit, but I got into Elvin Bishop through Capricorn records. I played in a band doing Southern rock from when I was 15 (I mean, we were from the south of Norway, after all! :p ), and we were heavily into a lot of the Southern acts like the Allmans, Charlie Daniels, etc. Anything issued on Capricorn records was of interest, and that's how we discovered Elvin Bishop. Learning he played in the Paul Buterfield Blues Band made me check them out, and that naturally turned me on to Michael Bloomfield as well.

I think the guitar player in the cowboy hat is Johnny "V" Vernazza, who was in Elvin's band at the time.
 
The Who performing My Generation as older folk. I was curious to see if they would modify the "inapplicable" line in the song.

Pino Palladino is the only one I could imagine up there for JE. I was happy when I saw it was him

 
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