An all-time fave. To think that this was released in 1966!

Methinks Bloomfield was just visiting from another terrestrial body.

Mike Bloomfield makes my brain snap from it's cord and rattle about violently in my big ol' bucket head (you know, in a good way).

Yes godlike. Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop at there best.Love that Modal Music.

Condensed From Wikipedia:

In his summation, Marsh points out that "'East-West' can be heard as part of what sparked the West Coast's rock revolution, in which such song structures with extended improvisatory passages became commonplace."

Going on to call the Butterfield Blues Band "one of the greatest bands of the rock era", Marsh concludes that "With 'East-West', above any other extended piece of the mid-Sixties, a rock band finally achieved a version of the musical freedom that free jazz had found a few years earlier."

One of the great guitar solos of all time...

 

thought i would rate this high because i was hoping to hear some PBBB and haven\'t