One of the greatest songs of all time

This was the song that took from liking blues-based rock of the day (late 60s/early 70s) to exploring the blues. I had a chance to go this concert and ended up skipping it...to my lasting dismay. Muddy was THE Man!

may very well be the best video on youtube.

Your Right Soul Music MAN, it don't get no better than Muddy, he stole the Show! The Happiest Performer there.

The great Muddy Waters and how close they came to not getting this performance.

OMG!!!! What a guy, what a song, love this blues and Muddy is the King !!! Rockin' !!!!!!!

Absolutely gorgeous! Muddy Waters, The Band, and Paul Butterfield together on stage! I love that concert!

geez, over a year on less than 8K have viewed this gem! Where are all the Blues fans of the world. there should be a million hits by now!

It was Levon who refused to participate in The Last Waltz if Muddy was excluded, as Levon said "WTF did Neil Diamond ever have to do with us,,!" Levon was a good friend of mine, it was Robbie and Martin Scorsese who wanted to cut Muddy from the artists list..another shameful omission of this line up was John Hammond Jr. and Levon and Rick Danko both told me of how bad they felt about that..! Another point Paul Butterfield was also a long time good friend dear friend and he was so proud of this work and loved and often mentioned how he and Garth just kept hitting the same note just that one note throughout this take..!

YES. Props to you for recognizing Mr. Butter, may he RIP.

absolutely superb

An absolute crime to short The Man: BB King🙏🏾💜🌹🎼

just one of the best songs ever by one of the greatest blues men! :>}

What a voice, what a song!

I also heard those cameras had a tendency to overheat. Muddy Waters gave the right blues note to the occasion. I had only heard of but not heard his music before seeing this for the first time. Paul Butterfield was masterful on the blues harp. Without him the song wouldn't seem right.

gives me chills

I have seen the film so many times and absolutely love it but I have never heard of Bob Margolin and I am grateful you took the time to inform me. Thank you!

went to movies with pal when fifteen i asked what we were going to see as i could not get in to certain films as my age stoped it the movie was amazing purchased the album next day been listen to it on and off for long time but muddy gave a five star performance yours the vinyl

I am gonna cry 😍😍😍😭💗

The godfather of modern blues..

OH YES!!

Gives me chills, somebody is blowing the HELL outta that Harp, Rock and Roll has been drinking Muddy Water😀

The guitarist next to Muddy is Bob Margolin. He played guitar for Muddy for several years in the '70's.

The cameraman who caught this was László Kovács. Great cinematographer.

Robbie R. kills it!!!

Wit luv from D orig MeanMannishMan

I saw in an interview Scorcese said it was due to technical difficulties and only one camera was operational at the time.

the 1 dislike clearly has no soul

Hear this a 100 times in a row, you want to hear this another 100 times in a row. Robertson on guitar is the only man left. Pity.

Butterfield could back Muddy up perfectly too.Brilliant.

Yup

a good tast of tune brought me here

Muddy & his guys : Bob Margolin on guitar, & Pinetop Perkins on the piano. Here you see why & how he was the boss.

Paul Butterfield is blowing one note for five minutes.

Hah! I didn't KNOW it was Kovács. But my info comes from WAY back (long before Wiki and computers). So far back, in fact, I can't remember where! I must say the idea Marty ordered filming to STOP goes directly against what I heard: that the cameramen all just happened to come in for a refill at the same time, sans one. And that he was MORTIFIED he might have MISSED the Best Performance Of The Night - until the lone cameraman who WAS filming returned for a refill and assured him it was SAFE.

That's what I heard as well.

Ha! That's good band info. there.

MUDDY SURE SAID 'I'M A MAN WITH AUTHORITY.

@ledwhofloyd101 Thank you :-)

Sure is.

@rogerrrubin They all watch the other post - It's not HD though!

@soulmusic247 - I SAID all that! No-one EVER reads my info panels... ;=)

With Wikipedia as my guide, I almost managed to put this entire concert into a video/music playlist. So for the fans - I invite you all into my channel. Enjoy the show. And may God bless The Band.

Heh, so do I. :D

Which DVD is this from?

IS THAT BUTTERFIELD ON HARP?

But you didn't say that it was László Kovács ;) and that he only got this because he was ignoring Scorsese's orders to stop filming - at least this is what Wikipedia says, and we know it's never wrong...

3:31 - 3:39

Scorcese would have to be an idiot not to wan't to film this. The truth is they had thechnical problems. Just read the info! Who is the guitarrist w. the big hair next to Muddy Waters?

yeah the band was loaded, check Rick's bass work- the fingers don't match the track. Lotta overdubs. Muddy kills as always. dont hurt me dont hurt me child

Too bad about the shitty audio quality

Peter Griffin send me

Notorious spotlight hog Robbie Robertson. Great performance by Muddy, but just a muddy mess by the Band. I guess they forgot to unplug Robbie on this one.

WHATS UP WITH THIS OFFBEAT BAND... THEY ALL NEED A TAN!