Old Glory: Best of

Electric Flag | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 6, 1995)
• Original Release Date: June 6, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000029FA
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,689 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Killing Floor

2. Groovin' Is Easy

3. She Should Have Just

4. Goin' Down Slow [*]

5. Texas

6. Sittin' in Circles [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][#]

7. You Don't Realize

8. Movie Music-Improvisation [#]

9. Another Country

10. Easy Rider

11. Soul Searchin'

12. See to Your Neighbor [#][Demo Version]

13. With Time There Is Change

14. Nothing to Do

15. Hey Little Girl

16. Drinkin' Wine [Live][#]

17. The Night Time Is the Right Time [Live][#]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Tail of a Comet., December 15, 1999

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Dann Glenn Bassist/Composer (America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Old Glory: Best of (Audio CD)

This band's few recordings did more for the state of the art than any of their contempories. I had to laugh when I read Sid Griffin's so called review. The Electric Flag were so soulful they helped inspire and shape many artists lives. I am one of those artists. Though my genre is progressive instrumental music...every time a young person asks my advice about what to listen to....this is the first CD I tell them about. You know what? Every single one of them has come back to thank me.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SPECTACULAR!, May 14, 2004

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John Abraytis (Melrose Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Old Glory: Best of (Audio CD)

I recently re-discovered Bloomfield. I sort of remembered Electric Flag, but couldn't really place the group. I says to myself, "If Bloomfield is in it,it's good." The first couple of times, I didn't like the CD, but I picked it up after about a week, and I kept listening to it. After having listened to this CD about 100 times, my opinion is that it is a flat-out masterwork.

There are straight blues ("Going Down Slow," "Texas"), with Bloomfield as good as ever. There are several enjoyable "psychedelic" selections ("Groovin' Is Easy," "She Should Have Just.")

There is a hardcore, opium den jazz cut called,"Movie Music--Improvisation." It is an instructive example of how, for a short period, heroin can enhance creativity like a Krell brain-boost. This selection cooks like a furnace of a thousand sun!

Finally, there is "You Don't Realize." Let me tell you, I don't like "soul" music or "R/B" ballad type stuff, but here is an exception. Bloomfield wrote it, and Buddy Miles--the man, Buddy Miles!--warbles it like a bob-o-link at Augusta National, late on Sunday afternoon. Another thing: Man, can Buddy Miles drum! He's a pleasure.

One more thing. Bloomfield, we love you!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very nice 60s era band compilation, August 10, 2007

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Thomas Orange "TX Music Freak" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This is a very nice compilation of this influential, but short-lived 60s band. Any band with Mike Bloomfield on guitar, Buddy Miles on drums, and Harvey Brooks on bass has got to be formidable. Their music covered a wide spectrum, and appeared to pave the way (for better or worse) for the horn-powered bands such as Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago. This CD includes a couple of live cuts from their Monterrey Pop Festival live debut as well as a nice blues outtake from their first album. They weren't perfect musically because the band had too many ace musicians, which is probably why the band didn't last long. But Mr. Bloomfield remains one of the all-time great blues guitarists, so anything with him playing on it during the 60s is worth checking out.