For those who enjoy Traffic (Like I do) here is a long YouTube.
You can save it to watch later on YouTube and listen to it at your convenience.
I really want to post Zappa's "The Black Page" but that's for a rainy day.

 

 

Dude! Thanks!

I was always sort of into them, but during the past couple years I really realized how awesome they were.

Dear Mr. Fantasy was in Avengers:Endgame. I was telling my son (15) how that song was so awesome they used it after 50 years...

 

If you see something that looks like a star
And it's shooting up out of the ground
And your head is spinning from a loud guitar
And you just can't escape from the sound
Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you
We were children once, playing with toys
And the thing that you're hearing is only the sound of
The low spark of high-heeled boys

The percentage you're paying is too high priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
But today you just read that the man was shot dead
By a gun that didn't make any noise
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest was
The low spark of high-heeled boys

If you had just a minute to breathe and they granted you one final wish
Would you ask for something like another chance?
Or something similar as this? Don't worry too much
It'll happen to you as sure as your sorrows are joys
And the thing that disturbs you is only the sound of
The low spark of high-heeled boys

If I gave you everything that I owned and asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you?
Or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
The low spark of high-heeled boys

 

I first heard that (that I was aware of) as a freshman in college. It was just so... wow! Those lyrics and that music.

That song and Blind Faith's "Can't find my way home". Steve Winwood was soooo talented. It is really cool how he has remained a normal dude, even after more success in the 1980s.

I was also a Jim Capaldi fan. He put an album out in 83 or so with Winwood helping. The two of them were the power within Traffic. He has passed on, but was really great with those lyrics. They painted pictures in your mind.

 

Here is Dave mason doing Mr. Fantasy live on XM Radio a few years ago

 

Hear is Dave from the same show with another Traffic cover


The album from this concert is really awesome, rare and pricey used. I paid $36 for a used copy on eBay.

 

Those were the days of Awesome music...........

 

This is my favorite, and it's Blind Faith with Clapton, but you need Steve Winwood singing! Note that "Mister Keyboard" from the 1980s can play some really nice guitar as well. So talented.

 

And this was Jim Capaldi solo. He wrote a lot of Traffic's lyrics. Winwood helped him a lot on this album. You can hear it here in 1983-style Winwood keyboards. Also, if you watch the video, Capaldi and Winwood are chatting at about 0:50 in...


I still have my cassette of this from 35 years ago... No idea if it plays.