With A Little Help From My Friends
Feb 16th, 2008 at 10:44 pm by Susie
Joe Cocker, live at Woodstock somewhere or other with Leon Russell on lead guitar, Procul Harum’s B.J. Wilson on drums, Rita Coolidge and Bonnie Bramlett, the guys from the Grease Band, and other assorted friends. God, I have always wanted to be in a band like that:




Ecstatic. Thanks Susie!!
I believe drummer #2 on this — the one who looks like a California surfer dude — is the brilliant Jim Gordon. Probably the best rock drummer who ever lived, sadly he lost his mind.
That’s Jim Gordon, later to play in Derek and the Dominos then later to go to jail for murder. Also- You Tube says “Woodstock”, but it’s the Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour and clearly indoors.
Still, a great clip- thanks a lot for tracking it down.
Yes, Mad Dogs, and this is the beginning of Joe’s meltdown as Leon attempted rock’s version of the coup de tat. That trusting fellow Joe didn’t know what hit him.