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Thanks Buzzy for all the music! I hope this opens eyes and ears to your great legacy and maybe opens wallets to buy your music!! You deserve it!



BUZZY LINHART

Hendrix loved Buzzy-played vibes on Hendrix LPs .....buzzy was classically trained at 7 years old. Became a brilliant guitarist...

Talk About A Morning!...a rare video of Buzzy WAYYY back in the daze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abVRq0vY ... LhnYwO_03S

There It Goes Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZM2t_NW ... re=related

FRIENDS--his classic number
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plv0aV2w19A






Read on below for more on the great Buzzy Linhart...solo artist, classically trained at 7 years old, in demand session guy on albums by Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Ste. Marie...John Sebastian's buddy and roommate and follower of Fred Neil.

BUZZY LINHART

Buzzy rocks the blues! Cookin' vibes, guitar, bass!! And what a brilliant vocalist!
Cheat Cheat-Lied/Hit The Road Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCcI5aiOmE




Buzzy Linhart (born March 3, 1943) is an American rock performer and musician.

Born William Linhart in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he began honing his craft playing percussion for symphony at the age of seven, switching to vibraphone at ten. (It is not known specifically when he actually acquired his nickname of "Buzzy.") At fourteen he entered the Cleveland Music School Settlement which was a world renowned conservatory of music. Because of this training he led bands all through school and at the age of 18 entered the U.S. Navy School of Music as a percussionist. In 1963, he moved to New York City and became friends and roommates with John Sebastian. He also became a protÈgÈ to the senior guitarist and folk singer Fred Neil. One of his first bands, with fellow musicians Steve De Naut, Serge Katzen, and Max Ochs, was the Seventh Sons, who released one influential raga-rock LP for ESP Records. Buzzy eventually released a series of solo albums from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s starting with his Philips debut buzzy (the title with a small "b") in 1969.

His prowess on the vibraphone found him performing as a session musician on recordings by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Richie Havens, Carly Simon, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, and Jimi Hendrix (on the Cry of Love album).

Perhaps Linhart's biggest claim to fame was his joint authorship and composition of "(You Got To Have) Friends," a collaboration with Mark "Moogy" Klingman, which became singer Bette Midler's de facto theme song.





This was the end of his major label career, but although he never achieved commercial success, Linhart has continued to write, record, sing and compose music to this day. He also achieved some notoriety from his appearance in the opening sequence of the cult movie The Groove Tube, as a hippie hitchhiker. He was also a regular on the 1976 television show "Cos", starring Bill Cosby.



Discography

* P#ssycats Can Go Far - (Atco Records, 1974)
* Buzzy (The Black Album) - (Kama Sutra Records, 1972)
* The Time to Live is Now - (Kama Sutra Records, 1971)
* Music - (Eleuthera Records, 1970)
* buzzy - (Philips Records, 1969)

Friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhF2WGcX-o

Shoo That Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbEbdfwOjg



That's The Bag I'm In 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMjjZ-pk-hM

You've Got A Reputaion

Buzzy was something LIVE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr0W9fuWNQk

Tribute to Buzzy at the Bottom Line NYC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJkMMD1kr8

Yah that' the ageless Buzzy in the center! Glad he survived his health scare.

End Song-1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keBLprZm87M

Everybody's Got to learn to get along...together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8pvIIV_r4

If You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7SA2lF1_os

SING JOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kjIo5EPxNs

Buzzy Linhart & Seventh Sons - Raga (4 A.M. At Frank's) 1964 on ESP-Disk

Buzzy moves through the years to create so much incredible music...keep listening below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkAJRnvyUp4

Name another raga-freakout from 1964 that lasts over 30 minutes. or TEN! Pretty far-out stuff and pretty damn good by an amazing unheralded talent in Buzzy Linhart.

...this wax originally came out to less than light applause on the ESP-Disk label so it's indubitably of use to the serious layabout and hep groover to enable a cat to get a better perspective on the goings on in the outer world of straight citizenry...ESP style swill, if listened to in the right circumstances, will keep a right thinking cat going down the right corridors and pathways of the second layer galaxy that exists next to the cuboid dimension but keep the two from colliding...nothing worse than grooving down the boulevard and 'hix-from da-stix', the ever present skanky pod people messing with the karma and possibly ruin a blissed hazy head, no sir, ESP will save the day and this buzzy linhart/seventh sons joint is no exception...old buzzy was getting plenty hep in the mid '60s with picking up on the drone that was happening in avant garde circles aswell as the influence of the indian sitar mesmerising more than a few beatnix in big cities...it's just one long groove called appropriately 'raga' and it's a stone cold solid gone noodle that hangs well when spun in rotation with amon duul on those afternoons when walls melt letting the truth flow... --spacedsaviour.com

WILLIE JEAN...talk about the blues!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpSLnUtGhU0



FAMOUS: The Buzzy Linhart Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuQ38ICHPbQ




This song by Buzzy says it all!

THE TIME to LIVE IS NOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=677itGSLjuY

@ CAFE WHA!

Friends...live 1974
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhF2WGcX-o