The Electric Flag, formed in 1967, were a blues rock group led by guitaristMike Bloomfield. Bloomfield formed Electric Flag after his stint with the The Butterfield Blues Band. Although their mix of blues rock with psychedelia never really caught on to the public their earliest album had a big influence on rock music. Image File history File links Electric Flag album cover, uploaded by Gerald Zuckier. ... Image File history File links Electric Flag album cover, uploaded by Gerald Zuckier. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blues Rock or Blues-rock is a fusion genre of music that combines elements of the blues with rock and roll. ... The classical guitar typically has 3 nylon and 3 nickel-wound strings. ... Mike Bloomfield album cover Mike Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American musician, guitarist and composer. ... the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 1966 Paul Butterfield (December 17, 1942 - May 4, 1987) was an American blues musician, and one of the most innovative harmonica players of the electric blues Chicago-originated style. ... Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
The short-lived but successful, ElectricFlag was formed in 1967 by guitarist, Mike Bloomfield after he'd left The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, ostensibly to give original guitarist Elvin Bishop, in Mike's words, "a little space." Undoubtedly he had also become uncomfortable with Paul Butterfield's position as bandleader and was anxious to lead his own band.
There was enough promise on the album to merit further exploration, but it had hardly been released before the Flag began to droop.
Buddy Miles, however, was determined to keep the band together and recorded a second album titled simply, "The ElectricFlag".
The ElectricFlag was one of the earliest supergroups.
The first album by the ElectricFlag was the soundtrack to The Trip (Sidewalk, 1967), in which ElectricFlag music was played over shots of the International Submarine Band playing.
With its soul-based horn charts, the ElectricFlag sound was a rockier version of the later brass-driven music of Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago.
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