Buddy Miles

It's, uh, it's on a, an electric piano, and they loved it.

And Stills was like, "Can we record that?" And within a few weeks later, he actually made the very first version of that, recorded it with Jimi Hendrix, uh, in New York with, uh, Hendrix playing bass and Buddy Miles playing drums, and Stills is playing organ and singing.

And so it's just a trio, and you can hear this.

It was released many, many years later on a Jimi Hendrix collection.

Only three times, Paul, have I interviewed someone wherein I did not even get a chance to ask the first question.

They just started rolling, and I never ended up asking a question, and that would be Buddy Miles, who played with Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies, and he was with Santana.

He wrote them changes.

Buddy just started and didn't stop.

This one called Seesaw from 2013.

Great version of the Buddy Miles composition, Miss Lady.

Before that, new age Southern country band out of Nashville, called A Thousand Horses.

A couple of albums and an EP recorded so far.

So we had that at the end of the show last night.

Kind of a tribute to Buddy Miles.

And then...

The theme is...

Nice to be, uh, back here.

Um, we just had the news today that a great musician, a contemporary of ours, Buddy Miles, had passed away, and, uh, so we'd like to dedicate this to him.

[crowd cheering] [upbeat music] Well, my mind is good to the test, yeah.

I need you like a man of Christ.

So, you know, he'd done it before.

But the other time, he came in with Buddy Miles, and so Buddy played.

You know, it wasn't, you know.

So he said, so...

Very groovy sample.

It is Buddy Miles from the album Them Changes, 1970.

There's a Neil Young cover of Down by the River.

And that main part of the beat, the little drum that's kind of going through the...

Anyways, yes, Down by the River.

So I don't understand.

This is originally a Buddy Miles song, but Neil Young covered it?

No, it's a cover of Neil Young's Down by the River by Buddy Miles on his 1970 album.

And I got to touch the apps that are on the cover of the live at the Fillmore, you know, that have the stenciled Allman Brothers on it.

And the headliner was Buddy Miles.

Wow.

I mean, just to see Dwayne Allman live in the flesh play had to be something.

The stories about Phil Hartman are insane.

He once held Buddy Miles' kick drum pedal together with his bare hands in the middle of a Jimi Hendrix set.

He designed album covers for the bands Poco and America, as well as the logo for Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

And he did those things as a card-carrying member of the peace and love movement.

And the movement didn't just provide, it blew Phil's mind.

Or maybe it just rattled his skull.

Phil experienced the latter at a Jimi Hendrix gig when he watched from the sidelines as Buddy Miles' kick pedal kept getting separated from the kick drum.

Phil's roadie instincts kicked in.

100%, yeah.

So, and you know, between him and whether he was playing with Mitch Mitchell or Buddy Miles, it's almost like he was interacting with the drummer most of all in whatever band he was in.

So I always tell people, learn how to play the drums because it'll make you a better guitar player.

But, you know, if you can hear the drum beats and kind of, you know, get that through...