Hollywood Fats & The Paladins - I've Tried video free download

Freddy Foxen Nilsen

F...... Awesome

Meek Mekado

Dave Gonzales in all honour but Fats is one division higher, i guess Dave wouldn't argue on that statement ;)

762willstopit

I prefer Dave Gonzalez' tone, although granted this recording may not have done Fat's rig justice....but Dave's Guild 550 through a Bassman is mind-melting!

frank livingston

Hollywood Fat with The Paladins ?!?!?!? A seriously DEADLY combo !!!

John Cauchi

thankyou god if it wasnt for you me and many would have been robbed of this fine recording and thankyou topcatrecords

cadilacslim

This is first time I've heard these recordings, I lived in Encinitas California where the Paladins came from, I know Dave Gonzales and Thomas Yearsly, Also knew Hollywood Fats and James Harman well back then, they all played at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach.

topcatrecords

This is SO bad ass!! Fats was the greatest. The Hollywood Fats Band was the greatest!I got turned onto Hollywood Fats when I walked into Charlie's Guitar Shop one afternoon and the buzz in the place palpable –  Hollywood Fats and The Paladins were there getting their guitars set up for their gig at the Greenville Avenue Bar & Grill that night.  Naturally, in my infinite ignorance, I commented "who's that?"  Didn't have a clue.  But at the jaw-dropping show that night I started to get a clue. During a break in the show by some roundabout fateful circumstance of being at the right place at the right time,  I had the auspicious great fortune of stepping out back with Fats 15-20 mins for a little "fresh air." He was surely chuckling inside as I must've asked him every dumb question in the book! I still had no idea of his history much less that I was standing in the presence of a true legend, one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived, who would be off to a more permanent gig with the Elysian Fields Blues Band just one short year later.   Hook Herrera moved to Dallas for a couple of years shortly after Fats passed. When he learned I was a huge fan of Fats, Hook very generously gave me a couple of cassette tapes of live stuff of Fats and the band which I literally wore out. Those tapes were all I listened to for about 10 years. I freely admit just about every Swing & Jump Blues lick I know came from those tapes. I'll always be indebted to Hook for his great hearted kindness.When Larry Taylor and Detlev Hoegen of Crosscut Records put out the Hollywood Fats Band CDs with those same stunning tracks and more, I was in heaven!I had learned about and communicated with several other Fats fanatics  over the years, trading bootleg tapes and videos.Then one day, by another twist of fate, a guitar playing buddy, Big Mike Clark, knowing I was a great Fats fanatic, handed me this bootleg CD of Hollywood Fats and The Paladins live at Greenville Avenue Bar & Grill! WHAT??!! I was holding in my hands a recording of the very show where I had met Hollywood Fats 15 years before!Unbelievable!!Our conversation went something like this…"Where'd you get this?""Somebody gave it to me""Who?""I don't know.""What do you mean you don't know?""I don't remember.""You don't remember who gave this to you?""No, I don't remember who gave it to me.""Well, who recorded it?""I don't know."Un-efin-believable!!The music Fats played with the Paladins was way different than what he played with his band, Canned Heat, The Blasters, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Smokey Wilson, Roy Brown, Shakey Jake Harris, Magic Sam, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, John Lee Hooker, J.B. Hutto, James Harmon, Rod Piazza, Big Joe Turner, Margie Evans, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Otis Rush and many others.This was Hollywood Fats playing Rockabilly!!So, this was all I listened to for the next five years!Being one of the honest, good guys in the music business, I put out feelers and searched over those five years trying to find who recorded this show, somebody I could make a record deal with in order to release this killer recording to the world. Nobody.I tried to track down Fat's family. Again no luck. Finally tracked down the Paladins - Thomas Yearsley and Dave Gonzalez. We made a deal. I had finally hit a home run, proudly releasing one of the coolest, most unique recordings of two music legends -Hollywood Fats and The Paladins!!To this day no one has come forward saying he/she recorded this performance, to claim their place in music history. I don't recall seeing anyone there taping the show nor any tape recording equipment. And remember, this is back in 1985, before the Tapeman. Before CDs. Before there was digital recording of anything. Windows had only been released a month before this show!So, other than someone in the audience with one of those refrigerator sized boom box cassette tape recorders of the day hidden under his coat, who would decide to pass it on to Big Mike 15 years later and then vanish, where in the world did this historical recording come from?The most logical answer/scenario I can come up with is, it didn't. It didn't come from this world. Must've been sent down from Fats himself, making sure it would end up in the hands of someone standing at the right place at the right time with the love and appreciation of what it is and who knew exactly what to do to make it happen.Sounds reasonable to me anyway.If anyone has another answer/scenario as to the origin of this recording, I'm all ears.      

Scott Gracie

    Screwmaster, yes,  "Texas = Blues".....but these boys, The Paladins and Hollywood Fats were from SoCal.

easyguitarguy

Love the Hollywood Fats music.....subbing your channel. Hope you can find an easyguitarguy video that you like enough to make you want to sub to my channel.

TEXANOBLUES

Oh Yeah, you right...But we must thank the owner of TOP CAT Records Mr. Richard Chalk, and thank you man.

BluzIsaFeelin

So grateful that release finally came out in 2008. There's just not enough Hollywood Fats to hear out there. Such a great loss for music...sad to think, he passed away just 11 days short of a year later. This 1985 captured magic of the Paladins should inspire other young folks in their early 20's to aspire to be cooler...age isn't a excuse for bad taste. Weren't they something...and still are! :)

screwmaster404

Texas = Blues

Melanie Widman

Two of my all time favorites together! Well done

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