Festival (1967)

Mike Bloomfield: Self

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• Mike Bloomfield : It's very strange; because, I'm not born to blues, you know. It's not in my blood. It's not in my roots, in my family. Man, I'm Jewish, you know. I've been Jewish for years.

• Mike Bloomfield : It's a transformation. It is like a mystical thing. It's mystic. I will swear to God, it's some kind of mystic thing. Son House turns into the blues. He turns into a demon of some sort. And he doesn't hear. He doesn't feel. His whole, every nerve and fiber of his body is taken up in that music. You see, Son House is stone blue. He's where it's at, you know.

• Mike Bloomfield : I'm not Son House. I haven't been pissed on, stepped on, and shitted on. You know, like he has. I haven't gone through that. Man, my father's a multi-millionaire, you know. I've lived a rich, fat, happy life, man. I had a big Bar Mitzvah, you know. I'm not Son House. I can play blues, you know. And I can feel it, in a way. Man, those guys are a different story. That's a different thing all together.

• Mike Bloomfield : Butterfield's something else. He feels it. He's in there. All the way. Butterfield is a blues singer. There's no white - white bullshit with Butterfield. White-colored thing with him. I mean, he's there. If he was green, it wouldn't make any difference. If he was a planaria, a tuna fish sandwich, Butterfield would be into the blues.

• Mike Bloomfield : Every time I play, you know, you start and then you get into the music and you reach a point where within yourself its you and the music, you know. And they're two separate entities and when they come together and you're completely into it. And you get into that music, man, that music becomes you. And you play it together. And you just, you play blues at all, not just your hands, all of you, every bit of you is part of that music.