First There Is a Mountain

[MattGOG666]

So... Was there a mountain or not?

[LeondraL]

LOVE IT!!!!!

[dfairchild1979]

Gotta be honest, I think the video is kind of...well...stupid. But I've always liked this song and thanks to you I got to hear it. Thanks.

[Codex7777]

Very good! Cheered me up no end. :D

[9sinuhe]

so good...love it

[unhooked25]

This song must be about the famous magician David Copperfield.

[iamearthbornami]

lol~great video~love this song

[redwhitch17]

Just brilliant........Think this tune will stay in my head for a long time..Tappin ma feet..

[5hawnK3lly]

well done

[ubnteb]

brill

[REIworker]

You see, taking LSD is not all that bad......

[prend01]

This animation puts Pixar to shame!

[yinyangliger]

i have to listen to this at work everyday. so now i find myself singing it when im bored lol

[Katesterpatrol]

so random.

[Caleb4201986]

Fun beat!

[ColaCubez]

what the!?

[kalethebongodoctor]

OMG!!!! I love that!! I listen to it like every day!!

[phallystorm]

the ALLMAN Brothers Band have a 40 minute instrumental Jam on this song by Donovan

[mpsicily]

@phallystorm "Eat A Peach" album, song is officially titled "Mountain Jam". It was performed live @ at "The Fillmore East" but they couldn't put it on that album because it was too long,,,,,,33:40 minutes and if you still have the vinyl LP it took up the entire second side......My favorite instrumental.........

[fore101]

luv it...

[niklespikles]

great mash up! what a large back garden you have! much fun, i grow banana plants also,but i have NO mountains in my back garden!lol Nikx

[sadoldfucker]

PRADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

[1jtv]

this is a cool video, you must have been a there...those were great times...

[Grensoorlog]

@1jtv

If it was so great why do you talk in the past tense? Be there or be nowhere (NOW HERE)

[ShammShamm]

Donovan doesn't get near enough recognition. Also, you just had to be there. Frank Sinatra was beyond huge in his day.But now?

[TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, Frank is still well know but he's been gone for over 10 years. Believe me when I tell you; he was talked about alot even after he died. He was popular music but Donovan is different. Like Miles Davis, he was a commercial or what people call a seel out artist. I love Chicago but they were a marketer's dream. Donovan and Miles were expressive artists. This means they played what they felt and not what the masses wanted. Their music gets better and more followers as the years progress.

[epiphone134]

A lot of people would disagree with you there. Donovan was as commercial as Sinatra.

[fobrule11]

omg haha! i saw this on the old top of the pops the other day! haha very hippy style! my dad said he doesn't know any other lyrics except from the mountains...but i like it :) and now i am going to kill him by learning how to play it on my acoustic guitar haha!

[FairportMatty]

coolage

[jtmarble99]

hey guys. the song is about a snail climbing up and down the garden gate.there is a mountain when he is at the bottom going up and no mountain when he climbs back down. he wrote the song to his kid. cats meow.

[awerling]

That was funny!  Thanks!

[lilchild911]

The guy was high when he wrote this song so thats why it's so messed up. But it's still good =D

[DJsabreblade]

BEST SONG EVER

[mthivier]

so is there a frickin' mountain or not? Make up your mind, Dpnovan

[awerling]

It's sequential. First there is, then there isn't, then there is. Didn't you pay attention? ;-)

[Cofaidh]

Many things don't make sense. That's neither here nor there.

I rather enjoyed the song. To me, that's what matters.

[Runescaper21000]

only a few words for this song

ITS GOTTA HAVE MORE COWBELL

[Dfresh702]

Okay, I guess on the surface it is a weird song that doesn't make sense. But, what about the stages of enlightenment? At first a mountain is just a mountain, then at a deeper stage of reason/spirituality a mountain is a mysterious quandry. Why is it there? What purpose does it serve? Does everything serve a purpose or is it just a mountain? Then with a new reality and simple clarity one realizes a mountain is just a mountain. Everyone trying to transform from caterpillar to the butterfly within.

[LeighRollo2006]

Or he could just possibly be THE worst singer/song writer ever!

[awerling]

But of course, he isn't. So your hypothesis goes down the abyss of so many other failed hypotheses in history.

[LeighRollo2006]

I would like you to name another singer/songwriter of his time that was worse than him. Actually try and think of someone worse than him now! Apart from soulja boy. Even top of the pops 2 don't like him!

[awerling]

Leigh: the thing is, I think he was a GREAT singer/songwriter, so your point is mute. You're quite simply wrong.  You'll just have to accept it.

[LeighRollo2006]

Well I'm awfully sorry but your opinion is also falling on deaf ears. It seems we will have to agree to disagree.

[istimewa1x]

And he's a great inspirator too;...

would you please listen to "Mountain jam"(theme from 'first there was a mountain') from the double album 'Eat a peach' by The Allman Brothers Band, great double lead guitar collaboration by Duane Allman/Dicky Betts on side 3 and 4 of that vinylalbum. Great masterpiecealbum from 1970! I broke my fingers practicing that on guitar.

[tuyt6]

I don't know but he may be talking about the obstacles that people go through in life. The obstacle is like a mountain until we work our way through it, then the mountain is gone. Then that repeats over and over again for most people.

[ProTwoAm]

Weird? Try decipering those of "Epistle to Dippy"! It's just a product of the times; a kind of pseudo-mystical stream-of-consciousness-while-­high style/fad. These are actually rather "normal"; a typical Jamaica-style song with similarly-styled lyrics - slightly "cryptic" in but pleasantly suggestive - a sort of lyrical "Impressionism". So enjoy the song; it's very happy and it "swings" nicely! :)

[SGTFABSTER]

i heard this song on the toyota rav 4 commercial

[VinnieFavalesnutsack]

Fun video. I'd love for Gary to run loose on my lawn; he's so cute.

[gorillaz883]

cock verjan

[AbosRacing]

i love tha gorillaz...

[IcYsTaR8]

I heard it on the Toyota commercial =] it makes no sense

[hottiejen1506]

this song is werid funny i dont get it heard on the car commercial

[badlander2000]

Yeah, same with me. That raccoon is so cute. ^_^ lolz

[KingCast65]

I just blogged this at Chris King's 1st Amendment Page in the overdue ballistics post. Great stuff; reminds me a bit of Goin' up the Country that flute part.

Thanks so much for this.

[shotpiano]

i cant find a mp3 to put on my myspace for this...:(

[Spuglynip]

the first part sounds like the music on viva la bam when hes in a banana suit

[aks293]

very fun, loved it

[AthenaOfArgos]

Hey, I was gonna do that and you did it FIRST!!! Really, it's great and sooo demented!!

[tabsyb]

genius. Love it. Thanks

[shooter71]

I sent my dad on his way with this tune :)

[Funkymunkeys]

lol

I heard this on LBC radio with Iain Lee