53 yrs old and had a plow in the back bedroom of mums,it was great because i was impressing her with my selection of sounds,this was the ultimate track on the album,a short way there that day,long live lrb.
I know this is an Aussie Band...But I live in Louisiana...We would drive the Back roads of the RIver levees late at night ....Drinking and a drugging all night long...driving a long way there...watching the stars...shooting our guns at the moonlight La style...FUCK the rest of the world...Aussie La. Style...
used to listen to my first cousins in there garage jamming this they lived on the other side of the fence from the papatoetoe race course so it didnt bother them or the neighbours in the hood how loud they were playing and people i tell you they were gooood at what they did. sad to say only two remaining members of that backstreet band remain but he still rocks hard and just like the Little river band "It's a long way there"....a long way to where we're all going!...rangimarie nz.
this is the only song they would play on KZEW-FM DFW Texas on Sunday morning before the Christian talk radio, I tuned in just for this version, in total.
I first heard this song living in Tulsa, takes me back hanging out with friends playing foosball at the bar, also sittin outside my apt. relaxing listening to a long way there enjoying life like I do 30 something years later. Thanks youtube.
I was working on the world expo site - Brisbane 1988 - and stopped to watch them rehearsing on the riverside stage - it seemed to become a an impromptu show for us workers. Very much great fun and amazing performance. Sure put a smile on my face
Possibly the best song LRB recorded for their debut self titled in 1975.Unfortunately the band of present times does not hold a candle to this extremely talented band who had a mile of hits in the mid 70's to late 80's.I doubt if any Australian band had the talent to burn that these boys did. I had the pleasure to see them at Rock Arena in 1977 and again in 1978 at the Regent Theatre. All I can say is they were brilliant, unlike the garbage that is on the airwaves these days
On the surface you wouldn't think of the Little River Band as a jam band. But the 70s was about the music and creativity. Even a pop hit band like the Little River Band put on their jam hats for songs like this. The 70s brought out the best in a lot of bands.
Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!
these guys came into woolworths in the mall after playin at summer fest arrowhead statium [kc] they bought alot of stuff no ID went to record dept got an record said this is them boss okbest day in my teens
saw these guys at the Nashville Speedway one year during the State Fair - they were so awesome live!! Great show - natural breeze blowing, beer flowing - good times!
The single best example of Australian class in music. fantastic harmonies, brilliant arrangement and a guitar solo that is simply superb. What more do you want in a song. Peg by Steely Dan is my favourite song of all time but this comes close.
Great tune! Thanks for posting. There is so much guitar work in this tune with the riffs and change ups-I Love it. Singers harmonizing,good lyrics. Not sure if we'll ever get back to the way music used to be. Thanks again for sharing.
Absolutely one of the most under rated songs of all time !!! I listen to it at least once a week and am blown away every single freakin time !!!! Any you're right, the guitar at the 6 mintute mark is spot on !!! The harmonizing is perfect !!!
The reason the original didn't make it is that the short version leaves out the soul of this song !!!!
I remember when they first played this on 3XY in 1976. I was a nine year old kid in Melbourne, Australia...these guys were one of OUR bands. 34 years later I'm driving my car down a bush road at night and this comes on the radio...the long version. Man...I had to stop the car. Wonderful stuff.
@Geekman333 ...Man I felt the same way...I recorded this song from the LP on cassette to play in my Ford Bronco cassette player...Driving fucked up to the deer camp in the deep bayou land of my native Louisiana...have my 4 lifelong buddies with me hitting the Budweiser Highway...I slipped this tape in and man heaven on earth..from then on I was a lifelong Little River Band...Saw them in 2006 in Dallas and they were still great...
Almost spiritual, if you ask me. From when I first heard this song at its release on the radio until now ... it still speaks volumes of what my heart feels. In fact, still, I live for the day when I can hear people say that they know ... and they care for everyone. Is there anybody around? Just me and Him, if you know what I mean. Here it goes again ... for the seventh time, 8, 9, 10. Does it ever get old?
Almost spiritual, if you ask me. From when I first heard this song at its release on the radio until now ... it still speaks volumes of what my heart feels. In fact, still, I live for the day when I can hear people say that they know ... and they care for everyone. Is there anybody around? Just me and Him, if you know what I mean.
First time I heard it, I was all new wave, post punk and I hated people with moustaches, combed hair, harmonies, hippies, biege and brown and basically anything that wasn't 'cool' and smacked of the 'laid back' west coast bloated bullshit. LRB were my perfect horror story, but when I heard this song, I was taken back and moved, and still am.
Every thing good, like this kind of music is gone, replaced by fakery,crap,gold,silver and the glitter.We sold ourselfs cheap for the crap that replaced bands like the Little River Band.
It makes you laugh that their first attempt to the USA they were virtually laughed out of the country, with this song by a producer who'll remain nameless, for his own sake.
WOW!!! I just discovered that youtube has all this good ol music. My kids didn't tell me about it because they knew i would go crazy I love live music so this week has been heaven. I have alot of LIVE DEAD and J.G.B tapes and cd's but finding songs like this that i had before my whole music collection got stolen and thought i would never find again is just pricless. Thanx for loading all this good music. Check out my week of work for a very broad range of music. LIVE MUSIC IS BEST-s.s.
@TES4OB & atlantisphotography1: It's a shame we can't do the same thing with both our gadgets and our politics: Pick the parts we like, flush what we don't -- kind of like our own User Defined Universe, lol.
@ovationpdh Baird55 hit the nail on the head. Ric Formosa did the solo on the original recording. The picture accompanying the song on here however shows David Briggs not Ric Formosa. If you can ever get hold of a copy of the two different versions (the Formosa one & the Briggs one) I will defy you to tell them apart!
I did not grow up when all these great songs came out, I'm only 19, but my mom has it all and I grew up listening to it because she did. I love, love, love 70s music!! Rock on!
Wow - this bring me back to the best period of my life..... fantastic music, lyrics...wonderful to listen to again.......LRB are the best..come back guys and give the next generation a real treat.
Just 16 years old and we pulled up at our out of the way local surf break....backed the old Dart Swinger up to the dunes....cranked this album on the Pioneers...grabbed our boards and entered the early morning,glassy waves to have one more awesome day of surfing....LRB was our soundtrack ....it is pure beach music......awesome times...east coast of Florida forever...
Given the context of when this song was released (in 1976), I'd almost venture to say these guys 'Out-Crosby-Stills-and-Nash-ed'...Crosby, Stills and Nash. Exceptional vocal performance. Exceptional guitar work. Exceptional song structure. An 8 minute anthem.
LRB is playing at the Wildflower Festival in Richardson TX tomorrow evening. Have always loved the music from this band. Will definitely be there to catch the show. The Guess Who are there tonight at 10 pm. Will have to catch that one as well. The late 60's and 70's was a totally different attitude than today. I miss it.
@wardntx I hate to disillusion you, but the band playing at the Wildflower Festival is NOT LRB, it's Wayne Nelson's rip off version. He owns the name, but the musicians are NOT the ones who made the name for LRB.
Actually Wayne does not own the rights. Steve Housden owns the rights. Considering the band has been through about 30 members, it's hard to say who the original band is, unless you want to consider the 3 founders, Birtles, Shorrock, and Goble. None of which are with the band today.
Nelson has been around on and off since the 80's. And I did enjoy the performance.
Most bands of the 60's and 70's are not the original members, sad to say.
@wardntx The 60s and 70s bands that still tour today probably have one or two original members at most. Wayne Nelson has been in the band since 1980 with the exception of a few years in the mid 1990s, and he was the lead singer on an American top ten hit (The Night Owls).
The 70's is when music was real!!! It actually ment something to those singing it and to those listening to it. I was born in the early 70's and found this music in my very early teens. I guarantee I will still be listening to it to the day I die!!!
This is what MUSIC is all about. Listen to the gorgeous harmonies, the beautiful voice of Glenn Shorrock. I feel sorry for the kids of today. There is nothing like this out there. Today's charts are full of rap, crap and yuck. Not real music like this ...
The other day I was singing humming roughly this song to my 13yr old son. I was only a kid in the 70s, so I had no idea of the name of the song, just the wonderful feelings of the 70s. Once I found it ,the words were a lot clearer. Love it takes me back to going down to the beach, spending a lot of time in traffic jams getting down to the northern beaches listening to 2UW.
I can email it to you if you like, I'm an Aussie and this song is just pure class, it put us Australia on the map!!! when it came to arrangements and melody.
Unfortunately, iTunes will only sell this version if you purchase the whole album. I love this version of this song, it brings me back to being 16 years old in St. Augustine, Florida ('every night I walk around the city'). But I don't want to spend $10 bucks for the only song I really want on the album. We're going back to the days of holding the best songs hostage to the ransome of mediocre offerings.
I made the mistake of purchasing the 'butchered' version of this song on iTunes (4:00 minutes long). Whoever chopped it up should be egged in public. The structure and guitarwork of this extended version is exceptional. It demonstrates the 'jam band' requirements of most worthwhile mid-70's popular bands. It wasn't enough to walk around with a microphone. You had to be able to show your abilities and dedication to your instrument and craft. This version of this song is hauntingly beautiful.
@mattability I agree who the hell butchered this song. The cut leads, word, solos, everything. He should be slapped down. Hacked it to pieces. I feel like I've been betrayed all these years. Basta.......ds
@markm330 You are thorough in your description mark. Nothing was spared in the 'radio' version. The groove, solo and resolution with the vocals toward the end make this a masterpiece. Not to mention the guitar work is epic throughout. I wish I could just purchase it for 99 cents or $1.29 on iTunes instead of having to buy a $9.90 album for the single song I want. Alas.
@mattability unfortunetly the big stations back then wouldn't play the long version so they butchered it up .got more air time and alot more money for the group.Sometimes you gotta sell out to make the big bucks
@SUMPTERS1 Dead on, Sumpters. I don't hold the artists responsible. But remember back in the day (1970's), when FM radio was an alternative to AM, long versions were the norm. Just think "Stairway to Freebird". Those were both 7 - 8 minute 'epics' (worn to death). This version should have been left as is. It is truly magnificent.
@kayakutah Actually David Briggs was the lead guitarist on The Night Owls and his guitar solo at the end really made the song! The Night Owls and It's a Long Way there are my two absolute favorite LRB songs!
Nice to see the great comments by all the young folks! I grew a bit older with this music in Berlin, W.Germany back in the late 70's. I was a GI, smokin' hash and lovin' life. The music always takes me back to that time. Little River Band is a big part of those memories. I finally got to se them in Seattle in the early 80's, and they didn't disappoint. Great crafting of the songs, the melodies, and the harmonies. In a phrase, Great f**kin' Music.....long live LRB!
What an incredible piece this is. You know what is a shame? There are actually talented enough song writers and musicians today that could get in a studio and do some really good things. However, the industry today is driven towards producing the garbage that the young people are exposed to today. I applaud the young people who are listening to songs like this and learning that there is a alternative. Even if it is thirty or so years old.
This is the best version I have ever heard of this song. I can't believe they let the radio/ record company cut it down to the short version they play on the radio. This is a masterpiece. This is exactly how music is suppose to sound. All natural....
Yeh...I heard the LRB do this original version live in a small club in Va. Beach in 1977, words cannot describe how spiritual it was. Perhaps the song was cut down by order of record co. execs for radio play?
this never gets old, was just at the gas station filling up this morning and heard the tail end of it so I had to come home and hear it from start to finish ~ love it!!
I heard this about 35 years ago couldnt remember the title but did remember the bands name.. been searching for it so thanks.. awwwwsome i can buy some of there music now. this is what you call music truely awwwwsome thanks again for sharing with us.. just brilliant !!!!!
...that guitar solo...proof that the pick of destiny has been handed down throughout the ages since it first strummed the chord of creation during the big bang
man......I grew up in the hippie era. I listen to this song, close my eyes, and I can see the clothes I wore, my hair style, the music we listened to, the risks we took and everything related to those great times. Everything seemed to fresh and easy back then. Vietnam was a bummer, but, it was part of those times. I would do it all over again if I could.
Spun this on the turn table (lol) many, many , nights and just get lost with earphones on , Cranked .
oldplatterman 5 days ago
Rock on - from a 53 yo white stiff upper lipped American
mrshrspec 6 days ago
53 yrs old and had a plow in the back bedroom of mums,it was great because i was impressing her with my selection of sounds,this was the ultimate track on the album,a short way there that day,long live lrb.
lamonaghan07 1 week ago
One of my Faves~ :D Good times~ Good memories~ It's a LONG way to where I'm going !!!!! :)
juniquejulie1 1 week ago
I grew up listening to LRB from my mom and dad and haven't stopped since!
ptbosox04 1 week ago
Agreed the dudes could bring it no doubt!!!
morgandoug1960 2 weeks ago
I know this is an Aussie Band...But I live in Louisiana...We would drive the Back roads of the RIver levees late at night ....Drinking and a drugging all night long...driving a long way there...watching the stars...shooting our guns at the moonlight La style...FUCK the rest of the world...Aussie La. Style...
1stSaintsFan 2 weeks ago in playlist SLow Rock Soft
im a 52 year old blackman from virginia. the first time i heard the lrb i was blown away. classic rock,jazz,blues and funk all rolled in one.
MrQuintin1959 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos 2
@MrQuintin1959 Agreed
morgandoug1960 2 weeks ago
used to listen to my first cousins in there garage jamming this they lived on the other side of the fence from the papatoetoe race course so it didnt bother them or the neighbours in the hood how loud they were playing and people i tell you they were gooood at what they did. sad to say only two remaining members of that backstreet band remain but he still rocks hard and just like the Little river band "It's a long way there"....a long way to where we're all going!...rangimarie nz.
poutamatetaonga 3 weeks ago
thanks for posting!
Yokoa19 3 weeks ago
yes i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!
carsonlane7 4 weeks ago
One of my all time favorites.
dorindakay1 1 month ago
I could have done without the Obama ad at the beginning...
ghendric 1 month ago 4
ZOOT !!
11thstep 1 month ago
I loved this song... still do
basicaa 1 month ago
great song
mercnasty12 1 month ago
this is the only song they would play on KZEW-FM DFW Texas on Sunday morning before the Christian talk radio, I tuned in just for this version, in total.
MOAONAABE 1 month ago
I first heard this song living in Tulsa, takes me back hanging out with friends playing foosball at the bar, also sittin outside my apt. relaxing listening to a long way there enjoying life like I do 30 something years later. Thanks youtube.
MegaLuigiman12 1 month ago
The guitar solo in this is amazing. You never heard this in the 3 minute radio edit. Wow!
instant44able 1 month ago
I was working on the world expo site - Brisbane 1988 - and stopped to watch them rehearsing on the riverside stage - it seemed to become a an impromptu show for us workers. Very much great fun and amazing performance. Sure put a smile on my face
SPLIMLETLET 1 month ago
Possibly the best song LRB recorded for their debut self titled in 1975.Unfortunately the band of present times does not hold a candle to this extremely talented band who had a mile of hits in the mid 70's to late 80's.I doubt if any Australian band had the talent to burn that these boys did. I had the pleasure to see them at Rock Arena in 1977 and again in 1978 at the Regent Theatre. All I can say is they were brilliant, unlike the garbage that is on the airwaves these days
1952beatlesfan 1 month ago
I saw them live in a bar in Tampa 1977. I was 19. This song rocked my world. Still sounds good.
hawkeye5829 1 month ago
Just sublime - love it........
primeherefordrump 1 month ago
one of my favorite bands.awsome
tonybigman3 2 months ago
On the surface you wouldn't think of the Little River Band as a jam band. But the 70s was about the music and creativity. Even a pop hit band like the Little River Band put on their jam hats for songs like this. The 70s brought out the best in a lot of bands.
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robertoamor2011 2 months ago
these guys came into woolworths in the mall after playin at summer fest arrowhead statium [kc] they bought alot of stuff no ID went to record dept got an record said this is them boss okbest day in my teens
344chop 2 months ago
saw these guys at the Nashville Speedway one year during the State Fair - they were so awesome live!! Great show - natural breeze blowing, beer flowing - good times!
mslisamart99 2 months ago 2
First time hearing this and have to say for its time this is an awesome song great all around!!!!
sickRG570 3 months ago
8 minutes long and still way to short :-)
JeDaaRe1 3 months ago 3
Could someone do a lyrics video with this song?!!
Lyoko2516 3 months ago
fantastic song - loved it since I first heard it.
sherileepoetcmt 3 months ago 2
thank you Chrissie644, for sharing, and thank you, thank you Little River Band for the great music and memories........................
imjustgone 3 months ago
This is one of the greatest songs in the history of rock.
xsited1 3 months ago 2
This tune saw me thru a very difficult childhood!! Have loved it forever!!
sully61 3 months ago 3
there is a spirit in this song
pauperpoet 3 months ago 2
YEAH GREAT GREAT MEMORIES.
eggo983 3 months ago in playlist Dream Away
I wish they'd tour again, All of them not just the drummer and a bunch of fakes. I'd damn sure pay to see them again.
manstersr 3 months ago in playlist More videos from Chrissie644
I just can't seem to get enough of the music these guys make. 7, 8, 9, 10 times around. This song never seems to get old. ONE MORE TIME! yeah
johntheballoonman 3 months ago
This song is one of my favorites...
But I'm wondering why "Frankee- Fuck You Right Back" is third in the suggested list.
I'm guessing Frankee would hold my attention for about 10 minutes- and that's only if she were in my bed.
Her video held my attention for about 10 seconds.
ibizalivin 3 months ago
This is one hell of a poprock song.
ciarraibuzz 4 months ago
The single best example of Australian class in music. fantastic harmonies, brilliant arrangement and a guitar solo that is simply superb. What more do you want in a song. Peg by Steely Dan is my favourite song of all time but this comes close.
blunt1 4 months ago
Thanks for the post!! Great extended version....Makes me want to roll one and smoke
jomar177 4 months ago in playlist jomar177's favorites
Super talented Cats! I hope they're touring their asses of and wowing audiences wherever they are. I hope they come to Seattle
hunkafunk1 4 months ago
Great tune! Thanks for posting. There is so much guitar work in this tune with the riffs and change ups-I Love it. Singers harmonizing,good lyrics. Not sure if we'll ever get back to the way music used to be. Thanks again for sharing.
alsrestoration 4 months ago
Great band,great song. Thanks for the post.
NSveteran 4 months ago
Absolutely one of the most under rated songs of all time !!! I listen to it at least once a week and am blown away every single freakin time !!!! Any you're right, the guitar at the 6 mintute mark is spot on !!! The harmonizing is perfect !!!
The reason the original didn't make it is that the short version leaves out the soul of this song !!!!
dsturick 4 months ago 2
I remember when they first played this on 3XY in 1976. I was a nine year old kid in Melbourne, Australia...these guys were one of OUR bands. 34 years later I'm driving my car down a bush road at night and this comes on the radio...the long version. Man...I had to stop the car. Wonderful stuff.
Peace.
Geekman333 4 months ago 17
@Geekman333 That's a great story mate! It's so nice to hear some other stories about this song, glad to hear I'm not the only one ;-)
JeDaaRe1 3 months ago
@Geekman333 ...Man I felt the same way...I recorded this song from the LP on cassette to play in my Ford Bronco cassette player...Driving fucked up to the deer camp in the deep bayou land of my native Louisiana...have my 4 lifelong buddies with me hitting the Budweiser Highway...I slipped this tape in and man heaven on earth..from then on I was a lifelong Little River Band...Saw them in 2006 in Dallas and they were still great...
1stSaintsFan 2 months ago
@1stSaintsFan That's cool. The must have had John Farnham singing in '06?
Peace.
Geekman333 2 months ago
@Geekman333 Yea I think this is my fav LRB song too...they had so many great hits!!
eightiesguy62 1 month ago
@eightiesguy62 I totally agree however I couldn't look at them the same way after Farnham joined. They had a few hits after that I think.
Geekman333 1 month ago
Almost spiritual, if you ask me. From when I first heard this song at its release on the radio until now ... it still speaks volumes of what my heart feels. In fact, still, I live for the day when I can hear people say that they know ... and they care for everyone. Is there anybody around? Just me and Him, if you know what I mean. Here it goes again ... for the seventh time, 8, 9, 10. Does it ever get old?
johntheballoonman 4 months ago
Almost spiritual, if you ask me. From when I first heard this song at its release on the radio until now ... it still speaks volumes of what my heart feels. In fact, still, I live for the day when I can hear people say that they know ... and they care for everyone. Is there anybody around? Just me and Him, if you know what I mean.
johntheballoonman 4 months ago
One of the best intros to a song ever. Absolute classic of Aussie rock, and IMHO, LRB's best song
JimSting 4 months ago 13
It is obvious to me that the 11 dislikes are probably ll record executives who originally turned thumbs down on the band and this song!!!!
JFinSD2 4 months ago
this song just gets longer and longer.... haha
1970brenz 4 months ago
fantastic band. had at least two great les paul players. relatively unknown but not forgotten by many.
bigkittysmile 5 months ago in playlist More videos from Chrissie644
Come in late at nite , roll a doobie and spin this song with headphones on and get lost in a great song .
oldplatterman 5 months ago 2
First time I heard it, I was all new wave, post punk and I hated people with moustaches, combed hair, harmonies, hippies, biege and brown and basically anything that wasn't 'cool' and smacked of the 'laid back' west coast bloated bullshit. LRB were my perfect horror story, but when I heard this song, I was taken back and moved, and still am.
mistersmith6000 5 months ago
@mistersmith6000 Couldn't agree more. The ending is particularly moving. A masterful composition which is seriously under-rated.
JimSting 4 months ago
one of the great guitar solos of all time.. just good music..
tampabayproductions 5 months ago 2
Thumbs-up if other guys brought u here LOL
shoeheadjeezy 5 months ago
In those days, they were good, very good...They never really made it over here in Belgium. Regrettable !
patriciadw60 5 months ago
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thats not music thats bullshit!!!!!
paudebennington 5 months ago
glen shorrock aussie living legend
363bear 5 months ago
Every thing good, like this kind of music is gone, replaced by fakery,crap,gold,silver and the glitter.We sold ourselfs cheap for the crap that replaced bands like the Little River Band.
apaqiun2829 5 months ago
I would love to hear Vince Gill perform this song ~
Peace,
V
MegaVeronicaLodge 5 months ago
Does anybody else get tears in the eyes when the guitar solo starts?
MarantzSt153 6 months ago
@MarantzSt153
Amen........while most people recognize them for their harmonies.....I don't think the group gets as much credit for their musicianship.
JFinSD2 4 months ago
too short version!
inatizzy1 6 months ago
Righteous!,,,
MojaveGreenXXX 6 months ago 2
It makes you laugh that their first attempt to the USA they were virtually laughed out of the country, with this song by a producer who'll remain nameless, for his own sake.
MrDaGeil 6 months ago
That tune blows my mind...sounds a bit like csny. I love it...
kleofaz 6 months ago
I heard this playing on Mountain Winery's PA while waiting for a Huey Lewis show....what an excellent tune!!!
RickyJr46 6 months ago
One of my all-time favorites.
ilovemusic2much11 6 months ago
MONSTER MASTER RECORD!! GOOD OLD AM SOUND!!
radiotien 6 months ago
WOW!!! I just discovered that youtube has all this good ol music. My kids didn't tell me about it because they knew i would go crazy I love live music so this week has been heaven. I have alot of LIVE DEAD and J.G.B tapes and cd's but finding songs like this that i had before my whole music collection got stolen and thought i would never find again is just pricless. Thanx for loading all this good music. Check out my week of work for a very broad range of music. LIVE MUSIC IS BEST-s.s.
MikeHunt41361 6 months ago in playlist "LIVE MUSIC IS BEST" 2
FANTASTIC MUSIC, I have been looking for this number for almost 4 years and i finaly found it! GREAT SONG, PURE MUSIC
radiotien 6 months ago
looks like trolls don'ta speaka engrish cause they hit the dis I like button
luvmuzk 6 months ago
only 9 trolls stopped by for this one? cool!
prober45 7 months ago
ONE OF MY FAVORITES
DEANWARREN43 7 months ago
Hey everybody....
Now those are some true words that can be used in almost every situation.
berylman 7 months ago
Long version is utterly amazing....was John Farnham with LRB then? I know he came in later ~ yet, didn't he play with them sometimes?
JukeBoxHero991 7 months ago
@TES4OB & atlantisphotography1: It's a shame we can't do the same thing with both our gadgets and our politics: Pick the parts we like, flush what we don't -- kind of like our own User Defined Universe, lol.
Cooc00zooter 7 months ago
I'm fairly sure it was Ric Formosa who did the solo.
baird55aus 7 months ago
@baird55aus It wasn't David Briggs?
CameronShaft 7 months ago
Anyone know the name of the lead guitarist in the band when this was recorded? I am interested in who played most of the lead parts in this song.
ovationpdh 7 months ago
@ovationpdh Baird55 hit the nail on the head. Ric Formosa did the solo on the original recording. The picture accompanying the song on here however shows David Briggs not Ric Formosa. If you can ever get hold of a copy of the two different versions (the Formosa one & the Briggs one) I will defy you to tell them apart!
RJSteen25860 7 months ago
Wow I never knew this long version existed. What a treat !!
Aqene1000 7 months ago
wow......great guitar solos.........now that is how u get orgasm from music!!!!
raihanrdg 7 months ago
Best band/song ever?
I have no doubts about that! ;-)
JeDaaRe1 8 months ago
WOW!! What guitar playing!!!
eightiesguy62 8 months ago
I did not grow up when all these great songs came out, I'm only 19, but my mom has it all and I grew up listening to it because she did. I love, love, love 70s music!! Rock on!
Maren1491 8 months ago
love the orchestral arrangements & harmonies
1970brenz 8 months ago
It's a long way fore those 9 idiots who missed the like button.
3984ja 8 months ago
Wow - this bring me back to the best period of my life..... fantastic music, lyrics...wonderful to listen to again.......LRB are the best..come back guys and give the next generation a real treat.
Geminiskirt 8 months ago
Just 16 years old and we pulled up at our out of the way local surf break....backed the old Dart Swinger up to the dunes....cranked this album on the Pioneers...grabbed our boards and entered the early morning,glassy waves to have one more awesome day of surfing....LRB was our soundtrack ....it is pure beach music......awesome times...east coast of Florida forever...
PEEPNME 8 months ago in playlist 70's CLASSICS 12
@PEEPNME Space Coast....REPRESENT!!!
blown22 3 months ago
@blown22 ......Yes my Space Coast friend!....these were unbelievably awesome times! Thank you for the thumbs up!
PEEPNME 3 months ago in playlist 70's CLASSICS
Thanks for the cool comments.
I never ceases to amaze me how much this song affects people.
1975 Good times, Great memories. Just a bunch of lads singin' and playin' guitars.
Cheers
Roger McLachlan
RJRKM 8 months ago
In 1975 they toured with the Eagles on the Long Run Tour. What an ossum band to see live.
williamjd100 8 months ago
Lovely song reminds of wooden ships by crosby still nash and young only difference is that this is surface travelling.
Super26021962 8 months ago
Classic baby, classic !!!
ReneeNme 8 months ago
Backstage album
dwwilly 9 months ago
LRB hit #28 in Billboard, 12-4-76. God bless ya, for postin' the full album version. Thanx, Chrissie!
DaveWollenberg 9 months ago
How the H.ell are there 9 dislikes to this song.. I grew up in the ghetto listening to Rap and Hip Hop and even I think this song is the Shi+
jzguru 9 months ago
My life is so sad and alone...I feel it in this song........
daveydaveblonde 9 months ago
Given the context of when this song was released (in 1976), I'd almost venture to say these guys 'Out-Crosby-Stills-and-Nash-ed'...Crosby, Stills and Nash. Exceptional vocal performance. Exceptional guitar work. Exceptional song structure. An 8 minute anthem.
mattability 9 months ago 2
LRB is playing at the Wildflower Festival in Richardson TX tomorrow evening. Have always loved the music from this band. Will definitely be there to catch the show. The Guess Who are there tonight at 10 pm. Will have to catch that one as well. The late 60's and 70's was a totally different attitude than today. I miss it.
wardntx 9 months ago
@wardntx I hate to disillusion you, but the band playing at the Wildflower Festival is NOT LRB, it's Wayne Nelson's rip off version. He owns the name, but the musicians are NOT the ones who made the name for LRB.
RJSteen25860 7 months ago
@RJSteen25860
Actually Wayne does not own the rights. Steve Housden owns the rights. Considering the band has been through about 30 members, it's hard to say who the original band is, unless you want to consider the 3 founders, Birtles, Shorrock, and Goble. None of which are with the band today.
Nelson has been around on and off since the 80's. And I did enjoy the performance.
Most bands of the 60's and 70's are not the original members, sad to say.
wardntx 7 months ago
@wardntx The 60s and 70s bands that still tour today probably have one or two original members at most. Wayne Nelson has been in the band since 1980 with the exception of a few years in the mid 1990s, and he was the lead singer on an American top ten hit (The Night Owls).
cparkes92 7 months ago
The 70's is when music was real!!! It actually ment something to those singing it and to those listening to it. I was born in the early 70's and found this music in my very early teens. I guarantee I will still be listening to it to the day I die!!!
anmamilner 9 months ago 3
This is one the best songs ever!
sebtieman 9 months ago 2
Maybe not, but we had a real good time!
garybuckable 9 months ago
I love it!
SoskinDavid 9 months ago
I used to get so stoned to this-innocent days man!
garybuckable 10 months ago
@garybuckable stoned and innocent dont go in the same sentence... lol
crps3ESA 9 months ago
@crps3ESA ... If I wasn't so innocent I would not have gotten so stoned...
clifdyvr 9 months ago
Pure class.
TheKoenzo 10 months ago 2
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crazyunclerex59 10 months ago
Great song! Except for the harmonies, it sounds alot like Glass Harp, ...SWEET!
mdkmkk 10 months ago
Nine people eat cheese on Wednesdays.
Drase99 10 months ago
@Drase99 That's funny!
Scooter0911 10 months ago
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What album is this off of? This particular version?
suelal 10 months ago
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suelal 10 months ago
rap sucksss
mrblurblur2003 10 months ago 2
another double jack for david briggs
mrsgritoli1 10 months ago
This is what MUSIC is all about. Listen to the gorgeous harmonies, the beautiful voice of Glenn Shorrock. I feel sorry for the kids of today. There is nothing like this out there. Today's charts are full of rap, crap and yuck. Not real music like this ...
EddieAlda 10 months ago
The other day I was singing humming roughly this song to my 13yr old son. I was only a kid in the 70s, so I had no idea of the name of the song, just the wonderful feelings of the 70s. Once I found it ,the words were a lot clearer. Love it takes me back to going down to the beach, spending a lot of time in traffic jams getting down to the northern beaches listening to 2UW.
kettlehum 10 months ago 2
teenager of the seventies, this was the best time for good music
don't know what has happened. Listen to the lyrics. Golden
BowsandRuffles 10 months ago
I can email it to you if you like, I'm an Aussie and this song is just pure class, it put us Australia on the map!!! when it came to arrangements and melody.
sloaney33 11 months ago
Unfortunately, iTunes will only sell this version if you purchase the whole album. I love this version of this song, it brings me back to being 16 years old in St. Augustine, Florida ('every night I walk around the city'). But I don't want to spend $10 bucks for the only song I really want on the album. We're going back to the days of holding the best songs hostage to the ransome of mediocre offerings.
mattability 11 months ago
@mattability ... seriously, its worth buying the album....its got hit after hit.....
Myk889 10 months ago
@mattability What album is this off of? This particular version? I LOVE IT!! I'm a huge LRB fan!!
Thanks,
Susan
suelal 10 months ago
I made the mistake of purchasing the 'butchered' version of this song on iTunes (4:00 minutes long). Whoever chopped it up should be egged in public. The structure and guitarwork of this extended version is exceptional. It demonstrates the 'jam band' requirements of most worthwhile mid-70's popular bands. It wasn't enough to walk around with a microphone. You had to be able to show your abilities and dedication to your instrument and craft. This version of this song is hauntingly beautiful.
mattability 11 months ago 2
@mattability I agree who the hell butchered this song. The cut leads, word, solos, everything. He should be slapped down. Hacked it to pieces. I feel like I've been betrayed all these years. Basta.......ds
markm330 10 months ago 4
@markm330 You are thorough in your description mark. Nothing was spared in the 'radio' version. The groove, solo and resolution with the vocals toward the end make this a masterpiece. Not to mention the guitar work is epic throughout. I wish I could just purchase it for 99 cents or $1.29 on iTunes instead of having to buy a $9.90 album for the single song I want. Alas.
mattability 9 months ago
@mattability unfortunetly the big stations back then wouldn't play the long version so they butchered it up .got more air time and alot more money for the group.Sometimes you gotta sell out to make the big bucks
SUMPTERS1 9 months ago
@SUMPTERS1 Dead on, Sumpters. I don't hold the artists responsible. But remember back in the day (1970's), when FM radio was an alternative to AM, long versions were the norm. Just think "Stairway to Freebird". Those were both 7 - 8 minute 'epics' (worn to death). This version should have been left as is. It is truly magnificent.
mattability 9 months ago
Some great comments. Man it's taken me back. What a wonderful track. They don't make em like that anymore.
JGomansChiroClinic 11 months ago
I think Riccardo "Ric" Formosa was lead guitar on this. His work here and on "The Night Owl" are fantastic. He's greatly underrated.
kayakutah 11 months ago
@kayakutah Actually David Briggs was the lead guitarist on The Night Owls and his guitar solo at the end really made the song! The Night Owls and It's a Long Way there are my two absolute favorite LRB songs!
CameronShaft 11 months ago
@CameronShaft Then you'd love the solo he did on Help is on it's way.
RJSteen25860 7 months ago
@RJSteen25860 thank you I will definitely have to check that one out!
CameronShaft 7 months ago
I have NEVER heard this version before. I SOOOO miss the quality of these types of bands. Love Love Love this!
Healoneministries 11 months ago
Nice to see the great comments by all the young folks! I grew a bit older with this music in Berlin, W.Germany back in the late 70's. I was a GI, smokin' hash and lovin' life. The music always takes me back to that time. Little River Band is a big part of those memories. I finally got to se them in Seattle in the early 80's, and they didn't disappoint. Great crafting of the songs, the melodies, and the harmonies. In a phrase, Great f**kin' Music.....long live LRB!
hawk1866 11 months ago 2
What an incredible piece this is. You know what is a shame? There are actually talented enough song writers and musicians today that could get in a studio and do some really good things. However, the industry today is driven towards producing the garbage that the young people are exposed to today. I applaud the young people who are listening to songs like this and learning that there is a alternative. Even if it is thirty or so years old.
wagb282 11 months ago 2
@wagb282 Couldn't agree more!
CameronShaft 11 months ago
listen to this shit and you will know what "REAL" music is. Thankyou dad for showing me what real shit is. So I am not the panzy ass of the future.
fivepoint56tothehead 11 months ago 2
one of the best songs I've ever heard
panhead58ful 11 months ago 2
This is the best version I have ever heard of this song. I can't believe they let the radio/ record company cut it down to the short version they play on the radio. This is a masterpiece. This is exactly how music is suppose to sound. All natural....
markm330 11 months ago 13
@markm330
Yeh...I heard the LRB do this original version live in a small club in Va. Beach in 1977, words cannot describe how spiritual it was. Perhaps the song was cut down by order of record co. execs for radio play?
highflyingnote 6 months ago
Great music!
beersh0uldbefree 11 months ago
i remember going to a high school function circa 1977, wasted as hell, listening to this song, lol, memories, memories
freedom020759 11 months ago
Man this takes me way back!
jondaniel062561 11 months ago
IT IS A WONDERFULL MUSIC!!! I HAVE NO WORDS!!!
MrCautatorul 11 months ago
Now this is good stuff.
wideaudio 11 months ago
this never gets old, was just at the gas station filling up this morning and heard the tail end of it so I had to come home and hear it from start to finish ~ love it!!
TCharest64 11 months ago
would love to find the original album this came off of-been searching for a song called "my lady and me" off this album....preferably vinyl.....
seanandtracey1 11 months ago
I heard this about 35 years ago couldnt remember the title but did remember the bands name.. been searching for it so thanks.. awwwwsome i can buy some of there music now. this is what you call music truely awwwwsome thanks again for sharing with us.. just brilliant !!!!!
tonbecpip 11 months ago
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bongobeardy 11 months ago
Just brilliant
blunt1 1 year ago
...that guitar solo...proof that the pick of destiny has been handed down throughout the ages since it first strummed the chord of creation during the big bang
1Ma9iN8tive 1 year ago
The Little River Band - quite possibly the most under-appreciated non-american rock band ever!
jimsterdee 1 year ago 3
man......I grew up in the hippie era. I listen to this song, close my eyes, and I can see the clothes I wore, my hair style, the music we listened to, the risks we took and everything related to those great times. Everything seemed to fresh and easy back then. Vietnam was a bummer, but, it was part of those times. I would do it all over again if I could.
wooofeee 1 year ago 3
reminds me of the best of times, when things were real.
teripat1912 1 year ago 3
Makes me wish I was old enough in the 70's to REALLY appreciate them....born in 66 ..just abit too late:( But I am loving them