Good song. Although it would be better if Justin Bieber did a cover! That would be SOOOOOOO bitchin!!!!!!!!!!!! He could, like, rock out on the drums too. CRAZY!!!!
2:05 - So....in the category of stupidest looking hat and wizard costume whilst playing the slide guitar in the history of humanity on Planet Earth...WE HAVVA WINNAH !!!
Am really getting into re-listening to Gram Parsons' solo LPs too; am actually a bigger fan
of GP than Grevious Angel to be honest. I am trying hard to get some of that feel for country-tinged acoustic rock into my music at my site so click-through and Czech it out yeah
Interestingly, in a strange way, Gram Parsons paved the way for pub rock, punk and new wave. If you listen to Dave Edmonds, Nick Lowe and many of the other artists of that ilk they all had a bit of Gram's influence on them. One of these days the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will wake up and finally put him in.
so what the hell happened to music? when you could listen to ONE radio station and hear soul, country rock, rockabilly r&b, hard rock etc and it was put together by a dj not reading from a computer and it all sounded fine. and 40 years later, i still want a nudie suit!!!!!!
One great band, and the original line up too! They (with Bernie Leadon and Rick Roberts) were last minute replacements for another band at City College of New York. I was working for the student center and caught the sound check. I always thought the pedal steel was just a comic instrument, until I heard Pete do "Mr. Sandman". WOW! Got a chance to talk to him about why he used a single neck when Jerry Garcia used a double neck and so on. Hearing them was a real life changer for me!
gram parsons would have went on to be a monster rock star... he had everything going for him. the looks, uniqueness, and talent.... what a shame he went to earlier
morto anche lui 27 anni, gram entra a far parte delle rock star uccise dai servizi segreti perchè troppo rivoluzionari. gram fu ucciso dalla c.i.a. perchè voleva trasformare il country fascista in musica rivoluzionaria. il suo corpo fu tolto dalla tomba e bruciato per cancellare le prove
Once I was rock climbing out in Joshua tree national park and accidentally found the place they burned his body and spread his ashes in the park. We had no idea at the time but the guy at the hippy shop in "town" told us what it was and his name.. I looked him up and fell in love with an entire genre I never even knew existed. You were before my time Gram Parsons but I found you.. and for that I am very grateful!
Next time I go to visit my Mom in 29 Palms I'm going to listen to Gram as I drive through the Joshua Tree National Monument. I figure that is the closest I can come to meeting him.
This group was awesome! I grew up with my dad listening to the Dead, Asleep at the Wheel, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, and Dylan just to name a few but I don't remember hearing this group or Gram Parsons. I'm not talking to my Dad right now but I want to call him to ask him why. I researched about Gram and jesus he was something. Also I'm from 29 Palms and he died about 10 miles away in Joshua Tree. Why do these musical geniuses have to die so young???
Devotee Gram liked to wear his devotions on his sleeve, & all over his clothes! We can see Gram was devoted to opium poppies, pot, certain pharmaceuticals he advertises capsules of - & Jesus-as-savior(who he wrote about in a number of songs).Did Gram think Jesus might save him from a drug OD? If so, he got that very wrong. Keef survived&never believed in Jesus!
Hillman was Gram's housemate&frequent co-writer&said they'd write early in the day, as Gram was usually too F***** up by evening.
love every note of it. amazing how music really is an universal language. this guys are as american as they come and still...here I am, sitting in croatia and loving it. this is just amazing.
@caferacer066 wow, so sad. anyone talking trash after - I mean even if you think you had some issue, all is forgiven in death. anything else is just so - no...unelihgtened? Sad, like taking advantage of someone unable to defend, let alone make amends, nothing to change, nothing to gain. Now I'm curious but i'm not even going to go there.
@bgandl1 - To cool. Thanks for writing back. Wow - great stories! Drat, I'm going to have to embroider my own shirt! It'll never be as cool as Gram's. Elton never sends me flowers either...
If you like singer songwriters artists such as Ryan Adams, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, Townes Van Zantes, Ryan Bingham,A.A. Bondy, Beachwood Sparks Stop by and here the latest recordings form "Skyline Drive" An Americana singer songwriter projected based out of Topanga Canyon. It is fronted by new comer Derek Thomas and features former Ryan Adams side man Erik Kristiansen on pedal steel.
I always liked old Mike but jeez he was a dreadfyul drummer... Still seemed to cut a few key gigs - Byrds, Burritos, Dilard & Clark... so respect is due but really! Gram would've preferred Charlie Watts... ;¬)
Yeah, Mike never really kept a steady beat. Must have been a nice guy to get those gigs. Joke: What do you call a drummer whose girlfriend just broke up with him? Homeless.
Sometimes you can tell how some musicians are influenced by other popular musicians whether through singing style or playing style or even outfits - but looking at Gram Parsons outfit here especially his hat & Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes came immediately into mind... Oh well..... lol...
Wow, How did I ever miss out on this great band, when I was the biggest Poco fan going?No one ever told me about this great band! I can't believe that I would only discover them today, because they were listed next to Poco's songs! Well, thanks for this great post--I think this band is awesome!!! Peace, BobbyK
I'm a newcomer to Gram Parsons' music. I have a question: while he was alive, was he accepted by mainstream country fans, or was he more embraced by rock enthusiasts? His style was very unusual; it was somewhere in between the two.
@Shamagogue Excuse me, but the Dead did so much more than country rock. From the psychedelic jamming of the late sixties to the more funky late seventies stuff... You need to listen to more dead.
Really, neither group accepted him. He talked to Merle Haggard about producing one of his records, but when Merle found out he was a hippy, that was done. And since Gram's stuff was more country than rock, most rock n rollers ignored him too. Jimmy Burton and Elvis's backup ban knew he was special, but they were exceptions.
Wow bgandl! That is some cool history. She must have sewn for Elvis, Porter Waggoner and others. Cool. By the way, Is Sneaky Pete not one of the most out there pedal steel guitarists on the planet?
So tell me.....why is Hillman allowed to sing with these guys but was not allowed to sing with the Byrds [at least the early Byrds]? I never saw a Byrds video with him singing in it.
@bgandl NO! Seriously?? How cool is that?! I realize its 40 years later but would she embroider a shirt for me?? I'm totally serious! Hope she is still doing great : ]
In 1969 the Flying Burrito Brothers open for the Grateful Dead three consecutive nights at the Avalon Ballroom. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that the following year the Dead released both Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.
Certainly the Dead had nowhere further to go with with psychodelic acid music by 1969, but i think it's a stretch to say the FBB charted a new path for them.They both blurred the lines between Country and Rock. The GD had strong Bluegrass and Rockabilly roots.. the FBB had strong Folk backgrounds as well. They influenced each other, but you can't say one was a pathfinder for the other.. there was a big melting pot of music for a brief shining moment back then.
@otterdad48 They released 2 albums in 1969 as well. It was a near win/win for most groups in those days because almost every genre of music was expanding at a rate previously unheard of.
Most groups of that era had 4 things going for them: Actual talent, desire, inspiration from groups that predated them, and inspiration from VERY strong drugs....but that's just how it was, and it worked.
Hypnotic, magical... Gram did indeed do "cosmic American music". I'm sane and all but I traveled once to Woodbine GA and with awe walked the same streets he'd walked, and spent the night with some locals out in the woods eating squirrels... My way of paying homage to him I guess. Watching this video and others you see what an incredible amount of energy he had and spirit.
they helped pave the way to alt country, had Nudie suits that were more of a hippiefied motif, & were music rebels to boot back in the late 60s -earliest 70s
GRAM PARSONS was born on this 5th day of November 1946 ~ 1973 ♪♫ he was in The Byrds & frontman of The FLYiNG BURRiTO BROTHERS, i luv this 1969 tune :-)
regarding lip-synching...it was quite common back then...hardly anyone sang live on shows like Bandstand and other 50's-60's-early 70's mucic shows/vids. Just FYI'n y'all :-)
It looks lip synched but what about Sneaky Pete's pedal steel guitar licks?
Mike Clarke picked me up hitching once in the 70's. I think he was playing with Firefall at that point. I said, "You're Mike Clarke aren't you." He said, "yeah, who are you."
@PAULOcbi I'd like to read what you're referring to but your message was cut off, i.e. "Gram and" Are you talking about the book or someithing on-line?
Man, Went to see some very commercially popular "Country Acts " recently and it's like a Madonna concert for goodness sakes-yeah, the girls had pipes, and the musicians were pros but there was absolutely No Soul whatsoever.
That's really nice how Chris Hillman and Michael Clark were in that band also haha they're both wonderful in both bands The Byrds and F.B.B. And Graghm is such a good singer, ill never forget his voice
he left it all out there, in spite of the sad deadly habits he had, he laid his soul bare. You can hear how strong his voice was when he started...By the end it was more ephemeral and fragile...I think he was leaving all along and we just didn't know it...
I hear your heart Gram. For whatever reason he has never gotten the credit he deserves...many, friend and foe alike, downplay his influence, but the indisputable fact remains, everybody he ever played and sang with became more like him rather than the other way around....
First FBB song I ever heard. That after I bought the Album on faith and played it the first time. Talk about not being disappointed! Has anyone ever ID'd the fabulous babes at the beginning?
@MrSmokeydog They DID! I grew up in NorCal (Marin, Sonoma and Lake Counties) in the mid sixties
forward. In Lake County, the only station you could get was KFRC who played A LOT of different styles compared to today.One song would be Led Zep, the next would be Glen Campbell, the next would be The Four Tops!. But you may have missed stations like KSRO, KVRE (Santa Rosa) and KTIM (San Rafael). and ESPECIALLY the radio station KFAT who the F.B.B. was in HEAVY rotation!!
Gram was a bit overrated...had some pitch problems with his singing...The Burritos were cool but certainly not the first Country Rock band out there...ever hear of The First National Band??
@swacbro ...ya, you are wacked bro....Gram is great!...if only he would of lived, he would certainly be a legend today,is too bad he is largely forgotten...
Don't forget Mike Clarke on drums!
13thfloor990 2 days ago
Who knows what 'coulda been' had he not self destructed before his time ..... However, Neil Young is the King of 'country Rock' in my book!
0481870 1 week ago
Good song. Although it would be better if Justin Bieber did a cover! That would be SOOOOOOO bitchin!!!!!!!!!!!! He could, like, rock out on the drums too. CRAZY!!!!
gavrilo2007 1 week ago
Drummer: Michael Clarke
Keepsu 3 weeks ago
2:05 - So....in the category of stupidest looking hat and wizard costume whilst playing the slide guitar in the history of humanity on Planet Earth...WE HAVVA WINNAH !!!
TheGrandsonofsam 4 weeks ago
how did I manage to live 28 years without knowing that song?
autoroute66 4 weeks ago
Am really getting into re-listening to Gram Parsons' solo LPs too; am actually a bigger fan
of GP than Grevious Angel to be honest. I am trying hard to get some of that feel for country-tinged acoustic rock into my music at my site so click-through and Czech it out yeah
beingwelsh 1 month ago
Interestingly, in a strange way, Gram Parsons paved the way for pub rock, punk and new wave. If you listen to Dave Edmonds, Nick Lowe and many of the other artists of that ilk they all had a bit of Gram's influence on them. One of these days the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will wake up and finally put him in.
Sargebri 1 month ago
they dont sound like the new riders, or poco, or pure prarie league, they sound like the flying burrito brothers, funny 'cause thats who they are
wingman572 1 month ago
Way ahead of their time,without them music (country/rock) would suck.
lyle9 1 month ago
rules!
dlbronston 1 month ago
so what the hell happened to music? when you could listen to ONE radio station and hear soul, country rock, rockabilly r&b, hard rock etc and it was put together by a dj not reading from a computer and it all sounded fine. and 40 years later, i still want a nudie suit!!!!!!
totowatony 1 month ago
One great band, and the original line up too! They (with Bernie Leadon and Rick Roberts) were last minute replacements for another band at City College of New York. I was working for the student center and caught the sound check. I always thought the pedal steel was just a comic instrument, until I heard Pete do "Mr. Sandman". WOW! Got a chance to talk to him about why he used a single neck when Jerry Garcia used a double neck and so on. Hearing them was a real life changer for me!
JHelak 1 month ago
To bad Gram could not have stayed with us a bit longer
buffspringfield 2 months ago
They sound like the cosmic Everly Brothers.
wygakyl 2 months ago
Gram changed the world of music. Because of him, a whole new generation of music was created. And that was the world of Country pop music.
Gilyslas 2 months ago
gram parsons would have went on to be a monster rock star... he had everything going for him. the looks, uniqueness, and talent.... what a shame he went to earlier
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morto anche lui 27 anni, gram entra a far parte delle rock star uccise dai servizi segreti perchè troppo rivoluzionari. gram fu ucciso dalla c.i.a. perchè voleva trasformare il country fascista in musica rivoluzionaria. il suo corpo fu tolto dalla tomba e bruciato per cancellare le prove
198supertramp 3 months ago
(:
xKillerQueenXtine 3 months ago
Sneaky Pete!!!!
pbrick6301 3 months ago
That is some sweet lapsteel
JustPeachyification 3 months ago
@JustPeachyification : pedal steel rather than lap steel. two=different instruments...
nwhistorian 3 months ago
@nwhistorian True story....my bad. either way still good hahaha
JustPeachyification 3 months ago
@JustPeachyification Not a lap steel, that is his trusy tricked out Fender 400, that's the 8 string pedal steel with his famous FUZZ too.
steele4233 2 months ago
Were the Burrito Brothers ever on Hee-Haw? That would have been a hoot!
alm6762 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Flying Burrito Brothers
Chris Hillman had the most amazing 'do back in the day- I'd love to run my fingers through that lovely, crazy hair!
harrietcow 4 months ago 6
awesome tune.. awesome suits.
MrTheprovider 4 months ago
I wonder if McGuinn was ever offered a spot in this band.
scarafawcette 4 months ago
Once I was rock climbing out in Joshua tree national park and accidentally found the place they burned his body and spread his ashes in the park. We had no idea at the time but the guy at the hippy shop in "town" told us what it was and his name.. I looked him up and fell in love with an entire genre I never even knew existed. You were before my time Gram Parsons but I found you.. and for that I am very grateful!
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earthlyinfodotcom 4 months ago
badass
motavation69 4 months ago
hell of a guy killer sound for its time
keynii83 5 months ago
Next time I go to visit my Mom in 29 Palms I'm going to listen to Gram as I drive through the Joshua Tree National Monument. I figure that is the closest I can come to meeting him.
eddysacat 5 months ago
This group was awesome! I grew up with my dad listening to the Dead, Asleep at the Wheel, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, and Dylan just to name a few but I don't remember hearing this group or Gram Parsons. I'm not talking to my Dad right now but I want to call him to ask him why. I researched about Gram and jesus he was something. Also I'm from 29 Palms and he died about 10 miles away in Joshua Tree. Why do these musical geniuses have to die so young???
eddysacat 5 months ago
@eddysacat oh there is so much life out there
until we die. he was cool. I was so into so much
music always back then and I didn't know too much about him.
so...live and learn. I live in SF and there's a tribute to GP
for the last 10 years--every year--woo, last night.
it was great. bands of all ages carrying on his music...
harmoniabalanza 5 months ago
The Dobro player's outfit is ridiculous.
jgibson61591 5 months ago
@jgibson61591 gram cracks up because he's watching the taping on a monitor. Sneaky Pete must have lost a bet to have to wear that f#@*ing hat!
iggyaztec 4 months ago
Respond to this video... the hat is cracking gram up. watch again. he's f&@%ing laughing like he's on codeine or something.
iggyaztec 4 months ago
Jack White look like Gram :)
sickpoola 5 months ago
@sickpoola I disagree, but they are both awesome!
CalandrielAurealin 5 months ago
This is some good stuff.
noblesiner 5 months ago
Every time I watch this, I fall in love with Gram all over again. Not even the camera can resist him.
P.S. 29 people are devils in disguise.
ladivina79 5 months ago
What's your sister doing now? Is she still doing embroidery?
conquistadorrecords 5 months ago
This is the perfect merger of country and rock.
conquistadorrecords 5 months ago
I saw Pete perform about a year before he died. He was barely there.
TheOldNetminder 5 months ago
Devotee Gram liked to wear his devotions on his sleeve, & all over his clothes! We can see Gram was devoted to opium poppies, pot, certain pharmaceuticals he advertises capsules of - & Jesus-as-savior(who he wrote about in a number of songs).Did Gram think Jesus might save him from a drug OD? If so, he got that very wrong. Keef survived&never believed in Jesus!
Hillman was Gram's housemate&frequent co-writer&said they'd write early in the day, as Gram was usually too F***** up by evening.
Bobjb999 6 months ago
Gram's having so much fun here. I bet he was cool to hang with. Maybe.
scotus55 6 months ago
Sneaky Pete's steel guitar kicks ass!
MarkGLanovaz 6 months ago
love every note of it. amazing how music really is an universal language. this guys are as american as they come and still...here I am, sitting in croatia and loving it. this is just amazing.
dobritza65 6 months ago
Fantastic and sadly one of only a few clips of Gram
markmcnulty 6 months ago
they dress way better than the sargent peppers himself
freudastaire 6 months ago
Gram Parsons was the bomb. Too bad he died so young.
snaglywhiplash 7 months ago 2
Pamela Des Barres in the beginning!
ChickweblisLuv 7 months ago
Which one's Gram?
elirosen1391 7 months ago
@elirosen1391 1:20
jhatt25 6 months ago
Really doesn't get any better than The Burritos...
socalmax 7 months ago
Listen to all his music. Your ignorant for sure!!!!
Rtech778 7 months ago
Gram strikes me as a snotty little brat, but Chris Hillman is alright!
wilpri 7 months ago
@wilpri Gram was not only the talented one--he was the nicer guy! AND he was cuter.
nestorian9 6 months ago
@nestorian9 LOL. Good to know...
wilpri 6 months ago
@caferacer066 wow, so sad. anyone talking trash after - I mean even if you think you had some issue, all is forgiven in death. anything else is just so - no...unelihgtened? Sad, like taking advantage of someone unable to defend, let alone make amends, nothing to change, nothing to gain. Now I'm curious but i'm not even going to go there.
mythtree 7 months ago
nice threads...
nice band, lovely linda rondstat...
I had a girlfriend once like that devil in disguise, disgusting games I don't know why I put up with, so long...
thanks for sharing, but THIS is just so "NOT ME"
mythtree 8 months ago
@mythtree I think the dark haired girl is Emmy Lou Harris
kheyashunka 7 months ago
@kheyashunka O thanks, that makes sense, Emmy Lou is great singer especially when with Gram.
mythtree 7 months ago
Sound like Pure Prairie League.
73849309378 8 months ago
@73849309378 More like vice versa, this came out first!
mrJimCharles 8 months ago
@73849309378 No....Pure Prairie League sounds like them!
wygakyl 2 months ago
@wygakyl you are right on the money...I love ppl and new riders of the purple sage
SuperBentley55 1 month ago
Seminal song. I've got the 'Sin' LP, had it years now. One of the classics of country rock. Gram left us way too early. :-(
motownmaniax 8 months ago
@bgandl1 - To cool. Thanks for writing back. Wow - great stories! Drat, I'm going to have to embroider my own shirt! It'll never be as cool as Gram's. Elton never sends me flowers either...
yourpaljc 8 months ago
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If you like singer songwriters artists such as Ryan Adams, Gram Parsons, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, Van Morrison, Townes Van Zantes, Ryan Bingham,A.A. Bondy, Beachwood Sparks Stop by and here the latest recordings form "Skyline Drive" An Americana singer songwriter projected based out of Topanga Canyon. It is fronted by new comer Derek Thomas and features former Ryan Adams side man Erik Kristiansen on pedal steel.
SkylineDriveLIVE 8 months ago
who the 28 bozos that hit dislike wtf?
tommycassII 8 months ago
@tommycassII Just to get up your nose I'd make it 29,on 2nd thoughts,don't bother.
PAULLONDEN 8 months ago
Great band... But Michael Clarke couldn't shuffle for shit...
Simonc1952 8 months ago
@Simonc1952 Come on, he did more than fine on this. I like his drumming. Punchy and to the point.
chingunc 8 months ago
@chingunc
I always liked old Mike but jeez he was a dreadfyul drummer... Still seemed to cut a few key gigs - Byrds, Burritos, Dilard & Clark... so respect is due but really! Gram would've preferred Charlie Watts... ;¬)
Simonc1952 8 months ago
@Simonc1952
Yeah, Mike never really kept a steady beat. Must have been a nice guy to get those gigs. Joke: What do you call a drummer whose girlfriend just broke up with him? Homeless.
Lunalover131 8 months ago
Nice :) I have never heard of this band, but it's nice. Hi all from Spain!
MrDani9494 8 months ago
Sometimes you can tell how some musicians are influenced by other popular musicians whether through singing style or playing style or even outfits - but looking at Gram Parsons outfit here especially his hat & Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes came immediately into mind... Oh well..... lol...
ogrebattle22763 9 months ago 2
Wow, How did I ever miss out on this great band, when I was the biggest Poco fan going?No one ever told me about this great band! I can't believe that I would only discover them today, because they were listed next to Poco's songs! Well, thanks for this great post--I think this band is awesome!!! Peace, BobbyK
bobby7771117 9 months ago 2
Gram Parsons made the Byrds/FBB what they were. Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert listen, this is Country rock!
MisterAnimalChin 9 months ago
meh, no double rainbows in this video
jennicase 9 months ago
A sly peek at lovely little Linda Rostadt!
gordbard 10 months ago
Sneaky Pete rocks in this one.
halburg3 10 months ago 5
offensive since my name is christina.. :( (well the devil part is true)
Christinaluvspudding 10 months ago
Well, lucky for you your name is Christina and not Christine
kingjojothegreat 9 months ago
Fuzzed out pedal steel has got to be the coolest thing ever!
dmckean44 10 months ago 5
@dmckean44 Right on, I thought the same !
1978blueGREEN 10 months ago
yeee-hawww
dermotoblong 10 months ago
I'm a newcomer to Gram Parsons' music. I have a question: while he was alive, was he accepted by mainstream country fans, or was he more embraced by rock enthusiasts? His style was very unusual; it was somewhere in between the two.
LongLiveOx 10 months ago 2
@LongLiveOx Gram was really the inventor of Country Rock. Hippies were into this more than anything.
ozarkcacti 10 months ago 2
@ozarkcacti - Actually The Grateful Dead's entire repetoire was mostly Country Rock!
Shamagogue 10 months ago
@Shamagogue Excuse me, but the Dead did so much more than country rock. From the psychedelic jamming of the late sixties to the more funky late seventies stuff... You need to listen to more dead.
nexusofthecrisis 8 months ago
@LongLiveOx
Really, neither group accepted him. He talked to Merle Haggard about producing one of his records, but when Merle found out he was a hippy, that was done. And since Gram's stuff was more country than rock, most rock n rollers ignored him too. Jimmy Burton and Elvis's backup ban knew he was special, but they were exceptions.
MacFeeley 9 months ago
Christine was one of the GTO's--Frank Zappa-produced all-girl band...and a famous groupie of the day...
Lunalover131 10 months ago 2
Wow, just love this video...everyone seems to be havin a great time doin this tune.
bongpuffer 11 months ago
Wow bgandl! That is some cool history. She must have sewn for Elvis, Porter Waggoner and others. Cool. By the way, Is Sneaky Pete not one of the most out there pedal steel guitarists on the planet?
sixnoses 11 months ago
So tell me.....why is Hillman allowed to sing with these guys but was not allowed to sing with the Byrds [at least the early Byrds]? I never saw a Byrds video with him singing in it.
huskyjerk 11 months ago
Telecaster, Telecaster, TELECASTERS!!!!
biggibson49 11 months ago 2
@biggibson49 This is ironic coming from someone with "gibson" last name. I love both brands of guitars. ;-)
LBurris597 11 months ago
i would love to play with these guys we need more of this music today . danny k
boobooutlaw 11 months ago
Sad to think Chris Hillman and Chris Ethridge are the only ones still with us from this line up.
johnnyscouser 11 months ago
That steel guitar is fuckin SICK!!!
shaneyboy04 11 months ago
magic!
borja2312 11 months ago
My sister embroidered those costumes--she had no idea who Nudie wanted them for!!
bgandl 1 year ago 66
@bgandl my dad is friends with Polly grams daughter
stbreal 11 months ago
@bgandl VERY COOL!
mc2NY 10 months ago
@bgandl
are you serious thats so cool
got to be the coolest suits ever
acadx 10 months ago
@bgandl
Respect to the sister! Great embroidery... epochal!! If I give her the wool can she do me a marijuana suit? ;¬))
Simonc1952 8 months ago
@bgandl NO! Seriously?? How cool is that?! I realize its 40 years later but would she embroider a shirt for me?? I'm totally serious! Hope she is still doing great : ]
yourpaljc 8 months ago
@bgandl Cool! Your mother was an artist!
smitty54017 6 months ago
@bgandl that is simply the coolest thing I've read on this thing in months! Love those suits. A
cottageorgan 4 months ago
Their wardrobe was soooooo futuristic.This was in the days of the astronauts,Pan-Am Airways,and the Montreal Expo!
level242 4 months ago
I read that Gram and Chris wrote this song about a girl that hung out at the Palimino Club. Sounds like she was a hot chick and she knew it.
Mr70Cyclone 1 year ago
My fav FBB song...other than "Six Days On The Road"...ty!
DannyBruins 1 year ago
I sure wish Gram was still alive!
jp2thdoc 1 year ago 39
@jp2thdoc Then he would look like Keith Richard!!!!
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pray to jesus christ
bass109 1 year ago
Sneaky Pete! The real star of the whole damn show!
RichiePattinson 1 year ago 4
I love how Gram is strumming, he looks like he's having a picnic. Seeing him smile makes me smile.
mindingosafado 1 year ago 2
For anyone who is interested there is a small memorial out in the Joshua tree desert where they spread is ashes.... quite the site at sunset..
earthlyinfodotcom 1 year ago
You're still in my heart, Mr Parsons.
verbaud 1 year ago
A F•n +!!!
pokechopped 1 year ago
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ModGirl1967 1 year ago
GRAM
waylonjeepers 1 year ago
In 1969 the Flying Burrito Brothers open for the Grateful Dead three consecutive nights at the Avalon Ballroom. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that the following year the Dead released both Workingman's Dead and American Beauty.
otterdad48 1 year ago
@otterdad48
Certainly the Dead had nowhere further to go with with psychodelic acid music by 1969, but i think it's a stretch to say the FBB charted a new path for them.They both blurred the lines between Country and Rock. The GD had strong Bluegrass and Rockabilly roots.. the FBB had strong Folk backgrounds as well. They influenced each other, but you can't say one was a pathfinder for the other.. there was a big melting pot of music for a brief shining moment back then.
canadiancanoe 1 year ago
@otterdad48 They released 2 albums in 1969 as well. It was a near win/win for most groups in those days because almost every genre of music was expanding at a rate previously unheard of.
Most groups of that era had 4 things going for them: Actual talent, desire, inspiration from groups that predated them, and inspiration from VERY strong drugs....but that's just how it was, and it worked.
knoxunflower1 1 year ago
i remember her !!!
beyondalohas 1 year ago
Allman Brother's who?
julianpappas 1 year ago
Hypnotic, magical... Gram did indeed do "cosmic American music". I'm sane and all but I traveled once to Woodbine GA and with awe walked the same streets he'd walked, and spent the night with some locals out in the woods eating squirrels... My way of paying homage to him I guess. Watching this video and others you see what an incredible amount of energy he had and spirit.
BarrosSerrano 1 year ago
Chris Ethridge and Pete Keinow are fantastic here;It is them that give the rythm with the strong Bass. Bravo Chris !
serengiv 1 year ago 2
It's a shame for Chris.
adamtzsch 1 year ago
they helped pave the way to alt country, had Nudie suits that were more of a hippiefied motif, & were music rebels to boot back in the late 60s -earliest 70s
skiibachs 1 year ago
riolk blrndr sloggru
loxab2 1 year ago
Funny how the Burrito had more Byrds than the actual Byrds had at this point.
harvey1954 1 year ago
outstanding. great steel. thanks. brings back memories.
droldvinezin 1 year ago
one hell of a steel player
boobooutlaw 1 year ago
Remembering Gram Parsons today: November 5, 1946 – September 19, 1973. Too fast to live, too young to die.
rocktenniscat 1 year ago
GRAM PARSONS was born on this 5th day of November 1946 ~ 1973 ♪♫ he was in The Byrds & frontman of The FLYiNG BURRiTO BROTHERS, i luv this 1969 tune :-)
MERVskilton 1 year ago
regarding lip-synching...it was quite common back then...hardly anyone sang live on shows like Bandstand and other 50's-60's-early 70's mucic shows/vids. Just FYI'n y'all :-)
katsongs 1 year ago
Has ANYONE else in history EVER played a pedal steel with a FUZZ pedal besides SPK? Does this thing sound outrageous..
emjee 1 year ago 2
I saw them up at the Mishawaka Inn up the Poudre Canyon from Ft Collins in 76, What a treat.
bassbob42 1 year ago
Singing Chris off the stage. Gram's got it.
adamtzsch 1 year ago
Prince Dandy of Cosmic American Music! Gram's not dead
scottieboy2008 1 year ago
No wonder they called him Sneaky Pete - look at that hat!
HotRodHarley93 1 year ago
A thing of beauty!!
DeepSouthWrestling1 1 year ago
Hillman and Parsons together were magic! Love this song.
Gazolba 1 year ago 2
@Gazolba - have seen Chris Hillman twice now in recent years. Just a solid, fantastic musician. Thank heavens, he survived poor old Gram.
rocktenniscat 1 year ago 2
those guitars are so rare gram conasaw of music 60's i love you
68beano 1 year ago
Luckily for you, Coyoteboy12, you didn't OD like Gram Parsons...aside from that, this is a very nice song
benbizzy100 1 year ago
It looks lip synched but what about Sneaky Pete's pedal steel guitar licks?
Mike Clarke picked me up hitching once in the 70's. I think he was playing with Firefall at that point. I said, "You're Mike Clarke aren't you." He said, "yeah, who are you."
MaabudZ 1 year ago
@MaabudZ woah!
PeterMayer 1 year ago
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MaabudZ with all respect, that was funny! ("Yeah, who are you.")
halbie71 1 year ago
MaabudZ with all respect, that was funny! ("Yeah, who are you.")
halbie71 1 year ago
@MaabudZ its totally lip synced.Read 20,000 roads about Gram and
PAULOcbi 1 year ago
@PAULOcbi I'd like to read what you're referring to but your message was cut off, i.e. "Gram and" Are you talking about the book or someithing on-line?
MaabudZ 1 year ago
@MaabudZ yea in the book you get a rundown of what went down by ChrisHillman who was closer to Gram than Grams wife really...
PAULOcbi 1 year ago 3
those bubbling scene mixes are classic and still better than anyhting today.
and god damn I didn't know Gram P was from the us?
dougfresh68 1 year ago
Man, Went to see some very commercially popular "Country Acts " recently and it's like a Madonna concert for goodness sakes-yeah, the girls had pipes, and the musicians were pros but there was absolutely No Soul whatsoever.
thanksforthemusic 1 year ago
WOW, Gram,Chris and all the Nudie Cohn suits. psychedelic man.
Tekton62 1 year ago
It takes a special group to pull off these suits,Gram Parsons @ his finest.
thejudge009 1 year ago
That's really nice how Chris Hillman and Michael Clark were in that band also haha they're both wonderful in both bands The Byrds and F.B.B. And Graghm is such a good singer, ill never forget his voice
MissYooHoo74 1 year ago
Superb, superb song, beautifully performed.
TerrySleeper 1 year ago
Killer steel tone.
boatbutter 1 year ago
he left it all out there, in spite of the sad deadly habits he had, he laid his soul bare. You can hear how strong his voice was when he started...By the end it was more ephemeral and fragile...I think he was leaving all along and we just didn't know it...
katsongs 1 year ago
@katsongs We're all of us leaving, all along . . . sadly, some of us take our leave sooner than others.
Thanks for your lovely words. RIP, Grievous Angel.
ladivina79 5 months ago
I hear your heart Gram. For whatever reason he has never gotten the credit he deserves...many, friend and foe alike, downplay his influence, but the indisputable fact remains, everybody he ever played and sang with became more like him rather than the other way around....
katsongs 1 year ago
@katsongs Absolutely. Keith Richards for one...
emjee 1 year ago
Okay, I've been listening to this song, this video for the past week and i swear that it had around 300K views a few days ago. Amazing.
DrR0cks0 1 year ago
GRANDI FBB, TROVATE LA VERSIONE LIVE IN AMSTERDAM: E' ECCEZIONALE.
ADEU-SIAU PER PART DE MR ARNAUNA
MrArnauna 1 year ago
@beaubrumy ok...but Mike Nesmith was Country Rockin' with The Monkees...check out 'What Am I Doin' Hangin' 'Round?'
swacbro 1 year ago
Wasn't that used in the TRUE BLOOD soundtrack?
7734Duke 1 year ago
First FBB song I ever heard. That after I bought the Album on faith and played it the first time. Talk about not being disappointed! Has anyone ever ID'd the fabulous babes at the beginning?
klainski2 1 year ago
I just wish they would have played this type of music where i grew up in
northern california as a kid . this guy is great.
MrSmokeydog 1 year ago
@MrSmokeydog They DID! I grew up in NorCal (Marin, Sonoma and Lake Counties) in the mid sixties
forward. In Lake County, the only station you could get was KFRC who played A LOT of different styles compared to today.One song would be Led Zep, the next would be Glen Campbell, the next would be The Four Tops!. But you may have missed stations like KSRO, KVRE (Santa Rosa) and KTIM (San Rafael). and ESPECIALLY the radio station KFAT who the F.B.B. was in HEAVY rotation!!
emjee 1 year ago
gp is f ing cool
scottyb43 1 year ago
Gram was a bit overrated...had some pitch problems with his singing...The Burritos were cool but certainly not the first Country Rock band out there...ever hear of The First National Band??
swacbro 1 year ago
@swacbro ...ya, you are wacked bro....Gram is great!...if only he would of lived, he would certainly be a legend today,is too bad he is largely forgotten...
pulangdragon 1 year ago
@pulangdragon he was a rich, privileged, lucky guy who got to hang out with Keith...he was ok but, as my first comment stated, a bit overrated
swacbro 1 year ago