1971 The Flying Burrito Brothers "Six Days on the Road"

[KevinHeaven9]

the decrease in quality of the music is noticeable without parsons.. still decent though..

[inatizzy2]

I just love me some truck driving music! Is funny, I had this music in 73... I was but a young lass.But Im old now and found it again! YEEEE HAWWWW. LOL So I WAS country when Country wasnt cool. Only because DISCO had to happen and that REALLY sucked.

[Crusoeconomy21]

This is great. you can also hear a small portion of it in GIMME SHELTER. I thought it was there song when i first heard it there.

[jkforever10]

nice!!

[putdownan8dude]

is that mike clarke on drums?

[RossM3838]

@putdownan8dude it is indeed

[750drums]

@putdownan8dude indeed it is- he was there till the end a short time latter

[bradylemo]

Wow, the pedal steel solo is just smokin' hot.

[0209KMK58]

Which one is Gram Parsons?

[65Patrician]

@0209KMK58 no telling where Parsons is......he must of sat out on this.

[putdownan8dude]

@65Patrician he was fired by hillman before this.

[750drums]

@putdownan8dude No he wasn't- that's Michael Clarke he was there till the band broke up shortly after this video

[750drums]

Michael wasn't fired- he stayed till the band broke up

[putdownan8dude]

@750drums no. i was replying to 65 pat's comment about gram parsons. sorry for con-fuse bro!

[unclebobunclebob]

@65Patrician Gone from group by this time.

[unclebobunclebob]

@0209KMK58 Out of group by this time.

[gastonave]

I have never seen such awesome hairstyles.

[Stonedog1746]

INCREDIBLE OUTSTANDING SUPREME

[dejordyball]

HIllman does a cool-cat job here

[Pmcgov3284]

livingston taylor

[TheTommybuck]

Again why would 12 people bother to come to this site and post dislike?

[murdag99]

Gram parsons...fallen angels...outstanding!!! Though this is also a superb rendition

[apoculamus]

Exceptional version, although I think Livingston's original from around 1970 is still the best ever. On the other hand, Steve Earle's is probably the worst version ever. What was he thinking; I expected better than that diaper load. He didn't even phone it in - he put it in a paper bag, dropped it on the front stoop, lit it on fire, rang the doorbell and ran!

[pmnorris]

@apoculamus the original is from 1963 by Dave Dudley...a country classic!

[Paboll]

If a had long hairs, it would be like Hillman´s hair in this video...

[baddernoff]

I bet Dave Dudly never had a buritto in his whole life...

[jsteelman1000]

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[sodakmonk]

Byron Berline on fiddle. Kenny Wertz and Rick Roberts on guitars. Al Perkins on pedal steel. Mike Clark on drums. All of these guys went on to big success in other bands: Manassas, Firefall, Desert Rose Band, Country Gazette.

[wygakyl]

Chris Hillman came from rural San Diego County, and most assuredly cut his teeth in the bluegrass/country tradition....he certainly made the most of his career...Byrds, Burritos, with Stephen Stills in Manasses, Souther/Hillman/Furay Band, then writing and recording many charting country hits with the Desert Rose Band.

[tallthinkev]

Was that live? If not it's the best miming I've seen.

[750drums]

it's live

[dennbb]

Is that Vaaasar Clemens on fiddle?

[750drums]

 it's byron berline

[danielsam4587]

I LOVE this cover!!! Please upload it in a better quality! Please God!!!!!!

[thecountofbasie]

Kickin' version of a classic...never saw this, can't be sure I'd even heard it before...but dang what a revelation...and a blast...5*****

[TheSunbau]

The FBB - This song goes straight to my heart after passing through the ears. I´m a big fan of music from the 60s but maybe not directly country stuff. But ....this is really good. Thank you for uploading. My favorite band from the 60s was a band from Scandinavia THE ZETTLERS. Check up their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Irresistible f......g good with a bloody drive. A kind of honest and raw rock music from 1965. Unbelievable!!!!

[MuscleDad420]

Who's that on the fiddle?

[BradVic]

So Al, Chris and Byron went with Stills for the great Manassas band and Rick and Mike Clarke formed Firefall. What happened to Kenny Werth?

[750drums]

he and Byron berline went on to Country gazette

[ddactyl]

one of the greatest country songs ever wriyyen imho and covered really good by these guys. I never apprecated how good they were.

[sweetmetmarieb]

This must be after they kicked out Gram...

[kathykay2010]

This is one of those classic songs that you are always

happy to hear! Thanks! (:-)

[thehurricaine23]

sweet ...i really wish i could pull off the white afro...then I'd be taking little white pills and my eyes would be open wide

[leeinbell]

@thehurricaine23 take enough of those pills and your hair just might fro up on it's own.

[1Doz]

To be an amped up trucker in the '60s -- how cool would that be.

[MetalSandman92]

Holy crap the singer looks like my dad if my father ever grew his hair out.

[imprettystoned]

Great song and band!!!...But I just can't keep thinking that this is what Napolean Dynamite would look like if he was cool and older.....

[picudasaso]

I got my diesel wound up! and she's runnin like never before!

[RenatoJavaJava]

this intro is SO sick

[phildirt3]

byron berline?

[jjr2148]

@phildirt3

That's definitely him. He was all over the place in those days.

[mbeam64]

@phildirt3 yes, I think you're right.

[picudasaso]

Right on! Good JAM!

[gofigures2004]

Quite right, fallbreaks. Uniquely complemented, of course, by McGuinn's jingly-jangly Rick 360-12, with the 2 pickup Fireglow 12. Like every early teenage kid in America, the first time I heard Mr. Tambourine Man on the radio, I thought to myself, "Gee, I've never heard a sound like that before!" I know Peter Buck and Tom Petty were thinking the same thing...lol

[gofigures2004]

Gotta luv Chris Hillman's base here. Makes for a thunderous, rhythm section.

[fallbreaks]

@gofigures2004 This is the Byrds' rhythm section too - Chris on bass and Michael Clarke back there on the drums. 

[mcwhiteface]

under rated chris hillman a force behind so many great bands and one of the only people with the balls to through COS out of the band

[jeffcochrane1]

Pre Manassas...Hell Yea!!!!!

[KenCarpenter]

Al Perkins is fantastic on pedal steel. He later was in the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, too.

[rockinredneck57]

Too county for country radio. They were better than most "country" acts of the day also.

[youtubblows]

Great classic group there.

[EricW1063]

Thumbs up if when you heard the base line you thought it was "Firecracker" by Josh Turner.

[milankey]

Chris Hillman, Rick Roberts, Kenny Wertz, Byron Berline, Al Perkins, Michael Clarke.

[labluvver]

@milankey Right, this is the Last of the Red Hot Burritos lineup. Fittingly, this group recorded their only album live, as by then they had become a terrific live act. Chris and Al soon left for back up work with Stephen Stills.

[jtraske]

byron berline oklahoman best thing about this post

[MrBbannon]

@jtraske Byron may live in Guthrie now but, he was born and raised in Caldwell, Kansas. I've known his family my entire life and wish I had 1/1,000 of his talent

[Cataduanes]

This ''live'' version is more to my liking than the Studio/LP version....great stuff :)

[apoculamus]

I've never found a video of Livingston Taylor's version of 6 Days (haven't looked in months) but it's a great version as well. From an LP cut maybe 40 years ago +/-. This FBB send-up is surely at or near the top. Frankly I like it better than any of the true C&W versions. Earle's cover is a waste of both electrons and photons.

[super8film]

Al Perkins on a Fender Pedal Steel (Pete Kleinow also played a Fender, but a 400 single neck) double neck, probably a 2000, though it is hard to see if it is 8 or 10 strings. Sure do miss hearing those Fenders.

[super8film]

Maybe eight strings which would mean a 1000.

[groundcat]

@super8film Al is really tearing it up!

[gregkuhl]

@super8film - Al took this tune into the stratosphere with his steel play. Amazing sound that never gets old.

[anorthernsoul100]

does it get any better than this,I doubt it

[KafeSociety]

The drummer's got to go, though...



[ryantunks]

@KafeSociety Ha! That's funny. That is Mike Clarke who played with Chris in The Byrds.

[KafeSociety]

@ryantunks I know. He was not god's gift to the trap kit.

[reissue]

CH and MC are the pros here. Amazing how locked in they are. CH was a badass with bass in hand.

[powerkor]

pickit son!

[travelinshoes]

believe its chriss hillman al perkins chris etheridge byron berline and not know middle guitarist check out burritto deluxe with sneaky pete garth hudson

[travelinshoes]

that is not vassar on fiddle its byron berline,definitely best version ever

[wilpri]

Fantastic guitar playing.

[oilmanC]

That is hands down the best version of that song ever!!

[motownmaniax]

Stupendous live vid from the era. It's good to hear the real thing instead of canned lip sync for once.

[duncanstpt]

Incredible pedal steel, excellent harmony vocals, amazing fiddle. Wow.

[Aeskulab1]

Chris Hillmann puts a great rythm to it.

[my6eneration]

0:55 - 1:20

[droldvinezin]

what the old allman bros called, hittin' the notes. damn straight. get a clue nashville.

[hotajax]

Question: when did Gram play with FBB? Thanks

[RossM3838]

@hotajax For their first two albums, The Guilded palace of Sin recorded in 1968 and Burrito Deluxe recorded in 1970. They had begun to record more but gram had become unreliable. Those recordings were later combined with some outtakes from gram's two solo albums and released as an album.

[monkeytrousers]

Anyone know where this clips originates from?

[Marcus70815]

That's Al Perkins on pedal steel, isn't it?

[bren1231001]

@Marcus70815:Yes, That is Al Perkins.He also played pedel steel in Steven Still's Manassas.

[geedus71]

@bren1231001 : Get real! One, Chris was no abstaining angel himself (just ask the surviving Burritos or any of Manassas). Two, just read his bitter comments on Gram in Hot Burritos by John Einarson to get the picture: his touchiness ain't about how Gram imploded as much as how Gram has become a legend which Hillman feels is ridiculous and unwarranted. I'm not saying he's wrong or right, it doesn't take anything away from his musicianship but don't give me the "pining for his lost friend" line!

[bren1231001]

@geedus71 :I've read the book,I'm sure Chris was no angel.But Chris survived it,Gram did'nt.And it seems to me that there are people who resents that and are vindictive towards Chris.I think that Chris would rather remember the Gram that he knew and not the Gram that drugs and alcohol created.Drugs and alcohol does destroy lives and hurts a lot of people.

[geedus71]

@bren1231001 OK, I'm with you there; fair comment, Gram threw it all away just to get higher: who knows what he could have achieved. But I have to disgaree with Chris' opinion that Grievous Angel was "just bad country".

[bren1231001]

@geedus71 :On Grievous Angel,Maybe Chris though that Gram could have done it better.On getting high, I do'nt think Gram was doing drugs and drinking to get high.I think he was doing them to make it through each day.Becauce of things he could'nt change.People don't know what the inter Gram was thinking.People can only speculate on what the outer Gram allowed them to see.I don't feel that Gram was happy with the way he's life was going.I think if Gram could have change anything.

[bren1231001]

@geedus71 :he would rather be a living then a legend.But death does'nt give that choise.

[geedus71]

Chris Hillman - great bass player, a true member of the country rock Hall of Fame but ooooooh, is he touchy if you ask him about Gram Parsons...

[bren1231001]

@geedus71 :Would'nt you feel touchy if drugs and alcohol destroyed your friend?Think about it.

[creeper50]

The guy on pedal steel is awesome! Making me sad I'm driving an MB, not a Mack!

[claux23]

Was Gram out of the band at this point? I'm not sure of the history.

[ssilver996]

Byron Berline on fiddle

[Cuzindude]

Looks like Vassar on the fiddle.

[roundrocktx]

@Cuzindude It's Byron Berline on fiddle

[oliverrocks1001]

its not like this anymore u_u

[nightjasmine25]

What's more important. The length of one's legs or the height of one's talent?

[bareknuckles2u]

Coooooool!

[DCartRow]

Dave Dudley's delivery makes this song go.

Burrito's were mocking dabblers and what the hell is that short legged Chris Hillman fronting anything?

Weak

[Dukegrievousangel]

@DCartRow You're entitled to your opinion, and yes, I do enjoy Dudley's version very much, but I don't know about the Burritos being "mocking dabblers." They had quite a lot of talent, particularly at this stage.

[gregkuhl]

@DCartRow

you obviously had to click on their video in order to comment about them... if you despise the burrito's so much, why are you listening to their music on youtube?

[Flunder]

I have to see this and hear it to remember when music kicked fucking ass.and these guys did! that steel player is unreal.

[TwangTown]

who's on steel? he's shreddin that thang!!!

[nightjasmine25]

@TwangTown That's Al Perkins. Good isn't he?!

[DannyBruins]

Wow...great version...was Grahm gone by this time?

[earthlyinfodotcom]

Truly a lost genre of it's own, and we are all better for having heard a single lick of it.

[margowsky]

I didn't realize that FBB went on without Gram. They shouldn't of.

[mmrestovic]

That's Rick Roberts with chris on vocals Perkins and Byron michael

[MikeDaMuddah]

The second best version of this song, covered by everybody. Taj Mahal peaked on it.

[Sangderuc]

I've heard and loved many versions of this song but this is my new favorite. It's supple, soulful and it rocks.

[BCRSIX]

Is that Bernie Leadon on bass, singing?

[CadillacL]

@BCRSIX That's Chris Hillman

[HugeGene]

This version kicks ass for all time! Love the FBB. @therandman1: you need to get Last of The Red Hot Burritos.. their live album. It's on there, and even ballsier than this if that is imagineable! The wholerecording is the very best live country rock album of all time. If you can't find it Ill burn it for ya' lemme know.

[oneputtchris]

Michael Clarke passed 8 or 9 years ago I'd say....he had an enlarged liver from many years of drugs and alcohol.

[scottr10]

Chris, plus Rick -

[sugarkang]

that lap steel is so kick ass.

[Im4hm]

Love Chris Hillman's music! Would love to see Chris and Herb in concert though I know that isn't likely. I have to settle with recorded music and darn glad to get it too! btw - At Edwards Barn is fantastic! One of our favorites!

[1996POTTER19]

I don't think that's Bernie on guitar. Looks like Kenny Wertz. This song appears on the Last of the Red Hot Burrito's album from 1972.

[6pointnite]

So, by this time GP was deceased correct? I sure don't see him on stage. They also performed this as their opener at the Altamont concert ("Gimme Shelter" for those not in the know). That got the frisbees and freak flags flying!

[ThePjaimeow]

@6pointnite no, GP didn't pass till 9/73

[ThePjaimeow]

@6pointnite 

[ThePjaimeow]

@6pointnite GP did not pass till 9/73, don't know where the hell he was

[algerij]

@ThePjaimeow GP left the the band well before he died.

[therandman1]

jesus! i wish i could find a goddamned recording of this.. the slide guitar is so damn good.

anyone know if they ever recorded this version?

[future4you]

I though that was Chris Hillman. Judging by the other comments it is!

[nightjasmine25]

Must not have been these guys. They broke up in what....late 1971?

[dahsuerk]

They had a concert at Kearney state College at Kearney, Nebraska in the late 70's and almost no one showed up. I had the front row all to myself.

[gramhound86]

Wow! Go Al Perkins!

[chazzmo]

This version is substantially the same as the version on "Last of the Red Hot Burritos" which was - imho - the best cover of this song ever.

I especially love the pedal steel work.

Thanks for posting!

[68beano]

that good ole steel and fiddle chooglin' down the line

[sharkgammaray]

chris hillman is the coolest guy ever to live.....long live the burrito brothers

[nightjasmine25]

@sharkgammaray Has anybody seen the speech Chris made at the Library Of Congerss? He goes through his whole musical career and the people who influenced him. It's here on YouTube.

[identificationize]

fucking great song played by an even better group of talented and horendouly underapreciated musicains

[zerominusminus]

I believe the fiddle player is the incredible Vassar Clements. One of the greatest ever (1928 - 2005). RIP. Clements was a huge transitional figure from raw country to country rock.

[sclawman]

@zerominusminus You're incorrect. It's Byron Berline, famous fiddler from Guthrie, OK and former Oklahoma University football player.

[juandoggie]

@sclawman

and also the fiddle player on "country honk" for the Rolling Stones

[poop634]

is that sneaky pete on the steel guitar? doesnt quite look like him.

[scottalias]

Who the hell is singing? Thats not Gram is it?

[Illalung]

@scottalias Chris Hillman

[bren1231001]

@scottalias Chris Hillman,In 1985 to Febuary of 1994,He was the lead vocalist of The Desert Rose Band.

[inquiry7]

@scottalias that is a young chris hillman.

[leetlericky]

I thought the fiddle player was rueben kincaid, before his managing gig.

[inquiry7]

@leetlericky that is byron berline who also plays the break on country honk by the stones.

[Tiannamaurina]

Great music and great times i will always remember!

[Tiannamaurina]

oh man talk about memories!!!

[Longmiestr]

That is Byron Berline on the fiddle all right. He played the solo on the Stones album version of Honky Tonk Women "Country Honk".

[jakeleroi]

@Longmiestr

Al Perkins on pedal steel. He and Chris played with Stephen Stills in Manassas.

Rick Roberts (guy with longest hair on the Gretsch) and Michael Clarke(drummer) were in Firefall. Don't know who the other guitar player is.

[framzoid]

@jakeleroi ...The other guitarist is none other that Bernie Leadon,who six months later would co-found The Eagles....

[bassbob42]

This is great music, I remember seeing them up at the Mishawaka in up Poudre Canyon in Ft Collins 1976

[marteeen0]

that my friends is what country rock is all about.

[hwinc]

I pretty sure that's Byron Berline on fiddle. He's from Oklahoma and was national fiddle champion several times.

[IdolHans]

@hwinc Berline recorded on the Stones "Let It Bleed" album. You can hear him play on the song "country honk"

[pietyhill]

Man, I love Al Perkins....

[oneputtchris]

Hillman is a good friend of mine..... The drummer Michael Clarke was my roommate in Boulder Colorado many years ago (RIP Michael) and the fellow in the middle with the long hair, short jeans is Rick Roberts of 'Firefall' fame, also a good friend. These guys are wonderful songwriters and musicians. Rick doesn't tour anymore, but if you get a chance to see Chris with Herb Pedersen or Chris with the Desert Rose Band....do it. You won't be dissapointed.