What a song... heard this for the first time yesterday, love the deeeep bassline and the keyboard/organ... what have we done to have to listen to the crap we have today...???
for those of us who love john stewart from his california bloodlines era, this video is an embarassment........he is just a poser here, why did he let himself get involved with this rock star stuff...to quote another commentor below "this is pure shit"...........
Still a great song. My teenage daughters born long after the release of Gold in 1979 loved it after I played Stewart/Nicks version of it. R.I.P. John Stewart - the original and much better John Stewart.
Summer of '79... when this song came out my friends and I were like Oh my God this song is amazing! We could not get enough of it. My 2- and 4- year old nephews would sing along as I was blasting it on the radio and even my mom got into it, this song is classic will never be repeated.
@SeisanStnc So I'm free to leave my once decent neighborhood which has now become a cesspool of crime and violence due to Section 8 housing and other BRA endowments and privilages? Gee, thanks for the reminder.
@invitriol123 Sure, glad to help. This song has nothing to do with your complaints nor who is in charge of America. By the way, in the "good ol' days" of 1979, the max marginal federal income tax was 70 percent. I have a feeling that you will have a good deal of difficulty reconciling that with your social and political views.
@SeisanStnc The max marginal tax rate applied to people making OVER $215,000. Pretty good money now, never mind then. Complaints of your nature are probably lodged by rich assholes who can easily afford to live in an exclusive gated community or whitopia.....far away from the diversity and multiculturalism they sing praises to.
Check out STEWART'S "Midnight Wind" which also features Nicks on backing vocals. It's also one of Stewart's better songs. Very similar to GOLD and released around the same time period. I'm surprised it didn't chart high like GOLD did. I guess it didn't receive very much play from the disc jockeys of the time.
Check out "MIDNIGHT WIND" also from Stewart around this same time period. It also features Stevie Nicks on backing vocals and is pure STEWART magic. You won't be disappointed!
@pbrick6301 Yes, Stewart and Nicks were actually friends. John was a friend of Fleetwood Mac's members. Christine McVie also did some backing music/vocals for Stewart and I believe Lindsey Buckingham as well.
About the throwing the guitar in thing...It's a convertable, and he throws the guitar into the back seat after he hops in the car. :D It works...sort of.
@MrBuc128 It took me almost 30 years to realize it too. And it's not just her, but also Lindsey Buckingham singing backup on this. Apparently John wanted them to sing backup because he was a fan of Fleetwood Mac (who were huge at the time) and Stevie and Lindsey both jumped at the chance, because they were big Kingston Trio fans growing up and were thrilled to work with one of their music heroes...talk about a win-win situation.
Interesting trivia: John Stewart was giving one of his earliest performances on electric guitar (as mentioned, he was already famous as a member of the Kingston Trio) for a crowd of music industry people. He mentioned on stage that it was Lindsay Buckingham's playing that inspired him to try the electric guitar. Buckingham was in the audience, and was blown away by this because, as he told John afterward, he'd been a fan of the Kingston Trio and that's why *he* picked up the guitar.
Great song, I heard it on the radio again recently and I had not heard it in years. I thought I heard Stevie Nicks in it and found out it was her through this clip that led me to another one. Cheers I love her.
@wombat44095 This is a great song and Jon's voice is just right and bad ass!! His voice fits this song perfectly. Perfect song for driving on a dirt road in the middle of no where with friends drinking PBR's!! You need to take more road trips.
What a piece of crap. If it weren't for Nicks singing on this song, he wouldn't have even been a one hit wonder. He should have stayed in the garage and never recorded.
@Wombat44095 Stewart was successful long before this song as a member of the Kingston Trio. Later in his life he admitted that he much preferred the music he made with the Kingston Trio. He was already a many hit wonder when he recorded this. Your comments are uncalled for.
@canoer2 Let me call down to the Rock Hall and have them clear out a wing. Since they inducted Iggy Pop they can induct this stooge. This song was nothing more than riding on the coat tails of Fleetwood Mac's success. You can even hear the ripped off guitar licks/sounds of Buckingham, mix in a little Tom Petty's "Breakdown" Keyboards, and add some Nicks vocals and you have a hit. I would not consider much of what the Kingston Trio did as being much more than a niche in American music.
@Wombat44095 I never said he deserves to be in the hall. As far as the Kingston Trio goes, I lived through their era and they were a difference maker during their time. To suggest they were just a niche is at best short sighted. Don't belittle Stewart because he was able to cross over to rock, with the help of some talented friends, and create a hit. As was mentioned earlier, he wrote Daydream Believer for the Monkees. And his brother Michael was a member of the short lived group We Five.
@Wombat44095 I never said he deserves to be in the hall. As far as the Kingston Trio goes, I lived through their era and they were a difference maker during their time. To suggest they were just a niche is at best short sighted. Don't belittle Stewart because he was able to cross over to rock, with the help of some talented friends, and create a hit. As was mentioned earlier, he wrote Daydream Believer for the Monkees. And his brother Michael was a member of the short lived group We Five.
@canoer2 And what difference did the KT really make? Did they end Vietnam? Bring world peace? Oh I know They wrote crappy mucic, which very few people listened to, that was the difference they made. Your argument that he wrote a hit for the Monkees is also laughable. Weren't they a made up band with and contrived sound to sound like somebody else? All I know was it was music like this and the other cookie cutter songs of this era that led to Punk music and another British Invasion taking over.
@Wombat44095 I quote wiki:The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as "phenomenal popularity" and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake. Quite a difference, and there is more.
@canoer2 You should know better than to quote Wiki as a source. Most of that is made up by the author (Probally you) and has very little to do with reality. Again all of their awards are in the folk music category. Wasn't it the Kingsmen that said one of their biggest hits moved about 5,000 units? I would not consider their accomplishment any more relevant than the "New Christy Minstrells" And trust me if they were ever in a Tijuana jail, they would not be singing so happily about the adventure.
@Wombat44095 startingwith their first album KT released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, 4 LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years,and the group still ranks after half a century in the all time top ten of many of Billboard's charts, including those for most weeks with a #1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most #1 albums, most consecutive #1 albums, and most top ten album
@canoer2 Let me call down to the Rock Hall and have them clear out a wing. Since they inducted Iggy Pop they can induct this stooge. This song was nothing more than riding on the coat tails of Fleetwood Mac's success. You can even hear the ripped off guitar licks/sounds of Buckingham, mix in a little Tom Petty's "Breakdown" Keyboards, and add some Nicks vocals and you have a hit. I would not consider much of what the Kingston Trio did as being much more than a niche in American music.
Would it have made more sense for him to throw his guitar into the car before jumping himself. Because if he has the guitar in his hands when he jumps in the car, then throwing it into the car seems kinda redundant, dontcha think? ;-)
@Kohntarkosz Well, it might make sense to one who works in the Department of Redundancy Department. Just a thought. I think you may have a valid point.
Well, I WAS being a bit facetious. Presumably, John went for what seemed to fit the meter of the melody best. Proof positive that the rules of English and the rules of pop song lyrics don't always parallel each other. ;-)
@Kohntarkosz Actually the truth is he had a catapult installed. When people were in for the evening, he would pull out his station wagon, you know the one with the back window able to roll down, when he drove over the spot marked "X", he would hit the catapult button. As his guitar throwing legend grew, his catapults became more elaborate with each passing year. Well we all know what happened when he started using the catapult 3000.
@Kohntarkosz the lyrics to this song are embarrassing. but it still sounds great over the loudspeakers at Whole Foods, which is the only place i've heard it in my life.
Well, I don't think they're any more embarassing than any other pop or rock song. I actually remember seeing John Stewart play this song on Solid Gold way back when. I couldn't remember who sang it or what the song was called, but I DID remember that one couplet! :-) It's kind of a cool song, really, and it's one of the better things that Stevie Nicks has sung on. ;-)
@heddalee Ok this is a funny comment... But hey!! I like this song. Nostalgia, perhaps? The only place I ever heard it was in my dad's car.... over and over... and over circa 1987.
Interesting point, though I've always assumed he was driving a convertible with the top down. Somehow that's the image that was conjured in my mind the first time I heard the song. I would think it'd be pretty easy to throw a guitar into the back seat of a convertible. (shrug)
jim bass died tragically in 2000 when a semi- struck him while he was crossing a six-lane highway on a wobbly bicycle. Police say he was drunk, but his friends deny this. They say he was on LSD at the time.
@mkloppel I'M RIGHT HERE, FEWL. RIGHT - FUCKING - HERE. YEAH, I'VE CALLED A TOILET TRADER ONCE OR TWICE IN MY LIFE. WHAT OF IT?!! I'LL SUCK YOU OFF NO PROBLEM
@skooter72 poetic license.....my theory is that it is $2.50 an hour. I can't imagine someone taking one job over another because one pays 4 cents more than the other
John Stewart was fabulous. As it is we've got lots of people with the last name of Stewart who make it big and famous in the entertainment industry. Aside from John Stewart theres Jimmy Stewart, Martha Stewart, Patrick Stewart, Rod Stewart, and now theres that green eyed actress from Twilight who also has the last name Stewart.
I like the song but this video is so fake. Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac do the backup vocals and you can hear them, but where are they in the video? Lame.
@Bag0fRats That was back in the sixties,John Stewart dumped Rock Hudson for Charles Nelson Riley and later Wink Martindale before he was sexualy involved with Lindsey Buckingham.
@Bag0fRats John Stewart was dating (having gay sex) with Peter North for many years when North showed Stewart how to get his Penis to function better by taking his phony cumshot pills.North said that John Stewart would sing to him while performing anal cunnilingas.
Whoever this BagOfRats person is apparently knows nothing about the past. 2.50 an hour was probably about or better than minimum wage back then. This song still plays 30 years later. There is crap created in the last 5 years no longer played today,why? It's crap. In conclusion, if this is crap to you, it's still better than most of today's hits if it's still played!!!. Think about it!!
@ToddInLN52254 That's correct loser, I never worked for such low wages. This is pure crap that was flushed down the toilet with the rest of the 70s disco themed shit. Nobody here in California listens to this forgotten garbage.
Where's Stevie Nicks? She's never in any of the videos for this song. BTW, most people do not know that John was part of the Kingston Trio in the late 1950's. The Kingston Trio sang the song 'Tom Dooley'.
What a song... heard this for the first time yesterday, love the deeeep bassline and the keyboard/organ... what have we done to have to listen to the crap we have today...???
markthebusman 3 weeks ago 2
The great invisible Stevie Nicks.
Parkinish 3 weeks ago 2
@SecretariatOnSteriod John Stewart used to be gay lovers with Fred Schneider of the B52s
Bag0fRats 1 month ago
@SukBonelessSausage did you know John Stewart asked Stevie Nicks if Mick fleetwood was "available" when she sang backup on this queer song ?
Bag0fRats 1 month ago
Stevie Nicks is the best harmonizer ever
LikeTheCondor 1 month ago
hes better off doin comedy
ddrydrunksociety 1 month ago
Being that Stevie Nicks was involved in this track, did he 'experience' her behind the scenes? One can only wonder. Nice tune, by the way.
kja427 1 month ago
for those of us who love john stewart from his california bloodlines era, this video is an embarassment........he is just a poser here, why did he let himself get involved with this rock star stuff...to quote another commentor below "this is pure shit"...........
johnnyrockintalkin 1 month ago
Stevie Nicks you AWESOME WOMAN. Sexiest woman that ever lived.
mjpd1983 2 months ago
THIS IS PURE SHIT !
KelliFilkins 2 months ago
It musta hurt Jonh Stewart to lyp-synd
Dunkleosteus9 2 months ago
So - where did Stevie go? That's her voice...
lavenderdawnstar 2 months ago
Been looking for this one !!! Thanks !!! ;)
monkeefan1965 3 months ago
nothing takes you back like music. classic
chipzigrossi 4 months ago
Still a great song. My teenage daughters born long after the release of Gold in 1979 loved it after I played Stewart/Nicks version of it. R.I.P. John Stewart - the original and much better John Stewart.
kajazz95 4 months ago in playlist More videos from PontioFW 3
Awesome
norfolk611 4 months ago
To quote Bob Shane: "It's just a song!"
Mike Crawford
mcbuddha1689 4 months ago
this song came out during my senior year in high school god what memories!
kg4yhr 4 months ago
Lindsay Buckingham learned to play guitar by listening to John Stewart on Kingston Trio albums.
Mike Crawford
mcbuddha1689 4 months ago
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@GeorgeCarlinIsInHell he also screwed Boy George
Bag0fRats 5 months ago
Steward wrote some good songs!
Dunkleosteus9 5 months ago
WOW!! this classic song takes me back to the late summer of 1979.
I was a junior in high school, and I remember how this song was popular.
I miss those simple, carefree days back then:(
superbulldog81 5 months ago
@superbulldog81 I was the same age. Good times.
commentoria 5 months ago
And John Stewart is gorgeous in this video.
commentoria 6 months ago 3
Summer of '79... when this song came out my friends and I were like Oh my God this song is amazing! We could not get enough of it. My 2- and 4- year old nephews would sing along as I was blasting it on the radio and even my mom got into it, this song is classic will never be repeated.
commentoria 6 months ago 29
this deserves a replay button 0:00
thezepp925 6 months ago
One of the best rock and roll songs ever!!!
MrFRRN 6 months ago
One of my Favorite songs...
ymeoficrsolis 6 months ago
I say he did NOT die. He just changed his name to John Carpenter and started directing horror movies. Looks just like John Carpenter around 1980.
biffmercury 7 months ago
God I miss those days of music. The 70s ruled rock,disco top 40, It doesnt get any better than that. Love this song!!!
mgrella63 7 months ago 19
@mgrella63 I agree this is literally "gold"
MoltoPiccante 6 months ago in playlist Memory Songs
@mgrella63
Damn straight. This is obviously pre BRA. (Black Run America)
invitriol123 6 months ago
@invitriol123 Your freedom to leave is very much intact. Just a reminder.
SeisanStnc 5 months ago
@SeisanStnc So I'm free to leave my once decent neighborhood which has now become a cesspool of crime and violence due to Section 8 housing and other BRA endowments and privilages? Gee, thanks for the reminder.
invitriol123 4 months ago
@invitriol123 Sure, glad to help. This song has nothing to do with your complaints nor who is in charge of America. By the way, in the "good ol' days" of 1979, the max marginal federal income tax was 70 percent. I have a feeling that you will have a good deal of difficulty reconciling that with your social and political views.
SeisanStnc 2 months ago
@SeisanStnc The max marginal tax rate applied to people making OVER $215,000. Pretty good money now, never mind then. Complaints of your nature are probably lodged by rich assholes who can easily afford to live in an exclusive gated community or whitopia.....far away from the diversity and multiculturalism they sing praises to.
There. Didn't think I could do it, did you?
invitriol123 2 months ago 2
AWESOME!!!
NederpopBeatChannel 7 months ago
9 people dont know what real music is...
jibulley 7 months ago
RIP Andrew Gold
mpjgbx 8 months ago
Thumb dance
cattilou 8 months ago
Check out MIDNIGHT WIND, also by Stewart with backing vocals done by Stevie Nicks. Incredible song. Almost as good as GOLD was.
joevs21001 9 months ago
Check out STEWART'S "Midnight Wind" which also features Nicks on backing vocals. It's also one of Stewart's better songs. Very similar to GOLD and released around the same time period. I'm surprised it didn't chart high like GOLD did. I guess it didn't receive very much play from the disc jockeys of the time.
joevs21001 9 months ago
Check out "MIDNIGHT WIND" also from Stewart around this same time period. It also features Stevie Nicks on backing vocals and is pure STEWART magic. You won't be disappointed!
joevs21001 9 months ago
Please share some of you latest hits with the commons then.
alpo 9 months ago
rhiannon
nycskp1 9 months ago
Stewart is one of the greatest artist of all time. He was the real deal. RIP John.
joevs21001 10 months ago
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I quite agree!
Babyhowdy233 9 months ago
I wonder much a real gold record would cost today?
glimmer2158 10 months ago
6 Rappers saw "Gold" and thought this was a video about gangsta bling
tampatek 11 months ago
shuttup
wessabessa 11 months ago
we had cool hair back then ,music was great i still love it.
dickylee12 11 months ago
I wonder if John Stewart and Stevie Nicks actually ever met?
pbrick6301 1 year ago
@pbrick6301 of course because she not only did this song with him, but several others from that album too
jeff4bucks 11 months ago
@pbrick6301 Yes, Stewart and Nicks were actually friends. John was a friend of Fleetwood Mac's members. Christine McVie also did some backing music/vocals for Stewart and I believe Lindsey Buckingham as well.
joevs21001 9 months ago
About the throwing the guitar in thing...It's a convertable, and he throws the guitar into the back seat after he hops in the car. :D It works...sort of.
ReddBluGreen 1 year ago
Can you believe I just discovered this song yesterday? Amazing, this is so good !!
Thanks for uploading it.
ptrck99 1 year ago
After all these years I just realized Stevie Nicks sings on this song too.
MrBuc128 1 year ago
@MrBuc128 It took me almost 30 years to realize it too. And it's not just her, but also Lindsey Buckingham singing backup on this. Apparently John wanted them to sing backup because he was a fan of Fleetwood Mac (who were huge at the time) and Stevie and Lindsey both jumped at the chance, because they were big Kingston Trio fans growing up and were thrilled to work with one of their music heroes...talk about a win-win situation.
seabass11 10 months ago
Im only 25 and from the UK, this song freeking awsome! might be me new karaoke song :P
Retrosp3k 1 year ago 2
his buddy jim bass needs a substantial raise.
razorbacker63 1 year ago
Interesting trivia: John Stewart was giving one of his earliest performances on electric guitar (as mentioned, he was already famous as a member of the Kingston Trio) for a crowd of music industry people. He mentioned on stage that it was Lindsay Buckingham's playing that inspired him to try the electric guitar. Buckingham was in the audience, and was blown away by this because, as he told John afterward, he'd been a fan of the Kingston Trio and that's why *he* picked up the guitar.
Phase42 1 year ago
Believe it or not, this guy wrote "Daydream Believer" for The Monkees.
kousefly 1 year ago
Great song, I heard it on the radio again recently and I had not heard it in years. I thought I heard Stevie Nicks in it and found out it was her through this clip that led me to another one. Cheers I love her.
tonesv77 1 year ago
Did he have to get out of his car to throw in his guitar,or did someone else throw it in
ed27ca 1 year ago
@wombat44095 This is a great song and Jon's voice is just right and bad ass!! His voice fits this song perfectly. Perfect song for driving on a dirt road in the middle of no where with friends drinking PBR's!! You need to take more road trips.
Silverlabel101 1 year ago 2
@Silverlabel101 Your taste in music in only exceeded by your taste in beer.
Wombat44095 1 year ago
What a piece of crap. If it weren't for Nicks singing on this song, he wouldn't have even been a one hit wonder. He should have stayed in the garage and never recorded.
Wombat44095 1 year ago
@Wombat44095 Stewart was successful long before this song as a member of the Kingston Trio. Later in his life he admitted that he much preferred the music he made with the Kingston Trio. He was already a many hit wonder when he recorded this. Your comments are uncalled for.
canoer2 1 year ago
@canoer2 Let me call down to the Rock Hall and have them clear out a wing. Since they inducted Iggy Pop they can induct this stooge. This song was nothing more than riding on the coat tails of Fleetwood Mac's success. You can even hear the ripped off guitar licks/sounds of Buckingham, mix in a little Tom Petty's "Breakdown" Keyboards, and add some Nicks vocals and you have a hit. I would not consider much of what the Kingston Trio did as being much more than a niche in American music.
Wombat44095 1 year ago
@Wombat44095 I never said he deserves to be in the hall. As far as the Kingston Trio goes, I lived through their era and they were a difference maker during their time. To suggest they were just a niche is at best short sighted. Don't belittle Stewart because he was able to cross over to rock, with the help of some talented friends, and create a hit. As was mentioned earlier, he wrote Daydream Believer for the Monkees. And his brother Michael was a member of the short lived group We Five.
canoer2 1 year ago
@Wombat44095 I never said he deserves to be in the hall. As far as the Kingston Trio goes, I lived through their era and they were a difference maker during their time. To suggest they were just a niche is at best short sighted. Don't belittle Stewart because he was able to cross over to rock, with the help of some talented friends, and create a hit. As was mentioned earlier, he wrote Daydream Believer for the Monkees. And his brother Michael was a member of the short lived group We Five.
canoer2 1 year ago
@canoer2 And what difference did the KT really make? Did they end Vietnam? Bring world peace? Oh I know They wrote crappy mucic, which very few people listened to, that was the difference they made. Your argument that he wrote a hit for the Monkees is also laughable. Weren't they a made up band with and contrived sound to sound like somebody else? All I know was it was music like this and the other cookie cutter songs of this era that led to Punk music and another British Invasion taking over.
Wombat44095 1 year ago
@Wombat44095 I quote wiki:The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as "phenomenal popularity" and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake. Quite a difference, and there is more.
canoer2 1 year ago 3
@canoer2 You should know better than to quote Wiki as a source. Most of that is made up by the author (Probally you) and has very little to do with reality. Again all of their awards are in the folk music category. Wasn't it the Kingsmen that said one of their biggest hits moved about 5,000 units? I would not consider their accomplishment any more relevant than the "New Christy Minstrells" And trust me if they were ever in a Tijuana jail, they would not be singing so happily about the adventure.
Wombat44095 1 year ago
@Wombat44095 startingwith their first album KT released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, 4 LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years,and the group still ranks after half a century in the all time top ten of many of Billboard's charts, including those for most weeks with a #1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most #1 albums, most consecutive #1 albums, and most top ten album
canoer2 1 year ago
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@canoer2 Let me call down to the Rock Hall and have them clear out a wing. Since they inducted Iggy Pop they can induct this stooge. This song was nothing more than riding on the coat tails of Fleetwood Mac's success. You can even hear the ripped off guitar licks/sounds of Buckingham, mix in a little Tom Petty's "Breakdown" Keyboards, and add some Nicks vocals and you have a hit. I would not consider much of what the Kingston Trio did as being much more than a niche in American music.
Wombat44095 1 year ago
What an awesome song, it was so good to hear this song.
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jesikaadom 1 year ago
Ain't no mistaking Stevie Nicks on backup.
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this song was the sh-t early 80's on long beach island nj ........wish i was back in those days .....we get old quick..........
83383883rs 1 year ago
this song was the sh-t early 80's on long beach island nj ........wish i was back in those days
83383883rs 1 year ago
Heard this on XM "The Bridge" for the first time in 20 years. Gotta love Stevie Nicks on background. Thanks for posting up the video!
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monikaminole 1 year ago
This song is awesome, It was never played on the radio enough!!!
diapertommy 1 year ago 2
i've always loved this song.....kinda sounds like harry chapin
jrm8899 1 year ago
Love this song so much! John is so great! I know that stretch of Kanan--perfect!
cynsee 1 year ago
i can hear Stevey Nicks but i cant see her.
cbt544 1 year ago
Pre-77 but influential nevertheless...
RebelSpiritof77 1 year ago
stevie nicks was at the same studio when this song got done, she laid down the backing vocals by chance being there on the day.
ggbggbggb 1 year ago
@ggbggbggb that is the secret ingredient that makes it a true classic. Thanks for the notes.
RootsNahNah 1 year ago
Would it have made more sense for him to throw his guitar into the car before jumping himself. Because if he has the guitar in his hands when he jumps in the car, then throwing it into the car seems kinda redundant, dontcha think? ;-)
Kohntarkosz 1 year ago 16
@Kohntarkosz Well, it might make sense to one who works in the Department of Redundancy Department. Just a thought. I think you may have a valid point.
FylthyBeest 1 year ago
Well, I WAS being a bit facetious. Presumably, John went for what seemed to fit the meter of the melody best. Proof positive that the rules of English and the rules of pop song lyrics don't always parallel each other. ;-)
Kohntarkosz 1 year ago
@Kohntarkosz Actually the truth is he had a catapult installed. When people were in for the evening, he would pull out his station wagon, you know the one with the back window able to roll down, when he drove over the spot marked "X", he would hit the catapult button. As his guitar throwing legend grew, his catapults became more elaborate with each passing year. Well we all know what happened when he started using the catapult 3000.
BBQMAN81 1 year ago
@Kohntarkosz the lyrics to this song are embarrassing. but it still sounds great over the loudspeakers at Whole Foods, which is the only place i've heard it in my life.
heddalee 1 year ago
Well, I don't think they're any more embarassing than any other pop or rock song. I actually remember seeing John Stewart play this song on Solid Gold way back when. I couldn't remember who sang it or what the song was called, but I DID remember that one couplet! :-) It's kind of a cool song, really, and it's one of the better things that Stevie Nicks has sung on. ;-)
Kohntarkosz 1 year ago
@heddalee Ok this is a funny comment... But hey!! I like this song. Nostalgia, perhaps? The only place I ever heard it was in my dad's car.... over and over... and over circa 1987.
rikky383 1 year ago
@Kohntarkosz lol true ..still love the song though...great song
Solsticesun1 1 year ago 2
@Kohntarkosz good point...how can you jump into your car then throw in your guitar?
blowingharp 1 year ago
@Kohntarkosz Logic? Silly soul, this is R&R. :) Good thought
MushBeeguy 1 year ago
@Kohntarkosz so clever aren't we?
PBhip 11 months ago
@Kohntarkosz buddha has nothing on you...you are very wise ;/
xlr8r2010 9 months ago
@Kohntarkosz
Not if he threw the guitar into the BACK seat of the car, which over the years I've seen many musicians do.
However, just try to throw a guitar into the back seat BEFORE you enter the car:not an easy thing to do,lol.
Babyhowdy233 9 months ago
Interesting point, though I've always assumed he was driving a convertible with the top down. Somehow that's the image that was conjured in my mind the first time I heard the song. I would think it'd be pretty easy to throw a guitar into the back seat of a convertible. (shrug)
Kohntarkosz 9 months ago
@Kohntarkosz what did you write that anyone gives a shit about? go back to the basement of your moms house and wait for your tuna fish samich.
philbra08 7 months ago
Do your parents know you're playing around on their computer? Maybe you should stop taking life so seriously.
Kohntarkosz 7 months ago
@Kohntarkosz Ha ha brother. You alright. My parents are cool. Sure yours are too. You caught me pissed at my girl. Sorry for the disrespect.
philbra08 7 months ago
jim bass died tragically in 2000 when a semi- struck him while he was crossing a six-lane highway on a wobbly bicycle. Police say he was drunk, but his friends deny this. They say he was on LSD at the time.
BrokenneckYgor 1 year ago 9
@BrokenneckYgor
It's a great thing his name was Bass... otherwise how would John have rhymed his last name with "gas"
"Ah my buddy Jim Wilson, he's a workin' pumpin' gas... uh..wait, guys.. guys... stop... this idn gonna work..
bultaco111 8 months ago
@BrokenneckYgor Drugs end the life of so many..... It's really sad to hear about that...
MoltoPiccante 8 months ago
Sounds like neil young
jason75 1 year ago
Your telling me those aren't some great lyrics.
faffaflunkie 1 year ago
@faffaflunkie
Ah, the California girls are the greatest in the world
Each one's a song in the making
Singin' rock to me I can hear the melody
The story is there for the takin'
Awesome!!!
rdam64 1 year ago
Man - in come the memories after listening to this one!
Cheers for posting
djfrogdj 1 year ago
This guy was 100 percent snorting coke off of stevie nicks ass
HumanAccount 1 year ago
@HumanAccount Well then,hats off to him.Wish it had been me!(doing the snorting I mean....)
keendriver2753 1 year ago
rolerskatin @ banksown sydney , oz , late 70's remember on the train this was number 1
annakinfree 1 year ago
He looks like Gary Shandling's cousin.
Magnum2040 1 year ago
Can I meet the 3 mentally retarded Bieber fans who thumbed this down?
mkloppel 1 year ago 25
@mkloppel looks like there are 4 bieber fans who don't like this video. you four can run into a knife at any point now....
panhead55 1 year ago
@mkloppel I'M RIGHT HERE, FEWL. RIGHT - FUCKING - HERE. YEAH, I'VE CALLED A TOILET TRADER ONCE OR TWICE IN MY LIFE. WHAT OF IT?!! I'LL SUCK YOU OFF NO PROBLEM
Tasha6cat 1 year ago
Does Jim Bass make $2.54 an hour or $2.50 for an hour? Inquiring minds want to know ;-)
skooter72 1 year ago 2
@skooter72 LOL-Thats something to think about
northernlitez1 1 year ago
@skooter72 poetic license.....my theory is that it is $2.50 an hour. I can't imagine someone taking one job over another because one pays 4 cents more than the other
inkey2 1 year ago
@inkey2 . Maybe he started at $2.50 but got a 1 1/2% raise after his 90 day probationary period was up?
ahclem 1 year ago
fall of 1979.....................yeah
crazze6163 1 year ago
Jump into my car and I throw in my guitar.... SEXY
puddyy1 1 year ago 2
Yikes i feel old! I remember hearing this song on the radio back in the fall and winter of 1979!!!!
K9FON 1 year ago
John Stewart was fabulous. As it is we've got lots of people with the last name of Stewart who make it big and famous in the entertainment industry. Aside from John Stewart theres Jimmy Stewart, Martha Stewart, Patrick Stewart, Rod Stewart, and now theres that green eyed actress from Twilight who also has the last name Stewart.
GatewayToHeaven1 1 year ago
@GatewayToHeaven1 Don't forget Al Stewart. (Remember 'Year of the Cat'?)
I've got three Stewarts in a row in my LP collection.
mottledbrain 1 year ago
@mottledbrain Well Ive got a really funny video with somebody with the last name Stewart in it, you can check it out in my videos.
GatewayToHeaven1 1 year ago
daddymak9 christine mcvie had nothing to do with this song. the backup singers are stevie nicks and lindsey buckingham--who also played guitar....
roadwarriors456 1 year ago
I remember listening to this song as a young kid. What happened to music like this? Now we have "music" from people like Lady Gaga...yuck.
JulieB1023 1 year ago
I can Hear Stevie Nicks but can't see her
cooky556 1 year ago
"Driving on the Kanan" I like that!
dogisrain 1 year ago
yep i remeber this song it had some fleetwood mac influence on it
sunnyday431 1 year ago
I like the song but this video is so fake. Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac do the backup vocals and you can hear them, but where are they in the video? Lame.
daddymak9 1 year ago
@daddymak9 Ditto -- the song is the released studio version but the video is of a live performance. Good song, though.
kmorris8 1 year ago
@kmorris8 @daddymak9 I think the video was just shot in a concert environment, not an actual concert. No shot of a crowd.
jimmyco1 1 year ago
@daddymak9 yea, and ole Johnny acts like he feels dumb...I like the song, though.
dodadi2 1 year ago
Sounds like an old man singing.
hollowpointhomicide 1 year ago
@hollowpointhomicide he always sounded like an old man
inkey2 1 year ago
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hollowpointhomicide 1 year ago
@inkey2
Right, I just think the song is lame. I do laugh at it when I watch it.
hollowpointhomicide 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch I did not know John stewart was a homo, but it does explain his music which is totally gay
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@Bag0fRats Mate this song is classic and appropriatly named "Gold"!
tcsonline 1 year ago
@Bag0fRats most fans of John Stewart are either born again bisexual,or have already died long ago from the HIV virus.
CumOnYourUglyFace 10 months ago
@CumOnYourUglyFace of course ! This music id downright ghey
Bag0fRats 10 months ago
@Bag0fRats John Stewart was Lindsey Buckinghams Gay lover for almost two decades.
JudyKhan500lbSlut 9 months ago
@JudyKhan500lbSlut Just wondering how you might know that when John's wife Buffy didn't.
Alikah1 9 months ago
@Alikah1 Buffy was too busy having sex with the entire Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.
JudyKhan500lbSlut 9 months ago
@JudyKhan500lbSlut Live and learn!
Alikah1 9 months ago
@JudyKhan500lbSlut that's redundant. Everyone knows that.
Bag0fRats 9 months ago
@JudyKhan500lbSlut I thought John Stewart went with Rock Hudson
Bag0fRats 9 months ago
@Bag0fRats That was back in the sixties,John Stewart dumped Rock Hudson for Charles Nelson Riley and later Wink Martindale before he was sexualy involved with Lindsey Buckingham.
JudyKhan500lbSlut 9 months ago
@Bag0fRats John Stewart had been living with his born again bisexual boyfriend Wink Martindale when he died of Aids 5 years ago.
BigRedtc1973 9 months ago
@BigRedtc1973 I thought he went with Peter North
Bag0fRats 9 months ago
@Bag0fRats John Stewart was dating (having gay sex) with Peter North for many years when North showed Stewart how to get his Penis to function better by taking his phony cumshot pills.North said that John Stewart would sing to him while performing anal cunnilingas.
BigRedtc1973 9 months ago
@BigRedtc1973 John Stewart is a homo
Bag0fRats 9 months ago
@Bag0fRats I always thought that he was a homo,but he asked me to 69 with him once.
KarenEngLikes69 8 months ago
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@KarenEngLikes69 John Stewart prefered transvestites; he must have thought you had a penis
Bag0fRats 8 months ago
@KarenEngLikes69 John Stewart was a flaming homo, that's well known.
Bag0fRats 5 months ago
@dimpledick3inch either way even being coked up Stevie Nicks was smart enough to stay clear being associated with this huge steaming pile of shit
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
Stevie Nicks on back-up vocal but not in the video?
Haroun2k 1 year ago
Whoever this BagOfRats person is apparently knows nothing about the past. 2.50 an hour was probably about or better than minimum wage back then. This song still plays 30 years later. There is crap created in the last 5 years no longer played today,why? It's crap. In conclusion, if this is crap to you, it's still better than most of today's hits if it's still played!!!. Think about it!!
ToddInLN52254 1 year ago
@ToddInLN52254 That's correct loser, I never worked for such low wages. This is pure crap that was flushed down the toilet with the rest of the 70s disco themed shit. Nobody here in California listens to this forgotten garbage.
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@Bag0fRats my first job working retail was for $2.25 an hour....that was minimum wage in the mid 1970s
inkey2 1 year ago 2
Where's Stevie Nicks? She's never in any of the videos for this song. BTW, most people do not know that John was part of the Kingston Trio in the late 1950's. The Kingston Trio sang the song 'Tom Dooley'.
ToddInLN52254 1 year ago
@ToddInLN52254 even when Stevie Nicks was doing coke in the late 70s she was smart enough to try to stay away from this embarresement
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
gay!
coolio9651 1 year ago
@coolio9651 well sqaid, it's pretty phucking gay
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch either way this song seriously sucks ass
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
It took me a while to find this song. i didnt know the name.I sure hope jim bass got a raise..........thats slave labor!
lee5636 1 year ago
@lee5636: well, it was 1979
NickB1967 1 year ago
This guy kicks a pile of ass.
ZingsVideos 1 year ago
@ZingsVideos you mean his music eats a pile of shit
Bag0fRats 1 year ago
@dimpledick3inch he probably paid them $2.50 for cleaning the jizz booths. He was in rehab for excessive consumption of sperm.
Bag0fRats 1 year ago