Hendrix heard this record from heaven and was like...Can I join the Band again? This is the most overlooked group when it has come to RR hall of fame!
I was the only white kid 12 years old back in 1976 listing to these guys with my 17 year old brother. The neighbors hated us. I am 47 and can't never get enough of these guys. My 10 year old daughter loves these guys!
Ya, the neighbors still hate us. Playing it louder everyday!! I have soul now because of the Isley's!!!
@1964METZO nah man there was a couple of other white boys bumpin this,lol from the projects in ny,so i was dj ing wit this at 14, im 2yrs older then you,had some sl 210 s with a numark mixer and some 18 inch sansui s,believe it or not this wasn t that popular wit what later became hip hop kids.
As great a guitarist as Ernie Isley was, he was just as good a drummer. Yeah, he not only played guitar but also drums on most of the Isley Brothers songs during this time.If you don't believe me check the credits. .
It is now more than 30 years since The Isley Brothers' Climbing up the Ladder was recorded, and hearing it still makes me tilt my head back, and imagine myself in madison square garden giving the audience my all and playing this incredible solo that Ernie Isley birthed! (Of course by now, the band consists of my next gens...)
Pure 100% rock and roll.... with a little funk thrown in. Nobody did it better than the Isley Brothers. I remember my Kenwood receiver with Sansui speakers blasting the walls down with this tune. Best rock tune of 1977.
ERNIE LEARNED A LOT FROM HENDRIX IT REALLY TELLS ON THIS CUT, RUDOLPH & O'KELLY HAD THAT HARD EDGED SOUL ROCK TONE 2 THEIR VOICES , SAW THEM MANY TIMES IN CONCERT THEY WERE THE TRUTH, THIS WAS B-4 RON STARTED HIS MR. BIGG ACT. MARVIN WAS ACES ON DA BASS 2. ALL-TIME GREATS .
THIS IS "KICK ASS" ROCK! Today's groups like "Greenday" should be checking this out! This is how Progressive Rock should sound! Play this in a scene on CSI-Miami!
When i was back in the bay area i would blast this so loud, with two 12 inch subs, each with their own amp and an alpine deck with bass boost. you could really feel the bass lines, it felt like a concert in my car.
one of the best funk/rock/soul songs ever recorded incredible guitar, funky bass groove, ill never forget hearing this for the 1st time this inspired me to learn music
I use to leave work and head to the party with my 8 track and satchel full of tapes. I'd slap this album tape in the machine, stand it u in the corner and people were jamming to this music. The Isley Brothers know how to run it!
AINT NOTHIN WRONG IN BELEAVIN IN A DREAM FUNK ON ISLEYS MY FAVORITE GROUP WHEN I WAS A KID GROWIN UP IN THE 70S AND 80S 90S TILL NOW! THINK YOU LORD FOR LETTING ME HEAR REAL MUSIC
Positive message about strivin' for self-knowledge, self-actualization, faith and perseverance--the heaven of the crown chakra. Isley's, "they don't make 'em like you no more..." Have things changed so much that we (of any age) don't need to hear these kinds of songs today?
I had the pleasure of watching Jesse Johnson play at the Hard Rock Cafe in Philly recently. He was amazing. I was speechless. Ernie Isley and Jesse Johnson are my personal heroes.
All you have to do today is to listen to the propaganda that,s todays youth listen too.The Black youth are fed propaganda everyday. Disrespect women,elders and each other. Show how hard you are. Don,t be intelligent, be thugish. And most of all it,s cool to go to jail. They learn all this thru their music and the record industry know,s this but they look at the profit line. It cheaper and more profitable to make dumb music[a few musicans , but mostly computers] .that,s what,s happening today.
@GREENLIGHT324 It used tob e. But I will say this ,the young people today have talent. If they just go back and do it like this they'll be fine. But each generation has to leave its owne stamp. I'm 52 years old.
Now this is something to groove to... Problem with these so-called 'musicians', is that they have no sense of creativity. To actually create something... Back when this music was created, folk wanted their own identity, as of course the Isley brothers did... today, it's all the same beat, same loop, same bassline, or whatever, and they try to call it music...!
Listen at that timing…no drum machines, no looped tracks, no disgusting profanity…nothing but talented musicians playing instruments and singing with their voices…what happened? What happened to music…it’s a @#$% shame what the so call recording industry has done to music today…and I used the word music very loosely!!!
@Breddwil checkout ernie isley solo album on youtube called highwire checkout this song on his album called rising from the ashes,its on my channel also
@SlickFunker What happened? The music industry vipers figured out we loved great music. They put a stop to that shit damn quick! Can't have these negroes grooving and getting along and playing instruments that fulfilled the soul. Put 'em at each other's throats!
I hope I'm wrong, and just a sad old pessimist but I can't see black music black music ever getting back to the quality of the late 60's, and early 70's.
Why fork out money for nine, or more, piece bands like Earth Wind & Fire etc when you can make fortunes out of anyone with a bad attitude problem?
It's tragic the childish crap that passes for black music nowadays
@SlickFunker I agree, the music ain't coming back. But that's cool, we have an enormous canon of good black music to fall back on. You're right it's mostly economics. Why split your loot with 8-9 guys? Also why spend two years cloistered in your bedroom learning guitar when you can shell out for a digital workstation and be cranking out tunes in a matter of days?
@MazterGuitarz Well, believe when I say it is an EXPERIENCE. I saw them back in '01. It was the first concert I ever went to. If u think they sound great on wax, they sound x10 better live. Afterward my mind was blown.
Bad ass song of the late 70's. I remember every friday and saturday we would roll a big hooter and jam to this song with my brother friends. There were only four brothers who went to our school, and they turned me on to this jammin' music. Long live Alamo Heights. Glenn
Hendrix heard this record from heaven and was like...Can I join the Band again? This is the most overlooked group when it has come to RR hall of fame!
PhunkyPhil72 5 days ago
THIS IS THE SHIT I LIVE FOR.OLD SCOOL MUSIC ON YOU TUBE.
MrTrackfreek 1 week ago
Yeah I feel it ,how can you not?
barrabas357 2 weeks ago
One of the great tunes in rock n roll! Ernie Isley is that dude!
chronwelljr 2 weeks ago
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Ernie is the funkiest motherfucker ever. EVER!!
kissmylipsification 3 weeks ago
MRINDEEPLY, WHO EVER CANT HEAR OR FEEL THAT LEAD GUITAR ON THIS TRACK IS DEAD OR DEAF, OLD SCHOOOOOOL FOOOOR LIFE !!!!!!!
brianboone33 1 month ago 2
This is so cool and beautiful i can just cry now. Grad year memories for me from the Spring of 1977
BBQFanNo1 1 month ago
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BBQFanNo1 1 month ago
I was the only white kid 12 years old back in 1976 listing to these guys with my 17 year old brother. The neighbors hated us. I am 47 and can't never get enough of these guys. My 10 year old daughter loves these guys!
Ya, the neighbors still hate us. Playing it louder everyday!! I have soul now because of the Isley's!!!
1964METZO 2 months ago
@1964METZO Don't worry most other whites did not like me listening to and loving this stuff too
BBQFanNo1 1 month ago 2
@1964METZO nah man there was a couple of other white boys bumpin this,lol from the projects in ny,so i was dj ing wit this at 14, im 2yrs older then you,had some sl 210 s with a numark mixer and some 18 inch sansui s,believe it or not this wasn t that popular wit what later became hip hop kids.
nbnybeats4u 1 week ago
As great a guitarist as Ernie Isley was, he was just as good a drummer. Yeah, he not only played guitar but also drums on most of the Isley Brothers songs during this time.If you don't believe me check the credits. .
kirkindog 3 months ago
I remember hearing this for the 1st time in 1977 when the album came out,
never heard a soul group that could play rock/soul like the isley brothers can!!!!!
plus every track on the album was good....
bassman1585 3 months ago 2
My feets just can't stay still! I remember trying to play this song in a cover band...we were not even close!
MrFreightdawg 3 months ago
great music, but watching the picture pulse like that actually makes my eyes hurt.
VVarcrafted 3 months ago
Ernie is the funkiest motherfucker ever. EVER!!
nicklebag123 3 months ago 6
Awsome music
tigtig33 4 months ago
Ernie just blew me away! That's the REAL DEAL!
wwwwaynex 4 months ago 3
Another classic by Cincinnati Ohio's own Isley Brothers....
BBQFanNo1 4 months ago in playlist Isley Brothers
feel that damn lead guitar maybe because i am a guitarist can anybody else feel that lead solo?
MrIndeeply 4 months ago 10
@MrIndeeply yeah man my sansui s be feelin it and my neighbors too.and yes ernie is that dude.
nbnybeats4u 1 week ago
It is now more than 30 years since The Isley Brothers' Climbing up the Ladder was recorded, and hearing it still makes me tilt my head back, and imagine myself in madison square garden giving the audience my all and playing this incredible solo that Ernie Isley birthed! (Of course by now, the band consists of my next gens...)
CummingsKevinD 5 months ago
Awesome stuff! perfect riff, tight an overkill!
SmokingHotGuitar 5 months ago
Ain't nothin wrong.
RastaIsAStateOfMind 6 months ago
funkiest song on my iphone!
ecmfreestyle 6 months ago
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Heres the Guitar,Climbing the scale ladder.
MegaDragonslayer911 6 months ago
Heres the Guitat,Climbing the scale ladder.
MegaDragonslayer911 6 months ago
Hers the Guitar.
MegaDragonslayer911 6 months ago
Let the Church say Amen!!!!!! This is the business right here!!!!!!!
87giantbaby 6 months ago 3
I Want This Song Played At My Funeral When I'm Lying In The Coffin With A Smile On My Face. This Is Like Heaven On Earth.
BBQFanNo1 6 months ago
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Dynamite!!!!!!Bad Ass Fuckin' Groovy!!!! Shit This Is So Gooooooood!!!!!!
BBQFanNo1 6 months ago
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BBQFanNo1 6 months ago
This is black rock and roll!
ElusvOptmst 7 months ago
Pure 100% rock and roll.... with a little funk thrown in. Nobody did it better than the Isley Brothers. I remember my Kenwood receiver with Sansui speakers blasting the walls down with this tune. Best rock tune of 1977.
freakdaddydog 7 months ago
@freakdaddydog
Amen!!!!! Rock on IB!!!!!
BigCookinCajun 7 months ago
@freakdaddydog Funk is the love child of soul, rock and roll, blues and R&B. You can see rock's genetic trait, but this is still funk and fun.
goodmechanic 6 months ago
Yeah!! This is the 1977-78 range, this is what we 40 year olds grew up with. Classic stuff right here.
JellyBean2144 7 months ago
ERNIE LEARNED A LOT FROM HENDRIX IT REALLY TELLS ON THIS CUT, RUDOLPH & O'KELLY HAD THAT HARD EDGED SOUL ROCK TONE 2 THEIR VOICES , SAW THEM MANY TIMES IN CONCERT THEY WERE THE TRUTH, THIS WAS B-4 RON STARTED HIS MR. BIGG ACT. MARVIN WAS ACES ON DA BASS 2. ALL-TIME GREATS .
piccolo773 7 months ago
THIS IS "KICK ASS" ROCK! Today's groups like "Greenday" should be checking this out! This is how Progressive Rock should sound! Play this in a scene on CSI-Miami!
tnlance1 7 months ago
The Isley Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992
211bill 7 months ago 2
Wait a sec! I bought this album. So...why am I listening to it on Youtube?
Shit I can't help it, I'm addicted! (continues dancing)
bassbiff 7 months ago
When i was back in the bay area i would blast this so loud, with two 12 inch subs, each with their own amp and an alpine deck with bass boost. you could really feel the bass lines, it felt like a concert in my car.
sonep511 7 months ago
Thanks Ice Cube, because sadly for me that's how I descovered this band.
Wisconsin222 7 months ago
BADASSSS!!!!
Ben1238 8 months ago
Elvis Presley said the Isley Brother's are what music is supposed to be. The way music should change and be creative with the soul harmony preserved.
BBQFanNo1 8 months ago
Love the Bass Player in this. RIP. Those men from Cincinnati Ohio sure knew how to put soul and bad ass music.
So good that Jimi Hendrix had them play for him during his concert performances.
BBQFanNo1 8 months ago
@BBQFanNo1 ACTUALLY JIMI PLAYED FOR THEM FIRST
piccolo773 7 months ago
I cant get enough of this song. I could listen to this song extended for another 20 minutes.
BBQFanNo1 8 months ago
one of the best funk/rock/soul songs ever recorded incredible guitar, funky bass groove, ill never forget hearing this for the 1st time this inspired me to learn music
bassman1585 9 months ago
TREMENDOUS GUITAR PLAYING !
Been listening to Ernie Isley for 30 years.
I've been playing guitar for 25 years.
Ernie Isley is my musical mentor.
I LOVE FLANGIERS !!!!
regmoe 9 months ago
@regmoe If you can play the guitar even close to the way Ernie can play.....excuse me ....Master ...the guitar, I would love to hear you play...
clavical1 9 months ago
you right, that's why i still ply my bass guitars and drums, i got to see these guys live
music4men 9 months ago
Isley Brothers, Earth Wind and Fire, Ohio Players, Cameo, Bar Kays,etc....Thanks, thanks, thanks....
veightengine 10 months ago
This is a good all time funk and rock tune.
blaakhawk 10 months ago
I use to leave work and head to the party with my 8 track and satchel full of tapes. I'd slap this album tape in the machine, stand it u in the corner and people were jamming to this music. The Isley Brothers know how to run it!
firstchoice1956 10 months ago
Yeah!!! let me play it for ya
myover18acct 10 months ago
Silky smooth guitar licks, fine vocals and funky rhythm............extraordinary music from one of the world's sweetest bands.
uncosu84 11 months ago
AINT NOTHIN WRONG IN BELEAVIN IN A DREAM FUNK ON ISLEYS MY FAVORITE GROUP WHEN I WAS A KID GROWIN UP IN THE 70S AND 80S 90S TILL NOW! THINK YOU LORD FOR LETTING ME HEAR REAL MUSIC
kc4jd 1 year ago
grew up listening to this, went on to listen to many hard rock/heavy metal bands. Ernie kicks ass!!!!
ptownpayaso 1 year ago
Happy BLACK HISTORY MONTH!
OneTrillNigga07 1 year ago 2
Positive message about strivin' for self-knowledge, self-actualization, faith and perseverance--the heaven of the crown chakra. Isley's, "they don't make 'em like you no more..." Have things changed so much that we (of any age) don't need to hear these kinds of songs today?
Streamline09 1 year ago
tear it up, ernie!
jr55ful 1 year ago
I had the pleasure of watching Jesse Johnson play at the Hard Rock Cafe in Philly recently. He was amazing. I was speechless. Ernie Isley and Jesse Johnson are my personal heroes.
7A35 1 year ago
Amazing music. I remember 'way black when' music was great.
7A35 1 year ago
I've always liked that Ernie plays those seamless licks. Like liguid.
romienomie 1 year ago
we need a whole lotta mo' stuff like this. where's the original motown groove whenya need it?
jr55ful 1 year ago
All you have to do today is to listen to the propaganda that,s todays youth listen too.The Black youth are fed propaganda everyday. Disrespect women,elders and each other. Show how hard you are. Don,t be intelligent, be thugish. And most of all it,s cool to go to jail. They learn all this thru their music and the record industry know,s this but they look at the profit line. It cheaper and more profitable to make dumb music[a few musicans , but mostly computers] .that,s what,s happening today.
kingbrinston 1 year ago
BLACK MUSIC IS REAL BABY!!!
GREENLIGHT324 1 year ago
@GREENLIGHT324 It used tob e. But I will say this ,the young people today have talent. If they just go back and do it like this they'll be fine. But each generation has to leave its owne stamp. I'm 52 years old.
romienomie 1 year ago
Now this is something to groove to... Problem with these so-called 'musicians', is that they have no sense of creativity. To actually create something... Back when this music was created, folk wanted their own identity, as of course the Isley brothers did... today, it's all the same beat, same loop, same bassline, or whatever, and they try to call it music...!
mikemillion2000 1 year ago
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211bill 1 year ago
Listen at that timing…no drum machines, no looped tracks, no disgusting profanity…nothing but talented musicians playing instruments and singing with their voices…what happened? What happened to music…it’s a @#$% shame what the so call recording industry has done to music today…and I used the word music very loosely!!!
Breddwil 1 year ago 43
@Breddwil Amen!
deenwaa 1 year ago
@Breddwil checkout ernie isley solo album on youtube called highwire checkout this song on his album called rising from the ashes,its on my channel also
tonyskins19 1 year ago
@Breddwil
amen brotha PREACH ON!!! I cant count the times i've rocked this tune just to hear Ernie Isley. My childhood friends tell me ROCK IS DEAD??? Dam !!!!
BigCookinCajun 7 months ago 2
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87giantbaby 6 months ago
Ernie WAS THE SHIT!!! So were the Isley Brothers!!!
HDYaqui 1 year ago
A time when we had REAL music!!!
hardlines4 1 year ago
Music the way it should always be.
What, in the name of fuck, happened to black music? It has literally gone from the sublime, to the ridiculous
This is one of my favourite tracks. Fantastic post slightlycurvedcube.
SlickFunker 1 year ago 17
@SlickFunker What happened? The music industry vipers figured out we loved great music. They put a stop to that shit damn quick! Can't have these negroes grooving and getting along and playing instruments that fulfilled the soul. Put 'em at each other's throats!
hork111 7 months ago
@hork111
I hope I'm wrong, and just a sad old pessimist but I can't see black music black music ever getting back to the quality of the late 60's, and early 70's.
Why fork out money for nine, or more, piece bands like Earth Wind & Fire etc when you can make fortunes out of anyone with a bad attitude problem?
It's tragic the childish crap that passes for black music nowadays
SlickFunker 7 months ago
@SlickFunker I agree, the music ain't coming back. But that's cool, we have an enormous canon of good black music to fall back on. You're right it's mostly economics. Why split your loot with 8-9 guys? Also why spend two years cloistered in your bedroom learning guitar when you can shell out for a digital workstation and be cranking out tunes in a matter of days?
hork111 7 months ago
@hork111 Did you mean sell out instead of shell out?
goodmechanic 6 months ago
Before the time, they still rock, a hint of hidricks! Yea!
weedee66 1 year ago
ernie isley shreds this track to pieces!!!!
koolfraser 1 year ago
REAL MUSIC,LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!
MrVb66 1 year ago
Ernie on that guitar!!! Damn, he's bad!! And Ron's voice has so much heart and soul!! No one can do it like the Isley brothers!!
TheMrplayaplaya 1 year ago
@TheMrplayaplaya
True, heard this tune in '78 and as a guitarizt I think this is a lot of great..
Ernie is very talented, check also out his solo album, High Wire!!
Got a special sound and an own style (o 'cause it's similar to IB).
But here he can take his guitar playing even more further.
Very many great tunez...
MazterGuitarz 1 year ago
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TheMrplayaplaya 1 year ago
@MazterGuitarz I agree. If u ask me, And Isley Brothers song is incomplete without an Ernie solo. Have u ever seen them live before?
TheMrplayaplaya 1 year ago
@TheMrplayaplaya
Sorry to say, No, I'd like to, but you can't get them all...
Though I've seen many of the 70's/80's great muzicians, and of course some "new" (after the 80's, lol) good ones!
There has been and always will be, good muzic,
the difficulties is to separate it from the shite...
but the big difference is nowadays ,there are more shite to choose from!
MazterGuitarz 1 year ago
@MazterGuitarz Well, believe when I say it is an EXPERIENCE. I saw them back in '01. It was the first concert I ever went to. If u think they sound great on wax, they sound x10 better live. Afterward my mind was blown.
TheMrplayaplaya 1 year ago
Bad ass song of the late 70's. I remember every friday and saturday we would roll a big hooter and jam to this song with my brother friends. There were only four brothers who went to our school, and they turned me on to this jammin' music. Long live Alamo Heights. Glenn
brendaleehuerta 1 year ago
This Song Right Here Is One Of My Favorite Isley Brothers Not Just Because Of The Guitars But Because I Like Ronald Isley And This Song.
michaelups2005 1 year ago
This IS a Smoker , along with Love Fever!!!!! Yes!!!
kingbrinston 1 year ago