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  • When I first heard this song, I told my friend that it would be a perfect song to end a long running sitcom for. And I told him my idea of how the sitcom should end and then he told me about the series finale to Friends. :\

  • man, i love this song!

  • let's go have coffee!

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  • Only one video should be playing in the background on this: The final scene of Friends.

  • it does not get any better than this

  • Gets me everytime, oh friends.

  • i love hippies

  • als ik dit filmpje met deze muziek bekijk en luister,dan huilt mijn hart van heimwee naar deze tijd!!

  • Flower Power. Love It. They need to really come up with a time machine like quick. :D

  • los 12 que pusieron pulgar abajo estan sordos :)

  • Friends :(

  • @beewright2604 thank you it was bugging me what i heard this on recently

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  • @SomeDribbly1 welcome ;) So awesome to still see people say "recently" in 2011 while the show ended in 2004. This song was on the last episode of the last season, season 10. And though it's been 7 years, I'm still watching and loving every single episode of Friends on my iPad.

    Love from the Netherlands ;)

  • Riding through the NorCal redwoods on a righteous chopper never sounded so good. Sunlight filtering through the redwoods. Incredible instrumental! Thank you, Jourma along with the rest of the Airplane!

  • my fav guitar piece

  • I was 18 in 1968. Out of high school, I got my first car and my first full time job. Surrealistic Pillow helped to make that summer special.

  • Shows how good (and underappreciated) instrumentals can be. It really is a monumental piece, beautiful and wordlessly lyrical. A-MAY-ZING!!!! When, in the '80s, Jorma came to Chicago, he played it in the Navy Pier auditorium and at the close folks exploded into applause. Beautiful music at a beautiful location on a beautiful lake. Thanks for this original bit of Americana!

  • Great song and video.Just think,these people are all old now,sitting around with poop in their pants.

  • this song makes me cry every time when i listening and all my beautiful memories start to come.. and this song it's from heaven ...this is something magic...:(

  • And my freespirit61, you are my purporse and happiness every moment of every day forever we'll be in this life and those thereafter. My inner spirit rocks with your rainbow aura all around. Love you for infinity baby <38888888<3!!

  • I Love you forever Moonpie Soulflower !! Everytime I see and hear this I think of you my hippe girl ! You rock me soul !

  • @freespirit61

    Moonpie Sunflower?

  • Thumbs up anyone that got here from FRIENDS :)

  • This song represents, for me, the absolute essence of San Francisco music. Powerful, evocative, and moving. I'm from England, but wow, I wish I'd been in that city when this album was first released.

    The greatest guitar instrumental ever recorded in my opinion.

  • Great posting-epic guitar work by Yorma-always put on a great show...

  • @mykelwoker Search youtube for the teaching video. I've emailed it to a friend but it's been a year.

  • Can someone build myself a time machine ?

  • just a brilliant song that has stood the test of time (great job with the video edit too)

  • as good as albetros, a EPIC GUITAR piece

  • Life as it should be.

  • The end of friends :(

  • Trying to learn to play this song. Why does something so beautiful have to be so difficult?

  • @0hoodster0 Right?! Props to Jorma! I hope you get it down!

  • @paisleybabee Cheers, i'm trying to learning it 1 bar a day!

  • -----FREEDOM------------------­---------

  • such beautiful people. where are they? what happened to them? why did the world have to change?

  • if there were no sixties the world would have been so fake, so boring

  • half these views must be from me alone!!

  • I love this song, and the video is nice!! ^^

  • Wow.....how did that beautiful woman get her hair so shiny!!!! Wonderful video...makes me sad I was 20 years too late to experience this :(

  • Memories of a time and people lost forever

  • So much subtlety in this performance, the dynamics, the tone, the rhythm, the phrasing But most of all the feeling. All in just under two minutes.Musicians take note, this is how it's done. Jorma really is a giant of the guitar and the older I get the more I know it.

  • @nonthere For me this guitar piece is defining. It's evocative. It invites the listener to imagine and to dream and to soar. For many, the 60s were about "class struggle," but for me the 60s were about learning to think and feel in new ways. In that sense, this piece defines that decade.

  • @Glencanon4au You're the first on this thread that got to the heart of it. If the '60s were just about politics then everyone would forget it. But here we are all trying to get back to it in a way (hopefully with more intelligence). This piece is a fleeting yet never-ending bright spring morning.

    As for the Friends crowd: Reread what Glencanon4au wrote. Jorma, the Airplane and what they meant will be remembered long after that shitty little show disappears down the cosmic shithole.

  • @Glencanon4au That is beautiful, and you are soooo lucky to have been alive & a part of that time, I think it was a very special time, someone said of the 60's "I think something very extraordinary is happening right now, a lot of power is being given to young people" roughly paraphrased, Edie Sedgwick, who was definitely a part of the '60's.

  • To all you 'Friend's posters:

    You have entirely missed the point of this video, both the music and the visual. Listen and look again, this time without thinking about the show. Since when does Jorma become a footnote to some crappy sitcom?

  • @nonthere Yeah, I made this as a Jefferson Airplane and hippies tribute video, but I love Friends, and I think that the last scene with this song is brilliant. It has a huge sentimental thing that can only be expressed with a masterpiece like this, and I'm sure that lots of people have discovered J.A.music because of Friends.

  • By the way, I discovered Jefferson Airplane thanks to the simpsons xD

  • @martislick I guess that means I have to go through all those South Park episodes now and see what I find.

  • @martislick Sorry, I didn't mean to insult your taste in TV, especially since you are the big cheese of this thread.

    I just got a little annoyed that the first thing so many (young, I presume) posters would bring up was a TV show way after the fact. It's like going to see the cathedral of Notre Dame and only noticing the souvenir shop. Thanks so much for this video.

  • @nonthere Don't worry, I didn't feel insulted. I understand what you mean and sometimes i feel the way you do, but you know, I think that you can also go to Notre Dame to see the souvenir shop, see all the shirts and all the stuff and love them, and then choose to see the real Notre Dame, and love it even more  :)

  • Wonderful song

    It reminds me of missisipi john hunter,s candy man

  • I was 16 when the Summer of Love happened. At the time I thought it was cool, but I had no idea at all of how lucky I really was to be young then.

  • @Glencanon4au You are SOOO lucky! I envy you! Beautiful video, awesome song!

  • I Don't understand how 11 people could rate bad the most incredible and great acoustic instrumental song of all time!

  • Seeing this makes me think of decades past, when people could dance like this without thinking about climate change or wars or protests or oil or the world ending. Things really have changed.

  • If butterflies could play guitar this is what is would sound like.

  • @TheIncredibleBlob This comment is the most beautiful thing I've read! <3

  • @martislick Yes, it is!

  • @martislick

    I completely agree.

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    so true...

  • @martislick Not to mention strange as hell if you actually saw it happen.

  • That is absolutely the coolest thing I have ever heard anyone say about this song.

  • Thirty odd years ago I joined the crew of a sailing ship and spent the next three years sailing all over a good chunk of the world. This song was with me the whole time. Last weekend, much older now, I went Kayaking up a quiet river with my lovely wife Sadie. This song was with me the whole time.

    Whenever I think that one person cannot hope to make a difference I think of Embryonic Journey and how the song has stayed with me like a warm dream through all of these years.

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  • life...

  • this is the most beautyful thing in existence

  • REPLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Where are all these beautiful souls now?

  • @Errachttoo who?

  • @Errachttoo who? the dancing hippies or the jefferson airplanes?

  • @keo774 WHOOOOOoo!!!??!!

  • @Mika151 ?

  • so sad that I missed out on all the easy hippy girls

  • hippies at their best!!

  • God came to me to save a gf from my past with whom I had no knowledge of her failing and impending failing, all from dream in which I touched her rosary while she laid in her casket. That touch had a million bits of info attached to them and all were true. I know this is deep but I came to her and helped her, knowing that in the end 'things would not work' well for me. Believe in God or don't but don't make your heart a lion's den.

  • When I heard this song for the first time I felt like I was walking under the surface of a crystal clear sea on a most beautiful sunny day you can imagine. Now, I'm not exactly Mr.Brightside and I was never too crazy about "let's all be friends" and other hippie concepts, but this song is simply beautiful.

  • Best description ever..."with lots of hippies dancing" haha, kudos

  • look these people, in the middle of nowhere, having fun, not harming anyone, loving life.. we must put a stop to it- goverment!

  • hey! at 1:43 thats the kid that was dancing to message to love..woodstock

  • Don't know wether to laugh or cry...

  • absolutely fantastic! such a beautiful video compilation too... thank you so much for this.

  • Finally, set free.

  • Some people say they wish they were born earlier, so they could be a part of these times. But to reach a state of love, freedom, understanding and respect for nature, it's possible, always. Take the journey to set the spirit free! In whatever way that feels right. Love from Norway.

  • @Skogrotta i think most youth who wished they'd been part of this movement desire so for escape or another hit of emotionalism. the only people who ever truely get free are those who put aside their own desires and work toward reconcile to God. not all paths lead to enlightenment, as the hippies demonstrated.

  • @80sOGRE you shouldn't lie to people

  • @PsychedelicFlyingPig what lie ? if you think your quest is or can be exclusive from God then what are you seeking ?

  • @80sOGRE Not to sure what im seeking but im pretty young and ive got a long life ahead of me to figure that out but god has absolutely nothing to do with it, I am sure of that much.

  • @Skogrotta Really great comment.

  • @Skogrotta i think u just kinda enlightend me, as im still 16 i might have time still time to get free :) thnx!

  • @Skogrotta It's not that they want to reach a state of love, freedom, understanding, and respect for nature. It's that they want it on a Bigger Scale than just themselves..It needs to happen again.

    Peace&Love.

  • @Skogrotta

    Amen!!!!!!!!

  • i wish i was like that...:(

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  • i never understand 10 people. how can dont love that?

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  • For a brief moment, we were immortal.

  • you bastard, this made me cry.

  • How can one video make hyou so happy and sas simultaneously?

  • pure freedom. pure happiness.

  • Do you know where it was taken? Woodstock?

  • Great video!!!

  • Kako su samo slobodni i srecni...

  • Hard to imagine, the *groovy* chicks and dudes in this clip are all eligible for Medicare now!

  • f**** amazing

  • fuck yeah the sixties , somebody build a time machine!

  • @nounever easier to bring the 60's to us than us to the 60's,people need to chill with the rat race and learn to love each,love can still be free if society could just cast of it's superfiscal nurture,imposed on us by the corporate powers that be

    peace

    x

  • grace slick is hot O_O

  • anyone suggest any songs to cover that are similar style to this. i already got this one down, its a beaut

  • @ttoosh led zeppelin bron-yr-aur?

  • @idrathermasturbate i thought they were similar too. led zep/ jimmy page may have been inspired by this??

  • @dontcensorme1 It's very possible they both have that same flow. I don't what they wrote this song about, but Led Zeppelin wrote Bron-yr-aur about their cottage (with a little help ;) )

  • Aww they played this at the end of Friends

  • i miss the 70's!!!!!!!

  • I was born in 1991, so let me compare this to 1961

    1991 onwards I had to grow up listening to the spicee girls and skeleton spice and i have to listen to chavs being sick everywhere

    1961 onwards I would have gone through woodstock, hendrix and jefferson airplane and the summer of love

    which year would i have preferred, hmm... thats a toughie :|

  • @85432 a really HARD TOUGHIE

  • wow. thats moving. good job

  • i thought it was the original video. Anyway, this video is amazing.

  • Where have the good times gone?

  • Really nicely done, un video muy hermoso.

  • Oh the nostalgia

  • sOmEoNe PaSsEd SoMe BlIsS aMoNg ThE CrOwD.......

  • excellent! thank you for sharing :)

  • Beautiful acoustic piece and super footage

  • love this, wish I had some appropriate footage of my own to edit this song to

  • That kid at 1.43 was also in a Velvet Underground video! Hahah!

  • This is a beautiful video you made for this song! What softwear do you use?

  • Nice very nice thanks for posting

  • koptelefoon op en intens genieten!!super..

  • Niceeeeeeeeeeeeee !

  • oh I love this song so much, its just too amazing! GREAT job on the video, its beautiful :)

  • Friends :'(

  • If only it marked the end of 'Friends' before the first season had completed, it would be the most heroic song of all times.

  • This song is so sad for me. Marks the end of the 10 year run of F.R.I.E.N.D.S :(

  • Great video, unbelievable song...

  • This will always be a sad song for me. It marks the end of FRIENDS in 2004 on the very last episode.

    Will always be associated with that.

  • @macdavies345 :( i loved friends!

  • Sweet memories

  • This is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard

  • @Carleisle Yes, it is one the most moving piece of the 60's. It will never wear itself out!!!!!

  • its time to try this man just let the paper dissaper on your toung

  • RE:Friendsrules-no,not sad. this song was the !st introduction to higher conciousness for many people.That's never a bad thing.

  • Funny quote by Jorma- "If you are trying to play something of mine and it's really hard, you're probably playing it wrong"

  • 1:33 that's what bein in a band is all about! makes me wanna jam.

  • The most impressive song from "Surrealistic Pillow" which is simply the best album from 1967. Wish I had a time machine to go back.

  • This could quite easily be a Zeppelin song also.

  • Love Grace and Marty..great to see the focus on Jorma for a change though..Such a great song that makes me happy whnever I hear it.. PEACE

  • This song brings back my memories of the best that the 60s offered, but damn, it also reminds me of the pain of the 60s too. It's bittersweet.

  • this video gives me goosebumps

  • The end of F.R.I.E.N.D.S!!! :'( Awsome track :')

  • hippies epitomized the expression deluded fools many became dope addicted

    'freaks' some though managed to make their vague dreams a kind of reality through the establishment of communes

  • @atfatw Easy there, thesaurus.

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  • Good Job Pal, Thanks from me and me dad!!!

  • We weren't all 'Hippies', "Flower Child" was an epithet I always preferred. It seemed to better capture the heart of us '60s children.

    I miss it, but not the sex or drugs, mostly the celebration of love which seemed to be everywhere.

    The Jesus movement also flourished because of the love. It's the closest I've ever felt to Heaven.

    This song so delights in the sound of traveling, hope and bliss. It takes me back to when the point to living was the dream of forever love here & the life to come.

  • i was born in the wrong era!!! :(

  • Pezzo strumentale di Jorma Kaukonen del '67.Vedere il bambino che corre sorridente nel video,mi fa compiere un viaggio nel tempo.Peccato non sia possibile restarci.

  • Эх, были ведь деньки, когда люди были счастливы. Увы, я не застал это время.

  • Trout Fishing In America Shorty says, "Hey Gracie, that was fucking beautiful!!!"

  • I hate to be racist, but damn...why didn't white people stay like this? And why do the uptight white boys hate hippies? I hear Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity malign these people, when in reality, this is the only type of white person I feel can get along with and live in harmony with everyone else in th world...It sucks :(..I hate making generalizations.

  • @adamlivs Well said. I was 17 in 1969 and living near NYC so i got the full 60's experience. One thing that a lot of people don't realize is the camaraderie that existed between the long hairs. They really felt connected to each other. That was a result of the fact that a lot of people in the older generation saw us as a threat. We had a strong anti-violence ethic too which made their fear of us even more irrational.

  • @adamlivs (continued). If you are wondering about what happened to the hippies look up something called COINTELPRO. The far right hated us white hippies as much as they hated the blacks. COINTELPRO was set up by the FBI to destroy the black community and the hippie community. Fred Hampton's murder by the pigs was part of that black op. Of course the operation was completely illegal but you know how the far right is. Laws, justice and the Constitution mean nothing to them.

  • @adamlivs (continued) The hippies got heavy exposure to the Blues through groups like The Stones and The Yardbirds. When they traced it back they found that it was invented by black people and that resulted in a very deep admiration for the black community and their artistic ability. Here it is 40 years later and i still feel the same way. How anybody can think of them as inferior is a mystery to me.

  • God, id give anything to be alive and part of all that back then. Back when music had meaning, passions and talent.

  • Of all the instrumentals from that period, this is the one I remember. I loved the way this piece invites the listener to relax and rejoice at the same time.

  • Bittersweet; oh yeah Fred Neil.

    a long and winding road.

    Here's to you all; pechuli (insence) princesses,daytrippers.

    My sweet baby boy Ari and wonderful Mom.

    Too broken to be the man you needed.

    Broken dreams indeed; but found in the mud dying side the road and given new life.

    Love you groovy friends of yesteryear and pray we meet again.

  • nice song, memories of Friends come rushing back :(  thx for the upload

  • this video makes me sad that i was born too late to experience this life.

  • @bbm187 Dont worry friend at least you are here right now to experience it right?

    Beautiful song

  • @bbm187 It's important to realize that things are always changing and the past can't be held onto. However that doesn't mean your generation can't experience something just as good. Take what you like about the 1960's and update it. Make it even better. In 40 years people will be idolizing the period that you grew up in and you'll be able to be proud of what you did.

  • We're just a band that likes this kind of music and relates more to the 60's, 70's and 90's than today's music. We're just looking to be heard, if you would actually take the time to listen one of our songs on our channel and comment, we would really appreciated it. Thanks Peace.

  • I thought I'd get to see some good vid about embryonic development... what a waste

  • @xJaysrox really? watch and listen again. think about the big picture. peace.