see Lucinda2005 comment 3 yrs. ago Credit=the devil is waiting his turn. Go occupy the wall street revolution.!! Our recruits in their green suits=Homeland security! Fight DHS!!! before you get rounded up on a bus or train to a " concentration" camp . Yes, this USA, it can happen. Our children are being drugged and brainwashed in public schools. keep your eyes wide open!!
see Lucinda2005 comment 3 yrs. ago Credit=the devil is waiting his turn. Go occupy the wall street revolution.!! Our recruits in their green suits=Homeland fascist security! Fight DHS!!! before you get rounded up on a bus or train to a " concentration" camp . Yes, this USA, it can happen. Our children are being drugged and brainwashed in public schools. keep your eyes wide open!!
I love the imagery in the video. It fits the song so well. Some of it was filmed much later in the 70's. Logan's Run showing in the background came out in 73 I think. Just something i noticed. The best GP/CH collaboration ever in this song! thank you for posting!
Its too bad more young people aren't familiar with the FBB/Parson's music in general....I started playing at 33 myself...best decision i've ever made!
@rubbersole79 i've been really into gram parsons lyrics... this is beautiful but i think Zahs Blues by him is indescribably beautiful... plus the jazz riffs in it too
In the last 15 second of this video, much of it shot in Joshua Tree, is a cow skull. The very symbol adopted by The Eagles for several of their albums.
read a book about the documentary of the Eagles. Never heard of these guys before, but apparently they were a great influence on the beginnings of American country-rock! As in the Eagles...The rest is history!
There's been much written lately on the infamous "27 Club" after Amy Winehouse became latest famous musician to die at age 27(following Janis Joplin,Jim Morrison,Jimi Hendrix,Brian Jones,Kurt Cobain,blues legend Robert Johnson,&others).Gram's untimely death had him just missing joining "that stupid club"(as Cobain's Mom called it)by being just 6 weeks shy of his 27th.But on turning 26 he entered his 27th year,so he still kind of qualifies for "that stupid club", if you stretch the definition!
If you ever have the itch to go do the stolen cadaver burnt rockstar funeral pyre circuit/memorial-there is no better place than joshua tree........man i love that place. Young emmy lou harris, how cool. Nudie suits. What a wild, wild story..........a true viking funeral w/o all the boats, water and flamin arrows.
@emilita28 I was stationed at 29 Palms Marine Base in 1973 in electronics school there. One of our favorite passtimes was to go rock climbing and exploreing in Joshua Tree State Park. One evening someone burst into the barracks yelling that Joshua Tree was on fire! It was this event that was happening that night. Rumer at the time was that members of The Eagles were also in attendance...but who knows...
@jdmccallen28 Those 13 idiots who do not like this prohably listens to that garbage they called today's country music. It isn't country music, it is top forty with a fiddle.
just reading "hot burritos" the true story of the flying burrito brothers. it says here that the models on the photo shoot for the album cover and in this video, for the golden palace of sin, were just models hired for the shoot, not pamela des barres, etc.
Gram and Chris, and Sneaky Pete... great music. If you love this as much as me, also check out the International Submarine Band... Gram's first country record.. Jay Dee plays his ass off on steel.
The dark haired girl on this clip is a model,not E.H. Gram and Her did not hook up until a little later. This song is about Larry Spector who the Guys hated He was a Music Business Idiot. The sign of a great song. It could be about anything You want it to.
@rubbersole79 that line was written about phil spector who had stolen some material from the band and who was at that time living in a condo with a gold plated floor.
@yesihavenocigarettes hey, thanks for your comment. i wanted to post the link to an anchient la times article about this song to your profile, but i always seem to fail. just google for "flying burrito brothers sin city meaning" and it will come up as the third or fourth article - cheers, tom
I bought "The GIlded Palace of Sin" within the first week of its release. I was not expecting something so country - but it deeply effected me, as it continues to do almost 40 years later. At the time I got it many people thought I was strange for playing it over and over but it still sounds great today - pure and timeless. Back then I even listened to it on acid and its deeply soulful quality made that quite an experience, too. Hillman and Parsons had one of THE great vocal blends.
@lap3230 Gram and Emmylou would have been married but Gram was already married and he had a child. They would have married anyway but he died before he could divorce his wife. Emmylou never got over his death If hadn't been for her keeping his musical memory alive by recording many of his songs on her very successful albums, Gram would not be remembered as he is today. She singlehandedly kept his work out there using her own success to promote his beautiful songs. This was long before internet
Top 3 country songs of all-time; i could give a shit if it's considered classic or not. My friend tried to tell me Gram ain't a legend like Buck or Mel Tillis, but come on. If you hear this and don't feel somethin, you're made of STONE.
@zigzag909 the lord needs to make peace with us. he allegedly created this whole thing with perfect knowledge of how supposedly corrupt it would become. that makes him guilty of all evil. he should ask humans forgiveness.
Gram Parsons was an incredibly talented songwriter. His influence on rock, country, and rockin'-country songwriters and bands is still felt today. His uncanny knack for saying and playing the right phrase at precisely the right moment still resonates 37 years after he played his last chord.
Burritos had a great country sound, but don't remember them booking / billing themselves as a country act. RE: the comments about style and contemporary country, there's a line from one of the hilarious Geezinslaws tunes: "You Call It Country, I Call It Bad Rock and Roll."
Thanks to all for your condolences. It is much appreciated. My immediate family is on the East coast so we had a memorial service for my Pop in MI where most all the Family(ies) reside(s). It was great to see my Aunts and Uncles who are too old to travel except for 1. My Uncle Carl from California who is 91 and a WWII fighter pilot...go figure ; )
We all had a great time and this song was part of it.
Thanks Again and Thanks to Country Dan for posting this, it helps(ed) me out.
@psychkoala sadly this is too "country" for country music. Today's country music is basically pop music with a bit of twang. I mean look at Taylor Swift. She would not be considered country even 20 years ago i think. Real Country is dying. At least in the mainstream. I do agree though, this is a great song.
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@adric137 no, it's post-modern-polka-grunge... sorry, I had to give a silly answer to a silly question. You can call it different things ,Country Rock ( even though Gram hated that term, he prefered Cosmic American Music) other people call it Americana... it's just damn good music to me...
@written12 This is the original recording, from the album " The Guilded Pallace of Sin" although it may sound a bit tinny through most digital computer systems.
The dual vocals of Gram & Chris really rock on this song . 'The Gilded Palace' is one of the best headphone albums ever. Thanks for making my old memories come alive.
i just heard the flying burrito brothers for the first time in my life yesterday. have been listening to this non-stop ever since. i'm a little irritated that i didn't figure this out sooner...
@greenbasstard: I feel you. I only started listening to Gram very recently and I've been obsessed very since. This song and "Wheels" play on an endless loop in my head.
@greenbasstard dont worry most fans picked up FBB by word of mouth anyway.FBB didnt tour extensively,and the small number of shows they did with Gram werent that great `cos Gram hated rehearsing and was usually fawked up on booze and narcotics.Their records were not promoted by the record company so the records all stiffed too,until the posthumous acclamation given to Gram,then they sold a bit better.I used to play this stuff in a crappy band
@PAULOcbi yes gram became more famous after he died I was lucky because i loved the birds and country music from a early age because my late uncle pop singer crispian st peters loved country and we got it from him but sin city thats my song i play like forever and a day and always will
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thanks for nothing Barack Obama for health care for the poor and needy. Y'all just supported the INSURANCE industry!! Shame on you Senate USA !!Shame on our UNITED STATE SENATE OUR STATE REPS. F"ING US AGAIN!!!
what on earth does this have to do with good old gram? take your political propaganda and insert it sideways into your anus. as much as i agree with you, this is simply not the place to skat about with current affairs. gram is here to take us away, not re-land us in the bullshit we're already in.
this has to do with the GREED of Wall Street,Bank of America etc. AD Nausea I can't talk about it. But if you have any kind of conscience at all you better get right and stop stabbing people in the back!This earthquake is going to leave you in the poor house Listen and WAKE the f up
I had the pleasure of living next door to Chris and Graham in canoga park I was 16 yrs. old I was in altin cover band and they were my heros thehelpedme to discover music I played in later years with Tribe of Gypsies, and Bruce Dickinson, and David LongoriaMy rolemodels into music I love this song adthe F.B.B
Listening again to this song - which I know well since I bought my first Gram Parsons album-, I'm really spooked by how it could be the anthem for last year's Financial System/Wall St meltdown, led by the Lehman Brothers' failure. The city is New York, and the 31st Floor in Lehman Brothers housed the offices of Dick Fuld (CEO) and the management responsible for their catastrophic failure - with gold-plated doors and all the rest of the excesses of the 2nd Gilded Age. Spooky!
anybody know who is the girl in the white dress? I was in love with her in high school from the album cover, and she still looks HOT after all these years.
if you've got some money to burn.....*sigh* i love fbb! has anybody ever heard the version of grievous angel by Lucinda Williams? it is sooooo beautiful!
Grahm Parsons was a great artist,I think everyone trying to read in all the hidden meanings is a little odd just enjoy the music and be sad he died way to young
No. The gold plated door on the thirty-first floor won't keep out the lord's burning RAIN. In other words, apparent well-being doesn't necessarily make you "good" in the lord's eyes. If the song should be interpreted as a foreshadower of the World Trade Center attack of 2001, then it is only analagous in the sense that the American appearance of well-being (represented by the WTC) doesn't mean Americans are "good" in the view of the rest of the world. Gram was great, but no Nostradamus.
I think it's as simple as: Having a plush office high up in an expensive skyscraper (and the gold-plated door to boot), doesn't mean that the bad deeds you do (which, let's be honest, someone that well-off has probably done a few of already) will be any less so than any other.
Everyone is equal in the eyes of the Lord, etc. and everyone is accountable just the same for their actions, if not just to everyone else.
Like Keef says, it's the old art of weaving, guitars, lyrics, riffs, how do you separate and why do u want to? sit back and enjoy life-give your brain a rest. One toke and you are free again...
thx 4 the input, bulb! here's a questeeonne, bein a neil young fan, n knowin emmylou n neil go way back, i wondered if the burrito's ever shared a stage or recorded with neil? anyone?
This ole earthquake gonna put me in the poor house ;D
jojoheartspaypay 1 week ago
Graham ..... was the king!
yabradley 1 month ago
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Gram IS the king, man.
fasterthanbolt 3 weeks ago
....it seems like this whole towns' insane...(Washington DC) !
OlymPigs2010 1 month ago
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catman306 2 months ago
Sin City folk: youtube, Šmidt, Sin City.
vochmelik999 3 months ago
Ok!
vochmelik999 3 months ago
RIP Barry Feinstein and Tom Wilkes, Photographers Deluxe...
tgramful 3 months ago
Gram, gone too soon. Dwight Yoakam does a great cover of this. Respect.
ichihentai 3 months ago
I love the imagery in the video. It fits the song so well. Some of it was filmed much later in the 70's. Logan's Run showing in the background came out in 73 I think. Just something i noticed. The best GP/CH collaboration ever in this song! thank you for posting!
heliot58 3 months ago
Its too bad more young people aren't familiar with the FBB/Parson's music in general....I started playing at 33 myself...best decision i've ever made!
thehurricaine23 3 months ago
@rubbersole79 i've been really into gram parsons lyrics... this is beautiful but i think Zahs Blues by him is indescribably beautiful... plus the jazz riffs in it too
TheCnut69 4 months ago
A classic for sure.
Samuijazz 4 months ago
In the last 15 second of this video, much of it shot in Joshua Tree, is a cow skull. The very symbol adopted by The Eagles for several of their albums.
MajikWizard2 5 months ago
read a book about the documentary of the Eagles. Never heard of these guys before, but apparently they were a great influence on the beginnings of American country-rock! As in the Eagles...The rest is history!
GEORGEZNEMETH 5 months ago
@GEORGEZNEMETH one of the original members of the Eagles, Bernie Leadon, was a FBB.
DontTaseMeBro77 5 months ago
There's been much written lately on the infamous "27 Club" after Amy Winehouse became latest famous musician to die at age 27(following Janis Joplin,Jim Morrison,Jimi Hendrix,Brian Jones,Kurt Cobain,blues legend Robert Johnson,&others).Gram's untimely death had him just missing joining "that stupid club"(as Cobain's Mom called it)by being just 6 weeks shy of his 27th.But on turning 26 he entered his 27th year,so he still kind of qualifies for "that stupid club", if you stretch the definition!
Bobjb999 6 months ago
This is the coolest retro Music Style ever, I love it. Played with our band at Gram's Place in Tampa a year ago. It was awesome.
kerker8 6 months ago
This is so much better country music, than the crap that passes for "Country" these days.
Sawmillman68 6 months ago 3
Such great stuff - they were still a great band after Parsons passed.
tacomadc 6 months ago
Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman could harmonize with the best of them. I LOVE all Gram Parsons songs but Chris is awesome on this one.
snaglywhiplash 7 months ago
If you ever have the itch to go do the stolen cadaver burnt rockstar funeral pyre circuit/memorial-there is no better place than joshua tree........man i love that place. Young emmy lou harris, how cool. Nudie suits. What a wild, wild story..........a true viking funeral w/o all the boats, water and flamin arrows.
emilita28 7 months ago
@emilita28 I was stationed at 29 Palms Marine Base in 1973 in electronics school there. One of our favorite passtimes was to go rock climbing and exploreing in Joshua Tree State Park. One evening someone burst into the barracks yelling that Joshua Tree was on fire! It was this event that was happening that night. Rumer at the time was that members of The Eagles were also in attendance...but who knows...
MajikWizard2 5 months ago
12 people lost the best friend they had
ryantheemofag 7 months ago
It seems like this whole song's insane!
MCAJayhawk 7 months ago
who are the eleven idiots who disliked this? disgraceful.
jdmccallen28 8 months ago 11
@jdmccallen28 I agree. What twisted mind could dislike this?
plowhand247 7 months ago
@jdmccallen28 Those 13 idiots who do not like this prohably listens to that garbage they called today's country music. It isn't country music, it is top forty with a fiddle.
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@jdmccallen28 let them go man,their ignorance just means more for us.
MaaaarrJ 2 months ago
I enjoy the fact that satan didn't get rhymed with waitin'
mindingosafado 8 months ago
Well, GabrielDhalaman. if you put it that way, I'm as old as time.
RobIacullo 8 months ago
this song makes me want to go on a trip around the States and meet people from little town ...this song is awesome
JFguitar22 9 months ago
I don't think of this as country... It's the "western" of "country and western" music. Love it!
MrMblevins 9 months ago
1972 !!!
kayaksurf100 9 months ago
1972!!!!
kayaksurf100 9 months ago
One of the best concerts ever...Burrito Bros & Roy Buchanan @ Massey Hall...T.O.
bergkamp48 10 months ago
just reading "hot burritos" the true story of the flying burrito brothers. it says here that the models on the photo shoot for the album cover and in this video, for the golden palace of sin, were just models hired for the shoot, not pamela des barres, etc.
damonwood13 10 months ago
In the group shots the photographer was shooting, did I see the infamous Pamela Miller in the background?
Bogframe 10 months ago
wholesome salt of the earth music... wonderful
kumasuke1 10 months ago
beautiful..
ColdOasisU2 10 months ago
I discovered this song on a rock documentary a few years ago and it blew me away!!!
jackbenimble8855251 11 months ago
Too funny.
Green mohair suits. Does somebody still make them?
Limosines in the desert, and white flower-power suits.
... to keep out the lord's burning rain.
Great authentic 60's footage.
sharpedgedguy 11 months ago
Killer-Gram
adamtzsch 11 months ago
11 peoples 3 years to pay ran up...
shaneyboy04 11 months ago
This is a gorgeous tune.
bluesboy68 11 months ago
dam good
fats5555 11 months ago
Gram and Chris, and Sneaky Pete... great music. If you love this as much as me, also check out the International Submarine Band... Gram's first country record.. Jay Dee plays his ass off on steel.
TwangTown 11 months ago
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0827272781 1 year ago
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0827272781 1 year ago
So wonderful.
GiggleBlizzard 1 year ago
Better late than never. I started playing guitar February 2010. I'm 61.
RobIacullo 1 year ago 74
@RobIacullo you are a child!I´m 2000 years old!
GabrielDhalaman 9 months ago
@RobIacullo ..
Never too late to learn.. You got that right... Keep at it and I hope you enjoy your experiences..:)
melsamjay 8 months ago
@RobIacullo this comment just made me feel better in general. thank you for that.
shebop4331 8 months ago
@RobIacullo I'm happy for you!!!
Acidus23 8 months ago
@RobIacullo
Go man go! I started on about my 40th birthday (I'm 47 now), and I swear that it was the best thing I ever did.
solszew 4 months ago
You can still hear Chris Hillman play this stuff live.....he's still great...
sherriffofhongkong 1 year ago
11 people don't know what the fuck great country music is and can't recognize the genius their ears hear.
halfsloppy7371 1 year ago 2
40 years later and the song is still top shelf! And still true also.....Some of the finest damn music ever recorded and No! that is not Emmylu.
patman4980 1 year ago
Fucking magical song. Steve Earle does a mean Bluegrass cover version too.
Elbowdude 1 year ago
This band rules.
hotfudgemoney 1 year ago
Grams best - apart from his ISB's "Blue eyes" - two of the best songs ever written.
R.I.P Gram.
x
dawoods73 1 year ago
The dark haired girl on this clip is a model,not E.H. Gram and Her did not hook up until a little later. This song is about Larry Spector who the Guys hated He was a Music Business Idiot. The sign of a great song. It could be about anything You want it to.
428SCJ 1 year ago
cool......
im4out 1 year ago
Look how young Emilou is!
jagtone 1 year ago
@jagtone there is no emmylou here
emilvar 1 year ago
A classic among classics, one of my all-time favorites. I actually have a Sin City patch on a coat. Love this one.
pwrl 1 year ago
this is a song wth a deep feeling.a Parsonssong.Good people go first.Hope he,s
happy in heaven.thanks for all you gave us Gram.
TheShadowtje 1 year ago 2
"....a gold plated door, won't keep out the Lords burning rain...."
wish I'd written that.....
rubbersole79 1 year ago 11
@rubbersole79 that line was written about phil spector who had stolen some material from the band and who was at that time living in a condo with a gold plated floor.
MrSwissTom 1 year ago
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MrSwissTom 1 year ago
@MrSwissTom ...Nice tidbit. The devil is in the details. Cool man.
yesihavenocigarettes 1 year ago
@yesihavenocigarettes hey, thanks for your comment. i wanted to post the link to an anchient la times article about this song to your profile, but i always seem to fail. just google for "flying burrito brothers sin city meaning" and it will come up as the third or fourth article - cheers, tom
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Orycayify 8 months ago
@rubbersole79 you mean, "burning reign"
Orycayify 8 months ago
I bought "The GIlded Palace of Sin" within the first week of its release. I was not expecting something so country - but it deeply effected me, as it continues to do almost 40 years later. At the time I got it many people thought I was strange for playing it over and over but it still sounds great today - pure and timeless. Back then I even listened to it on acid and its deeply soulful quality made that quite an experience, too. Hillman and Parsons had one of THE great vocal blends.
92ninersboy 1 year ago 5
Great Song. Classic Band....Country-Rock pioneers!!
mopac1 1 year ago
LOVE THIS SONG, LOVE THE GROUP. HAD THE ALBUM IN THE 70S AND STILL PLAY IT . LAS VEGAS NOTHING BUT SIN.
MrVampiredog 1 year ago
I LOVE IT.BEAUTIFUL SONG.
MrUbastard 1 year ago
Gram and Emmylou often performed together. They were great friends.
lap3230 1 year ago
@lap3230 Gram and Emmylou would have been married but Gram was already married and he had a child. They would have married anyway but he died before he could divorce his wife. Emmylou never got over his death If hadn't been for her keeping his musical memory alive by recording many of his songs on her very successful albums, Gram would not be remembered as he is today. She singlehandedly kept his work out there using her own success to promote his beautiful songs. This was long before internet
mysteria31 1 year ago 4
Top 3 country songs of all-time; i could give a shit if it's considered classic or not. My friend tried to tell me Gram ain't a legend like Buck or Mel Tillis, but come on. If you hear this and don't feel somethin, you're made of STONE.
swagglehorse 1 year ago 2
Repent before it's too late. There's still time to make your peace with the Lord.
zigzag909 1 year ago
@zigzag909 the lord needs to make peace with us. he allegedly created this whole thing with perfect knowledge of how supposedly corrupt it would become. that makes him guilty of all evil. he should ask humans forgiveness.
tapesquare 1 year ago
thanks for the WHEELS
MrMonk57 1 year ago
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MrMonk57 1 year ago
Great vid, Julie! Fight On! We don't need that fat-ass freshman tackle anyway. Don't let the door hit him in fat-ass on the way out....
birddog1216 1 year ago
WHO WERE THE GIRLS IN THIS VEDIO
MrVampiredog 1 year ago
@MrVampiredog Was that Emmylou Harris at 1:25?
DaVooz 1 year ago
Gram Parsons was an incredibly talented songwriter. His influence on rock, country, and rockin'-country songwriters and bands is still felt today. His uncanny knack for saying and playing the right phrase at precisely the right moment still resonates 37 years after he played his last chord.
RIP GP
claux23 1 year ago
I too have just realized I SHOULD have know about TFBB & Gram Parsons DECADES ago! WOW WOW WOW!! Sooooooooo BEAUTIFUL! :D
KickazzRedhead 1 year ago
This is happing in the Gulf very soon the "oil rain " is already falling ,,,,extiguish all smoking materials
Walksbythewaters 1 year ago
Burritos had a great country sound, but don't remember them booking / billing themselves as a country act. RE: the comments about style and contemporary country, there's a line from one of the hilarious Geezinslaws tunes: "You Call It Country, I Call It Bad Rock and Roll."
manabozho 1 year ago
Thanks to all for your condolences. It is much appreciated. My immediate family is on the East coast so we had a memorial service for my Pop in MI where most all the Family(ies) reside(s). It was great to see my Aunts and Uncles who are too old to travel except for 1. My Uncle Carl from California who is 91 and a WWII fighter pilot...go figure ; )
We all had a great time and this song was part of it.
Thanks Again and Thanks to Country Dan for posting this, it helps(ed) me out.
7baracuda 1 year ago
I love this song...and it is so good to see Gram in the old film footage..it's been so long. RIP Gram.
LakesideArt 1 year ago
awsume no words the best
fats5555 1 year ago
yeah, me too......48 and a new FBB / GP fan......humiliating.
rubbersole79 1 year ago 2
I love living in Las Vegas, no I don't live in a hotel or on the strip.
ninetaildude11 1 year ago
Fabulous recording.
Should be played on Country radio today.
psychkoala 1 year ago
@psychkoala sadly this is too "country" for country music. Today's country music is basically pop music with a bit of twang. I mean look at Taylor Swift. She would not be considered country even 20 years ago i think. Real Country is dying. At least in the mainstream. I do agree though, this is a great song.
MrBenjammin07 1 year ago
ci wee
smvalive 1 year ago
im sorry for your loss, but this is a very appropriate song for comforting your soul.
californiadreamin96 1 year ago
Amazing!
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JoshSigurdsonMusic 1 year ago
is that country
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pat976 1 year ago
@adric137 no, it's post-modern-polka-grunge... sorry, I had to give a silly answer to a silly question. You can call it different things ,Country Rock ( even though Gram hated that term, he prefered Cosmic American Music) other people call it Americana... it's just damn good music to me...
pat976 1 year ago
@pat976 And with a little Everly Brothers harmonising going on. It's just great.
DaVooz 1 year ago
A great song and an evocative set of images. Thanks for posting this.
One question to you all or anyone out there in the know- The mix here of the song sounds different from the one I recall from the record. is it?
written12 1 year ago
@written12 This is the original recording, from the album " The Guilded Pallace of Sin" although it may sound a bit tinny through most digital computer systems.
keitheeweithee 1 year ago
@keitheeweithee it sounds great on my system. One of the best sounding youtube vids, actually...
pat976 1 year ago
I love this song and sing it all the time. Video needs a little more roller skating, though. :-)
lindsey2929 1 year ago
p.s. its areally great video too!
StevieReidEFC 1 year ago
The dual vocals of Gram & Chris really rock on this song . 'The Gilded Palace' is one of the best headphone albums ever. Thanks for making my old memories come alive.
StevieReidEFC 1 year ago
On the 31st floor, a gold plated door, won't keep out the lords burning rain....an all-time great line....
stevelunney 1 year ago
the essence of la is stinking up the rest of america gang bangers commit mass suicide...please
jaydee123xyz 1 year ago 3
This is, in my opinion, the best version, and I have heard it on Gram Parson's other CDs, but I like this one best!
zuttorizzo 1 year ago
Still the best Sachs Harbour and Tuk, late 1970's - life had no worries...
tangramman 1 year ago
Tears come very time I play this...
edcabanas 1 year ago
Emmylou and Beck sang a great version of this song on the tribute CD to Parsons, "Return of the Grievous Angel"
dadlakla 1 year ago
I'm an od lady who head this music a long time ago....and I still love it!
jump5high 1 year ago 6
i just heard the flying burrito brothers for the first time in my life yesterday. have been listening to this non-stop ever since. i'm a little irritated that i didn't figure this out sooner...
greenbasstard 1 year ago 37
Don't be irritated..things are always the best when new! I bet you will find The FBB on the top of your list for a real long time, enjoy!
ozarkcacti 1 year ago 2
@greenbasstard yea me too wth im 50. where was i during this? rhetorical ?
californiadreamin96 1 year ago
@greenbasstard it's ok ... welcome ! Look on the bright side : you now have a lifetime to enjoy this ... :-)
pat976 1 year ago
@greenbasstard: I feel you. I only started listening to Gram very recently and I've been obsessed very since. This song and "Wheels" play on an endless loop in my head.
invisiblemonster666 1 year ago
@greenbasstard me to what an awesome song
historicbloke 1 year ago
@greenbasstard dont worry most fans picked up FBB by word of mouth anyway.FBB didnt tour extensively,and the small number of shows they did with Gram werent that great `cos Gram hated rehearsing and was usually fawked up on booze and narcotics.Their records were not promoted by the record company so the records all stiffed too,until the posthumous acclamation given to Gram,then they sold a bit better.I used to play this stuff in a crappy band
PAULOcbi 1 year ago 2
@PAULOcbi yes gram became more famous after he died I was lucky because i loved the birds and country music from a early age because my late uncle pop singer crispian st peters loved country and we got it from him but sin city thats my song i play like forever and a day and always will
historicbloke 1 year ago
@greenbasstard good things come to those who wait
LizRichieBand 1 year ago
@greenbasstard better late than never.
jibberjabberr 1 year ago
Wow! I can't believe I stumbled across these great images of the Flying Burrito Brothers, especially Gram Parsons! Thank you so much for posting this!
7baracuda, I'm sorry for your loss. This is a wonderful song to play at your father's service, especially since it has meaning for you.
Bmialone 1 year ago
7baracuda I am so sorry for your loss, God be with you and you have my prayers for your Dad and you.
edcabanas 1 year ago 4
One of the greatest lines in rock, country-rock history--"on the 31st floor a gold plated door, won't keep out the lord's burning rain"
nazno 1 year ago 6
My Father died today and this will be played at his funeral as folks are leaving. It was one of our favorite drinking songs. Peace.
7baracuda 2 years ago 97
im very sorry
17NCSU 1 year ago 2
@7baracuda
I'm so sorry. God rest his soul.
But it's good to hear that ole' Gram was one bond you'll have forever.
written12 1 year ago
@7baracuda - Great dedication. Sorry for your loss.
dukeruke 1 year ago
@7baracuda
R.I.P. to your dad man.
Wish I coulda shared a cold with y'all.
LizRichieBand 1 year ago
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elleJify 2 years ago
what on earth does this have to do with good old gram? take your political propaganda and insert it sideways into your anus. as much as i agree with you, this is simply not the place to skat about with current affairs. gram is here to take us away, not re-land us in the bullshit we're already in.
TheTomyossarian 2 years ago 3
this has to do with the GREED of Wall Street,Bank of America etc. AD Nausea I can't talk about it. But if you have any kind of conscience at all you better get right and stop stabbing people in the back!This earthquake is going to leave you in the poor house Listen and WAKE the f up
elleJify 2 years ago
You're lame, this song just talks about the essence of L.A.
CuuijqyMuruqdte 1 year ago
sneaky pete, you were a god on steel guitar but you really should let someone else buy your shirts.
laosuwan 2 years ago
Gotta love the nudie suits.
rusty2222 2 years ago
I had the pleasure of living next door to Chris and Graham in canoga park I was 16 yrs. old I was in altin cover band and they were my heros thehelpedme to discover music I played in later years with Tribe of Gypsies, and Bruce Dickinson, and David LongoriaMy rolemodels into music I love this song adthe F.B.B
groovinveebee 2 years ago 2
@groovinveebee: "Gram" is short for "Ingram", not "Graham"
squank72 2 years ago
On the 31st floor a gold plated door, won't keep out the Lord's burning rain.
zigzag909 2 years ago
Listening again to this song - which I know well since I bought my first Gram Parsons album-, I'm really spooked by how it could be the anthem for last year's Financial System/Wall St meltdown, led by the Lehman Brothers' failure. The city is New York, and the 31st Floor in Lehman Brothers housed the offices of Dick Fuld (CEO) and the management responsible for their catastrophic failure - with gold-plated doors and all the rest of the excesses of the 2nd Gilded Age. Spooky!
mebfleming 2 years ago 3
True!
650monza 2 years ago
@mebfleming those guys sure ran amok. the ones we bailed out still are,far as i can tell.
mudblood6120 2 years ago
i think gram knew a bit more than people gave him credit for loved him and still love him
jr63100 2 years ago
This is brilliant, I'd never seen it, I'm lost for words.
algerij 2 years ago
Too deep for words.
TonyRoq 2 years ago
anybody know who is the girl in the white dress? I was in love with her in high school from the album cover, and she still looks HOT after all these years.
laosuwan 2 years ago
Isn't it Miss Pamela?
Maybe wrong, but I'm sure she's one of the GTO's.
ParaffinLampherman 2 years ago
@ParaffinLampherman I think Miss Pamela is the blonde in red. I'm almost sure.
Bogframe 10 months ago
emmylou harris
tedd503 2 years ago
Shes not on this song, She didn't even know of Gram yet
luthierjustin1 2 years ago
It's got to be Emmylou Harris. Look at the size of that mouth on her!
aoxomoxoadead 2 years ago
The girls were models hired for this shoot.
428SCJ 2 years ago
emmy lou harris does this song w/gram.. it's really good.. take a listen. emmy does a lot of grams songs. great writer and 2 great singers.
myfrenchybuster 2 years ago
she also does grievous angel.
looshkin66 2 years ago
This band was one of the best hardly anyone noticed
this song is one of the most moving I ever heard
BabylonShitstem 2 years ago
if you've got some money to burn.....*sigh* i love fbb! has anybody ever heard the version of grievous angel by Lucinda Williams? it is sooooo beautiful!
looshkin66 2 years ago
Grahm Parsons was a great artist,I think everyone trying to read in all the hidden meanings is a little odd just enjoy the music and be sad he died way to young
dellatrash 2 years ago
Way back when the FBB did a song called San Bernadino. Hope I spelled that right. If anyone has it could you please post it. Thanks.
212729h 2 years ago
i think the gold plated door on the 31 st floor was a record company executive' s office.
carney2000 2 years ago
Earthquake= poor house=wall street...etc.. I am tired of the war..seems like this whole town's insane..I agree w/ u TheTomyoassarian.
lucinda2005 2 years ago
this song was a view into the future. on the 31 first floor a gold plated door won't keep out the Lords' burning fire. WTC?
lucinda2005 2 years ago
No. The gold plated door on the thirty-first floor won't keep out the lord's burning RAIN. In other words, apparent well-being doesn't necessarily make you "good" in the lord's eyes. If the song should be interpreted as a foreshadower of the World Trade Center attack of 2001, then it is only analagous in the sense that the American appearance of well-being (represented by the WTC) doesn't mean Americans are "good" in the view of the rest of the world. Gram was great, but no Nostradamus.
TheTomyossarian 2 years ago 2
I think it's as simple as: Having a plush office high up in an expensive skyscraper (and the gold-plated door to boot), doesn't mean that the bad deeds you do (which, let's be honest, someone that well-off has probably done a few of already) will be any less so than any other.
Everyone is equal in the eyes of the Lord, etc. and everyone is accountable just the same for their actions, if not just to everyone else.
dancraggs 2 years ago
Like Keef says, it's the old art of weaving, guitars, lyrics, riffs, how do you separate and why do u want to? sit back and enjoy life-give your brain a rest. One toke and you are free again...
TheDenny2 2 years ago 2
sweet, sweet footage....cry on steel guitar
dutchdreams831 2 years ago 5
thx 4 the input, bulb! here's a questeeonne, bein a neil young fan, n knowin emmylou n neil go way back, i wondered if the burrito's ever shared a stage or recorded with neil? anyone?
blewsyboy 2 years ago
rolling stones "girl with far away eyes" from some girls, 1978, sure sounds like the stones were tipping their hats to gram...
blewsyboy 2 years ago
Totally agree, blewsyboy. Gram was good friends with Keith and a huge influence on the Stones earlier that decade.
bulbheadmyass 2 years ago
reply to blewsyboy gram parsons wrote wild horses
and was close friends with keith
richards check out the version by gram on you tube.
MrSmokeydog 2 years ago