Big Brother & The Holding Company -Hall of The Mountain King

[cockardo]

Personally prefer Andrews' playing style, but Gurley's is definitely more innovative.

[Django5198]

@cockardo I kinda like Gurleys avant garde feedback laden playing here but I do love Andrews eastern influenced playing. These guy were probably high as hell when they did this and a lot of the time their playin' was really sloppy but hey it all fits really well

[ROTEsimplemachines]

Why do some people live in the mountains? Because they were forced off their land by violent robber barons.

The king hides in his cave.

[kayvin13]

THIS IS SOME GROOVIE STUFF

[bbwarehot2]

555didi. if you're still here, this song is a classic from Edvard Greig.it's part of a symphony from the 1800's. look it up, it's amazing, not ironic. big brother before Janis became the sole featured part of the band

[jeffthrow6892]

Damn.......that was pretty cool......

[Maggi4]

acid time?

[MrClusterfuk]

I could really do with a hit of acid and a time machine right now.

[salforddude]

@MrClusterfuk

Not just now. ALL THE TIME!! Bloody police have got mine... I really miss that sack of microdots

[GrigoriZhukov]

@salforddude You are better off anyway...the last chance we had of lab grade lysergic acid 25 was some time in the mid 60's. You got a known weight, from reliable source, gel caps. Anything from 500-1250 mics. AND no worries that it was bad shit.

[MustangAmericana]

@ MrMeddled, Gibson and Fender isn't cheap gear.

[Django5198]

gurley is so stoned he has no idea what he is doing

[spunkysrevenge]

Wow!..Amazing!...Thanks for posting!...hey, does it seem like the guy on the left has "stuffed his pants"?...just saying...

[Django5198]

They must have been so high

[TheDylan4755]

Far out man!

[vizualnoize]

rave up

[gabbagabbaskate8]

that riff is awesome I'll try to play it in the guitar

[japanbanjo]

quit e extraodinaire

[triptoheaveandho]

im loving this

[555Didi777]

There is a song by Eric Burdon, "Spill the WIne", that has a line in it which mentions "Hall of the Mountain King", ironic, LOL!

[castillofcb]

trippy

[v0lquete]

great song! i swear thebeggining riff is used in somethings theme song...cant think of what...

[theHungryWizard]

@v0lquete 'inspector gadget' man

[nullnaught]

LSD is fun.

[orangeness1]

I shouldn't say no vocalist. But no major vocal.

[orangeness1]

Big Brother was a great psychedelic band, like Country Joe & The Fish. I really wish they'd had their own vocalist because they got lost behind the Janis Joplin thing.

[hudent]

this is the beauty of 60's rock pure raw music i love Big Brother & The Holding and Janis

[blinko656]

These guys might have been a "little" high.

[biggerturtle]

RIP james

[heropass]

beauty.

[Mirdin85]

OMFG i'm totaly out

[FunkySkunk90]

Holy crap, the one guitarist looks like Jaco Pastorius oO

[CadillacL]

WOW! Now that's mind-blowing!

[mangeldeth]

Awesome.

[Co2Und3rground]

Why didn't they do a album full of stuff like this? fucking amazing man!

[HIDEKIAMPZZILA]

Greate!!!!!!

[MsCranberryDelight]

Glee. Simply glee-making.

[VivaelRockloco]

this is real music , a tremendous piece of art !

[chicksrock1998]

today i walked by the house that they first got started in in san francisco. amazing band.

[blueridger28]

The beggining was inspector gadget

[pauldrendon]

Here's info on this amazing piece of music: April 25, 1967 "Come Up The Years", KQED TV, San Francisco, California. Big Brother and The Holding Company's rendition of the classical piece by Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907).

[gnome41]

Sam Andrew breaks a string at 4:20 and just keeps on going like it was nothing!

[TheRachakins]

that was pretty cool, just imagine this set in color! I bet this would be the place to be when tripping on acid

[dannyhood66]

Dude needs a muff fuzz...Still killer psychedelic...

[TexRitterRidesAgain]

Drugs are awesome.

[AlDroog]

@TexRitterRidesAgain

acid is king...

btw. your comment, made really my day..

peace

[hararnessman]

does anyone know what model of guitar james gurley is playing

[iagobroxado]

@hararnessman It's a Gibson Les Paul Jr. DC (Double-Cutaway), with what looks like a Rickenbacker neck pickup added (these guitars came from factory with just a bridge pickup) and a couple more knobs.

[TheWilliamville]

@iagobroxado I think the neck pickup is Grestch, not certain, but pretty sure

[iagobroxado]

@TheWilliamville pause the video at 3:08m then google "rickenbacker toaster pickup" - they are narrow like the one James has - the Grestch one is wider, like a Gibson humbucker and have a little horizontal gap on the center of the metallic cover of the pickup. :)

[irvinginglethorpe]

Some of the tighter Big Brother I've seen-Thanks

[yesmon4real]

James Gurley always finding the strange. Great video , thanks for posting.

[gnome41]

James Gurley and John Cippolinna were the best finger pickers on the electric guitar ever! R.I.P. James and John. We miss you guys!!

[lightlyone]

This is great! Lots of talent... wish they were able to record more after Janis went her way. A big part of psychedelia and a big sound.

[Inthemafia]

This is awesome!

[pantherquizzer]

James and Janis are having one hell of a reunion in Heaven right now.

[thutton67]

James Gurley rules. R.I.P., brother.

[iagobroxado]

@thutton67 I didn't know he died..that's sad :(

[redhairedstepchild]

rip james g

[juano1953]

His music will live forever.

[Longshotsblues]

Thanks for your screaming guitar James Gurley. Heaven is Jamming this Christmas. Your sound and style will live on for future guitarists forever. You were the inventor of Psychedelia and won't soon be forgotten.

[crapkid4]

i already did. who is he?

[euphorik6]

RIP jim.

[vittala]

So sad about James... he was just in town the other month to record an album with my dad Muruga for Qbico records and to hang out and visit... hard to believe he passed away. RIP St. James.

[galb1212]

RIP James Gurley

RIP Janis Joplin

:(

[Leehaha45]

RIP Jimmy

[arianne56]

RIP James Gurley

[tbird4441]

I first saw this music piece by Big Brother and the Holding Company in the 1995 documentary series called 'Rock N'Roll'. I loved it then and have been glad for the longest time that the full KQED video from 1967 finally appeared on YouTube. Great band, not just for Janis Joplin, but for overall musical talent in itself.

[zjkrone]

they were all amazing musicians and i have the most utter respect for them, the time janis left the band was a hard time for all of them, and i think that they both did a great job at coming back, the only thing i can't stand is how they now have some woman who is covering janis, and we all know there is only one Janis Joplin, she was a burning light, a burning fire that brought them to fame!!!! and that my friend is the truth

[Gitars5]

Dovregubbens hall :D

[Livesteam45]

pure beauty.......nothing like this now.

[arianne56]

This is just pure genius

[Gertrudis67]

I always thought Big Brother should have continued on w/o Janis. I loved the band. So much more creative than Full Tilt. That's when Janis copped out and lost a lot of my respect.

[goldtwatch]

me too, i felt janis had to really tone these guys down to play, i mean dont get me wrong - the combination is awesome, but sometimes you gotta rock solo shit if your good?

[darrenfinizio2]

they did...seek out the doble lp import cd with 'how hard it is' and 'be a brother'.....excellent.....bot­h made in 70-71.

[thankGodforDavidG]

thanks for sendig video, Melanie, my special friend.

[thankGodforDavidG]

this is energy coming from great group of musicians in tribute to a greatly missed woman, Janis Joplin.

[bnrbbluvmuzik]

Total trippin' music - LOVE IT! Thanks for posting, losfunkySt!

[xojbabyxo]

wow awesome!!

[tyraeggen]

Hey, This is the first time i hear this song of Grieg with Big Brother and... and its not the best version of the old norwegian composer

[ironbuttermilk]

Another psych-rocker who shouldn't have listened to those Coltrane albums. lol.

[theundisputed7]

This is some whacked out, drugged out shit if I ever heard it... SONG OF MY PEOPLE!!! LOVE IT!!

[TheWoodstockChannel]

An old fashioned psychedelic rave-up. The best you can get. Love it.

[spacequeen]

Guh, fucking wonderful. Thanks for posting this, I've been looking for this clip forever.

[60spastlife]

C'mon guys, no love for Sam Andrew, the "other" guitarist? He is a wonderful musician too, the entire band was (and is) excellent. Im ecstatic to have found a piece w/o Janis too!

[MipKouta]

This is awsome! At first I thought it was cute, but when they upgraded to more weird sounds it started to get even better!

Truly great, thanks for posting!

[toorollingstoned]

I agree Big Bro was a kik ass band..love the way they did CooCoo,it's sweet!

and they really aren't mentioned much,janis put them in the limelight.

[klaotha]

fantastic

[esoterium]

s**t! I can't find those finger pics anywhere

[titel15]

hm maybe search for inspector gadget pics....the beginning of the song is used as inspector gadgets intro init?

[esoterium]

James Gurley, what a great guitarist.

[warehambr]

Having never seen this group during the 1960s (I live on the East Coast), I did not know that James Gurley played with finger picks until I saw these videos on YouTube. He was very innovative in this early recording from the "psychedelic" era. Regarding Janis, BBHC provided a balance through Gurley's powerful guitar playing. With session musicians after she left there was no such dynamic, which is why I preferred to listen to her with BBHC.

[wnorcott]

Notice how the guitarist breaks a string in the middle of the solo at 4:20 but he does not seem to care.

[losfunkySt]

That is truely amazing. I don't understand why I didn't see this anytime before, but thanks alot for pointing it out, just adds to the greatness of this video :)

[spunkysrevenge]

@wnorcott ...Great Observation!...I saw Arlo Guthrie break a string in the middle of "Alices Restaurant" at the Newport Folk Festival...He pulled out another string, restrung it and continued the song without missing a beat...with a standing ovation at the end of it all...amazing...

[vizualnoize]

@wnorcott  she was to high to care

[harlowe9]

I appreciate both for what they are. I love BBHC and I love Janis!

[turquoisetandem]

Big Brother without Janis' shrieking is such a joy!

[Ronnie7311]

Big Brother without Janis wouldn't have been shit.

[WavyG]

True. They certainly wouldn't be remembered the way they are today without her. But still, they were an excellent '60s band, and I love their take on this classical song. Fucking brilliant.

[iagobroxado]

I kinda agree. What I mean is that they are still extremely enjoyable to listen to even without her. Though it was her singing what led them to the bigger masses...

[MikeEder]

Been wanting to see this for a long time. Pretty good band.

[arschlochausdeutschl]

extremely cool song!!