Thanks for asking. Well, Leon and his band rocked, but they were far too loud. His mike even sounded slightly distorted. I can still feel my ears, no kidding. The next day I found several reviews and they all said the same thing. The unannounced opening band, Jenny O were a VERY pleasant surprise. Check them out . I'm making a video response
The buzz out of this is like me at the football screaming my bollocks off while we are destroyer Palace 5-Nil & my bird is sucking my knob. Fucking blast off
What I think I took for granted was that we would always have sound systems like those that everybody's big brother took such pains to assemble in the '60's and '70's. Even in the early eighties I was listening straight off a reel to reel system. Not now,
I lived 3 doors down from a small college. When I was 5-7 I would sneak out and get in for free to all kinds of acts. Thank God for these guys being willing to pay college campus gigs and my being stuck way down in the basement where I would never be missed. Les Paul was the only guy I had permission to go see, and that was cool too. Some acts we did not even need to got to the concert hall. They were loud enough for the front porch to make a decent seat. Talent is conspicuously absent today.
Nothing against growing old - but find all the early Leon, like this, to hear what it was all really like, then. When he blew the lid off ... and we took it all for granted. MOSAT!
@Spiritof1973 because we were trailblazing. rock and roll was in it's infancy. had no definition and all the bands you named and 100s of others have stayed true to their gifts even with the advent of fake music. jeff beck never gave in. listen to him yesterday and listen to him today. he stayed true to himself and style and the only thing that changed was he got better. same with the others. it was a great time to grow up.
Leon Russell-Grew up on his outstanding lyrics and that man can burn the keys off a piano. Imagine this-Lived a few yrs in East Bay. Parents saw Leon Russell with Joe Cocker at one of the most famous concerts ever done...MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMAN! The crowd wouldn't leave -lights were off. Leon came out with his "top hat" and played solo on the piano & pleased the crowd.
I remember going to see him back in 1969, he was so great I went back 3 nights in a row, absolutely blew me away. I think tickets back then for that show with he and Procol Harem were about $3.50
leon just made an album with elton john...i'm gonna buy it...it's a mix of country and soul....i'm only 43, but i appreciate music with some substance....
@Kellogs43able Run---do not walk to the store to buy "The Union." It's a great CD, and you will not be disappointed. In fact the single "If It Wasn't For Bad" has just been nominated for a Grammy!
@Kellogs43able Run---do not walk to the store to buy "The Union." It's a great CD, and you will not be disappointed. In fact the single "If It Wasn't For Bad" has just been nominated for a Grammy!
Not only best song writer....don't forget his piano playing....brilliant... definitiely in the top 4 or 5 piano players in the universe. His music is as masterful today as it was when it first came out. From one who has been around for a while....enjoying the music! Although I do have to admit that this generation has a pretty cool invention called this Internet and YouTube thing-a-majig so I can now watch my favorites in addition to hearing them!
@HonkIfYouLoveHonking But then he wouldn't be Leon. He would be some ordinary dime-a-dozen singer instead of the unique Master of Space and Time. You want ordinary? Try Justin Timberlake.
@submarinepainter joe cocker is another one who stayed true to himself. the man has a set of lungs and isn't afraid to use them. he is one of the best talents then and now.
@picchaz No, no questions, I fully agree ! By the way, if someone has got new versions of "Give Peace a Chance" by Leon, please post them on YouTube !...
Great song from 1970 . There's another version out there too not listed here . It's by James Burton during the spring tour of 1977 on the Elvis Presley tour that James performed during his portion of the intros . Great performances all around !
That's call style and soul...and only Leon has it in such abundance...now...can you dig it....enlightenment is being able to master space and time...can you do that?
Yes, that's what I was thinking...wow...you know a lot of stuff about Leon....Rita Coolidge...she was a real beauty...I bet she only stayed married four or five years tops to Kris K...he was a party animal.
You are mistaking my legitimate question as an insult.
I've heard other singers who sing like this. Blues singers. There's a singer who's on Bob and Tom once in awhile named Paul Thorn who sings in a similar way. If I asked if he was putting it on too (intentionally singing the way I'm speaking of) would you be as offended?
Brings back memories.. Houston Texas, Montrose Blvd..
martadolls 1 month ago
Thanks for asking. Well, Leon and his band rocked, but they were far too loud. His mike even sounded slightly distorted. I can still feel my ears, no kidding. The next day I found several reviews and they all said the same thing. The unannounced opening band, Jenny O were a VERY pleasant surprise. Check them out . I'm making a video response
deserthawk1 3 months ago
I'm going to be seeing him in 2 days in Phoenix in a club that only holds 300. Looking forward to a great show!
deserthawk1 4 months ago
@deserthawk1 So how was the show? I hope you had as good a time as I did when I saw in Detroit last August!
judecreek2 3 months ago
@judecreek2 Guess I can't make a video response. Fiddle with this till you can see the video
.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Fz9Jvgl08&feature=related
deserthawk1 3 months ago
@judecreek2 I wrote you an answer, but didn't do the "reply" part correctly, so please go back to the same video, Delta Lady, to see my response.
deserthawk1 3 months ago
@deserthawk1 I got your reply, checked out the video. and really liked it. Glad to see you had a good time. Long live Leon!
judecreek2 3 months ago
@judecreek2 Thanks again
deserthawk1 3 months ago
Leon Russell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011
211bill 5 months ago 2
Leon detractors jump off. This man is for real. always has been. And a super nice guy.
jzjoynt 7 months ago 5
The buzz out of this is like me at the football screaming my bollocks off while we are destroyer Palace 5-Nil & my bird is sucking my knob. Fucking blast off
DanielBowden1975 8 months ago
Buzz of this gear proper
DanielBowden1975 8 months ago
Leon the master showman....
rubydawn1 8 months ago 2
What I think I took for granted was that we would always have sound systems like those that everybody's big brother took such pains to assemble in the '60's and '70's. Even in the early eighties I was listening straight off a reel to reel system. Not now,
SallySatisfied 9 months ago 2
I lived 3 doors down from a small college. When I was 5-7 I would sneak out and get in for free to all kinds of acts. Thank God for these guys being willing to pay college campus gigs and my being stuck way down in the basement where I would never be missed. Les Paul was the only guy I had permission to go see, and that was cool too. Some acts we did not even need to got to the concert hall. They were loud enough for the front porch to make a decent seat. Talent is conspicuously absent today.
Satchmoeddie 10 months ago
@Satchmoeddie What a cool way to grow up! Hearing all that great music live AND for free.
judecreek2 10 months ago
@Satchmoeddie just gotta look a little deeper today :)
Timberwolfzack 8 months ago
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Elton ain't nothin'................Leon!
kegsilas 10 months ago
Elton ain't nothin'....after Leon!
kegsilas 10 months ago
Who??
antivenin 11 months ago
Is it any wonder Elton respects the man who hired him for Leon's long ago Euro tour? Great piano, great arranger and composer. Thanx Mr R.
909chuck 1 year ago
Nothing against growing old - but find all the early Leon, like this, to hear what it was all really like, then. When he blew the lid off ... and we took it all for granted. MOSAT!
zo219 1 year ago
@zo219 Well said. Leon, Delaney & Bonnie, Alvin Lee, Johnny Winter, we just assumed that was what music was and always would be.
Spiritof1973 11 months ago
@Spiritof1973 because we were trailblazing. rock and roll was in it's infancy. had no definition and all the bands you named and 100s of others have stayed true to their gifts even with the advent of fake music. jeff beck never gave in. listen to him yesterday and listen to him today. he stayed true to himself and style and the only thing that changed was he got better. same with the others. it was a great time to grow up.
tlynch1218 8 months ago
@tlynch1218 You speak the truth!
judecreek2 8 months ago
Leon Russell-Grew up on his outstanding lyrics and that man can burn the keys off a piano. Imagine this-Lived a few yrs in East Bay. Parents saw Leon Russell with Joe Cocker at one of the most famous concerts ever done...MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMAN! The crowd wouldn't leave -lights were off. Leon came out with his "top hat" and played solo on the piano & pleased the crowd.
democrazy1965 1 year ago
I remember going to see him back in 1969, he was so great I went back 3 nights in a row, absolutely blew me away. I think tickets back then for that show with he and Procol Harem were about $3.50
bobatsdi 1 year ago
@bobatsdi that was when you could do an entire evening on 20 dollars!!!! 4 for a ticket, 10 for an ounce and 6 for a bottle of wine.
tlynch1218 1 year ago 3
@tlynch1218 a bottle of scotch wasnt much more which u coulda got if you only got a 1/2oz
santanocci 1 year ago
@santanocci scotch wasn't my drink and my preferred way of bending my mind is in a baggie and known as weed. too bad ozs aren't 10 bucks anymore!
tlynch1218 8 months ago
leon just made an album with elton john...i'm gonna buy it...it's a mix of country and soul....i'm only 43, but i appreciate music with some substance....
Kellogs43able 1 year ago
@Kellogs43able Run---do not walk to the store to buy "The Union." It's a great CD, and you will not be disappointed. In fact the single "If It Wasn't For Bad" has just been nominated for a Grammy!
judecreek2 1 year ago
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@Kellogs43able Run---do not walk to the store to buy "The Union." It's a great CD, and you will not be disappointed. In fact the single "If It Wasn't For Bad" has just been nominated for a Grammy!
judecreek2 1 year ago
@Kellogs43able Were you as dissapointed as I was with that album? What a waste of two great talents.
theoriginalbadbob 1 year ago
Leon The Great!!!!!!!!!!!
cockshutt570 1 year ago
Not only best song writer....don't forget his piano playing....brilliant... definitiely in the top 4 or 5 piano players in the universe. His music is as masterful today as it was when it first came out. From one who has been around for a while....enjoying the music! Although I do have to admit that this generation has a pretty cool invention called this Internet and YouTube thing-a-majig so I can now watch my favorites in addition to hearing them!
smurfmama 1 year ago
I can dig it.....if you dig Leon.....I'd probably dig you!
papadog101 1 year ago
If you twisted his arm I bet he could sing in a normal voice.
HonkIfYouLoveHonking 1 year ago
@HonkIfYouLoveHonking But then he wouldn't be Leon. He would be some ordinary dime-a-dozen singer instead of the unique Master of Space and Time. You want ordinary? Try Justin Timberlake.
judecreek2 1 year ago 23
@judecreek2 Amen, brudda. Tell it , tell it
nosajttenneb 1 year ago
@judecreek2 MAN you are on the RIGHT side of the street there, babykins! Leon is like no other, & never will be. He - is LEON! <3
scruffylittlecat 2 months ago
@HonkIfYouLoveHonking why would anyone want to change his voice? it's perfect. absolutely, positively perfect.
tlynch1218 8 months ago
@tlynch1218 Sounds to me like he just got shot with a very large dose of novacaine.
I suspect he's singing an homage to old time blues musicians. In other words it's just a put-on. Fake.
But I agree. I like it too. His music beckons to a better time. At least this song does.
HonkIfYouLoveHonking 8 months ago
@HonkIfYouLoveHonking Harkens back to a better time, (is the word I meant to use).
HonkIfYouLoveHonking 8 months ago
For some reason this song reminds me a little of the theme song for "Maude" the TV show.
HonkIfYouLoveHonking 1 year ago
Leon Russell....Rock & Rolls finest
lconeill1949 1 year ago
... and a great great musician too !...
zorbazig 1 year ago
Thanks for this upload
Check out the music of Leons temporary wife Mary McCreary /Russell/ Rand watch?v=RSKScfipyzE
zaggy3110 1 year ago
I can't imagine anyone having more soul on this than the one & only Leon!
thewinemomma 1 year ago
Leon wrote this song!
ZZBaggins 1 year ago
anyone know who was was the first to performe this song?heard it from Russell,Cocker, and others...
keilaman 1 year ago
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astronorm111 1 year ago
great voice!
adric137 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this.
Leon always makes me smile.
It would have been interesting to hear him sing with Joe Cocker.
tmmmviii 1 year ago
44 now, mom and dad were big fans. First heard him on Bangaladash album. Re-found and loving all his music again
fishloafer 1 year ago
when my buddy plays this in his car he sings it so loude a t the corouse :) rocked out this song many times goin up to jashua tree :)
joealanouf 2 years ago
Also Ringo is on this track and several others from this album. They get some amazing grooves.
Vazmusic 2 years ago
I think Joe's cover has more soul.
ZAcKHINN 2 years ago
@ZAcKHINN he can't even write , no soul in copying!
submarinepainter 2 years ago
@submarinepainter joe cocker is another one who stayed true to himself. the man has a set of lungs and isn't afraid to use them. he is one of the best talents then and now.
tlynch1218 8 months ago 2
One of the best song writers of this century ... any questions?
picchaz 2 years ago 13
@picchaz No, no questions, I fully agree ! By the way, if someone has got new versions of "Give Peace a Chance" by Leon, please post them on YouTube !...
zorbazig 1 year ago
@picchaz Yes, I have a question! Did you see where I put my platinum jump rings? I need them and I can't find them!
fatdanios 2 weeks ago
joe cocker does a good version of this tune
wolfgar50 2 years ago
love leon.
for a chuckle, search leon russell roll over beethoven.
momcat1953 2 years ago
@momcat1953 pretty amazing huh? leon with no hair! playing the bejesus out of roll over.
tlynch1218 8 months ago
Great singing and great playing by all on a great song.
A smoother voice than Leon's wouldn't have sounded right, imo.
psychkoala 2 years ago
Leon rocks! always has and always will. Not too hard on the eyes either!
carollabreemayo 2 years ago
Great song from 1970 . There's another version out there too not listed here . It's by James Burton during the spring tour of 1977 on the Elvis Presley tour that James performed during his portion of the intros . Great performances all around !
musicman5709 2 years ago
SO LOVE IT!!!
Whatta treasure Leon is to us all thanks for sharin' this classic!!!
Jade, dancin' & prancin' & rockin' in bright fields in flight o fancy!!!
JadeLLR 3 years ago
Yes, Leon has a very unique voice...that's whats so cool...like Al Green and Sade...all three unique voices and great at writing timeless songs.
jazzguy77 3 years ago
Omg, what a great song, i love the 70's
bigmanpigman 3 years ago
A most different version of the song compared to Joe COcker's versions - the original version and Mad Dogs version
Hawkeye752 3 years ago
Rest In Peace Delaney Bramlett
jules1982 3 years ago
That's call style and soul...and only Leon has it in such abundance...now...can you dig it....enlightenment is being able to master space and time...can you do that?
jazzguy77 3 years ago 22
Leon wrote the song, he can sing it anyway he wants to. I love Joe Cocker's version, but I am digging Leon's take on his song.
RayNDeere 3 years ago
Hey Ray...yep Leon was a total package as a musician and performer...do you know who the song is about...I have an idea...anyone else want to guess?
jazzguy77 3 years ago
If I remember, the song was about Rita Coolidge, who was a regular contributor to Leon's projects before she married Kris Kristofferson.
RayNDeere 3 years ago
Yes, that's what I was thinking...wow...you know a lot of stuff about Leon....Rita Coolidge...she was a real beauty...I bet she only stayed married four or five years tops to Kris K...he was a party animal.
jazzguy77 3 years ago
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Does he really sing like this or is it an affectation?
To me it sounds like he just got out of the dentist with the Novocaine still in effect.
zaqwert777 3 years ago
...and then bit his tongue off before being punched in the mouth.
Not saying it's bad or good.
zaqwert777 3 years ago
you should listen to Van Morrison or Bruce Springsteen
For a completely stupid sounding voice, listen to that guy from pearl jam, the guy from Creed, or Michael Bolton
lymph12 3 years ago
You are mistaking my legitimate question as an insult.
I've heard other singers who sing like this. Blues singers. There's a singer who's on Bob and Tom once in awhile named Paul Thorn who sings in a similar way. If I asked if he was putting it on too (intentionally singing the way I'm speaking of) would you be as offended?
zaqwert777 3 years ago
Lappis, Stockholm, 1972
p1cca6illy 3 years ago