Back in the day, I spent a lot of time with a gal that was the BIGGEST Spirit fan. Never heard of them until then. Then I became a Spirit fan! Good upload!!!!!!!!
It's funny how Cheap Trick were so embarrassed how badly the opening for this song got ripped off for their song "The Flame". In fairness, Cheap Trick didn't write "The Flame" and hate that song.
To northernman...I don't know how old you are but I believed the same thing that you did. I heard this song back in '78-'79 when I was in Junior H.S. (I graduated in 1983). I now realize that I am not the only person to have thought the same thing about this song.
I always wondered about this song, because I had it on 8-track. I wondered what they were singing about, I wondered if they were singing to homosexuals telling them they were acting against nature. I'm not homophobic, but I don't believe in homosexuality. I have had friends who were gay, but I would only tell them what this song does if they want to know, if they are questioning their way of living, otherwise I would treat them like everyone else.
I watched NCIS Los Angeles (born and raised in Venice), and wondered about the background music, as it seemed familiar. Watched the credits, and found out Jay Ferguson was doing the music.
Sadly, Randy California passed in a surfing accident in Hawaii.
I grew up on spirit, and an interesting side note, they came to my house when I was a kid, and I intentionally stayed out of the house while they were there (went wondering off to a playground for several hours)since I was terrified of older men... I was 9yrs. To this day, I am kicking myself... I did know who they were btw, but my fear out wayed my curiosity. lol
I remember hearing this for the first time in '68 or '69. I think it is more relevant today even then it was back then. Sad, but true. We just don't learn, do we!
They didn't have that shit they ae advertising before the song lol, it's funny as hell. This came straight from the 60's and if you weren't there you missed out on a lot of heavy shit. But of course, heavy to you is carrying to much hahahaha !!!
Ever notice we sometimes forget to invite God to our so=called religious milestones. There are hurt feelings over religious differences and traditions.....and we fail to see the most important one at the party... and what its all about. All the Father wants is to be recognized and loved. Keep it simple. Keep it real/
The Lord gives with all his Love and takes with Tender Mercies...and I am not a reilgious man, but I thought Mr & Mrs Joslin might appreciate these words.
i totally agree with you antitsa!! this tune goes straight to your heart and prompts you to check yourself out and ask if your doing good or evil in this life cause there is no inbetween either your for jesus or your idea of a greatness other that yourself or your against him. PEOPLEOPEN YOUR HEARTS AND LET JESUS IN HE WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE AND BLESS YOU BEYOND COMPARE!!! PEACE AND AMEN
this tune is meant to tell people that they need to search way down deep in their hearts and follow what their spirit leads them to do. it's was meant as a song of revised vision and a newer approach to dealing with this worlds falling off from the truth PEACE :)
Incredible! RIP Randy California! If people had only listened to this one song and heeded the message! What a world it might have been. It's not too late!
@cataddict1 Cool - I'm glad you were able to see them. A band so very ahead of the times. They would be popular today for the people that would get it.
Why the hell do all these old bands play there instruments so well with dynamics and stuff... All us young people prefer extremely loud noise with people screaming at us!....
Remember hon, the old were young once... however we had The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin.....
Ohhh, to be fair, oldies are happy to share these great bands with you screaming addicts, lol. It never goes away, just gets better, good screams, not to hard on the nerves.
I'm often taken aback at the mean spirited (unintentional pun) comments that I sometimes read with the music posts, they seem so out of place. Listening to music just doesn't make me want to start trashing people who think differently than I do. I suppose I just forget we're living in a time when calling someone a 'do-gooder' is an insult.
@hbdavew lol That was an insult when I was growing up in the late 80's/90's too, I always got insulted for being "pure" and "nice". But then guess what? years later, I'd talk to those same people who insult me, and come to find out they always admired and respected me; go figure... lol
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all you old washed up dorks that wish you can recapture your youth is laughable.
your day is gone, your youth is gone, just like everyone before you had their youth one day go. you don't seem to have moved on with life. Life and time wait for no one.
@Civitatuccillo wow! what a troll of a statement. I was 15 when this came out and I don't feel I am washed up or my day is gone, you are as young as you feel in your heart. My 7 year old grandson could even tell you that. You can keep you misery to yourself.
Takes me back to a time when there was so much pain, so much hope, so much rejection, so much love, so much honor, so much injustice, so much intensity, so much apathy...Vietnam, the draft the nightly body count on the news, . LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter,. like Janice Joplin said."It;s all the same f@#ng day!" I miss my youth, my youthful indiscretions, and my friends, and family. Like Tale of Two Cities, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Much like today, but with better music.
Pompous jerks who "KNOW" the human psyche has no influence on the natural world need to research the phenomena of poltergeists, and especially the work of psychologist Carl Jung, who experienced such events in the company of Sigmund Freud, both of whom acknowledged them.
I can not tell you how much this song meant to me in 1969, when I was 16 years old. The effect has lasted all these years. Now how's that for a song having meaning!
My mother got me listening to this way back in the early 70's and her taste in music was so great that even when she died she was still listening to Spirit, Pink Floyd etc.... clear into her 70's. My mother was an awesome woman.
This song is amazing. This band has been one of my favorites of all time. They really have they're own unique sound and style, and they look like what the Mars Volta would've been in the 60's and 70's.
This song takes me back to a time when life was as simple as where is the next party. Uncle Tom's MDA and screwing the local Disrict Attorney's daughter. You had to be there
Amazing music..my era..I think the problem is the sound production. Unless all these great albums/artists are not remastered to the dig. age, they seem flat ,,,,it's amazing what talent sound engineers have. Give that a thought. A lot of the great talent is a collaboration..of all working together. nuff said.
SO great to hear their greatest tunes. They played at our Junior Prom, at New Trier East. Remember rapping with some of the players, and i think an older drummer ? who we shared some stories and some local ganj at their breaks ... he gave me some life advice ...
I saw these guys in chicago around 1969. The kenetic playground. On the same bill with the mothers of invention Zappa.They were both great. I felt the same way about the earth then as I do today.
how very true, the messages said so many years ago, in the form of a warning, with respect to destroying mother earth, and with war, have yet to be learned, and I doubt if they ever will.....
@oneexseal i always thought the writer was telling a story a someone dying , he coud tell, even tho hes never been told, i.e. the coughing at the end.. now i think its a combination of what i said & your good comment( destroying the earth, pollution& war) .natures been getting its revenge lately! ..tommy
Anyone remember that the drummer was Randy California's step-dad? Poor Randy; he drowned trying to rescue his son from a rip tide. They both died. Sad
it takes quite a hammering, like the Tsunami....Earthquake in Japan and Chile and Haiti.......to tell us to get it.......We are blessed to be here at this time.......Lets love this planet and love each other.......and get the show on the road instead of living only for ourselves.....This is a small planet........
Our current situation has been revealed to us over and over again.....sometimes it takes quite a hammering, like the Tsunami....Earthquake in Japan and Chile and Haiti.......to tell us to get it.......We are blessed to be here at this time.......Lets love this planet and love each other.......and get the show on the road instead of living only for ourselves.....This is a small planet........
As much as I like Cheap Trick I think they might've copied the beginning of "Nature's Way" to make their biggest hit "The Flame." I don't think Robin Zander denies it either. CT has combined both songs in concert before.
I was 22 years old and a creature of the times. It's 40 years later and those were the best days of my life even though in many ways I was a lost soul.
This song is haunting...it always gets to me. Bummer I never got to see them perform.
@revwjh Yes, I am now in Mich., Miss those times too. I keep telling my wife that we're going home, she reminds me that we have grandkids now and she isnt leaving them behind. Still, someday... Blessings, jon
Saw them in Dallas or at least I saw something that night! Most of us got "caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender" as Jackson Browne once said. We need to get back "to the land and set our souls free" as Joni Mitchell said. Peace!!!!!!!
first song I dropped orange sunshine 40 years ago in panama city fla.for spring break and never went home....ma send me money I met a girl and got a job
I was in Maui in 1972 and some of the hippies there said they saw this guy playing guitar on the beach and man this cat was good. They said he used to play in a band called Spirit.
according to wikipedia, Cheap Trick formed in 1974, The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonius dropped in 1970, perhaps "The Flame" sounds like "Nature's Way"? ... hmmm?
As in the days of the dinosaurs, who saw the asteroid coming, who tried to tell their neighbors and were ridiculed, and were ultimately proven correct, so we now have a new generation of those who choose to deny the facts.
Some profess to believe in the bible, but ignore the lessons of Noah, oh well!
Others profess to believe in science, but believe the corporations will save us, again, oh well!
I choose to believe in the indominitable spirit of the common human... we'll see!
A friend of mine who goes by the name Slinger on YT played with Spirit in the past. Please check out Slinger's channel and his new video........Peace my friends.
JonhnytheC: If you haven't done it yet, get this album. If you only buy 10 albums in your entire life, 12 dreams really should be one of them (trust me-I still have over 3,000 vinyl albums).
I saw Spirit in Philly in 1970 when they opened for Jethro Tull at a very small venue. I must tell you, they stole the show. My buddies didn't think so but the lump in my throat and faint tears in my eyes told me better. Now that was 40 years ago and the words to this song are more relevant than ever. Unfortunately, Spirit, like everyone, was unable to get the message across. Yes, ignorance is bliss, or blank, or numb, or a true mortal sin. Thank You for trying...many of us did hear you.PEACE...
@1samuelfour If you want a real awakening about the group Spirit, do a little digging on the internet about Randy California. There is a great story of their encounter with Jimi Hendrix before he went to England to get "noticed" and the story of how Randy died trying to save a life. As inspiring as his music. I ran into 2 of the guys in San Diego around 1969. Back then a bald head kind of stuck out more than now. Always a fan of the group.
@1samuelfour Electric Factory-right? It was not that long ago was it? I remembered it the Spectrum. I am sure you are right though. I saw Alice Cooper open for Zappa at the Factory. That I recall for sure. The message from Spirit never did get across, did it? They sure whooped Tull's butt that night.
Back in the day, I spent a lot of time with a gal that was the BIGGEST Spirit fan. Never heard of them until then. Then I became a Spirit fan! Good upload!!!!!!!!
KansasFarmBoy1 2 days ago
Almost sounds like Jerry Garcia
RocknLester2011 3 days ago
This was my favorite tune by them back in the day.
G8GT364CI 1 week ago
It's funny how Cheap Trick were so embarrassed how badly the opening for this song got ripped off for their song "The Flame". In fairness, Cheap Trick didn't write "The Flame" and hate that song.
P715R 2 weeks ago
To northernman...I don't know how old you are but I believed the same thing that you did. I heard this song back in '78-'79 when I was in Junior H.S. (I graduated in 1983). I now realize that I am not the only person to have thought the same thing about this song.
joho6411 2 weeks ago
Great song...unforgettable memories some psychedelic at the time in the early 70's...
Prw07731 2 weeks ago
alot of good memories from this band. how time flys
MrTracyHanna 3 weeks ago
had this on 8track, back in the day, also. Great record. The song, I thought,
was an early pro-environment message. Spirit was a fine band. And I'm a bit
dispirited by some of the idiotic postings I see.
TheJmd441 3 weeks ago
I always wondered about this song, because I had it on 8-track. I wondered what they were singing about, I wondered if they were singing to homosexuals telling them they were acting against nature. I'm not homophobic, but I don't believe in homosexuality. I have had friends who were gay, but I would only tell them what this song does if they want to know, if they are questioning their way of living, otherwise I would treat them like everyone else.
northernmanmn 3 weeks ago
Cheap Trick's 'The Flame' totally rips off this song
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Epic Records Ripped this song off... CT didn't want to do the song because it sounded like Nature's Way, they have said it many times.
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sirjamalot4u 1 month ago
I watched NCIS Los Angeles (born and raised in Venice), and wondered about the background music, as it seemed familiar. Watched the credits, and found out Jay Ferguson was doing the music.
Sadly, Randy California passed in a surfing accident in Hawaii.
pizza4man 1 month ago
I grew up on spirit, and an interesting side note, they came to my house when I was a kid, and I intentionally stayed out of the house while they were there (went wondering off to a playground for several hours)since I was terrified of older men... I was 9yrs. To this day, I am kicking myself... I did know who they were btw, but my fear out wayed my curiosity. lol
God Bless ~Amy
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Captain Copter!
TheFunkadelicFan 2 months ago
To all the "kids" today, take a listen, and realize what you consume, and what you toss away. Listen to "Fresh Garbage".
skydiveNY 2 months ago
I remember hearing this for the first time in '68 or '69. I think it is more relevant today even then it was back then. Sad, but true. We just don't learn, do we!
larryc4ny 2 months ago
They didn't have that shit they ae advertising before the song lol, it's funny as hell. This came straight from the 60's and if you weren't there you missed out on a lot of heavy shit. But of course, heavy to you is carrying to much hahahaha !!!
harleyluvrable 2 months ago
Ever notice we sometimes forget to invite God to our so=called religious milestones. There are hurt feelings over religious differences and traditions.....and we fail to see the most important one at the party... and what its all about. All the Father wants is to be recognized and loved. Keep it simple. Keep it real/
prettybettysue1 2 months ago 2
@prettybettysue1 AMEN
bewildman55 2 months ago
huh? you seem to know more about whatever that is, than i.
vinylvillela 2 months ago
The Lord gives with all his Love and takes with Tender Mercies...and I am not a reilgious man, but I thought Mr & Mrs Joslin might appreciate these words.
01SweetJay 2 months ago
Nah, everything is perfect. :/ Don't listen to nature, sheople. ;p
vinylvillela 2 months ago
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Then explain the Kardashians.
ClandestineOstrich 2 months ago
I seen them when they opened for Cream in 68... great band
dougerrr 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Spirit
i just lost my son ian edmond joslin on9/24/2011 this is therapy
slimbo159 3 months ago
i totally agree with you antitsa!! this tune goes straight to your heart and prompts you to check yourself out and ask if your doing good or evil in this life cause there is no inbetween either your for jesus or your idea of a greatness other that yourself or your against him. PEOPLEOPEN YOUR HEARTS AND LET JESUS IN HE WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE AND BLESS YOU BEYOND COMPARE!!! PEACE AND AMEN
topcatroar61oliosc 3 months ago
I loved this song when it was first released all those years ago and just stumbled on it again today, and it still took my breath away.
antitsa 3 months ago
this tune is meant to tell people that they need to search way down deep in their hearts and follow what their spirit leads them to do. it's was meant as a song of revised vision and a newer approach to dealing with this worlds falling off from the truth PEACE :)
topcatroar61oliosc 3 months ago
Incredible! RIP Randy California! If people had only listened to this one song and heeded the message! What a world it might have been. It's not too late!
allabouttheink 3 months ago
Fleetwood Mac
Sorry LOL
Mynamesalexa 3 months ago
Flletwood Mac, SPIRIT, & West Bruce & Laing @ The Spectrum Nov '72
I was there Glad I was...
Mynamesalexa 3 months ago
RIP Randy California. You died way too young
whoadude420 3 months ago
@whoadude420 I feel so fortunate that I was able to see them on many occasions...
cataddict1 3 months ago
@cataddict1 Cool - I'm glad you were able to see them. A band so very ahead of the times. They would be popular today for the people that would get it.
whoadude420 3 months ago
Why the hell do all these old bands play there instruments so well with dynamics and stuff... All us young people prefer extremely loud noise with people screaming at us!....
JxEngel 3 months ago
@JxEngel
Remember hon, the old were young once... however we had The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin.....
Ohhh, to be fair, oldies are happy to share these great bands with you screaming addicts, lol. It never goes away, just gets better, good screams, not to hard on the nerves.
Gingerbelll 1 month ago
I'm often taken aback at the mean spirited (unintentional pun) comments that I sometimes read with the music posts, they seem so out of place. Listening to music just doesn't make me want to start trashing people who think differently than I do. I suppose I just forget we're living in a time when calling someone a 'do-gooder' is an insult.
hbdavew 3 months ago 16
@hbdavew lol That was an insult when I was growing up in the late 80's/90's too, I always got insulted for being "pure" and "nice". But then guess what? years later, I'd talk to those same people who insult me, and come to find out they always admired and respected me; go figure... lol
thewordthatpierces 1 month ago
@hbdavew amen to that
prettybettysue1 3 weeks ago
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all you old washed up dorks that wish you can recapture your youth is laughable.
your day is gone, your youth is gone, just like everyone before you had their youth one day go. you don't seem to have moved on with life. Life and time wait for no one.
Civitatuccillo 3 months ago
@Civitatuccillo some day you to will be old and will take offense when someone posts a line of shit about you being old.
jnc1952 3 months ago
@Civitatuccillo wow! what a troll of a statement. I was 15 when this came out and I don't feel I am washed up or my day is gone, you are as young as you feel in your heart. My 7 year old grandson could even tell you that. You can keep you misery to yourself.
Akindone53 3 months ago 3
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ohhh, the ignorance of youth....
One would think they would appreciate how we kept rock alive and kicking...
At least James Durbin does, god bless his rocking heart
Gingerbelll 1 month ago
A great song from a great band that sadly was under recognized and largely forgotten today...
mojostephen 3 months ago
Takes me back to a time when there was so much pain, so much hope, so much rejection, so much love, so much honor, so much injustice, so much intensity, so much apathy...Vietnam, the draft the nightly body count on the news, . LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter,. like Janice Joplin said."It;s all the same f@#ng day!" I miss my youth, my youthful indiscretions, and my friends, and family. Like Tale of Two Cities, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Much like today, but with better music.
DISPENSER4HIRE 4 months ago
wonderful, i this album is really a great work
Michele from Italy
Giaculatorie 4 months ago
wonderful, i this album is really a great work
Michele from Italy
Giaculatorie 4 months ago
Pompous jerks who "KNOW" the human psyche has no influence on the natural world need to research the phenomena of poltergeists, and especially the work of psychologist Carl Jung, who experienced such events in the company of Sigmund Freud, both of whom acknowledged them.
KarlRKaiser 4 months ago
love the overlapping harmonies......thanks for posting so i dont gotta dig out my old LP
marbleheadband 4 months ago
This song meant a lot to me at 14 yrs old in 1974and still does
tmfsable 5 months ago 2
I can not tell you how much this song meant to me in 1969, when I was 16 years old. The effect has lasted all these years. Now how's that for a song having meaning!
TheRandyowen 5 months ago 2
I'm still listening, believing, and trying to continue living it. Many have forgotten the message but there are still a few of us out there!
CroneGrimalkin 5 months ago
New England tornadoes... east coast earthquakes... historic hurricane... floods...
Something's wrong!
Mibbitmaker 5 months ago
@Mibbitmaker suck it
theres been east cost earthquakes before dummy
cottodabodykill 4 months ago
look what just happened this week...this song warned us before and reminded us today..we got to take care this planet...timeless music..
lumbiaknight87 5 months ago
My mother got me listening to this way back in the early 70's and her taste in music was so great that even when she died she was still listening to Spirit, Pink Floyd etc.... clear into her 70's. My mother was an awesome woman.
harleyluvrable 5 months ago 2
@harleyluvrable I bet she was! And I'll be doing the same when I'm an old crone!!
What a sweet thing to say about your mom. I'm sure her loving "Spirit" is with you always!
ladyfuschia 5 months ago
@ladyfuschia This old but proud Crone does still! LOL!
CroneGrimalkin 5 months ago
This song is amazing. This band has been one of my favorites of all time. They really have they're own unique sound and style, and they look like what the Mars Volta would've been in the 60's and 70's.
anamelessman9192 5 months ago
I saw them with Fleetwood Mac & West, Bruce & Laing @ The Spectrum Nov. '72.
Glad I did.
MilhelenTrading 5 months ago
Gives me the chills.
surlygirlie0321 5 months ago
you got it backwarks...they hear but when will they listen? anyone can hear but not everyone can listen
cadort5 5 months ago 8
This song takes me back to a time when life was as simple as where is the next party. Uncle Tom's MDA and screwing the local Disrict Attorney's daughter. You had to be there
pfunkster100 5 months ago
@pfunkster100
You seem to be the only one besides me that remembers MDA. I loved it back in 70-71.
surlygirlie0321 5 months ago
I dont think there's a better song that can take me back to to where I once content with life. Just close your eyes and listen...
twolfe5411 6 months ago
I dont think there's a song that can take me back to to where I once content with life. Just close your eyes and listen...
twolfe5411 6 months ago
To arlva1===What are you talking about ?
TheRonpower 6 months ago
So much talent at that time.
Mausome 6 months ago
Look at America, droughts, floods, economic disaster, somethings wrong!
borntrippin 6 months ago
Came back to me Like a Message~~~~~ Always loved this song!!!!!
oxhart3 6 months ago
someone should form a posse, hunt down these 11 ppl and ask them, wtf is your problem?
panhead58ful 6 months ago
Amazing music..my era..I think the problem is the sound production. Unless all these great albums/artists are not remastered to the dig. age, they seem flat ,,,,it's amazing what talent sound engineers have. Give that a thought. A lot of the great talent is a collaboration..of all working together. nuff said.
ARLVA1 6 months ago
@ARLVA1 - Spot on, my friend! This band,
and especially this LP, were born and designed
for the RIAA 12" LP Stereophonic EQ curve ...
I wonder if they *can* ever adequately be
remixed for an equivalent CD experience!
jcrx69 6 months ago
Hauntingly good song.
klrdotorg 6 months ago
Something`s wrong with the 11 people who dislike. But I`m sure someone`s already said that. lol
estyle40 6 months ago
SO great to hear their greatest tunes. They played at our Junior Prom, at New Trier East. Remember rapping with some of the players, and i think an older drummer ? who we shared some stories and some local ganj at their breaks ... he gave me some life advice ...
TUCSONJJB 6 months ago 2
I still have this LP. Cool stuff. Thanks for posting it.
moodymerlin 6 months ago
Wendy and I saw these guys at the Victory so many years ago. Loved them so much so very much
ardellefly 7 months ago
attura is right on
TheStampedehero 7 months ago
People do hear-But the real answer is they dont listen-Its just the opposite-You can hear but not comprehend.
john083055 7 months ago
I saw these guys in chicago around 1969. The kenetic playground. On the same bill with the mothers of invention Zappa.They were both great. I felt the same way about the earth then as I do today.
es137macon 7 months ago
I saw these guys in chicago around 1969. The kenetic playground. On the same bill with the mothers of invention Zappa.They were both great.
es137macon 7 months ago
Actually he saved his son . Look it up .
direwolf49 7 months ago
thanx for the trip down memory lane!!!!
Baron4ever17 7 months ago
good video and great music...thanks a lot man
navigator502 7 months ago
"it's natures way of telling you 'smoke some weeeeed' "
XUndeadGunslingerX 7 months ago 2
how very true, the messages said so many years ago, in the form of a warning, with respect to destroying mother earth, and with war, have yet to be learned, and I doubt if they ever will.....
oneexseal 7 months ago
@oneexseal i always thought the writer was telling a story a someone dying , he coud tell, even tho hes never been told, i.e. the coughing at the end.. now i think its a combination of what i said & your good comment( destroying the earth, pollution& war) .natures been getting its revenge lately! ..tommy
tommieparch 6 months ago
Anyone remember that the drummer was Randy California's step-dad? Poor Randy; he drowned trying to rescue his son from a rip tide. They both died. Sad
italianray69 8 months ago
Getting into Spirit! We're alright!
bamaleorick 8 months ago
In light of the current weather changes I thought this tells it all!
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luuoumou 8 months ago
wonderfull! i'm finding it hard to find the rest of the album to hear
rowanmark21 8 months ago
As appropriate today as it was 40 years ago. People will listen, but ---- When will people HEAR???
aattura 8 months ago 26
@aattura
Aww man, it's always like that. People only hear when they have enough reason. It's natures way.
AngeloNiklis 6 months ago
One of my favorites, thanks for posting.
Marino85 8 months ago
I was fortunate enough to catch Spirit when WMMS radio announced a free concert on the commons grounds at Kent State University in about 1975.
The line-up was Spirit, Bob Seger, J. Geils band and the Michael Stanley band.
10,000 people attended this outdoor event.
Great concert and good times!
squirrelfartz 8 months ago
@squirrelfartz Great show wasn't it?
brianbrendalove 8 months ago
@brianbrendalove Yes it was.
Amazing that my post got a response from a *bonifide* (I checked your profile age) fellow attendee of a specific concert in a only a matter of days!
That's the power of the internet for you.
squirrelfartz 8 months ago
this mortal coil
woodhd 8 months ago
sounds alot like Jerry Garcia RIP.
Frontierblues 8 months ago
Natures telling us....are we listening?
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xdfgsdgflastname 9 months ago
OMG haven't heard this song in decades. Brings back memories. Thanks for posting.
suze2012 9 months ago
I like the part where they say "it's natures way of telling you somethings wrong"
sinclairguzman 9 months ago
Great writting... the A add 9 is glorious in this classic song from the 60s. The song makes the movie scene awesome.
Perpetualmusik 9 months ago
it takes quite a hammering, like the Tsunami....Earthquake in Japan and Chile and Haiti.......to tell us to get it.......We are blessed to be here at this time.......Lets love this planet and love each other.......and get the show on the road instead of living only for ourselves.....This is a small planet........
megalicious32 9 months ago
Our current situation has been revealed to us over and over again.....sometimes it takes quite a hammering, like the Tsunami....Earthquake in Japan and Chile and Haiti.......to tell us to get it.......We are blessed to be here at this time.......Lets love this planet and love each other.......and get the show on the road instead of living only for ourselves.....This is a small planet........
megalicious32 9 months ago
this is still awesome
eightiesrarities 9 months ago
I saw Spirit and Strawbs and Spooky Tooth for 5 bucks in 1974 !! It was the 12 DREAMS tour .
heehaa99 9 months ago
MORE COWBELL!!
emrhody 9 months ago
@emrhody
All right, Bruce, no one asked for your opinion on this recording.
AngeloNiklis 9 months ago
World resonance. The cadence of nature ... "in a song." Inspirational, timeless genius.
Did see Spirit perform this at a college basketball gym in Florida.
A hush goes out over the crowd. Respectful communing, and then touched speechlessness from the crowd.
Thanks to Spirit and to you for remembering.
Max Tillinghast
TubeMeOSEVEN 9 months ago
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OnlyBoo1 9 months ago
Bellissimo magone!
jackonfire85 10 months ago
Hi. Thank you for posting this tune...
spacemouse1 10 months ago
Wow! I forgot about this band for over 30 years. They were awesome then and evermore so now.
wilhoitsux 10 months ago
As much as I like Cheap Trick I think they might've copied the beginning of "Nature's Way" to make their biggest hit "The Flame." I don't think Robin Zander denies it either. CT has combined both songs in concert before.
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TKTRV 10 months ago
I was just 10 when this came out and would walk for miles to listen to my friend play this,,,,,
Ravenprpl 10 months ago
I grew up with Spirt its part of my life great band
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TKTRV 10 months ago
That sigh at 1:06 is really haunting.
jwmellott 10 months ago
THANKS FOR THE SONG, IT HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART
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mtbootz 10 months ago
I was 22 years old and a creature of the times. It's 40 years later and those were the best days of my life even though in many ways I was a lost soul.
This song is haunting...it always gets to me. Bummer I never got to see them perform.
mtbootz 10 months ago
@mtbootz
You're right man,the song is incredibly haunting and damn good too.
onthemoveagain 10 months ago
@mtbootz
You're right man,the song is incredibly haunting and damn good too.
onthemoveagain 10 months ago
I have to laugh at the pic of the cd. I had this on 8-track
chuckbyf1 10 months ago
One of the original environmentallly conscious songs... 'Out in the Country' by Three Dog Night is another great early one.
dbcoll1957 11 months ago 2
I so much loved Spirit! Thank you for posting these songs. Especially loved, "Nature's Way!"
bijodd 11 months ago
YOU ARE SOO RIGHT , SICOWDEN
GarPeteY 11 months ago
I love this song
InjaRed 11 months ago
Used to drive through one of many S. Ca. canyons to the beach
listening to this song. Saw this great band in Santa Monica..
1st love kind of stuff , and smokin good weed.
MrWarbells 11 months ago
@MrWarbells at the time, I was doing the same thing. probably the same canyons. it seems so long ago and yet as if it were yesterday
revwjh 11 months ago
@revwjh Yup such good memories..Live in Tucson now I really miss the Beach sometimes. So
glad we got to experience the freedom..
MrWarbells 11 months ago
@revwjh Yes, I am now in Mich., Miss those times too. I keep telling my wife that we're going home, she reminds me that we have grandkids now and she isnt leaving them behind. Still, someday... Blessings, jon
revwjh 11 months ago
its natures way
iamearthbornami 11 months ago
Great song from an even greater album!
klongersdad 11 months ago
Thanks 4 the P0st! Good memmories!
jbeng1953 1 year ago
I saw that same show at The Aragon Ballroom in Chicago in 1970 and watching father and son on stage was so amazing.....Randy California so rocks
giacomo309 1 year ago
@giacomo309 'Father and Son' is not exactly correct. Ed married Randy's mother. Ed was a fantastic 'father' to Randy, of course.
vwtch 11 months ago
Saw them in Dallas or at least I saw something that night! Most of us got "caught between the longing for love and the struggle for the legal tender" as Jackson Browne once said. We need to get back "to the land and set our souls free" as Joni Mitchell said. Peace!!!!!!!
BBBLLLHHH 1 year ago
first song I dropped orange sunshine 40 years ago in panama city fla.for spring break and never went home....ma send me money I met a girl and got a job
stinkykuntz 1 year ago
I was in Maui in 1972 and some of the hippies there said they saw this guy playing guitar on the beach and man this cat was good. They said he used to play in a band called Spirit.
Burksforkdave57 1 year ago
7 people tried to fool Mother Nature
jferg7159 1 year ago
Awesome band, so glad I was there..........
thanks so much for putting this up, man!
Great track from an absolutely CLASSIC album! (12 Dreams)
TheNigelr 1 year ago
Like birds dropping outta the sky and fish rising to the surface.
CelticReject 1 year ago 12
according to wikipedia, Cheap Trick formed in 1974, The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonius dropped in 1970, perhaps "The Flame" sounds like "Nature's Way"? ... hmmm?
redtailspirit 1 year ago
As in the days of the dinosaurs, who saw the asteroid coming, who tried to tell their neighbors and were ridiculed, and were ultimately proven correct, so we now have a new generation of those who choose to deny the facts.
Some profess to believe in the bible, but ignore the lessons of Noah, oh well!
Others profess to believe in science, but believe the corporations will save us, again, oh well!
I choose to believe in the indominitable spirit of the common human... we'll see!
redtailspirit 1 year ago
it's nature's way of telling us.
mmusicmann 1 year ago
lyrics son, lyrics, way back better than what, Eminem?
sjdinergrrl 1 year ago
the vinyls better
Woody10719 1 year ago
This has to be one of the most beautiful tunes ever composed. It is.
TheElissaS 1 year ago
How about Cheap Tricks -The Flame sounds like this song.....
skimac1122 1 year ago
The opening chords definitely sound alot like "The Flame" by Cheap Trick.
almostest 1 year ago
This is it...we've been hearing the sounds of advise...yet did we listen?
Lillian1225 1 year ago
Actually to visit Slinger on YT visit crimescenestudios. Sorry for the misinformation.
sgtdarkness1 1 year ago
This song kinda sounds like Cheap Trick's "The Flame." Does anyone else hear the similarities?
cdanteg67 1 year ago
Possibly one of the most underrated, and greatest songs ever written. The melody and lyrics are as relative today as they were forty years ago.
dbcoll1957 1 year ago
A friend of mine who goes by the name Slinger on YT played with Spirit in the past. Please check out Slinger's channel and his new video........Peace my friends.
sgtdarkness1 1 year ago
One that goes down in "My history" BOOK.
MrZepplen 1 year ago
Beautiful song...played and sung with real emotion and passion...
TheAlysheba 1 year ago
Too many memories of too many friends that are no longer here...
Starrman69 1 year ago 2
use to go to a bar in toledo back in 1973 and go dancin with friends with them playing there tunes live
runingblackbear 1 year ago
Fantastic song - one of my all time favourites
DorrisDiaz 1 year ago
JonhnytheC: If you haven't done it yet, get this album. If you only buy 10 albums in your entire life, 12 dreams really should be one of them (trust me-I still have over 3,000 vinyl albums).
Artheritis1 1 year ago
Old song, old concept...real tears are shed by those of us who knew and still watched, helpless.
Amicus1952 1 year ago
I saw Spirit in Philly in 1970 when they opened for Jethro Tull at a very small venue. I must tell you, they stole the show. My buddies didn't think so but the lump in my throat and faint tears in my eyes told me better. Now that was 40 years ago and the words to this song are more relevant than ever. Unfortunately, Spirit, like everyone, was unable to get the message across. Yes, ignorance is bliss, or blank, or numb, or a true mortal sin. Thank You for trying...many of us did hear you.PEACE...
1samuelfour 1 year ago 42
@1samuelfour If you want a real awakening about the group Spirit, do a little digging on the internet about Randy California. There is a great story of their encounter with Jimi Hendrix before he went to England to get "noticed" and the story of how Randy died trying to save a life. As inspiring as his music. I ran into 2 of the guys in San Diego around 1969. Back then a bald head kind of stuck out more than now. Always a fan of the group.
jeffandjune 1 year ago
@1samuelfour Electric Factory-right? It was not that long ago was it? I remembered it the Spectrum. I am sure you are right though. I saw Alice Cooper open for Zappa at the Factory. That I recall for sure. The message from Spirit never did get across, did it? They sure whooped Tull's butt that night.
japinvt 1 year ago
@1samuelfour
I heard, and listened, agree with you whole heartedly...this song brught me to tears the 1st day I heard it, and it still does today...
1chicfox 1 year ago
@1samuelfour: Your comment may well be the most brilliant, heartfelt, and insightful that I've ever seen posted here on YouTube. Thank You.
jonsilence 10 months ago