cool tune but I do not think that this song has anything to do with Riverside, Ca., I lived in Riverside for a few years and we now have to call it Riverdive because the girls are ugly in that part of California.
@MiloSassy2010 Actually I heard this on a college radio station the other day and that's what brought me here, great song. At first I wasn't sure if it was CSN or America.
There have been comments that this song has something to do with Riverside, CA. I don't think so. But just the same, thank you, americagh, for posting this, and for your pride in your city. I like the connection between the two, the song and your town.
wow the guy who uploaded this is an asshole, some people commented just saying like where certain places are or that some of these pictures are off and hes just such an dick to them
Just saw America play in Riverside, CA at the restored Fox Theater (5.8.10). I believe they opened (appropriately so) with this song. Great show! Thanks for the slide show. Yes, some of the pics obviously weren't of Riverside, CA, but most were.
This is not a song about Riverside,it's a song about a place by a river. Nice pictures but you are missing the point.......I mean if this song was called "Living in Kentish Town" do you think I would have gone nuts with photos and stuff....."It's my town!"....anyway, you stay on your side and I'll stay on mine....I'm off to get a kebah
From the 70's in Riverside, I remember smog, somewhat racist working-class white people who really knew how to pronounce their "r"s, B52s taking off from March Air Force Base (probably, loaded with nuclear weapons), the Winston 500, that orange tree on Arlington Ave. that came from Brazil, that park with paddle boats on a lake (I forget the name). My roots.
Nice job on the video man... Loved it! I did'nt grow up here, but i got the hell out of Torrance and headed east as soon as possible! Riverslide.... "Home Sweet Home"
Don't get ur hopes up Riverside cops are nasty. They'll fuck u up for nothing. I think they have been watching to much LA shit where it's really mean. Riverside ain't all that bad , but the young cops in Riverside beat and punch u out for nothing,Pussy's.
It sounds to me like you needed your ass beat. Go to Oakland if you want to act like a wigger ghetto kid. Leave Riverside for decent people. In other words...go fuck yourself.
I want to move out of Riverside AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! I'm only in the city to attend UCR. The city is filled with smog and thieves. I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of the people who live in Riverside die of lung cancer.
I was born in Riverside, 1967 and my father was born there too. I don't remember the images here. Riverside was a tough place, not San Bernadino, but nothing like these images here. A lot of smog and desperate people (probably the same now). So. Cal., what you might have been!
Everything ok until you set a pic of the duo America. i've got some good pictures from the trio in1972 .if you like i send you a pair of them for improving your video .how do you like it?
It still is but they think it's the next Irvine. If they were serious about upgrading this town's image, they'd get a giant helicopter and transport the whole knappy town about 60 miles to the west-south-west. The I.E. is made fun of by folks all across the country not just Californians. I've only got about one more year to go and I'm GONE! You'll notice all the famous people from here don't live here now.
I don't hear or see anything in those lyrics that proves this song is about Riverside Ca.
Ah if it's next to Irvine that makes sense, Irvine was kinda rich so I guess a little of that rolled over onto Riverside. I haven't been back there in like five years so I don't know if it's changed but if you know where La Sierra HS is and know the apartments and markets around that area you'll know what I mean by poor. The Rainbow Donuts near me was robbed around seven time in a month at one point. Who the hell robs a donut store right? xD
Dont none of you know Riverside, when there were orange groves everywhere, B-52 bombers loaded with nukes sitting on the end of the runway at March Air Force base. Fishing at Faimont park and lake Perris was just another valley in the desert.
i live in corona.down the freeway from riversdie and riverside nice.has more crime though than corona. did people really try shooting down helicopter and is it really the 11th largest city???
I can remember when they were shooting down police helicopters ,but even then I didnt consider it a bad place to live. It has what is lacking in so many places , opprotunity. Ghetto I dont think so and if you do ,you dont understand Riverside and probably wasting your time in Ca. You has to learn that a good life demands deep roots and Ca. has always been a land with hard soil , fast winds and a clock thats runs day ahead of it's time. It's not a freebe u have to be hungry 4 the diamond lane.
beautiful, beautiful song. I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I heard it. The lyric NEVER EVER left me: "The world don't owe me NO livin'".
perhaps I'm missing something key, but idt this song is actually about the city of Riverside. considering the song refers to living on "the riverside" and not IN Riverside, i never saw it that way. it seems more metaphorical considering the historical view of a river symbolizing a journey and the mention of taking life "like a big long ride" in the song itself. idk, maybe i'm wrong. great song either way!
i live on the east coast of canada next to the atlantic ocean, i always wanted to live on the west cost in riverside, only good thing about liveing in canada is the free health care and free doctor visit and cheap drugs and also the legal pot smoking laws we have
I lived in Riverside, CA for a month once in the middle 80's. I liked it. I remember the foothills. I'm sure a lot has changed since...seemed like a developing area. It looked kind of familiar to me in the vid.
It so nice to see so many charming people who can't leave a comment without the word "f*ck" in it. It really increases the power of your argument guys, well done!
Forgot to mention that its the one posted by "wbdsr1". It has to be the best version ever of this great song. It is from their Sound Stage performance in 2005 and the show opened with this song. What a great way to get the audience's attention, right out of the gates.
Very nice pics of Riverside.The seashore and that river full of boats are definately not anywhere near Riverside.But the other photos are lovely and you did a nice job on this!
A timeless classic....so evocative....epitomising that halcyon early 70's sunny relaxed California lifestyle.....love this song.....
En3usiast 3 months ago
there are four pople contributing to this song. God bless them all!
jmaxcamp 4 months ago
Just been told that Dan Peek has died, what sad news....
hikie2 7 months ago
cool tune but I do not think that this song has anything to do with Riverside, Ca., I lived in Riverside for a few years and we now have to call it Riverdive because the girls are ugly in that part of California.
UNIVDNC 7 months ago
40 years on and I still rate this album in my personal top 5 favourites. From the opening bars of this track I knew I had something special.
MusicMadMaurice 7 months ago
unfortunate that this song has never been played radio the last 40 years - never
MiloSassy2010 9 months ago
@MiloSassy2010 Actually I heard this on a college radio station the other day and that's what brought me here, great song. At first I wasn't sure if it was CSN or America.
rodneyracoon 8 months ago
There have been comments that this song has something to do with Riverside, CA. I don't think so. But just the same, thank you, americagh, for posting this, and for your pride in your city. I like the connection between the two, the song and your town.
74bshs 10 months ago
They might not be talking about this type of "Riverside".
wyecee 10 months ago
awesome lyrics! "you take what you want and i'll take the sun shine" :)
kaledeo 1 year ago
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thank you america!!!
jmaxcamp 1 year ago
this and "Only in Your Heart" are my favorite America songs. Back then they sounded SO much like CSNY.
fanofprotopic 1 year ago
MASTERFULLY PLAYED
MiloSassy2010 1 year ago
i never had this album thanks so much youtube
MiloSassy2010 1 year ago
Thank yu
KongSunWu 1 year ago
DAN PEEK GERRY BECKLEY DEWEY BUNNEL
PEDROCLASSIC 1 year ago
wow the guy who uploaded this is an asshole, some people commented just saying like where certain places are or that some of these pictures are off and hes just such an dick to them
ColeDavis94 1 year ago
Just saw America play in Riverside, CA at the restored Fox Theater (5.8.10). I believe they opened (appropriately so) with this song. Great show! Thanks for the slide show. Yes, some of the pics obviously weren't of Riverside, CA, but most were.
Eyepod24 1 year ago
I would like to add.......this is a really great song........shame about the shit noise at the end thou
g5uk 1 year ago
This is not a song about Riverside,it's a song about a place by a river. Nice pictures but you are missing the point.......I mean if this song was called "Living in Kentish Town" do you think I would have gone nuts with photos and stuff....."It's my town!"....anyway, you stay on your side and I'll stay on mine....I'm off to get a kebah
g5uk 1 year ago
great job man are some old pics of riverside
zzmoth 1 year ago
From the 70's in Riverside, I remember smog, somewhat racist working-class white people who really knew how to pronounce their "r"s, B52s taking off from March Air Force Base (probably, loaded with nuclear weapons), the Winston 500, that orange tree on Arlington Ave. that came from Brazil, that park with paddle boats on a lake (I forget the name). My roots.
gruntball 1 year ago
my favourite America song its such a happy feel good song
1975mindy 1 year ago
I heard this song in the movie local boys. Watch it when you get a chance.
RandomSpeakage 1 year ago
Nice job on the video man... Loved it! I did'nt grow up here, but i got the hell out of Torrance and headed east as soon as possible! Riverslide.... "Home Sweet Home"
barren6136 1 year ago
Riverside,California. Birthplace of radio star John Donald "Don" Imus Jr. in 1940.
arhuxtable 1 year ago
1 of my very favorite songs, thank you, AMAZING AMERICA
stellbelle222 1 year ago
can any tell me , if the America fans like too Ambrosia band?( excuse me english)
I like this bands, but America not listen at today... thanks
santyrush 1 year ago
@santyrush I am American, I remember Ambrosia, they were a good band
inkey2 1 year ago
"Living on the riverside taking it all in my stride", Troppo fico...
nontutt 2 years ago
Don't get ur hopes up Riverside cops are nasty. They'll fuck u up for nothing. I think they have been watching to much LA shit where it's really mean. Riverside ain't all that bad , but the young cops in Riverside beat and punch u out for nothing,Pussy's.
fishingindeepwater 2 years ago
@fishingindeepwater
It sounds to me like you needed your ass beat. Go to Oakland if you want to act like a wigger ghetto kid. Leave Riverside for decent people. In other words...go fuck yourself.
RapIsDeadly 1 year ago
I want to move out of Riverside AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! I'm only in the city to attend UCR. The city is filled with smog and thieves. I wouldn't be surprised if 80% of the people who live in Riverside die of lung cancer.
SagaciousSilence 2 years ago
I was born in Riverside, 1967 and my father was born there too. I don't remember the images here. Riverside was a tough place, not San Bernadino, but nothing like these images here. A lot of smog and desperate people (probably the same now). So. Cal., what you might have been!
gruntball 2 years ago
mwahahah i love youtube
my dad said if i found this song he would take me to the liqure store!
/WIN!
thank you america!
RipTheFlesh666 2 years ago 4
@RipTheFlesh666 dude how old r u
zzmoth 1 year ago
This is simply fantastic, fabulously beautiful music.
hitomusic 2 years ago
Everything ok until you set a pic of the duo America. i've got some good pictures from the trio in1972 .if you like i send you a pair of them for improving your video .how do you like it?
MyRickyz 2 years ago
where the hell was all this shit when i was in riverside? I remember it being very poor, very very poor
DeftJay 2 years ago
It still is but they think it's the next Irvine. If they were serious about upgrading this town's image, they'd get a giant helicopter and transport the whole knappy town about 60 miles to the west-south-west. The I.E. is made fun of by folks all across the country not just Californians. I've only got about one more year to go and I'm GONE! You'll notice all the famous people from here don't live here now.
I don't hear or see anything in those lyrics that proves this song is about Riverside Ca.
sneric401 2 years ago
Ah if it's next to Irvine that makes sense, Irvine was kinda rich so I guess a little of that rolled over onto Riverside. I haven't been back there in like five years so I don't know if it's changed but if you know where La Sierra HS is and know the apartments and markets around that area you'll know what I mean by poor. The Rainbow Donuts near me was robbed around seven time in a month at one point. Who the hell robs a donut store right? xD
DeftJay 2 years ago
It's not next to Irvine. It just wishes it was. That's why they need the helicopter. It needs to be next to Irvine.
sneric401 2 years ago
Dont none of you know Riverside, when there were orange groves everywhere, B-52 bombers loaded with nukes sitting on the end of the runway at March Air Force base. Fishing at Faimont park and lake Perris was just another valley in the desert.
DrgnTrappr 2 years ago
Riverside,California. Birthplace of radio star Don Imus,circa July 23,1940.
arhuxtable 2 years ago
The "Mission Inn" hotel, and their antique shops.
wyecee 2 years ago
i live in corona.down the freeway from riversdie and riverside nice.has more crime though than corona. did people really try shooting down helicopter and is it really the 11th largest city???
1232th 2 years ago
Wow I'm a SoCal boy and I never knew Riverside was this interesting!
pwkid 2 years ago
this song and POCO'S pickin' up the pieces and EAGLES' take it easy. they all sounded the same. i love country-rock
PEDROCLASSIC 2 years ago
I can remember when they were shooting down police helicopters ,but even then I didnt consider it a bad place to live. It has what is lacking in so many places , opprotunity. Ghetto I dont think so and if you do ,you dont understand Riverside and probably wasting your time in Ca. You has to learn that a good life demands deep roots and Ca. has always been a land with hard soil , fast winds and a clock thats runs day ahead of it's time. It's not a freebe u have to be hungry 4 the diamond lane.
215jami 2 years ago
beautiful, beautiful song. I don't think I'll ever forget the first time I heard it. The lyric NEVER EVER left me: "The world don't owe me NO livin'".
fanofprotopic 2 years ago
great song.
terrible place.
mwrr25 2 years ago
lol
spenceman22 2 years ago
what in the hell is wrong with you??? riverside is the best place ever!!!! have you even LIVED in riverside????????
andrewsawsome21 2 years ago 2
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Hell, no.
Let me guess? you like it for the meth?
mwrr25 2 years ago
fuck no i dont do that shit!! riverside is the 11th biggest city in CA and it looks beautiful!!
WHY DONT YOU LIKE IT?
andrewsawsome21 2 years ago
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No culture, track homes, meth, chain restaurants.
mwrr25 2 years ago
+1
A beautiful song, but america sucks.
Micropuff 2 years ago
america is beautiful as well as jamaica
kimantina 3 years ago
Boelshit!
Philip5651 3 years ago
bullshit
shootsniper 3 years ago
perhaps I'm missing something key, but idt this song is actually about the city of Riverside. considering the song refers to living on "the riverside" and not IN Riverside, i never saw it that way. it seems more metaphorical considering the historical view of a river symbolizing a journey and the mention of taking life "like a big long ride" in the song itself. idk, maybe i'm wrong. great song either way!
lovelylittlelin 3 years ago
This is an awesome jam try playing this on the uke its awesome....tahnk you for posting this song I love this jam alright man....
ekolukani 3 years ago
no problem, i like it too much too
americagh 3 years ago
@ekolukani Its been around for 40 years. Im sure itll last another 40.
chanctonbury63 11 months ago
i live on the east coast of canada next to the atlantic ocean, i always wanted to live on the west cost in riverside, only good thing about liveing in canada is the free health care and free doctor visit and cheap drugs and also the legal pot smoking laws we have
mikeemerylevesque 3 years ago
I lived in Riverside, CA for a month once in the middle 80's. I liked it. I remember the foothills. I'm sure a lot has changed since...seemed like a developing area. It looked kind of familiar to me in the vid.
ladybluluv 3 years ago
This is America's bet song. I remember when this album came out. This one never gets old.
marceloribasusa 3 years ago
tinman is best.
lipoicacid 3 years ago
It so nice to see so many charming people who can't leave a comment without the word "f*ck" in it. It really increases the power of your argument guys, well done!
bunchie1966 3 years ago 4
This song is one of their very best; the acoustic guitar work is just fabulous.The vocal arrangements - NICE.
hitomusic 3 years ago
I see, brotha! Love them 4ever...
thaisgis 3 years ago
I see, brotha... love them 4ever.
thaisgis 3 years ago
Yes, Thata, i´m DaBronze either LOL!!
dabronze 3 years ago
Extra info:
Dewey Bunnel - Six String Acoustic Guitar
Gerry Beckley - Six String Lead Guitar and Bass
Dan Peek - Twelve String Acoustic Guitar
Ray Cooper - Percussion
dabronze 3 years ago
man ghetto and smogiest shut tha fuck up i live in side by the river and its poopin fuckin h8ers
phuckabitchwita40 3 years ago
I live in Chino california which is a 20 minute drive from Riverside. It's a pretty ghetto place, but the pictures are still nice.
Great video, 5 stars.
Superskkinnykid 3 years ago
wtf riverside is not a ghetto place.
dirty06maggot 3 years ago
you must have lived in the nice side of riverisde go to chicago n ottawa n take pics thier
abkdrips 3 years ago
yeah - looks like Ross and 17th in OC
ossamotocross 3 years ago
riverside's cool, but it's literally the #1 smoggiest place in America
santoku7 3 years ago
fuckin riverside
best place ever man
thats my hometown
surenosolda86 3 years ago 7
still riverside county duh.
eroticaromance79 4 years ago
ha iv lived here my entire life and bearly any of these places are in riverside,most of the pictures are of the mission in,still gay :/
typhoon190 4 years ago
0:29 Lake Arrowhead
1:25 not riverside
those are just the obvious ones
yournamegoeshereman 4 years ago
so? i didnt ask u
americagh 4 years ago
so what ? get a job
americagh 4 years ago
Why don't you get a job, stupid rectumpuker!!!!
yournamegoeshereman 4 years ago
I HATE RIVERSIDE >:[
misskibbs 4 years ago
half of those places arent even in riverside!.come down to the east side casa blanca, arlanza, and rubidoux areas and take pictures..
cry12344 4 years ago
to the ghetto places?
santoku7 3 years ago
Wewt My Home town! -hugz-
killertrax97 4 years ago
at 1:39, are those the cottages at CBU?
jayray1085 4 years ago
i'm inland empire born and raised.
been in the RIV since 90' and I can't imagine living anywhere else. Especially with all the new stuff they're doin around here.
Mister92503 4 years ago 3
except in norco
atkidz 4 years ago
I never saw any horses either axcept in norco
atkidz 4 years ago
visit the river
riosstyles 4 years ago
which river are you talking about
atkidz 4 years ago
I never saw the horse running on the beach when i lived there. Other than that the pics are great...kinda miss it a little now...sigh
catgirl0930 4 years ago
Lake Perris is indeed in Riverside county. Not in the City of Riverside.
FinnishKnife 4 years ago
ow nevermind lol. never heard of the band
dirty06maggot 4 years ago
To see America perform this great song, check out the energetic and fun-loving video just posted here on You Tube.
wbdsr1 4 years ago
Forgot to mention that its the one posted by "wbdsr1". It has to be the best version ever of this great song. It is from their Sound Stage performance in 2005 and the show opened with this song. What a great way to get the audience's attention, right out of the gates.
wbdsr1 4 years ago
It's Riverside county! Those places are here, for sure.
Ever been to Lake Perris? Great beaches there on the lake, even the dock looks like the ones there.
JJoker687 4 years ago
Very nice pics of Riverside.The seashore and that river full of boats are definately not anywhere near Riverside.But the other photos are lovely and you did a nice job on this!
VictoriaWinters 4 years ago
from which artist is this song?
dirty06maggot 4 years ago