Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll. Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll
In 1970/71 I was in a band with the guy who wrote this, Jon Weiss and we used to play it, but not quite as good as this, Spooky's also did a great version of "I am the Walrus" GREAT BAND
In 1970/71 I was in a band with the guy who wrote this, Jon Weiss and we used to play it, but not quite as good as this, Spooky's also did a great version of "I am the Walrus" GREAT BAND
Back in 1970/1 I was in a band with the guy who wrote this Jon Wiess, we used to play it, but not as well as Spooky Tooth, the also did a magic version of I am the Walrus. GREAT BAND.
Wow! Forgot how actually intense and heavy such bands were that really meant it. It just became too easy to be a poseur and get rich and famous too soon. It's hard to write a song that digs down deep of sadness, frustration and anger/ It just became too easy to dress up and pretend, growl about Satan and sell records based on the cover photo and image. Very few of those can both play and also have something to say. Slipknot may be an exception. Gwar, nah. Rock is Dead Long Live Rock!
I do like insane lead guitar breaks. Duran Duran has a good one on "Be My Icon" as the song comes to a close. This one stuck in my mind since 1972 or so. I'd forgotten when I first heard it, but now I remember.
Luther Grosvenor (here) and John Cipolina of Quicksilver Messenger Service.......two of the most underrated, unappreciated guitar players of all time. Luther just kicks ass on this, as good as ANYTHING Clapton or Beck or Page ever did.....and i say that with all due respect. Cipolina's style, while not so fast and gutsy, was also groundbreaking and innovative. God bless them for all the stunning rock and roll they gave us!!!!!!! More people should know about them!.
there are sooo many stunning bands who no one even knows about nowadays, and this is one of them. they are the hardest/sweetest band ever..meaning Harrison has such a great, hard voice and then they'd turn around and do the sweetest harmonies you've ever heard. The screaming Hammond organ, the hellacious guitar playing, their vocals and harmonies....listen to it kids, dammit, they are one of the all time best rock and roll bands ever!!! Damn near no one rocks like these guys did 40 years ago!
I bought a used cassette copy of this album in '77, I had not heard it since that year and I began to doubt whether it was as good as I remember. Then I found this posting. Thanks.
Why the hell are these guys not HUGE?!!! I've just discovered them (Thank God for you tube),I've known of them for years but never actually heard them...AMAZING!
My first ever live band autumn 68 at The Black Prince Bexley UK. Luther remains my fav ever guitarist to this day. just completely over the top bonkersness !!
One night at the Fillmore ( the one on market street, S.F.) we weren't even old enough to get in so we managed to sneek in to see 'Cold Blood' after the show we were about to leave , but the lights hadn't come on, and this girl walks up an says,'Hey don't leave theres another band going to play, WELL !! it was these guys, and they were awesome, my brain is still locked in whenever I hear this fantastic song.
a friend of mine was just getting into promoting rock shows.
at a movie theatre in glen cove, N.Y.....spooky tooth, savoy brown [the boogie] & a local group the rainy days...we sat in the second row for the first show & the front row second show. fantastic show to say the least.
I wouldnt be suprised if im the only 14 yr old whose favorite bands are Spooky Tooth, Uriah Heep, and Iron Butterfly o.O most kids acn't even say those names!
This was not all Gary Wright, but I believe a duet betwixt him and the much cooler & "spookier" Mike Harrison. And just as important to the mood of this piece is Luther Grosvenors' amazingly and beautifully idiosychratic guitar solo. I have always thought the onlt awright vocals are the falsetto response lines.
I don't want to do any name dropping, but I introduced this song to a band I played with in St. Catharines, Ontario, when I was a teenager and they loved it. We played it in all sorts of highschool dances and shows in southern Ontario, and this was the coolest, heaviest thing we'd ever played! If you can imagine some pretty impressive drumming during the guitar solos from a very happy, intense drummer who turned into a world-wide legend (because of the power of this song)....
One of the all-time greatest guitar solos here from the great and criminally underrated Luther Grosvenor aka Ariel Bender. Fiery, visceral, lyrical, and totally in your face. And the tone of death! THIS is what real guitar playing is all about. NOTHING can touch this.
@jonsilence Yeah, If I'm not mistaken, Luther played a Les Paul probably full throttle through a Marshall cranked to the hilt, judging from the sound. Don't you just love the Arabic sounding riff he repeats around 4:56, while the Hammond chords steadily climb, and intensify! You can hear that Luther's not fooling around! Aside from Paul Kossoff and later, Angus Young, I've never heard anyone else use that intense, fast and beautifully executed and perfectly intonated killer vibrato!
heard a Spooky Tooth song on favorite XM classic station tried to remember the Evil Woman song. Of course my husband who is usually wrong on dates and songs said he remembered them in Viet Nam....I said, yeah right, damn he's right, I am humbled once again.
Can you imagine how great this would sound if covered by Humble Pie with Steve Marriott wrapping his lungs on this. I'm pretty sure Greg Ridley plays and sings on this so it's one quarter Pie already!!
God bless you for these uploads . I'm a fan of Spooky Tooth (I'm 26 years old from Saudi Arabia and never been outside The Middle East , yet I heard about this band on a forum) . I have two albums for them : "Two" and "It's All About" . I think people underrate this band's influence on Metal and Hard Rock especially in songs like "Better By You" where you can see Halford himself being touched and influenced by it .... LONG LIVE THE 60s and 70s ...
@Zepplica911 Cool, A guy the whole of U.S. Can't possibly hate! You sound like a really nice guy. And who knows his history. I like Deep Purple, and a host of others around that time. Welcome!
@Zepplica911 Yo, I don't know whether you be dude or dudette, but I gotta give you a shout-out & a dose of major props for your daring interest and appreciation for this vintage music. Partner, I'm double your age, and ain't yet been out your way (but my honey, my Beirutie-Cutie named Najat, is native Phoenician), & I saw some of the originals, back in glory days ~ oh yeah, there's still rock out there, but I can't really speak for your own stomping grounds ~ so keep rockin', partner!
@Zepplica911 that's great, zepp! You have great taste in music for being so young and strangely living in Saudi Arabia? Can u get in trouble for listening to rock music there? If so, you're brave and I respect that. This stuff is worth getting in trouble over...it's soulful, deep and powerful. Music that makes you think...
In:1970,my Friend "FRITZ" GUITAR EXTRAORDINAIRE -Learned this tune in it's entirety ,in a N.Y. minute along w/ the FALSETTO VOICE AND WE KICKED IT Back into eternity [What a piece to play ].Great BAND= along w/ Traffic / Ten Years After /DEEEp Purple etc. a time when bands were the real deal and knew how to go out there and get it... today-?
Sometimes I wish I grew up in the 60's and 70's instead of now. There are some decent bands out there Gov't Mule, Black Mountain, Brian Jonestown Massacre etc., but whatching videos of Grand Funk, Hendrix and other bands of that time period makes me extremely jealous. The intensity, power, and talent of those bands is unmatched. Oh well, at least I've got my moms records to listen to.
Thanks for reply- I,wish things were like that now too; It was a special Time for sure... But at least you have access to this great music and are aware of it ,that puts you way ahead of comparisons.,etc. This is all relatively new, to see once again...
I was 6 yrs old in 69. My mom's boyfriend had a Reel to Reel and he used to play all this classic rock. Stuck with me to this day. Can't stand rap. You got good taste in music man. Rock On!
Thanks man. I can pretty much listen to anything except rap and what is called "country". If you have'nt already I would suggest checking out Black Mountain. They're a Canadian band that sound a bit like the bands did in the 60's and 70's. Heard their music on here a couple weeks ago, pretty good stuff.
I agree, I'm in high school now, I hate alot of this new music. I love this stuff. Grand Funk is my favorite band. I saw them live. If you want some really super stuff, check out Humble Pie, Faces, Traffic, April Wine, and Strawberry Alarm Clock. all amazing.
@theMusiCandMedicinE Yes, you should have been there.. one other thing that we did back then, and for us that are still around, we cared for people, I am proud to be called a hippie for that fact.. But you have 3 Doors down, which I would put against most bands of my time, and a couple more.. rock on.
wasnt gary wright a member of spooky tooth?
u2joshuadesireu 1 year ago
I hear Ritchie Blackmore riffs in this guitar solo!
rockdad3 1 year ago
Another great Spooky Tooth recording! I don't know how they didn't sell a million copies of this album.
rockdad3 1 year ago
Poor man Led Zep. I joke of course.
matrags 1 year ago
@matrags poor mans uriah heep & that said uriah heep was the poor man's so deep purple was the poor man's ten years after i'm not kidding ;-)
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
@DaDa2Phlux ps I just think of Spinal Tap & start laughing.
DaDa2Phlux 1 year ago
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In 1970/71 I was in a band with the guy who wrote this, Jon Weiss and we used to play it, but not quite as good as this, Spooky's also did a great version of "I am the Walrus" GREAT BAND
cantwellp1 1 year ago
In 1970/71 I was in a band with the guy who wrote this, Jon Weiss and we used to play it, but not quite as good as this, Spooky's also did a great version of "I am the Walrus" GREAT BAND
cantwellp1 1 year ago
Back in 1970/1 I was in a band with the guy who wrote this Jon Wiess, we used to play it, but not as well as Spooky Tooth, the also did a magic version of I am the Walrus. GREAT BAND.
cantwellp1 1 year ago
Wow! Forgot how actually intense and heavy such bands were that really meant it. It just became too easy to be a poseur and get rich and famous too soon. It's hard to write a song that digs down deep of sadness, frustration and anger/ It just became too easy to dress up and pretend, growl about Satan and sell records based on the cover photo and image. Very few of those can both play and also have something to say. Slipknot may be an exception. Gwar, nah. Rock is Dead Long Live Rock!
enorbet2 1 year ago
I do like insane lead guitar breaks. Duran Duran has a good one on "Be My Icon" as the song comes to a close. This one stuck in my mind since 1972 or so. I'd forgotten when I first heard it, but now I remember.
vcx9dfne 1 year ago
Luther Grosvenor (here) and John Cipolina of Quicksilver Messenger Service.......two of the most underrated, unappreciated guitar players of all time. Luther just kicks ass on this, as good as ANYTHING Clapton or Beck or Page ever did.....and i say that with all due respect. Cipolina's style, while not so fast and gutsy, was also groundbreaking and innovative. God bless them for all the stunning rock and roll they gave us!!!!!!! More people should know about them!.
drdangerousmd 1 year ago
there are sooo many stunning bands who no one even knows about nowadays, and this is one of them. they are the hardest/sweetest band ever..meaning Harrison has such a great, hard voice and then they'd turn around and do the sweetest harmonies you've ever heard. The screaming Hammond organ, the hellacious guitar playing, their vocals and harmonies....listen to it kids, dammit, they are one of the all time best rock and roll bands ever!!! Damn near no one rocks like these guys did 40 years ago!
drdangerousmd 1 year ago
Gary Wright rocks.
keyboardwhiz 1 year ago
I bought a used cassette copy of this album in '77, I had not heard it since that year and I began to doubt whether it was as good as I remember. Then I found this posting. Thanks.
bamboosa 1 year ago
Dedicated to Caroline Barnett. Matthew Barnett's Wife
darrenable1 1 year ago
How many "Evil Women" have there been? This is the best (or the worst depending on how you look at it) Spooky, cool!
triplettam 1 year ago
I'm 63 music was the best in those days..It was a great time to be a Kid/Weekend Hippie
larryjbyers 1 year ago
Why the hell are these guys not HUGE?!!! I've just discovered them (Thank God for you tube),I've known of them for years but never actually heard them...AMAZING!
yarekhunt 1 year ago 2
Gary Wright the dream weavers first band
TheCaprice94 1 year ago
What I have never understood is, what were spookey tooth doing rehersing in St. Albans in 1969?
1953archer 1 year ago
his voice reminds me a lot of david byron's! they do really rock though...
IronPower21 1 year ago
Un'altra magia degli Spooky....Le Idee Sfociavano nell'Olimpo dei Cieli....
MrGeorgiebest7 1 year ago
This is amazing!
1QuikTransAm 1 year ago
My first ever live band autumn 68 at The Black Prince Bexley UK. Luther remains my fav ever guitarist to this day. just completely over the top bonkersness !!
TheJimbotimbo 1 year ago
One night at the Fillmore ( the one on market street, S.F.) we weren't even old enough to get in so we managed to sneek in to see 'Cold Blood' after the show we were about to leave , but the lights hadn't come on, and this girl walks up an says,'Hey don't leave theres another band going to play, WELL !! it was these guys, and they were awesome, my brain is still locked in whenever I hear this fantastic song.
nightstarmusic7 1 year ago 2
Harrison + Wright = E P I C N E S S
karlmoles65 1 year ago
a friend of mine was just getting into promoting rock shows.
at a movie theatre in glen cove, N.Y.....spooky tooth, savoy brown [the boogie] & a local group the rainy days...we sat in the second row for the first show & the front row second show. fantastic show to say the least.
johndsigns 1 year ago
I wouldnt be suprised if im the only 14 yr old whose favorite bands are Spooky Tooth, Uriah Heep, and Iron Butterfly o.O most kids acn't even say those names!
2000donuts 1 year ago
This song to me was way before its time.. just amazing
MrLefty91 1 year ago
This was not all Gary Wright, but I believe a duet betwixt him and the much cooler & "spookier" Mike Harrison. And just as important to the mood of this piece is Luther Grosvenors' amazingly and beautifully idiosychratic guitar solo. I have always thought the onlt awright vocals are the falsetto response lines.
kevnote 1 year ago
Hey This is all Gary Wright (singer )
skbricker 1 year ago
I cant believe this is from '69! Incredible!
GallGael2 1 year ago
SOOOO GREAT!!!! KILLER...
illmaticalradical 1 year ago
you steped on my brain ?
garebear1015 1 year ago
I recall hearing this on "underground radio". Good tune. 1969....I was 17 then. 40 years ago.....funny how time slips by.....
Behutet93 1 year ago
That main riff sounds like Tony Iommi before he came along!
BubbaGanoush2 1 year ago
1969,how heavy can it really get? this song brings me right back.ENJOY!!!!!!1
eddyguitar11 1 year ago 2
Thank You
ddstrtch1 1 year ago
I don't want to do any name dropping, but I introduced this song to a band I played with in St. Catharines, Ontario, when I was a teenager and they loved it. We played it in all sorts of highschool dances and shows in southern Ontario, and this was the coolest, heaviest thing we'd ever played! If you can imagine some pretty impressive drumming during the guitar solos from a very happy, intense drummer who turned into a world-wide legend (because of the power of this song)....
JoeSzilagy 1 year ago
One of the all-time greatest guitar solos here from the great and criminally underrated Luther Grosvenor aka Ariel Bender. Fiery, visceral, lyrical, and totally in your face. And the tone of death! THIS is what real guitar playing is all about. NOTHING can touch this.
jonsilence 1 year ago
@jonsilence Yeah, If I'm not mistaken, Luther played a Les Paul probably full throttle through a Marshall cranked to the hilt, judging from the sound. Don't you just love the Arabic sounding riff he repeats around 4:56, while the Hammond chords steadily climb, and intensify! You can hear that Luther's not fooling around! Aside from Paul Kossoff and later, Angus Young, I've never heard anyone else use that intense, fast and beautifully executed and perfectly intonated killer vibrato!
JoeSzilagy 1 year ago
53 still feelin that shit like 1970, tight as hell
freakflag56 1 year ago 4
heard a Spooky Tooth song on favorite XM classic station tried to remember the Evil Woman song. Of course my husband who is usually wrong on dates and songs said he remembered them in Viet Nam....I said, yeah right, damn he's right, I am humbled once again.
sambam87 1 year ago
Can you imagine how great this would sound if covered by Humble Pie with Steve Marriott wrapping his lungs on this. I'm pretty sure Greg Ridley plays and sings on this so it's one quarter Pie already!!
weaslechops 2 years ago
Ridley does not sing on this. It is Mike Harrison and Gary Wright in a call and repeat.
gsg6969 2 years ago
Wright must have busted a gut at the end of this one.
maida1982a 2 years ago
Thanks so much for having shared SPOOKY TWO album, it was almost "lost".
We are enjoying to listen it after so many years..
Francoisolivier6 2 years ago
@ theMusicCandMedicinE , I say this :
God bless you for these uploads . I'm a fan of Spooky Tooth (I'm 26 years old from Saudi Arabia and never been outside The Middle East , yet I heard about this band on a forum) . I have two albums for them : "Two" and "It's All About" . I think people underrate this band's influence on Metal and Hard Rock especially in songs like "Better By You" where you can see Halford himself being touched and influenced by it .... LONG LIVE THE 60s and 70s ...
Zepplica911 2 years ago 21
@Zepplica911 Cool, A guy the whole of U.S. Can't possibly hate! You sound like a really nice guy. And who knows his history. I like Deep Purple, and a host of others around that time. Welcome!
broncobra 1 year ago
@Zepplica911 Yo, I don't know whether you be dude or dudette, but I gotta give you a shout-out & a dose of major props for your daring interest and appreciation for this vintage music. Partner, I'm double your age, and ain't yet been out your way (but my honey, my Beirutie-Cutie named Najat, is native Phoenician), & I saw some of the originals, back in glory days ~ oh yeah, there's still rock out there, but I can't really speak for your own stomping grounds ~ so keep rockin', partner!
brobearto 1 year ago
@Zepplica911 that's great, zepp! You have great taste in music for being so young and strangely living in Saudi Arabia? Can u get in trouble for listening to rock music there? If so, you're brave and I respect that. This stuff is worth getting in trouble over...it's soulful, deep and powerful. Music that makes you think...
starchem1 1 year ago
@Zepplica911 Do you know the guys from Acrassacaudia? they kick serious ass
yarekhunt 1 year ago
In:1970,my Friend "FRITZ" GUITAR EXTRAORDINAIRE -Learned this tune in it's entirety ,in a N.Y. minute along w/ the FALSETTO VOICE AND WE KICKED IT Back into eternity [What a piece to play ].Great BAND= along w/ Traffic / Ten Years After /DEEEp Purple etc. a time when bands were the real deal and knew how to go out there and get it... today-?
DYNODRUM 2 years ago 6
Sometimes I wish I grew up in the 60's and 70's instead of now. There are some decent bands out there Gov't Mule, Black Mountain, Brian Jonestown Massacre etc., but whatching videos of Grand Funk, Hendrix and other bands of that time period makes me extremely jealous. The intensity, power, and talent of those bands is unmatched. Oh well, at least I've got my moms records to listen to.
theMusiCandMedicinE 2 years ago 6
Thanks for reply- I,wish things were like that now too; It was a special Time for sure... But at least you have access to this great music and are aware of it ,that puts you way ahead of comparisons.,etc. This is all relatively new, to see once again...
DYNODRUM 2 years ago 2
I was 6 yrs old in 69. My mom's boyfriend had a Reel to Reel and he used to play all this classic rock. Stuck with me to this day. Can't stand rap. You got good taste in music man. Rock On!
kblakleyk916 2 years ago 15
Thanks man. I can pretty much listen to anything except rap and what is called "country". If you have'nt already I would suggest checking out Black Mountain. They're a Canadian band that sound a bit like the bands did in the 60's and 70's. Heard their music on here a couple weeks ago, pretty good stuff.
theMusiCandMedicinE 2 years ago
i gave it a listen,good stuff (black mountain) sucks that they are being used for commercials though
deSadetheImpaler 2 years ago
@theMusiCandMedicinE THIS ALBUM WAS THE FIRST IN HEAVY METAL TERMS AND IT KICKED SOOO MUCH ASS!
deheckler 1 year ago
@kblakleyk916 me 9-18-63
buyystocks 1 year ago
@kblakleyk916 I heard this song for the first time,ever,two weeks ago and I am hooked.
RobManDudeGuy1 1 year ago
Thanks for the heads up on Black Mountain. I'll check them out.
kblakleyk916 2 years ago
I agree, I'm in high school now, I hate alot of this new music. I love this stuff. Grand Funk is my favorite band. I saw them live. If you want some really super stuff, check out Humble Pie, Faces, Traffic, April Wine, and Strawberry Alarm Clock. all amazing.
GFRFan12 2 years ago 3
@theMusiCandMedicinE
I grew up in the 50s and 60s... and WHO the hell plays such great piece of music today ?
Thanks for uploading this great song from a legendary band !
Flyingdoctor1000 1 year ago 4
@theMusiCandMedicinE Yes, you should have been there.. one other thing that we did back then, and for us that are still around, we cared for people, I am proud to be called a hippie for that fact.. But you have 3 Doors down, which I would put against most bands of my time, and a couple more.. rock on.
Jericoa1000 1 year ago