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  • Awesome...those talk boxes are so cool!

  • A Grade Excellent Tune!

  • its talkin

  • thanks for the video!! I remember this song when I was 13 yrs old

  • Great song but I wish I could hear "faded April Love"; a gorgeous song off the same album

  • @nightprowlerful I agree, its a beautiful song. I am only just discovering this band (wasn't around then). Is this the song you wanted to here? :) /watch?v=3oImczv8rFQ&feature=r­elated

  • great first album but ttou try and get a cd or mp3 download in the uk???????? Nyj ageing hippie

  • I have the album from the 70s i wouldn't take anything for it. There are more great music on it than this one. If they are still playing i'd love to come hear them. I only live about 3 hours from macon, ga. This was the most requested song at all of the parties that i had in the 70s. I had plenty of them too. One of the best albums ever made!! Info on the band appreciated. wild hilbillie

  • THANK YOUUUUUUU !! SO COOL! loved this one forever!

  • I grew up in the wilds of Michigan in the 70's. The only rock station we could get there had a cool dj,he would play this one every night! Good thing for your posting this tune,I havent heard it since I was a kid,thanks!

  • Awesome

  • This is pretty fucking awsome. :D

  • they also sang dr feelgood first anyone have the video?

  • I saw these guys in 1978 with Steppenwolf and Lightning in Beaumont, Texas.

  • o hell yeah

  • This song is awesome!

  • How could you not like this song. It make you wanna drop the top off your dad"s caddy { borrowed it}.... an cruise the mile....

  • I'm only 20 years old, but even I think this stuff is better than today's stuff (even some 90's music was better).

  • To set the record straight, the movie Almost Famous was based on Cameron Crow's life and the band was fictional. THIS is the real Stillwater band that has nothing to do with the movie.

  • @nholt Not entirely true - Cameron Crowe based the story on his real experiences covering bands when very young - and he did cover the real Stillwater amongst others like Poco, Allmans, Zeppelin. So the story in Almost Famous is a compilation of bands, including one would assume Stillwater.

  • My "inner hippie" just came flying out. Ok boys and gilrs of The Almost Famous fan base, This was a REAL BAND!! In 1973, they were puttin out tunes when your daddies were still stains on grandpas tighty whities. They started like all bands should...In the smokey dive bars across the back roads in (any state will do but in this case it was) Georgia. Many, Many years before the movie.

  • new artits need to learn from the real rock bands. The closest I've found is lonely h

  • I would like to know what is really autobiographical about that movie??? If the band in the movie is fiction and just the bands name exists as it is shown in the movie - than what is real at all??

  • this is reaaal music. screw eminem.

  • @ciarag4lyfe i like eminem but im with you ill take this music any day over eminem

  • it is funny how all these young cats think t pain invented the voice box

  • Uncle Sam's was a heck of a club back in the day. Commissioner Joe Allen (Bibb County) used to hang out there. He said the girls there wouldn't kiss him ever since he revived a dog using mouth-to-mouth while a fireman in Macon. Mike Causey of Stillwater used to be an account executive for the old WPEZ-FM 107.9 in Macon; I interviewed with him but didn't know he was with S'water. I am still wondering how they got the guitar to work like a Sonovox (a device used for old radio jingles).

  • they from warner robins yall!!!

  • NO NO NO,it was not the SAME Jimmy Hall!There's two(2),NOT THE SAME JIMMY HALL!!!One is in stillwater,the other in wet willie,they are friends,and two separate men.Thank you!

  • NO NO NO,it was not the SAME Jimmy Hall!There's two(2),NOT THE SAME JIMMY HALL!!!One is in stillwater,the other in wet willie,they are friends,and two separate men.Thank you!

  • my mind has been bended

  • Okay, so just to let you ladies and gentlemen know.... this IS the band that the movie was based upon! They didn't actually play the in the movie and NO.... the band didn't get any rights to the movie.... So, that may clear up any questions about them and the movie.....

  • Talking guitar, nice.

  • fucking amazingggg, mind blowingg hell yesss :)

  • *plane about to crash- IM GAY-*plane goes back to normal

  • i know that some say this before me but I'M ON DRUGS!!!!!!!!!!

  • Ahhh, good ol' Mind Bender what a fantastic piece of American Rock & Roll.

    Thank God for stations like KSHE, and the Klassics Show for playing it, and keeping alive.

  • Remember when this was out, got airplay at CKLW and WDVE Pittsburgh. Still sounds good 33 years later. Thanks for uploading this.

  • Jazzy704280 - Uhhmm, you did. But I didn't take it "that" way - no sacriledge intended, I'm sure ;)

  • Thanks kidkongdw, this scratched an itch....Like 63 marxx I too was a child of K-SHE 95, wore a cap with their logo to school, it was a pig head smoking a blunt and wearing headphones.

  • @Tipjar333 man i sure miss the original K shee pig he was so cool ,hat ,shirt and bumper stickers .But the K shhee kids will live forever!!!!!!

  • i saw these guys as a teen and they had another hit that got a lot of play on k-she 95 st.louis . chorus said " you been mean to your queeny. you didnt show her no respect....you been mean to your queeny, what the HELL did you expect...'"

  • my daddy was a microwave, my momma was a blender. thats why they call me microwave blender.

    this song sucks it hard! i love classic rock, but this band is horrible.

  • i would like to know what kind of talkbox used sounds great must be the same kind as joe walsh's they sound the same. rocky mt way

  • @MusicSam63 The kind of talkbox doesn't really matter, it is the guitar effects involved in the use that shapes the sound...

  • @myklj999 do u think he's got distortion or octave on it or what?

  • I have a Fender my friend has a Gibson. We sat and watched as my Fender raped his Gibson and gave birth to the Mind-Bender.

  • i have to go home .....you are in home!! 

  • Jimmy Hall - percussion/vocals (not the same Jimmy Hall that played in Wet Willie.)

  • @whizzkid58 all I know is Sebe was the main singer.

  • when your wrong please don t give an answer.I asked this question sevral months ago and I now have all the fact.There r 2 stillwater bands and the movie is about stillwater but not the stillwater that rocks out on mindbender

  • cool

    

  • This group was from the Phil Walden stables of Capricorn Records...early 70's. Jimmy Hall, the lead singer was a member of Wet Willie, another band that recorded on the Capricorn label, one of the best labels EVER!

    "My Daddy was a Gibson, my Momma was a Fender; That's why they call me Mindbender."

  • @cyberties - The Jimmy Hall who founded Wet Willie and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Vocalist on the Jeff Beck Flash album is not the same Jimmy Hall from Stillwater.

  • @kidkongdw

     I guess I got the two Jimmies crossed. Weird that they were both on Capricorn around the same time.

  • @kidkongdw Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie did play with Stillwater.

  • @cyberties Yes it was a great label....right here in Macon, GA.....we've had many great musicians either from here or who have called Macon home!!

  • alfred lagarde (the famous dj player of the 80/90 from holland) made me notice this superb song on his famous "beton uur" or "concrete hour". alfred 's not longer among the living, but he still sounds on in this song. i hope god have his heart, though he did a lot of bad things in the name of the lord, and he knows.

  • great song

  • Buy the "G" hits. They where the real deal.

  • what did the guitar say ?

  • @TobiAkatsukiWerewolf my daddy was a gibson, my mama was a fender, thats why they call me call me mind bender, mind bender, thata my name.

  • Capricorn records shut down before they could take off. They had previously signed the Allman Brothers Band, and unfortunately Stillwater did not get the promotion they so richly deserved. Great guys, all of them. My parents and aunts and uncles knew them very well. One of my uncles worked for him, his nickname is Teddy Bear.

  • awesome to see a really awesome 70s movie about a rock band that also really exists!

  • I remember hearing this song as a kid. Great song.

  • this is response to Stillwater and Almost Famous-- Stillwater is still together and performing. They are on FB and MySpace and in my friends list. Wish they could have one more big run.

  • south florida loved them when this song came out they headlined a show at the hollywood sportatorium sold out halloween

  • I grew up listening to these guys who were from Kathleen, Georgia...about 30 miles from where I grew up. For some reason, they never got onboard the "Southern Rock Juggernaut"....maybe poorly managed...don't remember, but they were verry popular locally...

  • @CoastGuardIDC They were popular up here in Michigan also. Our local AOR rock station played them all the time, especially this song MindBender.

  • This is the REAL band that they were portraying in Almost Foamous

  • Almost Famous - that movie is great.

    This is amazing song and has nothing to do with that movie though.

  • Mike Causey was eating at the same place i was last night. Friends with Al but have not met him before.

  • Production problems delayed the release of the vinyl LP to the public resulting in harm to the bands' future.

  • The Almost Famous band was based on this band. Based on is very different than is. :)

  • No, this band was a one-it wonder with this song. Nothing to do with the Almost Famous fictional band. My band Icarus opened for them at the Stone Toad club in Hattiesburg, Mississippi way back when this song was on the radio in the Southeast. .

  • @RichardScott1958 You're right, only one of their songs ever made it "big." But I believe they were one of the most poorly managed and underrated talents of the times.

  • This song reminds me a lot of "Rocky mountain way"!

  • funny how most of these people wouldnt know who stillwater is until they watched almost famous

  • I had this on 8 track.I haven't heard this song in over 30 years . thanks

  • Good song. 

  • this band never played fever dog, that song was written by peter frampton specifically for the fictitious band in almost famous

  • nope its not

  • Jason Lee!

  • is this r is this not the band from almost famous

  • @mrrontastic - not

  • @kidkongdw yap. this is the REAL stillwater

  • @kidkongdw yes it is

  • @mrrontastic The band in the movie are a ficticious band. This is the original band from Georgia who released 2 albums on the "Southern" record label "Capricorn" in 1977 and 1979.

  • @mrrontastic

    Yes it is.

  • @mrrontastic From my best recollection the movie almost famous was base on this band

  • @offdtop It was based on an almagalm of Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers and a few more bands of that era. The name of the band was Stillwater, but it was not this band.

  • @cyberties YOU NEED MORE FACTS .The band did and stil dose exist in MACON GA.Check the real wb site

    .Where do you think most southern Rock CAME FROME!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @1robbiewhite Those ARE the facts. Almost Famous had a band named Stillwater, but it wasn't anything to do with this group. Cameron Crowe simply liked the name. He may not have even known of this group. The band in the movie was based on a little bit Led Zepplin, a little bit Eagles and a whole lot Allman Brothers. Whether or not this band still exists is not what I was responding to. OFFDTOP said he (she) thought this band was the one in Almost Famous.

  • @mrrontastic it IS!!! they were not IN the movie... but it is based on them... I know because the guitarist is My guitar instructor.. he said they had to sell the rights to the story do the guys can make the movie

  • @mrrontastic

    Not, That band was just put together for the movie, and they took the name of this real band and did not give them compensation. These boys are the real thing, I saw them in concert in Tampa Florida, mid 70s.Ii think they still play around Macon, Ga. under a different name ( Bridge ??)

  • @toonzz5215 I use to live around them in the 70s. They played in the bar I worked in many times. I think they get together once a year and play, or they use to. They were a great bunch of guys, always nice.

  • @mrrontastic : yes it was

  • 6 people with their thumbs up their ...

  • I saw a movie about them yesterday :P

  • "they will strangle rock and roll and ruin everything we love about it. ..."

  • this isn't the band from almost famous. they were given permission to use the name but it's not the same band.

  • @maxloebman that doesn't make sense. the band portrayed in the movie actually performed "fever dog" by this exact same band. so it IS the same band.

  • @bobis15104 this may be a song used in the movie, but stillwater was a non fictional band from the late 60s-70s. they played folk rock.

  • I believe it was 1983, saw these guy at a cobcert at Olympia Skate Center in Macon, GA. it was a great show by these guys in a very small venue.

  • mad skiing hahaha

  • Warner Robins Ga..

  • IM A GOLDEN GOD!

  • @Jazzy704280 - Wait, I never said I was a golden god…..or did I?

  • @kidkongdw ...my last words: I'm on drugs!!!

  • @kidkongdw lol i saw that movie!!

  • @kidkongdw Hahaha!

  • @Jazzy704280 `IM ON DRUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

  • I saw them in Macon Too. At a street dance or at the park for Summer of Love in the 80s Where are they from??

  • @krz0188 ...Warner Robins Ga...

  • The movie, "Almost Famous" is an insult to this band. Stillwater didn't have anything to do with any of the songs from that film. The band in the film were actors. This song is from the real Stillwater.

  • @rocker53zero Of course the band in the movie are actors. But i still enjoyed the movie without there own music. It would be better with there music though

  • Almost Famous wasn't about this band. The name is a coincidence. But the original band was extremely talented nonetheless and this song is one of my all time favourites. The fictitious band Stillwater from Almost Famous was also pretty cool- however their music was made for the movie only.

  • @truerockynorth Bobby Golden from Stillwater says: "I lived and worked in Italy when I received a part of the rights paid by Dreamworks to Stillwater to have used the name of Stillwater in the film "Almost Famous". After having called at house to know why I touched these rights, I discovered that the company of Steven Spielberg, Dreamworks, had contacted Sebie Lacey, our singer to establish a deal concerning the use of the name.

  • Israbola, this band was around way before CD's were even invented.

  • I AM A GOLDEN GOD!

  • I remember when this used to get airplay.

  • saw them live at an outdoor summer musical festival in Ashland Virginia back in 1976

  • @mestranger88 hahahahah spasti ich hab genau das gleiche gedacht!

    das schwein ist tot!!!!

  • Is there anyone that has a CD of this band ? I have looked in all the good music shops and I haven´t found any CDs of Stillwater

  • They made a movie with stillwater in it called Almost Famous

  • Rob Walker was a good friend of mine when we lived at Clark AFB in the Philippines as kids - like 4th grade. I think his older brother dated my sister. Just read he enlisted in the USAF after the band's breakup. Hope all is still well with him. It was cool to learn he was in Stillwater while the song was still popular. Our parents exchanged Xmas cards... my mom told me about it!

  • Mark Johnson on drums, Chris Hicks, this is great

  • Mark Johnson. the drummer, I think Chris Hicks was in this band too, I cant believe someone put this on youtube

  • niceee talk box there

  • In January 1736, Benjamin Franklin published The Drinker's Dictionary in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering 228 round-about phrases for being drunk. One of those phrases is "He's kiss'd black Betty."

  • I seen Stillwater open up for Mahogany Rush and Rex at October Fest on October 2 1977 at the Hollywood Sportaorium, Hollywood Florida. That concert was sponsored by WSHE 103.5 FM and cost $1.03 to get in. The was the night Mahogany Rush recorded the live album. These guys where awesome live, sad they were only onstage for 45 minutes and only did 1 onchor.

  • I AM A GOLDEN GOD...lol well this song is freakn amazing and this kind of stuff should be "in"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!! now a days kids are making fun of this!

  • @ilovehippiez lol, well listen to what they do...i dont think their sense of judgement should really count...right...?

  • @eisnil wait what do you mean????

  • @ilovehippiez lol.

  • @eisnil NEVERMIND OH OK

  • RUSSEL!!

  • I was in high school when this single came out. Not long after Peter Frampton came out with his live album. Talk boxes became the rage. I made me one, and it was fun. So was the times. Cool song.

  • @leftyjcw did you use a pignose and a piece of surgical tubing like I did?

  • @probinson1337 I took a horn speaker, took the "nose" off of it. The end that was left was just right for a piece of hose to slip on. It worked great. ALL the sound would go through your mouth. It was neat as hell. Feed the hose up to the mic, bingo, talk box.

  • @leftyjcw thanks im gonna try that!

  • I feel bad for only knowing this band becouse of almost famous but fuck it that movie was the shit and this band is the SHIT!!!!!!

  • I love this song and there moviealmost famous was amazing :)

  • it aint their film, they just took the name

  • the movie wasn't based on the actual band. the band in the movie was fictional

  • I'M ON DRUGS!

  • @JakeWithSocks i dig music.......... I'M ON DRUGS!

  • @JakeWithSocks MEEE TOOOOO!

  • Thanks for Sharing! : fromthebackofbeyond

  • I love this song!!!!!

  • I believe Runnin Free would have catapulted them to success if they would have recorded it in 1983 instead of 1996. The title track would have been a hit back then. Sounded a lot like old Boston.

  • Love this song. I found it by accident and have been looking for it for years. What a neat story line. Thanks for posting it.

  • Bobby Golden is my cousin.

  • jenfer, you do realize you were reading the comments and adding one instead of listening yourself? lol

  • 1979 concert at the Warner Robins Civic Cenrer. It was awsome. Had they come along abiut 5 years earlier, They would have been real big, but by the very late 70's and early 80's Southern Rock had hit a decline unless your sound was more country than rock like Alabama

  • Great tune

  • love this band!! huge classic rock fan....wish i couldve lived back then...60s and 70s great music!

  • my guitar teacher.. with the curly hair and les paul! ha

  • wasnt stoned or drinking,gotta love it

  • un noticed bands watt they covered roling stones how many times? they had a movie based on there tour un noticed definetly not get your facts straight

  • Let me help you out... Crowe made up everything in that movie. The only original part of the move was the name Stillwater.... Crowe was a writer for Rolling Stone in the 70s and that is how he met them, his wife was a fan also from what I recall.

  • one un noticed band of the 70s is better than so many bands around today, so much talent at that time, if only bands like this could be noticed, appreciated and enjoyed by everyone

  • A band from my hometown named after my home town -

    Stillwater isn't a bad place to be -

    or wait is that an AcDc song ?

  • I love Stillwater. I saw them at Uncle Toms Tavern in Stone Mountain back in the early 80's. I have some excellent photos of them. If you want I can email them to you. I have to scrounge them up first, but they are close up and good quality.

  • I would love some of the pics

  • Two of the guitarists of Stillwater are playing Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd with my High School marching band this Friday night. I'm from Warner Robins, where they came from.

  • nasty

  • Stillwater hailed from Warner Robins GA

  • I love Heavy Metal and modern rock punk rock etc.. but stillwater are very good they rocks...

  • the greatest ''lost group''of the '70's' - they were are truly real band - listen to ''I Reserve The Right' & weep then enjoy - Wonderful stuff !'

  • Stillwater was/is a real band that originated in the Macon, GA area in the early to mid 1970's (actually, they are from Warner Robins, GA). They recorded under the Capricorn Records label for a while. The band in the movie used the name Stillwater, but was actually based on the Allman Brothers Band...

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  • wait im totally confused....

    some people say stillwater is a fake band and is only in the movie, Almost Famous and others say its a real band???

  • The band 'Stillwater' from the movie is fictional, but Director Cameron Crowe used the name of a real band for his group. This 'Stillwater' is that band. So the song being played here was a real song, released by the real band

  • Heck,I thought....because of their name,that they might've been from Oklahoma.....I don't know.....

  • Didn't realise Stillwater were a real band, too. I love their sound, very cool 5/5

  • Savage guitarist