The Flying Burrito Brothers - Lazy Day

[hikingstevo]

Great song!!!

[jokitosh]

I believe this is from "Festival Express" (DVD) - a kinda Canadian Woodstock on the rails. Well worth a look, also has Janis, The Band, Grateful Dead, Buddy Guy........and more (1970).

[PeterMayer]

@jokitosh you are correct!

[aarfeld]

What were the circumstances surrounding Gram Parsons's departure from the band. Did he leave or was he asked to leave--and why?

[PeterMayer]

@aarfeld according to Chris, his drinking and bad work habits did it.

[axwell21]

This is good shit 

[CharlotteAnne66]

Great song.....too bad Gram was fired before this performance.

[crumbleface]

was this before Bernie joined the eagles, or after he left?

[mcharette774]

wheres grahm??

[tunderbomber]

@mcharette774 Dead most of the time.

[superfuzzymomma]

Bernie is singing lead here.

[willruddock]

Who's singing lead? Bernie or Chris? I know Gram does the original.

[robertlaberge]

It's Bernie singing lead, with Chris doing harmony vocal.

[bren1231001]

I like this version of the song better.

[RUHOORUHOO]

That has got to be some of the best slide guitar work I have ever seen.

[aarfeld]

@RUHOORUHOO: Yea, it's hard to beat Sneaky Pete. A great original, he pioneered playing steel through a Leslie speaker with a Fuzz Face. Not to mention all of the lovely traditional steel playing that he did.

[reissue]

Leadon RULZ.

[DrMandarino]

gram parsons, sneaky's steel, the telecasters, Hillman... what a sound!!!

[pearlofaguitar]

Lucky for us our band was allowed to play this stuff in the 80s but then here came disco and disc jockeys n ruined every thing for us!! We were so dang mad!!

[edwads74]

great lead guitarist, great songwriter, so-so singer. pretty weak actually.

[waterdoggz]

Bernie Leadon on lead vocals!!

[aarfeld]

Future member of the Eagles; his brother is an original Mudcrutch member, with Tom Petty.

[rockinredneck57]

Future member of Run C&W also! Crashen Burns.

[m900mwk]

I will forever strive to be as good a steel player as Sneaky Pete. This solo is the wildest steel solo I've ever heard. Listen to how the bites flow....anyway I digress, awesome video from a pretty good movie if you like watching hippie Canada.

[PeterMayer]

He's got a great flow and style.

[gamoonbat]

They forgot about the barbecue!

[PAULOcbi]

country and rocknroll fusion ! best thing since sliced bread, courtesy of GramParsons unique endeavor of bringing his two loves tgether, rocknroll n country

[TD4WD]

Fuck me. Where can I get some of these albums? I have a 2-hour highway drive to work each day and this would just ROCK me along.

[smilesawaityou]

If you like this music, you might also like Dave Edumunds, Little Feat, Asleep at the Wheel, The Band, Poco...

[FLHTP07]

add the New Riders of the Purple Sage & Commander Cody to the list but look for the early years for all of them. Not the later stuff.

Newer stuff would be Leftover Salmon

[smilesawaityou]

Absolutely!! I saw the new riders in concert! And commander cody and The Lost Planet Air Men--just the NAME of that group ooozes Country Cow Freak! Thanks for reminding me. There are **so many** great artists in that genre: Graham Parsons comes to mind. And it's cool how they're all intertwined and what other bands they gave rise to: the hybrids, the offspring...the list is pretty endless.....

[smilesawaityou]

OOPS!! Not to mention ALBERT LEE. Check him out **first**

[Paolo250376]

on e-mule bro!!!

[putdownan8dude]

man those two guys are like twins up there.

[bigbass3]

in "gimme shelter" there is a quick scene with gram parsons and keef walking out of the band trailer together

[rockinredneck57]

To think that todays country kids think they invented this stuff! Country Rock? Sure, we were there! NOT! the Burritos, Byrds, CSN were among the first to play it, but it wasn't called that then. Just that "long-haired" music. the Band, the Dead, all the great bands played country classics and played them well! Usually better than what came out of Nashville then.

[FLHTP07]

If it ever had a name it was Country Cow Freak Music.

[rockinredneck57]

Whatever you want to call it, it's great stuff. Country music didn't pick up on it for several more years. This was more country than actual country music in the late 60's. By then most of Nashville had gone Countrypolitan. These guys loved country music, but were never accepted back then. Just as well, they gave us great music played the way they wanted it played.

[billorval]

I was playing in local bands here in the southwest, and we were dying to play these tunes. I've had the bar owner shut the band down for playing this "shit". It wasn't until Waylon, Willie, and Tom Paul started getting airplay,(mid/late 70's), that we could start playing some of this great stuff.

[cheechcaballero]

I've played this at least once a week for months.

[Flunder]

thanks alot man! I couldnt find it.love that choo choo country sound.

[Flunder]

I cant find the Altamont clip? man that was hot to till the Hells got busy.:(

[junkie4vids]

There's a clip of The Flying Burrito Brothers at Altamont on the YouTube video titled:

Gimme Shelter Rockumentary 5/8

[junkie4vids]

I recommend a new book from Chris Hillman and John Einarson titled "Hot Burritos. The True Story Of The Flying Burrito Brothers". Interesting insights about the Flying Burrito Brothers that put everything into proper perspective.

[Flunder]

Hey Junkie4vids? can you look on the 6 days on the road clip? and tell me us that sneaky pete on that? some guy says its "al perkins" Im trying to find more stuff on sneaky? thanks.thats the best slide Ive ever heard.

[junkie4vids]

Al Perkins played pedal steel on the YouTube clip titled "1971 The Flying Burrito Brothers "Six Days on the Road". By that time, Sneaky Pete left the group. However, Sneaky Pete played pedal steel on "Six Days.." in the earlier years of FBB, including the Altamont concert clip.

[junkie4vids]

Sneaky Pete was a pedal steel innovator who used fuzz-tone and his own tuning arrangement on his eight-string Fender pedal steel guitar.

[Flunder]

damn thats good.I laready got hooked on their 6 days on the road.the pedal guy? unreal. :)

[junkie4vids]

That's the great Sneaky Pete on pedal steel. Pete and "OJ" Red Rhodes were the two greatest pedal steel players in the business.

[quicksilverwharfrat]

Nice live video and audio feed, many thanks!

[UNIEUX]

Wow! It hypnotises me, that song should be recommanded against nervous breakdown or suicidal tendencies! Fabulous!!!

[a555bob666]

too bad you cant find any performances with gram and the boys singin lazy day, but still a great show. sneaky pete is the man!

[nigchipsgalore]

Never a more true statement. At 1:46 he looks like precisely like Clint Eastwood - "You'll know when he squints."

[junkie4vids]

Love how Sneaky Pete is the driving force behind this great song. Bernie, Chris, Sneaky Pete, Michael Clarke and Rick Roberts put out a great Flying Burrito Bros. album (after Gram's departure) that featured songs like "Four Days of Rain", "Colorado" and "White Line Fever".

[entertheaccountant]

Wow! Now THIS is a rock song! Hard, driving tune and Hillman's bass playing is powerful! Tight band and great vocals too! What more could a viewer ask for?

[cheechcaballero]

This is my fave song in Festival Express. Even with the great Dead, Band, Buddy Guy, and Janis performances, this is THE one for me.

[reggie4444]

This is from the film "Festival Express"--well worth checking out on DVD

[wilbur45]

Too bad Bernie Leadon left these guys to join the Eagles, they blow. But maybe that's cuz he left them too. Beat the heat with Sneaky Pete!

[cheechcaballero]

I <3 SNeaky Pete and Hillllmannnn!

[ZachTFLd]

No one gives Sneaky Pete or Chris enough credit, I know Gram's good, but the other two were great aswell.

[nightjasmine25]

They all look so fresh I can almost smell the soap! Nice song too!

[audioslaved24]

jesus, what the fuck happened to country music in the last 25 years??

[steveinphilly]

Agreed. Actually, make it 35 years. But the sad truth is that Nashville never really accepted these guys anyway, so the problem was in place eve then.

This is awesome music, even without Gram!

[vaginyabelle]

i could have never said it better.

[steelyangbob]

Sneaky.....the very reason I play steel!!!

[junkie4vids]

While "Lazy Day" did not make the Byrds "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album, it can be found on the CD version as one of the bonus tracks. Without Gram, the Burritos added Rick Roberts and produced two more fine albums. Gram's final solo work, the "GP" and "Grievous Angel" albums, were his best work.

[noreast77]

It's also on the masters comp... better version than this one to, I used in in one of my vids.

[v1cbitt3r]

still rocks tho

[conratty]

man, Hillman and Leadon look like twins.

[davetube68]

They look like Garfunkel and Garfunkel ;)

... Sorry, that was uncalled for. Awesome song, awesome performance ... I agree with the other people who said this was the best thing in Festival Express.

[CountryRock4U]

Garfunkel and Garfunkel...LOL I agree.

Great performance. Leadon also played this Lazy Days as the Eagles in 1973.

[DevinMiller72]

and by the way a great performance, with great guit and perfect drumming and singing.

[DevinMiller72]

Thanks to Gram for this song, amazing they did it without him in a lot of respects.

[stalbot46]

What a thrill  to find this FBB Treasure . ....

Lazy way to go.......thanks to Grams too for the song.........Stuart T. in Germany

[chuckdee121]

Never seen this and love it to death! Y'know, I'm problebly like a lot of you folks and wish Gene Clark could have joined after Parsons departed. Gene of course did fine on his own with nothin but great records, but still, that was a hot freakin band!!

[nexus007]

impresionante, qué directo!!!!

[nexus007]

genial!

[gfagerudd]

Yeahh REMU& Hurriganes, a crazy day ;) ? Your crazyast!? The Byrds behaind most in r&r,,, Gary u know who, contact me

[westytoploader]

Even though I was born WAY after the Flying Burrito Brothers were popular, "Lazy Day" has been one of my favorite songs of all time. Definitely the pioneers of country rock.

RIP Gram Parsons, and Sneaky Pete.

[jerrywscott]

This clip comes from the documentary "Festival Express" a good attempt to resurrect the '70s musical fading glory and bands like this. Hillman is still on the concert circuit. Does anybody have more Burrito clips? Please post them.

[Jeffro321]

Great stuff. Great leads by sneaky pete.

[sticksz]

Do you have more clips of the flying burrito brothers? This is great!

[lare911]

This was a pretty good grouping with Chris, Mike Clark, Sneaky Pete and Bernie Leadon. Too bad they didn't stick together a little longer. A little workman-like but very tight.

[tapenoise]

Yeah, they were good! Too bad they brought in Rick Roberts. Nothing against him, but there was a bit more edge to the sound with this line-up ... Then Bernie left for that other band ... I like the part in this vid where Bernie sings the wrong line and Chris gives him a little smirk.

[jerrywscott]

Bernie Leadon replaced Gram Parsons? Fill me in please. I saw the film Festival Express from which this clip has been taken. Good try but a badly made film. Did you know Chris Hillman is still on the concert circuit? He's going to be in N.C. next Friday Jan 5 with his side man Pedersen. He plays mandolin mostly. what a loss to country rock.

[shoobedoowap]

Leadon joined up for _Burrito Deluxe_... Chris Ethridge had left, and Hillman switched to bass. Then Parsons left - this would've been right after that, prior to Rick Roberts' arrival and Bernie going off to tour with Linda Ronstadt and a couple of unknowns named Frey, Meisner, and Henley.