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  • I had the '45(remember those?) of this one- and wore it out playing all day long. My first introduction to Gary Wright. "The Light Of Smiles"('77) was also a great album from him.

  • Nice to hear 'my love is alive' for a change as opposed to 'my ho is dead'.

  • What a great live version of this tune..........would have been a phenomemal blast to the past to be able to take this in..........energy must've been insane

  • Looks like a security officer in the background grooving to the beat near the end of the video. :o)

  • That tune has a cool groove, and all of it is performed live with real instruments.

    It's a breath of fresh air from all of that stale, pedantic, run-of-the-mill computer-generated rap tracks that the mainstream recording industry has pushed on the general public for the past 30 years.

  • I thought this was a steve winwood song. LOL

  • My god this song grooves.

  • Moog

    

  • Gary Wright is one of few singers who could rock his voice just as well live as he could in the studio. One incredible musician, Gary was never given the credit and standing he probably should have had throughout the 70's and beyond. Although Gary did well, he is an incredible talent that should have went on to super stardom with a bunch more of these types of hits!

  • He still has the vocal chords too; saw him twice over past two years touring with Ringo Starr. Ageless.

  • BRING ME BACK TO THE 70's PLEASE!!!!!!

  • what was he saying in the song? what was your understanding?

  • Everyone is on acid and coke in this video

  • Wow. Americans were skinny back in the 70s. It seems like many are 300 lbs today.

  • @3bhui american were skinny back then because did not have 300 channels on their TV, video games, and computers. People actually went out and did things

  • @3bhui Yeah, 'cos there's NO fat people anywhere else.. like Europe?

  • @Johnnysynth

    Europe has an obesity problem too. But don't despair. The U.S. has far more oversize overweight SUVs than Europe.

  • I was there 1976 San Diego balboa stadium he was with peter frampton, yes and gentle giant

  • Steve Porcaro On Keyboards,Go steve...

  • Sounds like Sega Genesis music!

  • @chipdrusano wtf is sega genesis? ur old man

  • @wildone106 Sega Genesis was Sega's most successful video gaming console from 1989-97. DUH!!!!

  • ahhhhhhhhhhhh, the breathtaking awesomeness of the keytar! get down gary.

  • @nitewingstudio Well Thanx!!

  • My very first concert. This was the first song of the concert.About 5 other bands followed.

  • @nitewingstudio Did u mean "There has'nt been any good music or television programs since the 1970's?" I'm not sure what u mean. In '76 skateboards,CB Radios, Vans, Disco(the good 70's disco) and Go-Carts were the in thing and that was what I meant. Songs like 'Love Is Alive', 'Dream Weaver' and 'Afternoon Delight' (that one by Starland V.Band became popular after 'Love Is Alive' ) aBBA was famous, Kiss (i liked Kiss I had Kiss Alive they were cool) Gary had the best album cover and songs,too.

  • Steve Porcaro before Boz Scaggs and TOTO ... very hip

  • This concert is July 17, 1976 @ San Diego Stadium. Remember how fantastic that summer was?

  • @ubelieveinme2oo - Is that where this was filmed?? Wow! I was there, too! I forget which package tour that was - I saw Yes, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Rory Gallagher, Starcastle, Peter Frampton, Gary Wright, and maybe others at two or three mega concerts at the SD Stadium back in the day. Great shows, all of them. RIP San Diego Stadium.

  • @rednoise0 My friend Mark was playing in Tommy B's band at the time.Tommy was part of this tour line-up. Mark knows one of Gary's back-up keyboardists in this '76 tour. Named Tom Stevenson. Mark's website has a photo of a guy on keyboards and it sais "Tom Stevenson who played with Gary Wright 1976". Youtube now has an October 1975 concert of Gary. It's great. He's playing "Blind Feeling" That album was so spacey and fantastic. He never sings anything objectionable. I like that.

  • @rednoise0 My friend Mark was playing in Tommy B's band at the time.Tommy was part of this tour line-up. Mark knows one of Gary's back-up keyboardists in this '76 tour. Named Tom Stevenson. Mark's website has a photo of a guy on keyboards and it sais "Tom Stevenson who played with Gary Wright 1976". Youtube now has an October 1975 concert of Gary. It's great. He's playing "Blind Feeling" That album was so spacey and fantastic. He never sings anything objectionable. I like that.

  • Cresskill is famous for this artist (he was 1975 and 6's most famous rock musician) and Cresskill is also famous for being close to the place where the utility company discovered a dinosaur in october 1974 named "the Dwarskill Mastodon". I read he was developing the synthesizer music for The Dream Weaver not far from Dwarskill at about that same time.

  • just got to see him perform this @ HippieFest! wonderful! :)

  • Som1 keeps on posting that Steve Porcaro from Toto is in this. Look on Google for the word "Toto" and you'll see "Toto" is a brand name of something + look what it is. Toto was commercial and conventional. One time that girl who looks like Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis posted a comment here. Gary was 70's music all-the-way. That's what I love about the 70's : (ie;) it was the most artistic time in history and all the music and the TV shows were fantastic. Does NE1 dissagree (?)

  • @ubelieveinme2oo I totally agree my man. And yes that is Steve Porcaro.

  • Nice 70's honey in bikini..@ 3:51

  • What happened to the gal at 2:20 ?

  • @oreo6158 That's just a stagehand ( I think some guy with long hair) moving a wire or something

  • NOBODY rocked a synth like Gary!

    Hey Leroy - pump this shit up on your 5K watt hood-mobile ghetto-blaster.

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  • @JesscoMotorcycle Actually, Cletus, I do just that. And my name ain't Leroy. Bastard...PEACE.

  • Looks a lot like Rock Super Bowl X in Orlando in 1981. Packed. That concert had Heart and Cheap Trick. ROCK ON GARY!

  • Steve Porcaro (of Toto fame) was what, 19, when this was shot?

  • It was the Yes Relayer Tour. Pousette Dart Band Gary and Peter Frampton Comes Alive. They set the seats on fire during Ritual with Patrick Moraz at the JFK Bi-Centennial concert.

  • @thirty98 Actually, technically, it wasn't the Relayer tour. Relayer was 74-75. In early 76, the members of Yes decided to all make solo albums. The 1976 tour was specifically intended to promote the solo albums, but after the first couple weeks, they ended up dropping all the solo material and reverted to a sort of a "best of" setlist.

  • LOL i thought this was a steve winwood song LMFAO !

  • my friend was invited to the dream weaver party in the summer of 1975 in the demerest area and he said it was fantastic wilderness and he even referred to it as being "dream land". and in the autumn of that year the record store in paramus park shopping mall displayed the album cover in the front of the display window all the way till the late summer of 1976. and when people in new jersey talk about jersey they always say he comes from bergen county.

  • Good God, isn't there a better version of this song? It sounds like a whale is taking it up the ass or something....Thanx for the upload though...

  • I saw him at RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, in 11th grade! This 1976 tour featured Gary Wright, performing his "Dream Weaver" album. This all day included the "Love is Alive", which hit #1 on the charts!! Along with two other bands; "Yes - Fragile tour, featuring Roundabout" @ "Peter Frampton Live tour, featuring "Do you feel like we do "!! It was a buzz!

  • @2000mmar I was there. Awesome concert. Went with friends from School Without Walls, Wilson, Gonzaga & St. John's. Great time to be alive.

  • someone posted a comment a while ago saying she was the person who was the seamstress for this 'dream weaver' outfit he's wearing + she said the outfit is from '75. was 'dream weaver' on "that 70's show'' (?) . recently the mall was playing the original version + it brought me back to december '75. the hippies were cool in those days. in those days it was like the brady bunch. and star treck.

  • This was before Reagan raped and sodomized America.

  • Where is my bong when I need it?

  • OMG!!! I am the girl getting kissed! My cousin Paul, boyfriend Scott & I had been waiting for 8 hours to see the concert, took a nap, & I woke him up by kissing him! WOW! That is something. Thanks for sending this to me Molly, take care, Dee

  • @deirdrems1 Every1's been talking about u on this clip 4 years 'koz u look exactly like Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis July 17, 1976.Bill Graham (the famous promoter) told some1 2 tell Gary 2 look up @ the sky + he was surprised to see that a skywriter had written "Gary Wright The Dream Weaver" in the sky right b4 he and his band walked on2 the stage + i think that's the reason why Gary's expression looks totally turned on.Deirdre, i was thinking that that inspired the song "Phantom Writer" u agree.

  • I saw him perform this yesterday with Ringo Starr . Sounds the best live.

  • No hot back up singers? This video sucks.

  • great love , thanks.

  • Live in San Diego CA. Summer of 1976. What a great time in America to be a teenager.

  • @mifune3000 I can only hit "like" once, but trust me I mean it a million times. And to further your point, an ESPECIALLY good time to be a teen in Southern California. God how I miss those days.

  • ALL RIGHT SAN DIEGO! I really like this video--Gary looks like he's having the time of his life up on that stage, playing for thousands...good for him!

  • Where was this concert? Love this.

  • Steve Porcaro is gr8 no doubt but our favorite is Gary. He is from the northern valley area of bergen county NJ. recently the bergen mall had 'love is alive' on their loudspeaker. about a year b4 the dream weaver album was #1 the utility company excav8d a dinasaour from a creek in Rivervale.

  • annib-did u seam the outfit, really?

  • The incomperable Steve Porcaro on keys here. Wanna hear Steve's latest stuff, get his daughter Heather's record from Amazon---Steve is on Hammond for most of it. KILLER! ps: The basslines in this are classic Moog....gotta love THAT!

  • @RaincloudmusicTFS6 Steve is gr8 but our favorite is Gary

  • @audesemusic

    That's Steve Porcaro from TOTO. In the 80' he has a affair with Rosanna Arquette.

    Do you remember the song "Rosanna"?

  • Great tune!

  • By the way, that is THE FUNKIEST SONG of all time.

  • I bet that car at the beginning had "rich Corinthian leather".

  • @InsertName125 No, the car at the beginning is a Cadillac. Only the Chrysler Cordoba had “rich Corinthian leather”.

  • @ymp5000 What a let down.

  • @ymp5000 HAHA god I'm old enough to remember the old Recardo montilbaum? commercial. "rich corinthian leather" which was a high class way of saying Vinjyl...

  • @ymp5000 oh yeah remember the Cordoba (?) yeah that was the famous new Cadillac of the summer of 1976. i loved cadilacs but i preferred the original 1972 Caddilac. corinthian leather.

  • This was before fluoride, acne and diabetes.

  • This artist is originally from the Paramus area + recently the Bergen Mall was playing his original "Love Is Alive" all thru the shopping mall + it was like time travelling back to december 1975 again when all u heard on every radio station was both of his #1 hit songs. it was super cool. i read the songs on that album were developed in a barn type studio in the cresskill area about the year before when they discovered the dwarskill mastodon in Rivervale in the Northern Valley area

  • Steve Porcaro of Toto on the other keyboard!

  • I was 9 years old when this happened in San Diego..Im a native from SD..I wonder what I was doing when this concert was going on...Cool!

  • I love the 70's shit.!!! <3

  • So thats who sings that song. Way cool man. Songs that make you dream. That was genius.

  • Steve Pocaro's Bass fills are amazing-- little would we know that he would later go on to write "Human Nature" for MJ.

  • I didn't see one person with their pants around their knees, Good times. Maybe even a belt or two.

  • @deathrib When my pants are around my knees is when I'm usually having the best times!

  • @deathrib Im sick of thise B.S. version of 'reality' we have been fed since the late 40's..where we're headed isn't so good. These where happier times I think..

  • @deathrib No bossy SUVs to be seen anywhere either.

  • @annib00

    Well you did one hell of a job!  What made you decide on yellow dacron anyway?

  • LMAO with the general admission montage and yes we've all done that before and stake your lawn spot and then you settle in for a wtf Keyboard Guitars, such a classic Dream Weaver move...

  • ok wheres the backup babes?

  • epic bass

  • "Dream Weaver " was a very good soul-funky-rock album, it was the style of Gary Wright.

  • I love this song! It brings back old memories!

  • can u plz do me a favor and not remove my comment. thx

  • the tambourine girl is Lorna. in the summer of 1975 there was a party around Closter and my friend went, no doubt the tamborine girl was there. i saw my frend who played on all his old albums @ the april concert and i saw the tambourine girl! she saw me too but i was 2 shy 2 introduce myself. we're all from this same area in the northern valley section of bergen county. he's my hero 'koz wen i 11 all we all loved 2 talk about was his #1 song that got me thru the nite and all my friends .

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  • @ubelieveinme2oo test confirmed. I guess its not the question of you being able to post, but are you able to get replies? Can you see this?

  • @galaxian00 why did u say that

  • forgot to say talkin bout takin new tech and showing whos boss lol gary said me @#$!@#

  • wow havent heard this song in years heard it today bought it right away love it then found this video well people cant do this much anymore sing it well sing it right and sound this good blown away the fake cheers do kinda ruin it but man this guy is good nothing like real singing pheobe snow did it with poetry man

  • Gotta give Steve P. his props. he seemingly can create patches from thin air. Awesome Moog bassline here. Very memorable!

  • He says right at the end "all right San Diego, good to have you with us"

    So I take it that's Jack Murphy stadium. That was when people could be civil to eachother, even young people in large masses. 

  • RU IN la?

    nICK

  • @annib00 People might laugh, but hell i would wear that today if I had it, its awesome!

  • Keytar!!!

  • I always thought this was Steve Winwood.

  • I wish i was there.....

  • saw him at rfk stadium in dc in 76 along with yes, frampton and the sensational alex harvey band

  • i think its Philly JFK 76 ..The Mummers,,Pusset Dart Band..Gary, Frampton and Yes Oh my god i got goose bumps.....

  • How u feeling today?!?!! Yaaaa!  Right On!!

  • @annib00 - very cool!

  • One great song.....TONS of memories.

  • thanks mikper7 for the reply and information, but i still think he said HI LOS ANGELES in the beginning of the song, can someone tell me if he said that /??? thankssssss...

  • They dont make em like they did in the seventies, anymore.

  • THIS IS THE LIVE VERSION I SAW IN GUATEMALA BACK IN THE DAY ,AND I STILL LOVE THAT SONG, BUT WAIT HE SAID IN THE BEGINNING ( HI LOS ANGELES ??) AND AT HE END HE SAID ( SAN DIEGO ) I STILL THINK IS THE COLISEUM IN LA....

  • @HOUSExOFxLORDS Hi, I did some research. At no point does Gary say "Hi Los Angeles", he does say "How you all feelin today?" in the beginning). This show is most likely from 7/18/76 at Balboa Stadium in San Diego. Gary was indeed opening for Yes, who did not play Los Angeles that summer (they did play Anaheim). Incidentally, Balboa Stadium was a large, ovular, open air stadium similar to the LA Coliseum.

  • @mikper7 thanks for confirming it was for Yes. That's awesome. Imagine the lineup that night. And to see them at their peak of popularity. That era is pure magic. Someone else on here earlier mentioned that the stadium in San Diego is no longer there, torn down.

  • @annib00 Great one! L.O.L. Sorry, still laughing......in a GOOD way......Cool.

  • This song rocks!!

  • @annib00 AWESOME!!!!! what a wonderful thing for you to do, and a great gift to the rest of us!!!

  • Steve was a sexy young guy.

  • I've watched this vid dozens of times and it just occurred to me tonight that he is opening for Yes. Look at the Roger Dean designed pod thing above his head during the low angle shots of him onstage. The props are unmistakably for Yes. View 2:19-2:29. You can see the fantasy creature arm and pod assembly that was part of Yes' stage spectacle on that tour. I can't believe I never saw that, focused on Gary most of the time. That must have been an incredible evening, wow. I wish I was there.

  • I love the keyboard necklaces

  • One of the greatest songs ever.

  • Yeaz! it is a very Nice looking Show~! Would have been a great one. :D :D

  • Man, look at the size of that audience! What a great band. Holy crap. This is a young Steve Porcaro! They opened for Yes and Frampton? Oh I'm cryin now. I wish I could have gone to that concert!

  • Says it all ! My soul is on fire ! My Love is like a wheel that's burning !!

    my Love is Alive !! M y Love is ALIVE HELL YEAH !

  • Says it all ! My soul is on fire ! My Love is like a wheel that's burning !!

    my Love is Alive !!my Love is ALIVE HELL YEAH !

  • If resurrection is bullshit, I'm going to kick Jesus' ass when I see him. Oh wait.....

  • moog-synthesize me!

  • we looked a lot healthier back then as a people even though we weren't as "buff". less GMO foods?

  • 2:20 girl getting ripped from the stage. priceless. live on gary !!!!

  • WOW- saw this concert in San Diego. Yes, Peter Frampton, Gentle Giant, and Gary Wright. Great show, we pitched a tent with three kegs and stayed up all night meeting many great people. Where have all the good times gone?

  • @annib00 - so you're responsible for making him look like a big-ass chicken

  • Awesome clip! Who were they opening for? 

  • @steveponch -they opened for Yes and Peter Frampton.

  • Steve Pocaro, you were a gorgeous motherfucker.

  • I was in San Francisco on business in late 1976. There were already bands covering this great song then. I wandered down to the hotel bar and the house band covered this pretty damn well. Have liked LIA ever since.

  • Sampled by 3rd Bass. Forgot title of track, tho.

  • Gary visit my home 1970. He was truly a nice person. In that time he produced George Harrisson`s LP "Dark Horses" I Think. Hes wife and my girlfriend was fellows then. Maud Wright, hes wife grow up in a little village, Sjötofta - Sweden and my girlfriend and Maud playing silly games together. Gary invited me to Ringo Starrs 30 years birthday in London, Mayfair but I said no! What a stupid man I was with that time!!

  • @christer1947ify That's cool Man. We're all from the Northern Valley part of north east Bergen County. U say u r in Sweden, did u know that i heard that the name Bergen is Swedish in origin. Can u send me a Swedish recipe.

  • Just saw him with Ringo----he still sounds amazing! Good memories !! I saw Gary in the 70's too----what a great show --then & now !! Peace/Love

  • @annib00 Did you really?HOnestly?Thats cool.I think Gary is an amzing performer and song writer.

  • Are those 2 things portable moogs? Ha ha ha...awesome!!!

  • Best song From The Class of '79 :)

  • @annib00 I Love you!!! Did you know any of his synthesizer technicians from this time???? Man would I like to have coffee with one of them....

  • My First Love Memories!!!! Gary made it so much more phenomenal with his lyrics!!!!

    Yum to You R.R.A. I Love You and You don't even know it My Man!!! #1

  •  I could play Pinball back in the day like a madman to this song.....LOL

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  • "Now could be forever" I've been pondering these words with a reverence reserved for a "to be or not to be" articulation

  • LOVE THIS SONG! Even better Live.....Rockin in RENO with RINGO, 08! Anyone have a better Recording?  With alot of COLOR? AWESOME......:) Peace!

  • what festival was this ?

  • 2:15 --the pan out shows the elaborate shell of Yes's Crab Nebulae that held their lights and lasers

  • Wow this song brings back so many gooood memories. I loved it then and I still love it now.

  • @annib00

    And I wore it. ;)

  • Outdoor music festivals are the best!! Thanks for posting this classic song. Minimoog bass and Hippie chicks ROCK!!!!!!!!

  • Still got his records since then

  • And Toto too!!!

  • @annib00 Were you also the seamstress for the band that Elton John sings about in Tiny Dancer? It's you, isn't it?

  • I roadied for them in the 70's out of the union hall. Man what a schedule

  • @annib00

    reallly?

  • woah! they are using keytars!

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  • I love this. I don't think I have to say anything more. I LOVE THIS.

  • OMG what a treat! I LOVED the shots of the crowd..wow time flies. Gary is amazing!

  • A few days ago I had the joy and honor of having this same experience ! Gary Wright came to New York City on April 17, 2010. He delivered a fantastic performance at the B.B.Kings club, in Times Square ! Now after 34 years I have finally had my wish granted by seeing him in person. Fantastic !

  • what a great song----

  • damn this is badass!!!!!!

  • Day on the Green Date:Aug 2, 1975 wasthe show

    Fleetwood Mac

    Peter Frampton

    Robin Trower

    Gary Wright

  • @rogcuadra I remember that show.

  • Thanks for posting this!  It brings back great memories, and nothing kills like that MiniMoog bass.....

    Fantastic stuff.

  • @ScottStites

    that little guy on the bass was rockin it . 1976 with Frampton

  • It was the tour with Frampton. I saw them in Miami at the Baseball Stadium in 76

  • HOLY SH!T!!! I was at this concert! The acts were: Yes; Peter Frampton; Gentle Giant; Gary Wright; Rubicon. The show lasted all day and well into the night - it was a 70s thang. What I remember about Gary's performance, is that the low notes coming out of all those old analog synthesizers, really shook the ground. Wow...I was 16-years-old at the time. Thank you for posting this video. For a second there, I was 16 again.

  • @tswrench Rubicon. became Night Ranger!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This reminds me of the show at the Oakland Coliseum... Day on the Green #3 I believe. It was called the British Invasion. Gary Wright, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, Dave Mason and Robin Trower... they don't have shows like that anymore!

  • Gary Wright was born in Creskill, New Jersey, USA, in 1943...; -)

  • Yeah, I know that, too, but always think of him as British. Must be the time he spent in Spookytooth. Regardless of what his passport says, the man is an amazing talent!

  • @prospectus91 He had his moments...; -)

  • ....and pretty hot in this video! :-)