The Electric Prunes - I had too much to dream last night

[realfunny7]

that when music was cool graduated in'67

[Dinyeh7bmj]

The 60's were the 1st time that the youth of America "spoke thru music about the problems of society". Were all problems solved? No. However a young generation refused to not be heard. I was not arround to be part of this. However, it is just as much a part of history as the Civil Rights Movement or Watergate.

[hippie1950]

Thanks for place this video here, gr8 performance and i love this sound since i've heard it the first time on the radio in 1967 or 1968 !!!

[TheMarshallofTube]

Children with childish ideals stomping their feet like Shirley Temple and insisting they be taken seriously. Unfortunately, many did. We still pay the price. The 60's sucked. I know...I was there.

[49kasey]

@TheMarshallofTube So was I. Had the time of my life, HA HA!!!

[airtech4]

@TheMarshallofTube -Ha, Buddy you just didn't get laid. Too bad we all had fun and learned a lot and all you got was disappointment.

You missed the whole point, no reason to try and convince a curmudgeon of at least 40 years. I'm just here to point and make fun of you.

[J5schn1tz]

Nice Description FadeDignity ... I did exactly as it said

[TheStatue1]

great slap-back echo and tremolo-essentials of psychedelia with a punk attitude-and nice fuzz, pass the blotters, please.

[NSA666999]

I just smoked some banana peels with my friends.I am not sure, but I think Im fucking trippinn man!! Dude, who the FUCK are these dudes?? IM fuckin trippin and now im gonna have sex with 2 girls from my math class!!!!! whoo whoo i like it ohhh too much too drink ohhh yaaa too much pink to lick, ohh yhaa too much to lick

[TheStatue1]

@NSA666999 Like, wow, lucky you!!

[lalebuny]

i saw this same video on a french video site titled "i had too much to drink last night " always thought that sounded funny...

[pictureisup1]

This is a classic!

[pteeng1]

This epitomises the Californian mid-60s psychedelic sound. But y'all should check out 'Mass In F MInor' by the band! Now that's the shit!

[iwillrocknroll4eva]

OMG!  I just had a flashback! I had forgotten this one! Hahahaha! Good one!

[7855waldo]

Mouf shut some budy stole ma watch

[mrjaysnipes]

This was 1967. The Prunes had two great records - I Had Too Much To Dream and Get Me To The World On Time. Both songs were hot with the humming energy of their guitars. These guys were part of the garage band scene.

[jayperelman]

Sweet video, can anyone add what year this is from, or where?

[silverdollar3]

psyche delicious !

[truustyle]

Terrible recording

[Duran09007fan]

@truustyle i concur!

[HOOKSnKISSES]

I recall Doro Pesch (Warlock) doing a cover of this song sometime in the late eighties.

[esm31854]

Trippy

[dbrew2u]

One more reason the miss the 60's. All of the Innovation made music fun because No 2 Bands wanted to sound alike. So Experimentation led to a Huge amount of Excellent music. Unlike today, where everybody wants to sound alike. And so every song sounds the same. No wonder there is no Music Business anymore.

[supersky1]

@vampyros, @amourdutigre etc:

what so we care abou all you're talking about in this page? it should deal with the song, or the group. why talk about a website with cat-boys????

[ReneODeay]

didn't you get it? this is a recent performance. these guys are old and this is modernized version.

the original was much more powerful.

[pervertedmind]

i'm so stonedd

[wp4866]

this was my song nov. '66

[dullsvillain]

Damn what a nice little gig !

[someguyoketcetc]

Seriously folks...with regard to "the first psychedlic music"....you don't think that some neanderthal didn't ever start grooving on sounds after ingesting some local flora way back when?

[mooiegarage]

'course they did. :-)

Psychedelic plants have been around just as long as there have been humans around to document their trips. (Probably even longer)

[vampyros1]

@someguyoketcetc By your logic, someone could have ingested a hallucinogen, sang an (operatic) aria, and it would have been "psychedelic music" because they were stoned. Which would be false, because certain attributes that are musically/sonically typical of the genre that would have been missing-

[molteniwhippingby]

Excellent! Just what the 60's was about! The youth culture trying to make a statement about the society full of government and parental control trying to guide our lives like a string puppet through war, conspiracy & heavy burdens. We (the pop culture I was a part of) were only trying to enjoy life, nature & music through our inner selves and be heard through music. The youth was ignored & misunderstood, yet we were being controlled by an establishment that was corrupt and full of deceit.

[lumpagogo]

They 'Tarred & Cemented' the land, Michael Vicked the dogs, cats and monkeys and f*cked everything up. They are still doing these things because they love them. "I'm not ready to see (your distorted, Satanic) light"--you governmental bastardi.

[dagnut]

and so nothing has changed....

[amourdutigre]

@molteniwhippingby

But the saddest thing is that when these kids grew up, they became the yuppies of the '80's that started the corporatization of the nation and the planet... They became the investment bankers and the "leverage artists", and gen X Y and Z will be forever fucked because of them

Peace,

ADT

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre You're right ... and someone will be forever fucked because of gen X Y and Z ... and someone will be forever ..............

[amourdutigre]

@vampyros1

No, because gen X, Y and Z will not have anything left... The boomer yups burned it all. They had the sexual revolution, we had aids. They had free university education, those of us fortunate enough to go to university have student loans. True, they had to deal with an awful war, but as far as I am concerned, that was the fault of the 'hero generation'. Now, the boomers are retiring, they *will* have their social security ponzie scheme checks, but guess what... we won't.

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre I see, so your generation is "fucked" because the boomers had worry-free sex and yours couldn't? You're very stupid, aren't you? Free university ed.? Where the hell do you get this stuff? Evidently you've managed to gain control of an online computer while the guard sleeps; my suggestion is that you take your meds and return to your 'room'. Idealistic ignoramus-

[amourdutigre]

@vampyros1

As far as stupidity is concerned, that is your speciality, not mine. If there is any doubt, lets compare CVs. I can tell from your post that you are the ignoramus. You must be some gray old boomer that cannot get it up any more, and so you spew your frustrated spleen on Youtube. I bet you wear tie dyed shirts, dont you? My health is fine thank you, so go take your antipsychotics and dont try to engage your betters in discourse. Study some history while your at it, dumbass...

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre I'll make a deal with you; you don't make allusions to my cock, and I won't tell everybody that you're a man in his mid-40's whose YouTube acct. links up to a personal site extolling his passions for "catboys from just infants to mid twenties." 'Course, we'll be watching for you on that Chris Hansen show. Why, that'll be a little extra something to go on that illustrious "CV" you've got. lol btw, you used "your" in place of the contraction "you're" ... what a idiot-

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre Well there you go again ... you do have a phallic fetish, don't you? Ok, let's review; you're a man approaching his 50's, and your "hobby" is cute cat boys .........

[amourdutigre]

@vampyros1

You are one sick dumbass. I write and draw *fiction*, and I am quite successful at it. (i.e., I make a substantial amount of money at it). What are you successful at, hmm? Oh, yeah, being a dumbass on youtube. You *are* very successful at that. As far as my personal life, I won't say much about it (not too many are too interested in it except old voyeurs like you), but I will say that I have been with my mate for over 30 years, and we are very happy, unlike (obviously) you.

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre To quote you on your site "any catboy images except XXX hardcore porn are accepted". Which means XX hardcore porn images of 'catBOYS' ARE accepted. A "30 yr." relationship? That makes you a sick, pathetic 60 yr. old geezer-man w/a penchant for underage 'cute cat boys'. A 'Felidae' search results in no published work & you sell nothing on your site; you're a nobody-

[amourdutigre]

@vampyros1

Ah, there you go again, making false ass-umptions. I have several volumes of poetry, numerous fictional prose and more peer reviewed articles than you could count. Nobody? Hardly. As far as my relationship, my significant other is two years younger than I am. We met when I was 16. Now I am 47. Can you do math, dumbass? My web site? Yeah, it is a simple static page than I cobbled together to celebrate the Nekojin archetype. Do you know what /archetype/ means? Didn't think so.

[amourdutigre]

@vampyros1

I am no web site programmer so yeah, my site sucks, there is no interaction, and I do not sell anything on the internet. I let my agent and attorney take care of that. You are simply some stupid, used up boomer that has penis issues thinking that you are still relevant in today's world. As far as accomplishments, let me ask you dumbass, do you really think that I would use the word 'Felidae' on my books when that is a registered tradmrark? What a dumbass.

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre To quote you, "Felidae is the nom de plume of the author". Let me dumb it down for you; it means it's the name you've chosen to represent your authorship. The reason a search of that pen name leads to a dead end is because there is no poetry. Or prose. There are no reviews. There is no agent, and no attorney. There's just you, the gerbils, and your delusions of grandeur.

[amourdutigre]

@vampyros1

Yes, asshole, that was my nom de plume when I coded that site. I cannot sell any work under that name because it is a registered tradmark belonging to another company. If I used that name I could be (and would be) open to legal action.

Now why don't you and all of your boomer trash friends go do some brown acid and roll in the mud. No one cares about you, dumbass. Say whatever the fuck you will you dried up looser, I don't care anymore, and won't be responding, dumbass...

[vampyros1]

@amourdutigre So let's summarize: you are a nearly 50 yr. old man with his own site about "cute cat boys", i.e.: illustrations of boys in human form, but with cat ears and tails (which you regard as a loophole to keep you safe). As regards them, your age preference is "just infants to mid twenties", and you solicit for "XX Hardcore Porn images" from site users for said age group. Your site contents have been preserved for reference.

[Zappafan5150]

@molteniwhippingby That's powerful stupid. Still a good tunesky

[pubsterguy]

@molteniwhippingby we enjoyed the music but our parents did know better, War is part of life and survival, you can put all the flowers in rifle barrels and sing love songs but as far as the rest of the world is concerned the wolf is always at the door. You really live in a dream world

[snjufo]

@molteniwhippingby bullshit

is this some hippie manifesto?

[atdawnweslept]

@molteniwhippingby - just like now, which is us, right?

[halalbackgirl]

@molteniwhippingby

Not like much has really changed, honestly.

[terryorr]

The first band to put the word psychedelic on an album cover title was the the Texas band The "13th Floor Elevators" in November 1966. Rock music inspired by psychedelic drugs had been around for a year or two before that.

[whytebyrd]

hear,here

[blheron]

Beg to differ - the first psychedelic music occurred when Albert Hoffman's pant leg got caught up in his bicycle spokes. The idea of the pranksters creating the first psych music is laughable. The Texas bands predated the San Fran experience. Harry Partch was doing psychedelic music in the thirties. As Phil Lesh once said - "Psych music is what you listen to on psychedelics" Could be your washing machine tumbling around...

[frankty67]

MAN YOU ARE SO FREAKIN' RIGHT.

Exactly,because it all sounds that much more intense.That Albert Hoffman thing is so great and it really(though funny) explains it.,

[Cadmium77]

The first psychedelic music was being performed by The Merry Pranksters on Ken Kesey's bus Further with Neal Cassady at the wheel on a trip to Never Never Land as early as 1963

[frankty67]

Hard to argue there because they were doing psychedelics AND listening to music. When your diong psychedelics ALL good music does sound greater.Even the real early Beatles and Beach Boys with the great harmonies sounds unreal.

[StevenCharlesJazz]

Hmmm..... I never tried to figure out which song or band was THE first psychedelic one. I'd have to think about that, and do some web-surfing to see who it would be.... My bet is that a number of bands began playing this way all around the same time...

[Atomsmasher777]

Awesome.

[bigguy4570]

Your an IDIOT

[vintagezigg]

I believe this was" the " First psychedelic song ever released on the radio. Gonna see them in 2 weeks.

[frankty67]

This is a tough subject because there were songs in '65,early '66 that when you listen to them tripping they are definitly pre-psychedelic..Like Norwigian Wood from late 1965. .Lennon always claimed RAIN in June '66 was the 1st Psyche song.I think "Too Much to Dream" was released in August 1966. But what about this? The Yardbirds Shapes of Things 3/66, and Happenings 10 yrs Time Ago 6/66 were also mind bending early Psychedelic too.I think 'Too much to Dream" IS .the 1st TRUE psyche song

[vintagezigg]

AMEN, Never got to see them recently. They cancelled. Sky Saxon(Seeds) passed away a month prior to the show . So all that was left was Love with Johhny Echols and Baby Lemonade, Arthur Lee's last band of !0 or so years. The show was great.

[manaledo]

i had too many prunes last night!!!

Check out Lobelia Sound and have a prune?

[ftsjr]

Psychedelic!

[deaddoc]

For some real interesting psychedelic rock from SF in the period also look up Mad River.

The band came from Boston or there abouts, but settled in the Haight and played around the SF area in 67, 68. Edgy...

[mvtroiano]

This is trippy! Almost want to wear bell bottoms again! Farrr out man!

[JackAwful]

I had too much to dream a few nights ago...met a woman. Damn.

[AlbertMondback]

Sweet.

[hankyhoyo]

When was this recorded? A reunion show or what? Sounds good. One of my all time favorites.

[rottenbuffalo]

Probably in 1966. This is one of those songs that was released late in 1966 but did not peak until early 1967.

[rottenbuffalo]

I'm talking about the song, not the video.

[w9x7cv3vg6]

in 66 or so just like he said

[2killachav]

its a good song but these guys arent much live

[MrAlQ]

he's 96 years old... give him a break :-)

[jimmythecreep]

i had too much to drink last night...but i got laid, hehe!!!

[Nikolai257]

I am having some good flashbacks >:)

[victoriadaniel]

buenisimo felicitaciones

[PAULLONDEN]

Yeah,shake that green tambourine

[circleofhands]

great echo on this, what a clip

[dharmamark]

Good song...like the performance,but I coundn't hear any bass hardly.

[aifammafiaaifam]

one of the best song ever m/a/f/i/a

[shelly10538]

Bad ass!! Is that the original members?

[kngofqns]

yes

[danomyk]

OMfuckin'G, this song has SO MUCH "PHASE SHIFT",that it sounds like a GOOD shot of powder'cain.

Those of you that know,KNOW!!!!!

[Timberland1952]

I liked it better when Preston was drumming.

[egscott]

Did the crooner Jerry Vale actually sing this song in 1967, or is that just a myth?

Thank you for posting the song.

[Medic83301]

It's a myth . The lead singer is James Lowe .