Treetop Flyer

[badjimmy68]

absolutely fuckin boss

[AverageJoker]

I used to be a treetop flyer, until I took an arrow to the knee.

[mi24hind]

@AverageJoker HAHA SKYRIM FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

[steam8859]

Over in Vietnam.. One of my all time favorite songs!

[justinbushaw]

hey son, wanna make some fast cash?

[rein200]

Great song, Great video. Thanks for uploading.

[headforthehillsDI]

Where did you learn to fly that way........Treetop Flyer? Over the Rio Grande!

[corvozoppicando]

Sucks posting a hateful statement,...But, listen,........

[bringbackreagan1]

will never forget the first time i heard this song...had to call the radio station immediately to find out who this was so i could go out and buy the cd right then! saw stephen stills live a couple of years after but he didn't do this song :(

[billyboy385]

when i see the guy get low in the video i see myself there roaring, "yeeeeeeiiiiiaaaaaaahhh!!"

[LourdesLaVeau]

have to love it



[kernal616]

he wrote that song about the way he had to learn how to live from what he learned. and survive.EVERYONE IS ALWAYS STRUGGLING.america USED TO BE THE STRONGEST.but our government makes the working people pay for it.americans are STILL IN IRAQ.the government or some asshole will take my comment off.american people can take america BACK.but american people are to busy trying to find work so they CAN LIVE.

[kernal616]

that is what happened.that song was wrote back then. but the government controls everything on your computer just like they controlled it back then.nobody cares about their own future. because government will fix everything.government controls the army , navy , airforce and the marines .... people we need to wake up. the government treats the people "americans" like cattle.american workers always pay for it

[kernal616]

the radio station and lawyers is what it was then and still is.american people are government owend

[mirrage04]

thatz the one...

[amelialuna1]

nice!

[ozzymotorhead]

cool vid

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

God, I love this song! Never heard it before

[buckskipper]

VERY COOL VIDEO!

Thanks for sharing. Winter one was cool too.

[vipvinnyd]

fuckin sick

[jamiemenuez]

Very nice.

Any chance of meeting another plane doing the same thing in the opposite direction?

Great song.

[YankeeAirPirate]

I'm one of those low-n-slow O-1 "Birddog" (Cessna L-19) Recon-FAC aviators in Nam (1968-69) as per the song. This video is like a flashback and depicts what we called "working altitude." Only quibble I'd have with the lyrics is that we rarely flew BELOW the treetops, especially down a river like that, unless you like being an easy target. Just above the treetops was safest altitude, and best chance of finding those NVA (and VC) the song mentions. Then it's "Hit My Smoke." Pterodactyl-33, out.

[CuzzRacing]

I have so much respect for you keep keep'n on nereves of steel THANK YOU !!!!!!

[opethandoceans]

im a flyin fool ilol

[mikal9000]

Along with the NRPS' "Henry", this is THE best song ever about smuggling.

[hodogetsmoney]

The two people who dislike this song are FEDS

[Zeppelindude628]

im gonna write a book based on this song. my favorite acoustic song by far.

you know that a song is just purely magical and amazing when you can feel the mood, the emotion, the message, and just.. picture the story this song tells.

[Larrymh07]

@Zeppelindude628 Agree, and I'm neither a pilot nor a pot smoker.

[jhhwingnut]

This is my kind of flying.....Citabria 7ECA.....I'd love to know what part of the country & river this was shot in.......very cool......Kansas is such a bore...!!!

[AbusedSodacan]

0:19 

[OKTOBONGO]

seven dials is also a road junction london where seven roads meet. its a kind of in a poor area so it slowly became a term used to describe poverty.

[Alinmediagroup]

Nice ride! Thanks. :)

[GreenChilliD]

Thanks for the hop. Man this is what I always wanted to do. Maybe one day. It's the next step in progression after the motorcycle. Great video and a new favorite song....

[flyingklown]

YOU TELL HIM mi24hind

I am N437DT NICE FLYING!

[MidgetDances]

hey guys if you aint got nothin nice to say dont say nothin at all and beutiful flyin bro

[MidgetDances]

I wanna learn to fly like that

[tbu1mi]

Nice.. Makes me wonder how everybody and their brother makes videoes like this using soundtracks...I was screwing around with Flight Sim used a 30 ty old song..fucking youtube cut the audio..copyright infringement..wasn't even a public vid like this. FUCK YOU TUBE !!!

[mi24hind]

@tbu1mi I understand your frustration. There once was a time when audio tracks weren't cut and audioswap hadn't been invented. Those days are over. They let me keep it because it's popular enough that they can make money on it with advertisements. (and it constitutes fair use)

[ZorackSwim420]

@mi24hind yeah, i dont think stills would even care, he'd be happy to see such a beautiful video to go alone with his song. plus you gave him credit for it

[CelticCowgirl]

@tbu1mi It angers me as well. Not that I'm not happy to hear this song here, and the video is great! But I tried ot upoload a video of my sister's wedding, her first dance, and they wouldn't let me upload it to share with my family because of the music in the background. An oooold song from The Princess Bride. Ugh.. oh well : (

[ElvisLivesUpstairs]

@CelticCowgirl That's a bit pathetic

[kolbpilot]

My kind of flying.

[easymelon2187]

Cool video

[hodogetsmoney]

@mi24hind because you reposted that from 5 months ago smarty pants. good now you pass the test. Listen arent you a little old to be stating online fights?

[cletistheslackjawedy]

i knew this song,i came home july 72 USA.i know what he is talking about

[buckskipper]

Style...

[VladmirVonDoughty]

im in civil air patrol, and i just came back from riding in a blackhawk (gunners seat). My face was about 20 ft from the trees when they banked a sharp right. All i could think of was this song.

[theunclejosh100]

All by his self!!!! Stephen that is.........

[theunclejosh100]

All by his self!!!!

[viletantrum]

if you close your eyes and listen to this, you can feel the spirit of this song flying you over the rivers. just cool...nothing like this now.

[FatNinjaDan]

mi24hind... thank you. This is one video with music that I actually watch.

Music is superb.

Music that applies to the actual video is superb+1

[FatNinjaDan]

mi24hind... thank you. This is one video with music that I actually watch.

Music is superb.

Music that applies to the actual video is superb+1

[dieselwhale]

Get High and go to another world

[JukeBoxHero991]

Thanx for the vid..:-)

[tiptanksarecool]

Great vid.

[Initefly]

Could watch this all day long...

[buckskipper]

I'm a treetop flyer...born survivor!

Cool fucking video!

[224lovekiss]

love this song thanks to my uncle!! gota love u uncle!

[davetherave6724]

if you want something cool try this up the top where it says youtube click the blank box then on an open box goto youtube then type in ry cooder vigilante man and play the two together cool as a polar bear drinking gin and tonic

[TheBeersCold]

Seven Dials is also a term for urban poverty.

[mi24hind]

@TheBeersCold didn't know that, thanks!

[espenjjj]

Excellent video!

[TSkkristen]

Stephen Stills was born in Dallas

[espenjjj]

Love it! :)

[n8renee2m]

Stephen Stills is from Texas!

[hodogetsmoney]

hey rainman270. have you ever been behind the controls of a plane? there are way more gauges on a plane than 6 smarty pants

[mi24hind]

@hodogetsmoney haha I think he means the "six pack" of 6 primary instruments which include the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, turn and bank, heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator

[jamlip]

@mi24hind Ahh... been wondering what that line was about.

I'd give my balls to fly my little plane on a route like this. Lovely.

[jizzmonger]

@mi24hind And Tachometer.

[hodogetsmoney]

@mi24hind heeey wow look at this kid what did google help you out what those were huuuuh? Tell me douche fucker what is a yoke in an airplane. I bet you cant tell me because your an ignorant fuck who looked up that shit on google while you watched gay porn Why dont you go suck on your mommas tit before it goes dry i hope someone finds you in the middle of night and scares the little pussy girl right out of you

[easymelon2187]

@hodogetsmoney Whoa look at you. You just come off as an illiterate prick. Try not to sound so stupid when your ranting about someone else.

[hodogetsmoney]

@easymelon2187 go fuck yourself and the horse your rode in on. Who was talking to you anyway?

[Rainman269]

@hodogetsmoney Dude,have YOU ever been behind the controls of a Plane. I have and have 20 hours my friend. There are a lot of gauges,but only 6 "primary" gauges that you need to worry about (and scan continuously if you are flying IFR,which is Instrument Flying Rules-i.e. no visibility). Look it up smartypants

[MrPimpn23]

@Rainman269 wow 20 whole hours?! No way!

[flybazman]

@hodogetsmoney

Hey Hodo.... He did say primary. Smarty Pants!

[cletistheslackjawedy]

@hodogetsmoney came home july 72 USA,1st av brigade,door gunner.i know what he is talking about

[hodogetsmoney]

@cletistheslackjawedy ok you know what hes talking about but noone knows what your talking about.

[cletistheslackjawedy]

@hodogetsmoney 

[magikchristian]

Chasing NVA's= North Vietnamese Army

[johnbruder01]

seven isles = seven Keys in Florida? flying drugs into america. a hippie flying drugs into America? Prepostorous

[boardrider58]

Great video for this awesome song

[jillyhawk]

@boardrider, nice throwdown...ditto yer comment...completely awesome, off the chain, off the hook...glad ya found this bit o' beauty after checking out my Ray's "Trouble"...funny how one thing can lead to another on ubey;), ya bo! jillygirl~ Steven Stills can fly me over the treetops, any day o' the week, you too I presume, lol! .. what a rush flyin' high, yessir!

[skiingbuzzard]

best video and I love this version of this song on youtube . thanks for posting it

[HalfBillion]

Flying around in that plane looks like so much fun. I think I'm going to build one when I get older but I think i'll be to scared to fly it if I built it.

[666FallenAces]

lol i love hippies

[zinidatikazem2010]

Ки на Мораве

[orale78]

That looks like a fun run over that river! Nice vid, love ole' Stills Treetop Flyer too, good choice.

[jamie69247]

come on now who doesent know what nva means??? jeez

[ccbc0110]

north vietnamese army

[stevethepilot]

Pretty cool. I'm really glad you didn't dub the top gun sound track over it.

[Rainman270]

Stephen Stills wasn't British. Could that mean the seven primary gauges on a plane (actually there are only six,but seven sounds better in the song)

[mi24hind]

maybe it was the neighborhood Seven Isles in Fort Lauderdale. He lived in Florida for a while.

[Rainman270]

that line was mis-tabbed. Its "Seven dials". But thanks for the info. I never knew he lived in Lauderdale.

[ejc1974]

NVA = North Vietnamese Army

[Rainman270]

Does anybody know what "chasin' MBA's" means ??? How about the seven isles ?

[ejc1974]

NVA = North Vietnamese Army

[Rainman270]

thanks,I looked at someones tab and they said "seven Isles" and "MBA's"

[Rainman269]

@johnbruder01  he didn't talk about MBA's. He was referring to NVA's=North Vietnamese Army. I still think its a matter of conjecture what the seven dials refers to and I doubt its seven isles. So in 1990 you were twenty and flying drugs into the USA ? If you say so.

[anaktis]

Wonderful video. As for the music, it is deceptively minimalist, yet so deep and resonant in both chords and meaning.

[fartbender]

Yeah, I dig.

[snowyman101]

Great Video!

[FinsterFlummoxing]

Very cool! What type of craft are you piloting?

[sweetytwome2]

living life on his terms. not legal, still

exciting. i think people day dream

of that sort of dangerous life sometimes.

[AXE2501]

this is one on my all time favorite songs, who said that you needed a 50,000 wats of power to get you point across.

[xoxjmcxox]

the song that made ray lamontange start writing music was woke up to this song one morning and the rest is history

[Leomil100]

Hehe, that was actually how I got into Stephen Stills - reading Ray LaMontagne talking about how this song inspired him. Good deal!

[ledamianded]

Great song about runnin pot from Canada to Alaska and Washington State

[Leomil100]

Dude, you flunk geography? He sings about flying over the Rio Grande so low he blows the Mesquite off the sand - you see the Rio Grande and a lot of Mesquite around the Canadian border? It's the Mexican border!

[92superunknown]

GOD awsome song! & the imagery.....spectacular!!! thanks so much for this clip....I have sent in on to all my people!!!! @}---

[catchsight]

I totally agree ahimsa-I played this track when I got up this morn also 'Bluebird' sounds good-*(stills with buffalo springfield)-stills-a great talent!

[trefry]

beautiful tune

[TEXASROXHARD]

I have a couple of hundred hours logged at this type of flying. I still get a thrill watching this video.

[burjazz]

Anyone have the tuning for this song?*****

[MrMaxwell1031]

DADGAD

[SpiritRocks4]

wow

[tailwheelflier]

I do that in my old Bonanza

[ZorackSwim420]

oh how i wish to ride with you

[danzilla777]

this is the song that inspired ray la montagne to become a musician

[ahimsa666]

That's a very nice song to wake up to.Especially at 4 am :D :D

[Shokk1234567]

Isn't it beautiful how people can inspire each other like this?

[ra2player]

Nice vid good song.

[Pilot4Hire2]

Very nicely done. I'm scared of heights. Therefore I never fly higher than 15 feet.

[ZorackSwim420]

Great flyin man, great vid great song, ahhh i wish i could ride with ya, that'd be so fuckin fun

[firecat6232]

awesome song and an awesome video!

[handsontheradio]

This song has a rather nice sound to it:)

[Kerogas]

Hey wait a minute ! Those arent fuckin mesquite trees !~~

[alexx120031034]

Not even the Bush pilots can get the job done..

[themainthing1974]

I love that song! I especially like the way he plays the guitar.

[w5cdt]

What kind of a/c was that shot from?

[lanseyblue]

A tribute to the Alaskan Bush Pilot and any one else that has got the balls to push the enevelope. Baby's need not apply!

[athlomar]

Dangerous fantasies equal jail time in nasty, stinking foreign hell holes. All those Air Skedaddle pilots paid a price in the end you would not or could not bear. There ain't no independents left, anyway. Nice song, though.

[enidschnertz]

Thankyou athlomar, for showing us all the dangers of coming here to enjoy a dude in flight AND in need of an intervention....

[bucks021]

im only 11 but i still cant waut to get my flying license, its a wicked song to

[JJBlueFlames]

"Bloed' the muskie right on the sand"

[JJBlueFlames]

Wow...GREAT JOB!!! amazing vid, great song. I'm learning to fly;that pilot kicked ass! Scared the fish and everything!One of the most gratifying videos I've seen on the web-ever!!!...Gave me a stiffie deluxe...

[TJDOZIER1]

Low level flight is a real thrill. I've been 400 MPH at less than 200 feet in a P-51 Mustang and 350 MPH at 50 feet in an AD Skyraider, so I know its a real thrill. I have also flown down inside the Grand Canyon, many many years ago. Great flying, make more videos! Take me with!

[TJDOZIER1]

This is really an awesome video, well made.

[cobaltredux]

I love this man's voice. Saw him live during the Freedom of Speech tour... It was easily one of the best nights of my life.

[blutundehre]

Love the lyrics to this song.

[pythonvicer]

Trip up this far needs five Dale Sr. style

drinks and winks. Good sky on the cash end.

[69justin69]

OUTSTANDING!

Everything about this video whips ass.

Very cool.

[cart123948]

Beautiful work. Stay in the air Jackson.

[6spdISB]

Makes me want my pilots liscense! Nice work.

[twebb72]

Ray LaMontagne quit his job for music because of this song.

[mi24hind]

Wow! I just listened to a track from Ray. Good stuff. Never heard of him before. Thanks.

[twebb72]

try "trouble". its awesome

[homeostasis4me]

CHECK HIM OUT! His cover of "Crazy" is better than the orig, one of the best songs I have ever heard. Text me back after you listen to it, tell me what you think, please.Pure genious, his music...

[Puffies420]

fell in love with this song from one my favorite movies Doublecrossed a true story and must see . there is two doublecrossed make sure u get the one with dennis hopper

[mi24hind]

I'll check it out!

[djimpelr]

Visions of Miami Vice, drug smuggling from South America via plane, etc. Good lyrics.

[1Gaumer]

i like jimmy buffetts cover better

[Darthskwerly]

I love this song.

[nede0701]

That song gives me goosebumps every time! Nice Vid!!

[1Gaumer]

true its not as curvy but then again thats not an rv-4, sweet video