I love this tune, it's SO reminds me of SO many fine youthful memories. But I cant help but to comedically submit that the words " San Fransisco girls, with San Fransisco ways " Would take on a WHOLE new meaning today. .lol
I understand Vivian Holtzman banged out the lyrics to this wicked psychedelic standard way back in the mid 1930's when she was a Bohemian out in the city by the bay. Wow. She must have been a proto-hippie!!! I grew up in Houston and these guys made a big splash. The hippie was dead by the end of '71, and I am so lucky to been alive then...
Simply called "Fever Tree", their first album, this is one of those rare albums where every single song is brilliant...check out Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, Unlock My Door, Imitation Situation...Old friends in Houston and saw them more times than I could count. Never grew tired of them or their music...
WOW MAN I MET THIS OLD HIPPY CHICK IN MENDOCINO AND WE TOOK SOME MESCALINE AND SMOKED A LOT OF GOOD BUDS AND WE PLAYED ALL THESE OLD ALBUMS FROM THE SIXTIES. I HAVE FULL UNDERSTANDING NOW. FUCK JUSTIN BIEBER AND THE PLASTIC MANUFACTURED BULLSHIT MUSIC BEING MADE NOW. I AM GOING BACK IN A TIME MACHINE TO HAIGHT ASHBURY 1965. SO LONG 2012, BYE BYE AND PEACE OUT LOOK FOR ME IN THE NEWS REELS FROM THE SIXTIES ILL BE THERE YO YO YO
i miss michael.. and if you guys do too i got some of his old rehearsal tapes that my grandma tinker gave me (tinker is is wife). just subscribe if you want me to add them
I recall hearing this for the very first time on WMMS (Cleveland). I was visiting some kin and friends on The North Coast during late winter/early spring 1968. Thank you, Billy Bass! Thanks for the look back with this great video!
WOW WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SITE AND WHAT THE HELL IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT??? I DONT GET IT... I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME BIEBER SONGS! THIS SHIT SCARES ME, BYE AND LONG LIVE JB!
@finylvinyl66 It tells me people aren't as creative today as they were in the 60's and it also tells me people arent' as discerning in their music as they were in the 60's. There was a lot goig on then and a LOT of competition, but it was the best....
@jrmolitor Can't argue with that, my friend. Yes, there was a lot of competition, but you know what? Back then, hit records weren't shoved down one's throat as they are today. When I was a kid in the Sixties, the public decided what songs and albums were hits. Radio played a much greater variety of music than we have now - some of it went over, some didn't. It is sad that in modern times, kids are pretty much TOLD what to like. Which makes it much harder for the truly creative artists.
@finylvinyl66 Yet, in spite of the competition in those days (or maybe because of it), everyone was approachable, like Johnny & Edgar Winter, 13th Floor Elevator, ZZ Top, etc. Born and raised in Houston and being 18 in the 60's gave me unique opportunities to know these people as friends. That's all they were...we went the same places, knew the same people...not realizing their stamp would be immortalized 40+ years later. Will today's "stars" be able to say the same thing in 10 years?
@jrmolitor Lots of great music came out of Texas in the Sixties and it must have been a blast to get to know some of the musicians. Did you get to know Roky Erickson? Frank Zappa once said that in the Sixties, the record companies were run by old men who were willing to give all types of bands a chance. But he also said that in the next couple decades, the old guys were replaced by yuppie, bottom line type guys who cared about profits and not about the music. FZ was right.
@finylvinyl66 I did know Roky. He was and is a strange combo of brilliance and sadness. I haven't seen him in ages, but I do remember he and I having a very deep discussion about a dead bird on the ground at Allen's Landing in '69 . We were sitting on the green below Love Street Light Circus (they may have been playing there, but who knows...I didn't even know he was with the Elevator's when I met him) and he was dressed all in gauzy white. He's been in Austin for awhile. Yes, FZ was right!
@jrmolitor So you're in Austin? Great music town - I have a friend there who's a really good blues guitarist if you're looking for one! Roky's a real legend. For me he's the American version of Syd Barrett. Your description of him seems very appropriate.
@finylvinyl66 Not in Austin anymore. Lived there for 20+ years and spent a lot of time there in the late 60's, when the Vulcan Gas Co. (later as Armadillo World Headquarters) was alive and jumping. All of the bands in those days traveled Austin, Dallas, Houston, mostly. There were a lot of great bands out of Dallas, too. I did concert photography in the early 70's to early 80's and often wish I would have had the foresight to have done that in the late 60's when I worked at Love Street.
Albums * Fever Tree 1968 (DEBUT ALBUM) S.F. GIRLS * Another Time, Another Place 1968 * Creation 1969 * For Sale 1970 * Live at Lake Charles 1978 (ON SHROOM RECORDS)
Man, that song never fails to take me back Awesome fuzz on that guitar - almost sounds like an e-bow...I still have the vinyl edition of this - one of the first records I ever bought. I think it cost me $3.98
Yes nice job with the graphics. My sister in law's brother Russ Regan produced this I think. He was running Uni Records at the time. And you are correct, this was the first album.
This song did not get much air time in the summer of 68 but I remember it very well.......has such a haunting instrument in it......its not a melloron.....not sure what it is but I liked it then and still do
FEVER TREE Never GOt the Proper Credit they Deserved for BEING Pioneers in Acid Psychedelia. Most of the thunder was taken By IRON BUTTERFLY, ANother GREAT Band from That Era> BRING BACK PSYCHEDELIC Sounds
Was in the studio control room the day this album was finally mixed. Everyone was there from the band and Scott and Vivian Holtzman. A memorable day though our audition didn't get us picked up. Michael Knust is no longer with us.
These dudes were really good - yes it's too bad they didn't make more records. I have all their songs on FLAC now and still listen to them when Jeffersonian Airplane cravings strike.
@rupilan this IS off the debut album from 1968, another time another place is the 2nd album from 1969, so maybe YOU should do your homework...and stop shouting.
@rupilan Great job on this song . I used to see them alot in the 60's when I lived in Houston/Beaumont area. They were a great band. Some of these songs were off of the first album. I was in a band from Beaumont and we waited anxiously for it to come out so we could work some of the material up to play. Great times. Thanks for the post. :-) ~~~PEACE & LOVE~~~
@JustAFocus Yes, I was and it most certainly did! Too sweet to find this online in pristine condition. My old original vinyl copy has the grooves nearly worn off it. Not that I was trippin' *every* time I played it, but ... well, I guess old stoners never die - they just take one last far out trip. ;)
My Parents would send my brother & I up to the City as they called it, to stay with the Grandparents. 1 set lived on Anderson St . the other lived on Banks off of Courtland Ave. My Grandfather was the Janitor @ Paul Revere. We would cruze that City , back then it was safe! Lo-lyf
These guys were from TEXAS...I was 40 miles from San Francisco--still am---and it was one of my favorite songs of The Time, at the time. Still like it. Still like them...still not too crazy about Texas, but, so what? Texas still don't think much of ME, either.
The City to know The City. It's like no other in the world and in the sixties it was heaven on earth! The music, the colors, the love, the sprit...how proud I am to call my self a San Francisco Girl!
I never got to San Francisco but when I see videos like this and read retrospectives I'm filled with longing and sadness. I was very much into the music and lifestyle.
Are there any boomers out there who can relate to this feeling? This song says it all.
@jlandexp2 cry 96 tears..I started looking for wishbone ash and spooky tooth and ended up here. one song leads to another. fever tree was always one of my favorites. I lived in spring branch and didnt know they were from Houston. I also lived in Belaire and remember Dons and evolution. we spent alot of time in the head shops and bought alot of phury phreak brothers and mr natural comics.
we would read them and listen to fever tree, grand funk, tontos head band, shivas head band etc. thanks,
Hey walkingdead7, I do remember Evolution Records on Post Oak Rd.. Also I went to the Catacombs on N Post Oak. Saw a lot of good bands there,,, get this Questionmark and the Mysterians they did time wont let me, Roy Head, who I became pretty good friends with, was there pretty regular,,, we did not hang out in Bellaire much because the Bellaire Police did not like bikers, I had a rough time with those guys, so did my brother. I lived in Bellaire with my parents at that time,, good ole days !!!!!
They hung out in Bellaire Texas at Dons Record Shop on Bissonett St. I met and saw them there on numerous occasions. Don and Betty also had the laundrymat where we used to go ride the dryers !!!!!
@jlandexp2 Yeah i think Dons Record Shop stayed open till the early 90's.Do you remember Evolution Records on Post Oak.I remember hearing this when i was 7 yrs old in "68".But didnt know the name of the band till the late 70's,when i heard it on KPFT.I bought the album at Rasputins on Telegraph in Berkeley Ca. in 1980.
they were all from Houston Texas. the main ingredients/brainstorms, manager, producers , writers Scott & Vivian Holtzman , and guitarist / writer Michael Knust have passed on. Singer Dennis Keller has resurfaced with new band members..since the others have moved on to other creative endeavors.
@TEXGLAM Yeah I remember Scott. I sent him the song 'Imitation Situation' that FT recorded, and he ripped off the title with not so much as a thank you. Screw him. FT were just wannabees in the Houston area then. They got a bit of airplay but weren't that great.
i would have loved to been in S.F in 67,but i wasnt born till 75,i will just have to make do with listening to great tunes like this and checking out the film and photos from back then,i just wish the clothes would come into fashion now!! iwould love to see people getting weird and freaky!!LOL
When I was a kid I ran away from home and went and lived with these hippies in a candle shop for about 2 days,,,I think this is the only record they owned,after 2 days I had enough and went back home...I can listen to this tune now and laugh...
I heard this in 1976 on KPIG, driving on Saratoga Avenue in San Jose. I then managed (by dumb luck) to get it on tape from college radio show (KFJC) in 1981. It will always be one of my "touchstone" songs--amongst the other 150 or so...
One of the GREATEST songs of all time that just got away from me over time and now I have it back and won't I won't let it go. Thanks for bringing it back .
i did no know the name of the groupu neither the title of the song.I just knew that i liked the song,and that it was something about Frisco.Now i finally got it.I'm gonna watch more videos of them
i did no know the name of the groupu neither the title of the song.I just knew that i liked the song,and that it was something about Frisco.Now i finally got it.I'm gonna watch more videos of them
On the jukebox at the only all-night cafe around the Broadway and Granville/Burrard area [Kitsilano] , 1968...spent a lot of quarters...good to hear it again.
had a 1950 ford panel truck in Minn in the 60's painted like alot of these vehicles called the Majic Bus.Got stoped alot but never stoped me from my freedom of exspressing my thoughts
I had a 1950 ford panel wagon in minn. painted like these vehichles.Got stop alot in the 60's.Never and never will change my views of the way things should be.Still an old hippie.Love and peace to all are still out there.Hawk.
Even at the time this was an Underrated Album must have been the distribution Company , Promised Knust to get this played in NYC , we all called in , they played it and kept playing it , we had a real hard time finding it in the record stores . Had to go to Flatbush Ave and Church Ave in Brooklyn to get the two Copies they had !
Every song is great , outshines most of the hugely successful bands back then .
Or maybe it was due to the fact that new, awesome bands were coming out like they were factory produced. Not every gem could see the light of day in it's own respect. Texas wasn't exactly the paradise everyone was looking for, haha.
I have this album in my shed in Colo.However I don't have ant thing to play it on.Had to give my turn table and amp away to someone that needed it more than me for their kids.Such is life
i bought this album in UK, based on the cover only. Really geat alternative album and very vibrant and original...very cool guitar an vocals..largely unknown....
had the album that included the daytripper song and neil young's nowadays clancy can't even sing ..but the fever tree best of does not include these..just their own penned hits..
I'm so sorry to hear Don Lampton passed away, when did this happen? Used to go to his music store on Montrose Blvd. in the late 70's. Sad he was'nt with the band during their albums and success, was a very nice guy. The band I played in did the old Wilson Picket song 991/2, was my idea to do the song like Fever Tree did it after hearing it on their album. They also did a great version of " Day Tripper/We can work it out", a must listen too tune.
Love this! Thank you for sharing this with me Larry! A great vibe to start the weekend! Love the city by the bay! Home away from home! much love! Di:)
You're right. I remenber peaceful nights & the song playing as I was struggling with my university studies. I wish someone would post "Nowadays Clancy ..." . i haven't found it yet for internet subscriber download.
I thought my brother and I were the only ones in the world who knew this song. You have done the best possible job putting graphics to this amazing song. VERY cool!!
As an aside, I once performed this song (at an Open Mic Night in Pomona, California, around 1991) ... on a Turkish instrument called a saz. I have to go find the tape of that.
This really brought back some wonderful memories. I hope it gets 80,000 views, at least!
Overlooked classic song! Evokes intense feelings of longing for that incredible but fleeting era. It didn't last long, but boy was it ever outasight! Nothing before or since like those carefree psychedelic days and nights, hangin' out with the peace and love gang, when every day was an adventure, living outside of mainstream society, joyously doing our own thing!
@ShowBizComic First heard it on KPIG when I was moving to West San Jose--you know, the tough part of town--with all of my belongings in my '67 Chevy Impala (metallic blue, faded)
I thought David Cassidy sang it, but I didn't mind--the song was so good! Ended up taping it in 1980 from the "RELICS" show on KFJC.
I love this tune, it's SO reminds me of SO many fine youthful memories. But I cant help but to comedically submit that the words " San Fransisco girls, with San Fransisco ways " Would take on a WHOLE new meaning today. .lol
gblueslover2 1 week ago
Gee, Mr. Kesey, your Kool-Aid is really tasty! May I get on the magic bus?
drdonwhill 1 week ago
I understand Vivian Holtzman banged out the lyrics to this wicked psychedelic standard way back in the mid 1930's when she was a Bohemian out in the city by the bay. Wow. She must have been a proto-hippie!!! I grew up in Houston and these guys made a big splash. The hippie was dead by the end of '71, and I am so lucky to been alive then...
drdonwhill 1 month ago
Simply called "Fever Tree", their first album, this is one of those rare albums where every single song is brilliant...check out Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, Unlock My Door, Imitation Situation...Old friends in Houston and saw them more times than I could count. Never grew tired of them or their music...
jrmolitor 1 month ago
WOW MAN I MET THIS OLD HIPPY CHICK IN MENDOCINO AND WE TOOK SOME MESCALINE AND SMOKED A LOT OF GOOD BUDS AND WE PLAYED ALL THESE OLD ALBUMS FROM THE SIXTIES. I HAVE FULL UNDERSTANDING NOW. FUCK JUSTIN BIEBER AND THE PLASTIC MANUFACTURED BULLSHIT MUSIC BEING MADE NOW. I AM GOING BACK IN A TIME MACHINE TO HAIGHT ASHBURY 1965. SO LONG 2012, BYE BYE AND PEACE OUT LOOK FOR ME IN THE NEWS REELS FROM THE SIXTIES ILL BE THERE YO YO YO
NSA666999 1 month ago
i miss michael.. and if you guys do too i got some of his old rehearsal tapes that my grandma tinker gave me (tinker is is wife). just subscribe if you want me to add them
th3v1ct3m 2 months ago
I recall hearing this for the very first time on WMMS (Cleveland). I was visiting some kin and friends on The North Coast during late winter/early spring 1968. Thank you, Billy Bass! Thanks for the look back with this great video!
mickeymousebiker1 2 months ago
WOW WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SITE AND WHAT THE HELL IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT??? I DONT GET IT... I WAS LOOKING FOR SOME BIEBER SONGS! THIS SHIT SCARES ME, BYE AND LONG LIVE JB!
NSA666999 3 months ago
@NSA6699 JB is a huge star. Fever Tree never were. Fever Tree is 100 times better than JB. What does that tell you?
finylvinyl66 1 month ago
@finylvinyl66 It tells me people aren't as creative today as they were in the 60's and it also tells me people arent' as discerning in their music as they were in the 60's. There was a lot goig on then and a LOT of competition, but it was the best....
jrmolitor 1 month ago
@jrmolitor Can't argue with that, my friend. Yes, there was a lot of competition, but you know what? Back then, hit records weren't shoved down one's throat as they are today. When I was a kid in the Sixties, the public decided what songs and albums were hits. Radio played a much greater variety of music than we have now - some of it went over, some didn't. It is sad that in modern times, kids are pretty much TOLD what to like. Which makes it much harder for the truly creative artists.
finylvinyl66 1 month ago
@finylvinyl66 Yet, in spite of the competition in those days (or maybe because of it), everyone was approachable, like Johnny & Edgar Winter, 13th Floor Elevator, ZZ Top, etc. Born and raised in Houston and being 18 in the 60's gave me unique opportunities to know these people as friends. That's all they were...we went the same places, knew the same people...not realizing their stamp would be immortalized 40+ years later. Will today's "stars" be able to say the same thing in 10 years?
jrmolitor 1 month ago
@jrmolitor Lots of great music came out of Texas in the Sixties and it must have been a blast to get to know some of the musicians. Did you get to know Roky Erickson? Frank Zappa once said that in the Sixties, the record companies were run by old men who were willing to give all types of bands a chance. But he also said that in the next couple decades, the old guys were replaced by yuppie, bottom line type guys who cared about profits and not about the music. FZ was right.
finylvinyl66 1 month ago
@finylvinyl66 I did know Roky. He was and is a strange combo of brilliance and sadness. I haven't seen him in ages, but I do remember he and I having a very deep discussion about a dead bird on the ground at Allen's Landing in '69 . We were sitting on the green below Love Street Light Circus (they may have been playing there, but who knows...I didn't even know he was with the Elevator's when I met him) and he was dressed all in gauzy white. He's been in Austin for awhile. Yes, FZ was right!
jrmolitor 1 month ago
@jrmolitor So you're in Austin? Great music town - I have a friend there who's a really good blues guitarist if you're looking for one! Roky's a real legend. For me he's the American version of Syd Barrett. Your description of him seems very appropriate.
finylvinyl66 1 month ago
@finylvinyl66 Not in Austin anymore. Lived there for 20+ years and spent a lot of time there in the late 60's, when the Vulcan Gas Co. (later as Armadillo World Headquarters) was alive and jumping. All of the bands in those days traveled Austin, Dallas, Houston, mostly. There were a lot of great bands out of Dallas, too. I did concert photography in the early 70's to early 80's and often wish I would have had the foresight to have done that in the late 60's when I worked at Love Street.
jrmolitor 1 month ago
Albums * Fever Tree 1968 (DEBUT ALBUM) S.F. GIRLS * Another Time, Another Place 1968 * Creation 1969 * For Sale 1970 * Live at Lake Charles 1978 (ON SHROOM RECORDS)
l LIVE ALBUM 1969
7734Duke 3 months ago
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7734Duke 3 months ago
I remember when KILT the big 610 would play this song.
mpjgbx 3 months ago
Man, that song never fails to take me back Awesome fuzz on that guitar - almost sounds like an e-bow...I still have the vinyl edition of this - one of the first records I ever bought. I think it cost me $3.98
Prestostark 3 months ago
@Prestostark Still got mine and even bought it on CD so I could listen to the brilliance in my car
jrmolitor 1 month ago
Great artwork ! Heard this on the radio earlier for the first time I think :) .... awwww :) ..Hippies use backdoor ! No exceptions :( x
ledzeplinchesh 4 months ago
Great song from my past
Marlinmonroe1 4 months ago
Very Nice!
Bluematter2010 4 months ago
Yes nice job with the graphics. My sister in law's brother Russ Regan produced this I think. He was running Uni Records at the time. And you are correct, this was the first album.
ursamajoran 6 months ago
oops I misspelled Mellotron
yuvegotmale 6 months ago
This song did not get much air time in the summer of 68 but I remember it very well.......has such a haunting instrument in it......its not a melloron.....not sure what it is but I liked it then and still do
yuvegotmale 6 months ago
FEVER TREE Never GOt the Proper Credit they Deserved for BEING Pioneers in Acid Psychedelia. Most of the thunder was taken By IRON BUTTERFLY, ANother GREAT Band from That Era> BRING BACK PSYCHEDELIC Sounds
frankenstein1815 7 months ago
Fever Tree is releasing a live recording that was recently discovered.
chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2011_5061774
houmannw 7 months ago
I'd completly forgotten about this song until this morning while I was doing some research.
It's still summertime in some places.
WhatSayestThou 7 months ago
Was in the studio control room the day this album was finally mixed. Everyone was there from the band and Scott and Vivian Holtzman. A memorable day though our audition didn't get us picked up. Michael Knust is no longer with us.
kg0ye 8 months ago
you know what they say about the 60's ?? If you can remember the 60's -- you werent there --so true
cmay52 8 months ago
These dudes were really good - yes it's too bad they didn't make more records. I have all their songs on FLAC now and still listen to them when Jeffersonian Airplane cravings strike.
raddmann99 9 months ago
Great band... not much records made unfortunately...
Gooseberry51 9 months ago
Yeah, 1st album. I don't remember a lot about the late 60's but I remember the order of these discs...
MobileSlim 9 months ago
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rupilan 9 months ago
@rupilan this IS off the debut album from 1968, another time another place is the 2nd album from 1969, so maybe YOU should do your homework...and stop shouting.
thepowderedclouds 9 months ago 9
@rupilan sorry but this comes from their debut album called "Fever Tree"; "Another time...another place" is their second album.
davies511 9 months ago
@rupilan I think you've dropped too many tabs. This is from their eponymous, debut album.
EggsZachtly 8 months ago
@rupilan Great job on this song . I used to see them alot in the 60's when I lived in Houston/Beaumont area. They were a great band. Some of these songs were off of the first album. I was in a band from Beaumont and we waited anxiously for it to come out so we could work some of the material up to play. Great times. Thanks for the post. :-) ~~~PEACE & LOVE~~~
dabmab777 1 month ago
@dabmab777 ^^ It is a great upload, but I'm not the one to thank. Since I'm not the uploader. PEACE & DOVE to u 2
rupilan 1 month ago
Takes me back to 15 years old, what an amazing time to grow up in!!! Lovely video,thanks.
medusaA111 9 months ago
Bought back a few memories for me, haven't heard this since I was 15..........What an amazing time to be a teenager. Lovely video!
medusaA111 9 months ago
this is a memory. i lived in san jose (sf bay area) for over 24 years.... Yes, SFO is special.
tiborvivi 9 months ago
I gotta get back to the bay
LWayne38 10 months ago
58.....unemployed.....if I knew it was going to be like this, I would have stayed back then.......pass the orange barrel please...........
searayus1 10 months ago 4
@searayus1 So, life wanst what you tought it would be? I will see myself like you in 40 years. Totally.
okodorifuto 9 months ago
Good Gawd.. I am 64.... SIGH.. Hmm wonder why I get those old feelings...
playerdouble 11 months ago
Good Gawd.. I am 64.... SIGH..
playerdouble 11 months ago
An old fave of mine. I imagine that if you were listening to this on an acid trip, that ending would sure tweak your noggin a bit!
JustAFocus 1 year ago
@JustAFocus Yes, I was and it most certainly did! Too sweet to find this online in pristine condition. My old original vinyl copy has the grooves nearly worn off it. Not that I was trippin' *every* time I played it, but ... well, I guess old stoners never die - they just take one last far out trip. ;)
GumatzPotrzebie 1 year ago
@JustAFocus Yah, that ending is EPIC, acid or not!
nightliter 10 months ago
My Parents would send my brother & I up to the City as they called it, to stay with the Grandparents. 1 set lived on Anderson St . the other lived on Banks off of Courtland Ave. My Grandfather was the Janitor @ Paul Revere. We would cruze that City , back then it was safe! Lo-lyf
Lolyf55 1 year ago
Thank You! Great song and great images. Well done.
ShunkahasFire 1 year ago
These guys were from TEXAS...I was 40 miles from San Francisco--still am---and it was one of my favorite songs of The Time, at the time. Still like it. Still like them...still not too crazy about Texas, but, so what? Texas still don't think much of ME, either.
dzigster881 1 year ago 3
I love this song and the video. The Psychedelic years sure produced some memorable music. The best.
46razzledazzle 1 year ago 2
I,ve stood under that sign many times. It's right off the pan handle.
Lolyf55 1 year ago
The City to know The City. It's like no other in the world and in the sixties it was heaven on earth! The music, the colors, the love, the sprit...how proud I am to call my self a San Francisco Girl!
dee4541 1 year ago
I havent heard that in ages.Sweeeeeet!
Zzyyxxyyxx 1 year ago
I never got to San Francisco but when I see videos like this and read retrospectives I'm filled with longing and sadness. I was very much into the music and lifestyle.
Are there any boomers out there who can relate to this feeling? This song says it all.
49kasey 1 year ago
One of my all time faves--reminds me of better times of love, peace, and when I wore flowers in my hair!
22vikingblood 1 year ago
Classic track. Dennis Keller's vocals are amazing.
Eawahwah 1 year ago
Really memorable for its opening--great stuff. After that, well.....
toobmes 1 year ago
Awesome tune!
billyjack1973 1 year ago
If anyone is interested this just popped up on iTunes for purchase today 11-2-10.
joraider08 1 year ago
Just for the record Questionmark and the Mysterians hit song was 96 Tears,,, sorry about that, I stand corrected !!!!!
jlandexp2 1 year ago
@jlandexp2 cry 96 tears..I started looking for wishbone ash and spooky tooth and ended up here. one song leads to another. fever tree was always one of my favorites. I lived in spring branch and didnt know they were from Houston. I also lived in Belaire and remember Dons and evolution. we spent alot of time in the head shops and bought alot of phury phreak brothers and mr natural comics.
we would read them and listen to fever tree, grand funk, tontos head band, shivas head band etc. thanks,
gcstone1 1 year ago
Hey walkingdead7, I do remember Evolution Records on Post Oak Rd.. Also I went to the Catacombs on N Post Oak. Saw a lot of good bands there,,, get this Questionmark and the Mysterians they did time wont let me, Roy Head, who I became pretty good friends with, was there pretty regular,,, we did not hang out in Bellaire much because the Bellaire Police did not like bikers, I had a rough time with those guys, so did my brother. I lived in Bellaire with my parents at that time,, good ole days !!!!!
jlandexp2 1 year ago
great pictures mate
qsergyuko 1 year ago
They hung out in Bellaire Texas at Dons Record Shop on Bissonett St. I met and saw them there on numerous occasions. Don and Betty also had the laundrymat where we used to go ride the dryers !!!!!
jlandexp2 1 year ago
@jlandexp2 Yeah i think Dons Record Shop stayed open till the early 90's.Do you remember Evolution Records on Post Oak.I remember hearing this when i was 7 yrs old in "68".But didnt know the name of the band till the late 70's,when i heard it on KPFT.I bought the album at Rasputins on Telegraph in Berkeley Ca. in 1980.
walkingdead7 1 year ago
they were all from Houston Texas. the main ingredients/brainstorms, manager, producers , writers Scott & Vivian Holtzman , and guitarist / writer Michael Knust have passed on. Singer Dennis Keller has resurfaced with new band members..since the others have moved on to other creative endeavors.
TEXGLAM 1 year ago
@TEXGLAM Yeah I remember Scott. I sent him the song 'Imitation Situation' that FT recorded, and he ripped off the title with not so much as a thank you. Screw him. FT were just wannabees in the Houston area then. They got a bit of airplay but weren't that great.
Ardalla555 1 year ago
Wern't these people from Texas?
MrLaurence19 1 year ago
Great classic 60's band. Never got the fame they deserved. Amazing times and memories. Thanks for posting!
LodiLegends 1 year ago
i would have loved to been in S.F in 67,but i wasnt born till 75,i will just have to make do with listening to great tunes like this and checking out the film and photos from back then,i just wish the clothes would come into fashion now!! iwould love to see people getting weird and freaky!!LOL
thesyd1975 1 year ago
When I was a kid I ran away from home and went and lived with these hippies in a candle shop for about 2 days,,,I think this is the only record they owned,after 2 days I had enough and went back home...I can listen to this tune now and laugh...
tundradog 1 year ago
I heard this in 1976 on KPIG, driving on Saratoga Avenue in San Jose. I then managed (by dumb luck) to get it on tape from college radio show (KFJC) in 1981. It will always be one of my "touchstone" songs--amongst the other 150 or so...
LowBid86 1 year ago
I think this song and album was the epitome of psychedelia, after this it was speed rock
crannogdolmen 1 year ago
One of the GREATEST songs of all time that just got away from me over time and now I have it back and won't I won't let it go. Thanks for bringing it back .
vintagezigg 1 year ago
@vintagezigg thanks for sharing, Zigg. nice searing guitar... all in all a real time capule job... to the bay we go.
seanreillyireland 1 year ago
brings back wonderful memories... well, pieces of memories, from a great time to be young and alive!
alwtx 1 year ago
An iconic song about San Francisco coming from a band from Houston, weird.
davidhrod 1 year ago
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i did no know the name of the groupu neither the title of the song.I just knew that i liked the song,and that it was something about Frisco.Now i finally got it.I'm gonna watch more videos of them
elyeye66 1 year ago
i did no know the name of the groupu neither the title of the song.I just knew that i liked the song,and that it was something about Frisco.Now i finally got it.I'm gonna watch more videos of them
elyeye66 1 year ago
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jwolfe1115 2 years ago
Great tune. I haven't heard this in decades and it still holds up nicely.
SurroundaSound 2 years ago
Carly Simon had a song titled "I've Got To Have You" that sounds a little like this song.
glimmer2158 2 years ago
This little number has just blown my little polyester socks off. Thanks for uploading
nathan260575 2 years ago
On the jukebox at the only all-night cafe around the Broadway and Granville/Burrard area [Kitsilano] , 1968...spent a lot of quarters...good to hear it again.
MrTallfiddle 2 years ago 2
This is great to find. They used to practice in the garage next door when I was a kid.
RTBC2 2 years ago 3
VERY happy to see one of my all time favorite '60's tracks has had such a good video treatment given to it. Thanks.
mkdjoy 2 years ago 17
had a 1950 ford panel truck in Minn in the 60's painted like alot of these vehicles called the Majic Bus.Got stoped alot but never stoped me from my freedom of exspressing my thoughts
hawktrash 2 years ago
I had a 1950 ford panel wagon in minn. painted like these vehichles.Got stop alot in the 60's.Never and never will change my views of the way things should be.Still an old hippie.Love and peace to all are still out there.Hawk.
hawktrash 2 years ago
first time I ever heard these guys ... amazing matreial ... looks like another CD for my wants list
dak0tab00 2 years ago
so damn nostalgic for then !!!!!! this group ruled !!!!!
ROBIBLOOM 2 years ago
I looked for this song for ages, not knowing the title or the artist...
switcherdawna 2 years ago
Coooooooooool!! My fav.
orangewoman671 2 years ago
THIS IS A TRUE 60S SONG
CRAZOLA3 2 years ago
This is one of the all time Great Albums !
Even at the time this was an Underrated Album must have been the distribution Company , Promised Knust to get this played in NYC , we all called in , they played it and kept playing it , we had a real hard time finding it in the record stores . Had to go to Flatbush Ave and Church Ave in Brooklyn to get the two Copies they had !
Every song is great , outshines most of the hugely successful bands back then .
This is a must have Album !
sadhouse 2 years ago
Or maybe it was due to the fact that new, awesome bands were coming out like they were factory produced. Not every gem could see the light of day in it's own respect. Texas wasn't exactly the paradise everyone was looking for, haha.
6mindless6scarecrow6 2 years ago
I have this album in my shed in Colo.However I don't have ant thing to play it on.Had to give my turn table and amp away to someone that needed it more than me for their kids.Such is life
hawktrash 2 years ago 3
You really owe it to your self to get it on CD.
davidlaraby 2 years ago
@davidlaraby This song is included on the compilation CD - Psychedelic Pop.
musicfan43055 1 year ago
i love the weed :)
xCxLxOxWxNx 2 years ago
i bought this album in UK, based on the cover only. Really geat alternative album and very vibrant and original...very cool guitar an vocals..largely unknown....
chesterarebest 2 years ago
trippy
soundwaveOD457 2 years ago
had the album that included the daytripper song and neil young's nowadays clancy can't even sing ..but the fever tree best of does not include these..just their own penned hits..
airplaneguy53 2 years ago
I'm so sorry to hear Don Lampton passed away, when did this happen? Used to go to his music store on Montrose Blvd. in the late 70's. Sad he was'nt with the band during their albums and success, was a very nice guy. The band I played in did the old Wilson Picket song 991/2, was my idea to do the song like Fever Tree did it after hearing it on their album. They also did a great version of " Day Tripper/We can work it out", a must listen too tune.
dacat58 2 years ago 3
Wow. . .lots of crazy memories. . .have not heard this group for 30plus years
ctc315 2 years ago
RIP Don Lampton
bee13kohl 2 years ago
RIP Don Lampton...original keyboardist for Fever Tree
bee13kohl 2 years ago
Houston band, fantastic live, should have been bigger stars.
Still listen to their albums, which are also mostly now out on CD.
jwaldhelm 2 years ago
from sf late 68 in the soo getting loaded
longr8nge 2 years ago
Heard this song only a few times from a 3" table radio speaker (Milwaukee wasn't as hip as SF). Never forgot it, though! Thanks!
cosmicship 2 years ago
Isn't there a longer version?
gunslinger32mag 2 years ago
Yeah, there is. Something like 5:30.
pedroghirotti 2 years ago
I've never heard a longer version...where can I find it?
jade0425 2 years ago
Michael Knust... a brother in arms
docholiday747 2 years ago
Thanks for this comment, DocHoliday747. Mike was my Uncle. He is missed.
gsween1 2 years ago
I was a 19 year old young SF-Bay
On The Bus Psychedelic Hipster with SF Girls when this song came out.
It was perfect-Takes me right back.
Thanks!
6749er 2 years ago
This is a perfect example of psychedelia...beautiful song. And it brings back such strong memories....
keefek 2 years ago
Brings back memories,thanks.
OkieBluesDog 3 years ago
Love this! Thank you for sharing this with me Larry! A great vibe to start the weekend! Love the city by the bay! Home away from home! much love! Di:)
ambervisions 3 years ago
Kudos to thepowderedclouds for an amazingly graphic video to accompany the music.
EXCELLENT!
hterra1955 3 years ago
A friend at the University of Oklahoma gave me this album in the fall of 1969. I was on leave going to Vietnam. (Volunteered) Infantry.
I'll never forget how it's beauty and tranquility was so soothing. This song and Nowadays Clancy were my fav.
Thanks for posting
mew
mewcomm 3 years ago
volunteer?
oh...man...
PeterCRissKISSgod 3 years ago
i'm glad you came home alive !
jache77 3 years ago
You're right. I remenber peaceful nights & the song playing as I was struggling with my university studies. I wish someone would post "Nowadays Clancy ..." . i haven't found it yet for internet subscriber download.
piano1newbie 3 years ago
Fevertree was one of my favorite groups back in the late 60's... Glad to see others like them too.
Tarlach 3 years ago
WOW.
I thought my brother and I were the only ones in the world who knew this song. You have done the best possible job putting graphics to this amazing song. VERY cool!!
As an aside, I once performed this song (at an Open Mic Night in Pomona, California, around 1991) ... on a Turkish instrument called a saz. I have to go find the tape of that.
This really brought back some wonderful memories. I hope it gets 80,000 views, at least!
anglicanbeachparty 3 years ago
Groovy song...
tlcompanion 3 years ago 2
milk and honey days indeed..take me back to those heady days of san francisco..peace and love!
jeffo0771 3 years ago 2
Overlooked classic song! Evokes intense feelings of longing for that incredible but fleeting era. It didn't last long, but boy was it ever outasight! Nothing before or since like those carefree psychedelic days and nights, hangin' out with the peace and love gang, when every day was an adventure, living outside of mainstream society, joyously doing our own thing!
ShowBizComic 3 years ago 17
@ShowBizComic First heard it on KPIG when I was moving to West San Jose--you know, the tough part of town--with all of my belongings in my '67 Chevy Impala (metallic blue, faded)
I thought David Cassidy sang it, but I didn't mind--the song was so good! Ended up taping it in 1980 from the "RELICS" show on KFJC.
LowBid86 1 year ago
@ShowBizComic You've said it all man ! Peace , Ziggy
vintagezigg 1 year ago