H P Lo vecra ft - Whit e Ship (1968)

[Laino91]

Is this the only HP Lovecraft footage on Youtube?

[sequential9]

I got to see them at the Avalon Ballroom,and I think Winterland, they were sweet on the harmony...

[ivycompton]

Fabulous. You deserve endless props for posting footage of this extraordinary band. Two brilliant albums (followed by a couple with a change of personnel) that represent high points in '60s psychedelic music. Thank you!

[dali666]

love craft



[DudleyScardsdale]

Really sad that they only made two (real) albums before dropping off the face of the earth.

[JayAr709]

Whatever they were paid wasn't enough.

[hihatsp]

@JayAr709 ur a nigger

[stu36559]

I am so glad to finally see this band. One question though: I hear what I think is a French horn and a ships bell, who is playing them?

[stanleysoldman]

bit noisy, but such a great song!

[003Damian]

I used to see this band at "The Celler" in Arlington Heights outside of Chicago in 1968. They were so good in person.

[003Damian]

Is this the only live footage of one of the 60's best live bands?

[salvadory]

the most criminally overlooked bands of the era- both of their albums are gems!

[lonefools3]

Awesome. In the traditional sense

[Azagorgoth]

thank you SO MUCH for this. I never thought I would see them actually performing. 

[gambina666]

So beautiful it's impossible to describe

[susantyrellfan]

Timeless!

[dylanologist]

Wow! What a joy to find this. Had no idea this footage existed. I have loved this song for many decades. HP Lofecraft is truly a vastly underrated band that got a bit buried under the more prominent sounds of Big Brother, The Airplane, The Dead, Quicksilver, etc. They deserved more recognition than they got back in the day. Thanks for posting it.

[harwicke]

Nice vocals. They sound a little like the Airplane. Very cool.

[MademoiselleRauni]

Oh, Dios! Excelente! Es el único vídeo de ellos que existe?

[TwilightCodex]

Awesome!!!

[rickbaunach]

They should have been famous! This song reminds me of the advent of underground FM radio. It started in San Francisco. Our own version was CKLG fm out of Vancouver BC Canada. This opened up the wider world of music for me. They would play a psychedelic song followed by a folk song, followed by an India raga. We were released from the tyranny of top 40 programing. They would even play whole album sides. All this with very few commercials.

[Diane3952]

They remind me of the group, "It's A Beautiful Day".

[frazzittasong]

One of the most underrated bands of all time. "White Ship" is a true lost classic! Thanks for posting!!!

[bobblehead67]

NICE pipes, fellas!

[corsikan]

Great band, fab voices - song eerie as hell.

[murkatable]

Whoa.............goosebumps all the way

[deanguy66]

Wow, great to see them again. Saw them live back in '68 and they were always one of my favorite bands.

I still have e-mail exchanges with a couple of the guys from the band.

[fluxmuldar]

@deanguy66

Where are they now? Someone really needs to interview them or do some sort of feature.. there so little info on them.

[voodoobluesme]

Incredible to actually see them performing! Buy their Live CD from 1968, it shows they truly are one of the great unknowns from that period. Aside from the vocal harmonies the drumming on the Live CD has to be heard to be believed.

[Peskygee1]

@voodoobluesme I agree. I wish they recorded more music. Their ability to create dark atmospheric soundscapes is amazing, and the live disc proves they could do it outside the studio.

[MARSHOMEWORLD]

Wow! I'd never seen live footage before. Thanks for posting.

[folkmusicgirl]

What a great song! They remind me a little of The Youngbloods group from around that time in the 60's.

Kind of surprized this group never became more well known or more albums. Wonder what became of them?

[AristYdes]

listen... what the flower people say... woah ah ah ah ah

[SpaceRitual]

This is totally what Spinal Tap was parodying with "Flower People" but I love it.

[bladeebla9]

I used to play the first album a lot, amazingly complex stuff in places. Someone once told me that two of them were killed in Vietnam, anyone know the truth of that?

[gnome41]

All of the members are still alive and well. George Edwards is producing music, Dave Michaels is still playing, and the others are just doing their own thing. But what you heard were just rumors. No truth to it.

[kennethbestwell]

nicely cold shivers...

[Anon1696]

Their voices are so beautiful.

[mikal9000]

Wow! I had no idea that live footage of these guys existed. If things had worked out a little differently, they could've been America's answer to proto-prog Brit groups like Pink Floyd or the Moody Blues. Thanks for posting this.

[slojoe58]

The guy on the keyboards looks like Peter from the Brady Bunch.

[dukeyflyswatter]

Saw them do this On Mike Douglas show I think. never forgot it.

[HankLandMan]

"...I think, never forgot it."

haha

[teetosh]

Music was so adventurous back then.

[pedrofts]

the strangest, most fascinating, short-lifed, magical band ive come across... i remember listening to this particular song while roaming the streets of Paris, last year, completely stoned =)

[illoominatykilla]

fuck yes! i just found these guys a couple months back, HP a great addition to my nearing endless psychedelic collection, as if yu have this footage?!

its tripped out watching em do what ive been listening to.great post.

[BigBishop1]

saw them in waukegan too freaky

[namroputs]

One of my ultimate faves, shame it's the short version but I guess the video makes up for it. Great posting!

[NaplesRtist]

Sometimes in the Spring, I think back when I was in HS. I knew George Edwards from his days in our plays and his folk band. He took my best friend to his prom and not me. It is interesting to see him perform just a few years after that, but so many years ago now. I had no idea of what his band sounded like until now! I am not sure I could have bought an album then, but the music is very late sixties and the vintage footage fascinating to watch.

[mykedubya]

Live HP!!! Awesome!! Thanks for the post, 'ppreciate it greatly. Peace.

[ienzy]

sono stati dei grandi....molto poetici

[MattHatter]

I've known about H.P. Lovecraft for years but have never owned one of their albums. I think I might now though. Those are some awesome harmonies!

[pedrofts]

hey thanks for sharing this video. its so rare to see any reference to this band, let alone footage. thanks a lot

[AustinTXDrummer]

I'm pretty sure I smoked my first joint listening to this too.............

[AustinTXDrummer]

Wow...I grew up with this band and all the songs on the album. Timeless tunes. Never thought I would see a video. Thks!

[toecutterr6]

Nice Gibson EB2 short scale Bass!

[villoncorbiere]

a video of H.P. Lovecraft!? Incredible!! Tanks!how can have the records?

[Efrasnel]

Great to see there's a live clip of sorts...

[tuxguys]

I love this... a music video, before there was a place, other than on local dance-party shows, to play a music video... and of my all-time fave "art-rock" song, to boot. (Dig the outfits: They all look like they could be the henchmen of Guy of Guisborne in the Errol Flynn verson of "Robin hood.")

[shortfatso]

While word has it that there was 'substance abuse' (not just pot or LSD)among certain members of the band, and a reviewer of the compilation album The White Ship in Melody Maker also suggested that it was about junk, I still do not think that was its intended meaning - though of course it could have multiple meanings. The song probably just takes its inspiration from the short story 'The White Ship'. What is not in doubt, however, is that it is a majestic, magnificent song.

[Patfaki]

Yes, this was named after the H.P. Lovecraft story (and it is a strnge tale, to say the least). But the drug references also seem to be there sure enough ('burning into my eye..'). However one interprets it, though, the song is clearly a classic of the first order.

[mk393]

Where on earth did you get this? TV show from 1968? Amazing.

[Patfaki]

Many, many thanks for posting this - it must be ultra rare.

The song is one of the first songs about junk that I ever heard, predated only by the Velvet Underground's 'Heroin' and Love's Signed DC.

[jaundicedi]

The song actually isn't about smack. It is based on H.P.Lovecraft's story "The White Ship" written in the early 30's.

[brokenskates]

Lovely to see this video of Lovecraft.I remember them @ Old Town parties. I worked in a store called Climax and they came in to buy some pipes.So I was invited to hang out with them. Nice! One time some of the guys from Lovecraft and Shadows of Knight were in House of Lewis buying jackets. Old Town/Wells Street/Pipers Alley was so much fun. Growing up in Old Town was waaaaaaay groovy!

Thanks for the memories that seem so distant and again, thanks for youtube!!!

[colesey56]

Staggering,favourites with Moby's,Love and the Buffalo's from the glory year's.Never seen these boy's on film before,is there any more anywhere?.Edwards and Michael's vocals were stunning,a magnificent band,1'st two albums are crucial to any psych head.

[thecrimsonfloyd]

what is the singer's name

[progdave]

absolutely aw3some like everyone else i did not know any video footage existed of this band.

[patriotagainstempire]

If ANYONE has more film footage of H.P. Lovecraft performing PLEASE post it!!!

[byrdmaniac1983]

the twin vocals from HP Lovecraft were quasi-operistic, they were a top-notch band, didn't know this existed, first and second album are a MUST! And the darker psych side they made, was awful great!

[dragster58]

There's nothing like good 'ol psychedelia!! :)

[haltmusic]

Whoa!

[spudwas]

Where the heck did this video come from? I'm shocked to see this. Thanks to whoever posted this.

[odinrok]

one of my favorite bands. never imagined id ever see footage!!! thank you!

[Polyphemus47]

NEVER thought I'd see footage of them live! Thank you--this is a real find.

[gillesbertacco]

AAAAAARGGGHHH!!!`Been looking for footage of them for so long! Thanks a million! Awesome! My favorite song of of them is "Wayfarin' Stranger". Apparently they played it in some TV appearances...whenever you should come across... Awesome Post!

[padleynj]

This is surely a great treat! And always the more you listen to it the more you appreciate it! It is timeless! One of the greatest songs to come out, period!

[padleynj]

Virtually unknown but and should have been. Great west-coast vocal harmonies and orchestral arangement. Always loved this song. They also do a great job on Burl Ives' Poor Wayfaring Stranger. Suprisingly one of my other favorites is CSN Wooden Ships!!

[pehbunny]

my cousin played bass in this band in a later lineup, unfortunately he has dementia and is in a nursing home. This was his favorite song...

[colamoonpig]

Excellent !!!

[cosmocrateroth]

hans has probably the best vids

[riverbenddogs]

just bought a mono copy of the album today, i also recommend george edwards' b-side on his norweigan wood single on the dunwich label. thank you!

[sorbus49]

So Many Boston Bands were Like So

Out There

This Unfortunately Surrounded by Many Other Bands Never really got the exposure

it Deserved Yet all of them were in certain ways forerunners of The Goth Movement All of them seem to have been influenced By A Certain

Edgar Allen Poe another Bostonian Dreamer although The Choice of Name also References

Howard Phillips Lovecraft Yet is The White Ship not More concerned with Arthur Gordon Pymm or Even A Certain Vessels entrance into Whitby Harbour.

[g0z0b0y]

FANTASTIC BAND!

[pacogimanes]

THANK YOU greatest band of that period

[barbh1]

Thanks for reminding me of this beautiful performance.  What awesome voices!

[stefanos51]

I always said to myself "Impossible is nothing".

I always expected to see this MASTERPIECE once before i die.The last one to remain for me is to see a clip with ULTIMATE SPINACH.Beyondthebeat

i'm sure you'll do it!!! THANK YOU a million times for HP LOVECRAFT'S classic tune.

[louiecostello]

this isnt the same "white ship" as the amazing one by the denims. unfortunate as this is shit

[pacogimanes]

pls tell me where can i get anything else from that awesome band THE DENIMS, white ship is an excellent song, simple perfection

[louiecostello]

pebbles vol. 7 is where i have it. the whole of that album is excellent

[pacogimanes]

but does it have any more songs from the denims? or is it a compilation of bands?

[louiecostello]

its a compilation of lots of bands, but it is really good. the best i've heard of it's kind

[COGENTCOG]

myspace (dot)com/thedenimstheorignal

yes,without last "i"

[pacogimanes]

THANK YOU, i´d have never found those songs on my own, THANK YOU MY MAN

[COGENTCOG]

Great uploading, this is magic...thanks!!!

[psaavedrat]

Increíble, pensé ver otras canciones de HP Lovecraft, pero esta.... es una maravilla. Ojalá tengas más temas de ellos, sobre todo del segundo álbum.

[ubeumbe]

a great band and a great find, thank you!

[KennyWrites]

Cool song, thanks!

[snouter]

Awesome!

[sbanham]

thankyou