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Damn I miss the 60s and yes it was a better time than now! The music back then was so far superior to the crap that passes for music today. There was a simplicity that we've lost now, but it was not a bad thing!

I had this played at my wedding!! But the organ was nowhere as majestic as the Grande Orgue du Notre Dame, Paris. Still it felt glorious to walk down the isle newly married to this music!

MascotOfAGeneration, Alan Price, not John Steel, is playing the keyboards. Yeah, neontiger 32, I noticed Hilton Valentine's weird smile the last 30 seconds or so. Also notice the organ moves at the end from Steel's immediate left to about 30 feet away. This is a very good video for 1964. Maybe it...

I take it from the earliest posts that this video has been on You tube for around three years! Beggarsgame, a fantastic blend of Texas scenes and Dan's song "The River"! I love this song and remember when it first came out many years ago. I must say songs like this don't seem to be written or rec...

This is a scene from the movie starring Nickolas Cage called "Knowing" It is not real!

An awesome song! Where is this kind of song today? I mean nothing I've heard in the past ten years from a variety of groups even comes close to this sound! What a fantastic fusion of organ, piano, guitar, percussion, and violin...elements of rock, folk, and even classical music and it WORKS...Wal...

Man this is just great music! Maddy has such a sweet voice to match her beauty.

What a great fusion of traditional Irish, Scottish, and English folks songs with rock!

I wish I had taken the time to see them live in their heyday!

Maddy Prior is stunningly beautiful in these pictures from the 1970s. I remember

they were popular when I was in college. I saw them on Saturday Night Live and just fell in love with their music, not to mention Maddy...I never saw them live which was a big mistake! I can only listen to these won...

Wasn't this song featured on "The Wonder Years" everytime Arnold saw Winnie?

I understand Leonid never actually performed in an opera even though he had one of the best operatic voices I've ever heard! He had such a deep bass voice and a cheerful expression as he sang folk, classical, and military numbers. Russia had the West beat when it came to this type of music.

Look at their rigid formation- staid and emotionless - even Leonid barely moves as he belts out the words. In later recordings he has a much more personable and emotional expression of joy and humor. 1965 was just three years after the Cuban Missle Crisis, so maybe the Soviets hadn't let up on th...

At the 4:33 mark it sounds like a Kansas organ riff by Steve Walsh. Andrew Gittings was Tull's keyboardest at this time and he had a pretty distinct style. I believe this song is a veiled reference to the land of Israel and her history. I think Roots to Branches was a very good album, but later o...

I had a crush on Judy when I was 17 because she was so beautiful and I loved her music too. Times changed and I moved on. Did the work and family thing, but now I can look back and say her music is what endures to me. I wouldn't give a dime for many of the modern singers today!

My daughter is named Emily and thinks this song was written to her (she's 6) but isn't it great that someone living in an age some 40 years later can still love this song as did I at her age (well maybe a bit older). Garfunkel has such a pure voice

and they both produced some of the finest folk-r...

Man I miss this period- this kind of music will never be repeated. It's sad to see how young the musicians were in those days, because that youth is gone now: Grace, Michele, Maddy were also very beautiful physically and spiritually. Now we're all old and passing the torch to a new generation! Th...

Ian Anderson was only 19 or 20 at this time...absolutely amazing!! Now he's in in 60s and still performing! There's even talk of a Thick as a Brick 2 album although I haven't heard it's definite. I saw them for the first time in 73, 74, 76, 80 and then 94

and just recently Ian Anderson's tour las...

I think this is just a song about a breakup and how the guy is devestated over the loss of his lover, but why they added the crowd at a restaurant and the breaking glass is a mystery to me. I heard an interview with Walsh once and he said the glass breaking was recorded way too loud so they had t...

Actually Steve Walsh wasn't with the band after a few stops on their 1980s tour of this album. There was friction in the band over the musical direction of Livgren and Walsh and also over Kerry's more Christian influence in the song's lyrics. So videos and live recordings of any of these songs ar...

Actually I was studying Orwell's 1984 when this song was released. I thought it was written about that book! An absolutely fantastic song...Livgren and Walsh were great collaborators in writing these songs. The guitar work by Livgren/Wiliams is superb! Just an amazing group. And America didn't ha...

Banks or corporations...protesters and peace marches...nothing matters anymore!

I see a giant boot stepping on our throats forever...

Protests, anti-war marches, concerts for peace (and money)- it doesn't matter!

The end result will be a boot stepping on our throats forever...

The fate of the human race: A boot stepping on our throat forever....

Thanks Donna for your great posts! You really capture Dan's music. I'm just sorry there aren't more singers like Dan out there these days.

I never meant to condemn the group as a whole- but if you are honest Ian's words are raspy and strained. I just saw them a year ago. Anderson's voice was shot.

Hey I miss their great sound from the 70s but this is 2010. It's been 30 years since then. Time passes on. They haven't put out any new ...

This is a very interesting song, because it alludes to parts of the Book of Revelation.

Yes modern versions have changed the last verse to "let us live to make men free"

This changes the entire meaning. But with the wholesale rejection of God it wouldn't make sense to say "let us die to make men ...

Oh for crying out loud- JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC!!

This is very beautiful music. From an artistic perspective these singers are first rate.

But I find the comments amusing as well. As long as there are people there will be

injustice commited in some name. The strong will always rise up and oppress the weak! Without God people will never change! S...

I wish I was older in the 1960s- this music is so great! So original and uplifting. Today we're stuck with mostly "techno junk"! From 66-75 this type of wonderful music really shined- but money, greed, and comercialism won out in the end, and more and more music has become Corporate selling out t...