Great song, with a lot of energy and a truly great Hammond solo by Rick Wakeman (I love the wah-wah pedal effect used here). Great Strawbs! And this album ("Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios") is definitely one of their best ones.
Late 1960's yearning for idealized idolotarized youthful naivete in which a young person's generation - the baby boomers thought that their morality was SO superior to everything that had come before them - navel gazing unworldliness as manifested by an all too greedy mass media intent on selling to the "young market." Still a great song that does capture how many people feel looking back or reflecting on their ideals or dreams of their own youth.
One of the band's best for sure, and one of Wakeman's finest solos (thanks to a solid rhythm bedrock to launch from). East-west trance music of the highest order.
@muscles2feel i agree perfectly . it is this track that made mr wakeman famous then he joined yes after he did a solo album that was controversial in his career
This is so much better than the studio version. How rare is that?
wmacisaac 3 weeks ago
Great song, with a lot of energy and a truly great Hammond solo by Rick Wakeman (I love the wah-wah pedal effect used here). Great Strawbs! And this album ("Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios") is definitely one of their best ones.
StrideLatinProgRick 3 months ago
I saw them about 1972 in Chelmsford.
vicpur 6 months ago
Late 1960's yearning for idealized idolotarized youthful naivete in which a young person's generation - the baby boomers thought that their morality was SO superior to everything that had come before them - navel gazing unworldliness as manifested by an all too greedy mass media intent on selling to the "young market." Still a great song that does capture how many people feel looking back or reflecting on their ideals or dreams of their own youth.
hospitalship1 8 months ago
One of the band's best for sure, and one of Wakeman's finest solos (thanks to a solid rhythm bedrock to launch from). East-west trance music of the highest order.
MrFreako2010 1 year ago
my fav Strawbs song. thanks for posting
JelloJelly123pie 1 year ago
@muscles2feel of course i am talking about the 6 wives of henri8th, then journey to the center of the earth...
MrJasonroy 1 year ago
@muscles2feel i agree perfectly . it is this track that made mr wakeman famous then he joined yes after he did a solo album that was controversial in his career
MrJasonroy 1 year ago
Thanks for posting. Rick Wakeman is at the Hammond organ. It's from their live album, "Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios".
Curiously (and annoyingly) the Hammond was modified with a wah-wah pedal effect, definitively not standard usage of the Hammond at the time (1970).
muscles2feel 1 year ago