Brewer & Shipley witchi Tai To story and song

[@katsii1]

in early 70's i was a single mom, on food stamps, working and going to school - and i'd ride my bike everywhere trying to make it work and it was hard and scary and i used to sing this song every time i got down....i think it's the single thing that got me through that time.

[@deborahhughes6923]

Oh yes! The 10 speed bicycle I would ride my everywhere!!! It was fun, wouldnt change it for nothing!!!

[@WJV9]

My wife and I lived in Kansas City back in the early 1970's and these guys would play free concerts for tips in the parks or Volker Park & Fountain area. They also played the Vanguard Coffee House on Main St., UMKC student unions, etc. They love to perform the music they write in small settings where they can connect with the audience. I remember once they played a high school graduation in a small town in NW Missouri and the men's locker room was their dressing room. They are still recording and traveling around playing/singing their songs and making everyone smile. I love their stories...

[@goawayandlearnsomedamnmann1391]

I live in Kansas, saw them 2 summers ago for like the 200th time,I have grown up listening to them .. music isn’t the same as it used to be, I can’t do the new stuff from other artists..

[@simeonmaximofernandez3364]

Great music for great times I am 62 and I did reach the tail end of this point in music history.

[@dondavis2757]

Late 1969 or early 1970... there were these two dudes playing and singing in the "coffee house" on the 4th floor of the student union at Oklahoma State University... that was the first time I ever heard Brewer & Shipley, and the first time I ever heard this song. It burned itself into my brain and here I am nearly 50 years later... still listening to this tune every chance I get. Now, I have a lot of their music, and I love it all!

[@deborahhughes6923]

Too cool! Me too! They are great!

[@deborahhughes6923]

Brewer and Shipley!!! Cool far.out! Love them me and all my friends!!! Toke!

[@kargad3]

I love these guys. Thank you for the wonderful music. xozone

[@davemalone3820]

Grew up in Kansas City. Mike and Tom were living in Raytown, Mo. My first job while still in high school was at KU Med Center in KC. There I met Tom's brother, Tim who worked there as well. I played some Guitar and Tim was phenomenal on guitar. During the summer between my Junior and Senior year (1971) I took an apartment next door to this tiny house Tim rented near the hospital. I learned a lot jamming and singing with him! One night, after work, we were at his house, having a couple of beers and jamming. It was around midnight and there came a knock at the door. It was Mike and Tom on their way home from the airport fresh from a gig in NYC. We partied and jammed for hours! One of my greatest memories!!!

[@joelanderson5287]

I'm Joel Anderson son of Ted Anderson we would go out there to the lake almost weekly

[@Hootowl54]

@@joelanderson5287 I loved 'Seems Like a Long Time!'

[@pl5bnsf]

Brewer & Shipley and Seals & Croft are two of the groups that made a huge influence on my music tastes.

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

By chance i met an world renowned (so i found out later) Hopi elder, medicine man and he was so kind to me, a nobody. He even spent time with me answering my personal questions.

[@bryanlafferty4631]

Me and my boy just discovered them thanks to the local record store we found this album and took it home and absolutely fell in love w it

[@dkseale]

They have a ton of great tunes.

[@laurieknight5945]

Don Larry had given some of brew and ship albums to me and I went out and bought all of them then when Larry came to visit me he took them all home with him he asked so I said yes .

[@RoyFive]

I read a book about the Hopi's a few years back that was on sale for a dime at the library. The chief reason being that I had read about Mike and Tom's involvement with them. Proved very interesting reading. I may still have the book in storage.

[@righter55]

Burn one with me and Brewer and Shipley . Ahhh those were the days my friend !

[@dkseale]

True story…in 1973 in Denton, Tx. After watching them play we ..4 of us, went back to their Holiday Inn room to party with them until about 4 am…and we burned a few. I actually have the ticket stub…with the remnants of a joint taped on it..and years later they autographed it.

[@marycatherinelunsford9687]

I was the 'opening' act for Mike and Tom at Ledbetter's in Westwood in 1970. Both are terrific musicians and people.

[@dkseale]

Mary Catherine Lunsford interesting info...fun times I bet. They are such an influence on me about great singer/songwriters and just great humans.

[@joelanderson5287]

We used to hang out at the live better club and my dad was a fixture at Cowtown Ballroom. Ted Anderson

[@leland-bobpalmer4274]

Bought a ticket to "hippiefest" no knowing who would be there these two were my highlight!

[@jimpeppernativeartsfestiva4512]

If they had knocked on the door, they could have come in and burned another here in Jim Pepper's house...next time you're in town....

[@artprince9163]

Sounds like Sweet Jane when these guys do it!

[@billhahn4113]

how well i remember my canvas tent. damned thing must have weighted 150 pounds!

[@lana5593]

I remember listening to Beaker Street :)

[@irishspiritedgal]

very cool, thanks for the upload ♥

[@patmcintire1536]

HA... I used to listen to Clyde Clifford's Beaker street radio show back in the early '70's!!

[@Oh_I_Will]

Pat McIntire what is CC up to these days....he still in the LR area..

[@frankpeter6851]

Lets picture some band from today in their 70's talking about their early days and influences ..." so I was really bored one day, and you know I liked the videos and so I said to my mom hey can I be a rockstar? ... and she took me down to Guitar Center down in Westlake village"

[@laurieknight5945]

My brother played for them when they first got popular . I and my mom and dad went to jacksonville univ. and to Columbia s.c.tp see them and my bro perform. Pull up brew and ship and Larry knight on you tube to see them.i have pictures I took with an old polaroid camera of them and my family with them .my bro also played for susie boggus on you tube and arron neville and Linda ronstadt.

[@dkseale]

I remember meeting your brother in 1973 in Denton, Tx after an awesome show there. We went to their Holiday Inn room after the show and partied hardy. He sat on the bed playing an Gibson SG I think. B&S are very close to my heart.

[@thomasmazur6916]

I remember Beaker Street from 10 till 2am

[@burlingtonbill1]

Man, WHO ARE these "old guys" ? (Then I look in the mirror and see ANOTHER one ! WHERE did the time GO ???) Too bad the song cuts off.

[@dkseale]

burlingtonbill1 yes...we are olds...the elderly they are calling us these days. My battery died and I was not a happy camper.

[@burlingtonbill1]

@@dkseale OLD SCHOOL....and PROUD of it !!!!!!

[@frankpeter6851]

My elementary school literally had a bell to call us to class. You're not old school, I'm old school.

[@laurieknight5945]

Don I'm keeping up with all you say and I love it .Larry's sis Laurie.

[@ronneufeld7272]

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[@Mistertudball]

Where's the rest of the song? I've loved them since 1971 college days.

[@markmembers4573]

Nice story, but where's the rest of the song?

[@dkseale]

Battery died

[@markmembers4573]

@@dkseale BummerOOSKY.

[@Wuei108]

What about the text in native amerikan language?

[@bobm549]

listened to beaker street in '70 , in the forested hill near wentsville,mo , actually a bit of a drive from there. Don't remember a commercial as it would have ruined the mystique . A group of kids out on a high ground near an fire watch tower, that was their special place and folks would just come up from nowhere , with not a lite in site for miles and a sky sooooo full of stars that you could role one up and the match would kill your night vision for a while ! Doctor hook and his medicine show was in vogue you might say. Thanks for the memory. Anyone from Jonesburg or Jonesburo still remember ? I was from Collinsville, Illinois and a world away but rite down the line !

[@tjj0081]

+bobm549 Hey Bobm549, I remember listening to Beeker Street, often on AM radio during late night drives from Chicago to the Northwoods of Wisconsin and the UP, camping along the shores of Gitchigoomie. It was a magical show; I remember hearing Mahavishnu Orchestra deep in the woods and, no doubt, Oregon playing Wichi Tai To. It was a mystical time, looking out at Polaris over the Lake... Holy cow! Now I see, B&S reference the program. We all glowed in the dark and it wasn't from Strontium 90 in the atmosphere from the 1950's nuclear tests.

[@Famdoc1000]

Barely two minutes of Witchi-Tai-To...recommend you search for videos of this song by the great Jim Pepper. Seven to twelve minutes of pure joy.

[@dkseale]

The point of this was the story.

[@fokker313]

Which needs of you guys are from Cleveland? Love the song! THANKS

[@kerryp2174]

Tom Shipley is from Bedford, Ohio

[@richardthurston2171]

Five minutes of palaver and one minute of one of the greatest songs of all time. Ugh.

[@brauliosepulveda7200]

Que dijeron por que nose ingles

[@somepig2k]

jesus just play the damn song already guys

[@Wuei108]

I love the song and i don´t understand what they say about the song, sorry.

[@Highpinesnow]

+Sun Ra ...It's all good..."Jim Pepper" wrote this as a time he spent I guess as in Indian reservations? Cool stuff...To bad the whole song isn't there...Yep hd a 69; VDub...and beads and shit like said and posters...hehehe..."Brewer and Shipley" does it best to me....If want will send if want....

[@tchohdhahz8365]

ITS A PEYOTE SO NG/ CHANT..ITS EITHER CREE. R KIKAPOO. DEY BOTH SOUND ALIKE D LANGUAGE I MEAN...ITS A SONG BOUT LIFE. UR ASKING FOR BLESSINGS CALLING UPON D CREATOR OF HEAVEN N EARTH ..ALL LIFE. LOOK TO ME WITH UR KINDNESS N GOOD BLESSING AS I WALK UPON DIS EARTH AS I GO THRU DIS LIFE. HAVE PUTY ON ME. MY FAMILY RELATIVES..PEOPLE..

[@donk.johnson7346]

play the fucking song already!!!!

[@John-rb3yv]

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[@jacquesbazinet8625]

Do these guys ever shut up?

[@nolaventura6747]

It's titled story and song.

[@cindybishop8659]

Seriously, only at the last possible minute.