First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) (Live)

[@jegglemmerdet]

That song really ties the room together!

[@BostonRedSoxForever]

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man...

[@dima_kum]

@@BostonRedSoxForever :-)))

[@user-js5sh7rb8v]

Fuckin A!

[@MrImastinker]

This guy peed on it!

[@roykela]

Donny! Please!

[@JohnVander70]

One of the most "on point" psychedelic songs of all time.

[@pattydunn8087]

I'm 57 and I listen to this song multiple times a day because man I just love everything about it!!! It really lift's your mood and gets your feet moving!!!

[@jplus2601]

Always had the best beard in the business, pipes always been on point and this video proves Kenny was legit AF on that bass, oh yeah!!!!

[@drbombay91765]

Good bass man, too.

[@guitarpickin8431]

@@simonsmith2642 That was the guitarist sliding up for the solo break

[@jakespoon7994]

Yes, KR is most definitely playing the bass here.

[@floprather4262]

@@simonsmith2642 you are correct. The individual playing (behind Kenny) has on a sweater & Kenny isn't wearing a sweater nor does Kenny has black strip on his coat.

[@jordiporras8276]

Kenny Rules... and he was Dolly's boyfriend

[@Rebelartist83]

Dang Kenny Rogers was freaking hot and proof that our grandparents are cooler than us.. RIP Kenny Rogers a great talent and I honestly think he should have stuck to rock but his country wasn't too bad either..haha I turn 40 next month and I'd rather listen to this kinda music than some of the crap my generation calls music

[@SpeegBJ]

Though I was 21 when this tune came out, I still can't wrap around Kenny Rogers in a white bell bottom suit playing a rock guitar.

[@39thala]

And in fact, he's the playing bass . I just now noticed that watching this video. Never knew he was the bass player!

[@muffdiver240]

Rogers looks utterly unrecognizable here. If not for his voice I'd never have guessed that was him.

[@jonnywishbone17]

You're an idiot - of course that looks like Kenny. Just no grey

[@mbatchelor]

Kenny was a heck of a bass player!

[@jeffkahl]

Started out as an upright bass player with a jazz trio in Dallas

[@civlyzed]

Darkness warshed over the Dude...darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.

[@Football__Junkie]

civlyzed Jackie Treehorn presents Gutterballs

[@MyTimmy75]

The original...........' Dude '' ;)

[@p.j.4738]

?

[@civlyzed]

@@p.j.4738 Obviously you are not a golfer

[@p.j.4738]

@@civlyzed no I'm not, even though I've been fairly close to it, for 40 years. So?

[@andrewrobinson1350]

Rest in peace, the gambler.. 2020

[@browneyedflagirl7]

In 1967 when Kenny Rogers sang this song I had no idea what psychedelic sound was all about. Asked my brother who is 10 yrs older than me what this song was all about. "Nothing you want to know about", he said to me. Wow! Jimi Hendrix of all people had said this was his favorite song. Kenny looked so hip. Heck, later on Kenny said he had no idea what the song was all about when they sang it. Groov-y man!

[@robertbairt9094]

Sniffing Glue out of a brown paper bag 😬

[@richsimpson2583]

I heard this song from American Forces radio Vietnam on guard duty. Or wait for my shift. 1968

[@philmullins136]

Great story. Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you made it home. Best wishes to you.

[@MarkO45839]

Welcome home.

[@cindyp5703]

Love Kenny's bass!!

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Him and Mickey on drums had that 60s 70s sound I think...

[@MalditosBares]

Should have continued in psychedelic rock instead of country music....

[@tinawallace9635]

I didn't know Kenny was singing this. I been hearing this since 1970

[@JGfromKY]

Love this song by the First Edition way back when! A great musician! Rip Kenny Rogers!

[@LexPips]

Wasn’t a fan of Kenny Rogers in his elder years (Not into “Country” Music at all) but man he sure had it going on in his younger days!

[@Dashslapp]

I'm sorry to admit this I had no idea...Kenny Rogers .,.did this? O I misjudged him. I'm a 44 year old Floyd fan. Or led Zep or Sabbath...How I miss Kenny?...the dude brought me here. I got a whole Kenny back catalogue to work through. Peace. Thank you Mr Rodgers, rest in peace sir, love from UK.

[@seals7778]

That song is SICK !!!! 😮 Love the movie The Big Lebowski and the lyrics to the song or absolutely poetic what a genius Kenny Rogers was

[@johnsmythe6134]

Kenny was THE MAN, but Mickey wrote that song. They both dug the acid back then. RIP Kenny.

[@norml.hugh-mann]

Another star has set below life's horizon

[@Jcperrin]

Killer bass lines here. Respect

[@CherylannCelio-mb4ip]

Love this song.

[@christinasweetheart2810]

Omg this footage held up beautifully!

[@deborahfolwer2989]

Kenny just got better and more handsome every year. RIP Kenny.

[@jonnywishbone17]

My first favorite Kenny tune from my childhood

[@johnkramchuck7653]

One of Kenny's gems!..Thank you!

[@dreys6tube]

Hard to believe he became The Gambler later in life. 🃏 legend 💫

[@davidaaaa4611]

My favorite of his songs.

[@starcastleLomitas]

Blown away!!!!!!!!!!!

[@uwusmolbean]

a real gem.

[@nikkijubilant]

o my goodness, it's amazing this song

[@dugdam8175]

Guitar caddilacs hill billy music

[@yoharve]

this was the song writers anthem to the glue sniffers.

[@robinkirwan]

Brilliant in every way.

[@lennon1252]

The First Edition: From left to right: Mike Settle (vocals and acoustic guitar), Mary Arnold (vocals and tambourine), Kenny Rodgers (lead vocal and bass guitar), Terry Williams (vocals and lead guitar) and Mickey Jones (drums)

[@t-mar9275]

That's not Mary Arnold but her predecessor, Thelma Camacho. The video was shot for "From The Bitter End", a television show originating from The Bitter End club in NYC. There are two other extant performances from this particular show, "I was A Loser" and "I Get a Funny Feeling". All three songs are from the first album. The performance appears to be from some time in early 1968.

[@papanuiizhea9285]

That bass though!

[@kn0w2fart]

Higher kenny! HIGHER!

[@collybeans586]

he heard him!

[@X75A75RV]

Someone painted April fools in big black letters on a dead end sign

[@kn0w2fart]

@@X75A75RV 2 Years after 🖖

[@freepressright]

Kenny always had the cool ass 50s P basses with the Telecaster style headstocks.

[@IVnik8or]

That’s Mickey Jones on drums you’ve seen him in hundreds of movies. Oh yeah, and he was the drummer for Dylan’s band when he went electric! R.I.P. Mickey and Kenny.

[@stevepaul6955]

The drummer was Mickey Jones who went on to play the redneck mechanic/ sheriff in National Lampoon's Vacation.

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Mickey Jones was also Bob Dylan's drummer when he went electric in 1966. Jones was also on the TV show "Tool Time" as a member of Tim Allen's "Tool Time Band."

[@Madmanmarque]

Mickey Newbury was a hell of a songwriter.

[@maryhixson7293]

❤❤❤❤❤❤love love this soong

[@Diezsiete17]

Wow!

[@chrisspohn777]

Going down the rabbit hole....

[@matthewdinsdale4782]

Sensational

[@thomassmith8721]

Psychedelic Kenny, before country Kenny. The Gambler folded in 2020 RIP KR

[@francislapalme3048]

The dude abides.

[@chrisdoppenband]

You see what happens Larry?!

[@jdomes8792]

Later sound is so much better, but the raw is good too. Geniuses walk among us.

[@eternalise]

Those have to be the most unmistakable bricks next to maybe the Comedy Store. Also, it's cool to see a completely live performance since a lot of Bitter End videos I've seen are sung to tracks, plus I don't know what cameras they used there (videotape, obviously, but beyond that) but most things taped there look like they could have been done yesterday. A clean immediacy with little of the vidicon light trails or halo effects associated with concert films of the 60s/70s. What a tight band the First Edition were, too, and played their TV appearances live most of the time, too. I agree the acoustics and/or mix here aren't deserving of the performance; there is another performance of this from '72 on here that's also live but sounds much better and well-balanced. The one with Jones and the drums at the middle forefront and the rest of the band placed surrounding him on risers.

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

That brick wall... CBGB's ???

[@squatch545]

I think this is the first video I've seen with Thelma Camancho with the band. I also notice Fred Weintraub sitting in the audience (bottom left). Filmed at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village.

[@Mackermanesq]

Fred sitting with Phil Ochs.

[@litaford4759]

what the hell is this? No...I mean who in the hell is this? OMG its Kenny Rogers!!!! I never would have believed it.

[@thomasheim170]

HIGHER, KENNY, HIGHER

[@X75A75RV]

Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "dead end" sign

[@RangerJohnreid]

When they did the yeah yeah oh yeah thing there should have been echo on that. Kenny was great.

[@Writebrain82]

That dude in the suit jacket and tie in the very front wasn't having any of it. Even by the end he was like...can I leave now? LOL. Obviously he's not a golfer.

[@psylaxis9210]

That audience could use a Red Bull

[@wildcat67-b7n]

or some lsd

[@ceccavara]

hahaaa yes

[@barbarianvlogs4901]

A red bull?? A fuccin wiskey

[@chriselliott.4996]

Acting his gig he trying but he lacks gift of talent too bad like guy. That lead guitarist horrible

[@psylaxis9210]

I think you might have skipped a few essential words in that comment. I have no idea what you are trying to say.

[@AgentPepsi1]

I'm an honorary GenX, and my parents were early boomers... Their music is JUST AWESOME!! None of the whiny, woke, soy BS or mono-note, rap-crap of today (or in the early 2000s when I was I teenager).

[@AnonymousAccount514]

Still had that 50s hair style

[@chrisspohn777]

8 miles out of Memphis and I got no spare....

[@HardRockMiner]

Imagine if he hadn't gone to country music?

[@sportsmediaamerica]

Looks like same New York club venue as in the footage of Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys singing "Different Drum." Early '70s. The bearded guy at the table is the owner or manager, I think.

[@Mackermanesq]

It's called the Bitter End, and it's still there

[@marke6569]

Kenny singing intro. Should have left The Band to do that which he did later on. Thelma Camacho & later on Mary Arnold VOICES STAND OUT.

[@hayattanlar]

It's not their best performance, of course, but this is a very valuable recording... I guess that friend who didn't clap when the song ended is a Beatles fan..=)

[@yannfernandes1]

RIP Kenny...😢😢

[@shaundavenport621]

Is that Mary Allen?She looks different. Beautiful!

[@JoeSchmo-u1d]

Is Kenny playing an original Cowpoke P-Bass??!!

[@chocloditelensman]

Oh wow.

[@guitarcrazyusa]

There’s another older live version here (KZbin) that’s GREAT! Slower and “slinky”. Find it!

[@BluesCat1980]

Rest in peace Kenny Rogers.

[@danb1942]

Might have played your last hand but the game goes on forever.

[@MarkVA71]

Imagine sitting in a room of people where the music is awesome but everyone is just sitting their like zombies... I don't get it. Kenny Rogers RIP!

[@bruiselee28]

Yeah

[@austinmeredith68]

RIP Kenny!

[@johnny10301968]

The bitter end.

[@melvinwren]

wheres glen campbell

[@32artjenkins]

Rip Kenny!

[@Io-Io-Io]

Big Lebo brought me here

[@AEOlvido]

Holy rollers! What purity! Comparing it to other versions on YT allows me to hear parts of the song that the band stretched out. This version ends on a pathetic-sounding bass note--the recording really sucked--but hearing how other versions ended more raucously makes me feel like I actually witnessed the evolution of a really trippy earworm.

[@debschannel6838]

RIP!!!

[@faeembrugh]

That must be a very early model Fender bass with the 'Tele' head and single pick-up.

[@AaronStinson97]

He looks like Jeff Bridges

[@jerryjohnson28]

I'm just watching big lebowsky and he does look like Jeff bridges

[@borrrrego]

Aarón Stinson Jeff Bridges + Josh Brolin

[@wtysont]

Alex , you just made my day . Spot on !! Brolin+bridges

[@bobstar76]

dude !

[@Daftok]

Ur right

[@craigmitton5047]

At the video' s end Mick Fleetwood agrees.

[@lindadaniels5866]

He improved with age.

[@tiannsompoubelle6741]

Reposez en paix monsieur Rogers :(

[@trfesok]

When and where was this taped?

[@kevingoins9858]

In NYC at a local studio that replicated the Bitter End nightclub. Early 1968.

[@FVDaudio]

🤯🤯✨✨

[@TheJackGoode]

Magnus can sing!

[@realmrmojorisinmorrisonjr7917]

#RIPKennyRogers

[@kennikuhlmann-clark9860]

wow he's singing so loud sometimes, that he's clipping-out the microphone.

[@russellmorash3816]

Old Kenny made a he'll of a bass player

[@johnnyexp]

Is that George Harrison in the audience, upfront at stage right?

[@NothinButSeether]

Kenny played the he bass????!

[@kevingoins9858]

Yup. Played an upright with the New Christy Minstrels, switched to a Fender.

[@nicholasumphrey5645]

What year is this?

[@kevingoins9858]

1968

[@тоткоторый-д6ц]

Where is the money, Lebowski?!

[@jacklowe3429]

Who's the groovy tamborinist?

[@dennisgallagher]

Thelma Camacho who was the most talented singer. After Ed Sullivan asked her to do a solo the others dumped her.

[@dennisgallagher]

@Greg Normal Of Kenny? not really. Of the early group? I really like this one and "But You Know I Love You." Actually I am a big fan of Mickey Newbury, the writer. Have a good day.

[@johnburnett3432]

Looks like they’re playing a Holiday Inn.

[@39thala]

I never knew Kenny was the bass player in his band.

[@bigdaddycool6930]

I fell asleep listening to this and when I woke up, Saddam Hussein was standing next to me offering me a pair of bowling shoes. Weird….

[@clarakirkendoll6061]

I never knew Kenny Roger's sung this 😳

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Just read Glen Campbell is on the studio version... Dang

[@josephkelley8641]

"What To Do, what to do, what to do..." - When One Finds BOTH Hemispheres of their Brain - In A BROWN Paper Bag. Hmmm. '9-1-1?' "YES WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY!!?"

[@josephkelley8641]

"2-1-1?" For (brain) Extraction Methods? People there is no easy answer. Outlawing paper bags, is this the answer.

[@zincalloy11]

RIP

[@TheThailightZone]

HELLO! Can someone please wake up this audience? What a bunch of drags. The guy with the beard and pipe showed a mild semblance of being entertained.

[@thomaspenderel]

Kenny Rogers rocking out, weird.