Glen Campbell, Stone Temple Pilots - Wichita Lineman

I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road

[@allypad64]

There is just something about this beautiful song that very few songs have been able to capture. When I hear this song, no matter how many times I have heard it, it reaches deep down into my soul and touches something. Tears come to my eyes and roll down my face. It’s a primal feeling. Glen Campbell was an amazing musician and I can’t imagine anyone else capturing this feeling as he does. RIP Glen.

[@RKCjsstevens]

When you listen to this you’ve no choice but to surrender to it.

[@tonyserra8419]

It's obvious how much respect STP has for Glen and this song

[@johnmccarthy9391]

As they should

[@paulmurphy8993]

Even after the thousands of times Glen has played this it still brought a tear to his eye. What a song.

[@johnmello978]

Really great. One of the best songs ever written by Jimmy Webb

[@chancevonfreund9145]

I didn't know Glen did anything with them. Amazing it sounded great ! R.I.P. Scott Weiland and Glen!

[@user-wo1mv6xs5q]

What a complete talent Glen was. He could do it all! I don’t think ppl appreciated his talent as much as he deserved. God given talent and he knew that. I don’t think he ever had a big head about any of it. Just a natural.

[@socialoutcastsvancouver]

There's an emotional element to this song that's difficult to describe. But, pure magic just the same.

[@KevinJames1]

TRUTHAT

[@karenlackner192]

A masterpiece that has always made me cry

[@MisterMikeTexas]

It looks like Glen snd STP had fun playing that classic favorite! Jimmy Webb really wrote a great one here!

[@robertheintz8017]

That is best version that I have ever heard.

[@smc4958]

This video is more than 10 years old. It keeps coming back to KZbin. Thanks,

[@YogsenForfoth]

This video is more than 20 years old!

[@troydaigle7902]

Looks like Glen was actually enjoying that session

[@mlindle9356]

2:25 When the guitar and piano harmonize together. ☺️

[@boomerdepp1456]

Playing that ol' Danelectro baritone guitar, amazing. One of the best renditions I've heard.

[@rockyraccoon2815]

This performance brings tears to my eyes. Glen Campbell's music takes me back to childhood. To see a band I love play this song with him and look like they are really enjoying it, is moving. To think these guys were growing up loving the same music makes them so relatable. Glen is gone now but the magic of his words and music will forever be representative of a time when the world wasn't so angry, kids could play outside until dark, no electronics to interfere with our minds, and we may not have had a lot but we grew up with an innocence that will never be again. Rest easy Glen and much love to my STP!

[@MiscreantApril]

@rockyraccoon2815 this reply is surely going to age me. I think of my Mom when I hear it. I remember my Mom travelling with my brother and I back in the late 60's and this song would play on the radio. It takes me back to those simpler times and when my Mom was young. She was in her 30's, a single mom and a widow before I was the age of 5. My Mom has passed and this song is an especially emotional one for me as I think about her. I miss her so much.

[@allypad64]

Beautifully said ❤❤

[@mosriteminioncause7741]

The late Great Glenn Campell.....gone but truly NOT forgotten....and he is missed.

[@kimfaye5301]

R Deleo looks in heaven here.

[@blairswanson44]

I love his bass tone here. Flat pick on what sounds like flat wound strings on a boutique Fender style P-Bass. I also noticed a 1961 +/- Fender Bassman amp in the background near the mid video - (white w/black grill -piggyback).

[@nickdippold2258]

I've listened to and enjoyed so many takes and versions of this song, and this one is above all my favorite. Absolutley beautiful, as if they've played together for years.

[@tinfoilhatter-jx3op]

riiight??

[@dancarter482]

_YEAH_ Mr Campbell, Sir ~ I "like that" too!

[@eliseintheattic9697]

Beautiful version of this classic song.

[@joecrocilla7695]

This is so amazing , my friend Mark Zander played this last week at dinner. I must've played this song 200 times since

[@troydaigle7902]

Ole Glenn smiling his ass off, love to have sat in on this

[@kennydixon7694]

Dean De Leo asking for Galveston 😂

[@Elle-zt2pe]

Solitude & longing. Beautiful song.

[@bjkn4514]

Pure stream of consciousness-beautifully mystical.

[@gman6708]

A Beautiful Homage. thanks STP for everything

[@dtc1288]

Most beautiful version ever. Exquisite. Only just discovered it, so touching.

[@mal3x]

I think the same, and I've known this track for years, and it feels like it's my secret cause I've never met anyone who knows it exists .

[@MisterMikeTexas]

I discovered it just now, about a week after I found REM's cover of the song.

[@DevilDoghz]

Jimmy Web, 1968.

[@sim0n17]

WOW - what a combo! love me some live recorded in the studio stuff - great take

[@RKCjsstevens]

Legendary composition and performer.

[@dianemcadamsmsdianepetrama464]

Now the Greats are gone❤💔

[@thecarolinashreds196]

This will give you a chill ! Awesome job with the master and STP

[@elbowstancenow1519]

Perfect pitch

[@gupta76]

This is beautiful!

[@Pepperboy555]

Never gets old, even as I get old.

[@richardtracy2627]

Just discovered this.Amazing!

[@jfscreen16]

One love

[@raelraven3]

One of my all-time favorite songs. I love it so much, though I do miss that incredible string/horn section instrumental outro that was featured on the original album version.

[@ToddHudsonAtl]

Nice! A bunch of my all-time favorite musicians transgenerationally (new word created here, you're welcome) making yet another fantastic version of this awesome song.

[@RockAndSnow]

Every bit as classic as the original!

[@lankestermerrin267]

Superb! And that lead... simple to the point of being complex.

[@hedgerowhell]

Incredible!

[@lisam724]

that's deep man if only the younger generation could realize what talent is

[@chevy4x466]

His legend lives. Top class

[@mangrove]

It's our priviege to share and teach it to them!

[@troydaigle7902]

Ur asking a lot

[@RKCjsstevens]

I’m 52 and never appreciated this song until the last 5-10 years or so; it’s a masterpiece. Glen Campbell was/is an amazing talent.

[@RKCjsstevens]

@@mangrovethere’s a lot of younger generation starved for that kind of knowledge; todays music has left a great void for this kind of composition and musicianship

[@sallyb4567]

Gorgeous! Just heard about this on the Songcraft podcast.

[@Mark_Chandler]

hes still got it...

[@Duckfan707]

Awesome version. Did Dylan really say this was the greatest song written? I do like the strings and the French horns on the studio version.

[@frankjurgensen9550]

This is that perfect cocain Song. Songwriting at it's best, and that is why some special Bands still play it. Jimmy Web did a good Job........

[@tonyajohnson7948]

Where has the magic gone? The best of times. Simpler times…

[@user-jl9kw9gn3m]

the magic is gone, but those were more difficult times, no internet, no remotes, autotune etc... they had to work hard at their skills....maybe that's why 'the magic is gone'

[@allypad64]

@@user-jl9kw9gn3mI pretty much just wrote the same thing. Great observation!!

[@dhope4072]

Love it!🥰👍

[@jmiller3579]

They should have featured this in his museum

[@fathersonreviewitall4010]

Perfection!

[@blairswanson44]

Thanks for this one - big time! Thought it was gone. Only wish I knew the inside story of the session.

[@blairswanson44]

As a follow up: According to a Rolling Stone piece, Glen's son, Cal , introduced him to STP in 2001 & Glen invited them to record with him on some old tunes but this one was the only tune that was completed.

[@garylee6372]

My fave version

[@troydaigle7902]

@@blairswanson44 AWESOME

[@maureenfitzpatrick4479]

What a lovely performance. It’s a beautiful song, STP knew it. And as legit musicians it’s clear they fully recognized how talented Glen Campbell was, even in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. He started his career in the early 1960s a member of the Wrecking Crew (watch the documentary of the same name!), studio musicians so skilled that everybody who was anybody wanted them as backing.

[@KirbyLeeDavis]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@aaronbirkholz4558]

To have been a damn fly on the wall..

[@campzzyzx9792]

XOXO!!

[@lola9343]

Accurate new title for this video: "Glen Campbell plays Wichita Lineman."

[@bbernhar2000]

Damn!

[@matthammond7504]

My favorite version of this song ever. It makes me sad thinking how the great, Glenn Campbell deteriorated from the booze. Also, how the the drugs took Scott. Nothing wrong with having a little fun but all in moderation, please.

[@drdj2626]

well, he lived till his 80s.

[@BFJ7096]

He had Alzheimers.

[@ianchandley]

@@BFJ7096he also had a serious drinking problem that took its toll on him.

[@hamishmcdog48]

Very true, also true, he lived until his 80's. What a talent. Yea he could have taken better care of himself. I can't throw a stone I guess. @@ianchandley

[@djtourtellotte]

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[@stephenchristopher9991]

This is amazing and Scott Weiland would've done a great rendition

[@floydcarbunkel4247]

These two groups are an odd pair. Stone temple pilots .. jamming with Glenn Campbell

[@Tommyd479]

Isn’t that Uber producer Brendan O’Brien on the keys?

[@tinfoilhatter-jx3op]

jimmy webb. writer of the song!

[@harrypsihoyos1834]

Is Brendan O'Brien on the keys?

[@adrianlee3497]

That's Jimmy Webb who co-wrote Wichita Lineman in the late 60's.

[@harrypsihoyos1834]

@@adrianlee3497 Wow! It's a pity that this cover was not included in Shangri-La...

[@thomasrudy6132]

who's that on keys? scott?

[@crhutube]

I think so

[@craigswedin2337]

It is not Scott. Looks to be Brendan O'Brien.

[@tinfoilhatter-jx3op]

jimmy webb:: who actually stole the song from me, but he’s credited with having written it great one tho, eh?

[@jasonlawson8980]

Man that iconic guitar tone....shew