Spooky Tooth - Waitin' For The Wind (1974)

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Spooky Tooth is an English rock band originally formed in Carlisle in 1967. Principally active between 1967 and 1974, the band re-formed several times in later years.
Prior to Spooky Tooth, four of the band's five founding members had performed in the band Art (formerly known as The V.I.P.'s). Following the dissolution of Art, the members of that band's final line-up (guitarist Luther Grosvenor, vocalist Mike Harrison, drummer Mike Kellie and bassist Greg Ridley) joined forces with American keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright in October 1967 and formed Spooky Tooth. Wright was introduced to the members of Art by Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records.
Their debut, It's All About, was released in June 1968 on Island Records and was produced by Jimmy Miller, who was also the man behind the boards for Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith.
The second album, Spooky Two (March 1969), also manned by Miller, gained some attention in the rock press but, like the debut, failed to sell. It was the last album release by the original lineup and included their now classic version of the Larry Weiss penned "Evil Woman" and "Better by You, Better than Me", which was covered by Judas Priest on their release Stained Class (1978).

[@russellmammino2635]

They enriched my teenage years,love this band,one of the greatest bands ever

[@davidronnie6964]

I remember seeing Spooky Tooth at a local gig in 1968 UK. They were the support band. The main band did not arrive. Spooky Tooth agreed to cover this. They ended up playing three sets of just over half an hour each- all ended up identical as they only had prepared for a short set. . Quite brilliant live music. I was quite happy to hear it three times.

[@turntabletarot5128]

You Sir, are a “ Lucky Man!”

[@ferdiecassel3697]

Too bad you couldn't record it. What a great bootleg that would have been.

[@TheSlingerfish]

Thats so awesome you were able to witness them live. I think they're one of the best and influential groups of all time. Underrated is an understatement, but they probably take the cake in that category too!

[@Someone-kg8qf]

I was a pre teen and found the vinyl for Spooky 2 im the late 80s and I Still own it. It's amazing. Back in the late 80s. Born too late...I love Mott The Hoople, too. My mom said I was a f word hippy. I was born decades after her, but I was more of a hippy than she ever was lmfao a guitar playing hippy...

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Perfect band. 🖤 Forever a Spooky Tooth fan.

[@kimblecarter1096]

What a talented and class act!

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Great voice that Mike Harrison

[@josephrzeczycki8642]

Mick Jones on lead guitar. Later on he co founded Foreigner. I'm a big fan of both bands.

[@georgebirch5635]

Mick Jones is an arrogant selfish jerk who demanded 90% of song writing royalties, giving only 10% to Lou Gramm and the rest of forienger!

[@georgemathie8123]

One of the greatest bands nobody's ever heard of led by the mega talented Gary Wright if you are fans of traffic check this amazing band out

[@delby66]

I just heard of the passing of Gary Wright. Such sad news. He was a brilliant keyboard player, underrated I might add and he had an excellent voice. RIP Gary.

[@RobHollanderMusic]

Mike Harrison and Gary Wright in the same band, like a rock version of the Righteous Brothers. Thanks for posting this, they deserve appreciation in retrospect. If you just found this, check out "Spooky Two", their best album.

[@HaniJIsmail]

i love that album. Evil woman is definitely in my top 10 blues rock songs

[@johnprior588]

I love the first one best as I bought it when it came out - liked Spooky Two also tho'!!

[@ronniewall1481]

IT'S STRANGE HOW MUCH TALENT THERE WAS IN THE SIXTIES. ALL ENDED WHEN THE YUPPIES MONEY AND GREED TOOK OVER.

[@Doones51]

Mike and Gary were 2 powerful voices. You don't get much more grit than that.

[@garyspeed8961]

amazingly good album...

[@ottdog1952]

Mike Kellie was an under-rated drummer. I love his work, especially on The Last Puff album. R.I.P. Mike.

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

Nice clip! So many great bands and artists from way back when music was original and unique!!

[@GrahamDyson-h9z]

The late, Great Gary Wright. Bless him.

[@musicbox909]

Love this band totally underrated ❤

[@kimblecarter1096]

So much talent in one room during this recording.

[@lizze490]

RIP to another great. 💙 Gary

[@davidoran123]

Never got to see them live. this is so cool to see them playing in a small setting. they were a great band and Spooky Two was a fantastic album, it still is.

[@my2cents370]

Great song!! Was in a band that covered this. Always went over well. Gonna' get me present band to put it back on the master song list. Better than 98% of the shit out there today. You're not forgotten SPOOKY T.!

[@amorosa101457]

Rest in Paradise Gary Wright! 🎼🎸

[@sergioesquitin4131]

UNA DELAS GRANDES BANDAS....SU LEGADO,Y HASTA EL FINAL DELOS TIEMPOS....SSLUDOS.....

[@joemahon3284]

Crazy to think the singer was out of the business for 20 years when the band folded due to not making any money....he was fucking amazing. So many awesome musicians fucked up by the industry.

[@royarmstrong6098]

When I was at school he was a barman in Carlisle. Lovely man. He had a comeback gig with a band called Saigon (with Hilton Valentine of The Animals). The Carlisle gig is still one of my top 3 ever (and I've seen a lot!). Musical highlight of my life was a Xmas jam at the Twisted Wheel. Mike got up (I didn't know who he was as I was just 17) and kicked off the local semi-pro guitarists and said "you can stay". Jammed The Letter and a couple of others. He was sooooooo different class to anyone I'd ever played with. RIP Mike. And thanks :-)

[@Montyhugo]

RIP Gary Wright ✌️❤️🙏

[@robertl6818]

R.I.P. love this music!

[@vibratingbilbo1902]

One of my fav Bands . The band i was in played several ST song including this one and Evil Woman

[@musicplateau1]

There are moments on the "Witness" album, where they almost came back to this mood. A beautiful band that preferred to sit in the shade.

[@marittefriedrich718]

I love this. Cant stop listening

[@durango8882]

Spooky Tooth invented that Heavy sound. Great band. Hot fucking song.

[@mikedeaton6416]

I still have their first two albums. Loved their version of "I Am The Walrus". They worked with Joe Cocker on at least one song.

[@williammolyneux5887]

They played at The Argos Butterfly at Peterlee one Sunday night, fantastic . Those indeed were great times.

[@bruzrkgro-malog2953]

One of those cool hidden treasures of the late 60s/ early 70s. Remind me of Peter Green's Fleetwood mixed with Procol Harem.

[@LaFranceRock2023]

♰ RIP Gary Wright ♰

[@rodolfochavez7609]

Awesome band

[@danielcombs3207]

I was so delighted to have seen them with this lineup. They opened up for J. Geils Band that night. Not too many years later I saw Mick Jones on the first Foreigner Tour.

[@dougthePogingguitarist]

great song

[@lipfishin]

RIP Gary.

[@bobwestinicky8447]

RIP Gary Wright.

[@Texeq]

Awesome. Such a great band.

[@ilonajurecska2503]

RIP Gary Wright 😢

[@docnflossie7351]

RIP Gary ❤🎉❤😢

[@petermaier9520]

Masterpiece 😇🎸👍

[@clevebaker8399]

You broke my heart tour 73 is the one we saw! Killer

[@mirekkonieczny419]

RIP Gary

[@maazvdo]

Really great sound! Thanks for share.

[@daisywrabbit]

rip Mike Kellie ⚡️💙🥁💙⚡️

[@fmtfniuprog8029]

Sad news, Gary Wright RIP😢

[@roughbeast]

RIP Gary Wright the keyboard player who just died at the age of 80.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it - This song was the starting point of my "musical career". ;-)

[@gammaanteria]

One of my favorite bands. Mike Harrison to me was one of the great British rock singers, and he and Gary Wright had fantastic vocal chemistry when they would trade off lead lines or sing in harmony.

[@wolfgangscheffler351]

Das ist auch meine Musik mit der bin ich aufgewachsen zu vergleichen underground Musik. Gut das die Musik niemals zu Ende geht.

[@russellmammino2635]

A top notch super group of all time

[@friotaiocht101]

Gary Wright RIP what a musician .... great singer songwriter keyboard player he could basically do it all...

[@reginafischer6747]

Beste Zeit, tolle Musik. Kommt leider nicht wieder.

[@jurgenwille135]

Gebe dir recht !!! 1 Klassiker

[@garyspeed8961]

Great track... the full drum intro on the album is a killer!

[@Mariamariamaria617]

Love it!

[@paulgriffiths3082]

I remember being introduced to spooky tooth 0n the1969 island sampler album nice enough to eat with the song better by you .what a great album that was.it certainly shaped my music tastes to the present day,with great bands like free, Jethro tull, fairport convention, mott the hoople included.

[@rmcq1999]

RIP Gary Wright

[@MrSamara64]

Хорошая музыка, мне нравится.

[@SwisstedChef2018]

Harrison and Wright are fantastic

[@SwisstedChef2018]

RIP both

[@OrdoSanctiBenedictus]

Listening to them for the first time. Nice!

[@-Wolfgang-.]

In my opinion no live performances of this song that can be seen here on KZbin reach the single version. It starts with the drum solo, obviously the drummer forgot the beat that he played on the single version. There4 I like and own the single version of WItin for the wind, one of my favorite songs of that decade…. Anyway, Gary Wright tried his best as the lead singer, well done ! It‘s a great loss for all of us, that he passed away. But if you think of all artists which left us throughout a year…. So sad….

[@xxonk]

yes good ol`times ..Spooky Tooth waren sehr angesagt ab 68...Es gab auch mal einen Auftritt ,in Bremen, ich glaube in der Schauburg...leider verpasst ..

[@gvalley07]

R.I.P. Gary Wright

[@daisywrabbit]

(lyrics, copy pasted from Google. some seem to be out of order.) Lonely is the night Now that darkness has fallin' And the world is callin' Nothing seems right Everybody's looking back As the wind comes whispering by The're waitin' for the answers then Like the time they heard a cry Hang on I know Don't ever go Life's here Wind called on me How it took me by surprise Creeping through the distant skies Cause night come upon me Wind tell me what you can A breeze blew and whispered then In a voice rich as the sun 'Bout the life - What I came from Hang on I knowDon't ever go Life's here

[@larryw4175]

Yeah spooky tooth was awesome I also loved Uriah Heep awesome Brit bands

[@gautambanerjee982]

FANTASTIC SONG.

[@user-rg7qm5iq3r]

Wonderful concert in Hamburg Star Club 1969

[@jarikuukasjarvi7824]

Supermen, it took 55 yrs to found them👍

[@danhall2197]

R I P Gary Wright

[@michelenickum5622]

Excellent

[@joeymcpherson3140]

I saw them open for ZZ Top on July 5, 1974, in Mobile, Alabama, they broke up soon after but looks like they reformed briefly in 1998.

[@alexruiz1320]

tremenda canción y mejor interpretación.

[@damiancazares7994]

Happy Heavenly 81st Birthday Gary Wright April 26 1943 - September 4 2023

[@user-th5nv7dg5m]

FANTASTIC

[@jaywilkinson3522]

Mick Jones before Foreigner.

[@debrabock6475]

A very young Gary wright

[@MisterMikeTexas]

Why wasn't this on the radio more?

[@banjammy4116]

The singer is Gary Wright , l heard he just passed, God Bless The other gentleman is not dead l hope

[@johneltringham5975]

Use to love this band

[@edhorton2766]

What groups had 2 male vocalists better than these 2 guys?

[@ronniewall1481]

IN THE SIXTIES WE HAD MANY GREAT SINGERS. BUT BLIND FAITH FOR ONE GENTLE GIANT KILLER VOCAL.

[@jasonph2522]

Humble Pie- Marriott and Frampton

[@melvindoan3298]

This is when music was real music tasteful and very understanding words and music 🎵🎶 oh yeah baby 😎😃

[@jonschwartz4621]

Always loved this band. Check out Evil Woman and The Mirror 👍

[@furiacabocla2furiacabocla589]

Here by the order of #CarolMariano. Good sound.

[@davehall8280]

The drummer is the great Mike Kellie who went on to be in The Only Ones--yeah!! dbh

[@tonyezar7547]

Super ⭐️

[@larrycanepa]

Mick Jones was so young!

[@daisywrabbit]

💙🌬️

[@tuberider324]

Mike Harrison should’ve been rated with Paul Rogers and others from the late 60s early 70s as a great singer.

[@outville_kit]

echoplexic!

[@fmaykallb]

[@TheTriton5]

What happened to the version of this video (German TV) where they stuffed up the beginning of the song and had to re-start? - It was a statement to their professionalism and a lot more interesting than this 'corrected' version.

[@krisscanlon4051]

There was another video up with Spooky making some flubs and Kellie was ready to kill somebody lol

[@frankpinkowski534]

I enjoyed that video. Wish it was still posted.

[@HHH-vi1wn]

GREAT 🇩🇪

[@WestCoastDP]

Just saw an old Reel to Reel tape marked "Spooky Two" Wonder how much it is worth..

[@JohnBock-nq9lr]

Love this band, but,unfortunately this is the mick jones,sans luther grosvenor line up....the spooky two line up with Grosvenor and greg ridley was their best

[@moderateminneapolita]

Like listening to Baba O’Riley backwards

[@ottomatic3123]

This song sounded very familiar to me until the chorus. Does anybody know what other song I might be thinking of? Maybe a Traffic song?

[@ingolfwoyke8882]

ERM 6.2.2021

[@workingtheworld68]

Mick Jones warming up for Foreigner

[@banditY2K]

Mick Jones on guitar. Who's playing bass?

[@giba6349]

I think it's Chris Stewart , who died 2020 . If correct , Mick Jones is the last survivor .

[@jeffm9975]

mick jones on guitar

[@michaeladams8401]

Great band and tune. Too bad the soundman wasn't up to the task of turning up the the microphones.

[@rjk698]

LOL I was 2K

[@debrabock6475]

Put him up with the likes of Greg Emerson

[@jayapande00]

:) xxx