My Mind Is Blown! Its a Beautiful Day 1969 Full Album Reaction First Listen

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@rafehr1378 10 ай бұрын

I still have the album. Beautiful Day sound was special. Sad about David's loss. I heard back then Burt Bacharach had a son in the band. Back then this type of music, Hard Rock was played on FM radio stations. Main street music was on the AM radio dial.

@booboo8577 10 ай бұрын

I also have this album. I bought my copy when it came out. It still plays.

@patrickdoake6022 9 ай бұрын

Not hard rock, west coast hippy vibes! ✌️

@rafehr1378 9 ай бұрын

On LSD it was. @@patrickdoake6022

@stephennicolay1940 6 ай бұрын

I also have this album and have had it for many decades....and yes, it is a truly great cover!

@brianboye8025 10 ай бұрын

Can you imagine what sort of videos could accompany these songs?

@twwtjohns 10 ай бұрын

It wasn't called psychedelic rock for nothing and White Bird was a fairly big hit at the time.

@williampeachey6057 9 ай бұрын

I just turned 69 and grew up listening to this music all my life. Give a listen to a fiddle player by the name of Jean-Luc ponte his song mirage will also blow your mind

@marysweeney7370 10 ай бұрын

I was not living in the 60's but I have a great appreciation for this type of music. I would consider it psychedelic in style ala hippy San Fran. I heard White Bird for the first time on some university radio station a few years back and just loved it I'm glad you had the chance to experience it.

@MisterWondrous 10 ай бұрын

After high school in the early 70s, I took time to hitch around America, doing the hippie tour, if you will. On my first oasis, at my first hippie house, where I took respite, this album and song was playing, and I sensed that all was well, and all would be well. It was, in some way, a main part of the soundtrack at the beginning my personal hero's journey, which would lead me to Mr. Campbell and other great teachers. This may also be a part of yours. Surely.

@Every_Day_Adventure 10 ай бұрын

Its been a while since I've checked in with you John but when I saw this vid of you doing the full album you know I had to stop in. I love, love LOVE this album and my favorite songs are Hot Summers Day and Girl with no eyes but all of them are just magical. I'm glad you give this one a spin and know you'll just love it as a reminder where this album came from and what time, for some of the mashes, you need to bring lucy in the sky with diamonds...uh wink wink to fully experience this band.

@toddmitchell7542 9 ай бұрын

With some, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Mountain, Grateful Dead, Big Brother……..for me is the San Francisco sound….

@stephennicolay1940 6 ай бұрын

I have this album too and many by QMS and the Dead.

@johncollier9280 10 ай бұрын

Me thinks this is one o' the greatest albums-beginnin' to end-o' all time. It was my soundtrack to 1969. I was at a friend's birthday party many years ago when the musical concept was for everyone to pick a single album side to play. I chose side 2 o' It's A Beautiful Day which everyone loved hearin'. They were surprised I chose side 2 since White Bird was the hit but side 2 is fantastic! Nice to see yer reaction now.

@birchsongsltd.6831 10 ай бұрын

I found this album in the 80's. Brilliant. Deep Purple lifted Bombay Calling for Child in Time.

@gergsar 10 ай бұрын

Back in the day, I saw them LIVE, at an outdoor concert, in Minnesota, and they were great! So theatrical...

@johngriswold2213 9 ай бұрын

They were regulars at Winterland and the Filmore, and even better, at the Frost Ampitheater at Stanford University. Frost was entirely surrounded by tall trees and once inside you had no feeling of being near a city. The shows were epic, Santana, War, Beautiful Day, Sons of Champlin, Cold Blood, Tower of Power, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Elvin Bishop...good times;)

@DianeAvila-bv4fc 3 ай бұрын

Rarely hear cold blood get mentioned

@brianboye8025 10 ай бұрын

Your reactions to White Bird match mine in all the parts of the song, especially your smiles. I do think the lyrics are a distant second to the music.

@porflepopnecker4376 10 ай бұрын

If you look at the girl on the cover of this album and then look at the one on the cover of Quicksilver Messenger Service's "Happy Trails" album, you'll see that somebody copied somebody.

@mk-cx7ov 10 ай бұрын

Same artist.

@dennismccormick7521 9 ай бұрын

After listening with you last week, I bought headphones so I could listen again, and this is my 4th listen . Thank you all so much.

@Peaceful_Rayne 10 ай бұрын

Hold on just a minute. You have MERCH!? I just now found out about this. Also this album sounds really cool. I've never heard it before.

@JohnSlopReacts 10 ай бұрын

Heh yeah we just have one design right now but more coming soon! Hope you enjoy the album :)

@Peaceful_Rayne 10 ай бұрын

@JohnSlopReacts so far I am enjoying it! But like whoa man, you're building an empire! You are so cool!

@kentclark6420 7 ай бұрын

I used to visit my grandparents on Capitol Hill in Seattle not long before this came out, and they lived a couple of blocks away from Volunteer Park, near the Victorian home this guy was talking about where the song was written. My cousin and I had some of the best times of our lives playing in that park. And the Victorian mansions in that part of town are still there, and still incredible! A few years later my family moved to Hawaii, and interestingly, I think the band also had connections to the Islands.

@tperelli4271 5 ай бұрын

Wow so cool you are doing this album. Pattie Santos, by the way, later married Bud Cockrell of Pablo Cruise. They did an amazing album together called Cockrell & Santos... you should really check this rare album out.

@chitownlee 10 ай бұрын

In my top 5 favorite albums of all time.

@tomshepard5308 10 ай бұрын

If you get the chance listen to the 2nd album "Marrying Maiden", the song "Do you remember the sun?" It's still my favorite after all these years.

@davidschecter5247 10 ай бұрын

One of the best albums associated with 1960s San Francisco music scene, along with Moby Grape's first albums. IABD's second album is a step down, but still has some great songs and music. Their first album is close to perfection. When this album came out, it was as marvelous as you are experiencing it now. There's something for everybody in there. And we were all haunted by "The Girl With No Eyes." Most parents didn't even listen to their kids' music, so they wouldn't have had much to say about it.

@barneymiller6204 10 ай бұрын

I still have it too! A very cerebral album, not really for parties! I would bet 99% of the people who have heard of this album never got past White Bird.

@guyobhf6273 9 ай бұрын

I've always loved this album. I'm 72 and I only have one friend of my vintage who even remembers the band. He has White Bird as his ring tone when I call him. Here is an Easter Egg for you in the form of a bit of trivia about the band - or more accurately, their fate. At the beginning of this reaction you mentioned they had a connection with Santana. Leading up to Woodstock, the promoters thought they needed one more band to fill out the bill. They reached out to a band manager in San Francisco for another band. He had two in mind. It's a Beautiful Day and Santana. The promoter watched/listened to both bands and couldn't decide between them. So, they flipped a coin and Santana was chosen. Maybe that chance event was prophetic in that Santana is still an active band over 50 years later.

@acehays 10 ай бұрын

I read somewhere that Bombay Calling was the impetus for Deep Purples iconic Child in Time.

@jojogun1957 10 ай бұрын

Yeh,I had to check to see which came out first.

@acehays 10 ай бұрын

@@jojogun1957 Wow you just made me think of run run, hadn't thought of that album in a long time

@jojogun1957 10 ай бұрын

Cool.They used to play it alot on WLS in Chitown.lol😊

@stumblebiscuit99 9 ай бұрын

Forgot to mention I saw them live in 71 or 72 at a free concert they gave in the middle of a summer day on the brickyard on NCSU's campus.

@RobertHeffern 7 күн бұрын

Did anyone else notice how much Dead Can Dance got from this band?

@dennismccormick7521 10 ай бұрын

'White Bird' overdose clinic began in 1970 Eugene Or.

@cspringer333 9 ай бұрын

My favorite group back then....Thanks!

@timbriere2325 10 ай бұрын

I remember playing White Bird for my Dad in 1973.

@JimFinck 9 ай бұрын

Mr. John, check out "The Last Days of the Fillmore" (youtube) if you want a feel for the 'zeitgeist' and the bands that came out of San Francisco in the 60's.

@stephenulmer3781 10 ай бұрын

I love the "White bird" song by them 😊

@lawrencesmith6536 9 ай бұрын

I still have the album. Saw them in concert circa 1970. GREAT show

@VIDSTORAGE 10 ай бұрын

Pattie Santos is the backing vocalist and she ended up marrying a member of Pablo Cruise Bud Cokrell ..Bud went solo and him and Pattie made one album together and she died in a car wreck in 1989

@stumblebiscuit99 9 ай бұрын

This takes me back to when I was 19. LSD was everywhere even in North Carolina. 🙂

@barrywerdell2614 10 ай бұрын

There is a David LaFlame solo album that uses some of the material of this album. with extended solo''s.

@brianboye8025 10 ай бұрын

I wouldn't recommend tripping to Girl With No Eyes. It is anxiety inducing, but beautiful.

@acehays 10 ай бұрын

Love that song and album. Just beautiful.

@SamMineo-yp8in 10 ай бұрын

Haven't heard in 40yrs loved it

@johngriswold2213 9 ай бұрын

Wasted Union Blues is about sex, drugs and rock and roll;) Union is another word for intercourse,,. "wasted" is another word for being high, and while getting high can enhance the experience, getting too high or for too long can get you to the point where you're "so high I don't know if I can make it" (making it is another euphemism for sex). The instrumental climax at the end of the song is, of course, the climax;) There was little connection between we hippies of the day and our parents...we couldn't do what we were obviously doing with their approval and so of course we hid it as long as we could and then for the most part endured the rupture when they found out. I moved out at 18, a rented house with a couple of friends and within a year or two we had scattered to the country, to other states, to other countries, to "cool" places where we could exist more or less in the open.

@keithhider2170 10 ай бұрын

I still have this album. It wasn't a big hit in the UK possibly due to lack of exposure but it has certainly stood the test of time. I remember reading a review and had to go out and buy it to see what it was all about. Strangely, their second album, 'Marrying Maidens', is completely different with almost a country vibe. I suspect their fan base, built off their first album, didn't take to the second and this may have led to their demise.

@thatguysme 10 ай бұрын

I've always approached "Girl With No Eyes" as if looking at a picture of an ex. She no longer has eyes for me but her picture stares at me, and I wonder "who does she see?"

@anthonynozzi5723 2 күн бұрын

John, the singer Patty Santos was killed in a car crash shortly after they gained some fame

@itsme-tw8nq 10 ай бұрын

If you liked this one you'd probably enjoy The Flock as well, the album of the same name. same period, also with a violin player. Psychedelic stuff too, and might as well have a listen to Greatest Show On Earth, album called Horizons.

@lauriehutchison449 2 ай бұрын

Yes! The Flock - I have both this album and that. Such great music in those years!

@davidpender8179 4 ай бұрын

I haven't read the comments but one thing you haven't mentioned so far (no offense, this is just after the first transition) is the blending of each and every song into the next. There is no album I know of that compares with this in that way. Forget Side 2 of Abbey Road - not even close. These songs are not a collection of singles, they are each an important part of the whole. Enjoying watching you experience this album. One of my few all-time favorite albums - from 'back in the day'.

@brotherbob3569 10 ай бұрын

Love this whole album. I like their Tine better than Pink Floyd's Time and The Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today. My two older brothers saw them at The New Orleans Pop Festival 2 weeks after Woodstock.

@JettRink-b8k 7 ай бұрын

I heard Bill Graham was only allowed to bring two groups to Woodstock (1) The Grateful Dead and It's A Beautiful Day and Santana had to flip a coin who would attend and Santana won.