Pablo Cruise - ocean breeze , full 12 min version

[@amys5715]

I’m 54 years old and this is the first time I’ve ever heard this song. Completely and utterly blown away. A masterpiece.❤

[@70footer]

What made you want to listen to it all the way thru at this time?

[@juliesullivan1967]

I had the unbelievable pleasure of seeing Pablo Cruise play at the Maltese Falcon bar in Chico, California in about 1975/76. My girlfriend and I sat about 5 or 6 feet away from them performing all their beautiful music at that time. It was one of the highlights of my life so far!

[@spikespa5208]

Was there for that show. Helluva evening it was. Also saw them at Laxson Auditorium CSUC. RIP Bud Cockerel. (Unfortunate that this recording was cut off early.)2

[@yopirate1]

Long ago, far away in a little beach town, in the civic auditorium, there played a band... Only a handful of listeners came to see them.. no one apparently had heard of them. My friend and i though, traveled and hour just to listen to this one song. So there we were, chins atop our arms folded on the edge of the stage as the band let it loose, seemingly just for us. Magic is what it was to us. Later the headliner band came on and packed the place. But to us, we already had what we came for.

[@davec3901]

I'm just curious what year that was and who the headliner was.

[@laurent.674]

Santa Cruz?

[@cleroyster2610]

One of the greatest band ever to perform, Cory is one of the greatest piano players I have ever seen or heard, and David Jenkins is one of the best guitar players singers I’ve ever seen

[@dsalbert9572]

Beautiful, absolutely freaking beautiful. What a powerful piece of music from an amazing band- this band is like a jewel that becomes more valuable with time.

[@quiquerojas6459]

This is a everlasting jewel... a master piece.

[@Hokua888]

Yes!

[@mariosacco8822]

It takes me back to my teen years in Southern Italy: nobody knew about this band but me and everytime i played it, all the people were impressed by its haunting atmosphere, the same i feel now, after all these years.

[@MarkJohnson-zy4fd]

Wow, I had this on album back in the day. Talk about under-appreciated. Brilliant music. Timeless.

[@scottthrower7637]

Played this on my radio show on KBZY-AM in Salem OR when AM stations still played music. Fond memories.

[@EdwardSingleterry]

Every time I am at the coast I think of this song…

[@alexbeyaz]

This music is radically undervalued! Superb composition; superb musicianship!

[@jefflambright2113]

So true... this is a masterpiece

[@royboy56100]

In 78 on PBS Soundstage they rocked the house down with TV guide's quote "with rousing drum solo "!!Excellent time!!!

[@marylemley5194]

I bought this 8 track tape just because I saw the words Ocean Breeze for a whole track.... AND it was Pablo Cruise!!!!!! Fell in love on the first notes and Im blown away that theyre making their beautiful music here, STILLLL!!!! I saw them and the Doobie Brothers in late 70s and both bands were on stage for the finale. No music matches them today. Thank you so much for putting this out here!!!! All my music got left when moving yrs ago. But I did put many of Pablo C. songs on a tape I made at the beach, while camera was on the stormy waves and a seagull flying to this song. So great!!!!!!

[@SB-nr3xm]

I love Cory Lerios!! What a personality and talk about an amazing pianist!! Nails it every time. Great band 🎶🎧

[@tiarealipio8210]

Love this while sittin on the beach with my dog back in 1977. Saw Pablo Cruise concert at the Neal Blaisdell, hope they come again and share their music!! Mahalo n Aloha! Tiare

[@sptinydancer]

I got to see them at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley, California

[@SgtBooker44]

They are still touring. At least before the COVID. The recently released a new song “Breathe”.

[@mulekickhandmadeguitars8465]

Years ago I played this song for my dad, who had never sat through a 12 minute song before, and he was impressed.

[@cathymcivor7457]

I am so in love with this marvelous song! A great one for my yoga & workouts - my stretching routine. I absolutely love the piano in this song. Please take care of the oceans, people of the world.

[@stevemaree359]

Bought my first Pablo Cruise album in 1977/78. Great band. I don't know of anyone else in South Africa who have followed this great band.

[@AngryCalvin]

Funny how many Progressive Rock influences showed up in other genres in the 70's. Common to hear those influences in Jazz Fusion and Album Oriented Rock. More rare in Soft Rock and R&B. But with bands like Pablo Cruise, Ambrosia, Toto, Steely Dan, you get a mixed bag of all those genres. Just makes things more creative,complex, and sophisticated. Something music has lacked greatly in more recent years.

[@richardmurphy8744]

They were a good group.

[@orrzizims]

Due to budget cut backs years ago art programs were cut out. You have an entire generation that is woefully lacking in music appreciation and ignorant in poorer areas.

[@robertglenn5398]

Michael, you just stated so elegantly what I've been thinking for years but couldn't articulate....thanks

[@mickredland6399]

If by Prog Rock influences, you mean guys who could really play, compose and took chances, giving their music space and ideas, stretching out for extended solos that made sense and reached a crescendo that isn't just every instrument @ once - LOUDER + LONGER...then yes! Musicians took chances and genres were wide and fluid, less constricting and segregated. It was a wonderful time for music.

[@cathymcivor7457]

I heard this FOR THE FIRST TIME today, on Phoenix's 103.1. WOW!!! I absolutely love this. I find this song so relaxing, so soothing. I plan to download it and listen to this at the gym, at the end of my workouts.

[@rstone7727]

Spent many summer evenings in my 1976 Charger with my girl (wife now) cruising around town listening to Cory Lerios and the boys - Runnin', Ocean Breeze, El Verona, I Want You Tonight, Tonight My Love, Worlds Away, Don't Want To Live Without it, and all the rest... Tight , tight, tight group.

[@sptinydancer]

Ditto.

[@larrykeyser1792]

We saw them at Cal Poly/ SLO in 1978. I took a young lady who is my bride today for the past 36 years. Listening to Ocean Breeze gets both of us misty. What a great song!

[@sptinydancer]

I went to school there!

[@kcsnow9447]

Sat in the fourth row in front of a speaker stack about twelve feet high, just after the first LP was released (CU Macky Auditorium). Fantastic show. About fifteen years later saw them again at a smaller venue and when they asked for special requests twenty or so of us all stood up and begged for this song...and they wouldn't play it. "Anything but that one...". But at least I heard it once, and it was truly magical.

[@stigbjrvik2885]

Got this album as a present for my 10th birthday in ‘76. This song was always my absolute favourite! One of prog rock’s masterpieces!❤

[@chrisg7891]

What a showcase of musical talent

[@lezlieely2961]

The beginning of this song is so beautiful and touching - it brings tears to my eyes, and then it rocks!

[@dougluce4326]

Anyone remember Pablo Cruise? This song is my favorite!

[@freddavis6772]

Live Version Even Better

[@tifiecampdirector742]

Remember???? I've never forgotten...huge fan since 1975

[@SgtBooker44]

Still touring

[@Modes9]

This is a great vibe. If you like this, you would probably also like the Sea Level albums from the same era. I wish rock with some instrumental proficiency was still relevant in the 21st century. It seems like these kids can't stop texting long enough to take in a twelve minute piece.

[@Yeahthatsright717]

+Modes9 Love the SeaLevel albums had them all :-)

[@Modes9]

+Robert Gomez The only Sea Level album I don't have is "Ballroom", which is currently unavailable in a digital format. The first one, Cats on the Coast, On the Edge, and Long Walk Off a Short Pier are all great. Thanks for the positive feedback!

[@RA-VEN8]

Holy shit before I even read this was randomly listening to Sea Level Tidal Wave live 1977. If you ever listen to Journeys 1st 3 albums and Gino Vannelli Gist of the Gemini it all kind of goes well together, you could Neal Schon or Gino Vannelli in this band it would rock pre 1980s.

[@douglaslinge6247]

Brought tears to my eyes...I remember.

[@mickgriffin3843]

+Douglas Linge Yep me too friend.

[@SgtBooker44]

DJ's back in the day used to love it when you requested this song. Gave them a nice break to get to the bathroom and grab a bite to eat. Live this song is awesome.

[@rodneybrown6772]

Best rocknroll piano and guitar solos ever

[@bjtworld]

When I first moved to San Francisco I used to wake up to this song every morning. So beautiful!

[@geoffwilson8301]

I saw them in 1975 at Sonoma State University with Automatic Man, Yesterday & Today, Journey and Sons Of Champlin.

[@spikespa5208]

The Sons were great. Saw them in Chico CA , '76.. Opened for the Fleetwood Mac. Got the people jumpin'. Mac came on put everyone to sleep. Long live the Cruise.

[@kenrussell1093]

I just listened to this after maybe 20 years. The last time I remember, was about five o'clock in the morning, with my wife , on the way to work. She had never heard this song, and it most definitely took her away to a secret place that only chosen souls are allowed to go. There are not many songs that can bring to tears, but I can barely see to type through the tears as I listen to this masterpiece. Oh My God, what has happened to us, that we don't have such beautiful music to drive us on to greater and greater heights of understanding. I miss those days so much😢

[@jefflambright2113]

Lerios is a virtuoso... together with Jenkins, Cockrell and Price they create a classical island masterpiece. Such an underappreciated band. This timeless song still holds up to this day.

[@broomlver]

Thanks so much for posting this beauty. Reliving some sweet memories.

[@poetxyz]

Such a great song, a real favorite.

[@wrenstimpy3269]

Dave Jenkins tops the guitar skill set in Ocean Breeze and El Verano. Extreme talent!

[@ruthlafler5622]

I used to study to this in college in the early '80s, and I don't think I've heard it since. So beautiful!

[@oxeye335]

I saw them with Joan Armatrading and Elliott Murphy at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, MA, late 1970's. They slayed this song.....

[@mikemullenix6956]

Absolutely genius timeless, every once in while you stumble on something beautiful like this

[@violinsolo4000]

I LOVE this song....Thanks for posting this one!!!

[@bettyjeannemcleanjr6787]

Oh yea I remember this song Ocean Breeze! David is my daughters God Father.I followed the band for a couple of years. They were awwesome. welln Im sure they must still be good.When I listen to their music I'm sent to a better place. Haha korny huh?

[@richdesign6652]

Thanks for posting this. A great composition that carried me thru a very tough time.

[@michaelpicco696]

Saw this performed at CSU Chico in the 70’s!

[@spikespa5208]

Laxson Auditorium?

[@larrymay4966]

Good ole' times! Let's remember Bruce Day (bass), a great guy we lost to way early.R.I.P. with a party pending. (I knew the band by working the rehearsal studios in 70s/80s)

[@lincolncityoregon1]

The line up that recorded this is the original line up with Bud Cockrell on bass, not with Bruce Day & with lead vocals from Dave Jenkins. R.I.P Bud and Bruce.

[@davidhobbs8309]

Bought this album in 1977 when it came out, and saw them every time they came to Vancouver up until the end of the 1980’s when we moved….they still are prominent on my play list!!

[@dannybeddingfield7016]

Used to sleep with my headphones on back in the 70's. Listened to KDF out of Nashville. This one would bring me awake

[@Multi80schick]

This is amazingly beautiful.

[@St0we11]

wonderful composition

[@norpkrap]

my god this takes me back to sweet days of summer in my little village I had picked up one their albums by chance because I liked the cover holy shit when I played it for the first time I was blown awayyyyyyyy and still am at 71 "time less classic THANK YOU CRUISE!!"

[@kaoriichinohe]

I remember I heard this song when I was 15 back in late 70’s with a surfing movie called FREE RIDE with my brother who passed away.

[@kiaoraguy]

always been one of my favorite bands

[@kcsnow9447]

@11:22 it all goes tuneless. Without structure, head laid back and just listening to the sound of the wandering keys, moving back and forth through the wind and waves. Best part of the entire masterpiece, which it surely is.

[@kcsnow9447]

@ 70 Footer Yeah, you know. You get it. Thanks so much for even offering it. Else I'd have to be digging through my stack of LPs. But more even more important: I wouldn't even be here but for fans like you, who keep this going, and who keep it there for the next generations. And that said...I need to start emailing them a few URL's. Like this one. :D

[@devonk298]

I had he honor of working with Bruce Day at American Music, Bellevue WA for 2 years. He was a lot of fun, He and his wife had a wolf! A shame to see him pass away at such a young age.

[@WEOT62]

TY kcdx in Phx plays this from time to time. Love the beginning intro. Independent station. Request it online.

[@Modes9]

+WEOT62 It sounds like jazz and conversation from the foot of Mt. Belzoni.

[@dougluce4326]

Pablo Cruise "OCEAN BREEZE do you remember?

[@cathymcivor7457]

Phillip, I heard this for the first time ~ today!! I love it!!

[@sptinydancer]

Yes!!!

[@thomasmarinari7205]

Great song. Saw them in a bar called The Dolphin in Sodus Point New York

[@allancarstensen3781]

This is by far my most favorite song of Pablo Cruise! And I have most ,if not all of their albums from the 70's-80's,no kidding!

[@jennifersimon1072]

Love this song....glad it's on here....

[@marciocaram6610]

thanks bro! that song makes me remember surf time! mark richards!

[@SgtBooker44]

Both Bruce Day and original Bass player Bud Cockrell, lost too early

[@sunnymoore4210]

My favorite song of all time!

[@billiemitchell73]

Luv this song.....still gives me goosebumps ❤❤❤

[@cowboybebobb]

I've been searching for this song for awhile. I would join you on that Island karmagirl.

[@Hokua888]

Yes! Hallelujah

[@velasquezjoe11]

Cory Lerios won a Bammy for this song which he wrote

[@sptinydancer]

I was there at the Bammys that year!

[@leighlew50]

takes me back to 1978

[@QuiquedelMayab]

One of my 10 best songs from XX Century

[@jCM8875]

Actually Bud Cockrell was the bass player and second lead vocalist on this album before he left the group and Bruce Day stepped in on the third album. See this and the lifeline album for more of Bud Cockrell. A recognizable voice and wish he would have stayed with the band.

[@DJMarilynThomas]

goddamn this is good!! I know I heard it back in the day but didn't take it seriously, hearing it now, I'm like "this is the Chopin or Tchaikovsky of yacht rock!" FUCKING AWESOME!

[@davidsperber4435]

Ah memories!

[@Hokua888]

Hallelujah!

[@krusty6246]

First heard this on the mighty KSAN in the 70s in the Bay Area. Remember?

[@sptinydancer]

I sure do!

[@Hokua888]

Hallelujah.

[@rg2027x]

"the "Freebird" of piano' : D

[@sptinydancer]

I think Runnin" is, also!

[@Hokua888]

Yes.

[@karmagirl1954]

If I had one song to listen to on a desert island this would be it

[@gaspo2180]

True Story: this song was used in the day in the Combat Zone, Boston, Mass as part of a STRIPPER'S act. She needed all twelve minutes I guess. 12.22.19

[@rickwareman]

set me free too

[@toddblickenstaff607]

All time great Bud Cockrell is on bass here on this original version from the band's first album

[@spikespa5208]

Met the man once for several hours in '77(?). Interesting, funny guy. Sad to know he's gone.

[@Hokua888]

Yea.

[@dougluce4326]

anyone remember the Lion Share in San Rafael,Ca.

[@gregrohrer5258]

Yah, great place to hear some good local music.

[@Hokua888]

YEA✊🏼

[@chrisbolei569]

This song has Bud Cockrell on bass

[@CiscoDuck]

Aha! They quote Layla guitar introduction at 8:00!

[@mickgriffin3843]

Produced by Michael Jackson?

[@Damiano54]

Yep, Michael James Jackson

[@missfitt3dp]

What can I say? ❤❤❤

[@karmagirl1954]

that would be deserted island. whoops.

[@larrymay4966]

Way too early Bruce.

[@Hokua888]

Yea.