What?! REACTION The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See - 9/10/1973 - Grand Opera House

[@MikeTheJukeboxGuy]

🎶👑💭•••OKAY, first...I 💀 will introduce myself. I'm Michael Kane, I got the nickname "JUKEBOX Man" from band mates in LA 1983, because I can sing and know the lyrics to about every song from 1957-1990 in rock, blues, pop, country, motown, soul, funk, & r&b. I just discovered your chnl. I SUBSCRIBED and liked. Now, I decided to share something with you that is similar to this situation, that I think would be a great reaction for you. I will assume you know the Eagles song Take it Easy? Most peop!e have heard it. BUT...did you know that it was originally a Jackson Browne song, and then Glen Frey of the Eagles helped co-write, and finish the song. But, Jackson Browne recorded the song in 1973 on his FOR Everyman album which was several months before the release of the Eagles version on the Desperado album. I like JB version more, and I would like to see what you think! The Eagles version is faster, with a banjo rhythm, while JB's a tick slower...has David Lindley playing the pedal steel. I'd love to see your reaction, and with the same concept of you not knowing the original think the one you know is the original! So, lmk what you think it you can drop me a msg at [e-mail] I look forward to checking out your other video reactions. ✌Michael Kane

[@AngelDReacts]

Hi Mike, (Jukebox man)! Thanks for your thoughtful comment! I do know Take It Easy, but you are right... I only know the Eagles version and didn't know it was not their original... I think I see a reaction coming! Thanks again xo

[@SaverioP]

Pretty much everyone who's even remotely familiar with the Eagles or Jackson Browne knows and has heard Btowne's version of Take It Easy.

[@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw]

Well Jukebox man, most people know Jackson’s version is the original. Anybody who knows The Eagles, Jackson Brown, Linda Ronstadt Ect, knows that history, it’s pretty common knowledge around here. Yes Jackson wrote a couple of verses of take it easy, then he got writers block & put it aside for awhile, when the Eagles were looking for new material, Jackson showed Glenn that unfinished song, “take it easy” Glenn wrote the verse, “ standin’ on a corner in Winslow Arizona……Ect” and finished the song. Glenn is the one who added Bernie Leadon’s banjo part to it & speeded it up a little. Jackson Brown only recorded the “whole” song after the Eagles had finished it, he put it out first to try & get the money out if it but it was a flop, the Eagles put it out & it became a smash hit. Keep trying, you might say something people don’t already know.

[@757optim]

Perhaps most notably, "Take It Easy" pretty much launched the Eagles.

[@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw]

This is the “Original” version of this song from 1973, sung by the man who wrote it, it doesn’t get any better than this!

[@dougwill8850]

This is the original. Toy Caldwell the singer/guitarist and writer of this song wrote it when he was in the Marine Corps in Vietnam and witnessed countless fellow Marines getting dear John letters. May Mr. Caldwell rest in peace. The Marshall Tucker Band had many other songs too. Doug Gray being the main singer on most songs, except this one. That's Toy Caldwell here. Lucky to have seen them in 1980 in Syracuse, New York.

[@KeithLuttrell-fj7tu]

Exactly, just play any album. We played the whole album and we didn't have to be reminded to be polite.

[@bella-xp7qd]

Me too. In Syracuse NY

[@williamcabell142]

There will never be another decade as the 70’s for music! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@rockerforlife194]

I absolutely agree! 100% correct.

[@KajunMoo70]

Yeah baby!

[@Eloso3135]

This song brings tears to this old man’s eyes to this day. I was lucky enough to see Marshall Tucker twice in the early 80’s. They were great! Long live Southern Rock.

[@KajunMoo70]

Gentle comment here but I checked out Matt Minglewood’s version and couldn’t listen much past the storytelling in the beginning. I’m sorry that his version was your initial introduction to this southern rock classic. I’m 71 now and grew up during some of the best decades of music from 1960s throughout the 1970s. MTB will always be THE band for “Can’t You See☺️”

[@timr5490]

This is "the" version of this song, hands down.

[@rockerforlife194]

This is definitely the original version. Great song, great band. The Marshall Tucker Band. Love your reaction, Angel. PS: No other version will ever top this one, the original.

[@georgeburge7136]

Since it is Memorial Day it bears mentioning Toy Caldwell was wounded in action in Viet Nam and has since passed. Rest In Peace.

[@mikefitznb1]

never ever stop on the guitar solo

[@johnv61]

Just listened to Matt’s version…….i’ll stick with my Marshall Tucker original…..:) “Heard it in a love song” should be your next one

[@qtrhors1]

That is the original. Killer 70's Southern Rock.

[@firedoc5]

This is one of my biographical songs. There is no pain more than a what a woman can do to a man that is hopelessly in love with her. Toy Caldwell just brings out that emotion that most of us have felt at one time or another. If you dig them, check out their "Heard It in a Love Song" and "Fire on the Mountain", among many others.

[@kdogusna77]

I grew up 30 miles from Spartanburg SC, the home of the Marshall Tucker Band. They were the soundtrack of my youth, along with the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Charlie Daniels Band, and a few others in what is loosely called "Southern Rock." So much great music!

[@jimmoore8951]

Had no idea they were from Spartanburg (my sis lives in Clemson). Great band, nice area

[@alloccasionsgiftwrapping4767]

Man, this song brings back 1,000 memories of long summer days at giant pool parties and concerts, and so may good times and great people. Oh, to have those days back again. We did not have a care in the world, and people were kind to each other then.

[@jamescarpenter8871]

This is by far the best version.

[@827dusty]

Great old song from the early 70s. This was written and recorded by The Marshal Tucker Band. Some have covered it, but none reach the original.

[@usertr13phinsup]

Beautiful song Beautiful reaction from a Beautiful young lady

[@AngelDReacts]

awe thank you xo

[@keimahane]

This song always brings me back to my childhood growing up in Virginia, my mom loved MTB and would turn this up as loud as she could on our AM car radio. This always brings a tear just thinking about those times with her.

[@walterleonard2489]

I grew up with this version when I was in high school. Loved itl.

[@danielmoore3634]

How the hell is this band all but forgotten about

[@michaelsmith-iu1be]

Maybe by you. this is my favorite music, southern rock and roll. 70s were the best. i don't even bother with todays music, too superficial.

[@RockChuck]

Waylon Jennings also did a version of this song also. But nobody does it better than Marshall Tucker the original.

[@SoloArt8250]

All I know is I love music from 60’s, 70’s, 80’s-2000’s All music actually even from the classical era…👍🏼 Marshall Tucker band has a nice soulful rock sound and I dig it

[@SIR-DanielHunter]

The nicest guys you will ever meet. I miss picking with them. There biggest hit was " Heard it in a Love Song" you couldn't go into any skating rink in the seventies without hearing that song

[@rickthoma6428]

Another great Southern band.

[@dannymoore6886]

Southern rock at it's best!

[@charlesbrakeville5825]

MTB was the first concert I got to go to with just my friends & no parents in 76. I was 16 at the time. Still one of my favorite bands.

[@SandraJones-py1bd]

This is the original!!!

[@sandyhogue7626]

This band was from Spartanburg, South Carolina. In the early 70s, there were several bands that gravitated to Macon, Georgia (MTB being one, Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie and others) who helped promote the Southern rock sound that pretty much died on the vine with the advent of the disco era (sad).

[@darrellmilne6877]

Face it this is the original and it is the best Matt is alright but this is classic

[@AngelDReacts]

I have faced it, thanks

[@TomTom-qm4mq]

I went to face it but couldn't make eye contact.

[@michaelsoper3610]

Interesting that the flute line in the intro is actually borrowed from 'Going Up The Country', which is another song that many wrongly attribute to a 1960s cover by Canned Heat. That song's earliest genesis I could find was a 1928 Henry Thomas recording.

[@coffee-xg6my]

Angel, great reaction! In the course of your reactions you will inevitably run across many more songs that were done in the years previous to later versions of what many younger people hear today. Enjoy your journey listening to and learning about these classic old songs from yesteryear.

[@RollingwiththeTide62]

Yes Toy Caldwell, Marshall Tucker Band, my teenage years 😮

[@chrisdoyle5450]

This is "the" song, written and sung by the late, great Toy Caldwell. I was lucky enough to see MTB in the mid '70's at the height of their popularity. The opening band was the Charlie Daniels Band. Awesome concert!!

[@darrickriggins3806]

This is the original and they’re from Spartanburg South Carolina

[@CatO9lives]

Toy Caldwell, the one singing, wrote this song. The Caldwell brothers were from Moore South Carolina about 30 miles from where I live and I have always had kin living in Moore and would ride by an old two story brick school house that they used to rehearse in and recorded some of their songs in back in the early 70's. I remember hearing on the radio years ago back in the 70's also of Toy Caldwell being interviewed and he mentioned the old Schoolhouse that they turned into a recording studio. He also told the story of how they got their band name on an old interview he was doing on the Bobby Bare Show and Bobby ask him how they got the name Marshall Tucker Band and ask if there, "is a real Marshall Tucker?" Toy said, "yea, he was a blind man that tunes piano's in Spartanburg and one night about a week before the Marshall Tucker band was formed, we had a gig and we didn't have a name for our band. " He went on to say that they rented a place from Marshall Tucker to practice and on the keychain was the name, "Marshall Tucker" He said, that name for the band was, "As good as any. And that was the name of the band." Critics, told the band that a flute in a Southern Rock Band won't work, but they tried it out and that became their trademark. That flute gave a lot of their songs a very unique sound that caught on and is classic to hear to this day.

[@miranda-h2n]

Matt is a BOSS! I love his version, too! These people saying he ain't shit well they ain't shit!

[@ralphwillis1126]

They have so many awesome songs

[@AngelDReacts]

Can you suggest one for me to react to?

[@kennethcarey5381]

Hank Williams Jr done a cover of it also Waylon Jennings done a cover

[@buckackerman9256]

Real story. 1986 at 18 i met and married my first wife who was 21. 6 years later we split, she was messing around and had been while i worked 2 jobs and she stayed home. I loved her with my everything. I was totally faithful. Afew years of head games. I listen to this sing one to many times. 1993 i left and never looked. 7 years i wasted a lot of yourh for one woman. I went and hiked the Appalachain trail. Maine to Goergia. The hutchhiked to Miami. Wild 5 years! Setteled down in 1999.. Sort of. Haha

[@paulgl5178]

I’ve known Marshall Tucker’s version and others to cover it since my youth. I listened to Minglewood do it. I like it too. He captures the spirit of “Can’t You See” pretty well. Thanks for reaction

[@richardpierce7819]

When I perform Cant you see on stage it always gets a great response from the audience.

[@Whiteshark111]

This is the only one I know.

[@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw]

Angel D, listen to some more MTB, “Fire on the mountain” “Heard it in a love song”, and my favorite of their lesser known hits is, “24 hours at a time” Enjoy.

[@truckshackley373]

I had a similar revelation with the song Angel of the Morning. The only version I ever heard was by Juice Newton until I recently discovered that it was actually a cover. The original was by Evie Sands but Merrilee Rush was the first to put the song on the charts.

[@SG-js2qn]

Quintessential southern rock. I'd say the vocal stylings belong to the school of Ray Charles, or at least that's who they remind me of. Instruments like flute and violin were used in rock in that era. As for Canadian or Canadian-American bands of that general era, there's the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Rush, The Band, Loverboy, Bryan Adams, Steppenwolf, Blood Sweat and Tears, and of course Gordon Lightfoot. Lesser stars in The Stampeders, Nick Gilder, April Wine. There could be more, but that's what a search shows.

[@OZAHS1959]

Just listened to your Matt Minglewood version. Having listened to the MTB version for 50 years now, I think I will stick with MTB. MM did a nice cover, but most of the time it's hard to really like a cover of something you've loved since childhood. (One great exception is Heart's version of "Stairway to Heaven" cover at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012) Since people are always trying to pigeon hole groups into various genres MTB was called "Southern Rock", but they really defy a generalization like that. The drummer started out as a Jazz drummer, and that has an impact on their sound, but you can also hear elements of folk, country, funk, and pure rock and roll. It's fun to see this live version, but it lacks any semblance of sound quality, so I recommend giving the studio version a listen. The MTB catalog from '72 to '78 contains ZERO clinkers. ALL of their songs from that era are simply amazing. It's a deep rabbit hole to fall into, and I recommend it.

[@markreddoch6047]

Most people usually prefer the 1st version of a song that they heard whether that’s the original or a cover. It’s all good!

[@davidgehoski1306]

Viet Nam Veterans from SC. They were fantastic in concert. Toy Caldwell is not the regular singer on things other than ones like these. He plays with his thumb and died in 1993,

[@tomlester8705]

Has the most classic line in Southern Rock. "I'm gonna find me a hole in a wall. I'm gonna climb inside and die."

[@SaverioP]

One of the best concerts I ever attended was a Marshall Tucker show. They said they were going to be there a while, and they were. They came back out for FOUR encores, and brought their opening act (a band called Sea Level as I recall) out to jam with them for the last two. I remember at the arena the management kept turning the arena lights on to try and get the bands to wrap it up, but they just kept playing.😂 The 70s were amazing.

[@parkercarter3917]

I was born in 1968 so I was a little too young to remember these songs, but they are my favorites. This is when you really had to be a musician. Toy Caldwell, the singer and guitarist, wrote this song while serving in the Marine Corps in Vietnam. The dear John letters part is correct, but they were written to his fellow Marines.

[@coffee-xg6my]

The Caldwell family was plagued with tragedy. Toy Caldwell, the lead singer with the gravelly voice and playing the guitar was a Vietman veteran who was wounded in battle in 1968 and received a Purple Heart. The person you see next to him in this video is his brother Tommy Caldwell playing bass who was killed in 1980 after the land cruiser he was driving clipped a parked car and rolled. Another brother, Tim Caldwell, also died in a traffic accident one month before that when he collided with a garbage truck on a highway. Toy Caldwell, the lead singer died years later in 1993 due to cardiac arrest brought on by cocaine use.

[@VIDSTORAGE]

I listened to Matt Minglewood band cover and it is very good to excellent... .He really did a very respectful cover of Can't You See and I hope he is still doing great.. The Marshall Tucker Band was huge in the 70s to the early 80s even after two the three Caldwell brothers died in 1980. Southern musical acts were seen as cursed with tragedy and bad luck during that era and looking back to the history it is easy to see why ...The MTB has many great songs . I will suggest the original album versions of "" Take The Highway"" and '' Fire On The Mountain''' .Thank you for the reaction..

[@victorbradshaw7359]

Your right I had never heard of Minglewood till you told me

[@ddunn7603]

Heard Marshall Tucker Touring with Charlie Daniels in 1974. Probably heard them live 20 times since then. In fact will probably hear them again this summer. Original Marshall Tucker Band with Toy Caldwell had no equals. If you are not familiar with all their songs from the 70s you are missing a real treat. Check out Song Virginia first.

[@craigcook2393]

Nothing compares with this version.

[@stanleynykaza9042]

The Great. Toy Caldwell the singer/guitarist was awarded the Purple Heart while in Marine Corps in Vietnam , RIP , Seen the Marshell Tucker band in Chicago back in the late 70s !

[@DannyMarshall-z4o]

Excellent . Live or Video 50s threw 80s 😊

[@kevinhouse1015]

The Marshall Tucker Band was from South Carolina. Saw them live when I was in college back in the 70's.

[@LordEagle]

Lawd,,,,,it hurts sooooo much. 😭😭😭👍

[@lawrencewestbury3162]

This is probably one of the most covered songs ever in southern honkey tonks.

[@scott3744]

This one, by the Marshall Tucker Band, is the real deal 👍😎😁

[@miranda-h2n]

Hi Angel, I read through some of your comments and I don't know how you so kindly tolerate some of the BS. Just know, some of us out here love your channel and appreciate you. You rock.

[@AngelDReacts]

Thanks for that xo

[@iamhere4now980]

I’ve seen them three times here in Virginia. They were awesome every time❤

[@MELLICK88]

My opinion, those only one version, that's Marshall Tucker Band! Southern rock!

[@darylabbott2032]

This is the original they are from Spartanburg SC so this is the real deal for sure!

[@rogereldridge8233]

Being a Bluenoser (Born and raised in Nova Scotia .. home of the schooner Bluenose found as shown on the Canadian dime), I grew up with Matt's version too, I've seen him several times in early 80's doing it live in the bar scene of Toronto, once he jumped on my table and slide the picture of beer out of the way and did a few minutes playing on my table (it was great therapy for a transplanted Bluenoser feeling homesick). Both versions are on my road trip DVD though but I prefer Matt's with the intro story better.

[@AngelDReacts]

Oh hey! i feel so seen right now, thank you for leaving a comment.. some comments got deleted because they were so angry at me, it was wild lol one guy took to quoting Sweet Home Alabama, telling me he didn't need me around, stay North etc lol people really got wild about Matt being named lol You are not in NS now?

[@Bennromansince1955]

RIP Toy Caldwell!!

[@darrinroc6264]

Waylon Jennings RIP also did this song very well.

[@user-r6redrr]

Please react to 24 hours at a time, great song I think you will love it…

[@jonbenjisnomore7935]

So if you want some suggestions try doing some Steve Marriot with the Small Faces, Itchykoo park, Tin Soldier - Kenny Shields & StreetHeart did a awesome cover, then Steve Marriot & Humble Pie , Black Coffee, 30 days in a Hole & I don't need no doctor.

[@MikeTheJukeboxGuy]

👑💭•••OOPS!! Sorry, I 💀 meant to tell you that on the album the song flows right into another called "Our Lady of The Well" so you should listen to them as one! Hope to hear from you. MK

[@boblister665]

I saw M/T in 73 on this tour, I got tickets from USO at the Music Hall in Boston, They were back up for Joe Walsh but stole the show that night.

[@conhighway]

There's a live version of this song by Hank Williams Jr. that's good as well.

[@shannonherb2048]

Im from north Carolina and rhis is the only one that i know. I'll check out the other one as well.

[@pete3883]

Grand Ole ' Opry.

[@OrangeMonkey2112]

It is THE ORIGINAL and the best version

[@Joe-d3t1t]

Desert Skies. Thanks!!

[@dt1064]

The studio version is a lot clearer. But then there is no video.

[@FrancisBrown-n3p]

I always liked this song and know it was written by Toy. But just like AngelD, I am from Nova Scotia and like the Matt Mingelwood version better. The Mingelwood Band played at some of my high school dances. His version has an intro setting up the song and there are a few different lyrics but mostly the same. YES, I am bias And there are others who also do covers òf this song. Check out Matt's version all the way through, you might be surprised . 😊

[@brianforgie7724]

The greatest southern rock song of all time. Screw Freeborn, Melissa etc 5his is the best of them all. MTB where beasts man. Nobody touches this version, nobody. Peace and love from Ottawa

[@brianforgie7724]

* Freebird not freeborn

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

Canadian women are beautiful ❤️

[@terryduncan31]

1973? Yep, I was 6 years old, lol.

[@irlcrew]

I can listen to the minglewood version and it is nice professional, clean well produced. I can see how you love it. You have great taste. It's just not The Marshal Tucker Band.

[@AngelDReacts]

Glad you like it! It was the only one I knew existed lol

[@dt1064]

Listened to the Minglewood version. With that choir behind him, it sounded like a background music for a Billy Jack or the original Vanishing Point movies. He version waa ok.

[@TomTom-qm4mq]

Some of the canadian I herd I thought was great. Its a shame we didn't get them in the America

[@rob7953]

You'd probably like another Canadian rocker (though not southern rock), Neil Young -- solo, with Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield, or Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. So many fantastic tunes, I couldn't begin to recommend just a few (but maybe "Cowgirl In the Sand").

[@lelandcross9092]

Waylon Jennings version

[@AngelDReacts]

I love Waylon..but everyone says THIS is the version of all versions, so..do ya think I should?

[@victorbradshaw7359]

But there's plenty of Canadian artists out there from the guess who ,triumph, rush to name a few not even talking about the wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald guy or others lmao

[@AngelDReacts]

Check out the Hip! New Orleans Is Sinking, and Blow At High Dough... awesome songs from one of my fav bands

[@firedoc5]

Gordon Lightfoot is that guy.

[@lewismitchell5367]

Hank Williams Jr does a cover of this that's pretty good.

[@AngelDReacts]

I will check that out, thanks!

[@WayneMisner-ts2yr]

Home team Spartanburg SC

[@rokitride]

24 hours at a time

[@victorbradshaw7359]

You want a story ? Try "fly to the angels " by Slaughter the story is that Marc went to become a a rockstar and returned to find that his high school sweetheart had died before he returned 😢 PS Marc Slaughter is the lead singer and guitarist writer for Slaughter

[@AngelDReacts]

Oh god, that sounds sad... added it. Thanks Victor and I need MORE suggestions for new stuff

[@victorbradshaw7359]

@AngelDReacts actually depends on if you are after veiws subs or what? Your kinda a virgin in music I see already no offense meant but Faouzia " fur elise" would be a better choice for all the above seriously

[@victorbradshaw7359]

​@@AngelDReactsJames Blunt "monsters will boost your presence really but bring tissues

[@CatO9lives]

I went and checked out Matt Minglewood’s version and have to say, like a lot of "Copycat" songs, it is good. But It's easy to take someone elses songs and throw glitter and tinsel on them and try to steal their thunder like a lot of struggling artists do. It's a shame that you react to so many "Cover Songs" and even think that some are the original singers or writers of the songs. It's like so many people believe that " I Will Always Love You" was writen and sang by Whitney Houston and when many reacters see that Dolly Parton wrote and sang that song years before there was a Whitney Houston on the charts they can't believe it. I personally think that Dolly's version is more heartfelt and warming to me, but you can be the judge of that. So if you ever want to react to this beautiful Dolly song, I recomend this older version.. "Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Live)". There is a newer version with the same name that is also beautiful and she explains who she wrote the song for, being Porter Wagner on the Porter Wagner Show she was a costar on. That version that she sang for the first time on the Porter Wagner Show is also on youtube here, "Dolly Parton - I will always love you (1974)", You may like it even better. It is also one of my favorite versions. BTW, if you don't have tears in those pretty eyes after hearing this, theres something wrong.

[@AngelDReacts]

Consider it added to the list... Kenny Rogers is coming up again soon as well.

[@scotthall3644]

Listen to fire on the mountain

[@cmaebcb]

See back in the day you had to have talent. No auto tune there

[@hlawrencepowell]

I've seen Matt perform it many times. Of course I knew that it Was Toy Caldwell's but Matt's is my favourite. I'm from Nova Scotia too. You should really do a reaction to Minglewood's version.

[@AngelDReacts]

I think I might! I've never seen him live, unfortunately.

[@cartwright77]

Never heard of Matt minglewood lol

[@AngelDReacts]

Ahhh, Now you know I feel! lol so many people say, "how can you not know this or that"..it's called demographic..you get it. One guy got mad in a reaction because he was convinced that I should know something which I didn't, and I said, "do you know The Hip? Blue Rodeo? Minglewood? What is your favourite song from Allanah myles? Lee Aaron? I love Honeymoon Suite!" He never did get back to me. lol

[@jimmoore8951]

Who the heck is Matt Minglewood? What else are you hiding from us up in Nova Scotia?