That is 17 year old Ed King ( Lynyrd Skynyrd) on guitar. He would later write one of the most iconic songs in rock n roll history, Sweet Home Alabama. RIP Mr King
Yeah Man!!! Ed King was amazing 🎸 guitarist and songwriter...He also co-wrote Mr Saturday night special , et al, he also played guitar And All Bass guitar tracks on Skynyrd's first album excellent underrated musician!!!
Yup. He said he left Skynyrd because he was tired of getting beat up by Van Zant’s drunk induced rages. Many of those tasty Skynrd licks were Ed’s. That band was so dysfunctional on so many levels.
I’m so thankful to people like you! Thank you for your selfless service. Putting yourself on the line for my many freedoms. I’m humbled by your gift. Mine is the home of the free, because of the brave. GOD bless you!!
The story of this song is pretty crazy. That isn’t the guy who sang this. The song started off as an instrumental. But they decided it needed vocals. John Carter wrote some lyrics but the band thought they were dumb and embarrassing so nobody would sing it. A 16 year old friend of the band named Greg Munford just happened to be in the studio that day. So they asked him if he would sing it and obviously he did. Originally this was a “B” side to “The Birdman Of Alkatrash” but DJ’s around Los Angeles started flipping it over and played this song. Strawberry Alarm Clock was just a local indie band in LA but when DJ’s started playing it, the rights were bought by MCA and distributed nationwide and it became number one on the Billboard charts. Because of this song, Ed King the guitar player obtained a development deal with MCA which was exercised when he joined a little band called The One Percent which became Lynyrd Skynyrd.
A couple of things: Ed King wrote this song. He might've been in The One Percent, but he was not an original Skynard. He joined the 2nd iteration until health issues forced him out.
I was 14 my sister went to a dance , my dad and i went to get her . The music was still playing and my ole man said go in and get her. Strawberry alarm clock was playing this song. I will never forget it
Congratulations! I bet you were that pretty girl with the blue top on. Then I probably saw you because I didn't miss one show. That was part of our internet. "American Bandstand" entertaining and informative. It matched with what my older brother/friends/would be talking about. I still care about society
I remember being 10 years old in 1967, in the 5th grade. I was riding in a big light blue car that had fins back then, coming home with Mom after buying me my Halloween costume. Funny how songs can bring back crystal clear moments from the past like that.
Exactly heard it first on the radio begging mom not to change the station to her country station lol later that week heard it coming from my uncle elios room it was playing on a 8 track when he left we played it over and over
I was ten in 67 I had a wicked crush on a local Girl named Annie Hawver, we all used to hang out on this local street and played hide and seek, Piggyback rides, jumping in piles of leafs, incense and peppermints was the hit song then, whenever I hear it I think back to those days in the 60's and most of all Annie.
This gets my vote for the best psychedelic rock song of all time. There is just really nothing like it. The lyrics make no sense and that somehow perfectly expresses the angst of the time, the melody goes from maj to minor and back to maj key, and, perhaps most importantly, the band was sort of one hit wonder from a garage in Los Angeles. I remember the first time I heard it. Loved it when I was 10, and 51 years later, still dig it.
@@silverload3622 Hey dude ! These things are purely subjective and personal. I took plenty of acid, M.M, peyote, and the best weed and hash there was, all through the 70's. And sober or high, l will always pick this psychedelic masterpiece, as the most trippy, vibey, nostalgic, transcendental, otherworldly song that came out of that time; and reflects better than any other, the multitude of feelings, sensations and flashbacks that came out of that totally unique and fantastic era. But many others certainly did so as well. I Love them ALL !✌⚡🌠
It's pretty hard to sing and play drums at the same time. Your hands want to play with your singing even though the rhythm of lyrics can be sort of independent from the rest of the song.
Got out of high school in 1967.........this song I never understood but I loved it......still do! Went in Air Force a year later Vietnam was going strong.......RIP to the ones who never got home again
Thanks for your service I was born in1969 my dad who's name was Steve went to nam when he came back he was never the same never seen again until 1988 when I was 19 the war took my dad glad you made it back along with my dad and my three uncles thanks for commenting made me think of dad much love to you all!#
I was in my teens during the "sixties" and all the music played here make me feel like I'm in my teens again, but body feels like I am pushing into seventies, sucks, but still love the music 😉
I dated a guy who was in Nam. He was a heroine addict. Today' he's okay, married, not to me, and has beautiful grandchildren. Will wonders never cease!
I've been playing guitar for over 50 years. This is not at all a simple song. Perfectly written and performed. And the lyrics..."Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view" genius!!!
@@speshalkmf9273 It seemed that the psychedelic rock genre tried too hard sometimes to capture the synesthesia that taking certain drugs could bring on. They thought it was expanding their perceptions, but it was just jumbling their brain connections. I have taste-smell-visual synesthesia -- it's just the way I am; no drugs involved -- so I cannot tell you what the color of time is, but I CAN tell you, for example, what the taste of black pepper or the smell of bitter orange looks like. What they look like to ME, anyway -- your synesthetic experience may vary.
You are 100% right! Even the songs that seemed difficult to understand are far superior to whatever people call music these days. I’m 28 years old and can’t understand what most of the modern music is even saying. When I choose to read the lyrics after I can’t hear enough of the words… it gets even worse. Music is supposed to be art. It has become almost completely produced by technology. So now the talent isn’t needed, and people become famous based on their appearance or influence on fans because their voice can be altered so much and instruments aren’t really used anymore. It’s sad. At least we have many years of wonderful music to look back at, from when people worked hard to learn and be passionate about something.
@superHAPPYrocks Cringe worthy indeed.I suspect those were staged. That whole hippy dippy thing was a psy-op designed to cheese off the older generation, and evoke their support for a indefensible war. I once saw a video of these dorks playing ring around the rosie, and get this, they had flowers in their hair! I once saw a pic of the Beatles walking four abreast wearing capes and these little caps. The looked like Braniff stewardesses.
I had just left the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg, then went on a two week leave before showing up at Ft. Campbell, to join the second and third brigades of the 101st Airborne Division to go to 'nam, when this song was released. It received a lot of air play during my two week leave. While there were a lot of songs on the charts at the time, this is the one that stands out the most in my memory. Since that time, I have sung it often at dances that have a Karaoke lounge. The crowd loves it. So I must be doing something right.
You actually sort of do have a music time machine. You can easily download just about every song ever recorded, and listen to it whenever you want. YT has many of them and all you have to do is type in the song name in the search area, and you can stream a good many of the old time great hits we all miss. I do it all the time.
id e love to travel back to those days and take some youngins to see how nice we lived and played,i love the old music it means things like love,friendship and close to god amen
The air's better on this side of the fence. I never lived back then, but you gotta admit, unfiltered leaded gasoline exhaust was not a health food for the world. Plus, we had cigarettes all over.
Very psychedelic man. Groovy. I can't remember what I was doing back then because I was there. I'm 68yrs old now. We had great music back then, didn't we?
Didn't former Angel's pitcher Troy Percival go to high school there too?? @ Riverside High school??The guy threw seeds even then was clocked well over 100mph!!!
Wow! 56 years ago, It reminds me of some of my friends that are already gone now . . So sad. So sad. Seems as though it was the other day . I lost one of my closest friends ( more like a brother - which is what some friends are - family that you choose). Knew him since 1962 and the pain of the loss will alway be with me . . . Embrace your close friends now.. not a day goes by ~ ~ ~
Sorry to hear about your friend, good friends are like diamonds they are a rare find, at least the real ones. i hope you have great lasting memories of the times you had together.
probably the only band from Santa Barbara , California that ever made it big. very fitting that the drummer /singer looks like a classic 60's southern California surfer , because he was
@@dennisleporte2327 Actually the drummer is Randy Seol. The guy you're thinking of is Greg Munford who actually sang the song on this studio record, but wasn't a member of the group, just a friend. The band would have to rotate members doing the mime on tv appearances meanwhile none of them actually were the singer of the song. LOL
@@lespauldisciple3349 Wrong. 3 people are credited with writing it, King, Van Zant and Rossington but only King is in this video which is why he was the only one I mentioned. And it was Ed King that came up with the opening riff for Sweet Home Alabama. SMC/QMC (SW/EXW)
RetiredNavy: I stand corrected. I based my comments on an article I saw in a trade magazine where Gary was honored by BMI for some milestone event concerning airplay of the song. The article implied that Gary wrote the music. It didn't mention Ed King AT ALL. Wikipedia quotes an interview with Gary where he says he had come up with the intro before a band rehearsal then wrote the music with Ed. (Personal Note: I don't intend this to be a knock on Steve Gaines, or Allen or Gary, but I thought Ed was the most well rounded guitarist in the band - he could easily play country, pop, rock or psychedelia. The addition of Artimus Pyle for 'Nuthin' Fancy' in 1975 had turned them into a musical juggernaut and it's a shame Ed left. Alas his lifestyle was killing him and he had the good sense to see it before it killed him.)
Great music from a great time. The 1960s was an amazing time to grow up in. The music, freedom, innocence, yet respect, being young at a time of change, space travel, TV with 13 channels, but with everything on those channels, AM radio, fun cars, family and on and on. Better times. The more time goes on, the more I think you will agree.
@@VintageLPs - Actually unless you lived in a major city like Los Angeles you did not get even 13 channels and the ones you did get were not always very clear. This is because prior to cable TV everyone got TV through an antenna. Often these were the so-called rabbit ears on top of the set, although many houses also had a large antenna on the roof. Anyway, it was around 1966 or so when we finally got our dad to spring for cable TV and I remember it cost $6 a month at the time - the equivalent of about $125 in today’s money. And considering the huge number of channels you can get today for $125 I would say that it’s a much better deal today than it was when I was a kid. By the way, the reason I remember how much cable was back then despite being a child is because there was a lot of debate in the house as to whether or not we should spend that much money for it. Speaking of cable, when my best friend and I were 13 we figured out that by hooking up our home stereo receivers to the cable we could pull in all the cool FM rock station from LA. Apparently back then the cable was simply hooked up to some large analogue antenna somewhere in Los Angeles and so in addition to picking up television signals down there it could also pick up all the LA radio stations.
Using the term "Indian Style" really dates you. No one says that anymore since it has been declared racist. Now days, you hear criss-cross applesauce or just cross legged. I'm not attacking you, I'm just saying that you are giving away your age.
The Association! A number of years ago, my friend and I had to clean out his bosses friends place who had moved, and said we could keep anything we found. I specifically remember choosing The Association on 8-track for those very songs! Definitely in the same vein as this band.
Yeah, that's Randy Seol on drums and lead vocals but this is the studio version and the voice we are hearing is that of 16 year old Greg Munford (who never joined the band). Seol sang the song at live appearances in the future but the producers preferred Munford's vocals at the recording session.
Cool! Thanks for pointing that out. I'd heard the story of them grabbing a 16-YO kid for the lead vocals, but didn't realize that was NOT him in the video.
Brian Ordelheide Taft High School in the San Fernando Valley, Cali? I went to James Monroe High School in what was then Sepulveda, now North Hills, CA. Rise Baby Boomers!!
The only problem is Ed King played the bass with The Strawberry Alarm Clock. He switched to guitar after the guys from Skynyrd told him he was the worst bass player they ever heard.
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah To divide the cockeyed world in two Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Incense, peppermints Incense, peppermints
@Mike B well sure I remember being able to just disappear for the day to run the canyons in San Diego and no one was worried something might happen. There were definitely good times then.
ukulelemike absolutely grew up in Florida in the sixties beach on the weekends play till dark. But I do remember U.S. tanks running on the roads in fort Myers that must have been a little disturbing to adults but to a kid it was cool.
Not me thanks - we were still vibrating from an older brother's suicide in 68. parents in sanitarium's, stuff like that. Simon and Garfunkel saved me from the absolute drama. .
@@kuhnhan For 50 years I've heard this song periodically on the Radi,o and now RUclips. Haven't heard anything else by them, though the whole band is so good here I'd like to hear their first album.
As a decade as a whole, I always put the 60's up there, just behind the 90's. I'll admit there's a bias there considering I was born in 1978, so the 90's was a big part of my teen years, but they also killed the overall terrible music of the 80's and the Hair Metal genre. If I were forced to only listen to one decade for the rest of my life, I'd be fully content with either decade.
Little known fact.. "Incense & Peppermints" was filling a bong with Peppermint schnapps and smoking through it. Of course you would also drink the schnapps when you ran out of weed. Good times!
🤮🤮🤮once I was forced to smoke through a Bong which was filled with apple juice😖 We took it outside in the woods, was raining ,and noticed that we forgot to take some water with us.Friend had apple juice...was not tasty 😨 Once I drunk my own Bongwater😱😱😱but I must say, that I was drunk when this happened.Filled water in the Bong - was too much🤷🏻♀️so I put it back in a bottle on the table...when I grabbed (after a while) AGAIN to this bottle to drink from, a friend yelled :" Are you nuts ?!? Drinking your own bongwater!!!!" Was emberassed, but I totally forgot...just asked myself about the bad taste🙄
He looks healthy and wholesome. Not like the plastic drugged out, sold-out garbage they put out for us now. And, he looks like the kinda guys I grew up around, all American and strong. Not like the pathetic crap coming out of the speakers now.
It’s because he fried so much balls on good 60’s acid he achieved time travel ability and had gone to the 80’s and seen the styles and brought it back to the late 60’s
I never get tired of hearing this song. As a kid, I first heard it delivering on my paper route, transistor radio onboard. When I hear it part of the enjoyment is that memory…
Those were the good old days when we had paperboys deliver our papers right to our front door or handed it to us. No throwing it on the lawn like in later years.
The very first "psychedelic" song I ever heard, 1967. I was way way younger then, but this song will always have an eternal influence on my life...from my first kiss at 11 to my first marriage at 21. Could play this for hours on end and it never would ever get old. Great era for music, bad for society with Vietnam, two major assassinations (MLK and RFK), and social unrest. These are years I would love to live over again if I could time travel (1966 to 1975)...awesome memories.
I'm from that generation as well. . and still quite thriving. Missed out on Vietnam. Loved the era. . .the British Invasion. It was one of THE most definitive periods in history. To have been there was amazing. I miss a lot of it too.
Albert. I am a Boomer too. Not kidding , time travel is quite real . One of the many things hidden from us. Please read my lengthy general comment about technologies in the works. Age reversal will be easy and quick.
I was only 5 years old when this was produced but as a metal head of the 80's and 90's, I cherish and love this music to the fullest of my heart, I remember hearing this as a young child when I heard this on the radio.
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah To divide the cockeyed world in two Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Incense, peppermints Incense, peppermints
In the Dave Clark Five, the drummer was not the singer. Mike Smith sang lead and he played keyboards. In groups The Eagles, Grand Funk, Rare Earth the drummers sang numerous songs/hits. Carpenters? Although Karen played drums and damn good at it I don't think she ever played in concert.
@@scifiwriter98 There were so many great harmonizing vocals with 60's and 70's groups. Part of what made them so good to listen to. Now it's all solo artists.
This one-hit-wonder has been forever engraved into my brain since Fall of 1967 and Winter, 1968. Just another of the greatest pop songs of the 60s that makes today's music sound like it was picked from the trashbin.
My Generation! I wish with all my heart I could go back to that time! I will take all the joys and troubles of that time over the crap we are dealing with today! Even at its worst, we were never as stupid ,hateful , and disrespectful as people are today.
I feel sorry for the people who are born now. Back then it was just a blossoming of creativeness in music and every day was something new on the radio. You could hardly keep up with all the talent. Today, it's all regulations and rules. People are paranoid of each other. I felt like i belonged back then watching some outdoor concert. It was exciting then. Unless you lived it, you'll never know just how beautiful it was.
It took courage to wear those clothes, though a little of the weed helped. 173rd Airborne Brigade, July 1970 - June 1971. Binh Dinh Province, home of the Bong Son Bomber.
LZ English??? I came in country June of '70. Assigned to the 203rd Hawkeyes flying in support of you guys. Later we became the Headhunters....welcome home, bro...
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind Dead kings, many things I can't define Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind Incense and peppermints, the color of time Who cares what games we choose Little to win, but nothing to lose Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around Look at yourself, look at yourself Look at yourself, look at yourself. To divide the cockeyed world in two Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view Coda ..repeat x1 incense peppermints, incense peppermints.. fade out.
I was 12 years old when I first heard this. Much of the music that shaped my life was first heard through a mono speaker in mom's Ford Country Squire station wagon. Most notably 'Strawberry Fields Forever' coming home from church on a snowy February Sunday morning.
Nice tune.remember listening to it smoking Jounts and rolling a few.listening to the byrds and jefferson airplane,yardbirds and few others had alot of poster pic on the walls.a couple black lights.being a teen back in the 60s early 70s what memories.never have them again 😢😢😢😢😅
I remember buying a few black light posters that had a kind of velvety/furry feel to them. Hadn't thought about black lights in ages. Black lights and strobe lights were the "in thing" then. Fun times tossing a ball to a dog in a dark room with only a strobe light going. lol
grrizo Professor Time & the other person were obviously talking about the pure trash on Top 40 or whatever the hell they call it today. Not saying there isn't talent capable of playing good music, but the garbage that's being recorded, rap, hip-hop, and the like.... it's sad. The lyrics with the vial, disgusting words. And it's not even music anymore. Disco in the 70s was bad enough, but this stuff today makes disco sound somewhat presentable. I'm sorry for the kids of today.
grrizo The difference is that this was popular music. You can make a list from memory of music that had something to say that was on the radio. Like you said, today you have to dig deep. Even McCartney is releasing music with a pedestrian melody. And people explain it by saying he wants to reach modern audiences. Sad.
Oh if only music like this could become popular again today. I wasn’t even alive during this time period but the music speaks to me as the chord progressions, vocals, and harmony are actually creative and good. You can keep your Taylor Swift and I will enjoy the sweet harmonic bliss of the 1960s.
In 40 years time people will be saying, you can keep Bing Bong and the Jing Jongs, give me that good old 2020's pop, like Taylor Swift, I'd take her any day over those current gangster barbershop harmony groups that are big today. Gangster barbershop harmonies are what's going to be big in 2062, and Bing Bong and the Jing Jongs are the Eminem of the day.
I agree with you. I was 9 years old then and wanted so much to be an adult. Putting aaside all the commercialism, there was such a sweet naivete And there is such a sense of being faraway from somewhere else, that, if you went to that 'somewhere else' then, where you came from was 'faraway somewhere else'. And the song - a 60s tune full of chiming arpeggios - would be the vehicle to take the listener to somewhere else faraway. - always the sad longing to not be where you are.
Even though I was not at the recording session of I&P, I do have intimate knowledge of what happened that day; John Carter wrote the lyrics and melody to the song. He came to the session to teach SAC to sing it. The actual lead singer in the band was the late Lee Freeman, RIP. He gave it a shot and Carter and Frank Slay thought it wasn't a good match. Mark Weitz, who sang the flip side, Birdman of Alkatrash, tried but it was out of his range. 16 year old singer/songwriter Greg Munford happened to be sitting on the studio floor listening. He had the same manager and was on the All American label as well. On a whim they asked him to give it a shot and voila, a match. Randy Seol came in to do harmonies. It's his voice you hear on the "who cares what games we choose, little to win but nothing to lose" lines as well as the descending "Incense, Peppermints...."He also figured prominently during the sha la la's at the end doing more than one part. It's also Randy singing the duet verse - "To divide the cockeyed world in two, throw your pride to one side it's the least you can do. Beatniks in politics, nothing is new. A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view...." He has the lower part. It is Randy lip syncing in the video. But he sang it live in concert. Nobody knew the difference back then because Randy's voice was all over the song. Plus he sang most of the other songs. We had two lead singers, Lee and Randy....Mark sang lead on a couple. There's more weirdness though.... Gene Gunnels actually played drums on the recording. He had been the drummer in the band up till then. Randy was brought in to replace him. Gene quit the band because his then girlfriend gave him an ultimatum, either he quit the band and get a job at McDonald's or lose her. What an error....he chose HER! The horrific story in all this though is that Ed King and Mark Weitz wrote all the music and were never credited! (Thanks to Bill Holmes and Frank Slay) Tim Gilbert got half and wrote nothing! By the way, Ed played a Telecaster on the recording.
Hey George. I thought you and Bartek wrote some on that. I went to Taft, played some with Steve. Sat in on piano at TT&G for your good originals you guys did(country rock b4 the Eagles 🎶🎹
@@nickxcore74 I totally get that, and my heart hurts for younger people who feel that way... Just feel fortunate you weren't born in 2004.... Other than that lousy stinkin' war, '65'-'79 was by far the best of times! On the other hand, I remember during the late 80's - early 90's how much I thought the times then really sucked compared to the hippie era... And while that may be true, nowadays when I look at video from the 90's and compare it to 2019 and especially 2020 I realize how much I really miss those times as well... (only good thing about this era is we have youtube!)
I actually have an original Coral Electric Sitar. My wife bought it for me used in the early 90s so I could do an Electric Sitar medley with our band! It's 2020 and I still haven't created the medley!:(
That is 17 year old Ed King ( Lynyrd Skynyrd) on guitar. He would later write one of the most iconic songs in rock n roll history, Sweet Home Alabama. RIP Mr King
Yeah Man!!! Ed King was amazing 🎸 guitarist and songwriter...He also co-wrote Mr Saturday night special , et al, he also played guitar And All Bass guitar tracks on Skynyrd's first album excellent underrated musician!!!
I don't know it's me this is 1 of the greatest songs in history
You misspelled racist
Thought it was RIvers Cuomo
Was he british?
The guitarist on the left dressed all in yellow is Ed King who wrote Sweet Home Alabama and was an integral part of Lynyrd Sknyrd.
Yup. He said he left Skynyrd because he was tired of getting beat up by Van Zant’s drunk induced rages. Many of those tasty Skynrd licks were Ed’s. That band was so dysfunctional on so many levels.
@@MrFirstonraceday Yep they were flying high and then came crashing down.
Yep
wow awsome rock knowledge I love it , did he also die in the plane crash?
@@larrydesmond5935 no he had left the band already. He died health related issues in 2018
This song kept me alive in Nam
glad you made it back
Thanks for your service brother
Awesome bro !
I’m so thankful to people like you! Thank you for your selfless service. Putting yourself on the line for my many freedoms. I’m humbled by your gift. Mine is the home of the free, because of the brave. GOD bless you!!
Thank you for your service!
The story of this song is pretty crazy. That isn’t the guy who sang this. The song started off as an instrumental. But they decided it needed vocals. John Carter wrote some lyrics but the band thought they were dumb and embarrassing so nobody would sing it. A 16 year old friend of the band named Greg Munford just happened to be in the studio that day. So they asked him if he would sing it and obviously he did. Originally this was a “B” side to “The Birdman Of Alkatrash” but DJ’s around Los Angeles started flipping it over and played this song. Strawberry Alarm Clock was just a local indie band in LA but when DJ’s started playing it, the rights were bought by MCA and distributed nationwide and it became number one on the Billboard charts. Because of this song, Ed King the guitar player obtained a development deal with MCA which was exercised when he joined a little band called The One Percent which became Lynyrd Skynyrd.
😲 Wow!
Ed King's transition from pschedelia to L.S. is like part of the introductory sequence for Spinal Tap.
@@granthurlburt4062 😀😄😂🤣😅
A couple of things: Ed King wrote this song. He might've been in The One Percent, but he was not an original Skynard. He joined the 2nd iteration until health issues forced him out.
@BowieEatsYou He wasn't an original member, regardless of who he played with.
I was 14 my sister went to a dance , my dad and i went to get her . The music was still playing and my ole man said go in and get her. Strawberry alarm clock was playing this song. I will never forget it
Oh wow😮😊
I danced to this song when I was on American Bandstand in 1967!
Don't just say something like that, and NOT give any details...
@@Jgeneraledger23 Like what, I had a cute little blonde that I danced with, and we had a blast? LOL! I was on 8 shows in 1967-68!
Congratulations! I bet you were that pretty girl with the blue top on. Then I probably saw you because I didn't miss one show. That was part of our internet. "American Bandstand" entertaining and informative. It matched with what my older brother/friends/would be talking about. I still care about society
For real?.
Was that in Philly or LA? I think Philly maybe? I was in grade school in Philly but watched it.
Look at how groovy life was 54 years ago! The music of my childhood; still love it at 65 years of age! ✌🏻 ☮️ ✌🏻 ☮️
I still love it, too
I love the psychedelic art !!!!
I was just thinking how groovy they were 😊
Now there are songs like, "F the police", and "Smack my bitch up"
Yes. It was a groovy time. It's been a long crazy ride.
This is the iconic song of the psychedelic 60’s. This song always transports me back in an Austin Powers time warp.
Strawberry Fields Forever
Ya baby its the 60's man !!
Yes, I also like Pshychotic Reaction !!!
I was a teenager in the sixties. Ah such times will never be again. This song makes me so melancholy. I'm sixty nine now.
nice
Rusty , same age here, this song and phycotic reaction by the Count Five. They were One Hit Wonders.
That hits hard. Sometimes nostalgia can cause more harm than good, sadly enough.
I don't think you have to forgo the joys of your youth. We have so many ways to enjoy the past these days.
@@synthiamcbride7194 Yeah, I've taken up playing the guitar again. Take care and stay well.
Nothing screams psychedelia like this masterpiece.
Definitely the clothes!
ruclips.net/video/S5Vz-z4PEkk/видео.html THIS does. 😉👍🏻
And Iron Butterfly's "In a Gadda da Vida"
Pictures of Matchstick Men (Status Quo) 👍
I am the walrus
I remember being 10 years old in 1967, in the 5th grade. I was riding in a big light blue car that had fins back then, coming home with Mom after buying me my Halloween costume. Funny how songs can bring back crystal clear moments from the past like that.
I was ten also in 67. Didn't the colors the clothes the cars all seem bigger brighter better then? And the music, OMG the music was the best!
I was too. I also have very specific memories tied to certain songs.
Was it a Ben Cooper Halloween costume? =D
Exactly heard it first on the radio begging mom not to change the station to her country station lol later that week heard it coming from my uncle elios room it was playing on a 8 track when he left we played it over and over
I was ten in 67 I had a wicked crush on a local Girl named Annie Hawver, we all used to hang out on this local street and played hide and seek, Piggyback rides, jumping in piles of leafs, incense and peppermints was the hit song then, whenever I hear it I think back to those days in the 60's and most of all Annie.
This gets my vote for the best psychedelic rock song of all time. There is just really nothing like it. The lyrics make no sense and that somehow perfectly expresses the angst of the time, the melody goes from maj to minor and back to maj key, and, perhaps most importantly, the band was sort of one hit wonder from a garage in Los Angeles. I remember the first time I heard it. Loved it when I was 10, and 51 years later, still dig it.
Mine too !
Ya really need to drop a hit of Acid and listen to songs 😅from that era before declaring it #1 lol
@@silverload3622
Hey dude !
These things are purely subjective
and personal. I took plenty of acid,
M.M, peyote, and the best weed and
hash there was, all through the 70's.
And sober or high, l will always pick
this psychedelic masterpiece, as
the most trippy, vibey, nostalgic,
transcendental, otherworldly song
that came out of that time; and
reflects better than any other, the
multitude of feelings, sensations
and flashbacks that came out of
that totally unique and fantastic
era. But many others certainly did
so as well. I Love them ALL !✌⚡🌠
Godivida most tripped out song was supposed to be in the garden of Eden instead well you know 😆
Check out Reflections From the Looking Glass by 1910 Fruitgum Company. It was the flip side of Simon Says. Pretty Psychedelic.
There's something very cool about a drummer being the lead singer
ruclips.net/video/o3Z8NU5ImK0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/ccJTFXvkXkA/видео.html
Like Karen Carpenter? RIP
Just like Genesis and The Eagles!
hell yea to the Rare Earth
It's pretty hard to sing and play drums at the same time. Your hands want to play with your singing even though the rhythm of lyrics can be sort of independent from the rest of the song.
Got out of high school in 1967.........this song I never understood but I loved it......still do! Went in Air Force a year later Vietnam was going strong.......RIP to the ones who never got home again
Yes, RIP to the ones who never got home again.
Thanks for your service I was born in1969 my dad who's name was Steve went to nam when he came back he was never the same never seen again until 1988 when I was 19 the war took my dad glad you made it back along with my dad and my three uncles thanks for commenting made me think of dad much love to you all!#
Yes! Thank you for your valuable sacrifice and for helping in the services.
Bless you all.
Very sweet😢❤
Thank you for serving and R.I.P. WHO DIDN'T COME HOME ..GOD BLESS YOU
This is the most 60’s song I can think of
Anonymous User Yeah pretty much the sound is so late 60s ☮✌️ I'm 37 I wish I was a teen during this time 😢
Anonymous User Also whiter shade of pale is another GREAT song that sound alittle similar it's the organ that is playing that sounds great
8 miles high by the byrds
Sunshine of Your Love, imho. But I like your groove, dig?
@@CaptainQueue white rabbit for sure
One of the coolest songs of all time
No, it isn't.
@@huletnadof313
Ok cranky pants.
This song makes me feel 13 years old again. My body reminds me I’m still 64.
I was 9 and playing drums in a rock and roll band at this time in 67. We loved this song.
Wil Robles
Hell yes 😭😭😭
I was in my teens during the "sixties" and all the music played here make me feel like I'm in my teens again, but body feels like I am pushing into seventies, sucks, but still love the music 😉
.😍😍...
I am 13
I feel stoned just listening to this song.
Good idea ! Going to roll one now for old time sake 😉🚬
Got too fucking stoned to this before what a song
You are not the only one...joint in my hand with low lights
@@susanconner5220 .... now don't bogart that joint 😉 Let everyone have a taste 😋
This is song is too psychedelic for weed. This is an LSD song.
I was 16 years old in 1967 . I remember this song being played a lot on the radio at the time .
This is so Vietnam era
Yes, it was!
I dated a guy who was in Nam. He was a heroine addict. Today' he's okay, married, not to me, and has beautiful grandchildren. Will wonders never cease!
Me too. I was already dropping acid.
Dang, we’re old!
I was 10 and remember this song and I think I might have the 45 buried in a box in my Mom's basement somewhere.
I've been playing guitar for over 50 years. This is not at all a simple song. Perfectly written and performed. And the lyrics..."Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view" genius!!!
John, grew up with this song and never realized those lyrics were in there! It is genius ... thanks for illuminating me!
Interesting how you can just let the lyrics wash over you and get the feel - but then to sit down and actually read them is also an eye opener...
I always loved that timeless line! Not that it matters but, been playing drums for ....50 years.
I wrote that song...
Pretty much describes the Boris Johnson era at No 10 Downing Street!
Love it. Absolutely screams 1967, doesn't it?!
Hell YES!!!!
totally agree ! And look at all the paisley design on clothes---just love this video and the song.
Too young to remember
Absolutely 101 % One of the best years of my life !!!
@@danettecute They and many other Bands of the time Influenced the early '80's paisley underground psychedelic revival.
This is the most 60's thing ever!!
"Incense and Peppermints"? They shoulda called the song, "Dashikis and Sandals"!😁
Oh Yes!,Truth Indeed
"Incense and peppermints, the color of time." Pure 60's.
what that mean?
cant make sense of it
@@speshalkmf9273 What do you want it to mean?
or spearmints and peppermints my chewing gum time...
@@speshalkmf9273 It seemed that the psychedelic rock genre tried too hard sometimes to capture the synesthesia that taking certain drugs could bring on. They thought it was expanding their perceptions, but it was just jumbling their brain connections. I have taste-smell-visual synesthesia -- it's just the way I am; no drugs involved -- so I cannot tell you what the color of time is, but I CAN tell you, for example, what the taste of black pepper or the smell of bitter orange looks like. What they look like to ME, anyway -- your synesthetic experience may vary.
so rue
The lyrics here make more sense than
ANY song you hear today.
You are 100% right! Even the songs that seemed difficult to understand are far superior to whatever people call music these days. I’m 28 years old and can’t understand what most of the modern music is even saying. When I choose to read the lyrics after I can’t hear enough of the words… it gets even worse. Music is supposed to be art. It has become almost completely produced by technology. So now the talent isn’t needed, and people become famous based on their appearance or influence on fans because their voice can be altered so much and instruments aren’t really used anymore. It’s sad. At least we have many years of wonderful music to look back at, from when people worked hard to learn and be passionate about something.
I agree
They look like singing Christmas Presents!
Bwahahahahaha! Good one!
Psychedelia......was their intention.....
all for those 2 in front of the face.......
Dazzling those Higher than the Sky!
A great line Paul - yes, they do!
lol oh my gosh! And that's how my older brothers all dressed then! They were teenagers...I the youngest and only girl was just 7
😂🤣
One of the most psychedelic songs ever made. Many party nights ended with Strawberry and their priceless 60's masterpiece!
You can thank the space program for the material - Mylar
I wore out the single of this song playing it all the time. I did that with a lot of 45s. Pop music masterpieces.
This is pop fluff, far from the most psychedelic song of the 60s. This was like Hanson of the 60s.
@@MasDouc still good tho
@@MasDouc what would you say are your top 5 psychedelic songs from then?
Those threads are out of sight, man.
They should stay out of sight. Enough to make a dog laugh.
Those looks never gained traction on the street, thank god. Army jackets,, mostly. If you were blessed by daddy's money, leather fringe jackets.
@superHAPPYrocks Cringe worthy indeed.I suspect those were staged. That whole hippy dippy thing was a psy-op designed to cheese off the older generation, and evoke their support for a indefensible war. I once saw a video of these dorks playing ring around the rosie, and get this, they had flowers in their hair! I once saw a pic of the Beatles walking four abreast wearing capes and these little caps. The looked like Braniff stewardesses.
Nehru jackets!
@@lutherheggs everything is orchestrated so carefully, pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
I was expecting Austin Powers to turn up.
Me too
I’m here from Austin Powers
Austin's hanging out with Petula Clark -- downtown, of course.
Austin Powers brought me here too
(Woman shouting) “Its Austin Powers!”
I had just left the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg, then went on a two week leave before showing up at Ft. Campbell, to join the second and third brigades of the 101st Airborne Division to go to 'nam, when this song was released. It received a lot of air play during my two week leave.
While there were a lot of songs on the charts at the time, this is the one that stands out the most in my memory.
Since that time, I have sung it often at dances that have a Karaoke lounge. The crowd loves it. So I must be doing something right.
thank you for your service welcome home
Thanks. .I knew Many Member of the 101st...
Hope you didn’t suffer Viet fucking Nam
Welcome Home
Fortunately, I was in 5th grade when this came out..keep singing..
Wish I had a time machine. Not that those times were perfect, but the music, c'mon.
You actually sort of do have a music time machine. You can easily download just about every song ever recorded, and listen to it whenever you want. YT has many of them and all you have to do is type in the song name in the search area, and you can stream a good many of the old time great hits we all miss. I do it all the time.
id e love to travel back to those days and take some youngins to see how nice we lived and played,i love the old music it means things like love,friendship and close to god amen
Pretty close to perfect in my world- southern California
60s were probably some of the most turbulent times outside of the World Wars. Be happy they're long behind us.
The air's better on this side of the fence. I never lived back then, but you gotta admit, unfiltered leaded gasoline exhaust was not a health food for the world. Plus, we had cigarettes all over.
Saw them in concert. 1966 right after coming home from Vietnam. I knew I was safe 😌 🙂
Oh, the hippies didn’t kill you??
Welcome home, Sir! Thank you for your sacrifice. I truly appreciate you
Must have been such a relief
Very psychedelic man. Groovy. I can't remember what I was doing back then because I was there. I'm 68yrs old now. We had great music back then, didn't we?
what a trip
We did. I am 68 and this brought back some great music. I was heavy into Hendrix, the Doors, etc. You remember, the “soft” music. Lol
My favorite genre and im in my late 30s
The best music
THE BEST MUSIC & the greatest girls & cars.
I don't know if I can handle this level of grooviness. Wow. The ultimate.
Yeah great song but none have a microphone. Did they do this "live"?
Whatever you do, just calm down. I fear you may have received a life‑threatening dose of grooviness. What is your pulse rate?
Garbage.
Their Drummer, Randy Seal, went to school with us in Ramona High School in Riverside CA and played in our band. Good memories!
where is he now?
Maybe a spelling error but his last name is Seol not Seal.
@@MrShepardDog ruclips.net/video/9b5Ug8Eci3s/видео.html
Way cool
Didn't former Angel's pitcher Troy Percival go to high school there too?? @ Riverside High school??The guy threw seeds even then was clocked well over 100mph!!!
Wow! 56 years ago, It reminds me of some of my friends that are already gone now . . So sad. So sad. Seems as though it was the other day . I lost one of my closest friends ( more like a brother - which is what some friends are - family that you choose). Knew him since 1962 and the pain of the loss will alway be with me . . . Embrace your close friends now.. not a day goes by ~ ~ ~
Sorry to hear about your friend, good friends are like diamonds they are a rare find, at least the real ones. i hope you have great lasting memories of the times you had together.
probably the only band from Santa Barbara , California that ever made it big. very fitting that the drummer /singer looks like a classic 60's southern California surfer , because he was
I think his last name was munson. I think he was only 17 lol
@@dennisleporte2327 Actually the drummer is Randy Seol. The guy you're thinking of is Greg Munford who actually sang the song on this studio record, but wasn't a member of the group, just a friend. The band would have to rotate members doing the mime on tv appearances meanwhile none of them actually were the singer of the song. LOL
@@TeamLuka Ah thanks for the correct info.
@@TeamLuka kinda like a live presentation of coldplay where Steve martin played drums haha
@@dennisleporte2327 the drummer playing here is called Gene Gunnels
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah
To divide the cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense, peppermints
Incense, peppermints
Songwriters: Carter John S / Gilbert Timothy P
Incense And Peppermints lyrics © Claridge Music Co., Mpl Music Publishing Inc, Claridge Music, Inc.
The guitar player on the left wearing the gold outfit is none other than Ed King. He wrote Sweet Home Alabama and played with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Yeah. The lead singer, drummer is a babe. Thought so then thick so now.
RetiredNavy: Actually Gary Rossington wrote that song, with Ronnie Van Zant, but Ed did play the guitar solos.
Go Navy, beat Army (former YN3 here)
@@lespauldisciple3349 Wrong. 3 people are credited with writing it, King, Van Zant and Rossington but only King is in this video which is why he was the only one I mentioned. And it was Ed King that came up with the opening riff for Sweet Home Alabama.
SMC/QMC (SW/EXW)
RetiredNavy: I stand corrected. I based my comments on an article I saw in a trade magazine where Gary was honored by BMI for some milestone event concerning airplay of the song. The article implied that Gary wrote the music. It didn't mention Ed King AT ALL.
Wikipedia quotes an interview with Gary where he says he had come up with the intro before a band rehearsal then wrote the music with Ed.
(Personal Note: I don't intend this to be a knock on Steve Gaines, or Allen or Gary, but I thought Ed was the most well rounded guitarist in the band - he could easily play country, pop, rock or psychedelia. The addition of Artimus Pyle for 'Nuthin' Fancy' in 1975 had turned them into a musical juggernaut and it's a shame Ed left. Alas his lifestyle was killing him and he had the good sense to see it before it killed him.)
He wrote and played on their best stuff in my opinion
Great music from a great time. The 1960s was an amazing time to grow up in. The music, freedom, innocence, yet respect, being young at a time of change, space travel, TV with 13 channels, but with everything on those channels, AM radio, fun cars, family and on and on. Better times. The more time goes on, the more I think you will agree.
Yes, t.v. with 13 channels and you didn’t have to pay Spectrum Cable $242 a month.
@@VintageLPs - Actually unless you lived in a major city like Los Angeles you did not get even 13 channels and the ones you did get were not always very clear. This is because prior to cable TV everyone got TV through an antenna. Often these were the so-called rabbit ears on top of the set, although many houses also had a large antenna on the roof. Anyway, it was around 1966 or so when we finally got our dad to spring for cable TV and I remember it cost $6 a month at the time - the equivalent of about $125 in today’s money. And considering the huge number of channels you can get today for $125 I would say that it’s a much better deal today than it was when I was a kid. By the way, the reason I remember how much cable was back then despite being a child is because there was a lot of debate in the house as to whether or not we should spend that much money for it. Speaking of cable, when my best friend and I were 13 we figured out that by hooking up our home stereo receivers to the cable we could pull in all the cool FM rock station from LA. Apparently back then the cable was simply hooked up to some large analogue antenna somewhere in Los Angeles and so in addition to picking up television signals down there it could also pick up all the LA radio stations.
Oh Yes!,Truth Indeed AMEN 🙏 ❤❤❤❤
Love this song. I'm 67 and loved growing up in a time of free spirits and great music.
Who the hell disliked this video? What a bunch of like.. total squares man! Not groovy!
Who disliked it? People with no taste in great music.
Not groovy indeed man respect the greats of music ✊🏾
It's really, really bad líp sync. Fake performimg.
I don't like the video. Love the song. Didn't thumbs down.
This was always one of my favorite songs. The video surprised me, I did not expect the drummer to be the lead vocalist. Totally unique and cool!
It smells like the Art teacher's office.
And Otto's jacket.
😂
The back of the Library smells like DoPe...
Man it's fun to watch this, the outfits, and two of them sitting indian style, classic. It reads like a scene from Spinal Tap.
Using the term "Indian Style" really dates you. No one says that anymore since it has been declared racist. Now days, you hear criss-cross applesauce or just cross legged. I'm not attacking you, I'm just saying that you are giving away your age.
Ed King passed away yesterday. Rest in peace.
Yes, Blooze, tough day for everyone.
.
i didn't know he passed on...bummer, but he's a free bird now...for real.
REST IN PEACE ED KING.
Thanks for the support 😜
Thanks for the post Mr. G
Mike Gowen wasn’t he live 17 around this time?
You need a smack, junior.
Yes indeed!
This along with "Cherish" "Never my Love" and "Windy" really made those junior high school dances memorable!
The Association! A number of years ago, my friend and I had to clean out his bosses friends place who had moved, and said we could keep anything we found. I specifically remember choosing The Association on 8-track for those very songs! Definitely in the same vein as this band.
That was all The Association.
Me too.
Remember seeing these guys on "Laugh-In"?
Right On.
The fake lead singer is extremely good looking!
Yeah, that's Randy Seol on drums and lead vocals but this is the studio version and the voice we are hearing is that of 16 year old Greg Munford (who never joined the band). Seol sang the song at live appearances in the future but the producers preferred Munford's vocals at the recording session.
Cool! Thanks for pointing that out. I'd heard the story of them grabbing a 16-YO kid for the lead vocals, but didn't realize that was NOT him in the video.
The face somehow doesnt match the voice...
Now you ruined it!
Did Munford ever do anything else musical career wise?
@@hairypolack Did you noticed when the video is ending Randy is barefoot? How many recordings are spliced into this video?
The guitarist is ed king he played with skynyrd
Rhythm is George Bunnell, who was 17 and going to Taft High School when this song shot to #1.
Brian Ordelheide Taft High School in the San Fernando Valley, Cali? I went to James Monroe High School in what was then Sepulveda, now North Hills, CA. Rise Baby Boomers!!
Looks like he's playing barefoot, couldn't afford the shoes. 😄🎸
The only problem is Ed King played the bass with The Strawberry Alarm Clock. He switched to guitar after the guys from Skynyrd told him he was the worst bass player they ever heard.
If you watch this link Ed King explains that he played bass. ruclips.net/video/KnmdyejQYsk/видео.html
RIP Ed King Lead Guitar
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah
To divide the cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense, peppermints
Incense, peppermints
Thank You
Those lyrics make a person think
i read it as 'crypt of mankind'
50 years later and this song still kicks ass!, Summer of Love baby!, groovy and far out.
I would never admit going back this far, jack - but FEEL for those who do.
can (admit it).
.
Why not? It was an incredible time to be alive. I remember ALL of it. . .clearly.
Your needle needs to be brought back to 2019, dude. 😒
2019
1960jack: "Turn on, tune in, drop out"
Groovy man.Dig it!
Can we just go back to the late sixties and live?
Just construct the Flux-compensator
Sure, we can go through the civil rights race riots and Vietnam again. Fun!
@Mike B well sure I remember being able to just disappear for the day to run the canyons in San Diego and no one was worried something might happen. There were definitely good times then.
ukulelemike absolutely grew up in Florida in the sixties beach on the weekends play till dark. But I do remember U.S. tanks running on the roads in fort Myers that must have been a little disturbing to adults but to a kid it was cool.
Not me thanks - we were still vibrating from an older brother's suicide in 68.
parents in sanitarium's, stuff like that.
Simon and Garfunkel saved me from the absolute drama.
.
So cool that 50+ years later, someone preserved true classic greats like this one for us to still enjoy
Sweet
Yeah, I thought I was 11 yrs old
I was born in '72. For someone who grew up watching the Banana Splits and the Partridge Family, this is beautiful harmony at its trippiest ☺✌
Besides, I just love their outfits
The chubby guy on the left is Ed King who went on to co-write Sweet Home Alabama when he joined Lynyrd Skynyrd
The best part of growing up in the 50’s was enjoying the music of the 60’s. 🤠
Well said, my friend. And a big 👍 for you!
True, but no reason not to enjoy it now as well. Good music is timeless.
@@kuhnhan For 50 years I've heard this song periodically on the Radi,o and now RUclips. Haven't heard anything else by them, though the whole band is so good here I'd like to hear their first album.
Ed King wearing the gold outfit, several years before he played the lead solo on “Sweet Home Alabama” and certain other Lynyrd Skynyrd songs
I'm digging on a barefoot Ed King playing guitar. Hard to believe he ended up in Lynyrd Skynyrd, RIP Ed.
I'm not surprised he left skynyrd and said he was too much of a southern California hippie.
1967 was one of the best years in rock music.
It was the best year,
Oh my God. I say this ALL THE FKN TIME!!! It's my favourite year!
As a decade as a whole, I always put the 60's up there, just behind the 90's. I'll admit there's a bias there considering I was born in 1978, so the 90's was a big part of my teen years, but they also killed the overall terrible music of the 80's and the Hair Metal genre. If I were forced to only listen to one decade for the rest of my life, I'd be fully content with either decade.
So were 64, 65, 66, 68, and 69.
The Doors, Sgt. Pepper, Cream, Hendrix, Love, etc.
You do not need a lot of hits . You just need that hit song that was number 1 across America for a couple of weeks like this song......
If ever a song sounds like the 1960s...
Rose Colored Eyes - Moby Grape
Psychedelic Movement - The Ravelles
What makes it sound like the 60s? I'm guessing the organ/keyboard.
@@wordsofcheresie936 exactly right.
One of my favorite lyrics of all time. "A yard stick for lunatics".
Just as valid today
I'm 66. This song had a big impact on my life. Need I say more?
Drummer Randy Seole from Riverside, CA I Got to jam with him once in 1971 or 1972
I've been rockin' out to this song since I was 8 years old, and had no idea what the band looked like. Thanks a bunch, man! That was groovy. :)
CromemcoZ2 do you remeber the summer of love?
It was a gas!
Lynard skynard
X
CromemcoZ2 YES! And when you do see what they look like, It can be a REAL SHOCK TO YOUR SYSTEM! TAKE CARE AND ENJOY!
Little known fact.. "Incense & Peppermints" was filling a bong with Peppermint schnapps and smoking through it. Of course you would also drink the schnapps when you ran out of weed. Good times!
good looking bunch
🤮🤮🤮once I was forced to smoke through a Bong which was filled with apple juice😖
We took it outside in the woods, was raining ,and noticed that we forgot to take some water with us.Friend had apple juice...was not tasty 😨
Once I drunk my own Bongwater😱😱😱but I must say, that I was drunk when this happened.Filled water in the Bong - was too much🤷🏻♀️so I put it back in a bottle on the table...when I grabbed (after a while) AGAIN to this bottle to drink from, a friend yelled :" Are you nuts ?!? Drinking your own bongwater!!!!" Was emberassed, but I totally forgot...just asked myself about the bad taste🙄
@Carlin Pitts... Did a lot of that...
Thanks, have always wondered .
gonna have to try this.. for new years
The drummer / singer has a style that makes him look like 1980s - 20 years ahead of his time. Amazing.
He looks healthy and wholesome. Not like the plastic drugged out, sold-out garbage they put out for us now. And, he looks like the kinda guys I grew up around, all American and strong. Not like the pathetic crap coming out of the speakers now.
I had the same thought.
It’s because he fried so much balls on good 60’s acid he achieved time travel ability and had gone to the 80’s and seen the styles and brought it back to the late 60’s
@@666sk8erguy 🤣😂👏👏👏✌️😉
Maybe the kids of the parents that were listening to this music said hey that looks cool and started the trend
who could have guessed from watching this, that the guy on the sg would create the sweet home Alabama riff , RIP Ed King
in '67 I was 17. wish I had a do over
What do you remember of the summer of love?
Would you change anything?
Sorry brother. That would shatter the order of things.
Im 18 now wishing i was living in that era
A do over would be great. I would change everything.
These guys created an epic sound... Still sounds epic in 2021... Nothing today can even touch this sound
Always ❤ it, even in July 2023. Sixties music needs to come back.
This song is a masterpiece.
Right? To bad they all hated it in the beginning
I never get tired of hearing this song. As a kid, I first heard it delivering on my paper route, transistor radio onboard. When I hear it part of the enjoyment is that memory…
getting a contact high from your recollection 🫡🕊☮️
Those were the good old days when we had paperboys deliver our papers right to our front door or handed it to us. No throwing it on the lawn like in later years.
Transistor Radio with Ear Plug. PAPER BOY, 1967. Philadelphia Bulletin.
That guitarist would later record "Sweet Home Alabama" for his new band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.
there are three
yeah what one
pro cheff
Ed King, THS one on the left in the gold suit
The not THS don’t know how that happened
Rick Lewis ahhh thankyou
The very first "psychedelic" song I ever heard, 1967. I was way way younger then, but this song will always have an eternal influence on my life...from my first kiss at 11 to my first marriage at 21. Could play this for hours on end and it never would ever get old. Great era for music, bad for society with Vietnam, two major assassinations (MLK and RFK), and social unrest. These are years I would love to live over again if I could time travel (1966 to 1975)...awesome memories.
Albert Owen wow
Wish I could too Bro!!
We need more on the marriage, Albert - nothing too dicey - generally.
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I'm from that generation as well. . and still quite thriving. Missed out on Vietnam. Loved the era. . .the British Invasion. It was one of THE most definitive periods in history. To have been there was amazing. I miss a lot of it too.
Albert. I am a Boomer too. Not kidding , time travel is quite real . One of the many things hidden from us. Please read my lengthy general comment about technologies in the works. Age reversal will be easy and quick.
Shagadelic
@@blairsterling6141 free love✌
I was only 5 years old when this was produced but as a metal head of the 80's and 90's, I cherish and love this music to the fullest of my heart, I remember hearing this as a young child when I heard this on the radio.
Keyboardist has that George Harrison / John Phillips thing going on
This is the music homer Simpson heard in his head when he tried ganja
Ya good episode. Weekend at Burnsies.
Me too 😎
This is the song I hear in my head too. Isn't that ganja amazing.
@@tirsahingalls2776 I've been to parties where people were using it .it comes in a bag, eh!
He was smoking weed with the lsd effect. Weird!
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah
To divide the cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense, peppermints
Incense, peppermints
ahhh, I always thought it was 'good sense IN A SENSE, crippling mankind....thank you.
Wondering if the dead kings lyric is referring to JFK.
Thanks for putting the lyrics up. I doubt one person in a thousand knew what the song was about then or any time since then.
Thanks for this
Great poetry, full of meaning. Glad I'm still here to enjoy it. I'm 68yrs.old.
Drummer is the spitting image of my brother at that age, so, so cute!!!
That drummer is fine as heck!
Its unusual to find a band where the drummer is the main voice. Cool!
True. Dave Clark Five, the Carpenters, any others?
In the Dave Clark Five, the drummer was not the singer. Mike Smith sang lead and he played keyboards. In groups The Eagles, Grand Funk, Rare Earth the drummers sang numerous songs/hits. Carpenters? Although Karen played drums and damn good at it I don't think she ever played in concert.
Check out Rare Earth, great drummer and singer
Genesis too, if you count Phil Collins.
Sloan, Jellyfish, Mastodon, Night Ranger, Queen, Soft Machine.....
Check it out! Ed King barefoot on stage years before Ronnie Van Zant was.
Randy was barefoot as well
Ed was barefooted because was the in thing... RONNIE VAN ZANT BECAUSE HE LIKE TO FEEL THE HEAT FROM THE STAGE.. BESIDES..HE WAS RONNIE...👍👍👍
LOL maybe that's why Ronnie wanted him in Skynrd.
Ronnie probably just wanted easy access to shoot heroin between his toes 😜
The harmonies of 60's groups were the best thing about most if not all the songs. And I dig those groovy threads, man.
Don't forget the hair cuts. Back then we (I) had hair. ;-)
@@skygazer858 I still have all my groovy circa '70s hair, at 59,
David Lee Roth, and Peter Frampton would be jealous! LOL
Check out the harmonies of most Turtles songs, like Eleanor or She's My Girl. The Beach Boys had nothing on them.
@@scifiwriter98 There were so many great harmonizing vocals with 60's and 70's groups. Part of what made them so good to listen to. Now it's all solo artists.
@@bradpence2452 any recommendations? I agree with the harmonies part. that shit is great.
This one-hit-wonder has been forever engraved into my brain since Fall of 1967 and Winter, 1968. Just another of the greatest pop songs of the 60s that makes today's music sound like it was picked from the trashbin.
🙄 tell me you’re lazy without telling me you’re lazy
@@writteninstars What's that crap that makes no sense whatsoever?
Wasn’t a one hit wonder for the great Ed King!
My Generation! I wish with all my heart I could go back to that time! I will take all the joys and troubles of that time over the crap we are dealing with today! Even at its worst, we were never as stupid ,hateful , and disrespectful as people are today.
Truth..sadly.
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Amen sister
I feel sorry for the people who are born now. Back then it was just a blossoming of creativeness in music and every day was something new on the radio. You could hardly keep up with all the talent. Today, it's all regulations and rules. People are paranoid of each other. I felt like i belonged back then watching some outdoor concert. It was exciting then. Unless you lived it, you'll never know just how beautiful it was.
@@patrickmcmullen1190 Aman Brother.
Your heart is back in time! Don't lose it. What you said about people today is very true. It all comes down to parents.
It took courage to wear those clothes, though a little of the weed helped.
173rd Airborne Brigade, July 1970 - June 1971. Binh Dinh Province, home of the Bong Son Bomber.
Well..... It was the 60s, bro.
199th LIB & 1st Cav
1970 - 1971
Bien Hoa & Bien Tuy Province (Ham Tan & Xuan Loc)
Glad you made it back, brother!
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LZ English??? I came in country June of '70. Assigned to the 203rd Hawkeyes flying in support of you guys. Later we became the Headhunters....welcome home, bro...
Had a DS in BCT at Ft. Gordon GA 1981 who was a two tour Vietnam vet. Very serious dude. Did not tolerate a half assed effort in anything.
Thank you for your service
My cousin was KIA in Binh Dinh 1968. Still great song
A group that harmonizes! Had to go back to 1967 to hear it. How many songs today put a smile on your face, make your feet move and your head bob?
What if you don't want to make your head Bob?
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time
Who cares what games we choose
Little to win, but nothing to lose
Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
Look at yourself, look at yourself
Look at yourself, look at yourself.
To divide the cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view
Coda ..repeat x1
incense peppermints, incense peppermints.. fade out.
I was 12 years old when I first heard this. Much of the music that shaped my life was first heard through a mono speaker in mom's Ford Country Squire station wagon. Most notably 'Strawberry Fields Forever' coming home from church on a snowy February Sunday morning.
We had one of those, unacat - Mom'd drive our own band around.
to those misfortunate-enough and to hear, listen to us.
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A very young Ed King. As we all know,,he went on to be one of the original members of Lynyrd Skynyrd
First concert ever for me was Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and Strawberry Alarm Clock!
Nice tune.remember listening to it smoking
Jounts and rolling a few.listening to the byrds and jefferson airplane,yardbirds and few others had alot of poster pic on the walls.a couple black lights.being a teen back in the 60s early 70s what memories.never have them again 😢😢😢😢😅
I remember buying a few black light posters that had a kind of velvety/furry feel to them. Hadn't thought about black lights in ages. Black lights and strobe lights were the "in thing" then. Fun times tossing a ball to a dog in a dark room with only a strobe light going. lol
1967 = Songs about Love and Expanding your Mind.
2017 = Songs about Nothing.
Professor Time - How right you are !!!
Except 2017 = Noise about Nothing - "Songs" would be giving too much credit for absolutely no work.. :)
If you listen to shit music, you gonna get shitty lyrics. There's good bands nowadays, depends in how deep you want to dive.
grrizo
Professor Time & the other person were obviously talking about the pure trash on Top 40 or whatever the hell they call it today. Not saying there isn't talent capable of playing good music, but the garbage that's being recorded, rap, hip-hop, and the like.... it's sad. The lyrics with the vial, disgusting words. And it's not even music anymore. Disco in the 70s was bad enough, but this stuff today makes disco sound somewhat presentable. I'm sorry for the kids of today.
I'm into both, Professor Time - cuz Montrose Loves Miley.
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grrizo The difference is that this was popular music. You can make a list from memory of music that had something to say that was on the radio. Like you said, today you have to dig deep. Even McCartney is releasing music with a pedestrian melody. And people explain it by saying he wants to reach modern audiences. Sad.
Oh if only music like this could become popular again today. I wasn’t even alive during this time period but the music speaks to me as the chord progressions, vocals, and harmony are actually creative and good. You can keep your Taylor Swift and I will enjoy the sweet harmonic bliss of the 1960s.
In 40 years time people will be saying, you can keep Bing Bong and the Jing Jongs, give me that good old 2020's pop, like Taylor Swift, I'd take her any day over those current gangster barbershop harmony groups that are big today. Gangster barbershop harmonies are what's going to be big in 2062, and Bing Bong and the Jing Jongs are the Eminem of the day.
I agree with you.
I was 9 years old then and wanted so much to be an adult.
Putting aaside all the commercialism, there was such a sweet naivete
And there is such a sense of being faraway from somewhere else, that, if you went to that 'somewhere else' then, where you came from was 'faraway somewhere else'.
And the song - a 60s tune full of chiming arpeggios - would be the vehicle to take the listener to somewhere else faraway. - always the sad longing to not be where you are.
If Taylor Swift and Eminem new how to sing they would but they can't they both suck the big one
Taylor Swift and Eminem or two creeps who cannot sing or perform
You speak the truth!
Even though I was not at the recording session of I&P, I do have intimate knowledge of what happened that day;
John Carter wrote the lyrics and melody to the song. He came to the session to teach SAC to sing it.
The actual lead singer in the band was the late Lee Freeman, RIP. He gave it a shot and Carter and Frank Slay thought it wasn't a good match. Mark Weitz, who sang the flip side, Birdman of Alkatrash, tried but it was out of his range.
16 year old singer/songwriter Greg Munford happened to be sitting on the studio floor listening. He had the same manager and was on the All American label as well. On a whim they asked him to give it a shot and voila, a match.
Randy Seol came in to do harmonies. It's his voice you hear on the "who cares what games we choose, little to win but nothing to lose" lines as well as the descending "Incense, Peppermints...."He also figured prominently during the sha la la's at the end doing more than one part.
It's also Randy singing the duet verse - "To divide the cockeyed world in two, throw your pride to one side it's the least you can do. Beatniks in politics, nothing is new. A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view...." He has the lower part.
It is Randy lip syncing in the video. But he sang it live in concert. Nobody knew the difference back then because Randy's voice was all over the song. Plus he sang most of the other songs. We had two lead singers, Lee and Randy....Mark sang lead on a couple.
There's more weirdness though....
Gene Gunnels actually played drums on the recording. He had been the drummer in the band up till then. Randy was brought in to replace him. Gene quit the band because his then girlfriend gave him an ultimatum, either he quit the band and get a job at McDonald's or lose her. What an error....he chose HER!
The horrific story in all this though is that Ed King and Mark Weitz wrote all the music and were never credited! (Thanks to Bill Holmes and Frank Slay) Tim Gilbert got half and wrote nothing!
By the way, Ed played a Telecaster on the recording.
Thanks for the backstory!
Hey George. I thought you and Bartek wrote some on that. I went to Taft, played some with Steve. Sat in on piano at TT&G for your good originals you guys did(country rock b4 the Eagles 🎶🎹
George Bunnell Hey George, good to see your name. Played piano on your demos with Bartek 1970,’71? It was good stuff, pre-Eagles country rock! 🎶🎹
That 16-year-old kid had some serious singing chops.
Is the band member behind the keyboardist the same guy from The Turtles?
Wow....the singer was a total heart-throb.
I have enjoyed this song forever and now, I, for the first time, see the BAND!!! Thanks for posting!!
I was seventeen when this song came out. Thanks for sharing the video it brings back memories for me when I was a teenage girl in the late sixties.
Me, too, except I wasn't a girl.
David M Garens Gutted that I missed the hippy era, I wasn’t born until 1974☹️
@@nickxcore74 I totally get that, and my heart hurts for younger people who feel that way... Just feel fortunate you weren't born in 2004.... Other than that lousy stinkin' war, '65'-'79 was by far the best of times!
On the other hand, I remember during the late 80's - early 90's how much I thought the times then really sucked compared to the hippie era... And while that may be true, nowadays when I look at video from the 90's and compare it to 2019 and especially 2020 I realize how much I really miss those times as well... (only good thing about this era is we have youtube!)
Coral electric sitar. Also the lead guitarist is Ed King, originator of the "Sweet Home Alabama" guitar riff.
Guitar riff and 90% of the music in that song including the lead, which Ed played in C even thought the song was in D. Awesome stuff.
I actually have an original Coral Electric Sitar. My wife bought it for me used in the early 90s so I could do an Electric Sitar medley with our band! It's 2020 and I still haven't created the medley!:(
I knew the Beatles and traffic were the first 60s bands to use a sitar but dint know SAC did too! Classic
Great 70s song, with a nice ending
1967. It’s written my friend.