I’m glad I also grew up in the 70’s because that was the time of great music 🎵. Those times were actually great…especially when Gary Wright’s music was soo electronic. Since his music is soo Spaced Age his music is probably centuries ahead of its time. That’s because music didn’t move in that direction perhaps it will when we’re no longer around.
His music 🎼 was soo electronic using keyboards 🎹 only. If anyone was the master of synthesizers it was Gary Wright. He knew how to make music come alive.
What an amazing time to be alive. This video radiates LIFE as I wish I could live it today. I feel that we were so much more in the moment. We were truly living, engaging with each other and not preoccupied with all the gadgets that consume us and have been destroying us for decades now. Watching this in 2023 even makes me question if this was actually planet Earth. I mean really, you don't see anymore this kind of comradery, patience, kindness, passion, skill, eloquence, enthusiasm, humility, modesty and the endless wonderful traits of mankind TODAY that have seemly washed away from our lives. These people were here for the MUSIC. They were pouring there hearts and souls into the music instead of worrying about which musician could out-do who, or who could look and act the sexiest or coolest. Everything today in music/media is all about how SEXY you can be. How Bad-Ass you can look on your stage or TV. I have become so sick and tired of living in this world of constant comparrisons and need to be perfect in every area of humanness. All the BS from instagram, Facebook, snapchat, cable news networks, Yahoo and all the media/computer websites telling us how we have to look, dress, and act. I know this has become a real long rant, but I am just so fed of with this world today.I miss these years, I miss being able to be human with flaws and not having to be so harshly judged by everyone if you don't meet this worlds "standards". We really knew what life was back in these years and I don't care what anyone says...Life was so much better during this time. Yes, Life is NOW, but the best years of my life are within these years and I will never forget them,
I agree! I don't care, I just do me! I love the 70s and 80s music and I truly miss the simple down-to-earth people and lifestyles. No stressors to be like everyone else. You just be you, and people accepted you for you! 🫶🤗😁 we need the simple life again!! People talked and actually called on their home phone and took the time to visit one another... no texting or FaceTime because they are so busy with crap in their lives, they can't stop and smell the roses! 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🌹🫶 Life just passes so fast, love your friends and family and get back to the basics and love one another! ❤️ No race issues, no keeping up with the Jones', just be free inside and out and live life as God wants us to live and love. 😁
I believe this performance was at San Diego's old Balboa Stadium directly under the flight path of Limburgh Field. That's why Gary remarks about the planes. I attended that show in the summer of '76 when I was 16. Also on the bill was Peter Frampton, Gentle Giant and Yes. Wow what memories!
Thank God we can see this video of it, now!! I wasn't there that day, I was a 16 year old kid in New Jersey. But seeing this now, makes me feel like I was there. What an awesome memory!! Later in my life, I met and spent time with a Lady in Fallbrook, just up the road from SD... For me that was awesome, and how I miss her so....
Yep. Even though I did not see fireworks in that arena show video footage, Gary Wright's musical fireworks on the synths/keytars by him and the band were good enough for America to celebrate here, even though Gary Wright was not like KISS (you know, the rock band with lots of fireworks).
@@charlessmith263 Hi, they did have fireworks and also gave all the fans American flags if they wanted it. I still have mine! It was a great show. I am now 57. I have seen approx 78 concerts and that concert is still my favorite concert in many ways due to the fun, excitement and energy that the Bicentennial. BTW, Gary just died yesterday in California. Yes are retired as is Peter Frampton. RIP Gary.
Amazing performance. R.I.P and most of all, Thank you Gary Wright, for all the great and inspiring music over the years. Your music helped me so much in times of need. God Bless your family.
I had his albums in my teens growing up in England. Its only now that I realise he probably inspired all the keyboard orientated pop songs of the 80's , as he was the first all keyboard band ? This is a brilliant live performance
He was preceded a couple years by Kraftwerk, who didn't even have acoustic drums. There was also things like I Feel Love by Donna Summer, the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack (though in fact, most of it was conventional musical stylings, Wendy Carlos only had three tracks in the film, and one of them was severely edited), and the early 70's Doctor Who music (which frequently featured the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer).
Wow man... Watching this brings back a lot of memories.... As a teenager growing up this was a time when music was music... A great time to be alive... Thanks for sharing this video... Gary Wright was at the height of his success here... A fine keyboardist singer songwriter....
Brilliant stuff. Saw him with Peter Frampton at what was then The Empire Pool, Wembley, London. I guess some of the audience didn't realise that it was ALL keyboards and drums, no bass guitar! It rocked like a mo-fo. I was 18 years old. A year later I got into punk big time but I still have Gary's albums and often pound away on the treadmill listening to this track!
I was only 2-3 years old..When the song was released. I am 50 Years old. And heard the song. For the first time in over 35 years. As I smoked a restored old Briar pipe.
Those are REAL VOCALS. Thank you for giving the world the kind of authentic talent and beautiful melodies. #RestInMelody3rdROCKwide sharing to Facebook with your permission on this day 9/6/2023@12:12am WEAVE THOSE DREAMS GARY this fan is weeping 🎹💞🎼🎵🎶🕊🌌🌚🌠💖#RockNRollHeaven3rdROCKwide
Gary Wright's Dream Weaver album was the first ROCK album I ever bought. I know this song was not on the album but he was performing this song on his first US tour.
Light of Smiles is Gary's "Sgt. Pepper", an excellent thematic composition with strong writing & few weak spots. Sadly, it landed with a thud in a musical landscape being torn by Disco & Punk at the time. A casualty, most likely, of timing than anything else & perhaps an association with prog/glam which were strongly under fire. The all synths production & cosmic demeaner peppered with Eastern religious undertones, lyrics and philosophy made it alot to swallow in the then shallow music climate
the band starts burnin after the breakdown & is all out kickin ass by the middle of the end solo Steve Porcaro - Moog bass Pete Reilich - Clavinet Art Wood - drums Lorna & Bettye on BGs
At 3:42, you get a glimpse of the Yes Crab Nebula lighting rig that they used on this tour. Unfortunately, that and a similarly brief shot in the Love Is Alive video are the only pro-shot footage we've ever seen of it. :(
lxlandia Gary's sister, Lorna, is one of the singers. My friend said that one of the keyboardists in this video is the cousin of Stanley Sheldon who played bass for Frampton in this same summer 1976 tour. Stanley told me that that keyboardist in Gary's band here in this video is Tom Peterson who is Stanley Sheldon's cousin.
Thats the Yes Roger Dean stage set above Gary and this is from the big Yes tour of 1976. I think this clip of footage was taken by the crew filming what would have been “Yessongs 2”. Its still a mystery where the Yes footage ended up.
I want to thank you deeply for this upload...Gary Wright and all Keyboard Band "Wonder Wheel" Jim Keltner on Drums and the amazing Steve Porcaro usually Moog Bass,, but here looks like strings and clavinet ... This is Live In San Diego.. Got anymore from this show??? Thanks Again.. you made my day !!
zero thanks amigo--guess I was not there but I was at the Oakland show which looked about the same----great memories! He drove the crowd wild there, surprised the keyboard like his did not become more popular
califbozo This was probably Oakland a week after San Diego but definitely mid summer 1976. It was his idea to have no guitars. Did you read his auto biography?
califbozo I read that after Light of Smiles the record company started dictating how to write songs. He being a musician extraordinaire wanted to wright his songs not what they wanted. I bet they wanted muzak which is pop and commercial which is the opposite of Gary Wright's style. I met him some years ago and he was totally cool.
I saw this same tour with Frampton at the Day On The Green in Oakland. I might still have the ticket stub. It was like 5 or 8 dollars. F*ck 2024 ! and this generation of losers!
PROGRESS DOES NOT REQUIRE TESTS ~ Many of God's children believe that a person is not able to achieve nor should be invited to the New Age unless they past tests. Particularly personality tests among those who were from New England in the past including this man, Gary Wright. Obviously this is because such children from that and other areas were/are subjected to much testing (too much narrowly formulated schooling) during the vulnerable period of their youth. But we've learned this is not true; an important message which is found expressed, for example, by aliens of higher intelligence in the film "Contact"--"...no, no tests Ellie"--and particularly from one of its writers, Ann Druyan, who made sure to include the message in this film's screenplay as it is not found in Sagan's novel. --Pete Reilich
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Makes me glad I grew up in the 70s
I’m glad I also grew up in the 70’s because that was the time of great music 🎵. Those times were actually great…especially when Gary Wright’s music was soo electronic. Since his music is soo Spaced Age his music is probably centuries ahead of its time. That’s because music didn’t move in that direction perhaps it will when we’re no longer around.
This festival in San Diego 1976 featured Gentle Giant, Gary Wright, Peter Frampton and YES, what a bill!! RIP Gary, your music will live on forever.
His music 🎼 was soo electronic using keyboards 🎹 only. If anyone was the master of synthesizers it was Gary Wright. He knew how to make music come alive.
What an amazing time to be alive. This video radiates LIFE as I wish I could live it today. I feel that we were so much more in the moment. We were truly living, engaging with each other and not preoccupied with all the gadgets that consume us and have been destroying us for decades now. Watching this in 2023 even makes me question if this was actually planet Earth. I mean really, you don't see anymore this kind of comradery, patience, kindness, passion, skill, eloquence, enthusiasm, humility, modesty and the endless wonderful traits of mankind TODAY that have seemly washed away from our lives. These people were here for the MUSIC. They were pouring there hearts and souls into the music instead of worrying about which musician could out-do who, or who could look and act the sexiest or coolest. Everything today in music/media is all about how SEXY you can be. How Bad-Ass you can look on your stage or TV. I have become so sick and tired of living in this world of constant comparrisons and need to be perfect in every area of humanness. All the BS from instagram, Facebook, snapchat, cable news networks, Yahoo and all the media/computer websites telling us how we have to look, dress, and act. I know this has become a real long rant, but I am just so fed of with this world today.I miss these years, I miss being able to be human with flaws and not having to be so harshly judged by everyone if you don't meet this worlds "standards". We really knew what life was back in these years and I don't care what anyone says...Life was so much better during this time. Yes, Life is NOW, but the best years of my life are within these years and I will never forget them,
I feel so much the same. Thanks for postíng your rant. I miss when life was real too.
" Love is Alive" a song that says the same...
RIP Dreamweaver.
I agree! I don't care, I just do me! I love the 70s and 80s music and I truly miss the simple down-to-earth people and lifestyles. No stressors to be like everyone else. You just be you, and people accepted you for you! 🫶🤗😁 we need the simple life again!! People talked and actually called on their home phone and took the time to visit one another... no texting or FaceTime because they are so busy with crap in their lives, they can't stop and smell the roses! 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🌹🫶 Life just passes so fast, love your friends and family and get back to the basics and love one another! ❤️ No race issues, no keeping up with the Jones', just be free inside and out and live life as God wants us to live and love. 😁
Right on brother.
I saw the Peter Frampton/Gary Wright tour in 1976 and it was one great rock concert. The musicianship from both acts was superb.
I did too, Santana also opened, the show broke ticket sales records in Tulsa @ the time. Fantastic Show~time!!
EPIC!! Zero Autotune. Steve Porcaro absolutely killin' it on synth bass
I believe this performance was at San Diego's old Balboa Stadium directly under the flight path of Limburgh Field. That's why Gary remarks about the planes. I attended that show in the summer of '76 when I was 16. Also on the bill was Peter Frampton, Gentle Giant and Yes. Wow what memories!
awesome
It was at Balboa Park, I was there. Awesome.
I was there. I remember seeing you
Thank God we can see this video of it, now!! I wasn't there that day, I was a 16 year old kid in New Jersey. But seeing this now, makes me feel like I was there. What an awesome memory!! Later in my life, I met and spent time with a Lady in Fallbrook, just up the road from SD... For me that was awesome, and how I miss her so....
You can just feel and see the energy that was 1976 Bicentennial. I was there when I was 10 years old.
Yep. Even though I did not see fireworks in that arena show video footage, Gary Wright's musical fireworks on the synths/keytars by him and the band were good enough for America to celebrate here, even though Gary Wright was not like KISS (you know, the rock band with lots of fireworks).
@@charlessmith263
Hi, they did have fireworks and also gave all the fans American flags if they wanted it. I still have mine! It was a great show. I am now 57. I have seen approx 78 concerts and that concert is still my favorite concert in many ways due to the fun, excitement and energy that the Bicentennial.
BTW, Gary just died yesterday in California. Yes are retired as is Peter Frampton. RIP Gary.
@@charlessmith263
I have seen kiss and Frampton, minus his hair 😂
that was a special time indeed....
Amazing performance. R.I.P and most of all, Thank you Gary Wright, for all the great and inspiring music over the years. Your music helped me so much in times of need. God Bless your family.
The man was way ahead of his time.......
He certainly was. Dream weaver was full of synthesizer and unique sounds, amazing
I had his albums in my teens growing up in England. Its only now that I realise he probably inspired all the keyboard orientated pop songs of the 80's , as he was the first all keyboard band ? This is a brilliant live performance
He was preceded a couple years by Kraftwerk, who didn't even have acoustic drums. There was also things like I Feel Love by Donna Summer, the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack (though in fact, most of it was conventional musical stylings, Wendy Carlos only had three tracks in the film, and one of them was severely edited), and the early 70's Doctor Who music (which frequently featured the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer).
Wow man... Watching this brings back a lot of memories.... As a teenager growing up this was a time when music was music... A great time to be alive... Thanks for sharing this video... Gary Wright was at the height of his success here... A fine keyboardist singer songwriter....
Brilliant stuff. Saw him with Peter Frampton at what was then The Empire Pool, Wembley, London. I guess some of the audience didn't realise that it was ALL keyboards and drums, no bass guitar! It rocked like a mo-fo. I was 18 years old. A year later I got into punk big time but I still have Gary's albums and often pound away on the treadmill listening to this track!
I was only 2-3 years old..When the song was released. I am 50 Years old. And heard the song. For the first time in over 35 years. As I smoked a restored old Briar pipe.
Great band... This concert is a little before my time but I wish I could`ve been there. Looks like such a great vibe. I love the 70`s.
Those are REAL VOCALS. Thank you for giving the world the kind of authentic talent and beautiful melodies. #RestInMelody3rdROCKwide sharing to Facebook with your permission on this day 9/6/2023@12:12am WEAVE THOSE DREAMS GARY this fan is weeping 🎹💞🎼🎵🎶🕊🌌🌚🌠💖#RockNRollHeaven3rdROCKwide
.....I love Art Wood's playing......the Gary Wright band at this time was incredible.........
*****
thanx!!
Kurt North
Art Wood on drums... one of the best.
I may be old, but saw all the GREAT bands!! What a great track!
RIP, Gary 😢🙏
Live at old Balboa Stadium in San Diego. Also on the bill Peter Frampton, Yes and Gentle Giant. Love that chopped Minimoog!
+William Morrison Man, sorry I missed out on that concert!
+William Morrison July 18, 1976
Thanks to this cameraman for showing the entire great band!
One of the bangin'est tracks of his catalog!!! Right on for posting this!!!!
This is July 17th, 1976 . Gary's from our town in New Jersey!!
TOP music uit de jaren '70 realy love it..
this is funky stuff, one of the greatest Gary Wright songs!
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His live sound must have been massive.
Saw him in '76. It was massive and great.
It was.
Steve Porcaro(pre-toto) stage left Keyboard Rig
great!!! it's the first time since the 70"s that i see this specific performance again. thnakx so much!!!!!!!!!
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I saw 3 1976 shows on the east cost. In front for Howe.
Nobody says anything about how handsome Gary was whew he’s a total smoke show hottie, what a talent!! 😅
My vote goes to Lorna.
@@rickdesarle9875Gary’s sister Lorna is very beautiful and talented too! There’s someone for everyone here.
If Lorna had Quincy Jones as a Producer, she would be a household name.
i think that's the beautiful lorna wright(gary's sister) on background vocals.
she put out an album herself on elton john's rocket label.
she is a beauty,wow
Thanks for the video great song
Very nice video!! From the glory days... PS: saw Gary this summer at Bospop in Holland, 35 years later... Still rockin' & his love was still alive !!
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Awesome footage. I like the hair! :-)
Its 1976, man.
Abba in the background waiting to go on at 0:09
This was something to dance to in the late seventies:great sound,but not only from Gary,never heard of him again,anyway,great song
Porcaro alert at 2:38! 🙌🏻
Thhis video ROCKS...... THANKS
Gary Wright's Dream Weaver album was the first ROCK album I ever bought. I know this song was not on the album but he was performing this song on his first US tour.
Dam n wish I would of seen this concert
Light of Smiles is Gary's "Sgt. Pepper", an excellent thematic composition with strong writing & few weak spots. Sadly, it landed with a thud in a musical landscape being torn by Disco & Punk at the time. A casualty, most likely, of timing than anything else & perhaps an association with prog/glam which were strongly under fire. The all synths production & cosmic demeaner peppered with Eastern religious undertones, lyrics and philosophy made it alot to swallow in the then shallow music climate
I love that album!
Can you think for a minute of all the bands that were ruined by disco? Literally hundreds!!😅
Man, do I remember those good days in jump suits!
I FREAGIN LOVE IT!!!!
RIH GW
If you could play Dream Weaver for my mom n dad, that would be awesome...
Great quality video; thanks for uploading! Synth god!
Def passed the test for FUNK on this performance. . . . . lol
the band starts burnin after the breakdown & is all out kickin ass by the middle of the end solo
Steve Porcaro - Moog bass
Pete Reilich - Clavinet
Art Wood - drums
Lorna & Bettye on BGs
Dead and owed me 50 bucks 😳
Saw Gary perform in a small hall in ‘78 - my balls are still vibrating 🤪
Rip sonic man!
It is likely this is the tour they did with Yes and Peter Frampton. I was at the RFK Stadium show in D.C. Awesome!
I was at the RFK show. First row so I could be in front of Steve Howe. Lorna was Awesome.
At 3:42, you get a glimpse of the Yes Crab Nebula lighting rig that they used on this tour. Unfortunately, that and a similarly brief shot in the Love Is Alive video are the only pro-shot footage we've ever seen of it. :(
R.I.P. Gary.
A very young Steve Porcaro playing Minimoog bass.
R.1.P.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Was that applause really for Gary or was that edited in??
I was there at Bospop too! He also still is a good singer
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Dig the canary onesie
Great stuff. And i like the look of the partial modified keys, all paint in white. :-)
Art Wood on drums....later of Cher, Bette Midler, Peter Frampton, Keepin' Em Off The Streets.....one of the finest drummers.....
Thx......I kept wondering if it was Ansley Dunbar. Kinda looks like him.
lxlandia
Gary's sister, Lorna, is one of the singers. My friend said that one of the keyboardists in this video is the cousin of Stanley Sheldon who played bass for Frampton in this same summer 1976 tour. Stanley told me that that keyboardist in Gary's band here in this video is Tom Peterson who is Stanley Sheldon's cousin.
ART WOOD….
Rest In Peace, sir
Best 3 day I had ...
hot days
This looks like a goooood time!
well, well...lucky you!
I was 7 then. But man the women back then were so damn sexy! Good days. Wish I was in my 20s back then!
Ha! Yes I was and not ashamed to admit I captured quite a few side & approval eye glances from men, we women were HOT!
This is also on the Nomad Poets DVD.
Steve Poncaro on synths wearing the red top? He also played for Toto - not just for Gary Wright?
Thats the Yes Roger Dean stage set above Gary and this is from the big Yes tour of 1976. I think this clip of footage was taken by the crew filming what would have been “Yessongs 2”. Its still a mystery where the Yes footage ended up.
He invented the Keytar.
Today maybe NOTT GOTT me trapped OR NOTT
I want to thank you deeply for this upload...Gary Wright and all Keyboard Band "Wonder Wheel" Jim Keltner on Drums and the amazing Steve Porcaro usually Moog Bass,, but here looks like strings and clavinet ... This is Live In San Diego.. Got anymore from this show??? Thanks Again.. you made my day !!
Roger Wilkinson It's not Jim Keltner it's Art Wood.
Steve Porcarro looks so young. Far left on the stage, skinny.
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Steve was 17 at this time
I agree
thanks for uploading! is the complete performance available anywhere?
Is this whole show available somewhere? Believe it or not, it's the only professional footage of Yes' "Crab Nebula" stage lights!
How do I find the Nomad Poets DVD?
😺
Can somebody load up the studio version, please ?
It's online. Just search.
12 years ago it wasn't , but thank you .@@01adhdave
What's this Purple R beside me? can't whe talk anymore ?: what site am i'm in?
No guitars amazing. I wonder if the bases synthesizer van plat the bases guitar as well
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WHERE WAS THIS SHOW?---I THINK I WAS THERE
July 17th, 1976 San Diego. Gary's from Cresskill, NJ. He's a genius.
zero thanks amigo--guess I was not there but I was at the Oakland show which looked about the same----great memories! He drove the crowd wild there, surprised the keyboard like his did not become more popular
califbozo
This was probably Oakland a week after San Diego but definitely mid summer 1976. It was his idea to have no guitars. Did you read his auto biography?
zero no I have not, but I admire the originality. I wish his career of radio hits was longer. I think about 3 albums were pretty hot
califbozo
I read that after Light of Smiles the record company started dictating how to write songs. He being a musician extraordinaire wanted to wright his songs not what they wanted. I bet they wanted muzak which is pop and commercial which is the opposite of Gary Wright's style. I met him some years ago and he was totally cool.
I saw this same tour with Frampton at the Day On The Green in Oakland. I might still have the ticket stub. It was like 5 or 8 dollars. F*ck 2024 ! and this generation of losers!
PROGRESS DOES NOT REQUIRE TESTS ~ Many of God's children believe that a person is not able to achieve nor should be invited to the New Age unless they past tests. Particularly personality tests among those who were from New England in the past including this man, Gary Wright. Obviously this is because such children from that and other areas were/are subjected to much testing (too much narrowly formulated schooling) during the vulnerable period of their youth. But we've learned this is not true; an important message which is found expressed, for example, by aliens of higher intelligence in the film "Contact"--"...no, no tests Ellie"--and particularly from one of its writers, Ann Druyan, who made sure to include the message in this film's screenplay as it is not found in Sagan's novel.
--Pete Reilich
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Mormon????
Man's song:from Utah?..............................fuck this
WTF is this?....Gary Wright never filled a fucking football stadium on his own..obviously this is some other larger event
Oh yes he did! I was in attendance when Gary opened for Frampton Comes Alive w/Santana back in the summer of 1976. A fabulous show!