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  • Опубликовано: 9 янв 2025

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  • @TC-eo5eb
    @TC-eo5eb 11 месяцев назад +122

    Gerry and Dewey, if you happen to read this, please know that as a teenager growing up in the mid 1970's, your music had a huge effect on my life and still does to this day. A few year ago my wife and I flew from Wisconsin to southern California. We rented a car and drove the PCH north of Malibu and played your America CD listening to Ventura Highway and Horse. Words cannot adequately describe the experience. We also saw you in concert in Milwaukee summer of 2023. Your music is timeless. Thanks for the memories.

    • @pangeaproxima3681
      @pangeaproxima3681 11 месяцев назад +2

      ok, ok...

    • @NattyBumppo48
      @NattyBumppo48 9 месяцев назад +7

      TC - I'm now 75 yrs young and basically grew up parallel to you. America was/is one of my favorite bands! Comparing them to The Beatles or the Stones is pointless. Those three bands were all iconic in their own right. And while I liked them all, America held a special place in my heart & consciousness, and still does all these years later.

    • @pangeaproxima3681
      @pangeaproxima3681 9 месяцев назад

      @@NattyBumppo48 ok, ok...

    • @stephennadal4103
      @stephennadal4103 7 месяцев назад +4

      It's me Dewie....I'm glad our music effected you. I love our fans😊

    • @sdcoinshooter
      @sdcoinshooter 6 месяцев назад +3

      Please add me to the list of people whom were affected by your music back in the 70s. Thank you, very much; Thank you

  • @Afriqueleblanq
    @Afriqueleblanq Год назад +63

    And here I am, listening almost 53 years later, just as I did in '71

  • @firefighterps2
    @firefighterps2 11 месяцев назад +49

    Horse with no name was not only the first record I ever bought, but the first item I ever spent my own money on. Thank you, gentlemen.

    • @CarlosFlores-gm7dv
      @CarlosFlores-gm7dv 3 месяца назад +2

      That's awesome. That wasn't my first, however, it was the first song I sang and played on guitar, in class in high school, 1973. Hard to believe that was 51 years ago.

  • @MsLoverockmusic
    @MsLoverockmusic Год назад +112

    I'm glad they mentioned Dan Peek towards the end and his important contributions to America.

    • @graysonedwards8875
      @graysonedwards8875 Год назад +3

      Not to forget Michael Clarke

    • @jesusislukeskywalker4294
      @jesusislukeskywalker4294 Год назад +2

      @@graysonedwards8875👍🏻 there’s no “i” in band 🎸🥁🎹 🎤🐥

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Год назад +11

      Dan is surely missed. He was so enigmatic on stage. Just my idea of what a folk singer should be.

    • @graysonedwards8875
      @graysonedwards8875 Год назад

      You are correct
      @@Nicholas-m8n

  • @glowaves
    @glowaves Год назад +83

    These two with Dan Peek were such a beautiful trio and blend of harmonies.

  • @leworsmiley
    @leworsmiley 10 месяцев назад +24

    “This is for all the lonely people, thinking their life has pass them by” Thank you very much, im so encouraged now😊❤️

    • @barrysmith8193
      @barrysmith8193 Месяц назад +1

      Add me to that list. I was back from combat in Vietnam and was sure that the world had passed me by. The song taught me that I was not alone. There are many vets that found that the world got up and left them while we were gone. I’m 77 now and still have times when loneliness is my only friend.

    • @leworsmiley
      @leworsmiley Месяц назад

      @ 🙏🙏🙏

  • @CaliKiwi-
    @CaliKiwi- Год назад +30

    “America’s” songs are an integral part of my childhood soundtrack.. I can’t believe they aren’t in the Hall of Fame!

  • @5milessep
    @5milessep Год назад +28

    I’d like to share something that happened to me while on holiday in LA. I’m an Aussie that had never been to the US. We visited Disneyland, and on our drive back from Anaheim to West Hollywood where we were staying, on the freeway I saw a sign that provided a lane direction to exit for Ventura. Automatically Ventura Highway rang in my head. I hadn’t heard the song for years, yet I was singing the tune all the way back.
    The lady that we were staying with in West Hollywood would have a music channel on her TV that just played in the apartment all day. When I walked through the door, I couldn’t believe it, but Ventura Highway was playing. I was just blown away at the coincidence.

  • @raynagel7462
    @raynagel7462 Год назад +26

    My God how I LOVED this group America one of the all time best!!

  • @rubicon-oh9km
    @rubicon-oh9km Год назад +96

    These three gentlemen are all part of the soundtrack of my youth. Hearing America songs sitting in the back of my parents '71 Town & Country and hearing Dan Rather every night on the CBS news while eating dinner with the family. Timeless memories.

    • @Weshopwizard
      @Weshopwizard Год назад +2

      With the wood panels?

    • @rubicon-oh9km
      @rubicon-oh9km Год назад +1

      @@Weshopwizard Absolutely 😃

    • @johnmcascone
      @johnmcascone Год назад +5

      We had a ‘71 Ford Country Squire with the fake wood paneling. What a simple beautiful time.

    • @rubicon-oh9km
      @rubicon-oh9km Год назад +4

      @@johnmcascone so typical in life, we had no clue how good we had it at that time.

    • @robertmalecki5979
      @robertmalecki5979 Год назад +2

      It sounds like we could have grown up together. What a different time that was.

  • @kimberley-xu8ff
    @kimberley-xu8ff Год назад +21

    America is one of my favorite groups. Thank you Dan Rather. From Canada 🇨🇦

    • @Charleybones
      @Charleybones 7 месяцев назад

      Dan Rather has nothing to do with how great America is. I watched Rather as a tv anchorman for over 20 years. It's likexwatchiing a cadaver with a political agenda.

  • @DJ-bj8ku
    @DJ-bj8ku Год назад +76

    Great interview. Both very intelligent guys. These songs were the soundtrack of my youth.

  • @kylewood8327
    @kylewood8327 Год назад +37

    These guys wrote some of the most beautiful music, there records were revolving around my turntable during the mid 70’s quite often!

  • @kenskinner6948
    @kenskinner6948 Год назад +48

    Brilliant band, brilliant music and real musicians. Thank you for the music.

  • @tracythorleifson
    @tracythorleifson Год назад +59

    America - such a great band! Terrific interview!

  • @anneartis565
    @anneartis565 9 месяцев назад +5

    I heard Ventura Highway in 1972. My life was never the same. I still listen to that song, Tin Man, and a couple of Todd Rundgren songs every single day.

  • @jbocaboss2025
    @jbocaboss2025 11 месяцев назад +8

    Dewey and Jerry, you were such a part of my childhood musical soundtrack. You hooked me in 72 with horse and I’ve been listening ever since. Saw you in Pompano Beach last fall. I so appreciate your music. Keep on trucking and thanks!!!

  • @nikolaibarbarich7887
    @nikolaibarbarich7887 Год назад +43

    Sister Golden Hair is my favourite song. My daughters mother, who is no longer with us, loved that song as well. Absolutely phenomenal band from the best decade of music.

    • @theblytonian3906
      @theblytonian3906 Год назад +1

      Is a really well crafted song. Released in '75 as I recall. My wife loved it too. Our song at that time, the year we first met. Shame it marked the end of America's run of hits. I'd been a huge America fan since 1971 and the release of "A Horse With No Name". Still am. I still have five of their best albums since republished on CD I listen to regularly.

  • @brewster84067
    @brewster84067 Год назад +13

    I so love this band. I was fortunate enough to inherit my older brother's vinyls as an 8 yr old in 1978 and it was flooded with America. You can feel the meaning and passion in their lyrics and riffs. Truly one of the great songwriter bands of music.

  • @beowulfthedane
    @beowulfthedane Год назад +65

    America, Bread, Carpenters, Jim Croce, John Denver, Olivia Newton John, ELO, Steve Miller, Bob Segar, Guess Who, Eagles, .38 Special were and still are my favorites. They all still get airplay, and covers of their songs are good. Not as good as the originals, of course. None of them screeched and all of them had songs that could touch your soul.

    • @overcomerbtboj
      @overcomerbtboj Год назад +4

      You named some of my favorites as well

    • @davelachey8118
      @davelachey8118 Год назад +6

      Those choices are some of the best. I could add a few more but will close by saying the Seventies was the absolute best decade of music. It never gets old.

    • @tomscerbo1588
      @tomscerbo1588 Год назад

      That's hell've a lineup right there! Great tunes of yester year!👌🎤 7:35 4:22

  • @susanmann5286
    @susanmann5286 Год назад +14

    My friend would have loved this interview. She followed this group as if she were an old school groupie. They were on a first name basis with her. RIP Deb.'

  • @richieflenniken9974
    @richieflenniken9974 Год назад +11

    Gerry Beckley was the coolest looking and sounding guy out there for this lil boy in the 70's

  • @Larry-go8bg
    @Larry-go8bg Год назад +11

    Horse with no name was the first song l was shown by 2 friends who were playing guitar in 1975. I was 16 years old and it set my life up with an obsession with music to this day which has enriched my life so much and it all started with horse with no name. Whenever l hear it l thank God for it and America like so many other great artists of the 60s and 70s were the soundtrack to our lives. I'm 66 years old now and am retired from 44 years of doing gigs but still play music every day its food for the soul and it all started for me with horse with no name thanx guys America was a great band great songwriters like so many others of that era an era that seems like will never be outdone by anything coming out since it was the golden era of music.

    • @tomscerbo1588
      @tomscerbo1588 Год назад +1

      You nailed brother! Loved late 60s thru the 70s, soft rock, hard rock, funk. All genres of that time period!👍🎶

  • @guitartec
    @guitartec Год назад +36

    Horse With No Name obviously has hit a musical nerve with countless people, me included! I remember when and where I heard it in 1971 for the first time. It struck me in a musical way that literally re-shaped my brain. From the odd lyrics to the heavily reverb'd mysterious bongos (or congas) in the background that sound like the clip-clop of a horse along with the textured vocal harmonies were what took me back, even tho I didn't know any of this at the time. Plus as a budding guitarist, I could hear it was simple to play on the guitar. Another thing to note is that while it "sounds" like a simple melodic two-chord progression, it's anything but simple. There's a 12 string guitar texturing as well as a second 6 string filling in with a more complex version of the 2 basic chords. Strum it in the least bit wrong and even non-guitarists can tell you're playing it wrong. There's a bass fill after the first verse when the drums come in which gets the song chuggin'. This amazing tune captures people in a big way even 50 years later.

    • @robertludlam272
      @robertludlam272 Год назад +1

      Superb stuff from three top guys

    • @TucsonDude
      @TucsonDude 10 месяцев назад

      It hit me very personally as a lifelone desert lover/dweller.

    • @guitartec
      @guitartec 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah, I totally believe it. @@TucsonDude

  • @russelldaye9813
    @russelldaye9813 Год назад +20

    Wonderful interview, no pretensions or arrogance. Simply accomplished musicians. 🎼🎶🎵

  • @michael_caz_nyc
    @michael_caz_nyc Год назад +5

    These guy were phenomenal. Wrote incredible songs, Killer vocal harmonies. Real Musicians = Timeless music. oNe LovE from NYC

  • @davidmatela9868
    @davidmatela9868 Год назад +20

    So much Great Music from these guys. Captured the 70’s in such a beautiful way

  • @nige-g
    @nige-g 9 месяцев назад +1

    They were/are a damn good band, and my ears always prick up whenever I hear America. Top band

  • @w.harrison7277
    @w.harrison7277 Год назад +10

    So many great songs but the greatest was Sister Golden Hair. Those background vocals and bass coming in after the middle eight was pure joy! On par with Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts for an exquisite summer song.

  • @ACOUSTIC_4LOVE
    @ACOUSTIC_4LOVE 10 месяцев назад +5

    Saw these Guys on their first Tour. Horse’ had just hit charts. Memorial Auditorium’-Sac Town CA. Great Band. Songwriting geniuses every one!🇺🇸

  • @mpg9788
    @mpg9788 Год назад +253

    Why isn’t America in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?

    • @markwilliams974
      @markwilliams974 Год назад +49

      Their name is offensive to liberals.

    • @NWLee
      @NWLee Год назад +10

      @@markwilliams974 I want to say something bad about how your whole group thinks this way and the liberals all think one way as well, whatever...

    • @duanedelperdang1749
      @duanedelperdang1749 Год назад +28

      @@markwilliams974 That's absurd bs.

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Год назад +39

      Ladies and gentlemen, may I present @markwilliams, the man who is incapable of discussing any topic without bringing his obnoxious views on politics into it...
      For his next trick he will refer to me as a snowflake and scream "Fake News!".

    • @markwilliams974
      @markwilliams974 Год назад +11

      @@duanedelperdang1749I know it's absurd. LOL! I was using hyperbole just to see who I could flush out of the woodwork.

  • @jayweiss4378
    @jayweiss4378 Год назад +13

    Love America! Always takes me back in time

  • @robsaxepga
    @robsaxepga Год назад +11

    I love their music. Always have.

  • @tomscerbo1588
    @tomscerbo1588 Год назад +6

    Great 70s soft rock that never gets old to listen to. kudos to America!👌 7:35 4:15

  • @glengamble526
    @glengamble526 11 месяцев назад +6

    I love the story in Neil Young’s father’s book: he heard HORSE WITH NO NAME on the radio and called Neil and congratulated him on the success of his new single! 😂
    That aside, it’s still a classic song.

  • @brucemclennan9715
    @brucemclennan9715 Год назад +8

    What a great interview; Dan Rather is in his element, his enjoyment shines through.

  • @waynefromnewfoundland8740
    @waynefromnewfoundland8740 Год назад +5

    America’s music is part of the soundtrack to my teenage years. Just a lot of great melodies and songs that produced emotions and made you think. Great band and I’m glad I stumbled across this interview.

  • @notrut
    @notrut 11 месяцев назад +6

    I finally got to see America at The Sage, Gateshead, England having been a lifelong British fan, it was the best show ever ... you're overdue back soon!!

  • @kurthartle5473
    @kurthartle5473 Год назад +11

    Wonderful music from the iconic group! So many favorites, still feel fresh, and a perfect synergy of rich sounds through simplicity and tight ensemble playing!

  • @justmy2pesos
    @justmy2pesos Год назад +2

    One of my favorite bands. I remember the first time I heard Horse With No Name. It was on the radio at night and I stayed upr for hours waiting for it to be played again!

  • @alastairmurray9539
    @alastairmurray9539 6 месяцев назад +1

    What a great interview. No ego's, just respect! Respect for the Late, Great George Martin, to their soulmate Dan Peek and to The Beatles. Not just one of The Greatest bands EVER, but True Gentlemen, Humble, Beautiful People!!

  • @mooneymooney251
    @mooneymooney251 7 месяцев назад +7

    They aged very well! Respect! America!

    • @RayGoettler
      @RayGoettler 3 месяца назад

      I have loved their music for fourth years.

  • @mad_cat_1st
    @mad_cat_1st Год назад +14

    2:52 - I lived in California for 23 years of my adulthood (1996 thru 2019). I live in Wyoming now, and whenever I hear Ventura Highway I start crying. NO OTHER song ever written grabs the vibe of Central Coast California and can make me feel that homesick - AND I sing along like a canary...Thanks, Dewey. You and Leo Kottke are the reason(s) why I own a 12 string Taylor acoustic guitar.

    • @mariapilarme
      @mariapilarme Год назад

      Don’t be sad come over anytime! I also loved that song how many times driving Ventura highway!

    • @jeffthebracketman
      @jeffthebracketman Год назад

      And don’t forget the incomparable Hal Blaine on drums…

    • @markthrasher6770
      @markthrasher6770 Год назад

      That song probably brought so many people to California too 😂

  • @stephenb4164
    @stephenb4164 Год назад +12

    One of the best bands ever.

  • @CHT420
    @CHT420 Год назад +11

    These songs bring back memories for me❗️

  • @kurtvanluven9351
    @kurtvanluven9351 Год назад +4

    These songs, and when they came out, were like mileposts in my growing up years. If I tell you I won't cry if I hear them, I am lying.

  • @clannad99germany70
    @clannad99germany70 Год назад +4

    This is a real interesting interview. I always loved the music of America, starting with the first song I listened "A horse with no name", already loved this band. Later on Tin man, Sister golden hair, Ventura Highway....so much more.

  • @OnlyInLasVegas
    @OnlyInLasVegas 11 месяцев назад +1

    One of my favorite and best groups from the 1970’s and 1980’s. They still rock!

  • @moniquestevens9709
    @moniquestevens9709 3 дня назад

    Great group! I was listening to this group during my high school days in the 70,s... still listen to them..😊

  • @mr.snicker-doodles7081
    @mr.snicker-doodles7081 11 месяцев назад +3

    Really enjoy listening to Gerry & Dewey talk about the old days. Maybe fewer close ups though haha...just kiddin' the looks great! Aged well..

  • @karencormac-jones1039
    @karencormac-jones1039 Месяц назад

    Thank you for this great interview, Mr. Rather - you know so well how to draw people out. Gerry and Dewey, the two "army brats" who met in Deutschland and created the phenomenal "America" - such talented and articulate men. Thank you for all the happiness you have given the world. Long may you run.

  • @mccloysong
    @mccloysong Год назад +6

    Such classic songs, definitely in the soundtrack of my high school years and beyond. I got a 12-string guitar my senior year Christmas and Sister Golden Hair was the first song I played on it. It sounds simpler than it is.

  • @socalpal8416
    @socalpal8416 10 месяцев назад +3

    Having grown up in Oceanside during the 70's, Horse With No Name and Ventura Highway were the quintessential SoCal sound of the era. So much excellent music was produced then....it's almost surreal.

    • @binathere2574
      @binathere2574 7 месяцев назад +1

      Being an Aussie, it was definitely sureal for me.

  • @truckerman8301
    @truckerman8301 Год назад +1

    A great group that put out songs that make you feel so good! Still love this group and their songs. God bless America!!!

  • @kevinlawrence6635
    @kevinlawrence6635 Год назад +4

    I was stationed at Vandenberg AFB as well in the late 70s, and that drive down to Malibu via the 101 and onto the PCH been imprinted on my psyche partly because of how well Ventura Hwy has become so complementary of that phenomenal imagery of that part of the SoCal coastline. You can't traverse any part of that area without that song coming to mind

  • @MrBrynmair
    @MrBrynmair Год назад +4

    What lovely guys.Have always loved them, and never heard them speak. I could listen to them all day.

  • @MrTrotwood
    @MrTrotwood Год назад +1

    My wife and I fell in love to their music and we go and see them every time they come to the Arcada theatre.

  • @overcomerbtboj
    @overcomerbtboj Год назад +2

    I’ve always loved America and have always had a crush on gerry and he’s still got it ❤️😍

  • @intrepidtraveller8212
    @intrepidtraveller8212 10 месяцев назад +1

    We were 3 school pals and played gigs in local pubs and restaurants [1973 onward] - this song is such a memory for us - loved playing and singing the not too difficult harmonies - will go to the grave with me.

  • @jmark7390
    @jmark7390 2 месяца назад

    I remember listening to Horse when I was 12 in Michigan. Family moved to Spain. We went down to Morocco and spent a few days down in and near the Sahara with this song in my head. Whenever I here this song it brings me back to that time.

  • @charlie-obrien
    @charlie-obrien Год назад +12

    I am always so glad to hear Gerry and Denny give credit to Dan Peek, who was obviously an important part of the groups early successes. He was also a very beautiful soul. I never knew him, didn't read up on him too much, but I can tell by his music.
    All the guys in America are wonderful, in their songwriting and how they handled themselves over all these years.
    I play a little solo guitar Troubadour kind of thing at some local bars and coffee places and people are always asking me for my "America set" which consists of those 3 songs mentioned; "Horse With Name", "Sister Golden Hair" and "Lonely People".
    All great sing-along songs!

    • @nightingaleofsorrow9349
      @nightingaleofsorrow9349 Год назад

      I love the song Don’t cross the River! The three of them on acoustic guitars and harmonies is brilliant!💕💕

  • @rodneydelboy6910
    @rodneydelboy6910 7 месяцев назад

    We young musicians just discovered America couple of months ago and have been listening them for couple of months non stop. They are such an underrated band.

  • @cunn9305
    @cunn9305 8 месяцев назад

    went through some tumultuous family times in the early 70's as a very young boy .. their music proved a welcome respite back then and brings calm, peaceful memories now ... cannot thank them enough 🙌

  • @verseau8360
    @verseau8360 Год назад +3

    New layer of respect and admiration!, thanks to this interview!

  • @lorriemcgee5562
    @lorriemcgee5562 Год назад +1

    I thoroughly enjoyed this interview, not only because it's on a great band (summer of 80, Chico Ca, concert, but that Dan Rather knows his subjects and asks knowledgeable questions.

  • @prometheus5700
    @prometheus5700 4 месяца назад

    These guys are amazingly talented and articulate. "Today's the Day" is one of my favorites.

  • @lynnturman8157
    @lynnturman8157 Год назад +4

    Great clip! I never associated Sister Golden Hair with My Sweet Lord. But now that he pointed it out, it's so obvious.

  • @mattf49006
    @mattf49006 Год назад +1

    some of the best soundtracks to my teen years and beyond here...thanks guys

  • @dskywalker3397
    @dskywalker3397 4 месяца назад +1

    The group, America, made many excellent songs. Horse With No Name is a song that seems to sit above these other great songs. It is timeless.

  • @michaelgregory2231
    @michaelgregory2231 Год назад +1

    Their first album, with their first hit "Horse With No Name", was produced by the late Ian Samwell. Ian was an original member of Britain's seminal rock band, Cliff Richard & The Shadows. Ian wrote their first hit "Move It", which was occasionally played by Jimmy Page in his solo sections of Zeppelin shows and it is also a guitar riff that John Lennon biked over to Paul McCartney's house to learn. Ian was England's first independent producer, not being in the employ of a record company or studio. He shepherded 80s band, Bourgeois-Tagg into their deal with Island Records and managed my band in the 90s, finishing out his last years (extended by receiving a heart transplant) in my hometown of Sacramento, California.

  • @ricksaunders8074
    @ricksaunders8074 Год назад +3

    My friend loved this group
    I thought they were OK
    I now love this group in my later age 😊

  • @PittsburghArtistStudio
    @PittsburghArtistStudio 28 дней назад

    I loved America growing up. Still enjoy the music. I did see them several years ago and they sounded great.

  • @cbf63
    @cbf63 11 месяцев назад +1

    The 70s was a magical time for misic.... masterpieces of music coming at you from ever direction. Will never be recaptured sadly.

  • @gregggoss2210
    @gregggoss2210 6 месяцев назад

    America was the first album I ever had. My parents got it for me for Christmas the year after it came out. I still have it too.

  • @tedmohr6353
    @tedmohr6353 2 месяца назад +2

    This song sounds like Neil Young sung this. A lot of people thought it was. This coincidentally came out around the same time as Harvest by NY.

  • @martincull4914
    @martincull4914 10 месяцев назад

    This is one of my favourite bands. Getting George Martin was pure gold.

  • @scott1099
    @scott1099 11 месяцев назад +1

    saw these guys in Ft Wayne Ind back i think 73 they were the best band i ever saw and i have seen a lot in my day

  • @Gk2003m
    @Gk2003m Год назад +3

    The heat was hot. Storytelling just doesn’t get any better than this.

  • @JusticeRyan-n6d
    @JusticeRyan-n6d 7 месяцев назад

    God,i love listening to their songs,it makes me feel like I'm 18yrs old again .(71 yrs old now)

  • @jackcrozier1982
    @jackcrozier1982 9 месяцев назад

    Great interview. Dan Rather gets out of the way, and let's Gerry and Dewey tell insightful and eloquent stories. Such creative minds matched to immense musical talent. America's music will always be loved and stand the test of time, as it already has.

  • @jeremyhunter1459
    @jeremyhunter1459 9 месяцев назад

    The guitar play and rhythms from all the band members is just un-human, out of this world talent.

  • @susanfox-mx3nv
    @susanfox-mx3nv Год назад +1

    What a wonderful interview. I wish it had been longer. I would have loved to hear about the idea or thought behind "Horse with no Name."
    I lived in Colorado when it came out and still do. I remember driving in the mountains high as the clouds listening to that song, just the song. I didn't need drugs. It was that up lifting.

  • @dougshankle7946
    @dougshankle7946 11 месяцев назад

    I still watch the Central Park concert on RUclips and have so many times. Love this band and their songs.

  • @LoveOneAnotherHeSaid
    @LoveOneAnotherHeSaid Год назад

    Consistency. The power to open any door, creative or between people. Magical intensity. The best.

  • @dubbelhelix
    @dubbelhelix 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks for bringing back memories of the early seventies when I was a 17 year old! I love your reference to the UK, the country of my birth!

  • @73firebird11
    @73firebird11 10 месяцев назад

    My fellow Air Force Brats stationed in the UK in the 70s, you guy's had plenty of time to name that horse LOL. Thanks for all the great music

  • @moepanetta9028
    @moepanetta9028 5 дней назад

    Ya know, it really would be great to chat with Dewey and gerry online, seeing that all of their songs are on my Playlist. 😊❤😊

  • @EdwardKrzynowek-fx5to
    @EdwardKrzynowek-fx5to 5 месяцев назад

    I meeant to add this comment, then forgot.
    Something that stands out to me is the fork in the road these guys took as musicians. I'm talking about the fact that their foundation was built on acoustic music.
    There are certainly other bands and musicians who contribute great acoustic music.
    But, while many of them use them as some tasty side dishes, America served them up as the main course.
    All 3 of them contributed songs, instrument tracks, and their voices.
    Their trifecta (or Hat Trick iif you will) helped keep acoustic songs in the forefront of our vision.
    I can't believe it's been more than 50 years since I started listening to them, and loving their unique sound.

  • @rawirigilgen6846
    @rawirigilgen6846 6 месяцев назад

    After I heard 'Horse' in 1972 I weeded gardens for my dad and he bought me a Yamaha 12 string guitar. I still have that guitar and play it regularly 52 years later.

  • @RickyDownhillRDH
    @RickyDownhillRDH Год назад +1

    Hey guys. Please come back to Denver. We saw you in Denver back about 2019 and it was awesome.

  • @roybean7166
    @roybean7166 7 месяцев назад

    Saw America, 1980s in Cape Town , South africa 🇿🇦 Great show ! Did anyone else see those concerts? Roy b , CapeTown South africa 🇿🇦

  • @rowan655
    @rowan655 3 месяца назад

    I never knew George Martin was involved with America?? Blew my mind❤

  • @gonzoexpress9885
    @gonzoexpress9885 Год назад +1

    Ventura Highway was and is a time capsule gem - the quintessential track that evoked the Californian dream so many people longed for - surf, freedom, Laurel Canyon cheesecloth earth mothers, and laid-back lifestyle.

  • @jonniep
    @jonniep Год назад +15

    I am learning A Horse With No Name on acoustic right now. I am a HUGE America fan...

    • @Handleweary
      @Handleweary Год назад

      Excellent! How old are you Johnnie? Always like to know young people are getting into older music

    • @charlie-obrien
      @charlie-obrien Год назад +1

      It's a great song. You'll have a lot of fun with it.

    • @jonniep
      @jonniep Год назад

      Thanks for calling me young but I am 52 and just started my guitar journey in ernest.@@Handleweary

    • @jonniep
      @jonniep Год назад +1

      I have always been a fan of America. So far it is not hard to learn. Only problem I am having is proper tuning. @@charlie-obrien

    • @jonniep
      @jonniep 11 месяцев назад

      I am 53, not a young buck by any means. America's music was a huge part of my childhood because my uncles listened to it and that is how I got into it. @@Handleweary

  • @weejim48
    @weejim48 5 месяцев назад

    America were a great band. As a 17 year old I’d listen to horse with no name & dream of going to America and driving for miles in an open top car. 🇬🇧👍👍🇺🇸

  • @diannediamond8643
    @diannediamond8643 Год назад +1

    so many good songs, always takes me back to a good place!

  • @mjphoto45
    @mjphoto45 Год назад +3

    Amazing band and stories

  • @563421094
    @563421094 11 месяцев назад +2

    America is the first band I saw live...Liverpool Stadium circa 1972

    • @kalnwi2023
      @kalnwi2023 11 месяцев назад

      Horse with no name is about heroin .

  • @mariapilarme
    @mariapilarme Год назад +2

    My favorite group! ❤

  • @georgeadams8230
    @georgeadams8230 Год назад +5

    That track has one of the best bass lines ever.