Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, Standells, The Seeds, Music Machine Syndicate of Sound the list is long and great stuff, this music still lives and stands the test of time. Love it always .
It isn't! Many younger people feel that way.I went to a showing of A Hard Day's Night recently.There were kids there who were too young to remember George Harrison as a living person.
If you were there then, you know that there was so much GREAT music that came out every week! It kept getting better every day and you could feel it was progressing faster too. We knew it was cool and we were lucky. It was a beautiful flash of musical light.
Much is because today everyone's just trying to get rich; it's no longer about the music. Plus, in order to get your music out there, you have to create a video, which takes months and costs a fortune. So while back in the 60's a band could cut a record and have it in the dj's hands the next day, today it takes 6 months. So you have fewer, and lower quality music. Some songs are virtually unlistenable without the sexy video, I give you Britney Spears 'Oh baby baby' as a perfect example.
I saw these guys live at a small club in Boston. It was my first real concert experience. They didn't disappoint--they were so loud, part of the ceiling fell down.
We had the Blues Magoos booked and contracted to play our Junior Senior Prom in a small South Alabama town for M ay of 1968. Our local rock band had discovered them through word of mouth and bootleg tapes. They were like nothing we had ever heard and we tried to emulate them every way we could. Alas, their gig at our prom was pre-empted by the performance you just heard. They were booked onto "The Bell Telephone Hour" as a rising example of a new trend in Rock, Psychedelic Music. They did the right thing and bought the Prom contract back from us. We managed to get another really great regional group out of Pensacola, Florida named the Phaetons. They were fantastic, too, but our band still kept p[laying the Blues Magoos songs until we broke up and went to college.
I remember going straight home from school to watch "Where the Action Is." The new music and the new groups were mind blowing. Boys with long hair was a novelty that freaked out our parents.
It seemed that everyday during the mid 60's, a new band would have a hit on the radio. The amount of talent that exploded onto the music scene was mind boggling and it all happened thanks to four guys from England.
Even my dad stopped the car over the side of the road just to listen to We Ain't Got Nothing Yet, in December of 1966. Absolute precision quality from an outstanding group members performers put many so called rock and roll groups into the amateur category with total simplicity. Signed a fan in San Antonio Texas.
1966 the year of the garage bands. This one peaked at #5 in Feb, 1967. Some of the best music throughout history was made by one hit wonders. It's still with us today and will never die.
Well said. "YELLOW BALOON" comes to mind---just one of many. Young musicians would do well in studying this pocket of time from 1965 thru 1967 when (not to diminish the Beatles) music was a happening. To me, some of the best never got radio time or were on the flip side of the 45 or on the album. Example---The group YELLOW BALOON---"How Can I Be Down" Good song. Never heard it before until I got Bluetooth recently.
Yes! And the songs were always too short. I wanted them to go on forever. I was 8 years old in 1966 and I swear those years and that music spoiled me because nothing has seemed quite as good since. 1966ish-1969ish. Best. music.
Every time someone downloads a video featuring a 60’s band I get so envious of everyone born/living during those times. Being a 90’s child I can honestly say 90% of our music is pure trash! If only I could time travel 🙁Thank you for sharing I truly appreciate it 💖💖💖
I was born in '62 and grew up with this music. It was all on the radio every day. Turn it on and *boom* pure magic. There was never a bad song on the radio back then. I was enraptured by these tunes (still am!) and knew innately that it was special, and that I was fortunate to be listening. Probably an era never to be duplicated.
@@steviesugarman7416 People have been trying to work out ever since what made the 70's and late 60's, give or take, such a golden era for music. Was it that the technology around the music was simple enough that it didn't overly distract musicians (including worrying about social media) and they could focus on getting good? Were the standards just higher? Was there something in the spirit of that generation that made for such amazing music? Maybe a mix of all of these, who can really say.
@@Sam-go3mb There was no hiding behind technology so you had to be able to really play and sing. Most bands played every night in clubs and got super tight.
@@Sam-go3mb I think it's everything you mentioned, and then some. Certainly the 60's were culturally & politically charged, much of which was expressed in the music. Less distractions, less technology, musicians could focus on music and lyrics and not incessant social media. And the standards were definitely higher...way higher! Allow me to throw something else in the mix. There's no way to prove this, but I'm gonna conjecture that some of the creativity of the 60's/70's was amplified by psychedelic substances. Starting in the mid-60's (with the Beatles as well as other bands) there was an explosion of energy and creativity, exploring different sounds, different cadences, new types of arrangements. Pop music got really deep really fast! The Beatles went from "she loves you yeah yeah yeah" to "turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" seemingly overnight. Well, it wasn't overnight, but you know what I mean. I'm not saying this to diminish anyone's work, it's actually just the opposite. These substances, when taken in moderation and with a mind free to explore, can lead to monumental levels of creativity. Fear dissipates, freedom to express comes to the fore. Combine this with the cultural and political milieu and you get one heady brew. Magic.
I was a back up man in a cover band in the late sixties [ Dedicated Choice ] Northern Ontario Canada. We covered 60's rock and roll and ended up doing 46 songs. Unfortunately, we can't go back, but have good memories of it.
I was 11 yrs old when I first heard this song, it was in the wee hours of the morning & I was half asleep. This song kept playing in my head the entire next day. I thought it was a dream till I heard it on the radio a couple of days later.
At 69,I was starting high school when "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" hit,and it remains the prototypical song about a rising but still hungry band and one of my all-time faves. Where are the boys today ?
Michael Esposito lead guitarist of the psychedelic rock band the Blues Magoos and the artist for their first album cover lives in my town of Woodstock NY. And has had a quietly eventful Woodstock life for many years... Michael’s occupations have included musician, painter, builder, priest, and bicycle repairman, as well being a one panel cartoonist "Swami Salami" for our local paper. He still plays music at 83 [now bass guitar] with guitarist Marc Black and other Woodstock musicians and fixing bicycles at his bike shop in town called "The Old Spokes Home."
None of the oldies stations play any hits from these kind of groups from the late 1960s. I loved the Seeds. And this group rode the radio top list for weeks.
Well. Some stations just play the same tired hits over and over. But there was a wealth of great music made. I remember the first time I heard the Seeds, "Pushing Too Hard" on AM radio. A few local clubs would feature this "new" music and many of us knew something unique was happening, but what ? JFK killed in 1963 and MLK in 1968, along with MalcolmX and Bobby Kennedy. Harsh times...has any progress been made ?
When you are 4 years old, A year is a quarter of your life .... When you're 64 a year is 1/64 of your life - A mear fraction to compare to the past years, thus the more years pass, the faster they go in your mind. Mic drop....
Bull poopie! Quit thinking about it. Take one day at a time and absorb each day. Maybe time might slow down for you a bit. Time is time no matter what age you are and I know time waits for no one but chill brother. Breathe deep, blow out slow. Hell, you may live to be 100... or more 😎✌
Man 60's music was the greatest. And even now it is so much better than what comes out now. The big record companies don't want to take a chance. There are groups out there that would make this era great if they could. Rock isn't dead it's just being pushed back.
This was one of my first ever albums at 17. Drove my parents crazy with it (dad was a Barbershopper, the choir director at church, and mom played the keyboards.
People today don't know how HUGELY IMPORTANT the Blues Magoos were in that day ... EVERY little garage band idolized them & they were the Ultimate in "Trippy , Far-Out" music
the natural energy and creativity of the 60s,70s, and Amazing 80s... oh how i miss those decades.you just had to be there...life in general so positive.
The 60's had music beyond compare. I'm just going through songs I grew up with, but never got to see the musicians/groups. Awesome music! I didn't get much TV back then and now I can find these great groups on RUclips!! YAY! Thanks for posting!!
We had these guys live in our high school gymnasium (Highland Park NJ) shortly after this song came out. It was probably early 1967, my sophomore year. Great song!! Memorable concert!
If you find out please let me know. Just last week Sweet Pea by Tommie Roe was number 1 on the charts; I know I was singing along with it on my 1st job. I was 15. Next month I'll be 66! How indeed!!!
This time fifty years ago I was listening to the Top 100 Year-End countdown on the radio. This was when radio stations were playing,"The platters that matted."Happy New Year from this 62-year-old.
1964 - 65- 66 AM radio ! Beach boys, motown, British invasion & the songs kept pouring out making for great times, memories. those were the days my friend , lol... I thought they'd never end.
I saw them perform several times at the Chess Mate in Detroit, as early as 1966. Probably invented psychedelic music and as a touring performing band, they were unequaled. They have three excellent albums with the original members. Their extended version of the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road" laid the groundwork for all others to follow. Should have been even bigger than they were. Excellent musicians.
I know the lead guitarist, Michael Esposito, (on the left in the video) personally. He has quite a back story. Quit the music biz one day, drove his Cadillac up to Woodstock, N.Y. and parked the Caddy in the parking lot of the only little strip mall of stores in town, left the keys in it, and dropped out of the scene. He did play music sporadically in past 15 years in the area, mostly as a bassist. He also was the cartoonist for the local "Woodstock Times", under the name Swami Salami. His main gig is running the Old Spokes Home, his bike repair shop. A gentle and wonderful soul.
Tiger62ish Holy Cow, I would bring my bike there for repairs just to meet that guy, I was a toddler when this came out but it's one or my earliest musical memories. I work pretty close to Woodstock.
Loved these guys...and this tune. Thanks for the story. Esposito really good guitar on this. He dropped out and did cartooning, this rings a bell with my husband and I did, dropped out, communes, cartooning...If you see Michael in his bike shop, tell him a fan who played this tune constantly on the Fullerton JC radio station, where I was a high school DJ, thanks him very much.
The signature sound of the '60s. The guitar climbing the scale, the bass, the keyboards -- all period-perfect. I remember dancing myself into the floor to this one way back when. This is still king tone, baby!
My big sister had this album. I was 9 yrs old and played it over and over again. I still remember staring at the album cover because the band was so cool looking!
there was a rumor that these guys lived in the woods near us. kool ! We'll never hear great songs like this, ever again. It was awesome to be young in those days
Wow. What a refresher. I used to hear this on the radio back home when I was kid with a transistor radio in my pocket cruising the neighborhood on my Schwinn Sting-Ray. Thank you.
@@johna8973 Mine also had a tall sissy bar in the back, with my custom touch of a row of those little metal license plates that I put on the back of the bar, that came in the Honeycomb cereal boxes!
Mr. kellyjdrummer Hope you're still there! Just skipping through RUclips early this Monday morning and using the music to reach far back. The Music Machine, the Seeds, Jorge and Carlos Santana then stopped off here: Born in Chicago in 54, and when you mentioned “Schwinn!” Holy bottled water!! Man, did your words bring me back to those youthful days. My first Schwinn was a candy apple red with plenty of reflectors. All the fellas extended the front fork, handlebars with a bigger saddle. And we would cruise the streets when all the parked cars were made in America. I’m not sure, but one of my friends had a Zenith radio (?), rock’n’roll, Motown and some Latin spice? He had it hanging between the front handlebars. Went to the playground school yard one day and someone ripped it off! If I wanted another bike, I had to buy it with my own mula! On my way to school one morning and the first time I heard “Green-Eyed Lady.” I mean really heard it and felt it inside the heart and lungs then tattooed in the gut. That rock and roll machinery floating on tracers, yet one foot still on the ground. What a fantastic time to get in front of numerous doors then absorb the experience behind the doors.
'67, I think, went to a show in Dallas just before I was drafted. Blues Magoos opened for The Who and Herman's Hermits. They'd adopted a uniform that had flexible lights on them, when they went into the lead part of this song the auditorium lights went out and they went crazy. Great effects, great show.
Now & forever, this is the shit. One of the tighter garage bands; maybe the apex of garage bands (along w/ the Sonics), w/ a sense of humor & some E. coast wise-assery + the ability to writer songs w/ great hooks. My U.S. navy submariner dad brought children's books back to me from England until this trip, when I was around 12 - suddenly it was the BMs album & a Shake Down Savoy Brown album - one of the coolest things he ever did :)
I used to work for Bank of America in San Francisco back in the late70's early 80's at the 1 south Van ness building in the money wire transfer department. We had a staff meeting and one of the managers from another department (i don't remember his name and was an assistant Vice-President) mentioned in staff meetings how he was in Blues Magoos. Really nice guy, I remember his long hair and how well kept and groomed he was, very attractive too :). I liked the flip side of the record "gotta get away" a lot.
How in the hell did 50 years go by so fast? yes i remember this as a teen!! Now 60 yrs old and still love this music!! yes i remember this as a teen!! Now 60 yrs old and still love this music!!
We were living on such a high plane in our life going to party's Street Dances..every summer that's what we live for..was the Dance every evening after school during the summer we danced till the Sun Came up...15 cent Hamburgers ICE Cold Root Beer Right from the big Gaint Gag..ice cold Frozzed Mugs same price.. yes I'm happy to say we had the very best The Hot Summer days and Nights could bring to us, and we were always there to Embrace every Minute of it.. Anderson Indiana Westside Jackson Park Belmont...
what a rush when this came out,couldn't never get any radio loud enough in those days,,yeah I was there and hooked on real music,nothing artificial for me
I always click on videos that induce flashbacks to my days in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury, class of 1967-70 ✌️💐🤗💐 I was “TEX “ back then. Perhaps someone that knew me back then will send me a “howdy”! It was a helluva party!!!
Yep, Hi-Fidelity jukebox too.... stereo may have been invented by then, but it wasn't on the consumer market yet. Most of the songs were recorded in 4-track studios and couldn't be made stereo anyway. After all, they were designed for airplay on AM-only radio stations (FM technology had been invented, but no FM stations really got on the air until the early and mid-70's}. If your one-channel record player sounded as clear and loud as the AM radio; you couldn't complain.
Love the garage psych music ,these guys Electric Prunes , Music Machine , Syndicate of Sound the list keeps going great stuff still love it to this day.
The Music Machine was my favorite from that period, but this Magoos tune was a definite favorite! As a budding guitarist, that rising pentatonic scale hook couldn't help but to drag me in! Thanks, '60s!
I was playing and gigging R&R then, as a teen, and I'm still playing and gigging it now, as a geezer. It keeps me young, although now I have to take Ibuprofen before gigs for the aches and pains..!! Lol
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Love this song so much ... great tune from my teenage years... whos here with me in 2024 ?
in uk yes
Here I am with you in 2024 - I was there back then too - God Bless the Blues Magoos !
Are You 90 Years old ? This is pure oL Dinosauer Rock !
I'm with you all the way from Cambridge, England . Keep on rocking my friend 🎸
Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes, Standells, The Seeds, Music Machine Syndicate of Sound the list is long and great stuff, this music still lives and stands the test of time. Love it always .
Let me add to your list The Troggs ("Wild Thing").
@@nuwavedave And the band Love with the late great Arthur Lee.
I agree. Good music is timeless. Thank goodness for Bluetooth in my car.
@newwavedave1682 Don't forget "With A Girl Like You". Not top 40, but my favorite.
I live between the years 1964-67! There is no Rock music in 2023.
At 68 yrs old I remember when this stuff hit the world and here I am in 2020. Rock n Roll forever
69 here Rock on!!
we made it didnt we
I hope youre still here, My dad was in this band
73 here in 2020. still love this song...Magoos rock...
I'm 45 and grew up with this stuff from my old man!
These guys were from the Bronx, NY and played at my school in the 60's with the Vagrants who had Leslie West on guitar right before Mountain.
REALLY??? They were from the Bronx??? I just now found that out (if it is true)! I have ALWAYS thought that they were from England!!!!!
That’s interesting because there was a small gang in Greenpoint Brooklyn led by a kid from the Bronx. They were the mangos. This is around maybe 65
That's amazing.
You will never convince me that the music of today is better than the music of the 60"s.
It isn't! Many younger people feel that way.I went to a showing of A Hard Day's Night recently.There were kids there who were too young to remember George Harrison as a living person.
I fully agree, but today’s kids will remember their music the way we do this.
I TOTALLY agree.....my kid is 21 and a lead guitar player in a band, and ALL the members believe this time/music was awesome....unparalled.
NO decade was as good as the 60's music!
100 percex
When I was a little girl with a transistor radio, I loved music like this.
If you were there then, you know that there was so much GREAT music that came out every week! It kept getting better every day and you could feel it was progressing faster too. We knew it was cool and we were lucky. It was a beautiful flash of musical light.
I was 17 and we were very lucky!
You said it.!.!.! When I hear that GREAT music of the 60s I'm suddenly in the 5th grade, happy
And wondering how can I get to Boss City for some DANCING
Exactly. Still fresh after 50+ years
The radio was your best friend!
Used to rock this song on CKLW in the Motor City when I was just a kid. Still here today!
*THE BIG 8!*
This black Detroit 60's chick loved this song and also the blues magoos pipe dream. Thanks for the great music and memories!!
7 and Gratiot , here ...
That guitar lick and keyboard is brilliant. These guys were from the Bronx and should have been bigger or well known as a band!!
NOTHING BUT PUSSIES IN THE BRONX !!!
Chromatic ascents with cool reverb.
Great guitar tone, also.
Im from Georgia and loved their sound! Should have been bigger!
Unfortunately they weren't British.
At 73 years old, this is still MY music.
68 here....
me as well//
You’re not alone!
72 brothers
At almost 71 it's still the music I listen to everyday! I'm still rockin and I don't mean in a rocker...LOL
I saw the Blues Magoos, Herman's Hermits and The Who on their first American tour all-in-one show at the Indiana State Fair
I saw them also in Houston, Texas. All Three.
You're luckier than I was. I got to see the Lone Ranger at the Erie Co. Fair in NY. I did get a silver bullet though. At the time it was pretty cool.
I saw hendrix play back up for the monkees. That was quite a show since no one here had really heard of hendrix
I remember the tour but never saw it --- it by-passed my area. I remember that it was a Hermits tour with the Magoos and the Who doing pre-show sets.
@@LouisFLamas Caught the same show at the Steel Pier in Altantic City.
The bands of the 60's set the bar too high. That's why the bands of today can't even come close.
Nah..... mIt because the music scene has been taken over by simon cow and then money men. Selling crap to sub teen twits.
And they used up all the good styles of music.
100 per cent agree.
No doubt. I turned 70 this year and I am so grateful the music of the sixties is so ingrained in me.
Much is because today everyone's just trying to get rich; it's no longer about the music. Plus, in order to get your music out there, you have to create a video, which takes months and costs a fortune. So while back in the 60's a band could cut a record and have it in the dj's hands the next day, today it takes 6 months. So you have fewer, and lower quality music. Some songs are virtually unlistenable without the sexy video, I give you Britney Spears 'Oh baby baby' as a perfect example.
I saw these guys live at a small club in Boston. It was my first real concert experience. They didn't disappoint--they were so loud, part of the ceiling fell down.
UH-HUH! Part of the ceiling fell down????? Because they were SO LOUD???! WOW
77 and still digging this music
We had the Blues Magoos booked and contracted to play our Junior Senior Prom in a small South Alabama town for M
ay of 1968. Our local rock band had discovered them through word of mouth and bootleg tapes. They were like nothing we had ever heard and we tried to emulate them every way we could. Alas, their gig at our prom was pre-empted by the performance you just heard. They were booked onto "The Bell Telephone Hour" as a rising example of a new trend in Rock, Psychedelic Music. They did the right thing and bought the Prom contract back from us. We managed to get another really great regional group out of Pensacola, Florida named the Phaetons. They were fantastic, too, but our band still kept p[laying the Blues Magoos songs until we broke up and went to college.
Baby Boomers in full bloom. The best era of music ever and will never be equalled.
never be equaled,or duplicated
every era thinks that they had the best music because it is with what they (you) grew up with.
WE ROCKED THE WORLD, still doing it.
How true!the 1960's were music's Golden Age.Never before or since was there such diversity on the Pop Charts.
Freakin fantastic!!!
I remember going straight home from school to watch "Where the Action Is." The new music and the new groups were mind blowing. Boys with long hair was a novelty that freaked out our parents.
At 4:30 on ABC. Never missed it!
older parents started freaking out on you as early in the 50s; calling RNR "Devil's music."
As I did also. I couldn't wait for American bandstand
Likewise, plus American Bandstand. Also, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, which aired on KCOP-TV Channel 13 in Los Angeles.
@* Juke Joint Plus 9th Street West AKA Hollywood A Go-Go, hosted by Sam Riddlge, and Shebang, hosted by Casey Kasem.
It seemed that everyday during the mid 60's, a new band would have a hit on the radio. The amount of talent that exploded onto the music scene was mind boggling and it all happened thanks to four guys from England.
This was a tremendous song. It was a great time to grow up back in the)0
69
Grow up. I was about 11 and 13 years old at the time. I never thought I’d be hearing this stuff 60 years later
Even my dad stopped the car over the side of the road just to listen to We Ain't Got Nothing Yet, in December of 1966. Absolute precision quality from an outstanding group members performers put many so called rock and roll groups into the amateur category with total simplicity. Signed a fan in San Antonio Texas.
1966 the year of the garage bands. This one peaked at #5 in Feb, 1967. Some of the best music throughout history was made by one hit wonders. It's still with us today and will never die.
Beautifully said
Right around the time of Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane. What a juxtaposition!
Well said. "YELLOW BALOON" comes to mind---just one of many. Young musicians would do well in studying this pocket of time from 1965 thru 1967 when (not to diminish the Beatles) music was a happening. To me, some of the best never got radio time or were on the flip side of the 45 or on the album. Example---The group YELLOW BALOON---"How Can I Be Down"
Good song. Never heard it before until I got Bluetooth recently.
Yes! And the songs were always too short. I wanted them to go on forever. I was 8 years old in 1966 and I swear those years and that music spoiled me because nothing has seemed quite as good since. 1966ish-1969ish. Best. music.
yes i remember this as a teen!! Now 60 yrs old and still love this music!!
This came out in '66, so you were what 8 ?
Sounds a lot like "Black Night" by Deep Purple
Hit the charts in February 1967...I was 10 in 4th grade...now I'm 64 it sucks😏 but I still love this song😊🙂
Still rocking at 66 can't get enough of great rock
Classic garage punk. One of the greatest songs of the 60s
Just turned 72 and remembering this.
Every time someone downloads a video featuring a 60’s band I get so envious of everyone born/living during those times. Being a 90’s child I can honestly say 90% of our music is pure trash! If only I could time travel 🙁Thank you for sharing I truly appreciate it 💖💖💖
If you think being born in the 90's (like me) made you drown in awful music, imagine those poor kids born after the year 2000 god save 'em.
I was born in '62 and grew up with this music. It was all on the radio every day. Turn it on and *boom* pure magic. There was never a bad song on the radio back then. I was enraptured by these tunes (still am!) and knew innately that it was special, and that I was fortunate to be listening. Probably an era never to be duplicated.
@@steviesugarman7416 People have been trying to work out ever since what made the 70's and late 60's, give or take, such a golden era for music. Was it that the technology around the music was simple enough that it didn't overly distract musicians (including worrying about social media) and they could focus on getting good? Were the standards just higher? Was there something in the spirit of that generation that made for such amazing music? Maybe a mix of all of these, who can really say.
@@Sam-go3mb There was no hiding behind technology so you had to be able to really play and sing. Most bands played every night in clubs and got super tight.
@@Sam-go3mb I think it's everything you mentioned, and then some. Certainly the 60's were culturally & politically charged, much of which was expressed in the music. Less distractions, less technology, musicians could focus on music and lyrics and not incessant social media. And the standards were definitely higher...way higher!
Allow me to throw something else in the mix. There's no way to prove this, but I'm gonna conjecture that some of the creativity of the 60's/70's was amplified by psychedelic substances. Starting in the mid-60's (with the Beatles as well as other bands) there was an explosion of energy and creativity, exploring different sounds, different cadences, new types of arrangements. Pop music got really deep really fast!
The Beatles went from "she loves you yeah yeah yeah" to "turn off your mind, relax and float downstream" seemingly overnight. Well, it wasn't overnight, but you know what I mean. I'm not saying this to diminish anyone's work, it's actually just the opposite. These substances, when taken in moderation and with a mind free to explore, can lead to monumental levels of creativity. Fear dissipates, freedom to express comes to the fore.
Combine this with the cultural and political milieu and you get one heady brew. Magic.
Fabulous 60's garage rock classic.
I was a back up man in a cover band in the late sixties [ Dedicated Choice ] Northern Ontario Canada. We covered 60's rock and roll and ended up doing 46 songs. Unfortunately, we can't go back, but have good memories of it.
I remember signing up with the Columbia record club and they sent me this album by mistake. And I am glad they did, I loved it and still do.
Perfect synchronicity 🥰
I was 11 yrs old when I first heard this song, it was in the wee hours of the morning & I was half asleep. This song kept playing in my head the entire next day. I thought it was a dream till I heard it on the radio a couple of days later.
Awesome as the young people say 🥰
You had too much to dream last night ?? 🤣😆
Wow, very cool (and old) video. I remember this back in late '66. Loved it then and I love it now
Just about the greatest song of the sixties. Totally defined the sound. Laid the foundation for psychedelic and hard rock.
The best rock music ever. The 60s rule...
These guys fucking rock......... Long live the 60's
At 69,I was starting high school when "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet" hit,and it remains the prototypical song about a rising but still hungry band and one of my all-time faves. Where are the boys today ?
Michael Esposito lead guitarist of the psychedelic rock band the Blues Magoos and the artist for their first album cover lives in my town of Woodstock NY. And has had a quietly eventful Woodstock life for many years... Michael’s occupations have included musician, painter, builder, priest, and bicycle repairman, as well being a one panel cartoonist "Swami Salami" for our local paper. He still plays music at 83 [now bass guitar] with guitarist Marc Black and other Woodstock musicians and fixing bicycles at his bike shop in town called "The Old Spokes Home."
Wow what a Great Guitar Solo! Always Fun to hear this one
None of the oldies stations play any hits from these kind of groups from the late 1960s. I loved the Seeds. And this group rode the radio top list for weeks.
Well. Some stations just play the same tired hits over and over. But there was a wealth of great music made. I remember the first time I heard the Seeds, "Pushing Too Hard" on AM radio. A few local clubs would feature this "new" music and many of us knew something unique was happening, but what ? JFK killed in 1963 and MLK in 1968, along with MalcolmX and Bobby Kennedy. Harsh times...has any progress been made ?
Hasn't been an oldies station in my area in years and years!
@@artredoubt3629 The only thing that has changed is the price of gas.
The older you get, the faster time goes-this has been proven physiologically.
Great song and memories, buds, cars, great gals and great music. Quarts that is!!!
When you are 4 years old,
A year is a quarter of your life .... When you're 64 a year is 1/64 of your life - A mear fraction to compare to the past years, thus the more years pass, the faster they go in your mind.
Mic drop....
@@michaelelko4924 Zhev: Relativity .
Thanks, Einstein
Bull poopie! Quit thinking about it. Take one day at a time and absorb each day. Maybe time might slow down for you a bit. Time is time no matter what age you are and I know time waits for no one but chill brother. Breathe deep, blow out slow. Hell, you may live to be 100... or more 😎✌
1966. Good Tune. I remember it on the radio in 6th grade.
Man 60's music was the greatest. And even now it is so much better than what comes out now. The big record companies don't want to take a chance. There are groups out there that would make this era great if they could. Rock isn't dead it's just being pushed back.
Yes!
This was one of my first ever albums at 17. Drove my parents crazy with it (dad was a Barbershopper, the choir director at church, and mom played the keyboards.
I really miss the 60's good times
One of the best rock & roll records from 1967!
Very Groovy! Love the sixties!
People today don't know how HUGELY IMPORTANT the Blues Magoos were in that day ... EVERY little garage band idolized them & they were the Ultimate in "Trippy , Far-Out" music
**THE GUITARIST IS EXCELLENT!! I REMEMBER THIS WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT!!
Me too! And I could never stand waiting so long for it to be played again on the radio. Right on!
There was so much Music out there in the 60's it was hard to keep up with it all;; Thanks to the People who keep it alive;;
the natural energy and creativity of the 60s,70s, and Amazing 80s... oh how i miss those decades.you just had to be there...life in general so positive.
Great song. You cannot revisit the 60's and not play/recall this song.
One of my all-time favorites. Still rock out to it today. Hell, I'm only 70. Almost.
The 60's had music beyond compare. I'm just going through songs I grew up with, but never got to see the musicians/groups. Awesome music! I didn't get much TV back then and now I can find these great groups on RUclips!! YAY! Thanks for posting!!
Yes! Thank goodness that you ( and I! ) can access this music!!!
We had these guys live in our high school gymnasium (Highland Park NJ) shortly after this song came out. It was probably early 1967, my sophomore year. Great song!! Memorable concert!
How in the hell did 50 years go by so fast?
If you find out please let me know. Just last week Sweet Pea by Tommie Roe was number 1 on the charts; I know I was singing along with it on my 1st job. I was 15. Next month I'll be 66! How indeed!!!
And I was listening to Stevie sing Friday on My Mind and I'm 67. At this rate I'll need another 50 years to figure this whole thing out!
sick, aint it???
This time fifty years ago I was listening to the Top 100 Year-End countdown on the radio. This was when radio stations were playing,"The platters that matted."Happy New Year from this 62-year-old.
And they thought light was a speed merchant!
10th grade 1970s had an 8-track so proud
I sat in with this band (Drums) for a couple of songs back in the 60s in Greenwich Village NY. Time flies
It looks and sounds like this is the original audio - Bravo!
I was just singing this song a few minutes ago. We ain't got nuthin yet.
Some of the best songs (& memories) are from one-hit-wonders. When this hit the radio airwaves in late '66, I thought it was so0 awesome.
1964 - 65- 66 AM radio !
Beach boys, motown,
British invasion & the songs kept pouring out making for great times, memories.
those were the days my friend , lol...
I thought they'd never end.
One of the guitarists here ended up in another one hit wonder band almost 20 years later.
@@danmccarthy4700 what song?
@@chipgaasche4933 "Breaking Away" by Balance
I saw them perform several times at the Chess Mate in Detroit, as early as 1966. Probably invented psychedelic music and as a touring performing band, they were unequaled. They have three excellent albums with the original members. Their extended version of the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road" laid the groundwork for all others to follow. Should have been even bigger than they were. Excellent musicians.
I know the lead guitarist, Michael Esposito, (on the left in the video) personally. He has quite a back story. Quit the music biz one day, drove his Cadillac up to Woodstock, N.Y. and parked the Caddy in the parking lot of the only little strip mall of stores in town, left the keys in it, and dropped out of the scene. He did play music sporadically in past 15 years in the area, mostly as a bassist. He also was the cartoonist for the local "Woodstock Times", under the name Swami Salami. His main gig is running the Old Spokes Home, his bike repair shop. A gentle and wonderful soul.
Tiger62ish Holy Cow, I would bring my bike there for repairs just to meet that guy, I was a toddler when this came out but it's one or my earliest musical memories. I work pretty close to Woodstock.
Loved these guys...and this tune. Thanks for the story. Esposito really good guitar on this. He dropped out and did cartooning, this rings a bell with my husband and I did, dropped out, communes, cartooning...If you see Michael in his bike shop, tell him a fan who played this tune constantly on the Fullerton JC radio station, where I was a high school DJ, thanks him very much.
Thanks to Michael Esposito and the band! Great lyrics.
Glad to know he's still alive .. :)
Tiger62ish ya
What a GREAT time it was !!!!!!!!
The blues Magoos from 1967 ain't got nothing yet legendary performance legendary band very rare
The signature sound of the '60s. The guitar climbing the scale, the bass, the keyboards -- all period-perfect. I remember dancing myself into the floor to this one way back when. This is still king tone, baby!
My big sister had this album. I was 9 yrs old and played it over and over again. I still remember staring at the album cover because the band was so cool looking!
I was around seven or eight - and I remember well, the hours and hours spent scrutinizing every album cover of all the records my big sister had.
The name of their two albums were Psychedelic Lollipop and Electric Comic Book. Great 60's acid music!
the 3rd lp I believe was "Basic Blues Magoos" also very excellent!
Robert Currie sadly it didn’t Chart
Electric comic book. That's a great name.
Bobby Midnight
That is a great name. My hubby’s band at the time was Aluminum Sweatshirt.
I listened to this as a child...and now it's still great to listen to...very cool sounding Precision bass! What a sound!
Even though I was born in '67, THIS is the music I listen to, along with a healthy dose of British Invasion and Doo-Wop.
there was a rumor that these guys lived in the woods near us.
kool !
We'll never hear great songs like this, ever again.
It was awesome to be young in those days
Awesome Band and still touring all over the world!
Great song. Still love it!
Great classic rock and roll.
I cannot rate this song highly enough. If you check the dictionary for 60's music, this is the very definition.
Love the performance of the Blues Magoos...I happen to have their song on a record album of mine...
Wow. What a refresher. I used to hear this on the radio back home when I was kid with a transistor radio in my pocket cruising the neighborhood on my Schwinn Sting-Ray.
Thank you.
Dec. 2019 @Kellyjdrummer Yeah, cool "banana" seats on the Schwinn Sting-Ray cruiser bikes.
I had a green one.
@@frommetoyou4401 , , , and the Bad @$$ front suspension, 5 speed Shifter , and let's not forget the "cheater slick" Tires
@@johna8973 Mine also had a tall sissy bar in the back, with my custom touch of a row of those little metal license plates that I put on the back of the bar, that came in the Honeycomb cereal boxes!
Lol I had a Schwinn coppertone stingray.
around '67.
No shift , foot brake, slick, ape hangers, banana seat,.......
The 60s exploded with cool stuff .
Mr. kellyjdrummer
Hope you're still there!
Just skipping through RUclips early this Monday morning and using the music to reach far back. The Music Machine, the Seeds, Jorge and Carlos Santana then stopped off here: Born in Chicago in 54, and when you mentioned “Schwinn!” Holy bottled water!! Man, did your words bring me back to those youthful days.
My first Schwinn was a candy apple red with plenty of reflectors. All the fellas extended the front fork, handlebars with a bigger saddle. And we would cruise the streets when all the parked cars were made in America. I’m not sure, but one of my friends had a Zenith radio (?), rock’n’roll, Motown and some Latin spice? He had it hanging between the front handlebars. Went to the playground school yard one day and someone ripped it off! If I wanted another bike, I had to buy it with my own mula!
On my way to school one morning and the first time I heard “Green-Eyed Lady.” I mean really heard it and felt it inside the heart and lungs then tattooed in the gut. That rock and roll machinery floating on tracers, yet one foot still on the ground. What a fantastic time to get in front of numerous doors then absorb the experience behind the doors.
'67, I think, went to a show in Dallas just before I was drafted. Blues Magoos opened for The Who and Herman's Hermits. They'd adopted a uniform that had flexible lights on them, when they went into the lead part of this song the auditorium lights went out and they went crazy. Great effects, great show.
Now & forever, this is the shit. One of the tighter garage bands; maybe the apex of garage bands (along w/ the Sonics), w/ a sense of humor & some E. coast wise-assery + the ability to writer songs w/ great hooks. My U.S. navy submariner dad brought children's books back to me from England until this trip, when I was around 12 - suddenly it was the BMs album & a Shake Down Savoy Brown album - one of the coolest things he ever did :)
Great Song!🎵😎60s 70s 80s and early 90s music is cool. I enjoy all kinds of music .🎼🎶Real Instruments Real Voices Real Music .🥁🎸🎹🎤❤sixties music .👍❤✌🇺🇸
The EPITOME of what made that era so unique and mysterious.....i want that organist for my group!!!!~E
I used to work for Bank of America in San Francisco back in the late70's early 80's at the 1 south Van ness building in the money wire transfer department. We had a staff meeting and one of the managers from another department (i don't remember his name and was an assistant Vice-President) mentioned in staff meetings how he was in Blues Magoos. Really nice guy, I remember his long hair and how well kept and groomed he was, very attractive too :). I liked the flip side of the record "gotta get away" a lot.
How in the hell did 50 years go by so fast?
yes i remember this as a teen!! Now 60 yrs old and still love this music!!
yes i remember this as a teen!! Now 60 yrs old and still love this music!!
We were living on such a high plane in our life going to party's Street Dances..every summer that's what we live for..was the Dance every evening after school during the summer we danced till the Sun Came up...15 cent Hamburgers ICE Cold Root Beer Right from the big Gaint Gag..ice cold Frozzed Mugs same price.. yes I'm happy to say we had the very best The Hot Summer days and Nights could bring to us, and we were always there to Embrace every Minute of it.. Anderson Indiana Westside Jackson Park Belmont...
what a rush when this came out,couldn't never get any radio loud enough in those days,,yeah I was there and hooked on real music,nothing artificial for me
Good rock song with a great guitar solo and bass cut in, tight arrangement
Bass is great, I'm playing along.
This song came out in the fall of 1966 when I was fourteen. Where did all this time and history of our lives go so fast in time.
Saw them in the late 60's. The Blues Magoos and The Who were the warm up bands for Herman's Hermits.
One of the best proponents of the psychedelic sound.
This early psychedelic rock made an impression on me in 1981 when I was 13. I would hear it on local Sunday radio show. Amazing to revisit.
Ohhhh getting chills. Feel like I'm 13 again.... trippy.
I always click on videos that induce flashbacks to my days in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury, class of 1967-70 ✌️💐🤗💐 I was “TEX “ back then. Perhaps someone that knew me back then will send me a “howdy”! It was a helluva party!!!
I ran away to Berkeley n SF in 69. Wild times. I had my 15th bday in B-ley.
mtruitt01 it was wonderfully crazy✌️💐🤩
Was in a band then we covered this such a fine tune so many good memories
I had their LP and I played it over and over. Saw them at The National Guard Amory in St. Pete. They were wearing suits that lit up and flashed
Jsem pamětník šedesátých let a Blues Magoos jsem poslouchal na RFE. Rádio Svobodná Evropa. Nádherný časy.
I Remember Playing This On The Jukebox, 5 Songs For Quarter.
Yep, Hi-Fidelity jukebox too.... stereo may have been invented by then, but it wasn't on the consumer market yet. Most of the songs were recorded in 4-track studios and couldn't be made stereo anyway. After all, they were designed for airplay on AM-only radio stations (FM technology had been invented, but no FM stations really got on the air until the early and mid-70's}. If your one-channel record player sounded as clear and loud as the AM radio; you couldn't complain.
hell of a deal....where I lived ...only 3 plays for a quarter...or one play for a dime.
Oh I love this song ! think I was 10 when it came out. My .mother had the radio on often and this was played a lot.
"The hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world"-What Rules the World... "Life is just a Cher O' Bowlies"...Electric Comic Book
Great pop song from the 1960's.
Love the garage psych music ,these guys Electric Prunes , Music Machine , Syndicate of Sound the list keeps going great stuff still love it to this day.
The Music Machine was my favorite from that period, but this Magoos tune was a definite favorite! As a budding guitarist, that rising pentatonic scale hook couldn't help but to drag me in! Thanks, '60s!
Super great song and performance. What a rhythm.
Our Music of the 60's still ROCKS, You will never ever convince me the Music of today Compares !!!!
I was playing and gigging R&R then, as a teen, and I'm still playing and gigging it now, as a geezer. It keeps me young, although now I have to take Ibuprofen before gigs for the aches and pains..!! Lol
Excellent. I have never seen this before, took me right back by to 6th grade. Wonderful time to be alive.🤗
With one little song, you summed up an entire generation....still kills me!!!!~E
I blast the volume up playing this record over and over….