I am 75 years old & first heard this 'psychedelic bonanza of a tune', in 1966, pouring out of a home in a side street of my 'quiet' neighbourhood (in Cohen Avenue, Glenwood, Durban SA), while walking home one afternoon. I was immediately rooted to the spot & stood outside the house captured, until the tune had ended. Little did I know that 2 guys inside that house had just bought that Chambers Brothers album, smoke a joint & decided to listen to the ultimate track on the album, full volume. As the tune ended, one of them happened to glance out of the window to see me still rooted to the spot. I guess he recognised a 'fellow traveller' & came onto the front balcony to chat. Noticing that U had snapped out of my 'state of capture' he burst into laughter & invited me inside. Needless to say, a replay was required, which cemented a friendship which lasted until my folks & I moved into a different suburb. An experience which I am reminded of, everytime I listen to this track. One of the first 'Freak out bands & tracks of that era'. Hooray for the Chambers Brothers & psychedelic music which was to follow. 😂🎉❤
Lol I grew up listening to a lot of psychedelic music, my farther (rest his soul) was a woodstock kid. Anyway this line always got to me I always thought "what a goofy lyric" to Wich my dad would say "ya just had to be there" lol it gets me every "time"😉
Yes I can imagine it and saw it live! None other than Quicksilver Messenger Service followed them in concert in Boise Idaho in 1973. Best concert ever!
My father played the albums of Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Melanie and many others on high. I was very young but I still love these bands and the music of this era.
They came to Buffalo and played the Tralfamadore about 15 years ago! Bad snow storm, total of 25 people showed! They played TWO hours! Sat next to the stage! I always refer to this as my private concert! ❤🎉
Back in the early 1970s when I was 17 I met 2 of the band members by chance. My 21 year old friend my 3 year old niece and I were hitching a ride to the beach. We got bored babysitting so dressed up in crazy outfits and headed toward the beach in Ca. We wore basically a leotard covered from head to toe in vintage scarves. We put on white pancake face and bright lipstick, even did the same to my baby niece. Got to Sunset Blvd and waited for a ride to come along. Standing out side of a hotel, we heared people calling down to us to not move, they were coming down. It was 2 of the Chambers Brothers,IDK which ones they were but my older friend knew who they were. They took our photos because we looked so, outta sight. Nice guys, a ride came along and we parted ways. Too bad we did not have a camera with us ourselves. Crazy to hitch rides with a baby but the world seemed like a safe place back then.
Remembering the 1968 original concert at Fillmore West. They performed Time for 25 minutes. The lead in group was.....Santana....TIME such an iconic song of the 60's.
Willie Chambers and the Chambers Brothers and they paid me right nice for PA rental and gave great thanks for getting the echo plex right on "Time Has Come Today" They made me feel like I was part of the band. Just love them guys !
First time I smoked weed was with my oldest brother and he played the long version of this tune on his 4 speaker quadraphonic set up. What a trip, the sound was everywhere, back and forth, jumping and swirling around the room. Man those were the Dazes.
This is one of the very first rock groups I got into back in the late 60s. They were my favorites for a long time. I listened to everything Chambers Bros. I could find.
🎉I'm 71. It blows me away every time. On the album they bring it down slow and low. When they kick it back in, I'm totally mesmerized. Every time. Heard the song in several movies. I totally forget what the movies about and get an incredible burst of energy.
This song is featured in the movie “Edison” with an amazing cast, including Morgan Freeman. Brings back so many memories! I graduated high school in 1971.
A wider range of music used to make it to a mass audience but there is still a lot of great music being made by people of all ages it's just harder to find. Spotify and others like it are good for exploring. Find a community radio station you like, they all stream, support your local musicians.
Listened to this song over and over again while getting high in the jungles of Vietnam while serving with the US Army in 1969. This was one of our favorites while 'under the influence.' LOL!!!
I was there brother, at Camp Eagle with the 1st of the 1st Air Calv. And yes, very high! JJ was a big thing, we all wanted to party with her! Iwas there in 68, so I left on the freedom bird about when you got there.
@@Snailmailtrucker I never got to ride out at the end of my tour. My time in 'Nam was cut short when I was wounded by mortar fire in December of '69. I had to stay in Vietnam for a couple weeks, then Japan another two weeks before flying back (while in a stretcher on the plane) to the army hospital at Fort Devens, Ma. I turned 21 the month after I got wounded, and spent almost all of my 21st year on the planet in hospital beds. Talk about a bummer.
these guys are cool they spent summer on orleans cape cod with dr. Arnold comins so cool! and cruised all over town meeting and grinnen with everybody!!
Watching a tv show last night, the main character kept waking up late at night with a song in his mind, and this was one of them. I remember listening to the Chambers Brothers 'Time has come today' when I was young.
? Kinda a strange one isn't he ????? Riding this BIG hit of theirs out for life till the day he died with many different variations. A very cool jam for sure!👍🥳💯🎯🤠❗
i heard the general say give me the army and i will rule this land and the musician said give me music and i will rule the world music is one of the ties that bind
Absolutely incredible performance! This video gem landed in my feed so clicked on. And who do i see; Bill Graham, local concert promoter extraordinaire. I grew up SF Bay Area California during the Graham era and attended many a rock concerts he produced. Unfortunately, my loss, as this show wasn't one of them; it was good to see him at the start of this video, a true Rock n Roll Icon. Thank you for sharing, subbed and shared.
bob bobo That’s because radio is now in the hands of fewer and fewer big corporations that only believe in profits. Radio, when I was coming up in the 60’s was much more creative and experimental. The only place you can hear stuff like that now on regular radio is on some college and non commercial stations.
@@jameskinchen2148 turn off your iPhone and get out and find them. plenty of talented kids, but they are suppressed by the corporate machine that long ago subverted organic music and substituted shit meant to dumb people down even further than school already has, inflame racial tension, and keep people focused on venal gratifications while repressing creativity, thought, and especially dissent.
I saw them at a 3 day rock festival in wadena ia 1970. Psilocybin, bali hi wine and chambers bros'...time had come that day, my mind was blown im glad to say
Way back many moons ago, I used to work at the Electric Circus in the East Village in Manhattan as a painter--Imagine that! I was privileged to be there when the Chamber Brothers did a few shows. I got to know them and they were great people... The time has come-----
I first heard this tune in about 1966, as a teenager. I was on my way to "score" some great local weed & heard this tune coming from a house around the corner from where I lived. Two guys in their 20s shared this house & I'd smelled some "exotic scent" coming from the house in the past. Next minute one of the guys appeared at the door & seeing my curiosity, invited me in.... They played this Chambers Brothers LP & I "got psychadelicised. I now have the album on CD & give it a spin every now & again, to fly back to that day....
Ahh... The Fillmore -spent a few nights there at concerts in the 70's that I barely remembered the day after because I was flying so high. Those were the days.
They were the opening act at Philadelphia's Electric Factory on February 2, 1968 (day after my birthday which is why the date sticks with me). Absolutely great group of guys who were very open, laid back and down to earth.
My first R&R concert was the 2nd Quaker City Rock Festival. CCR was a no show but Sly and the Family Stone were great, Iron Butterfly were great, and Steppenwolf closed the show. 😊
I was 18 yrs. old when I first heard this. Will never forget how it changed me. The only other band that changed me was the BLUES MAGOOS. Both so unique, the beginning of psychedelic music. Awesome 👍👍👍✌️
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I am 75 years old & first heard this 'psychedelic bonanza of a tune', in 1966, pouring out of a home in a side street of my 'quiet' neighbourhood (in Cohen Avenue, Glenwood, Durban SA), while walking home one afternoon. I was immediately rooted to the spot & stood outside the house captured, until the tune had ended. Little did I know that 2 guys inside that house had just bought that Chambers Brothers album, smoke a joint & decided to listen to the ultimate track on the album, full volume. As the tune ended, one of them happened to glance out of the window to see me still rooted to the spot. I guess he recognised a 'fellow traveller' & came onto the front balcony to chat. Noticing that U had snapped out of my 'state of capture' he burst into laughter & invited me inside. Needless to say, a replay was required, which cemented a friendship which lasted until my folks & I moved into a different suburb. An experience which I am reminded of, everytime I listen to this track. One of the first 'Freak out bands & tracks of that era'. Hooray for the Chambers Brothers & psychedelic music which was to follow. 😂🎉❤
Great story. Oh, the memories this song conjures up for those of us who are a certain age.
This tune still kicks ass ! As relevent today as it was in 60`s
"relevant"
Totally agreed sir wing
Because GREAT MUSIC never dies, kiddo! We were the luckiest generation ever when it came to music!
"And my soul has been psychedelicized". Great line!
Jack Hammer
Think I just might have this carved into my headstone. Whatcha think, Jack? I think it's a great line too!
should'da been there - smile
I was just wondering how you spell that
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Lol I grew up listening to a lot of psychedelic music, my farther (rest his soul) was a woodstock kid. Anyway this line always got to me I always thought "what a goofy lyric" to Wich my dad would say "ya just had to be there" lol it gets me every "time"😉
I saw them in Gainesville at the Florida Gym. First time I did psychedelics in public. Great choice.
One of the most underrated voices in rock, soul R&B…period. Incredible musicians as well.
I never understood how they weren't a larger part of the zeitgeist. Still legendary.
I think "underrated" is one of the most overrated and overused word...:)
The best cow bell banging song of all time !
missippi queen best cow bell
:-)
Chris Walken can take a break. This one has just the right amount of cowbell.👍🎶😁😉
check out New Birth " I can understand it" live it is on youtube…..cowbell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No cowbell,... no Time
these guys were soooo far ahead of their TIME!!!!still one of the greatest songs of that era!!!
It certainly was.
Rick Walker I thought it would last forever... Imagine my shock in the 90's with the advent of rap when i realized it would never be like that again.
Rick Walker They were a great and still underrated band imho.
Would love to have seen them
To me it's a great song for any era!
George Chambers who played bass passed on Oct. 12 at the age of 88.
RIP George
Wow Lester still sings w some of the bay area bands. His grandson is usually with him (Dylan Chambers)
Very sad
@@lastnamefirst4035 Dylan is Lester's son.
When I first heard this song I was 15. My soul will forever be psychedelicized!
I was 16, I tink
"And my soul has been psychedelicized." Epic. Just f*cking epic.
I graduated from high school in 1969. Looking back, I think we (My Generation) even underestimated how good the music was back then.
Mike Archer Same here, 1969! Took advantage, appreciate it soooo much now. Where did the frickin time go?!
I graduated in 1966. We didn't realize just how great the music was.
music back then
Big Brent Yeah???? What of it?
huh
Everything about this song is incredible, but the vocals are otherworldly.
Saw them with Alman bros. Outstanding
I was already old lol,22 got back from NAM damn good original MUSIC !!!! LOVE YAH...
As a musician, author and song writer, words fail me. Can you imagine having to follow this band? Pure rockin' power.
Yes I can imagine it and saw it live!
None other than Quicksilver Messenger Service followed them in concert in Boise Idaho in 1973.
Best concert ever!
@@notadummy2Lucky you QMS
Saw them with Alman bros long ago
Tough act to follow Outstanding
Saw CB at a 3 day rock festival in 1970. They were fantastic
@notadummy2
Just... wow. Love both bands. That was golden/cosmic generation of music. Written on galactic wind.
🌙🌟💫
When I returned from Vietnam, I worked at the Hotel Dixie in Manhatten, and an older fellow who lived there gave me their album.
He was a good friend...
"I don't care what others say, they say we don't listen any way"..........timeless!
That's right our generation is no going to listen to a young generation.
My father played the albums of Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Melanie and many others on high. I was very young but I still love these bands and the music of this era.
They came to Buffalo and played the Tralfamadore about 15 years ago! Bad snow storm, total of 25 people showed! They played TWO hours! Sat next to the stage! I always refer to this as my private concert! ❤🎉
Back in the early 1970s when I was 17 I met 2 of the band members by chance. My 21 year old friend my 3 year old niece and I were hitching a ride to the beach. We got bored babysitting so dressed up in crazy outfits and headed toward the beach in Ca. We wore basically a leotard covered from head to toe in vintage scarves. We put on white pancake face and bright lipstick, even did the same to my baby niece. Got to Sunset Blvd and waited for a ride to come along. Standing out side of a hotel, we heared people calling down to us to not move, they were coming down. It was 2 of the Chambers Brothers,IDK which ones they were but my older friend knew who they were. They took our photos because we looked so, outta sight. Nice guys, a ride came along and we parted ways. Too bad we did not have a camera with us ourselves. Crazy to hitch rides with a baby but the world seemed like a safe place back then.
Real music in a surreal time let us never forget.
Veteran of the Vietnam War Era
1973-75
Me too: ‘66-‘67
I'm 72 Las March, loved this song
Happy 2021! Time has come today!
Remembering the 1968 original concert at Fillmore West. They performed Time for 25 minutes. The lead in group was.....Santana....TIME such an iconic song of the 60's.
Richard Savino Wow! What a bill and I bet the show was dirt cheap by today’s standards.
Great live album, one of the best ever. Rocking' the Filmore.
Willie Chambers and the Chambers Brothers and they paid me right nice for PA rental and gave great thanks for getting the echo plex right on "Time Has Come Today" They made me feel like I was part of the band. Just love them guys !
A very Classy group that can't be reduplicated today. The talent today I think is lost. I was raised in the right era.
The lead vocalist is explosive. I hear some Hendrix in that voice!
Maybe it was Hendrix to be inspirated by the Brother's voice.....
I bet they all knew jimi
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This wasn’t played on AFVN in Nam, but we still got tapes from home.
One of the greatest cowbell songs of all time!
And that kids is one of the most epic sounds of the '60s.
I'm guessing most kids don't realize how awesome the music was in the 60's
First time I smoked weed was with my oldest brother and he played the long version of this tune on his 4 speaker quadraphonic set up. What a trip, the sound was everywhere, back and forth, jumping and swirling around the room. Man those were the Dazes.
I could never forget this song, it's a trip!
One of my all-time favorites. In my top 5 of forever. Way ahead of it's time.
Saw these guys in 1974...what a show! One of the best rock songs ever.
I want this song played at my memorial service. Amazing song.
I'm having Ian Dury's There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards at mine!
Need more cowbell 😅
Me too
The great thing about this song is that you can derive so many permutations from it and still sound great…. As we see here!…. A true classic!
This is still a great band and song.
This is one of the very first rock groups I got into back in the late 60s. They were my favorites for a long time. I listened to everything Chambers Bros. I could find.
🎉I'm 71. It blows me away every time. On the album they bring it down slow and low. When they kick it back in, I'm totally mesmerized. Every time. Heard the song in several movies. I totally forget what the movies about and get an incredible burst of energy.
Yes, you have a home, in Scott County, MS. where your family came from, your vibes are from here wherever you are.
Hell yeah!❤❤❤ Back in the day!😊
God I love this fucking song, and you can't get any more cowbell than this.
This song is featured in the movie “Edison” with an amazing cast, including Morgan Freeman. Brings back so many memories! I graduated high school in 1971.
This song still rocks my soul !
I was at the Fillmore in the '60's
2024 and Still Here! ;D Tinja&Markku
This was real music for real times. Not like today's stuff.
todays shit
A wider range of music used to make it to a mass audience but there is still a lot of great music being made by people of all ages it's just harder to find. Spotify and others like it are good for exploring. Find a community radio station you like, they all stream, support your local musicians.
Time has been good to me at 78 and still jammin'.
Me as well, 78 on Oct. 20th. Now I write my own.
“walk…an carry a big stick”……brother!💪💪✌️😎
Loved the Chambers Brothers, this song ( the studio version) takes me back to the carrier days in yankee station up in north Vietnam
Music of the ERA. Nothing else comes close. I wonder if they had any idea how much significance or STAYING POWER this song / music would hold.
What a beautiful band!
The wonderful singing and instrumentation coming right from the soul!
Beautiful, wonderful! Thank you
Listened to this song over and over again while getting high in the
jungles of Vietnam while serving with the US Army in 1969. This was one
of our favorites while 'under the influence.' LOL!!!
Thanks for your service!!
@@love.JESUS.2day Thank you.
I was there brother, at Camp Eagle with the 1st of the 1st Air Calv. And yes, very high! JJ was a big thing, we all wanted to party with her! Iwas there in 68, so I left on the freedom bird about when you got there.
They call it DOPE for a reason Brother !
B-52 rider out of Utapao, Thailand 1967/68 !
@@Snailmailtrucker I never got to ride out at the end of my tour. My time in 'Nam was cut short when I was wounded by mortar fire in December of '69. I had to stay in Vietnam for a couple weeks, then Japan another two weeks before flying back (while in a stretcher on the plane) to the army hospital at Fort Devens, Ma. I turned 21 the month after I got wounded, and spent almost all of my 21st year on the planet in hospital beds. Talk about a bummer.
My soul's been... PSYCHEDELICIZED ☮️✌️❤️✊
Mine sure was. Orange Sunshine and mescaline.
One of the most amazing film captures of any live show.
Man we were wild ! Never be another generation like ours! We lived !
Window Pane, Chambers Brothers and Quicksilver Messenger Service live in concert 1973.
Psychodelicized!!!
One of the greatest songs of all TIME. I heard them do an extended version at the Electric Circus.
Oh wow thursday nights was acid night and you had to see me with my free form dancing.
these guys are cool they spent summer on orleans cape cod with dr. Arnold comins so cool! and cruised all over town meeting and grinnen with everybody!!
I had this on 4 trac not 8 but 4 trac. That was so good on mushrooms or LSD. I'M 67 SO COOL!!!!!!
I had it on a 2 trac. Had to crank it by hand. But it was an improvement on the 1-trac, powered by oxen.
Exactly the perfect amount of cowbell. 😂
Definitely a master of the cowbell!
A great impactful song. Classic rock n roll
Brings back so many memories
The "jazzy" part in the interlude was "sweet icing on the cake." This 1980''s live version was awesome.
An absolute timeless classic.
Oh man, that was one of those songs. So out there, so different, and so awesome.
At around the 1:48 mark makes me wonder if this inspired Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads. The Chambers Bros are so good
Watching a tv show last night, the main character kept waking up late at night with a song in his mind, and this was one of them. I remember listening to the Chambers Brothers 'Time has come today' when I was young.
The greatest group of the 60's. Oh the memories. Wonderful. thanks for sharing.
BEST LIVE VERSION YET!!! GREEEAAATT ROCK BAND, BROTHERS... HOW COOL. NAM SHIT... DIG IT! THEY WERE UNIQUE AND BAD MOFOS.. :-)
+Jerry Sullivan they're like good wine that gets better with age.
+terilynn wells I like that Terrylynn.. good analogy!
I have always loved this song and this was an excellent live version of it. Great Job Guys!!
Man, those were the days -- the 1980s celebrating the 1960s.
Groovy and totally rad at the same time.
? Kinda a strange one isn't he ?????
Riding this BIG hit of theirs out for life till the day he died with many different variations.
A very cool jam for sure!👍🥳💯🎯🤠❗
Never forget this song. 1968 riding in an O.D Green bus from Racine to Milwaukee, WI to the Army Induction Center, somebody was playing this.
i heard the general say give me the army and i will rule this land and the musician said give me music and i will rule the world music is one of the ties that bind
they were having a great time, both band and audience. sounded damn good.
Still sound as fabulous as they did in the 60's !!! (One Day)
This is my first time seeing this live,absolutely stunning, beautiful piece it's always free inside my this song as was the idea back then ✌✌✌
Dang--- chamb. bros were GREAT in concert with their blockbuster big hit,
Special visual effects and all❗🎯💯🥳👍🤠
Sounds as cool as it did in the seventies. Thank you
Absolutely incredible performance! This video gem landed in my feed so clicked on. And who do i see; Bill Graham, local concert promoter extraordinaire. I grew up SF Bay Area California during the Graham era and attended many a rock concerts he produced. Unfortunately, my loss, as this show wasn't one of them; it was good to see him at the start of this video, a true Rock n Roll Icon. Thank you for sharing, subbed and shared.
outstanding, transcendent, completely wonderful!
Those guys nailed it 20 years later! Incredible song
I can't even imagine the talentless rock bands of today coming up with anything 1/100th this good. Rock bands today are totally lacking in creativity.
I agree with you.
Professor Time NO EFFING SH!T!!! OMG, no comparison... NONE.
bob bobo That’s because radio is now in the hands of fewer and fewer big corporations that only believe in profits. Radio, when I was coming up in the 60’s was much more creative and experimental. The only place you can hear stuff like that now on regular radio is on some college and non commercial stations.
There are rock bands today? Where?
@@jameskinchen2148 turn off your iPhone and get out and find them. plenty of talented kids, but they are suppressed by the corporate machine that long ago subverted organic music and substituted shit meant to dumb people down even further than school already has, inflame racial tension, and keep people focused on venal gratifications while repressing creativity, thought, and especially dissent.
I saw them at a 3 day rock festival in wadena ia 1970. Psilocybin, bali hi wine and chambers bros'...time had come that day, my mind was blown im glad to say
1st time for this version for me. Thank you for posting. ❤😎
When musicians actually played their instruments. What a time it was then.
I saw these guys in Hawaii in 1972 when they did a 10 minute "Time". They haven't missed a beat. They're still awesome.
And, just like that, it's 1969 and I'm back in Vietnam. I'll bet I listened to this song a thousand times then...
WOW! These guys really rock!
Way back many moons ago, I used to work at the Electric Circus in the East Village in Manhattan as a painter--Imagine that!
I was privileged to be there when the Chamber Brothers did a few shows.
I got to know them and they were great people...
The time has come-----
You lucky duck
I first heard this tune in about 1966, as a teenager. I was on my way to "score" some great local weed & heard this tune coming from a house around the corner from where I lived. Two guys in their 20s shared this house & I'd smelled some "exotic scent" coming from the house in the past. Next minute one of the guys appeared at the door & seeing my curiosity, invited me in.... They played this Chambers Brothers LP & I "got psychadelicised. I now have the album on CD & give it a spin every now & again, to fly back to that day....
great story
Great song from a great era. I wish I had a time machine because I was just a little kid when these great 60's songs were made.
Music is a time machine...it takes you to a different time...
I saw them in 1970 at wadena rock festival. I took some Psyilocbyn w bali hai wine...best time ever
WOW!!! Live!! They are SUPERB!! ' could listen to this all day!
The perfect song with the perfect group to deliver it.
Ahh... The Fillmore -spent a few nights there at concerts in the 70's that I barely remembered the day after because I was flying so high. Those were the days.
They were the opening act at Philadelphia's Electric Factory on February 2, 1968 (day after my birthday which is why the date sticks with me). Absolutely great group of guys who were very open, laid back and down to earth.
WAS THAT THE QUAKER CITY ROCK FESTIVAL? IF SO, I WAS THERE. WHAT A GREAT SHOW. 5 HEADLINE BANDS FOR 3 BUCKS
My first R&R concert was the 2nd Quaker City Rock Festival. CCR was a no show but Sly and the Family Stone were great, Iron Butterfly were great, and Steppenwolf closed the show. 😊
I was 18 yrs. old when I first heard this. Will never forget how it changed me. The only other band that changed me was the BLUES MAGOOS. Both so unique, the beginning of psychedelic music. Awesome 👍👍👍✌️
and this one, live! ruclips.net/video/yXsp8-WJAQI/видео.htmlsi=hZnFMr4CM_jFN6Fd&t=209
Incredibly perfect for then, the '70's....and NOW, October 2020!!!
Love this Band,from New York,Love Peace and Happiness is another great Song🎸
LIVE AT THE FILMORE CLIP WAS THE BEST VERSION OF THIS SONG. IT WASNT JUST A SONG IT WAS A PSYCHEDELIC TRIP THROUGH TIME
The Dead did great mid song jams, but these guys were awesome! Greatest psychedelic soul song ever!