Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

I Love Music, Music Is My Inspiration and My Upliftment

I'm almost too embarrassed to post this all[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rw1_FNdy-Y&list=RDnqfqkaZJZks&index=7]
Jeni Jones
Jeni Jones
2 years ago
Can we just go back to the late sixties and live?

1.1K

Terrance Wilhite
Terrance Wilhite
9 months ago
This song kept me alive in Nam

982

Wil Robles
Wil Robles
6 months ago
This song makes me feel 13 years old again. My body reminds me I’m still 64.

178

William Cox
William Cox
2 weeks ago (edited)
So . . .
It's 1967, you've just smoked your first joint at a Frat party, not yet realizing the punch you drank earlier was spiked with LSD . . . and then this comes on the radio.

8

uncle skeeter
uncle skeeter
6 months ago (edited)
That guitarist would later record "Sweet Home Alabama" for his new band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

429

Kim Huckaby
Kim Huckaby
5 months ago
My Generation! I wish with all my heart I could go back to that time! I will take all the joys and troubles of that time over the crap we are dealing with today! Even at its worst, we were never as stupid ,hateful , and disrespectful as people are today.

426

Margo Mazzeo
Margo Mazzeo
5 months ago
Truth..sadly.
😪😪😪

13

Pyro G.C. C
Pyro G.C. C
4 months ago
Amen sister

10

Patrick McMullen
Patrick McMullen
4 months ago
I feel sorry for the people who are born now. Back then it was just a blossoming of creativeness in music and every day was something new on the radio. You could hardly keep up with all the talent. Today, it's all regulations and rules. People are paranoid of each other. I felt like i belonged back then watching some outdoor concert. It was exciting then. Unless you lived it, you'll never know just how beautiful it was.

23

Pyro G.C. C
Pyro G.C. C
4 months ago
@Patrick McMullen Aman Brother.

7

Darryl Lulli
Darryl Lulli
4 months ago
Your heart is back in time! Don't lose it. What you said about people today is very true. It all comes down to parents.

9

Patricia Jones
Patricia Jones
4 months ago
That is so true. I too find myself wishing for the good ole days.

7

Samuel Seager
Samuel Seager
4 months ago
You mean a time when thousands were being killed in a stupid war and black people and women were treated worse than today? Good times!

30

Ken Boi
Ken Boi
4 months ago
Yea. I would go back to listening to radio music too.

5

Daniel Dunlap
Daniel Dunlap
4 months ago
I think your generation sometimes look at past with a little Rosie colored glasses. The height of the Vietnam War. Atrocities happening in the South during the Civil Rights Movement. Peace protests against the Vietnam War. It wasn't as simple as you guys remember

35

Reene Keenie
Reene Keenie
4 months ago
@Darryl Lulli And 85,000 chemicals...especially pesticides and solvents!

5

Anonymous User
Anonymous User
2 months ago
This is the most 60’s song I can think of

81

Paul Vazquez
Paul Vazquez
9 months ago
"I could use some more cowbell" 😀😀😀

330

Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
2 months ago
The guitarist is ed king he played with skynyrd

50

Leonardo
Leonardo
2 years ago
Its unusual to find a band where the drummer is the main voice. Cool!

314

Planktontwo
Planktontwo
8 months ago
So cool that 50+ years later, someone preserved true classic greats like this one for us to still enjoy

239

MARINA MARTIN GOMEZ
MARINA MARTIN GOMEZ
4 months ago
"It smells like the art teachers office"

102

guitar1067 Sports: Classic NFL NBA
guitar1067 Sports: Classic NFL NBA
3 months ago
One of the best of the "one hit wonder" songs. It really screams "1967"!

51

DougWJ
DougWJ
2 days ago
To the left of the guy singing - in a gold outfit playing the SG guitar - is Ed King of later Lynard Skynard - and creator of the Sweet Home Alabama rift and probably the best guitar player in Skynard.

1

Renee Bloggs
Renee Bloggs
1 year ago
Love it. Absolutely screams 1967, doesn't it?!

467

Sandra Cash
Sandra Cash
2 months ago
probably the only band from Santa Barbara , California that ever made it big. very fitting that the drummer /singer looks like a classic 60's southern California surfer , because he was

23

Richard Key
Richard Key
2 months ago
This is the music homer Simpson heard in his head when he tried ganja

35

a1seus
a1seus
3 months ago
Incense and peppermints to cover the smell of G R A S S

83

B.J. Friedman
B.J. Friedman
10 months ago
The music today pales in comparison to the 60's and 70's!

76

kelli blue
kelli blue
2 months ago
I don't know if I can handle this level of grooviness. Wow. The ultimate.

14

David Lisowski
David Lisowski
2 days ago
Lynyrd Skynyrd actually opened for them in the late 60s. That was how they met Ed King.

1

Chris
Chris
2 months ago (edited)
It seems to me that at this point in U.S. history our nation was becoming part of a giant love and peace cult, which is certainly better than hate and war.

48

Brian Smith
Brian Smith
1 month ago
Spark up a doobie, man! I was born in 1979, actually, but there is something about this "hippie" music that intrigues me. It gives me a taste of what life must have been like back then, and I'll bet my life savings that it was better than this crap fest in 2020 that we're forced to endure now. I wonder what car shopping was like then?

5

velveetaslingshot
velveetaslingshot
6 months ago
"Listen...to what the flower people say. Ahhhhhhaaaa"

40

Brendan McHugh
Brendan McHugh
6 months ago
they’re having so much fun. this is what music is all about

25

markmaccabees
markmaccabees
9 months ago
The great Ed King on lead guitar who went on to play for Lynyrd Skynyrd and write "sweet home Alabama."

37

daveyK
daveyK
2 months ago
Such Great Lyrics.
Great Band Name
Who can dig it ?
This was a time when love was an option over hate.

15

George Bunnell
George Bunnell
3 years ago
Even though I was not at the recording session of I&P, I do have intimate knowledge of what happened that day;

John Carter wrote the lyrics and melody to the song. He came to the session to teach SAC to sing it.
The actual lead singer in the band was the late Lee Freeman, RIP. He gave it a shot and Carter and Frank Slay thought it wasn't a good match. Mark Weitz, who sang the flip side, Birdman of Alkatrash, tried but it was out of his range.
16 year old singer/songwriter Greg Munford happened to be sitting on the studio floor listening. He had the same manager and was on the All American label as well. On a whim they asked him to give it a shot and voila, a match.
Randy Seol came in to do harmonies. It's his voice you hear on the "who cares what games we choose, little to win but nothing to lose" lines as well as the descending "Incense, Peppermints...."He also figured prominently during the sha la la's at the end doing more than one part.
It's also Randy singing the duet verse - "To divide the cockeyed world in two, throw your pride to one side it's the least you can do. Beatniks in politics, nothing is new. A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view...." He has the lower part.

It is Randy lip syncing in the video. But he sang it live in concert. Nobody knew the difference back then because Randy's voice was all over the song. Plus he sang most of the other songs. We had two lead singers, Lee and Randy....Mark sang lead on a couple.

There's more weirdness though....
Gene Gunnels actually played drums on the recording. He had been the drummer in the band up till then. Randy was brought in to replace him. Gene quit the band because his then girlfriend gave him an ultimatum, either he quit the band and get a job at McDonald's or lose her. What an error....he chose HER!

The horrific story in all this though is that Ed King and Mark Weitz wrote all the music and were never credited! (Thanks to Bill Holmes and Frank Slay) Tim Gilbert got half and wrote nothing!

By the way, Ed played a Telecaster on the recording.

282

Berlin Mark
Berlin Mark
10 months ago
Music before the later 60's never made you feel, when completely sober, like you just took a hit of good and pleasant LSD. This song was among the very first to give you that feeling. That spacey, slow, harmonic middle part made me feel like I died and went to heaven. Absolute genius. I was born in 1956. Thank you, there must be a God. Perfect timing.

22

Ruby Wingo
Ruby Wingo
10 months ago
This is great! The music, clothes, and the way the stage is arranged! Perfect!!

87

pretorious700
pretorious700
1 month ago
Coral electric sitar. Also the lead guitarist is Ed King, originator of the "Sweet Home Alabama" guitar riff.

11

msmissjordan1
msmissjordan1
10 months ago
I dont even smoke yet this song makes my head feel funny....

14

Phyllis Yanagihara
Phyllis Yanagihara
7 months ago
I had my Neru jacket and my Dr. Kildare blouse, and parties or converts every weekend. I loved life then. It was a far easier time to be a teen.

33

Tommy Turner
Tommy Turner
1 month ago
Ronnie Van Zant used to perform on stage with no shoes. Looks like he may have borrowed the idea from Ed King. RIP both of them.

7

Robert Senter
Robert Senter
3 days ago
Ed “Sweet Home Alabama” King in gold on the left.

1

Steve Paul
Steve Paul
2 months ago
RIP Ed King.

6

Radiounderground
Radiounderground
2 months ago
1960s record executive “I know you’re the drummer but you’re good looking so ya gotta sing.”

12

Bryan Myers
Bryan Myers
1 month ago
Nice shot of Ed King playing the SG. For those that don't know, Ed went on to join another three guitar band and write the classic "Sweet Home Alabama".

7

Jeff Bailey
Jeff Bailey
5 months ago
1967 sophmore in Sweet Home High School, Amherst NY. Saved for a month to buy the most psychedelic shirt they had at Sattlers Store at the Boulevard Mall. It was so cool to wear it the next day. On the bus everyone talking. Still remember it like yesterday.

43

DEKMAN99
DEKMAN99
1 month ago
This drummer is doing a Milli Villi . He really not the true singer of this one hit wonder.

2

Glen Manning
Glen Manning
8 months ago
Guitar player on the left is "Ed King" former guitar player for Lynyrd Skynynd who played on their first 4 records. He is best known for writing Sweet Home Alabama.

21

Tony Sharples
Tony Sharples
2 months ago
Fantastic track. Love the west coast sound of 67-68. I'm west coast in Lancashire, UK.

17

Fred Tenzer
Fred Tenzer
10 months ago
I remember hearing this song when it came out in 1967 when I was 7 years old going on 8.

4

Shawna Graham
Shawna Graham
2 days ago
Had to be tripping when they named themselves and wrote this


Diana Campanella
Diana Campanella
2 months ago
I have enjoyed this song forever and now, I, for the first time, see the BAND!!! Thanks for posting!!

9

DougWJ
DougWJ
2 days ago
The bass player also looks like Flo or Eddie - which ever one that was - not the fat one


Steve M.
Steve M.
1 month ago
KEYBOARD PLAYER'S MOM: I could have sworn I had an extra-large roll of aluminum foil!


KEYBOARD PLAYER: Um....

10

Hoogla Boogla
Hoogla Boogla
1 month ago
The guy playing the SG later wrote one of the most iconic songs in the world

5

Michael Dusold
Michael Dusold
6 months ago
We actually wore those clothes, and didn't feel idiotic!

152

Mark Gupton
Mark Gupton
2 weeks ago
Guitar player on left side looks like Ed King, guitar player for Lynard Skynard. Inventor of the Sweet Home Alabama riff.

2

Gregory Deimel
Gregory Deimel
1 month ago
This song helped me geg htrough worrying about my Dad who was in "Nam....and I didn't know it..

2

Pam Kaczynski
Pam Kaczynski
1 month ago
I love this song. love to see a drummer singing. just like karen carpenter.

2

brenda Moll
brenda Moll
7 months ago
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time


Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothin' to lose


Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, girl, yeah, yeah


To divide the cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothin' is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view


Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothin' to lose


Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time


Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothin' to lose


Incense, peppermints
Incense, peppermints

12

dennis boudreau
dennis boudreau
2 weeks ago
This song was before I was born in 1970. Even though its 3 years older than me, I still love this song, and it made me want to watch Austin Powers. I just turned 50 today

2

JUGALO-MADNESS-REVIEWS
JUGALO-MADNESS-REVIEWS
1 month ago
When this song came out my father was 22 and he was in the Navy in the Vietnam war

5

Joey Mitchell
Joey Mitchell
1 month ago
The singer sure had an uncanny awareness of the active camera, didn't he? I was a sophomore in high school, back when my North Carolina college town was cool.

6

Moon Pie
Moon Pie
1 month ago
Great stuff, I was only 10 when this came out, so... I wasn't partying like so many were but still remember this tune well. My older sister was 17 in 67 and she turned me on to music at a very young age.

2

DougWJ
DougWJ
2 days ago
I wouldnt want to be alone in a room with any of the freakin weirdos - except Ed King


TheShockninja
TheShockninja
6 months ago
A year ago today (August 22), the world lost an incredible talent named Ed King. RIP

9

LevonsWound
LevonsWound
1 month ago
soon to be Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, Ed King on the Gibson SG

2

tree man
tree man
2 months ago
I was an innocent young sperm in 67, by 1969 the misery begins.

6

Adelardo De Vizcargui Lerabidea
Adelardo De Vizcargui Lerabidea
7 months ago (edited)
LYRICS:
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around

Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah, yeah!

To divide this cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose

Incense and peppermints
Incense and peppermints

Sha la la, sha la la, sha la la, sha la la, sha la la

Låtskrivare: John Carter / Timothy P. Gilbert.

7

Wicked Prayers
Wicked Prayers
1 month ago
Ed King looks just like cousin Oliver from The Brady Bunch. He was a great guy though.

2

Tony Harris
Tony Harris
9 months ago (edited)
I'm glad I turned onto some Strawberry Alarm Clock Wake up its tomorrow.

15

SHAWN MICHAEL Duncan
SHAWN MICHAEL Duncan
3 months ago
They had cameo in movie Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

11

Mortisha
Mortisha
1 month ago
This music takes me right back to being a 16 year old. Memory is a wonderful thing!

4

Jimbo 0117
Jimbo 0117
6 months ago
Amazingly good recording of this performance. We usually end up with a grainy screen capture for performances like this from the 60's. Somebody must have gotten their hands on the original video. Kudos! 👍

4

Margaret Martell
Margaret Martell
5 months ago
1967, riding in the car with Mom and Dad, transistor radio up to my ear. Love it!

3

Rose Jackson
Rose Jackson
2 days ago
Folks I'm 73 years old, but this song just sent me back to the happier times in my life. This music can lower my blood pressure, and just make me forget it is 2020. God bless you for the gift of sharing such a happy post. Much Love

1

Jesse Tablebeast
Jesse Tablebeast
8 months ago
Makes me think of the early scene in Spinal Tap when they were a hippie band.

10

Jimmy Delaney
Jimmy Delaney
2 months ago
The guy that wrote sweet home Alabama is in this band

2

Joe Olson
Joe Olson
1 week ago
I never saw this back in the day.. playing drums and singing was always tough enough but the
wearing a Nehru jacket, I'm impressed..

2

Professor Time
Professor Time
2 years ago
1967 = Songs about Love and Expanding your Mind.
2017 = Songs about Nothing.

759

Kay Redburn
Kay Redburn
2 months ago
I LOVE INCENSE AND PEPPERMINTS THEY SMELL AND TASTE GOOD LOL

4

Philip Torrez
Philip Torrez
4 months ago
I'm so Happy I had a small dose.

6

John Bush
John Bush
3 months ago
April of 67 i cane home from nam.I was 21

3

russell dieterle
russell dieterle
2 weeks ago
one of my all time favorite songs thanks dude

3

1960jack
1960jack
2 years ago
50 years later and this song still kicks ass!, Summer of Love baby!, groovy and far out.

279

DancingWerewolf333
DancingWerewolf333
11 months ago
This is one of those songs. .... A great one with lyrics that have a true message. Many messages that we ....for some reason....have dismissed in the past, but a select few are now truly able to truly see now. I want to rewind us at this point. The messages were in our faces. We did not truly hear this.

3

Dianna Cashion
Dianna Cashion
1 month ago
A very young Ed King dressed in a shimmering gold suit and bare feet!

2

roger peet
roger peet
9 months ago
I can't watch ! I'm having Acid flashbacks !!!

10

TXTroll
TXTroll
9 months ago
Sometimes I wish I was born a decade earlier...just to experience these 60’s classics as a teenager. Someone please invent a time machine!

5

Joanne Guarino
Joanne Guarino
3 months ago
Loved this song back then and still do!

4

TD Welch
TD Welch
3 weeks ago (edited)
Can you believe Ed King would end up with Lynyrd Skynyrd and co-writing sweet home Alabama . He turned out to be one hell of a guitar player.

2

Upper Left Coast Chelsea Fan
Upper Left Coast Chelsea Fan
4 months ago
The great Ed King playing his SG. RIP good sir.

5

Kevin Gamache
Kevin Gamache
11 months ago
What a great song.
What i remember about these guys back in the seventies my cousin Sandy got those magazines. You know teen beat or tiger beat whatever.
In the mag this band was giving away by drawing a vw bug that had a kit put to it to make it look like a rolls royce.
I took her mag and mailed in the entry.
I wonder who won that car?
Yeah, no it wasnt me. I really do wonder who got it and if it still exists today.
Great song and band.

7

Mike Gowen
Mike Gowen
1 year ago
REST IN PEACE ED KING.

540

EDWARD ALLEN
EDWARD ALLEN
1 month ago (edited)
Mr Ed King on guitar, gibson sg / Lynyrd Skynyrd

2

aquahealer
aquahealer
2 months ago
I want my VR goggles to make the world look like this 24 hours a day

3

Roger Carmichael
Roger Carmichael
7 months ago
As swell as this song sounded it belongs in the Genre' we called "Yah-Yah" music (U could sing Yah-Yah to the tune> Wasn't until "Magic Carpet Ride" came along did Hard Rock take hold to replace the Ballads or Yah-Yah music

1

Billy
This comment is hidden. Show Comment

 
Post Comment