Just lost Dad last Thursday. He loved Stephen Stills and was the best pilot I’ll ever know. I sent this video to him a few months back and we loved it. I’ve been watching it since he passed and it’s been a comfort. Thank you for making this. Flying was his favorite thing to do in life. RIP Dad, love you forever.❤️ ✈️
Sorry for your loss. I am lucky to still have my dad, he’s 66, a born survivor, and I’ll be 45 soon. I’m gonna send this to my dad, he loves all kinds of flight 😉. I’m lucky for every iteration of CSNY, Grateful Dead, NRPS, etc etc, my dad’s gave me all his vynil as he reckons cds are the future lol. Peace all ☮️☮️
Just sitting in my garage having a cigar and my lab sleeping next to me. This brings me back to my growing up in the 80’s. Just feeling good and listening to good music. Bless you all.
For a while WKQQ in Lexington KY would play this back to back with Copperhead Rd. They would also play Neil young's Southern man with Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama as a response.
It's amazing to me to learn he actually has a hearing problem from age nine. He is a genius. We are so very blessed to have heard his music in our lifetimes!!❤😊
For those that don't know the real history of the Treetop Flyers they would fly over the jungle low and shoot out cannons to mark places for the Air Force to napalm or bomb sectors. They were some major players in Vietnam. They drew fire from the jungle and knew if they went down a good chance they'd either die or be a POW. People that's a bad @ss if ever there was one. Much respect to all our veterans that were either in wars or dragged into them by the lying ass government. Salute to you all for your service.
@@skyking6989 it is. It's about Vietnam vet pilots who came back and took smuggling gigs cause they had the skills. He says as much in the song. The OP is referring to the roles they played in the war.
These guys were from the observer corps. Several hundred were lost in SE Asia. Very dangerous work. Too low to parachute and even if you survived the crash you’d better be behind American lines as, pretty much, Charlie didn’t take prisoners.
I could be a rambler from the seven dials I don't pay taxes 'cause I never file I don't do business that don't make me smile I love my aeroplane 'cause she's got style I'm a treetop flyer I will fly any cargo you can pay to run These bush league pilots just can't get the job done Got to fly down into the canyons, never see the sun There's no such thing as an easy run For a treetop flyer I'm flyin' low, I'm in high demand Fly fifteen feet off the Rio Grande I'll blow the mesquite right up off the sand Seldom seen, especially when I land I'm a treetop flyer Born Survivor People been asking me, "Where'd you learn to fly that way?" Was over in Vietnam, chasin' NVA The government taught me, and they taught me right, Stay under the treeline, and you might be alright I'm a treetop flyer So I'm comin' home, I'm runnin' low and fast I promised my woman this is gonna be my last I get the ship down, I tie her fast Then some old boy walks up, Says "Hey son, you wanna make some fast cash?" I'm a treetop flyer Well there's things I am, and there's things I'm not I am a smuggler and I could get shot Aint going to die, I ain't goin' to get caught, 'Cause I'm a flyin' fool and my aeroplane is just too hot I'm a treetop flyer Born survivor Usually work alone
Stills in my top five all time, and I am 68. I just love this!! Creativity in song with the anchor in reality. Really hits home for us post Vietnam folks.
Holy crap. That is the best risk flying I have ever seen and I am a VC era defiance pilot. The pilot lost focus about 3/4 way in and recovered perfectly. Bravo.
Thank you to whomever made this video. I'm dedicating it to my 3-tour 101st Airborne 'Nam Vet husband. Bat 21's, Baby! "Bringin' our boys Home!" he always said. In Peace, Free from the Birdcage, after his 3 years of tortures in Teller County, Colorado. (#TellTellerCounty ) From his #PsychicOnTheRun 💞🚁🏕️🚗🚀🪖💫✌️🧘🏡💜✨🌌🏞️
Been 'interviewed' by federales...5 times...Still Free in Montana...I was trained by my father, who flew CAT Airlines, Korean War....CIA.....Im an Army veteran.Army Counter-Intel...Bamberg FRG.....was recruited at TIA, in my Army PFC suit....1981.....lol...
I'm a Nam vet, and used to do an internet radio show with Ghost Audio. I used the song as an intro to honour Nam vets and those we lost. I plan on doing more net radio, and will continue to use this jam as my intro. Love, honour and respect to all military personnel!
I'm not a pilot, but I can imagine flying low to be unbelievably fun. I surf and powder ski on untracked mountains. I feel like flying an airplane low to the ground has got to be a similar feeling.
It's REAL EXPENSIVE!! To rent a plane "wet" is $200 an hour!! Take up sport sky diving! A good rig is about $8,000 and you'll have it forever! Or, do you wanna buy a good Cessna 206?
Flying low is like no other flying. Seeing the ground or trees speeding by gets your heart pumping. The same speed at altitude is boring. There is another video with a RV 4 flying down a river and back. Really cool video
Way to clip the tops off them there trees....Impressive flying and the song brings back the memories...I always liked to fly low in the Citabria and Decathlon..
Ohh my deepest condolences love . My gone now almost 7 yrs Mom joined him 4 years ago. Does sound yours in the forces too and I would be put to bed at Night with. Coming Home on a Wing and Prayer. We owe them all so much . I like playing this song with Guitar and Harmonica. Il do a recording sometime and put it up. We will always be connected with our Dads and Moms through God's universal language ABCDEFG there ain no H MUSIC IS IT
It’s the story of a Vietnam vet who came home from the war with a marketable new skill: the ability to fly under the radar. When these pilots returned from combat to a public that often shunned them, and wouldn’t give them a job or help them deal with what they’d been through, they found a way to make money with this skill in running drugs, guns, and whatever other contraband someone would pay them to deliver.
Yes. So true is the point of this song. What good came from the Vietnam War?? That was to get good pot across the country! Fly On!! Tom Petty knows what Stephen was talking about!!
Sorry for your loss, man. There's something very freeing about flying. When I strapped into that little red biplane, things felt different. Ripping through that river valley was some of the best fun I've had. Cheers to Tony!
Simple answer is. No. We are not...This is about war vets with no chance to get work and looking for ways to survive, hence, in this case...tree top flyer
I love your video! I have watched time and time again. Due to some health issues, only LSA possible for me, so, I live vicariously for a few minutes. I noticed Leavens on your cowling. Is there a story behind that? Thanks, again! Squawk 1200!
Glad you like it! Leavens was the company that did the engine overhaul and an air show sponsor. Sadly they are no longer in business. They did a great job on that O-360!
Guys, this song is about Barry Seals from Baton Rouge, LA. He was a smuggler for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Drug Cartel during the 1980s. Barry was a pilot's pilot, a born stick and rudder man. He consistently flew under the radar to avoid detection from the law. Eventually he found religion and turned evidence over to the FBI regarding the Cartel, but it was too late. Our government failed to protect him and he was shot in Baton Rouge by two Escobar henchmen. A film loosely based on his life starring Tom Cruise as Seals was produced roughly five years ago. Seals is still considered somewhat of a folk hero in parts of Colombia.
Just plain great music! No rhymes song makes sense. Pure talent. Brings me back before times we’re wacked. Feel bad for new snowflakes ❄️ got no clue. Rather being listening to prison rap or bad shitty things. To bad
When I was young I had brothers flying out of Colombia and like this was an easy run like he said only they were run in twin engines slip-ups so when they got busted on dirt landing fields that the government-owned what did they do within 6 months it was stretched out to one mile and paved Wolf wolf I love them days
@@franklinbrown8710 Can't say anything......cept my Uncle taught me to fly Cessna'a from age 16....Korea War vet....the govt taught him & taught him right...
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Where is this river? So beautiful!
Just lost Dad last Thursday. He loved Stephen Stills and was the best pilot I’ll ever know. I sent this video to him a few months back and we loved it. I’ve been watching it since he passed and it’s been a comfort. Thank you for making this. Flying was his favorite thing to do in life. RIP Dad, love you forever.❤️ ✈️
Sorry to hear of your loss. Per Ardua Ad Astra.
Thank you ❤️
sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss. I am lucky to still have my dad, he’s 66, a born survivor, and I’ll be 45 soon. I’m gonna send this to my dad, he loves all kinds of flight 😉. I’m lucky for every iteration of CSNY, Grateful Dead, NRPS, etc etc, my dad’s gave me all his vynil as he reckons cds are the future lol. Peace all ☮️☮️
I have a few things to tell you but this minute. i can't. I am sorry for loss and wish i had better words.
you but right this minute
One of the greatest acoustic guitar solos of all time. IMO.
agreed
Just sitting in my garage having a cigar and my lab sleeping next to me. This brings me back to my growing up in the 80’s. Just feeling good and listening to good music. Bless you all.
I'm a 90s kid and I loved this song
God bless you brother 👍
It's a shame this wonderful ballad doesn't get the radio airplay it richly deserves....classic!
it did at autozone, that is where I discovered it.
Been listening to classic rock for over 15 years and just heard this song today while plowing snow... your not wrong ...
For a while WKQQ in Lexington KY would play this back to back with Copperhead Rd. They would also play Neil young's Southern man with Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama as a response.
You mean not even now days,????
It's under the radar 🌊
It's amazing to me to learn he actually has a hearing problem from age nine. He is a genius. We are so very blessed to have heard his music in our lifetimes!!❤😊
For those that don't know the real history of the Treetop Flyers they would fly over the jungle low and shoot out cannons to mark places for the Air Force to napalm or bomb sectors. They were some major players in Vietnam. They drew fire from the jungle and knew if they went down a good chance they'd either die or be a POW. People that's a bad @ss if ever there was one. Much respect to all our veterans that were either in wars or dragged into them by the lying ass government. Salute to you all for your service.
Amen! I urge all to look up the story of Hill Wilbanks.
True American BAD ASS!
I always thought this was about those pilots who hauled "uncle escobars marching powder"
@@skyking6989 it is. It's about Vietnam vet pilots who came back and took smuggling gigs cause they had the skills. He says as much in the song. The OP is referring to the roles they played in the war.
These guys were from the observer corps. Several hundred were lost in SE Asia. Very dangerous work. Too low to parachute and even if you survived the crash you’d better be behind American lines as, pretty much, Charlie didn’t take prisoners.
@@PAS2010D Forward Observers
I could be a rambler from the seven dials
I don't pay taxes 'cause I never file
I don't do business that don't make me smile
I love my aeroplane 'cause she's got style
I'm a treetop flyer
I will fly any cargo you can pay to run
These bush league pilots just can't get the job done
Got to fly down into the canyons, never see the sun
There's no such thing as an easy run
For a treetop flyer
I'm flyin' low, I'm in high demand
Fly fifteen feet off the Rio Grande
I'll blow the mesquite right up off the sand
Seldom seen, especially when I land
I'm a treetop flyer
Born Survivor
People been asking me, "Where'd you learn to fly that way?"
Was over in Vietnam, chasin' NVA
The government taught me, and they taught me right,
Stay under the treeline, and you might be alright
I'm a treetop flyer
So I'm comin' home, I'm runnin' low and fast
I promised my woman this is gonna be my last
I get the ship down, I tie her fast
Then some old boy walks up,
Says "Hey son, you wanna make some fast cash?"
I'm a treetop flyer
Well there's things I am, and there's things I'm not
I am a smuggler and I could get shot
Aint going to die, I ain't goin' to get caught,
'Cause I'm a flyin' fool and my aeroplane is just too hot
I'm a treetop flyer
Born survivor
Usually work alone
You are # 1 lol 😂
My daddy used to play this on his guitar... Self taught, played by ear.. my most favorite song, to this day.
to be able to do that must take a lot of practice... your father had some talent not many can claim 🙏🏽
Stills in my top five all time, and I am 68. I just love this!! Creativity in song with the anchor in reality. Really hits home for us post Vietnam folks.
@@robertmannel4446 My dad served 2 tours. ✌️
A hidden gem. Thanks Jon for sharing and giving me taste in music. Love and miss you brother. See you at the end of the simulation.
Holy crap. That is the best risk flying I have ever seen and I am a VC era defiance pilot. The pilot lost focus about 3/4 way in and recovered perfectly. Bravo.
airshow pilots have to practice low level flying
I love Stephen Stills ...This is a Great Song
One of the best!
Love that this song honors the vietnam veterans.
I live in the north west and use Bush pilots to get me into the hard to get to fishing and hunting spots. The one guide we use played this song
That's awesome 😎
One of the greatest American rebel songs ever.
Agreed!
Heard this, along with "Black Queen" in Honolulu. Mahalo, salute!
howdy!
Anything, anywhere, anytime, professionally. Best times of my life.
LOL! now the "Air Branch:".....I know...boy do I know....
I've always loved this tune.. You however have perfectly brought out the under current of this song with the video!! Thank you...
well it ain't particularly the undercurrent as much as the title of the friggin song :P
Like the call sign. .. I'm "Jay bird"
I think this is coolest top 10 songs I've ever heard in the world so cool 😎 ✌️😇
such a great song!
I absolutely love this song👍
Thank you to whomever made this video. I'm dedicating it to my 3-tour 101st Airborne 'Nam Vet husband. Bat 21's, Baby! "Bringin' our boys Home!" he always said. In Peace, Free from the Birdcage, after his 3 years of tortures in Teller County, Colorado. (#TellTellerCounty ) From his #PsychicOnTheRun 💞🚁🏕️🚗🚀🪖💫✌️🧘🏡💜✨🌌🏞️
Passed Over, just after dusk, on Monday, October 25th, 2021. Good flight, my Lover.
You're welcome. Sorry for your loss. Clear skies forever.
If you're from the 305 you know!
Excellent song!
Very underrated musician!!
Very true. Always expect to see stills somewhere in top 50 guitarists of all time but never do.
@@lophloph07 ua-cam.com/video/VXrGuvyyMyI/v-deo.html
@@lophloph07 RS hates him, but even they have him at #28, which is ridiculously low.
Just a perfect video for this song. The lyrics match up so nicely at 3:04!!!! Makes me want to go for a ride. Thanks
Smoooooth song, sweet flying. Very nice!
Been 'interviewed' by federales...5 times...Still Free in Montana...I was trained by my father, who flew CAT Airlines, Korean War....CIA.....Im an Army veteran.Army Counter-Intel...Bamberg FRG.....was recruited at TIA, in my Army PFC suit....1981.....lol...
I'm a Nam vet, and used to do an internet radio show with Ghost Audio. I used the song as an intro to honour Nam vets and those we lost. I plan on doing more net radio, and will continue to use this jam as my intro. Love, honour and respect to all military personnel!
Right on!
GREAT SONG ALWAYS DID LIKE IT
Wow,no words other than perfect and excellent
I'm not a pilot, but I can imagine flying low to be unbelievably fun.
I surf and powder ski on untracked mountains. I feel like flying an airplane low to the ground has got to be a similar feeling.
Just got to stay inside the 'lines - precise flying!.
It's REAL EXPENSIVE!! To rent a plane "wet" is $200 an hour!! Take up sport sky diving! A good rig is about $8,000 and you'll have it forever! Or, do you wanna buy a good Cessna 206?
@@mikeredner200 an hour is for something very well equipped. A flight school shitbox will be much cheaper.
Flying low is like no other flying.
Seeing the ground or trees speeding by gets your heart pumping. The same speed at altitude is boring.
There is another video with a RV 4 flying down a river and back. Really cool video
yeah that video inspired me to make this one!
The RV4 one is awesome, that's Ricky Tackett, a USAF vet and one of the best helo pilots ever.
...Don't do business that don't make me "Smile" :)
Great storyteller. Awesome pickin’.
@@randykinsley5721 I love this song!
Great video to a great song, love how Stephen hammers that string
love this song
Brilliant flicker Steven -Cheers
Love this video
BAD ASS tune all around. Nice video shooting; yours?
A great running song.
Jammed to this when i was a kid.
I thought a snuggler was han solo 😂
Burned this on to my favorite cd 😂
oh man, I need a CD burner again!
Way to clip the tops off them there trees....Impressive flying and the song brings back the memories...I always liked to fly low in the Citabria and Decathlon..
Thanks for this fantastic video!! Beautiful and very much appreciated my friend!!😅
Favorite song. Great vid.
Thanks! Love this song! The guitar is amazing.
ha, haa,
that's why i was always bragged at, by tower control (they could never see me approaching) (and always nag about it) :)
BEST SONG THE WORLD.........
My favorite
me too!
Awesome 👍💯 fav tunes
One of my favourite videos on the whole of UA-cam. Greetings from the UK. 😎
Thanks, Liam! It was a blast to make!
Totally agree a wonderful video and an amazing song
Ohh my deepest condolences love . My gone now almost 7 yrs Mom joined him 4 years ago. Does sound yours in the forces too and I would be put to bed at Night with.
Coming Home on a Wing and Prayer. We owe them all so much . I like playing this song with Guitar and Harmonica. Il do a recording sometime and put it up. We will always be connected with our Dads and Moms through God's universal language ABCDEFG
there ain no H
MUSIC IS IT
This song makes me wanna drink orange juice after I brush my teeth.. treetop flyer= art.
This is easily the best video on youtube for this song. Thanks :)
It’s the story of a Vietnam vet who came home from the war with a marketable new skill: the ability to fly under the radar. When these pilots returned from combat to a public that often shunned them, and wouldn’t give them a job or help them deal with what they’d been through, they found a way to make money with this skill in running drugs, guns, and whatever other contraband someone would pay them to deliver.
Yes. So true is the point of this song. What good came from the Vietnam War?? That was to get good pot across the country! Fly On!! Tom Petty knows what Stephen was talking about!!
Quintessential Stephen Stills.
Great song!
Watch this periodically. Just great particularly reference to RVN.
For you Tony. Keep flying bro. Miss ya. 🌈❤️🌠
Sorry for your loss, man. There's something very freeing about flying. When I strapped into that little red biplane, things felt different. Ripping through that river valley was some of the best fun I've had. Cheers to Tony!
@@Squawk737yt ❤️🌈🤟
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Back in the days when planes were running the borders we just wanted to sample the cargo and do our own flying.
Great song! Thanks for sharing...
Fantastic👍🏻
Fire it up, One of the best tunes ever, imo, cheerz from NNY315
Such a great song!
Great song. Great video. And my name might give it away…
thanks! Always loved this song!
This is badass.
This is such a great video
Loving the vid! Let's blow some mesquite right up off the sand next time!
Love this video!!!!!!!!!!!!! As a pro driver I can relate!
Glad you liked it!!
This is amazing
Awesome Tune are we not all tree top flyers? :)
Simple answer is. No. We are not...This is about war vets with no chance to get work and looking for ways to survive, hence, in this case...tree top flyer
For reference americansongwriter.com/2015/07/lyric-week-stephen-stills-treetop-flyer/
Also, can you fly a plane in tight space under radar safely and go unnoticed? Doubt it
NO
I love your video! I have watched time and time again. Due to some health issues, only LSA possible for me, so, I live vicariously for a few minutes. I noticed Leavens on your cowling. Is there a story behind that? Thanks, again! Squawk 1200!
Glad you like it! Leavens was the company that did the engine overhaul and an air show sponsor. Sadly they are no longer in business. They did a great job on that O-360!
Great to have video to go with this song
really fantastic video perfect sometimes it just happens that way.. love it
nice sound, and nice views ! thanks !
got to eat, got to work, ,,
Hope life always shows you love 💖
Guys, this song is about Barry Seals from Baton Rouge, LA. He was a smuggler for Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Drug Cartel during the 1980s. Barry was a pilot's pilot, a born stick and rudder man. He consistently flew under the radar to avoid detection from the law. Eventually he found religion and turned evidence over to the FBI regarding the Cartel, but it was too late. Our government failed to protect him and he was shot in Baton Rouge by two Escobar henchmen. A film loosely based on his life starring Tom Cruise as Seals was produced roughly five years ago. Seals is still considered somewhat of a folk hero in parts of Colombia.
Thanks!
Great song, great footage, great video! Thanks. Which plane is this?
Aero
Pitts Special
Just plain great music! No rhymes song makes sense. Pure talent. Brings me back before times we’re wacked. Feel bad for new snowflakes ❄️ got no clue. Rather being listening to prison rap or bad shitty things. To bad
this is the best goddamn
Best video and song combo out there
Thanks!
Great song one my personal favorite! But video is off the chain want to know where & I can fly with this person! Dm me please
I don't teach any longer, sorry.
Brings back memories
thanks for posting this
Wow! Great video.
This is Great!
Bravo ⚘
I think that's Stephen 's greatest song
I agree!
Low and slow...❤
🔥🔥🔥
When I was young I had brothers flying out of Colombia and like this was an easy run like he said only they were run in twin engines slip-ups so when they got busted on dirt landing fields that the government-owned what did they do within 6 months it was stretched out to one mile and paved Wolf wolf I love them days
interesting
Really appreciate it
flying that load of dope across broader , fast and low …… doing the midnight run !!!
Born survivor alright
awesome
Gainesville Baby
Great song! Does anyone know which airfield the pilot was using at the end?
Top Secret
Nice!
I saw a Muskie flying through the air........
“Go 50 feet over the Rio Grande” 🤝🥂
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wish I had a camera on my third eye throughout my life. ...or maybe I did. I love movies, people
Where can I get this version of the treetop flyer? Goes down so smooth daddyo
back in the day,,,,,, thanks to the cartels and the Chinese no fun any more...
Ppl are getting capped left and right by those morons that rely on stochastic contrived identity
central Florida,,,sand runways....1980s.....hahahha...Feds .lose...my father & uncle were pilots in Korean War.....they taught me & taught me right...
Boggy Creek Road South of Taft, North of 192 about 1986. They found an abandoned Cessna 152 along the road.
@@franklinbrown8710 Can't say anything......cept my Uncle taught me to fly Cessna'a from age 16....Korea War vet....the govt taught him & taught him right...
@@franklinbrown8710 Can't say what i know....It was called a 'Fast Exit'....
Plane was found parked along Boggy Creek Road (Rt 15).
@@franklinbrown8710 Yes...a sad loss for us...