New Riders never got the recognition they deserve. The true source of the success that was popularized by The Dead, The Eagles and likely a huge influence on The Stones Some Girls Album
'Bro country', THE worst thing that ever happened to country music. No, worst thing that ever happened to music, period, since the cavemen started banging on rocks with sticks.
Best song by this version of NRPS. After Torbert left it was NEVER as good It was always GOOD but never better than the ORIGINAL bunch. They're the Original PSYCHEDELIC COWBOY BAND and the very BEST.
@@benjaminpbarrett7607 I do agree with you 100% - NRPS is THE psychedelic cowboy band and one of my favorite groups…….strong DEAD connections!!!!!! all their Columbia LPs are top notch….I love this band...period Greetings from Italy
When I wake up and crawl out of bed I'm Rockin to the Blues. Play guitar and good music Loud all day long. James is listening to music every morning and as much as I can get.
First concert I ever went to was NRPS (with Commander Cody opening!). I recall this song. Marmaduke was so goddamn happy... I can't help but think that that show aimed me in a good life direction. There are those who would probably criticize my life choices, but whatever.
I hear you brother. One thing I do know is that the people I met in this period became my life-long friends. I look back on my life and honestly, I made mistakes but I wouldn't change a minute of it.
I saw a concert of that tour. Maybe San Diego? I can't remember where i was but I do remember Cody & the Airmen. I hadn't heard them before. That was a tough act for NRPS to follow!
Freak Brothers Country Freakout, Monday nights on the local 50 -watt college station. Bong full of Columbian gold, a couple Belle Bottom Cuties and zero adult supervision.
I played this song in a band I was in, but I had never heard this version. I was also the bass player, and I wish I would have heard this version, because that bass player is rockin' it.
Man, I lived on the New Riders in the early 70's. Lots of pretty songs written about heroin, the "other girl" in this song, but this version of "Dead Flowers" and Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" are the top of the heap of countryfied heroin songs.
Bought myself a vintage 73' Sho-Bud 10 string pedal steel guitar. NR's version of Stones Dead Flowers is a song I'm working on to master the steel portion as played by talented Buddy Cage. What a great song played by New Riders. 60-70-'s era music just rocks!
When I was listening to this album, I didn't even know that the Stones had a version of this song. And then when I foun d out, I thought the Stones were doing a cover version.
Real country music will never go out of my mind who was 25 when NRPS played this song and today I still like to be driven by them when running my Marathons. Instead 'Bro country' 'rappers' and similar things can excite people drinking alcohol all day long.
I have loved NRPS since their first album, I’ve been listening to them every night recently!! How perfect is their cover of Dead Flowers.? Too bad they all passed away, like their dear friend, Jerry Garcia, who started New Riders, they did too many drugs and partied too hard.
@leahywj, You're right. This is the studio version of this song from the 1976 album 'New Riders" with Buddy on pedal steel. Some of the early live album versions do feature Jerry though.
1971 gram and keith were croonies. so no doubt that was where the inspration came from "the true adventures of the rolling stones" author stanley booth wrote a very good book about this era of the rolling stones exsistance. this is my favorite rolling stones song period !
This was the first version of this great song that I heard. I loved the NRPS they were my introduction to Country Music. I never looked back! Nowadays my fav version of this song has to be Townes, though I love this version still and the Stones original of course.
Great version of the original. Saw the NRPS perform this song in NYC; I think it was at the Academy of Music in Manhattan. Many a great time was had at a NRPS concert. "I know you the queen of the undergrouind."
In all actuality, it was Skip Battin who played bass on this song, and on this album. Stephen A. Love joined the NRPS on their next album "Who Are Those Guys?" which hit the shelves in 1977.
Same here, the original was -- and is -- still awesome. But it's Buddy Cage that pushes this over the top. His pedal steel work makes this - and every other NRPS song - a winner.
I had better make a correction to my posting from three weeks ago. Stephen A. Love was not the bass player on this song; that was Skip Battin. Mr. Love joined the NRPS on the following album "Who Are Those Guys?" (1977). This song still rocks, though.
Hes not on this record tho. Lets not reduce NRPS to a band Jerry played with for a tour. Ijs, they were much more and Im not even a big fan of them tbh. But Im borderline obsessed with JG and the boys.🤣✌
Rember we have jerry garcea to thank for the creation of the new riders it was one of Jerry’s side projects I’m shoure glad he did bin hooked since I first seen them at the English town music hall
NRPS were something my big brother and his friends bought to the table as fodder years ago. When I discovered the adventure's Panama red I felt that they must have others to be enjoyed.so began my quest to find those lps.that was in 1974. However it must be stated that I have never cared for Jerry Garcia or the grateful Dead the New riders of the purple sage of the f****** bomb
As good as the Rolling Stones were with their original rendition, this version by the New Riders of the Purple Sage is way better. It should have been a Top-40 hit on the Billboard singles chart. The lineup at the time was John Dawson (rhythm guitar/back vocals), David Nelson (lead guitar/vocals), Buddy Cage (pedal steel guitar), Stephen A. Love (bass/back vocals), and Spencer Dryden (drums/percussion). Just thought you'd want to know.
Are you sure Dave Torbert wasn't still in the group, I thought Love joined after Skip Batten left Love I'm sure was still in Rick Nelsons Stone Canyon Band
@@barbaradeluca7678 I just remembered, Skip Battin was still in the lineup when the NRPS recorded the studio rendition of “Dead Flowers”. Stephen Love joined the band for their next two albums, “Who Are These Guys” and “Marin County Line”. See, that was the trouble with some of these bands from the 1970s; they had unstable line-ups. I think the worst was Pure Prairie League. Their first two albums, both issued in 1972, each had a different line-up. I guess it was par for the course.
Dead Flowers New Riders Wild Horses Flying Burritos Bros. Joanne Mike Nesmith Gunga Din Byrds South City Midnight Lady Doobie Brothers Submarine Ladies America Faithless Love Linda Ronstadt My Man Eagles Krikkit's Song Poco Home Joe Walsh Souvenirs Dan Fogelberg
New Riders never got the recognition they deserve. The true source of the success that was popularized by The Dead, The Eagles and likely a huge influence on The Stones Some Girls Album
Agree
With the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Poco, and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen around, why did anyone pay any attention to the Eagles ?
@@joeharris3878 Linda Ronstat. She seyt Henley and Frey up as roomies.
Believe it would be the other way round. This is a cover from that album, written by Richards/Jagger.
I saw NRPS in Atlanta 1973 .. they did their own stuff but I remember they did "Honky Tonk Women" that night .
great version, shame that country music did not take this direction instead of rapping cowboys
riders were too cool to get bought out by country, plus the record labels disliked them - they were trippin cowboys!!
'Bro country', THE worst thing that ever happened to country music. No, worst thing that ever happened to music, period, since the cavemen started banging on rocks with sticks.
@@tezhowes533 ..and I thought Dan's comment was great...
@@tezhowes533 what? don't you remember when hank sang about having to sell his truck with 33" tires because his ex rode in it?
Noosh%##
RIP Buddy Cage your the greatest rock peddle steel of all time!!!
He was revolutionary, he shook pedal steel up and took it into orbit.
Jerry showed the way
I rate NRPS as probably the best country rock band along with Poco....great music great memories....greetings from Italy
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the direction that country music should have gone instead of the pathetic excrement that is "modern country".
Best part. It was written by the stones.
So even rockers made better country than today's artists.
The only bad thing about this song is that it ends
MrChelsidy well said
Best song by this version of NRPS. After Torbert left it was NEVER as good
It was always GOOD but never better than the ORIGINAL bunch. They're the Original PSYCHEDELIC COWBOY BAND and the very BEST.
I like the way you think, Peace my friend!!!☯️
@@benjaminpbarrett7607 I do agree with you 100% - NRPS is THE psychedelic cowboy band and one of my favorite groups…….strong DEAD connections!!!!!! all their Columbia LPs are top notch….I love this band...period Greetings from Italy
MrChelsidy yes! Greatest version IMO
best version ever of Dead Flowers......... just love it.....
NRPS I was there from the begining , alot of years of great music and experences.
Me too, and plenty of gratitude for all of it.
When I wake up and crawl out of bed I'm Rockin to the Blues. Play guitar and good music Loud all day long. James is listening to music every morning and as much as I can get.
I wake up to classical guitar and listen to rock only after lunch.
Marmaduke was my guitar teacher for a year I never recovered but did become a good bassist and continue all at age 67.
First concert I ever went to was NRPS (with Commander Cody opening!). I recall this song. Marmaduke was so goddamn happy... I can't help but think that that show aimed me in a good life direction.
There are those who would probably criticize my life choices, but whatever.
I hear you brother. One thing I do know is that the people I met in this period became my life-long friends. I look back on my life and honestly, I made mistakes but I wouldn't change a minute of it.
I was at one of the performances of the only tour the NRPS did with Commander Cody. As I recall, NRPS had a special guest on pedal steel....
It's ur life so fuckum
I saw a concert of that tour. Maybe San Diego? I can't remember where i was but I do remember Cody & the Airmen. I hadn't heard them before. That was a tough act for NRPS to follow!
im old now but the memories last was at giant stadium in 79 for the dead.. insane
This really takes me back to my roots. Surfing Hatteras Island on single fins. Much love to my brothers and sisters that remember too....
Hi Dave ,
Hope all's well
Dave x
Still surfing single fins here in the Caribbean and practicing my pedal steel with Buddy Cage
Many great nights with a couple of joints a cold beer good friends and some tunes by the new riders
Freak Brothers Country Freakout, Monday nights on the local 50 -watt college station. Bong full of Columbian gold, a couple Belle Bottom Cuties and zero adult supervision.
I played this song in a band I was in, but I had never heard this version. I was also the bass player, and I wish I would have heard this version, because that bass player is rockin' it.
I was in a band and what memories.
Wow! Great version. Can't believe I'm hearing this for the first time. Gotta love UA-cam!
Brings back fond memories.
Man, I lived on the New Riders in the early 70's. Lots of pretty songs written about heroin, the "other girl" in this song, but this version of "Dead Flowers" and Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" are the top of the heap of countryfied heroin songs.
Carmelita has to be the most beautiful song about a horrible situation.
We were at the gigs, the Commander and the Outlaws, Ozarks in Scotland Cheers America with the New riders ya all got it right. Long live Skynyrd
That'd have to be fun!
Bought myself a vintage 73' Sho-Bud 10 string pedal steel guitar. NR's version of Stones Dead Flowers is a song I'm working on to master the steel portion as played by talented Buddy Cage. What a great song played by New Riders. 60-70-'s era music just rocks!
Good luck - a great song to start with !
my all time favorite song by NRPS. great memories of high school in the late seventies. this is the best version of this song.
this is the best version of this song better than the stones themselves.....absolutely love this..........especially as it builds towards the end.....
Define better
Good but better than the original? No
When I was listening to this album, I didn't even know that the Stones had a version of this song. And then when I foun d out, I thought the Stones were doing a cover version.
This doesn't beat the Stones' original.
"it's good knowing he's out there" *The Dude* taking it easy for all us sinners
"I dig your style, too, man."
saw this band many times great band
R.I.P. Buddy Cage-his steel makes this song.How great was music then?
Real country music will never go out of my mind who was 25 when NRPS played this song and today I still like to be driven by them when running my Marathons. Instead 'Bro country' 'rappers' and similar things can excite people drinking alcohol all day long.
I have loved NRPS since their first album, I’ve been listening to them every night recently!! How perfect is their cover of Dead Flowers.? Too bad they all passed away, like their dear friend, Jerry Garcia, who started New Riders, they did too many drugs and partied too hard.
Best rendition ever
Saw the new riders and John Lee hooker at lebenon valley speedway back in the early 70s great show and a great band
So good to listen to and remember fun times 😁
Been playing this song in bands from the beginning. Never gets old, just my band mates and I. Ouch!
@leahywj, You're right. This is the studio version of this song from the 1976 album 'New Riders" with Buddy on pedal steel.
Some of the early live album versions do feature Jerry though.
Rocking it old school!
1971 gram and keith were croonies. so no doubt that was where the inspration came from
"the true adventures of the rolling stones" author stanley booth wrote a very good book about this era of the rolling stones exsistance. this is my favorite rolling stones song period !
definitely the best version of this song
holy shit.....just fantastic.
Funny !
So right Jenifer saw them live in 1973 with John Lee Hooker so underrated buddy could play the steel guitar better then anybody 🎼🎵🎸🎶👏🌞
I hope they play this at my funeral
I've made arrangements for my kids (and ex wives) to play "Last Lonely Eagle" at mine.
Love this band! And the offshoots from this band too!
Have loved them for years and years !
Free Mexican Airforce!
This was the first version of this great song that I heard. I loved the NRPS they were my introduction to Country Music. I never looked back! Nowadays my fav version of this song has to be Townes, though I love this version still and the Stones original of course.
Great version of the original. Saw the NRPS perform this song in NYC; I think it was at the Academy of Music in Manhattan.
Many a great time was had at a NRPS concert.
"I know you the queen of the undergrouind."
Great and fun song! Music is second to none ! Excellent lead and steel guitars.
Just genuine good music. No big lips and overproduced track.
Can't tell from this recording how big their lips are...? But pretty sure it's from way back before digitally-enhanced auto-tuned lips anyway
RIP Townes Van Zandt
Love it
This was a Rolling Stones original.
Almost reminds me of Irish punk that went country western. I can see the Pogues singing this.
In all actuality, it was Skip Battin who played bass on this song, and on this album. Stephen A. Love joined the NRPS on their next album "Who Are Those Guys?" which hit the shelves in 1977.
I love this song but can't figure who does it better the Stones or New Riders. There both great!
Sometimes, there is no better... only different. (Or more to someone's liking)
Agreed 😀
This brings a nostalgic smile to my face
Molly I am with you !
Without a doubt the best version of this song hands down 😊🌞🎶🎸🎵
I love the Stones but this version of Dead Flowers blows theirs away
+Thelonesniper101 Agreed.... :)
10-4
Josh Sheets Neva!!
Check out townes van zandts version
Same here, the original was -- and is -- still awesome. But it's Buddy Cage that pushes this over the top. His pedal steel work makes this - and every other NRPS song - a winner.
What we had once is gone but never forgotten
Still digging this tune
Love this version, love the version that Gram Parsons did, but this is the best...
Nicely done version, Lovin it.
In my "Stones..covered" playlist with other versions by the The Cowboy Junkies & Jerry Lee Lewis, along with the original. Thanks for uploading~!
Loved it then and even more now:-)
fantastic bass
I had better make a correction to my posting from three weeks ago. Stephen A. Love was not the bass player on this song; that was Skip Battin. Mr. Love joined the NRPS on the following album "Who Are Those Guys?" (1977). This song still rocks, though.
These guy's were ment for this song~~this just sounds as good as it gets, love it, it definatly wipes the floor with the stones version :@))
..for sure Big..
Sure as shit does!!!
Memories of an incredible music era.
Let's not forget their original pedal steel player was Jerry Garcia. 🌹🌹🌹
Hes not on this record tho. Lets not reduce NRPS to a band Jerry played with for a tour. Ijs, they were much more and Im not even a big fan of them tbh. But Im borderline obsessed with JG and the boys.🤣✌
A fantastic cover
Still digging this tune.
Ive met the Queen Of The Underground, several times. Im looking for another.
I forgot this song was on this album great version just like the Stones.
DAMN STRAIGHT!!! FIRST RATE.... DONT GET NO BETTER
still dig these guys...saw 'em a couple months back at Jormas FurPeaceRanch and they were HOT!
Can imagine this song without Pedal steel guitar. The beat version ever
Gotta love it 😃
Best version of this song ever done buddy was a unbelievable steel guitar player 😊🌞🎶🎸🎵
man, listen to that bass.....
Don't forget,,,,,,,,,,the Man was still at the helm when this was recorded.
Jerry still ruled the roost at the time.
Rember we have jerry garcea to thank for the creation of the new riders it was one of Jerry’s side projects I’m shoure glad he did bin hooked since I first seen them at the English town music hall
This is the best version of this song ever
very nice cover. the stones should be proud of this cover
Great Stones cover ... I like this better than the original, it is more authentic.
Thanks Realpoco for the load. My fav Stones song and now from the New Riders as well. An A+++++
NRPS were something my big brother and his friends bought to the table as fodder years ago. When I discovered the adventure's Panama red I felt that they must have others to be enjoyed.so began my quest to find those lps.that was in 1974. However it must be stated that I have never cared for Jerry Garcia or the grateful Dead the New riders of the purple sage of the f****** bomb
If only the riders could have had Mr. Richards joining on this one....Would that have been a hoot!
Only heard the Stones version before but this one is sweet!
As good as the Rolling Stones were with their original rendition, this version by the New Riders of the Purple Sage is way better. It should have been a Top-40 hit on the Billboard singles chart. The lineup at the time was John Dawson (rhythm guitar/back vocals), David Nelson (lead guitar/vocals), Buddy Cage (pedal steel guitar), Stephen A. Love (bass/back vocals), and Spencer Dryden (drums/percussion). Just thought you'd want to know.
excellent job mr.Thomas….we all love NRPS,for me they are musical friends from 70's....greetings from Italy !!!!
Perfect 😊
Are you sure Dave Torbert wasn't still in the group, I thought Love joined after Skip Batten left Love I'm sure was still in Rick Nelsons Stone Canyon Band
@@barbaradeluca7678 I just remembered, Skip Battin was still in the lineup when the NRPS recorded the studio rendition of “Dead Flowers”. Stephen Love joined the band for their next two albums, “Who Are These Guys” and “Marin County Line”. See, that was the trouble with some of these bands from the 1970s; they had unstable line-ups. I think the worst was Pure Prairie League. Their first two albums, both issued in 1972, each had a different line-up. I guess it was par for the course.
Awesome version of Dead Flowers!
This was ritten by keath Richardson of The Rolling Stones British blue grass😊❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great tune.
Love it great song
Love this version but also love the one by Frankie Miller. Give it a listen
Rock on Buddy!!!!
I saw them at Winterland in the early 70s John Dawson came out doing this while doing an imitation of Mick Jagger . Funny as hell
The writer of this tune imho loves this
...that's Townes
Nope...Keith richards
Fascinating and adictive. :-)
love this version....
Best ever heard
Awesome cover.
Cool...
My all time Stones favorite but this version is as great
So many MEMORIES*...says Aunt TT* ( now seen 73+ years)....
I'm 72 rosemary and still love playing some new riders while having the mute on the TV such an underrated band 🌞😊🎶🎸🎵
I will always love this group.Are they still playing anywhere?
Blows the Stones version away!
The amazing thing is the Stones even doing a song like this in the first place That was Gram's influence.
Rumor has it that Gram wrote it..but they were all to high to remember who really wrote the song so the great Mick snagged it
Sounds about right!
Pre dated the Stones. At least on Vinyl.
No way. They're good. But no way better than the Stones.
I was holding for Highway to Hell ,myself however thisll work too. Rich/San Jose
So good!
Check out Townes Van Zandts version of this
@TheObsession4 Don't know about that as John Dawson passed away either last year or the year before.
This was definitely good, but the stones version is still top for me. In fact this was better than I expected but I prefer the slightly slower tempo.
This is the real deal
Best cover
Dead Flowers New Riders
Wild Horses Flying Burritos Bros.
Joanne Mike Nesmith
Gunga Din Byrds
South City Midnight Lady Doobie
Brothers
Submarine Ladies America
Faithless Love Linda Ronstadt
My Man Eagles
Krikkit's Song Poco
Home Joe Walsh
Souvenirs Dan Fogelberg
@camusmuse Pretty sure it's Buddy Cage playing pedal steel on this - not Jerry.
Alas, we couldn't see this band performing live in India