Classical Composer Reacts to Time Has Come Today (The Chambers Brothers) | The Daily Doug (Ep. 521)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
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In this edition of #thedailydoug, I'm listening to Time Has Come Today by The Chambers Brothers. I have heard this song before, but I haven't ever heard the original 11-minute album version of the song. I was impressed with the power of their message, and by the longevity and continued relavence of the song. And, their studio techniques make for a very unique listen. I hope you enjoy!
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A really cool song that was released in 1967, my birth year. Dang, this is old. Joe and Willie Chambers wrote this song. Joe wrote most of the lyric after sitting in on a class at UCLA with Timothy Leary and taking LSD. Willie put the music together and contributed the line, "My soul has been psychedelicized." With the effects put on the word Time in the middle of the song and other sounds like laughing and screaming, it goes along well with an LSD trip The starting of the ticking sound gives a good representation of time ticking away, starting out like a metronome. The constant repetition of the word "Time!" makes it clear that the song is a call to action.
I was born in 1967, too!!!!
I was born in 65 (wow, getting up there!) and I remember hearing this track since my older siblings were into the psychedelic movement/music. It meets the "Time" of that age and all that was going on as Doug reminded us. The interlude of the song really takes on a journey- the distortion of time and space-an Altered State of Reality. I owe a debt of gratitude to Timothy Leary and Don Juan for aiding me on my own journey and to the Chambers Bros for supplying the perfect soundtrack
Born in 1954. Heard it on LSD in 1969.
Saw The Bros at Ford Auditorium in Detroit 8/10/68. They were the headliners, with opening acts Iron Butterfly and Sly & the Family Stone!
I`m not even a musician and I love listening you break this stuff down, you go Brother
This song is iconic and came out when the youth were fighting for civil rights, social justice, and an end to the Vietnam War. I was 10 years old when this song came out, and my two oldest brothers (10 & 12 yrs. older than me) at the time were both in Vietnam at the same time. It was a tumultuous time for my family -- lots of highs and lows. Thankfully, they both came home in one piece. My oldest brother passed away in 2021 from Lung Cancer caused by exposure to Agent Orange during his time in Vietnam. I've never been able to listen to this song without thinking of my brothers, the Vietnam war, and all the protests. Thanks for the reaction and analysis to this one, Doug! ✌💙✌
Wow what an amazing example of serendipity and synchronicity this is!
What are the chances of me "accidentally" stumbling across this video just minutes after you finished it, and me having gone down the "Time Has Come Today" rabbit hole only an hour earlier!!
I am planning to sing it tonight to kick off Black Hstory Month at my favorite karaoke bar, Chaser's in Sacramento, California, USA.
This revelatory "coincidence" is utterly amazing to me right now!
I had gone to UA-cam a couple of hours ago to find the original 1966 recored version that was only 2 minutes and 37 seconds long, and had been rejected by Columbia Records soon after it's release.
I found this out by going to Wikipedia and then came here to UA-cam to find that version, which I did, but only after finding an uploaded version with a photo of that original single but with the wrong song being played, instead it was the subsequent single released by Columbia in 1968 that we all have come to know over the past 55 years.
I am 68 years old now, and bought this 45 single and the LP of the same name back in 1968 when I was 14 years old.
I still have both, and I still play them when I am working as a DJ.
Thank you so much @Doug Helvering for your excellent video today.
Cheers!
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P.S. Doug, I just finished watching the video and at the end you were saying how you weren't really familiar with any other Chambers Brothers songs, well now I'm gonna send you down the Chamber's Brother's rabbit hole.
You really do need to listen to the live version of "Love, Peace, and Happiness".
Also as a side note, I saw the Chamber's Brothers, Santana Blues Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival Band, and the Sons of Champlin play a free outdoor concert at Stanford University in the Frost Amphitheater on Sunday, July 28,1968.
It was a mind blowing experience for that 14 year old me that I will never ever forget.
Thank you for this reminder!
As far as I can tell it’s not a wood block but a cow bel😮. Y😮can see it on a live video of the song on UA-cam
#1 - Happy Black History Month.
#2 - THANK YOU SO MUCH for honoring Black History Month on your show this year!!
#3 - Great episode!!!!
#4 - So, the song was released in late 1967 (soon after I was born), but it was actually recorded in late 1966!! Considering that Psychedelic Rock was in its *infancy* at the time, the studio effects displayed in this song ARE INCREDIBLE!!!!
#5 - You're awesome.
Tape echo. The first delay devices. You turn up the feedback to send the echo back into itself to get multiple repeats. That's what that triplet sound on the woodblock was, and also why it didn't keep in time to the drums as the band sped up a bit. Also, when you turn up the feedback enough it starts to.... feed back... increasing in volume and oscilating. A lot of psychedelic records used this sound and they go nuts with it during the freak-out section, on not just the woodblock but on the lead guitar too.
here's a demonstration of getting an echo pedal to feedback and oscilate.... in this case without even sending any signal into it.
ua-cam.com/video/R1Pa_eLA-tw/v-deo.html
Hey Doug. Thanks for this. Chambers Brothers captured it. They rival any psych band of that time and still do. I recall laying back on my bed and gripping the sides of the mattress in preparation for this vaulting reverse bungie launch into (yeah) "time".
Let us not miss the over arching Icarian theme of the son's want to flee the evil realm created by our fathers - even if it means being "burnt up by the sun".
this was a huge song when I was a kid.. We loved this band! And this song, especially. Perfect for the psychedelic 60's.
…loving song since 1967….I was 17 and this hit hard!!! ☮️❤️
Hey Sue,
I was 17 then too - the amount of great bands and songs from that year is staggering.
Sgt. Peppers and Are You Experienced came out in the summer of 1967 about a month apart. 😮
The "Little Drummer Boy" section in the middle was used as a anti-war song in the 60s.
An awesome song, Doug. Glad you went with the full length version (knew you would). Great thing you're doing highlighting black artists all month; the gospel, soul, blues music that has been the foundation of rock and roll, influencing so many musicians around the world. And all that jazz. Looking forward to this month especially.
I never realized there was an extended version of this. Thank for sharing this! : )
11:37 “Are we in a horror movie now?” I almost lost it! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember this back then Circa 10/68. What a Kick to hear Doug get the same interpretations and Rhythmic dynamics that I also get whenever I hear this. It seems to like go down and then come up with a statement and Crecendo. I used to see this also being danced too, because it's so Loose and Get Down. I'm no Music Professional; I just love Music and sound.
Memories. I saw these guys at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit back in 1969, and they were soulful and amazing. They helped soul musicians engage with the growing psychedelic music- impact people such as Sly Stone and Rick James.
Thank you for that reaction Doug. A drummers note: Gotta love that cowbell. Although it sounds like 2 of them, he (the lead singer) is only using 1 cowbell and hitting it first with the tip of his stick and the second hit with the body of the stick thus making it sound like 2.
we need more cowbell
Yup, the live performances of Time show that technique on the cowbell. Lead singer Lester Chambers usually played guitar rather than cowbell in performance -- I can't recall which of the original performing lineup played cowbell on Time.
The Lighting of the Bowl while acknowledging the psychological ship has left 😊😂
I remember back in 67 when FM radio became popular, this song received a lot of air play especially in the evening hours. Many nights after enjoying a bit of herb and putting headphones on and listening to this was quite a treat 😁
A very unique, long song that was so groovy baby. Need more cowbell ? Still love it today. I was 12 or 13 then. Now 65. Can't wait Doug !
So looking forward to this.
When Lester comes back in with the scream at 13:39,, it reminds me of Roger Daltrey’s scream in Won’t Get Fooled Again. I wonder if Pete Townshend drew inspiration from this song. I’m 69 years old and I just thought of that this year!😁
Missed the live, but I love this band and the song! Great job Doug
Good choice, remember when this first came out and late night listening's with a tote here and there. Thanks for the background information!
The crazed screams at 11:25 and maniacal laughter MAKE this song for me. At the end of May 1968 the brothers were 2nd on a bill at the Fillmore and Winterland featuring Buffalo Springfield and Richie Havens. What a trip!
Great Song 🎵 Still hear it on .u local classic rock station.
Psychedelic soul. This song is truly one of a kind.
I was a child the first time I heard this song.
It was mesmerizing. It took me place's.
Great reaction today. I only knew the radio version of this classic. Loved this long original one! Thanks Dr. Doug!
I have loved this tune for years, especially the tape echo effects on the percussion and voices!
Playing this song on the stereo back in the day used to scare the s#*t out of me! Doug, I knew that your pipe was coming out at that exact moment. Hahaha. Down here in Florida I'm jealous of your ability to do that. Thanks for your reaction/critique of this beautiful old song. "Yeuuuugh!!"
Another 60's guy weighing in. Loved this song on the old AM radio back in the 60's. I loved a lot of Motown artists' songs back on the radio in the 60's as well, but this song was so psychedelic that I was shocked when I finally saw them on Ed Sullivan...and they were not a white hippie group. That, and the rise of Sly and the Family Stone showed me that black artists were not just doing one thing, I got very excited in seeing so many different variations in the sounds that gave such flavor to the 60's. Great analysis, Doug!
I co-hosted a blues radio show in L.A. and Lester Chamber was a regular guest of the host who also used Lester's version of "Five Long Years" as the opening song of every show. The Chambers Brothers also reunited for a show in L.A. (and did play shows together now and then including some fundraisers) and performed with a choir the song, "Love, Peace & Happiness" that was just overwhelming. Classic group.
That song, Love, Peace and Happiness is included on a compilation called The First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies. That was a 3 record set on Columbia Records. You can find used copies for sale on line.🎸🎸
@@briangriffin5524 There's also a video somewhere on UA-cam of when they performed that song with a choir in L.A. that I mentioned. Santana and the Isley Brothers also covered that song together on a recent release.
I saw them play this live in 1969 at the Atlantic City Pop Festival a few weeks before Woodstock. It was amazing! I don't remember much from that weekend, but this stood out.
It's about Time this show featured black artists. The Chambers Brothers played alot of the big rock festivals back in the day including the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1970.
This was played on rock radio in Dallas, the long version. Always loved this!!
What a great pick. I've only ever heard a few seconds of this song at a time, and never the whole thing. This was a real treat.
Wow!! I'm sure I heard the short version of this song on AM radio when I was 13, then I know I heard the full-length version once I started to listen to the local FM free-form station later on, and I have owned the vinyl album for at least 40 years now. This song is freakin' awesome, and speaks to what's going on right now! We will not go backwards in the face of resurgent fascism. We, all of us, people of color, LGBTQ people, people of the world, must resist! Thanks, Doug. I always enjoy your content and your comments.
Had this on a 45 -- probably my sister's but maybe my Dad's, coz I didn't buy it -- and once i heard it I was hooked, at maybe 9 years old. Clearly not the 11 minute version on the 45 but I swear it used to freak me out just a bit...Although that never stopped me listening to it. Imagine my excitement when I first heard the full 11 minutes!! By then it didn't freak me out. Chambers Brothers were an early integrated band, too with, of all players, the drummer being white. They have lots of soulful rock and bluesy songs.
One of my favorite songs of all time.
Proud to say I own a vinyl copy of this purchased in 1970, also saw REO Speedwagon play it in 1969 at the Deep End in Park Ridge, Illinois. Added note: they have an awesome version of "People Get Ready" on this album.🤠👍
I'm 67 & remember very well first hearing this song when it came out on AM radio. It was mind blowing! It certainly captured the vibe's in the air at the time & will forever be a favorite of this old hippie. BTW... Those are "not" wood blocks, they are cow bells. Moo......
Ok brother, I've found your channel recently and spent an entire afternoon watching your videos. I love your breakdowns, honestly the best I've seen. The intricacies in cords and/or notes as an amature is what made me want to watch/learn more... I would love to se you break down Lovebite - Judgement Day. As it is an abnormality & makes people just go nuts from what I've seen... I just want to know why tbh, but I also love their energy....
While you were tinkering on the piano, you missed the "Little Drummer Boy" section.
Thank you! I had only heard the radio version of this previously. I can just imagine people getting a little paranoid tripping out to this. Reminds me of the time a few of us kids were just trying to goof around with our instruments, and ended up improvising on one chord for 45 minutes. I did not know Chambers Bros had started out as folk gospel -- quite a shift to this one. Must have been something they ate.
I too had only heard the radio edit. So cool to discover the longer version, thanks Doug ☮❤
Hi Doug. You may not be able to play it, but Merry Clayton on The Stones' Gimme Shelter always gives me chills. In the best magical musical way. 💕
Favorite tune of mine for the same reason. Merry’s vocals give me chills
It's a cowbell Doug, it's a cowbell!!
Terrific analysis of a deceivingly simple song in real Time. Doug analyzes the relationships among lyrics, elements of music, and historical context. Appreciated hearing the back story on the band. Saw the Bros in Detroit in ‘68. They were the headliners, with Iron Butterfly, Sly & the Family Stone as opening acts!
Can't wait to see what you have coming.
Should be a fun month!
Personally, I'd love to hear you breaking down Isaac Hayes' cover of "Walk on By."
Nice! I have this album! A lost treasure.
The white guy in the pic is Brian Keenan (January 28, 1943 - October 5, 1985). He played drums and was great!
One of my all time favorite songs. I was fortunate to see them at the Winterland back in 1968 when stationed in Frisco. I've only heard one other of their songs " In the Midnight Hour" which they do a really good job. I'm going to have to find the album tracks and see if there are any other gems on there.
It’s amazing, I remember all the words to these songs
I grew up in Granville, Ohio: a small village, home of Denison University. I was visiting a clothing shop in town one day, when several tall African-Americans came into the shop. Sort of freaked me out! There really weren't any blacks in our village, back then (literally, one family). I found out later, The Chambers Brothers had played at Denison! Always loved this tune 💞
Fond memories of Taylor Drugs and the Hallmark shop across the street the family used to operate.
When I first heard this song in 1967, I was blown away. I still think it is one of the most epic songs ever recorded. It borrows heavily from Jefferson Airplane. It's a psychedelic masterpiece.
Incredible sound and passion!!!!’
It's not a woodblock, it's a cowbell! And what you heard as triplets were the repeats from the tape echo box and they constantly change the time setting so the echoes speed up and down. I saw them pay this live in Greenwich Village after the Million Marijuana March at the beginning of this century.
I had never heard of The Chambers Brothers until I bought a Hits of the 60’s collection and this song was on it. I love it…I’ve only heard this version (album) a couple of times, but it’s epic!
Lived with this one, had a copy of the LP. played it at my college dorm.
If you watch a live performance, you will see that the "wood blocks" is actually cowbell.
Thanks for doing this Doug. I still have the original studio album))
A perfect choice for Weird Wednesday, as well as kicking off Black History Month, nu? 😉
And, yes. I noticed your merch choice today! 💯
Hey Doug. I really enjoyed your breakdown of this great song. Could that be a Greg Lake autograph on your wall? Cool.
I was 16 when I heard them on the AM radio. Can't Turn You Loose tune. When they came to Seattle, saw them. When they played "Time Has Come" about have way through the screams people started Freaking out, ones on LSD. Bedlam to doors to escape. I was LSD too, I heard the music in my life at that time. 17 years old. An even better tune is "LOVE, PEACE & HAPPINESS".
I have ALWAYS Loved this tune! It was on the radio in Hawaii, I was a 14 year old US Air Force brat living in Hawaii...It has never left me and thru the years, many of my friends had never heard it. Thank you so much for the analysis and just for putting it back out there. It is as relevant now as it was then, to me at least! Thanks again!
If this one crossed the Atlantic, I missed it. As ever, great to experience a track that's new to me with Doug. I really enjoyed this so off to explore some more by The Chambers Brothers.
It's a great track, the first time I heard it, it reminded me of The Rolling Stones.
I have never heard this! Perhaps it was never big in the UK? What a great psych.tune. I will be seeking out this album. What a fab.tune from my birth year.
It was big in the UK.
Thanks Doug for listening to the original long version. I bought the album sometime in 1968 when I was 15 and was mesmerized! Martin and Bobby would soon be gone. Vietnam was a product of Johnson’s murder of JFK. Started to think that something wasn’t right. This song was perfect for the time as a few filmmakers have seen.
Hey, check out Traffic’s version of “Feeling Good” on Last Exit. Extraordinary !
You effing win when you admit they have left you behind and blaze a bowl!!
Never a woodblock, it’s simply a cowbell struck on opposite ends. The main effect is the Echoplex tape looper which is crude but good for a world of different effects and pitch mods on vocals, drums, etc, think analog sampler. Used a lot by sound engineers and recordists for tv show production (tons on Star Trek). This was multitracked with 8 or so tracks so the drums got shoved in your left ear for a bit to make room. The Chambers Brothers recorded other great albums with blues and fantastic gospel harmonies that we expect from siblings who sang together in the church choir. Blues Great, Sonny Terry taught Lester Chambers to play harp. Yes, Carpe Diem.
This was make out music in every dim-lit basement party of 14 year olds when it came out, and the real hero of any such party was the person who had the 11-minute track on the album, not the 45. A fun drive down memory lane. Thanks, Doug !
At about the 10 minute 13 second mark of your video ( 10:13 ), you can hear the melody of "The Little Drummer Boy" . Reminds me of Hendrix at Monterey slipping the melody of " Strangers in the Night" into his version of "Wild Thing" .
"Young Hearts can go their way.."
Nobody knows Love, Peace and Happiness. Another great
CB long tune.
Might be better - especially the solos in the middle.
The CB's performed that song at the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1970. Included on a compilation 3 record set on Columbia Records.
Some of the stranger percussion (and other) sounds are produced using echo, and flanging, and/or phasing(? as to whether the latter is the correct word) tape effects. Flanging was also used in a few Beatles songs, as well as on "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and other "psychedelic" recordings. This song was a definite jaw-dropper when it came out.
Another great one from my youth.
This is part of the soundtrack of the Vietnam War.
This is the first time I've heard this longer version, I believe. I've heard the single a number of times and then an FM version too.
Doug I encourage you to listen to this again and when the psychedelic part is going think about what is happening to time in your left ear instruments and the right ear instruments and what that represents not only for the song but for the time. It allowed those of us who went through it at the time to "realize", as the song said, that all in one space and in a moment there are different realities and time can be on a whole different pace for each person and that we can move from a "time" to another and don't need to stay trapped. Hence "the time has come, there are things to realize". The power of psychedelic to open our minds and understanding. It was a masterpiece that allowed many of us to transcend and survive.
Super fun! I also really enjoy the Ramones cover of this song.
Love Ramones! ❤
Yeah, I knew their version was a cover but I’d never heard the original song
The owner of the recording studio FORBADE these guys from recording such "non-music." But, they did anyway. They had only one shot to record it one night - and this is it. Fabulous.
Little Drummer Boy at 10:13 🥁
HOT-DIGGITY-DOUG! .....Helvering, that is.🤣👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
History has deemed this song an important sociological statement for its time. To wit:
In the fall of 2016, George Lipsitz of the University of California at Santa Barbara, writing as prelude to his piece “‘Time Has Come Today’: Why Sociology Matters Now” in the Michigan Sociological Review, offered the following:
…In the midst of tumult and turmoil in 1967, in a society that seemed to be falling apart, the Chamber Brothers wrote, recorded and released a song titled “Time has Come Today.” Its lyrics gestured toward the chaotic but profound transformations in social life emanating from mass mobilizations by people of color, a counter culture created by disaffected but idealistic young people, and the collateral consequences of the war in Vietnam, urban insurrections and assassinations of beloved leaders. “Time has come today,” marked the moment of its production, distribution and circulation as a time of transformative change, a crossroads where the old ways seemed obsolete but unwilling to die while the new appeared promising but not yet able to be born. The composition and performance of the song marked social crisis as a temporal crisis in several ways. In an era when popular songs usually lasted only three minutes, “Time Has Come Today,” went on for eleven. The drummer for the group marked the passing of seconds by imitating out the tick tock of a clock with sticks striking cow bells and wood blocks. The song changed rhythms frequently but the vocal arrangement featured voices consistently shouting “time” on the down beat. With its urgent call for recognition of the present as a time of action and invention, “Time Has Come Today” endures as a material register of the shakeup in social relations and generation of new social imaginaries in the wake of the crises of the 1960s.
Abstract and link to the full article can be accessed here:
www.jstor.org/stable/43940345
The Eleven Minute Version of TIME HAS COME TODAY is the Only Version I Have on My Playlist.
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That is a cowbell, not a woodblock and it is put through a tape echo.
I want to say that it was probably recorded on a 4 track recorder and that's why the drums are all on the left side. There were not enough tracks to do them in stereo. The early Beatles are like this, too.
A classic that i haven't heard in a very long time since real top quality classic rock radio doesn't exist in Maine anymore, as far as I know.
Love that you are honoring Black Musicians for Black History Month Doug. Rock and Roll was shaped by Black Musicians such as the Chambers Brothers. I was fortunate to see many of the Pioneers of Rock and Roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino amongst the first shows I saw in the mid seventies. The influence of these musicians were later heard in the British Invasion as well as the next generation of American bands. Please consider some great Black artists to cover in different genres as well, Soul, R&B, Jazz and Funk…Btw The Chambers Brothers were a innovative band from their era and had some influence on another great band Parliment-Funkadelic who would continue mixing the same genres of music…
I saw them in concert in the fall of 1968 while a freshman in college. No other songs were memorable, but this song blew us all away
You're a theory monster obviously, but I really appreciate your interpretation of the poetic side of these songs too. You have such great insights!
For black history month: Sly - In Time, P Funk - Mothership Connection (live video from '76 with Children Of Production into the whole Mothership landing section? It's pretty much the greatest thing EVER.), Jimi - If 6 Was 9, Machine Gun, 1983..., Bold As Love, Little Wing, Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up, Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23
I love how you break down great songs! This one was a highlight of the 60s! FUN! I agree with Mick…you need to check out Love, Peace and Happiness.
I think the sound you wondered about at 12:20 is the wood block that's been manipulated on tape. Slowed, distorted with fuzz, and layered with reverb. It appears to be the same sound at the end, just distorted differently.
Can't put it off another day, I don't care what others say...
Great, great song. Summer of Love. More psychedelic than most of the bands considered as such.
TIME !!!!
Do the long versions of Papa was a Rolling Stone or Smiling Faces by The Temptations
If you listen closely, you can hear "The Little Drummer Boy" starting around 10:13, while Doug is playing the piano... The Chambers Brothers made an everlasting contribution to music and culture.
There was a horror movie that used this song to maximum creepy effect in 1988 called Bad Dreams. I remember it being a decent movie. However, it was produced by Gail Anne Hurd.
These guys had an undeniable influence on the white acts that were playing in the same clubs in CA in the mid 60s. I first got into them because I found the psychedelic artwork of club concert venues of the era fascinating. There are many show bills with them or near the top of the bill on one night when bands like the Grateful Dead, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Buffalo Springfield and Quicksilver Messenger Service.
People who are fans of those acts (or subsequent acts like CSN, CSNY, Jefferson Starship, Starship, etc) are doing themselves a disservice if they don't dig into the Chambers Brothers a bit. The influence of this band was enormous.
I remember when that song came out. It was so different and unusual.
Thank you so much for celebrating Black History Month.
Doug, While we are waiting for Time Has Come, I want to mention a piece you might be interested in. Since you reviewed Hybrid Won't Back Down ( thank you by the way Hybrid is now on my play list,) check out Bonobo ( dance music genre) with Anna Lapwood ( classic pipe organ Royal Albert Hall) play Otomo live at Royal Albert Hall. Strap in and hold on. Check out the cool back story of how they met. Rick
Doug, while you were playing piano during the psychedelic drum section you missed that the guitar was playing the melody line from "Little Drummer Boy"! When I was in a band years ago we covered this song, and in the place of this section was a drum solo and I played that "Little Drummer Boy" lick to signal the end of the solo, and then we kicked in immediately to the last verse. It was a blast to play.