In 1969 I brought my RCA record player (yes record player) to my classroom. I was teaching CULTURAL DIFFUSION and played Dr. John's music. It blew their minds. I did it for years. He didn't know it, but he was my co-teacher on many occasions. The kids, through the years, loved his music and the lesson. I always wanted to meet him. It never happened. But, as fate would have it, one of my darling students, Ms. Cynthia, of that very class, sang with him on several occasions when she lived in New Orleans. A nice connection for me. Everything links together one way or another. I am so grateful for his talent - recorded talents - so that amazing talent will live on forever. Even my five-year-old granddaughter loves his work because her favorite Disney movie is THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. He was and will always be a talent for all generations and ages. My students called me Mama-Schu. Mama Roux, please know that Mama Schu appreciates you and I know we all walk on gilded spikes. I'm sad.....
Don't be sad my brother he's out there jamming somewhere in the astral, sending you, and us all the vybes same as it ever was, stay up and float down stream and I hope you are in peaceful water's wherever you are my friend ☮️♥️✨🙏
Well, it´s surely a great trip album. I listened to it 4 times the night I bought it, on acid. I felt like I was in a camping park, with three different gypsy bands playling simultaneously, and all generations dancing around bonfire together and old mama made big soup for everyone, which had cooked on the finest stock for several days, such is the groove and flavour of these recordings. Together with 1st Funkadelic LP, my favourite album for making a perfectly great vibe on any trip.
A good gold nugget to find among all the old music. Amazing for 1969. A man of his own. Captain B was another early favourite but didn't hear about John until a couple years ago.
For those of you not from south Louisiana Gris Gris can mean many things. It can be an amulet or a necklace. It can be a spell or incantation or more. It all come back to voodoo or maybe a little hoodoo. It usually a good think to protect you from evil. Anyway if you didn’t grow up with it don’t play with things you don’t understand.
Knows right? It's like we been WA-kin round backwards or something... "he's long John, he's long gone,he got a funny shoe,with a heel in the front,and a heel in the back,hes long gone"
I remember very clearly that day in 1969 when a friend of mine put this record on and told me he'd just found this great musician. It still raises the hair on my neck just as it did 50 years ago. Bless him. He's playing in the great orchestra in the sky now.
I saw Dr. John, the Night Tripper at the Beacon Theatre in NYC sometime early 70's I had never seen a concert anything like it. He was running up and down the aisles & I felt like I was trippin. I probably was. Last time I saw him was a few years back at Town Hall in NYC. Enjoyed that concert, too. R.I.P. Dr. John.
I would just LOVE to have heard Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band cover this song. Would have knocked this song out of the ballpark past planet Mars!!!
First heard this in Detroit, MI on WABX at night the whole album, man love that station this is why radio sucks. (I'm talking to you WCSX) Today corporate anything has no soul. Long live the The doctor another musical icon who no longer walk the earth. Thank you for opening my ears and mind to all things different. You will be always be in my the heart.
All your comments about hearing this in your pasts are excellent, keep them coming when they come to. I heard of the doc in 2012 when he had new material with the guitarist from the Black Keys. This CD is some wonderful music you don't hear much else like.
We gona to conjure up some spirit...and trance dance into the other world! Dam this is so, so seductive...what sound that transports the soul into strange, different realms. This is Conjure, pure & perfect....enuf said.
I first heard this on 95.5 KLOS late at night on the way home from work over a decade ago. I completely forgot about it and just randomly found it here on the tubes. Play this and some Tom Waits back to back.
I first tripped to Dr. John on Antigua early 70's. I dedicated my house to suit: bamboo corner with a Mama Roux made from a cow's hip bone, red cellophane across the openings, candle behind it. Seating between great big boulders, cushions in between. Loved Dr. John ever since
The night Tripper has now taken the most amazing trip ever. Thank you Dr John for the years of magic. Listening to this i am back in Notting hill gate in 1969. xxx Wander free with your Gris Gris.
RESPECT Spazzy,my dad did the same for me!just remember your children will now become creative mystycal anarchists !the world needs more dads like you and my dad
In this yr, 69 did a gig with the Soul Survivors in Long Iland N.Y. and Mac was on the gig at the Rock Pile club. Love this kinda Groove and Mac's style. Later got to gig on a show in SanDiego CA. with him and BonnieBramlett. Love it.
@HalSamuel Been listening to him since 69 First saw him on Halloween 70 or 71 tripping on Acid. All the glitter he would throw out from up his sleeve every time he waved his arms it seemed he had a never ending supply. Very good show and the sparkelys weren't bad either. LOL
I was watching the band's vid the last waltz and Dr John came on .seeing him dragged up from the deep vault of my memory, yea dragged up from the pit his great album Gris Gris
I saw him on the Right Place Wrong Time tour in '73, in '80 in NOLA and in '89 with Rickie Lee Jones. One of my all time favorites... My aunt and uncle gave me this album for Christmas in '69 (I was 12)
It’s so weird...I’m from Louisiana. I just “found” Dr John last week or so in a playlist Down made on Spotify. When I say found, I mean I realized who this man was. I had heard his voice all over and never put a name to it. I just wish I would’ve had a chance to say hello. We love you Mac, thank you for all the inspiration. Where ya’t Mule?!
1968 I was a regular at a biker club house at 15 sitting rolling from a pound of weed supplying the party with an never ending stream of joints. This album came on for the first time it and John Mayall played all night long.
I stumbled upon your music,me and my buddy were talking and we looked up the song Right place, Wrong Time as a joke (because we're young) and we actually listened to the lyrics.we were totally blown away man (admittedly we were super high but hey) your music is haunting, ethereal,and pointedly unique.rest easy in the twilight bayou my friend
Blacklights and blacklight posters, some weed, acid, and maybe a little Annie Green Springs Wine to quench the thirst listening to Night Tripoer with your favorite girl in the 60s... BABY BOOM BOME!!!😜
His music was Spiritual man, and I ain't talking "drop your last $20 in the wicker basket and He's gonna heal that cancer inside you" BULLSHIT neither!!! RIP Mac, will be sorely missed!!!
gris gris gumba ya ya ... how i live my life ... seems just like yesterday me and dr john tripping up and down the bayou .. gris gris gumba ya ya man ...
Loved Dr. John what a talent, what a piano player! What a writer great songs period! So, we are going to miss him, as he said “I’m the last of the best, I’m the gri gri man” And “ ...”walk on Gilded splinters with the cane of the Zulu...” I think as he wrote” he was in the right place at the right time”😎✌🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
I first heard this album as a youngster. I have travelled far and wide - both geographically and musically - and I arrive almost where I began. A like mind.
Seeing Dr. John and his Gris Gris girls perform this live, so close I could touch them....was one of the nights to remember in 1969.
They don't make music like that anymore.
R.I.P. Night Tripper. You'll never know how much you contributed to the Bayou Dr. that I would eventually become. Thank you
What is a Bayou Dr? I think I need you
I recall Dr John from the sixties. So unique. Great studio pianist. We loved him. RIP
In 1969 I brought my RCA record player (yes record player) to my classroom. I was teaching CULTURAL DIFFUSION and played Dr. John's music. It blew their minds. I did it for years. He didn't know it, but he was my co-teacher on many occasions. The kids, through the years, loved his music and the lesson. I always wanted to meet him. It never happened. But, as fate would have it, one of my darling students, Ms. Cynthia, of that very class, sang with him on several occasions when she lived in New Orleans. A nice connection for me. Everything links together one way or another. I am so grateful for his talent - recorded talents - so that amazing talent will live on forever. Even my five-year-old granddaughter loves his work because her favorite Disney movie is THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG. He was and will always be a talent for all generations and ages. My students called me Mama-Schu. Mama Roux, please know that Mama Schu appreciates you and I know we all walk on gilded spikes. I'm sad.....
Adria Schumann nicely done. Lovely tribute
Don't be sad my brother he's out there jamming somewhere in the astral, sending you, and us all the vybes same as it ever was, stay up and float down stream and I hope you are in peaceful water's wherever you are my friend ☮️♥️✨🙏
Well, it´s surely a great trip album. I listened to it 4 times the night I bought it, on acid. I felt like I was in a camping park, with three different gypsy bands playling simultaneously, and all generations dancing around bonfire together and old mama made big soup for everyone, which had cooked on the finest stock for several days, such is the groove and flavour of these recordings. Together with 1st Funkadelic LP, my favourite album for making a perfectly great vibe on any trip.
A good gold nugget to find among all the old music. Amazing for 1969. A man of his own. Captain B was another early favourite but didn't hear about John until a couple years ago.
Je l'ai vu à Roterdam en 1972 à l'époque des festivals. C'était fabuleux!
rest in peace. your music is always living. i start listning late in my life to you--its never to late.christer from sweden
Good dog in heaven! How have I spent my life in ignorance of this man's music?
Rip Dr John,you passed today but your great music,like this album,will live on for many many to enjoy :/
He passed today ?WTF .. youtube planned this mystery recommended pseudo ironically .
Bastards RIP Dr
The Dr.'s SOUL is LOOSED. Have a drink for him, I am. Later watching Serpent & Rainbow.
For those of you not from south Louisiana Gris Gris can mean many things. It can be an amulet or a necklace. It can be a spell or incantation or more. It all come back to voodoo or maybe a little hoodoo. It usually a good think to protect you from evil. Anyway if you didn’t grow up with it don’t play with things you don’t understand.
Knows right? It's like we been WA-kin round backwards or something... "he's long John, he's long gone,he got a funny shoe,with a heel in the front,and a heel in the back,hes long gone"
Psychedelic swamp music at its best. Love the drums.Thank you Doctah!
I remember very clearly that day in 1969 when a friend of mine put this record on and told me he'd just found this great musician. It still raises the hair on my neck just as it did 50 years ago. Bless him. He's playing in the great orchestra in the sky now.
This reminds me of when I was 17 and was staying at Eel pie island in west London. They played dr John all the time.
Wow! I was born in 83 and found this in 2010...
R.I.P. Dr. John you will be sorely missed
I heard this in 1970 while driving my Dad's '69 Caddy. This is the Southern Swamp music America hides from. But the Doctor got a hold on you anyway.
Boogie woogie on to the other shores Dr John! 1941-2019. Thanks for all the music!
RIP
Saw him the year before he passed
I saw Dr. John, the Night Tripper at the Beacon Theatre in NYC sometime early 70's I had never seen a concert anything like it. He was running up and down the aisles & I felt like I was trippin. I probably was. Last time I saw him was a few years back at Town Hall in NYC. Enjoyed that concert, too. R.I.P. Dr. John.
Oct 71 w/ Weather Report opening?
He was the last of the best, they called him the Gris Gris Man. RIP
I would just LOVE to have heard Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band cover this song. Would have knocked this song out of the ballpark past planet Mars!!!
this song captures the steamy mystic swampy nature of South Louisiana so perfectly. New fave jam for biking around New Orleans at night
+Marsh Sherrif it is if'n y'all's got a gris gris lol
Good luck
If you ride your bike at night, wear white.
exactly!! beautiful
Bought that used in high school based on the cover. Been hooked ever since.
best blues . song for me..............one for punk rokk....................
First heard this in Detroit, MI on WABX at night the whole album, man love that station this is why radio sucks. (I'm talking to you WCSX) Today corporate anything has no soul. Long live the The doctor another musical icon who no longer walk the earth. Thank you for opening my ears and mind to all things different. You will be always be in my the heart.
avalon1a: WABX was a cultural icon in Detroit, and, was also the first place the I heard the good Doctor.
So sad! The GLORY DAYS of "underground FM!!!
We love you. Such a night. Resting tonight with this in my head❤️❤️❤️
wow dr john you never left my life ever.so happy to have you back.....Sooooooooo cool still love you baby xoxox
He ain't dead. 🔥🤘💀🤘🔥
R.I.P. Gris-Gris Man. You will be truly be missed Dr. John.
Another great legend from New Orleans has left the building ...RIP Dr J o h n
So sad to hear of his passing. I grew up to Dr. John's music.
RIP Night Tripper... love this album, the whole mood, thanks Dr. John...
i fucking love this song so much.
I hope they have a huge parade for his funeral. RIP to a favorite since the early days.
Big loss for NOLA and the world. May your soul be at peace Good Doctor. Won't ever be another Night Tripper.
First heard this on my way down to the Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive Music in 1970...it blew me away...
Rest In Peace. 🎼😭🎼
All your comments about hearing this in your pasts are excellent, keep them coming when they come to. I heard of the doc in 2012 when he had new material with the guitarist from the Black Keys. This CD is some wonderful music you don't hear much else like.
Magic. May the Dr. RIP.
My friend Gary in the service turned us on to the Doctor and some magical mushrooms. Amazing tippy groove.
Trippy. ..Dr. John was a good man .. And thorough.
R.I.P., Doc.
The mad love of my whole adolescence (and Always); she told me about Dr.John. We knew Rebbenack togeth.
We gona to conjure up some spirit...and trance dance into the other world!
Dam this is so, so seductive...what sound that transports the soul into strange, different realms. This is Conjure, pure & perfect....enuf said.
I first heard this on 95.5 KLOS late at night on the way home from work over a decade ago. I completely forgot about it and just randomly found it here on the tubes. Play this and some Tom Waits back to back.
I've been a Dr. John fan since buying his first LP wayyyyy the hell back.
I first tripped to Dr. John on Antigua early 70's. I dedicated my house to suit: bamboo corner with a Mama Roux made from a cow's hip bone, red cellophane across the openings, candle behind it. Seating between great big boulders, cushions in between. Loved Dr. John ever since
The night Tripper has now taken the most amazing trip ever.
Thank you Dr John for the years of magic. Listening to this i am back in Notting hill gate in 1969. xxx
Wander free with your Gris Gris.
First song by Dr. John I ever heard!!! Thats all it took!!
1st saw him in England, Bath festival, circa 1971. blew my mind
Rest In Peace Doctor
My favorite album from Dr John...Bon Voyage ...
Best Rx there is. 💜
This song brings my spirit to a place I don't want to leave - ya ya! With you in spirit ya ya!
I play this for my kids most every night before bed... Seems to keep them quiet all night.
Spazzy Mendoza don't do that.
not surprised
Probably scared the sh*t out of them
@@roger9552 LOL!
RESPECT Spazzy,my dad did the same for me!just remember your children will now become creative mystycal anarchists !the world needs more dads like you and my dad
In this yr, 69 did a gig with the Soul Survivors in Long Iland N.Y. and Mac was on the gig at the Rock Pile club. Love this kinda Groove and Mac's style. Later got to gig on a show in SanDiego CA. with him and BonnieBramlett. Love it.
one of my favorite late night records. fantastic.
send the Doctor best wishes.
RIP Doctor, King of the
Night Trippers!
@HalSamuel Been listening to him since 69 First saw him on Halloween 70 or 71 tripping on Acid. All the glitter he would throw out from up his sleeve every time he waved his arms it seemed he had a never ending supply. Very good show and the sparkelys weren't bad either. LOL
A regularly played song by Clyde Clifford back in '69 and '70 on Beaker Street!!!
See you around Dr. John the Night Tripper. In 1968 your debut album was one of my favorites in a year of amazing music.
I was watching the band's vid the last waltz and Dr John came on .seeing him dragged up from the deep vault of my memory, yea dragged up from the pit his great album Gris Gris
TIMELESSLY CLASSIC.............
RIP Dr John.
As of 10 January 2020, 74 dislikes. 74 people need an education in musical appreciation.
I'm going see him at the Baton Rouge Blues Fest 2014 I can't wait to see him
I was lucky to see him perform this whole album, when it was new. Groundbreaking.
I did too. Hypnotic, cast a spell on us.
THAT would be world-shaking.
I saw him on the Right Place Wrong Time tour in '73, in '80 in NOLA and in '89 with Rickie Lee Jones. One of my all time favorites... My aunt and uncle gave me this album for Christmas in '69 (I was 12)
RIP, Night Tripper. This is probably the first song I heard of yours, in the late sixties.
RIP Dr. John
With the messed up 2019 version of me, I really need this Gris Gris stuff. The Dr's medicine's sure working on me now. Thank ya Mac Rebenack.
R.I.P. Dr. John... 6-6-2019
RIP Dr John. Such an amazing music album from beginning to end.
I remember seeing him at the Spectrum in Philadelphia probably 70 or 71 . He opened with this song . RIP brother 😎
Magnificent, unique and much loved by those who get it.
It’s so weird...I’m from Louisiana. I just “found” Dr John last week or so in a playlist Down made on Spotify. When I say found, I mean I realized who this man was. I had heard his voice all over and never put a name to it. I just wish I would’ve had a chance to say hello. We love you Mac, thank you for all the inspiration. Where ya’t Mule?!
I think he’s dead 😞
@@salvie777 he died literally like less than a month after I posted this. That was rough.
Never too late. The good doctor left a treasure trove of music.
Thanks Mac! RIP Night Tripper
R.I.P. DR. JOHN. tHANKS
This just sounds amazing - I mean the clarity and production is best of era
R.I.P. Dr. John. We will miss the funk, the soul, the heart.
I needed a doctor, i just love Dr. John. Especially this album is the perfect medicine for me! Thanks Doc.!!!
1968 I was a regular at a biker club house at 15 sitting rolling from a pound of weed supplying the party with an never ending stream of joints. This album came on for the first time it and John Mayall played all night long.
I stumbled upon your music,me and my buddy were talking and we looked up the song Right place, Wrong Time as a joke (because we're young) and we actually listened to the lyrics.we were totally blown away man (admittedly we were super high but hey) your music is haunting, ethereal,and pointedly unique.rest easy in the twilight bayou my friend
Right Place Wrong Time is still great.
Rest In Peace
Blacklights and blacklight posters, some weed, acid, and maybe a little Annie Green Springs Wine to quench the thirst listening to Night Tripoer with your favorite girl in the 60s... BABY BOOM BOME!!!😜
I drank wines called Lazy Days and Easy Nights - the 70s were so pleasant and the wine was not that bad
Legend told that he is still going night trippin.
His music was Spiritual man, and I ain't talking "drop your last $20 in the wicker basket and He's gonna heal that cancer inside you" BULLSHIT neither!!! RIP Mac, will be sorely missed!!!
This song's so smokey, it almost makes me cough! Ideal soundtrack for an evening in search of your mind.
Classic. This whole album is so good.
Craig Varian Agreeeeed! This whole album is incredibly hypnotic!
got this when it first came out still as good with out any thing
RIP NIGHT TRIPPER, run those bayous now not bound to this domain fly high Dr.John
Float on guilded splinters...
Dr.John and Jerry Garcia would be the 2 musicians I go back and see if I had a time machine.
gris gris gumba ya ya ... how i live my life ... seems just like yesterday me and dr john tripping up and down the bayou .. gris gris gumba ya ya man ...
i swear ive listent to thsi as much as 136,000 views...
I just saw him play this at a(the) bluesfest in wheeling wv last night...too,too cool
Loved Dr. John what a talent, what a piano player! What a writer great songs period! So, we are going to miss him, as he said “I’m the last of the best, I’m the gri gri man” And “ ...”walk on Gilded splinters with the cane of the Zulu...” I think as he wrote” he was in the right place at the right time”😎✌🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Back in my TRIPPIN DAYS this freaked me out but still loved it and now? STILL DO .. LOL
Thanks for uploading this!
So long Dr.John..
Lost a legend today! RIP
RIP Dr. John, the Night Tripper... Thanks for your creativity and brilliant talent!
I first heard this album as a youngster. I have travelled far and wide - both geographically and musically - and I arrive almost where I began. A like mind.
i have just returned too my friend, this was quite the appropriate welcoming!
Robert Graeme me too!
I love you brother John ;)
RIP Dr. John.
RIP Dr. John...