lee michaels with his drummer Frosty.....what a pair! saw em live at the San Jose fairgrounds....67 68 whew!! I am an old timer.....(don't feel it tho) Peace.........
Saw Lee at Fillmore West Dec 1970 with Albert King and Atlee hitchhiked from San Jose my first concert! Took hit of Acid and weed and opium laced hash wasn't old enough to drink! Oh! My!!
Been married for 48 years and I listened to this WAY BACK. It takes me back to when I was young and did and said anything I felt. Sometimes I feel silly thinking of the things we all did, but I sure don't regret it. ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MUSIC.
Kathy Trim: yep. i thought i had the world by the balls, thought i knew everything and had energy to burn. invincible. but life has a way of introducing it's own agenda. had fun tho.
Yesterday came so fast But it didn't matter Love had passed I don't know What to do I want that girl Away from you CHORUS: Heighty-hi Hey-de-hey The whole darn world Is feeling that way Hey-de-hey Heighty-hi Everybody's stoned So am I Down the road The other way That's the way to go The people say They don't know Where I've been Felt so good I'm going again CHORUS Let us stop love' The other day Somehow to me Doesn't seem the same All of the people When the house is free Some try to buy it Other think it's free Chorus Let's shake hands With the other self Just look inside You're sittin on a shelf Dressed in black You're hard to see Must be the devil No I think it's me Chorus In a dark closet Is the place to trip Gets you so stoned You think you're gonna flip Don't be afraid If you're all alone That's how you started That's how you gonna go Everybody Chorus (Everybody sing) It got stopped It's in the slip I get to the point Then I split When your group Has come and gone Just sit back You'd better sing this song CHORUS
A great song - this and "Stormy Monday" are the ultimate pantheon of gospel and soul fused together...and with great precision, too!!! There are many people who wrongly regard & are quick to dismiss Lee Michaels as a one-hit wonder because of his one major hit - do you know what I mean (no pun intended)? Listen to his other work, and you'll be pleasantly surprised!!! Bravo, Lee Michaels!!!
Love, love love this album! The one with that Drum Solo by Frosty. I was in a band in the 80s and we opened for a band that Frosty was in at the time called The Naughty Sweeties. I told him that I just loved his work with Lee Michaels and I remember him being surprised that anyone would even know about that music. He was a very cool guy and still had his chops.
Can't keep from dancing to this song. As soon as this song stopped, I felt empty. So I'm playing it again. This is the kind of music we grooved to in northern California back in the early '70s. Don't know what happened to the rest of the country or the music scene since then, but it's nice to be able to relive it a bit. Makes me feel heighty hi!
I'm sitting here with dannyr and He just told me the exact same thing...he was in a dark closet in Johnstown, Pennsylvania facing the the draft in 1969 and Lee Michaels came on ... and it saved His life, "It made his day", do you know what I mean? p.s He did go to Nam and came back with Captain bars and he just this evening found his field jacket and He is sitting here right now with it on. Went there as an enlisted man and came back a Captain.
Well, I don't know about THAT, but listening to him sing this sure brings back some early High School memories for me. I'm trying to remember if this song was 'censored' by the NYC-area FM radio stations of the time?!? Probably NOT censored, but lots of "drug references." 🧬💊
2022.....Been a fan since 1971,.......I was a freshman in high school, at the time,...I'm 68, now. Me and may best buddy,.....we were just beginning to smoke weed,...sneaking around,....our folks were clueless,.......I got to drive my Pop's work car, a rusty 1963 Dodge Dart in the evenings, we'd go to a local park,....or cruise the neighborhoods. Good times.
WNEW FM, Mc Sorley's Old Ale House, Scott Muni, Zacherly yeah, 102.7 FM back in '69. The Filmore, Harleys, great times in Greenich Village back them when Lee was stoned and so were we ! You had to be there Friday nights in the Summer of Love.
Who took my comment down? It wasn't bad. May I please see it again? So what, roll some up with some good friends, sit in a huge closet, toke them, while hearing this song. It will make you happy and stress free, plus all your problems will go away, for a moment in time, just lay back and enjoy it. What a bunch of panzies. Live a little. This song is the best and will be for many years to come. Thanks for posting, and Lee, hope to see you again realy soon. Thanks for the hash oil.
Frosty is in Austin now. Had some health issues but he was a session guy for years down there. Everytime i listen to this i think how much this influenced Jack White and The White Stripes ... especially on their final album all piano and drums.
i saw him performed at the Berkeley Community Theater in summer 1972 my very first concert “You know what I mean” was his first hit and had just come out not too long before he played both songs. The first piano man before Elton and Bully Joel. i still love Leon Russel tho. ❤️
Actually it hasn't we have You-Tube now ! Ah, the Action House indeed, also the Excetra Club, the Tigers Tail, The Music Lounge, Ryans in Hempstead and others that fail memory. Great days, great music and LIR, FM 92.3 ! with Allison Steele "The Nightbird" ! Be well.
One more comment--I bought the Rhino "greatest hits" of Lee. Normally I have great respect for Rhino in their quality and liner notes, but they altered this song and eliminated the line "you get so stoned, you think you're gonna flip"--WHY WHY WHY change a classic??
I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER , I THANK YOU, I JUST GET A LITTLE LOST. I SAW "LEE"AT KEYS ARE STADIUM AN THE TUBES, AN LEE WAS THE SURPRISE BAND. THE LED ZEALAND BAND WAS A DRAG, TOOK THEM AN HOUR TO GET ON STAGE, I LEFT , I DON'T PAY TO WAIT.
What keeps me young are two songs I heard on the same day in (I think) 1970 on WNEW-FM in New York. Alison Steele -- the Nightbird -- late at night. Both songs were new and she played the long album version of "Heighty Hi" by Lee Michaels followed by Leslie West's "Long Red," and I was in another world entirely. I am still waiting for that feeling to return but it never does. I get reminders when I hear songs like this -- but just reminders. It was a great era in music and radio.
I Was THERE! 1974 - OC California! YES WE WE'RE STONED - BUT THE MUSIC WAS MORE STONED. The whole darn world needs to feel this way! This song made me learn piano...
@dwill123 - It's a sad fact but you're absolutely right. My Mom and Dad were luckier -- their WNEW-AM with big band music and Sinatra survived far longer than our FM rock counterpart. But that too, has long disappeared. Fattening wallets, getting a good demographic, a share/domination of the audience, filling commercial time -- is more important than playing music. Wonder if Marconi knew what he had invented.
He played with just a drummer (named Frosty) and was outstanding. They were LOUD! they closed the show at the Seattle Pop Festival in 1969. Following the Led Zepplin, the Doors, Youngbloods, Ike and Tina Turner, Chicago, The Flying Burrito Bros. and many others.....eat your heart out kids.
This looks like a great turntable with a sweet stylus. I still think the music sounded so much better then with this "old technology" the digital crap we have now. Most important, great song, great voice, great music! Thanks for posting.
@lastrada52 First you are to be commended on your impeccable taste in music. Second, don't hold your breath. In this day of Gaga, Bieber & JZ the days (and nights) of WNEW-FM have gone the way of the dodo.
A local disc jockey way back when I was a teenager (I'm now 62) he became my favorite musician and still is today! I used to play the Hammond organ (with foot petals) to his music and it made me feel "high". I'm feeling it now while listening to this song. However much his UA-cam songs makes me miss Lee Michaels, I am fortunate to know another musician who recently won "Best of Blues" (well deserved) at the San Diego Music Festival Awards this year (2014). His name is Robin Henkel. Robin also loved Lee Michaels! Oh how I wished the two of them could get together. Talk about "one man bands" -- they're both one of a kind. Check out Robin Henkel and see what you think....
That's too bad, Cuning, because we could all use a shot of Lee right about now. As for his shrimp business, perhaps Michaels ought to make like a tree and branch out. Perhaps Lee should open an Eastern branch of his restaurant here in Georgia!
In a dark closet Is the place to trip Feelin' so stoned, You think you gonna flip Don't feel afraid If you're all alone that's how you started---that's how you gonna go. I l-i-v-e-d them words. Mr. Go-tee
He has owned "Killer Shrimp" in Marina Del Rey ,Ca. for some years now . His son is in the bussiness with him ,I think he has a website for whatever he does in music now .Which isn't much .
I'm 64, from detroit...my brother had a 68 barracuda 340 4 speed formula S. Omg was it fast! Anyway he had a Lee mikeles cassette...(among others) and what a great artist, time has forgotten him...except for me, and you! ❤
i remember Lee m. when i was 13 years old . .life was fun back then . STORMY MONDAY " AWESOME .. VERY SOULFULL WHITE BROTHER ROCKER ..I LIVE HIS MUSIC . AND FROSTY'' THE DRUMMER "
His music and his message are timeless. It's better than Killer Shrimp which was another one of his creations. He's 75 and I've come to know him and I find him to be absolutely brilliant. But sadly not as loveable as his cat Orange.
My parent were from the Greatest Generation and their kids are going to go down as the Coolest Generation. It's not so bad getting old when you still can enjoy this song. RIGHT!
First time I heard this, summer of 70, maybe 71? On KMET-FM in LA, a DJ named T was on at night and I called in to request songs. He tried to talk me into calling a cab (in the middle of the night. AND he would pay, big man!) to go to the studio in Hollywood? Westside?. When I told him, "hey, I'm just 13! I can't do stuff like that", he called me a tease (I didn't even know what that was) and kept daring me, even begging for a bit. What an introduction into celebrity culture of 1970. My word, how the world has changed. He'd go to jail now, for that mere thought! But thanks for the dose of Lee Michaels; I loved him, Dave Mason, Delaney and Bonnie, Dr. John, the King, Leon Russell; old school piano players all. Every single man Jack of them knew how to address ivories and hammers and bring out their best.
+michelle stein-evers frankl first time i heard Lee Micheals was at my sister's home in the 70's and today it sound's just as good as then and bring's back a ton on good memorie's thank's ....cheer's!!
I saw Lee playing in Hoquiam, Washington in the 70s at the 7th Street Theater. Lee had Frosty with him and a guitar player. Whoever was running the spotlight was screwing up big time. The light guy was shining all over the place and not on whoever was soloing or singing. Lee kept trying to get his attention and finally got so pissed, he stopped the show and walked back stage. Some of the people in the crowd started booing and Lee walked back onstage and the crowd started cheering. Then Lee dropped trou and mooned the crowd and walked off again and that was the end of the show. It was epic.
relax breath deeply....ahhhhhhhhhhhh let go the week is over great job well done..........see yall later...PEACE OVER WAR FREEDOM FOR SALE FREEDOM FOR ALL
Thanks for posting the uncensored oriiginal--Years ago I bought the Rhino Greatest Hits CD and they "modified" (took it out!) the line "you think you're so stoned you think you're gonna flip.." WTF? Why would you change this? To be politically correct?
Lee Michael's closed the weekend show that was The Seattle Pop Festival. He was SUPER LOUD. He was also every bit as good as anyone else there...including Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Doors, Ike and Tina, Chicago, It's a Beautiful Day, Poco, Bo Diddly and so many more!
About 1970, USIU on Point Loma, San Diego. Lee Michaels and Frosty, Buddy Miles Express, Steve Miller One of the best concerts ever, lots of dope, sitting on the floor. Still remember Frosty drum solo, then he threw the sticks and played with bare hands. For the encore all three groups came on stage and jammed. That’s how I remember it going down in my altered state of mind.
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Nice wide stereo effect on the background vocals. Don't remember that on the album back then. Maybe I was too heighty-high.
That's because you probably didn't have a Technics Sl-1200 Mk-II like in this video. ;)
Well-played.
lee michaels with his drummer Frosty.....what a pair! saw em live at the San Jose fairgrounds....67 68 whew!! I am an old timer.....(don't feel it tho) Peace.........
Got ya
Saw Lee at Fillmore West Dec 1970 with Albert King and Atlee hitchhiked from San Jose my first concert! Took hit of Acid and weed and opium laced hash wasn't old enough to drink! Oh! My!!
Lee Michaels was totally underrated --he will always have a place in my musical history--legend!
Sutterjack: agree. i was only aware of his songs on the radio back in early 70's, it's not til now that i've heard all this other great stuff.
Lest we forget Frosty! ;)
Sutterjack I always thought his style was unique
Do you know what I mean?
Absolutely, he is ridiculously underrated and legendary in my eyes as well 👍🏼
Damn. Talk about an artist who deserves to be remembered a little more than he is...
Been married for 48 years and I listened to this WAY BACK. It takes me back to when I was young and did and said anything I felt. Sometimes I feel silly thinking of the things we all did, but I sure don't regret it. ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS MUSIC.
Kathy Trim: yep. i thought i had the world by the balls, thought i knew everything and had energy to burn. invincible. but life has a way of introducing it's own agenda. had fun tho.
Never regret
I have that vinyl that is spinning in the video but I never saw him in concert. major fuck up on my part
I totally Agree with you my friend. I´m still playing it 44 years after. BtW. Nice to see the vinyl spinning
.... play it in a bar was great to hear these new juke boxes have it all now ...
Yesterday came so fast
But it didn't matter
Love had passed
I don't know
What to do
I want that girl
Away from you
CHORUS:
Heighty-hi
Hey-de-hey
The whole darn world
Is feeling that way
Hey-de-hey
Heighty-hi
Everybody's stoned
So am I
Down the road
The other way
That's the way to go
The people say
They don't know
Where I've been
Felt so good
I'm going again
CHORUS
Let us stop love'
The other day
Somehow to me
Doesn't seem the same
All of the people
When the house is free
Some try to buy it
Other think it's free
Chorus
Let's shake hands
With the other self
Just look inside
You're sittin on a shelf
Dressed in black
You're hard to see
Must be the devil
No I think it's me
Chorus
In a dark closet
Is the place to trip
Gets you so stoned
You think you're gonna flip
Don't be afraid
If you're all alone
That's how you started
That's how you gonna go
Everybody
Chorus
(Everybody sing)
It got stopped
It's in the slip
I get to the point
Then I split
When your group
Has come and gone
Just sit back
You'd better sing this song
CHORUS
Thanks so much for these words. A couple of different places I never knew what he was saying. Now I do Mahalo from Hawaii
Awesome song eh!?!
A great song - this and "Stormy Monday" are the ultimate pantheon of gospel and soul fused together...and with great precision, too!!! There are many people who wrongly regard & are quick to dismiss Lee Michaels as a one-hit wonder because of his one major hit - do you know what I mean (no pun intended)? Listen to his other work, and you'll be pleasantly surprised!!!
Bravo, Lee Michaels!!!
I was lucky to have friends who liked good music.
we would listen to Lee Michaels....what a great singer and song writer. I saw him twice in concert.
"Don't be afraid
If you're all alone
That's how you started
That's how you're gonna go" ... Were truer words ever spoken?
Charles Buxton
If you didn't listen to Lee Michaels "Carnival of Life" back in the day, you missed the boat. Listen now and be amazed.
Love, love love this album! The one with that Drum Solo by Frosty. I was in a band in the 80s and we opened for a band that Frosty was in at the time called The Naughty Sweeties. I told him that I just loved his work with Lee Michaels and I remember him being surprised that anyone would even know about that music. He was a very cool guy and still had his chops.
Cool story bout frosty
Can't keep from dancing to this song. As soon as this song stopped, I felt empty. So I'm playing it again. This is the kind of music we grooved to in northern California back in the early '70s. Don't know what happened to the rest of the country or the music scene since then, but it's nice to be able to relive it a bit. Makes me feel heighty hi!
Awesome comment Jaime!
I used to play the whole side of that LP over & over.
P.S. Another good one - Avenging Annie - from Andy Pratt.
Jaime Ramirez Southern California also
40 plus years later and still sound f****** amazing!!!
In a dark closet, was where I tripped listening to Lee Michaels.
I'm sitting here with dannyr and He just told me the exact same thing...he was in a dark closet in Johnstown, Pennsylvania facing the the draft in 1969 and Lee Michaels came on ... and it saved His life, "It made his day", do you know what I mean?
p.s He did go to Nam and came back with Captain bars and he just this evening found his field jacket and He is sitting here right now with it on.
Went there as an enlisted man and came back a Captain.
oh and frosty wasn't to bad either.!
Harold Burke bomb drummer! RIP
Great memories driving my 62 Corvaire with a bunch of friends listening to Lee on my 8 track
Absolutely the most underrated singer in history! 💕
Well, I don't know about THAT, but listening to him sing this sure brings back some early High School memories for me.
I'm trying to remember if this song was 'censored' by the NYC-area FM radio stations of the time?!? Probably NOT censored, but lots of "drug references." 🧬💊
best lee michaels tune ever!
Everybody's stoned... Got that right... Rose Palace, Pasadena CA. 1968 or 70... Louder N hell, Lived through it. I'm invincible.
Nunyer Binnis Oh My!!!!! There were some great shows at The Old Palace!!! Place ROCKED!!!!!
@@stevenherrera1679 I went to many shows at the Rose Palace! Tickets were $3.50 at the old Free Press bookstore in Pasadena...
Rose Palace was fucking Killer. (white punk on dope from E. L,A. County)
I was there
Was there too. Rose palace what good times.
Excellent quality--thanks! Lee Michaels was great! His music stands the test of time!
2022.....Been a fan since 1971,.......I was a freshman in high school, at the time,...I'm 68, now. Me and may best buddy,.....we were just beginning to smoke weed,...sneaking around,....our folks were clueless,.......I got to drive my Pop's work car, a rusty 1963 Dodge Dart in the evenings, we'd go to a local park,....or cruise the neighborhoods. Good times.
WNEW FM, Mc Sorley's Old Ale House, Scott Muni, Zacherly yeah, 102.7 FM back in '69. The Filmore, Harleys, great times in Greenich Village back them when Lee was stoned and so were we ! You had to be there Friday nights in the Summer of Love.
Had this on in the car the other day, beautiful weather, great driving song, felt so Heighty High!
Makes me want to take a big toke and lay back on the couch. Just like I did for a longgggggggggggg time. Way to much fun!
Who took my comment down? It wasn't bad. May I please see it again?
So what, roll some up with some good friends, sit in a huge closet, toke them, while hearing this song.
It will make you happy and stress free, plus all your problems will go away, for a moment in time, just lay back and enjoy it. What a bunch of panzies. Live a little. This song is the best and will be for many years to come.
Thanks for posting, and Lee, hope to see you again realy soon. Thanks for the hash oil.
Went into a teen club on a visit to Mantauk Long Island summer of '71 and The Illusion was playing. They did this tune. First time I heard it.
Heighty Hi , Oak Fire, and Do You Know What I Mean are my favourite Lee Micheals Tunes , Absolutly Love Them !!
My first true enlightened choice of music in 71 still my number one.
UOW!!! the sound of vynil!!! thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frosty is in Austin now. Had some health issues but he was a session guy for years down there. Everytime i listen to this i think how much this influenced Jack White and The White Stripes ... especially on their final album all piano and drums.
i saw him performed at the Berkeley Community Theater in summer 1972 my very first concert “You know what I mean” was his first hit and had just come out not too long before he played both songs. The first piano man before Elton and Bully Joel. i still love Leon Russel tho. ❤️
do what this guy did---put in on your hi-fi and crank that shit up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lee and Frosty at The Swing Auditorium in San Berdoo way back when...orange sunshine all nite long.
72 now and still rocking
Absolutely! Swing Auditorium many times!
Actually it hasn't we have You-Tube now ! Ah, the Action House indeed, also the Excetra Club, the Tigers Tail, The Music Lounge, Ryans in Hempstead and others that fail memory. Great days, great music and LIR, FM 92.3 ! with Allison Steele "The Nightbird" ! Be well.
Nothing as fine as Analog .... being forced to live with digital sucks ...
Skinny dipping in Arroyo Seco, CA in the 70's..everybody's stoned..
One more comment--I bought the Rhino "greatest hits" of Lee. Normally I have great respect for Rhino in their quality and liner notes, but they altered this song and eliminated the line "you get so stoned, you think you're gonna flip"--WHY WHY WHY change a classic??
great song. lee was a funky little rascal. excellent keyboard player.
I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER , I THANK YOU, I JUST GET A LITTLE LOST. I SAW "LEE"AT KEYS ARE STADIUM AN THE TUBES, AN LEE WAS THE SURPRISE BAND. THE LED ZEALAND BAND WAS A DRAG, TOOK THEM AN HOUR TO GET ON STAGE, I LEFT , I DON'T PAY TO WAIT.
What keeps me young are two songs I heard on the same day in (I think) 1970 on WNEW-FM in New York. Alison Steele -- the Nightbird -- late at night. Both songs were new and she played the long album version of "Heighty Hi" by Lee Michaels followed by Leslie West's "Long Red," and I was in another world entirely. I am still waiting for that feeling to return but it never does. I get reminders when I hear songs like this -- but just reminders. It was a great era in music and radio.
Wnew, now your talking. Scot Muny
I Was THERE! 1974 - OC California! YES WE WE'RE STONED - BUT THE MUSIC WAS MORE STONED. The whole darn world needs to feel this way! This song made me learn piano...
Great Hammond organ bass footwork too, two men sound like four! "dark closet think your gonna flip...
@dwill123 - It's a sad fact but you're absolutely right. My Mom and Dad were luckier -- their WNEW-AM with big band music and Sinatra survived far longer than our FM rock counterpart. But that too, has long disappeared. Fattening wallets, getting a good demographic, a share/domination of the audience, filling commercial time -- is more important than playing music. Wonder if Marconi knew what he had invented.
He played with just a drummer (named Frosty) and was outstanding. They were LOUD! they closed the show at the Seattle Pop Festival in 1969. Following the Led Zepplin, the Doors, Youngbloods, Ike and Tina Turner, Chicago, The Flying Burrito Bros. and many others.....eat your heart out kids.
jeff hammers Frosty & Lee were tremendous! Ssw them live...4 times! Wow....reflects the day & culture at the time.
Yep!
This looks like a great turntable with a sweet stylus. I still think the music sounded so much better then with this "old technology" the digital crap we have now. Most important, great song, great voice, great music! Thanks for posting.
What a Beautiful Song ...Thank You ...Lee Michaels...Love Carlyle Williams...
@lastrada52 First you are to be commended on your impeccable taste in music. Second, don't hold your breath. In this day of Gaga, Bieber & JZ the days (and nights) of WNEW-FM have gone the way of the dodo.
He was big in the late 60's/early 70's, then fell off the map! Still have his first album, bought it when it came out.
A local disc jockey way back when I was a teenager (I'm now 62) he became my favorite musician and still is today! I used to play the Hammond organ (with foot petals) to his music and it made me feel "high". I'm feeling it now while listening to this song. However much his UA-cam songs makes me miss Lee Michaels, I am fortunate to know another musician who recently won "Best of Blues" (well deserved) at the San Diego Music Festival Awards this year (2014). His name is Robin Henkel. Robin also loved Lee Michaels! Oh how I wished the two of them could get together. Talk about "one man bands" -- they're both one of a kind. Check out Robin Henkel and see what you think....
That's too bad, Cuning, because we could all use a shot of Lee right about now. As for his shrimp business, perhaps Michaels ought to make like a tree and branch out. Perhaps Lee should open an Eastern branch of his restaurant here in Georgia!
In a dark closet
Is the place to trip
Feelin' so stoned,
You think you gonna flip
Don't feel afraid
If you're all alone
that's how you started---that's how you gonna go.
I l-i-v-e-d them words. Mr. Go-tee
I have this exact turntable and this album. Heighty High...The whole darn world is hearing my house rock off the foundation.
He has owned "Killer Shrimp" in Marina Del Rey ,Ca.
for some years now . His son is in the bussiness with him ,I think he has a website for whatever he does in music now .Which isn't much .
I'm 64, from detroit...my brother had a 68 barracuda 340 4 speed formula S. Omg was it fast! Anyway he had a Lee mikeles cassette...(among others) and what a great artist, time has forgotten him...except for me, and you! ❤
lee Michaels was a huge inspiration to Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant was a huge admirer and credits Lee Michaels to inspire his singing!!
One of my all time favourites! Besides, the grammophone - equipment is nice to!
Fillmore West (San Francisco, CA) Dec 10, 1970 1st Concert ever it cost only $ 3.50 what a deal got pretty fucked up too!!!!!!!! oh! My!!!!!!
i remember Lee m. when i was 13 years old . .life was fun back then . STORMY MONDAY " AWESOME .. VERY SOULFULL WHITE BROTHER ROCKER ..I LIVE HIS MUSIC . AND FROSTY'' THE DRUMMER "
Yesterday seemed so...etc...:)O(...
Great funky music！！！
He was a twenty years too soon without the machine backup money. He is still rockingin my world everyday- just digging the voice and the beat.
@lightlyone this song was on his third album "Lee Michaels" not Barrel, and the live one
Great Sound - get rid of digital.... Thanks for the post .... Lee created some great songs with A & M records . .
His music and his message are timeless. It's better than Killer Shrimp which was another one of his creations. He's 75 and I've come to know him and I find him to be absolutely brilliant. But sadly not as loveable as his cat Orange.
My parent were from the Greatest Generation and their kids are going to go down as the Coolest Generation. It's not so bad getting old when you still can enjoy this song. RIGHT!
My parents were from the greatest generation too. I miss them so much. It's not the same without them. Good tune tho.
So why don't they make this kind of music anymore? And where is Michaels today? We want him back!
This song kicks some pretty solid ass
First time I heard this, summer of 70, maybe 71? On KMET-FM in LA, a DJ named T was on at night and I called in to request songs. He tried to talk me into calling a cab (in the middle of the night. AND he would pay, big man!) to go to the studio in Hollywood? Westside?. When I told him, "hey, I'm just 13! I can't do stuff like that", he called me a tease (I didn't even know what that was) and kept daring me, even begging for a bit. What an introduction into celebrity culture of 1970.
My word, how the world has changed. He'd go to jail now, for that mere thought!
But thanks for the dose of Lee Michaels; I loved him, Dave Mason, Delaney and Bonnie, Dr. John, the King, Leon Russell; old school piano players all. Every single man Jack of them knew how to address ivories and hammers and bring out their best.
+michelle stein-evers frankl first time i heard Lee Micheals was at my sister's home in the 70's and today it sound's just as good as then and bring's back a ton on good memorie's thank's ....cheer's!!
+michelle stein-evers frankl The Mighty Met! Twiddle Dee.
Frosty also played with Delaney & Bonnie (until the drugs got too baad), and Dr John. Probably in the studio. Betty C.
Back in the day whenever we heard 'everybody's stoned, so am I...my buddies and I would do just that. Lee Michaels is the 'boss daddy'!!
wow, a blast from the past!! I've not heard this song in eons!! Thanks for posting! It sounds awesome!! :-) 2 thumbs up plus my 2 big toes, lol :-P
I saw Lee playing in Hoquiam, Washington in the 70s at the 7th Street Theater. Lee had Frosty with him and a guitar player. Whoever was running the spotlight was screwing up big time. The light guy was shining all over the place and not on whoever was soloing or singing. Lee kept trying to get his attention and finally got so pissed, he stopped the show and walked back stage. Some of the people in the crowd started booing and Lee walked back onstage and the crowd started cheering. Then Lee dropped trou and mooned the crowd and walked off again and that was the end of the show. It was epic.
Man, Lee plays good Bass with his feet.
wow.
Great !!!
Undisputed champion of the Hammond B-3 !!!!!!!!!!!!
@gareof YES...get rid of digital!! Couldn't agree morre!
Nice Turntable.Do anyone have video of Lee and Frosty?
don't afraid if your all alone. that's how it started that's how your gonna go.
listen ta dis while exercisin'
When you get done, listen to Stormy Monday!
Saw him & Frosty open for Sly & Family Stone at the Forum in LA 1970 or 71. He rocked it. Sly was 3 hours late.
What a super night THAT must have been.
Saw him live once---he was great. Put out a lot of great music--
@Armydicked I hear ya............
heighty hi 😉✌
..... and so am I.......
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Awwwww Heighty High!! WoWWWW!!! Yeahhhhh!
E. in Aus
Real good stuff.
relax breath deeply....ahhhhhhhhhhhh let go the week is over great job well done..........see yall later...PEACE OVER WAR FREEDOM FOR SALE FREEDOM FOR ALL
Thanks for posting the uncensored oriiginal--Years ago I bought the Rhino Greatest Hits CD and they "modified" (took it out!) the line "you think you're so stoned you think you're gonna flip.." WTF? Why would you change this? To be politically correct?
Lee Michael's closed the weekend show that was The Seattle Pop Festival. He was SUPER LOUD. He was also every bit as good as anyone else there...including Zeppelin, Ten Years After, Doors, Ike and Tina, Chicago, It's a Beautiful Day, Poco, Bo Diddly and so many more!
That's a bad-ass turntable
Needs more cowbell.
Piano funk for sure.
I want that turntable
singing just the way he felt smoking the best weed.
Saw them live at Winterland in S.F. Just 2 musicians, a drummer and keyboard. Filled the whole arena.
nice recording
About 1970, USIU on Point Loma, San Diego.
Lee Michaels and Frosty, Buddy Miles Express, Steve Miller
One of the best concerts ever, lots of dope, sitting on the floor.
Still remember Frosty drum solo, then he threw the sticks and played with bare hands.
For the encore all three groups came on stage and jammed.
That’s how I remember it going down in my altered state of mind.