British guitarist analyses America performing 'I Need You' live in 1975!
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Tonight we're going back to 1975 to take a look at America thanks to Studio Hamburg who have allowed us access to this exclusive performance!
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I have seen America live 3 times and they are very good live. No backing tracks in their concerts. When I'm in the mood for mellow music, America remains a favorite.
I saw America a couple of times. They are great even today. After one of the shows, my friend and I walked out of the casino through one of the back doors. A big tour bus was parked right outside the door. We were just standing there while my friend smoked a cigarette. To our surprise, Dewey Bunnell came out of the bus and started talking to us. My friend told him I was a huge fan. He told me to turn around, then he signed the back of my shirt "Dewey Bunnell, America" I haven't worn it or washed it since. He stood there and shot the shit with us for at least 15 minutes. Great guys.
Thanks for sharing your experience John. Very interesting.
What an amazing thing to have happened!!!!
Maybe they will write a song about you......
That’s fantastic.
Just got back from seeing them live last night. 70 years old and they still have it!
I was fortunate to see, Peter Frampton, Chicago and America in concert in Perth some 10+ years back, together in King's Park. What I witnessed was the most amazing concert I had ever been to. Of course voices had worn with age to the slightest degree but the overall performance was outstanding. Have been to many concerts and I would say it was number 2 on my list of greatest of all time. It cost me a small fortune in ticket price and red wine but have never regretted a single cent of it.
Everything America sang was just so laid back; always loved their music. Thanks for showing the set up.
TN Moppy Laura weed music
That's because they are so good at what they do , effortless , faultless perfection . They make it look easy 😊
An amazing group - I love Sister Golden Hair. Thanks Fil :)
America is a band that’s definitely underrated. These guys are so very talented and to think they wrote several hit songs when they were in their late teens is impressive enough.
This is one of my absolute favorite bands growing up.
David Gates/Bread is another band that’s underrated. Worth taking a listen to. These two bands dominated the radio in the 1970s.
Thank you for giving America a glowing analysis! Hopefully some of your followers will have a listen to more of their music.
Fil what a fantastic analysis video! As always! ❤️🤘🏼
Right on! Bread and America, two of my absolute faves.
Hardly underrated they were very popular with many songs constantly played on the radio.
I love both Bread and America
@@hifijohn no kidding! I think the term, "under-rated", has become OVER-RATED!!
Pay attention all the Justin Beibers and fluffy boy bands , because what we were listening to by these three 18 year olds is how it's done , such talent ❤ love them
Finally getting to this one. I know, it been 2 years. I have a very long list, lol. I saw them in a casino. I think it was late 80’s, early 90’s, but can’t be sure. The time blurs. They were fantastic! They played all their hits and I just remember how happy they made me. A great memory
they are real great.
did you they did the sound track for the movie the last unicorn.
Great song...helluva band, AMERICA!
The year I graduated High School...:) Always loved this song, dreamed of falling in love like that...NEVER HAPPENED...:( LOVE your appreciation of this beautiful song...oh man, how simply perfect.
Love America. I think they are unappreciated among peers..thanks Fil
Sister golden hair surprise is one of my favorite songs.
Me too 😍😍😍
such special memories with that one!
No joke, I dressed in a blond wig and nun's outfit one Halloween and went as Sister Golden Hair. Love America :)
@@elizizzo 🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Some songs make me cry.
Summer nights. Outside in the garden. Listening to America. My idea of a perfect evening. 🩷 thank you Fil.
Oh my goodness what a beauty. Now you got me thinking about Bread and The Grassroots. These 3 I always listened to together. ❤
Dan Peek wrote an excellent book, "An American Band," about the whole "America" saga, which came out in 2004, seven years before he died. All three are Air Force brats who met on the base where their dads were stationed in England. Peek learned guitar while his dad was stationed in Pakistan, and the three, Beckley and Bunnell and Peak, met in the snack bar on base, the hangout, as every military brat knows, for teens stationed overseas. I corresponded with Peak via email and he sent me an autographed copy of the book. I was not a huge fan of "America" when they were popular, because I was working hard on my career at that time. But years later I really got interested and began playing their music.
i really love this band
Saw them in 75 I was 16, for free in my local park. I was surprised I liked them.🤔
I have that book.
I am so glad that you showed this with the set up. I have seen it before. I have not been able to find it with the set up again. I love how they are asking about the procedure. They are not sure how to proceed there. Just keep going. Then they proceed with a beautiful performance.
They helped me get through basic training, Ft. Jackson, SC 1972
A way back I saw a show of America, Frampton and Styx. I thought, "Well, that's nice that they threw in America. Maybe I'll get to hear Horse With No Name." But I simply regarded them as the opening act before getting down to the hard stuff. As it turned out, they played great song after great song and stole the show really. Hearing them all together I realized just how much their magnificent catalog of great work had penetrated me - they had just faded in my memory, but the songs hold up awesomely, and even do today. OMG, Daisy Jane. And a dozen others.
I remember going to an America concert ‘round ‘74. It was magical.
Beautiful chord changes... consistently great & memorable songs
Probably my all time favorite America song, but dang they have so many great ones.
Yes , this one and DaisyJane ,
America - always great to sing along and harmonize to. Thanks, Fil.
I have read a lot of comments saying this Band or Artist are underrated! Yet on Your channel no Band or Artist are underrated! You give credits where credits are due that along with your professionalism are why You are highly respected by so many in or out of the music industry. keep up the good work Fil.
(Credits are due ...)
Underrated by who ? A phenomenal band
Saw them in our community park for free in 1975. They have many good songs, this is a favorite of mine. Sister golden hair another fav.
I was visiting my sister in LA and drove the Ventura Highway listening to the radio, and America's song came on. Driving my car with Karma.
that a few years down the line Janet Jackson decided to sample the main lick that runs it and then crashed the car..lol
Hey fil I am still in a nursing home recovering from kidney failure. I am enjoying my spare time. I met my dog Oso yesterday. S friend is taking Oso while I'm in the nursing home. I shall be out eventually and get back to work and my own place to live.
Godspeed Wallsmarts, prayers are with you.
GOD BLESS BRO , WILL BE PRAYING FOR YOU
I pray your kidneys are Healed quickly... Sending friendship to you!
Wallsmarts original Sending love! Glad you were able to see your dog. All the best💝
Much love and prayers to you! 😇🙏❤️
One of the best band I've ever seen live! Talented musicians and singers!
(Dan peek )(Gerry Buckley ) (Dewey bunnell)...Greatest vocals outstanding voices
I LOVE YOU AMERICA!...🎹🎙🎧🎸🎶🎼
And there we have it....nice work
Awwwww.. Be Still My Beating Heart! Thanks for your reaction Fil!
God i love that piano and jerry vocal ability... he has this soft touch, never overdone but you still hear the pleading in his delivery. I love america. Like firefall, they were overlooked.
Extremely talented diverse group who were most pegged as folk or soft rock. That was there radio friendly stuff but i love tunes like only in your heart and hold me tight. These guys can play anything.
Love america their songs played out the innocense of my youth ❤❤❤❤❤
Oh America
One of my fav bands, their melody is so beautiful and it relax you, this song is just perfect for everything
No doubts that this is one of the best bands that ever have existed
America is my favorite! Even today they sound great! Gerry and Dewey so amazing together!I go to see them whenever they are near me.
Very good, fil! I was 17 in 75 & am still a huge fan. Really enjoyed your analysis!
FIL! ❤ what the heck?! Going retro with my childhood! I didn’t know you did this…it just showed up on my feed! Love you bunches! ❤❤❤ thank you! 🥰😘💋
My childish romantic heart thought this was the most epic love song ever….i was 12 ❤
PS ….Fil! Do you never age? You look the same 4 years ago, as now! ❤️❤️❤️
Wow music of my generation I hate to sound like my parents but you will never see & hear music like this again its a once in a lifetime occurrence or even better yet in existance. Always loved all their laid back songs the list is endless!! Saw them in Oklahoma in the late 70S they were fantastic & still are R.I.P. Dan Peek... .......Glenn P.
I learn more here about music and music history than I ever did in my college music courses. Phil needs to teach in University.
America! One of those bands you don't read a lot about. But! They where plugged in and had real magic!
Beautiful voices, beautiful music, beautiful arrangements, well chosen lyrics . I have always loved America.
Gerry Beckley has a pretty voice ❤ the 70's wouldn't be the 70's without America . Their guitars are so clean and harmonies so together . Just a really talented trio 😊
Hi Fil !!!!
Like the flower needs the rain you know I need you ... I need you .. Fil ....=^>
To this very day Ventura Highway still gives me Goose pimples.
Love Ventura Highway 😍😍😍😍
@DrPsychedelic
....... Ssssshhhhh ........ =^>
Guess I should have said "we" for clarification.
OMG, Me too!! And then came the day when I actually was riding up the Ventura Highway in a bus! (which was a big deal because I'm from New England!) All I could think about was that song. America always vibrated deep within me ... love them.
I've always loved 70s soft rock, Eagles, Steely Dan, America, Seals and Crofts, Bread ect.
Good choice! They had a surprising number of top hits, always with such a welcoming sound that drew you right in and kept you there. I was just driving on the (endless seeming) Ventura Highway today, so this feels like my reward for the trek! Thanks!
I Need You, Sister Golden Hair, Ventura Highway... all so good.
So many hits in the 70's that you may be hearing a song in the radio background, you were memorizing the lyrics and singing along. And it ended up that you didn't even realize it was America.
Times change but how I miss era of lush harmonies and a 12 string guitar . They were unique kind of a singer song writer rock and roll hybrid . I’ve been a jazz snob for 30 years but in my old age I’ve come to love classic Rock all over again .
I love America
Me as well.
The band is great.
Don't get tired of listening to the songs.
Great analysis, as always. I hosted these guys back in the '80s at the Pensacola Springfest. They were friendly, down to earth, and so talented. They make beautiful music for beautiful memories.
Their song "Ventura Highway" was written by Dewey Burnell from ideas he got in 1963 when he was around 11 or 12. His dad had a flat tire while driving along the California coast on Highway 101, and while he changed the tire, Dewey and his brother stood off to the side, and while looking up at the clouds, Dewey said, "alligator lizards in the air," and near by was a sign that said "Ventura" x number of miles. There's actually no real "Ventura Highway," but there is a Ventura County. (There is now a Ventura Freeway.) But it made for a really great song title, and great song! Another winner review, Fil! Cheers, mate! :)
Back then America fans were looking for the famous the venture highway.there is no ventura highway.
@@hifijohn It's called the Ventura Freeway, opened in 1960, and I drove on it in the 60's. Cheers! :)
@@mmccartney6579 there's no official "Ventura Highway", there is a "Ventura Freeway" which is the US 101 and it runs along the pacific ocean in LA and Ventura Counties in CA.
I saw America at the New York State fair and if you closed your eyes you would have thought that the radio was on.
Love America. Seen them live a couple of times. Great band . I have a poster from their last tour they did here on a wall in my house
My friend Holly and I were so in love with America, and by some miracle, a friend of one of her sisters had two extra tickets and didn't want to go to see their show in Hartford, Connecticut all by herself. This was back in the early 70s. Um, yes, we'll go! They were opening for Christopher Cross. THEY WERE AWESOME. Of course, we knew every word to every one of their songs and in our 60s now, we still do. They were SO good that when Cross came out to perform, people started shouting "Bring back America!!" I remember many a summer night at the lake at 4 AM sitting on the sand, smoking a joint with my pals and listening to a transistor radio softly play "I understand you been runnin' from the man that goes by the name of the sandman..." I was so in love with Gerry I wanted to marry him. I still want to marry him.
OMG, I'm laughing my ass off because I could almost have written this. Yes, been in love with Gerry since I was a sophomore in high school in 1972! Saw them several times in concert. Had ALL the albums, up through the H's. They were magical. They probably still are--it's just been 30 years since I've seen them!! LOL
Gerry was very pretty , long blonde hair lovely smile ❤ and an amazing voice , it’s hard to resist a stunning talented man ❤❤❤❤
This is why America is one of the best band in their times and today.
Saw these guys in 1977 in Anchorage AK. I was 19 years old in the Air Force. Great live show. So many hits and great album tracks!! Sandman one of my all time favorites!! There first album so many great acoustic songs. CHECK IT OUT!!
I was at that same concert! I was a senior at East Anchorage High. Went to the concert with my then boyfriend. I saw them again live in Colorado several years ago, they were still excellent! Aged like fine wine.
@@kathrynchamberlin3405 Thats awesome!! I saw one more concert while I was there. England Dan & John Ford Coley and it was at a high school in Anchorage I think it was spring or early summer in 1978. Don't remember which high school. And some FM station there played the Ultimate Six Pack (6 albums back to back) on saturday nights. Also there were some good rocking bands at Chilkoots Charlies. 🎸🎸🎸
@@Lee.Higginbotham concerts back then were held at the West High School auditorium. Chilkoot Charlies is still there I believe - peanut shells and all!! I loved Alaska, was there for 25 years.
@@kathrynchamberlin3405 I almost was going to mention the 🥜🥜🥜!! Peanut shells all over the floor at Chilkoots. Went to the Birdhouse. Read it burned down. Portage glacier was awesome. Global warming hopefully hasn't taken it out. The Iditarod! Talimook cheese!! Moose on the base! Good times.
Discovered this great British/American band as a teenager in the seventees. Loved this classic album ever since.
Fil's analysis are therapeutic to watch and learn. 👍🤘😎
Thank.you so so much！！
Longing.for this Phil,,i love America！
Showing my age here... my fondest memory of America was hearing them for the first time on the soundtrack for The Last Unicorn. Yep, I went thru a unicorn phase when growing up :D
I'm 46 and still in a unicorn phase lol.
The music they did in that movie was so beautiful.
@@PC-dc1kv It was the perfect music for the movie!
Loved when the harmony was layered in!! Love America!! Great stuff.
I love this band!!! I miss the 70s and 80s!!!!!
so pleasant, great lyrics...America has made some of my fave music of my 60 years on this planet...love them. Thanks Phil
America songs are great to play on the guitar and sing to friends because they are great songs.
My daughter had a big beautiful head of blonde hair as a child so we nicknamed her Sister Golden Hair.
So talented. Thanks Fil.
Super Fil. Thanks for showing the mundane stuff us musicians have to do before we get to do the fun stuff we really want to do.
Hi!!! Very inttersting your analisys🖒🖒🖒🖒🌎🌎 congratulations
The very first song I've listened of America was "Only in your heart" - it was not a massive hit, but I still love to hear it 45 years later. I love the vocals, the simplicity of the harmony leading us to a great and complex arrangement. And in the end there's a great leading guitar (I guess there's more than only one - maybe 3) playing backwards - something like Tomorrow Never Knows, of Beatles. What a epic ending. Fore sure this song deserved a better fate.
Yep - the harmonies kick it. Beautiful.
Such insane timeless talents and kudos for Dewey and Gerry 4 decades + still bringing their ‘magic’ to the world and all the way live
Awesome band!
Great Band.
America was such an under-rated group.
Beautiful song. One of very few that have stood the test of time. They are just so beautiful that they cannot be duplicated and are truly unique. Thanks Fil. 😏
I would like to hear your analysis of some Supertramp songs.
Wow. Always loved America and this song. First time seeing them perform it and not disappointed. So much talent.
Love this song. Thanks!
Thank you for examining America, I always felt they never really achieved the fame they should have. America was born out of and always remained in the soft rock and ballad genera. Sadly, they were a very under-rated band.
They, like a lot of other 70s bands, were eclipsed first by the disco craze and then by the eventual scaling up of more popular musical styles. But they left a great legacy IMO.
Thanks Fil! I relate to all things 70's. !!!!
This performance was taped live in 1973 or 74 for Musikladen. Live in the studio!
I totally love your channel
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I must be old. Never knew knowing your place musically was such a tall order.
One band I was in we only had one practice, then straight into years of gigs.
Fil, you make me appreciate all the guys I've played with over the years and even my own playing as a play-by-ear kinda guy.
This whole video is excellent, I found this gem in a discount bin. America were great in their day. Still listen to them every day
I saw America about 10 years ago, I was amazed at how many songs I knew, but didn't know they sang them. They were fantastic!!
Hi Fil! One of the pretty songs from the 70s! I do like this one from America...I really enjoyed hearing them set up the song at the beginning! I do like this one better than Horse with No Name...just a better sound musically in my opinion! Talented guys! ✌️
I just saw “America” at the end of January 2020 in Ohio, US. They are still so Awesome!!! Their current lead guitarist is very talented! Thank you Fil for another excellent analysis!
I love this band so much!!!! Dan Peek is missed so much! I’ve watched this a thousand times when my mother was fighting cancer until her passing . I need her. Epic performance! I miss this. Great song and analysis!!!
Remember “horse with no name” when I was in fourth form at school. My mates loved that song and commented how effective it was, (even though it was played on two chords). Some of the girls, who seemed to possess a musical acumen, would sing the la la la parts...and harmonising...awesome!
Hi Fil, this takes me way back in 1973-1977 when I was in high school. During school dances they would play Bread, America, John Denver, Peter Frampton, etc. Thanks Fil...
I listened to America and Graham Nashs' Songs for Beginners a lot after they were first released, as I was about three years into learning guitar on steel string acoustic. So, both were perfect because it was good, simple music, very easy to learn. I was locked into America's first three albums. I loved the stuff and played along with the LP's. Thanks, Philly👍
This was one of my top Spotify tracks of recent. I really got into the self titled LP plus Homecoming, which is SO smooth. I had the vinyl recording of America. I am ready to give this a listen now. TY!!! YES :)
Please give Hat Trick a listen then. My husband & I thought those 1st 3 albums all just flowed & we liked It too. Like Dewey's Wind Wave especially. Plus Hat Trick which really is a medley of their separate compositions that again just flowed one into the next ( though all 1 track) . So excited going to their concert tonight , 8/11/21, first tour since pandemic hit ! Peace.
@@donnamast8973 Hope you had the time of your life! Ty for the tip.
Glad to see this, one of my favorite groups. I love "Ventura Highway" Classic 70's.
This song has a Beatles feel to it. Beautiful song. America a great band back in the day. A great detailed analysis Fil as always. Cheers. Also like your new intro sound and graphic of your logo.
That's what I thought .. :-) .. No wonder George Martin got involved with them
Yes! Only in Your Heart from the 1972 album Homecoming definitely has a Beatles vibe which came before George Martin got involved. Obviously there was some influence. ❤️
One of the best feel good bands ever!
Thanks for this one, Fil!❤
The soundtrack of my high school years. I mean, jeez, after Gerry sings and plays piano, what more needs to be said.
That’s a beautiful song...thanks, fil
America made beautiful music, especially out of the 70's... Interesting commentary on how they came about, Filip A great band!
This brings back memories. They had so many great songs. Thanks, Fil for featuring this lovely song.
Such a sweet love song. Always loved America.
I saw them live in 1977 with Michael Murphy, they were amazing, check them out live in Central Park...such a good concert!