The Chambers Brothers • “Time Has Come Today” (Psychedelic Freakout!) • 1969 [RITY Archive]
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I never get tired of this song. Still relevant in 2024
When soul, Motown, and psychedilia met! The Brothers brought a unique blend of musical styles to this tune. Pure music!
cuck OO
That is so sagacious, wise words. With a bit of Kinks thrown in
Saw them live in Montréal 1970 or 71. They had an opening act who just delayed the inevitable because the Chambers Bros dismantled the joint. Opened with I Can’t Turn you Loose ( the long version), and did all the tunes you hear on Love Peace and Happiness record which was out at the time. The audience was in a trance and many out of their seats and dancing etc.. they also invited people to join in, sticking the mic into the audience and asking the chicks especially to sing the chorus to Bang Bang. The men were asked to sing the Beep, Beep part. The finale was Time. It was so heavy it actually got some people leaving the hall.. crazy. Show finished like 2 am. Caught shit from my parents when I finally got home ( it was the olden days), but it was worth it. I was glowing for weeks afterwards just thinking about it. One of the highest energy concerts ever. Those guys knew not only how to play and sing, but how to entertain and move an audience out of the “ comfort zone “.
You made me feel like I was there
Interesting 🤔 Thanks for the description of the night. ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
Thank you for sharing that! I had to laugh at "It got so heavy some people had to leave the hall" I can see it! Just too damn good!
Your story should be in their doc
Yes you got that right
Out F***ing Standing !
👍👍👍👍👍👍
In the Top Ten Psychedelic songs of all time!
cuck OO
What are the other 9
This is the apotheosis of rock, funk, soul, and so beautifully American.
One of the few songs that doesn’t “Needs more cow bell”... It’s just right...!!!
including the triplets that he threw in every now and then.
Beat me to it. But, GUESS WHAT!? I gotta FEVER..... 🤒
🐄🔔🛎
Hahaha. You’re so right. Lol. I’ve never heard just the right amount of cowbell like this.
cuck OO
I can't listen to this song without feeling like I just took a trip around the solar system.
It's been that way since I was 10 years old.
No one ever did anything like it.
Genius in my opinion.
I saw them when I was on psilocybin. No words to describe
This song by The Chambers Brothers "Time" is Off The Chain. It does cover all Generations from the last 10 Decades; & still reeling them N.💕🎶🟠🦋🎈🌴🍷⛱️🎊🌈
If I was on a sinking ship and I only had time to grab one song, this would be the one.
I am 70 now and still listen to it. My 7 dogs love it!
I can't believe more people don't listen to this more often. It's serious stress relief.
Use as something to focus on instead of your troubles. It works wonderful! I have done this for years.
Loved this in '69 when I was turning 19 and love it now at 72...so much happened in my life in '69...wow! ❤
Man, that is one understated statement!
DITTO, same age. If I could go back if for only a day…. I'll never forget the first time I heard this, where I was, the whole nine yards.
I was 20 and doing my duty with the army in Vietnam in '69. We made sure we found time to get high with this song playing on a reel to reel tape recorder when we could. Talk about so much happening!! Man, I'm 74 now, and sometimes I'm amazed I've lived this long with all the shit I've been through!
@@felixmadison5736 Thank you for your service! My brother was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in '68..came home but passed away at age 59..
@@tanyatressler3132 I'm very sorry to hear about your brother's passing at age 59. God bless you and your family.
In my opinion this song is the coolest song ever written! When I was a child every time it came on the radio, and the drum part would come on I would flip the handles on my dresser drawer to the beat. I felt like I was a part of it. Bless the Chamber's Bros.
One of the greatest bands of the sixties!
cuck OO
Always great to listen and watch this live version........Fantastic.....!!!
cuck OO
Never seen this !!!
Amazing!!!! Heard this since 1972.
Never seen this... Wow !
That they could keep the interlude so coherent speaks to their brilliance! Brings back so many memories.
Lester Chambers one of the great voices of Rock and Roll.
I listen to this as a child, feeling like I had no home and this song was a refuge. Today I have a house but still no home. I do not belong in this realm! Yet this song is still my refuge . THANK YOU!
Whoever been in charge past few days. Is busting out the bangers
cuck OO
Well remember tis song, I had just arrived in England after two tours
in Vietnam. Wild times and even wilder music.
Well, my soul has been psychedelicized.
🌎🌍🌏❤️👀
Strong Sounds. Am absolute fabulous song. Thank you Lester and all!!!
Sweetness.
I was around in 1969. Never saw The Chambers Brothers before.
Just heard this song on Top 40 AM radio and longer versions on FM
The Chambers Bros. Were one of my favorite bands in the late 60's. The band that I played bass in used to end all of our shows with "Time Has Come Today". In 1980 I became freinds with Lester Chambers the youngest of the brothers. By total coincidence I was also freinds with Brian the Chamber's drummer out in Stamford CT. We all got together one weekend at my place in Old Greenwich CT accompanyed by a whole bunch of mutual freinds out of NYC. We laughed at thing about ending the show with the song " Time". "As a matter of fact we used to do that too" said Lester. "Time has come Today" is considered to to be the most emblionic song to represent the cultural earthquake that erupted in the second half of the 60's. Great memories.
This video wins the internet for the day
absolute brilliance! so glad i found a live version of the chambers brothers performing this when they were still young. wow, just, wow
I agree man ! They sound so tight & clear .
One of my favourite songs from the groovy 1960's☮️💜🎸🎼🍄
Many of the Vietnam vets I speak to love this song!! Takes em right back
I play this song once a day at least. First of all because I never get tired of it. The second reason is GRATITUDE! for the people responsible!
Such a great song. Powerful. ✊🏻
I loved this song when I was 10 years old.
I still love this song. I will be 69 in November
I think that means it's timeless!
That Cow Bell is magic!
honestly going back in time to this type of music is better then today's shit
Fricking Amazing.
I'm 65 now.I absolutely love this song. I didn't have much patience for it when I was a little kid when it first came out. Now that I'm older, this is the best acid rock song of all time. They came in and kicked everybody's a** with this one.
I first heard the Chambers Brothers when they appeared at Fairleigh Dickenson University in late April, 1969. I was trippin and smokin weed in Johnson Park just across the river from FDU. I walked along the river until I found the most adventitious to listen to the music. It was a free concert for me and although Time Has Come Today was a highlight, I loved Goin Uptown to Harlem, All Strung Out, What the World Needs Now, Please Don't Leave Me, People Get Ready; they were all GREAT songs. I play that album every chance I get.
Had pleasure to hang and smoke with them in NY, their heritage is Southern gospel
Doin' it LIVE! And they pulled it off ... Beautiful job, love it!
Had to hear this today, 10 am. Reminds me of Orwell's Down and Out in London and Paris meshed w Vietnam. We haven't come very far, or are we in a perpetual collapse juxtaposed by the illusion of progress. One of the bravest songs ever to capture the reality and horrors of war. Ode to the mia. The screams bring it home. 🕛 ☮️ Maranatha
This song is a meditation in confusion and disfunction, and induses a state of mental travel, at least for me. I love it. There are millions of ways of viewing this masterpiece. I belive that at the time you wrote it. It was a reflection of the world around you. ( am I right?)
The idea of slowing down the riff the third time came straight from god.
That was GREAT
Sure was great
One of the Greatest Songs and Voices ever. My Father took my Brother and I to see them Back THEN 😊😂. We were like ten, herecin NYC. Outtasite.
This song was there when I was a child in pain and needed a place to hide.
It gave me shelter if you can understand that.
RIP MY DAD was in this band and he played it his best even though his condition made it hard. You will not be forgetton
Sorry for your loss. If I may ask, which member was your father?
@@ReelinInTheYears66Yeah, I was curious who his dad was also. Hey, Next Level, if your dad was in the band from early on, I probably saw him in concert, summer of 1966, at Stanford University, opening up for Santana. I was 11. Was he there?
@@willg54 Santana came years after 1966.
@@jensandersen7011 Santana formed as a group in 1966 in San Francisco. They came to prominence after the 1969 Woodstock concert, with their first album. I am from the San Francisco Bay area, and when Santana first formed, they did shows all up and down the San Francisco peninsula. I saw them at Stanford University in 1966, so although they had not become a popular band yet, they were still doing shows around the area, so therefore, they definitely were in existence before 1969. But thank you for your comment anyway.
@@willg54 KFC took away the double down
The good ole days
Thx
love this stands true today im 70 and it still rocks! right on !
I'm still mystified! This song never gets old.
Now that I think of it this song is immortal
and will always be relevant.
Man ,I can't believe what good tast I had in music at that age. I can't believe all the talant back then and how much great music there was. This song is on top in my book.
I think that says, well really only how I feel, but it's still here ! Everyone else must feel that way too. I rest my case. Lol
For anyone who cares as I do, the Chamber's Bros. Got screwed by the record company.
Lester is still around and I believe he gets paid something from this. So how about if we all listen to this song once a day.,anf and let the commercials run. He will make money and it won't coust us anything. If enough of us do this it could amount to something.
Right On💗🎉🦋🟠🌴⛱️💕
Will do❤
love this jam, serendipitous to see it posted
Truly this is a adventure in music. It takes us places! Genius!
I don't know what Lester and his brothers were trying to accomplish when they created this song, and it is a very special creation to me.
It gives me a break from Humanity and its expectations and pressures. I become a part of the energy and it literally carries me away. Im no longer among Humanity, but soring amongst the stars.
No other musicians I have ever heard have created anything like this!
It's definitely SPIRITUAL!
I was a the drummer on CY 48 in 67' 68' . This tune was our reslove
there are comments about the cowbell. this song is about time. the cowbell is there to symbolize the passage of time, and how rapidly it passes by.
I grew up in the 60's listening to songs like this. The Chambers Brothers, Temptations, The Beatles, GFR, Stones, Jefferson airplane, Strawberry Alarm clock, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep. Awesome time for music. Oh yeah Santana,Blues Image, Blood Sweat and Tears, I could go on.
This is definitely up there in the Psychadelicatessen of all-time greats like In-a-Gadda-da-Vida!
I was under 10 when I first heard this aong song. I'm 69 now. In all of this time no one has ever written a song that comes close.
There is nothing better, and nothing more original. I'm no one except one person, but I give it the best song ever award!
This is a Anthem to life!
Wonderful example of the 60’s. Thank you Lester🎸
I remember when this song first came out. I still love it. The Chambers Brothers were awesome but this was their best song.
Im getting major goose bumps!😊
That cow bell did not rest lol
Brilliant. I did not know what to expect 😳 different really enjoyed.
cuck OO
This song defines a specific time and era!
I just found this gem. Great band....totally got it! great harmonics and augmented chords....peace 📿 Who is here in 2023? Back in the day there were no computers to make music. Just you, your voice and your instrument
I love how they have a white drummer. So cool. Harmony.
Time. Has come today there are things to realized❤ love
Fantastic group. 🎸❤️💯
great group of brothers great song love it
AWESOME!!!!!
MORE cowbells !!!!
Really wish the Chamber bros could jam😂😂😂😅😅😅 Brilliantly done😊😊
It was the early 60's the Chambers were ahead of their time. I was a small child, but it's the same song and it still ripps!
Still prophetic😅
When we heard this song in 1969 or so, on our little transistor radios, we were like wow man, what the hell was that (we didn't say WTF yet maoooo). We knew things were on the verge of a big change. My generation! I'm 69 now!
Great voice
Just sit back and dig how 🤔 spaced out this tune on da moon is.Andrea 🤒 ill 🤒 Lynne da mon chi chi and the magic keys with comfy compassion and understanding of psychedelic music catches up with ya dig it
I love this song especially the long version of it
Saw them in 1970 at a rock festival. They were great and the psilocybin I was on made them greater
Outstanding performance
This song reaches deeply into my Consciousness. It reaches so far in to my concisness as to dwell within the entire Universe! I think the Temptations write the best SOL/ HUMAN music. However
This anthem, this masterpiece has kept me spellbound for almost 60 years.
Truly the Chamber's Brothers have a connection in the cosmos.
I believe this song is the Spiritual line in the sand!
I believe it was written by the Chambers Brothers as a responce from the Universe itself. Written in their hearts Time Has Come Today!
Time to throw off the vail of illusion!
Time to realize that a Humanity united in
LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS
doesn't nead or want to be livestock for the Global investment bankers or anyone else!
I remember this song better than anything!
In the 1960's the Riots started after this song. This song didn't cause them it reflected what Humanity was really thinking.
Truly time had come to throw off the Capitalists war machine .
That day is still here.
Time has come again! Only this time we
Peacefully turn our backs on money!
All over the world at the same time.
Break .money world wide!
Break the war machine!
End the Political parties because they put the criminals in office and keep them there.
Money is our enemy. We have all been brainwashed to believe otherwise.
If it's your friend then why does it incrementally cause you to lose things?
A work for entitlement civilization is so much more kind!
It works on the principle that a civilization only needs human action to function.
Money has no place in this!
If for doing our jobs, our needs are taken care of. In other words. Do your job and everything is free. Its far from impossible!
Give everyone this deal. Then Humans can live the life they choose without criminals continually disrupting and robbing us with their phoney wars.
Perhaps this is why this song resonates with me!
Perhaps it's because TIME HAS COME ,
for a paradigm shift.
Perhaps Im the catalyst for this!
Perhaps I always was.
We have two choices that I see.
We can do nothing and let the Capitalists keep bombing this planet until the 1% of the planet that allows life (the crust) disintegrates and all life on this planet is lost. Or we can ascribe to the above mentioned plan to end capitalism and put Humanity in charge of itself.
I can be the catalyst, but I cannot do it for you.
I swear I was but a child when this song came on the radio. I I Jonesed for it.
It was a long time before I heard it again.
Why didn't I buy the album. We were poor.
I could only afford songs on the raido.
Wow nice piece of music!🎵
I've got a fever and the only cure is more cowbell!! 🤣My Soul has been funkadellasized!
The cool “out” solo is great. I’d only heard the radio edit. Heavy stuff.
Damn.. .they was fun...
A great song then and still cuts it now!
Great memories ❤
Quite a morph for a band that started out as gospel and folk singers in Carthage, Mississippi.
Hola ! Me da mucho gusto oír a los Chamber Brother. Ever for Ever .
I could imagine these guys and Hendrix on same bill. They were popular in NYC in the mid to late 60’s. Could do some nice harmonies too.
Simply the best✌️😎
I listened to this so many times in Nam as the shit was hitting the fan. I was stoned and enjoying the explosions going on around me.
Wow! I love this song. It sounds crazy but it gave me strength when I needed it as a child! They may have broken the law , but there is something very good about the chambers Brothers.
When the Chambers Brothers , was one of the opening acts with the Doors at the Hollywood Bowl , they looked at the sound equipment being rolled in , They said Who is all that S**T for , certainly not Us, the rest is a capsule in " Time ".
This song brings me to my knees. Their story brings me to my knees.
I still have the 45. I was 8 & this was one of my fave songs! Still is.
Tight playing!
One bad azz tune
VIDEO, out of their minds, luv it.