The violin solos near the end were improvised on the spot by my late father, Joseph Golan, who was the Principal Second Violinist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Hey Lawrence, I was friends with your brother and my sister with yours. Always glad to see you kept the family professional musical tradition going. Health to you and yours.
@bernardbober7300 It's a KSHE classic in St. Louis. I used to listen to this song all the time growing up not knowing that John Jeremiah was from nearly the same area of SW Illinois as I was, or that I would later meet him because I used to work with his brother Jim, and later John came to work with us. The last time I saw him play this song was the day before Thanksgiving, 2006, and he was playing it on the upright church piano in the local village hall where we were having our company Thanksgiving dinner. RIP A, H, &J.🙏
One time, I was riding in a cab on Lake Shore Drive on a beautiful summer day, with the windows rolled down, a fresh breeze, and the driver had the radio cranked up, and it played this song. It was a moment of perfection...
I played this song as my son's farewell song at the end of his funeral. RIP Baby Jude, daddy loves you and misses you every day, see you when it's time my beautiful little man xxxxx
i hope you're holding together. it's a cruel fucking world out there, and no parent should ever have to bury their child. hope you still have the good memories left bro, my utmost condolences to you and yours. i hope i never put my Da in a similar situation.
@@jdubya7139 we both just got some dust in our eyes, right? heh. appreciate seeing some common humanity still around with how crazy the world seems to be. thank you
+Angelique Plute This is one of my most memorable songs from my past--when times were much more laid back--and happier. It brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. May he R.I.P. his music lives on. Condolences to you and your family.
Well, he's (at least this song from his band :) ) going to be forever remembered thanks to it being included in a soundtrack for one of 2017's most anticipated movies. Rest in peace.
Thank you.....it is a hard loss for me. He is my favorite uncle. I am so thrilled to find out this song is used in Guardians of the Galaxy 2...I already have tickets to see the movie on May 4th.
To us Chicagoians, white, black whatever, there will always be Lake Shore Drive, Marshall Fields and the Sears Tower. You can change the names "but the song remains the same ". Peace to the healing world.
Healing world? 2022 is gonna be a doozy with all the disturbances going on in the world. It is also greatly disgusting to me discrimination is so high nowadays wether it be race, age, or even the vaccine bullshit. Why can’t the world just jam out to this tune.
@K K Due to our penchant for abbreviating things, it'll probably always be called The Drive or LSD. I hear ya, I refuse to call the Sears Tower by that other name. It's a point of pride with me, having worked in the basement there for a few short months.
In addition to LSD, there will also be.............................the lake itself. To say I loved going there on a regular basis (as a kid Chicagoan) would be an understatement. Damn, I miss my birthplace!
Just stood in a pub in the middle of Dublin with ten of my mates, this comes on and I’m blown away by the song within 50 seconds I’m asking the guy behind the bar what the name of the artist is… and here I am, I’ve repeated this song around 15 times already, I’m addicted to it… absolutely stunning
Chicago is still Chicago. Every city has crime, every city has problems. But not every city has the amazing character and diversity of Chicago. Lake Shore Drive will always be remembered as one of the most beautiful rides in the world.
@@Russellsaucewon’t be long pal, and you’ll be old before you know it!! Time is terrifying. Make your a good life young man! I’m 37 so right in the middle. Seems like yesterday I was your age. Good luck mate 👍🏻
I'm from the Northern suburbs but live in Indianapolis now. Since 1972, I've wanted so badly to hear this song while heading SOUTH on LSD.. Well, yesterday, I was heading North when it came on...SO, I quickly got off at Fullerton, turned around and went back and YIPPEE!!! After 39 years, I was headed South on LSD listening to Lake Shore Drive!!!!!
This is one of my favorite tracks from the Guardians of the Galaxy These guys are talented and underrated. It's great that James Gunn exposed them to a wider audience. May they rest and peace.
No guys. I hate to say it but beo wulf is right here, though granted his ideals aren't right, but the younger gen. talking about a movie that merely used a bit of the song, and talking about the movie on the very page of the whole song is indeed a little disgraceful. This song is partially culture... talking about something such as a movie that is not yet equal, not even close to, such culture is disgraceful, and if these comments keep on coming they may push down the important comments such as the comments that talk about times from then or that talk about the place it self is indeed , like said above, disgraceful. The younger gen. should show a little respect to good music like such and try to experience culture. I myself found the song from the movie but that does not mean i don't care about the place, after listening to the lyrics i kind of even want to experience the place... Final Message: New Generation should learn to respect cultural things like this... IT MATTERS!!! ... not now maybe, not 5 years from now maybe even, but 10 years down the road this will be essential part of American culture.
The cleverness of the lyrics, the piano and violin, the arrangement, the vibe this song simply just has! Incredible. Grateful to Guardians of the Galaxy for introducing it to me, now a permanent part of my playlist
Probably the only song that could have been played on a radio station every single day and people didn't get to absolutely hate it. People still love it like the first time.
Having grown up in Chicago I always get goosebumps when I hear this song. It perfectly describes the feeling of driving on Lake Shore Drive, especially on a beautiful summer evening. Love you, Windy City!
I do this every week, including yesterday, it was a beautiful sunny day. The highway is usually faster but there’s no beating the view and feeling heading south on LSD. Never gets old.
Was driving along LSD one Friday afternoon, pouring with rain, lots of traffic. Had my i-pod on... played this and all of a sudden the drive became more fun...
In 1968 I took my first car, a '58 Chevy, for test drive on L.S.D. , a memory to be cherished forever. I thank my brother, Rick for telling me about this lively song today.
It sounds like the piano to 'Oh yoko' from John Lennon's Imagine album - can you check if I am just made though. Sounds like the same chord progression too.
This song feels like speeding down a dark road at 11PM on a warm summer night with 4 other people in the car, all laughing with eachother while you look out the window, watching the lightning from the oncoming storm.
That's actually what the song is about. Lake Shore Drive is the name of a famous street here in Chicago, where this band is from. It runs the entire length of the city along the shore of Lake Michigan. It goes through both the poorest and richest neighborhoods, hence the lyric "from rats on up to riches" and it passes right by a famous building called the Metropolitan Tower, that has a really big bright blue beacon on the top of it, which is what "pretty blue lights are guiding the way" is referencing.
When you experience Lake Shore Drive at 4 in the morning this song connects to your sole. When I play the song for people here in Texas they can't believe how good it is and that they never heard of it.
June 25th, Chicago decides to rename you. All my life this song, this road, a huge part of my life. It will always be Lake Shore Drive to me. It will always be LSD.
I got stuck on LSD going to North pier to play battle tech, drove up from St Louis, hit 55, and LakeShoreDrive. 4.15 from that point to north peer 2:45h the last time jerry played a show at soldier field that night, but all the deadheads were like zombies in and out of traffic walking on the lakeshore. Dirty hairy pitted rancid smelling hippy chicks begging everybody for a miracle..94 93? June July, not sure. I still have my battle tech card in my wallet
@@ruidasilvamartins It’s called DuSable lake shore drive for Chicago’s first non native settler, it’s stupid because he has a bazillion other things named after him and now he’s taken over Chicago’s lake shore drive
I've never lived in Chicago, but this song STILL makes me wistful for my days a youth, driving all over my home state. It also makes me wish I was a Chicago resident (although I'm proud to have been raised in the South). Beautifully done, and I'm not surprised that it makes Chicago folks misty-eyed.
I would hear this on channel 32 news every morning here in Chicago. Right before they would cut to commercial they'd do a shot of the city and play this song. My and my mom would watch a bit right before we left to school and her to work and more often than not we'd catch the song. That classic piano at the begging. Glad I found this. My mom and me don't really see each other in the mornings any more. Brings back nice memories. I'm waiting for the right time to play this to her one day. 😊
+Freyja11331ify Not sure. I'm not that old to really know about them and I barely found out the name of the song. But there's this really cool blog about how the song was made. It's really long. Detailed. Cool stuff, I haven't finished it yet. I'll look it up and link you. Even if they were to not be from Chicago they are honorary Chicago citizens.
Hey what a great story! Always did like this song. I didn't live in Chicago but close, near Joliet, but still liked to go there, especially to Old Town, on N Wells.
Man you making me reminds me my mom when she was there .... I miss her, and this song remind me of her some how .. ...been 2 year almost 3.. we didn't see us because she live to far away from me .. I hope you played this to you're mom and bring back good memories cheers up :)
Being from Chicago now living in LA, I play this at least once a week to be reminded of what a great city Chicago and especially how much I loved Lake Shore Drive. I well up every time I hear this!!! Fabulous song!!!!
I was born in 1976 and recall sitting in my carseat next to Mom and this song came on. I was a toddler and it just made sense to my heart. It's the first song I remember hearing. Still gives me nostalgia goosebumps.
They have such an incredible sound. I'm sad that I just discovered this great band a few years ago and realized that both members are no longer with us. Such a shame because this is real music.
I sang this on on lake shore drive with a 70 year old Uber driver on my last night in Chicago before moving back to Europe. She insisted I sing it with her.
I'm 65 years old and have lived in Chicago for years and have driven Lake Shore Drive too many times to count. A wonderful experience. Brings back memories. Great piano ❤
Chicago is the most beautiful city in America! Will always be my home at heart ♥️! Where all my greatest memories came to life 🙏🏻 I will miss you! ♥️♥️♥️
The line about ‘water on the driving side’ gets me every time as an ex-Chicagoan. There really is no road I’ve found like LSD because in any other city that road would either have to right on the water or the view would be blocked by now with 1k condominium complexes. Not in Chicago. Other than one building that snuck through in I think the late nineties that whole big stretch of land on the east side of LSD is parks and beaches. Truly one of the great drives around sunset. Perfect encapsulation in the song.
Back in the 70s I worked with Skip Haynes' mom in Chicago. She was a riot. We'd always have the radio on and when this song came on and the violin part started playing I'd always say, "Great fiddle playing!". His mom, Dana, would pretend to be indignantly irritated and shot back at me..."That's not a fiddle! It's a violin player from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Then we'd all laugh. I LOVE this song and the feelings it still evokes. And I love Chicago.
This song (a one-hit wonder, really) is a fantastic piece of art. And, boy, did they do it well ! An awesome group of musicians. To those who've never headed south on Lake Shore Drive late at night, well let me tell you, it's the prettiest road probably in the world.
Had the radio on and this song came on as I'm folding laundry and my 3year old bouncing on the bed to the song, what sweet memory I'll have because of this song, 💗💗💗
I was living in Toronto Canada when this came out and I remember blasting down Lakeshore Drive heading to Mississauga in a friend's Caddy Convertible with this tune playing over and over again - the memories that this song brings back are sheer enjoyment. Angelique, may this song forever tie you to your lovely Uncle Mitch and the memories that this song brings to you. God Bless.
Wow, can't believe I found this! I have owned this album for years! I live close to Chicago and this was always our "road trip" song! Brings back many memories of friends who are still here, but friends who are also gone...This song was just so "groovy", picked 'ya up and laid 'ya back down, too!
Whenever I am away from Chicago and I hear this wonderful song, it makes me feel so emotional and home sick. Makes me want to hurry back to my home town. Even when I am home in Chicago and I think of the drive with our beautiful lake, I feel emotional. And now that I know these great guys have passed away I feel sadness but still love the song and always will. I always hum this song while I drive on LSD
+Licia Macaluso Driving on LSD could impair your driving ablities and is also considered Driving Under the Influence, I would suggest you stop this dangerous practice now!!! for more information visit 69drugsarebad911.gov!
I'm so unlucky that I couldn't live at that time and enjoy this song in it's time. Looks like underrated now Thanks James Gunn to reuse this and make us know about it.
There's a road I'd like to tell you about, lives in my home town Lake Shore Drive the road is called and it'll take you up or down From rats on up to riches fifteen minutes you can fly Pretty blue lights along the way, help you right on by And the blue lights shining with a heavenly grace, help you right on by And there ain't no road just like it Anywhere I found Running south on Lake Shore Drive heading into town Just slippin' on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound And it starts up north from Hollywood, water on the driving side Concrete mountains rearing up, throwing shadows just about five Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feeling fine There ain't no finer place to be, than running Lake Shore Drive And there's no peace of mind, or place you see, than riding on Lake Shore Drive And there ain't no road just like it Anywhere I found Running south on Lake Shore drive heading into town Just slippin on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound And it's Friday night and you're looking clean Too early to start the rounds A ten minute ride from the Gold Coast back make sure you're pleasure bound And it's four o'clock in the morning and all of the people have gone away Just you and your mind and Lake Shore Drive, tomorrow is another day And the sunshine's fine in the morning time, tomorrow is another day And there ain't no road just like it Anywhere I found Running south on Lake Shore drive heading into town Just snaking on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound
This music, this sound...takes me back to a simpler time. When music was written and performed with feeling. A part of my youth when we all lived in the moment, and could appreciate it even then.
Trying to fall asleep tonight, but had this piano stuck in my head. I searched the only words I could remember "there ain't no road just like it" and remembered. Finally I can sleep now lol.
Brilliant song! I hear him at least once a day! A masterpiece for eternity! Thanks for that🙏!
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Whenever I see and hear this video it makes me kinda tear up cause I was born and raised in Chicago and lived North of Lake Shore Drive and even tho I have relocated whenever i see pictures of "home" I still get misty cause no matter where I am now there is just something magical about Lake Shore Drive. So many friends and Loved ones have gone on..but Chicago is still and will always be "My Home"...:)
Wonderful memories from my year as an exchange student at UIUC in 1985/86. This exact version was playing on the radio often and I loved it! So glad to re-discover it here now! Thanks so much for posting and sharing!
Lakeshore drive. SoSo beautiful. Never again will i hear such brilliant music. Best years in the history of the planet, never be repeated. Today is utter crap.
If memory serves, these guys were out of the biz and working menial labor jobs for the better part of a year when some local DJ spun the 45 and it went mega-viral overnight. They were tracked down through a friend of a friend and hauled in to do a concert. The rest is rock n roll history...Great song anyway you spin it ;)
TaxTheFed - I'm truly not trying to pick on you, nor is it my intention to be a dick (though I'm sure there will be those who don't get why I'm pointing this out.). It wasn't viral! There was no viral then! People actually heard the song, recommended it to others and shared in the great experience associated with a song like this. People actually got together and bonded, strengthened friendships and created memories because of the interaction this song inspired. Again, I'm not trying to bust your chops. I simply feel today's viral world has all but destroyed this type of medium. In my humble opinion, viral should not be used to describe anything before 2010. Thank you.
Agreed. And it's a shame that many native Chicagoites, are unaware this song even exists. There was no better feeling I got back when I was younger than coming from visiting my mother at 2:00am, or even more, going to visit her, coming from my home with my drive starting from Granville and Kenmore and ending on the Bishop Ford at 115th and King Dr. I would always reach into my ash tray and grab a big "Duck" smoking it while driving early 70's-80's. This was in my fully loaded Lincoln Continental Coup, my Lady falling asleep in the passenger seat. I would always consider myself lucky to catch this song on the radio while driving this stretch. No feeling like it for a beautiful ride in the, Chi, especially at night. I've found no comparison to date. That is, "Riding Southbound on LSD, heading into town". No other road or 20 minute drive just like it. In the world. Period.... And while I'm not trying to be competitive, Rio, Asia, France, bring it on if you feel you can because ya'll have some nice stretches, but none like this one I'm afraid. The Chi's concrete canyon lit up on one side reflecting off Lake Michigan on the other. So I literally mean, No Where. The Chi got this one. Peace. SJ, aka, DaSlimone.
Hearing this reminds me of listening to oldies 104.3 heading up lake shore drive in the back seat of the car with my Mom and Dad. Later it meant driving to Stony Island every afternoon to see Mom in the hospital when she got sick, the sun and tears in my eyes.
What an amazing song. A week ago I heard this playing at an outdoor shopping plaza, and immediately liked what I was hearing and then I used Shazam app to identify and download to my phone. and then, after listening and reading the lyrics, I learned that the song is about my favorite road in the entire world. And and me and my two lifelong best friends have had so many great times and memories in Chicago and that road.
IbrahimZZY To the world? Why do so many westerners act so entitled? This song has been famous for decades, then some pedophile director puts it in one of his kiddie superhero films and now it’s suddenly been “introduced”!?
The violin solos near the end were improvised on the spot by my late father, Joseph Golan, who was the Principal Second Violinist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
really? that's pretty cool. you learn something new every day.
That’s the best part! ❤
love that part
Hey Lawrence, I was friends with your brother and my sister with yours. Always glad to see you kept the family professional musical tradition going. Health to you and yours.
I never knew that. I always enjoyed playing in the HPHS orchestra with you.
That piano player is killing it its arguably the best part.
TheMasterQuests and the end is like the beginning it only gets better...
That's John Jeremiah! RIP: thesouthern.com/news/local/obituaries/john-jeremiah/article_a70e30eb-af5a-55fb-9b9a-cde1941203a8.html
I wouldn't have believed it was possible to play that fast!
TheMasterQuests without a doubt
Agreed but whoever's on violin is playing for his life too .
THIS SONG IS BEYOND THE MOST UNDERRATED EVER
Exactly!!
Its a hit on Chicago oldies radio. After GoG added to their soundtrack, it popped up !
It changed my entire opinion of a whole city. Not many songs can do that.
@@tannwich5350 Ehhhhh I still wouldn't go to Chicago ngl...maybe
definitely isn't underrated
This should've been one of the biggest songs of the 70s. Everything about the arrangement is brilliant, I've never heard such incredible piano playing
It was a huge hit in Chicago!
🙂👍
It was big in my hometown of Chicago and still gets played on the radio occasionally.😊
It was big in Milwaukee.
@bernardbober7300 It's a KSHE classic in St. Louis. I used to listen to this song all the time growing up not knowing that John Jeremiah was from nearly the same area of SW Illinois as I was, or that I would later meet him because I used to work with his brother Jim, and later John came to work with us. The last time I saw him play this song was the day before Thanksgiving, 2006, and he was playing it on the upright church piano in the local village hall where we were having our company Thanksgiving dinner. RIP A, H, &J.🙏
I think it was specific to that area. I never heard of this song at all.
One time, I was riding in a cab on Lake Shore Drive on a beautiful summer day, with the windows rolled down, a fresh breeze, and the driver had the radio cranked up, and it played this song. It was a moment of perfection...
I played this song as my son's farewell song at the end of his funeral. RIP Baby Jude, daddy loves you and misses you every day, see you when it's time my beautiful little man xxxxx
Well, shit. This song is not supposed to make a man cry, but here I am.
My condolences to you and yours, internet stranger.
I’m
i hope you're holding together. it's a cruel fucking world out there, and no parent should ever have to bury their child. hope you still have the good memories left bro, my utmost condolences to you and yours. i hope i never put my Da in a similar situation.
@@jdubya7139 we both just got some dust in our eyes, right? heh. appreciate seeing some common humanity still around with how crazy the world seems to be. thank you
i`m sorry man
the 1970's had such insane well crafted music. its beyond real
Thats the [L]ake [S]hore [D]rive for ya loll
thats why i love 70's music
Nothing can beat the 70s or 80s music.
@@meneersfeerbeheer He claims the song isn’t about LSD but I can’t believe that lol.
I miss the 70s so much it hurts. Just want to turn the clock back, and stay there forever.
Got pancreatic cancer, and this song reassures me that Chicago is the true Heaven. I'll be OK.
i"M rootin for ya Andrew !!!!!! God bless !!
@@butchyshoe Thank you so very much! You just brought light to a really hard day.
@GoobisG Thanks man. It's really vicious now but no school I ever went to had surrender in the lesson plan. No point learning it now.
how you doing man?
@@mattkony I checked - as of late March of this year, he's still with us
Guardians of the Galaxy re-awakened an old memory and bought me here! Magic!
I know I'm not the only former Chicagoan who gets teary-eyed while watching this.
You're not. Former Chicagoan here who finds this tune catchy and kind of sad at the same time. I love it though.
Im a current Chicagoan n its not the same anymore
@@Port35 Good to hear!
@@vladdydaddy6610 How so? Visited it recently and loved it like always.
@@davidl570 blessing to u
This was my mother's favorite song. Every time I hear it, someone is chopping onions.
lol
Funny, the same thing happens to me.
Fucking ninjas with onions
That's sad... Hope she had a happy life .
are you StarLord?
This is my uncle Mitchell's band....he died today. I can't even know how to tell you how much I miss him.
I'm so sorry. My uncle knew the band. Such talent.
+Angelique Plute This is one of my most memorable songs from my past--when times were much more laid back--and happier. It brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. May he R.I.P. his music lives on. Condolences to you and your family.
Well, he's (at least this song from his band :) ) going to be forever remembered thanks to it being included in a soundtrack for one of 2017's most anticipated movies. Rest in peace.
I know it's been a long while since you posted but I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am for your loss.
Thank you.....it is a hard loss for me. He is my favorite uncle. I am so thrilled to find out this song is used in Guardians of the Galaxy 2...I already have tickets to see the movie on May 4th.
To us Chicagoians, white, black whatever, there will always be Lake Shore Drive, Marshall Fields and the Sears Tower. You can change the names "but the song remains the same ". Peace to the healing world.
Healing world? 2022 is gonna be a doozy with all the disturbances going on in the world. It is also greatly disgusting to me discrimination is so high nowadays wether it be race, age, or even the vaccine bullshit. Why can’t the world just jam out to this tune.
It's always going to be comiskey park. Go Sox
@K K Due to our penchant for abbreviating things, it'll probably always be called The Drive or LSD. I hear ya, I refuse to call the Sears Tower by that other name. It's a point of pride with me, having worked in the basement there for a few short months.
@Penderyn look up Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable
In addition to LSD, there will also be.............................the lake itself. To say I loved going there on a regular basis (as a kid Chicagoan) would be an understatement. Damn, I miss my birthplace!
Just stood in a pub in the middle of Dublin with ten of my mates, this comes on and I’m blown away by the song within 50 seconds I’m asking the guy behind the bar what the name of the artist is… and here I am, I’ve repeated this song around 15 times already, I’m addicted to it… absolutely stunning
Here's cheers to you and your mates, from one great city to another!
Last week I was back in Chicago,, took my daughter headed south on Lake Shore Drive and had her play this song. She loved it, I miss the good Chicago.
Growing up in Chicago was great, wasn't it?
Chicago is still Chicago. Every city has crime, every city has problems. But not every city has the amazing character and diversity of Chicago. Lake Shore Drive will always be remembered as one of the most beautiful rides in the world.
😭😭I miss ALOT..beefs...pizza...coho fishing..grant park...shedd aquarium...TOOTSIE roll smells on 290..😥😥now it's a piece a trash...SO SAD
71 years old, never once listened to this song without breaking into a grin!!! RIP boys
it brings tears to my eyes every time
damn I'm like 57 years younger than you. Time sure is whacky
@@Russellsaucewon’t be long pal, and you’ll be old before you know it!! Time is terrifying. Make your a good life young man! I’m 37 so right in the middle. Seems like yesterday I was your age. Good luck mate 👍🏻
I'm from the Northern suburbs but live in Indianapolis now. Since 1972, I've wanted so badly to hear this song while heading SOUTH on LSD.. Well, yesterday, I was heading North when it came on...SO, I quickly got off at Fullerton, turned around and went back and YIPPEE!!! After 39 years, I was headed South on LSD listening to Lake Shore Drive!!!!!
And how did it feel?
by LSD you mean...lake shore drive I hope? Oooh boy...
Hahahhahahahaha, man i wish i was with ya.
@@jeffsecret1168 Fabulous!!!
@@certainlysoup508 same
Song is so good it brings tears to my eyes.
hahah mee to! amazing song.
Morningglory Seed me to
Yes it does bring tears as I have traveled LSD many times and at all times. Greatest of great songs.
same here mang
Morningglory Seed the same
This is one of my favorite tracks from the Guardians of the Galaxy These guys are talented and underrated. It's great that James Gunn exposed them to a wider audience. May they rest and peace.
Hola xd
It’s also in SCP confinement
It's crazy the movie starts out so happy, and by the end of the movie it's just tragedy.
Same
Same +1
GAURD DAWG
too quick
Star-lord's mom taste of music is good.
Perseus Jackson Riiiiiiiight
There needs to be a movie just about Meredith Quill raising young Peter.
Will you fuck off with GOTG shit?
You do realize these movies help make those classics known to younger generations? It's awesome if you ask me.
No guys. I hate to say it but beo wulf is right here, though granted his ideals aren't right, but the younger gen. talking about a movie that merely used a bit of the song, and talking about the movie on the very page of the whole song is indeed a little disgraceful. This song is partially culture... talking about something such as a movie that is not yet equal, not even close to, such culture is disgraceful, and if these comments keep on coming they may push down the important comments such as the comments that talk about times from then or that talk about the place it self is indeed , like said above, disgraceful. The younger gen. should show a little respect to good music like such and try to experience culture.
I myself found the song from the movie but that does not mean i don't care about the place, after listening to the lyrics i kind of even want to experience the place...
Final Message: New Generation should learn to respect cultural things like this... IT MATTERS!!! ... not now maybe, not 5 years from now maybe even, but 10 years down the road this will be essential part of American culture.
You gotta admit they describe a fun ride, beautiful song, every time I hear it, I feel like I'm riding with them
RIP Skip Haynes.
This video is a perfect memorial.
The cleverness of the lyrics, the piano and violin, the arrangement, the vibe this song simply just has! Incredible. Grateful to Guardians of the Galaxy for introducing it to me, now a permanent part of my playlist
Probably the only song that could have been played on a radio station every single day and people didn't get to absolutely hate it. People still love it like the first time.
The writer of this classic Skip Haynes passed away on October 4th, 2017. Rest in peace....
That was my 21st birthday
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So glad he lived to see it finally more widely appreciated after GotG
feinstei l hear one Eugene von Heitlinger wrote the song... ???
@@Io-Io-IoSee I'm late to the party by a couple of years, but Is that a trick question ?
Gorgeous chord progressions, tragically happy.. so nostalgic.
Having grown up in Chicago I always get goosebumps when I hear this song. It perfectly describes the feeling of driving on Lake Shore Drive, especially on a beautiful summer evening. Love you, Windy City!
Amen! This song always brings me to tears
One of the greatest songs in music history.
I've done it a hundred and more times, runnin' south on Lakeshore Drive, comin' into town, and after 50 years the memory is vivid, never dies.
I do this every week, including yesterday, it was a beautiful sunny day. The highway is usually faster but there’s no beating the view and feeling heading south on LSD. Never gets old.
Was driving along LSD one Friday afternoon, pouring with rain, lots of traffic. Had my i-pod on... played this and all of a sudden the drive became more fun...
Unless you're stoned it's just another freeway
I bet it was the best drive you have ever had Mr H.
Martyn H its not talking about the road there talking about the drugs
Jonathan Sakks it's pretty much a phone, search it up on google
Have done that too-Sofieann B.
In 1968 I took my first car, a '58 Chevy, for test drive on L.S.D. , a memory to be cherished forever. I thank my brother, Rick for telling me about this lively song today.
That piano riff is something else
It sounds like the piano to 'Oh yoko' from John Lennon's Imagine album - can you check if I am just made though. Sounds like the same chord progression too.
I can’t explain it, but after we die if we got to watch a video showing all our life’s experiences, I’d want that sound playing over it
The piano riff was written and performed by John Jeremiah, my father's college roommate.
I was born in a hospital just off Lake Shore Drive in 1970 and this song always makes me homesick.🥺
Happened to think of this song today for no particular reason. It's still beautiful and holds it's musical integrity beyond the limits of time.
It is a piece of art
This song feels like speeding down a dark road at 11PM on a warm summer night with 4 other people in the car, all laughing with eachother while you look out the window, watching the lightning from the oncoming storm.
Yes it does. I've lived in Southeastern GA and have done just this, many times with friends.🖤😌🎶
@@8thhousemoonrabbit205 Whenever me and my grandparents go to Holden Beach in NC, we always do this after we go eat. Good times 😌
I literally did this on lsd driving down lsd with 4 other people at 4 am after an underground party going back home....just gorgeous 😍
Yeah. Listening to this song while driving Chicago's LSD. 4AM in the morning.
That's actually what the song is about. Lake Shore Drive is the name of a famous street here in Chicago, where this band is from. It runs the entire length of the city along the shore of Lake Michigan. It goes through both the poorest and richest neighborhoods, hence the lyric "from rats on up to riches" and it passes right by a famous building called the Metropolitan Tower, that has a really big bright blue beacon on the top of it, which is what "pretty blue lights are guiding the way" is referencing.
When you experience Lake Shore Drive at 4 in the morning this song connects to your sole. When I play the song for people here in Texas they can't believe how good it is and that they never heard of it.
Paul Budvitis Why would a song connect to your shoe?
I liked this just bc I'm from Texas!
how to attach songs to my shoe? please teach me your ways O master.
When you experience Lake Shore Drive on acid this song connects to your soul.
With love from Chicago :)
June 25th, Chicago decides to rename you. All my life this song, this road, a huge part of my life. It will always be Lake Shore Drive to me. It will always be LSD.
💯♥️✌️
absolutely
What's the new name in chicago then please ?
Greetings from Switzerland
I got stuck on LSD going to North pier to play battle tech, drove up from St Louis, hit 55, and LakeShoreDrive. 4.15 from that point to north peer 2:45h the last time jerry played a show at soldier field that night, but all the deadheads were like zombies in and out of traffic walking on the lakeshore. Dirty hairy pitted rancid smelling hippy chicks begging everybody for a miracle..94 93? June July, not sure. I still have my battle tech card in my wallet
@@ruidasilvamartins It’s called DuSable lake shore drive for Chicago’s first non native settler, it’s stupid because he has a bazillion other things named after him and now he’s taken over Chicago’s lake shore drive
Anyone here in 2023 this song is just pure nostalgia for me and I cant stop listening it. Ohhh god its soo good
I've never lived in Chicago, but this song STILL makes me wistful for my days a youth, driving all over my home state. It also makes me wish I was a Chicago resident (although I'm proud to have been raised in the South). Beautifully done, and I'm not surprised that it makes Chicago folks misty-eyed.
booooooooooooooooooooooo
I would hear this on channel 32 news every morning here in Chicago. Right before they would cut to commercial they'd do a shot of the city and play this song.
My and my mom would watch a bit right before we left to school and her to work and more often than not we'd catch the song. That classic piano at the begging.
Glad I found this. My mom and me don't really see each other in the mornings any more.
Brings back nice memories. I'm waiting for the right time to play this to her one day. 😊
+Freyja11331ify
Not sure. I'm not that old to really know about them and I barely found out the name of the song.
But there's this really cool blog about how the song was made. It's really long. Detailed. Cool stuff, I haven't finished it yet. I'll look it up and link you.
Even if they were to not be from Chicago they are honorary Chicago citizens.
Hey what a great story! Always did like this song. I didn't live in Chicago but close, near Joliet, but still liked to go there, especially to Old Town, on N Wells.
Malaquias Popocateptl play it to her now
Man you making me reminds me my mom when she was there .... I miss her, and this song remind me of her some how .. ...been 2 year almost 3.. we didn't see us because she live to far away from me .. I hope you played this to you're mom and bring back good memories cheers up :)
I would remember them playing "everyone wants to rule the world" by tears for fears
I can’t believe I didn’t hear this before Guardians of the Galaxy 2. What an absolute legend of a song.
That's why we should listen more to popmusic of the 60s and 70s!! 😘
Sames, that opening piano is incredible.
Same here. Those movies have the best music!
Being from Chicago now living in LA, I play this at least once a week to be reminded of what a great city Chicago and especially how much I loved Lake Shore Drive. I well up every time I hear this!!! Fabulous song!!!!
I was born in 1976 and recall sitting in my carseat next to Mom and this song came on. I was a toddler and it just made sense to my heart. It's the first song I remember hearing. Still gives me nostalgia goosebumps.
2024...still listening ❤
R.I.P. Mitch Aliotta, lifelong friend if my father and one of my favorite bassists ever. The music community has lost one of its best.
I like how you were able to make this be about you
I met Mr. Aliotta a few months ago, he is very much alive! Very influential to the music i heard growing up. I love this band, reminds me of my dad
@@terraheinrichs6987 sometimes youtube comments are pure gold. You're one of em Terra. Thank you x)
Love the Venum symbol btw
They have such an incredible sound. I'm sad that I just discovered this great band a few years ago and realized that both members are no longer with us. Such a shame because this is real music.
Great song for a great city!!! Only people that live in Chicago can really appreciate how true this song is!!!!
I LIVE IN CHICAGO I LOVE THIS SONG , THE DRIVE IS BEAUTIFUL,
@@janicekramer2322 Not true.
If you leave Milwaukee when the bars close,
you land on Hollywood right at 4am.
😉
I sang this on on lake shore drive with a 70 year old Uber driver on my last night in Chicago before moving back to Europe. She insisted I sing it with her.
22 years of driving on Lake Shore Drive, 22 years of living right next to it, and I never discovered this until today. I love it.
So... Awesome Mix vol 2?
yeee
Votesaxon07 woop woop
For sure.. Yes 😎
Bro I can't find your review on the dr who 3.75" ice warrior
A Marvel movie with a song about LSD? Count me in!
Close your eyes and enjoy the ride with this beautiful song. Rock On!
I've done that many times too.
If you have 200K you'd like to spend in hospital then yeah do what this guy says
Great way to drive the car!
Cheers Bob
I love this song!
If NASA found a way of making Voyager 2 play out this song in space, Aliens would want to visit us
You can't hear sound in space; space is a vacuum... But also, yes.
@@cord2807 are you suggesting that LSD cannot transcend a vacuum? Skip Haynes cares not for particles.
it could be annihilation of human race
@@cord2807 !!!
It’s already out there bud
I'm 65 years old and have lived in Chicago for years and have driven Lake Shore Drive too many times to count. A wonderful experience. Brings back memories. Great piano ❤
Whenever I get mad or frustrated I listen to this
Chicago is the most beautiful city in America! Will always be my home at heart ♥️! Where all my greatest memories came to life 🙏🏻 I will miss you! ♥️♥️♥️
Without a doubt,one of the greatest R&R songs to come from another outstanding Chicago group.What an absolute gem.
The line about ‘water on the driving side’ gets me every time as an ex-Chicagoan. There really is no road I’ve found like LSD because in any other city that road would either have to right on the water or the view would be blocked by now with 1k condominium complexes. Not in Chicago. Other than one building that snuck through in I think the late nineties that whole big stretch of land on the east side of LSD is parks and beaches. Truly one of the great drives around sunset. Perfect encapsulation in the song.
If you want something that comes close, there's FDR Drive and the Henry Hudson Parkway.
Great song, but a road is really the worst way to use waterfront. Better to have a board walk or a biking trail
Back in the 70s I worked with Skip Haynes' mom in Chicago. She was a riot. We'd always have the radio on and when this song came on and the violin part started playing I'd always say, "Great fiddle playing!". His mom, Dana, would pretend to be indignantly irritated and shot back at me..."That's not a fiddle! It's a violin player from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Then we'd all laugh. I LOVE this song and the feelings it still evokes. And I love Chicago.
One of the most underrated feelgood songs ever! Should've been a huge hit!
This song (a one-hit wonder, really) is a fantastic piece of art. And, boy, did they do it
well ! An awesome group of musicians. To those who've never headed south on Lake Shore Drive late at night, well let me tell you, it's the prettiest road probably in the world.
I'm from Australia and this song rocks
by men at work??
I used to work with Ted aliotta
Never heard this before today made me cry. Dont know why.
Timothy Muldoon it's a Mind opening song
Me too brotha. Just because. This song hits u in the soul
So...!?
That's the song get into your soul man!!
It just gets to you
bitch as nigga
It's pure joy
This song never fails to put a smile on my face
Had the radio on and this song came on as I'm folding laundry and my 3year old bouncing on the bed to the song, what sweet memory I'll have because of this song, 💗💗💗
I've lived on LSD for 22 years - always loved this song!
Do you get flashbacks?
Do you hallucinate alot
Are you okay?
thats alot of lsd
Beth is 74 years old now & is living in one of those very expensive condominiums along Lake Shore Drive.
Dam.i miss CHICAGO.
Best memories there. No other city like CHICAGO
One can leave Chicago but Chicago never leaves you
I was living in Toronto Canada when this came out and I remember blasting down Lakeshore Drive heading to Mississauga in a friend's Caddy Convertible with this tune playing over and over again - the memories that this song brings back are sheer enjoyment. Angelique, may this song forever tie you to your lovely Uncle Mitch and the memories that this song brings to you. God Bless.
I literally live on Hollywood and this goes through my head every time I get on Lake Shore.
RIP Lake shore drive.
Long live Lake Shore Drive!
Wow, can't believe I found this! I have owned this album for years! I live close to Chicago and this was always our "road trip" song! Brings back many memories of friends who are still here, but friends who are also gone...This song was just so "groovy", picked 'ya up and laid 'ya back down, too!
Whenever I am away from Chicago and I hear this wonderful song, it makes me feel so emotional and home sick. Makes me want to hurry back to my home town. Even when I am home in Chicago and I think of the drive with our beautiful lake, I feel emotional. And now that I know these great guys have passed away I feel sadness but still love the song and always will. I always hum this song while I drive on LSD
+Licia Macaluso Driving on LSD could impair your driving ablities and is also considered Driving Under the Influence, I would suggest you stop this dangerous practice now!!! for more information visit 69drugsarebad911.gov!
+ MOTU675 what a silly head you are. I meant the song, I don't do LSD LOL I am a gramma fpr gods sake.
+Licia Macaluso but r u trippin on by on LSD
na not trippin, Driving though
I know the feeling. Thanks for the prospective for me. Lots of memories. Oh My!!!!!
I found this a few weeks ago and I have been listening to it everyday. I will never get tired of this song.
I recently introduced my niece to this song, she loves it. I drive her everyday from Hollywood into downtown.
I'm so unlucky that I couldn't live at that time and enjoy this song in it's time.
Looks like underrated now
Thanks James Gunn to reuse this and make us know about it.
I haven't heard a song this GREAT in a long long time. Ah! 1971, What a year.
There's a road I'd like to tell you about, lives in my home town
Lake Shore Drive the road is called and it'll take you up or down
From rats on up to riches fifteen minutes you can fly
Pretty blue lights along the way, help you right on by
And the blue lights shining with a heavenly grace, help you right on by And there ain't no road just like it
Anywhere I found
Running south on Lake Shore Drive heading into town
Just slippin' on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound And it starts up north from Hollywood, water on the driving side
Concrete mountains rearing up, throwing shadows just about five
Sometimes you can smell the green if your mind is feeling fine
There ain't no finer place to be, than running Lake Shore Drive
And there's no peace of mind, or place you see, than riding on Lake Shore Drive And there ain't no road just like it
Anywhere I found
Running south on Lake Shore drive heading into town
Just slippin on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound And it's Friday night and you're looking clean
Too early to start the rounds
A ten minute ride from the Gold Coast back make sure you're pleasure bound
And it's four o'clock in the morning and all of the people have gone away
Just you and your mind and Lake Shore Drive, tomorrow is another day
And the sunshine's fine in the morning time, tomorrow is another day And there ain't no road just like it
Anywhere I found
Running south on Lake Shore drive heading into town
Just snaking on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound
Day 3 of listening to lake shore drive for a year
That smile at the end is everything.
I'm a displaced Chicago boy.... and this song makes my homesick and nostalgic. Good feelings? So why are my eyes tearing?
This music, this sound...takes me back to a simpler time. When music was written and performed with feeling. A part of my youth when we all lived in the moment, and could appreciate it even then.
Trying to fall asleep tonight, but had this piano stuck in my head. I searched the only words I could remember "there ain't no road just like it" and remembered. Finally I can sleep now lol.
Every time I’m in the Chicago burbs this song comes to mind. Naturally, I have to sing it loud in my truck repeatedly until I’m out of Illinois
This is one of my favorite songs of all time. 🥲
Brilliant song! I hear him at least once a day! A masterpiece for eternity! Thanks for that🙏!
Whenever I see and hear this video it makes me kinda tear up cause I was born and raised in Chicago and lived North of Lake Shore Drive and even tho I have relocated whenever i see pictures of "home" I still get misty cause no matter where I am now there is just something magical about Lake Shore Drive. So many friends and Loved ones have gone on..but Chicago is still and will always be "My Home"...:)
I lived in Chicago in the seventies on Lawrence and Kimball and still big fan of the seventies I am 67 now in IOWA
The most colorful song I've ever heard
Me and my buddies were in Chicago and listened to this while on lake shore drive
Wonderful memories from my year as an exchange student at UIUC in 1985/86. This exact version was playing on the radio often and I loved it! So glad to re-discover it here now! Thanks so much for posting and sharing!
Lakeshore drive. SoSo beautiful. Never again will i hear such brilliant music. Best years in the history of the planet, never be repeated. Today is utter crap.
If memory serves, these guys were out of the biz and working menial labor jobs for the better part of a year when some local DJ spun the 45 and it went mega-viral overnight. They were tracked down through a friend of a friend and hauled in to do a concert. The rest is rock n roll history...Great song anyway you spin it ;)
TaxTheFed - sounds like DIVINE INTERVENTION to me! Praise the Lord!
+Mike Madden
They tried to forbid this music so much that it slipped through somehow
I think it was Ed Schwartz on WGN 720
TaxTheFed - I'm truly not trying to pick on you, nor is it my intention to be a dick (though I'm sure there will be those who don't get why I'm pointing this out.). It wasn't viral! There was no viral then! People actually heard the song, recommended it to others and shared in the great experience associated with a song like this. People actually got together and bonded, strengthened friendships and created memories because of the interaction this song inspired.
Again, I'm not trying to bust your chops. I simply feel today's viral world has all but destroyed this type of medium. In my humble opinion, viral should not be used to describe anything before 2010. Thank you.
lol lets hear your sophisticated thoughts on monetary policy
Agreed. And it's a shame that many native Chicagoites, are unaware this song even exists. There was no better feeling I got back when I was younger than coming from visiting my mother at 2:00am, or even more, going to visit her, coming from my home with my drive starting from Granville and Kenmore and ending on the Bishop Ford at 115th and King Dr. I would always reach into my ash tray and grab a big "Duck" smoking it while driving early 70's-80's. This was in my fully loaded Lincoln Continental Coup, my Lady falling asleep in the passenger seat. I would always consider myself lucky to catch this song on the radio while driving this stretch. No feeling like it for a beautiful ride in the, Chi, especially at night. I've found no comparison to date. That is, "Riding Southbound on LSD, heading into town". No other road or 20 minute drive just like it. In the world. Period.... And while I'm not trying to be competitive, Rio, Asia, France, bring it on if you feel you can because ya'll have some nice stretches, but none like this one I'm afraid. The Chi's concrete canyon lit up on one side reflecting off Lake Michigan on the other. So I literally mean, No Where. The Chi got this one. Peace.
SJ, aka, DaSlimone.
The piano player absolutely shredding the keys is so much fun to listen to
Hearing this reminds me of listening to oldies 104.3 heading up lake shore drive in the back seat of the car with my Mom and Dad. Later it meant driving to Stony Island every afternoon to see Mom in the hospital when she got sick, the sun and tears in my eyes.
I love listening to this while driving down Lakeshore on the Michigan East coast it's such a mood.
came here from Davids vlogs. this song SLAPS
same!
Guardians of the Galaxy is bringing back the classics. Good for young kids great music.
Lakeshore drives name was just changed today the 25th of June mark the date of this terrible day
What an amazing song. A week ago I heard this playing at an outdoor shopping plaza, and immediately liked what I was hearing and then I used Shazam app to identify and download to my phone. and then, after listening and reading the lyrics, I learned that the song is about my favorite road in the entire world. And and me and my two lifelong best friends have had so many great times and memories in Chicago and that road.
They are all gone now. Rest in peace,, guys! You put some great music out there!!!!
Thank you James Gunn for introducing this song to the world. Awesome Mixtape Vol 2 FTW!
It was famous before tho...
you deserved that like
IbrahimZZY To the world? Why do so many westerners act so entitled? This song has been famous for decades, then some pedophile director puts it in one of his kiddie superhero films and now it’s suddenly been “introduced”!?
Baxter what does this have to do with “westerners”? Also James Gunn is not a pedophile...
@@dynamoz5191 Lmao he isn't idot