Dont get too down, Lee. You deserve the best and that will come to you! Dont give up. You are doing a great job here, but you can do whatever you decide!
The opening riff on Ventura Highway is the ringtone on my cell phone, I get strange looks when it blows up in public. Those of my generation throw a smile my way - one lady even began to mouth the lyrics, " Chewin' on a piece of grass...etc.
Dutch boy here. This is one of my all time favs for a long long time already. Been to California a couple of times. Once I was all of a sudden driving on Ventura Highway and immediately anxiously started to look for this track on my car's mp3-player. Found it in time and that made me one of the happiest people alive in that moment. will never forget.....
My Ventura Highway story is a little different... I was a kid back at the end of the 70s, and we went to visit our cousins in Santa Barbara. They picked us up at the train station in Las Angeles, so we start heading back to Santa Barbara in my cousin's Chevy Chevette. Now as you head up out of LA on the Ventura Highway, there's this incredibly long, fairly steep grade that you hit. Chevettes had like 4 horsepower or something, and we had 4 people in one. As we approach the grade, my cousin floored it, and got up to a massive 80 MPH. By the time we got to the top, it looked like we might not make it as we kept slowing down. Near the top he was encouraging us to rock forward to give us that little extra oomph to get to the top. I think we got down to about 8 MPH before we leveled out and could speed up again.
Every time I listen to this band I tear up as they were my Brother's favorite. He passed away from cancer and left his stereo and albums to me, he owned every album this band made 💔
Ventura highway is a beautiful song, but it is also a sad song at the same time, it’s full of melancholy. No shame in feeling hurt, we’ve all been there.
Little tidbit: America is a rock band that was formed in London in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley. They were sons of US Air Force personnel stationed in London.
Sad memories are so hard to shake off. But I try to tell myself it's called "the past" for a reason. You always remember it, but you try and learn from it when necessary. Whoever first said "hindsight is 20/20" is right, but definitely needs a kick in the ass sometimes....stay strong for your beautiful family. Just get Danica to pitch in whenever you're overwhelmed. She's already charmed the audience! 🥰
1972, thumbing across BC Canada with my future husband after he came home from Vietnam. Fantastic Thank you 💕 No time exits, we do with you, dear brother.
Great track.Listening to Ventura Highway brings a longing and yearning for something in the past that you can't quite put your finger on no matter how many times you hear it and I must have listened to this track a thousand times
One of my favourite vocal bands ...❤ (All my favourite are vocal bands 😅 Bee Gees, Beatles, The Byrds, The Band, CSN&Y, The Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel)...
I totally get it Lee. I am prone to melancholy some days. Ventura Highway makes me feel like running thru a flower field with a breeze on your face, and laughing from the beauty of it, then realizing there are tears falling because I can't hold on to the feeling, or the beauty, of the moment. Be blessed, my friend.
America's first album is a complete acoustic gem. All good tunes. A couple of bangers too! The album is in my top ten album list. I learned how to play acoustic guitar from this album and Neil Young's Harvest ablum. Great reaction.
When one door closes, another opens, Lee. Always. You will look back at this point in your life and realize that whatever you are going through now, was for your journey. Keep your head straight and the rest will follow.
I live on the East coast, but I have driven in California on Ventura Highway in the sunshine, with that very song playing coincidentally on the car radio. Great memories!!! 😊
Hang in there my man ! In all my many years on this 🌎 i discovered later on in life that WISDOM IS A HOUSE BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF PAIN & THAT STRENGTH GROWS IN THE MOMENTS WHEN YOU THINK YOU CANT GO ON BUT YOU KEEP GOING ANYWAY...💪😎🤙🙏❤️😇
It's easy to slip into sadness when music touches you and takes you somewhere sweet and light. Thinking of times gone by when life seemed less complicated and the wind was in your hair...I know how you feel Lee. You are doing well and know this: with your channel you are providing something very special for a whole lot of people. Feel proud. Keep feeling it. Big hug.
The first time I drove to Ventura with my wife we put this song on as we approached town - heading south with the Pacific out the right side windows. It really clicked.
I've got 15 or so songs I consider my "DNA songs" because they are so imprinted in me... Three Roses is one of them. Thanks for your reaction. First time I've seen that song reacted to....
So sorry to hear you going through a hard time. Odd to think that some of us have loved America and Ventura Highway for over 50 years and others are hearing it for the first time. Janet Jackson liked that riff enough to use it unchanged in 2001 for her hit Someone to Call My Lover.
Ventura Highway never gets old. Classic America. Same w/Horse w/no Name. Unique CA sound at the time. Gives me chills as a native CA female...even if Im a Nor Cal..lol
I'm a music nerd with passion for many genres. My husband loves only 80's music. My kids ❤️ mostly hip hop/rap. When we can't decide on what to listen to, America is our go-to. Somehow, it works. 😊 I was entering 8th grade September 1972. I wish you all the best and enjoy your reactions. 3 Roses my favorite.😊
It must be your sentience, Lee… Ventura Highway is inspired by a family adventure Dewey Bunnell had as a youngster on the coast highway in California. While his father changed a tire, he and his brother watched clouds form in the air and saw the road sign for Ventura.✨❤
"Three Roses" is an excellent song, Love that acoustic guitar playing. It was one of the songs that I just had to sit down and learn to play on my acoustic back when I was young. It has some impressive jazz-like chord progressions.
The first album was recorded in the UK, and one of the musicians feature on many tracks was future Elton John percussionist Ray Cooper, who is heard on bongos on Three Roses (also played bongos on Horse With No Name). On the Homecoming album, which was recorded in LA, the band was augmented by two stellar members of The Wrecking Crew: bassist Joe Osborn and drummer Hal Blaine, who played like they had always been members of the band - that's how good they were.
September 19, 1972 would have found me attending a newly formed junior high school and in the 8th grade. It was really scary going from a very small country school of grades 1-12 where I knew almost everyone to a school where there were students from around five different smaller schools dumped together. I’m certain you can’t imagine it, but it was the first time I was at a fully integrated school (my former school had three black students in total)! It was all a massive adjustment and it seemed as if everyone else just fit right in. Junior high was not a good time, but my mother put me in band which, by the time high school (grades 10-12) rolled around, gave me a group to be a part of where I fit in. If it helps your imagination, my high school was the only one in the county-I lived in one of the largest land mass counties in NC, yet one of the least populated. It had over 1200 students and my graduating class was the largest ever. But, I discovered that I was actually pretty intelligent and graduated in the top 10% of my class and and I became the first in my family (either side) that attained a Bachelor’s degree! I purposefully live 150 miles away!
It's all growing pains my man. Our youth and/or early adulthood usually throws some whoppers at us, and a ton of moments that affect us, but we process them differently the older we get. 'Building blocks' is a very real thing and there are no 'but!, but! buts' -- only 'it is what it is'.
Three Roses was from that fine debut album, but was not a single release. For some well-known and popular songs, try Daisy Jane, Tin Man, You Can Do Magic, or Sister Golden Hair. "Magic" was a hit in 1982, marking one full decade of hits for the group whose songs are just as listenable today as they were then.
Thank you, Lee. Ventura Highway was the wedding tune of my best lesbian friends, Maria and Bing.Maria is no longer with us but this song always brings tears and smiles. Better days, my young friend.
L33, You may have driven Ventura Highway in another time - we wear our bodies one after the other. Our spirits endure the same eternally - the 'real you' has always been and will ever be.
Sloopy boy, good choice by America who had so many songs. And you are right, similar to CSNY. The only complaint (not really a complaint) is their lyrics could be obscure and ambiguous at times, yet their music was easy to listen to. BTW 1972 in college
One of the best soft-rock groups along with Bread, although both groups would "rock out" a bit, with Bread being a lot more convincing at that. The secret to enjoying America is to never try to figure out what their lyrics mean. I don't even think THEY know. But the music's great.
Someone correct me if i'm wrong but I thnk George Martin, from the Beatles produced their albums or maybe that was Supertramp? Love soft rock too. This song, as well as others, ie. Tinman, pounded the radio airwaves back in the day. Alligator lizards in the air referres to shapes one can make out of clouds in the sky. Cool visual. Three Roses was new to me, it's ok but not as good as some of their good stuff.
I've made this point before, possibly in comments on your channel, but America was/is all about harmony and good feeling. The lyrics may or may not make any sense, but it doesn't matter one bit.
I love America's vibe. The lead singer's voice has been compared to sounding like Neil Young's singing voice. I can hear that a bit. A Horse With No Name and Tin Man are two more great ones to name a couple
Love Ventura Highway! And the guitar at the beginning will always remind me of "The Californians" from SNL. Classic. Also makes me want to move to a ski town in Cali...and change my name to "Joe".
Ha ha - seriously...? Please, while bit on SNL was humorous...please.....although Californians was about So Cal so I can laugh cuz Im a Nor Cal just sayin
Three Roses is nice, but Ventura Highway just exploded with dimensions that 3R just didn't have. The production makes a big difference. Ventura Highway feels like it mentally sparkles... if ya get me.
Aside from their first album, "America", every album they released through 1977 (when they became a duo instead of a trio) had a title starting with the letter H. Could not be at all coincidental.
They're both fantastic songs, but someone needs to recommend material that wasn't written by Dewey Bunnell so you get an idea of how varied their sound could be.
At this time many of us were listening to albums by Yes pink Floyd etc But these were on the radio. I still liked them as much but did not buy the albums.
Prince may or may not have stolen 'purple rain' from this song. It's funny but there is no Ventura 'Highway' in SoCal, but there is a city of Ventura and a Ventura Freeway. There's an article floating around wherein the songwriter tells how he came up with all the lyrics. Mostly it's from a childhood trip. Alligator lizards are a real kind of lizard here, but the ones in the air in the song are clouds. :)
Yeah , it was a flat tire on the coast hwy with his family. When changing the tire , the sign for Ventura,CA was right in front of them. The rest you mentioned. It was also before the family was stationed overseas in the UK where him and the other band members grew up together through high school. Such a unique band story actually.
Every time I watch your channel you always seem so sad, your thumbnail says that you are a drummer, maybe you should get yourself into a band or something
Right, It's like, we're all rooting for you and your channel. Could you discuss your drum background sometime, I'm a drummer myself. Maybe you have talked about it before and I missed it. Good luck to you and your family Lee!
Lame, insipid, tenth-rate CSN. America set the bar low for utter blandness. And the lyrics.."In the desert you can't remember your name for there ain't no one for to give you no pain." WTF does that even mean? Word salad. My cat makes more sense. As the inimitable Lester Bangs put it, "They make John Denver sound like T S Eliot."
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At 68 years old I grew up on this music and the funny thing is I still am. There are are some songs that are just timeless and this is one of them.
Both "Ventura Highway" and "Horse with No Name" are elemental songs from my childhood. Takes me back every time I hear them.
Dont get too down, Lee. You deserve the best and that will come to you! Dont give up. You are doing a great job here, but you can do whatever you decide!
The opening riff on Ventura Highway is the ringtone on my cell phone, I get strange looks when it blows up in public. Those of my generation throw a smile my way - one lady even began to mouth the lyrics, " Chewin' on a piece of grass...etc.
Good choice, I just made it my ringtone also.
lol!
"You can always change your name"...One of the best lyrics ever.
L33, trust me I’m 72 and those memories may not be there at one’s younger days but, as we age they surface…✌️💙😎
You aren't wrong there, buddy.
Yes! You never know when you're making a memory. 👈🏻Rickie Lee Jones lyric
Dutch boy here. This is one of my all time favs for a long long time already. Been to California a couple of times. Once I was all of a sudden driving on Ventura Highway and immediately anxiously started to look for this track on my car's mp3-player. Found it in time and that made me one of the happiest people alive in that moment. will never forget.....
Yes! There are songs written about places all over the world, but the vibe they captured there so perfectly!
My Ventura Highway story is a little different... I was a kid back at the end of the 70s, and we went to visit our cousins in Santa Barbara. They picked us up at the train station in Las Angeles, so we start heading back to Santa Barbara in my cousin's Chevy Chevette. Now as you head up out of LA on the Ventura Highway, there's this incredibly long, fairly steep grade that you hit. Chevettes had like 4 horsepower or something, and we had 4 people in one. As we approach the grade, my cousin floored it, and got up to a massive 80 MPH. By the time we got to the top, it looked like we might not make it as we kept slowing down. Near the top he was encouraging us to rock forward to give us that little extra oomph to get to the top. I think we got down to about 8 MPH before we leveled out and could speed up again.
@@janewells5970 Yes, they did/do.
@@mikeholmes5308 haha. Nice. Great story. Thanks indeed. Very vivid. Can see it happening.
Every time I listen to this band I tear up as they were my Brother's favorite. He passed away from cancer and left his stereo and albums to me, he owned every album this band made 💔
Ventura highway is a beautiful song, but it is also a sad song at the same time, it’s full of melancholy. No shame in feeling hurt, we’ve all been there.
Yeah it's definitely a melancholy kinda feeling it gives you. Like you just went somewhere cool but your not in a good mood lol
Little tidbit: America is a rock band that was formed in London in 1970 by Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley. They were sons of US Air Force personnel stationed in London.
Keep hittin’ the 60’s and 70’s 🔥 Rarely will you be disappointed imo 👍🏻
I've always been a fan of "Ventura Highway," but had never heard "Three Roses"... what a nice surprise!
Sad memories are so hard to shake off. But I try to tell myself it's called "the past" for a reason. You always remember it, but you try and learn from it when necessary. Whoever first said "hindsight is 20/20" is right, but definitely needs a kick in the ass sometimes....stay strong for your beautiful family.
Just get Danica to pitch in whenever you're overwhelmed. She's already charmed the audience! 🥰
Ventura Highway is an instant mental time machine. Love the song and some of the memories.
Love your videos. I’m 64. You’ve been listening to the soundtrack of my life!
Also the rest of us in their sixties!
1972, thumbing across BC Canada with my future husband after he came home from Vietnam. Fantastic Thank you 💕 No time exits, we do with you, dear brother.
peace and love fellow wanderer🌄
I was a huge fan of America. Bought all their albums ❤
Great track.Listening to Ventura Highway brings a longing and yearning for something in the past that you can't quite put your finger on no matter how many times you hear it and I must have listened to this track a thousand times
They were great in concert. They split the show between acoustic and electric guitar sets. I saw them in San Antonio in the 70's.
One of my favourite vocal bands ...❤ (All my favourite are vocal bands 😅 Bee Gees, Beatles, The Byrds, The Band, CSN&Y, The Eagles, Simon & Garfunkel)...
Mine too😂🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@alanshepherd4304 😃 great! 🇮🇹
A perfect song. Major seven chords galore
I totally get it Lee. I am prone to melancholy some days. Ventura Highway makes me feel like running thru a flower field with a breeze on your face, and laughing from the beauty of it, then realizing there are tears falling because I can't hold on to the feeling, or the beauty, of the moment. Be blessed, my friend.
Great reaction. For some reason Ventura Highway makes me think of summer days.
America's first album is a complete acoustic gem. All good tunes. A couple of bangers too! The album is in my top ten album list. I learned how to play acoustic guitar from this album and Neil Young's Harvest ablum. Great reaction.
Entire Highway is a classic song played all over radio stations around the country back in the 1970’s!
When one door closes, another opens, Lee. Always. You will look back at this point in your life and realize that whatever you are going through now, was for your journey. Keep your head straight and the rest will follow.
I live on the East coast, but I have driven in California on Ventura Highway in the sunshine, with that very song playing coincidentally on the car radio. Great memories!!! 😊
I saw America around 1975 in South Florida. At the Sportatorium on the edge of the Everglades.
Ahh I can smell the Pot and Piss still
Sporto!.. been to a few there myself.
I love the vibe of Ventura hwy! Beautiful!
Ventura highway one of my favorite America's songs and your anlalyzis are a Kindle of diving into your inner feelings, and that's great for me
I’m glad you’re able to let the resentment go because 10 years is long enough. As a band they had a mellow sound.
I hadn't heard Three Roses, but Ventura Highway was a big hit
Hang in there my man !
In all my many years on this 🌎 i discovered later on in life that WISDOM IS A HOUSE BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF PAIN & THAT STRENGTH GROWS IN THE MOMENTS WHEN YOU THINK YOU CANT GO ON
BUT YOU KEEP GOING ANYWAY...💪😎🤙🙏❤️😇
I'll be praying for you🙏❤️ God cares and I care💯
Check out the later “ You can do Magic “ really great uptempo poppy ballad !
Hang in there, my man. Brighter days are out there for you. 👍
It's easy to slip into sadness when music touches you and takes you somewhere sweet and light. Thinking of times gone by when life seemed less complicated and the wind was in your hair...I know how you feel Lee. You are doing well and know this: with your channel you are providing something very special for a whole lot of people. Feel proud. Keep feeling it. Big hug.
Okay to share your emotions. We all have them! ❤
The first time I drove to Ventura with my wife we put this song on as we approached town - heading south with the Pacific out the right side windows. It really clicked.
I've got 15 or so songs I consider my "DNA songs" because they are so imprinted in me... Three Roses is one of them. Thanks for your reaction. First time I've seen that song reacted to....
I hope you're feeling better Lee!
So sorry to hear you going through a hard time. Odd to think that some of us have loved America and Ventura Highway for over 50 years and others are hearing it for the first time. Janet Jackson liked that riff enough to use it unchanged in 2001 for her hit Someone to Call My Lover.
That 1st album of theirs is in my all time greats box. Such awesome harmonies, & the purity of guitar work makes every tune special.
Was a college student when this came out- what a time to be young!
Ventura Highway never gets old. Classic America. Same w/Horse w/no Name. Unique CA sound at the time. Gives me chills as a native CA female...even if Im a Nor Cal..lol
Definitely an iconic sounding song. I loved it.
I'm a music nerd with passion for many genres. My husband loves only 80's music. My kids ❤️ mostly hip hop/rap. When we can't decide on what to listen to, America is our go-to. Somehow, it works. 😊 I was entering 8th grade September 1972. I wish you all the best and enjoy your reactions. 3 Roses my favorite.😊
Beautiful songs from America. Love their lush vocals. Ventura Highway, a very favorite…It always makes me happy to hear
Thank you, Lee and Robin!
🙏💕
It must be your sentience, Lee… Ventura Highway is inspired by a family adventure Dewey Bunnell had as a youngster on the coast highway in California. While his father changed a tire, he and his brother watched clouds form in the air and saw the road sign for Ventura.✨❤
Ventura Hwy one of my fav songs. 😊 thx for playing.
Never thought about it but you were spot on with the Stephen Stills reference.
"Three Roses" is an excellent song, Love that acoustic guitar playing. It was one of the songs that I just had to sit down and learn to play on my acoustic back when I was young. It has some impressive jazz-like chord progressions.
Tin man and Ventura highway are two of all time favorite songs !
Songs from this era because of the Beatles are bittersweet.
Love these guys got to see them in the 70s it was totally great concert ❤
The hurt you feel is real. The healing you WILL feel, will be too. Be well and play (privately) some CrAzY ass rocking positive music! :D
The first album was recorded in the UK, and one of the musicians feature on many tracks was future Elton John percussionist Ray Cooper, who is heard on bongos on Three Roses (also played bongos on Horse With No Name). On the Homecoming album, which was recorded in LA, the band was augmented by two stellar members of The Wrecking Crew: bassist Joe Osborn and drummer Hal Blaine, who played like they had always been members of the band - that's how good they were.
Congratulations, Lee! It looks like you're finally "home"! 😆
Sept 1972, I was a senior in high school, living by myself in my first apartment.
Love Ventura Highway. Don’t recall Three Roses. It was an excellent song as well.
Yeah I'd never head it either. Loved the percussion.
September 19, 1972 would have found me attending a newly formed junior high school and in the 8th grade. It was really scary going from a very small country school of grades 1-12 where I knew almost everyone to a school where there were students from around five different smaller schools dumped together. I’m certain you can’t imagine it, but it was the first time I was at a fully integrated school (my former school had three black students in total)! It was all a massive adjustment and it seemed as if everyone else just fit right in. Junior high was not a good time, but my mother put me in band which, by the time high school (grades 10-12) rolled around, gave me a group to be a part of where I fit in. If it helps your imagination, my high school was the only one in the county-I lived in one of the largest land mass counties in NC, yet one of the least populated. It had over 1200 students and my graduating class was the largest ever. But, I discovered that I was actually pretty intelligent and graduated in the top 10% of my class and and I became the first in my family (either side) that attained a Bachelor’s degree! I purposefully live 150 miles away!
Beautiful ❤️
Thank you for this
Takes me right back to Gannon College in Erie, Pa.
HEY LEE I see a great album by the Moody Blues. I still have mine from the 70s. Life changing for me!
I like your channel more and more.
It's all growing pains my man. Our youth and/or early adulthood usually throws some whoppers at us, and a ton of moments that affect us, but we process them differently the older we get. 'Building blocks' is a very real thing and there are no 'but!, but! buts' -- only 'it is what it is'.
Always makes me feel sad, too, Lee -- and I've never understood why.
Thanks Robin!
Alligator lizards 😂 ☮️❤️
Three Roses was from that fine debut album, but was not a single release. For some well-known and popular songs, try Daisy Jane, Tin Man, You Can Do Magic, or Sister Golden Hair. "Magic" was a hit in 1982, marking one full decade of hits for the group whose songs are just as listenable today as they were then.
thanks love it
Thank you, Lee. Ventura Highway was the wedding tune of my best lesbian friends, Maria and Bing.Maria is no longer with us but this song always brings tears and smiles. Better days, my young friend.
Great song
🦅🦅🦅
L33, You may have driven Ventura Highway in another time - we wear our bodies one after the other. Our spirits endure the same eternally - the 'real you' has always been and will ever be.
Reaction videos are about your personal experience listening to the song for the first time - no getting around it.
Sloopy boy, good choice by America who had so many songs. And you are right, similar to CSNY. The only complaint (not really a complaint) is their lyrics could be obscure and ambiguous at times, yet their music was easy to listen to. BTW 1972 in college
Their first album is just va great acoustic album. You gotta do Donkey Jaw and finish with Pigeon Song
you are still young; time is on your side
RIVERSIDE & SANDMAN.
One of the best soft-rock groups along with Bread, although both groups would "rock out" a bit, with Bread being a lot more convincing at that. The secret to enjoying America is to never try to figure out what their lyrics mean. I don't even think THEY know. But the music's great.
Someone correct me if i'm wrong but I thnk George Martin, from the Beatles produced their albums or maybe that was Supertramp? Love soft rock too. This song, as well as others, ie. Tinman, pounded the radio airwaves back in the day. Alligator lizards in the air referres to shapes one can make out of clouds in the sky. Cool visual. Three Roses was new to me, it's ok but not as good as some of their good stuff.
yes..., Sept 19 ... 1972... sure..... it was 6 days before my grandfather was stabbed to death.. Melancholy ... yeah.. a bit..
I've made this point before, possibly in comments on your channel, but America was/is all about harmony and good feeling. The lyrics may or may not make any sense, but it doesn't matter one bit.
I love America's vibe. The lead singer's voice has been compared to sounding like Neil Young's singing voice. I can hear that a bit. A Horse With No Name and Tin Man are two more great ones to name a couple
"Three Roses" is great! The entire first album is a stone cold Classic! "Sandman" is my favorite tune from the first LP..
Love Ventura Highway! And the guitar at the beginning will always remind me of "The Californians" from SNL. Classic. Also makes me want to move to a ski town in Cali...and change my name to "Joe".
Ha ha - seriously...? Please, while bit on SNL was humorous...please.....although Californians was about So Cal so I can laugh cuz Im a Nor Cal just sayin
It sounds like three stoners , who shared the music with one another. And this happened, and this happened a lot in the 70’s a lot .
tin man is their best song
Hi Lee actually it’s the Pacific coast highway he was on … there’s no Ventura highway there is a Ventura freeway
Three Roses is nice, but Ventura Highway just exploded with dimensions that 3R just didn't have. The production makes a big difference. Ventura Highway feels like it mentally sparkles... if ya get me.
Aside from their first album, "America", every album they released through 1977 (when they became a duo instead of a trio) had a title starting with the letter H. Could not be at all coincidental.
They're both fantastic songs, but someone needs to recommend material that wasn't written by Dewey Bunnell so you get an idea of how varied their sound could be.
Try. Sandman
At this time many of us were listening to albums by Yes pink Floyd etc
But these were on the radio.
I still liked them as much but did not buy the albums.
It is a sad song.
Prince may or may not have stolen 'purple rain' from this song. It's funny but there is no Ventura 'Highway' in SoCal, but there is a city of Ventura and a Ventura Freeway. There's an article floating around wherein the songwriter tells how he came up with all the lyrics. Mostly it's from a childhood trip. Alligator lizards are a real kind of lizard here, but the ones in the air in the song are clouds. :)
Purple reign refers to Jesus Christ and it's use of the Purple Ointment which when applied to the eyes allows us to see outside of time
Yeah , it was a flat tire on the coast hwy with his family. When changing the tire , the sign for Ventura,CA was right in front of them. The rest you mentioned. It was also before the family was stationed overseas in the UK where him and the other band members grew up together through high school. Such a unique band story actually.
The lizards are reprilians
Interesting. Thanks for posting that.
@@robertacolarette1594 Of course. :)
Janet Jackson thought the riff was good to, she sampled it.
Never heard "Three Roses" before. It was just ok for me, kinda meh.
We’ll definitely do not listen to Daisy Jane from these guys if you’re in a kind of depressed mood
Every time I watch your channel you always seem so sad, your thumbnail says that you are a drummer, maybe you should get yourself into a band or something
Right, It's like, we're all rooting for you and your channel. Could you discuss your drum background sometime, I'm a drummer myself. Maybe you have talked about it before and I missed it. Good luck to you and your family Lee!
Lame, insipid, tenth-rate CSN. America set the bar low for utter blandness. And the lyrics.."In the desert you can't remember your name for there ain't no one for to give you no pain." WTF does that even mean? Word salad. My cat makes more sense. As the inimitable Lester Bangs put it, "They make John Denver sound like T S Eliot."