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2024 is here 🎉 I haven’t heard this since 1982 when I heard it during an acid trip and it turned too deep. Now I understand why music moves me so much, it’s so powerful. I heard this in a random playlist the other night so thanks Spotify ❤🙏❤️
Flashback!! The day this album came out I bought it and took it home and dropped mescaline to listen to it. Ginger Baker might have been in the top five best drummers ever. Pay attention to his drumming as you run through each song on the Blind Faith album. Now Ginger is gone as well as Ric Grech. Grech died decades ago due to alcoholism. He was only 43.
surely the best that Clapton has ever done in his life....bouncing off the energy of the others....never again did he achieve such great sound......even with Cream ( his other best).... Derek and the Dominoes.....Yardbirds, ....or his country music solo diversion...(which I never could figure out)....
This song is all about the vocals and the melody. Eric and Ginger put it in the top tier of great songs from a beautiful album. I remember when it came out, sitting in my apartment in Santa Monica enjoying the fragrant sea breeze that blew in off the Pacific (six blocks away, $90 a month for three of us, $30 each! I was late only once!) every afternoon. God had a good plan when he got these guys together to play. Beautiful music!
Yes your right. Good old Clapton and the game. I grew up to this music and it will never die. Got me throw the worst parts of life to remind me of the good that's to come. True music never dies.
1st heard this on History Of Eric Clapton (LP). I was 14 and this not only made the hairs stand up but I could feel that tears wanted to roll due to the expression in the way Steve sung it. It still comes back today and haunts me whenever I hear it. Total expression in singing can be very powerful.
The late 1960's were a magical Renaissance period of musical creation unheard since Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. Maybe only once a century does the combination of something like Clapton's God-given guitar prowess, Winwood's reedy tenor voice (3 full octaves plus 3 notes: A2 to D6), Grech's soulful violin and Baker's inspired drums come along and change everything forever.
1-Shot slinger I love Cream and Blind Faith and Traffic and Derek and the Dominoes, none of which may have happened if Cream stayed together. Considering that Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce couldn't stand each other, the music would have suffered. They knew when to give it up.
Sorry but every time I hear this song I just gotta sing. I gotta be up there on the sky listening to Rich playing that violin, taking me into the ethereal.
It's not only Clapton's electric guitar and Ginger Baker's sublime drum technique that drive this song. You also have to take into account Winwood's vocals, organ and intricate acoustic guitar (maybe a twelve string or a dobro???) and the way he plays off Rick Grech's understated bass and underrated violin playing which he brings out in the instrumental part. A lost masterwork in my opinion.
The violin riffs at the end with the touch of reverb sounded good too. Too bad they didn't make any more music where they could have worked some more of that in.
mjazzguitar Agreed-I didn't notice the reverb. I feel this is a space and time piece-I always wished this band could have recorded more because the mix of the hammond organ, violin, and guitar bring out a unique melodic sound against a solid rhythm section that had great dynamics.
This song made my Bose speakers smoke,HAD THE VOLUME UP TO MAXIUM OUTPUT,no song has ever done that to my speakers,I think I will get liquid cooler speakers next time I listen to this song on high volume,the song is simply outstanding!!
My parents where listening to this back in the day. And the Moody Blues., which shaped my musical interest destiny. I still listen often, thanks to dearly departed Pops
Steve Winwood, "underground" rock icon/future Pop Star... Eric Clapton, playing a uniquely subordinate and imaginative guitar part.. Ginger Baker, playing drums like a Prometheus, and still less overt than with Cream, showing that he understands the setting here is different... Ric Grech, bass, with his only violin solo on the LP, better than I remembered it to be, earning his footnote in Rock History. If I were to list my top 10 "rock band" LP's of all time, this LP, containing this track, would be on that list.
LOL , agreed , not mention some good weed & hash , Roer's 714 an some purple haze too , when fun times were good , an music was music an the women wore skirts an looked like women an happy was in the air
'Waiting in our boats to set sail'' This is an apt comparison! 'Blind faith' a beautiful name for a group.Reminds me to Mathew 18, 3 📖⚘️ I listened to the songs of the album. I enjoyed the lyrics and the sounds. In 1969 I did not follow Jesus. Sadly I found back to him when I was 29 Years. A lot of wasted time before! I love him and now I follow him on the narrow path.Mathew 7, 13 🙏💛
By coincidence, I re-discovered this song at the onset of this stupid Coronavirus thing, and it's been haunting me ever since ... sorta' my personal guide song - - - Pure classic !
One of my all-time favourite songs. I first heard it in 1977 when I was 14 years old and my counselor in summer camp had this on a cassette tape which he played on a cheap cassette player. We all loved it and he played the tape almost every day.
I heard it in 1969, aged 18, just after it was released. I was fortunate to hear it first on vinyl, on a pretty good sound system, with Thorens turntable with Shure V15 Type 2 stylus, Sansui amp and Wharfedale speakers. We were transfixed then, as I still am today, even listening through my 8 amp monitor speakers.
QUE HERMOSA MUSICA DE ESTOS MAESTROS DEL ROCK ...EN LO PERSONAL ADQUIRI ESTE MAGICO ALBUM A LOS 15 AÑOS POR EL AÑO 85 .. EN LA ACTUALIDADA TENGO 50 AÑITOS 😂 .. Y GRACIAS A DIOS CON BUENA SALUD . ESTA MUSICA A ESTADO EN SINTONIA DESDE QUE TENGO VIDA JUNTO A OTRAS BANDAS TAN QUERIDAS COMO LOS JETRHO TULL GENESIS ( UFFF ESE VIOLIN DE ESTA CANCION ES SUBLIME ) KING CRIMSON GENTLE GIANT FOCUS LED ZEPPELIN THE BEATLES HUMBLE PIE CREAM DEEP PURPLE .. Y MUCHAS BANDAS TAN QUERIDAS COMO MI S BANDAS CHILENAS LOS JAIVAS Y CONGRESO .. BUENO GRACIAS X COMPARTIR ESTA NOTABLE BANDA INGLESA DESDE SANTIAGO DE CHILE UN FRATERNO ABRAZO HERMANAS Y HERMANOS QUE COMPARTEN ESTAS MAGICAS LEYENDAS DEL ROCK AMOR PAZ Y ROCK AND ROLL HARÉ KRISHNA☮️✌️☯️
Went round a friends house when I was 15 and 1st heard "history Of Eric Clapton" on vinyl (Never yet released on cd). On hearing this, it sent shivers down my spine and all the hairs stood to attention. The 1st ever song that did this to me.
The Ive should never forgotten, i remember radio Elshinta in di Jakarta ...in the year 1970.. Mas Yos the owner of the radio station usually act ad the radio operator...early in the morning.
Enjoy we don’t have a lot of time we are listening to some of the greatest music ever me I was born in 1949 do the math I wholeheartedly enjoy just listening to this great music love to be here at my age to see what my children and grandchildren are listening to
Ingatan kembali ke era thn.1970, 51 tahun yg lalu. Dimana lagu ini saya kenal melalui pemancar radio amatir yang saya dengar melalui radio penerima. Keadaan dan zaman terus berubah, masa lalu yang tak pernah kembali.
Saya tahun 70 an sering dengar di radio Elshinta Jakarta...dulu utk dengar lagu2 barat top hrs dengar radio pemancar top..seperti Prambors,Elshinta,GB 88. Salam sejahtera utk anda skrg sy umur 69 thn tinggal di Bkl Sumatra.
It was on 'Blind Faith, i.e. fait accompli -- as said by Eric Clapton, to let [ the cantankerous Ginger Baker - RIP Oct 2019 ] into the group to begin with.
Fantastic video for sucha an excellente piece of music. One of my favorites ever, since I discovered it for the first time ever. More than forty years enjoying it!
When people discuss underrated songs this one is never mentioned. It seems to have faded from consciousness since it appeared on a couple of greatest hits compilations in the early '80's and I don't think I have ever heard it played on the radio. It's use of the melodic violin over the steady rhythm is pretty well unmatched.
MSG NYC Summer 1969 performance was BF's opening act of their only US tour. That August I passed on taking the three hour drive to Woodstock due to crummy weather forecast (doink) but at least I saw this this amazing BF album fully played out live at the Garden and the Stones performance (Let It Bleed tracks)-also at MSG. What a summer for Mount Rushmore rock live acts. Man I miss those days.
I've always considered this a late-rock (that is developed rock, late sixties to early seventies) classic, comparable to "Stairway to Heaven", "Layla", and "July Morning". I'm amazed so few remember it. The lyric is a bit inscrutable, but I always understand it and "Stairway to Heaven" an auguring of the counter-culture eschaton.
I asked my dad for this album when I was in eighth grade in 1970, based on two things- a review in TEEN magazine, and the fact that Winwood, Clapton and Baker were in the band. I wasn’t familiar with Rick Grech at the time.
First time I heard this I was about ten. It changed my life. I never forgot the feelings I had for this music. Now Im 65 and a rocknroll DJ in a tiny hometown radio station. Playing this....
Following the shadows of the skies Or are they only figments of my eyes? And I'm feeling close to when the race is run Waiting in our boats to set sail Sea of joy Once the door swings open into space And I'm already waiting in disguise Is it just a thorn between my eyes? Waiting in our boats to set sail Sea of joy Having trouble coming through Through this concrete blocks my view And it's all because of you Oh, is it just a thorn between my eyes? Waiting in our boats to set sail Sea of joy Sea of joy Sea of joy Sailing free Sea of joy
Cette musique se déplie comme un livre d'images plein d'étoiles, où viennent filer les oiseaux, tourner les farandoles, claquer les crécelles et danser les sorciers ✨
For all the old surfers out there, there was a imho great movie made in 1971 by Paul Witzig by the same name as this song... 'Sea of Joy' and it was pretty cutting edge but done mainly with Aussie surfers in the lead so they got a New Zealand band to do the soundtrack and it was okay. But I always envisoned this song would have been great as the Intro and Outro song for this movie! It would have encompased two classic great innovative genure's into one fusion... Just my vision as I loved both that movie and this song. At the time One of the stars of the movie Wayne Lynch from Australia was a still young but very well known surfer and this movie really show cased his talents. He was the first surfer I ever heard was doing turning 360's a very creative and stylish guy I always admired. Just had to share what this song always brings to mind when I hear it from old surfer bum's perspective... So thanks to Blind Faith for the inspuration and visions of liquid fantasy. There is also some nice instruction video's on this site to guide any who wish to learn some of Eric's classic licks on this song fun to play with for sure. Thanks for posting this great song!
A sea of joy is waiting for us all. Just tune out of the shit that is passing for music out there and listen to this and all the music from the sixties. Although Pearl Jam is really good too, Sea of Joy is sublime. A pinnacle of the evolution or music. This is the past I would like to live in. Even with Nixon and Vietnam, there was peace or more precisely harmony in our thoughts of what humankind could be or become. We have been waiting too long not to be able to enjoy such an existence. So instead I choose to live inside my own mind and reject or become detached from the reality that is today. Especially since “the ogre” has been elected President of the United States.
Good music never dies, it flows from generation to generation, as witnessed here, just like the sea. Thank You Blind Faith.
yes, it just flows
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So very true Stephen
Mungkin kita se umuran.@@Ok-ug3bi
2024 is here 🎉 I haven’t heard this since 1982 when I heard it during an acid trip and it turned too deep. Now I understand why music moves me so much, it’s so powerful. I heard this in a random playlist the other night so thanks Spotify ❤🙏❤️
Ric Grech's Violin and bass on this song are absolutely MAGICAL !
Agreed, l. RIP Ric. His playing with the band Family is also well worth your time. Stay free. R 🍻😎
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Omg those drums. Baker incredible
HELL YEAH. DRUMS ON DO WHAT YOU LIKE. FUCKIN AWESOME TOO
Flashback!! The day this album came out I bought it and took it home and dropped mescaline to listen to it. Ginger Baker might have been in the top five best drummers ever. Pay attention to his drumming as you run through each song on the Blind Faith album. Now Ginger is gone as well as Ric Grech. Grech died decades ago due to alcoholism. He was only 43.
Dude, you've been reading my mail. Peace out
RIP Ric Grech part of so many wonderful songs
I agree wholeheartedly with you. That violin sets up the whole piece
Beautiful music Beautiful memories thank you
I was about 11 years old when I bought the album. This song is a master piece.
one of my all-time favorite songs... winwood, baker, clapton, giants of the music in the 20th century... this is a classic that will never die.
Charles Abboud And that other guy...Rick Gretch, was it?
grech! (is what it said on the record sleeve)
Yup, "go to song" at least four times a year since late 60's Hyde Park free concert
Our uncle Den raved about being there, we were hooked!
Mine also.
surely the best that Clapton has ever done in his life....bouncing off the energy of the others....never again did he achieve such great sound......even with Cream ( his other best).... Derek and the Dominoes.....Yardbirds, ....or his country music solo diversion...(which I never could figure out)....
Sea Of Joy is timeless classic!!!
This song is all about the vocals and the melody. Eric and Ginger put it in the top tier of great songs from a beautiful album. I remember when it came out, sitting in my apartment in Santa Monica enjoying the fragrant sea breeze that blew in off the Pacific (six blocks away, $90 a month for three of us, $30 each! I was late only once!) every afternoon. God had a good plan when he got these guys together to play. Beautiful music!
People who under 8 Eric Clapton should listen to this
I dunno y, but I get a little choked up whenever I hear this song...must b gettin' old.
Remember this one from History of Eric Clapton LP. Now you’re getting me choked up.
Winwood is the master of his art, superb!
And he STILL sings like an angel!
@@kayecee2871 Yes indeed!
I could never describe in words how much I love this song, it goes way back to childhood for me.
Same.
Yes your right. Good old Clapton and the game. I grew up to this music and it will never die. Got me throw the worst parts of life to remind me of the good that's to come. True music never dies.
Yeah, Ric deserves a ton of respect. He totally holds his ground among the heavies.
I agree with Ned the violin solo is the best one I've heard and makes a great compliment to this beautiful song.
1st heard this on History Of Eric Clapton (LP). I was 14 and this not only made the hairs stand up but I could feel that tears wanted to roll due to the expression in the way Steve sung it. It still comes back today and haunts me whenever I hear it. Total expression in singing can be very powerful.
The Greatest short lived supergroup EVER!
The late 1960's were a magical Renaissance period of musical creation unheard since Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. Maybe only once a century does the combination of something like Clapton's God-given guitar prowess, Winwood's reedy tenor voice (3 full octaves plus 3 notes: A2 to D6), Grech's soulful violin and Baker's inspired drums come along and change everything forever.
Yesss you get it ❤
Why does nobody mention Ric Grech when talking about Blind Faith? His violin solo on this song is one of the best moments on the whole album.
Ned D.
1 month ago I agree! Ric Grech, and his talents are magical here !
Really , but what bassist ever had attention? other than Paul McCartney , sad
Ric Grech very tasty solo - he should have soloed more !!!!!!!
@@user-sz5xs7dm4u Jack Bruce.
Extra: Bass player pulls out violin for incredible solo
This is gorgeous...can not describe the feeling I get every time I listen to this song as it speaks to my Soul!
It’s Joy!!! 🤓
What a voice! The best white soul.
This song has so much emotion running through the instruments and vocals...absolutely phenomenal.
Música inmensamente hermosa y quieta. No se necesitan drogas para viajar y disfrutarla. Grande Fe Ciega por siempre.
i have loved this tune for a very long time. 49 years.
Soul moving music is how we experience God through our sense of hearing! LOVE IS IT:)
I wish this band lasted for more than one album
They were ahead of their time definitely.
I wish they were never formed and Cream lasted longer. Great band though.
ALAN GREEN I was just thinking that same thing
1-Shot slinger I love Cream and Blind Faith and Traffic and Derek and the Dominoes, none of which may have happened if Cream stayed together. Considering that Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce couldn't stand each other, the music would have suffered. They knew when to give it up.
baker was way overrated! haha!
The best song on the album.
Along with another Winwood composition, Can't Find My Way Home....
Sorry but every time I hear this song I just gotta sing. I gotta be up there on the sky listening to Rich playing that violin, taking me into the ethereal.
This number stirs an extraordinary feeling in the heart every time i play this number. Clapton and Winwood are magical.
Inoblidables Blind Faith. Rick, Steve, Ginger i Eric, gràcies.
one of the best parts is how Windwoods vocal style is special in its own right
It was this song that made me wish at my then young age to have a voice like Mr. Stevie Winwood's over all others.
Ric Grech totally got the job done. Great respect to Ric.
It's not only Clapton's electric guitar and Ginger Baker's sublime drum technique that drive this song. You also have to take into account Winwood's vocals, organ and intricate acoustic guitar (maybe a twelve string or a dobro???) and the way he plays off Rick Grech's understated bass and underrated violin playing which he brings out in the instrumental part. A lost masterwork in my opinion.
The violin riffs at the end with the touch of reverb sounded good too. Too bad they didn't make any more music where they could have worked some more of that in.
It's the damn violin solo that does it for me every time! I have to play it over and over, can't help it.
***** I agree. Bringing in the strings takes this song to the next level.
mjazzguitar Agreed-I didn't notice the reverb.
I feel this is a space and time piece-I always wished this band could have recorded more because the mix of the hammond organ, violin, and guitar bring out a unique melodic sound against a solid rhythm section that had great dynamics.
+Paulo Hector When I was a teenager had a double LP The History of Eric Clapton and it had this on it. Needless to say, I wore it out....
Steve Winwood- Absolutely top
What a voice.
Exquisite, I never tire of hearing this, and it always brings a bit of joy to my heart
The video is perfect.
Couldn't agree more. XXX
This song made my Bose speakers smoke,HAD THE VOLUME UP TO MAXIUM OUTPUT,no song has ever done that to my speakers,I think I will get liquid cooler speakers next time I listen to this song on high volume,the song is simply outstanding!!
Wow... Does this wonderful piece capture and help define our loving culture back then?
My parents where listening to this back in the day. And the Moody Blues., which shaped my musical interest destiny. I still listen often, thanks to dearly departed Pops
Hauntingly beautiful ....timeless
Steve Winwood, "underground" rock icon/future Pop Star...
Eric Clapton, playing a uniquely subordinate and imaginative guitar part..
Ginger Baker, playing drums like a Prometheus, and still less overt than with Cream, showing that he understands the setting here is different...
Ric Grech, bass, with his only violin solo on the LP, better than I remembered it to be, earning his footnote in Rock History.
If I were to list my top 10 "rock band" LP's of all time, this LP, containing this track, would be on that list.
and don't ferget the obscure and never heard from no more Ric Gresc who, I believe died shortly after this Lp came out..
Donnie Moyer I didn't forget him, I mentioned him.
rick grech died from renal failure in 1990. 21 years after the release of blind faith. he went on to play in ginger bakers airforce after blind faith.
dion draper As did Winwood, briefly.
once the doorswings open into space iam already waiting there in disguise/ took 55 years to know that ?
Listening to this makes me feel Like I'm on a musical journey. Love the video too.
Such a beautiful opening song to perhaps the premiere album of the rock era.
Need to bring back those days of meaning and hope. YEAH
LOL , agreed , not mention some good weed & hash , Roer's 714 an some purple haze too , when fun times were good , an music was music an the women wore skirts an looked like women an happy was in the air
Aaaah, Stevie Winwood! Hadn't heard this song for 40 years, but I remember everything!
Where have you been? :)
'Waiting in our boats to set sail'' This is an apt comparison!
'Blind faith' a beautiful name for a group.Reminds me to Mathew 18, 3 📖⚘️
I listened to the songs of the album. I enjoyed the lyrics and the sounds.
In 1969 I did not follow Jesus.
Sadly I found back to him when I was 29 Years. A lot of wasted time before!
I love him and now I follow him on the narrow path.Mathew 7, 13 🙏💛
Wonderful song listening since my teenagers years I’m older now keep love it thank you Blind Faith ❤️
Best Track on The Album, Steve Winwood...What a Talent
By coincidence, I re-discovered this song at the onset of this stupid Coronavirus thing, and it's been haunting me ever since ... sorta' my personal guide song - - -
Pure classic !
One of my all-time favourite songs. I first heard it in 1977 when I was 14 years old and my counselor in summer camp had this on a cassette tape which he played on a cheap cassette player. We all loved it and he played the tape almost every day.
I heard it in 1969, aged 18, just after it was released. I was fortunate to hear it first on vinyl, on a pretty good sound system, with Thorens turntable with Shure V15 Type 2 stylus, Sansui amp and Wharfedale speakers. We were transfixed then, as I still am today, even listening through my 8 amp monitor speakers.
Probably one of the most UNDER-rated songs ever.
Under rated is an over rated term.
"Under-rated" is an over-used and mis-used term. This great song is NOT under-rated. It was just missed by way too many people.
Old school rock. Nothing like it
Just incredible. How I wish they made more music like this.
QUE HERMOSA MUSICA DE ESTOS MAESTROS DEL ROCK ...EN LO PERSONAL ADQUIRI ESTE MAGICO ALBUM A LOS 15 AÑOS POR EL AÑO 85 .. EN LA ACTUALIDADA TENGO 50 AÑITOS 😂 .. Y GRACIAS A DIOS CON BUENA SALUD . ESTA MUSICA A ESTADO EN SINTONIA DESDE QUE TENGO VIDA JUNTO A OTRAS BANDAS TAN QUERIDAS COMO LOS JETRHO TULL GENESIS ( UFFF ESE VIOLIN DE ESTA CANCION ES SUBLIME ) KING CRIMSON GENTLE GIANT FOCUS LED ZEPPELIN THE BEATLES HUMBLE PIE CREAM DEEP PURPLE .. Y MUCHAS BANDAS TAN QUERIDAS COMO MI S BANDAS CHILENAS LOS JAIVAS Y CONGRESO .. BUENO GRACIAS X COMPARTIR ESTA NOTABLE BANDA INGLESA DESDE SANTIAGO DE CHILE UN FRATERNO ABRAZO HERMANAS Y HERMANOS QUE COMPARTEN ESTAS MAGICAS LEYENDAS DEL ROCK AMOR PAZ Y ROCK AND ROLL HARÉ KRISHNA☮️✌️☯️
Went round a friends house when I was 15 and 1st heard "history Of Eric Clapton" on vinyl (Never yet released on cd). On hearing this, it sent shivers down my spine and all the hairs stood to attention. The 1st ever song that did this to me.
Hundreds of years from now musicologists will ask why this song was under appreciated.
really!!
Actually, this is barely remembered in 2023. Hundreds of years later? Nope.
Nice photos and graphics. Beautiful, beautiful, uniqe song.
absolutely brilliant for ever and ever...
The Ive should never forgotten, i remember radio Elshinta in di Jakarta ...in the year 1970.. Mas Yos the owner of the radio station usually act ad the radio operator...early in the morning.
Clapton knows what to play and when to play it
Great band with greats musicians!!
I like
eric clapton musisi rock & blues favorit sepanjang jaman!
Fucking love this tune. Winwood is amazing. What a band.
The Best Super Group Ever, Too bad so many egos involved. Anyway thanks for the music. Just Awesome
Enjoy we don’t have a lot of time we are listening to some of the greatest music ever me I was born in 1949 do the math I wholeheartedly enjoy just listening to this great music love to be here at my age to see what my children and grandchildren are listening to
Ingatan kembali ke era thn.1970, 51 tahun yg lalu. Dimana lagu ini saya kenal melalui pemancar radio amatir yang saya dengar melalui radio penerima. Keadaan dan zaman terus berubah, masa lalu yang tak pernah kembali.
Saya tahun 70 an sering dengar di radio Elshinta Jakarta...dulu utk dengar lagu2 barat top hrs dengar radio pemancar top..seperti Prambors,Elshinta,GB 88. Salam sejahtera utk anda skrg sy umur 69 thn tinggal di Bkl Sumatra.
One of the most beautiful songs ever!!!
yes!
Esta música é uma obra prima, sempre que ouço me transporto pra uma época mágica. ❤❤❤❤
Great song. The guitar riff is stellar, too.
Always loved this song. Could be my favorite.
It was on 'Blind Faith, i.e. fait accompli -- as said by Eric Clapton, to let [ the cantankerous Ginger Baker - RIP Oct 2019 ] into the group to begin with.
Fantastic video for sucha an excellente piece of music. One of my favorites ever, since I discovered it for the first time ever. More than forty years enjoying it!
When people discuss underrated songs this one is never mentioned. It seems to have faded from consciousness since it appeared on a couple of greatest hits compilations in the early '80's and I don't think I have ever heard it played on the radio. It's use of the melodic violin over the steady rhythm is pretty well unmatched.
The best. Takes me back to my youth in small town ontario canada. Timeless.
The band's smooth, effortless adhesion to the vinyl version is a godsend! Thank you so much chase!
one of the best bands great
MSG NYC Summer 1969 performance was BF's opening act of their only US tour. That August I passed on taking the three hour drive to Woodstock due to crummy weather forecast (doink) but at least I saw this this amazing BF album fully played out live at the Garden and the Stones performance (Let It Bleed tracks)-also at MSG. What a summer for Mount Rushmore rock live acts. Man I miss those days.
I've always considered this a late-rock (that is developed rock, late sixties to early seventies) classic, comparable to "Stairway to Heaven", "Layla", and "July Morning". I'm amazed so few remember it. The lyric is a bit inscrutable, but I always understand it and "Stairway to Heaven" an auguring of the counter-culture eschaton.
the two violin tracks make this track really really special
I asked my dad for this album when I was in eighth grade in 1970, based on two things- a review in TEEN magazine, and the fact that Winwood, Clapton and Baker were in the band. I wasn’t familiar with Rick Grech at the time.
I feel like I'm floating above the universe in silence ❤
First time I heard this I was about ten. It changed my life. I never forgot the feelings I had for this music. Now Im 65 and a rocknroll DJ in a tiny hometown radio station. Playing this....
Really well done, beautiful. Thanks for uploading this! :-)
This song takes you there. It is as fresh as the first time that I was inspired by it.
So freakin' good just SO freakin' good !!
Underrated brilliance
+LuckyLucy Don't think Blind Faith was ever considered underrated besides perhaps Ric Grech who plays an awesome violin solo here....
Following the shadows of the skies
Or are they only figments of my eyes?
And I'm feeling close to when the race is run
Waiting in our boats to set sail
Sea of joy
Once the door swings open into space
And I'm already waiting in disguise
Is it just a thorn between my eyes?
Waiting in our boats to set sail
Sea of joy
Having trouble coming through
Through this concrete blocks my view
And it's all because of you
Oh, is it just a thorn between my eyes?
Waiting in our boats to set sail
Sea of joy
Sea of joy
Sea of joy
Sailing free
Sea of joy
Waiting for our boats to set sail,
Sea of joy
Cette musique se déplie comme un livre d'images plein d'étoiles, où viennent filer les oiseaux, tourner les farandoles, claquer les crécelles et danser les sorciers ✨
Awesome song & album
For all the old surfers out there, there was a imho great movie made in 1971 by Paul Witzig by the same name as this song... 'Sea of Joy' and it was pretty cutting edge but done mainly with Aussie surfers in the lead so they got a New Zealand band to do the soundtrack and it was okay. But I always envisoned this song would have been great as the Intro and Outro song for this movie!
It would have encompased two classic great innovative genure's into one fusion... Just my vision as I loved both that movie and this song. At the time One of the stars of the movie Wayne Lynch from Australia was a still young but very well known surfer and this movie really show cased his talents. He was the first surfer I ever heard was doing turning 360's a very creative and stylish guy I always admired.
Just had to share what this song always brings to mind when I hear it from old surfer bum's perspective... So thanks to Blind Faith for the inspuration and visions of liquid fantasy. There is also some nice instruction video's on this site to guide any who wish to learn some of Eric's classic licks on this song fun to play with for sure. Thanks for posting this great song!
Do you have any idea where I can find that film?
From the greatest album ever made.
Rick Grech's understated violin really helps this one flow....
one of the greatest songs of the era - has everything
Great video too.
Deliciously simply splendiferous!
Unfortunately they came and went to soon for us , Life is a fickle here today gone tomorrow it wait for no one...🍀
A sea of joy is waiting for us all. Just tune out of the
shit that is passing for music out there and listen to this and all the music
from the sixties. Although Pearl Jam is really good too, Sea of Joy is sublime. A pinnacle of the evolution or music. This is the past I would like to live in. Even with Nixon and Vietnam, there was peace or more
precisely harmony in our thoughts of what humankind could be or become. We have
been waiting too long not to be able to enjoy such an existence. So instead I
choose to live inside my own mind and reject or become detached from the
reality that is today. Especially since “the ogre” has been elected President
of the United States.
David Papazian well said
well said but please don't leave out "It's a Beautiful Day" White Bird
Although this post is a year old, I could not agree more, on everything you said. And, "White Bird" is a fantastic tune! Just listen to the violin.
Go Trump/Pence!
David, I am 61, a poet, I also live in that reality myself. You sound like a kindred spirit...TJ STRUSKA
..lovely ..
Great tune .... Awesome vid......Well Done!!!
TYVM.
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