I adore Jesse Colin Young. Thanks! Shawn Colvin was in the group that, with Steve Postell, planned to play with David Crosby in February. They are doing the show as a tribute in August, so we will see Shawn at the Lobero in Santa Barbara. It will be my first time there. ❤
"Banana" aka Lowell Levinger was an original member of "The Young Bloods" as was Corbett. A very close friend of mine Tim Haggerty had Banana playing keyboards in a great bluesy rock band in the early 80s called "The Bandits" they had a cool LP (Steal Your Heart), and a bunch of others from the band "WBBH". Tims older bro is the famed and well loved guitarist Terry Haggerty of "The Sons Of Champlin" (Bill Champlin). Tims son Aaron is/was also playing drums for one of the Earth Wind and Fire off shoots. Those Haggerty boys are talented musicians. Tim whom I've worked over the years with is like a cool older brother and makes everyone around him feel loved...... Probably just like you do Le.
I saw him playing at the Coach House with his daughter Jazzie last year. “Banana” (Lowell Levenger) was his lead guitarist in The Youngbloods and Jerry Corbett was another original member. Joe Bauer was the drummer.
I'm glad you mentioned his daughter Jazzie. If you're reading this please do yourself a favor and check her out. She has several videos on TH-cam, she's a nice surprise. Jazzie Young
What a voice, uh? I met Jesse Colin Young back stage at California State College (California, PA) in 1975. Bobbi Humphrey a jazz flautist opened the show. He was so kind to me and my friends he let us watch the show from the side of the stage. When Bobbi finished her set she hung with us as we watched Jesse's show. Jesse was telling us stories of opening for the CSN&Y 1974 tour. What a great memory from my youth, I was 16. He was promoting his "Songbird" album. The night before, he played the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh and Brian Auger opened for him. Laughing to myself here he told us he didn't dig Brian's music. Fun fact:Jesse Colin Young and Art Garfunkel were in the same 4th grade class together.
@@artemisXsidecross In addition. As we were talking with JCY right behind us was his drummer Jeffery Myer and some security guy who got into it. Next thing we know they're throwing punches (No lie) JCY and a couple other guys separated them and this guy on the stage said "It's Time." Just like that they're hustled on stage and JCY turns to me and said "Come on you can watch from the side stage." I was in heaven.
Hi Leland - Perry Miller was my Step-mother's brother. I say was, because my step-mother (his sister) died a couple of years ago during covid, so the funeral had to be online. Perry gave an incredibly moving contribution - such a talented guy. Thanks for the video about him.
Thanks for the little trip down memory lane on a Sunday Lee . I bought all of the JCY albums back in the day , 70’s Ridge Top, song for Juli,Sunlight, The quintessential mellow southern California rock music sound & wow darkness darkness hard to beat that one ! Great guitar work by banana , I can see why Robert Plant would want to cover it.
Its too hot... in Northern California 108 today yes thank you for the public announcement. Jessie Colin Young played here when he released his solo album in 1973 he was great! . If im right it was a year ago that you took your fall ..i revisted your commentary after the fact.I hope you keep yourself hydrated in this heatwave. Hope to see another walk through of the venue if time permits.Cheers enjoy your concert tonight !!!!
CMon People Now...SMile on your brother everybody get together and love one another right Now!!!!!! That song sticks in my head when I hear it BIG TIME!!!!
Le I use to live like 5 minutes from there. I’ve seen so many great concerts there. Love there wine take a tour if ya can. Dang I would of loved to of see you there. Thanks again Leland Blessings.
Darkness, Darkness got plenty of playtime on the jukebox at the Casa Ptomaine (as we lovingly called it -- great burgers, by the way) across the street from LACC. Fond memories also of the owner's daughter who was beyond good looking.
Banana is actually Lowell “Banana” Levinger who was a founder member of The Youngbloods and he played guitar and electric piano in the band. Take much care everyone!
Wow what great music Lee. The first track with harmonica l closed my eyes and heard a little Billy Thorpe playing in one of his favourite small venues. I can hear him also in some of the guitar on the first track. Absolutely incredible music. Harmonica and slide guitar will always be a friend of mine. Hearing of the heat is worrying and skin cancer is very real on top of everything else. Enjoy the gig Lee. Hi to everyone.🖐🙃
'Love is but a Song We Sing. . .' Thank you Leland for today's Revisit to Jesse Colin Young. 💕 ( perhaps before you put head to pillow consider placing 'do not disturb ' note on door. . .)
"Banana" was the stage name of Lowell Levinger. He was a founding member of The Youngbloods. He played the guitar and keyboards in the band, and on occasion the banjo.
Good afternoon, Lee! Hi everyone! 🥰🎸🎶 Always something, right? Lol I so agree. Everyone be careful out there, and don't push it in this heat. Things can wait, but your health cannot. It's very muggy and 80° here on Cape Cod with flooding downpours heading our way tonight. We had a lady leave her toddler in her car while she shopped in a TJMAXX here a few weeks ago. Thankfully the child was taken out by authorities and she was nabbed. Unreal. No common sense or decency. Stay hydrated, everyone! 🧊🥛🥛🥛🧁 Have a great show, Lee! 🎸🎶
Thank you Leland for taking YOUR time out on the road to take us around the venues you get to play! What a wonderfully selfless thing to do for your fans (me) and followers. Have been a fan since late 60s when you were with Jackson Browne in studio and touring. Your knowledge of fellow players and their history's is amazing and fun. Peace brother.
Lol , Hello ! Great to see you! Love Chihuly creations . It's been here @ The Botanical Gardens! Absolutely love ❤️ Jessie , his voice so unique ! 😊 Look forward to you next gig share. 💜👩💜
😎 Love this! Jesse Colin Young…last saw him play at the California Saga 2 benefit at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles (that you and the Immediate Family played too)
Get Together was written by Chet Powers who was better known under his name Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service and later had to write songs under yet another name Jesse Oris Farrow
Quicksilver... Saw them at The Academy of Music in NYC maybe early '70s? Can't recall who else was on the bill but after QS played it was after 5:00 AM as we stepped back out on the street and... promptly couldn't remember where we parked our car! Took a while. Those were the days, my friend, we thought would...
Thank you Leland I always liked the Youngbloods. The ’67 track ‘Get Together’ was a hope that seemed possible. It was two years before the Stones ‘Altamont Free Concert’ which demanded a steep price. ☮
Hi Brother. Just wanted to thank you again for the encouragement to listen to the Natalie Merchant song which led me to find other music l love of hers. I had a few daydreams enjoying her acoustic version of ‘Carnival’ which l loved when it was first played in Australia. She is still an amazing artist. Hope all is well. I also don’t just play drums and some guitars l also play harmonica. Great music today.✌️🖐
@@steven_scattergood She is a wonderful recording and performance artist who also paints as well. Her writing puts her at another level. The song 'Wonder' was written to honor and salute autism. 👍
Today’s selection highlights the bluesy side of Jesse Colin Young and who else are you going to get to play a mid-tempo rock shuffle other than Leland. Get Together is one of the great anthems from the Summer Of Love so I’m keen to hear anything he creates and it’s good to know he’s still doing it! Regarding this world-wide heatwave taking precedence in the news lately I would ask if anyone needs further proof of Climate Change!?!
I remember in a late 70s High "Sckuul" music class seeing a documentary of a guy in the music business talking about the ups, downs and pitfalls. It was titled "Don't Quit Your Day Job". The strange (unknown to me at the time) but informative guest speaker was yep you guessed it Jesse Colin Young. I ended up quitting my day job a few times because of the music business calling....... Jesse was likely trying to do me a favor back then. With all the money I never made and riches I never collected I did have a great bit of fun and folly both. (not proud just real) I have m u s i c samples o n m y c h a n n e l.
Album credits: Artist Credit Frank Aveles Congas Banana Organ David Bean Executive Producer Ray Brinker Drums Edwyn Collins Composer Jerry Corbitt Harmonica John Cuniberti Mastering Betsy Curtis Vocal Harmony April Ryan Grisman Vocal Harmony Robert Johnson Composer Chris Manning Engineer, Mixing, Percussion, Producer Sid Maurer Cover Art Amber Swan Morris Vocal Harmony Bill Payne Piano Leland Sklar Bass Ethan Turner Drums, Engineer, Percussion, Producer Danny Uzilevsky Bass, Guitar Cheyenne Young Bass Connie Young Photography Jesse Colin Young Composer, Engineer, Guitar, Liner Notes, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals
"Banana" associated with the 60's group Mad River, and has appeared on several Youngbloods compilation albums. Edit: Several people have pointed out Banana's name and more history.
It’s 117 in Vegas right now. Staying in A/C this afternoon. Geof had a co-worker who, because of a change in routine and being under deadline stress, forgot that her baby was in her car when she got to work. It ended in unimaginable tragedy and grief. Heat is a killer. We who live with it in the desert know this. Visitors and newcomers sometimes don’t take it as seriously as they should. People visiting Death Valley in the summer are NUTS…..IMHO.
Ah, Lee, you’re in my hometown! And Woodinville is such a lovely area. It should be a wonderful high-summer night for an open air concert, although I see there’s a small chance of rain. Have you ever played with Jason Isbell? Going to see him tonight with some friends…
Sue, I did check on your 2013 Matrix last year sold in USA and 2014 last year made in Canada. It does use a timing chain and not a timing belt which is better for a car of your age and mileage. Which motor does the car have? There are two: 1,794 cc (1.8 L; 109.5 cu in) 1ZZ-FE I4 123-130 hp (92-97 kW)[8] or 1,796 cc (1.8 L; 109.6 cu in) 2ZZ-GE I4 Let me know if I can help further ☮
Jesse Colin Young Biography by Matt Collar Best known as a founding member of the '60s folk-rock outfit the Youngbloods, Jesse Colin Young is a literate singer/songwriter with a warm tenor voice. Based in California since the late '60s, Young has distinguished himself as a broadly influenced performer with songs that touch upon jazz, blues, and country, and often incorporate themes of environmental and anti-war activism. Initially gaining fame with the Youngbloods' 1967 peace anthem "Get Together," he went on to a fruitful solo career, issuing albums like 1973's Song for Juli and 1975's Songbird. Despite a 1995 wildfire that destroyed his California home and threatened to burn his home studio, Young remained active, touring and issuing albums like 2003's Walk the Talk and 2019's Dreamers. ~AllMusic
Born Perry Miller in 1941, Young was raised in Long Island, New York where his mother was a violinist and his father worked as an accountant. Both parents shared a love of classical music and encouraged their son to play, giving him piano lessons from a young age. Following the family's move to Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Young enrolled at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts where he took classical guitar as an elective. His musical interests soon overtook his other school studies as he eschewed homework to practice guitar and sing Everly Brothers songs with his roommate. He was ultimately expelled from the academy, and after finishing high school enrolled at Ohio State University. There, he lived behind a record store and further expanded his musical knowledge, digging deeper into folk, blues, and jazz artists. After a semester, he dropped out and after a few months of traveling across country, he returned to his parent's home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he spent a summer further honing his skills, diving deep into albums by Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Joan Baez, and others.
By 1961 he had transferred to NYU and spent several years balancing his studies with playing gigs at local Greenwich Village coffeehouses. Dropping out of school, he took a day job working at the Rockefeller Foundation and continued playing solo folk shows. It was during this period that he was put in touch with producer Bobby Scott, who came to see him perform at Folk City in Greenwich Village. This led to a recording session at A&R Studio, out of which came Young's debut album, 1964's The Soul of a City Boy, released on Capitol. Prior to the album's release he had adopted the name Jesse Colin Young (an amalgamation of western outlaws Jesse James and Cole Younger, and Grand Prix racer Colin Chapman) to avoid undue comparisons to pop singer Perry Como. A stripped-down production of solo folk performances, The Soul of a City Boy included a cover of the George Remaily song "Four in the Morning," which gained radio airplay and helped launch Young's career. A second Scott-produced album, Young Blood, followed a year later on Mercury, which was then run by Quincy Jones. It featured a more fully realized production sound, including musical contributions by jazz artists like bassist George Duvivier and drummer Grady Tate, as well as harmonica playing by fellow rising folk star John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful.
Around this time he met guitarist Jerry Corbitt while playing a show in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They began hanging out and working on music together. Inspired by the Beatles, and looking to move toward a more electrified sound, they joined forces with keyboardist/guitarist Lowell "Banana" Levinger and drummer Joe Bauer with Young moving to bass. Naming themselves the Youngbloods after Young's second album, they developed a rambling, harmony-laden sound that touched upon the blues, country, and lyrical folk-rock. Playing regularly at New York club The Night Owl, they gained valuable experience opening for a bevy of touring performers. They signed to RCA and released a debut single, Corbitt's ragtime-influenced "Grizzly Bear," which charted in the Top 60 in November 1966. Their full-length debut, The Youngbloods, followed in 1967 and featured their cover version of Dino Valenti's idealistic peace and love anthem "Get Together." Released as a single, "Get Together" also made the charts, landing at number 62 on the Hot 100. The group quickly followed up with a sophomore album, Earth Music.
By the time the band issued their third album, 1969's Charlie Daniels-produced Elephant Mountain, they had relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. As they were beginning work on the album Corbitt dropped out of the band, leaving Young and Levinger as the primary songwriters and creative drivers of the group. Under Young's influence, the album found the Youngbloods exploring more of their jazz and Americana influences. There was also a more introspective tone to many of Young's songs, with tracks like "Darkness, Darkness" and "Quicksand" addressing themes of death and depression and evoking the war in Vietnam. At the same time in 1969, RCA re-released "Get Together" as a single after it was used in a public-service commercial for the National Council of Christians and Jews. It again boosted the band's profile, landing at number five on the Hot 100. The group also hit the singles charts with Young's songs "Sunlight" and "Darkness, Darkness."
The idea of anybody, in a car in this heat is horrific. Even getting into cars that have air conditioning. That takes forever to take effect. I just need to gaffer an umbrella to my chair again. Even though being on foot in the heat is very rough, I think avoiding the initial heat of getting into a car, that never had air conditioning, since I stopped driving, has probably helped whatever is left of my own constitutional hit points. I always had the umbrella on my mobility rig for a few years, hiking around, but had to undo it, to make it more portable for a long road trip in order to detail, fold, and wheely-pop slide it up into a backseat floorboard. I always carry gaffer tape, and large renovation bags with me on any road trip, to protect anyone else's vehicle, should they convince me to take the ride. There's a streamlined order that I load in and out, with lighter methods to pull out on quicker stops, easy to reach on the outsides, by myself, while the driver runs in first, with the remote key fob. I think I might splurge on a taller bigger umbrella than my ordinary one that I've bungeed to a small tent pole repair kit. It's since before the pandemic that I've been in a real sporting goods store. The mounted umbrella did help more in crosswalk situations I think. A lot of people also thought I might be a vendor selling ice cream though. I've considered the idea of just purchasing some dry ice and extra ice cream and see how it goes with possibly selling ice cream on the way back home. 😃 I usually just hope frozen bags of vegetables will sustain the ice cream going home. I might be less scary to buy ice cream from, than a person in a van, playing the eerie music. I mean, even though I have gaffer tape, I would be hard pressed to abduct anyone. 😂
Thank you for sharing, on the road entertainment is its own kind of labor and peculiar offshoots of happenings. Thank you for reporting. An interior of a car is an oven on wheels and when sitting closed up it is a magnifier of heat. I no longer drive or have an automobile and my walking distance to and fro is 15 minutes each way for groceries. Frozen groceries are shopped for on cooler weather days.
Hi Artemis, 😊 It takes me about forty minutes each way now. and I try to have at least one of the each ways, be in the dark, if not both. Sometimes there's no way around having to go out in the full on sun though. Some deadline I couldn't have orchestrated any sooner generally happens once in awhile, for a business only open like bankers hours, or to make sure the mail gets picked up for sure, and not just only a fifty percent chance.
I feel young again ☮ ‘The core group consisted of Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Spencer Dryden of Jefferson Airplane, Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish and keyboardist Merl Saunders from the Saunders-Garcia Band.[2] Over time Papa John Creach of Hot Tuna, Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane, Nicky Hopkins, Dave Getz, Country Joe McDonald and other prominent San Francisco musicians guest starred with the group.[2] In the 1990s, David LaFlamme of It's a Beautiful Day and Jerry Miller of Moby Grape also toured with this group.’ Wiki
@@KittyCarlile-490 They certainly have all been a big part of my memory since I moved to the Bay Area first in Berkeley in 64 and then San Francisco in ’65 -78 and later to the Oakland Berkeley border. ‘The Times They Are a Changing’ keeps marching: ‘The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The order is rapidly fadin' And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'
@@KittyCarlile-490 It began on 12/2/64 when I heard in Berkeley Mario Savio say: “There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!” We moved to San Francisco in late ’65 when Haight Street rents were cheaper Than North Beach and ended up first on Turk Street near Divisadero, later Anza and 2nd, and finally Oakland near the Berkeley border. The first music venues were at the Longshoremen’s Hall in ’66 with The Grateful Dead / Big Brother And The Holding Company / The Loading Zone. After the January 1967 'Be In' its began to falter, especially when the same year the radio was playing "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler. Expectation usually slays novelty and by ’68 it was no more than a hope.
Phoenix Fire Department Heroic Paramedics “…Extreme heat comes with the territory both for Phoenix and for its firefighters. They train by climbing stairs and swinging sledgehammers wearing up to 80 pounds of bulky, suffocating gear, and make a career of bursting into burning buildings and rushing toward explosive brush fires. But the past two weeks of unbroken triple-digit days have put heat at the center of their work, turning them into a summertime army battling to rescue homeless people who collapse in their tents, workers who faint in the sun and vulnerable older people struggling to breathe inside sweltering homes. Many are trained paramedics, and they estimated that some 80 percent of the department’s calls are medical emergencies…” NYT July 16, 2023, 2:40 p.m. ET By Jack Healy Reporting from Phoenix
@@kateconway-hickman5945 We are poor custodians for the peoples welfare but are all hands on deck for growth and investment. You ‘reap what you sow.’ 💔
This House Is On Fire lyrics by Natalie Merchant This house is on fire! Kick off your boots, come sit a spell. Listen to me worry, come and listen well All you better best come and lean in boys, I don't dare raise my voice I've been sitting here for the longest time reading all the warning and the danger signs I don't have the gift of the prophecy, Telling everybody how it's going to be Soon come, soon come the day this tinderbox Is gonna blow in your face I don't have the gift of the prophesy, Telling everybody how it's going to be You go passing wrong for right And right for wrong People only stand for that for just so long It's all gonna catch like a house on fire, Spark an evil blaze and burn higher In the whip of the wind That could start a conflagration Like there has never been This house is on fire!
Hi Leland 👋 Looking forward to tonights venue tour. Stay hydrated yourself please! No more faceplanting on the concrete.
Have a great gig tonight!
Thank you Lee ✋🏻
Evening Lee and all
Greetings from Epping UK
Cheers Barry 🎸
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@@Mark_Brooks Evening Mark
I adore Jesse Colin Young. Thanks!
Shawn Colvin was in the group that, with Steve Postell, planned to play with David Crosby in February. They are doing the show as a tribute in August, so we will see Shawn at the Lobero in Santa Barbara. It will be my first time there. ❤
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"Banana" aka Lowell Levinger was an original member of "The Young Bloods" as was Corbett. A very close friend of mine Tim Haggerty had Banana playing keyboards in a great bluesy rock band in the early 80s called "The Bandits" they had a cool LP (Steal Your Heart), and a bunch of others from the band "WBBH". Tims older bro is the famed and well loved guitarist Terry Haggerty of "The Sons Of Champlin" (Bill Champlin). Tims son Aaron is/was also playing drums for one of the Earth Wind and Fire off shoots. Those Haggerty boys are talented musicians. Tim whom I've worked over the years with is like a cool older brother and makes everyone around him feel loved...... Probably just like you do Le.
Nice work!
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@@Mark_Brooks Thanks, I was right in the middle of the puddle splashing my feet!! 😄
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Thanks for Jesse!!!!!!
I love Shawn Colvin's work...Jesse Collin Young is a wonderful singer songwriter..both wonderful musicians.
Oh I wish I could see Shawn Colvin and then your group. How lovely you called and got to talk with Linda R on her bday!!!
Me too 👍
We did! 😉
Janie was a great tune for you LEE. Rockin song!!!!
I saw him playing at the Coach House with his daughter Jazzie last year.
“Banana” (Lowell Levenger) was his lead guitarist in The Youngbloods and Jerry Corbett was another original member.
Joe Bauer was the drummer.
I'm glad you mentioned his daughter Jazzie. If you're reading this please do yourself a favor and check her out. She has several videos on TH-cam, she's a nice surprise. Jazzie Young
Morning Sun and Ridgetop were favorites off Song For Juli
What a voice, uh? I met Jesse Colin Young back stage at California State College (California, PA) in 1975. Bobbi Humphrey a jazz flautist opened the show. He was so kind to me and my friends he let us watch the show from the side of the stage. When Bobbi finished her set she hung with us as we watched Jesse's show. Jesse was telling us stories of opening for the CSN&Y 1974 tour. What a great memory from my youth, I was 16. He was promoting his "Songbird" album. The night before, he played the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh and Brian Auger opened for him. Laughing to myself here he told us he didn't dig Brian's music. Fun fact:Jesse Colin Young and Art Garfunkel were in the same 4th grade class together.
Good work, Mr. Schiffer!
Thank you Randy, I liked reading about that 👍
@@Mark_Brooks I learned from the best.
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@@artemisXsidecross In addition. As we were talking with JCY right behind us was his drummer Jeffery Myer and some security guy who got into it. Next thing we know they're throwing punches (No lie) JCY and a couple other guys separated them and this guy on the stage said "It's Time." Just like that they're hustled on stage and JCY turns to me and said "Come on you can watch from the side stage." I was in heaven.
Hi Leland - Perry Miller was my Step-mother's brother. I say was, because my step-mother (his sister) died a couple of years ago during covid, so the funeral had to be online. Perry gave an incredibly moving contribution - such a talented guy. Thanks for the video about him.
❤ Oh my gosh Shawn Colvin I met her in Nashville and she had Emmy Lou as her guest that night
Thanks for the little trip down memory lane on a Sunday Lee . I bought all of the JCY albums back in the day , 70’s Ridge Top, song for Juli,Sunlight, The quintessential mellow southern California rock music sound & wow darkness darkness hard to beat that one ! Great guitar work by banana , I can see why Robert Plant would want to cover it.
I remember buying the Youngbloods 45 record "Get Together" at the Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. I believe that was around 1967 or 1968
Its too hot... in Northern California 108 today yes thank you for the public announcement. Jessie Colin Young played here when he released his solo album in 1973 he was great! . If im right it was a year ago that you took your fall ..i revisted your commentary after the fact.I hope you keep yourself hydrated in this heatwave. Hope to see another walk through of the venue if time permits.Cheers enjoy your concert tonight !!!!
Love his song "sunlight"
CMon People Now...SMile on your brother everybody get together and love one another right Now!!!!!! That song sticks in my head when I hear it BIG TIME!!!!
Le I use to live like 5 minutes from there. I’ve seen so many great concerts there. Love there wine take a tour if ya can. Dang I would of loved to of see you there. Thanks again Leland Blessings.
Ridgetop....what a classic! Love JCY!
Elephant Mountain is a classic. Great Album.
Darkness, Darkness got plenty of playtime on the jukebox at the Casa Ptomaine (as we lovingly called it -- great burgers, by the way) across the street from LACC. Fond memories also of the owner's daughter who was beyond good looking.
I always loved the Youngbloods and Jesse's solo work. His song ridgetop should be an earth day anthem.
Thanks Leland
Really enjoying following the tour
Regards
Steve
From Waled
Banana is actually Lowell “Banana” Levinger who was a founder member of The Youngbloods and he played guitar and electric piano in the band. Take much care everyone!
The late Jerry Corbitt, who played on this record, also was a founding member of The Youngbloods
Wow what great music Lee. The first track with harmonica l closed my eyes and heard a little Billy Thorpe playing in one of his favourite small venues. I can hear him also in some of the guitar on the first track. Absolutely incredible music. Harmonica and slide guitar will always be a friend of mine. Hearing of the heat is worrying and skin cancer is very real on top of everything else. Enjoy the gig Lee. Hi to everyone.🖐🙃
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'Love is but a Song We Sing. . .' Thank you Leland for today's Revisit to Jesse Colin Young. 💕 ( perhaps before you put head to pillow consider placing 'do not disturb ' note on door. . .)
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Jesse/Perry did not write that one...
Another Young with a naturally high voice ! With a very stinging guitar!Thank You As Always!
Hi Leland, Tower of Power's guitarist, Jerry Cortez, played with Jesse Colin Young for a while.😊
Your compassion is admirable sir.
"Banana" was the stage name of Lowell Levinger. He was a founding member of The Youngbloods. He played the guitar and keyboards in the band, and on occasion the banjo.
Hope you post a video of the winery, sounds beautiful. I'm a big fan of Shawn Colvin!
Good afternoon, Lee! Hi everyone! 🥰🎸🎶
Always something, right? Lol
I so agree. Everyone be careful out there, and don't push it in this heat. Things can wait, but your health cannot. It's very muggy and 80° here on Cape Cod with flooding downpours heading our way tonight.
We had a lady leave her toddler in her car while she shopped in a TJMAXX here a few weeks ago. Thankfully the child was taken out by authorities and she was nabbed. Unreal. No common sense or decency.
Stay hydrated, everyone! 🧊🥛🥛🥛🧁
Have a great show, Lee! 🎸🎶
Thank you Leland for taking YOUR time out on the road to take us around the venues you get to play! What a wonderfully selfless thing to do for your fans (me) and followers. Have been a fan since late 60s when you were with Jackson Browne in studio and touring. Your knowledge of fellow players and their history's is amazing and fun. Peace brother.
Back in the late 60s in studio with Jessie Ed, Russ and Jackson, and hung out with the cool likes of Ms. Bonnie. Glad to hear she's doing ok.
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Lol , Hello ! Great to see you! Love Chihuly creations . It's been here @ The Botanical Gardens! Absolutely love ❤️ Jessie , his voice so unique ! 😊 Look forward to you next gig share.
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😎 Love this! Jesse Colin Young…last saw him play at the California Saga 2 benefit at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles (that you and the Immediate Family played too)
I always loved the youngbloods song “Circus Face”.
Happy Sunday Mt Saint Michelle Winery tour and travels ✨️ safely!
🔥🔥Walk softly and carry a small battery operated fan and spray bottle full of water (personal evaporative cooler gear).
Keep rockin Lee!!
Get Together was written by Chet Powers who was better known under his name Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service and later had to write songs under yet another name Jesse Oris Farrow
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Quicksilver...
Saw them at The Academy of Music in NYC maybe early '70s?
Can't recall who else was on the bill but after QS played it was after 5:00 AM as we stepped back out on the street and... promptly couldn't remember where we parked our car! Took a while.
Those were the days, my friend, we thought would...
Great job! Always loved the JCY!!! Thanks!
Thank you Leland I always liked the Youngbloods. The ’67 track ‘Get Together’ was a hope that seemed possible. It was two years before the Stones ‘Altamont Free Concert’ which demanded a steep price. ☮
Hi Brother. Just wanted to thank you again for the encouragement to listen to the Natalie Merchant song which led me to find other music l love of hers. I had a few daydreams enjoying her acoustic version of ‘Carnival’ which l loved when it was first played in Australia. She is still an amazing artist. Hope all is well.
I also don’t just play drums and some guitars l also play harmonica. Great music today.✌️🖐
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She is a wonderful recording and performance artist who also paints as well. Her writing puts her at another level.
The song 'Wonder' was written to honor and salute autism. 👍
Good tunes, a lot going on and that lot is tasty. You look good, you appear to be wearing one of your "formal" black tees. Thanks❤😂❤😂
Hi Tom!
@@Mark_Brooks Hi Mark. Did you check out that link?
@@slipperynoodle20 Did I miss something? LOL
@@Mark_Brooks Sent one this morning about the upcoming Billings show.
Today’s selection highlights the bluesy side of Jesse Colin Young and who else are you going to get to play a mid-tempo rock shuffle other than Leland. Get Together is one of the great anthems from the Summer Of Love so I’m keen to hear anything he creates and it’s good to know he’s still doing it!
Regarding this world-wide heatwave taking precedence in the news lately I would ask if anyone needs further proof of Climate Change!?!
I remember in a late 70s High "Sckuul" music class seeing a documentary of a guy in the music business talking about the ups, downs and pitfalls. It was titled "Don't Quit Your Day Job". The strange (unknown to me at the time) but informative guest speaker was yep you guessed it Jesse Colin Young. I ended up quitting my day job a few times because of the music business calling....... Jesse was likely trying to do me a favor back then. With all the money I never made and riches I never collected I did have a great bit of fun and folly both. (not proud just real) I have m u s i c samples o n m y c h a n n e l.
Me encantó maestro arte en estado
Puro
Banana used to be in the Youngbloods
Album credits:
Artist Credit
Frank Aveles Congas
Banana Organ
David Bean Executive Producer
Ray Brinker Drums
Edwyn Collins Composer
Jerry Corbitt Harmonica
John Cuniberti Mastering
Betsy Curtis Vocal Harmony
April Ryan Grisman Vocal Harmony
Robert Johnson Composer
Chris Manning Engineer, Mixing, Percussion, Producer
Sid Maurer Cover Art
Amber Swan Morris Vocal Harmony
Bill Payne Piano
Leland Sklar Bass
Ethan Turner Drums, Engineer, Percussion, Producer
Danny Uzilevsky Bass, Guitar
Cheyenne Young Bass
Connie Young Photography
Jesse Colin Young Composer, Engineer, Guitar, Liner Notes, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals
👍 Thank you Mark
@@artemisXsidecross As always, Artemis, my pleasure.
The Brooks Report never disappoints.
"Banana" associated with the 60's group Mad River, and has appeared on several Youngbloods compilation albums.
Edit: Several people have pointed out Banana's name and more history.
Good editing is good writing 😉
It’s 117 in Vegas right now. Staying in A/C this afternoon. Geof had a co-worker who, because of a change in routine and being under deadline stress, forgot that her baby was in her car when she got to work. It ended in unimaginable tragedy and grief. Heat is a killer. We who live with it in the desert know this. Visitors and newcomers sometimes don’t take it as seriously as they should. People visiting Death Valley in the summer are NUTS…..IMHO.
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"Banana" ... Lowell Levinger, founding member of The Youngbloods
I was only 20 when Ridge top was released but my taste in music was already leaning towards jazz .
Ah, Lee, you’re in my hometown! And Woodinville is such a lovely area. It should be a wonderful high-summer night for an open air concert, although I see there’s a small chance of rain.
Have you ever played with Jason Isbell? Going to see him tonight with some friends…
I collect art glass but never able to afford a pc by Chihuly. Gorgeous art!
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Sue, I did check on your 2013 Matrix last year sold in USA and 2014 last year made in Canada. It does use a timing chain and not a timing belt which is better for a car of your age and mileage.
Which motor does the car have? There are two:
1,794 cc (1.8 L; 109.5 cu in) 1ZZ-FE I4
123-130 hp (92-97 kW)[8]
or
1,796 cc (1.8 L; 109.6 cu in) 2ZZ-GE I4
Let me know if I can help further ☮
Again is a great JCY tune!
I appreciate you, thank you for making content.
Jesse Colin Young Biography by Matt Collar
Best known as a founding member of the '60s folk-rock outfit the Youngbloods, Jesse Colin Young is a literate singer/songwriter with a warm tenor voice. Based in California since the late '60s, Young has distinguished himself as a broadly influenced performer with songs that touch upon jazz, blues, and country, and often incorporate themes of environmental and anti-war activism. Initially gaining fame with the Youngbloods' 1967 peace anthem "Get Together," he went on to a fruitful solo career, issuing albums like 1973's Song for Juli and 1975's Songbird. Despite a 1995 wildfire that destroyed his California home and threatened to burn his home studio, Young remained active, touring and issuing albums like 2003's Walk the Talk and 2019's Dreamers.
~AllMusic
Born Perry Miller in 1941, Young was raised in Long Island, New York where his mother was a violinist and his father worked as an accountant. Both parents shared a love of classical music and encouraged their son to play, giving him piano lessons from a young age. Following the family's move to Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Young enrolled at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts where he took classical guitar as an elective. His musical interests soon overtook his other school studies as he eschewed homework to practice guitar and sing Everly Brothers songs with his roommate. He was ultimately expelled from the academy, and after finishing high school enrolled at Ohio State University. There, he lived behind a record store and further expanded his musical knowledge, digging deeper into folk, blues, and jazz artists. After a semester, he dropped out and after a few months of traveling across country, he returned to his parent's home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he spent a summer further honing his skills, diving deep into albums by Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Joan Baez, and others.
By 1961 he had transferred to NYU and spent several years balancing his studies with playing gigs at local Greenwich Village coffeehouses. Dropping out of school, he took a day job working at the Rockefeller Foundation and continued playing solo folk shows. It was during this period that he was put in touch with producer Bobby Scott, who came to see him perform at Folk City in Greenwich Village. This led to a recording session at A&R Studio, out of which came Young's debut album, 1964's The Soul of a City Boy, released on Capitol. Prior to the album's release he had adopted the name Jesse Colin Young (an amalgamation of western outlaws Jesse James and Cole Younger, and Grand Prix racer Colin Chapman) to avoid undue comparisons to pop singer Perry Como. A stripped-down production of solo folk performances, The Soul of a City Boy included a cover of the George Remaily song "Four in the Morning," which gained radio airplay and helped launch Young's career. A second Scott-produced album, Young Blood, followed a year later on Mercury, which was then run by Quincy Jones. It featured a more fully realized production sound, including musical contributions by jazz artists like bassist George Duvivier and drummer Grady Tate, as well as harmonica playing by fellow rising folk star John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful.
Around this time he met guitarist Jerry Corbitt while playing a show in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They began hanging out and working on music together. Inspired by the Beatles, and looking to move toward a more electrified sound, they joined forces with keyboardist/guitarist Lowell "Banana" Levinger and drummer Joe Bauer with Young moving to bass. Naming themselves the Youngbloods after Young's second album, they developed a rambling, harmony-laden sound that touched upon the blues, country, and lyrical folk-rock. Playing regularly at New York club The Night Owl, they gained valuable experience opening for a bevy of touring performers. They signed to RCA and released a debut single, Corbitt's ragtime-influenced "Grizzly Bear," which charted in the Top 60 in November 1966. Their full-length debut, The Youngbloods, followed in 1967 and featured their cover version of Dino Valenti's idealistic peace and love anthem "Get Together." Released as a single, "Get Together" also made the charts, landing at number 62 on the Hot 100. The group quickly followed up with a sophomore album, Earth Music.
By the time the band issued their third album, 1969's Charlie Daniels-produced Elephant Mountain, they had relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. As they were beginning work on the album Corbitt dropped out of the band, leaving Young and Levinger as the primary songwriters and creative drivers of the group. Under Young's influence, the album found the Youngbloods exploring more of their jazz and Americana influences. There was also a more introspective tone to many of Young's songs, with tracks like "Darkness, Darkness" and "Quicksand" addressing themes of death and depression and evoking the war in Vietnam. At the same time in 1969, RCA re-released "Get Together" as a single after it was used in a public-service commercial for the National Council of Christians and Jews. It again boosted the band's profile, landing at number five on the Hot 100. The group also hit the singles charts with Young's songs "Sunlight" and "Darkness, Darkness."
See more at All Music.
Three more sleeps, and you'll be in Calgary ❤. Your able tour guide awaits permission to show you around the venue 🤞. Safe travels, Leland.
So glad to see you. Maybe the maid could have been in the video😂
See you in Calgary Wednesday.
Evening Leland
✋🏼
I hope Linda is doing well
The idea of anybody, in a car in this heat is horrific. Even getting into cars that have air conditioning. That takes forever to take effect. I just need to gaffer an umbrella to my chair again. Even though being on foot in the heat is very rough, I think avoiding the initial heat of getting into a car, that never had air conditioning, since I stopped driving, has probably helped whatever is left of my own constitutional hit points. I always had the umbrella on my mobility rig for a few years, hiking around, but had to undo it, to make it more portable for a long road trip in order to detail, fold, and wheely-pop slide it up into a backseat floorboard. I always carry gaffer tape, and large renovation bags with me on any road trip, to protect anyone else's vehicle, should they convince me to take the ride. There's a streamlined order that I load in and out, with lighter methods to pull out on quicker stops, easy to reach on the outsides, by myself, while the driver runs in first, with the remote key fob.
I think I might splurge on a taller bigger umbrella than my ordinary one that I've bungeed to a small tent pole repair kit.
It's since before the pandemic that I've been in a real sporting goods store. The mounted umbrella did help more in crosswalk situations I think. A lot of people also thought I might be a vendor selling ice cream though. I've considered the idea of just purchasing some dry ice and extra ice cream and see how it goes with possibly selling ice cream on the way back home. 😃 I usually just hope frozen bags of vegetables will sustain the ice cream going home. I might be less scary to buy ice cream from, than a person in a van, playing the eerie music. I mean, even though I have gaffer tape, I would be hard pressed to abduct anyone. 😂
Hmmm. . . Summer is suppose to be great weather and times for being outdoors, Audrey. . .rather consider making ice cream at home. . .
Thank you for sharing, on the road entertainment is its own kind of labor and peculiar offshoots of happenings.
Thank you for reporting. An interior of a car is an oven on wheels and when sitting closed up it is a magnifier of heat.
I no longer drive or have an automobile and my walking distance to and fro is 15 minutes each way for groceries. Frozen groceries are shopped for on cooler weather days.
@@kateconway-hickman5945I do have the rock salt and other ingredients. I'd just have to improvise on the dasher situation. ;)
@@splashesin8 So cool, Audrey, Thank you!
Hi Artemis, 😊 It takes me about forty minutes each way now. and I try to have at least one of the each ways, be in the dark, if not both. Sometimes there's no way around having to go out in the full on sun though. Some deadline I couldn't have orchestrated any sooner generally happens once in awhile, for a business only open like bankers hours, or to make sure the mail gets picked up for sure, and not just only a fifty percent chance.
My favorite Jesse Colin Young song - th-cam.com/video/zvLb3mdGo2M/w-d-xo.html
Lowell Levenger is Banana. He is still playing bass w the bay area Dinosaurs
I feel young again ☮
‘The core group consisted of Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Spencer Dryden of Jefferson Airplane, Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead, Barry Melton of Country Joe and the Fish and keyboardist Merl Saunders from the Saunders-Garcia Band.[2] Over time Papa John Creach of Hot Tuna, Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane, Nicky Hopkins, Dave Getz, Country Joe McDonald and other prominent San Francisco musicians guest starred with the group.[2] In the 1990s, David LaFlamme of It's a Beautiful Day and Jerry Miller of Moby Grape also toured with this group.’ Wiki
@@artemisXsidecross The San Francisco sound or as I call them The San Francisco Treats
@@KittyCarlile-490
They certainly have all been a big part of my memory since I moved to the Bay Area first in Berkeley in 64 and then San Francisco in ’65 -78 and later to the Oakland Berkeley border.
‘The Times They Are a Changing’ keeps marching:
‘The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'
@@artemisXsidecross you have been there thru so many changes
You were there "in the beginning" I didn't make it there until 89
@@KittyCarlile-490
It began on 12/2/64 when I heard in Berkeley Mario Savio say:
“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”
We moved to San Francisco in late ’65 when Haight Street rents were cheaper Than North Beach and ended up first on Turk Street near Divisadero, later Anza and 2nd, and finally Oakland near the Berkeley border.
The first music venues were at the Longshoremen’s Hall in ’66 with The Grateful Dead / Big Brother And The Holding Company / The Loading Zone.
After the January 1967 'Be In' its began to falter, especially when the same year the radio was playing "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler.
Expectation usually slays novelty and by ’68 it was no more than a hope.
Good for you and whishees there..
What Bass is your #1? I assume you play and like many.
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Phoenix Fire Department Heroic Paramedics
“…Extreme heat comes with the territory both for Phoenix and for its firefighters. They train by climbing stairs and swinging sledgehammers wearing up to 80 pounds of bulky, suffocating gear, and make a career of bursting into burning buildings and rushing toward explosive brush fires.
But the past two weeks of unbroken triple-digit days have put heat at the center of their work, turning them into a summertime army battling to rescue homeless people who collapse in their tents, workers who faint in the sun and vulnerable older people struggling to breathe inside sweltering homes. Many are trained paramedics, and they estimated that some 80 percent of the department’s calls are medical emergencies…”
NYT July 16, 2023, 2:40 p.m. ET
By Jack Healy Reporting from Phoenix
As Jack Healey reports for some the power grid has either collapsed or has never been up and running.
@@kateconway-hickman5945
We are poor custodians for the peoples welfare but are all hands on deck for growth and investment. You ‘reap what you sow.’ 💔
This House Is On Fire
lyrics by Natalie Merchant
This house is on fire!
Kick off your boots, come sit a spell.
Listen to me worry, come and listen well
All you better best come and lean in boys,
I don't dare raise my voice
I've been sitting here for the longest time reading all the warning and the danger signs
I don't have the gift of the prophecy,
Telling everybody how it's going to be
Soon come, soon come the day this tinderbox
Is gonna blow in your face
I don't have the gift of the prophesy,
Telling everybody how it's going to be
You go passing wrong for right
And right for wrong
People only stand for that for just so long
It's all gonna catch like a house on fire,
Spark an evil blaze and burn higher
In the whip of the wind
That could start a conflagration
Like there has never been
This house is on fire!
@Xsidecross Thanks much, Artemis for 2001 'This House is On Fire', Natalie Merchant and . . . April 2023 Lp 'Keep Your Courage'. . . 💕
@@kateconway-hickman5945
The album 'Keep Your Courage' is brilliant, she produces her own work 👍
In the PNW❤
Leland como andas ? 🎅🖕👅