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The song was an improvisation that they came up with while playing at a curling rink in Ontario. The guitarist was replacing a broken string, and came up with a riff that he wanted to remember, The rest of the bank came back to the stage and started improvising along with him. Some kid was seen recording them, and the got the recording from him so that they could write down what they did. It went #1 for 3 weeks, back in 1970.
aint it great when a few minutes during what started out a normal day , goes on and last another 50 years ... that's a great bit of info, thanks for sharing Junior
@@labyfan1313 are you serious? I thought it was Winnipeg from his vinyl tap tour. After his set I walked on stage and asked for a guitar pick because that’s something I collect. The manager said no and asked for security (I wasn’t a threat). Randy came back and told her to stop, signed an autograph and gave me one of his picks and talked to me about my guitar playing. Total class act.
I heard Cummings tell Howard Stern that it wasn't just about the war though. He said he thought the American girls acted more liberal. I suppose he wasn't always around the right ones. Many of us are conservatives. He said something about looking out into the audience and thinking the American girls acted more "wild".
The Guess Who are the originators of this song as it was written by Bachman and Cummings. However, Randy Bachman was not playing with the band during this performance as he had been replaced by guitarist Kurt Winter shortly after American Woman was recorded.
Such a great story. This performance was after Randy left the band. But it was his guitar with a broken string that led to this song. I’m glad he’s getting it back.
A similar thing happened with Myles Goodwyn of April Wine a couple years ago. He got his guitar returned to him after 44 years. The truck carrying their equipment was involved in an accident in Montreal and they were told everything was destroyed and wouldn't even let them look at the ruined equipment. Then decades later the guitar turns up in BC. Disgusting when people steal a band's instruments.
Two things, Randy Bachman's Guitar was a Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins, the guitar in the video is a Gibson ES Series. Second, that is not Randy Bachman in the video, it is Kurt Winter. Randy Bachman left The Guess Who in 1970.
Robert Plant once said Burton Cummings has one of the best voices in the industry. You and your brothers you should check out a song from Burton’s solo career called “Never Had a Lady Before”. I guarantee you’ll love it 😬👍🏼
I would've loved to hear Zep cover this song in their heyday. Imagine the rhythm Jonesy and Bonzo would have laid down while Page and Plant shredded the riffs and vocals.
They still are and always will be from here. I saw them with my dad here in Winnipeg for the Manitoba 150th (I think it was?). It was a heck of a show too, played just about all the big hits AND went on an over an hour long encore, really impressive considering all the original members(still alive) are now in their 70s.
I remember staying up to watch the midnight special after you would look at the TV guild to see who was going to be on back in the day before cable TV on our RCA XL100 with on the roof antenna that had a motor so you could change the directions and that was the Hi-Tech shit back then!
Another classic....you should let them listen to These Eyes by The Guess Who another great one by them. Bring on the uplifting on my spirit today brothers...✌ ☮ ✌
Not quite. The American woman in the Song is The Statue Of Liberty. It is both an ant-Vietnam war song and a rejection of the superficial, plastic consumerist nature of US culture.
Yes the Guess Who are the originals for this song. Randy Bachmann on guitar. Leaves the Guess Who to form Bachmann Turner Overdrive. Two great of Canada's great rock bands before RUSH. Would love to see and hear Jamal and his brothers in concert.
I learned to drive in Spring 1970...our Driving Education teacher loved this song, and every time it came on during driving instruction, he *CRANKED* it!!!
The Guess Who was the first concert I ever attended. I always thought this song sang by a Canadian band was talking about America itself. "I don't need your war machines, I don't need your ghetto scenes. "
@@dianaspears571 maybe you are right, I don't know, all the live concert footage I've seen from that era tends to show a much more subdued audience than anything in the post punk rock era, or particularly the post grunge era where moshing and stage diving and all that stuff became the norm.
@@jbassguy571 it may not have been as wild as that but but most people were not sitting quietly. Watch footage of a Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad or The Who Concert. Or Listen to Frampton Comes Alive. Another good one to watch is Lynyrd Skynyrd at Oakland Coliseum "Free Bird", that crowd got very engaged.
They are the ones who made it famous. This was a 1970 TV performance is why the audience was so calm. The Midnight Special was a late night variety show that had many stars on their show. Show ran from 1972 through 1981.
This song was written only a few blocks from where I live. It was written at the Glenbriar Curling Club in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. That curling rink is now a hardware store however they have a plaque denoting this fact.
Doing their performance they're holding the audience hostage! 🙄 You/whoever, can't tell me, not to move, if I'm feeling, the groove, when at a concert!🙋🏾♀️ Love, peace, and movement.💃🏾
You guys should check out the group Bachman Turner Overdrive, Taking Care of Business. After Guess Who broke up in the early 1970’s, the great guitar player of the Guess Who formed BTO, who was an enormous band in the 1970’s.
Don't know if this matters or not but , Burton Cummings had a solo career as well, and he had a hit single called "Stand Tall" maybe you might want to check it out.
This would have been in 73 I believe Greg Lesque already left and Kurt Winters was still there. I believe that not to long after this Dominic Treano joined, he was the first member who didn't hail from Winnipeg Manitoba. Burton Cummings left in 75 for a solo career effectively ending the Guess Who as a legitimate rock band although Jim Kale who owns the name trademark will put together a band to tour with or without him. Thank you for sharing this and I hope you do a few more I think you will be amazed by Burton Cummings vocals on Undun , calypso tinged Follow Your Daughter Home, and the highly emotional sour suite!!! As Mr. Cummings likes to say at the end of most things he writes on his website Peace and Love ❤
They are the original writers & performers of this song and proud Canadians. This song was both a Vietnam war protest song and an expression about how Canada felt about the attempted intrusion of American war/gun culture into Canada. They were invited to play at the White House and were told they couldn’t play this show (no 1 at the time). They played it.
Yes, the Guess Who originally performed this song in the 70s. They were from Canada & hit big with this here in USA. Also had other hits. U can google & read their story. Very popular & received lots of radio & tv exposure back then.
The guitarist on the record and album was Randy Bachman originally. Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Jim Kale and Randy Bachman all wrote this song together on the fly after Randy broke a Guitar string. On the 45 record the A side was American Woman and the B side to this song was No Sugar Tonight. American Woman charted on the Billboard Top 100 at # 1 when it was released in early 1970. No Sugar Tonight peaked at # 39 in 1970. Yes Lenny Kravitz did a cover of American Woman for the Movie "The Spy Who Shagged Me". An Austin Powers movie in 1999.
Remember, they're singing about "American Woman" ( the U.S A.) because they aren't American... they're Canadian (from Winnipeg, Manitoba). I had the pleasure of mc'ing for Burton during a solo concert.
The Midnight Special was THE was many of us got to see/hear the music we heard on the radio. It was on Friday night and parents would let us stay up to watch it.
"The guess Who" were great,they are from Canada, and has so many hits. Another group canned "THE WHO, 20 or 30 years later emerged named "THE WHO." They did not last and quickly faded. Never thing those 2 groups are connected, they are almost a generation apart.
This is the original. Original guitar player was Randy Bachman, founder of Bachman Turner Overdrive. Saw them in concert twice. The joint was jumpin. Canadian band singing in the seconf half about USA during the Vietnam War and the riots in Detroit, LA etc.
love what ya said toward the end there Jamal, you're dead right, that's exactly what I am thinking about watching these memories, the faces and places we don't see or go to no more, the times when I wore a younger mans clothes... great reaction , thank you to you and your bro's
Always had a soft spot for this version of the Guess Who as I saw them live and, my, did they kick it. Especially Kurt Winter, who had the unenviable job of replacing Randy Bachman in the group, but was a heck of a player (also had that unique way of cradling the instrument). These guys were also fantastic at the harmonies, but you don’t get them here (for that, I recommend “No Time”).
This version was after Randy Bachman (who came up with the guitar riff) had left the band (and went on to further success with Bachman Turner Overdrive, or BTO). A few year back he got back together with Burton Cummings and they did some concerts and a live album under the name Bachman Cummings. The version from that is slowed down a bit, but is just awesome; there's the rehearsal version, the actual concert, or both together. Here's a link to the rehearsal version if you or any viewers want to watch / listen. czcams.com/video/xaHJEPMK3QM/video.html
American Woman was never written or planed. During a break, The lead singer was late coming back on stage. The Band was trying to get his attention and started playing the riff you hear. Burton comes out on the stage and just made it up as he sung.
Check out The Guess Who doing this song live from stage in home town Winnipeg Manitoba when they got back together to do a tour across Canada!!!! All 18 minutes of it I believe!!!!!!
This is the second iteration of the band. Randy Bachman has left by now and has been replaced by Kurt Winters and someone else (my mind is blanking on it at the moment). The best live version I have seen of this song was from the 2000 Running Back To Canada tour (it was a reunion). The version is 14 minutes long.
The guy shredding the guitar is Randy Bachman. The guitar he is playing is a 1957 Gretsch guitar. It was stolen in 1976. It was recently located in a by a long time fan of Randy while watching CZcams videos. He found it in the hands of a Japanese musician 45 years after it was stolen. Crazy story.
Political song. Being from Canada and this being the '70's, it was a statement about Canadians not wanting to be involved in everything that was going on in the U.S. at the time.
Back in the 1970s live audiences were much more sedate than modern ones. It would have been considered strange to be head-banging or chair-dancing back then. Polite applause, and whistling at the end.
With Randy Bachman on guitar; from Bachman Turner Overdrive!! I have loved this song since I first heard it in 1971. It sounds just as good in 2021! Yeah; Lenny Kravitz did a banging version of it! peace from Australia.
This performance was AFTER co-founder/lead guitarist/singer/songwriter Randy Bachman left the band to form another classic rock group, Bachman-Turner Overdrive (who put out a string of HUGE hits in the mid 70's, like Takin' Care of Business, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Let Ride, etc.) You should check out some of their songs... good stuff.
I was amongst the first women to be assigned to my unit in the 70s in the Army. Things were opening up to women. Some of the men were still in shock. Didn't think it would happen. The recreation room blared this quite a bit in those early years.
Please look into a late night TV show that was hosted by sax-player David Sanborn called Night Music (aka Sunday Night). Each episode had the most diverse collection of incredible musicians you could imagine. While shows like Midnight Special, The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert were presenting popular groups, Night Music focused on jazz & eclectic music. Each show ran a random roster of people you would never have brought together, and often they would sit in on session, singing & playing music together. Night Music was my exposure to the Kronos String Quartet playing "Purple Haze" as if a classical concert piece. It's the first place I ever saw The Residents, famous for 'deconstructing' famous music, as they performed a particularly frightening rendition of Elvis's "Teddy Bear"; bizarre, yes, but exhilarating, too. And later in that episode The Residents performed with Conway Twitty, also appearing that night. Odd mixes on the same show like: Carlos Santana with Lyle Lovett, & Hank Williams SR; Leonard Cohen withSonny Rollins, Ken Nordine, & Was (Not Was); Lou Reed with John Cale, Harry Connick Jr, Gladys Knight, & Paul Shaffer; Stevie Ray Vaughan with Pharoah Sanders, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Platters, Van Dyke Parks, & Maria McKee; Pere Ubu with Debbie Harry; Ray Manzanarek with Jean Luc Ponty, Chuck Jackson, & LLCool J; The Pixies with Al Green & Sun Ra... I mean, who would think to bring together to share the stage Miles Davis with Carl Perkins? 32 videos of Hal Willner’s ’80s series ‘Night Music’ that display his gift for weird, amazing collaborations (brooklynvegan.com)
Listened to Randy Bachman talk about the song a few years ago. They had left Winnipeg to tour the States. He said the first club they played a guy told them they would be drafted if they stayed so they hightailed back to Canada
The lead guitarist is Randy Bachman, who left the GW to form Bachman Turner Overdrive. Listen to Taking Care of Business or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Great guitarist!
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If you don't do the album version with the acoustic intro don't bother
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czcams.com/video/M0Wd8rGWbA0/video.html Stand Tall by Burton Cummings from the Guess Who. Gotta watch.These guys were our Canadian band.
Seemed like your youngest bother may have and American Women to sing this song to lol 😝!!!!
The song was an improvisation that they came up with while playing at a curling rink in Ontario. The guitarist was replacing a broken string, and came up with a riff that he wanted to remember, The rest of the bank came back to the stage and started improvising along with him. Some kid was seen recording them, and the got the recording from him so that they could write down what they did. It went #1 for 3 weeks, back in 1970.
The curling rink (In Kitchener) is now a Home Hardware and there's a plaque in there saying this is where American Woman was written.
aint it great when a few minutes during what started out a normal day , goes on and last another 50 years ... that's a great bit of info, thanks for sharing Junior
@@labyfan1313 are you serious? I thought it was Winnipeg from his vinyl tap tour. After his set I walked on stage and asked for a guitar pick because that’s something I collect. The manager said no and asked for security (I wasn’t a threat). Randy came back and told her to stop, signed an autograph and gave me one of his picks and talked to me about my guitar playing. Total class act.
@@labyfan1313 do you know which home hardware? I’d love a picture of that and live in Kitchener haha
Actually in Waterloo. It's also mentioned in Randy's book Vinyl Tap Stories.
Dont forget that album cover, the American Woman is the Statue of Liberty. Canadians singing a US war protest song. Doesn't get any better.
I heard Cummings tell Howard Stern that it wasn't just about the war though. He said he thought the American girls acted more liberal. I suppose he wasn't always around the right ones. Many of us are conservatives. He said something about looking out into the audience and thinking the American girls acted more "wild".
How you liking that oppressive prime minister up there these days?
They are indeed the originals. They would now be the age of your grandfathers.
The Guess Who are the originators of this song as it was written by Bachman and Cummings. However, Randy Bachman was not playing with the band during this performance as he had been replaced by guitarist Kurt Winter shortly after American Woman was recorded.
They still play together from time to time
I doubt Cummings is old enough to be their grandparents. Isn't Jamel 40 yrs old? Unless he's a lot older, than I thought.
@@jessiem276 -It is in the realm of possibility. While Burton Cummings is the youngest at a mere 73 years of age - Randy Bachman is 78 years old.
Check out the radio version that Lenny covered!!!
Randy Bachman just had that guitar returned to him after it was stolen and missing for over 45 years.
Such a great story.
This performance was after Randy left the band. But it was his guitar with a broken string that led to this song. I’m glad he’s getting it back.
Amazingly it was in Japan.
I watched that on y/t a week ago...good call. It's a pity he'd left the band early 1970 and replaced by Kurt Winter for this '74 tv appearance.
A similar thing happened with Myles Goodwyn of April Wine a couple years ago. He got his guitar returned to him after 44 years. The truck carrying their equipment was involved in an accident in Montreal and they were told everything was destroyed and wouldn't even let them look at the ruined equipment. Then decades later the guitar turns up in BC. Disgusting when people steal a band's instruments.
Two things, Randy Bachman's Guitar was a Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins, the guitar in the video is a Gibson ES Series. Second, that is not Randy Bachman in the video, it is Kurt Winter. Randy Bachman left The Guess Who in 1970.
Robert Plant once said Burton Cummings has one of the best voices in the industry. You and your brothers you should check out a song from Burton’s solo career called “Never Had a Lady Before”. I guarantee you’ll love it 😬👍🏼
I would've loved to hear Zep cover this song in their heyday. Imagine the rhythm Jonesy and Bonzo would have laid down while Page and Plant shredded the riffs and vocals.
The Guess Who are by far the biggest snub in the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
The group "Foreigner" hasn't made it in, either.
@@jessiem276they're on this years voting board
This group was from my hometown Winnipeg,Canada and we were and are so proud of them.👍
Me too
They were probably the best band ever from Canada. Some great music from these guys.
I'm sure you are ...great band. Jeff Healey was a great Canadian artist, also.
@@karnsfan The Guess Who, Rush, Tragically Hip, Neil Young, to name a few
They still are and always will be from here. I saw them with my dad here in Winnipeg for the Manitoba 150th (I think it was?). It was a heck of a show too, played just about all the big hits AND went on an over an hour long encore, really impressive considering all the original members(still alive) are now in their 70s.
I love that you're revisiting these. Great music and great reactions! Lenny Kravitz version was cool, but nothing beats the original.
Agree
Love the Guess Who. Laughing, These Eyes, Clap for the Wolfman
More live videos of The Guess Who please. They are the original. There’s a video of Lenny and The Guess Who singing this together ☮️💜
I’d love to hear that…
@Donatella Loncar oh yeah we do… and Comedic actors
I remember staying up to watch the midnight special after you would look at the TV guild to see who was going to be on back in the day before cable TV on our RCA XL100 with on the roof antenna that had a motor so you could change the directions and that was the Hi-Tech shit back then!
I would sit real close with my tape recorder on!
@@kerryknight228 OMG so did I lol
Haha! Exactly Right! I had that! Always check out TV Guide! Haha! Awe,. The Good Old Days!!!
Not to mention waiting for the antenna motor to “catch up” and get to the station... clunk, clunk, clunk. Mid 70s high tech
Hi Tech was aluminum foil wrapped around the antenna as an extender
Great Canadian band!!! Burton Cummings one of the greatest rock voices of alllllll time!! btw this original, way better version.....
Jamal, if you are going down the Guess Who rabbit hole, you have to do Clap for the Wolfman.
Yes! The one on rhe Midnight Special with Wolfman Jack participating!
Absolutely. Clap for the Wolfman is a classic imho
Absolutely
My favorite Guess Who song is still “UnDun”, and I’ve e been known to kick off Saturday nights with a later Guess Who song, “Dancing Fool”.
Dancing Fool!!
Ya! This is way before Lenny was around and even before Lenny's mom was on The Jefferson's TV show and they were first to do this song!
I didn't know he was born in '64... But he didn't perform this song until '98.
I really thought he was closer to my age. Guess not.
Another classic....you should let them listen to These Eyes by The Guess Who another great one by them. Bring on the uplifting on my spirit today brothers...✌ ☮ ✌
Fellow Canadians singing about American women. Love this song and so much of their stuff.
Not quite. The American woman in the Song is The Statue Of Liberty. It is both an ant-Vietnam war song and a rejection of the superficial, plastic consumerist nature of US culture.
It's been great watching Jamal with the brothers recently again
Yes the Guess Who are the originals for this song. Randy Bachmann on guitar. Leaves the Guess Who to form Bachmann Turner Overdrive. Two great of Canada's great rock bands before RUSH. Would love to see and hear Jamal and his brothers in concert.
Love your stuff J….world needs more of this!
Excellent reaction. Thanks for doing a song from one of our national treasures. Cheers from Canada
Try this one Jamal, “ Sylvia’s mother” by Doctor Hook.
Excellent idea! I don't think Jamal has dabbled at all in Doctor Hook and there are a few gems!
great one
@@anniegoodrich262 Actually Jamel has reacted to Sylvia's Mother and 4 other Dr. Hook songs.
I LOVE Leron’s reaction! He was enjoying it. 😊
They definitely all were 😁
That effin voice , Powerful
Man, I love watching you solo. Watching you with your brothers is an entirely different, and equally awesome experience.
The reason they are not dancing is because they have a packed house. The Guess Who brought the house down!
I learned to drive in Spring 1970...our Driving Education teacher loved this song, and every time it came on during driving instruction, he *CRANKED* it!!!
Excellent ... That song is timeless. Fantastic groove. Fabulous band!! Such an epic story behind this song. Cheers from Europe.. Much love!
The Guess Who was the first concert I ever attended. I always thought this song sang by a Canadian band was talking about America itself.
"I don't need your war machines, I don't need your ghetto scenes. "
According to Burton it was about how he preferred the more innocent Canadian women who weren’t so “liberated” in style.
This is a LIVE version he improvs a lot in it. His voice and their talents. What a band. ❤
I think back in the day it used to be considered polite to sit quietly during a concert and give your full attention to the performance.
Lol, maybe in front of a TV audience. Not in real life in the seventies.
@@dianaspears571 maybe you are right, I don't know, all the live concert footage I've seen from that era tends to show a much more subdued audience than anything in the post punk rock era, or particularly the post grunge era where moshing and stage diving and all that stuff became the norm.
@@jbassguy571 it may not have been as wild as that but but most people were not sitting quietly. Watch footage of a Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk Railroad or The Who Concert. Or Listen to Frampton Comes Alive. Another good one to watch is Lynyrd Skynyrd at Oakland Coliseum "Free Bird", that crowd got very engaged.
Me too you saved all the yelling and screaming till the end.
Steppenwolf, Mad Magazine & the Guess Who. My childhood thru the late 60's early 70's.
Running back through Canada 2000 American Woman best version!
They are the ones who made it famous. This was a 1970 TV performance is why the audience was so calm. The Midnight Special was a late night variety show that had many stars on their show. Show ran from 1972 through 1981.
That sounded like Wolfman Jack announcing "The Guess Who"
Guess who's being disrespected by the Rock n'Roll Hall of Fame?
Who hasn't and Who Gives a Sh!t about the rrohf, that institution is meaningless
It's a really great song that goes back to the 60s and I love the guess who Used to dance with song a lot it's popular
This song was written only a few blocks from where I live. It was written at the Glenbriar Curling Club in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. That curling rink is now a hardware store however they have a plaque denoting this fact.
Doing their performance they're holding the audience hostage! 🙄 You/whoever, can't tell me, not to move, if I'm feeling, the groove, when at a concert!🙋🏾♀️
Love, peace, and movement.💃🏾
Damn, Quintel can SANG!!! NICE! And I love the way Lenny put his stank on this song, and made it even funkier!
I grew up on this Song & band! Just Awesome!!! So Glad you’re giving it a listen!!! Great Video! Great Music!!!
Yes, the original!! My hometown boys from Winnipeg, Canada.
Check out Humpty's Blues by them. Burton Cummings's vocals on it are insane!!
The four tops, standing in the shadows of love.
I love the way yall love that geetar. They were phenomenal. I grew up on the Guess Who, one of my dad's favorite bands.
You guys should check out the group Bachman Turner Overdrive, Taking Care of Business. After Guess Who broke up in the early 1970’s, the great guitar player of the Guess Who formed BTO, who was an enormous band in the 1970’s.
Don't know if this matters or not but , Burton Cummings had a solo career as well, and he had a hit single called "Stand Tall" maybe you might want to check it out.
Yes! I suggested it too. I remember hearing it as a little kid but didn't know it was the singer from this group
“American Woman” sung by a Canadian band, LOL
This would have been in 73 I believe Greg Lesque already left and Kurt Winters was still there. I believe that not to long after this Dominic Treano joined, he was the first member who didn't hail from Winnipeg Manitoba. Burton Cummings left in 75 for a solo career effectively ending the Guess Who as a legitimate rock band although Jim Kale who owns the name trademark will put together a band to tour with or without him.
Thank you for sharing this and I hope you do a few more I think you will be amazed by Burton Cummings vocals on Undun , calypso tinged Follow Your Daughter Home, and the highly emotional sour suite!!! As Mr. Cummings likes to say at the end of most things he writes on his website Peace and Love ❤
They are the original writers & performers of this song and proud Canadians. This song was both a Vietnam war protest song and an expression about how Canada felt about the attempted intrusion of American war/gun culture into Canada. They were invited to play at the White House and were told they couldn’t play this show (no 1 at the time). They played it.
Keep the Guess Who coming!!!
Yes, the Guess Who originally performed this song in the 70s. They were from Canada & hit big with this here in USA. Also had other hits. U can google & read their story. Very popular & received lots of radio & tv exposure back then.
Stompin' Tom - another Canadian treasure
The guitarist on the record and album was Randy Bachman originally. Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Jim Kale and Randy Bachman all wrote this song together on the fly after Randy broke a Guitar string. On the 45 record the A side was American Woman and the B side to this song was No Sugar Tonight. American Woman charted on the Billboard Top 100 at # 1 when it was released in early 1970. No Sugar Tonight peaked at # 39 in 1970. Yes Lenny Kravitz did a cover of American Woman for the Movie "The Spy Who Shagged Me". An Austin Powers movie in 1999.
They were a Canadian band and the American Woman was the US. It was an anti-war song.
Love that your are introducing your younger brothers to the music you have so much, come to appreciate!
These eyes is my fav!
"I don't need your war machines. I don't need your ghetto scenes. American woman"
These guys were my very 1st concert...I was 15 Do Dancing Fool by them...also No Time.
Loved this band! I'm a grandma who grew up in this era.....the baby boomers!!! They are the original group who did song!!
Remember, they're singing about "American Woman" ( the U.S A.) because they aren't American... they're Canadian (from Winnipeg, Manitoba). I had the pleasure of mc'ing for Burton during a solo concert.
The Midnight Special was THE was many of us got to see/hear the music we heard on the radio. It was on Friday night and parents would let us stay up to watch it.
I love seeing the brothers watching together.
Jamel i love all 3 of you..just beautiful Brothers..real love!!!..God keep you Safe..love from Sicily..🙏💓💓
FWIW: Lenny Kravitz was 5 years old when this song was recorded by the Guess Who
"The guess Who" were great,they are from Canada, and has so many hits. Another group canned "THE WHO, 20 or 30 years later emerged named "THE WHO." They did not last and quickly faded. Never thing those 2 groups are connected, they are almost a generation apart.
I LOVE the Fact your INTRODUCING Great Old School Music, I grew up on, to your Great Family!! 💜❤️💜 Keep Safe and God Bless!! ❤️
This is the original. Original guitar player was Randy Bachman, founder of Bachman Turner Overdrive. Saw them in concert twice. The joint was jumpin. Canadian band singing in the seconf half about USA during the Vietnam War and the riots in Detroit, LA etc.
I just meant to comment here! And Thank You! 🙏 God Blessed y’alls beautiful cheek bones and HARMONIES!
love what ya said toward the end there Jamal, you're dead right, that's exactly what I am thinking about watching these memories, the faces and places we don't see or go to no more, the times when I wore a younger mans clothes... great reaction , thank you to you and your bro's
Thank You Jamel I am really enjoying Your channels and your brothers you guys are great , God Bless You and Your Family, Keep them coming
Always had a soft spot for this version of the Guess Who as I saw them live and, my, did they kick it. Especially Kurt Winter, who had the unenviable job of replacing Randy Bachman in the group, but was a heck of a player (also had that unique way of cradling the instrument). These guys were also fantastic at the harmonies, but you don’t get them here (for that, I recommend “No Time”).
This version was after Randy Bachman (who came up with the guitar riff) had left the band (and went on to further success with Bachman Turner Overdrive, or BTO). A few year back he got back together with Burton Cummings and they did some concerts and a live album under the name Bachman Cummings. The version from that is slowed down a bit, but is just awesome; there's the rehearsal version, the actual concert, or both together. Here's a link to the rehearsal version if you or any viewers want to watch / listen. czcams.com/video/xaHJEPMK3QM/video.html
American Woman was never written or planed. During a break, The lead singer was late coming back on stage. The Band was trying to get his attention and started playing the riff you hear. Burton comes out on the stage and just made it up as he sung.
Canada shines again!
Check out The Guess Who doing this song live from stage in home town Winnipeg Manitoba when they got back together to do a tour across Canada!!!! All 18 minutes of it I believe!!!!!!
There’s a 14-minute live version of them doing this. You have to watch it.
This is the second iteration of the band. Randy Bachman has left by now and has been replaced by Kurt Winters and someone else (my mind is blanking on it at the moment). The best live version I have seen of this song was from the 2000 Running Back To Canada tour (it was a reunion). The version is 14 minutes long.
Don McDougall also on guitar
The guy shredding the guitar is Randy Bachman. The guitar he is playing is a 1957 Gretsch guitar. It was stolen in 1976. It was recently located in a by a long time fan of Randy while watching CZcams videos. He found it in the hands of a Japanese musician 45 years after it was stolen. Crazy story.
Actually, the guitar player (lead player) is Kurt Winter, not Randy Bachman. The other guitar player is Donnie McDougall….
Political song. Being from Canada and this being the '70's, it was a statement about Canadians not wanting to be involved in everything that was going on in the U.S. at the time.
Just went over to band practice last weekend, our bass player had your video going I said damn I watch him too lol.
Back in the 1970s live audiences were much more sedate than modern ones. It would have been considered strange to be head-banging or chair-dancing back then. Polite applause, and whistling at the end.
They were also somewhat transfixed by the music!
They have so many good songs please explore more of them
With Randy Bachman on guitar; from Bachman Turner Overdrive!!
I have loved this song since I first heard it in 1971. It sounds just as good in 2021!
Yeah; Lenny Kravitz did a banging version of it!
peace from Australia.
This performance was AFTER co-founder/lead guitarist/singer/songwriter Randy Bachman left the band to form another classic rock group, Bachman-Turner Overdrive (who put out a string of HUGE hits in the mid 70's, like Takin' Care of Business, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Let Ride, etc.) You should check out some of their songs... good stuff.
Burton Cummings looks so young here! I love ALL of Burton's songs.
I was amongst the first women to be assigned to my unit in the 70s in the Army. Things were opening up to women. Some of the men were still in shock. Didn't think it would happen. The recreation room blared this quite a bit in those early years.
This song was actually banned in the US for a very long time.
Burton Cummings on lead vocals, Randy Bachman on lead guitar. He's the one with the red Gibson ES335
Great reaction with the brothers glad you are close to them.
Live performances are always the best for me.
Please look into a late night TV show that was hosted by sax-player David Sanborn called Night Music (aka Sunday Night). Each episode had the most diverse collection of incredible musicians you could imagine. While shows like Midnight Special, The King Biscuit Flour Hour, and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert were presenting popular groups, Night Music focused on jazz & eclectic music. Each show ran a random roster of people you would never have brought together, and often they would sit in on session, singing & playing music together.
Night Music was my exposure to the Kronos String Quartet playing "Purple Haze" as if a classical concert piece. It's the first place I ever saw The Residents, famous for 'deconstructing' famous music, as they performed a particularly frightening rendition of Elvis's "Teddy Bear"; bizarre, yes, but exhilarating, too. And later in that episode The Residents performed with Conway Twitty, also appearing that night. Odd mixes on the same show like: Carlos Santana with Lyle Lovett, & Hank Williams SR; Leonard Cohen withSonny Rollins, Ken Nordine, & Was (Not Was); Lou Reed with John Cale, Harry Connick Jr, Gladys Knight, & Paul Shaffer; Stevie Ray Vaughan with Pharoah Sanders, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Platters, Van Dyke Parks, & Maria McKee; Pere Ubu with Debbie Harry; Ray Manzanarek with Jean Luc Ponty, Chuck Jackson, & LLCool J; The Pixies with Al Green & Sun Ra... I mean, who would think to bring together to share the stage Miles Davis with Carl Perkins?
32 videos of Hal Willner’s ’80s series ‘Night Music’ that display his gift for weird, amazing collaborations (brooklynvegan.com)
Love when the 3 of you react!
Best boys on CZcams by far😘
Since Lenny wasn’t born yet it is possible this was first.
This was done in the late 60s' I went to one of their concerts' I loved this long' I was 16 years old' cmxoxo mum' 😂ĺl
Another great song! Love the new videos with your brothers!
No question they are the originals!! No one can begin to capture Burton and the guys. The studio version was fabulous, different but great.
Everybody was to high to jump around. LOL.
Listened to Randy Bachman talk about the song a few years ago. They had left Winnipeg to tour the States. He said the first club they played a guy told them they would be drafted if they stayed so they hightailed back to Canada
The lead guitarist is Randy Bachman, who left the GW to form Bachman Turner Overdrive. Listen to Taking Care of Business or You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Great guitarist!
Midnight Special was THE show to watch back in the day!