I always thought it had more of a garage band punk rock feel to it and Butch missed the opportunity to invent the D-beat! It'd be 10 years later before the Buzzcocks did it. If only he would have given it a little more swing...
Yep the drummer did well and also kit sounds masive. That snare fill after the “freakout” part were always so turning on for me. You can hear how he really layed hard into that kit.
Those of us who grew up in this era of rock music were truly blessed. The number of quality bands was unbelievable. Back then nothing to hide behind. You either had it or you didn’t
I’m a boomer trapped in a millennials body. I recommend the Seeds ( rip sky Saxon ) electric prunes , Love , The turtles, the 13th floor elevators Classic 1960s garage rock /psychedelia
I used to watch Count Five practice two blocks from my house in San Jose. 1966, I was 6. I actually watched them since 64 when I was 4 and they were an instrumental surf band, I think called The Esquires
@@LyThC00p38sc No NOT Every=One, Your being Over Dramatic! Every-One means Not any One In the Whole World With Held!!! & Even Only 1 That Doesnt makes the Every-One Word a Lie , capiche"? & Visual theatrics again are the bands that Have Huge amplifier Stacks Behind then that Are Dummy Stacks = Empty for appearance
Loved this song 🎵 when it first came out...and it's still a BANGER❗ As I was cruising CZcams to find this...there is a COVER of it, done by TOM PETTY ( Live) What ❓❗ Check it out.
One of the things I’ve found interesting about this song is how the rhythm feel changes with the addition of each instrument in the beginning. The opening guitar sets a feel. The bass comes in and the feel changes. When the drums come in the feel changes again. It almost seems like a mistake in playing yet, it works! Great song. Great memories!
@@nickames3808 I've played it before in a band, long time ago..relatively easy song. Harmonica added would be nice..Two chords: Emajor, F#major, then the rave-up bridge job. Excellent song!!
One of the things I most like about the comments are insights like these. I was in high school when I first heard this. Blew me away. And after all this time I'll be hearing it in a new way
TO ALL THE VIETNAMESE WARRIORS LIVING , AND THOSE WHO NEVER CAME HOME, AND THOSE THAT PASSED SUE TO AGE, AND ILLNESSES SUFFERED IN THE NAM. WELCOME HOME BROTHERS AND SISTERS THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. GOD BLESS YOU GUYS. ARTURO DELA GARZA USAF RET.
JAPAN EXECUTIVES CONTROL THE CURRENT STYLE OF AMERICAN TOP 40 MUSIC WHICH IS THE JAPAN WAY, AFTER THEY TRASHED OUR AMERICAN STYLE. THAT'S WHY THERE IS NO INDIVIDUALITY TODAY. FAN IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Brief history on how this song got its name: the lead singer, and soon to be, other band mate, were in psychology class in college, and their professor, said "psychotic reaction" and the lead and other band mate, both whispered, "thatd be a great name for a song we could do!" And soon enough it hit the top 100 charts by about fall of 1966, of course this becomes their only hit and all other songs they did, never got higher than psychotic reaction...
This is one of the first Psychedelic/Hard Rock songs. The Yardbirds were doing a lot of great stuff also, before the word "psychedelic" was used, like For Your Love, Heartful of Soul, etc. Awesome
Great guys from South San Francisco bay area 1965, San Jose Ca. The drummer and the singer have since past away but there is a memorial in San Jose for the whole band and their accomplishments for their time.
One of the best rock songs from the great year of 1966. The harmonica sound like a freight train. The drummer is amazing. A one hit wonder. A hollow body electric guitar with a fuzz pedal. Outstanding!
Perfect description Robert of the HARMONICA sounding like a Freight Train ❗ Well Put❗ Loved this song back in the day and hearing it again was a real treat. Check out TOM PETTY'S cover of it LIVE. I had no idea... stumbled on it the other day on CZcams.
My cousin talked me into buying the single at the record store. I was disappointed when I realized it wasn't the original but a copy by the Jalopy 5... a cover band.😢 I never forgot.
I was at a local fast food restaurant the other day and they were playing this song while I was ordering. I couldn't help but say "Hey, that's the Count Five!". Great to hear these classics being played in public.
I had the 45 vinyl and I was 12 when this came out. I wasn't sure what mom's reaction would be from me playing it at home. That's how "far out" we (or at least I) thought this kind of music was. Another one I was excited to buy was Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away.'
One more quick story...My parents divorced and we moved to South Lake Tahoe. The Count Five and 2 members of the Syndicate of Sound stayed at our house while performing at a small venue in Tahoe. Then we got to go to the concert for free.
@@tc4345 Thats ok i wasnt born when Mark Twain..was writing or Hanging wth Pablo./ Django./Hemmingway/.et al.paris Cafe Society..But i feel ive kinda got to know something of these Folk via Their outputs n Others..Its ok..N'joy..all wayze.
One of the earliest psychedelic hits! (Questionmark And The Mysterians' "96 Tears" and Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" both came out at around the same time).
It was released in June of 1966 and peaked in the U.S on October 22, 1966 at #5. But they first came up with the idea for the song at the end of 1964 when two of the band members heard the term "psychotic reaction" in a college class they were taking. They worked on the song and kept improving it throughout 1965... but they could not get signed by any record company until finally the record label "Double Shot" signed them in the summer of 1966.
What a GREAT song! I think these guys were just ahead of their time.... had they released this amazing tune in the early- mid 80's they would have been heralded as pop/funk/new-age wonderkinds and maybe had a career as big as Flock of Seagulls, Violent Femms or even the Clash!
Have not heard this in so long. These songs take me back growing up in the 60's. Out of school for summer, riding my Sears Stingray. Swimming, little league. What a great time and childhood. Music was great.
IKR....kids today. The music is just awful, playing video games online is considered socializing. But kids around my city don't go out so much to play cuz of all the gunshots, stray bullets. It sucks. I grew up in late 60's-70's and it was as you described except I'm not familiar with tiger baby stop. What was that?
@lucy bond I still had fears. I used to be scared when planes flew over, I thought we'd be bombed. I still had a great childhood, but we were assigned to go downtown and go into the underground basement of a department store, civil defense drills and the yellow sirens are still there. I guess I was about 7 during The Bay of Pigs with Soviets moving nuclear weapons to Cuba and the standoff. You can see the mass anxiety of the country watching the movies of the era, mutant creatures like The Blob. I had dreams about Germany and WWII as a very young child. I didn't know the boogeyman in the long black coat and boots looked like the SS officers. Blown out buildings and stormtroopers armed with rifles and bayonets with us pressed up against the wall hiding. I didn't recognize the architecture and war until I was in middle school and they showed movies. These nightmares terrified me before I could talk. They went away but dad always had to look under my bed and in the closet for the boogeyman. And I can still remember the one dream, the road curved and a tank would be coming. I've no idea how I had nightmares about something I'd never seen. I did. Pure distilled terror.
Funny how times change....when they go into that psyched middle section, there is no flying hair, no crazy movements around the stage, none of the wild efforts to gain attention that came as rock and roll progressed. And yet that part of the song is rather ahead of its time. Thanks for posting.
suze9088 yes but..all those things you mentioned just naturally went with the raw energy of the music..non conforming, wild and free. I respect your view though. We all percieve differently.
Count Five psychotic reaction Garage Rock. Year 1966 I was 16 years old and the song, Psychotic Reaction, blew my mind. It was the first time I heard a harmonica riff in a Rock piece. (Later on, I would also listen to Dylan and Jagger) I knew when I grew up, that the crazed critic of Rock, Lester Bangs, (of Rolling Stone magazine and the CBGB club). He also loved this song and had even written a book with that name, in honor of the band "Count Five". (Claaaaroo I looked for that book and read it)
I was in a garage band when this came out. Whenever I think of those days, I remember someone in the 70's saying "John Lennon made us all want a guitar: Jimi Hendrix made us all want to learn to play it."
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This song is an essential classic from mid 60's, it encapsulated all the elements if all the music from the 60's A little bit if Bob Dylan a little bit of British rock and a little bit if that californian surf guitar sound! And then there is that change in rhythm that knocks it out of the Park! They nailed it!!!!! 2020 and im still hooked!!!!
I had not heard this song in ages. Loved it then and love it now. The music of my generation and I get nostalgic for those careless, happy days of my youth. If there was a time machine . . .
Wow! Can't figure out how this is the first time I hear this great tune. The opening instrument by instrument, and persuasions make it a great sound. Makes you want to dance. Thanks for posting.
I first heard this song as a little-kid. Too this very day, ten-thousand years later, nothing kicks my ass like this damn song. Crazy. I'm still in love.
What's interesting is that this was a bigger hit than any Yardbirds US release on the charts. When they were asked about The Yardbirds, they brought that up. To be fair, Yardbirds had a huge impact on actual US garage bands back then, at least, that's what a lot of bands bring up like Alice Cooper and Aerosmith.
Who would have ever guessed that these 5 guys and by the way there's dressed,would be playing some mind blowing music...And on "AMERICAN BANDSTAND to say the least...Good job 🎶🎵🎤🎸🥁🎹...
Flashback! I remember lunch-break I'd head down to the liquor store and get a quart of bud and sit in the parking lot, drinking my Bud, and listening to the radio. This song came on every day, around 12:15... I was 21 yrs old! LEGAL
1966 is an unforgettable year in music. I began a collection of pop 45's then -- some of which I still give spin. Somehow my musical tastes cannot move beyond the mid-Sixties
I heard this song for the first time in my cousin's basement,in 1966.I was sixteen and this song was playing on the local am top forty station W.I.B.G.,,I almost came out of the chair when I heard it.It was great then,and was not recognized by anyone I knew.I t was hard in those days to get kids to listen to new music.Some of my friends were even sure they liked the beatles.But I found it here and that's a vindication of sorts.
This one hit big in the fall of '66. You couldn't find it in any of the record outlets. It sold out immediately. They were a band from the south bay (San Jose) area and this was their 15 minutes of fame. The blues harp wail at the beginning sounds like an old freight train. The fast sections are taken right out of the "rave up" in The Yardbirds rendition of Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man", with the guitar scratching away on the upper strings. A 60's "proto-punk" classic!!
On this day in 1966 {October 4th*} the Count Five performed "Psychotic Reaction" on the week-day afternoon ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is'... At the time the song was at #9 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; five days later on October 9th it would peak at #5 {for 2 weeks} and it stayed on the chart for 12 weeks... Lead singer John 'Sean' Byrne passed away on December 15th, 2008 at the age of 62... May he R.I.P. * A little over five weeks later on November 12th the quintet would perform the song on Dick Clark's other ABC-TV produced program, 'American Bandstand'...
i remember my older cousin turning me on to this tune ... what a rush that was .....great music .. unfortunatly will never emerge again ..music nowadays sucks!!!!!!
The infancy of rock and roll. So blessed to have witnessed it live at such a young age! I'm 72 now and still have those memories of such a more sincere time!
54 years later and this song still holds up.
The definition of CLASSIC!
Okay baba booey
The Cramps would cover this song live and rocked it good
@@jaketwomey7924 What the hell does that mean?
Big time!
Can I just mention how outstanding the drumming is on this track? This is the definition of classic rock!
I always thought it had more of a garage band punk rock feel to it and Butch missed the opportunity to invent the D-beat! It'd be 10 years later before the Buzzcocks did it. If only he would have given it a little more swing...
You never hear this band on "classic "rock stations: sad
Yep the drummer did well and also kit sounds masive. That snare fill after the “freakout” part were always so turning on for me. You can hear how he really layed hard into that kit.
Hard to believe he was only playing a 3-piece kit!
It makes you feel like you’re stepping back in time to the 60s don’t it?
Those of us who grew up in this era of rock music were truly blessed. The number of quality bands was unbelievable. Back then nothing to hide behind. You either had it or you didn’t
Hey there, hope this comment finds you well. Would you mind blessing me with a couple other bands similar to these guys?
Early Yardbirds and Early Pink Floyd when Sid Barrett was still with the band. Enjoy
I’m a boomer trapped in a millennials body. I recommend the Seeds ( rip sky Saxon ) electric prunes , Love , The turtles, the 13th floor elevators
Classic 1960s garage rock /psychedelia
They were fun!
Really is not any Sub Standard classic anything is there? Yardbird posers playing Elmore James and Bo Didley. Jimmy Page on the board?
This tune will NEVER get old ! It plays so well, even today!
Absolutely
@@mctavish23 The early bad ass psych . Tune came out late summer 65 , and NAM was revving up too .
Way ahead of their time
we WHO GREW UP IN THE 60'S AND BEYOND,WE TOOK THE WHOLE RIDE,WHAT A LIFE ITS BEEN,WE ARE THE RICH ONES
The best part 'to me' about this song is the tempo change so genius
I am so fortunate to have lived it. A mainstay of the 60’s and I remember it like it was yesterday. What a great time to be alive.
I used to watch Count Five practice two blocks from my house in San Jose. 1966, I was 6. I actually watched them since 64 when I was 4 and they were an instrumental surf band, I think called The Esquires
@lucy bond
🎶🎶 Hell yeah !
I remember the Chantays (Pipeline) practicing in their garage on Bristol Ave, Santa Ana, CA! Jeff Lear, Bass Centurions... Look me up
Great story. You were a lucky kid.
@@johnnymfan5065 thank you. Kind of blows my mind the older I get.
@@bradhardisty1652 You're welcome. Hope you are doing good and safe in these hard times.
Let's face it: 1966 was one of the 5 Greatest Years of Rock and Roll
Remember well! I also loved the 1966 Chevelle Malibu too.
1966, 1968, 1973, 1977, 1994
lets face it 1969
Randy Welsh why not? Nirvana Unplugged, Grace, Jar of Flies, the Division Bell, sonic youth? All good albums from 94
Randy Welsh helllllll no that’s the worst generalization! Can’t tell if you’re trolling or not but that’s false
Awesome song ,born in 55, takes back memories. I still listen to this Era of music,I love it.
June 1955......Same here!
Sept 1955 !
Class of '73 rocks!!
May 55.
March 1955…class of 73
This song has been forgotten. I loved it.
One of the best psychedelic songs ever.
I still love this song! I'm 75 now. And I still have the original 45 rpm record!Thanks for bringing back some great memories. 🎵❤
Great tune from my teen years. Back when a drum kit didn't have two dozen pieces and still sounded perfect.
Charlie Watts had a 4-piece. Always sounded perfect.
So True, Bill, Visual theatrics
@@Nomadcreations every metal musician will hate you after this comment
@@LyThC00p38sc No NOT Every=One, Your being Over Dramatic! Every-One means Not any One In the Whole World With Held!!! & Even Only 1 That Doesnt makes the Every-One Word a Lie , capiche"? & Visual theatrics again are the bands that Have Huge amplifier Stacks Behind then that Are Dummy Stacks = Empty for appearance
@@Nomadcreations the monster kit is made to produce different notes on each drum piece and make the sound huge
WOW!!!!! . . . i'm 64 years old, AND . . . consider this as in the Top 100
Songs from My Generation!!!
I'm 63, and I'd place it no higher than #127
I'm 62 and I'm with Bill
I am 65, and to this day I love this great song
Ditto. Listened to 13th Floor Elevators ; "You're Gonna Mids Me", then followed it up with this. Might follow up with "1969" by The Stooges......
Yes indeed, that also is another great song.
This song still rockin after all these years
One of the best songs I’ve ever heard in 24 years of my life. Something tells you that modern music today isn’t as good as the past !
Loved this song 🎵 when it first came out...and it's still a BANGER❗ As I was cruising CZcams to find this...there is a COVER of it, done by TOM PETTY ( Live) What ❓❗ Check it out.
Times change. Thoughtful screen names are so cool. F ' yeah!
Good music is TIMELESS.
Welcome aboard!
Glad to hear it kiddo. I was 13 in 1964 when my music scene exploded. I was lucky! My niece, been 1997 is very envious.
One of the things I’ve found interesting about this song is how the rhythm feel changes with the addition of each instrument in the beginning. The opening guitar sets a feel. The bass comes in and the feel changes. When the drums come in the feel changes again. It almost seems like a mistake in playing yet, it works! Great song. Great memories!
Yeah! Right On! I hadn't thought of that yet. RICK BEATO should do a breakdown of this song on his channel!
Spot on !
@@nickames3808 I've played it before in a band, long time ago..relatively easy song. Harmonica added would be nice..Two chords: Emajor, F#major, then the rave-up bridge job. Excellent song!!
One of the things I most like about the comments are insights like these. I was in high school when I first heard this. Blew me away. And after all this time I'll be hearing it in a new way
Great critique 🎶👍
The introduction of each instrument is so cool and the drummer holds it all!!
TO ALL THE VIETNAMESE WARRIORS LIVING , AND THOSE WHO NEVER CAME HOME, AND THOSE THAT PASSED SUE TO AGE, AND ILLNESSES SUFFERED IN THE NAM. WELCOME HOME BROTHERS AND SISTERS THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. GOD BLESS YOU GUYS. ARTURO DELA GARZA USAF RET.
Arturo DeLa Garza: ~ AMEN, MY BROTHER!!!
@@sunsail THANK YOU ⚔🇺🇸
Those drums sound like a heart beat and the harmonica sounds like traffic. Awesome song.
"Why cant people today be this talented and jam like this?"Our loss!these guys are timeless!
back then it was real!
Frank Talotta This is there only actual good song though lol it's a great song but one song doesn't make a group legendary.
no lip syncing for sure,trend setting,any harmonicas today?
Because you buy your kids video games instead of musical instruments.
(figuratively speaking)
JAPAN EXECUTIVES CONTROL THE CURRENT STYLE OF AMERICAN TOP 40 MUSIC WHICH IS THE JAPAN WAY, AFTER THEY TRASHED OUR AMERICAN STYLE. THAT'S WHY THERE IS NO INDIVIDUALITY TODAY. FAN IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS.
Brief history on how this song got its name: the lead singer, and soon to be, other band mate, were in psychology class in college, and their professor, said "psychotic reaction" and the lead and other band mate, both whispered, "thatd be a great name for a song we could do!" And soon enough it hit the top 100 charts by about fall of 1966, of course this becomes their only hit and all other songs they did, never got higher than psychotic reaction...
This is one of the first Psychedelic/Hard Rock songs. The Yardbirds were doing a lot of great stuff also, before the word "psychedelic" was used, like For Your Love, Heartful of Soul, etc. Awesome
The fast sections come right out of The Yardbirds "I'm A Man". And The Yardbirds eventually became Led Zepplin.
Don't forget the 11th Floor Elevators
@@romankalyniuk2596 weren’t they the 13th Floor Elavators?
@@nealbfinn Yes. My mistake. No coffee yet.
Also, check "Talk Talk" by the Music Machine as a metal precursor
Great guys from South San Francisco bay area 1965, San Jose Ca. The drummer and the singer have since past away but there is a memorial in San Jose for the whole band and their accomplishments for their time.
These boys knew how to rock!
One of the best rock songs from the great year of 1966. The harmonica sound like a freight train. The drummer is amazing. A one hit wonder. A hollow body electric guitar with a fuzz pedal. Outstanding!
yet it didn't make billboards top 100 for 1966
But patriotism reigned in 1966 when a simpler song called Ballad of the Green Beret was by far the top selling record of the year.
United States of Ass Wholes
Perfect description Robert of the HARMONICA sounding like a Freight Train ❗ Well Put❗ Loved this song back in the day and hearing it again was a real treat. Check out TOM PETTY'S cover of it LIVE. I had no idea... stumbled on it the other day on CZcams.
In 1966 the garage bands ruled and many had one big hit. This reached #5.
The drummer in Count Five is on point in this song. Absolutely loving the machine gun like drums.
This was a MONSTER garage band hit...made it to #5 on the Top 40 charts. I used to have the original 45 on Double Shot records.
Good girl!
My cousin talked me into buying the single at the record store. I was disappointed when I realized it wasn't the original but a copy by the Jalopy 5... a cover band.😢 I never forgot.
I still do! Yellow label with black printing. The circles are red.
It’s should of made it to #1 it was a kick ass tune still is always will be.❤🥁🥁🥁🥁✌🏻✌🏻🎸🎸🎸
Why didnt they keep going?
I remember trying to dance to this back in the 60's. We all went wild during the instrumental parts!
This song was 50 years ahead of its time.
I remember dancing to this also, what great nights.
LOL
I was at a local fast food restaurant the other day and they were playing this song while I was ordering. I couldn't help but say "Hey, that's the Count Five!". Great to hear these classics being played in public.
One of the most underrated songs of my lifetime...
One of THE best 60's rock songs!!
Such a great record that was really ahead of its time... still has an exciting, futuristic sound today, over half a century on!
I had the 45 vinyl and I was 12 when this came out. I wasn't sure what mom's reaction would be from me playing it at home. That's how "far out" we (or at least I) thought this kind of music was. Another one I was excited to buy was Napoleon XIV: 'They're coming to take me away.'
Their whole first album is great!!
Psychedelic
@@charlieross-BRM Maybe SHE had a "psychotic reaction"!
Better than anything we have heard in years!
55 years ago i hung out it Butch's garage in SanJose and watched them practice all the time!
Cool
Kate wrote this
@@siliconvalleyengineer5875 Things have certainly changed in Silicon Valley. Glad to say I am retired now and moved away.
@@davidrenzetti5964 It was a long long time ago, but I cherish all those times!
@@marygonzales8986 Butch became a Navy pilot and then flew for Delta Air Lines. Believe he died around 1998 from a heart condition.
One more quick story...My parents divorced and we moved to South Lake Tahoe. The Count Five and 2 members of the Syndicate of Sound stayed at our house while performing at a small venue in Tahoe. Then we got to go to the concert for free.
Sometimes it only takes that one to leave your mark on rock and roll face of valor Long live psychotic reaction
Just here reliving some of my glory years (born 1950) when we had the best music on the planet. Ahh..... the psychedelic 60's!! Those were the days.
Amen (09/12/50)
I WAS BORN THE SAME YEAR,PLAYED IN A TEEN ROCK BAND.WE PLAYED ALL OF THE 60'S SONGS. I PLAYED BASS GUITAR,HAD A BLAST GREAT TIMES.
One of the best world wide garage hits of 66!
Thanks for viewing & commenting
I was born in 69 and I got to say I love this
Staying power Never Ends! 😎
Dittos, bro.
this song to me will never lose a staying power great song!
I wasn't born in the 60's but feel like i'm in the wrong generation. This is by far the best song iv'e heard in a while, Props!
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You definitely have excellent taste💯🇺🇸🌹 I can assure you it was an absolute blast to be a teenager in the 60s and early 70s🌹🇺🇸💯
I agree, I wasn’t even born when this song was in the charts but it is my favourite song of all time 🤩
@@tc4345 Thats ok i wasnt born when Mark Twain..was writing or Hanging wth Pablo./ Django./Hemmingway/.et al.paris Cafe Society..But i feel ive kinda got to know something of these Folk via Their outputs n Others..Its ok..N'joy..all wayze.
The fact that so many bands and artists have covered this song tells you all you need to know.
I'm 66 now. love all these old songs from the 60"
Same here-66. Heard this on the radio today. Still needs to be played LOUD
Same here 69 and still rocking
One of the earliest psychedelic hits!
(Questionmark And The Mysterians' "96 Tears" and Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" both came out at around the same time).
It was released in June of 1966 and peaked in the U.S on October 22, 1966 at #5. But they first came up with the idea for the song at the end of 1964 when two of the band members heard the term "psychotic reaction" in a college class they were taking. They worked on the song and kept improving it throughout 1965... but they could not get signed by any record company until finally the record label "Double Shot" signed them in the summer of 1966.
After 54 years I forgot this song even existed, but as soon as I heard a couple of bars, the memories came flooding back. Thanks, :-)
Shit? I wish I was alive when that song came out. I was born in ‘99
I just love that harmonica in phycotic Reaction! It’s off the chain
Gives me chills, this song MOVES and moves me!!!
Doug Chertoff It dose! I love that harmonica! No copycats can sing it better than count Five!🎼🎼🎼🎤🎤🎤🎤🎧🎧🎧💕💕💕💕
Yes ! Bluesy,steam locomotive like driving mouth harp !
What a GREAT song! I think these guys were just ahead of their time.... had they released this amazing tune in the early- mid 80's they would have been heralded as pop/funk/new-age wonderkinds and maybe had a career as big as Flock of Seagulls, Violent Femms or even the Clash!
The Clash? Dude come on.
Have not heard this in so long. These songs take me back growing up in the 60's. Out of school for summer, riding my Sears Stingray. Swimming, little league. What a great time and childhood. Music was great.
IKR....kids today. The music is just awful, playing video games online is considered socializing. But kids around my city don't go out so much to play cuz of all the gunshots, stray bullets. It sucks. I grew up in late 60's-70's and it was as you described except I'm not familiar with tiger baby stop. What was that?
Did you have a banana seat? Weren't stingrays the bikes with long, tall handlebars and the banana seat?
Absolutely! I once modified my stingray with extra forks so it looked like a chopper. Seemed pretty damn cool at the time.
@@keithglimmer4505 Hahaha I used clothes pins to put playing cards on the spokes for sound. Thanks for making me laugh.
@lucy bond I still had fears. I used to be scared when planes flew over, I thought we'd be bombed. I still had a great childhood, but we were assigned to go downtown and go into the underground basement of a department store, civil defense drills and the yellow sirens are still there. I guess I was about 7 during The Bay of Pigs with Soviets moving nuclear weapons to Cuba and the standoff. You can see the mass anxiety of the country watching the movies of the era, mutant creatures like The Blob. I had dreams about Germany and WWII as a very young child. I didn't know the boogeyman in the long black coat and boots looked like the SS officers. Blown out buildings and stormtroopers armed with rifles and bayonets with us pressed up against the wall hiding. I didn't recognize the architecture and war until I was in middle school and they showed movies. These nightmares terrified me before I could talk. They went away but dad always had to look under my bed and in the closet for the boogeyman. And I can still remember the one dream, the road curved and a tank would be coming. I've no idea how I had nightmares about something I'd never seen. I did. Pure distilled terror.
These guys played at St Romans on 23rd and Washtenaw in Chicago back in 65/66. I remember them doing this song. It blew me away.
Never heard this before in my 75 years. Great stuff. Sums up 1966 perfectly 👌
This is the best thing that ever came out of my hometown. San Jose's finest moment!
Don't forget Quick Silver was down your way also.
The Doobie Brothers are also from that area. Maybe the Syndicate of Sound also???
Funny how times change....when they go into that psyched middle section, there is no flying hair, no crazy movements around the stage, none of the wild efforts to gain attention that came as rock and roll progressed. And yet that part of the song is rather ahead of its time. Thanks for posting.
suze9088 yes but..all those things you mentioned just naturally went with the raw energy of the music..non conforming, wild and free. I respect your view though. We all percieve differently.
58 years later this still makes an impact a timeless classic
This rythm is badass
79 people had a psychotic reaction and pressed thumbs down by mistake.
Definitely a mistake.
Lol
thats the way they do it in reverse when theyre back i the kitchen. they cant get no respect
lol
DeepSkyDan 243 now.
The drummers like... Hey Man, get off of my cloud fool!
Love this song!! The harmonica.. wow!!
Why do I hear people calling the harmonica a harp? Is that a street term for it? If you know, let me know
THIS IS PSYCHOTIC GOOD! Love it, thats my reaction.
Count Five are a very Underestimated Group, As is Q65!
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That's right!
EDDIE MUNSTER on harmonica .
looks more like his wolfman doll
There were many great garage songs, mostly unknown by the masses, this may be the greatest of all.
This song just blows me away !! I love it!!!
One of the best and one of my very personal favorite rock and roll records of all time from 1966.Wished they could've given us more product
Sometimes it turns out to be the one and only
It was a one hit wonder. For a band that good, it's a shame!
love this, they're playing psychedelic music and wearing suits
Network had standards in those days. even the kids came dressed up to the show. Are you happy that today everybody look like bums and skanks?
yeah, square!
MydirtyRat1 listen to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers play this!!they were great just as these guys😀😁😂
Ha ha ha brilliant, never forget this song as long as I live!
I used to dress like a bum to appear hip, but I've evolved and now dress like a bum because I know who I am.
Of all the songs I've heard in 42 years of life this is one of the top 5 Easy! The class of the 60's A true classic!
Count Five
psychotic reaction
Garage Rock.
Year 1966
I was 16 years old and the song, Psychotic Reaction, blew my mind. It was the first time I heard a harmonica riff in a Rock piece. (Later on, I would also listen to Dylan and Jagger) I knew when I grew up, that the crazed critic of Rock, Lester Bangs, (of Rolling Stone magazine and the CBGB club). He also loved this song and had even written a book with that name, in honor of the band "Count Five". (Claaaaroo I looked for that book and read it)
I was in a garage band when this came out. Whenever I think of those days, I remember someone in the 70's saying "John Lennon made us all want a guitar: Jimi Hendrix made us all want to learn to play it."
John Lennon, "Imagine no possessions", played that song on a grand piano while living in a mansion.
I'M 70 AND WAS ALSO IN A GARAGE BAND. PLAYED BASS.THEY WERE GREAT TIMES.
@@deanpd3402 shutup skippy
This is one of my all-time favorites.
Kicking ass and taking names. So badass.
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I'm proud to say these guys are from my hometown San Jose California, they fit right in today also, excellent excellent song.
Quite simply no question one of the best & one of my personal favorite rock & roll records of 1966!
Troll Joking!
LOVE those drum solos,which you rarely hear in rock today!!!!!
This song is an essential classic from mid 60's, it encapsulated all the elements if all the music from the 60's
A little bit if Bob Dylan a little bit of British rock and a little bit if that californian surf guitar sound! And then there is that change in rhythm that knocks it out of the Park!
They nailed it!!!!!
2020 and im still hooked!!!!
These guys rocked this hard in suits. Legendary.
Wow. This was playing on our radios in 66. I was 14 and loved it!
authentic cool. great tune, love the the harp and raw sound
I had not heard this song in ages. Loved it then and love it now. The music of my generation and I get nostalgic for those careless, happy days of my youth. If there was a time machine . . .
I love and miss those 60s signature sounds of great rock songs I was 12 when that hit was on AM radio.
GREAT TRACK from the beautiful 60's era....Hahaaa 20K likes can't be wrong with this gem !
Wow! Can't figure out how this is the first time I hear this great tune. The opening instrument by instrument, and persuasions make it a great sound. Makes you want to dance. Thanks for posting.
I thought The Cramps wrote this.
Still HOT after 50 years!!!!! :-o
You are correct this is a timeless tune
I'm not even 50 yet, and tots agree...they were hot! 😍
I first heard this song as a little-kid. Too this very day, ten-thousand years later, nothing kicks my ass like this damn song. Crazy. I'm still in love.
There’s a massive nod to the Yardbirds here
Ha! That's for sure! Having a Rave Up! Good tho'!
You nailed, dude.
Better.
What's interesting is that this was a bigger hit than any Yardbirds US release on the charts. When they were asked about The Yardbirds, they brought that up. To be fair, Yardbirds had a huge impact on actual US garage bands back then, at least, that's what a lot of bands bring up like Alice Cooper and Aerosmith.
Who would have ever guessed that these 5 guys and by the way there's dressed,would be playing some mind blowing music...And on "AMERICAN BANDSTAND to say the least...Good job 🎶🎵🎤🎸🥁🎹...
I was born 1966 but had a copy of this album that I bought in 1979 and fell in love with the sound straight away and still love it to this day
2022 and still loving this 60s punk classic
Groovy how memories and goose bumps arise whenever i listen to 60's music. 1966/67 were unreal years for me musically and for true love found. Peace.
2019 and this STILL sounds amazing lol I love the 60s lol
Never heard of these guys before. It came from YT recommendations. All I have to say is WOW! These guys seem to be way ahead of the times in 1966.
Flashback! I remember lunch-break I'd head down to the liquor store and get a quart of bud and sit in the parking lot, drinking my Bud, and listening to the radio. This song came on every day, around 12:15... I was 21 yrs old! LEGAL
1966 is an unforgettable year in music. I began a collection of pop 45's then -- some of which I still give spin. Somehow my musical tastes cannot move beyond the mid-Sixties
I still have the 45!
Pat Hoffman Wow, i wish i kept my 45 box with all those 60's singles.Not many of originals of this one left..
I`ve still got mine, too! How about that!! My wife says everything I hang on to ain`t worth crap!!!
I have the 45 also. Has anyone else heard somewhere that they were one of the first psychedelic bands?
At 69 I can't find any of mine. Keeped them in a brown 45 box. O well, at least I still remember the song.
goes great with Syndicate of Sounds Little Girl.........love the '60's.....
And both bands from san jose.
Luv little girl, also!
I have this on my car usb. The harmonica just haunts me. Fabulous song that I loved the 1st day I heard it.
Amazing how these 60s oldies can rejuvenate me - and I was born two years after this song was released. I think this is called "spirit of the time".
Count Five...Original Punk right here!
Also see The Seeds, The Stooges, MC5, The Standells, The Troggs, great stuff!
usernametaken 56 how about the sonics? Maybe even los saicos?
Dont forget the Sonics but tru dat...original punk
The Kinks
Also Music Machine, Yardbirds, Question Mark, Strawberry Alarm Clark, Paul Revere and the Raiders
Mc5 were my favorite.
I heard this song for the first time in my cousin's basement,in 1966.I was sixteen and this song was playing on the local am top forty station W.I.B.G.,,I almost came out of the chair when I heard it.It was great then,and was not recognized by anyone I knew.I t was hard in those days to get kids to listen to new music.Some of my friends were even sure they liked the beatles.But I found it here and that's a vindication of sorts.
Back in 60’s you heard this song every once in awhile on the radio. Now you can hear it all the time. Great song
This one hit big in the fall of '66. You couldn't find it in any of the record outlets. It sold out immediately. They were a band from the south bay (San Jose) area and this was their 15 minutes of fame. The blues harp wail at the beginning sounds like an old freight train. The fast sections are taken right out of the "rave up" in The Yardbirds rendition of Bo Diddley's "I'm A Man", with the guitar scratching away on the upper strings. A 60's "proto-punk" classic!!
On this day in 1966 {October 4th*} the Count Five performed "Psychotic Reaction" on the week-day afternoon ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is'...
At the time the song was at #9 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; five days later on October 9th it would peak at #5 {for 2 weeks} and it stayed on the chart for 12 weeks...
Lead singer John 'Sean' Byrne passed away on December 15th, 2008 at the age of 62...
May he R.I.P.
* A little over five weeks later on November 12th the quintet would perform the song on Dick Clark's other ABC-TV produced program, 'American Bandstand'...
I was 2yo. WTF HAPPENED!!
@@jimmadonna1436 Time happened🤔🎶🎶 HAHA!!
@Dog Breath Me too🎶🎶
@@deborahbrown6408 Yes it did! And fast
John Sean Byrne is my great uncle. I'm so proud to be name after him. I love this song!
i remember my older cousin turning me on to this tune ... what a rush that was .....great music .. unfortunatly will never emerge again ..music nowadays sucks!!!!!!
The drummer, Craig Atkinson, went on to become a Navy pilot. He was my roommate at AOCS Pensacola. Great guy who died too young.
The infancy of rock and roll. So blessed to have witnessed it live at such a young age! I'm 72 now and still have those memories of such a more sincere time!
I can't get enough of this one. I love the interview at the end.
The late, great Dick Clark!