Beautiful: Live in San Francisco 1971

Youngbloods, Youngbloods | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B0007514H6
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #292,185 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Six Days On The Road

2. Country Home

3. On Sir Francis Drake

4. Dreamboat

5. Drifting and Drifting

6. Interlude

7. Old Dan Tucker

8. On Beautiful Lake Spenard

9. Josianne

10. Explosion

11. Beautiful

12. Get Together

Editorial Reviews

BEAUTIFUL! LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1971 By the time the Youngbloods, always crowd faves at the west coast ballrooms, performed live for San Francisco’s free-form radio pioneer KSAN in 1971, they’d honed their set to a fine gloss. Featuring the smooth as apple-butter voice of Jesse Colin Young and the guitar/keyboard wizardry of Banana, backed by the rock-solid bass-and-drum tandem of Michael Kane and Joe Bauer, the Youngbloods positively sparkle here. We’re elated to present a lengthy, previously unissued 13-song set that’s equal parts rocking R&B, dreamy jazzers and honky tonk flag-wavers, with just a little bit of psychedelic weirdness—topped off, of course, by a knockout version of their generational anthem, "Get Together." The Youngbloods: at the top of their game, making it all look so easy—and so damn beautiful.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From my tape!, January 27, 2010

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Atrocity (Sacramento, California, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Beautiful: Live in San Francisco 1971 (Audio CD)

I feel a special affinity for this release because, believe it or not, I supplied the master tape. Some time around 1980, a friend of mine found two 10-1/2" reels in a college radio station dumpster and gave them to me. I couldn't play reels that large, so they just sat on my shelf for several years until I got bold and decided to try to remount them onto 7" reels. At that point, I realized that I had an actual edited (spliced) master, but wasn't really sure what to do about it. So the reels sat until 2002 when I thought that it might be possible to contact the band via the Internet to find out if they wanted them. I was eventually put in touch with Banana, found that apparently no other copies were around and sent him the tapes. Forgot the whole thing until a couple weeks ago when it occurred to me to check to see if anything had ever come of it, at which point I found and ordered this CD.

All that aside, the music's a lot of fun and the CD sounds great. Scotch must have been doing something right: I sure didn't have a climate-controlled vault, but their tape obviously held up fine!

BTW, the CD doesn't give an exact date, but the tape boxes were marked December 5, 1971.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good live album from an underappreciated band, May 25, 2009

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Daddy Gearhead (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

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I bought this disc on something of a lark after hearing the Youngbloods' cover of the 1963 Dave Dudley song "Six Days on the Road," which I enjoyed quite a bit--a version still faithful to its country roots, but the most creative of all the many covers of that song I've heard (it sounds a bit like what you would expect the Grateful Dead to do with the song). I wound up enjoying the entire performance, from the beautiful keyboards of Lowell "Banana" Levinger's "On Sir Francis Drake," Jesse Colin Young's "Dreamboat" (to my ear, a bit reminiscent of Blues Image's 1970 "Ride Captain Ride"), the bluegrass mini-set of the banjo song "interlude," and a great and enthusiastic cover of "Old man tucker," and very good blues harmonica (and tasteful guitar fills) on Young's "Drifting and Drifting." Heck--I even enjoyed the hippy anthem "Beautiful" (there's a 1969 live version of the song also available on another album), even though the sentiments seem a bit dated at the distance of 37 years. I enjoyed the entire album quite a bit--well worth the $11 bucks it set me back to buy it used.

5.0 out of 5 stars Rare and beautiful from KSAN vaults..., February 19, 2009

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Ronald E. Drumm "Moe Loogham" (Binghamton, N.Y.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beautiful: Live in San Francisco 1971 (Audio CD)

The sad truth is that there simply aren't many official or unofficial live recordings of the Youngbloods out there. So any release from any year of their brief existence is a welcome event. "Beautiful" dates from the final days, before Jesse Colin Young became committed to his solo career. Whether it's rock, jazz, folk or blues, The Youngbloods inject a relaxed warmth that never grows old or tired. I've been following their careers since Jesse's "The Soul Of A City Boy" in the mid-sixties, and they never fail to please my ultra-jaded musical sensibilities. Help pad somebody's retirement fund out there by dropping a dime on Sundazed. Jah knows the global economy could use the boost!