The Charlatans - Alabama Bound (long version) video free download

davidplatero

Everything chanced since their legend trip to nevada

serferten

Manuel, thx for the reply, I lived thru the era, it started out with such optimism and hopefulness. When drugs became the center of the movement, not the maybe good places that acid/pot was leadiing to then that same movement turned much darker and more sinister by the early '70s as the drugs of choice drifted to meth., coke and heroin. But, you're right there was much awesome psychedelic rock.

manuel oropeza

What is wrong with the acid? Psychedelic rock is basically rock in acid and some groups like Jefferson, The Dead, QMS and Country Joe & The Fish created the best music ever.

Erika Marie

The Charlatans were an influential psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco music scene during the 1960s and are often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound.[1][2] Exhibiting more pronounced jug band, country and blues influences than many bands from the same scene, the Charlatans’ rebellious attitude and distinctive, late 19th century fashions exerted a major influence on the Summer of Love in San Francisco

serferten

The Charlatans in their subtle, blues/rock way were blazing real new ground then. They truly were the 1st psychedelic group. It's still a pretty fresh sound and not full of the acid pretension of some of the groups to follow.

Maurizio Greco

The Charlatans were an influential psychedelic rock band that played a role in the development of the San Francisco music scene during the 1960s and are often cited by critics as being the first group to play in the style that became known as the San Francisco Sound.[1][2] Exhibiting more pronounced jug band, country and blues influences than many bands from the same scene, the Charlatans’ rebellious attitude and distinctive, late 19th century fashions exerted a major influence on the Summer of Love in San Francisco

chinze bo

AWWWWWW thank you a billion times!!!!

fastn1

I love this tune the whole sound of it, it's almost a proto Stone Roses sound like it might have evolved over twenty years into something on the first Roses album,it could definitely be a Madchester tune circa 89/90, ahead of its time, of its time, timeless, beautiful music

strangersf

@pyratron That WAS a Hell of a show........even straight.

fortheloveoftunes

Not the cowboys from hell .-)

Ron Sullivan

At the opening to the Family Dog on the Great Highway, June 6,1969, the very last time the Charlatans appeared with Lynn Hughes. I was there on prolly 600 mics or so of Owsley orange sunshine a friend had given me the week before for high school graduation.. Also on the bill: The Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead! What a night, what a show!

fennario061951

excellent comment!

ColdChicago

they were the great san francisco band- which would require that they not hit the pop trail- .when the toll is finally sounded, and the trumpet sounds off the mission they will be the soundtrack.... the first... they were the first to see the mythical continuity...hmmmm now what would have made that possible.. thanks mr. owsley

Michael Woerl

one of the Charlatans achieved more fame ...Dan Hicks, second from the right on the album cover above ... recorded several albums with his "Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks," all great albums!

mrbag60

@beachdog67 they kicked off a psychedelic revolution by picturing themselves as part of the mythology and what they thought in 1965-66 was an updated musical vision of the old west.

Buttfukk Bill

@mrbag60: CLIF NOTES: Eric likes the Charlatans.

beachdog67

@mrbag60 Yeah, but they were the best dressed band in town.

remi boo

I love this song

Lucas Souza

Awesome upload!!!

mrbag60

Unfortunately these guys didn't achieve the same sort of fame their psychedelic peers Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead did, however the Charlatans being the first psychedelic band (in 1965) a year or two before the rest jumped on the bandwagon, deserve at least more than a footnote in rock history.

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