I was fortunate enough to hear Randy sing that song twice. With the Eagles and in his solo career and they were both a very moving experience!!! RIP Randy!!!!
I was at this show as a young teenager. Wollman Rink - Schaefer Music Festival. You’d get your $3-$4 tix and wait on line all afternoon, then run for seats when the gates opened. A very young Leo Kotke was the opening act.
I was there too and was amazed by this guitar sound, later I've learned it was a modified one, a B-Bender. Clarence was so cool, not a emotion on the face and standing still, I was thinkin', this guy doesn't like it 🎸 to play and sing! Now I know how great he was as a guitarplayer.
I found your channel today when I searched McGuinn, Clark, Hillman for "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", which I enjoy more than any versions with "The Little Fat Guy". But you're right about "Willin" here. It's the best one I've heard. 8 was making a Cross-Coun5ry run with a buddy of mine in the '90's, when his VW Rabbit Diesel P-up, broke down in Tucumcari on Rte-1. It was Thurs. Eve, & every part, was delivered by the 3:15 bus from Albuquerque, even the wrong one. So I ended up in a Rte.1 dive Motel, for three days. Didn't drink Wine, but smoked all my "green", but luckily had brought enough whites to last my two week stay in SoCal, & of course the 'green could be easily replaced in CA. But Little Feat had been pretty popular in The Blue Ridge Mtns. where I had previously spent a couple of years in college. So I was familiar with the song, before ever visiting the great state of N.M..
A wonderfully sweet, tight and measured version of this song. I particularly like the way Gene enunciates the lyrics to convey their meaning, which is usually lost when he (and other rock singers) get too caught up in the rhythm so the words become pinched-off "things."
This live version of Christian life even better than the great studio mplx version gram sings it as a beautiful prayer ‘tempo slowed down almost like a Gregorian chant quite fitting considering the setting we need this especially now amidst the very trying times in which we live Hellman great on bass mcguinn s harmonies with gram beautiful a real blessing
This band must have been the best live band in the world in the early 1970s. I saw them in 1970 at Manchester, England and Bardney Festival, England, absolutely awesome. Clarence was certainly one of the finest guitar players I have ever heard, so tragic he was killed so young, who knows how far he would have taken both electric and acoustic guitar.
I was there….And as I listen to Clarence on “Chimes of Freedom”, I remember being close to weeping at his solo, that early evening concert…I’m making up for that remembering Clarence…This is the best I’ve heard of Clarence EVER, and I’m thinking that I was sad for so many decades at his loss.
This is really outstanding. Gene's voice, his passionate singing, the arrangements, all quite wonderful and powerful. There is no justice in the music business as Gene's work after the Byrds was mostly ignored and it was hard to even find his records. Thank god for RU-vid.
Thanks so much for this! My sons graduated from this school a few years back so it's especially significant to me! Is there a flac copy of this show around?
