🎵 America - Ventura Highway REACTION

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@deborahstrickland9845 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great band. “A Horse With No Name”, “Sister Golden Hair”, “Tin Man”. Lex’s laugh is too cute.

@raymo6795 2 жыл бұрын

...she is adorable, love her

@nicolezuidema8070 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! ⬆️ Definitely check out these ones too if you haven’t already!!!

@keensoundguy6637 2 жыл бұрын

Why no Sandman, Donkey Jaw, Never Found The Time, Don't Cross The River, or Cornwall Bank?

@michaelasay8587 2 жыл бұрын

Wish the guy would move his head more...don't get it.

@badkitty4922 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelasay8587 he's reading the lyrics. BJ will get lost in reading lyrics when they're available.

@daveminers3404 2 жыл бұрын

The "alligator lizards in the air" line, as some have already noted, is about cloud shapes that he remembers from his childhood. Funny, how snippets of memories from our childhoods last with us our entire lives. I'm 64 now but I was almost six years old and my mother was getting ready to shove me out the door for school in the morning. I very clearly remember standing in front of our couch in the living room and my mother was helping me get my jacket on. This morning was different, however, as my mom was upset and crying. I asked what was wrong but she just kind of shrugged it off and sent me on my way. That would have been the morning of November 23rd, 1963, the morning after JFK was assassinated. I didn't understand until years later. Ever since I read what the "alligator lizards" line meant it reminds me of that morning in my childhood.

@lorrainemiller688 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, like a contrail dissipating and wisping-out. Very Californian cloud.

@selenieg9532 Жыл бұрын

I also thought about how birds are descended from reptiles.

@realbser1956 2 жыл бұрын

3 part harmonies and 3 part acoustic guitars, and producer George Martin, of Beatles fame. Pure perfection.

@mrjoepad1 2 жыл бұрын

America produced the song, not George Martin. First 3 lps were produced by the band.

@salmuscles 2 жыл бұрын

3 acoustic guitars at once is that beautiful sound ....

@jono8884 2 жыл бұрын

Wiki - "Dewey Bunnell, the song's vocalist and writer, has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sky he saw in 1963 while his family was driving down the coast from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, where they had a flat tire. While his father changed the tire, his brother and he stood by the side of the road and watched the clouds and saw a road sign for "Ventura".[2] In the booklet for the boxed set, Highway, he states that the song "reminds me of the time I lived in Omaha as a kid and how we'd walk through cornfields and chew on pieces of grass. There were cold winters, and I had images of going to California. So I think in the song I'm talking to myself, frankly: 'How long you gonna stay here, Joe?' I really believe that 'Ventura Highway' has the most lasting power of all my songs. It's not just the words - the song and the track have a certain fresh, vibrant, optimistic quality that I can still respond to".[3] The song has a "Go West, young man" motif in the structure of a conversation between an old man named Joe and a young and hopeful kid. Joe was modeled after a "grumpy" old man he had met while his dad was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi at Keesler Air Force Base.[2] He also stated "I remember vividly having this mental picture of the stretch of the coastline traveling with my family when I was younger. Ventura Highway itself, there is no such beast, what I was really trying to depict was the Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 1, which goes up to the town of Ventura."[4]

@xaspirate8060 2 жыл бұрын

Loved this!

@raymo6795 2 жыл бұрын

...interesting

@jamesclapp6832 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes, if you're camping out in California, you'll wake up to alligator lizards sunning themselves on your tent. Just give a little pluck: alligator lizards in the air.

@andyscott5277 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! 👍🏼

@mikecaetano 2 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing this song on the radio back in the seventies sitting in the back seat as my parents drove us south down that same freeway past Vandenberg towards Santa Barbara and Ventura County beyond it. If I put it together back then I don't remember. PCH is a really nice drive through there.

@keef7224 2 жыл бұрын

That signature guitar lick uses techniques called pull-offs and hammer-ons, which do indeed require some practice and dexterity. Once again Lex’s ears picking up all the important stuff! Btw, alligator lizards are all over Los Angeles, where the Ventura Highway is Rt 101 which runs through the Valley north to Ventura

@alhartkopf9455 2 жыл бұрын

Additionally, the riff is being played on a 12-string guitar.

@onsesejoo2605 2 жыл бұрын

@@alhartkopf9455 Is it ? I mean I don't hear the octaves. I believe it is two common guitars in harmony. However there is a 12 string playing rhytm.

@andypickle1584 2 жыл бұрын

Probably is 3 finger pull off arpeggios, but similarly guitarists will use 3 plucking fingers banjo style like dire straights or men at work.

@jeffreyboyer3714 2 жыл бұрын

Correct on both accounts. BTW, when I was a kid, living in Riverside, I caught an alligator lizard and kept it as a pet for years.

@alhartkopf9455 2 жыл бұрын

@@onsesejoo2605 Yes, it is. A 12 string has the 4 lower strings, E A G D, paired with their higher octaves. The higher 2 strings, B & E, are paired with the same note and typically use the same string gauge for each pair. This little run is done on the higher 2 pairs of strings. Dewey doesn't use the E, A, G, or D in the riff. Like an idiot, my first guitar was a 12-string and I played Eagles and America. Made it kinda hard to learn!

@robynanthony1612 2 жыл бұрын

This song brings back so many good memories. The 70’s were great!

@bobschenkel7921 2 жыл бұрын

Every time I see America, this song always gets the crowd on it's feet. Also, this song precedes Prince's song "Purple Rain" by over a decade, worth a mention.

@briansredd 2 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't blow my mind to find out this is where he got that line. I've heard he was into the whole Folk Rock Joni Mitchell vibe anyway.

@gbh5912 Жыл бұрын

Not really worth mentioning if it was a prince reaction then it'd make sense

@jaquestraw1 2 жыл бұрын

This song is pure gold 💜

@andrewmadeloni7173 2 жыл бұрын

Great song to cruise along with in your car.

@waitn4theharpazo 2 жыл бұрын

Great minds...

@tammyford2357 2 жыл бұрын

All America songs are great for road-trips.

@donnagonatas3155 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! It's really amazing how just one sweet song can bring me right back to Summers in the 70s. barefoo , hip-huggers, running around with my friends. thanks guys✌️♥️

@vern1418 2 жыл бұрын

Hade to comment…. My thoughts exactly, minus the hip huggers lol

@donnagonatas3155 2 жыл бұрын

@@vern1418 why guys wore them too back then 😂✌️♥️

@vern1418 2 жыл бұрын

@@donnagonatas3155 true… I was a Levi’s 508 guy😎

@donnagonatas3155 2 жыл бұрын

@@vern1418 what about overalls? Or as we called them, farmer jeans.

@vern1418 2 жыл бұрын

@@donnagonatas3155 yes, guys and girls wore them…, great time

@surlechapeau 2 жыл бұрын

Brad & Lex, you’ll love their "Lonely People" and “Tin Man”!!! Harmonies!!

@waitn4theharpazo 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite by America. Totally cruisin' music from the 70's ✌

@laurietanigawa7373 2 жыл бұрын

Aww the memories that brings back

@RicoBurghFan 2 жыл бұрын

Ventura Highway refers to the Ventura Freeway, other than that I never had a clue what they were talking about. All I know it's a beautiful song with one of the all time classic guitar riffs. Takes me back to simpler times.

@bothellkenmore 2 жыл бұрын

I think this is an example of a song that was written without lyrics 1st, than someone came along and just threw some words together, found some that rhymed, tried to make a story out of it and it just works. This happens all the time in music.

@NeutronDance 2 жыл бұрын

Nah I think they're referring to the Pacific Coast Highway

@markriobr 2 жыл бұрын

Ventura Highway goes from Burbank until Oxnard. From there you get the pacific coast hwy number 1. The rest sounds like a trip. Alligators in the air lol . Anyway always liked America

@fewwiggle 2 жыл бұрын

@@markriobr No -- that's Ventura Freeway

@scottperry8354 2 жыл бұрын

@@NeutronDance Yes sir. 👍

@badhabitbabbitt7655 2 жыл бұрын

I think they also sing "Sister Golden Hair" which is another banger.

@parappasan 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite America song, hard to top Tin Man and Ventura Highway but I always come back to Sister Gold Hair.

@merleedwards8685 2 жыл бұрын

Their harmony and guitar work always makes you mellow out

@happymethehappyone8300 2 жыл бұрын

When It Comes To Absolutely Beautiful Music,, You Can Always Count On "America",, "Firefall",, "Bread" & "Seals & Crofts"..Etc..Etc.

@bethshadid2087 2 жыл бұрын

Christopher Cross

@happymethehappyone8300 2 жыл бұрын

@@bethshadid2087 Agreed..I Meant To Put Etc..Etc. At The End.

@bethshadid2087 2 жыл бұрын

@@happymethehappyone8300 no worries. There are so many especially from the 70s

@richardhadfield8702 2 жыл бұрын

Back when the song was written there wasn’t that much traffic and the Ventura Highway was a beautiful roadway, lined with Eucalyptus trees, with wide-open spaces on both sides. Those days are long gone. The Ventura Hwy no longer exists, it’s been replaced by the Ventura freeway/Highway 101, though the vibe still lives when you listen to the song

@d_Howard 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the best answer to "what is this line about?" is that the writer was looking for something that rhymes. Alice Cooper actually complained in one line of "School's Out" that: "Well, we got no class, and we got no principles, and we got no Innocence. W can't even think of a word that rhymes!" Also, I've always thought that creating imagery is a part of the process. Incomplete thoughts; word associations. A band that comes to mind who I think does this a lot is YES. (Go listen to a lyric video of Roundabout) Lots of imagery in that one made up incomplete thoughts and word associations that give you a mental picture that the writer is trying to invoke. In this song, the writer, Dewey Bunnel, said he remembers riding on the Pacific Coast Highway with his parents when he was a kid. Looking out the window at cloud formations, he remembered he saw "alligator lizards in the air". Can't go wrong with America. Great stuff!

@jamesking9807 2 жыл бұрын

Good call with Yes. Jon Anderson has said that sometimes lyrics were chosen for their rhythmic or melodic feeling rather than for "meaning".

@xaspirate8060 2 жыл бұрын

THis is probably one of my all time favs. One of the few songs that I classify as transcendent. It just takes me out on the side of the road - I can smell the petro in the air, feel the pavement vibrating, and that unique sound of traffic in several layers passing thru your ears. Kind of magical to me. Love it as much all of these decades later.

@salmuscles 2 жыл бұрын

Alligator lizards in the air are shapes of clouds

@Cadinho93 2 жыл бұрын

You guys should react to… America - I Need You 🎸🤘

@TheConservativeinaction 2 жыл бұрын

Great song. Just gives nice summer vibes and driving down a highway of course. America was a great band. Tin man is another good song by them but ventura highway, horse with no name and sister golden hair which you have hit are their biggest and most well known songs.

@lawrencejoy2256 2 жыл бұрын

It's a great song to cruise along with.

@kentclark6420 2 жыл бұрын

I like I Need You the best.

@Glaedrein Жыл бұрын

So many innuendo's in their songs. It was the late 60's after all. Always respected America for their more campfire/stoner songs. Just absolute chill grooves.

@VicEclectica 2 жыл бұрын

Always loved this song. Janet Jackson sampled this with Someone to Call My Lover.

@calebclunie4001 2 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Jam, I'm guessing, but yes, it was for Janet Jackson.

@danielmarone5757 2 жыл бұрын

Love your reaction lex looks great!

@michaelasay8587 2 жыл бұрын

Saw them in 81... fantastic!

@brianross4057 2 жыл бұрын

{Quote} ""Dewey Bunnell, the song's vocalist and writer, has said that the lyric "alligator lizards in the air" in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sky he saw in 1963 while his family was driving down the coast from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, where they had a flat tire. While his father changed the tire, his brother and he stood by the side of the road and watched the clouds and saw a road sign for "Ventura". In the booklet for the boxed set, Highway, he states that the song "reminds me of the time I lived in Omaha as a kid and how we'd walk through cornfields and chew on pieces of grass. There were cold winters, and I had images of going to California. So I think in the song I'm talking to myself, frankly: 'How long you gonna stay here, Joe?' I really believe that 'Ventura Highway' has the most lasting power of all my songs. It's not just the words - the song and the track have a certain fresh, vibrant, optimistic quality that I can still respond to". The song has a "Go West, young man" motif in the structure of a conversation between an old man named Joe and a young and hopeful kid. Joe was modeled after a "grumpy" old man he had met while his dad was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi at Keesler Air Force Base. He also stated "I remember vividly having this mental picture of the stretch of the coastline traveling with my family when I was younger. Ventura Highway itself, there is no such beast, what I was really trying to depict was the Pacific Coast Highway, Highway 1, which goes up to the town of Ventura." "That's Gerry and Dan doing a harmony on two guitars on the intro. I remember us sitting in a hotel room, and I was playing the chords, and Gerry got that guitar line, and he and Dan worked out that harmony part. That's really the hook of the song".{UnQuote}

@russwalker3119 2 жыл бұрын

In an interview, he stated that the "Ventura Highway" was the Coastal Hwy-101 that routed from Ventura to Santa Barbara

@brucevidito4923 2 жыл бұрын

I only got to see them once in concert and that was in Pordenone, Italy 1982 while I was stationed at Aviano Air Force Base. They were a lot of fun !

@cluneyc 2 жыл бұрын

I can't say this enough, this band captures the mood the feeling and the vibe of the seventies

@Stoney_Snark 2 жыл бұрын

Ventura Highway is the stretch of 101 from LA to Ventura. A few years ago I was living in Port Hueneme and actually took the Ventura Highway to an America concert! This song is just about the freedom of cruising the highway without a lot of BS going on.

@Hippie_Heart_420 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous song, great reaction video. The thing I like most about watching you both react to these videos is her obvious joy and huge smile while watching these classics for the first time. It brings me joy.

@bothellkenmore 2 жыл бұрын

I have a more recent strong memory of this song. 3 of us were working late into the evening, waiting for a software update to finish, a little punchy because we hadn't ate dinner and it was now around 9 PM. Our supervisor came out with his guitar as he sometimes did and was just strumming. I had recently bought "America's Greatest Hits" and I just started singing it and he knew the words better than me, but not all of them. We sang the first verse or so in a dimly lit office.

@jackndew2 2 жыл бұрын

Cool story, thanks for sharing. Spontaneity..... the spice of life.

@SearlesHernandez 2 жыл бұрын

Prince's first song he learned on guitar was the America song "Horse with no Name" and this song has the lyrics "but I've been hit by Purple Rain." 💜🤙

@msmrsro 2 жыл бұрын

Love this song, even more after it was used in a pivotal scene in our favorite TV show.

@BradAndLex 2 жыл бұрын

What scene? What show!?

@steve9199 2 жыл бұрын

That sound from the guitars is accomplished by "Hammer-on's" and "Pull-offs". When you get 3 acoustics playing together, you get stuff like this.

@BalbazaktheGreat 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, relaxing tune.

@BST-lm4po 2 жыл бұрын

I think it's about dreaming about California (in the 70's). Warm temps, carefree vibes, etc. And getting away from a small northern town.("this town don't look good in snow").

@darrylpage5187 2 жыл бұрын

This is a quintessential 70's song. It always makes me remember living in California in the 70's and cruising along Ventura Highway in a convertible --- BUT HERE'S THE TRIPPY THING -- I did NOT live in California in the 70's! I was a little kid living in the Midwest (hahahahaha). That just shows you how powerful this song is, I guess.

@briany7658 11 ай бұрын

Ventura highway and Sister Golden Hair are my two favourite America songs! ❤️🇨🇦

@JL-cn6nh 2 жыл бұрын

Was 10 yrs old living north of Naples Italy in a beach side town when this song came out. This song takes me there.

@BlackHatCinephile 2 жыл бұрын

Legendary.

@qhl5579 Жыл бұрын

Still need yo hear more of these guys. Great acoustic guitar playing is what it is Lex!!

@kentclark6420 2 жыл бұрын

These guys always reminded me of the Eagles. Both are very folk/rock oriented and classic American. Good old tunes.

@irresistablegraceinchrist6690 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect Driving Song.... when I go up PCH into Malibu..and past up the coast with the breeze in my hair this song makes you feel like you're floating...

@atdeacon 2 жыл бұрын

There is a Ventura Boulevard which is a main throughfare in the San Fernando valley . But this is about part of Highway 101, the Ventura Highway (which is now called the Ventura Freeway in some spots) a main highway from Santa Barbara, through Ventura County (where its name was mainly derived) and through LA. For most of the ride you can see the ocean and beaches and mountains and other sights. it is a beautiful ride. One of the iconic things to do in california is to take a convertible on ride down the Ventura Highway on a sunny Saturday. You never know how that day will go,.

@michaelparsons5299 2 жыл бұрын

America's songs are full of such wonderful stories. And the acoustic guitars which drive their songs are very unique and create such a relaxing sound. Very easy listening music. On any road trip they are mandatory along with the Eagles!

@dabg623 Жыл бұрын

Listening to America gives me goosebumps, still. They are brilliant ❤❤❤❤❤❤

@maxwellportlock2119 2 жыл бұрын

Alligator Lizards are cloud shapes

@happymethehappyone8300 2 жыл бұрын

Firefall "Strange Way",, "Just Remember I Love You",, "You Are The Woman",, "So Long",, "Cinderella",, "Someday Soon",, "It Doesn't Matter",, "Livin' Ain't Livin'",, "Headed For A Fall",, "Mexico",, "Sweet And Sour" & "Just Think"

@willfromyadkinville 2 жыл бұрын

you have no idea how much i listened to this song! as soon i was finished listened to it i would turn my transistor radio to try and find it again!

@socialmediadelinquent5781 2 жыл бұрын

Watching Lex react to songs always reminded me of something that I couldn’t quite put my finger on and I think tonight I figured it out. There was an episode of Friends where Phoebe and Rachel went jogging in the park and Phoebe was just running like a little kid having fun and she told Rachel to do the same, that she would enjoy it more. And the two of them went jogging through the park high stepping, arms waving in the air like they just didn’t care. And that’s what I think of when I watch Lex in some of these reactions, just doing her own thing and enjoying it. Love it, you two are the best.

@icezebra 2 жыл бұрын

Recently drove from California back to the great lakes. Took Route 66 until around Oklahoma or Arkansas. But driving through the desert on 66 when the song came on was just magical. They have such a cool deserty vibe. I also played the Eagles and Steve Miller a lot during that ride as well lol

@josephwillmann4880 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reacting to AMERICA Dan Peek is buried in my hometown of Farmington Missouri along with his wife and parents I went to school with his 2 sisters and is friends with them to this day you guys are doing a fantastic job keep up the good work

@ButtonPhonics 2 жыл бұрын

Music lover since late 60s, Australian - 'America' are in my top 10 favorites bands - the smoothest, coolest soft rock band (along with Little River Band of course!).

@jennyjenny4501 2 жыл бұрын

This song makes me want to roll down the car windows and just cruise! Sister Goldenhair is another great song by America!

@nostrilnick 2 жыл бұрын

All of my favourite songs were made in the 70s, and this is one of my favourite-favourites. I'm a sucker for acoustic guitar and harmonies.

@jgrinwald1968 2 жыл бұрын

I was in CA for 11 years, and ironically enough, I found this song to be ideal for cruising up Hwy 1 in a convertible, Pacific off to the left, wind in the hair.

@wilsonwarner6903 2 жыл бұрын

The sounds made were created through pure skill with the acoustic guitars.

@flatwavemike1269 2 жыл бұрын

Ventura highway I believe is California highway 101 North. Once you get out of the suburbs, it’s breathtaking. I surf up there a lot and it’s one of my favorite drives. It just gives you a multitude of feelings. Freedom, excitement, calmness, serenity, a sense of adventure, etc…

@TLAS 2 жыл бұрын

Brad’s face the first time they sing “alligator lizards in the air”… 😆😂🤣

@tribalflute3895 2 жыл бұрын

Well technically if you want to know how they're doing it. It's called a series of pull-offs and hammer-ons with picked notes here and there on the acoustic guitar fingerboard with a second acoustic guitar strumming the rhythm. Sounds beautiful.. you guys are beautiful too!

@txrojas 2 жыл бұрын

Ventura Highway is the 101 freeway running from Los Angeles to Ventura.

@t.r.1708 2 жыл бұрын

Thx! Ventura blvd was a highway before it was incorporated into the grid. Before that it was the wagon wheel road from LA to Ventura! It’s history goes back to early indigenous people!

@79mib 2 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite of their whole catalogue! 👍👍❤️

@jeffreyhobbs8603 2 жыл бұрын

This is my hit the road,just cruising, feeling loose, romance with the wind, music on the radio, nothing but me, driving away from it all,though I never would. The music sounds better when you can stand and dance

@beverlywarren3675 10 ай бұрын

My favorite band still playing, love them!

@alpetrocelli4465 2 жыл бұрын

I love their harmonies & acoustic jams. My favorite jam by America is “Sandman”. Thanks for checking them out.✌️❤️🎶

@keensoundguy6637 2 жыл бұрын

Sandman and, from the same album, Donkey Jaw.

@sealdrup 2 жыл бұрын

Love the guitar work on this song. Classic!

@23skidoo46 2 жыл бұрын

every time I'm driving down the 101 this song is blasting. Ventura Hwy!

@thomasl.4482 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a sweet lil hammer on/pull off lick with a dope strum pattern of a couple chords backing it. Separately they’re not altogether difficult, but together it blends so well. Way before my time, but I do love this band. Great pick, guys.

@StevesFunhouse 2 жыл бұрын

Alligator Lizards actually are "endangered reptiles native to the Pacific coast of North America", including Southern California, where Ventura Highway is located (a stretch of coastal highway US 101 near Ventura California). In the song, he's actually referring to only a small portion of what is called the Ventura Freeway, not the Ventura Highway, but the songwriter, Dewey Bunnell was remembering back to an experience he had, as well as the way he felt, when he was young, traveling down this stretch of coastal highway with his family. So, when talking more about "alligator lizards", he's referring to the cloud formations he saw, and how the ocean breezes pushed them around to make them look like alligator lizards, floating in the sky.

@TheOneAndOnlyFloridaMan 2 жыл бұрын

Please do their song Tin Man when you get a chance! It's an absolutely (and I don't use this word often) lovely song.

@_Bosley 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing!!! I literally heard this song on the way home and thought "Man they should really do a reaction to this, I bet they'd love it! :D

@user-jv9ys6vn3f Ай бұрын

God,it reminds me of my care free days in high school,Marijuana,long open backed cars just riding the countryside, listening to this song 🎵. Miss those days of the 70s.

@joekuul8769 2 жыл бұрын

I miss the Ventura Highway, rolling through the low hills around Calabasas as the sun goes down, listening to tunes on the radio. The 101 freeway is the Ventura Highway. Ventura and Vineland. Nice. I used to play tennis at the Racquet Center there for years, before they tore it down to put in a grocery store and shops.

@robincochran7369 2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever looked up at the sky to see cloud formations? I aways thought that is what was meant by alligators and lizards. I just love this song by America. It feels so easy and free.

@CCDzine 2 жыл бұрын

Alligator lizards are a real creature. They are one of the two most common lizards found in SoCal.

@TracyfromNC 2 жыл бұрын

Chill vibe sampled by Janet Jackson and others.

@timtravasos2742 2 жыл бұрын

Great song and super vibe.

@tvgator1 2 жыл бұрын

I always though it referred to the Ventura Freeway (US-101) as it rolled through LA, but it’s too laid back to be referencing that. The song sounds more like the Pacific Coast Highway that runs up the western coast of California. It’s such a chill song.

@IanPunter 2 жыл бұрын

Its gotta be the 101 from the conejo grade on the east thru the open ag fields of the oxnard plain then along the ocean from Ventura to Carpenteria and Summerland. Great piece of road, mostly uncrowded.

@littlejeffmo 2 жыл бұрын

Notice that America used the words "Purple Rain" in this song that was recorded in 1972. That was a full TWELVE YEARS BEFORE Prince used those words for his song.

@1tommymulligan 2 жыл бұрын

Love the guitar riff in this song. Dewey Bunnell, the song’s vocalist and writer, has said that the lyric “alligator lizards in the air” in the song is a reference to the shapes of clouds in the sky he saw in 1963 while his family was driving down the coast from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California where they had a flat tire. While his father changed the tire, he and his brother stood by the side of the road and watched the clouds and saw a road sign for “Ventura”.” (Wikipedia, “Ventura Highway”)

@stevoschannel4127 2 жыл бұрын

This song reminds me of being a teenager in Cali in the 70's with a fresh paycheck, party favors and a party to go to...Days long gone.

@stompugood18 2 жыл бұрын

The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California, United States, running from the Santa Barbara/Ventura county line to Pasadena in Los Angeles County. It is the principal east-west route (designated north-south) through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County.

@woodymeadows9363 2 жыл бұрын

God, this was big back in the day. Huge. Great song.

@johnmaloney5912 2 жыл бұрын

It was about a minute into it and I could see the effect on Lex and it took off from there. Love it 🥰

@j4wn 2 жыл бұрын

That Guitar Riff technique = Hammer ons and Pull Offs, Dear Lex!

@rogerkelly7988 2 жыл бұрын

It was the 60s going into the 70s we were smoking a lot of weed and taking things that altered our minds like LSD, peyote and other substances so alligator lizards were just one of the many things that us hippies saw among a lot other things that we wrote songs about

@wileydawgknows5326 2 жыл бұрын

this song is about the 5th dimension. Prince also talks about it in Lets go crazy.

@bobinfaith 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Brad and Lex, great question regarding the guitars! It's a combination of picking, strumming the strings in harmony between 3 guitar players. I love your REACTION as usual. Thank you, guys!

@michaelclark2979 Жыл бұрын

Love watching all your videos!!! I realize this is an older reaction but watch the live version....it's just as good live and you can see the three guitars and how they get that sound. Harmonies just as good live as on the album.

@bugvswindshield 2 жыл бұрын

what a great band.

@rickhendricks9350 2 жыл бұрын

It’s been a few days since I watched one of your reactions and watching Lex and how she gets into the music always makes me smile.

@plaidpaisley5918 2 жыл бұрын

This song is from teen years. Beautifully nostalgic.

@macjam9090 2 жыл бұрын

One of the all time great songs especially during the summer. I have played their music since the early 70s and still play it now. Great band, great harmonies, great songs.