The Guess Who - American Woman (Live The Midnight Special) [REACTION VIDEO] | Rebeka Luize Budlevska

I remember when Lenny Kravitz covered this song in the 90s. It was really weird that year. Suddenly everyone was jamming this song for Independence Day when the song is actually a protest song.

I love your reactions because your appreciation of music covers all genres. I saw these guys live in D.C. 1970! ❤‍🔥

This song is a metaphor about America and not about women. 🗽

The story about this song was that Burton was late getting on stage, so the band played a riff while waiting for him. Well Burton got on stage and started coming out with lines. If I remember correctly, they tracked down a guy that recorded the performance to be able to remind them of how it went.

🔥🔥🔥🔥FIRE!!! One of the greatest performances ever. Burton is one of the greatest singers ever. These Eyes is another great song one of my favorite songs ever

On You Tube, a guy has a channel called the Professor of Rock. He highlights rock songs and how they were made. He interviewed the lead sing of this band about this song. He said the song was improvised on stage without the band knowing what they were playing. After they finished, they said, "hey, that was pretty good". A guy in the audience recorded it. They got the recording from the guy to see what they improvised, and they did not change much in the studio recording.

A wonderful live performance to showcase. A great time capsule.

First band i ever saw in concert. Shaken All Over by the Guess Who is a great one. Good reaction.

Burton has some great songs, Tell it to them Gently, and Stand tall are a couple of my favs, he has a great voice

This song was written as anti Vietnam song, Canada did not enter the Vietnam war although Canadian men enlisted! All the great bands of the time wrote anti war songs because of the times. Burton Cummings a Canadian vocal legend. Thank you for your reaction ✌🏻

I miss Burt Sugarman's Midnight Special. There weren't very many artists that just lip synced the radio version unlike American Bandstand and Soul Train.

,Bekka lovely as always. You are something!!. 👍😀

What a tune 🎶 volume goes up 👆 😂

When I first heard this song back in the spring of 1970 I knew right off the bat it was 🔥🔥🔥🔥. Loved it then, still do. Glad u dug this so much. THESE EYES their first recording I believe is great!!!! Worth checking out.

Hi Miss Rebeka. !!! Fantastic song indeed , you might Enjoy the Hollies Long Cool woman in A Black Dress 👗 as well !! Yet for My song of the Day Just for you is from 1969 and by The Moody Blues ( Nights in White Satin ) 🌞🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴 As Always you know I have Illuminated the like button 🔘 😁

I have the same feeling when it comes to live versions. I sometimes think they're not going to be as good as the record but I love it when I'm pleasantly surprised. Everyone was in fine form and the vocals were fire!

There have been two interpretations by two different band members of The Guess Who - Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman The Guess Who are Canadian, and Burton Cummings (the song's lyricist) insists it has nothing to do with American pride. "What was on my mind was that girls in the States seemed to get older quicker than our girls and that made them, well, dangerous," Cummings told the Toronto Star in 2014. "When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.' It was all a happy accident." (as Rebaka showed, but also...) Randy Bachman called "American Woman" an "antiwar protest song," explaining that when they came up with it on stage, both the band and the audience had a problem with the Vietnam War. Said Bachman: "We had been touring the States. This was the late '60s, they tried to draft us, send us to Vietnam. We were back in Canada, playing in the safety of Canada where the dance is full of draft dodgers who've all left the States." Source: Songfacts

great canadian band

FYI, Burton Cummings is still performing. We saw him a few weeks ago in Windsor ON, Canada.

Burton Cummings is a phenomenal singer and the band had different appearances at different times, I've seen Burton with long hair before and also you have to remember that Austin City Limits is never going to be as big and loud and rocking as an actual real concert. And he may have had that in mind about American women but the reality is it's largely a metaphor for what was starting to really seem like what was going wrong in the world at the time, with the Vietnam War and the military-industrial complex and just incredible hereditary poverty compounding in the ghettos, all because of misplaced priorities.