Here’s something quite tasty indeed. A really nice quality video of The Flying Burrito Brothers performing “Hot Burrito #1.” This is new to me and doesn’t seem to have appeared previously on Youtube.

With Gram Parsons, Chris Ethridge, Michael Clarke and Sneaky Pete Kleinow. Chris Hillman is seen briefly and only partially (a fleeting glimpse of a blue suit and shock of dirty blonde hair) at the edges of the frame. Why so shy? Was this when he and Gram were feuding? Or was the cameraman as stoned as the band?  Also, Clarke and Ethridge have switched instruments. Strange.

“Hot Burrito #1” appears on The Gilded Palace of Sin, an album which has influenced country rock and Americana bands for the past several decades without ever having sold enough copies to achieve gold record status.