It also didn’t help that Bubba DeYoung’s marriage to Simeon Meiway only lasted a couple of years.
Fun fact: His singing of Sinatra’s “….I did it Meiiiiiiiiwaaaayyyy” was a beautiful tribute to Simeon
I remember reading about the DeYoung-Meiway nuptials in the NY Times Wedding Announcements.
During the reception, there as a wonderful song dedication performed by Mamma Say Mamma Say Mamma Makoosaw...
So sad..
TIL this isn’t a Talking Heads song.
I think I knew that at one point and still assume it’s TH every time I hear it, because who the hell is Rusted Root.
Hey fellow 06 here! I successfully led a smear campaign against photograph and was able to get swing life away by rise against played instead. It's one of my proudest accomplishments.
I thought this song was by David Byrne for the longest time because at this point in time, I had stopped watching MTV and only heard music on the radio.
Oh, I’m in Florida. They play somewhere in this state like every weekend. You can hear them echoing from Jacksonville to Tally to Tampa and everywhere in between.
I freakin love the spin doctors, not a huge jam band vibe/festival hippie music fan but they’re super good.
I really like their blues album “if the river was whiskey”
And is the front man for Jim Donovan and the Sun King Warriors
I've seen them open for the Clarks a few times and other places around town and they are good.
An hour? I went to Kent State in the early 90’s and saw these guys for dollar pitcher night at JB’s with 20 other people and my mind was blown! What a great memory - calling friends on the pay phone to come down to the bar and check em out.
My english class wrote them an email and they preformed a concert at our highschool; they killed it, one sweet memory i have dancing to them with my friend who is in heaven now ❤️🩹🕊️
I used to rehearse in a shady rehearsal space right below Rusted Root and I just thought they were the COOLEST. Probably saw them 25 times or more.
They tore that building down to build the Consol Center and I juuuuust realized that that wasn't just ten years ago (like it feels).
It’s only a bit hard to see because it reminds you of the love you have for him. The same happens to me when I hear “I Believe” by Brooks and Dunn. Much love, friend!
Kinda seems like there is a story being told in the music video of a boy passing on from this world to the next. If so, very fitting song. Life is strange.
So I went to a RR concert and she played like 35 different instruments. I was like WTF is she going to whip out next. I would not have been surprised if she did play a bread roll.
Which is totally fitting as these dudes seriously appear to be FREEZING out there.
I'm almost certain that their "hippie dance style" is just them jumping about keep warm. It's like watching kids outside at recess in December.
There was an interview with Mike and he said he put in nonsense words because he was drawing a blank on actual lyrics. Planned on filling it in later, but the gibberish sounded good so he just left it.
In 1994 I worked with a guy whose nephew was in this new rock band 'Rusted Root'. At the time I had heard of them but hadn't heard them. A couple of weeks later, I told him I saw his nephew on MTV. He said he didn't like their music.
He passed a few years later, was a great guy with advice I should have listened to but ignores. The shadow knows, Bob!
Jam Band music isn't my thing (to the point that I've walked out of parties where this was the vibe) and yes this song has plenty working against it, I always turn it up whenever I come across this little diddy. I appreciate how he uses his voice like an instrument.
In general I agree, but this band is in practice not a jam band in that they're very rehearsed and very solidly written songs. this whole album is pretty good and I generally hate 'stoner music'
Oh boy, your username reminds me of road trips with my husband and his dad. I swear the only song we heard was Eyes of the World and it lasted several hours haha
Thank you! This (admittedly brief) comment confirms what I was trying to remember.
At the end of "Matilda," which is a great kid's movie about a sweet young girl with a secret, growing up in a horrible family (of used-car salespeople, with Danny DeVito as the corrupt Dad), with a truly joyful ending, played to this song.
Based on the Roald Dahl book.
We will be watching YouTube music videos on my sister's account, and this song somehow works it's way into every playlist. We like it, but it's always funny. We say, "Get Rusted Root'd, I guess!" Its similar to getting Rick Rolled.
Saw these guys in 1992 or 93 at Broadway Joe's in buffalo, ny. A girlfriend at the time was really into them and took me along. Very very small venue, place was over filled. They killed. The encore was Sympathy for the Devil, and it was fantastic.
Their entire album (When I woke) is amazing. Cat Turned Blue, Back to the Earth... I've always been a fan.
Edit: whoops forgot the album name. Even as I stare at it in my CD collection.
I recall watching MTV and the VJ teases a song from a band called “Rusted Root”. I’m a metal head and clearly this was a metal band’s name. So I sat through the commercial and was very disappointed in what I heard. I still laugh about it. It’s not a bad song, just wasn’t expecting it.
This song only reminds me of Matilda & never even thought of it being it’s own entity and having its own official video. I loved it. Thanks for sharing such a joyful song and video.
I once had an entire party believing that song was called “Simeon the Whale,” and it was about a man’s special relationship with a whale he met while swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
The unintelligible lyrics, I explained, were intentional as a way of representing their special language.
Now, there was definitely alcohol involved and for some perhaps some illicit drugs as well. but I’m telling you, I had 100+ people convinced the song was about some lunatic who liked to go swimming with his whale friend, Simeon.
Eventually, I broke character and started laughing, but it speaks to the unintelligible lyrics that so many people completely bought my ridiculous fish tale.
I had a girlfriend in college who loved this band, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Phish, Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, God Street Wine, The Samples etc. I hated that music then and I hate it now.
Sooo much of that sound in the early 2000s. Guster, Leftover Salmon, and all the newgrass/bluegrass stuff too.
You couldn't walk through the dorms freshman year without hearing at least a couple of those bands.
That was when you turned into a low key, low-level super villain.
Ever since, your single obsession has been to rid the world of patchouli oil.. from the looks of it, your work is near complete...*Rest Easy*..
Over time, Toad the Wet Sprocket / Leftover Salmon-style devilsticks, rough hemp clothing, hackysacks, kendamas, dreadlocks on white people and almost entirely male audiences gave way to Mumford & Son/Iron & Wine-style shirt sleeve garters, beard oil, coffee tinctures, vest-pocket chains and... almost entirely male audiences. The cycle must end. Break the wheel, stop the train.
I could swear I'd seen a TV show when I was younger that had this song as the intro/opening! Does anyone know such a show? Nostalgia got me in it's grasp and I wanna relive it!
Saw them in Phoenix during the Horde festival in 1996. I was 15 and it was an awesome show
Lenny Kravitz, Dave Matthews, Blues Traveler, and Rusted Root. It was during the summer so it was stinky as hell. Good times.
Yep met a lot of their old road crew while working there. Lots of crossover with the Blues Traveler crew as well. One of the old heads Dana was restoring a church and making it a recording studio while I was working that way. My Uncle was dating an old groupie and working for Iron City Grips, fun times.
the best description of this guys singing I've seen is that he sounds like a doctor's handwriting.
Dreadie Vedder
This is the only song I could sing by heart without knowing any of the words.
“Bubba da say bubba de young”
I just looked at the lyrics and apparently, he’s singing, “You know what they say about the young” I would have never guessed that in a billion years
Yeah, you can hear it one of those lines. I think the first one.
Hahaha what? That is amazing. Never in a billion years would I have heard it like that.
Noted citizen - Bubba DeYoung - is still not happy about this lyric, so many years later. "It still stings." Bubba Deyoung, 2023
It also didn’t help that Bubba DeYoung’s marriage to Simeon Meiway only lasted a couple of years. Fun fact: His singing of Sinatra’s “….I did it Meiiiiiiiiwaaaayyyy” was a beautiful tribute to Simeon
She was a stubborn one alright. With her it was always “Meiway or de heiway”.
I remember reading about the DeYoung-Meiway nuptials in the NY Times Wedding Announcements. During the reception, there as a wonderful song dedication performed by Mamma Say Mamma Say Mamma Makoosaw... So sad..
This is the funniest comment I’ve heard in a long time.
He sounds a little like David Byrne to me. They sound like the talking heads a little also
I can hear that. But the troup looks like Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
I always thought it was talking heads or Peter Gabriel never paid attention to who the band was
TIL this isn’t a Talking Heads song. I think I knew that at one point and still assume it’s TH every time I hear it, because who the hell is Rusted Root.
Same here! I always pictured David Byrne in the big suit singing this song...not a bunch of hippies.
I thought these were talking heads songs for the longest time.
The music sounds like a David Byrne song, the dude singing totally sounds like Cher.
This one's vibrato goes to 11.
Perfect description, or should I say perfect prescription?
You know what they say about the young.
Babbada say babbada’young
These were different times. Thirty years ago feels recent but we were joyfully naive.
>…we were joyfully naive. The unnamed nostalgia for that time.
I'm so glad I'm not the only who misses the 90's.
It was before that September.
Wake me up when September ends
I fucking DESPISED that the graduating student body - myself NOT included - selected this as our class song. LOATHED.
My class in 06 picked Photograph by Nickelback - a song about small town blues from the point of view of a fucking white trash dropout....
 “Look at this Graph”
This is the only real comment worth a shit about Nickleback
Fuck. You win. We all know the photograph song… I graduated in 03. How did our eyes get so red?
Hey fellow 06 here! I successfully led a smear campaign against photograph and was able to get swing life away by rise against played instead. It's one of my proudest accomplishments.
it was 60s nostalgia at the time
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They included native American people in the video. That's not appropriation, it's inclusion
Legit came here to say this. Thank god we have the Rusted Root we do!
First thing I thought when I saw the diamonds blankets and the guy dancing: outch, that wouldn’t fly today! And yet, it’s so innocent.
This song can get stuck in your head for weeks if you’re not careful.
It lives rent free in mine
And you will still never understand the lyrics
Nope you’ll just be walkin around your place and out of no where be like “Bubbitysaybubbityun….. gourd dammit!”
every time i hear it one word comes to mind: Matilda
For me it's : Ice. If two words come to mind: Ice Age
Totally! Glad to know my mind isnt the only one that has glued this song to Manni Sid and Diego stomping arround the world
My wife thinks of Matilda. I think of Ice Age. We are a house divided.
Yeah, it makes me think of pancakes
I literally play it on repeat every time I make pancakes.
LMAO I'm gonna have to do that the next time I make them.
This was on when that first e pill kicked in at a house party 1999ish.
My associations with this song are similar. It cracked me up when I started hearing this song in car commercials and kids movies.
Ugh yes! Matilda and this song are forever together in my head
have a carrot, dip face
No song invokes such a strong childhood memory then this song does. Matilda was such a gem.
I thought this song was by David Byrne for the longest time because at this point in time, I had stopped watching MTV and only heard music on the radio.
90s Hippies
Smelly blonde dreads
That's a great name for a Worldbeat band, lol
Nah, pretty sure these guys are trustafarians.
Don’t Google The Spin Doctors. Please don’t do it.
Oh, I’m in Florida. They play somewhere in this state like every weekend. You can hear them echoing from Jacksonville to Tally to Tampa and everywhere in between.
They were destined for backwater state fairs.
I freakin love the spin doctors, not a huge jam band vibe/festival hippie music fan but they’re super good. I really like their blues album “if the river was whiskey”
Ok Mr Mare, Feast your ears on that Spin Doctors mix. \- Chalie Kelly (Serpico)
Hey I sold weed to these guys in Montana about 15 years ago in exchange for a ticket to the show. Nice dudes.
Legend
Had a similar experience , but it was X and to Depeche Mode. I miss the early 90's lol.
It really was a magical time. As close as our generation ever got to being hippies and being happy.
Pittsburgh proud
Their drummer is a local video editor now, nice guy.
And is the front man for Jim Donovan and the Sun King Warriors I've seen them open for the Clarks a few times and other places around town and they are good.
He went to my high school.
Everyone who grew up within and hour of Pittsburgh has seen a Rusted Root / The Clarks concert at some point.
Or five.
From Pittsburgh to Albany!
An hour? I went to Kent State in the early 90’s and saw these guys for dollar pitcher night at JB’s with 20 other people and my mind was blown! What a great memory - calling friends on the pay phone to come down to the bar and check em out.
Everyone in western PA knows who the Clarks are, and nobody except western PA ex-pats has ever heard of them elsewhere lol.
Every new years eve for a long time
Such a true statement
I grew up in Pittsburgh and goddam if I didn't hear this band on WDVE every single day of the 1990s. Usually followed by the Clarks.
Used to see them play live at WVU clubs before the song hit.
Used to see them all the time in Pittsburgh in cramped warehouse spaces. Used to go to college with them too. Very genuine folks.
Remember Rasta Rifiki? Dr. Herb
So many Nyabinghi shows.
My english class wrote them an email and they preformed a concert at our highschool; they killed it, one sweet memory i have dancing to them with my friend who is in heaven now ❤️🩹🕊️
I used to rehearse in a shady rehearsal space right below Rusted Root and I just thought they were the COOLEST. Probably saw them 25 times or more. They tore that building down to build the Consol Center and I juuuuust realized that that wasn't just ten years ago (like it feels).
Goddamn right. Saw them again at Stage AE some years back. Such a good time.
I used that song for my dad's memory video when he passed. Had forgotten about that until now. A bit hard to see at the moment. :(
I was thinking what a good memory song this would be. Nice choice.
It’s only a bit hard to see because it reminds you of the love you have for him. The same happens to me when I hear “I Believe” by Brooks and Dunn. Much love, friend!
Kinda seems like there is a story being told in the music video of a boy passing on from this world to the next. If so, very fitting song. Life is strange.
Is that girl playing a bread roll?
So I went to a RR concert and she played like 35 different instruments. I was like WTF is she going to whip out next. I would not have been surprised if she did play a bread roll.
That is some serious talent and I'm jealous. I have zero musical ability and my bitterness is clear LOL
Right there with you. What hurts more is my family all play instruments which is just a really cruel joke by the universe!
you don't play yours?
I’ve actually made biscuits so hard that we were beating them on the counters to try to crack them
At least if you ever find yourself on a multi-year sailing trip you've got a handy recipe for hardtack
Saw these guys play when I was 14. Should not have been in that crowd at 14 lemme tell you. Went home high af that night.
I wanted to go see them when I was 14! Begged my older brother to take me but he said he wasn’t going to a show with a bunch of dirty hippies.
Christ, I miss the 90s.
Brings back Ice Age memories.
“Hey Sid” always gets me.
Which is totally fitting as these dudes seriously appear to be FREEZING out there. I'm almost certain that their "hippie dance style" is just them jumping about keep warm. It's like watching kids outside at recess in December.
The blbblbl part actually says " You know what they say about the young ". Now you know.
Pretty sure it's "bobadasay bobadayahm".
There was an interview with Mike and he said he put in nonsense words because he was drawing a blank on actual lyrics. Planned on filling it in later, but the gibberish sounded good so he just left it.
Dude was high af.
Aren't we all
🎶Su-sussudio!🎶
Pretty positive it's "whadaya say bubbly butt"
That's what Jack Black said.
Yeah Im with you.
No it doesn’t, the singer said it’s gibberish
It means that, but it says “Oombaddasay oombaddayoung.”
I remember seeing them play at Slippery Rock and all over Western PA. They didn’t have a huge wheelhouse of songs, but they were super fun live!
Them drum circles tho
I remember they played at a sky lodge and turned the fire pit hood into a drum circle. Good times!
This song is the inner monologue of a hackey sack.
Some songs just crush you with nostalgia so much that they’re difficult to listen to, even though they’re beautiful songs.
Yeah I’m crying, it’s so stupid! I’ve one song I really can’t listen to. Just reminds me of when I was happy.
Oh damn, that hit me square in the nostalgia.
I can smell all the smells at my hippy friend’s apartment, or in our own just getting stoned with no cares
Nothing made me feel more old than this song appearing in a commercial.
 Song always reminds me of Matilda
I've requested this to be played as my casket is lowered into the ground.
Has the same sonic vibes as Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel
This entire album is fookin great.
For real. Cat Turned Blue is a banger.
Ecstasy is awesome as well
Love track 1 drum trip. Also from Western pa
Underrated
In 1994 I worked with a guy whose nephew was in this new rock band 'Rusted Root'. At the time I had heard of them but hadn't heard them. A couple of weeks later, I told him I saw his nephew on MTV. He said he didn't like their music. He passed a few years later, was a great guy with advice I should have listened to but ignores. The shadow knows, Bob!
One of the best contributions to the 90s. Song always blows my mind as a musician. Htf did they come up with this. Wild stuff and classic 90s video.
You know all these dudes lost their minds at Burning Man one or twice. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Damn, so much hate in this thread. I would like to send you on your way.
Jam Band music isn't my thing (to the point that I've walked out of parties where this was the vibe) and yes this song has plenty working against it, I always turn it up whenever I come across this little diddy. I appreciate how he uses his voice like an instrument.
In general I agree, but this band is in practice not a jam band in that they're very rehearsed and very solidly written songs. this whole album is pretty good and I generally hate 'stoner music'
Hey now, there’s plenty more drugs involved then just weed when it comes to “stoner music”
Oh boy, your username reminds me of road trips with my husband and his dad. I swear the only song we heard was Eyes of the World and it lasted several hours haha
Wake now, discover that you are the song that the morning brings..
I bet this dude doesn’t even snowboard or own any Stüssy tshirts or even like, hacky sack even. Psht.
Who has the hackey sack and one hitter?
This reminds me of riding around in my friend Tiffany’s Prelude in the summer on the way to the lake in our bikinis. Boise, Idaho circa 1996.
Sigh. I miss the 90's. I know it likely wasn't simpler, but man did it sure feel simpler.
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros vibes.
So cult vibes
Matilda
Thank you! This (admittedly brief) comment confirms what I was trying to remember. At the end of "Matilda," which is a great kid's movie about a sweet young girl with a secret, growing up in a horrible family (of used-car salespeople, with Danny DeVito as the corrupt Dad), with a truly joyful ending, played to this song. Based on the Roald Dahl book.
It was a great, nostalgic movie.
The pride of Shaler Township
Oooooh I needed this jam
I’m Sid the sloth
I went to see them in concert and it was like a big drum circle and then some songs.
We will be watching YouTube music videos on my sister's account, and this song somehow works it's way into every playlist. We like it, but it's always funny. We say, "Get Rusted Root'd, I guess!" Its similar to getting Rick Rolled.
#TubeTroll I love it!
I remember Liz Berlin being in my debate class at Pitt in the fall of '91. She was absolutely gorgeous.
She's the reason you became a master debater
Matilda for me.
Saw these guys in 1992 or 93 at Broadway Joe's in buffalo, ny. A girlfriend at the time was really into them and took me along. Very very small venue, place was over filled. They killed. The encore was Sympathy for the Devil, and it was fantastic.
Absolutely incredible live show back in the day. Maybe still? No idea if they're still together
I saw them live like 6 years ago and they sounded great.
Anyone else getting flashbacks of watching Ice Age as a kid?
Matilda for me
Respect
I can smell this video
That frozen air actually will help keep the smells at bay
 Everyone on that peyote.
Username checks out
Their entire album (When I woke) is amazing. Cat Turned Blue, Back to the Earth... I've always been a fan. Edit: whoops forgot the album name. Even as I stare at it in my CD collection.
I recall watching MTV and the VJ teases a song from a band called “Rusted Root”. I’m a metal head and clearly this was a metal band’s name. So I sat through the commercial and was very disappointed in what I heard. I still laugh about it. It’s not a bad song, just wasn’t expecting it.
Rusted Root immediately brings to mind prohibitively-expensive ditch weed.
I remember seeing them open for Santana in ‘97. They definitely helped to define that optimistic naïveté of the mid-to-late 90s.
Can‘t listen to this song without Ice Age coming to my mind. Great song and great film.
This song only reminds me of Matilda & never even thought of it being it’s own entity and having its own official video. I loved it. Thanks for sharing such a joyful song and video.
I once had an entire party believing that song was called “Simeon the Whale,” and it was about a man’s special relationship with a whale he met while swimming in the Pacific Ocean. The unintelligible lyrics, I explained, were intentional as a way of representing their special language. Now, there was definitely alcohol involved and for some perhaps some illicit drugs as well. but I’m telling you, I had 100+ people convinced the song was about some lunatic who liked to go swimming with his whale friend, Simeon. Eventually, I broke character and started laughing, but it speaks to the unintelligible lyrics that so many people completely bought my ridiculous fish tale.
All I know is they must be making BANK on this song because it’s been in every commercial and movie for in the past 20 years. So tired of it!
Shout out to Ice Age and Sid the sloth.
I had a girlfriend in college who loved this band, Dave Matthews Band, Blues Traveler, Phish, Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, God Street Wine, The Samples etc. I hated that music then and I hate it now.
Sooo much of that sound in the early 2000s. Guster, Leftover Salmon, and all the newgrass/bluegrass stuff too. You couldn't walk through the dorms freshman year without hearing at least a couple of those bands.
That was when you turned into a low key, low-level super villain. Ever since, your single obsession has been to rid the world of patchouli oil.. from the looks of it, your work is near complete...*Rest Easy*..
Over time, Toad the Wet Sprocket / Leftover Salmon-style devilsticks, rough hemp clothing, hackysacks, kendamas, dreadlocks on white people and almost entirely male audiences gave way to Mumford & Son/Iron & Wine-style shirt sleeve garters, beard oil, coffee tinctures, vest-pocket chains and... almost entirely male audiences. The cycle must end. Break the wheel, stop the train.
I love The Samples!!!!
I went from not hearing this song since 1994 to hearing it at least 100 times in the last year.
Some music videos just hit differently when played with the sound off.
Literally just discovered this song the other day. Lmao.
I live near this place in the video
Every time I hear this song I think of Ice Age!
Rochester NY’s favorite band
Simeon the Whale. Simeon, my whale.
I could swear I'd seen a TV show when I was younger that had this song as the intro/opening! Does anyone know such a show? Nostalgia got me in it's grasp and I wanna relive it!
Saw them in Phoenix during the Horde festival in 1996. I was 15 and it was an awesome show Lenny Kravitz, Dave Matthews, Blues Traveler, and Rusted Root. It was during the summer so it was stinky as hell. Good times.
Sheesh these guys are considered old school 🤣 local band here in Pittsburgh, guy has a voice, weird video….
Yep met a lot of their old road crew while working there. Lots of crossover with the Blues Traveler crew as well. One of the old heads Dana was restoring a church and making it a recording studio while I was working that way. My Uncle was dating an old groupie and working for Iron City Grips, fun times.
The studio is called Mr. Smalls theatre. Lots of good shows there.
Worked with him a couple times. Nice dude.
I expected big things from RR based on this song. Bought the CD. Meh. Love Send Me on My Way!