The great guitarist Andy Taylor performing Take it Easy from his soloist album Thunder, live on MTV on New Years Eve, 1987. All rights are reserved to the legitimate owners.
@@VladimirVladimirovich1952 you mean god not good but I get your point.andy had the tools of a rock star and I heard he was asked to replace Steve Clark in def Leppard when he passed from cancer but Andy was on drugs bad.now Andy has prostate cancer
Thank you for this,This song for some reason managed to stay stuck in my head since I first seen the video in 1985.Just think MTV actually played music videos 🤔😳
I know and those were the good ol days for me during my teen years . I stayed up late every weekend when MTV first came on with our cable and I waited for my favorite videos. I love 'China Girl' by David Bowie 'Little Red Corvette' by Prince and many , many others.
Love both versions of this song. Wow New Years 87. I met my wife in Sept 87 and this was just months later. LOVE IT!! I was 18 then and 46 now. All those people there are probably a little older than me. Thats just not right ...we should not have to age.Music doesn't :)
I had forgot about this song I hear it now and it's awesome the critics did not like Andy Taylor's solo album and I don't understand why he was a good guitar player he had a rocker deep down inside him
Paula Ward - Thunder has actually held up nicely, as an album from the 80's. Otherwise, it had 1 important shortcomi g, one which I discussed with him, while trying to get him to add sone gtr tracks to a song of mine. Andy's lead gtr work on that album is fluid and flawless. Unfortunately, the solos are too tightly composed. As someone who was catching him live at that time, I felt he didn't take enough chances in the studio, the way he was while perforning live. Some of those solos were near unbelievable. Fire and ice. Dangerous licks and risktaking; with a hint of improv. I will always love Thunder, but I always hear live versions in my head. One of the best rock guitarists of the 80's, but w/o much credit given to him, because he was in a pop band.
Because he was stereotyped as a New Romantic pop star. Back then it was thought by critics that no pop star, rockstar, rapper etc should do something outside their genre. But, at the same time, I don't remember Power Station getting trashed like Andy's solo albums.
Poor Andy Taylor. Apparently he wanted so bad to be a hard rocker. I always dug this song...too bad it didn't happen for him. Stuck as a Durannie. I dig DD well enough too but rock was definitely Andy's calling.
Mike Tabor - Yes it was. One of the best guitarists in the 80's, but never got much credit, because he was in a pop band. Thank him, for being responsible, (in part), helping to bring rock guitar, back to pop music.
I used to played this song at clubs in ‘86 and it packed the dance every time! I never hear it anymore unless I find it on you tube. We did the shorter single version!
Bonsoir j'aime bien entendre chanter Andy Taylor i like Andy Taylor forever ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💕💕💕💕💕💕💕And Duran Duran i like forever 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💚💚💚💚💚😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
It sounds a little like 'Cat Scratch Fever' crossed with Robert Palmers " Addicted To Love " . Seriously...listen in the beginning after the drums begin .
In 87 heavy metal hair bands rule the music scene ( Poison, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Ratt, ect.), new wave was long fade away so Andy decided to go hard Rocker and try it, but sadly in that time people associate him with Duran Duran ( still does) and rocker fans did not accept him as a hair band Rocker
I know I am late to this post, but YES he was most definitely meant to be a Rockstar. In fact, I could have seen him in 80’s Metal Bands over New Wave.
Andy has a pretty decent voice. Too bad he doesn't do harmonies on the early DD albums (Simon only harmonizes with himself) and his mic is turned way down low in the live shows.
@@roberttaylor1275 I see Patrick but that does not look like terry, the playing style is different, sounds horrible although it is a remo set. Incredibly this song wasn’t even on Taylor‘s first record, which allowed Warren Cucurullo to join Duran Duran as Taylor told Terry he wasn’t going back. Terry then gave Warren the inside information.
@@roberttaylor1275 that’s John Valen on drums, not Terry Bozzio. John played on the thunder tour with Taylor. And the guy playing drums looks like John not Terry in this live video.
