If you're 61, then you were 13 or 14 when this came out. I'm also 61, and I remember this from age 13. I went to a different school that year, and I remember being in my middle school jazz band (I was a drummer) and between rehearsals the bass player was working on this song with one of the sax players for a talent show. One of my favorite songs too. It was years before I learned who the band was that performed it.
@@nobiazcustomsinc5030 yes they were. Isn't it interesting that these guys love soul, funk and r&B. That is why many were amazed at them. Scotland is the most unlikely place where you will see a soul band.
My son is playing this on guitar in his high school jazz band. His first solo. He said it was a song he was pretty sure I had never heard before. You didn't live in the 70s and not hear this song. It was everywhere.
When this awesome band performed this. did they ever even fathom the possibility of people like you and me watching it over 35 years later? This is GOOD music... Thanks for sharing
Blew my mind when I found out the AWB were Scottish!!! I’m 50 and always thought that they were from the US! Such a funky song and the beat is infectious. Classic 🙌
@@Moneytane1976 What a stupid comment 😂 I’m sure there were black people In Scotland well before then. And so what if the guy is black? Wtf has that got to do with anything, Or what I originally commented? 😂
This highly spirited and inspired instrumental with its tight rhythms, animated saxophone & funky guitar licks made this track an irresistable record, released in 1974 it was one of those tracks that was way ahead of it's time, forget about the Average, these guys were Brilliant
Not all the band, but all got together in Dundee and that seemed to be their base for a while. So they are regaarded as a Dundee band. Did they not for up at university, or college?
We used to run around our 7th grade gym class to this wild and wonderful instrumental. Thanks to all the teachers at Lincoln Middle School who knew the proper way to give the kids a break!
@@jenniferlewis4369 As a Scot myself who lives in Glasgow, I can confirm that Scotland is super Funky. If you need proof, check out some more recently formed bands; Tom Mcguire and the Brassholes, Corto Alto, Milhouse Collective and Bohemian Monk Machine. Great talent!
A roll and haggis crispy bacon egg n cheese! Bangin!!! Oh aye and it's got tae be a crispy roll nane of yon East cost "baps" noo that's breakfast fur the soul or just a raging hangover
I love this music. I have a band, and I swear is one of the best music I ever played. I love funk, although I must work a lot to get younger guys to get it, all the shit they have been listening the last years seems to have killed their brain cells...is very difficult to get good musicians who can play this kind of style. Long life to funk!
Where do you play? Still playing it? Let me know if you know the answer to how to get people to play this. Really craving it, at 67 lol. Music is life! Peace
I was in about 8th grade when this song hit the radio. I didn't really get "funk" then - I thought it was the same as the dreaded disco - but I secretly liked it. Years later I understood the difference, and why I liked FUNK. This stuff is BADASS!
Imagine being African American and finding out these Funk masters are white guys not only that but that they are from little rainy Scotland. Apparently James Brown felt out funked when this came out.
I was just a 7-year-old growing up in South L.A. as this played in heavy rotation on the urban radio. I just learned recently who originally recorded it ( my great-great grandfather is from England too ).
Sad that in 15 years only 2.2 million people have ever come to visit this amazing and talented bunch. I'll bet of the 2.2 mil visitors, 2mil were other funk drum players. 😂
70's music is/was my thang!!! Back then in my much younger years, this one particular tune by the AWB always made me jump up from my seat, whether at home, in a night club, or in public dance parties and just start dancing!!!!
This was a truly talented Bunch, I truly believe they laid the foundation for Phil Collins & Genesis, That Big band sound was truly being missed by most of us who grew up in the late 60 into the 80's Kool & The Gang Earth Wind & Fire & the list goes on, SO when Phil COllins came on the scene We all became instant fans
theme song for the year 1977. Could not believe it. these guys were some serious musicians. Nobody anywhere even close to being cool like this band was in mainstream today. Prolly never will be.
What a great band; so tight. I remember when I first heard this classic jam as a 16 yr. old back in ‘77; I thought it was a James Brown instrumental version of his “Cut the cake “ song. Both songs were similar with the beat and the brass placements. Every Thursday at my neighborhood rec. we would have little party for the neighborhood kids and this was one of the main standard for getting everyone out on the dance floor. 🎼🎼🎼🕺🏾🇺🇸
the average white band is a group that i have followed since their 1st album pick up the pieces ! Than k u 4 giving us the chance 2 listen 2 our favorite songs !
Perfect in every way. This was my introduction to this wonderful band when it was first released, it has the same effect on my today as it did all that time ago, .Then I heard Hamish sing and I was blown away. this is a fantastic live version
Incredible Band one of the funkiest jams of all time! AWB FUCKING ROCKS!!! No Body Knew They Where White back then. Actually even with the name they thought it was a gimmick some brothers had. They all got that much soul. Every part of this song, every instrument section was funky souful tight. Even with the brother on the drums they proved that some "White Boys Can Funk!"
Going into your favourite night club in '77 and hearing this, you got attitude into your walk as you headed for the bar and you just knew you were going to have a great night!
I love Candy Dulfer, but these guys remind me of the time when my friends and I did the saxophone and beat the seat , as imitate in our innocence. Pick up the Pieces is theirs and will remain so in our memory. Average White Band, a jazz rock lesson for some people who think white can't sing . AND THEY DID .
My sister Renee and I saw them in concert I believe in 1979. I could not believe my eye's. White boys getting down!!! What shocked me the most was that they did not do the DOGG! I kept asking my sister why are they just standing there? My frame of reference meant you shook your ASS off of this kind of music!!!
