@@jaex9617 synths & samples should always be used in addition to, not in place of real instruments. Snarky Puppy & Deltron 3000 are both excellent examples of that approach being executed properly.
This was my jam as a kid in the 80's. Dad's band used to cover it. Always thought it was a black funk band from America as a youngin', oh how wrong I was. These blokes couldn't be more white 😆.....and from Scotland to boot 😳 What a classic!!
That's perfect though because the "average white band" in the '70s had a brotha in it somewhere. There were several, but the Doobie Brothers and their bassist Tiran Porter comes to mind. Nothing average about that band either.
Saw this amazing Scottish band in their hometown of Dundee back in 1981. Perfect vocals and wall to wall funk. Certainly not a one hit wonder, their sound stands the test of time.
@@otman558 I apologize and stand corrected . I made an incorrect assumption that because I saw them a few times in the bay area , that is where they were from . puts a whole new slant on the band now . thank you
Watch these amazing funk band at a agricultural college blown me out just fabulous wall to wall sound it was the best bring them days back and I still play there sounds in my tractor 🚜 today 2022 what's that tell you real music still alive today well done guys who is still keeping this fabulous band alive playing these fabulous tracks
+SaxyDan54 Forget the hits go and listen to the album Person to Person. Not one bad song. Usually the best songs on any album are never played on the radio.
There’s nothing “Average” about this song. It’s one of the greatest funk pieces ever written. I dig funk personally, it just has this groove that can’t be beat and some of the best bass and horn licks you will ever hear.
What a wonderful world we live in. I wanted to hear "pick up the pieces". So I search on RU-vid and I get to hear the Average White Band play it recorded live. I love living in the Information Age of the Internet.
Better yet, I loved growing up in the 70's. Everything was so good: Music, cars, high school, braless halter tops, midriffs, micro mini skirts, crotch hair and daisy dukes were the norm in high school. Days before aids and herpes.
Saw AWB, with support act Kokomo at the Hammersmith Odeon London back in 1976 absolutely awesome night just doesn't get any better AWB, the masters of funk & Kokomo the Pioneers of British funk...
People couldn't believe this band was white when they came out. James Brown went to see them live and his entourage/musicians were talking to the AWB members and were like "YOU ARE FROM SCOTLAND! WTF". Music has no colour.
***** DUDE, these guys are WAY MORE than a one hit wonder....there music lives TODAY in so many samples and is revered in the Contemporary Jazz community.
+Andrea Llewellyn Naw.don t think so.England was heavily influenced by Chuck Berry and the Doo Wop and Soul music and black artists and groups from the late 50 s and 60 s.That s where the British invasion came from in in the ewarly and mid 60 s.
According to Wiki, "The band name was initially proposed by Bonnie Bramlett; the band backed Bramlett on her first solo outing, 1973's Sweet Bonnie Bramlett, an album that presaged the Disco movement."
Mar Mar Which players did you meet? In the 90’s every original player but one had left. Just Onnie Mcintyre left. They got there asses handed to them by the Tower of Power that night.
Dude blowing that Sax Solo did this song justice! This is STILL one Bad Song!!! One of only a few that made the radio waves heavy back in the day and was all instrumental. That's saying something. ;) #SALUTE
What a band they were.Owen Onnie McIntyre on Rhythm Guitar.Hamish Stuart on Lead Guitar and vocals.Alan Gorrie on Bass Guitar and Vocals.Steve Ferrone on Drums and the Dundee Horns.Roger Ball on Sax and Malcolm Molly Duncan on Tenor Sax,who sadly passed away today.R.I.P Molly.
@@arthurgarner3674 me too! One of their first - if not THE first - at the Fulham Place Road Greyhound. It was advertised as Brian Auger's Oblivion Express, and all the speaker cabinets had the BAOE stencil all over them.
Yes, soul and funk have no color, just STYLE. AWGB have consistently been funky.They have just always broken through the styles. The way they have punched through, live, in concert is very wonderful. I don't know how long it took, but they finally, consistently have played through their great stuff. I saw that in person 2 years ago. I'm stupid right now but probably most agree with me. Yes: AWB is a really great band to see live. So Natural and human. I have a feeling that they are the same wherever they go.
STEVE IS A TRUE FUNK MACHINE WITH EVERYONE HE HAS PLAYED FOR!!!!!!!!!!! BUT, EVERYONE WHO HAS NOT LISTENED TO THE ENTIRE BAD ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSED ALBUM "LIVE AT THE APOLLO" , AWB THIS ENTIRE ALBUM, WAS SMOK'IN, SUPER DYNAMITE SOUL FUNK!!!!!!!!!
I will never get tired of hearing that song, even after playing the grooves off the double live album, "Person to Person". Such an under rated band. Thanks for posting this!
I totally disagree. Check out Papa Grows Funk, Galactic, Vinyl, Greyboy, etc. AWB was incredible back in the day, but there are a ton of great bands carrying on that legacy.
Back in late '71 or early '72 at our EM (Enlisted Mans) club in Gelnhausen Germany, I heard the original AWB band play this. OMG ! I was SO taken ! (Being a garage band drummer, prior to drafted in '70 into the Army) WOW ! These guys got it going on ! What an AWESOME tune ! Then after being discharged in ' 72 I came home and when I heard them on the radio, I thought, It's about time !!! A song that will last through the ages. Thanks Guys ! INCREDIBLE SONG !!!
I was at this show in the 2nd row. HBO special. Awesome to see all those bands from Atlantic records. And around midnight Zeppelin finally hit the stage.
This a truly amazing track from a magic era. The horns are beyond compare. Shows that "Funk" had gone global, not just inner city America. AWB was right before "Disco" and along with the OZZY Bee Gees had a huge influence on the "Saturday Night Fever" thing.
I was fortunate enough to meet these Guys backstage at the opening UK show in Bristol on their 1984 tour ....on the afternoon sound check . and was there for that evening's gig. The band I played in was supposed to be the support band too the AWB ,but the UK players got the support gig . however our horn section(I play Alto Sax) was allowed to go to that gig. we meet Molly and Roger and the rest of the band , they were brilliant and very Gracious towards us . A lasting and Treasured moment in time
THIS was the moment for me when music went color blind my dad took me to see them in 1976 in Detroit Michigan and was blown away still have the tour book one of my favorites still to this day and they had a great band logo as well (AWB with the females butt being the W) and they are still in rotation on ALL my musical gadgets
Yes it is necessary. That is the official name of the band, and it didn't bother us back in the 70's (contrary to what mainstream society may have thought). We loved them as much as we did Motown.
