OMG.....I am 78...my son graduated in 77...this was his music...now I sit here in the dark at 2 am. Caught in a CLOUDY Hamish web of funk slow soul...Person to Person, totally in A Love of My Own! .....nothing to do but Cut the Cake and......Pick Up the Pieces!! ..I love it. ...🎷🎶🎸❣
AWB a Force of Nature, I have been listening to you for 40 years, I am 64 today and up dancing to you. Love you guys now and always, Beth in Nova Scotia
Hey Beth,right on, I've been listening to the AWB since Feb1974,drove down to Florida from Toronto,Pick Up The Pieces was big all over the radio,especially in Fla.,never stop lovin AWB.Cheers from NovaScotia too.
Thes famous Funksters have been around for years, and they are from Scottland making it famous in the 70's living in New York. One of my all time faaaaavorite groups!
This Band This Music This Feeling This Era Every time I listen to them it sounds better with more layers and a deeper appreciation for their sound for their musicality and how it can transform any moment at anytime. The Average White Band has never been an average Band, they move you they excite the brain waves that travel throughout the body they trigger memories that unfold into the present timeframe and build a newer version of the talented musical layers that will become a part of you. Pick up the pieces, I was there when they played live, and it will stay with me the rest of my life... Thank You Guys for getting together and allowing your musical talents to takes us along for the ride...
Back when we had .....Real music,and excellent Vocalists....no auto- tune or computerized mess!! What happened?😔😔 Thank you,and God Bless you for posting this amazing ....Soulful ,Performance!! Average White Band....No way close to being......Average 🙄😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Dynamite band, what else can I say? Yeah, they mastered the art of integrating blues, jazz and rock & roll. When listening to Work to Do, I'd put a lil' extra elbow grease into whatever I was doing at the time,,,,,,,😎.
I just love my blue eyed brothers!!I was about 15 yrs. old when I first learned of this group that played music that their black soul sister could dance to.I don't care what anyone say,I'm their biggest fan and I am up into my 50's now and still bumping my white boy's as I call them.Thank you for taking me back to real music Myyy Clips2.
why would anybody said anything? keep on sister, whoever is normal stands united with brothers and sisters around the globe no matter what they are. black sister is my sister, black baby could be my baby, I could be your son... one love
A good song (a positive idea) + talented artist (puts their Heart into it) = AMAZING (results at Everything) MUSIC. This has 'no time table'. Thank GOD!
Saw them at the San Diego County Fair this past summer....I was so back in Jr. High School and still knew all the words to the songs! I even just got goose bumps typing this!!!
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+Nedra Brown +1000 Such an anomaly - a bunch of Scottish white guys bringin all that funk...they were so much more than average. They much more than 'cut the cake'
I'll tell ya - 'cause their hack engineer (drummer sharing some fault as well) isn't adjusting his every-gaddam-day, 90's rock drum tones to something more appropriate for old school funk/r&b - and the resulting sound is... well... retarded. Kinda like the soulless vocals in PUTP. I'm not puttin down the whole thing as a POS, I will say it's pretty far from impressive though.
After letting some time pass and having now given it a fresh, second listen, the kick and snare tones still suck. AWB's performance is awesome as always. I also give the drummer huge kudos for his kit's nod to Robbie McIntosh, and his performance is outstanding like everyone else's. None of that is in conflict with my unfavorable assessment of the kick and snare tones. Perhaps communicating how your perception differs from mine would prove to be a more constructive response. When confronted with people who don't share your opinion, to respond simply with name calling doesn't seem to have many apparent benefits.
Eric Anthem Really? Personally I looove that slightly louder-in-the-mix and more aggressive snare smack in this context. Tweaks the dance energy up a notch and gives it a slightly more modern vibe while still keeping it fully funky. KIller drummer too, all groove and right in the pocket. Sax player is a monster too... (y)
Drummers: listen to this guy! The 2 and 4 are always right there where they should always be. AND on the occasion where he riffs and grooves you never loose the 2 and 4. That is how you play: simple and yet every bit as exciting!
Saw them last night at Yoshi's. Off the hook! Great band, sound tight as a drum, just a transport to their personal soul planet. These guys will certainly be missed once they're gone...
love the sax in this great beat no one could do this but A .W. B lOVE it! Fan 4 life and i mean it!! I love there black and white album with the woman for the logo she was the w for A.W. B all the songs were great and Keepin it to myself was then and now And still a great song with a lot of meaning.Thank you A.W. B Signed Doris Star Kraesig
Saw this on People v. OJ. Fell in immediate love with the song. Anyone remember when you could walk onto a thing called a RECORD STORE, and they actually had the damn CD on. The. Shelf??? Went to TWO stores. Not a frigging AVB CD in either store. If I wanted to ORDER IT online, I wouldn't have left the house, right? The online sites are inanely geared to ordering online. I just wanted to buy it, like NOW. Btw, you only needed the five seconds of the song on "People v OJ" (Episode 6, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha") to notice this is a REALLY great funk band...
Soul sound, you just have to be born with this, you can learn it yet it must be in you. AVERAGE WHITE BAND is not average at all. Love AWB from the first time I heard them as a teenager oh wee makes you feel good to know these are real musicians playing and not a machine, hardcore musicians practice their craft to beauty.
you don't need a professional engineer to run Auto-tune...just a guy that knows enough to run the returns for it back to the end channels so he isn't Auto-tune-ing them talking (so you can mute it on the ruturn). GREAT engineers are extremely rare, and it's a talent that should be VERY well-paid, which it's kind of not...
I saw them several times in the mid 70s in Lexington, Kentucky. They were great, the second band was”Tower of Power”, can you imagine! I still wish I hadn’t taken that second hit of Blotter. But I’m 67 and still remember my name so what the hell. They were playing at Eastern the next night, just a short drive to Richmond from the U.K. Campus. Both bands were outstanding, and I stayed somewhat straight, just a little smoke. Yeah kids, Grandaddy smoked pot, so what!
Great band with Adam Deitch!! They really need a super funk drummer to bring out the best of the original members!! I saw them 10 years ago, they must have had a bad night! the drummer was just OK!!! no sparkle!! the whole band was off! I pulled out all of my old CDs from AWB!!!
Pick up the Pieces they took to a another Level some of that nasty stinky Funk saw these Guys in 77 along with Tower of Power they Tore it down then in 07 still as Funky and memorable as ever.
That IS Alan Gorrie on vocals and bass, and yes, that's Adam Deitch on drums, back when he wasn't quite so well known. Freddie V on sax is a seriously fine player too. Saw this lineup several times.
First saw these guys at the legendary Marquee Club in London. They had just arrived from Scotland and were hungry. Saw them back in Oz a couple of years later and they had lost that hungry edge. Still great though.
Why all the race references? Music is music, funk is about the way you feel and play, not about the colour of your skin, music goes above and beyond that!!
This is my time. When i'm still performing at GRAND INIHAW España ROTONDA it' PUNKY TIME. One of my piece CUT THE CAKE my band name FRONT PAGE BAND. MULO, BOY, ABET, and me JEFF vocalist. with the support of monchit. Alt. Dummer.
These guys are good? :P (you youngens) They are the freakin epitome, the essence of FUNK! The bass player Alan Gorrie and the lead guitarist Onnie Mcintyre are the original members on this lineup, the sax player Freddie V has been with them since the 90's and too bad so sad the keyboardist Eliot Lewis who was a phenomenal addition to the group in the 90's is no longer with them he plays with Daryl Halls band on Live from Daryl's House now. So for as far as the drummer and keyboardists go they are forever rotating new stock. They are getting old and brittle but intensely funky so go see them if you can and keep the defibrillator close in case any of them drop, all will be lost...:)
