To all members of the Angels. To leave a legacy. To be revered. To be loved. To be remembered. To be enjoyed generation after generation. Congratulations and thank you to all.
A true legend of australian rock music. I consider myaelf very lucky to have seen him perform as the real angels on several occasions. The good ones always go early for some reason.
I've lost count of the numbers of times I seen The Angels live, it didn't matter whether it was a pub/club/stadium venue, you just knew it was going to be an awesome night rockin' out to their music!! I still have all their albums...on vinyl of course. What a great frontman he was !!! 🤟🤟👏👏
Missing you buddy so many good times, still remember your face when i was hesitant to stage dive thinking i would get into trouble but nope you smiled and nodded and whooosh i went only to see the crowd part like moses and the sea only to land on a foot deep of VB cans at the barbed wire ball Salina`s haha. Best times ever. Followed you guys for thousands of kilometres just to hear that awesome Aussie Rock. Best years of my life. You gave so much Doc and the Angels God Bless you all. Big hugs time will never forget you and nor will most Australians.
So many wonderful opportunities to see the Angels in Melbourne in the 80s - saw them at the Barn, the Bowl, The Village Green, the Manhattan, the Somerville, etc. etc....those were the days and Doc ruled the world...
What a wonderful tribute to a massive part of my growing up in the 70s and 80s. RIP Doc you absolute legend and thanks for the memories, you will never die to me, no way, get f........... ; )
Never got to see Doc and the Angels in the 70s or 80s but listened to their albums through my brother who was a huge fan, I grew to love them also. Peace to you Doc and your family, your legacy will live on.
gee, as an aussie i really love this place sometimes .when we get it right and that wonderfully precious aussie character bursts forth [eg just to have a governor that is so loved and respected and so good at her job they wouldn't let her retire; this is one of the few places that could happen] when it works with the people supporting each other and the thing you measure people by is the content of their character which i believe is personified by the governor maria bashir and the GG who are supporting him and there's no bullshit . they genuinely love him ,now that's leading from the front . thanks doc and the angels .i remember the gig years ago at narrara. what an over the top blast
So happy to have had the opportunity to see this man perform live, mostly through the 1980s. No one comes close to him. Good to see Buzz in this, he was always a true friend to Doc.
Buzz was the main friend to Doc throughout all of the issues with the Band. 200k spent on legal fee's that's where his money went, plus not being able to earn through an important time of his life due to the injury. Buzz knew what the Brewster brothers did, but has to be careful due to the royalties ongoing issue. Cheers Buzz a good bloke.
Two all-time favourite bands of the 70s? The Clash and the Angels....saw the Angels at Brisbane's Lang Park in '78 as the support act to David Bowie....Doc blew them off the stage - to this day one of the best gigs Ive ever been to....
I heard THE Clash like many a punk & post-punk band, were pretentious wankers. My friends saw The Cramps live and they too were wankers. Only The Damned had any real legitimacy.
I saw the Angels live in Traralgon back in 1990 with The Screaming Jets as the support group, both were great! Dave Gleeson, the lead singer of The Screaming Jets, is now the lead singer of The Angels.
I remember back in the 70's The Moonshine Jug and String Band would practise in a house around the corner from me, and then I remember walking home one night and hearing something totally different to that style of music. All of a sudden, they were loud, and wild, and awesome!!
My biggest regret is that I never went to see The Angels live. Definitely had a TV guide poster up on my bedroom wall at one time 🤣, and bought a few albums, but never went to concerts for some unknown reason...🙄 BIGGEST REGRET I HAVE looking back. Doc lives on through his music, and for that, I am most grateful. RIP ❤
I saw them 3 - 4 times including them opening for Guns'N'Roses in 1988 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Best home grown Australian band I have ever seen. I've always preferred them to AC/DC.
Saw the Angels in Los Angeles at the Whiskey agogo. Angry Anderson from Rose Tattoo Duff, Slash & Axel from GnR showed up on stage too. Ticket cost $1.06... thanx KNAC radio 😁😎
Shows how important it is to keep lots of space between you and the car in front on the freeway. Nearly been creamed myself on a freeway a couple of times.
Seeing he was REAR ENDED surely it was the truck behind him who should've been keeping enough space? Anyone know if any charges were ever laid against the other driver?
Led zep, pink Floyd. My top 2. So different but I think Floyd wins. Next two.. AC/DC, angels.... bon Scott legend. Massive fan, But doc wins. Rip Bernard. Always be my fave.
Am i ever gonna see your face again was about a girl that Doc knew that died after an acco and ambulance takes her away hence the siren like guitar riff.
The angels will never be what they were, Rip Doc you were a true gentleman, and Graham Bistrup a champion bloke and for the other members money came before health. As to me the only angel now is Doc the rest of the band excluding Graham a true gentleman, can only dream. Call yourselves another name like the pussie foots. RIP DOC now in the good Lords care 🙏🙏🙏
All Australians are pre programmed to sing the refrain from Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again. It doesn’t matter where you are and you hear the song and off you go. This created problems when my 17 year old was a child. So at the right time I changed the lyrics to “no way, get nicked , nick off.”
Annie Souter and Cat Swinton, not much more to say. A real disgust for the way Doc was treated comes to mind. The outward Media BS in no way portrays anything like the truth. Actually sickening comes to mind when I think of the things said by those that have said they loved Doc. Just a little too much BS. The great news God is conversing with Doc about many things, real humane things, not much about music though. He was well and truly over the shallow life and the shallow sycophants, or celeb grifters that suck like parasites the life from the Artist. Those that caused Doc such living pain well they will have to explain their actions to God. God Bless you Bernard Patrick Neeson OAM. The man, the legend the Lead Singer, Front Man Voice of the Angels has incredibly loyal fans who deserve the truth to be told. The new book by the Brewsters, self promoting themselves using, 'The Angels' name to sell copies for funds to pay mortgages on land. Owe I think I will keep performing into my seventies for money because I have none. I think I will just keep singing pretending I am 20 and the fans will continue to turn up, there are not enough disabled car parking spots available I am afraid. The Brewsters paid lip service to Doc's illness and death, and their "loveing" son Kieran would get up on stage with them, it would make the great man vomit to see it. That alone, for any REAL Doc Neeson FAN should have told you just how much he knew about his DAD. As Doc admitted it was his greatest failure. Doc was a compassionate loving man, living with pain daily, taking medication with for the most part was addictive. Taking alcohol with that was not the wisest, thing to do, but he was very depressed for much of his last 14 years. Pain and controversy, and betrayal will do that to a person. God Love him!
Yeah such a caring bunch the Brewsters, not only were they performing under the name The Angels, they drafted in Dave Gleeson to take the baggage. They couldn't even wait for his death, had to perform while he was still alive under the banner that so much of the Legal entanglements that kept Doc poverty stricken for most of the last 10 years. Living on a pension etc, no support from anyone, family or others apart from a nameless friend and the enormous hearted Dave Lowy, when estranged from Annie, oh she forgot to mention that, only together near the end. Then the narrative was controlled by publicist to deflect issues that inevitably were going to be asked. How other Aussie Iconic Muso's haven't said anything about the treatment Doc received is disgraceful. I guess they are all so broke, working just to keep the hangers on family members going they have to work. No money in Aus for muso's, no venues for muso's to perform. The council regulations are so crazy, folks don't have an opportunity these days to see live acts. Just hope the truth is revealed, unfortunately it will have to be through the courts. Getting close now.
He says his biggest failure in life was his infidelity and substance abuses. I say, oh well, he was a rock star of the greatest magnitude, touring and temptations all the time. The biggest failure to me was not having 100 offspring.
@@davidnewby3263 yep doing that probably may have caused that brain tumour that’s what I’m worried about now I’m older the speed the bikies used to cook was rocket fuel in the 80’s 😬
I saw him kick a young woman in the face at a concert in Coogie Bay at Selina's nightclub Coogie Bay Hotel around 1990ish. I can never forget what I saw him do that night and I totally lost my love for the band who I'd seen 4 times. They had absolutely no respect for the fans. Great music yes, but Mr Neeson was a terrible person.
