I guess you've never seen this clip, haven't you ? From "Beau Fixe Sur Pithiviers", French TV, 14th August 1976 ... Notice Lee's external jugular vein, and the diversified audience ...
This is one of the most rock and roll videos on RU-vid. They don't give a shit who is the crowd, they just rock on like if they were in a dark, sweaty and cloudy pub, because that's what they do. Lee, Wilko, Sparko, Big Figure. What a band, what a song.
This is incredible. A great band at the height of its powers in a no frills, no pretence, no miming tour de force. It was a great time to be 16 and every time I hear the Feelgoods I am still 16
And here I am, also at 65, seeing this. I was lucky enough to see them in 1975 aged 16 at the Malvern Winter Gardens. After all these years It still remains one of my favourite gigs.
I'm also 65 and I've heard the name are the band probably cuz it was popularized by Motley Crue. They must have never came to the United States but I've been watching a lot of their videos now
LEE COLLINSON......aka LEE BRILLEUX.....was a customer at BURTONS...in Southend on Sea.....and CHELMSFORD where i worked in 1988/89.....Lee bought shoes leather ties jackets...etc....regularly.....He was a polite friendly chatty super suave tall smart dude...folks.....and always chatted to us, the staff...in the shop doorway.....so he could have a quick cigarette......what a guy.....i am proud to have known him..... as for the cigarettes......SADLY....his undoing........in 1994.... i think also, his hard inhaling and exhaling of breath..to play his Harmonica.. over time....in smoky clubs bars...and pubs...may have contributed to his sad demise....A fact...... What a kind and charming man all the same.....a top showbiz "worker".....with no ego either.....just good manners..
They are unique. Lee, thank you for ever for calling in my radio show in Hagen/Germany from a telephone booth in the south of France until your money ran out. The best interview ever. Thanx
Priceless. I SO wish the whole film for the event would appear. I was lucky enough to see Wilko just a few weeks before he left us. Such a power, like everything the Feelgoods did. Much missed.
I worked in a pub in Leigh on Sea, back in the 70s. The Feelgoods played there. Always friendly. I had a drink with Wilko a couple of weeks ago. Great music, great guys. Lee was a sad loss but the band goes on from strength to strength.
Saw them in my teens and now I'm 68. Seen countless bands over the years and became TM for Nazareth along the way. No band ever got me down the front and headbanging - except - 'The Feelgoods'!
what a performance Lee Brilleaux looks like he's singing to 1000 people I've only discovered Dr Feelgood this last week & Ive listened to nothing else... like a lot of people I came to it via Wilco beating cancer - & wondered how the hell I missed out on this incredible band
Brilliant clip, Very rare. Love this track. I met Wilko at a signing evening when OIL City Con came out...i took my Telecaster along and he signed it for me....well chuffed!! He lives just up the road from me...smashing bloke.
Hello robbie ,many thanks for your enthusiastic remarks.Rock,rhythm and blues ran through our veins and when you have it in your heart all else stands aside and you have the energy under any circumstances to perform,like your life depended on it.I still play with the current Feelgoods on occasions and on the memorial nights on Canvey Island on Lee's memorial nights in early May,hope to see you there.My very best wishes Big Figure
Hi John. I know this is a very old post but great to see you reached out here. I suppose I'm rediscovering my teenage years of the 70's & I think the Feelgoods were a bit too mature for my musical comprehension at the time, though "Milk & Alcohol" proved to be a very radio friendly single & caught my ear . It's great to see this footage being uploaded for future generations to see.
Thank you blokes for a great date; saw you April '76 in The Rathskellar at Hofstra U. on Long Island ; you opened for Papa John Creach. I was the chubby dude with the Greek fisherman cap who tied to play harp along w/the band, but was with an incredibly cute girl. Next day, ran out & bought "Malpractice" & returned the girl to her husband.
Hi Figure, from the day in 1975 that I saw the Feelgoods at Birmingham Town Hall, I was a fan for life. Went straight out and bought She Does It Right.
@MichaelKingsfordGray every time you hear thunder it is TOR riding the sky with his wagon pulled by his black rams battling the giants with the hammer mjoelner in aasgaard that's where the sound of thunder derives from. So there, TOR is real.
Hi sticoto 31 thanks for your interest.The playground video was a french tv company's idea ,actually not all of it was broadcast.We had an American car driving down the high st. to the school etc but it was fun.When you saw us at Mont de Marsan without Wilko this must have been when Gypie had just joined the band.Incidentally EMI are releasing a dvd and cd including all out takes and the kind of stuff you might be interested in,they were indeed crazy days Thanks The Figure
I saw the Feelgoods at Kensington Olympia I went to see the New York Dolls at a sort of indoor mini-festival but they never showed up. The opening act were the then unknown Feelgoods, I'd never seen anything like them before and was mesmerised. Two tears later they were about the most popular band in the country and had a Number One album with "Stupidity".
Damn right - I've never seen this clip before. What impresses, as well as the fantastic performance and musicianship, is the utter dedication they give to the performance despite the fact the audience are mostly "mums and toddlers". No compromise on what they doing despite the audience (non) reaction. Oh and BTW, and this is one of the best renditions of Going Back Home I've heard, thanks for sharing.
What a great clip on RU-vid ! I just love the contrast between the raw energy of the band and the staid French mums and dads with their kids; I wonder what they made of stuff like this - with no accordions or Edith Piafs to sing along to !
Hello its was 14th August 1976 in Pithiviers France for a daily TV show called midi première. There was some sequences direct live of pop music and yes, I was here in front of my tv this D day, I bought immediately the tape of the live Stupifity and listened the tape until it die;-) With my group we have played Stupidity which it was an easy song to learn and reproduce for us. A lot of souvenirs but unfortunatly i never seen us on stage.
La séquence à été tournée en juillet 75, j'étais là, dans la cour de cette école. Mais je n'ai jamais vu l'émission, programmée en août 76.. Son titre était "Beau fixe sur Pithiviers" De nombreux autres artistes, français, participaient à cette émission de variétés Dr Feelgood était un ovni dans ce programme.
brill, saw feelgood at the double diamond club in cardiff in 85, fecking brilliant show, one of my fave bands, with wilko amazing.... rip lee you made me take up the blues :-)
The Feelgoods were the first live act I ever saw (Newcastle city hall C1978) and I think only Miles Davis's live show (Hammersmith Odeon 1982) was subsequently able to better that experience. LOL it was The Figure that first inspired me to play drums....Its fair to say he isnt the worlds most flashiest most technical drummer, but then he doesnt need to be. First and foremost he is a truly great musician, with a great feel for the structure and feel of any given song and what the drum part needs (or more precisely DOESNT need..)
+Goldsmithexile1960 I agree, Figure is a great drummer, and has always been under-rated. What he does on the solos on She Does It Right is a good example, turning to the tom-toms when it gets to the 'top' bit of the solo, which locks in tight with the bass strumming Sparko is doing - classy stuff, adding just that bit extra to the song. I don't think I've heard any of Wilko's subsequent drummers do that.
I love to watch this occasionally. Too young to have seen them live. The recording equipment can’t have been up to much but the energy just pours out , amazing.
The legacy gets better and better all the time as music on offer gets blander. I have my sixteen year old son who has been drumming a few years now listening to the band and he loves the music.
MAN!!! I just LOVE the energy he puts in to playing the harp, he is "in the zone" times TEN Lol don't know how he doesn't blow a gasket!!. Awesome band though hey. The English boys put some fantastic bands together through the 60's & 70's & 80's but I guess so did the rest of the world & in good old OZ too, but the English boys had that raw great Blues sound, Cream, Fleetwood Mac etc etc These boys are seriously cool.
What a band, every performance they live it and give their all into the songs, never seen a band live that vibrates through your body like the mighty Feelgoods.
Happy days! What a great clip. Saw Feelgood around this time, perhaps a year earlier, following appearance on Old Grey Whistle Test. That was at De Montfort Hall Leicester. The classic line up.
thanks so much for uploading this, takes me back to their appearance at the Saddleworth Arts festival all those years ago, Lee Brilleaux was the best frontman ever
Maravilloso! ellos tocaban igual de fuerte en un teatro lleno de fans, que en en la calle frente a niños y madres! ROCK AND ROLL! WOnderfull, they play rought no matter wheres they are, in a theathre full of fans , or in the street in front of kids and mums. ROCK AND ROLL!
I saw Dr Feelgood the same year as this video at Leicester De Montford Hall. One of the very best gigs I ever went to, just full-on energy from start to finish. Only Motorhead at their peak came close...
These are the venues where I know they played as support to Hawkwind in 1974 - December 12 City Hall, Newcastle December 13 Apollo, Glasgow December 14 Palace Theatre, Manchester December 15 Odeon, Birmingham December 21 Kursaal, Southend
Great opening shot, the guy with the briefcase.. :-) the band, the sound, the 'venue', it all adds up to some strange 7t's brilliance.. :-) And I do luuvvvv Wilko's chop-chop, especially in the final bars of 'She does it right', right at the beginning..
