If anybody thinks the band look rough on the promo films, you should have seen them live. Rough, ready and one of the best bands of all time. If Lee was still with us he would have put Rag 'n' Bone man in the shade with his fantastic voice and "mouthie" playing. Once a fan of Dr Feelgood, you'll always Feelgood.
I saw them numerous times and all \I can say was attitude...stood eye to eye with Lee numerous times as they often were not at big venues....mesmeric, the whole band ...
I bought the single of this track on 45 rpm vinyl in 1978 - on brown vimyl ! Great days pre -CD and imternet streamimg. Also - the band were a great alternative to the likes of Genesis et al and all the disco Donna Summer/John Travolta/Bee Gees stuff back then. Pure nostalgia - don't you just love it ! It's great, too, that today's generation can appreciate this great British Rhythm 'n' Blues band via internet platforms like RU-vid - who are probably still very underrated.
i bought this single in 1978 also on brown vinyl & cool for cats on pink vinyl at Waterloo station before a school trip to Belgium,my 1st 2 singles ever.
@@Nictumeni FFS i was just about to post the same :D i got the same 2 singles same day same year - cos the drums on both were so cool - still ended up buying a guitar
Soon as i heard this I ran to the record shop And got it. I can remember the 45s I had at the time. Pistols holidays gstq Pretty vacant. Stranglers nice & sleazy. Buzzcocks promises 3 years later got into the outlaw biker scene Dr Feelgood was as Big as Motorhead Every rally party Not many bands cut it in the punk. bikers. blues & rock scene. But Feelgood had it all Attitude swagger the real deal. Shout out to Wilko. Respect Bro. RIP.
Wow......that 20 second guitar solo is so underrated, its criminal...... Bass player sublime. Great, great band, who should have been massive, and I mean massive,. Of their type, we will probably never see the like of them again........ever
Gypie Mayo was such a good guitar player. Very different form Wilko, of course, but he really brought something special to the band. And you are right, we'll never see their like again.
Still the greatest Rthym and Blues track ever recorded bar none. Style and Menace what a combination. R.I.P Wilko and Lee. Dr Feelgood got into my system from the start.
I love Wilko, seen him a number of times, even when he played with the blockheads. His sound is unique and the early Feelgood recordings have an individual sound that wasn't repeated. However Gypie gave them a more cohesive, rounded and complete sound which is what helped give them their only top 10 single. It was however Wilko's guitar playing on their no.1 album stupidity, so you pays your money, you takes your choice. Whoever played guitar, their sound was great.
I suppose it is a bit like farting in church, but I always though Wilko was a one-trick pony. Great for Dr Feelgood, but I always preferred Gypie Mayo's guitar playing.
@Naz Nomad The band hated him -- all that talent and all that speed. But the rest of those fuckers had the absolute pure bollocks... they aren't a band, they're a road gang.
the lyrics are based loosely on an incident in America when the band had been drinking white Russians ( milk vodka and kalhua) were pulled over for running a red light. Wilko was still in the band then
Lee is performing from experience. One of the greatest frontmen in the history of recent times and a true talent that lost his life to excess. In other words a true Rock star. RIP Lee, you've left your mark big time.
And I am priveledged to have been able to call Gypie Mayo a friend of mine. I met him in the early nineties, and became friends with him not knowing who he actually was, I just knew him as a guitarist called John I met at the local music shop. Really nice guy and one hell of a guitarist.
@MIKE J l cannot be 100% but he played in bands largely unknown or off the radar.I think the band advertised and he won his audition.In the 1970s brilliant guitarists were in abundance,so many remained obscure and unlucky.Mick Taylor of the Rolling stones is one that got a lucky break as did Type.regards David
@@oughtonoughton2634 Sorry late reply Jane.. Glad you like my choice while I go up in smoke! What a band, eh? So underated, i could never understand that. Heard them first whilst repairing juke boxes.. That was it! Doc was ALWAYS the test record! xx
i saw Feelgood, and persuaded another 6 or 7 to come along, at a motel bar in Aranui, chch nz circa '85...they were fkn dynamite. I said to my mates if you don't think it one of the best rocking nights of your life i'll give you back the cover charge...didn't lose a cent. Lee was absolutely r.r.r.rocking
When this came out I was a 13 year old punk fan. I bought this because I liked it and I suppose it was the start of my musical taste expanding. Had to keep it seperate from my punk stuff. Bucking the trend back then could be a nasty business.
I was just in London this last weekend. I was staying at a hotel near LHR. Anyway, I walked to a local pub and this song was playing as a video on the TV. I had never heard it before...
Never really gave the band a true listen until much later.. Why did we think we were really rocking, just listening to Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe ? Pretty d*n fine music by those two, but these guys, they mean business !
your never believe how I got into this band but back in them days I was young and the picture cover to the 45 had a lady with the band dressed in white tan tights and high heels . I had to buy it . the song was great I still love the band and ladies in tan tights and high heels lol :)
This was one storming band, without doubt the raunchiest, in your face Blues/Rock band produced on these fair shores, with the possible exception of Steve Marriott's Humble Pie.
Seen them since the '70, also alive. This one is really one of the greateast with Gypie on guitar. Fooling in the shot with Tele, he actually played this with Strato.
One of them looks like bloody mic jagger, another looks like a drunk stepping out of a bar, the drummer looks like he just came home from private school and the bassist looks like a middle aged dad trying to feel young, but this band is sick🤘🤘
I saw them live in Aberdeen. He got my sister up to sing with him. It was brilliant. But I've only got it on tape and nothing to play it on. At the end he said 'A Big Hand to the Lovely Lady Herself'.
Before punk, there was pub rock, where bands would play sort of r n b rock n roll at your favourite place. They proved there was a way to play music that didn't sound like Pink Floyd or whatever, it had a bit of boogie! And you could dance! x
