Music video by Dr Feelgood performing (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 (Live) (2005 Remaster). Digital Remaster (P) 2005 The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd
With all do respect, and as an admirer of his style and tone on the guitar, he literally walks back in forth over and over on pretty much all their performances. It's quirky, but I'm not sure I'd characterize him as a showman lol.
And that, my friends, is the true spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. A rock solid rhythm section, a truly one-off guitarist, and a front man who looks like he'd rip yer eyeballs right out of yer head. Saw them loads of times, and Wilko's band as well. Absolutely brilliant.
I love this so much and agree with you all the way. Similar for me in Texas in the 70's seeing ZZ Top and SR Vaughn. My we were lucky (and I think I knew it at the time)!!
@@tcm6756 Well, that said it's never too late! Obviously he has passed now but Wilko was from my hometown in Essex and I've met him several times and played guitar with him in my local pub, all at the age 12 or 13!
They were outside my school often and played the haystack pub regularly on canvey - I wasn’t into them back then - but realised how good they were. I was into other music back then. Very underrated band at the time but well respected then and now in the music business
Saw them a couple of times at the Liverpool Stadium ( demolished '87 ? ) back '75-'76 . Those days it was about 90p . LOL . Hey , Chuck Berry at the Empire was only GBP 2.60 !
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@@peterward9446 One Hundred Percent ,Mick Green...As a guitarist myself I never get tired or bored of him& it's been 50 odd years since I've been tuned into him...A shame he doesn't get the recognition he deserves...Although I suppose he created his own circle of people...
@@StevieZero ditto - as per: Billy J Kramer says: June 4, 2021 at 5:40 am. "I have seen all the great guitar players - Mick was the best I ever saw .,, and to have had the pleasure to work with him Was one of the greatest highlights in my career..."
"Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" by Dr. Feelgood with Willko Johnson on guitar (a mid-70s live performance, remastered in 2005). Life affirming R&B at its very best. Happy birthday Wilko! May you have many years of music ahead of you!
Great band, has all the elements you'd want driving rhythm section with loads of swing, guitar hero and powerhouse lead singer, all leaving everything out there on the stage. Such a pity the classic line up lasted such a short amount of time.
Only two good things ever came out of Canvey Island. The A130 and the Feelgoods. No band can compete when it comes to the sheer sweat and attack of a Dr Feelgood show. The boys are legends. Gonna miss you Wilco 😔
My favorite part of one of his obituaries was when he said he liked blues but there weren’t any mules or cotton farms where he grew up, so he had to write songs with a blues background but incorporating the realities of his English life.
Not one mention in all these postings of Sparco and The Big Figure. We all know how great Wilco and Lee were in the band, but Sparks and the Figure were the engine room of the Feelgoods. They were the finest kick arse rhythm section in rock n' roll.
Amazing band and a huge influence on what was to become punk with their high energy workingman's take on the blues blended with straight up rock 'n' roll.
I thought the Stones version was good, but this tops it by miles. The tone of Wilco's Tele is spot on , and the band is so tight, and Sparco playing chords on his bass! . The big Figure driving them on. Total magic
100% Agreed. Early Stones stuff was simply something else ( Apologies to Eddie Cochran fans ~ I'm one of 'em ) . Seen the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard Live back in the day,. Powerhouse performers all but Lee really was something else and then some. What a dynamic front man! My favourite live band by some margin. RIP oh great ones!
Wilko is still touring, with Norman Watt-Roy and Dylan Howe. They are nothing short of brilliant. It is an amazing uplifting evening. Wilko is a legend. We are blessed that he is well and back on the circuit. Don't dither, buy a ticket and go. They are nothing short of epic.
Too bad I never saw Lee Brilleaux on stage. Last time to experience was maybe around 1991 at my hometown, Lahti, Finland but I missed it. Thanks Lee, Wilko and rest or the Dr. Feelgood for everything.
The rhythm section was the engine of the band, with the Feelgoods a lot of people were focusing on Lee and Wilko as they were so visual and not appreciating Figure and Sparko
The Feelgoods picked me up while I was hitchhiking, we became friends & I saw them play 8 times. Great band & great people. I met Wilko again a couple of years ago & we remembered some good times.
