Go Go's on the Tonight Show in 1984 performing "Head Over Heels" and "Yes or No". From SP speed normal VHS master videotape. Good sound and video quality, better than anything I currently see on YT.
Kathy Valentine's bass lines are WAY WAY underrated. ALL the Go Go songs had great moving bass lines. She wasn't just pedaling the root note of the chords....
Yes, just like with all good rock and roll bands the rhythm section makes all the difference and the go go's had that in spades. Kathy and Gina rocked.
Kathy was just a guitar player when they hired her to replace Margo Olavarria, who didn't want to conform to the band's new pop image. Kathy learned how to play Bass while on cocaine it turns out.
@@akbarlebowitz8151 And Charlotte Caffey was originally a bass player who picked guitar. She had to switch to keyboards occasionally for awhile because of a bad problem with carpal tunnel syndrome. She just couldn't play a full set on lead guitar night after night.
Kathy Valentine and Gina Schock rock n roll's most overlooked rhythm section, they both play their asses off, and kathy was one of the reason i started playin bass, total bad ass
Save me a seat! I need to have a little talk with my dumb ass 18 year old self about a few things!! Also to see if Kathy would sell me that Ibanez bass she’s playing here!!🤣🤣🔥🎶🎶🎸🎤🥁
I love this song, it's my joint favourite Go Go's song, and I wanted to play bass when I was younger.. just like Kathy Valentine! The bass in this song is brilliant, I love it! I love the claps too but Kathy was so cool!!
congratulations ladies finally nominated rnr hall of fame, they are underrated and the dynamics live is out of the park to say the least. Kathy and Gina drive the riffs and hooks fantastic,just love Gina,s double handed cymbal crashes best wishes from old rocker
Thank God for Mr. Thomas Edison (and his loving mother), the little deaf boy who did not do well in school. Otherwise, none of us would have ever heard any RECORDED music that could be played back. When he did that, it was the first time in 6 billion years of world history that it had ever been possible.
I think Belinda sounds a little ragged here. Admittedly, they were likely in the middle of a tour, but some of it is likely due to BC partying way too hard. (She admits this herself, in her memoir.)
Saw them at the Carowinds Palladium outside Charlotte the year I graduated high school. Had a BIG crush on Belinda. They are still in very regular rotation in my tunes. Would LOVE to see them again. That would be a trip!
I had the Go-Go’s album Talk Show. My mom and her best friend Tricia looked at the cover of my album and Tricia said That with the short hair Belinda Carlisle looked like Elvis Presley.
Induct these talented musicians into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!! Only ALL Female Band, Song writers, paved the the way for punk bands like "Greenday" & Avril Levine No Doubt. First. & ONLY female band to have #1 Album!! 🎵❤ Nominate for Kennedy Center Honors!!
First and ONLY all-female band to have a number one album- no group of women has done this since!! It's a travesty that they haven't been properly recognized for this! 😠
Very true, my friend! Take a look at their Central Park performances of around 2001; I promise you will not regret it. If anything they were even a bit more polished then, but the added years of experience. (Plus the highs and lows of several breakups and reformations.)
I only wish, as of 1984, the mix down engineers at NBC's "The Tonight Show" were more experienced with "live pop band music mixing" and using proper outboard effects units. Even though the gals were all right on pitch is seems, on "Head Over Heals", much, much more compression, limitation and a fast quick plate reverb sound was HEAVILY needed on Charlotte's keyboards. A stereo chorus effect could also been used on Belinda's lead vocal on that Shure SM-58 she had in her hand. But then again, if one is not a multi-track, live, sound reinforcement mixdown engineer...who really cares, huh? BCRadio ======= Radio Broadcaster, Audio & Sound Designer, Analog & Digital Mixing. 1979-2019 (retired)
All their albums are great, and their first 3 in particular .. Nothing can touch "Beauty and the Beat" for sheer excellence ( every song's a winner ), but like "Vacation", "Talk Show" was also a very good album, with plenty of great songs on it.
Belinda playing that synthesizer was management's idea because they knew they were gonna package Belinda as a solo act and they wanted to see her range as a musician. Which she is a singer, not a musician. And she'll tell you that herself
Love the albums, always thought they had much to be desired live... especially Belinda's voice. Just a fact, and I've been a musician over 40 years... some bands have it live musically and some are more about image, like in today's music. In their documentaries, they admit that they barely knew how to play when they got together, and they admitted to often playing sloppy live due to drugs and alcohol. I just think there is too much reminiscing from days past that puts them on this great live act pedestal. Strictly being honest here, no hate whatsoever. Anyway, I still love their songs I'll listen to their albums any day!
I respectfully disagree, it's quite the opposite of what you say... The Go-Go's live are often criticized for sounding exactly like their records. Look up the 1984 concert video "Live at the Greek" Every song is on point, no missed lyrics... That was right before the breakup. The drugs and fights were there but did not show up onstage. The Tonight Show never allowed any band the proper set up to do a live song. You say that they barely knew how to play? Before the Kathy Valentine had 2 singles with the Textones, she was lead guitar and lead singer. They were all in several different punk bands before the Go Go's. They individually had different levels of musical experience at the Go Go's beginnings but overcame all of that by time they recorded their first album. I agree that that the Go Go's themselves are quoted as saying that they were often in a daze on stage, but I never see it in any of the hundreds of hours of concert footage posted on you tube. They were sometimes ragged looking buy always delivered the sound. Let me know and I will post you some links to many of the great live performances that I have viewed from the years 1981 to 1984
Remember... This was right after the buildup over royalties exploded. Jane wrote most of this album. But since Charlotte was making so much more because of the hits off their debut, Gina and the star Belinda were making the least....they tried to demand Jane to split the royalties. She said next album, they said now, she said fuck off and was quitting after the contractual upcoming tour. Which this performance kicked off. Watch their live clips and videos from '80-'84. And now this. Jane is so pissed here. Charlotte probably shot up beforehand, you can barely hear the guitar, that she's barely playing. And Belinda can see them all like, oh shit maybe I shouldn't have told Jane she wasn't good enough to sing on forget that day, which Jane wrote and was mega personal. So sad, because they rocked.
Jane (along with Charlotte) was always the creative duo on most of the first two albums (with specific pieces contributed by Kathy that she brought with her from the Textones). When one looks at the change in credits on Talk Show, it is obvious that Charlotte dove into heroin addiction, it was Kathy who stepped up to fill part of Charlotte's place working with Jane. But Jane had every right to be pissed. She had worked hard on Beauty and the Beat, and gotten the lion share (with Charlotte) of the royalties. With Vacation, everyone was given a chance to participate and this is where you start seeing credits being given to Belinda and Gina for the first time really. But the decision to "split the royalties equally" with Talk Show (when Jane had been the one constant producer of good material) and the insult about not being allowed to sing lead on "Forget That Day" was rightly so a slap in the face. Kathy just wanted to be a rockstar and the fact that the best know singles from Vacation ("Vacation") and Talk Show ("Head Over Heels ") were both pieces that she and Charlotte had crafted (or updated in the case of "Vacation") with little involvement of Jane (there is no animosity in that regard as Jane has said that "Head Over Heels" is her favorite Go-Go's song). There are quite a number of criminally underappreciated tracks on Talk Show ("Mercenary ", "Under The Blue Sky", etc.) which is a shame because the band's implosion hurt what could have been a gold mine IMO. My favor live perform set is probably the Rockpalast German television set from November 1982 which includes almost all of Beauty and the Beat and Vacation, the drugs are not dragging folks down yet, and egos and hurt feelings had not caused their damage yet
RIP Joan that , that Doctor needs jail time , revoked license. The lawyers for the Rivers family, Jeffrey Bloom and Ben Rubinowitz, said they did not reveal the amount of the settlement because they wanted to focus on improving patient care. But they said it was “substantial.”
ugh to yes or no. that was a downer after a great performance of head over heels! no hook, slow lifeless beat, really bad lyrics, belinda looked like she wanted to be *ANYWHERE* but there... they never shouldve released this let alone performed it. but HOH was great!
What do you think, folks? Ugh to yes or no...well? Yes, or no? I personally kinda liked it, Belinda was actually playing keyboards, which is the only time I ever saw her playing an instrument.
@@me-lq7go I just LOVE "Yes or No" .. It's in my top 2 or 3 Go Gos songs ! .. Anyone that says "ugh" to it has their musical taste in their butt .. Cheers, Wayne
@@me-lq7go Um, you totally misinterpreted my comment .. I was lending support to your liking of "Yes or No", and agreeing with you that the person ( Frankly Speaking ) who actually said "ugh" was wrong.
@@wayne_twentyfive yeah I got that after I posted it, what can I say too much partying when I was younger lol, I was a teenager in the 80's and the good times seemingly never stopped! Long live The Go Gos!!
