December 1986 Oakland, CA Setlist: Jacobs Ladder I Never Walk Alone Bad is Bad Power of Love Simple as That Hip to be Square Stuck with You I Know What I Like Back in Time
Who can not like Huey Lewis? This was true 80's main stream rock. Liked from kids to adults, business men to construction workers. What music now of day actually is loved by all? 80's were the last decade of universal enjoyable music.
I would tend to agree. Huey Lewis was probably the top act of the 80’s. If not, then definitely in the top three. I like darn near every one of his songs. One nice thing about his music is, you can actually understand the lyrics. You don’t have to look them up. It’s just so sad that he can’t perform anymore. I saw him interviewed since he stopped performing. He’s a very nice guy.
Back in 1987 I had front row for Huey Lewis and the News @Worcester Centrum, Ma. and sat next to Larry Bird & M.L. Carr. Larry was upset a bit when Huey acknowledged to the crowd that Larry Bird was in the house and pointed him out. Bird just wanted to be left alone.
This is how bands should look like. No hard drugs, just good guys. Touring isn’t easy and sometimes it feels like drugs and alcohol are the only thing that’ll help you get through it. So props to them for staying sober
Exactly. It's all about the music, and in their case, straight-up heart and soul modern rock 'n' roll. And even though they're having tonnes of fun and enjoy you can see that professionalism is a huge factor and approach as well.
@@kimmygiggler7820 Playing a headless bass like a boss✅ Stands motionless like a statue the entire show✅ Hair greased back like it’s 1955✅ Wearing sunglasses inside✅ I’d say he earned the right to burn a few cigs like a gangster.
Totally agree! I also only saw them 3 times. I wish it was more. The Picture This, Sorts, and Fore! Tours. I met them on the Fore! Tour when they played my university's coliseum. Great guys. I missed that time in music dearly. Great bands and affordable ticket prices!
The more I look at details, the more I thought about how different they are in performing styles, but it works as they fill their spots. Huey is a perfect front man. Johnny is the quintessential band leader. Bill sit s in that pockets and finds his fills, doesn't overdo it, but you WILL feel him when he has his moments, especially kicking off the ToP horns. Chris doesn't so much play solos as he fights the guitar for dominance, wrestling each chord like needing a blessing from God. He wrings each passage out as if he requires it. Sean sits at the middle of it all like a great chain linking them. Then you have Mario, who just sits back, breathes out a bit of smoke and goes "Cooooooooool."
I went to the concert in Atlanta that year. My good friend Stacy Smith took me. I was recovering from a life changing accident where I survived a near fatal car accident. We sat in the wheelchair section. The guys sitting next to me was a quad dude I’d never met before, he asked me to help him light his cigarette, turns out it was no ordinary cigarette. And the usher never asked him to put it out. It was a crazy night, that all I can say. Life is good! Ask any dead man. 😉🖖🏼🤙🏼
@@mr.b7586 flipped me 4 times and ejected me 40 feet from the vehicle. Compound fractured my left humorous, fractured my left tibia and fibula, fractured my sternum, collapsed my lung, fractured my L1 vertebrae with a spinal cord injury leaving me paralyzed for life. Yes that was one motherfucking mean ass cat! 😉
Huey had such a unique voice. I love the punch he had when he accentuated lyrics. Record companies said he couldn’t sing and passed on signing these guys when they first started. Must suck to have been that epically wrong and missed signing one of the biggest bands of the 80’s.
In fairness everyone gets turned down by record labels. Most artists don't succeed so the label has a better chance not signing someone than signing them. I have worked with a lot of big artists and never met one that didn't get turned down by many labels. Heck Damn Yankees had an all star line up. They could not get any labels to sign them for a long time.
The Beatles got rejected from almost every label in London and George Martin said had he knew about it he would've passed on them based on that alone. Makes you wonder how any groups ever get pass the starting line with that much working against them.
Jacobs Ladder - 1:32 I Never Walk Alone - 5:52 Bad is Bad - 10:52 Power of Love - 15:30 Simple as That - 20:22 Hip to be Square -25:38 Stuck with You - 30:11 I Know What I Like - 35:01 Back in Time - 39:50
Great job! One of my favorite tours ever! I have another filmed concert of this tour. I think the date is 1986. The one I have on VHS doesn't feature the 49ers. The song selection is slightly different. It has an extended version of I Want A New Drug featuring Stephen Doc Kupka of T.O.P. having fun playing off of the crowd. I wish I could buy it as I did before. It like many concert and music documentaries on VHS tapes, were never reissued on DVD or Blu-ray. It also can't be transferred to DVD either which stinks.
I was at this very concert! After "Back In Time", there was a break. Just before midnight, the band came back out Huey counted down the clock to the new year (1987)! A bunch of balloons dropped on the audience, and they played an entire new set with all of they're best songs! It really was remarkable. The band at its best!
I was there too! It was the best concert I had been to in a long while, and New Years Eve! Wasn't this the concert that Los Lobos opened up for Huey, and they got booed off the stage? Pretty sure, Not positive. Los Lobos was new at the time, and really just wasn't the band to be opening for Huey who was #1 at the time.. Could you verify??
@@coolcat6303 I was there as well. When the 49ers came out the crowd went insane. I've been to hundreds of concerts over the years representing a variety of artists/genres, and I've never seen an audience pop like that. It was so amazing and having the 49ers there during their amazing 80s run made it a once-in-a-lifetime event
He always either turns his back and stays in the background so the other guys get their limelight. What a great guy. What a talent. He knows his music, every beat, every note. What a talent.
yeah, Johnny was a big part of their overall sound. No matter who else was in the mix, he and Huey were always a perfect harmony. When you have a foundation that strong, everything else is icing on the cake...
I was at this show and actually saw myself twice in the crowd. Eight of us went, nearly 28 years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday. Great show! Thanks for sharing!
Jim Colburn was this New Years EVE??? 6 of us went to see him and the 49ers came out , and this looks like the concert . It was an awesome concert! I use to see him when he was in a band called CLOVER . They played all over the Bay Area.They were great and u could tell they were going somewhere and they did!
Jim Colburn I was at the show in Oakland on Sunday December 28, 1986 when they were doing live filming. I still have the program and the ticket stubs. It was only $17.50 for a seat in section 3. I'm not sure if it was the same concert in this video or on a different day.
I remember Huey Lewis And The News at Frankfurt/Main, Germany on 12 November 1986. It was one of my first concerts and it was just amazing without any Bling-Bling around , real handmade Music!!! Still today l love this brillant band. Chapeau!💐🇦🇹
Brings back memories... In about 1982 or so, right after Picture This came out (I think), my friend's band had a "big gig" opening up for this "band from California" about 50 miles from our home town. We were both drummers, and his band was a rock & roll band with a big PA and lots of gear--and I would help them out when they had a big gig and I wasn't playing. He also used this ginormous drum kit and needed help. So he conned me into schlepping gear that day, as I didn't have a gig. Even though I wasn't a guitar player, the lead guitar player also taught me how to use his electronic tuner so that I could tune his guitars during their show(s). So we go to this venue in this city of like 25,000 people, and it was basically just a glorified bar, with a capacity of like 300 people *maybe*, but even at the that the place was jam-packed. So there was hardly room for the opening act to see the show--so we hung out just out back, like 20 feet from the stage. Since it was summer, everybody was hanging out back there. Well, the band turned out to be Huey Lewis & the News, and we got to talk to them a LOT that afternoon/evening. These guys had only gotten a little airplay by then, and _Do You Believe In Love_ was just hitting the air. I remember talking to Huey Lewis quite a bit that day, but my friend and I (being drummers) really just wanted to talk gear with Bill Gibson, who was playing Sonor drums at the time. Those drums sounded AMAZING, and cost so much that no one around our area could afford them...so we'd never even seen them in person. BG absolutely blew our doors off, to the point that both my friend and I wanted to play 6-piece kits, using traditional grip. I remember he used Sennheiser 421's on the toms, two SM57s on the snare (top & bottom), and a PL20 on the kick--they were to absolutely die for. So a day that started with my friend twisting my arm to schlep gear to open for yet another "next big thing" band (we'd done this before) ended up with us hanging out with Huey Lewis & the News. I remember that HL was a genuinely nice guy, and was really very modest--just another musician to shoot the shit with. They heard my friend's band at soundcheck and were very interested in them as players. Just a great time overall. And these guys could all play their asses off--absolutely not one weak player in the band.
I know it's almost a year later but this is an awesome story and comment! As a drummer myself I totally get geeking out over gear and shooting the breeze with other musos. :)
Thanks for sharing your amazing story. I'm a young musician and get a lot of inspiration from bands like HL&TN, hearing your story gives me motivation to keep going!
My first concert!!! My parents let me skip school the next day because it was a 2 hour drive. I remember telling one of my teachers and she said, "Wow, your parents must be real swingers." (lingo you don't hear anymore. ha.) I've still got the ticket stub. $16.00.
Chris Hayes is a phenomenal and very underrated guitarist and composer. He was on fire at that time with his work. I missed seeing him later tours of Huey Lewis and the News.
The high point of my musical career was being in the band that opened for Huey Lewis and the News in Seattle, at The Showbox Theater, 1980. Their first album had just come out, they were still up and comers. We could tell they were on a trajectory, without having any idea how huge they would become. They were all super nice - especially Huey, and supportive of our efforts. It was a revelation to play with musicians of their caliber. We were tight, but it was humbling to share a show with them, even at that stage of their career. Saw them play again sometime in the mid-80's and thought: "Geez, I knew them when..."
Anyone else shed a tear seeing San Francisco 49er DWIGHT CLARK singing on the mic, knowing he is no longer with us...... RIP DWIGHT THE CATCH CLARK. Being from the Bay Area, Johnny Colla's mom taught at my elementary school Bransford, so we were HIP to Huey Lewis & The News early on and been a humungous fan ever since. This album "FORE" is especially dear to me and I remember the day I bought the album on cassette at a music store on Market Street and immediately popped it in my Walkman and the rest is history. I know the words to every single song front to back. Thank you Huey Lewis & The News for being a major bookmark in the soundtrack of my life. Raytona @Raytona500 MY SLEEPER HIT: "Forest For The Trees" THANKS JOHN DOE FOR POSTING THIS.
I wasn't there but at age 16 Huey Lewis and the News were the first band i ever saw...It was at Wembley arena and despite seeing other top bands and names since,; including Prince, twice, I think i'll always remember his band the most fondly
1:26 - Jacobs Ladder 5:51 - I Never Walk Alone 10:50 - Bad is Bad 15:33 - Power of love 20:20 - Simple as That 25:38 - Hip to be Square 30:10 - Stuck with You 35:00 - I Know What I Like 39:42 - Back in time
Fuck these guys were good.. I always loved listening to ALL their albums on cassette when I was young and grew up in a small town so I never did get to see much of the live footage until RU-vid came out. I get a rush just watching this from beginning to end and can't imagine how much better it would have been to be there!! Rock on HLN!!!
Totally Brad, I bought their first five albums on cassette during the 80s, and just played the living shit out of them. Still have them archived - why would you throw them out?
I was at this new years eve concert in oakland arena in 1986 watched them ring in the new year fireworks baloons at midnight and thd 49ers singing hip to be square one of the best concerts i ever attended . I remember it like it was yesterday
@@BuscaLoEsencial: Taken from an article: The singer suffers from Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disorder, and can no longer hear music frequencies or hold vocal pitches. Sometimes his hearing abruptly disappears, as it did just before he went onstage in Dallas on Jan. 27, 2018, forcing him to cancel the show and the rest of the tour. They'd finished the album before this turning point; he'd previously been able to hear fairly well with his left ear. Since then his hearing loss has been much worse, often fluctuating unpredictably.
Being a musician was very hard work back in the day. Its not like the guys are sipping iced tea by the pool all day and then do a gig. Its basically new town almost every day, get maybe 2 hours of sleep, do promo, interviews in the AM and off to soundcheck. That is part of the reason why people age faster. Lots of hard work, lack of sleep, pressure of changing time zones.....and on top all of that, put on a energetic show night after night, and at the end of the tour maybe have a week off, and back in the studio for another album, IF the tour was a success. No such thing as 'easy money'.
yes thats the trade for fame.. the dark side of fame is .. you die a lot faster period. No Questions asked. It's the real deal trade off. Touring is hell. It's worse than any job out there ... grooling schedules... and it's a in a flash of time... unreal being on the road... you have to love to do it or it's absolutely NOT FOR U. AND YOU HAVE TO BE FUCKING THE BEST AT UR GIG PERIOD.
The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
huey lewis a paris au zenith lors de cette tournée avec Bruce Springsteen en invité un super souvenir!!!! un vrais groupe!!!! avec de vrais musicien!!! merci
What a show and what a band. I dare say that Huey Lewis & the News very ably occupied the empty space left by the Eagles when they went on their 80s hiatus.
I love theses guys in concert from the Sport Tour in 85 to the Four Tour in 86 this was true music Huey Lewis and the News were always great straight Rock and Roll no Gimicks and always from the Heart love you Huey and the News Thank You making the 80,s so fun listen to and still listening in 2021 and much much then Today,s music
Huey and the News were one of the all time underrated greatest performance live bands, ever. It’s a shame they weren’t fully recognized for the incredible band they truly were.
Solid, solid band these guys were. Total professionals all of them and the sound they got is evidence of this. High School was soundtracked by these guys for me.
It was a blessing to live in the Bay Area back then. I actually had the experience of seeing Huey run past me, while hiking on Mt. Tam, in Mill Valley. And to see Joe Montana and the 49's, joining in on the fun- it doesn't get better than that.
@@seangill898 the word "musicians" doesnt really apply today... It died after 1995 in my opinion. ( but - thats just mine )im from geezer rock 1970-95.
I saw this tour in Denver CO at Fiddlers Green!!!! I was the last day of the tour and they went 30 mins over and got ticketed because the genius' in CO put a 5-8,000 amphitheater in a residential neighborhood!!! Like this concert, Huey is on a different level as is the band adding in the Tower of Power horns (those guys are icons!!! ) and especially the compositions and arrangements!!!! One of the greatest Rock bands every IMHO!!!
Holy Shit. They were nailing this shit live. Back then, a majority of pop-rock bands really sucked live. Not these guys. They knocked it out of the park on this one. Great traditional 1960's doo-wop style vocals with a new twist in the 1980's. Vocals in tune, with fantastic harmonies/arrangements. Band is fat and tight. And so on...Hey, is that Lou Marini? Looks like him. I know the Tower of Power horns joined the News, but I didn't know if Lou was in it.
Dwight Clark also fukn nailed it like a seasoned performer could always count on him not to drop the ball when it mattered most RIP Dwight Clark...saw Huey Lewis about 7 yrs ago in RI at Twin River they still sounded absolutely outstanding so clean was short show at a casino full of senior citizens my buddy and I were the only ones standing up and we were in 7th row so Huey was basically looking directly at us for half the show-a unique, enjoyable experience to say the least...This concert is about as good as it gets, would be on my list of stopping points if given a time machine...
Yeah I was playing this on my laptop & stopped watching for awhile but kept listening while I did other stuff. When "Simple as That" came on, it sounded so much like the studio version that I actually forgot it was a live concert & thought it was playing off of iTunes. Amazing how great these guys sounded.
1986, I was 17 yrs old. What a time! And while I was into the metal age, I found that over the years the music came and gone. And no matter how much you thought you loved it at the time. Over the years it just didn't seem to matter any more. Then there's these guys, HL&N. Music that stands the test of time. 32 yrs later...and they still sound great. To me, this is what it's all about.
I was there and remember that their opening number was Heart of Rock & Roll. The band came out and started vamping, then Huey appeared in a Cable Car that was lowered to the stage level and he then jumped off and joined in.
In the early to mid 80’s Huey was the man! This band toured constantly for years and put an album out every year too! Great sound, reminds of the GREAT 80’s! Man I’m feeling old!!! They deserve HOF!!!
Just had a quick chat with HL in a favorite old Marin County Establishment of ours; we had not seen each other for many years, but he remains unbelievably one of the most upbeat, happy, and genuine persons you could ever meet. This concert was filmed at his peak, with his buddies at TOP and the 49ers. Seeing Dwight Clark sing the end of "Hip to be Square" with his best pal HL brought a tear to my eyes.
Huey Lewis & the News was my first concert, in fact The FOE! concert in Omaha Ne. I will never forget seeing Huey walk out onto the stage at the beginning while hearing the band play the extended version of Jacobs Ladder. This was when music was still great.....
