No video :(

Inside the Dark and Mysterious World of Screaming Lord Sutch

Подписаться 3,8 тыс.

Просмотров 11 тыс.

50% 1

Screaming Lord Sutch (born David Edward Sutch) was an icon of British life from the early 1960s until his untimely death in 1999. He created a style of music that fused Rock 'n' Roll with Hammer Horror and added snippets of Carry-On-style humour. He still holds the Guinness World Record for the Most Unsuccessful Attempts to stand for the UK Parliament.
Lord Sutch recorded with legendary producer theJoe Meek, and the musicians who backed him are a veritable whos-who of Rock stars of the time. They include Keith Moon from the Who, Jeff Beck, Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple) and Jimmy Page & John Bonham from Led Zeppelin.
** Can you help me make more videos? **
Even a pound or two would help me pay for the equipment and software I need:
• One-off "cup of coffee" via PayPal: www.paypal.com...
• Monthly Patreon subscription: / jimdriver
My equipment:
Camera: Sony FDRX3000RFDI.EU R AKA-FGP1 Ultra HD 4K Action Cam
USA: amzn.to/2QPG7gR
UK: amzn.to/3agJwwW
Office microphone: Yeti Nano Professional Condenser USB Microphone:
USA: amzn.to/35RCmvE
UK: amzn.to/2Tjqyzt
Where I get most of my lovely music:
www.epidemicso....
ESSENTIAL RU-vid CREATOR PLUGINS:
Tube Buddy: www.tubebuddy....
VidIQ: vidiq.com/?afm...
My books about writing are available on Amazon/Kindle:
UK: amzn.to/2Vtqr5e
USA: amzn.to/354IHF9
DISCLOSURE: Some links are affiliate links at no cost to yourself.

Опубликовано:

25 авг 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 120

@aliengrey6052 9 месяцев назад

I met him, jumped in his van and I spent the day with him. Went down the pub with him and helped him in with all his gear as well as his coffin. He was a nice bloke.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for the reminiscence! Dave was a good guy…

@PeteFGuitar 9 месяцев назад

I was never officially a Savage, but I backed Dave on guitar three or four times in the 80s, with several bands. Some of these gigs were unofficial Monster Raving Loony Party annual conferences. No rehearsals at all, so we never got to play his Joe Meek material, just Little Richard and Chuck Berry covers, and old blues. Thanks for this Jim, good memories.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thanks, Pete. I appreciate the interesting feedback. Happy days!

@aaarrrggghhhh 9 месяцев назад

I knew him in the 1980s when he lived in Harrow with his mother. He used to drive an old Jaguar to take her shopping and he reeked of booze. I remember chatting with him and his mum, carrying the shopping to the car and him signing a photograph for me. Lovely guy and someone who was not afraid to have fun or care too much what people thought of him. I'm so glad to have known him.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

By the time I worked with David most, around the late 1980s onwards, he wasn't drinking alcohol, but used to swill copious amounts of Diet Coke. It can't have been good for him!

@bangtwister 4 месяца назад

Met him at a show in Portsmouth in 1996. Great bloke, we had a chat and I still have a 'lord Sutch', pound note. I also read his autobiography around that that time 'Life as Sutch' . Great entertainer! Murder in the Graveyard!

@JimDriver 4 месяца назад

Lord Surch was a genuine one-off! RIP David...

@bangtwister 4 месяца назад

@@JimDriver In my mind, I can still see him grinning and pulling up Maggies severed head!!

@joemorris143 9 месяцев назад

I was a Savage for about a year early seventies. Was in a Liverpool based band and we toured Denmark with him first. He was living in Petts Hill in Harrow at the time( number 150 if memory serves me well). I'm 71 now and still playing in a fairly decent pub rock band. It was a memorable time in my younger days and we even got on the TV in Denmark. Shame about his ending he was a nice guy. Peace all. Joe

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes, I think it was 150 Petts Hill. And I've just found my old address book: his Notting Hill house wasn't where I said it was, it was actually 24 St Luke's Road, W11 1DP…

@ForARide 2 месяца назад

Unfortunately I never got to see His Royal Highness, but around the millenium I got to know his rodie Steve Golly here in Berlin. He used to call around now and again in my workshop and told me some hilarious stories being on tour with him. Steve would bring Dave's coffin on stage and dress up as the cop, battling with him on stage. Back in the days they would have burning oil barrels on stage, once or twice almost burning down the place, which is absolutely unthinkable nowadays. Thanks ever so much for this clip, keeping the memory alive of (Screaming Lord) Sutch a great character!

@JimDriver 2 месяца назад

I remember Steve Golly from my early encounters with Sutch, Quite a guy! Thanks for sharing those great tour stories with us!

@davereece3498 9 месяцев назад

I was a pump attendant in a garage in Wembley and Dave Such had an account there. I filled up the union flag Bentley one night and we were in the booth signing the account book when a Hillman Imp came screaming on to the forcourt and smashed the Bentley right up the arse!! The kid driving reckoned his brakes had failed. Dave Such went bazzerack as the car had just been properly restored before the poster paint job. At the same garage I also served Bert Weedon, Ernie Wise and Ginger Baker. Happy days!!

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes, it was easier to bump into people back then, that's for sure. I once came across the actor David Niven in an Italian deli in Old Compton Street, Soho. He was buying olives…

@senianns9522 6 месяцев назад

I met David in of all places Darlington! He was an OK guy! Had a beer or two with him and enjoyed the meeting! Great guy!

@JimDriver 6 месяцев назад

Dave Sutch was a great guy - we'll npt see his like again!

@neils4886 Месяц назад

Saw Sutch at the Co-op Regency Room, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Ended the show with Great Balls of Fire, and set the stage curtains on fire. He was banned from this venue after that!

@JimDriver Месяц назад

Yes, his Lordship was prone to accidental acts of vandalism. I once saw him send his coffin crashing onto a table packed with empty glasses that had just been washed after a big function. It was amazing how few survived…

@nicholasbell9017 9 месяцев назад

Like Billy Connolly says about 1960's people: "There were characters back then, not like now"..."I miss them". What an extraordinary being. I never knew he had hanged himself. Depression. He made himself, and ended himself, his way. It's like, he created the persona of Screaming Lord Sutch, and people loved it, and the Monster Raving Loony Party. So much fun. Maybe it all became too much for someone who never ever really grew up, or did, retaining or maybe trying to see things, as a child does. Bless him. His Mum died, his world was suddenly maybe a lonely place. I'm just rambling at 2am. Thanks. Nick.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thanks, Nick! Although no one knew anything about it back then, I think Dave suffered from "imposter syndrome" and only his Mum could persuade him otherwise. When she died he had nobody to assure him he was a funny, talented man…

@nicholasbell9017 9 месяцев назад

@@JimDriver Hello Jim. Never heard of "imposter syndrome", but I think what you describe makes sense of what happened. Someone said on the radio sometime back that life, as we experience it, is ultimately about dealing with grief. Shit happens, and sometimes, it's just too much to cope with. Anyway, thanks for replying. All the best. Nick.

@barry888 9 месяцев назад

My date made his flaming top hat , and various swords and props for the shows , and my mum used to try and get his schedules organised, which was a tough ask !

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

I'll bet. I once tried to organise a package tour featuring Lord Sutch and the Savages and that was a logistical nightmare!

@rachelaspogard6587 9 месяцев назад

Sad ending! Loved his character though! So eccentric!

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes, indeed. Everyone was shocked when they heard the news. Especially as he had lined up a show playing in Vegas a few weeks later… ❤

@davidr6991 9 месяцев назад

Saw him open for the Cramps at Hammersmith Palais 1980. Saw Lux Interior and Poison Ivy looking on from the wings. Appeared to be very impressed

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes: Chas Hodges remembers Jerry Lee Lewis taking the time to stop and watch Sutch's set back in the early 1960s, when he was one of the support acts on a package tour. He said it was the only time he ever saw JLL come out to watch a support act. That says a lot!

@user-lt9py2pu6u 9 месяцев назад

Sad end to a great guy. Probably a bit ahead of his time with the theatrical rock stuff like his performance of Jack the Ripper, it certainly worked later for the likes of Arthur Brown and Alice Cooper. Typical British eccentric, we need more like him.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

True! I also think of Dave as the pioneer to the current rash of publicists. He was the master back then, always on the newspaper page, and TV screens, just using a telephone and a friendly printer: imagine what he could have done with the Internet!

@vincentl.9469 9 месяцев назад

@@JimDriver is it the case Sutch was jeered or even chased by a group of women in Yorkshire somewhere, after his Jack the ripper act ? . This was during the period Peter Sutcliffe was murdering women in Leeds and elsewhere..

@anguswalsh2387 2 месяца назад

I was fortunately enough I lived in the area in South Harrow, Park-field road. I remember my father told me he got a book from his front lawn (day after he died). I’ve visited his grave, buried in Pinner Cemetery. Also I became a fan.

@JimDriver 2 месяца назад

RIP Lord David Suitch…

@elmolewis9123 9 месяцев назад

I remember hearing the album when it was released but never knew the backstory. Thanks for this one. 👍

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

My pleasure! Thanks for commenting, and please keep watching…

@upbeatnews1 9 месяцев назад

Sutch met Elvis in Las Vegas, I believe it was 1969 and got Elvis to sign his Sun records collection, there's a great pic of him with Elvis online.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

A great story, thanks! David once told me he'd met The King. I'd assumed he'd meant the late George VI… 😉😀

@RNFORLAW 9 месяцев назад

This dude was the original. Before Sabbath ,Cooper and everyone else to mix horror and rocknroll

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

He was well ahead of his time, that's for sure!!

@paulwilliams9748 9 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed this one, Thanks had the pleasure of playing the policeman chasing Lord Sutch around the stage one time.... I remember one wild show Lord Sutch & Freddie Finger Lee set fire to the piano smashing it up and pulling the false ceilieng down... was all good rock n roll fun

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Happy days! I can remember the first time I put him on was at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in the late-1970s. He and the band had never met and he was trying to teach them the show in the dressing room beforehand!! 😀

@JCO2002 9 месяцев назад

I'd forgotten all about him. Many thanks.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

My pleasure: thanks for the comment!

@steveshattah 7 месяцев назад

I bought his album because it had all three instrumentalists from Led Zeppelin on it I couldn't believe this record was only 99 cents. Honestly I took it to the used record store within a week.

@JimDriver 6 месяцев назад

That album was definitely an acquired taste!

@Johnsmith-yk5kj 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for that unique insight into a true character who has been around for most of my life ! Had no idea about who he was or what he did ! Thank you Jim

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for those kind words, I really do appreciate them. Please keep watching…

@andyhealey2993 8 месяцев назад

Ģreat little summary, like most of them you put out Jim. I recall him once at the Cricketers close to a General Election with Madame Cyn ( Cynthia Payne - brothel keeper to the gentry) as his political deputy and dodgy backing singer.

@JimDriver 8 месяцев назад

Indeed. Cynthia once said she'd fancy me if she could be bothered. It wasn't said with any great enthusiasm and I never did work out what she meant. Thanks for the kind words!

@raymondbonington9355 9 месяцев назад

Bloody hell I forgot I was at the carlshalton beach gig on the Friday in 1973 ,cheers .

@johnrawlins6147 9 месяцев назад

I was in malcom mclaren shop in kings Road in early 70s and he had just received a package from lord such, a small number of LPs ,one of them was a promotional eddie cochran album, its got promotional stamped in the corner, I've still got it today

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Great story, thanks, John. The great thing about Sutch was he seemed to have a story about everybody. I can't remember them all, but I do recall once asking about a particular music legend, and Dave replied, "The main thing I remember about XXX is that he had incredibly smelly feet!" I won't spoil the mystique by revealing who he was talking about… 😀😀😀

@johnrawlins6147 9 месяцев назад

@@JimDriver was this music legend American or English

@Nipajim 9 месяцев назад

I had the pleasure of meeting him & chatting in the audience of a Gene Vincent concert !!! , maybe Harrow in the early 70' s a very nice guy.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Totally good bloke. RIP David Sutch…

@francispower1418 9 месяцев назад

The day after he died the flag over the Palace of Westminster was flown at half mast. But later I found out some very senior Catholic dude had also died over the same few days, who I think himself sat in the House of Lords, so I never did find out if they dipped that Union Jack in his honor or not. I prefer to think they did. I remember him fondly as a national treasure. Alice Cooper remembers him as an inspiration in interviews sometimes. I think I once might have even tried to join the All Night Party but I can’t remember how that went… Pretty good I expect, if I can’t remember much about it!

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Haha: who knows?! Let's say it was for Dave…

@delboyoelmundo4718 9 месяцев назад

We need this party in power

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

😀😀 They can't be much more loony than the party we've currently got… 😀😀

@mnbv990 9 месяцев назад

Nice one jim.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much! Please keep watching…

@eugenesteenhuisen4065 9 месяцев назад

Would love to have a copy of Heavy Friends. We used to listen to it in the very early 70’s. What a character he was indeed.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Pretty sure we'll never see another like Lord Sutch!

@timetraveller9321 9 месяцев назад

He worked with Ritchie Blackmore at some stage before deep purple was formed it was lord such and the savages I believe, a great upload thankyou so much I value your time and effort superb

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for the positive comment! Yes, Ritchie Blackmore was a member of Joe Meek's Outlaws band from 1960 and backed Sutch as a Savage (amongst others) off and on until he joined a band (Roundabout) that already contained Jon Lord in 1967.…

@familydogg1234 9 месяцев назад

I'm a fan! Never would have heard of him if it wasn't for Heavy Friends LP. I'm American. Have the Live Lp, Heavy Friends and a bootleg. " Flashing Lights" was used at the end of a Daniel Craig film! " Logan Lucky" Sutch is Life.....

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Indeed! Ironically, Lord Sutch wasn't one for using chemicals to enhance his music. He thought all those lyrics up inside his own head, unaided… 😄

@michaelgregory2231 9 месяцев назад

Greetings from California! I bought the Heavy Friends Lp in 1971 b/c I was such a huge fan of Page, Beck, et al. I've bought many copies of it since wearing out the original one. A dear friend and Gravy Train guitarist, the late Norman Barrett, played for Dave and I loved hearing him recounting tales of playing and shouting "Vote for Sutch!" on a lorry as it went down the street. Good times! Here's a video of me playing Flashing Lights - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dFErGCvi7pM.htmlsi=TtjrCzx66habaDgQ

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Very cool! Dave was unique… 😀

@raymondbonington9355 7 месяцев назад

Paul Nicholas the actor on that short clip playing guitar I think .

@JimDriver 7 месяцев назад

You're dead right and I nicked the clip from the middle of an interview he did!

@danielpayne3336 7 месяцев назад

back in 85 I had a band that never made it out of the studio but we recorded a couple of rockin versions of Murder in the peepshow with a rave up ending i thought that song was cool. still do

@JimDriver 7 месяцев назад

Sounds brill!

@leerogers9949 9 месяцев назад

I went to see him live in my local pub in the early/mid eighties. He knocked my friend Claudine's pint over with a plastic sword.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

I put on and saw Screaming Lord Sutch many times durin g that time; at a guess, I'd say many pints were accidentally tipped over!

@garynewman2935 9 месяцев назад

Hope Than is well

@simonirvine1628 2 месяца назад

I used to go to Club Dog at the sir George Robey in 1990/1 and it used to go on until 6am, it was nuts, the toilets were awful but the acid was good.

@JimDriver 2 месяца назад

Ah, the memories of funky toilets and good acid at 6 am! Classic Club Dog. 😀

@simonirvine1628 2 месяца назад

@@JimDriver I fairly sure back in 1991/92 that the Robey was the first legit establishment to go on till 6am and that set the scene for everywhere else to follow suit. What a place, some of the most fun and affordable evenings I have ever had.

@xwsftassell 9 месяцев назад

Nice one.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Thank you and please keep watching! Cheers!

@steveambrose5580 9 месяцев назад

A friend of mine a plasterer did some work for him as he was quite a successful builder in the wembley / harrow area.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes, he used to get plastered quite a lot he told me, but he gave up booze in the 1980s in favour of Diet Coke… 😀

@SamHarrisonMusic 9 месяцев назад

I actually really love some of Such’s music. Its like proto punk :)

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes, Dave was ahead of his time in so many ways, even if he wasn't the best singer in the world and that didn't really matter. He was a live wire and a performer first…

@SamHarrisonMusic 9 месяцев назад

Union Jack Car is a personal favourite :) great rock 'n' roll tune!

@moominpic 2 месяца назад

25th anniversary of his passing

@JimDriver 2 месяца назад

Yes, 16th June, 1999. Thanks for remin ding me…

@garynewman2935 9 месяцев назад

Use to know David and his lady Than. Lived on the Strip with his Union Jack Rolls Royce.

@yorkiegilly4355 9 месяцев назад

Forget every other eccentric guy you ever saw or met Dave Sutch was a real one - off . My older brother got to know him when he & his mother lived in Sheffield for a time as our kid was a D.J. and lead singer in various Rock n Roll & Country bands in the 50s & 60s Sutch was a real child of the time .I remember seeing him for the first time at a fairground and my brother saw him without his flash "Ted" suit and shouted at him calling him "Dave " he came over and put his finger to his lips saying sshuusss ! don"t call me Dave . Him & Freddie Fingers Lee made quite a pair ,we regularly met at Rockabilly & Rock n Roll weekenders and once spent a night drinking with Freddie as we were both big fans of Royal Enfield motorbikes . The last time I saw Dave Sutch was at another southern weekender just before he died ,he was doing the same act and looked the same after quite a few years ,my younger brother his band and me were in the next caravan . My brother was in the Chevrolet band then ,since then Double Talkers ,The Twang Masters , and many others ,he is now the Hot Rock Trio"s drummer and can no longer play guitar after a chain saw accident mangling his fingers .Great times , mad - but great people ! .

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Happy days… ❤😀

@kevinlaughery1076 9 месяцев назад

I have a mint copy. One of my favorite record's! I HAVE A LITTLE OVER 3000!

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

I was surprised at how few records Sutch released during his lifetime. But then he always considered himself a live performer… ❤

@club_rock 9 месяцев назад

ABSOLUTE GENIUS SLS Jack the ripper 🤪🤪🤪

@tommymclean3146 9 месяцев назад

i knew such when i was 15 we supported him for his political bid me and about 40 other youngens went on march for him he knew we were the future voters he was the nicest funniest man who got on with pretty much everyone we went on to go to his gigs in our teens and even after he has gone he still inspires us to just do our thing and not to worry what anyone else thinks i miss him he was a good egg and great frontman

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

He was indeed, Tommy! Thanks for commenting and for helping keep Dave Sutch's memory and legacy alive…

@michaeljohn2826 9 месяцев назад

Nowhere near enough content about this pretty unique recent history figure

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

I quite agree…

@worstxb1playertylerteehc635 9 месяцев назад

I have a recording of David with John Bonham on Drums and Jimmy Page on Guitars. AND some with Mitch Mitchell behind him. EDIT: Oh shit he stole those backings LOL Oh shit!!

@francispower1418 9 месяцев назад

Well they did turn up to the sessions, even if they didn’t know what the sessions were really about! My guess is they were cool about it.

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Dave Sutch told me he'd misjudged the mood and (here it gets a bit murky) he had been assured by a third party he wouldn't name that the musicians were fine with it (untrue). But Jimmy Page in particular was furious. “I just went down to have a laugh, playing some old rock ‘n’ roll, a bit of a send-up,” Jimmy Page told author David Kent. “The whole joke sort of reversed itself and became ugly.”

@francispower1418 9 месяцев назад

@@JimDriver Using the sessions is one thing. Using the names is another. I can see how that might have needed to be a lesson learned, given Lord Such’s situation at that time. I mean how many of us can get Jimmy page to drop in and lay down a few tracks on our next project? They were younger then, still making their mistakes and… I have always got the impression that Mr page is by default the nicest guy in the world until you manage to upset him, and how you might do that is often far from predictable. I know someone who toured with Page and Plant in the late 90s. He was well enough paid (probably the highest paid hurdy gurdy player in history) but he was being careful about spending during the tour because (recently married, first born on the way) he wanted to come away from the once in a lifetime experience with a useful nest egg. Page eventually started laying into him in front of everybody else about keeping up (with the party) and standing his rounds. Ever sensitive about being taken for the fool, I dare say. And let’s face it, he is vulnerable to attack! Eventually it was all smoothed over through some intervention by Robert Plant, who is by all accounts quite difficult to upset.

@davekeating. 9 месяцев назад

Another Ripper suspect for the internet...

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Indeed! 😀😀😀

@robinwitting2023 9 месяцев назад

It seems he pre-empts Alice Cooper with his showmanship. Robin Witting

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Yes, indeed. He told me adopted the "horror" theme in the first place because Hammer Horror films were the biggest box office draw at the time and no one else was doing it…

@elmolewis9123 9 месяцев назад

Sutch's Monster Raving Loony Party was the forerunner of the US MAGA/GOP party.

@Tyrannocaster 9 месяцев назад

It absolutely was not. Today's closest relative would be Vermin Supreme.

@alfsmith4936 9 месяцев назад

Today's Republicans make the MRLP look sane.

@bricefleckenstein9666 9 месяцев назад

Would anyone have ever heard of this guy if it wasn't for Blackmore being part of his band for a while?

@JimDriver 9 месяцев назад

Haha! Screaming Lord Sutch was one of the most famous people in Britain. I'm guessing you're young or maybe not from the UK. Back in the 1960s he used to be one of the biggest live acts in the country, and the likes of The Stones and The Who used to support him - even if Dave wasn't the greatest singer in the world, he had great ideas and was a world-class showman. I'd suggest that quite a few people who knew who Lord Sutch was had no idea Richie Blackmore ever played in his band… 😀

@bricefleckenstein9666 9 месяцев назад

@@JimDriver I'm definitely NOT young - but I'm not from the UK.