Jim Lea - truly the forgotten genius of rock music. Great songwriter and presence and a real thinker to boot. A true original, how many other musicians from a mainstream rock act would put a fiddle solo on a single?
Saw them at the Odeon Birmingham - absolutely electric!!! One of the best live performances I've had the pleasure to witness - and I've seen some biggies over the years. Met Dave Hill in the Cotswolds shortly after his stroke, he was so down to earth and a real nice guy. I know they never will, but bloody hell they'd sell out everywhere if they did a few specials!!! 🤞
Great man, i'm over sixty and thought too i'm the only Slade lover known. I grow up with their music, and at that time there was a huge competition between Slade and Sweet fans, but no way, Slade were really rock'n'roll. Thumbs up!!!
Im 52 and i liked em when i was about 8 or 9 years old( then again, you couldnt avoid them, huge in britain,i think they went on totp more then any other band)
I first heard them when that 1986 album was released, and every song a winner. An older guy said, "Man you gotta hear this!," and was he ever right! It is still one of my favorite hard rock albums to this very day. That song Dog House says it all. Yah, Ozzy was right about the lead singer's voice, and he ought to know. Thanks Slade for all the solid hours of excitement and fun! Keep up the good work.
You boys make great noise! Fan since my first listen to My Oh My, still listen on my iPod on a regular basis, really loud!! Ear bleeding loud and the cat hides. Fan forever! Greetings from Canada!🇨🇦
I'm 29. This video came into my recommendations a few months ago. Ever since I've been obsessed. I have always loved bands like ELO, Beatles, Queen, etc... but Slade is different. They are fun and unique. Wish I could have experienced this when it was happening.
I witnessed it Mr. Pants and i can tell ya, there has never been a band like 'em before or since. To really appreciate Slade, you needed to see 'em live. The records are great but they don't capture the magic of their live gigs. Wish i could go back and do it all again 💖🎩
They were my favorite band as a teen in the seventies. Lots of energy, driving guitar chords, and Noddy Holder with the perfect gravel voice for rock! Could never figure out why they weren’t bigger in America! Quiet Riot got famous doing exact replica covers of their songs! Great rock band!
we will never fully appreciate the enormity of this band and the possibilities that were never realised,,so underrated,but me,,l always knew they were something special, noddy and the band are legends in any language,
Участники группы SLADE.Я счастливый человек.Я рос и взрослел вместе с Вами и с Вашей музыкой.Спасибо Вам огромное.Вы были в 70-х у меня на бобинах,а сейчас в моём сердце.Низкий Вам поклон из СССР.
I was there for both Concerts ,My first gig at Sheffield City Hall blew my mind ,Sensational Alex Harvey band as support,,At the lyceum held on to Dave Hills boot ,Love Slade always been my band love um
They were very popular in South Africa in the mid to late 70's. Everyone knew the band. When I moved to the US in 1999 and mentioned Slade I was met with a vacant look
50 million in sales surpasses ALOT of bands who are more known. Slade was huge in 1984! MTV played them every 30 minutes for a long duration of time I recall. Legends! Kevin Dubrow RIP loved the band Slade! Kevin sounded like Holder!
Noddy is offered the chance to do a reunion gig, but he's thrown all his old clothes away and he can't remember what clobber he used to wear onstage, so he goes to a charity shop in Wolverhampton that specialises in 70s gear, and says to the proprietor "Well, I've been offered this gig, lost all my old stuff, what do I need?" "You'll need some platform shoes" - "OK, fine, Give me a pair of those" "You always wore Oxford Bag trousers in tartan" - "Fantastic, a pair of them too then please" "And braces for the trousers, and a shirt with enormous lapels" - "Brilliant, put them on the pile" Noddy thinks for a while.... "Is there anything else?" "Kipper Tie?" "Aye thanks mate, milk and three sugars please"
Oh my fuckin god thank you for posting this. I am a 29 yr old American from the south and would have never been able to see this otherwise. Slade are so much one of my fav. bands that my wife and I plan on naming our son, if we ever have one Oliver Slade Jackson!
Slade was so great, under appreciated how great they where, when ya look at what makes million$ of dollars today in 2018 , such swill today, we are devolving!
you have some bloody greet slade sounds, the best band ever to walk the planet, many thanks for all the uploads, your a star, as is NODDY, JIM, DAVE, DON. KOR!!
To me they are the best ever. No one before or after made me rock as hard. If I were stranded in a little island far from the coast I would like to have with me Old New Borrowed and Blue, Nobody's Fool and Whatever Happened to Slade.
Slade - из ряда вон выходящее явление, единение рока с юмором. Играли просто, легко и на лицах была улыбка. Мои дети (30+) заражены роком благодаря Slade. Slade - out of the ordinary phenomenon, the unity of rock with humor. They played simply, easily and had a smile on their faces. My children (30+) are infected with rock thanks to Slade.
When they first appeared on TOTP someone from the BBC costume department asked Noddy did he want a kipper tie,and Noddy said "Yes ,with milk and two sugars"
was there at the beginning with these guys still love em . Im a Brummie these boys lived 5 miles from me in the Black Country yet we talk completely different, dont need sub titles though...... tham Bostin !
My grandparents in moms side were from wolverhampto and bilston. I remember grandad used to say bostin. Sad those old sayings and slang is dying out now.
Me and a couple of buddies in my American high school were the only Slade fans we knew of.We felt like we knew something nobody else did. Turns out we were right.😊
Bobby V. St. Louis, mo. Slade concert in old Keil auditoriom, 1976, during Daves' solo one of only two times I was in pain at a concert. Incredible volume! By the way, It wasRobin Trower who got me the other time!
As a sixties child who grew up on the Stones, Beatles and then the masters Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix. The Who and Pink Floyd at the time of Slade's success I was right hippy snob having been and helped set up the famous Isle of Wight Pop Festival. Reluctantly and keen to get a much younger lady than me (ie 18 and me 26) in bed I agreed to take her to the Slade Live at Finsbury Park Rainbow theatre and felt a right wally with all the little tweenies there. But I was absolutely gob smacked that their first number was Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf and it was bloody good, and then they did a perfect rendition of Darling Be Home Soon by The Loving Spoonfield and I was 'gone' man 'solid gone'. Five records later I had forgotten about the girl, lost her, at the front of the stage jumping up and down and clapping with all the screaming girls around me. I have been to many gigs and saw nearly every famous touring band in those days and I can truly say that apart from the WHO at about 2:30am at the Isle of Wight in the morning of very tired, wet and cold in the mud was galvanized with half a million others and the help of four bright wartime giant search lights that woke us up to Won't Get Fool Again and most of Tommy that we became 'alive' as I have never had or again - BUT !!! SLADE without doubt are the second best 'LIVE' rock band ever .
Jimmy Savil happened. He existed. Editing him out of old footage will not change that. Watching old footage of Jimmy Savil does not make you a sex criminal or a sex criminal sympathiser.
Thats right - nothing was ever proven. and the mans not here to defend himself. Easy for the scum of the press and the police to attack dead or fallen 'celebrities' who cant defend themselves (harris, hall, glitter, king) - takes the spotlight off the REAL paedos and perverts in the higher echelons of society - you know, like judges, politicians, police commisioners, royalty etc. What a fucking world....
Мне было 15 ,74 год ,когда первый раз послушали эту музыку,чуть раньше Битлз, такая была необычная музыка....Очень нравился Диппперпл,Ледзеппелен, извините я не знаю английский,..Абба тоже слышали...
Witam z Polski jest to jeden z najlepszych zespołów z ubiegłych lat oczywiście do dzisiaj zawsze słuchałem i będę słuchał a mam 73 lata to co zostaje w pamięci kochamy to pozdrawiam zostawiam łapkę w górę i suba
I had a ticket to see Slade and Kiss in Fresno Ca sometime in the mid-70s, then Slade canceled out and then Kiss did, never did see Slade, and that was who I really wanted to see. They had a sound that was all their own, some guys could sing. Holder had a voice.
I remember watching Slade (the "house band") on ToTP regularly in 1973. I was only 5. My dad used to say "he's only shouting!" I'm currently reading Don's excellent autobiography, "Look Wot I Dun". Roller coaster ride! Oh, and they formed on March 19th, 1966 - not April 1st. Chas made that up years later, probably for the Nobody's Fools press release.
Funny they mentioned playing Bournemouth in the skinhead days and finding the place full of...skinheads. I remember it well as my band Room were the support band...and we were "hairies". November 1969. We thought Slade were accepted by the audience...I know we weren't. But I'd brought along a water pistol...and used it on some of the mouthy skinheads at the front...for some reason (thankfully) they loved it. And so I carried on. Two of Slade (not gonna say who) were nice fellas and chatted to us as equals. Happy days.
Remember their stacks (amps) in the Aldridge (West Midlands UK) Community Center Hall - WOW after a gig by them your ears rang for the next two days - they were great!
That was my introduction to them, in the early 80s mind you, it just blew me away. I watched a concert a few nights ago, Noddys timing and speed! Rapid fire monologue with perfect timing back into the song, brilliant!
The alarm on those girls faces when Saville says "It's number one time!" Where were his hands? Bloody creep. I used to hate it when his turn came around on TOTP.
I saw these cats at the Masonic Temple in Detroit around 1975 I think. They were the warm up band for Robin Trower when his "bridge of sighs" album was rocking us all.
Checking in from Canada: I could have seen Slade in Toronto if I had only been about 4 or 5 years older! I made friends with a newly arrived Scouse bloke in my 20s who was a massive Slade fan and had ACTUALLY SEEN THEM! Man, how I envied him, LOL!
Great memories...first saw SLADE at Melbourne Showgrounds in 1973...in those days video clips were few and far between in Australia and very few articles put name to face...so I assumed the lead singer was Dave Hill...got over the shock after five minutes and enjoyed that performance from then on even though it only clocked in around 70 minutes...Status Quo and Lindisfarne were the other acts on the bill.
How I would like that they would once again get together with the original line-up of the group and give a concert, at least one :)🙃 While all the participants are still alive ... Then a little later it will be all together and it will be impossible to do this, unfortunately...
