Lone Justice perform on MTV's 6th annual New Year's Eve R&R Ball in 1987 1. "Working Late" (00:00) 2. "Shelter" (02:48) 3. "Belfry" (07:57) 4. "I Found Love" (12:50) sorry this song gets cut short.
@@chuckschillingvideos I was kind of lucky growing up in the 60'& 70's with older brothers and sisters, college late 70's in Chicago, Marine Corps in the 80's. I was always surrounded by people from all over the place with different tastes, so we were always playing stuff for each other and looking for music above and beyond the top 40. Not that we didn't listen to it but top 40 was only one part of what we listened to.
I’m pushing sixty. Loved the band, and especially Maria McKee. You could tell that she was born to perform, and absolutely loved performing. I hate the “industry”, and what they did to the band, and to Ms. McKee. They Killed something inside her, because of their greed and lack of real understanding. If you read these comments Ms. McKee, I watch you often, and am never disappointed. I hope you are well. Respects from Canada. I apologize if I offended you.
Now she makes music for a small audience.... that is as good or better.......in the last 30 yrs she’s continued to be fantastic....she just didn’t get rich off it.......which is the lone injustice
I don't think Maria has ever been in it for the money. I think all she has ever really asked for is to be given the opportunity to make the kind of music she has wanted to make, which has obviously evolved over the years.
Simply amazing band!! I keep Lone Justice and Maria McKee in my song rotation even now. Their rockabilly sound has not aged one bit. It's like a huge breeze of fresh air hitting your soul every time a Lone Justice song plays. I swear they're among my most favorite bands ever. Their sound was just right and it remains so. The record company they were signed with really missed the mark with them. They would've been huge. Even so, there are those of us old enough to remember their incredible talent and amazing sound. They flew through our lives like a comet ........
'Million young poets Screamin' out their words To a world full of people Just livin' to be heard Future generations Ridin' on the highways that we built I hope, that they have better understanding'- John Mellencamp Someday-Someway ----future generations are going to understand what a colossal artist she was...
She was my idol back then. I shopped thrift stores for vintage and referred to her look as dust bowl chic. Cotton dresses, black stockings and lace up ankle boots. I miss those days and her incredible voice.
as random as it is to be watching these today, what wouldn't be random is a second act or chance. such a talented, passionate performer with all of the not so much out there now...I remembering wearing out a cassette I taped w live Lone Justice on one side and live SRV the other. I would love to see a 2020 Maria comeback in cotton dresses and ankle boots and offering genuine artistry. cheers
Fantastic find, after I was just playing my 35-year-old cassette of this album (their second). Maria was just a dynamo, and this version of "Shelter" probably beats the studio version, in my book.
Shows how far MTV and popular music has fallen. Today's viewers would have absolutely no appetite, no tolerance, and zero appreciation for this music and talented performers on that stage.
Proud owner of the self-titled Lone Justice album, as well as Dwight Yoakam's, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc. where McKee and Yoakam are outstanding in Bury Me.
Couldn't be better Brilliant performance and some wonderful playing Goddamn they were fantastic Love both albums, not a single bit of 'filler' just classic LJ Dixie Storms
betpow Never been too keen on U2 either and apart from that 16s rhythm thing happening I don't hear much similarity. However, much as I like Lone Justice's more trad Americana stuff, I thought that their excursions into far less traveled musical waters on the second LP and especially on McKee's _'Life Is Sweet'_ solo LP were even more exciting.
blackmore4 yeah, I understand...I like U2..was thinking specifically of Shane's guitar on Belfry...Edge influenced many players I think, and in LJ's case, the producers maybe... interesting, I read Maria saying by the time she got to Life is Sweet she was influenced by Mick Ronson, with Bowie
J'ai eu la chance de voire Lone Justice à Paris 2 fois et Maria Mac Kee 2 fois dont une au Bataclan. Quels concerts ! Parmi les 10 meilleurs auxquels j'ai assisté. Inoubliable . Ses versions sur scène sont plus rock que sur disque.
a truly great band and of course maria mckees vocals. yet only one song got airplay. sad but i have every lone justice and solo mckee. when i feel down i listen to sweet sweet and i found love
I saw LJ play 4 times in the Bay Area over the years and they were always amazing live. Even with all the new music I love, they still make the rotation for me. LJ music has stayed fresh all these years later.
A sublime performance of 'Shelter'. I'm Scottish and worshipped Maria when she was in Lone Justice. I remember seeing them in the Kentish Town and Country Club in London in '86..and being utterly mesmerised. It doesn't seem right that they vanished so quickly. I continued to follow Maria's solo career, but it's Lone Justice that really got me excited.
I saw them at The Byrne with U2 as well. As to why the band didn't make it bigger.....They Got Signed. When you hear all that noise about the record business dying, be ready to dance on it's grave.
Why oh why does this have to cut out during I Found Love? It is a great performance. Maria is caught in an energy that is too charged to be sung out in just words.
yea, thanks EA...wish it didn't cut off but excellent sound and video. Agree with tele something didn't quite catch that night as usual but Soap is up elsewhere and i think the crowd gets won over there. I think it was a young mtv new year's crowd that probably wasn't looking for more country-tinged or roots stuff
She sang 'belfrey' because she wasn't "ringing" in a New Year, but ringing out an Old year : "you have to sin to be saved" as her solo album next said. Her sailor dress represented that she wasn't running from the past to the future but the scary future to the past (deja vu can be experienced by everyone when the temporal lobe is activated -- as -- our Life Contract is well "fully lived" before we incarnate on Earth (read the angel book by Sylvia Browne to see "which" angel makes us "view" our assignment). The FUTURE IS THE PAST .
I know, right? I started watching it in 1982 when it finally had come to our cable system. I was hooked immediately. And there was a concert every Saturday night.
+Bob Dunn Why'd they keep throwing confetti at her face while singing? It was a better performance of this song the week before at SNL, agreed? Love her crazy dancing in that one!
+sunshinegirl1967 the confetti got to be really obnoxious when it was thrown in Maria ' s face. Yes, the dancing when Lone Justice was on SNL was MAD!! I was amazed. Our 19" Sony didn't do it justice (no pun).
and it's an MTV special...had done IFL on so many shows at that point probably wanted something different looking...I mean, look at her outfit for New Year's Eve, it's all kind of over the top, like she likes it a lot of the time
i might also add, gently, that on a night celebrated with a lot debauchery having the prettiest girl in the house show up wearing a dress that...well, i call it her sailor girl dress and it does make some kind of statement...you'd have to ask maria what
Pull up the Kennedy Center Honors 2012 tribute to Led Zeppelin. He plays the guitar solo to Stairway to Heaven while Heart sings. Haircut, and wearing a suit.
This is more like "Maria McKee And Lone Justice". Both original guitar players are gone. One was replaced with a keyboard player. Notice the lack of the flower dress ?
I love LJ.....seen them play a million times....Maria is sweet.....but also very goofy and a bit of a nut......that had a bit of them not making it big......she broke the band up after 2 years.....there is an interview on line about breaking the band up.....and the band and breaking up is never mentioned.
I saw her interviewed somewhere and her story is that the label fired and replaced all of her bandmates, forced her to perform music that wasn't right for her, etc. etc. I'm sure there's some truth on all sides. In a perfect world super talented people who are "goofy and a bit of a nut" would have people around them to run interference and take care of business so they can keep being goofy and just do what they were put on the earth to do.
Good to see this all in one take but it's perhaps the only flat performance of LJ - the audience seems stupified and the lack of backing singers work against the magic. Even the flat-out energy of MM isn't able to break the apathetic crowd. Sad!
plus the zappa (family friend btw) thing is funny, and as i said to ea if you've ever said to yourself, "hey i love hearing maria mckee sing and watch her perform, i only wish i could experience it while she's getting confetti thrown in her face, and encouraging it" then here's the video for you..i really don't like belfry though
I love Maria but I officially hate that d-bag with the black Strat now. Her voice just kept getting better but I much prefer the 2 cow punk guitar players in the original lineup.
Loved the original line up too. Record company made the change to more "rock looking" players. Maria didn't know the new guys. Just thrown together. No real chemistry. Even so .... the music is just incredible and timeless.... love em til I die.
