Just imagine the poor fella standing on the porch, minding his business when some lunatic comes flying by on a drum kit with a jet black hot rod on his trail.
I have such fond memories of my drunk dad being forcibly removed from our house by law enforcement while this song was playing on the stereo at full volume. God I miss the good old days.
@@sebidobre5018 Original was actually a short song by Ledbelly. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Fii6PX0-VXs.html Ram Jam were the folks who made it popular...
Yaaaaaaaayyyyyyy! Only been waiting since this was on RAGE for the original video to be posted back to its rightful place on RU-vid! I want to see some arse kicking burnouts in a killer hot rod, not some bullshit American cut scenes from a pussy movie no one gives two shits about!
Have to agree. This is a good and powerful cover, better than the Ram Jam version (although that's good too), and that wicked black beautiful car (I WANT ONE! But with the engine covers in place) just makes it so much fun to watch.
When I first heard the original version by Ram Jam on the radio as an 11 year old in 1977 it was unlike anything I'd heard before, I called it the 'wild'song because of the 'wild guitar' ...well it sure ain't as wild as this!... f****** great!
The original recorded version was by Leadbelly, recorded in the 1930s by John Lomax. Leadbelly sings while only clapping out the beat. A song from the cotton fields that's drifted with the times.
@paulturner7628 fascinating..it turns out that the song goes back even further than that as it was originally a folk song and there's also a version by Starstruck which still featured Bill Bartlett, I've finally learned the Ram Jam version on guitar 46 years after first hearing it.
My best mate here in NZ had a flat black EH Holden with a 149 in it, named it Black Betty, Held together with number 8 wire and with a brokin engine mount that when you went over 60 mph would fall off the engine mount and jam open the throttle, fun times back in the day.
This song makes me travel back to 2009. Aaahh the good teenage days, my music taste was immaculate. Thank you to that classmate that recommend me this song back then, good memories!!
Who would of thought this is what we would get from the original 1933 recording of James" Iron Head" Baker. This is the best version in my opinion but Ram jams still holds up well. Whoever produced this video is a genius. The concepts are great! But the filming is insane! Talk about capturing the perfect angles and bringing the speed of this song to life!!!
the Original was written and sung in 1933 and performed a cappella by the convict James "Iron Head" Baker and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas (a State prison farm). Baker was 63 years old at the time of the recording. I believe the second recording was 1939.
@@Enders1 I think originally the song was about a gun, and Black Betty’s “child” was a bullet. But in this context it’s a fantastic name for the hot rod :)
I can imagine getting a permit from the police to have a drummer with his drum kit being videoed on a trailer being towed through public streets. But then, knowing the band, they probably didn't bother. "O.K. We've got to do this in one take or else we might attract the wrong kind of attention."
I love this music vid, it so clever how the drum platform mimics the hot rod, the exposed big block and the drum kit... a stand off.. then both send it! so brilliant
Such an awesome cover. Love the part when Kram rolls out of the garage and starts smashing his drums. This song is enough to give you a speeding ticket ha
The Ram Jam version was recorded in the lead singers backyard. As the band planned all along. The producer asked them how much budget they would need to shoot a music video and he told them 200$. The 2 hundred was for weed for the shoot. 😎🫶🏽
Yeah this. There are a few like this that I can never play cause of this lol. If you don't know them, may I suggest: Speed or Shock to the System by Billy Idol.
RAM JAM version like an intracate dance of the soul to a dynamic play of light and shade to make you groove happily. SPIDERBAIT version like a dynamo driven musical force of heart and spirit, charging and manoeuvring en masse and full pelt, getting your blood and spirit up ecstatically!
Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam) Yeah, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam) Black Betty had a child (Bam-ba-lam) Damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-lam) She's always ready (Bam-ba-lam) She's so rock steady (Bam-ba-lam) Whoa, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam) Yeah, Black Betty (Bam-ba-lam)
