A tour bus carrying the Bangles stopped for gas in my home town when I was probably 12 or 13. I was getting a pack of Twizzlers staring at Suzanna Hoffs when Micki Steele patted me on the head. There’s my brush with rock n roll fame.
Right after what those damn eyes do the way she looks when she holds her 🎸 🎸 Lawwd Jimi said it..Whatever It Is That Gyrl Put a Spell On Me... And Dave Coverdale was right.. Thi is The Loves That We Been Searchin For
I agree this is a great cover of a S&G song. However, you must have missed the Yes cover of "America". IMHO that is the definitive version of that song!
What's astonishing is hard the riff rocks on acoustic in the original recording. I enjoy the Bangles version more, and Vicki Peterson is an excellent guitarist; but Paul Simon banging that riff on 12-string accoustic is extremely impressive,
I just love it's the original four California girls playing on top of it. There isn't extra back up players or or musicians in the background. It's just the four still sounding and playing so well together! Oh, and having fun.
They can still hit the harmonies & play their parts. They're better than most bands I've heard from this era in terms of sounding close to what they were.
It's so great the just see and hear a great, great band without sparklers, rockets, fog machines, explosions and torches all over the place. Just good, hard played MUSIC done by wonderful performers -- The Bangles! Thanks ladies!
True garage band sound. Keep it simple and rock it. That's the way it should be. They all played well and sound great. All four of these ladies are in their 60's. I've seen a lot of old bands who didn't need to keep playing in public. These ladies NEED TO keep playing. Great job.
The Bangles were a band, for sure. When I first saw them in the early ‘80s, Go-Go’s were all the rage (and now in the RnR HoF). But their singular talent was Jane Wiedlin; not so, the Bangles, who were-a BAND!
*SUCH* a great little band. I feel like the music industry chewed them up in the late 80s, but at their peak they were wonderful. Check out their instrumental "Bitchen Summer" which rocks in a very similar way to this track.
It’s hard to believe that some-if not all-of these ladies’ ages begin with a 6. They play and sing like they did when their ages began with a 2, and the harmonies are spot on.
Wasn't crazy about the Bangles in my youth. I was pretty much a Hard Rock Freak. But as I grew I really fell in love with the Girl's. They have been timeless.
I was also a rocker who warmed to the bangles when they released Hazy Shade of Winter. Years later I learned it was a Simon and Garfunkel tune but they played it like an iron maiden song.
Most ppl don't even know that this is a Simon & Garfunkel song that came out in the late 60s. I saw S&G in 2004, and they sounded so damn good and were so spot on it was amazing. You don't hear much of them today even with all the nostalgia, but to me they are up there with the best of them for their era.
It is so cool to see female performers who are "real", meaning no Auto tune crap, dancers writhing around, no lip syncing, no foul mouthed rap or ebonics. Just a real band doing their thing with drums/bass/guitars/vocals. Awesome even if one isn't a Bangles fanatic. I am not, but still like them for what they do.
@@johndavid8815 Yeah, some of the newer broads are "doodle pads" and it isn't very becoming. What's up with the black chicks and tattoos? To me, they look like a skin rash or sores on them.
@@dougdavis8986Why? They did this particular song well enough, and I didn't hear anything that would warrant such. The old gals even harmonized well. Hell, considering that they are all grandma age even in this video, I give them much credit.
The 80s were off the hook 🪝 if you purchased a ticket 🎟️ for the Merry Go Round and forgot to jump OFFF, then it shows kiddo, they sound great. Keep on Rocking Gals
This past October as in two months ago, the man who wrote this song the one and only Paul Simon turned 82 years old. These ladies still sound as fantastic as ever.
Well look at that! The Bangles doing a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and bringing back the original retired bass player. These ladies are rocking it here. That first EP the original 4 put out is still rocking!
Okay, everyone agrees that Susanna Hoffs was and is the most beautiful, but for me, as a teen girl in the 80s, there was nothing more power- and beautiful than Debbi Peterson behind the drums. Especially in this song! I don't know how many times I listened to this bit up and down on my cheap pink Walkman and imagined myself being that cool and playing the drums like Debbi.😆 The Bangles were just the best.🥰
Suzanna Hoffs if i remember her name correct aged beautiful . We all get older and looking at the old pics/vids of us or others are many times reminders of how pretty/goodlooking we all were , some do defend the time very nice , she is one , still very very beautiful woman ... btw great music they made ...
Es increíble como siguen sonando, y su voz! En esa época me gustaba esta banda pero no me la tomaba muy en serio. Escuchándola ahora me tgo que sacar el sombrero Increíble!
