The La's play Son of a Gun followed by There She Goes. Night Network. January 1989. UK. www.the-las.com Band line-up: (visible) Lee Mavers, Chris Sharrock, Barry Sutton, John Power.
Never say never again. At the end of the day who would've expected a band like The La's to happen in the overproduced 80's? Purity is always out there, it's just that it often gets pushed to one side.
This band had it all! every song is anthemic! Mavers had a nack of making great songs from simple chord structures and riffs! he once said songs drop from the sky and we are lucky enough to catch them! if thats the case he must have a barral full of them by now! come back lee!!!!!!!!
It’s fantastic how yearning his voice is on there she goes I’ve never seen him sing it with such pain it’s fantastic his voice is almost like a brass instrument it’s that good
Merseysides got an enviable musical gene pool. A sea faring tradition,you can hear it in Mavers voice like hes in a crows nest atop a besailed schooner heading to somewhere he only can imagine. ❤️
Remember thinking I'd just witnessed the second coming of music when this was popped up on my TV late at night in 86 or 87...but it was never to be. A real tragedy.
This would've been '88 due to the fact that Chris Sharrock is on drums (who joined in 1988). It's such a shame that The La's record company ruined their career by trying to overproduce them. With a band like The La's you need only room mics really and vocal mics for the heavier electric guitar stuff. You don't even need to mix their recordings.
Out of everything that's came out of liverpool "Shack/Mick Head" is probably my favorite! I love the la's & cast, the real people (who oasis ripped off fkn blatantly) just have an affinty with Mick
Just....fuckin brtilliant...No fat, just pure structure and mechanics..almost bizarre how clear the intention is. Lee surely mustve loved this performance..it's red hot
These are my favourite versions of both songs. It's frustrating because you can hear how wrong Go! Discs got it. Clearly all The La's needed was room mics. If I had signed a band like The La's I would've done whatever Lee wanted. I wouldn't have sent them to hi-tech studios with expensive producers. I would've recorded exactly how they wanted and not tried to produce them at all.
What makes this better than the album version is the cross stick on the snare drum and the thump of the bass drum. Two simple things that make the arrangement so, so good.
This would have to be the best performance by this band on RU-vid, thanks for posting. His voice is just amazing here just spot on love it. I hear a lot of Eric Burdon in there which is no bad thing in my opinion. Great stuff thanks!
wow the la's were juat a beautiful soundin' band,in more recent years maver's atarted to sound awful every now and then but they will always have a place in my heart
Tight as a ducks arse this performance. At the top of their game they were never bettered. Deserved to be bigger than The Beatles. Way more raw talent. Lee Mavers is the greatest songwriter England has ever produced.
Continuing the earlier Liverpool/Dublin theme, I think the only singer to rival Mavers for sheer power in his voice is Luke Kelly. Its just a shame Mavers didn't record as many songs as him.
