I see lots of comments about how wasted Shane is and how he couldn't get through the song properly...but now he's passed on, and none of that matters a damn. He was a big boy who could do what he wanted, if that's who he was then I loved him for it then and I love him for it now.
He sure had a fun life, wrote incredible songs relatable throughout the world. And Shane had plenty of trolls. Never met the guy I don't know who he is but I have a high regard for the music that Shane left behind. Thanks for the music Shane . They will be listening to him 500 years from now.
Yes it's terrible to see Shane like that. Hate to say this wasn't an isolated incident. Seen him shaky like that before in the past. Thank God he's got Vicky and surrounded by those who truly love him and his health. This particular appears to be cocaine sickness with severe dehydration. Glad that is all behind him now. Bless him for all the beauty he has given us all.❤
Sad to see Shane in this state, one of the most iconic singer songwriters of a generation. I first saw The Pogues in the early 80's. OK this video isn't The Pogues, but the is how we all know and love the man. The last time I saw Shane live was 2012 and he looked and sounded OK considering his demons and health. In that 20 years I must have seen them more than two dozen times, including when the late great Joe Stummer fronted the band and a stint by Spider Stacy, but The Pogues needed MaGowan.
It's at this point that you know that something more profound, more tragic and desperate is happening with the guy at the mic. He's gone way beyond having a good time and getting wasted with the band... There's lonely, sad drunkenness, and the guy so desperately needed someone, anyone to just say ...stop. 'Stop, Shane, and I'll help you.' Those words could have changed his life forever, but he never seemed to ever hear them. May we all learn something about alcoholism, Shane, and ourselves from watching this mans desperation in public that he lived for so many years. Rest in Peace dear beautiful Shane. We will miss you forever and a day.
Not his best performance, I'd have to agree. But I still like Shane's voice better than the guitarist's taking over (I forget his name) - mumbling, stumbling, humming, forgetting the words and all...
@@jacobfiil5918I absolutely agree..As I just said elsewhere here this band, knowing Shane's habits, should have been familiar enough with the songs to help him out more when he was trying and known the lyrics well enough to perform the songs after he had to leave.. I could have done better in that context just from being a singer and a fan of his writing .. these band members manage nothing but rattling out the notes.. I'm just nearly finished Richard Balls' biography of Shane.. In the light of that it's pretty amazing he even got on the stage over many of his years..I saw him and the Pogues during the late 80s and was never disappointed.. In any event the Pogues would have covered for him better than this..!
The band not knowing the word to If I Should Fall From Grace With God really was a surprise and a shock! I could've sung it way better than any of them...let me up there!! They did no better on any of the other songs either...imagine not knowing your own bands songs I side and out! Rubbish!
He had a nice comeback in the '00s en early '10s, having concerts again full of energy with The Pogues. Search for the concert in Paris in 2012 (Olympia), that was pretty all right.
@@Donderdrammels Nah he's very inconsistent, if I hear a recording of Shane MacGowan live and I don't see the year, I can immediately tell what 5 year period it was played. Same with pictures of him I did hear that concert and he sounded great, it really doesn't matter if he can sing anymore, as long as he has the energy to keep up with the music. I swear to god it's like he's 50% slower than everyone else, watch him in his current state at 2x the speed
Normally, in spite of however drunk the man may be, he still gets through the songs - and we, the audience remember what the lyrics are from the clearer album versions of songs (like Greenland Whale Fisheries - one in my estimation, The Pogues absolute BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME!!!) I Love Greenland Whale Fisheries!!! But this? Even during the St. Patrick's Day concert from the '80's here on youtube, ...he still remember lyrics! Here? Good LORD, SHANE!!! Seriously, as a teen, I'd have thought what a cool dude Shane is - he doesn't give a shit!! He couldn't care less. In my late 40's now, I've quite a different take on this... This performance is Goddamn pitiful!
I don't really..I think being in a band with Shane they should have known how to cover for him better.. Even when they are trying to help him out or sing the songs themselves after he'd left they know hardly any of the lyrics etc.. I'm a singer and musician and just from knowing Shane's songs and the Pogues/Pope's recordings I could have helped out and filled in more than these guys.. The Pogues would have handled it better!
Best effort by the Popes to carry this one through the end🏆 Still, I find it surprising that members of the band have hardly a clue to any of the lyrics. Weren’t these guys Pogues fans before they became the Popes or at least during that time.🤔
What I find amazing is why are the people at the side of the stage smiling and laughing at him being carried off. He was in a really bad state there is nothing funny about it 😢
I just put this on to remind myself of how absolutely and undoubtedly shite they were. My celtic supporting pals played their crap and got drunk, they never ever listened to them sober, ever, you still won't get anyone walking about with ghd pogues on in their earphones for example because they're shite- it's all about claiming you belong to Ireland and letting everyone hear it even though it is shite- the pogues themselves summed up in a sentence.
Man, they must have been under a heavy contract to go on with him in that state. Poor man. The drummer looks like he knows that not only is this gig a blowout but the band won’t be going much longer. The guitarist is trying hard to hold the whole thing together . The bassist , the banjo player , and the flute player are playing well and not missing a note. Ten crowd don’t seem to give a damn and I can see that info was pissed I might be happy enough . The roadie is a damn life saver. Tiny note : that woman in red who is smiling in the wings when he gets led off seems to be the only person there dumb enough to actually find it funny.
@paulhamj6175 I thought it was, but I hoped it wasn’t . If she’s laughing at him while he’s almost dying on stage, you can imagine how much enabling she did the rest of the time. I really hope it’s not her.
Fuck it actually looked like he was have an OD on stage before he was taken off. Shouldn’t have let him on in that condition in the first place. RIP Shane
@@desgraciaaudiovisual271alcohólico y politoxicomano. Es un comportamiento lamentable y una falta de respeto al público que ha pagado una entrada y a sus compañeros de banda. Qué haga lo que quiera con su vida pero por dos horas que dura un concierto que sea profesional.
Not poor Shane at all. If any other member of the band couldn’t play through being shit faced what would people say. Even an alcoholic can choose to stay sober long enough for work then get shit faced.
Say what you want about Shane but %95 of the time he was totally professional on stage. He would intentionally wait for the encores to indulge in what have you….So the night before Shane bought some Dutch hash cakes but woke soo hungry he ate the whole thing and didn’t know where he was but only n waves. He said he’d never had something put him in outer space slumber soo hard before. He said he kept getting paranoid about forgetting his own lyrics. That he just wanted off that stage and go home. Instead of all those faces looking up at him. Shane loved weed his entire life and always hade the strongest dope I’ve ever had so this had to be really powerful. Dutch stuff. Love you and miss you comrade Shane OHooligan
Well,word on the street at the time was,he drank some/to much tea infused with mushrooms. And got totally wasted at the instant he got on stage. I stated before I was there, 18 years old and a huge fan of the Pogues. In fact, it was Shane McGowan and the Popes who were on the venue listed. The band mates took over right away when Shane began slurring and forgot his lines. So there are a lot of stories of what happened that day.
okay now it makes sense why shane was so messed up....jesus in 1984 i backpacked around europe that summer and got to amsterdam to catch my flight back to canada...bought a "space cake" from a bar and ate it in the taxi to the airport .....i cannot even begin to tell you how horrible that flight back to canada was....possibly the worse hours of my life , esp when peaking on that cake we hit bad turbulence over the atlantic....just thinking about it now makes me feel sick haha - hands down the most high in the worse way trip i ever had in my life from that space cake.
@@TravisBickle1963yes it’s the absolute truth that day. And they will even get you more on an empty stomach which was Shane’s case that day. He felt terrible for his fans and his band
This may be the only time I've seen Shane too wasted to sing. Usually however much he's had, he can always nail a song but I guess this time was too far out. Still an absolute legend!
The pogues Pinkpop in '88..that concert i did see..much better....Joe Cocker Sinéad ò Connor Red Hot Chili Peppers...absolute the best of the best that year...Joe Cocker as final act..dreamact... Several are in rock heaven..RIP Sinèad Joe Herman Shane 😢
He said before that he would tell someone to f*#k off if they preached about his drinking, but did those a**holes have to be laughing when he was carried off stage? Still love how the band kept the show going
During the nineties shane was a shadow of himself... The popes were not very good and him was not concerned about music and live performance . The pogues's come back few years later wa s most interesting and not fulll ofcindignity like this performance
This is as bad as the last Pogues gig in Tokyo. He was pretty much a car crash during the 90's. Saw the Pogues a few times in the 80's and they were ripping then he just went downhill and just about held it together. Saw them at the Fleadh in '91 and it was pitiful. Very sad day for me so i hope he's resting easy.
Don't think it's so much the drink in this case, Saint Shane has performed more than a little tipsy on many or all occasions. Sadly it sounds more like he's a little Horse 🐴 if you catch my drift 💉
It was a hash cake. Too strong he got paranoid and wanted to go home. He often performed on an empty stomach, why he was soo thin back then, also a vegetarian. The hash cake made him feel terribly hungry and paranoid. He was great guy thru and thru
Es triste no volver a ver a quien nos ha dado tantos buenos momentos en el mundo y no tenemos derecho a criticar a nadie por lo que es la única voluntad de la sociedad y si no hace nada malo para el pueblo y lo que nos ha pasado en el caso de los adictos a cualquier sustancia, pero es el que se pone el primero que lo sufre y no hay nadie que pueda decir que la música que nos ha dado y hoy en especial Shane MacGowan,es la que quiso tener y 65 años para alguien que se ha puesto de todo menos en el lugar donde están todos ellos esperando que llegue a un lugar donde no haya más que lo que cada uno de los que están deciden, yo quiero un lugar donde están los ancestros y poder ir a verlos en el lugar donde ellos quieran estar por la eternidad, cada uno tiene su propio lugar donde se sienta en paz, la mía es una playa que no tiene fin, aguas limpias, mujeres y hombres que quieran ir en pelotas o con el abrigo, senderos con todo tipo de vegetación ,y si me refiero a la hierba que me gusta fumar y que la gente que no te haya gustado en la vida en la tierra, un lugar en la otra parte de la isla y que se les va bien, y si hay algún niño o niña pequeños, que se olviden de todo lo anterior y que no se hagan años, pero es la eternidad demasiado larga, no crees? Una guitarra y una botella de whisky 🇮🇪 irlandés. En fin no se va ha quedar nadie aquí y algunos debemos ser nosotros los que les pongamos en órbita.
It’s like he’s so f*cked up that he thinks, in his own head, that he’s doing great….but at the same time, if he is or isn’t, he’s totally oblivious to it, or that there’s any problem….i never did much in the way of pills, or opiates, or narcotics, but I drank like a whale, & I’ve had moments, and I think I’ve been drunk and f*cked up enuf to comprehend this madness…..wow tho, Shane was f’n brilliant, and a trooper…..and yeah, like someone said, they must’ve had HEAVY contractual pressure for the popes to put him onstage like that, I mean, it was his band, I assume he was in total control, unlike the pogues where there was much more democratic opposition to Shane’s whims ….at times anyway.
Ok…I had to read thru the comments to get some inking of what he was on…..Dutch hash cakes, all eaten at once for breakfast? Liquor infused with mushrooms? …..and not pills, or whatever….both of those stories make sense also, of course…..good lord, poor guy, Jesus.
