very sad to confirm the news about Chris Bailey dying on the weekend. Chris and I met when we were about 14 during detention at Oxley High School and became close friends which later developed into what I always thought was an extremely strong artistic partnership, I couldn't have hoped for a better singer. My deepest condolences to his wife Elisabet, his sisters Margaret, Carol and Maureen and the rest of his family and loved ones. I'll post something longer down the track but for now..
Thank you Ed 🙏🏽💔😰 and deep condolences to you! losing your dear friend, artistic brother and band family member. Please take extra good care of your beautiful wonderful self. Gentle healing to you EK 🤍 music is the healer 💟 big love, Rah Bird 🙏🏽
My condolences, Ed. All of you fellows were a force to be reckoned with. You inspire me and my band mates to this day. Thank you. Rest In Peace, Chris.
Dear Ed, Many thanks for your tour a few years back now, your duet with CB, I was lucky to see you at The Vanguard in Sydney. Was a great show, with Chris necking white wine right out of the bottle, goddamn, while Chris was a great showman, he was lucky to have you as the foundation, I guess that is how great relationships work.And then one of us is left behind. My kindest regards, Max.
Executed perfectly. A group for the intensity of the times. Catalytic and imposing musically. Very near perfection, no wonder The Saints are unforgettable.
The Brisbane - based Saints' role in the movement that rescued rock and roll from a protracted aesthetic slump cannot be overestimated. And those Sam And Dave-inspired horns on this 1978 monster classic got a nod back in the day from Blitz Magazine - The Rock And Roll Magazine For Thinking People as one of the Best Singles of the Decade. Sadly, we lost front man Chris Bailey in April 2022.
My partner and I were hanging out in Paddington in the late 70s. We knew Chris and would say hi, have a coffee sometimes. We were and still are music lovers but back then we knew his band were good, now I am 66 years old and know how GREAT they were. I was on luck puppy to have been around to enjoy it
I’m a massive fan of 60’s. 70’s. 80’s rock bands. Tatts, Radio Birdman, etc etc. This band was WAY ahead of everyone. Sax in a punk song/band in the 70’s… Genius….. That bass line…. It’s soooo goood 🇦🇺🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
This brings back memories of the Paddington Town Hall gig with X. Good times. Which will always be fondly remembered. A flame for the zeitgeist of the time that will never go out.
I love that songs like this one to which I react - “wow! this is hell on fire!” - keep it up. For decades! I have passed recognising and loving good music on to my daughter. Listen, and you will know.
Here's a true story. On my fourth aortic heart valve replacement, before going under, I requested this track as my 'Count backwards from Ten" music as the anesthetist did her thing. When I woke up, I had the nurse pop in to visit me at my bedside. She was stoked at the music I chose and wanted to know more so I told her what I knew about The Saints. Watching the nurse rounding the ward doorway doing a pretty damn good imitation of Ed's buzzsaw guitar made me laugh so much I burst stitches.
The most danceable punk diatribe ever written. I adored the clip and every performance of this I ever saw. It was so full of explosions, implosions, ripped out throats from strutting around town young Turk days. And cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes! Sexy, swaggering Irishman & Co. This will be played at my funeral! Xx
This and “This Perfect Day” are my favorite Saints tracks. The horns on this are amazing… like Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. Stones updated to the Punk era. That aluminum Veleno guitar is amazing. Only seen Ed Kuepper and Keith Levene play them.
Love the very metallic sound of Ed's guitar on this. Is it double tracked? Whatever, it sounds how it looks! I think he was pictured with that guitar on his album "Everybody's Got To." I was lucky to see him perform at the Borderline in London back in 1995 I think it was, doing "Honey Steel's Gold." Fabulous night out.
Had only heard 75/76 punk rock Saints until RU-vid in 07. Had know idea later era Saints were this good. Heard Lazy Cowgirls version before this ditty..
@@andrewfuller62My income level dictated that a bands later era was anything after the 1st record. #2 The Saints first record was an overpriced import until the reissues,yrs later.That was my version of buying a box set. If you're old enough,you remember this era
The movie was not, 'Existenz'. It starred Willem Dafoe. That story was about people who had a broadband socket in the back of their neck and they could plug their brain directly into virtual reality. It was based the Farrah Fawcett-Majors Joke. In that joke they use a kitchen tap to extract the bile that will give the Faculty of Medicine a new lease on Life. It's like the belief in bile from a Bear in ancient Chinese folklore. Instead of a bear they use humans vis a vis Soylent Green. (Warren[shooting][Peter] Beatty). I'm up to the Gilbert and Sullivan version of '9 million bicycles in Beijing' song;)
Light years ahead of what was occurring over the pond. Perhaps a little dodgy history from my perspective (years of having fun and overindulgence perhaps). The Saints as with other bands of the time are one huge reason I am probably still here today. When you feel isolated, from the values and ethos of your friends and society in general, it often creates a sense of being alienated by what I saw as an utterly irredeemable system of repression. With the built-in expectation that us outsiders (Camus) and obviously many others I did not know, were expected to become drones of a system that could not give a fuck about them, having thrown us overboard years ago. A giant fraud, a political and cultural lie. False Democracy then, and today has now eroded any sense of individual sovereignty, in its place lies of such magnitude and scope, that it's often hard to trust anyone knows this, let alone what the end game is about. Too much political fuckery? Maybe, it's only my overthinking ways. Punk was about self-expression and the desire for less government control over our lives, not the totalitarian overreach unfolding all over the world right now. Punk for me was and is about freedom, liberty, and yes, having the very best times of your life, in this it succeeded beyond my expectations. Sure, as with all things, change is inevitable, I'm not one to live in the past expecting things to stay the same, no one wants to be the old geezer going on about the good old days, boring the fuck out of anyone in hearing distance. Then, no one with half a brain wants to see oppression, censorship, or the current Orwellian control systems being installed to become the norm either. With Punk-the Devil is in the details.
(Yeah All right Sing it up, west coast Too much!) I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!" "Got some great new brand of smokes, cool your head and clear your throat "Keeps you young, yeah, so in touch." Cheap advertising, you're lying Never gonna get me what I want I said, smooth talking, brain washing Ain't never gonna get me what I need "Our new soap that's peachy keen saves your soul and keeps you clean "It's recommended, used by the Queen "Gonna improve your IQ, help in everything you do "It's economic, don't cost too much." Said advertising, you're lying Never gonna give me what I want I said, smooth talking, brain washing Ain't never gonna get me what I need (I said take it Come on Soul man Let's shoot the professor! Alright!) I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!" "It's a great new brand of smokes "Cool your head and clears your throat "Keeps you young and so in touch." Said advertising, you're lying You're never gonna give me what I want I said smooth talking, brain washing You're never gonna get me what I need (What do I care? Yeah! Hey man Where's the professor? We need him now! Gonna tell you 'bout them Yeah we take it all the way 'round the world For that west coast feel Yeah man Yeah everything, let it out It's not what you love Look out on the radio All right Yeah Yeah...)
