Music videos featuring Fat-Bottom Girls (Rippers, Victories, etc)

uwe · September 25, 2017, 12:34:44 PM

Darn, you're right, that was our Japanese Axis friends then!

Granny Gremlin · September 25, 2017, 02:02:20 PM

Read the book - it's a good one. Love PK Dick.

66Atlas · November 10, 2017, 03:55:34 PM

This has been posted before but thought it was worth a repost for singer Chuck Mosley - RIP

Granny Gremlin · November 11, 2017, 04:39:57 PM

Quote from: 66Atlas on November 10, 2017, 03:55:34 PM
This has been posted before but thought it was worth a repost for singer Chuck Mosley - RIP

Yep; by me

4stringer77 · January 15, 2018, 08:41:41 AM

A good time of year to escape to Malaga and warm up with the Brothers Johnson.

Basvarken · January 26, 2018, 12:26:06 PM

uwe · February 05, 2018, 02:39:48 PM

See, even V-ictory basses get eventually V-indicated!

uwe · February 05, 2018, 03:26:41 PM

Did we have John B. Sparks with Dr. Feelgood yet? Pub Rock never got any better than this.

Dave W · February 05, 2018, 10:51:50 PM

Quote from: uwe on February 05, 2018, 03:26:41 PM
Did we have John B. Sparks with Dr. Feelgood yet? Pub Rock never got any better than this.

True. IMHO the Wilko/Sparko years were the best.

slinkp · February 05, 2018, 11:28:05 PM

Quote from: uwe on February 05, 2018, 03:26:41 PM
Did we have John B. Sparks with Dr. Feelgood yet? Pub Rock never got any better than this.

You know, I've never really known this band, apart from some previous mentions here. I like the bass player, the drummer's fine, I'm kind of indifferent to the vocalist ... but man, that guitar player is great! I like his manic-robotic forward-and-back pacing too. Am I nuts or is there a precursor to Devo in his stage presence?

Dave W · February 06, 2018, 01:49:18 PM

Quote from: slinkp on February 05, 2018, 11:28:05 PM
You know, I've never really known this band, apart from some previous mentions here. I like the bass player, the drummer's fine, I'm kind of indifferent to the vocalist ... but man, that guitar player is great! I like his manic-robotic forward-and-back pacing too. Am I nuts or is there a precursor to Devo in his stage presence?

His name is Wilko Johnson. I doubt if he influenced Devo, since Devo started about the same time as Dr. Feelgood.

Wilko interview from 2015

This is from a book signing in 2012, one of several where he discusses his guitar technique. I still can't figure it out.

uwe · February 06, 2018, 02:48:56 PM

You might know him after all from a popular series:

Wilko is a good guy. His guitar style is patterned after the late Mick Green (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, at the end of his career he played with Van Morrison), but Wilko's style is more percussive with all the ghost notes he uses.

Early Dr. Feelgood (once famously described as "they look like they all came from some unsavoury unit of the British Army"), those Canvey Islanders (a desolate oil refinery island in the Thames estuary),

were in that no man's land between pub rock and beginning of punk in the mid-70ies. Darlings of the New Musical Express, they had their 15 minutes of fame where they managed to somehow appeal to both Status Quo and Sex Pistols/Clash fans. But Wilko threw a fit - a traditionalist who was admamant that their first two albums were recorded in glorious mono - when the band recorded a song he didn't like and he left in a huff.

I only saw them with his replacement, (the late) Gypie Mayo (don't think they ever toured Germany with Wilko, they were very much a Brit phenomenon early on), who was no slouch on guitar either, though more conventional in technique and - probably no coincidence - less weird- and more punkish-looking.

(the "eight bars of piano" at 2:01 when there is in fact zilch piano is brilliant and typical of them)

Lee Brilleaux', likewise late by now, vocals, gruff and raw as they were, came as an acquired taste, he baritoned his way through their set at a time when even blues and RnB rock singers were expected to do Rober Plant falsettos. Lee never did, he had a range of three or maybe four notes. That said, he was a gifted harmonica player, kind of the British Magic Dick (and there are some further similarities between the Feelgoods and the J. Geils Band).

Wilko almost died a few years ago with a huge cancer tumor in his gut, deemed unoperable, he did a farewell tour and an album with Roger Daltrey (who sang with a deep voice in Lee Brilleaux style) and then one day the tumor began decreasing in size - the healing power of music.

Dave amazed me (he always does!) by actually knowing them. I always thought their only claim to fame in the US was getting thrown off a Kiss tour as opening act when they demolished a hotel room one night and Kiss were aghast. (Gene Simmons doesn't like it if you break stuff that cost good money!)

Of course, this post couldn't be complete without some type of Deep Purple reference, ok, your wish is my command, Lee's harmonica comes in at 1:25 ...

Man, Coverdale could still sing back then too!

Stjofön Big · February 06, 2018, 03:33:22 PM

If I ever saw a man who looks like he's been sleeping in his clothes, it's Lee Brilleaux! He's even got dirt on the knees of his trousers! Dr Feelgood's stage show is just fantastic. Simplicity rules! Just remember one thing, kiddos: Speed kills!

uwe · February 06, 2018, 04:55:46 PM

Yeah, Lee had something unsettling and menacing in him though he was by all accounts a nice guy. Cancer got him early.

Wilko's technique is very apparent here:

Dave W · February 06, 2018, 06:09:01 PM

Wilko talked about Mick Green in the video from the book signing. In this video from the same event, he talks about leaving Dr. Feelgood. He seems to ascribe it to the others' drinking, while he's a teetotaler. He also talks about playing with The Blockheads and Norman Watt Roy. I think we've discussed that period before.

Further about Mick Green from Roger Daltrey