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

[uwe]

I know the bassist - with a Ripper here - from Home and Al Stewart's backing band. Here he is with Bandit, which also featured Kate Bush's later hubby/guitarist*** and a Scottish singer named Jim Diamond**** who had hits later on in a more balladeering style.

Anyway, the unknown Ripper-playing bassist later on joined an equally unknown Australian band (dying his hair blond in the process), they had some electricity related name I forgot, a hopeless bunch really with a very simplistic approach. But here he is prior to all that with BANDIT!!!





***Danny McIntosh, the guy with the shades in the Bandit vids, 16 years later making music with his wife:




****Jim Diamond, love the guys smooth rasp, Steve Winwood'ish really:

[Basvarken]

Was Jim Diamond channeling his inner Noddy Holder in that band(it)?

[uwe]

You mean Cliff Williams should have recommended him as Bon Scott's replacement?!

[Basvarken]

It wouldn't surprise me if Williams actually did recommend him.

[uwe]

They did ask Noddy Holder, but he didn't want to leave Slade back then, even though Slade were in the doldrums in early 1980, their comeback via their last minute appearance at Reading was still a few months away.

https://myvintagerock.com/2014/08/15/slade-become-heavy-metal-heroes-at-the-reading-festival-24th-august-1980/

In 1979/80, Slade, the band that had sold out Wembley Arena on four consecutive nights in 1973, was back to playing working men clubs up North.

But if you look at what Brian Johnson did with Geordie, then the Young brothers did not stray too far in their search.



Gary Holton was approached too, he sure had that Bon Scott street urchin swagger, perhaps a bit too operatic for the Aussies, he eventually turned to (actually successful) acting, but he died in 1985 as a habitual heroin user with a blood alcohol level of 199 mg and a morphine level of 0,8 mg per liter (0,5 mg per liter is considered invariably fatal):



He was a riot on stage and an admitted inspiration to a young Irish roots kid from North London who'd later go by the name of Johnny Rotten.





And Dan McCafferty of Nazareth was on the list as well (he also preferred to hang on to his buddies) - you can tell by all the singers that AC/DC approached that they had a pretty good idea of what they were looking for, it's that one type of high-pitched gravelly shouter with dirt on his vocal cords. Basically someone who sings like an overdriven guitar from the gutter.

I'm surprised they didn't hit on Michael Des Barres though!

[gearHed289]

Bandit followed by Detective... Makes sense! 🤣

[uwe]

I wish I could lie that I had combined the two band names on purpose! 

Hey, I've written so much about first and second tier 70ies rock bands here, I'm now edging myself forward to 3rd and 4th tier!!! Or 5th. 

Incongruously failed bands have always fascinated me.

[TBird1958]

I wish I could lie that I had combined the two band names on purpose! 

Hey, I've written so much about first and second tier 70ies rock bands here, I'm now edging myself forward to 3rd and 4th tier!!! Or 5th. 

Incongruously failed bands have always fascinated me.

I've posted these guys before, as obscure as I had in my record collection..............For some reason this song got played on Seattle FM for about 3 weeks, the only reason I bought the album, honest!

[uwe]

Third to fourth league I'd say. Come the 80ies, they transitioned into naming themselves Rage, yet AOR success continued to elude them (though they sure didn't do it any worse than other people):



(actually a song from Joe Lynn Turner's pre-Rainbow outfit Fandango from New Jersey)

[Basvarken]

Old school AC/DC always brings a smile to my face.

[uwe]

That's a good number in all its glorious dumbness. One number from AC/DC is always refreshing, two is "Didn't they play that song already?" and by track three my mind begins to wander. 

[Ken]

That's a good number in all its glorious dumbness. One number from AC/DC is always refreshing, two is "Didn't they play that song already?" and by track three my mind begins to wander. 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9D8VpoSf5Wg&t=176

[uwe]

It's alright, they fall into the category of bands such as The Ramones, Motörhead and Rammstein, where samey-ness and incessant repetition of a once found recipe are part of the image/act/art/brand/shtick. I've always missed any sort of smooth elegance in their music - Van Halen, incidentally, had loads of that.

That's not to say that none of their songs had potential to sound a little less ham-fisted (and even swinging!) in more, say, creative hands ...

[Basvarken]

New Gov't Mule bass player Kevin Scott steps into Allen Woody's shoes bringing a Gibson Ripper to the stage.

[Chris P.]

No vid, but I think we need to change the name of this thread:

https://ew.com/music/queen-fat-bottomed-girls-yoto-greatest-hits/