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

[gearHed289]

Pretty sure that's a Ripper back there. This woman has quite a voice. I've heard her name around prog circles, but never actually heard her before now. I heard the studio version and thought it was two people singing. Namely her and Kate Bush. But it's all Happy. I'll be checking out more of her stuff.

[uwe]

Those Happy Rhodes songs inspired me to buy four or five of her CDs, thanks for posting!

Meanwhile, the Deeetroit gal rips it up:



I love(d) Suzi, but that bass does look a little large on her. 

I dig that hammering and overly loud electric piano that is all over the place on those early Suzi Quatro Band recordings.

[westen44]

^^^
After watching that, I honestly don't know which looks worse--a bass that looks too small on someone or a bass that looks too large. 

[amptech]

^^^
After watching that, I honestly don't know which looks worse--a bass that looks too small on someone or a bass that looks too large.

I vote for Suzi; just remembered a bassplayer frontpage with Stanley Clarke and a small Alembic. That looked pretty corny
He should have kept his EB2, at least for photo shoots!

[Dave W]

Suzi? I thought that was Rick Derringer! 

[westen44]

I vote for Suzi; just remembered a bassplayer frontpage with Stanley Clarke and a small Alembic. That looked pretty corny
He should have kept his EB2, at least for photo shoots!

I'd rather not vote on the issue at all.  It would be hard to decide.  But if it was compulsory voting I'm sure I'd vote for Suzi, too.  Also, when it comes to small Alembic or EB-2, it's EB-2 all the way.

[uwe]

Anyway you put it, the Ripper/Grabber/G-3 bulky shape just ain't elegant and does nothing for a petite person like Suzi. A TBird would have looked better on her - with its Art Deco elegance.

[amptech]

Ok, when I see pictures of myself as a skinny 14 year old punk with a Grabber, I can clearly see some geometrical issues.
No wonder why 37 year old actresses didn't line up for BJ's back then! 

[Dave W]

Rick and Ripper

[4stringer77]

[Dave W]

A Ripper in the Hee Haw band. I don't remember that.

[Stjofön Big]

Sparko and his Grabber stood in the front line of Dr Feelgood of England, though he was, of course, overshadowed by now really gone singer Lee Brilleaux in his stage outfit, that looked like he'd passed out in it (and that in a ditch!), plus guitarist Wilko Johnson who really looked like a crazy sniper om amphetamines. Don't know whether they ever hit in the US, but I shure liked that band! Let's not forget drummer The Big Figure, a wall for any rock bass player to lean on.
This is -75, before Sex Pistols, and the rest.
Just one more thing that this video makes absolutely clear: Speeeed kills! (Even though it keeps you in style, fashionwise)

[Dave W]

I hadn't seen that clip before. Dr. Feelgood never made much of an impression in the US but some of us were definitely aware of them.

[uwe]

Breaking up hotel rooms while touring with Kiss - Paul and Gene were aghast: you just don't break things for the heck of it, unless it's smashing a guitar to entertain a stadium - sure didn't help conquering America, they got unceremoniously thrown off. In an interview at the time, Manfred Mann (guesting with his Earth Band on the same tour) mused about Kiss' wild stage act on one hand and their absolute horror and shame at something as commonplace as a torn up hotel room (Kiss managment paid the damages) on the other. He wasn't nasty about it and emphasized how well the Earth Band were treated and that Kiss were gentlemanly in an almost old-fashioned way.

I had it on the tip of my tongue to say that pub bands and America just don't mix, but Dire Straits have proved me squarely and fairly wrong on that.

But if you have the J. Geils Band before your door step,



you perhaps don't need the Feelgoods from ole Blighty all that bad.



The Feelgoods were too nerdy-nervous energy and stiff to compete with the J. Geils Band's arena-honed octane-charged rhythm & blues, but at the same time they lacked the intellectual appeal of, say, David Byrne and the Talking Heads (whose nerdy-nervosity did not hurt them before their specific audience).

[Dave W]

I never saw Dr. Feelgood and J. Geils Band as competing.

Yes, Dr. Feelgood lacked the intellectual appeal of Talking Heads. That's a good thing IMHO.