Thank you: that's very kind of you to say so. I genuinely do try to do my best. I hope you'll stick along for the ride: lots more videos to come (I hope!!)… Cheers!
Thanks for another great video Jim. Lots of cool stuff to explore! Here in the states I’d have to add The Sonics for mere energy and chaos… I’ve also found it interesting to hear what songs punk bands covered. Always a peak into what they liked from the past!
Thanks for that: I appreciate it very much! When I was researching this, a lot of the great singles I found were by American artists, like the Sonics, which was very frustrating! I do intend to do a video about them one day but at the back of my mind is the thought that most my "value" is being able to share the experiences I had of various artists. Please keep watching and thanks again!
Thanks for those kind words. Much appreciated! The seems to be improving, thank you! I see this as a journey I have embarked on to Read discover the best of the Music of those days and I'm glad so many people are joining me. Cheers!
@@JimDriver I'm a total music obsessive, but you often manage to dig up some gem that I've never heard of, and two today! Still waiting for the Pretty Things video though...
Excellent! Somebody seems to have done a good job copywriting obscure old 1960s music and making sure that no one gets to use any of it without permission I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not… Thanks for coming, please keep watching!
Surprised you haven’t mentioned Crawdaddy Simone by The Syndicats, also produced by Joe Meek, wchich is a very good song, with a very intense middle section that is like nothing I’d ever heard of from this era.
It must've been great at the Cavern back in the day, though I do realise it probably wasn't the Beatles every day. Thanks for sharing that and please keep watching. Cheers!
Great selection! But you've got to also include The Rolling Stones (don't ignore them just because they're big)... if 'She Said Yeah' isn't Puk Rock before its time, then I don't know what is. Did you ever work with Downliners Sect? Another pioneering R&B band with a proto-Punk sound.
Thanks for those great comments. It's not like me to miss a chance to mention a band everyone would've heard of (if only occasionally). As regards the downline sect , it's a funny thing but they were both before and after my time chronologically and when I was doing stuff at the 100 club, they already had somebody they worked with there. Thanks for adding to the conversation and I hope to see you on the next one!
Great stuff Jim. I lived in Edinburgh for 20 odd years and never heard of the Buzz - hrard the other bands you name I know but not the one I should have! I remember in 77 the Downliners Sect lps were reissued as 'punk from the vaults' but although it sounded quite good it seemed nearer to the Stones than the stuff I was listening to that summer. Do you know them? Anyway keep it coming!
Thank you so very much for the kind words: I really do appreciate the positive comments. The downlines sect were both before my time and after my time, which is hard to explain but I seem to miss them when they were active. It's a very complicated journey and I'm glad you're around to share it. Cheers!
i know you don't like the who, but i think the early pre-tommy who also played a part in influencing punk years later. 'glad the kinks made it. i am surprised the troggs didn't make it. ' always enjoy your videos. 'always enjoy learning about bands that i am not familiar with from the past. thank you.
It's not that I don't like The Who, it's because I'm not sure they did anything desperately new after the very early days. I've heard so many stories about them getting advanced copies of things and stealing ideas it makes the mind boggle. And my only encounters with the members of the band (apart from John Entwhistle ) were negative. But I do acknowledge there were a big part of the 60s music scene. Thanks for putting forward your comments, which were very valid and I hope I'm not being overly critical because of my prejudices! Cheers!
@@peterchecksfield9958 YES! the early who, their first 3 albums + their compilation meaty, beaty, big and bouncy + i will admit quadrophenia are all i listen to by them. @JimDriver : thanks for the reply and the more detailed explanation. i pretty much feel the same! no worries, my man. it is YOUR channel and it is YOUR opinions (and of course your first hand eye witness accounts) that i 'tune in' for. cheers!
Oddly, enough, the Deviants were on my long list of singles to include in this video. As you may or may not know I had a long history with Mick Farren from being somebody he used to laugh at when I submitted articles for international times back in the 1970s to several of his books when I founded the do-not press in the 1990s. Sadly, I also promoted the show at the Borderline at which he passed away on stage. So, it was pretty much a full circle! Thanks for commenting. Please keep watching!
@@richardbennett8522 i started this early in the week and dammit i'm hooked... If the supply were to dry out it will be rehab the AA for life, without the show of a doubt.
lots of mythology about You Really Got Me...between the band and producer Shel Talmy...they all agree it was Dave Davies...as to the distortion, well an American musician by the name of Link Wray did it several years before.. along with playng what would be called power chords...but as always i love your videos Jim...they jog my foggy memory. .cheers!
Thank you very much for the kind words! I almost put Link Wray on once, but unfortunately he died before he could come over. That old excuse, eh? Cheers! Please keep watching and commenting…
You know, it would be AWESOME if you could (rights acquisitions depending) put out a series of compilation CDs with these cuts (and others like them), and your commentary on the liner notes! Those would certainly be items I'd like to add to my collection, and I doubt I'm alone in that.
That's a great idea! Maybe I might have to start with something like a Spotify playlist and see how it goes. Thanks for watching and for commenting. Cheers!
I remember seeing the Riot Squad around 1967 in some London club and later they appeared on the Hughey Green talent show. Have you ever heard of the Junco Partners a popular North East band?
Junko partners?! Yes indeed! as I remember, the manager was Chas Chandler and I had many happy evenings at the cricketeers with him and the Junko Partners. A fantastic band I'd totally forgotten about them: thanks for reminding me!
@@JimDriver I once jammed with Hylton Valentine in a pub in South Shields when he was playing casually in a blue band - after the Animals and coincidentally I also jammed with another guy George who also played guitar with the later Animals. (I only remember his first name but he was the double of Keith Richards and was in a Stones tribute band.). I also know Olga and various guys who played with the Toy Dolls. We all knew Pete who was the subject of The Toy Dolls song Pete's Practice Place. At one time Pete was in a band with me. The Toy Dolls' drummer Dicka did some recording with me. Oh and a guy called Freddy Robertson or Johnson who was going to be bass for the Toy Dolls stole a guitar from me and a bass guitar from the Toy Dolls. He was a sad character but very talented. I once interviewed Olga for an audio cassette which we distributed at Sunderland University; it was like an advertising idea where services or products sponsored the recording which was distributed free. I played support for Jack Bruce in Carlisle the gig was organized by some newspaper guys who ran a small club called The Front Page - you may know of them; they were genuine enthusiasts with a love of music. I now live in Prague and play in rock bands still - sometimes on vocals and guitar and sometimes on bass. There are some great bands around here and I've guested with one called Krumpace (the name means the tool ''pick''. I hope my little ride down memory lane hasn't been too self indulgent.
The Simple Winch did "Save My Soul", it's a surprisingly aggressive track. The Sorrows were guys in black with a skilled drummer and raw as hell; the track "Let me in" is excellent and completely punk live. Joe Meek is well remembered, a very inventive guy. Personally, I think Pretty Things are the punks that never were.
Haha! I think you're right, though Phil May was a complex character and he seemed to shy away from the whole Punk movement back in the day. He lived in Portobello Road at the time so was right in the middle of the Punk/squatting movement. I think it gave him something to think about. Happy days… But in their attitude, the Pretty Things were as Punk as it comes, and that's probably why they never got to be as big as the Rolling Stones, Who or Zeppelin, all of whom sucked inspiration from the Pretties. As regards, the other tracks you mention, I am aware of them but whenI was compiling this, I noticed that another video maker had used those examples in a similar video and ( don't want to be thought of as a copyist… Cheers!
Such a highly pleasureable issue from your concise and knowledgeable videos brain making nodes/// Being for very long obssesed by the US 's garage bands of one single bands compilations sold in the mid 80's (as the "garage revival burst open (favourite band "the cannibals") , the fuzzier the better, .........this was like a packet of hot chips on winter night with a good dousing in worcester sauce (i just started a "drying out the old depraved carcass" operation, so,,,) but i HAD TO talk to you about..... " meanwhile in france the whole scene (1966) was reluged by hideous US bubble-pop songs "covers with french lyrics grafted on... that is if you have not heard a certain Jacques Dutronc... his sound was the closest aproximation of the "US '60's garage punk and the lyric (written by J; Lanzmann ; an "existentialist" and J'P Sartre's close frien-in need to let loose from sterile philosophy at the bar terrasse wrote insanely vitriolic but also irresistible by their excellent social observations that were to ignite the may '68 "events"/// trty "the most trashy fuzz riff one "les gens sont fous" (people are mad" , then "le responsable" (responsible man" but all the best are in the lyrics "cactus" "l;opportunist" (the profeessional turn coat" -i turned my coat so many times the seams are cracking all over, so came the next revolution i'll turn my pantaloons(last line) , his "et moi et moi et moi" was covered by the Snivelling Shits! ,,, wwell listen to these titles and "on nous cache tout..." all's hidden fron us, we're told nothing" and the classic "mini mini mini" (all's mini in our lives, mini moke mini skirt, miniature who do you hope to con? etc etc up to the best line "mini mini mini, mini mini mini mini! whist Minster, terminus , mini, mini it lacks of air....it is mini dr.switser!!!!. to the 2I prefer maxis ////" every cheap mini word play on mini has Mini swapped by Maxi...." The other songs lyrics are too co;plicated and not epetitive to translate... except if you use a google app or even GPT ... try it on "le responsable"... xxor try this V .... Jools Holland stole his look from J' Dutronc)"
le responsable lyrics, tranlated just for you -mind' it is sarcastic as all his rok songs///- I've got worries, I' got troubles I have worries, I have torments I'm so depressed, I have no money I got no lucky, I got no friends Never a good break, I have taxes My liver hurts, my teeth ache But I don't want to change of condition Because I love problem, the shittier ones I am a responsible man I don't hide my head in the sand I don't want to sing like grandfather "In life, don't worry be happy" Because if I worry today It's because yesterday he was always laughing And tomorrow if I have little ones I want them to be happy in life The more bile I have, the more I like it I savour it like custard ,like beaten whey What I like the most is get so stressed my blood just goes bad like milk, then i feast on it all the time But I also like disasters Who put all life on quotation marks When things are going well I'm unhappy When things go bad I'm very happy I am a responsible man I don't hide my head in the sand I don't want to sing like grandfather " don't worry be happy" And I want to sing on the contrary "this life's purpose is to stress and fear! to always be united with those like me see clearly!" I am a responsible man I am a responsible man I am a responsible man I am a responsible man" now try the google transator of the song "les cactus" (the Cacti,,, ow ow ow Ouch! woohhh!)
Wow, your passion for garage bands and the intricate details of '60s French music is truly inspiring! It's fascinating how music can connect so many cultural threads. Thanks for sharing that and for the kind words!
Very possibly in some cases but David (Screaming Lord) Sutch once told me he didn't have a garage and hated the term. Thanks for contributing and joing in the conversation. Cheers!
@JimDriver and now we are friends, I did a presentation in college about Queer Rock, and many UK bands on there Buzzcocks had Shelly, Tom Robinson, and if the rumors are true Jonsey.
Yes, I agree. That's a whole new video, which I intend to make one day soon! There are also quite a few 1950s Blues tracks that were prototype Punk! Thanks for watching and for taking part. Please stick around!
The Riot Squad? I had contact through my store with a drummer from Venezuela who came to the UK in the 60's and I swear he said if was in a band called Riot Squad at some point. Chap called Fernando.
Thanks for sharing that great story. This is the only TH-cam channel that could possibly feature stuff like this! Please keep watching and please keep commenting. Cheers!
No, it's library music because the big labels don't like you using no music you haven't paid for, hence the very short video exerts. In this case, the music you like is 'shitty train' by Of Men and Wolves featuring Las Lupas....
Immence respect to you for being around the music of 76-79, but, anyone of that era knows what the music labelled by the red tops, as PUNK was the scene as actualy about
Thanks for the kind words (I think!) And I'm aware that the word punk has several connotations and meanings. I go for the musical sense mixing with a bit of the cultural bit but at the end of the day, I'm just making videos that I hope entertaining and informative. Thanks for adding your views and I hope you'll keep watching. Cheers!
@@JimDriver Hi Jim Motor city 5 American band check out “Kick out the Jams” surely the start of Punk? Later 60s I think it was the first single with a swear word at the beginning??? Keep up the good work I watch and appreciate all you videos cheers
Great call! There were several tracks I could've included in this video and that was definitely one of them. We obviously think along the same lines: thanks for commenting and please keep watching!
Great video again. I love The Attack , "I Feel Like Flying" is my favourite of theirs...in the States , The Standells recorded a much better version of "Try It", with more 'attitude'.
I greatly appreciate the positive comment: thank you very much! I also appreciate what you say about the music and I think you could well be right, but it suited the agenda of the video to use 'Try It'. Please keep watching and commenting!
This is all just rhythm n blues! I don't think there was much proto punk in the UK in the 60's, it was all happening in the States with their garage bands. An honourable mention for the Deviants though, surely. "Garbage" is slow but in attitude and lyrics totally punk. The Who should have got a look in too. I'd like to see you getting to the early 70's then we have some truly British protopunk eg Hawkwind ("Motorhead"), the Pink Fairies ("The Snake"), even Gong ("You can't kill me") etc etc. Stackwaddy had a totally punk attitude but were really very heavy blues.
Thanks for that very interesting comment. I agree with a lot of what you say but I think it's more nuanced than you suggest. Anyway, it's an interesting voyage of discovery for us all. Please keep watching (and stay on the ship)! Cheers!
I am not keen on Punk . But this is interesting. And anything by Jeff Beck is obviously going to be superiour. You really got me going by the Kinks is just a heavy British blues and influenced early Heavy rock and metal. No different to any thing by Led Zep or Deep Purple. Jimmy Page atually played on Waterloo Sunset. I met Chris Farlow nice guy . But tough as old leather if he says change your bands name , you do that.
Haha! Yes, indeed. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We may have slightly different ideas but that's what this is all about. Please stick around and we'll debate again. Cheers!
Who?! 🤓 Haha, you could say that! Thanks for joining in! As you probably have noticed, I never really got into the Who, who I always thought weren't really "proper". I can't put my finger on why…
Indeed! It wasn't noticeable until I posted it. I have since taken steps you'll be pleased to hear. please keep watching even if there is no featured nose hair in future videos! Cheers!
Another great video, Jim. Love all the details of the lower reaches of the British music scene, really enjoy this stuff.
Thank you: that's very kind of you to say so. I genuinely do try to do my best. I hope you'll stick along for the ride: lots more videos to come (I hope!!)…
Cheers!
Thanks for another great video Jim. Lots of cool stuff to explore!
Here in the states I’d have to add The Sonics for mere energy and chaos…
I’ve also found it interesting to hear what songs punk bands covered. Always a peak into what they liked from the past!
Thanks for that: I appreciate it very much!
When I was researching this, a lot of the great singles I found were by American artists, like the Sonics, which was very frustrating! I do intend to do a video about them one day but at the back of my mind is the thought that most my "value" is being able to share the experiences I had of various artists.
Please keep watching and thanks again!
@@JimDriver Agree. USA "Frat/Punk Rock " is a fun thing but this is aboutfirst hand experience
Your a top turn Jim. Fascinating and informative 👍👍👍
Thanks very much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it and your comment makes it all worthwhile. Please stick around and watch more! Cheers!
You've outdone yourself this time, Jim- TWO bands I've never heard of! (The Buzz and Riot Squad) Keep 'em coming! (Hope the eye's better.)
Thanks for those kind words. Much appreciated! The seems to be improving, thank you!
I see this as a journey I have embarked on to Read discover the best of the Music of those days and I'm glad so many people are joining me. Cheers!
@@JimDriver I'm a total music obsessive, but you often manage to dig up some gem that I've never heard of, and two today! Still waiting for the Pretty Things video though...
great video...and great music that I had never heard before👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the very positive comment: please keep watching and commenting!
The great thing is that as I watched and listened I punched in the names in my music app of choice, and these records are there
Excellent! Somebody seems to have done a good job copywriting obscure old 1960s music and making sure that no one gets to use any of it without permission I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not…
Thanks for coming, please keep watching!
You are becoming addictive, Jim !!!
Ha ha! That's very kind of you to say so. Please keep watching!
Haha I picked Waterloo sunset and Lola too! Good show dude from the never heard ofs! Interwesting!
Surprised you haven’t mentioned Crawdaddy Simone by The Syndicats, also produced by Joe Meek, wchich is a very good song, with a very intense middle section that is like nothing I’d ever heard of from this era.
Always nice to check the facts. For me personally it started with MC5 and The Stooges and The Kinks...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I agree that all those bands had some input into punk but for me, it really started with Bo Diddley! Cheers!
@@JimDriver 🤠👍
Jim what do you think of Dead Kennedys?
We used to help the groups get their gear down the steps of the cavern and sometimes get in free i was a kid in the sixties still love the music
It must've been great at the Cavern back in the day, though I do realise it probably wasn't the Beatles every day. Thanks for sharing that and please keep watching. Cheers!
Great selection! But you've got to also include The Rolling Stones (don't ignore them just because they're big)... if 'She Said Yeah' isn't Puk Rock before its time, then I don't know what is.
Did you ever work with Downliners Sect? Another pioneering R&B band with a proto-Punk sound.
Thanks for those great comments. It's not like me to miss a chance to mention a band everyone would've heard of (if only occasionally).
As regards the downline sect , it's a funny thing but they were both before and after my time chronologically and when I was doing stuff at the 100 club, they already had somebody they worked with there. Thanks for adding to the conversation and I hope to see you on the next one!
The first time i heard about the Birds it was in a Lemmy's interview. They covered the song "Leaving Here", just as The Who and Motörhead.
The birds were great band and sadly underrated. Thanks for joining in and please keep watching!
Great stuff Jim. I lived in Edinburgh for 20 odd years and never heard of the Buzz - hrard the other bands you name I know but not the one I should have!
I remember in 77 the Downliners Sect lps were reissued as 'punk from the vaults' but although it sounded quite good it seemed nearer to the Stones than the stuff I was listening to that summer. Do you know them?
Anyway keep it coming!
Thank you so very much for the kind words: I really do appreciate the positive comments.
The downlines sect were both before my time and after my time, which is hard to explain but I seem to miss them when they were active. It's a very complicated journey and I'm glad you're around to share it. Cheers!
i know you don't like the who, but i think the early pre-tommy who also played a part in influencing punk years later. 'glad the kinks made it. i am surprised the troggs didn't make it. ' always enjoy your videos. 'always enjoy learning about bands that i am not familiar with from the past. thank you.
I love the early The Who... and can't stand their 70s Rock stuff! They were incredible from '65 to '67, before Townshend got over-pretentious.
It's not that I don't like The Who, it's because I'm not sure they did anything desperately new after the very early days. I've heard so many stories about them getting advanced copies of things and stealing ideas it makes the mind boggle. And my only encounters with the members of the band (apart from John Entwhistle ) were negative. But I do acknowledge there were a big part of the 60s music scene. Thanks for putting forward your comments, which were very valid and I hope I'm not being overly critical because of my prejudices! Cheers!
@@peterchecksfield9958 YES! the early who, their first 3 albums + their compilation meaty, beaty, big and bouncy + i will admit quadrophenia are all i listen to by them. @JimDriver : thanks for the reply and the more detailed explanation. i pretty much feel the same! no worries, my man. it is YOUR channel and it is YOUR opinions (and of course your first hand eye witness accounts) that i 'tune in' for. cheers!
Honorary mention for the Deviants as I still have "Ptoof"
Oddly, enough, the Deviants were on my long list of singles to include in this video. As you may or may not know I had a long history with Mick Farren from being somebody he used to laugh at when I submitted articles for international times back in the 1970s to several of his books when I founded the do-not press in the 1990s. Sadly, I also promoted the show at the Borderline at which he passed away on stage. So, it was pretty much a full circle!
Thanks for commenting. Please keep watching!
@@JimDriver I will keep watching and cheers for your comment
@@richardbennett8522 i started this early in the week and dammit i'm hooked... If the supply were to dry out it will be rehab the AA for life, without the show of a doubt.
lots of mythology about You Really Got Me...between the band and producer Shel Talmy...they all agree it was Dave Davies...as to the distortion, well an American musician by the name of Link Wray did it several years before.. along with playng what would be called power chords...but as always i love your videos Jim...they jog my foggy memory. .cheers!
Yep! Link Wray - as well as Bo Diddley - were the true pioneers of this sound.
Thank you very much for the kind words! I almost put Link Wray on once, but unfortunately he died before he could come over. That old excuse, eh?
Cheers! Please keep watching and commenting…
You know, it would be AWESOME if you could (rights acquisitions depending) put out a series of compilation CDs with these cuts (and others like them), and your commentary on the liner notes! Those would certainly be items I'd like to add to my collection, and I doubt I'm alone in that.
That's a great idea! Maybe I might have to start with something like a Spotify playlist and see how it goes. Thanks for watching and for commenting. Cheers!
@@JimDriver I'm too much of a boomer to deal with those non-physical formats ... I still like the feeling of permanence of having my music on CDs.
I remember seeing the Riot Squad around 1967 in some London club and later they appeared on the Hughey Green talent show. Have you ever heard of the Junco Partners a popular North East band?
Junko partners?! Yes indeed! as I remember, the manager was Chas Chandler and I had many happy evenings at the cricketeers with him and the Junko Partners. A fantastic band I'd totally forgotten about them: thanks for reminding me!
@@JimDriver I once jammed with Hylton Valentine in a pub in South Shields when he was playing casually in a blue band - after the Animals and coincidentally I also jammed with another guy George who also played guitar with the later Animals. (I only remember his first name but he was the double of Keith Richards and was in a Stones tribute band.). I also know Olga and various guys who played with the Toy Dolls. We all knew Pete who was the subject of The Toy Dolls song Pete's Practice Place. At one time Pete was in a band with me. The Toy Dolls' drummer Dicka did some recording with me. Oh and a guy called Freddy Robertson or Johnson who was going to be bass for the Toy Dolls stole a guitar from me and a bass guitar from the Toy Dolls. He was a sad character but very talented. I once interviewed Olga for an audio cassette which we distributed at Sunderland University; it was like an advertising idea where services or products sponsored the recording which was distributed free. I played support for Jack Bruce in Carlisle the gig was organized by some newspaper guys who ran a small club called The Front Page - you may know of them; they were genuine enthusiasts with a love of music. I now live in Prague and play in rock bands still - sometimes on vocals and guitar and sometimes on bass. There are some great bands around here and I've guested with one called Krumpace (the name means the tool ''pick''. I hope my little ride down memory lane hasn't been too self indulgent.
Birds vocalist Ali McKenzie has appeared at the Ealing Blues Festival on several occasions in the 2010's.
Wow! Thanks for that information. There's still a lot of great music out there (just!). Cheers!
The Rick Stein of underrated music
That's very kind of you to say so! ( I think!) 😀
The Simple Winch did "Save My Soul", it's a surprisingly aggressive track. The Sorrows were guys in black with a skilled drummer and raw as hell; the track "Let me in" is excellent and completely punk live. Joe Meek is well remembered, a very inventive guy. Personally, I think Pretty Things are the punks that never were.
Haha! I think you're right, though Phil May was a complex character and he seemed to shy away from the whole Punk movement back in the day. He lived in Portobello Road at the time so was right in the middle of the Punk/squatting movement. I think it gave him something to think about. Happy days…
But in their attitude, the Pretty Things were as Punk as it comes, and that's probably why they never got to be as big as the Rolling Stones, Who or Zeppelin, all of whom sucked inspiration from the Pretties.
As regards, the other tracks you mention, I am aware of them but whenI was compiling this, I noticed that another video maker had used those examples in a similar video and ( don't want to be thought of as a copyist…
Cheers!
Wimple winch, 😂 bloody typos eh!
Such a highly pleasureable issue from your concise and knowledgeable videos brain making nodes/// Being for very long obssesed by the US 's garage bands of one single bands compilations sold in the mid 80's (as the "garage revival burst open (favourite band "the cannibals") , the fuzzier the better, .........this was like a packet of hot chips on winter night with a good dousing in worcester sauce (i just started a "drying out the old depraved carcass" operation, so,,,) but i HAD TO talk to you about..... " meanwhile in france the whole scene (1966) was reluged by hideous US bubble-pop songs "covers with french lyrics grafted on... that is if you have not heard a certain Jacques Dutronc... his sound was the closest aproximation of the "US '60's garage punk and the lyric (written by J; Lanzmann ; an "existentialist" and J'P Sartre's close frien-in need to let loose from sterile philosophy at the bar terrasse wrote insanely vitriolic but also irresistible by their excellent social observations that were to ignite the may '68 "events"/// trty "the most trashy fuzz riff one "les gens sont fous" (people are mad" , then "le responsable" (responsible man" but all the best are in the lyrics "cactus" "l;opportunist" (the profeessional turn coat" -i turned my coat so many times the seams are cracking all over, so came the next revolution i'll turn my pantaloons(last line) , his "et moi et moi et moi" was covered by the Snivelling Shits! ,,, wwell listen to these titles and "on nous cache tout..." all's hidden fron us, we're told nothing" and the classic "mini mini mini" (all's mini in our lives, mini moke mini skirt, miniature who do you hope to con? etc etc up to the best line "mini mini mini, mini mini mini mini! whist Minster, terminus , mini, mini it lacks of air....it is mini dr.switser!!!!. to the 2I prefer maxis ////" every cheap mini word play on mini has Mini swapped by Maxi...." The other songs lyrics are too co;plicated and not epetitive to translate... except if you use a google app or even GPT ... try it on "le responsable"... xxor try this V .... Jools Holland stole his look from J' Dutronc)"
le responsable lyrics, tranlated just for you -mind' it is sarcastic as all his rok songs///- I've got worries, I' got troubles
I have worries, I have torments
I'm so depressed, I have no money
I got no lucky, I got no friends
Never a good break, I have taxes
My liver hurts, my teeth ache
But I don't want to change of condition
Because I love problem, the shittier ones
I am a responsible man
I don't hide my head in the sand
I don't want to sing like grandfather
"In life, don't worry be happy"
Because if I worry today
It's because yesterday he was always laughing
And tomorrow if I have little ones
I want them to be happy in life
The more bile I have, the more I like it
I savour it like custard ,like beaten whey
What I like the most is get so stressed my blood just goes bad like milk,
then i feast on it all the time
But I also like disasters
Who put all life on quotation marks
When things are going well I'm unhappy
When things go bad I'm very happy
I am a responsible man
I don't hide my head in the sand
I don't want to sing like grandfather
" don't worry be happy"
And I want to sing on the contrary
"this life's purpose is to stress and fear!
to always be united
with those like me see clearly!"
I am a responsible man
I am a responsible man
I am a responsible man
I am a responsible man" now try the google transator of the song "les cactus" (the Cacti,,, ow ow ow Ouch! woohhh!)
Wow, your passion for garage bands and the intricate details of '60s French music is truly inspiring! It's fascinating how music can connect so many cultural threads. Thanks for sharing that and for the kind words!
2 words garage rock!!
Very possibly in some cases but David (Screaming Lord) Sutch once told me he didn't have a garage and hated the term. Thanks for contributing and joing in the conversation. Cheers!
@JimDriver and now we are friends, I did a presentation in college about Queer Rock, and many UK bands on there Buzzcocks had Shelly, Tom Robinson, and if the rumors are true Jonsey.
Eddie Cochran's Something Else was likely the first punk single c. 1957! - Even the Sex Pistols covered it!
Yes, I agree. That's a whole new video, which I intend to make one day soon! There are also quite a few 1950s Blues tracks that were prototype Punk!
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Chck out Eddie's 'Nervous Breakdown' too, very raw!
It was NOT the Sex Pistols who covered it. Rotten was not on it but that clown Sid was
I've made a playlist of the titles featured in this video: th-cam.com/play/PLeEUmIKakqXMSCd5Ev09hB-7TlSJsrm16.html&si=FJQ8PdfosauEUQQj
The Riot Squad? I had contact through my store with a drummer from Venezuela who came to the UK in the 60's and I swear he said if was in a band called Riot Squad at some point. Chap called Fernando.
Thanks for sharing that great story. This is the only TH-cam channel that could possibly feature stuff like this! Please keep watching and please keep commenting. Cheers!
@7:47 Paul Weller circa 1996... or is it Ocean Colour Scene?
No, it's library music because the big labels don't like you using no music you haven't paid for, hence the very short video exerts. In this case, the music you like is 'shitty train' by Of Men and Wolves featuring Las Lupas....
Immence respect to you for being around the music of 76-79, but, anyone of that era knows what the music labelled by the red tops, as PUNK was the scene as actualy about
Thanks for the kind words (I think!) And I'm aware that the word punk has several connotations and meanings. I go for the musical sense mixing with a bit of the cultural bit but at the end of the day, I'm just making videos that I hope entertaining and informative. Thanks for adding your views and I hope you'll keep watching. Cheers!
You need to write a book Jim all knowledge if buy it .
I decided against writing a book in favour of making these videos.
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Great vid Jim I’m thinking MC5
You should! Thanks for the positive comment and please come back when you're done with MC5. After all, they're not a barely known British band… :)
@@JimDriver Hi Jim Motor city 5 American band check out “Kick out the Jams” surely the start of Punk? Later 60s I think it was the first single with a swear word at the beginning??? Keep up the good work I watch and appreciate all you videos cheers
City kids. pink Fairies 1973
Great call! There were several tracks I could've included in this video and that was definitely one of them. We obviously think along the same lines: thanks for commenting and please keep watching!
Great video again. I love The Attack , "I Feel Like Flying" is my favourite of theirs...in the States , The Standells recorded a much better version of "Try It", with more 'attitude'.
I greatly appreciate the positive comment: thank you very much!
I also appreciate what you say about the music and I think you could well be right, but it suited the agenda of the video to use 'Try It'.
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This is all just rhythm n blues! I don't think there was much proto punk in the UK in the 60's, it was all happening in the States with their garage bands. An honourable mention for the Deviants though, surely. "Garbage" is slow but in attitude and lyrics totally punk. The Who should have got a look in too. I'd like to see you getting to the early 70's then we have some truly British protopunk eg Hawkwind ("Motorhead"), the Pink Fairies ("The Snake"), even Gong ("You can't kill me") etc etc. Stackwaddy had a totally punk attitude but were really very heavy blues.
Thanks for that very interesting comment. I agree with a lot of what you say but I think it's more nuanced than you suggest. Anyway, it's an interesting voyage of discovery for us all. Please keep watching (and stay on the ship)! Cheers!
@@JimDriver I always enjoy watching you Jim, even if I don't always agree with your rankings!
Listen to It's a Crime by The Kirkby's
Yes indeed! Kinks were one of my favourite 1960s bands from the very start.
It soon became clear why! Thanks for taking part. Cheers.
@@JimDriver The Kirkby's
The bird is the word? The Trashmen circ '66?..very pre punk.
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Thank you for that great call. I hadn't heard of them, but I'll definitely check them out. Please keep watching and commenting!
I am not keen on Punk . But this is interesting. And anything by Jeff Beck is obviously going to be superiour. You really got me going by the Kinks is just a heavy British blues and influenced early Heavy rock and metal. No different to any thing by Led Zep or Deep Purple. Jimmy Page atually played on Waterloo Sunset. I met Chris Farlow nice guy . But tough as old leather if he says change your bands name , you do that.
Haha! Yes, indeed. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We may have slightly different ideas but that's what this is all about. Please stick around and we'll debate again. Cheers!
@@JimDriver Will do. I found the documentary to be of great interest . I look forward to seeing more
Definitely not a Who fan, then!
Who?! 🤓
Haha, you could say that!
Thanks for joining in! As you probably have noticed, I never really got into the Who, who I always thought weren't really "proper". I can't put my finger on why…
Dear Lord, nose hair.
Indeed! It wasn't noticeable until I posted it. I have since taken steps you'll be pleased to hear. please keep watching even if there is no featured nose hair in future videos! Cheers!