@@harvey1954 first time I heard it was probably 77 on the sire new wave sampler. Fantastic album with ramones talking heads damned etc. But this was the standout track
What really stands out is the phenomenal bass guitar from George. Just great! There is so much talent in this band. Great songwriting, presentation.... Hi from an old fan.
the 1976 lp has some of the greatest tunes ever !! "you tore me down" / "teenage confidential" & of course this masterpiece..."shake some action". it can bring tears to a 70"s teenage eyes !!!
In my Top 10 of all times! I had the honour to work with Chris Wilson when The Brracudas where on my label, Flicknife Records, and he joined the band. A true talent!
This song.... the plimsouls , million miles away. and the long riders gunslinger man are absolutely my top 3 songs from this era . If your not familiar please give em a listen. Thank me later.
An awesome record. I first heard this on a compilation I bought in 1978 called "New Wave" and liked it instantly. Fast forward forty years and hearing it again makes me realise it is one of the finest power pop records of all time. Simply magic
Love the original but this is the ultimate version. Just an incredible song from start to finish. This song makes me feel so good every time I hear it. In my top 10 of all time.
One of the Top !0 rock songs as far as I am concerned. I own many versions and all of them cook. I made my kids listen to this growing up and they still rock out when it comes on. An influential song for many rockers. The Groovies have got to be one of the best garage/crunch bands, along with the MC5, Plimsouls and Smithereens. Great drumming in this video.
Yes it was the 1970's and they were the band that made rock music interesting for me again. I love the album "Shake Some Action" what an incredible execise in style!
I heard the song back when it came out, didn't know who did it and only heard it on the radio three other times until listening to Little Steveys Underground Music and found out the name of the band. It's one of my top three favorite songs the other two are My Baby Blue- BAD Finger, Crimson and Clover
Jack Johnson Is a G-R-E-A-T guitarist. In the 80's when not playing with The Groovies he was living In Boston & playing with Unattached. They where Boston's hardest drinking band with an endless supply of good looking, good time women around them @ all times. Unattached wrote 'Trash', the title track for Alice Coopers most successful album & Jack Is featured on that recording along with some of the guy's from Aerosmith. Jack was a brilliant musician, one of the very best on the scene back then.
Cyril Jordan knew what rock and roll was. The first 20 seconds of this song is a classic !!!! At that time the Groovies were pure pop rock and deserve a thanks for keeping it real :)
Oh yes!! They were a REAL band, they were, hugely underrated. Love this powerful version of one of the greatest rock'n'roll songs ever... I'm a middle-aged head now, but I still need to shake some action, it's not lost any of its meaning..
This song wows me every time I hear it. I know it is not politically correct but this version is better than the original. The original was great but this version is just so awesome. The vocals, the drums, the guitar solos. Love it. Just saw that they are playing in Jersey City in a few months. Will try to go.
I would not have discovered this band had I not watched Private Lessons over the weekend...starring Sylvia Kristel...who was in a French flick...and these guys were on the soundtrack.
If you like 80s vocal, guitar and drum sounds you might prefer this version, but for me it's got to be the original released in 76. A transcendent masterpiece that deserves to be as well known as Bohemian Rhapsody or Sweet Child o' Mine.
Back in the summer of 1976 the campus radio station I worked in received some new releasaes from GRT Reords on the Sire label. One was the Flamin' Groovies "Shake Some Action" lp; the other was the first Ramones lp. Took me a little while to get into the Ramones - thought all their songs sounded the same - but the Groovies quickly became one of my favourite bands. Saw them years later at the El Mocambo in Toronto - my all time best concert ever! Met them after the show as well!
Well we can be comforted. We are listening to power pop at its finest. There may only be a modest list of power pop songs this potent. I'm workin on the list for the starry eyes of the girl of my dreams.
The Flamin' Groovies, absolutamente grandes.sentado sobre el marco de la ventana los paramecios de mi camisa estan bailando celebrando el solsticio de verano.esta cancion me recuerda a madrid y al barrio de ventas donde ensayaba con mi grupo de entonces. edu lüger
i found an old journal, the song was Teenage head. We would go and see, the Jefferson airplane, GreatfulD ead , moby Grape and Hot tuna, also a group The Flamming groovies. This was at free concerts in Berkley and San francisco!
The Flaming Groovies got well known during the early 70's but most people don't know that they started in 1965. They came out of San Francisco the same time bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service were getting noticed. The Flaming Groovies were totally different than the other bands at the time. They kept their hair short for a long time and they didn't play psychedelic music. They fit more with the punk and power pop bands.
Even with the awful mix -- the annoying phase, overbearing drum sound, Cyril's guitar too low and Jack's too high -- it's still the greatest Rock and Roll song. Ever. A fun watch!
I agree that 's a great song.It's not about who wins but it's in my top Ten.And I agree than Cyril is not loud enough.But I like the eighties sound.For me, this Groovies line up is my fave.Because I like the sound of the drums.I also like the voice. Jack is such a good singer.
@@johnvolume3384 There are a half dozen great and wonderful Groovies tracks from this lineup on the "Rock Juice"/"Step Up" releases. Overlooked even by Flamin' Groovies standards.
You're right I also like One Night Stand,with this lineup.I like all the lineups,almost all the Groovies records.I like them playing rockabilly sixties pop and garage, power pop or whatever.But I like Jack Johnson singing effortlessly,with a raspy voice.Rock on!
Arguably the greatest rock song of all time. This 1980s version doesn't really do it full justice. Shame the original recording has not been posted. Chris Wilson is now living in North London and still playing this song at his live gigs. His TH-cam videos may not have the best sound quality but are closer in spirit to the track laid down by the Groovies with producer Dave Edmunds in 1976
I will find a way To get to you some day. Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah. Now can't you hear me call? Shake some action's what I need To let me bust out at full speed. I'm sure that's all you need To make it all right. It's taken me so long To get where I belong Oh, but, oh, please don't send me back that way, yeah. For I will make you pay. Shake some action's what I need To let me bust out at full speed. I'm sure that's all you need To make it all right. If you don't dig what I say Then I will go away. And I won't come back this again. No. 'Cause I don't need a friend. Shake some action's what I need To let me bust out at full speed. I'm sure that's all you need To make it all right.
@DeborahS100 He played with Roky Erickson too,(the album was called Don't Slander Me) they have a song on the soundtrack for My Own Private Idaho, (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves). I remember he was also in a seattle band in the early 80's Called No Cheese Please saw em when I was a kid........
Omg ! This was my grandpa's band (: George is my g-pa (bass) i didn't think I'd find him on here. Basically they started out playing as like a garage band, then i guess they just met the right people from what my mom told me. They played all around San Francisco and played in London alot . Basically what ended everything was the manager that they were talking to, didn't share their views on things, this was also a manager that delt with jimi hendrix.so that's why they are no more, and eventually
One of the best powerpop songs of all time.
These are stupid lyrics that mean nothing
One of the best songs period.
Power-pop? Dude, there was great, ain't greatest music long time before MTV.. Power-pop is MTV mainstream after '90.
Amen
@@Clash_CT_Rocker69 power pop is the Groovies, the Plimsouls, 20/20, Dwight Twilley, Dave edmunds, raspberries , Badfinger all of who pre-date MTV
possibly one of the greatest singles never to make the charts. almost a perfect pop song. groovies never quite fitted any genre. fantastic band
YOUR RIGHT BROTHER...
When I first heard this in 1976 it was like somebody had given me an acetate of some Beatles gem that had never been released.
Isa Halim you have a point.
I think that's why I like the Flamin' Groovies they didn't fit in. Because Tetris taught me that if you fit in, you disappear
@@harvey1954 first time I heard it was probably 77 on the sire new wave sampler. Fantastic album with ramones talking heads damned etc. But this was the standout track
This song is one of the best rock songs of all time!!!
The best group from the 70s you never heard of. Rock n' Roll at it's finest
❤
I've heard of them! Had them in my play-list for years.
This is what greatness is all about!!! 🎸🎸🎸
Ponle ALGO DE ACCION" SUPER CANCION N MEXICO SALIO N " LAS SUPER ESTRELLAS DEL PUNK !!
GRANDIOSA K ENTRA N L ALMA
Love the Groovies!
What really stands out is the phenomenal bass guitar from George. Just great! There is so much talent in this band. Great songwriting, presentation.... Hi from an old fan.
Una de las mejores canciones de pop-rock de todos los tiempos.Genuina.✌️💫🆗
Nothing can beat classical rock' n' roll line up with drums, bass, and one (or two) guitar(s).. Period.
the 1976 lp has some of the greatest tunes ever !! "you tore me down" / "teenage confidential" & of course this masterpiece..."shake some action". it can bring tears to a 70"s teenage eyes !!!
In my Top 10 of all times! I had the honour to work with Chris Wilson when The Brracudas where on my label, Flicknife Records, and he joined the band. A true talent!
Made myself learn Guitar Riffs and the Bass on this is Killer too ♫
This song.... the plimsouls , million miles away. and the long riders gunslinger man are absolutely my top 3 songs from this era . If your not familiar please give em a listen. Thank me later.
One of the best feelings is when music just hits you. Like this song did to me a couple of days ago.
An awesome record. I first heard this on a compilation I bought in 1978 called "New Wave" and liked it instantly. Fast forward forty years and hearing it again makes me realise it is one of the finest power pop records of all time. Simply magic
Same
About the same time I heard the phrase new wave late 70s
A great rendition of a classic tune.
Love the original but this is the ultimate version. Just an incredible song from start to finish. This song makes me feel so good every time I hear it. In my top 10 of all time.
With Jack Johnson singing,the Groovies were at their best.
Dance! 💃🕺
@@johnvolume3384 He was also one of the greatest heavyweights of all time.
One of the Top !0 rock songs as far as I am concerned. I own many versions and all of them cook. I made my kids listen to this growing up and they still rock out when it comes on. An influential song for many rockers. The Groovies have got to be one of the best garage/crunch bands, along with the MC5, Plimsouls and Smithereens. Great drumming in this video.
Yes it was the 1970's and they were the band that made rock music interesting for me again. I love the album "Shake Some Action" what an incredible execise in style!
1986 needed this badly! Too bad I only knew of them in books...gladly I got caught up! Cyril Jordan and co are rockin!
Consummate. Remember hearing this song for the first time when it was released and then hearing it over and over on the radio that summer.
I heard the song back when it came out, didn't know who did it and only heard it on the radio three other times until listening to Little Steveys Underground Music and found out the name of the band. It's one of my top three favorite songs the other two are My Baby Blue- BAD Finger, Crimson and Clover
shake some action is an alltime smash hit a big hit after so many years sounds amazing
Found this band yesterday. Where have they been all my life!😉 Love this.
I love this. LOOOOOVVVEEE IIIIITTTTTTT!!!! xxxx
Saw 'em in Brisbane last Thursday. They were amazing and closed there set with this song! A great night of rock :)
Sounds amazingly good live in the 80's
Maybe it's the replacements vibe
@@hankhardigan1104 groovies were rockin when Matt was still in diapers
That's beautiful.
Un des plus beaux tittes de la fin des années 70 ! J'adore !!!! Merci aux Flamin's Groovies !
Who could dispute this. Salutations de Los Angeles.
i saw them in west berlin 1982 they do a fantastic cover of river deep mountain high its blow me away
Jack Johnson Is a G-R-E-A-T guitarist. In the 80's when not playing with The Groovies he was living In Boston & playing with Unattached. They where Boston's hardest drinking band with an endless supply of good looking, good time women around them @ all times. Unattached wrote 'Trash', the title track for Alice Coopers most successful album & Jack Is featured on that recording along with some of the guy's from Aerosmith. Jack was a brilliant musician, one of the very best on the scene back then.
He was from Seattle I thought....he was in the Yanks with the guy playing drums...are you sure you have the right guy?
So glad to know that Jack Johnson is alive and kickin' in WA state. He is the ultimate in 80's hotness!!
Cyril Jordan knew what rock and roll was. The first 20 seconds of this song is a classic !!!! At that time the Groovies were pure pop rock and deserve a thanks for keeping it real :)
Una de las canciones q marcaron mi juventud hasta fecha me hace 😭😭😢😭😢😭 onda
Oh yes!! They were a REAL band, they were, hugely underrated. Love this powerful version of one of the greatest rock'n'roll songs ever... I'm a middle-aged head now, but I still need to shake some action, it's not lost any of its meaning..
My favorite version.
This song wows me every time I hear it. I know it is not politically correct but this version is better than the original. The original was great but this version is just so awesome. The vocals, the drums, the guitar solos. Love it. Just saw that they are playing in Jersey City in a few months. Will try to go.
The most overlooked group in music history.
Best of the best
I would not have discovered this band had I not watched Private Lessons over the weekend...starring Sylvia Kristel...who was in a French flick...and these guys were on the soundtrack.
If you like 80s vocal, guitar and drum sounds you might prefer this version, but for me it's got to be the original released in 76. A transcendent masterpiece that deserves to be as well known as Bohemian Rhapsody or Sweet Child o' Mine.
Produced by Dave Edmunds!
This would be in Australia, around the time of the One Night Stand album.
This is THE most underrated band, no question about it. Five and a half stars.
Kicks ass over the original version. The song has everything. Power, emotion, hooks, great guitar solos, great vocals. Love this!!
Back in the summer of 1976 the campus radio station I worked in received some new releasaes from GRT Reords on the Sire label. One was the Flamin' Groovies "Shake Some Action" lp; the other was the first Ramones lp. Took me a little while to get into the Ramones - thought all their songs sounded the same - but the Groovies quickly became one of my favourite bands. Saw them years later at the El Mocambo in Toronto - my all time best concert ever! Met them after the show as well!
Love they added the 80s heavy drums to the 70s classic
Very Bad Taste! !!
@@tonyterme1769 okay Tony
I like the heavy drumming too.I apologies bout my bad manners
I love this song!!
Wish the screen wasn't so dark.
Still the best version !
Well we can be comforted. We are listening to power pop at its finest. There may only be a modest list of power pop songs this potent. I'm workin on the list for the starry eyes of the girl of my dreams.
Glorious - muchas gracias for sharing
Love this version !
GENIUS.
The Flamin' Groovies, absolutamente grandes.sentado sobre el marco de la ventana los paramecios de mi camisa estan bailando celebrando el solsticio de verano.esta cancion me recuerda a madrid y al barrio de ventas donde ensayaba con mi grupo de entonces.
edu lüger
I love this band! Thanks so much for uploading.
Thanks for sending it to me. Totally digging the lyrics. The lead singer has good hair.
pure pop for now people : )
my all time fave the original is still the best IMHO
Love this track
@DeborahS100 Actually this version (they're lip synching) was recorded in Australia, a live in the studio session.
Looks like they have! I am looking forward to seeing Cyril, George and Chris (and new drummer, Victor) performing in Australia in a couple of weeks!!
The best Groovies song.
Great song!
The greatest Side 1, Track 1 of all time.
Some of the greatest guitar ever !
i found an old journal, the song was Teenage head. We would go and see, the Jefferson airplane, GreatfulD ead , moby Grape and Hot tuna, also a group The Flamming groovies. This was at free concerts in Berkley and San francisco!
Lovin' George's bass lines here.
I'm in love with is song
In my top ten of all time...
The Flaming Groovies got well known during the early 70's but most people don't know that they started in 1965. They came out of San Francisco the same time bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service were getting noticed. The Flaming Groovies were totally different than the other bands at the time. They kept their hair short for a long time and they didn't play psychedelic music. They fit more with the punk and power pop bands.
Fantastic track - and all played without microphones or guitar leads ! I'm of to I-Tunes to snap it up.
Even with the awful mix -- the annoying phase, overbearing drum sound, Cyril's guitar too low and Jack's too high -- it's still the greatest Rock and Roll song. Ever.
A fun watch!
Totally agree! !! One of the best R'N Roll song!!! But the 80's sound is awful!!! 1976 original version is a masterpiece!!!
I agree that 's a great song.It's not about who wins but it's in my top Ten.And I agree than Cyril is not loud enough.But I like the eighties sound.For me, this Groovies line up is my fave.Because I like the sound of the drums.I also like the voice. Jack is such a good singer.
@@johnvolume3384 There are a half dozen great and wonderful Groovies tracks from this lineup on the "Rock Juice"/"Step Up" releases. Overlooked even by Flamin' Groovies standards.
You're right I also like One Night Stand,with this lineup.I like all the lineups,almost all the Groovies records.I like them playing rockabilly sixties pop and garage, power pop or whatever.But I like Jack Johnson singing effortlessly,with a raspy voice.Rock on!
best song ever!
Genius song!!!😎🎸🎶❤
Paul Zahl - batterie (french for "drums")
Jack Johnson - guitar
Geo. Alexander - bass
Cyril Jordan - guitar - genius....
How can 11 "people" NOT like this!?!
They pretend too like rap, because it's cool... or so they think.
great ! thanks for sharing
Falmin Groovies kinda sounding like the contemporaneous TIM-era Replacements.
replacements heard the groovies...
abs the best record makes you want to be a rock star brilliant
Brilliant - that's the version for me.
oh i love that song...and just know it from a swedish band called sons of cyrus..wowie..
Outta sight !!
Best version!
Great clip! This may be lip-synched but I'm guessing at least they are lipping to a live track they'd recorded prior to air. Sounds great.
I was playing this in 1970 with my band in high school , a true bay area rock band.
What we're you guys called out of curiosity
In 1970 this song hadn't been written yet.
Yes, what became of Jack Johnson. I remember him in The Loops in Sacto with Richard McGrath (True West) before he moved to SF and started The Yanks.
This video is from 1986
Weird, this sounds like a live recording not the single but they’re clearly miming. I wonder what the story is with that.
Arguably the greatest rock song of all time.
This 1980s version doesn't really do it full justice.
Shame the original recording has not been posted.
Chris Wilson is now living in North London and still playing this song at his live gigs. His TH-cam videos may not have the best sound quality but are closer in spirit to the track laid down by the Groovies with producer Dave Edmunds in 1976
Great song, with such a catchy guitar line. Fabulous band! I have only one problem.... where did they hide the microphones? Afraid its not live...
Wow
love!
I will find a way
To get to you some day.
Oh, but I, babe, I'm so afraid I'll fall, yeah.
Now can't you hear me call?
Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.
It's taken me so long
To get where I belong
Oh, but, oh, please don't send me back that way, yeah.
For I will make you pay.
Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.
If you don't dig what I say
Then I will go away.
And I won't come back this again. No.
'Cause I don't need a friend.
Shake some action's what I need
To let me bust out at full speed.
I'm sure that's all you need
To make it all right.
@DeborahS100 He played with Roky Erickson too,(the album was called Don't Slander Me) they have a song on the soundtrack for My Own Private Idaho, (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves). I remember he was also in a seattle band in the early 80's Called No Cheese Please saw em when I was a kid........
Love it, Check the Rubinoos cover in Madrid, killer version and keeping another SF band alive
The song is a classic, but who are the mystery guys? Is there a reason for dim lights?
Paul Zahl, what a MONSTER.
Nothing like the original but still better than other songs.
@irresistablejewel Cyril's been wearing a topper for years....He plays in a band now called Magic Christian with Eddie Munoz from the Plimsouls....
The vocals are spot on. This is much stronger than the album version. Love it!
Cool,cool!!!!!!!!!
Gem 💎
Omg ! This was my grandpa's band (: George is my g-pa (bass) i didn't think I'd find him on here. Basically they started out playing as like a garage band, then i guess they just met the right people from what my mom told me. They played all around San Francisco and played in London alot . Basically what ended everything was the manager that they were talking to, didn't share their views on things, this was also a manager that delt with jimi hendrix.so that's why they are no more, and eventually
Crystal Alexander great story!! thanks for sharing this
well, they are back - I could't be any happier and hope to catch them in Europe this time! Had been a fan from day one!
flamin groovies were beasts! great records. teenage head is a standout among thousands of great albums!
the bass lines in this version are so clear and sound awesome