There is no one quite like Billy Thorpe. He could transform a room by sheer force of personality. He was a force of nature, and a brilliant live performer.
I saw Billy Thorpe and Aztec I reacon in 1969 at the Salisbury youth centre, first great real band i ever saw at age age 15. Wish i could remember more, but of course started me on guitar and garage band. Great rocker great music. Rip ❤
Billy was simply "testosterone man" - Ist saw the Aztecs age 15 while still at school in 1969 & was a disciple forever after ! He had guts, balls, long hair & talent, with a stage presence that was commanding & 2nd to none. Legend.
Followed Billy since the 60's... What a great talent. Miss him very much & also I just imagine the music scene we'd have if he was still here.. he organised the Melb Blues Fest years ago with Robert Cray, John Mayall & Bob Dylan plus others. What a show... Mayall said that he'd keep playing but someone louder wanted the stage. Billy did us proud that night & every time the band played.. I was in shock for days after the news of his passing. RIP Billy Thorpe
I play this once a week to a) enjoy and b) remind me how blessed we all were to grow up listening to the best rockers on the planet in Oz - late 60s, 70s and early 80s - outstanding and Thorpie could still out play, out rock and out perform any act 20-30 years his junior to the end. Great band of musos to - thanks to one and all from that era - re-living a lot of those times via youtube is one of life's simple pleasures 7 I feel blessed - cheers!
I’m 66 and also grew up listening to and going to all these rockers Thorpys music was so loud had your ears ringing for days Lobby Lloyd , oh my good they were over the moon .. 100% world class ..we had the best music no shit about it ..
I am in my late 30's and i just wanna say, i was not born when these legends were tearing it up...... But my choice in guitars, the way i play now reflects the fact that a steady diet of Billy Thorpe and Lobby loydd when i was a kid has made me who i am today. Australian musicians Now and back then have a lot to offer and often don't get the recognition they so very often deserve. Thanks Billy.... I'm still listing and learning....
Not wrong man!!!! There are soooo many bands in Australia that are just as/if not better then the over seas acts BUT kids wont go to local gigs BUT are happy to spend all their saved up money on a ticket to sound wave to support overseas acts! lol really drives me nuts !
Billy THorpe was THE most under-rated/under appreciated rock musician of his era. A monstrous talent. I did a support for him one time. Best drinks rider I have ever seen :-) )
no one could ever replace this giant of aus music.he still makes we feel the way i did when i was just a boy.pumped.what a loss.a giant of oz music.miss you bill.
At the end of the clip, John Blackman ( background voice-over) said that "they don't make it like that anymore". Sadly, he was right. Classic singer and performer greatly missed, but I am grateful to have been alive, although rather fuzzy, in those days, esp.in Southern Vic.
mighty band only bout hundred of us at miami gr8 hall g/coast they still pumped out a mighty performance a CONSUMATE PERFORMER!!! Still get tears o respect!
still cant get over the power of this man..... scintillating! what I'd love to know is, does the rest of the footage with the "Before you "cuse me" in full? even in the 20 odd bars we hear, he lifts the roof off the richmond studio!!
BILLY THORPE HAS BEEN OUR BEST MUSICAL TALENT EVER MAN HOW F..... GOOD WAS HE, KIDS THIS IS HOW MUSIC IS PLAY IS PLAYED NOT THE F..... SHIT THEY PLAY THESE DAYS
Sorry,my last comment got cut short/ just wanted to say so sad Billy has gone to the great concert upstairs. Never have seen a guy that could rock like this!
Could you imagine if this band was given the chance to play at the monster football stadiums that the bands like AC/DC and others play at? They would have killed.
This is Billy Thorpe and the SUNBURY Aztecs, as they played at Sunbury! This is not the Sunburys as they play different style, more like Petty, Dylan, Kelly, etc. Billy was the best!
debrashaw100 Well I'm 55 and we always rock out to this stuff at parties or wherever , and let me tell ya, the youngens just stare in disbelief ! Ha ha
There is no one quite like Billy Thorpe. He could transform a room by sheer force of personality. He was a force of nature, and a brilliant live performer.
I saw Billy Thorpe and Aztec I reacon in 1969 at the Salisbury youth centre, first great real band i ever saw at age age 15. Wish i could remember more, but of course started me on guitar and garage band. Great rocker great music. Rip ❤
I play in various bands do a couple of his songs.cheers also was at Sunbury 1973 and saw that on dvd yup I'm there all right😅
Billy was simply "testosterone man" - Ist saw the Aztecs age 15 while still at school in 1969 & was a disciple forever after ! He had guts, balls, long hair & talent, with a stage presence that was commanding & 2nd to none. Legend.
Thanks who ever put this on, Billy,s one of our best and a damb fine guitar player, cheers 😎
Followed Billy since the 60's... What a great talent. Miss him very much & also I just imagine the music scene we'd have if he was still here.. he organised the Melb Blues Fest years ago with Robert Cray, John Mayall & Bob Dylan plus others. What a show... Mayall said that he'd keep playing but someone louder wanted the stage. Billy did us proud that night & every time the band played.. I was in shock for days after the news of his passing. RIP Billy Thorpe
RIP Billy Thorpe- Always ahead of his own time.
Miss Billy so much! He really knew how to rock! Don’t even get me started about Billy at Sunbury! My God!!!!!😊😮🎉
absolute fuckin legend! rock on Billy...my childhood hero.... R.I.P. eternal respect
billy broke 2 strings and still kicked arse rip billy
The best in Australia 👍👍👍👍👍
Thankfully there are still a few old school guitar players out there who keep this genre alive in Australia..
I'm doing it in a band that has confidence in me doing Thorpe's version.
Billy played a concert in a tent 400m from my house in the late 90's. Blew the flaps off !!!
So Good So Loud
His guitar was plugged into lightning. His rock and roll will overwhelm your soul. BILLY BABEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!
The first & ONLY, GEN-U-INE Australian rock SUPERSTAR!!!
+byron1958 exactly.Well said.
GEN-U-INE Aussie from Manchester, England!
Australia's biggest ROCK GOD!
spot on brother,well said
Truer words have never been spoken.
I play this once a week to a) enjoy and b) remind me how blessed we all were to grow up listening to the best rockers on the planet in Oz - late 60s, 70s and early 80s - outstanding and Thorpie could still out play, out rock and out perform any act 20-30 years his junior to the end. Great band of musos to - thanks to one and all from that era - re-living a lot of those times via youtube is one of life's simple pleasures 7 I feel blessed - cheers!
I’m 66 and also grew up listening to and going to all these rockers Thorpys music was so loud had your ears ringing for days Lobby Lloyd , oh my good they were over the moon .. 100% world class ..we had the best music no shit about it ..
Super Billy, there has been nothing like him before or after, Oh the memories
I am in my late 30's and i just wanna say, i was not born when these legends were tearing it up...... But my choice in guitars, the way i play now reflects the fact that a steady diet of Billy Thorpe and Lobby loydd when i was a kid has made me who i am today. Australian musicians Now and back then have a lot to offer and often don't get the recognition they so very often deserve. Thanks Billy.... I'm still listing and learning....
Not wrong man!!!! There are soooo many bands in Australia that are just as/if not better then the over seas acts BUT kids wont go to local gigs BUT are happy to spend all their saved up money on a ticket to sound wave to support overseas acts! lol really drives me nuts !
just makes my heart burst seeing our exalted leader in full flight,,,,,,, tears of joy for a LEGEND!
Billy and Stevie Wright, Russel Morris,Brian Cadd, the list goes on we are so blessed to have these artists
Fark I love the way this man plays guitar
BB King is well loved by this Rainbowhead :D
Rock and Roll will never be this good again! sadly missed Billy old Son have a VB on Ossie!
Maybe.
Billy THorpe was THE most under-rated/under appreciated rock musician of his era. A monstrous talent. I did a support for him one time. Best drinks rider I have ever seen :-) )
no one could ever replace this giant of aus music.he still makes we feel the way i did when i was just a boy.pumped.what a loss.a giant of oz music.miss you bill.
Just fantastic wish he was still here
you will not see a player like that again.
So enjoy.
Thank-you, and thank-you.God.
just brilliant RIP Billy
my fav rock n roller and all round good bloke, Used to do security around the scene and we nearly always had a beer or 3 after the gig! Miss ya Bill
He played LOUD. full stop? Aussie legend
What a great rock feel his guitar playing has, and what a fabulous tone. So cool.
Ah the Village Green, hazy days.
At the end of the clip, John Blackman ( background voice-over) said that "they don't make it like that anymore". Sadly, he was right. Classic singer and performer greatly missed, but I am grateful to have been alive, although rather fuzzy, in those days, esp.in Southern Vic.
Love this guy.
yep, the best! The Village Green. What times they were. :) :)
Billy was the Best!
He just got better with age... R. I. P. Billy
mighty band only bout hundred of us at miami gr8 hall g/coast they still pumped out a mighty performance a CONSUMATE PERFORMER!!! Still get tears o respect!
Still miss ya Billy! You're a legend!
LIVE and LOUD R.I.P Billy
Nothing less than World Class!
What a Aussie Legend, go Billy :))
how true
Billy could make that Gibson talk🎵🎶🎸
Back when Rock was Rock..an Roll was Roll...and we went along with the ride..
billy thorp they dont play it like that anymore love it
incredible!
I use to see him at the white horse hotel nunawading heaps
Good to see Gil holding down the groove so well !
Classic Billy THorpe I even forgive him for going to all his concerts and now being partially deaf. No one could play louder.
Classic R&R
FREAKIN AWESOME BILLY!!!!
memories, memories. Thanks for posting.
He used to lift the roof of Ormond Hall in Melbourne on a Sunday arvo! Those stacked Marshalls did the business!! YAAAAAHH!!
Saw him at Opus and Brighton Town hall. The best of the best.🎸
It will never happen again.Our loss
GOD BLESS I AGREE
I love billy...
Billy was the man
still cant get over the power of this man..... scintillating! what I'd love to know is, does the rest of the footage with the "Before you "cuse me" in full? even in the 20 odd bars we hear, he lifts the roof off the richmond studio!!
Been there, great times, with the "Thorpe Fish"
First saw this man live at Hornsby Police Boys Club in the early with Lobby Loud on guitar, before Bill was a git fiddler. Amazing stuff.
Great stuff fellas.
BILLY THORPE HAS BEEN OUR BEST MUSICAL TALENT EVER MAN HOW F..... GOOD WAS HE, KIDS THIS IS HOW MUSIC IS PLAY IS PLAYED NOT THE F..... SHIT THEY PLAY THESE DAYS
Sorry,my last comment got cut short/ just wanted to say so sad Billy has gone to the great concert upstairs. Never have seen a guy that could rock like this!
SUPER!
saw Thorpie at Rumours in Toowoomba, he had Paul DeMarco from Rose Tattoo on drums- I also saw this lineup at Seagulls on Gold Coast- great stuff!!
Could you imagine if this band was given the chance to play at the monster football stadiums that the bands like AC/DC and others play at? They would have killed.
Anyone see Billy Thorpe at Queenscliff Music Festival TokH Hotel or Waltzing Matilda Hotel?
Watch the string break . Did it stop him ? Nup
The Old Crew Eh.
We will eat you for dinner.
got better with time!!
This is Billy Thorpe and the SUNBURY Aztecs, as they played at Sunbury! This is not the Sunburys as they play different style, more like Petty, Dylan, Kelly, etc. Billy was the best!
This guy is my DAD! I kid u not Salsbury chicken gig 1971//..man
ben clacy bass guitar
your dad is cool
🎶🐈❣️
Sure was from Hey Hey its Saturday with Darryl Summers ......................... Thorpie what an act
Vale William Richard Thorpe.
OOP OOP A DOO... Billy could ''PLAY'' guitar !!!
👌👏👏👏👏👏👌🙌
I'm glad his guitarist quit and he started playing.
The man is playing a Gibson with Tonepro bridge yeah, notice...breaks a string...unwinds and tosses it clear... on with the job.
Were is The Aztecs?
how good was billy
Yair. Far fucking out! Thursday nights at the Whitehorse.
so Thor can play blues rock.....
sure some tone deaf no ideas have hit the thumbs down..lmao..like seriously.
So sad Billy ihas gon
How could anyone even consider any band in OZ be in the same league as this band, sorry Chisel, the Angels and even ACDC pale in comparrison!
he could play a bit ..
What the fuck are we all going to do when we're senile and old? PLEASE! Give us this! And NOT Glen Miller!
debrashaw100 Well I'm 55 and we always rock out to this stuff at parties or wherever , and let me tell ya, the youngens just stare in disbelief ! Ha ha
this is not the aztecs it is billy and the sunburrys
What tha ?
Broke a string.