If you get invited by Ritchie Blackmore to join his band, if you managed to play together with two of the best post Blackmore rock guitarists ever, you can not really be considered having been "underrated". And let's remain fair, Bonnet was phenomenally good on studio albums, but wasn't always able to reproduce that in a convincing way live. His studio singing was so on the edge, that singing several concerts like this in a close timespan quickly led to diminishing singing qualities. The heavy drinking and r'n'r life style certainly didn't help. There are several GB live shows here on TH-cam that make this very plain to hear.
I've seen live in 2017 and 2019 and his voice was just as good as it is in the studio versions. He admitted recently in a blabber mouth interview that it was poor in his late 40s, but it's back up to where it was in his 20s.
Graham was always my favorite Rainbow singer then I heard this song by Alcatrazz on Metal Shop Radio about two months ago. This is one of the top vocal performances of all time, he kicks ass.
With 611 thumbs up ? No, not really.... Compare that with the number of views of let's say Run to the hills of Iron Maiden or Child in time of Purple... It's not really in the same league of popularity, is it ?
@@Retroscoop You cannot think that a record labels influence has anything to do with Musical Merit.. Popular has nothing to do with an epic song.. Iron Maiden could not perform this song, Alcatrazz could play any Maiden song.
I remember that I watch this video on TV in Japan. and I still like it for 30 years. I stll like his powerful voice and the guitar for 30 years. Arigato from Japan.
Lyrics: It was newborn and ten feet tall But they called it little boy And C7, H5, O6, N3 they called him T-N-T The fireball would dim the sun Promising death in its cruelest form Hiroshima Mon Amour As we beg to be forgiven do you spit In our face and curse us all The fireball that shamed the sun Burning the shadows on the ground As the rain falls to dry the land Leaving desert for the thirsty man They all said it would end the war And we thanked Christ for the bomb And the priests and witches all agreed They should die to keep them free The fireball that shamed the sun Burning the shadows on the ground As the rain falls to dry the land Leaving the desert for the thirsty man Hiroshima!
There was an Alcatrazz promo video in MTV back in the 80s... my jaw dropped when I saw YM for the first time and this song is still one of my favorites... and Graham's voice..!! Anybody in 2020 listening to this?
@@andrewryding_68 thank you didn't know.. I'm listening it just now...so far it is great.. killer guitar far better than the S Vai era imho... Graham still sounds good... incredible after so many years his formula remains awesome...have a good one
Thanks Juan Carlos.You May also like to check out his most recent albums with The Graham Bonnet Band “The Book” & “ Meanwhile Back In The Garage”. Great albums and his band are great too.Also his album with Rainbow “Down To Earth” and the Michael Schenker Group “Assault Attack.” 🎸🎤
$100 to anyone here because this song was so meaningful for them and not because Yngwie was actually human at this time. *One hour later Yngwie became a God.
Yngwie has done nothing decent since he hooked up with Joe Lynn Turner. He's worked with some brilliant singers but he now thinks he is better than all of them. He's no Blackmore.
Talk about insane vocal power , range , vibrato n sustain. And add Yngwie to the Mix for incredible Neo-Cassical Shredding lol . Hat's Off Fella's. 🕶️🤙 , °): EADG... C7 H5 O6 N3 = 💣 💥💨
@beroth77 some of his highs have elements of falsetto, but the resonance from about 95% of the lines uses on this song comes from full-voice, who cares anyway, he sounds great either way, and yes Dio does use falsetto for his highs(obviously not all, but there are some instances where he does) take for example that 2007 clip from Mob Rules he did with heaven and hell, that opening scream is pure falsetto
MAN what an UNDERATED heavy metal band that did NOT get the credit they dezerved & i WILL put this singer Graham Bonnet UP BESIDE ANY OF 'EM !!!!!!!!!!!
手島幸英 I don't think Graham can't sing this song in Hiroshima because this song is based on the thoughts which a-bomb stoped the war and set the world free. Personally, I agree with this idea but that is against the most of Japanese. How do you feel this part of the lyrics? "They all said it would end the war, And we thanked Christ for the bomb, And the priests and witches all agreed, They should die to keep them free."
Oh, man that is an irony, as a literary mode. That is the critic of ‚the American mentality, and the church. The witches and priests are that symbol of evil, they all said it would end the war, not me, not in my name, understand, that is the point. It was necessary that innocent people die, tho give the meaning and purpose to the evil. They found justification for their evil aims, and showed their real faces in that.This has nothing to do with a pro-American song, as Bonnet said, he was shocked and angry, and found everything about the bomb and the assault, to write the song. They are in front Japanese flag in video, and the song was almost as the Beatles popular in Japan.
+Scott Woods No it wasn't, but Yngwie was the only one holding out on a reunion. I'm sure he would of toned it down a little for the music. Plus & don't 4get when he was in the band he wrote all the music, most of the lyrics, production, etc.
I know your comment is old, but saying that Halford or Dio used falsetto is awfully wrong. They used full head voice, like Ralf Scheepers and many others. King Diamond uses falsetto, and you can notice as falsetto despite the fact that is high sounds thin compared to a full head voice.
ボネット兄さん、最後は旭日旗もってくれて。素晴らしい！世界に平和を！！！
Graham Bonnet has got to be the most underrated singer of all time. His voice is incredible.
Absolutely agree
Totally agreed !!
If you get invited by Ritchie Blackmore to join his band, if you managed to play together with two of the best post Blackmore rock guitarists ever, you can not really be considered having been "underrated". And let's remain fair, Bonnet was phenomenally good on studio albums, but wasn't always able to reproduce that in a convincing way live. His studio singing was so on the edge, that singing several concerts like this in a close timespan quickly led to diminishing singing qualities. The heavy drinking and r'n'r life style certainly didn't help. There are several GB live shows here on TH-cam that make this very plain to hear.
The guy on the guitar is no slouch either.
I've seen live in 2017 and 2019 and his voice was just as good as it is in the studio versions. He admitted recently in a blabber mouth interview that it was poor in his late 40s, but it's back up to where it was in his 20s.
Graham Bonnet is from another dimension! This version of Alcatrazz was amazing!
Absolutely!
Graham was always my favorite Rainbow singer then I heard this song by Alcatrazz on Metal Shop Radio about two months ago. This is one of the top vocal performances of all time, he kicks ass.
How is this track not considered a heavy metal classic? This song is amazing.
With 611 thumbs up ? No, not really.... Compare that with the number of views of let's say Run to the hills of Iron Maiden or Child in time of Purple... It's not really in the same league of popularity, is it ?
@@Retroscoop What does your comment have to do with his?
Benoit Vanhees that two songs hadn't impress me that much as this song.I learned history more after it and want to see re-builded Hiroshima)!
Hell yeah it's a Heavy Metal classic!
@@Retroscoop You cannot think that a record labels influence has anything to do with Musical Merit.. Popular has nothing to do with an epic song.. Iron Maiden could not perform this song, Alcatrazz could play any Maiden song.
First time I saw that video I was 23 years old and it blew my mind away...jaw dropping, I was soo amazed with that group...that was back in 80s
"You Really Got Me" runs through this whole song.
Not really.
Damn you, I'm I'm never going to unhear that!!!😂
Metal I grew up to. This song on Channel 4s program called the Tube got me into Alcatrazz. Still listen to albums 25 years on.
One of the very greatest Heavy Metal songs in history. Top 50 easily.
I remember that I watch this video on TV in Japan. and I still like it for 30 years. I stll like his powerful voice and the guitar for 30 years. Arigato from Japan.
Kumbungwa from USA,
今のところ
平和に感謝します。
I was either 18 or 19 when I hear this. Some station in New York ran metal videos on UHF. 1984-85. The good old days.
Still one of my favorites. Boy could Graham Bonnet hit those notes
Check out Jeff Scott Soto with Yngwie in Japan 85 iirc doing this song live and doesn't miss a beep. Verges on fishy!
このストラトシングルコイルの音がたまらない。
当時バンド仲間はみんな長髪だったけどロカビリー好きもいて、リーゼントしてたロカビリーの人はみんなグラハムって呼ばれてたなぁw
Graham bonnet!
His looks is very cool!
Most insane voice of all time hands down why are there not statues of this guy in every country's capital city?
Impresionante!!!!!!
Because he sang out of key too often
This could only have been done with Graham Bonnet's vocals. Incredible intensity.
Bonnett. Halford. Rodgers. Gillian. Mount Rushmore of Hard Rock singers.
@@ginoedmisten824 You're forgetting Robert Plant and Chris Cornell.
@@ginoedmisten824 Ooops, and Bruce Dickinson and Geoff Tate.
Great song....the soloing is jaw dropping
This is my favorite Alcatrazz song
My Dad used to play on a deck tape when i was a little young boy,i still listen today,they were a great band
Graham bonnet was so fashionable rocker !
Really heavy song. But the light guitar saves my heart.August 6.
本当に重い曲。でも軽やかなギターに心が救われる。8月6日。
まだ若かった頃に見た時は衝撃的でした
The most powerful vocals ever!!!!
Dio didn't agree....
Dio was a powerhouse, but not more powerful than Bonnet.
Live, Dio sang in key
I saw them play in San Francisco in the 1980s. These guys rock!
Amazing singer
ハイトーンボーカル！
Graham Bonnett is really Chip Halford, Rob's straight brother.
Lyrics:
It was newborn and ten feet tall
But they called it little boy
And C7, H5, O6, N3 they called him
T-N-T
The fireball would dim the sun
Promising death in its cruelest form
Hiroshima Mon Amour
As we beg to be forgiven do you spit
In our face and curse us all
The fireball that shamed the sun
Burning the shadows on the ground
As the rain falls to dry the land
Leaving desert for the thirsty man
They all said it would end the war
And we thanked Christ for the bomb
And the priests and witches all agreed
They should die to keep them free
The fireball that shamed the sun
Burning the shadows on the ground
As the rain falls to dry the land
Leaving the desert for the thirsty man
Hiroshima!
Superb, I remember when this was first released. Malmsteen, makes that strat sing too, perfect compliment to GB.
Still one of the greatest singers of the world
Agreed
This song introduced the world to the brilliant guitar playing of Yngwie J!
Some of us were already familiar with him from STEELER (1983).
A heavy rock song that's cool and condemns the idea of using nuclear weapons? YES! :D
Max Zorin can really
sing his arse off 😳
what a voice, our Graham!!!
*Graham + Yngwie = Super Power*
There was an Alcatrazz promo video in MTV back in the 80s... my jaw dropped when I saw YM for the first time and this song is still one of my favorites... and Graham's voice..!! Anybody in 2020 listening to this?
Alcatrazz have a new album with most of the original line-up “Born Innocent.”
@@andrewryding_68 thank you didn't know.. I'm listening it just now...so far it is great.. killer guitar far better than the S Vai era imho... Graham still sounds good... incredible after so many years his formula remains awesome...have a good one
Thanks Juan Carlos.You May also like to check out his most recent albums with The Graham Bonnet Band “The Book” & “ Meanwhile Back In The Garage”. Great albums and his band are great too.Also his album with Rainbow “Down To Earth” and the Michael Schenker Group “Assault Attack.” 🎸🎤
Thank you@@andrewryding_68 sure I am going to listen to those.. I only recall a 360° video from his band
th-cam.com/video/aoozzL1oxkQ/w-d-xo.html
UP Thank you👍
アップありがとうございます😄
from japan
That was amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Alguém ouvindo esse clássico agora ? Grande Grahan.
Great fricken song!!!!!
I had no idea that Richard Simmons played drums for Alcatraz
Richard who ?
The resemblance is remarkable!
You're awful! That was fucking hilarious!
tyanks Graham!
Might be the greatest song & video of all time. MIGHT BE!
$100 to anyone here because this song was so meaningful for them and not because Yngwie was actually human at this time.
*One hour later Yngwie became a God.
Not so much that it was meaningful, nor did/do I give a f*** about Yngwie, here for the vocals! Pay up
que dupla genial !!
This song is great
awesome song!! i remember seeing this on mtv..
Rock solid lineup.
I love people with a sense of humor.
I love people who define the key words of their speech
Benoit Vanhees I love people who reply to a 7 year old comment.
シングルコイルのストラトは笛の様☆音に+αの厚みが無い…けど…好きです。
Extra always say this is do fuckin Amazing Yngwie Graham🤘😜🍻
Where I was introduced to Yngwie . I never listened to Steeler.
yngwie before he was a rock god...definitely with a Blackmore vibe goin'...
Yngwie has done nothing decent since he hooked up with Joe Lynn Turner.
He's worked with some brilliant singers but he now thinks he is better than all of them.
He's no Blackmore.
@Mike Williams By now he is a Chinese Buddah ow ow ow that's nasty.... Living in the fast lane, there's a price to pay....
Talk about insane vocal power , range , vibrato n sustain. And add Yngwie to the Mix for incredible Neo-Cassical Shredding lol . Hat's Off Fella's.
🕶️🤙 , °): EADG...
C7 H5 O6 N3 = 💣 💥💨
graham bonnet sober!
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SUPERB!~~
下の方に歌詞を誤解している方が見えるようだけど、贖罪の曲だと思うがね。
Fucking super vocal and guiter！
Even in his 70s now, Graham Bonnet is one of the greatest rock singers of all time. I'll never get tired of hearing this dude sing.
ギブソンのレスポールにＷコイルのジェフ・ベックのコイル着けてついでにフロイド・ローズのアームを特注でやらなきゃ…まあ、好きです広島もなむぅる❤
横山やすしさん、バンドやっていたんですね(*^▽^*)
WORLD CLASS METAL! As best as it came...
el graham bonnet, todo maqueao,como no.que tonos tan altos tenia .todo un crac
@beroth77 some of his highs have elements of falsetto, but the resonance from about 95% of the lines uses on this song comes from full-voice, who cares anyway, he sounds great either way, and yes Dio does use falsetto for his highs(obviously not all, but there are some instances where he does) take for example that 2007 clip from Mob Rules he did with heaven and hell, that opening scream is pure falsetto
MAN what an UNDERATED heavy metal band that did NOT get the credit they dezerved & i WILL put this singer Graham Bonnet UP BESIDE ANY OF 'EM !!!!!!!!!!!
Graham Bonnet 1983
why doesnt this have more views?
I hope mr. Bonnet will sing at in front of peace memorial park.
Hiroshima monnamur.
I hope l belive it will become.
手島幸英 I don't think Graham can't sing this song in Hiroshima because this song is based on the thoughts which a-bomb stoped the war and set the world free. Personally, I agree with this idea but that is against the most of Japanese. How do you feel this part of the lyrics?
"They all said it would end the war,
And we thanked Christ for the bomb,
And the priests and witches all agreed,
They should die to keep them free."
Oh, man that is an irony, as a literary mode. That is the critic of ‚the American mentality, and the church. The witches and priests are that symbol of evil, they all said it would end the war, not me, not in my name, understand, that is the point. It was necessary that innocent people die, tho give the meaning and purpose to the evil. They found justification for their evil aims, and showed their real faces in that.This has nothing to do with a pro-American song, as Bonnet said, he was shocked and angry, and found everything about the bomb and the assault, to write the song. They are in front Japanese flag in video, and the song was almost as the Beatles popular in Japan.
It is a harsh criticism about the barbarity of launching the bomb in Hiroshima.
this is bitter sarcasm. no trace of trying to justify or excuse. "they said" is commonly used as 'they lied'
.
Its a shame that Yngwie couldn't re-unite the band for a 30th Anniversary tour!
(or 20th, or 25th, etc.)
+Matthew Paluch A. It wasn't Yngwie's band, lol, and B. Yngwie's playing has become so atrocious it wouldn't be worth seeing anyway...
+Scott Woods No it wasn't, but Yngwie was the only one holding out on a reunion. I'm sure he would of toned it down a little for the music. Plus & don't 4get when he was in the band he wrote all the music, most of the lyrics,
production, etc.
Matthew Paluch ok, I see what you're saying.
Matthew Paluch There was a sort of Alcatrazz reunion.It was called Impelliteri tho.
The drummer Jan Uvena was my upstairs neighbor
音って、アンプやエフェクター次第てのもあるね。
the wildest song of all time
アルカトラズはどのような気持ちを込めてこの曲をつくったのだろうか？
I know your comment is old, but saying that Halford or Dio used falsetto is awfully wrong. They used full head voice, like Ralf Scheepers and many others. King Diamond uses falsetto, and you can notice as falsetto despite the fact that is high sounds thin compared to a full head voice.
Legendary song
great👍！！
Jeff Loomis and Van Williams of Nevermore will be in his new lineup, its going to be great.
"No more Hiroshima" from Japan to the world
SINGLEコイルのストラト…出来ればギブソンのレスポールにジェフベックのコイル着けてフロイトローズのアーム着けて…とは秘密ですね、
G7首脳達に聴かせたい
Que temazo!!!
thank 'ou Hiroshima!
I pray the peace of the world from japan.
Just what used to be a proto-type of Yngwie.
With c7 H5 06 n3. They called it TNT .
yasusi yokoyama
人生まいるけぶしですよ。
Malmsteen = Blackmore of 80's
Background at 1:36 : Wall street and "The city" in London?
The song that inspired my favorite composer: Daiki Kasho, to make music.
qué temardo por dios bendito
ダブルコイルのジェフ・ベックのぶっつけたギブソンレスポールカスタムにフロイトローズのアーム着けて、っと。あれ？？
"And the priests and witches all agreed
They should die to keep them free"
Forgot Malmstein played this.
ウォスカー！
メッチャ カッケー
Malmsteen used to use rosewood necks.. sounded way better.. just an observation.. even on his first 2 albums..
NoWar🕊️🕊️🕊️
Un clasico
Forgive us, Hiroshima.