I'm glad that you did this, they're great The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, I'm so glad that you liked "Delilah" which I recommended for that Wednesday against Tom Jones.
Loved the video and reaction. For me, I would prefer to see SAHB live, that is the group at their best, and I had to go and watch their 74 performance of this at the Rainbow Theatre in London on TH-cam, it's fantastic, it's fun, and they were like nobody else.
I am amazed at how TH-cam is exposing so many folks to my favourite band. Consider the Hot City Symphony which consists of “Vambo/Man in the Jar” , Give My Compliments to the Chef, and Tale of the Giant Stone Eater.
Real shame that Alex & SAHB haven't the video coverage but what there is well worth searching out. Thanks so much Family Hanier for putting Alex & His SAHB out for another generation to hear. Alex's 2nd comming 😊 Alex was a music maestro with so many styles drawn upon to make SAHB a unique Cult, Rock, Dance, Punk, Blues, Honky Tonk, Whatever SAHB could & did do it all. ... N.E.X.T ... next!
I used to see SAHB in London in the early 70's. He fell off my radar when I moved to Australia in the late 70's. My wife (an Australian) only knew him for ''Anthem'' and ''Boston Tea Party''. My enthusiasm for his music fell on a lot of deaf ears in Australia, though I could hear some of his music on some good underground stations in Melbourne. This song brings back memories. Cheers.
@@colrhodes377 I think it's natural for anybody to struggle with any kind of change, and a move from England to Australia is no exception. However, I think life in Australia was a lot easier when I moved here in 1976. Leaving England for Australia was like quitting a stagnant job at an old institution and starting a new job at a brand new company. I met a lot of interesting people in Melbourne, and saw all these new subcultures develop. I got involved in the live music scene in Melbourne, where I was required to do trips to Sydney. I met a fellow pom and DJ named Mac Cocker (Jarvis' dad), who like me, was perplexed by how he got the opportunities that Australia offered him in radio. Shame he left his son, the future Pulp singer, in Sheffield. It didn't take me long to meet the woman I was to marry. I had a lot of good reasons to stay in Australia. My own kids, all Australian born, are having their own struggles living in Melbourne. They're all employed, and half of them are out of home. But they're struggling to keep up with rent, and they feel that what they earn isn't covering their expenses. I don't feel Melbourne is the place that I had first encountered in the mid 70's. I live a very comfortable and settled life at 75. If I had struggled in Melbourne in those early years, I barely noticed because I was living in this whirlwind where life was going fast and there were too many beguiling people that kept my interest in staying. I can't imagine my kids enjoying those perks today because they no longer exist.
@@colrhodes377 My reply has disappeared. I put a bit into it. In short, my move to Australia was very exciting. I felt like I quit a boring job at an old dusty institution, and got a new job at a brand new company with nicer weather. If I struggled, I barely noticed because life was a lot of fun in Melbourne in the 70's. I also spent a lot of time in Sydney where the weather is slightly better. My kids, all Aussie born, are not having the time I had. I think a lot of younger people and new arrivals are struggling in Australia at the moment.
Great reaction C&C. Live at Ragnarok Festival for the best visuals. ScottishTeeVee has a good cleaned up version. There's a rare (adolf-piss take) version live in America, no video, but Zal's 🎸 solo is epic.
SAHB @ there whackiest would be something like The Tale Of The Giant Stone Eater or rockingest try Midnight Moses. Other 'must listens', Give My Compliments To The Chef, Next, Boston Tea Party, Tomahawk Kid, Sultan's Choice, Nightmare City, blah blah & so on.
The live version of this is amazing. Those who love SAHB, love it a lot, you just have to buy into the eccentricity. My personal favourites are St. Anthony and Give My Compliments to the Chef.
I had to go and watch the live version. I turned this off half way through and went to the live. Alex’s vocals are far more expressive in the live version. Anything which is lost in sound quality is more than made up for in genius visual characterisation and visual jokes, irony and sarcasm. Sadly younger generations think that listening to music means sitting on your own listening through high quality head phones. It’s become a technological experience rather than a human experience. .Nowadays it’s more important that the technology and sound quality is spot on through the headphones,more so than the artists individual genius being revealed. I could understand it if they’re listening to a100 instrument orchestra, playing a complex classical piece, where it’s important to pick out the quieter instruments, the different themes and leit motifs, but dismissing the visual and musical genius of a performer, just so that every note of a 4 instrument rock band can be heard is a bit pretentious and unnecessary. Music is being treated like a technology, instead of an art form which reveals musical genius. It will kill the soul of music, if we’re not careful.
Agree. Alex with or without His SAHB gave us music personified. Zal Cleminson's guitar reaches magnificent hights. The saxophone playing on The Whalers is to hear a whale die a bloody death. Need I go on ... to ... N.E.X.T .. & Anthem.
Alex Harvey's brother Leslie was the guitarist with stone the crows, and was electrocuted on stage at a gig, and was also Maggie bells common law husband 🏴✌️
Another great Scottish band try the song called ( The Faith Healer ) another Scottish singer you should try called ( Frankie Miller ) and his song called ( Darlin )he was friends with Alex Harvie
Same rig as cell block number 9 ( Dr Feelgood my fave version) shame about the visual options as SAHB were so good live. On to “Faith Healer” now for a real tour de force by them!
Nothing drags like an auld blues standard btw - sorry James , I can tell when I’m bored when I’m looking for the end to come as quickly as possible - I feel like a traitor for saying that but I’m just being honest …🤷♂️ 👍🏴
I think this might be a safe space where you can express an honest opinion without the wrath of the cosplay crazies descending upon you. Unless they have Zal Cleminson themed cafes in Japan.
It's always better to listen to the studio versions of songs and not the live stuff. A lot of live shows have different line-ups than the ones who originally recorded songs.
That’s interesting because every time I saw them live in the 70’s it was always AlexHarvey, Zal Cleminson, Chris Glen and the McKenna brothers. It just wouldn’t have been the same without Alex, Chris and Zal at the front. I don’t see how anyone could replace those three, they were so visually individual in their appearance and dancing. It wouldn’t be SAHB with replacements, which is why they’ve never managed to be very successful since Alex died, because you don’t get Chris and Zal together in the same band. Sorry you never got to see the true line up.
@@SPKdesign1 have you ever heard , " Alex Harvey, the new band, the mafia stole my guitar" there's a track called " Isobel goudie" about the last wummin in Scotland to be burnt as a witch, it's a cracker 🏴✌️
I’m sorry, but I’m only half way through, and I have got to go and watch the live version. They were a very theatrical visual live performance band, not an album band. To not understand that, is to misunderstand them, and treat them like a modern band.Of course they were excellent musicians but so were many other bands,but SAHB’s stage performances were what made them unique and set them apart from others. If I want to listen to a piece of music and make sure I can hear every note, I will listen to a Mahler Symphony, not Alex Harvey.
A listen to Alex , with His SAHB or without, blows away the blues and revs up the old ticker before a night out or in & makes shower time fast & furious 😂
@@Starburst_Candy because there was no such thing as political correctness in 1974, and people liked a good laugh at burglars. It was cathartic. He’s taking the rise out of criminals, he’s not recommending it.
I agree that Alex’s voice in particular sounds below average. They were a live band not a recording band. We went to see them live,we didn’t sit at home listening to them on record.I couldn’t even listen to this all the way through. It was a bad choice, it sounds terrible in parts.
SAHB were a live performance theatrical band. Try watching the live version at Millwall. You need the visuals, as you say Alex didn’t have a good recording voice,but if you see the expression on his face when he gets into character, that compensates, just like Maria Callas, he’s a visual person.
This was a terrible introduction to Alex Harvey. I think you totally miss his artistic genius. His genius was in the visuals and his ability to act out a character, and really get into the skin of the character he was portraying. He had deep psychological insight to do this, which was his genius. Psychologically, he went where others dare not go. He then combined his acting performance with the music. This is what made them unique and is why they haven’t been able to really make a lot of the band since his death. He is literally irreplaceable, but you would never know that listening to this version. I honestly don’t think you”get” him. There are lot of visual illusions that you may not even grasp if you were born after 1965, because they are from a different generation, which is possibly why you chose this version to play instead.
N.E.X.T. ... I thought it really was Alex ... in the army towel wrapped around His belly ! Although Alex always graciously gave credit to Jacques Brell. Big difference in execution tho'. 😮
I'm glad that you did this, they're great The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, I'm so glad that you liked "Delilah" which I recommended for that Wednesday against Tom Jones.
Great , excellent choice, top marks fi me 🏴✌️
Loved the video and reaction. For me, I would prefer to see SAHB live, that is the group at their best, and I had to go and watch their 74 performance of this at the Rainbow Theatre in London on TH-cam, it's fantastic, it's fun, and they were like nobody else.
So true. We will sadly never witness the like again. Alex had more stage presence than Freddie Mercury... Fact!
I am amazed at how TH-cam is exposing so many folks to my favourite band. Consider the Hot City Symphony which consists of “Vambo/Man in the Jar” , Give My Compliments to the Chef, and Tale of the Giant Stone Eater.
You are not alone friend. Perhaps Alex & SAHB will get a second comming? Their albums need re-issue for sure.
Great album that!
Sensational.
Real shame that Alex & SAHB haven't the video coverage but what there is well worth searching out. Thanks so much Family Hanier for putting Alex & His SAHB out for another generation to hear. Alex's 2nd comming 😊 Alex was a music maestro with so many styles drawn upon to make SAHB a unique Cult, Rock, Dance, Punk, Blues, Honky Tonk, Whatever SAHB could & did do it all. ... N.E.X.T ... next!
I used to see SAHB in London in the early 70's. He fell off my radar when I moved to Australia in the late 70's. My wife (an Australian) only knew him for ''Anthem'' and ''Boston Tea Party''. My enthusiasm for his music fell on a lot of deaf ears in Australia, though I could hear some of his music on some good underground stations in Melbourne. This song brings back memories. Cheers.
Do you have a better quality of life in Australia? We have friends in Melbourne who a struggling with the change.
@@colrhodes377 I think it's natural for anybody to struggle with any kind of change, and a move from England to Australia is no exception. However, I think life in Australia was a lot easier when I moved here in 1976. Leaving England for Australia was like quitting a stagnant job at an old institution and starting a new job at a brand new company. I met a lot of interesting people in Melbourne, and saw all these new subcultures develop. I got involved in the live music scene in Melbourne, where I was required to do trips to Sydney. I met a fellow pom and DJ named Mac Cocker (Jarvis' dad), who like me, was perplexed by how he got the opportunities that Australia offered him in radio. Shame he left his son, the future Pulp singer, in Sheffield. It didn't take me long to meet the woman I was to marry. I had a lot of good reasons to stay in Australia.
My own kids, all Australian born, are having their own struggles living in Melbourne. They're all employed, and half of them are out of home. But they're struggling to keep up with rent, and they feel that what they earn isn't covering their expenses. I don't feel Melbourne is the place that I had first encountered in the mid 70's.
I live a very comfortable and settled life at 75. If I had struggled in Melbourne in those early years, I barely noticed because I was living in this whirlwind where life was going fast and there were too many beguiling people that kept my interest in staying.
I can't imagine my kids enjoying those perks today because they no longer exist.
@@colrhodes377 My reply has disappeared. I put a bit into it. In short, my move to Australia was very exciting. I felt like I quit a boring job at an old dusty institution, and got a new job at a brand new company with nicer weather. If I struggled, I barely noticed because life was a lot of fun in Melbourne in the 70's. I also spent a lot of time in Sydney where the weather is slightly better. My kids, all Aussie born, are not having the time I had. I think a lot of younger people and new arrivals are struggling in Australia at the moment.
Great reaction C&C.
Live at Ragnarok Festival for the best visuals. ScottishTeeVee has a good cleaned up version.
There's a rare (adolf-piss take) version live in America, no video, but Zal's 🎸 solo is epic.
Cheech and Chong do a great version of this. 😂
Cheech & Chong's movie 'Up In Smoke' is where I first heard this.
I think by The Coasters way back in the 50s. It was written by Lieber & Stroller
You should check out “The Hammer Song”, from the same album
SAHB @ there whackiest would be something like The Tale Of The Giant Stone Eater or rockingest try Midnight Moses. Other 'must listens', Give My Compliments To The Chef, Next, Boston Tea Party, Tomahawk Kid, Sultan's Choice, Nightmare City, blah blah & so on.
Yep .. & Anthem
The live version of this is amazing. Those who love SAHB, love it a lot, you just have to buy into the eccentricity. My personal favourites are St. Anthony and Give My Compliments to the Chef.
I had to go and watch the live version. I turned this off half way through and went to the live. Alex’s vocals are far more expressive in the live version. Anything which is lost in sound quality is more than made up for in genius visual characterisation and visual jokes, irony and sarcasm. Sadly younger generations think that listening to music means sitting on your own listening through high quality head phones. It’s become a technological experience rather than a human experience. .Nowadays it’s more important that the technology and sound quality is spot on through the headphones,more so than the artists individual genius being revealed. I could understand it if they’re listening to a100 instrument orchestra, playing a complex classical piece, where it’s important to pick out the quieter instruments, the different themes and leit motifs, but dismissing the visual and musical genius of a performer, just so that every note of a 4 instrument rock band can be heard is a bit pretentious and unnecessary. Music is being treated like a technology, instead of an art form which reveals musical genius. It will kill the soul of music, if we’re not careful.
Agree. Alex with or without His SAHB gave us music personified. Zal Cleminson's guitar reaches magnificent hights. The saxophone playing on The Whalers is to hear a whale die a bloody death. Need I go on ... to ... N.E.X.T .. & Anthem.
Johnny Thunders ⛈️ & Alex Chilton were listening & AC ⚡️ DC ! 🎸
Saw them live in New Orleans in 1975 opening for Jethro Tull.
I would love to have seen them Live.
@@SPKdesign1once seen live ... never ever forgotten !
Alex Harvey's brother Leslie was the guitarist with stone the crows, and was electrocuted on stage at a gig, and was also Maggie bells common law husband 🏴✌️
Absolutely tragic. Alex must of felt this keenly all his life.
You should feature Elf with Ronnie James Dio.
LA 59, and Carolina County Ball , are two great examples of their honky tonk style.
Are you SURE Col ? …I’m more leaning towards Hari-Kiri or self immolation than flagellate myself with THIS … melange of muppetry 😅
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering 😂😂😂😂😂🏴☠️🏴🇬🇧
@@colrhodes377 🤣
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Try Snake Bite and Shark's Teeth - esp for Alex's fab pronunciation of Rchard Widmark 😉
Years may come, years may go, by Herman's Hermits is my recommendation for today. Play that and I promise not to rip Prince apart 😂
Another great Scottish band try the song called ( The Faith Healer ) another Scottish singer you should try called ( Frankie Miller ) and his song called ( Darlin )he was friends with Alex Harvie
Haw mcafferty , yer teas oots son , fetch it 🏴✌️
When on tour in Germany, he came out dressed as Adolf. The crowd loved it.
😂 Alex, theatrical to the last.
Alex was accentuating his local Scottish accent when he was pronouncing the word framed.
Original by The Robins from 1954. Next do 'Next'
NEXT takes some getting used to. Also Gang Bang.
I tink this a "Doctor Feelgood " Cell Block 9 ! Prefer the Doctors Effort .
Sensational, not sure about that ! Not bad !!! Cheers !
Have you done any reactions to Captain Beefheart?Alex Harvey kind of reminds me of beefheart in a way.Big eyed beans from venus,is an excellent track.
We haven't yet.
@@hanierfamily recommend bat chain puller
you need to watch the live version, incredible
th-cam.com/video/nrwk5T24Dgs/w-d-xo.html
Same rig as cell block number 9 ( Dr Feelgood my fave version) shame about the visual options as SAHB were so good live. On to “Faith Healer” now for a real tour de force by them!
Agree wholeheartedly!
Nothing drags like an auld blues standard btw - sorry James , I can tell when I’m bored when I’m looking for the end to come as quickly as possible - I feel like a traitor for saying that but I’m just being honest …🤷♂️
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I think this might be a safe space where you can express an honest opinion without the wrath of the cosplay crazies descending upon you. Unless they have Zal Cleminson themed cafes in Japan.
@@delorangeade he used to frighten me senseless when I was a wee boy del with that clowns make up n the gurning 😳
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Honestly is by far and away, the best policy brother 🏴✌️
@@JamesDickson-vs5of yup agreed ✅
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Dont stop being honest sir Jay !!
It's always better to listen to the studio versions of songs and not the live stuff. A lot of live shows have different line-ups than the ones who originally recorded songs.
That’s interesting because every time I saw them live in the 70’s it was always AlexHarvey, Zal Cleminson, Chris Glen and the McKenna brothers. It just wouldn’t have been the same without Alex, Chris and Zal at the front. I don’t see how anyone could replace those three, they were so visually individual in their appearance and dancing. It wouldn’t be SAHB with replacements, which is why they’ve never managed to be very successful since Alex died, because you don’t get Chris and Zal together in the same band. Sorry you never got to see the true line up.
This is a great LP but not one I ever owned. I had most of it on Comps.
Al tape it fur yi 🏴✌️
@@JamesDickson-vs5of I have it as .flac but I prefer Vinyl when I get a chance to sit and enjoy it.
@@SPKdesign1 have you ever heard , " Alex Harvey, the new band, the mafia stole my guitar" there's a track called " Isobel goudie" about the last wummin in Scotland to be burnt as a witch, it's a cracker 🏴✌️
@@SPKdesign1 ignore the comment about Alex Harvey the new band, iv got my mixed up heid on , Isobel goudie, is not on that LP, oops🏴✌️
I think it is. There may be more than One version with different tracks.
I’m sorry, but I’m only half way through, and I have got to go and watch the live version. They were a very theatrical visual live performance band, not an album band. To not understand that, is to misunderstand them, and treat them like a modern band.Of course they were excellent musicians but so were many other bands,but SAHB’s stage performances were what made them unique and set them apart from others. If I want to listen to a piece of music and make sure I can hear every note, I will listen to a Mahler Symphony, not Alex Harvey.
A listen to Alex , with His SAHB or without, blows away the blues and revs up the old ticker before a night out or in & makes shower time fast & furious 😂
•Riff
I was hoping for great things from the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, but this one is done by The Below Average Alex Harvey Band.
They make up for it the live version. Try watching him singing it at Millwall.
@@marinka424 Why, is it full of violence?
@@Starburst_Candy because there was no such thing as political correctness in 1974, and people liked a good laugh at burglars. It was cathartic. He’s taking the rise out of criminals, he’s not recommending it.
@@Starburst_Candy I assume you are referring to the live 1974 version of framed?
I agree that Alex’s voice in particular sounds below average. They were a live band not a recording band. We went to see them live,we didn’t sit at home listening to them on record.I couldn’t even listen to this all the way through. It was a bad choice, it sounds terrible in parts.
I love the music. However, i think the vocal is weak.
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Its a Fort Night !
SAHB were a live performance theatrical band. Try watching the live version at Millwall. You need the visuals, as you say Alex didn’t have a good recording voice,but if you see the expression on his face when he gets into character, that compensates, just like Maria Callas, he’s a visual person.
Alex had massive lungs for a wee lad from the Gorbals! 🏴 Respect here from a sassenach 🏴
His voice is somewhat fried but he’s never off key, and the vocal acrobatics are fun. I hated it too at first but stayed for the MUSIC.
This was a terrible introduction to Alex Harvey. I think you totally miss his artistic genius. His genius was in the visuals and his ability to act out a character, and really get into the skin of the character he was portraying. He had deep psychological insight to do this, which was his genius. Psychologically, he went where others dare not go. He then combined his acting performance with the music. This is what made them unique and is why they haven’t been able to really make a lot of the band since his death. He is literally irreplaceable, but you would never know that listening to this version. I honestly don’t think you”get” him. There are lot of visual illusions that you may not even grasp if you were born after 1965, because they are from a different generation, which is possibly why you chose this version to play instead.
N.E.X.T. ... I thought it really was Alex ... in the army towel wrapped around His belly ! Although Alex always graciously gave credit to Jacques Brell. Big difference in execution tho'. 😮