Hello I'm Bernard Butler and I don't realise I'm one of the most underrated guitarist of all time and legend of 90s-00s indie and rock music! Brilliant Bernard Butler! 😄👍
I'm sorry, I' have always been a big Bernard Butler fan but he is definitely not one of the most underrated guitarist of all time-the 1990's maybe...but not all time! Start at Rory Gallagher for underrated and work your way back-Bernard Butler as great as he is would be miles down the list.
@@shanewestlake753 I appreciate your opinion, Rory Gallagher's a talented guy obviously but, I'm curious how do you think he stands out from the rest of blues rock masters excactly? They're great in certain pointn of view but they're all super similar. Butler on the other hand created a tone of his own. Thu, he can be viewed as an underrated or at least overlooked in a sense. He's obviously well recognized within the british indie/alternative (britpop, if you like) people along withcthe contemporaries such as Nick McCabe and John Squire, but outside the scene he's hardly known apart from once havin' been a member of the 90's phenomena Suede.
@@ChainNonSmoker I'm sorry I disagree, he was quite well recognised at the time hence I guess the reason he thought going solo would be as successful. The original commented I was responding to was stating one of the most underrated EVER, that is the point I disagree with! Ever brings a whole new class and level of guitarist to the discussion. Let's face it in the 90's the only guitarist who was at all recognised as a guitarist was probably slash-being a great guitar player wasn't necessarily a relevant observation at that time-mcabe, Butler, squire and also Graham coxon were all great players, were they up there with Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Gilmour.....no-Rory Gallagher was yet was largely not held in the same high regard by the wider public. Hendrix once replied when asked how it felt to be the greatest guitarist, "I don't know you'd have to ask Rory Gallagher" .
Bernard Butler, Nick McCabe, John Squire, Kevin Shields, William Reid, Joey Santiago, Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood - That's a bunch of supremely talented and incredibly inventive guitarists that arrived on the scene in the late 80s/early 90s, each with their own distinctive sound, and Johnny Marr, Thurston Moore, The Edge and Will Sergeant just before them. Every one of them an absolute treat.
Really like Bernard Butler as a guitarist. He's got a great innovative and unique style - doesn't sound like other guitar players - has a great British jangly bright but thick tones - similar to Johnny Marr but with overdriven amp sounds on early Suede albums. Definitely right up there with the best of em !! Good on yer Bernard !! Rx
+Onmysheet Pulp and Suede were far and away the exemplars of their own era. I had a particular soft spot for Suede because they were the first new band I'd seen in aeons who were genuine and weren't a crassly opportunistic derivitive of rave. (**cough**Blur**cough**)
+Herbert What do you mean genuine? What have blur done that offends you so? How are they a crassly opportunistic derivative of rave? What are you on about?
+Fokken Prawn Genuine - as in original. Doing their own thing. Not held to the behest of trends. A fucking breath of fresh air from constant rave-derivative cultural drip-feed of the time. 'There's no other way' - I believe the song's called. There's a performance video which is cringe-trociosly derivative of the Stone Roses, whose music was derivative of rave. Crass opportunism because they copied pioneers of their own era. It's the thin end of the wedge which has Jason Donovan posing with a vintage Gretsch guitar at the thick end. It's a slight annoyance but not a terminal condition. I quite liked some of their music and bought one album - albeit for one track only and I haven't listened to it in years. Hope that helps.
+Herbert Yeah I'm a Blur fan (my first g/f was a britpop fiend, rare as a highschooler in mainstream Canada) so my memories are a bit colored, but yes, they really milked baggy for all it was worth.
You wish you were still 14? Vulnerable and a know it all, spotty faced and ready to fail at anything above trivial? Unable to survive on your own and not knowing where in the world you stood? Yeah great times.
A guitar legend has given up his time to explain in detail one of his classics and 49 people downvote it? What are they complaining about? They don't like the song? They don't like the fact he's being generous? They don't like his hair? Weird. Some people!
0.0001% of people who clicked on this video disliked it. Its such a astronomically small percent idk why people focus on it. Find me a single video on youtube with 400k views that doesnt have dislikes, especially with that low of a ratio
Nick McCabe, Bernard Butler and Graham Coxon. Brilliant in their own right. To say who’s the best is just plain stupidity. My personal favourite is McCabe. His work on A Storm in Heaven puts him in the realms of Marr and Gilmour. Yes, that is high praise indeed.
Dude, this is THE most underrated riff in music history ever. Your guitars in those Suede songs were just the thing. I am a professional guitar player, I dig riffs, I play tons of Pink Floyd, Doors, Led, Pearl Jam, Slash... but just a couple of Suede songs (cuz I can`t play 4 guitars at once for starters) and maybe... I will keep it this way, like my safe distance, so it doesn`t lose its magic when I listen to it, which I still love. Your guitars made the atmosphere in those songs something I still can`t praise you enough for. Well, thank you !!!
1:58 Opening riff (Strummed) 2:16 Opening riff (Played with melody) 2:40 Starting riff 3:21 Riff for the vocal 4:08 Riff (Played as a drum part) 5:38 Chorus 7:21 Chorus (Played with rhythmic strum) 8:07 The Solo
Oasis and Blur on the spotlight; Suede unnoticed. True. I wish Bernard had had more recognition as a guitar player. This video is a good sample of his inventiveness and talent. But suede' s debut album is something nobody should miss to appreciate Bernard's art fully.
+Chantal Assals Nah, you're not incapable. Get a Suede chord diagram book and pick out a couple of songs with a more straightforward rock n roll arrangement (this being one of them) and fire away. You'll soon pick it up.
I'm with him when he says he finds just strumming the guitar boring.. it puts me off rock guitar in general. This video shows nicely why Bernard and Suede were far more interesting than all of that.
Wow how many famous musicians would go to the trouble of doing this ??? Very very few ,,, thanks Bernard for being the guy next door ,, and not up your own arse like many ,, this is so so interesting and I'm not even a guitar player or big fan ,, thanx for uploading this
Love this band, and I love Butler's approach to guitar. He really gets a lot of music out if the instrument. Rhythm and lead at the same time. Reminds me of Page in that regard. One of my favorites, and humble.
Bernard seems very humble for such a great guitar player ,such a great band with tons of melody in every song in fact more in one song than most bands have on entire albums these days lol!
I am so glad we had great humble guitarists like this. I remember walking around with one eye closed to try and stop the toilets from spinning from too much drink while this song was being blasted out in clubs in the 90’s.
I'm pretty sure Kurt Cobain would have loved to know that "Smells like Teen Spirit" was the main inspiration for this song. I loved those Suede albums with Butler. BUT I also love the stuff the band did with Richard Oakes, replacing a guitarist who is as distinctive as Bernard Butler is no easy feat but Oakes rose to the occasion.
I always thought Kurt was referring to Suede when he wasn’t into the British bands of that time as they were too fashion-like (from his interview in Rio in v early ‘93). Maybe he changed his mind by the end of ‘93 when he was wearing the Suede badge and maybe he wasn’t referring to them at all. Or maybe he dug the Suede artwork by Peter Saville as he directed a lot of his own band’s artwork.
Sorely underrated guitar player. And, true: Oasis and Blur on the spotlight and many talented ones left aside. He pioneered in alternative sounds and combinations. This is pretty much was happened during the eighties with The Cure and Siouxsie.
Bullshit, I saw you in concert for the first album, you guys nailed it. Still the only band I have heard that literally sounded just like the recorded version. Legends!
Saw his first pre-album tour in Van-City, 1987! The loudest solo, acoustic show, ever!!!! Fantastic! Along with the lads from Levitation, Britain's 90's guitar hero(es!) Oh, plus Bill Steer!
Prefer Johnny Made but BB comes a close second. This is fascinating to watch - so many Suede songs are basically quite simple but sound massive. Thanks Bernard!
This is great footage. Bernie is one of my favorite guitar players. His stuff on those first two Suede albums and those singles! Gorgeous playing. It's so wonderful to see him take apart Animal Nitrate. Wish he did it with other songs like Still Life, Living Dead, etc.
Remember seeing him outside the Queens Hall in Edinburgh when I was about 13, and walking with my high school band mates. Wish I'd said something, recognised him and everything.
1:58 Opening riff (Strummed) 2:16 Opening riff (Played with melody) 2:40 Starting riff 3:21 Riff for the vocal 4:08 Riff (Played as a drum part) 5:38 Chorus 7:21 Chorus (Played with rhythmic strum) 8:07 The Solo
I was trying to learn this song from tabs and they were making absolutely no sense. Now watching him play it a) the tabs were wrong, but most importantly b) I understand his thought process writing these parts so it’s much easier to learn them. He has a very unconventional playing style and it doesn’t translate to tabs very well. You just have to see it
A brilliant guitarist who also turns out to be incredibly likeable and self-effacing? I used to have this image of BB as the moody git who wrecked Suede, well shame on me. Excellent video, more please (The Drowners?) and yes, I can play Animal Nitrate now.
If you get a chance to read about what actually happened back in '93-94, it becomes clear that the death of Bernard's father (I think while the band was on tour) triggered what would these days be considered a major mental health crisis for him, and while Brett (having lost his mother to cancer in childhood) did try to reach out to him, for the most part the support he needed just wasn't there and he went into a full-blown self-destructive tailspin as a result.
This man is a guitar genius, and not only for this. His sounds are absolutely unique, personal, like a strange flowers opening here and there, perfectioning every song.
Tess Tickles Yeah. I've thought that for years. There's not much of it that's even similar but certainly enough to make that link, in my head at least. :)
@Nick GSORRY TO DISSAPOINT YOU BUT IM 52YRS OLD AND I FOLLOWED BOTH BANDS FROM THEIR BEGININGS, YOU PROBABLY DISCOVERED THEM AFTER THEYD SPLIT, AND ANYWAY THAT IS MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.
Suede are back together minus Bernard Butler of course but Bernard is now a music producer. I wouldn't mind it if Bernard is the producer on Suede's next album
I was totally absorbed by Suedes music, lyrics and visuals back then and being a musician its great to see Bernard sharing his thoughts and motivations behind what was some avantgarde movement back then. that riff, still gets my spine...and thats what music should do
Hello I'm Bernard Butler and I don't realise I'm one of the most underrated guitarist of all time and legend of 90s-00s indie and rock music! Brilliant Bernard Butler! 😄👍
I'm sorry, I' have always been a big Bernard Butler fan but he is definitely not one of the most underrated guitarist of all time-the 1990's maybe...but not all time! Start at Rory Gallagher for underrated and work your way back-Bernard Butler as great as he is would be miles down the list.
true🙂 Bernard is one of the greatest
@@shanewestlake753 I appreciate your opinion, Rory Gallagher's a talented guy obviously but, I'm curious how do you think he stands out from the rest of blues rock masters excactly? They're great in certain pointn of view but they're all super similar.
Butler on the other hand created a tone of his own. Thu, he can be viewed as an underrated or at least overlooked in a sense. He's obviously well recognized within the british indie/alternative (britpop, if you like) people along withcthe contemporaries such as Nick McCabe and John Squire, but outside the scene he's hardly known apart from once havin' been a member of the 90's phenomena Suede.
@@ChainNonSmoker I'm sorry I disagree, he was quite well recognised at the time hence I guess the reason he thought going solo would be as successful. The original commented I was responding to was stating one of the most underrated EVER, that is the point I disagree with! Ever brings a whole new class and level of guitarist to the discussion.
Let's face it in the 90's the only guitarist who was at all recognised as a guitarist was probably slash-being a great guitar player wasn't necessarily a relevant observation at that time-mcabe, Butler, squire and also Graham coxon were all great players, were they up there with Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Gilmour.....no-Rory Gallagher was yet was largely not held in the same high regard by the wider public. Hendrix once replied when asked how it felt to be the greatest guitarist, "I don't know you'd have to ask Rory Gallagher" .
And here’s a free guitar lesson!
Bernard Butler, Nick McCabe, John Squire, Kevin Shields, William Reid, Joey Santiago, Graham Coxon, Jonny Greenwood - That's a bunch of supremely talented and incredibly inventive guitarists that arrived on the scene in the late 80s/early 90s, each with their own distinctive sound, and Johnny Marr, Thurston Moore, The Edge and Will Sergeant just before them. Every one of them an absolute treat.
don't forget the highly original Noel Gallagher.
James Dean Bradfield should be at the top of that list!
A good few of the great guitarist from that era were influenced by John McGeoch.
McCabe -legend.
@@carnmarth334 Hmm, just checked your page..and you like Hue & Cry and Bananarama. Ok mate.
the dudes from suede aged so well
Matt M think he was 19 when he joined seude
somehow
But he left the band, so that can't be it ...
This video was from a decade ago. So, Bernard looks probably much older now.
@@jessmanuel540 Yeah, he was only 40. Not too hard to look decent at 40. But still, not getting fat and staying out of the sun (England) can't hurt.
Really like Bernard Butler as a guitarist. He's got a great innovative and unique style - doesn't sound like other guitar players - has a great British jangly bright but thick tones - similar to Johnny Marr but with overdriven amp sounds on early Suede albums. Definitely right up there with the best of em !! Good on yer Bernard !! Rx
The Britpop era focused too much on Blur and Oasis when Suede going in the mid 90's.
+Onmysheet Pulp and Suede were far and away the exemplars of their own era. I had a particular soft spot for Suede because they were the first new band I'd seen in aeons who were genuine and weren't a crassly opportunistic derivitive of rave. (**cough**Blur**cough**)
+Herbert What do you mean genuine? What have blur done that offends you so? How are they a crassly opportunistic derivative of rave? What are you on about?
+Fokken Prawn
Genuine - as in original. Doing their own thing. Not held to the behest of trends. A fucking breath of fresh air from constant rave-derivative cultural drip-feed of the time.
'There's no other way' - I believe the song's called. There's a performance video which is cringe-trociosly derivative of the Stone Roses, whose music was derivative of rave. Crass opportunism because they copied pioneers of their own era. It's the thin end of the wedge which has Jason Donovan posing with a vintage Gretsch guitar at the thick end.
It's a slight annoyance but not a terminal condition. I quite liked some of their music and bought one album - albeit for one track only and I haven't listened to it in years.
Hope that helps.
+Herbert Yeah I'm a Blur fan (my first g/f was a britpop fiend, rare as a highschooler in mainstream Canada) so my memories are a bit colored, but yes, they really milked baggy for all it was worth.
Exactomundish, DougglesMagnificent my dear fellow. Exact-o-mundish.
I use to write "Butler is God" on walls, school books, broken arm casts and the underside of the school desk. Those were days.
Minecraft know-how Love this. Living the movement!
Geezer ? ... kiddin lol
Appreciate it hehe #namedafteralegend
Haha Awesome =)
You wish you were still 14? Vulnerable and a know it all, spotty faced and ready to fail at anything above trivial? Unable to survive on your own and not knowing where in the world you stood? Yeah great times.
A guitar legend has given up his time to explain in detail one of his classics and 49 people downvote it?
What are they complaining about? They don't like the song? They don't like the fact he's being generous? They don't like his hair?
Weird. Some people!
Maybe they just like winding you up?
4.5k does like
They are idiots...simple!
They don't like themselves and the only hint of joy they get in life is taking it out on everyone around them.
0.0001% of people who clicked on this video disliked it. Its such a astronomically small percent idk why people focus on it. Find me a single video on youtube with 400k views that doesnt have dislikes, especially with that low of a ratio
Nick McCabe, Bernard Butler and Graham Coxon. Brilliant in their own right. To say who’s the best is just plain stupidity. My personal favourite is McCabe. His work on A Storm in Heaven puts him in the realms of Marr and Gilmour. Yes, that is high praise indeed.
McCabe is so underrated, he should have been more successful than this
Dude, this is THE most underrated riff in music history ever. Your guitars in those Suede songs were just the thing. I am a professional guitar player, I dig riffs, I play tons of Pink Floyd, Doors, Led, Pearl Jam, Slash... but just a couple of Suede songs (cuz I can`t play 4 guitars at once for starters) and maybe... I will keep it this way, like my safe distance, so it doesn`t lose its magic when I listen to it, which I still love. Your guitars made the atmosphere in those songs something I still can`t praise you enough for. Well, thank you !!!
It has been highly voted in many polls
1:58 Opening riff (Strummed)
2:16 Opening riff (Played with melody)
2:40 Starting riff
3:21 Riff for the vocal
4:08 Riff (Played as a drum part)
5:38 Chorus
7:21 Chorus (Played with rhythmic strum)
8:07 The Solo
But the question is, what was the TV theme @6:43?
@@george474747 Dixon of Dock Green apparently
He's so humble! Great guitarist with a ear for melody, he really understands what the band needed
In the suede documentary, he is kind of a dick and nearly destroyed the band
@@happysappy21 I've met him he's an affable man but not humble
really cool
I don't think he was humble in the thick of Dog Man Star! Where is he now in relation to Suede?
@@happysappy21He’s showing us how he plays this song is pretty humble crumble
What a lovely insight into constructing a song, by a charming genius :-)
I love how intently the guys behind him are listening. They're so captivated, they hardly move at all!
You joking right? 😂
Yeah, they look frozen stiff!
Yeah, Buddy came back from the dead to listen...
Ahaha
The rumour is that there still there now listening
Man, I really love this guy and the way he explains himself and technique in detail without sounding like a dick. Good for him :)
He’s the one and only humble Bernard Butler ofc :)
The TV Show @ 6:50 is; Dixon of Dock Green.
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Don't you just love it when a genius puts something into lay mans terms for you and you still feel like you could never accomplish it.
Oasis and Blur on the spotlight; Suede unnoticed. True. I wish Bernard had had more recognition as a guitar player. This video is a good sample of his inventiveness and talent. But suede' s debut album is something nobody should miss to appreciate Bernard's art fully.
50% of me wants to learn how to play guitar right now just because of this song
50% of me is too "lazy" , impatient and incapable for that.
+Chantal Assals Nah, you're not incapable. Get a Suede chord diagram book and pick out a couple of songs with a more straightforward rock n roll arrangement (this being one of them) and fire away. You'll soon pick it up.
You're not alone.
No tragedy - there are already hundreds of thousands of patient and enthousiastic guitar players in the world.
I got your reference.
just pick something early on and stick with it.
The way he's embarrassed by even uttering the words 'turbo distortion.'
I used to have a Boss metalzone i am embarrassed by that too...
john Frusciante uses it as his main solo boost tho, it sounds great using it right
Boss pedals are just great.
Bernard you totally undercut yourself which is very humble and nice to see.But this is a masterpiece such a great composition cool as ✌
I'm with him when he says he finds just strumming the guitar boring.. it puts me off rock guitar in general. This video shows nicely why Bernard and Suede were far more interesting than all of that.
Wow how many famous musicians would go to the trouble of doing this ??? Very very few ,,, thanks Bernard for being the guy next door ,, and not up your own arse like many ,, this is so so interesting and I'm not even a guitar player or big fan ,, thanx for uploading this
What a cool affable guy. No pretention just humble. A great guitarist
Suede, Radiohead, Blur, Primal Scream, Stone Roses etc etc. Great era of British music.
Worst era ever, i could fart better tunes
@@rocksteady9115 So do it then
@@a_rocknrolladdict.0312 will do Mully
@@rocksteady9115 hahahahah XD
Left out oasis cause you’re very cool
Love this band, and I love Butler's approach to guitar. He really gets a lot of music out if the instrument. Rhythm and lead at the same time. Reminds me of Page in that regard. One of my favorites, and humble.
Great comment. A fab player and band.😊
Oh, Ok I'll just do that then
This guy was one of my musical heroes as a kid
Bernard seems very humble for such a great guitar player ,such a great band with tons of melody in every song in fact more in one song than most bands have on entire albums these days lol!
6:18 "Nerdy" is an incredibly modest description for one of the all-time signature Suede guitar riffs.
I've wanted to be able to play this song for twenty years, hopefully with this I'll be able! Thank you Bernard!
Early '92. Turns out Animal Nitrate and myself were conceived at the same time...
Describe your conception in great detail, it will delight all the fans of your comment
@@cashewpistachio1826 I guess from Rob's perception it was like being fired out of a cannon in the dark
I am so glad we had great humble guitarists like this. I remember walking around with one eye closed to try and stop the toilets from spinning from too much drink while this song was being blasted out in clubs in the 90’s.
I'm pretty sure Kurt Cobain would have loved to know that "Smells like Teen Spirit" was the main inspiration for this song.
I loved those Suede albums with Butler.
BUT I also love the stuff the band did with Richard Oakes, replacing a guitarist who is as distinctive as Bernard Butler is no easy feat but Oakes rose to the occasion.
There's a Photo of Kurt wearing a Suede's badge . I think it's from Melody Maker in 93 along with Kim Deal...
@@paulooliveira8860 There's a interview where he's wearing one too!
And I agree about Oakes. Talk about winning the lottery twice.
And Richard was only 17 when he joined too. A prodigy.
I always thought Kurt was referring to Suede when he wasn’t into the British bands of that time as they were too fashion-like (from his interview in Rio in v early ‘93). Maybe he changed his mind by the end of ‘93 when he was wearing the Suede badge and maybe he wasn’t referring to them at all. Or maybe he dug the Suede artwork by Peter Saville as he directed a lot of his own band’s artwork.
Funny and sad that he does not know how much this means to us. He's genius hands down.
Interesting video, this. He's taught himself to play in a similar way to the pioneers of country and blues.
Sorely underrated guitar player. And, true: Oasis and Blur on the spotlight and many talented ones left aside. He pioneered in alternative sounds and combinations. This is pretty much was happened during the eighties with The Cure and Siouxsie.
Humble and proficient, much respect Bernard.
BB was a great songwriter as well as a great guitar player....check out MacAlmont & Butler for some brilliant tunes.
Bullshit, I saw you in concert for the first album, you guys nailed it. Still the only band I have heard that literally sounded just like the recorded version. Legends!
Who'd have thought Bernard picked something out from the Dixon of Dock Green theme tune. Fantastic.
😂😷😱🤣😁😅
This and Metal Mickey were tremendous singles and still hold up 27 plus years later.
Love this song and the different powerfull riffs on it. Great guitar player!
I hope I'm related to him 😂
Legend. Quite self deprecating but honestly pull that all together and it’s genius. Suede have always been awesome live same with Bernard
Saw his first pre-album tour in Van-City, 1987! The loudest solo, acoustic show, ever!!!! Fantastic! Along with the lads from Levitation, Britain's 90's guitar hero(es!) Oh, plus Bill Steer!
this is glorious
All great people make things look easy and effortless,thank you for posting ,Bernard
This is f'ing brilliant! Love it!
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
Miss Popov approves of your confession at 6.41.
At 7:11 he is talking about Mick Green's style, also used to great effect by the late Wilko Johnson.
Prefer Johnny Made but BB comes a close second. This is fascinating to watch - so many Suede songs are basically quite simple but sound massive. Thanks Bernard!
Such a great opening riff for a song, how it builds until the rest of the band comes in and then wham! Band full go!
Ridiculously self deprecating. Musical alchemy if you ask me...not a bad lyric that 😂
Great vid and it seems Mr Butler would jump at the chance to play it live again. He seems to really love it, still.
It´s true, he had to be both lead and rhythm guitar player at the same time.
my favorite guitarist
Nonce
"I remember Brett not really getting it" --> very big grin :-D :-D
This is great footage. Bernie is one of my favorite guitar players. His stuff on those first two Suede albums and those singles! Gorgeous playing. It's so wonderful to see him take apart Animal Nitrate. Wish he did it with other songs like Still Life, Living Dead, etc.
Remember seeing him outside the Queens Hall in Edinburgh when I was about 13, and walking with my high school band mates. Wish I'd said something, recognised him and everything.
1:58 Opening riff (Strummed)
2:16 Opening riff (Played with melody)
2:40 Starting riff
3:21 Riff for the vocal
4:08 Riff (Played as a drum part)
5:38 Chorus
7:21 Chorus (Played with rhythmic strum)
8:07 The Solo
Nice
Some Hendrix influence there with his rhythm and lead combos
I was trying to learn this song from tabs and they were making absolutely no sense. Now watching him play it a) the tabs were wrong, but most importantly b) I understand his thought process writing these parts so it’s much easier to learn them. He has a very unconventional playing style and it doesn’t translate to tabs very well. You just have to see it
I wish he still performed Suede songs like Johnny Marr does with the Smiths ones but he seems to have let bygones be bygones
Amazing player. Some Irish head on him
A brilliant guitarist who also turns out to be incredibly likeable and self-effacing? I used to have this image of BB as the moody git who wrecked Suede, well shame on me. Excellent video, more please (The Drowners?) and yes, I can play Animal Nitrate now.
If you get a chance to read about what actually happened back in '93-94, it becomes clear that the death of Bernard's father (I think while the band was on tour) triggered what would these days be considered a major mental health crisis for him, and while Brett (having lost his mother to cancer in childhood) did try to reach out to him, for the most part the support he needed just wasn't there and he went into a full-blown self-destructive tailspin as a result.
Brilliant and inspiring guitarist. I love how he addresses getting a fuller sound while being the only guitarist!!!
Great to see him laugh at himself doing the solo.
was totally secretly… um… smells like teen spirit -__-
This man is a guitar genius, and not only for this. His sounds are absolutely unique, personal, like a strange flowers opening here and there, perfectioning every song.
6:50-I can't spot the tv show Bernard,but I do recognise it from the film "Cool hand Luke!"
TheVimtoMoustache Dixon of Dock Green. :)
Tess Tickles Yeah. I've thought that for years. There's not much of it that's even similar but certainly enough to make that link, in my head at least. :)
Who else opted for Suede, Radiohead and the Manics because Oasis (although great) were over saturating the radio, TV and jukeboxes everywhere?
no one you cnut.
This guy is cool
Trying to imagine Blur or Oasis with this level of musical brilliance.
Nope, I can’t.
Bernard Butler's the best, but Graham Coxon is no slouch on guitar either.
This is brilliant how he goes through his whole unique playing style too. I love the aggressive down and up strum thing
Suede were epic but real and original
This video made the crotch of my knickers damp. Cheers, Bernard x
+SoulStylistJukeBox hi
I could do the same. 24 y.o. yank
Serves you right! You shouldn't be wearing knickers while listening to a guitar God... They'll turn to rust! X
I wanna take guitar lessons!
Did you do it?? Lots of fun, no matter when you start.
i gotta say i think thats one of the greatest introductions ever ,it never gets old mate
Thank goodness he had the bee in his bonnet...
My favourite guitar player!
I’m in love with the way Bernard played it on the video. The opening shot of him playing was epic. Gorgeous.
Is Dixon of Dock Green the TV show he's talking about?
Excellent- my guess as well. 😂
シブいなぁ。ずっと続けて欲しかったなぁ…
This man is the "Johnny Marr" of the 90's, Just as Suede were the smiths of the 90's.
@Nick GSORRY TO DISSAPOINT YOU BUT IM 52YRS OLD AND I FOLLOWED BOTH BANDS FROM THEIR BEGININGS, YOU PROBABLY DISCOVERED THEM AFTER THEYD SPLIT, AND ANYWAY THAT IS MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION.
Suede are back together minus Bernard Butler of course but Bernard is now a music producer. I wouldn't mind it if Bernard is the producer on Suede's next album
suede thankfuly hasnt got a racist arsehole as a frontman though
One of the great British guitarists.
Dixon of Dock Green!
How cool and modest of him to make this video. Brilliant rock 'n roll guitarist.
Best british guitarist of the 90s, no competition
One of. Graham Coxon also.
A perfect sample of a very simple that turns into something that sounds mysteriously complicated and cool and turned iconic.
The most tasteful and unique guitar players of the past 20 years.
what a legend!
One of the best intros ever for me that, always loved it and now i can play it 👍
Lovely guy, great musician.
Dear Bernard: I adore and love you, Love, Vince.
Oh to hear this live someday
The guitar work on this song is out of this world!!!
I was totally absorbed by Suedes music, lyrics and visuals back then and being a musician its great to see Bernard sharing his thoughts and motivations behind what was some avantgarde movement back then. that riff, still gets my spine...and thats what music should do
I've been a Suede fan since the early 90s, and I've just found this video. Absolutely entranced.
Brett didn’t know what to come up with for months then writes the most vile lyrics possibly of all time 🤣🤣
Great song
😂 when I was young I didn’t fully appreciate some of the lyrics