This is one of the best RocknRoll bands ever! Period.

Still one of the best live bands I've ever seen.

@jeffhammers5677

8 ай бұрын

I have a poster from The Seattle Coliseum when Rockpile opened for Bad Company

Bremner’s contribution to the Rockpile sound is underappreciated.

@lazypokerblues

2 жыл бұрын

@Nicolas Martin I know what you mean, Nicholas. I guess, with most folks that's up to the fact that Billy and Terry somewhat stood in the shadows of Dave and Nick, who in 99% of the cases were the targets of interviews and features. But of course you're dead right. First of all Billy was responsible for quite a number of guitar solos that often were falsely attributed to Dave. And then there's the fact that his playing style is quite different to Dave's and both together were highly complementary. One of the most obvious and best examples of this can be found in Rockpile's every straight rock'n'roll number: Dave playing his trademark monkey-beat rhythm (he hasn't been crowned the "king of the racka-racka" for nothing) with Billy filling in with his syncopating accents all over the place - rock'n'roll at its very best! Too bad it had to end way too early - and under pretty foul-tasting circumstances to boot.

@andrewbowen6875

Жыл бұрын

Oh for sure Billy was doing some really sublime guitar work with Rockpile and a perfect example of knowing what to add and what not to play. The born fighter film shows Bremner and Williams together as a pair of “rare rock n rollers” playing the beat on his lap and Bremner strutting an old vintage Gibson with his sublime rock n roll shuffle

@markroberts3522

2 ай бұрын

Yep, a pretty nifty guitar player.............especially when u think only a few years before this he was captaining Leeds United. 👀

I was at this show! Was going to school in LA and worked with a guy who was a page at ABC, he snuck me in. Huge fan of Nick Lowe's, it was awesome to see him live in such a small setting.

@andrewbowen6875

Жыл бұрын

Wow how cool is that. I bet you got high just being yard from em here😂 I’ve seen so many Rockpile vids that shows them as the “boozy” band that they were according to Nick Lowe. Here though they look like they’ve come across a shipment from Columbia or something😂 They all look out of their boxes

Saw them Nov. 80 in Cleveland. Top three show of this old man

A treasure from Rockpile....... I remember the day and place I bought this album.....

So good, it makes me cry.

1980 was a good year for music....Seconds of Pleasure was fantastic

@meanmrmustard62

5 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!! A great year for RnR

Friday's did have the good reputation for getting great punk/new-wave bands for its musical acts. Musically-speaking, it put SNL to shame.

This is fabulous.

@lazypokerblues

Жыл бұрын

@dolphinmom7 I'm glad you like it! 🙂

Rockpile was pure lightning in a bottle

I wish they had Big Blon' Baby in their normal concert sets, that was a jam.

rockpile, we hardly knew ye. ♥️

Raised on Styx and Journey in a podunk American suburb, I didn't know what to make of this as an adolescent. It sure sounds great to me now.

@lazypokerblues

2 жыл бұрын

@Emlizardo Rockpile's high energy rock'n'roll has ALWAYS sounded great! ;-)

@TT-fq7pl

Жыл бұрын

Styx and Journey? I hear you. I'm still in a treatment program for what that crap did to my adolescent ears.

I saw this on tv when broadcast, "big blon' baby", Jerry Lee would have approved, Dave & Billy are one the great guitar duos ever. In the league of Duane Allman & Dickey Betts, Johnny Winter & Rick Derringer&Andy Powell & the Turner brother from wishbone ash !!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸

@lazypokerblues

Жыл бұрын

@b bb Yes, Dave and Billy were complementing each other perfectly in Rockpile! But FYI: Wishbone's Ted Turner was no brother - not to Andy Turner and not more than a musical one to Andy Powell. ;-)

@markfahey3921

Жыл бұрын

Nice that you mention Wishbone Ash. Also underated.

I'm so missing theese days, music now really, really sucks...😭😭😭

@cmdredstrakerofshado1159

2 жыл бұрын

You too kind 99% of today's "music" = 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

@mikewattdisciple

Жыл бұрын

Ahhh, there's plenty of good music now. And that includes Nick backed by Los Straitjackets, check out those releases.

@sonofadeadbeat3051

Жыл бұрын

Today, what is "music"?!

No 1 Rock n Roll Band! 💥👊🏻

@lazypokerblues

Ай бұрын

@theegg307 Yes, they were! 👍

Fridays had THE best musical guests. Blew SNL right out of the water!!

Fucking great. Thanks.

Billy Bremner in his trademark Harrington jacket-love it!

A Pile of Rock

Terry Williams is one of THE BEST drummers out there.

@johnlong1538

6 ай бұрын

.....yup......

In unity there is power...

Really good to all the young uns out there these are proper rock musicians also the Lazy Poker moniker is that a nod to Peter Green alright by me.

@lazypokerblues

4 ай бұрын

@mathill6869 "the Lazy Poker moniker is that a nod to Peter Green" - yes, it is! 🙂

Wonder why it (Big Blon Baby) didn’t make the album? Never heard before so thanks for sharing.

@lazypokerblues

3 жыл бұрын

hi lynn, and thanks for all of your comments! i'm pretty sure that "big blon' baby" was never recorded for ANY rockpile album. the chaps often included the odd rock'n'roll "classic" (if you like) in their live sets for good measure. "mess of blues", "annie's back", "jailhouse rock", "rocking little angel" or "move it" are more examples of live-only covers. unfortunately i haven't found any source yet where to get a bit of insight into the amount of recording outtakes throughout the rockpile years - so nearly everything is up to pure guesswork. it's been assumed repeatedly by fans, though, that - provided enough material existing in the vaults at all - such a compilation would probably make a better album than "seconds of pleasure" had turned out to be. but considering all that, the chance of such a project to ever see the light of day is highly questionable. :-( cheers - martin

@lynnr1609

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Martin - loving your expert knowledge of all things Rockpile related. Just imagining a Seconds of Pleasure Part 2 with this and Rocking Little Angel (another favourite of mine) and you’re right, it would be better!

@lazypokerblues

3 жыл бұрын

@@lynnr1609 . . . btw, lynn - the steve hoffman music forums is a fantastic source of info on any kind of music. right now i started a thread on the "beverl(e)y brothers" EP there - you're very welcome to visit and participate: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/nick-lowe-dave-edmunds-sing-the-everly-brothers.1050981/#post-25958635 maybe i'll see you there and we night get in touch.

@lynnr1609

3 жыл бұрын

Following you over there now!

@lazypokerblues

3 жыл бұрын

@@lynnr1609 welcome, rocking little angel! i already guessed it's you. :-)

Lol they looked coked out of their minds here😂 Absolute savage group of musicians who on the film Born fighter shows them drinking from morning till night in the studio and Edmunds tries to shut Lowe up when he starts talking about their drug use. Make no mistake this group was the real deal in their Rock n roll musician ship and the Rock n roll lifestyle

@rocknjac58

Жыл бұрын

After watching that documentary, it was no surprise they didn’t last. But what a great 3-4 years it was!

@jbpo

Жыл бұрын

Dave looks more like he just had sixer of Blue Ribbon.

@graemeselkirk

9 ай бұрын

Schmirnoff Blue Label actually.@@jbpo

I always thought I detected Dave's voice in the backing vocals for Teacher Teacher on the LP. Am I incorrect, and it was only Billy? Or did Dave contribute on the LP, but not when performed live?

@lazypokerblues

3 жыл бұрын

@ Tom Florio good question, tom - i'll have to listen to the studio track by earphones again . . .

Great find. Love Big Blon' baby. What the hell was that at 0:38 ?

@lazypokerblues

3 жыл бұрын

when you watch billy (and on close listening) it's obvious that his amp wasn't working - whether the amp was still on standby or the cable wasn't plugged in correctly, I don't know. but exactly at that point, billy had rectified the fault and picked a testing note (so to speak), which of course was out of place - that's what you hear. and from that moment on you can also hear billy's characteristicly syncopating rhythm playing.

@jbpo

3 жыл бұрын

@@lazypokerblues And Dave doesn't miss a lick, just a quick smirk and gets on with things.

@lazypokerblues

3 жыл бұрын

@@jbpo In other performances' cases of bum notes or lost words and the like they would exchange knowing looks with a broad grin . . . as if to say "Hey, we're just in it for the fun!" - that always makes me crack up with delight.

@jbpo

3 жыл бұрын

@@lazypokerblues 'We're only in it for free beer'

@lazypokerblues

2 жыл бұрын

@Superlungs I couldn't care less for bum notes or mixed-up lyrics in Rockpile - they only added to the charm of this band as they were always followed by exchanging of knowing boyish grins . . . absolutely fabulous!

Oh shit ニック ロー パイセン が まだ そんな感じ コステロ先輩ファンとしては新鮮

Billy Bremner should have sang all the songs on Seconds of pleasure...

@lazypokerblues

Жыл бұрын

@williedegee1 That's what Dave Edmunds once said in an 1982 interview concerning Rockpile: "Meanwhile I think Billy should've taken the lead vocals on all the songs - 'Billy Bremner's Rockpile' . . . well, . . . !"

@coinneachmaclellan3121

10 ай бұрын

​​@@lazypokerbluesDave had such a great 'rock 'n' roll' voice...his performance of "Blue Moon of Kentucky", "Good Rockin' Tonight", and "Paralyzed" at an Elvis tribute concert show how much Dave Edmunds was synonymous with the essence of rock 'n' roll..

@lazypokerblues

10 ай бұрын

@@coinneachmaclellan3121 You're telling me?! I only stated what Dave himself said in an interview. And although he surely did so tongue-in-cheek, it's well known how high he rated Billy's voice and singing ("Sings like a bird!"). But that doesn't belittle Dave's fine vocals at all, of course.

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