Mott the Hoople - "All The Way From Memphis (live)"

[topofthepopsguy]

Very Rare footage Here!! What A Real Treat! Thinking heralds from Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, 73 am guessing here?

[shemagetful]

Smok'in!



[LanceHelmut]

ariel bender a worthy guitar replacement for mick ralfs, but not a songwriter. if that get up he has on predates kiss, well, steal from the best, i always say.

[danaschlosser]

classic

[95thFoot]

I saw them in 1974- loved 'em then, love 'em now.

[timwmartin]

What an awesome band! Without Mott there would be no Sex Pistols, Guns & Roses or Nirvana.

[ifuckdinosaurs]

@ColinDOYLE100 Fucking idiot. So you are calling one of the top glam bands in rock history a slacker band? Where are you from, the U.S.? They had a lot more influence than All the Young Dudes you tool.

[drj602]

@ifuckdinosaurs Ha! Tell the fag! One of the great bands of the classic rock era!

[welcome2myhell]

@ColinDOYLE100 you are an idiot

[HAGGIS499]

@ColinDOYLE100 SLACKERS MY ASS

[djtvc15]

Was this after The Hoople was recorded?? Ariel was no Mick Ralphs, but "The Golden Age of Rock n Roll is still pretty good... But if you want to compare "Crash Street Kids" to " One of the Boys", you're absolutely crazy. This must have been after Mick Ralphs " appeared to be in Bad Company"... Quote from the backside of "the Hoople".

[wreese1947]

Ian jammin' those two chords!!!

[wreese1947]

Keep strummin' Mick!!!!

[welcome2myhell]

@wreese1947 Mick?

[TheWizzKidz]

Why is You tube just counting my views?

[talkingwall]

No Mott, No Clash, No Clash, No U2 and so on and so forth.

[DamonAlbarnFan]

@talkingwall No Chuck Berry no rock music. No Beatles no modern rock music.

[PBANDSNOW]

Without these guys, we wouldnt have The Clash...thank you Mott, thank you.

[prestonm19]

LIVE just how I like it!! miss these guys,,,,HOT

MamaJAZ

[wisesatyr72]

F-yeah..this is Real Rock N Roll

[tnel332]

I saw that show in Philadelphia. Friend told me to go straight as he wished he did. I took the advice and am glad I did. The muppets on piano, the marionettes, Big Bird flying out for Rest in Peace. Best show I've ever seen. To this day I will put on the live Album put my head back and remember the show...Thanks Mott the Hoople

[delilah82q]

questa canzone l'ha rifatta Brian May!!!!!!

[prezobummer]

man i luv this band in this era glitter rock mott live is top 5 albums take it to a island

[NoLimitsLtd]

saw them at the oval brilliant

[joekoool102]

Who sounds more like MOTT. Crash Kings or Crash Street Kids?

[timothybrannigan]

I saw Mott The Hoople at The Uris Theater, on Broadway, in the '70s. Queen was the opening act!

[C4CC]

Ariel Bender HALS FROM SPOOKY TOOTH!

[MickeyLove01]

I wonder if he hits that squeaky note at the start of the 2nd verse which he did by accident in the studio....waits, lol, no he couldn't

[95thFoot]

I saw them on this tour in Providence, RI. Great band, but you could tell Luther Grosvenor (Ariel Bender), an otherwise fine player, was not the right guitarist for the band. The guy was unfocused in his solos, all over the place. He knew the songs cold, but he wasn't a tight, concise player like Mick Ralphs, whose solos and fills had a beginning, middle and and an end. This guy was just throwing every riff out in the air, just trying to figure out "where do I fit with these guys?".

[joynthis]

Ace Frehley was in Grand Funk Railroad? And Big Bird was a better bass player than I would have guessed.

[95thFoot]

Overend Watts- the man who made the Gibson Thunderbird bass COOL! Before him, you couldn't give those %^$#* things away!

[atirisdes]

rock is shit but i love it

[rlawing2]

I like Ace but he is not part of Mott the Hoople...the lead guitar player was Mick Ronson, who played for Bowie on Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars...Ian Hunter sang and was the other guitar player...

[Crowsfan55]

@rlawing2 jeez...the guitarist for Mott was Mick Ralphs...who left for Bad Company with Paul rogers...Mick Ronson played with Ian way later...when Mott had broken up...

[rlawing2]

@rlawing2 my mistake, old memories fade in and out

[PsoraCrenata]

I went into the San Francisco Nunn Bush Shoe store in the early 70's and they had these insane platform shoes....nothing in the store was "ordinary". It looked like a Mott the Hoople garage sale!

[rduquet]

Ariel DOES look Like ACE!

[Crowsfan55]

@rduquet if you notice...Ian hated him...he was a good guitar player but he crowds Ian at one point then almost hits him in the face with the neck of his guitar...best was when Mick Ronson played with Ian...that was magic...

[rduquet]

@Crowsfan55 I loved Ronson, I have always felt he was one of the greatest guitar players of all time! I don't think Bowie would have made it to where he did, if Mick had not been with him.

[Flunder]

Ariel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avlisk]

I guess by this time, Mick had lost his guitar?

[CountRegular]

@rorlil Hmmnnn... i wonder why I said that? One thing's for sure,I was likely drunk and tired. Prolly just trying to be amusing...somehow. Maybe.

Anyway, yup, it's Luther of course.

[CountRegular]

@CountRegular ...and then I looked at it again.

Yeah, Ariel really does look a lot like Ace from that same era (or a couple years later) in the black and silver Kiss suit and Les Paul. It's the shoulder-wings.

[AttilaThe1]

" Some spade said ... rock - n - rollers ... you're all the same"

Man I remember when that was so true with Mott on the forefront of rock trend setting!

With so many bands today, you can't tell them apart from the dish washers in the clubs they play in!

And then you have a hack like Lady Ga Ga that can't even come up with her own look and has to rip off Overand Watts look of damn near 40 years ago ...

[frankty67]

Mott was one of the best back in 1972 to 1975. You almost forget how great these bands we had were,back in the EARLY 70s. Like T-Rex,The NY Dolls,Slade,Early Kiss, Lou Reed,etc.These bands might of fell under the label Glam or Glitter,or whatever, but that was just the look.After you get that out of the way you got some of the best ever kick-ass ROCK & ROLL!!!

[ironbuttermilk]

Wow, great sound, not just glam hype!

[joynthis]

Yeah, that's not Ace. See, you can tell by the fact that AB can actually play the guitar.

[BobTheRecordGuy]

Re: New York Dolls- best concert I ever saw was Mott The Hoople 1973 with the Dolls opening. Actually opening for both was a new band called Aerosmith (just after thier first LP had been released) (they were being called a 'new Yardbirds' but, though they played a good Train Kept A'Rollin, were bit of a disappointment). But the Dolls and Mott both killed it. Made up my mind right then & there I wanted to play rock and roll.

[Indio156]

Now THIS is what Rock is ABOUT! Whew! I remember running away from home in NYC to take a bus to Boston after seeing them every night at the Uris Theatre for a week, when Queen was opening for them! I was only 14 or so. My friend and I took the bus, and her evil father was there to meet the bus, and he snatched her away! I was alone in Boston, and my parents thought I was on a sleepover 1/2 hour away from home. Ariel and his girlfriend made sure I was safe. What a great show & after party.

[monsieurjv]

I loveeeeee the boots!

[crankytanky]

THATS ARIEL BENDER NOT ACE

[CottferLAD22]

Superb! Bender melting his guitar!

[llenllenllenl]

Loved this song in high school.

"Some spade said rock n' rollers, you're all the same"

Politiical correctness didn't exist back then.

[saxon79]

My axe is cold......

[dmnewton]

First cut off the amazing "Mott" LP. Mick Ralphs' last with the band. Must've left right after recording it. The studio version featured Andy McKay (of Roxy Music) on saxophone.

[flaphead325]

That's fun how each band member looks like Kiss' band members, Bender looks like Ace, Ian like Paul, and Griffin (the drummer if i remember) like Peter Criss!

All the way from memphis !

[MishMichster]

I was never sure if Ian Hunter styled himself on Mick Farren's Ogoth ('Ogoth and Ugly Boot', Cozmic comix) or vice-versa. They were a brilliant band up to "All the Young Dudes" (Wildlife and Brain Capers), while they were still underground, then it all went so horribly wrong.

[sbtemma]

That isn't Ace Frehley, it's Luther Grosvenor aka Ariel Bender. But I have to agree just for a split second it looks like dear old Space Ace!

[KellyGiftShop]

I look at those platform shoes. My boyfriend in HS had keg parties and wearing those platforms and drinking beer..= sprained ankles for 4 years lol!

[waystedkiss]

Long time Mott and Ian fan, also long time Kiss fan .

And you can't underestimate the influance this era MOTT had on early KISS, look at the shoulder things Ariel is wearing and Pete's platforms etc. I can see where "countregular" is coming from. Kiss kinda tore a page from them, darkened it up and went with it !

[motthead69]

one of the best live r&r bands ever - especially in 1973-74 with Aeriel in the lineup...

[motthead69]

actually please allow me to tidy this comment up a bit from "one" of the best lve r&r bands in 73-74 to THE BEST LIVE R&R BAND during that era!...

[Indio156]

@motthead69 YOU'RE RIGHT! At that time there was NO band I'd rather see, apart from the Dolls, who I saw every week, pretty much, at either the Mercer Arts Center or Max's. WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE DAYS WHEN NYC WAS GOOD? WHEN WE ALL BOUGHT OUR SHOES AT PARADISE BOOTERIE IN THE ISLAND WHERE BLOOMBERG HAS HIS ANTI-SMOKING DISNEYLAND NOW...

[motthead69]

@Indio156 The NY Dolls (especially Johny Thunders) were probably the ONLY other band (along with the "old" or vintage Rolling Stones) that even cam close to rivaling Mott but NO ONE ever did it better than Mott did in 973-74 with Aeriel in the lineup - REPEAT - NOBODY!...

[CountRegular]

@motthead69 ALice Cooper brought it back then. Muscle of Love is pretty awesome.

Pink Fairies...Dr Feelgood...

[CountRegular]

HA! Ariel totally looks like Ace in this clip. That's all.

[CountRegular]

Ace Frehley, lead gui-TARRR!

[timnapalm]

What are you talking about? Ace is nowhere NEAR THE THEATER in this clip! Have you mistaken Mott for Kiss?

[Indio156]

@timnapalm You're right. Ace was in diapers during this show.

[mikedeviant]

@timnapalm He's referring to the shoulder pads, as Ace Frehley copied them on KISS Destroyer and Alive part 1.

[CatapultYourMom]

@timnapalm Ace was probably there taking notes to see how it's done.

[Jubeju71]

@timnapalm I think it's a reference to the shoulder pads...

[KUTVgroucho]

@Jubeju71 Yes, the shoulder pads and the hair style, combined with 4th generation video, offers a vaguely Ace Frehley look. But hey, not much difference in the playing styles of Frehley and Luther Grosvenor (Ariel Bender), to my ears, anyway, and I grew up listening to both in the 70s. You could switch Bender and Mick Ronson and not really tell.

[glishteach]

@KUTVgroucho Maybe you could switch Grosvenor and Ronson and not tell the difference, if you don't actually listen to music or know anything about it! According to to you, Ronson, Frehley and Grosvenor(AKA Bender)

sound the same.

[KUTVgroucho]

@glishteach Trust me, I know the differences, having grown up in the 70s listening to everything and playing guitar for 30 years. Most glam rocker guitarist profiles were Les Pauls through Marshall stacks and stylistically, not too different. It was about rock theater. I placed blues influenced guitarists of that decade on a much higher plane: Clapton, Beck, Rory Gallagher, Robin Trower, Johnny Winter, or jazz influenced guitarists like Steve Howe, Frank Zappa, or even spacey David Gilmour.

[Crowsfan55]

@CountRegular that's Ariel Bender on lead gui-TARR...way before KISS...

[CountRegular]

@Crowsfan55 I'll stop trying to explain after this:

It was a joke. To understand the joke you would had to have been alive then, recognizing that in this clip. Ariel Bender vaguely resembles Ace Frehley, from no more than two years later. Not "way before KISS," just a couple years.

Now, I didn't say it was a FUNNY joke...

[Crowsfan55]

@CountRegular okay...not a funny joke...heh I was alive then...I saw Mott with Queen as the opening act...and I bought the first KISS album...but I think that was like 76...you can correct me...but I was alive then?

[CountRegular]

@Crowsfan55 Nah, it was likely 1974. "Mott" was Nigel Benjamin and Ray Major and then Mott retirement home by 76.

[Crowsfan55]

@CountRegular yeah...I guess it was summer of '74...but the only substitute for Mott was Ariel replacing Mick Ralphs...and I'm beginning to see the joke...you could see Ian hated Ariel...pulled a chunk of his hair out...

[BornLate56]

@Crowsfan55 Queen opened for Mott (in the UK) in 72 / 73, but may have been later in the USA

[LILAXOLOTL]

@BornLate56 I saw Queen open for MTH -- this line-up -- on Broadway in NYC in late 72 or early 73. Very memorable show, great stuff!

[superbeavo]

Ace Must’ve gotten his consume and hairstyle ideas from Luther Grosvenor, AKA Ariel Bender !

[rebarbadeira]

@CountRegular lol That guitar player is Mick Ralphs, who left short after to found Bad Company. Maybe Ace copied Mick...

[angrysamoan666]

@rebarbadeira Ace looked like Ariel till Superkiss

But Ariel looked alright without make up. But Ace looks like the pig LOL

[angrysamoan666]

@CountRegular Totally

[76alembic]

@CountRegular This is where Ace got his thing!

[MrAndersoncouncil]

@CountRegular

The most insulting comment imaginable.

[gittahfiend]

@CountRegular Ace couldn't even play.

[oneWASPfan]

I have a 1974 Mott the Hoople T shirt hanging in the closet! Brand new never worn !

[jugador157]

i want it.lol (:

[motthead69]

I'm willing to buy it from you - e-mail me please...

[motthead69]

what would you like for it?....seriously?...thanks much...

[Wagmusic]

Ariel Bender (AKA Luther Grosvenor when he was in Spooky Tooth) one of the most underrated guitar players of the era!

[vazzduchesne]

I want a Mott the Hoople t-shirt!!!@#$%^Aaargh!

[amathagerele]

Buff sent one to my 12 year old son, black and white, off the Mott LP - I think it was a test pressing, check with Angel Air RECORDS to see if they actually produced them.

[toughasitis]

these guys have been a huge infuence!!

[KellyGiftShop]

Does he say..I look like a bum and smell like a snail?

[ndv180]

it's "crawl like a snail".

[KellyGiftShop]

I know it is "crawl" But I have to say it does sound like "smell". Doesn't matter..Mott the Hoople is the best!!!

[uglyshortandginger]

1972, Victoria Hall Hanley, Mott live, support band...Queen ! They were both unbeliveable ! Happy days.

[CrozetBob]

Now THAT is rock n roll!!!

[SPAZZOBOXER]

I remember an American critic once described "Mott the Hoople" as "An English, cross-dressing version of "Grand Funk Railroad" with even less talent, if that's possible!"...sigh...As evidenced by this rare live footage, Mott was exceptional live. Groove,Feel,Attitude,Energy & Originality; Maybe they weren't the snobbish critics' trendy fave, & their "Glam" look diminished them in the eyes of these judgemental bastards,but they were among the best live acts I've ever witnessed. Underappreciated!

[Triumphrob]

American critics have big egos. They cant bear the fact that the best music comes from the UK

[CountRegular]

@Triumphrob WHAT! The USA INVENTED rock! And when they ruined it, they RE-inveted it!

[Crowsfan55]

@SPAZZOBOXER wow..and wow again...know your post is over 2 years old but just seeing these videos...and I could not say anything that would add to your post...and I agree cause I saw them too...they kicked ass!

[76alembic]

@Crowsfan55 Big boots and grease paint yrs before kiss!

[76alembic]

@Crowsfan55 Big boots etc,Slade I believe with Rock and Roll Theater very cool,trail blazing!

[mikedeviant]

@SPAZZOBOXER Critics basically hate anything that's populist rock n roll. If there was a Rolling Stone magazine in 1955, they would have snubbed Elvis in favor of Pat Boone.

[rjworks13]

@SPAZZOBOXER - Not completely - I was in a rock band in the mid 70s and played in the Baltimore-DC area clubs and there were a lot of MTH fans. We covered "Violence" and "One of the Boys" and always got a standing crowd on both songs. MTH was considered sort of an underground band and had a solid US fan base - if Ian Hunter had only went with them on their 76' US tour. The Mott fan base was growing and if they just could have held on, they would have made their mark. I'm sure of it.

[zapdelivers]

@rjworks13 Total agreement about Mott being an "underground" band, they never could pull the plug to become mainstream. One of the finest bands ever.

[lhp70]

@SPAZZOBOXER Bet no one remember's the critic's name.

[snowyroad]

I was at this gig, part of the act was ariel upstaging ian, it was very funny to see

[KellyGiftShop]

WOW! You saw history! I have never seen them in concert.:(

[girpo]

GREAT! Do you have any other songs from this In Concert show??

[timnapalm]

I wish! This is all I've found thus far. Glad you guys are enjoying it.

[gwddd]

1:35 - Ian pushes the guitar player away. "I'm singing here lad. Shove off!"

[timnapalm]

I loved that moment, too! I noted it when I wrote about it in my MySpace blog.

[timnlol]

just part of the act.

[GregTuco]

He's just switching out for "Oriole" for "Ariel" -the original lyric.

[lhp70]

@gwddd That has got to suck LOL

[tjt929]

Very Cool!!! Thank you very much for posting this!