Revolution - The Spongetones with Nicky Hopkins on piano - http://www.myspace.com/spongetones

[GreenhouseEffectGE]

Spongetones are America's Number One band !! They Completely Rule - From San Diego Ca !

[tataso]

Nicky is the man !!

[randroid88]

Nicky Hopkins (1944-1994) played piano with a classical proficiency and the soul of a bluesman. He fit in well with his fellow Englishmen who were seized by American roots music--the Who, the Kinks and the Rolling Stones, for whom he played murky and muscular piano parts on "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Sympathy for the Devil." But despite entreaties to join the Stones and Led Zeppelin, Hopkins remained a freelancer. He was a quintessential session player, as the Kinks' leader writes.

[RMHenderson9]

At this show, the audience could hear Nicky clearly out front but couldn't see him. This was shot from behind the stage where, unfortunately, you couldn't hear Nicky.

[xHoboMcGeex]

Shut up band! I can't hear Nicky! lol

[Detroit1967]

Question: Why didn't they let Nicky solo as he did on the 1968 original version w/ the Fab Four?

RIP Nicky - love your playing.

[RMHenderson9]

Nicky had played on the original single version of "Revolution" with the Beatles. He played for an hour with Spongetones, covering the Beatles, Rolling Stones and some blues and jazz.

[paulallen34]

i use to see nicky hopkins name a lot on the john lennon records i only heard last year he had died a while back,we miss him and john.

[guyNbluejeans]

Neat how that cute girl @ 1:08 blew Mr. Hopkins a kiss along with a friendly smile.

[Detroit1967]

@guyNbluejeans: Right on, guyNbluejean

[zarkoff45]

I heard the SpongeTones were going to be at the Power-Pop Fest in Uptown Charlotte, North Carolina:

/watch?v=IFumA_8od9o

[mrhosehose]

Wow - I often used to used to listen to either Hey Jude or Revolution before going to primary school, the Beatles being my favourite band. My second favourite band is the Jeff Beck Group and my favourite album is Beck-Ola - Rod's sandpaper and whiskey voice, Beck's heavy swooping guitar lines, Woody's twangy adventurous bass, Tony Newman's monster funky drumming needed one more element: Nicky Hopkin's piano - that made it all feel like Western saloon honky tonk music tied up with Buddy Guy,

[mrhosehose]

Albert, BB and Freddie King, Sly and The Family Stone, Elvis and a whole load of other stuff, but the Western fairy tale folk beatnik thing made it sound like nothing else - the follow-up album to Truth, the first heavy metal album - I also wish I could hear more of Hopkins' playing, but this is still good. Ian McLagan said his was fixated by his playing live

[nevillesivan]

Arghh! Why is there no mic on the piano? I wish there were some good Nicky footage somewhere, anywhere!

[preussuerp]

well it looks like Nicky

but too bad there is no mic on the piano....

or a sound engineer to turn him up...

[missantropica]

very nice video, thank you for sharing this, i really like it

[benito4244]

you guys kick ass, just thought you'd like to know!!

[Hanksalot]

This is really great to see and hear...

The Spongetones are really kickin' it...

I wonder if Nicky Hopkins ever played it live with anyone else in the 17 years between playing it with The Beatles...