Remo Four - Peter Gunn 1966

[Sirfev2010]

killer Nice.

[DevoBassGirl]

That guitarist - the blazer, the skills, the British accent, my god is he sexy! He looks a little cocky at times, but that's alright ;-)

[vylkyl1]

Style brah . Shoulda been playin' my explorer in the sisties w/ my bag o tricks !

[artywendy]

The late great Colin Manley, fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheiasGift]

The guitar player is such a badass !!!

[oudzuidNL]

very cool !

[EMNIGHT1]

peter gunn wasnt this played be a group called thunder road im so sure.

[MrCherryJuice]

The Remo Four did two consecutive weeks on Germany's Beat Club (I saw them both) and I made a point of getting the 45 (b/w 'Mickey's Monkey'). This was pre-Hendrix (in the UK) so Manley preceded him with a couple things here, and him pointing to his fingering was really memorable. Roy Dyke really pinned things down. Besides Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, he was with Pat Travers' first UK band (later replaced by Nicko McBrain) and Badger, the band formed by Jackie Lomax and Tony Kaye after he left Yes.

[pkappel006]

@TheSilentMovieEra who said all music is crap after the 60's, your looking at the wrong person whoever made the comment music is crap after the 60's. In my opinion I grew up in the 60's as a young boy at 16 in 1968. If you grew up in the 80's as a young boy that is fine, I have nothing bad to say about 80's music so say it as may be but personally I enjoy the 60's such as thye REMO FOUR in playing Peter Gun, a great tune that has all you coulod ask for.

[charleneaponte1]

Every MoFo that ever learned a chord wants to wail "Stairway..", the James Bond Theme (Monty Norman-or Barry, the Jury's out), and "Peter Gunn".

[singleh27]

I have heard many versions of this song, but none better than this one!

[number1saxophone]

@singlalala43 That's only because you haven't taken the time to watch my band's "Peter Gunn" video. Go ahead, you've got work to do now.

And next time, THINK before you start typing.

[Bigum99]

Fckin A..what a RIP!

[GroovinEZ]

I think this line-up is Colin Manley (guitar), Roy Dyke (drums), Tony Ashton (organ) and Phil Rogers (bass)? I still have their "Smile" album (Starclub Records), some great music in there. They also played on Geooge Harrison's "Wonderwall music". Ashton and Dyke left to form Ashton, Gardner & Dyke ("Resurrection Shuffle"). Colin Manley continued the band as a trio for a while and then went to The Swinging Blue Jeans. Both Ashton and Manley are no longer with us.

[butchermachine]

What a badass drummer.

[ONENIGGER2ANOTHER]

@butchermachine No shit! That cat is putting the hammer down..sounds like Jon Bonham on that pedal!

[Chimbo65]

@ONENIGGER2ANOTHER

Yeah ,that`s Roy Dyke on the drums with The Remo Four.

All the best

Chimbo

Chimbo`s Revival

[carlolf]

Colin was really great for his time! I remember well, when I saw Remo Four with this song on German "Beat Club" (at the age of 14), I knew; I WANT to play guitar in a rock band. And I did!!! And I do it until today (and hope: for ever)!

[PeterCRissKISSgod]

what the hell happened to "Ain't love good, Ain't Love Proud" and "Rock Candy"?!?

[riefi66]

Herrlich!

[lovinkink]

They played very well. Curiously, they said that they loved the beatle´s way of playing... many people used to think beatles played bad. But, their style was strangely amazing in spite of the simpliciness

[Tubbyduff]

@lovinkink where guitar playing was concerned they ALL emulated or tried to emulate Hank Marvin.

[EZEdj]

I love it cover!!!

[Tubbyduff]

I seem to remember this band name around Liverpool in the 60s

[Tinnahask]

The Undertakers from Wallasey and were far superior than The Remo Four

[ValeAvoca]

If you say so. That's fine.

I was around and doing the circuit myself.

I and many of my peers have a different take on things.

Multicheshire sums it up about right

Live with it!

[Chimbo65]

I am not trying to re write history at all.

Was the "Wonderwall Music" Album

with George Harrison and Remo Four

from 1967 also embarrasing ?

Why did Paul McCartney refer to Colin Manley as the greatest musician in Liverpool ?

Colin was NOT a Poser.

He was a Gent and a great talent.

[ValeAvoca]

There is really nothing special here.

It is only marginally better than 'Humpty Dunpty with Tommy Quickly and that was embarrassing. As for the reference to the Independant. That extract related to an incident where Jet Harris fell of the stage ' Rotten Drunk'.

Don't try to re-write history

[ValeAvoca]

Looks like a poser!!

[MultiCheshire]

Colin Manley was one of the better guitarists on Merseyside and nothing more. It would appear that you are trying to re-write history claiming international recognition. Outside Merseyside he was unknown. Certainly not up there with the greats which you imply.

[1markgoodwin]

Type " Colin Manley Independent " for his obituary and some of the views on Colins playing by some of his contemporaries.

RIP Colin

[Chimbo65]

@1markgoodwin

You tell him Mark.

Good words.

all the best to you mate

from Chimbo

[1markgoodwin]

Cheers pal, that means a lot.

[1markgoodwin]

Colin was my Uncle.

For someone to say that he had "no real substance" clearly shows they know nothing of his work or his dedication to music.

Listen to the Paul McCartney interview on Radio Merseyside, where he cites Colin as one of the best guitarists of the era.

Maybe you are better qualified to judge than Mr McCartney? No I didn´t think so.

[MultiCheshire]

McCartney also cited Ringo Starr as one of the best drummers of the era.

[1markgoodwin]

Type "Colin Manley Independent" into Google.

RIP Colin

[Jovolution]

muss immer über die show von Colin lachen

[Bear394]

very very very nice!!!!

[mikal9000]

Very cool version. This number is THE coolest theme music ever for a TV show -- it's become to *Noir* what the James Bond theme is to *Intrigue*. Thanks for posting this!

[mndandy]

Roy Dyke was a totally MONSTER drummer! Too bad they pulled their version of "Rock Candy" of the Youtube, He's completely, insanely powerful on that one.

He later married Stacia, the dancer from Hawkwind. I bet that was a good time!

[MultiCheshire]

There were plenty of groups around Merseyside which were better than the Remo Four. The Undertakers for starters they were from wallasey like the Matadors

[pkappel006]

this band ROCKED

[pkappel006]

fritz5137................love this version of Peter Gun........do you have any more songs from this set????

[fritz5137]

Remo Four - Like a Rolling Stone 1966 in my channel fritz5176

[Kishbank]

Very loose. If the lead guitarist stopped posing and played the guitar it might sound half decent.

[paintedship]

would like to see you do better, I think it's pretty damn good

[Kishbank]

If you had been around Merseyside in the 60s you would have heard many Lead Guitarists better than this. The Wallasey group 'Matadors , mentioned earlier were an example.

[paintedship]

czech matadors were better

[Chimbo65]

@paintedship

I agree. Just ignore that twat.

The Remo Four Rocks !!

[pkappel006]

great tune, haven't heard this tune sine the 8thg grade......love the base player

[teddybaer1945]

the best was from eddy duane

[sawboss17]

Look up peter gunn catastrophe/Jimi Hendrix

[buzzthjerk]

THIS is my favorite guitar version .thanks for uploading this!

[Spartacus217]

ELP covered this song.

[snoogans999]

man if Hendrix covered this song...

[RanceSpergl]

You're joking, yes? Hendrix did do this song, of course.

[snoogans999]

I realized my folly about 3 minutes later, though the version I heard left me unsatisfied if you think in terms of his Auld Lang Syne cover

[qkpi4]

Hendrix played this song with one of his early bands

[RanceSpergl]

Everyone in the US played this song. It was de rigueur if you were a guitarist. I had to learn it and Peter Gunn was well off the air!

[twigleaf2]

This is the Best Peter Gunn Cover Ever!

So cool!!

and nice style

[liverpoolpictorial]

The lead guitarist's posing was pathetic. If you like your garage music full of swamp, peversion and shit, check out The Cramps. Nobody can touch this band.

[twigleaf2]

Really? i Think he's pretty cool.

and he's a great player anyways so it doesnt matter.

and yes The Cramps are the bomb

[michaelpister]

THWANG !

[bulgaminj]

Franke Echo Quintett from GDR play it  better ;-))

[Trefethan]

If we are talking instrumentals, there was a Wallasey group called The Matadors whose lead guitarist was far better than this player.

[fiendwithoutaface66]

no way Colin Manley is a guitar god

[Trefethan]

That is your opinion.

Colin was certainly a showman but of no real substance. If you were around in the 60s you would know the Matadors were acknowledged as being one of the best Instrumental groups.

[fiendwithoutaface66]

why should anyone even be aware of him if you don't name the guitarist? I'm not even aware of the group. What are some of their songs? The only group I know by the name Matadors are Czech. It's not all about being more technically better either, feeling goes just as far in my opinion. Remo Four did try to do other things besides instrumentals as well.

[oshwi]

dam, just cant help not to smile on this vid..

[bigbassinbob]

Is that Eric from the animals at 2:05?

[thomasmantellwilliam]

Aces and Eights!

[wiggysmum]

the late great Colin Manley also played with The Swinging Blue Jeans. I have never seen a better guitarist

[PeterCRissKISSgod]

how come "Rock Candy" was taken off here?

[DirtyShirtBlue]

Boss man! Some groovy chicks too!

[littlequeen64]

Too cool for school........haha!

[punkrockefeller]

thanx 4 posting this gem! what ever became of colin, he looks like he could have ranked with townsend & the like!

[broadsquare]

This isn't the original Remo.

Just colin Manley. Best guitar player on Merseyside. RIP.

[punkrockefeller]

thanx 4 the info! u gotta love that beat-club audience 2!

[lastsinger]

I heard the Remo Four in a club in Munich Germany. Great musicians, but they didn't do much good song writing. On the other hand they really made some very well done covers.

It's great to find them here on youtube!

Colin was so cool !

(from Germany)

[August8th1969]

Weren't the Remo Four contemporaries of the Beatles? Were they from Liverpool? I remember Sam Leach mentioning them in his book about the Beatles and all the other bands in Liverpool of that era. I thought I once heard it said that Colin Manly (sp?) was considered the best guitarist around the Liverpool area even when the Beatles were selling out the Cavern Club everyday.

[vh1classiclover]

great guitarist

[666UFO666]

Neat

[ifthecapfits]

That's the late Colin Manley on lead guitar. Helluva guitar sound for 1966.

He was with the Swinging Blue Jeans for many years.

[delpuckett]

these guys were WAY ahead of their time :-)

[problem49]

Not bad, but The Pirates pretty much essayed the definitive Rock n Roll version on "Out of Their Skulls" in 77.

[stOOpid68]

Local lads done well!!

[cc1873cc]

cant go wrong with these bunch of scousers m8, that hammond is brilliant

[lk63]

The organ is a VOX, the same one the Beatles, the Animals and the Doors used.

[ppanama]

the Animals used Vox organ (a jaguar or continental, depending...) the beatles used a wide variety of organs, Lowry, Rheem, Hammond, Vox, Farfisa, or whatever was at their disposal. (which was everything) Ray Manzerek used a Vox Continental organ, and later used a Gibson G-101 Kalamazoo (which looks like a Farfisa) because the Continental keys often stuck!

[DickStainy]

Yeah, I was gonna say Beat Club.

[DickStainy]

Was this filmed in Liverpool, or is it RSG or something?

[guppypartz]

Bremen Germany probably. Beat Club was a German show. The host was Uschi Nerke.

[DickStainy]

TMI!

[Chimbo65]

That`s right.

It is Beat Club.

The Remo Four did this show no less than ten times

[G0IFI]

It's Ready Steady Go, Cathy McGowan's there for a few frames at the end, just coming in to say how "fab" that was.

[G0IFI]

Sorry, my mistake, it IS 'Beat Club'

[Chimbo65]

No it is in Bremen,Germany.

The show is "Beat Club"

The Remo Four did it ten times.

Colin was my old mate.

God bless him.

[guitargreats2]

This is a classic. Thanks for the post.

[twoslices]

Great guitar player for back then.

[andrew22021988]

don andrew is my grandad no joke

[boundsgreentiger]

the box (at the back behind the organist, si?)looks like a PA amplifier and its' there, just like all teh other Selmer backline, as decoration

[1974rail]

in the video theres a sliver white selmer box size object does anyone know what it is?

[ralphdn]

Ralph from the STEPS: I saw these guys night after night in the Star Club in Hamburg, Colin Manly, the solo guitarist, was my idol. We used to meet them in a little bar around the corner from the Reeperbahn called the "Mambo Schänke" but never chatted much...

[guppypartz]

They should've found a singer, no? And I guess a song writer. I saw another video where the keyboardist sings, but his voice isn't great. Somebody should put a Wiki page on Manley ...

[kyzylDersu]

I didn't know the song existed before the Blues Brothers movie.

[Tholomaios]

*sigh* Well that is today biggest evil in the music business: Most people don't know shit about music as soon it is 10 years older then them.

So you can sell a hell lot of crap cover versions to the masses and they even cheer about how wonderful that "new" piece of music is, while it might be the umpteenth cover by the A-Teens.

[dicksatan]

I 2nd that sigh.

[RanceSpergl]

The original version is by Henry Mancini and his orchestra from the early 60s. It was the theme to a U.S. detective television show named "Peter Gunn".

[tonybolland]

Superb musicianship considering it's 1966!

Colin  was a genius and all the band on par.

[mistersnaredrum]

the drums are WAY heavier on the recorded version, but this is pretty fierce as well...