The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz & Fox On The Run (TV 2008)

[setherkobra]

eie der geilsten rockbands aller zeiten!

[speakenglish1001]

uh no amps etc? another dubbed lip synched performance, ugh

[KatrinWagner]

@speakenglish1001 That show requires playback-only acts, unfortunately. Sweet play live whenever they can. And sound even more amazing than on the record! :-)

[grandlars]

What does this have to do with chopping/cutting wood?

[stnavres]

The Bruce part just ruined it for me haha, not their fault of course but it just doesn't sound right without Mick

[freddygarzon]

los años son inclementes pero igual cantan bien!!!!

[OLIRC1961]

Rock on as we wont listen to crap at the retirement home!

[groovei]

mimed

[bareknuckles2u]

Holy fat!

[acdc95rocker]

hey leute also ganz ehrlich ich bin 15 ,

und ich mag sweet wirklich aberich bin enttäuscht das keine neuen song s mehr kommen........ ich weis sie sind lange im geschäft aber trotzdem sollte es musik von sweet geben die aus meiner generation kommt, damit meine ich nicht deren stil der sollte gleich sein sonst es nicht weet aber einfach mal ein paar neue songs wären aus meiner sicht ein willkomene abwechslung zum ganzen anderen pop electro zeugs von heute!!!

[jaki1209]

ballroom blitz and the people sit around clapping. It's funny

[mandy8121]

Is Pete married??? I love him...lol

[swinzey]

I love Sweet but when your career gets to this point youre better off not playing at all. This is just terrible. Ugh I thought lip sync went out with milli vanilli lol!

[Sailormarinero]

@swinzey and all: So what does it have to do with the band's carreer or quality if German TV shows force all their guests to do playback performances??? It's the same on 95 % of all TV shows over here for every single artist. And WHENEVER The Sweet get the chance to play live, they do and they SO bloody rock...

[orbitaldeerhunter]

Someone clapped on 1 and 3 might get into ball room blitz now

[susandan110]

no no no no no no....sooooooo wrong!

[theboomster]

WHERE'S THE AMPLIFIERS?

[shedhead1000]

mime. fucking shite singing along to a tape of brian .

[Sailormarinero]

@shedhead1000 This is not a tape of Brian, this is the voice of Peter Lincoln, singer of The Sweet since 2006. And unfortunately those TV shows force all bands to do playback, the band can't help this.

[carolinaswampcritter]

they dont look the same..no more

[6977stubs]

n then there was cheap trick lol

[RockAnAhardSpot]

Yea - I mentioned how I thought the synced it on another vid - got called names. LOl Doesn't mean i do not like them, i am just saying - sync is a sync.

[HomerSimpson111]

omg first time l heard this as a kid l loved it and then l forgott about it now l love the sweet again xD THE SWEET ROCKS!!!

[Sailormarinero]

@KenOfKent The voice you hear here is Peter Lincoln, the present singer of The Sweet. (He does sound a lot like Brian, but this is a new, present recording with the present band line-up!)

[ACCEPT1979]

was für eine degradierung ...

[Curragao]

allright guys thats the way!! 

[15ktmorgan]

other people say this song is better by other people but when its sung by other people its just not the same song :)

[rozenluk]

FAKE!

[emrabt]

Andy scotts current line up, with peter, is the best he's been for ages.

[80sjamming]

There are at least 3 different bands calling themselves the sweet. Each has a former member in it, by the way, Brian passed away.

[Sailormarinero]

@80sjamming Brian and Mick both died some years ago. There are two versions of The Sweet out there - one featuring Andy Scott and one featuring Steve Priest (who mostly tours in the USA at the moment). Those are the two surviving originals.

[1AussieAvenger1]

yuck... stay home... brian made you guys

[MrMurzilla]

Andy's great guitarist.

[0belly9]

peter lincoln is a very sexy man !

[popeyenolive]

Good lip-synching. Nice technique of overdubbing song with original chorus parts of the original song.

[graphicianist]

Some are need old sweet again, yes its true. But, i think Mr andy plays his songs oldest or newest version of the band it does not change everything. İf Mr andy do not make this band who will listen the sweet again, live or real. Think about that . i live in turkey and i never had a chance to see the sweet live in turkey and i m 30 . i grown that songs its my fate. This band knows how make music. Alright fellas ;))

[necrokratia]

its not the same without mick =(

[kenandre92]

It's playback :(

[RockoBelo]

with guitar unplugged ?

[Ravenclan45]

reminds me of Donny W :)  as we all went skating

[lighhtningking]

whats with the guy with the dog rite at the biginning of fox on the run lol

[WandTosz]

Super hits with times my youth.

[lonerocker08]

this is fake theyre lip-syncing if you listen to the actual song itself. The song sounds like the way theyre singing now (which theyre not, because im pretty sure they cant sing that high anymore) That's just disappointing...... Oh and by the way for all of you who are going to bash me for saying this (because it's true) i dont care.

[sedg]

I'm just happy anytime I see a bunch of 70's dudes who don't get stools and acoustics and play a kinder, gentler version of their hits. This is really tight and strong - not The Sweet of the 70's but it's still pretty damn good.

[califslayer]

They were a good band back then and even to the end.

[Fabul0usxCynthia]

I don't think theyre lip singing, they just put the old sound to this video. 'Cause the drums don't fit to the sound either

[gooooproue]

are they lip singing?

[Melcanu]

@gooooproue i guess so, same voice like in 1973 :)

[AliBabazzi]

who play the sinthetizer??(keyboard)

[avatarherr]

hammer jive

[sweetglamgirl123]

I hate to say this... they are good, especially because they have a couple of original members... but they could never be as good as when Brian and Mick were alive.

If it wasnt for the originals, this would e a good cover. Doesnt sound much like the 70's version

RIP BRIAN

[ofunch]

I believe its only Andy Scott from the originals here. Correct me if im wrong ?

[Chimbo65]

@ofunch

No,you are right, Sir.

[IncensePeppermints68]

even though these guys are old now, they can still kick today`s kids asses. they rock more that todays bands even when they are 65 years old.

[xjr1300paul]

words fail me

[hanseatus]

They dont have the power from the old 70thes the real Sweet ,but this is not bad ,old one is so much better ,but for old guys its rulles its ok,i like this music ,who made it today ??? Nobody ,.........its a Ballroomblitz, Its SWEET

[meteosaur24]

COOOL !!!! :DDD

[HipsterVicious]

Yeah, Only One Brian...

Long Live The Original Sweet T.T

[kamikatzeff]

unny how a dead man can sing live! This is really shit!!!!!

[jan17859]

toch goed gedaan, Ik was een groot fan van The Sweet maar dit is toch prima, het leven gaat toch door.

[Keijz74]

I never watch that stuff

They're bloody musicians they don't need this. If I want to hear a studio track I'll play the CD. UGH

[sordax]

Looks like lipsyncing :(

[ZLY1113]

who was mick then? in the orig version they say "ready and? steve? mick? alright fellas! lets go" also where's their best son, "Love is Like Oxygen"??

[oeman90]

Mic is dead for awile rip mic

[Chimbo65]

Mick Tucker,Steve Priest,

Andy Scott and Brian Connely

was the orginal Sweet.

Brian died in 1997.

Mick died in 2001.

[SuezySweet]

Mick passed away Feb 14, 2002

[Chimbo65]

@SuezySweet

Ok thanks for the info

[1Brian94Connolly5]

I really like this version of AS Sweet. Pete's a pretty good vocalist.

No one is like Brian, but I think the singer of AS Sweet doesn't have to do this...

Such a shame they didn't play live, I don't think that they didn't want to. They weren't allowed... like in the 70s.

[TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY]

Very true about not being allowed to play live, too many shows are like that. Shame.

[Chrisee303]

R.I.P. Brian Connolly - no one can reach him!!!

He was MR SWEET!

[ZeppelinRochey]

Love them butdo they ever sing live!

[yaoilover126]

what show is this and the 2008 wig wam bam from, what country even, germany/austria?

[465502530]

germany - zdf fernsehgarten. :-)

[BlackDimond100]

man... how things have changed only andy`s the only oringanal! but is that steve?

[celinebritgirl]

Ah! They're not singing here. Watch Andy's mouth! For all we know that is Brian's voice. The wind makes it very hard to sing this type of song live.

[KatrinWagner]

It's Peter Lincoln's voice on this recording here.

[celinebritgirl]

Probably is his voice. I was just saying they aren't singing live here.

[DeathlyfartMachine]

@celinebritgirl well maby the sound and audio are a little off, i saw that kind of thing on tv. 

[celinebritgirl]

I can't say really, because I'm too upset with Andy!

[JeanneDarc46]

I love Peter! He's a great Singer! ^^

[celinebritgirl]

He's no Brian Connolly!

[JeanneDarc46]

That's true, but he is good. Brian was the best! ;-)

[Pete79111]

Andy Scott is a shame ... sueing people because they sell CDs on ebay, that mr. diva Scott thinks would be a shame for the name sweet just because he did not play on them ... (like BC Sweet recordings) ...

Its a pitty Mick, Brian and Steve didn't sack Andy in 1976 when Mick and Andy had that argument ...

Andy is the bigges A... hole in Rock-n-Roll ...

[GottiDaGoodfella]

not just that...but it pisses me off that he sings steve's lines...like he was the one that originally sang them. this is not the sweet. far from it.

andy had alot to do with the original sweet sound...but so did mick, stee and BRIAN. you can't have sweet without brian, sorry.

sorry to hear andy turned out to be such a douche.

[celinebritgirl]

He's a bully always was. He was a nasty bag of bricks to Brian. Andy always thought he was the real deal. Sorry Andy, Brian was, and he was the reason we girls loved this band the songs and the man.

[Pete79111]

Very well said ... even us guys loved Brian as a frontman, performer and singer.

Andy is the biggest a... hole in Rock-n-Roll ... it is a pain how he thinks he is "Sweet" ... he was the last to join of the original line-up ... just because Brian and Mick are dead and Steve is far away in the USA, he can act this way!!!

This shit here is a oldies/cover-band and has nothing to do with the "real" Sweet!!!

[CapKSailor]

Pete Lincoln is such a good vocalist, and when you close your eyes, you'll hear Brian. GREAT !!!

[scifiknut]

These German TV shows are infamous for using both singback and playback; what do you think? Is it the real deal?

[d3ricxblacki3x11]

well sum of them died...

[d3ricxblacki3x11]

i can tell its them!! i know the band members, and their voices/instruments

[d3ricxblacki3x11]

i AGREE

[thephrophet]

I thought this was quite a good effort given that only one member exists from the original line up. If you shut your eyes and didn't know, it would be hard to tell the difference from the original live version

[greyflap]

I definitely agree with all the comments that say that this isn't Sweet without Brian, Mick and Priest. But I think this is the best sounding post original line up I've heard yet and we should be thankful that Andy Scott is still keeping the great music and legacy alive, that he helped create. Rock on Andy!!!!

[ScottAnderson1948]

I have to give so much credit, and respect, to Andy Scott, Steve Priest, and Paul McCartney. Three, great, rock artists, from the UK, who are still playing live, and sounding great. I just recently saw Chris Squire, from Yes, playing on the Huckabee show. I wish I could still play live like these guys. But oh well, I'm a has-been who never was!!!

[chickloverforever]

that drummer, bruce sucks! and these vocals sound nothing the original, but i kinda like ballroom blitzz. i love steve priest to much to give fox on the run vocals credit, sorry

[spikeman14]

This is Andy Scott's Sweet, not the Sweet

[stuu7777]

boy wat a futereit stagig set who aitit wass thing wall had in futer thinck 20099 yer idont know locon it mit be in junpan suwedon wair did vido taps it most auved stags seen to day

[catboy809]

dude the only sweet that was there was andy scott

[hurricaneUK]

They call themselves The Sweet, they sing songs by The Sweet by they ain't The Sweet.

[antifascho2007]

Are you ready Andy to sue all of your german fans on ebay and honour a german hobby musician Sweet tribute band with a costly warning ???Shame for you and the name of SWEET with Brian and Mick RIP!

[teresamcg60]

I think it's mean to comment on Andy's appearence,ie weight, especially when Andy is a man of the 60s,70s,80s the man has vitality, has survived, & maintained his craft, in a ruthless industry, so I think, well done Andy, you a still a dude, keep playing, living life, sweet dreams.

[lenayul26]

i have a question... are those of sweet??

everyone??

[KatrinWagner]

This is the present line-up of The Sweet with Andy Scott, Peter Lincoln, Bruce Bisland, Steve Grant.

Andy Scott is the only remaining original band member.

[lenayul26]

ohhh

thank´s ^^

[hardnheavyrock]

I think presently there are two different Sweet versions with Steve Priest fronting his own. They may be using the name for tour marketing.

[Chimbo65]

@lenayul26

Only Andy Scott on guitar

[GODBROUW]

They sounds ok but who is that fat bastard playing lead guitar?

[KatrinWagner]

The only remaining original member of Sweet, Andy Scott.

[GODBROUW]

yeah in know..i was just being mischievous, i saw and met Andy when his Sweet toured Australia in...2006?...he seems to have put on a few kilo's...and Ive just seen some of Steve Priests Sweets videos...he's huge! I mean he's carrying a few extra kilos! Despite all the extra fat, they sound pretty good. Impressed by Steves band...they do Andy's songs better then Andy!

[getchasumm]

brian connely would shit his pants at this travesty !!!

[KatrinWagner]

Watch some of the related Sweet videos of the original band on YouTube and then talk about travesty, eh?! They had great stage outfits in the 70s. ;-) ;-) ;-)

[SurfStefGoldCoast]

@getchasumm you cant spell his name so shut up

[getchasumm]

if ya think it would sound this good live, you are on crack !!! this is SO damn polished, the shoe-shine stand is just out of shot !! Studio tinkering, for sure!!!!

[KatrinWagner]

I suggest you go to a gig and check them out live yourself. And I'd appreciate not to be insulted just because of a good TV music video of a marvellous band. Many thanks. Constructive criticism welcome. Disrespect not.

[getchasumm]

anyone who thinks this is live is sadly mistaken. This "production" has so many backing tracks, for fuck sake, they ALL coulda stopped singing and the song would have continued! WAY too polished to be real. A rocking Milli Vanilli I say !!

[KatrinWagner]

Nobody doubts this is a playback performance. That's the usual thing at a show like this. The band can't help it. They sound a lot better when they play live, but at these TV shows they are not allowed to. What's wrong with delivering a good playback performance and getting good money for a big TV gig like this, though??

[61rocker]

This is pretty cool, but are they at an old folks home? Very surreal and strange.

[xaxxaax]

Rock on!!!

[uriahheep2112]

people in the fucking audince are fucking idiots sitting in chairs and clapping what the fuck old faggots

[TomN2233]

Marvellous....

[philipgrayson]

You've got to admit they seem to get better with age. And who is the new star of the band centre/front?

[Sailormarinero]

New lead singer is Peter Lincoln. He joined Sweet in 2006. Before that he was with Sailor for more than 10 years, and also with Cliff Richard and Shakin' Stevens.

He's really marvellous! ;-)

[daveslady57]

Mmm, how nice to get to see this before heading off to work this morning! Pete looks yummy here in his new jacket.

[LadySElisabeth]

Great! :) Thanks Katrin!

[Wolli1960]

Great, Katrin, thanx! I missed the 'Fernsehgarten' this morning. Wolli (WL2407 from HSH)

[NickelodeonNights]

How bloody MARVELLOUS...!!!