Saw them and listened to them in 1989 in Germany, Paderborn (small town). They played together with the german musician HEINZ RUDOLF KUNZE on stage. First KUNZE with "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz". And then Mothers Finest came. we were about 10.000 people in this stadium. we were like in rock and roll heavon. Mothers Finest gave prove: they were the loudest rockband in the world by that time. 10 miles distance from stadium people werde shocked about the "noise". that was tv-news. we loved them!
I saw Mothers Finest in 1979 at the Dekalb Central College, Dekalb County, GA.. The concert was free for college students who had IDs. I was 16 years old, I flashed my drivers license and gained enrty into the concert hall. It was a fantastic performance. !! I have never forgot it.
they rocked ..and crossed the racist barrier back in the 70s, saw em in knoxville tennessee at the freakin state fair and they EXPLODED the place, like nothing ever seen before.....funk, rock and blues....burning down the house!
Mothers Finest may not have been of the level of Bob Dylan as far as their songwriting goes, but they were absolutely one of the best live band of their era. What is more is that they were THE premiere live act in Atlanta at a time when that city was changing in a radical way from a backwater, oft times Southern town to the amazing city that you see today. Most people don't realize how rapidily that change happened and the proces started not long before this band hit.
When I was in high school I saw Mother's Finest at the Circus Krone in Munich on this 1978 tour. The drummer in my band and I had great seats off to the right of the stage and we could see BB Queen's feet and pedals. What a clinic. They played for a long time and sounded as good as they do on LPs. I don't think MF got their due in the U.S. but I think they did alright in Europe. Having a brother who's into rock and me being into funk, MF was a band we could crank up and both enjoy.
Last I heard,BB was playing for Marshal Tucker. He had also played for Illusion and Molly Hatchet after he left MF. Great guy. They are all great peoples!!
Yes Yes! I am a southern white girl then/woman now"LOL" Love M F. I was about 12 when i knew they were special.I still have the original album,and still listen to them.They were and are Great.They should have gone way way to the moon in the music industry.I think Rock N Roll starts with Greats like M.F. So many talented groups like M.F. have been forgotten it seems.Play On Rock Fans.Thanks for the video it is a gift from the past to watch.Wish they would go on tour.I wonder where they are?
@pasdebill Here they are. Will haveto ultiple posts, however, due to character count. You can run to the jungle. (You can’t hide.) Run to the mountains. (You can’t hide.) Run to the sea, yeah! (You can’t hide.) Brother man, we got to be free now From the fire! From the fire! From the fire! Oh, yeah! Fire! (Woo! Woo! Woo!) Well, you better be careful ‘bout the things you do ‘Cause somebody’s watching you-oo-oo-oo-oo.
@pasdebill lyrics Part 2 You can run to the jungle (You can’t hide) Run to the city (Oh, you can’t hide) Run to your mama’s house (You can’t hide) Can’t get away from it, can’t get away from the Fire! The burning fire! The smoking fire! The flaming fire! Ah, ah, woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Well, well, well, you better be carefukl ‘bout the things you do ‘cause somebody’s watching you –oo-oo-oo Better be careful ‘bout the things you do Somebody’s watching you, you, you, you, you.
@pasdebill Lyrics part 3 Somebody’s watching you. Somebody’s watching you. Somebody’s watching everything that you do, do do. Somebody’s watching you. Somebody’s watching you. Somebody’s watching everything that you do, do do. Somebody’s watching you. Somebody’s watching you. Somebody’s watching everything that you do, do do.
@pasdebill Lyrics Part 4. And the last. You can run to the jungle. (You can’t hide.) Run to the sea. (Oh, you can’t hide.) Well, I’ve been to Chicago. (You can’t hide.) I’ve been to New York City, too. (You can’t hide.) Atlanta, Georgia. (You can’t hide.) Can’t get away, no. (You can’t hide.) From the burnin’, burnin’ (You can’t hide.) Can’t get away fro the burnin’, burnin’… Fire! Fire! Fire!…
Saw MF the 1st time back in Jan. 1980. I was 15. It was my 2nd concert I've been to. Gonna see My favorite group at the time Aerosmith. The opening act was a new group called 38 Special. They sounded pretty good. The next group was MF, never heard of them and they rocked The Mid South Colosium in Memphis Down!!! Awesome group. Terribly underrated .
Been watching MF since 78. Saw them at Georgia Theater in 08. Still just as tight and rocked the f ing house all night. Never heard race in 78 in Athens Ga don't hear it now.
Amen Brother!! Yep and they were banned from almost EVERY radio station because they had, white, black, male and female players in the band. Even MORE stupid than the reason why it took so long for Canadian bands to make it on the radio in the USA. THEN Rick James through Living Colour took what these guys did yearsd earlier and made fortunes!! They're from Atlanta, GA and STILL no one knows who this great band is.
I agree, I'm from Eastern NC MF is the best live band ever! They would make big names look real bad! I never understood why MF didn't get mainstreamed
I do. MF's problem was that right around the time when they truly hit their stride ('76-'81), the airwaves had already become segregated to the extent that they were either too "black" (R&B/Funk/Soul) for white radio or too "white" (Rock) for black radio. Plus it didn't help that the record labels they were on just didn't know how to properly market their unique sound to the public, often having them switch genres from album to album. Simply put, they had the RIGHT sound at the WRONG time, lol.
Which club did you own? Bet I made a house payment or 2 for you. My family owned Pantana Bobs and Happys pool hall well they owned the buildings. back in the day.
I used to go see them every time they played in Charlotte "back in the day", plus there's a club here now that they come to once in a while. They sound as good as ever !! Thanks for sharing this video !
i first saw Mothers Finest open for Foghat in 1976 at the Sam Houston Colosseum. blew me away. opened with "I don't know, but I've been told Niggaz cant sing rock & roll No No"! what balls they have!
beirutbill ...I was at that Concert.....Foghat played there another time and had just come out with" Fool For The City"...They were there with the J Geils Band and Foghat was the opening act...people were PISSED about that. I saw the Allman Brothers,ZZ Top,Marshall Tucker,Aerosmith and others there at the Sam Houston....I was so wasted at most of the concerts it wasn't funny...but heck I was 16!
Niggazz Can't Sang Rock and Roll was of of their self titled debut albulm from 1976. It has recently been re-released. A 5 gallon bucket wouldn't hold all the pot that I smoked while listening to that album!!
My favorite music usually takes me back to Sly & the Family Stone. That kind of music that required no label but was eventually known as Rock-Funk. Mother's Finest: one of the finest bands I've ever listened to. Tremendous live performers. They have a live album and this song is on it. The other great track is their cover of Grace Slick "Somebody to Love".
I seen MF blow Big Names Away as the warm up band! In 2009 there isn't a live band anywhere of this talent , music today is crap and these artist that make the big money can't even hold a candle to these guys! best live band EVER!
it was called "Another mother further", or something very close to it. I had it for a while, its black on cover with the words in purple like a superman logo..
Truly amazing!! I was lucky enough to see this band quite a few times back in this day. It's the kind of stuff I'll never forget. Even 30 years later, it still gives me that feeling. This lineup was an American classic for sure.
I love MF, saw them three times live over the years in berlin, never did see before such a awesome live band, they are definately the best, since 30 years, such a positive vibration, power and tightness of the whole band, amazing! one of the concerts you go out and feel just happy and full of love, peace and freedom...thanx for posting!
THAT was the rockingest thing i have heard in a while.
Truthfully i have avoided listening to MF for a long time. I'm leery of black rock bands from the 70s seeing that Sly & The Family Stone and PFunk could not cross over and so i wrote the other bands off out of disappointment. But i'm glad i finally got on board. MF are a SERIOUSLY rocking band.
Excellent live band. Saw them twice. Once around 83 I think....at the Civic Center in Savannah, Ga. then again in 84 I think.....at Georgia Southern College!!! What a show they did. Would love to see them again. Oh what memories.
I remember MF from The Other Place when I was in school at UGA in the mid 70's. A friend from West Georgia College tipped me off about them and he was right. They were among the Best Live Acts I've ever seen. Awesome live band. Ride the Tiger was one of my favorites from their live LP. Their first 3 albums were among my favorites.
Yes. Shout out from Douglasville (west Georgia). My kid just graduated from there.
Anyway I think I remember that the group broke up cause of the industry market weasels. They got mad and released "Black Radio Won't Play This Record".
Best memory: MF playing Six Flags Over Georgia in 1983. In the middle of the show Joyce is standing at Stage Left and says "Is there a party goin' on over here?! [tepid response from crowd there] I said 'Is there a party goin' on over here?!' [another tepid response] 'Cause if they ain't I'm takin' my fine ass over this way [points and moves to Stage Right] 'cause I KNOW they's a party goin' on over here!" And there was because that's where my friends and I were goin' NUTS!
Lawd have mercy! No one has ever torn a room apart like MF. Many a 70's night in Atlanta and Athens spent the best way possible: with Baby Jean and Wizzard, Cheap beer flowing. Music so hot sweat is dripping from the ceiling. And God help the headliner foolish enough to follow these guys! Can't be done. Just pack up the amps and go home. This video isn't even a high energy performance for these guys. Best live band evah. And one of the greatly underrated bands overall. Ahead of their time.
Well well welllll I saw them today at Pinkpop Classic and man they rocked funked souled everything! They are very good after all these years, and yes that really don't mean a thing. Loke You and Love You.
I saw MF in Detroit at The Masonic Temple they opened for Patti Smith, I think it was 1977. After MF went off stage everybody was cheering for an encore when someone with a mike said something like, more or louder. Well after that the crowd started booing, if they would have come back out they probably would have thrown drinks at them. Ah the good old days.
Only band that I could even think of opening up for P-Funk, then come back and open up for Aerosmith with a completely different show and blow both headliners off the stage! MF Baby!
Boys this band ruled the South East Back in the day. Who remembers "Roadies" in Goldsboro, the "Attic" in Greenville, NC, outdoor Jams in Trenton, NC!!
And yes how under rated is this Band, Way Way Under Rated!
"I think a Very Phycological Thing is Happening Here".
Hey Pung-JH Rose class of '80. I saw these guys at the Attic AND at Minges when they opened up for the Brothers Johnson and blew those suckers off the stage. I hadn't thought about the attic in years. Thanx for reminding me.
I grew up in Gville 70s and 80s lot of time at the Attic, Pantana Bobs, and many trips to Roadies,The Wildwood Jams, Nantucket, MH, MF, ect. I remember when the attic was the Bucaneer and burned down and then was rebuilt on 4th st. You guys are right this band was on fire back in the day!
..remembering reading an interview with Journey management talking about Mothers Finest completely blowing Journey off the stage during a 70's European tour...
All hail MOTHERS FINEST!!! These people blazed a trail in the realm of funk meets rock. Their tempo&Groove are incomprable. Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Faith No More,and LIVING COLOUR, should bow down in their town!!!! RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!!!!
MF taught me to rock-n-roll in 1978. Seen them live at least 10 times. I,ve watched them open for Big Name Bands and BLOW THEM AWAW| We really miss them in the southeastern US. Please come back to BAMA or Atlanta|
I saw this group in tampa around 1974 at a club called the performing art center. They were ripping it back then too. I wonder if they even remember that club on north nebraska avenue.
"Run to YO MAMA'S HOUSE, you can't hide..."haha, yeah I got this song on their Razor & Tie compilation CD and it REALLY SMOKES (no pun intended), lol!!! Too bad the original album it's on is still out-of-print...
I was quite young when I first heard this and I thought it was amazing. Synthesizers! Funk! And Hard Rock! Amazing! And those voices! It blew me away and it still does. Living Colour, Chili Peppers and the rest of you: get down on your knees and say "were not worthy" 'cos you all robbed this band. They were, and always will be the first real crossover band.
I used to hear this band on Atlanta radio in the late 70s thru the early 80s. They frickin' rock, dude. I also got to hang out with them in the late 80s when they were putting an act together again for a comeback, and were gigging at a cheesy bar in Panama City in the off-season to get tight again. They had a different singer and guitarist, both excellent, but Wizard was there being his usual funky as hell bad self.
If the Wyzard was there it was no "different" singer! Band is for all intent the same -- John Hayes has been up there with Moses Mo for a good 12-14 years. Drummers come and go but Wyz/Joyce/Glenn/Mo are veterans -- and THE best!
Um, the female singer who sang Joyce's parts was a new and different person [to me], not Joyce. Also, the guitarist was a different guy, with a different style. More jazzy and more like the Police, with lots of sus4 chords, add9 chords, few dominant 7th chords, lots of chorus and not much vibrato, and generally a hard, chromey steely sound from his Schechter Telecasters rather than a sinewy, funky, rubbery style. Wyz sang some tunes, but the focus seemed to be mainly on the woman singer.
Oh, and I seem to recall that guitar player kinda looked like a darker-haired Rutger Hauer. All black clothes, black guitar, tended to sound more like John McLaughlin than Johnny Winter, if you get my drift -- not bluesy, but jazzy in a hard-edged, stacked fifths kinda way.
These guys used to come to Memphis in the mid late 80s as the warmup band for every one. I wondered what happened to them. I remember they were as tight as any band I ever saw back in those days. I guess they were a little ahead of their time.
is this the band that had that album cover with the pie that had a piece missing, and it looked like a vagina? this was 30 years ago or so. i wish i had it, and i'll bet it's a collectors item. if it's the album cover i'm thinking of.
I don't recall a MF album cover like you're descriging. There's a good history at w**.mothersfinest.**m
This band was just amazing. You always hear about "underrated" or "the best band that didn't make it", etc. but MF really was superstar material. Their later incarnations in the 80's til now just aren't near the level of this lineup with Moses on guitar, Wizzard on bass and BB Queen on drums. They need to be in the Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame!!
I have that, too. I never listened to it [it's been listened to, just, not by me]. I admired that album cover for years, as a little boy, because it had "puppets" and looked one of those kids' animation tv shows. I didn't know or notice the thing about the pie till I was a teenager. LOL!
I saw MF blow Aerosmith off the stage in ATL GA at the Omni. The crowd was on their feet for the entire MF set, and everybody was spent by the time Aerosmith staggered onstage.Stephen T. had to be helped to his mike stand by two roadies! Mother's Finest was a mix of Zep, Sly and the family Stone and Aretha Franklin!
These guys were so ahead of their time that they couldn't be put into a category. "Wizard" is the baddest bass player I've ever seen!
If you saw this band in the late 70's and 80's you got your self one hellva great ticket.This band could kick the funk out cha then rock you all night long.
it remember me that song on the first captain beyond album...very similar riff...
nazzare79 1 month ago
I loved them too. Today... check out the BellRays.
prohumanbeing 6 months ago
Beat live Band Ever. These guys made the Stones look like a garage band!
lv2surf 8 months ago
i saw this band in 79 & they blew me away!! I forgot how awesome & amazing they really were!! This kicks ass!!
JPUPPY928 9 months ago
I heard and saw um all over the South in the 70s and they sure rocked um on the radio in SC and Ga for sure.
debzeppeliniv 1 year ago
Saw them and listened to them in 1989 in Germany, Paderborn (small town). They played together with the german musician HEINZ RUDOLF KUNZE on stage. First KUNZE with "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz". And then Mothers Finest came. we were about 10.000 people in this stadium. we were like in rock and roll heavon. Mothers Finest gave prove: they were the loudest rockband in the world by that time. 10 miles distance from stadium people werde shocked about the "noise". that was tv-news. we loved them!
DeutscherTheWhoFan 1 year ago
I saw Mothers Finest in 1979 at the Dekalb Central College, Dekalb County, GA.. The concert was free for college students who had IDs. I was 16 years old, I flashed my drivers license and gained enrty into the concert hall. It was a fantastic performance. !! I have never forgot it.
sambosuzy 1 year ago
Barry Borden (aka BB Queen)on drums. BB also played on Molly Hatchet's No Guts No Glory album. real good drummer
doubleslottedflaps 1 year ago
they rocked ..and crossed the racist barrier back in the 70s, saw em in knoxville tennessee at the freakin state fair and they EXPLODED the place, like nothing ever seen before.....funk, rock and blues....burning down the house!
clocktime11 1 year ago
Mothers Finest may not have been of the level of Bob Dylan as far as their songwriting goes, but they were absolutely one of the best live band of their era. What is more is that they were THE premiere live act in Atlanta at a time when that city was changing in a radical way from a backwater, oft times Southern town to the amazing city that you see today. Most people don't realize how rapidily that change happened and the proces started not long before this band hit.
jmforge 1 year ago
When I was in high school I saw Mother's Finest at the Circus Krone in Munich on this 1978 tour. The drummer in my band and I had great seats off to the right of the stage and we could see BB Queen's feet and pedals. What a clinic. They played for a long time and sounded as good as they do on LPs. I don't think MF got their due in the U.S. but I think they did alright in Europe. Having a brother who's into rock and me being into funk, MF was a band we could crank up and both enjoy.
i500guy 1 year ago
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nouryder1 1 year ago
Lived right up the road from Blair Villige, Georgia used to party withm in the late70`s
nouryder1 1 year ago
Last I heard,BB was playing for Marshal Tucker. He had also played for Illusion and Molly Hatchet after he left MF. Great guy. They are all great peoples!!
raythackston1960 1 year ago
BB plays for Marshall Tucker now. He has been for about 10 years or so.
raythackston1960 1 year ago
Yes Yes! I am a southern white girl then/woman now"LOL" Love M F. I was about 12 when i knew they were special.I still have the original album,and still listen to them.They were and are Great.They should have gone way way to the moon in the music industry.I think Rock N Roll starts with Greats like M.F. So many talented groups like M.F. have been forgotten it seems.Play On Rock Fans.Thanks for the video it is a gift from the past to watch.Wish they would go on tour.I wonder where they are?
WEBBS1LOVE 1 year ago
@WEBBS1LOVE Except for B.B. queen they're pretty much intact and still playing last I heard.
maceomaceo11 1 year ago
Hook it up and Listen to the most under rated rock band in History ! This is pure FUNK ROCK !
wyzard214 1 year ago
Saw them in 1978 with Angel, Humble Pie and Frank Marino...They ROCKED!
SteveGaines 1 year ago
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pliz, anybody can give me the lyrics ???
I'm not native english speaking, I can't get all the words...
I'd much appreciate, THX !
pasdebill 1 year ago
pliz, anybody can give me the lyrics ???
I'm not native english speaking, I can't get all the words...
I'd much appreciate, THX !
pasdebill 1 year ago
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jspiker1974 1 year ago
Biggest gig in Rockpalast
elwoodblues59 1 year ago
at that time music was much, much better....most of today´s musicians are unable to play on that level
hayastan5 1 year ago
One of the most underrated band out there saw MF in the late 70's great band
pinkbearofdeath 2 years ago 2
Can anybody out there find Mother's Finest recording "Don't you Want To Love Me recorded in the 70's and please post?
anndru4u2 2 years ago
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SoulamSee 2 years ago
i saw them last saturday. they still got it!
goodwrench838 2 years ago
Saw MF the 1st time back in Jan. 1980. I was 15. It was my 2nd concert I've been to. Gonna see My favorite group at the time Aerosmith. The opening act was a new group called 38 Special. They sounded pretty good. The next group was MF, never heard of them and they rocked The Mid South Colosium in Memphis Down!!! Awesome group. Terribly underrated .
sizzlehalt 2 years ago
Been watching MF since 78. Saw them at Georgia Theater in 08. Still just as tight and rocked the f ing house all night. Never heard race in 78 in Athens Ga don't hear it now.
dawgblitz 2 years ago
I was in a cover band in during this time and when we "discovered" this band, we did every song of theirs we could! They were awesome!
Most under-rated group ever! KickAss!
I find it funny or odd that you can't find "Niggiz can't sing Rock 'n Roll" anywhere. I suppose it is too PI....
Well, Fuck that! MF wrote the song! Everything that needs to be said is said in that song!
I love this band and always will!
Myalyas 2 years ago
It was a worldwide epidemic plague, every (good) band has had to do that. We too.
RFDlic 2 years ago
I can't believe I'm hearing this band for the first time. Fucking right on. I'd trade my Prince and my Skynyrd records for this. God. Damn.
beowulven 2 years ago
Amen Brother!! Yep and they were banned from almost EVERY radio station because they had, white, black, male and female players in the band. Even MORE stupid than the reason why it took so long for Canadian bands to make it on the radio in the USA. THEN Rick James through Living Colour took what these guys did yearsd earlier and made fortunes!! They're from Atlanta, GA and STILL no one knows who this great band is.
OcalaMusician 2 years ago 7
I am looking for the incredible song "big shot Romeo" - pls upload this legend song!
Thanks so much !!!
schubertolone 2 years ago
ohren orgasmus!
nikolaiskor 2 years ago
I agree, I'm from Eastern NC MF is the best live band ever! They would make big names look real bad! I never understood why MF didn't get mainstreamed
lv2surf 2 years ago 3
I do. MF's problem was that right around the time when they truly hit their stride ('76-'81), the airwaves had already become segregated to the extent that they were either too "black" (R&B/Funk/Soul) for white radio or too "white" (Rock) for black radio. Plus it didn't help that the record labels they were on just didn't know how to properly market their unique sound to the public, often having them switch genres from album to album. Simply put, they had the RIGHT sound at the WRONG time, lol.
PeekaPeep 2 years ago
I owned a nightclub in NC 'back then'. MF was ALWAYS our biggest draws (even when we had the likes of Little River Band, etc.).
To top it off, everyone in the band and crew were GREAT to work with!
cicmark 2 years ago 9
Which club did you own? Bet I made a house payment or 2 for you. My family owned Pantana Bobs and Happys pool hall well they owned the buildings. back in the day.
lv2surf 2 years ago
I used to go see them every time they played in Charlotte "back in the day", plus there's a club here now that they come to once in a while. They sound as good as ever !! Thanks for sharing this video !
maryee1957 2 years ago 2
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maryee1957 2 years ago
30 years later, can't get this song out of my head!!!!
vickityme 2 years ago
Das dat live shit!!!!!!!!!!
Vincentdeep 2 years ago
Yes they did kick ass...
Nice funkadelic Funk i will always remember
Jpeg13759 2 years ago
this group kicked a--
dreadtodred 2 years ago
i first saw Mothers Finest open for Foghat in 1976 at the Sam Houston Colosseum. blew me away. opened with "I don't know, but I've been told Niggaz cant sing rock & roll No No"! what balls they have!
beirutbill 2 years ago 2
beirutbill ...I was at that Concert.....Foghat played there another time and had just come out with" Fool For The City"...They were there with the J Geils Band and Foghat was the opening act...people were PISSED about that. I saw the Allman Brothers,ZZ Top,Marshall Tucker,Aerosmith and others there at the Sam Houston....I was so wasted at most of the concerts it wasn't funny...but heck I was 16!
Buckhead1959 2 years ago
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beirutbill 2 years ago
Niggazz Can't Sang Rock and Roll was of of their self titled debut albulm from 1976. It has recently been re-released. A 5 gallon bucket wouldn't hold all the pot that I smoked while listening to that album!!
2003umax 2 years ago 2
that just kicks sooooooo much ass! I can't even begin to say.
Vincentdeep 2 years ago
My favorite music usually takes me back to Sly & the Family Stone. That kind of music that required no label but was eventually known as Rock-Funk. Mother's Finest: one of the finest bands I've ever listened to. Tremendous live performers. They have a live album and this song is on it. The other great track is their cover of Grace Slick "Somebody to Love".
captainiO 2 years ago
I seen MF blow Big Names Away as the warm up band! In 2009 there isn't a live band anywhere of this talent , music today is crap and these artist that make the big money can't even hold a candle to these guys! best live band EVER!
lv2surf 3 years ago 3
Love this band, old school Rock and Roll
Cynseven 3 years ago
i am looking for mothers finest first album with song niggazz cant sing rock n roll can u help me
bhuey66 3 years ago
it was called "Another mother further", or something very close to it. I had it for a while, its black on cover with the words in purple like a superman logo..
akela1957 3 years ago
FIRE FIRE HUUUUUUH HUUUUUUH
GREAT thank u
roundtriping 3 years ago
if that don't light ya fire...your woods wet!!
functionalschizophr 3 years ago
Truly amazing!! I was lucky enough to see this band quite a few times back in this day. It's the kind of stuff I'll never forget. Even 30 years later, it still gives me that feeling. This lineup was an American classic for sure.
JerryOutlaw 3 years ago
Saw them at Bogart's in either 77 or 78 here in Cincinnati.
PeterMayer 3 years ago
I love MF, saw them three times live over the years in berlin, never did see before such a awesome live band, they are definately the best, since 30 years, such a positive vibration, power and tightness of the whole band, amazing! one of the concerts you go out and feel just happy and full of love, peace and freedom...thanx for posting!
staschbox 3 years ago
I love MF, still looking for a copy of N------
vickityme 3 years ago
I like funk-rock since I was 15...I cant believe I got to know Band like this now that I`m 24?? I have to get this DVD.
peterkray 3 years ago
I'm An Old Fart Now, But In The Days This Was The Shit !!! This Stuff Blasting Thru My Jensen 6X9's !!!
kirkslastbid 3 years ago
THAT was the rockingest thing i have heard in a while.
Truthfully i have avoided listening to MF for a long time. I'm leery of black rock bands from the 70s seeing that Sly & The Family Stone and PFunk could not cross over and so i wrote the other bands off out of disappointment. But i'm glad i finally got on board. MF are a SERIOUSLY rocking band.
dxxn 3 years ago
Excellent live band. Saw them twice. Once around 83 I think....at the Civic Center in Savannah, Ga. then again in 84 I think.....at Georgia Southern College!!! What a show they did. Would love to see them again. Oh what memories.
juster84 3 years ago
I've seen them twice over the last year. They're still as awesome as ever.
wolfpat 3 years ago
I remember MF from The Other Place when I was in school at UGA in the mid 70's. A friend from West Georgia College tipped me off about them and he was right. They were among the Best Live Acts I've ever seen. Awesome live band. Ride the Tiger was one of my favorites from their live LP. Their first 3 albums were among my favorites.
mojoman566 3 years ago
Yes. Shout out from Douglasville (west Georgia). My kid just graduated from there.
Anyway I think I remember that the group broke up cause of the industry market weasels. They got mad and released "Black Radio Won't Play This Record".
notahemi 3 years ago
It just don't get no bettah than that! Still Love 'Em!
DirOfTheObv 3 years ago
many thanks very pleasant on a rainy Tuesday afternoon. greetings from rainy Spain
Ferdinand2777 3 years ago
Best memory: MF playing Six Flags Over Georgia in 1983. In the middle of the show Joyce is standing at Stage Left and says "Is there a party goin' on over here?! [tepid response from crowd there] I said 'Is there a party goin' on over here?!' [another tepid response] 'Cause if they ain't I'm takin' my fine ass over this way [points and moves to Stage Right] 'cause I KNOW they's a party goin' on over here!" And there was because that's where my friends and I were goin' NUTS!
Love 'em, always.
UncleBubba13 3 years ago
Lawd have mercy! No one has ever torn a room apart like MF. Many a 70's night in Atlanta and Athens spent the best way possible: with Baby Jean and Wizzard, Cheap beer flowing. Music so hot sweat is dripping from the ceiling. And God help the headliner foolish enough to follow these guys! Can't be done. Just pack up the amps and go home. This video isn't even a high energy performance for these guys. Best live band evah. And one of the greatly underrated bands overall. Ahead of their time.
jspiker1974 3 years ago
Well well welllll I saw them today at Pinkpop Classic and man they rocked funked souled everything! They are very good after all these years, and yes that really don't mean a thing. Loke You and Love You.
lauradorp 3 years ago
I saw MF in Detroit at The Masonic Temple they opened for Patti Smith, I think it was 1977. After MF went off stage everybody was cheering for an encore when someone with a mike said something like, more or louder. Well after that the crowd started booing, if they would have come back out they probably would have thrown drinks at them. Ah the good old days.
rhastaman1960 3 years ago
I saw these bad mothers at the end of 2008 in Georgia and they just smoked!!!! DAMN they were good. Still got it.
tacker2112 3 years ago
Only band that I could even think of opening up for P-Funk, then come back and open up for Aerosmith with a completely different show and blow both headliners off the stage! MF Baby!
BrandonCroweIII 3 years ago
Boys this band ruled the South East Back in the day. Who remembers "Roadies" in Goldsboro, the "Attic" in Greenville, NC, outdoor Jams in Trenton, NC!!
And yes how under rated is this Band, Way Way Under Rated!
"I think a Very Phycological Thing is Happening Here".
Gaad Damn MORGAN!!!
Pung100 4 years ago
Hey Pung-JH Rose class of '80. I saw these guys at the Attic AND at Minges when they opened up for the Brothers Johnson and blew those suckers off the stage. I hadn't thought about the attic in years. Thanx for reminding me.
easmachine 4 years ago
No Problem, was ECU from 86-89' Those were the days, I think it all ended somewhere in the mid 90's. Music, clubs etc.. Thank god ECU Football rules.
Pung100 4 years ago
I grew up in Gville 70s and 80s lot of time at the Attic, Pantana Bobs, and many trips to Roadies,The Wildwood Jams, Nantucket, MH, MF, ect. I remember when the attic was the Bucaneer and burned down and then was rebuilt on 4th st. You guys are right this band was on fire back in the day!
lv2surf 3 years ago
..remembering reading an interview with Journey management talking about Mothers Finest completely blowing Journey off the stage during a 70's European tour...
tonfan 4 years ago
All hail MOTHERS FINEST!!! These people blazed a trail in the realm of funk meets rock. Their tempo&Groove are incomprable. Red Hot Chilli Peppers,Faith No More,and LIVING COLOUR, should bow down in their town!!!! RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!!!!
lowend285 4 years ago 4
MF taught me to rock-n-roll in 1978. Seen them live at least 10 times. I,ve watched them open for Big Name Bands and BLOW THEM AWAW| We really miss them in the southeastern US. Please come back to BAMA or Atlanta|
mrfreez88 4 years ago
I saw this group in tampa around 1974 at a club called the performing art center. They were ripping it back then too. I wonder if they even remember that club on north nebraska avenue.
rdjohanson 4 years ago
Funk-Rock at it´s finest...!!!
modellfan17 4 years ago
What's the bloke singing in the second verse?
"You can run to the jungle, you can´t hide
Run through the city ooh you can´t hide
Run to your (???) you can´t hide..."
Anybody got the lyrics?
Thanks.
doublehighd 4 years ago
"Run to YO MAMA'S HOUSE, you can't hide..."haha, yeah I got this song on their Razor & Tie compilation CD and it REALLY SMOKES (no pun intended), lol!!! Too bad the original album it's on is still out-of-print...
PeekaPeep 4 years ago
I just lucked out and have that album!
thnks4thecrml 4 years ago
run to your momma's house
thompsj5 4 years ago
En los 70 Mother's Finest, era para mi, la banda mas genial y cojonuda de los Estados Unidos.
lokismig 4 years ago
I was quite young when I first heard this and I thought it was amazing. Synthesizers! Funk! And Hard Rock! Amazing! And those voices! It blew me away and it still does. Living Colour, Chili Peppers and the rest of you: get down on your knees and say "were not worthy" 'cos you all robbed this band. They were, and always will be the first real crossover band.
TMUNobby 4 years ago
AMEN... I am a big RHCP fan, but these guys are defiantly under appreciated in the US. They have a huge following in Europe and they deserve it.
sebsatiansands 4 years ago
Still A Mutha $ Ya
Philydred 4 years ago
I have Seen Them LIVE Several Times And They
Were Way Ahead Of There Time In The USA. I Think They Are The #1 Party Band Around .
bigd3492 4 years ago
I used to hear this band on Atlanta radio in the late 70s thru the early 80s. They frickin' rock, dude. I also got to hang out with them in the late 80s when they were putting an act together again for a comeback, and were gigging at a cheesy bar in Panama City in the off-season to get tight again. They had a different singer and guitarist, both excellent, but Wizard was there being his usual funky as hell bad self.
mooncaine 4 years ago
If the Wyzard was there it was no "different" singer! Band is for all intent the same -- John Hayes has been up there with Moses Mo for a good 12-14 years. Drummers come and go but Wyz/Joyce/Glenn/Mo are veterans -- and THE best!
cmoser5152 4 years ago
Um, the female singer who sang Joyce's parts was a new and different person [to me], not Joyce. Also, the guitarist was a different guy, with a different style. More jazzy and more like the Police, with lots of sus4 chords, add9 chords, few dominant 7th chords, lots of chorus and not much vibrato, and generally a hard, chromey steely sound from his Schechter Telecasters rather than a sinewy, funky, rubbery style. Wyz sang some tunes, but the focus seemed to be mainly on the woman singer.
mooncaine 4 years ago
Oh, and I seem to recall that guitar player kinda looked like a darker-haired Rutger Hauer. All black clothes, black guitar, tended to sound more like John McLaughlin than Johnny Winter, if you get my drift -- not bluesy, but jazzy in a hard-edged, stacked fifths kinda way.
mooncaine 4 years ago
MF could rock n boogie with the best of 'em!
Zboots 4 years ago
These guys used to come to Memphis in the mid late 80s as the warmup band for every one. I wondered what happened to them. I remember they were as tight as any band I ever saw back in those days. I guess they were a little ahead of their time.
JessWilder 4 years ago
Their best song was "Nigaz can't sing Rock and Roll no mo'",from this album.
Gotta Love it!Thanks for posting this clip,man!!!
Hairyarmpit 4 years ago
Speaking of which does anyone have the slightest idea if Niggaz--or the whole Mother's Finest album from '76--can be had digitally?
jspiker1974 3 years ago
No, but I have that album and will reproduce digitally. Fond momories of Joyce and the gang in Columbia SC in the 1970s!
carsondeb 3 years ago
That album is out on CD already, but only as a high-priced import. Happy hunting!!
;-)
PeekaPeep 3 years ago
bought it here on da corner @ the local retail for E 8,-.
Get your hands on
BlackRadioWon'tPlayThisRecord
804pillow 3 years ago
Tightest band on the planet MF rule
Nigelcf 4 years ago
Here Here To the RRHOF!! These guys pioneered!!
lowend285 4 years ago
Ya just CANNOT sit still when you hear this song!
thnks4thecrml 4 years ago
grand funk railroad, sly & the family stone &
edgar winer take a ride in Parliments space ship!!!!
laughterror 4 years ago
is this the band that had that album cover with the pie that had a piece missing, and it looked like a vagina? this was 30 years ago or so. i wish i had it, and i'll bet it's a collectors item. if it's the album cover i'm thinking of.
themofc 4 years ago
I don't recall a MF album cover like you're descriging. There's a good history at w**.mothersfinest.**m
This band was just amazing. You always hear about "underrated" or "the best band that didn't make it", etc. but MF really was superstar material. Their later incarnations in the 80's til now just aren't near the level of this lineup with Moses on guitar, Wizzard on bass and BB Queen on drums. They need to be in the Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame!!
cwize 4 years ago
The band you're thinking of is Mom's Apple Pie. I do have the album (no i wont sell), it got re-released with the offending part 'bricked' over.
vogan63 4 years ago
I have that, too. I never listened to it [it's been listened to, just, not by me]. I admired that album cover for years, as a little boy, because it had "puppets" and looked one of those kids' animation tv shows. I didn't know or notice the thing about the pie till I was a teenager. LOL!
mooncaine 4 years ago
I love this band. I got the chance to meet them. And party too. What a night that was. They are fecking great.
jimisback 4 years ago
I saw MF blow Aerosmith off the stage in ATL GA at the Omni. The crowd was on their feet for the entire MF set, and everybody was spent by the time Aerosmith staggered onstage.Stephen T. had to be helped to his mike stand by two roadies! Mother's Finest was a mix of Zep, Sly and the family Stone and Aretha Franklin!
These guys were so ahead of their time that they couldn't be put into a category. "Wizard" is the baddest bass player I've ever seen!
lowendmother 4 years ago
Watch ol' Bardonchiglodigs! You said it!
slingerland755 4 years ago
Grandioso, lo mejor. Si te gusta el rock, el soul, el funky y todos sus derivados, no puedes prescindir enn ninguna de sus formas de Mother Finest.
hectormenesesgallard 4 years ago
Thank,s for the vid. I do remember it I was 14 years old and jumped on my bed that nigt! Great Band
blubbybox 5 years ago
too fucking good. i had never seen this band playing live before. thanx a lot
filtre007 5 years ago
If you saw this band in the late 70's and 80's you got your self one hellva great ticket.This band could kick the funk out cha then rock you all night long.
WARLOCK214 5 years ago
i can see it great on my screen!
kingfowley 5 years ago
This tune is fukkin R.O.C.K historyyyy !
From 78 until -06 this act and song is timeless !!
Delacorte 5 years ago
can you lighten up the color than repost.. this is just too dark.. almost worthless to watch
stymye 5 years ago
Awesome.
MetalTrooper 5 years ago