Pictures of Matchstick Men

[jrockluv]

If you ever want to show someone some true, good music, this is a great example

[tanman965]

1 month ago, still summer time, still blazin and having a good time, this song came on during a tv show, i got stoned and rocked out to this song, know its a month later and i have school tomorrow...

[HEARTHEANGELSVOICES]

LOOK WAT TIME HAST DONE TO THESE POOR BASTARDS!

[beatle608]

Meethead on vocals.

[chipbuhl]

i saw them & fleetwood mac 1976 fresno

[vjp819]

yep target commercial brought me here. haven't heard this song in years. brings back lots of memories.

[omgpoprox1]

thumbs up if all the people in the band look really bored....

[dhkahat]

who was brought here by the target commercial?! and i dont give a shit if you found it some other way good music is good music

[2020skip]

where'd they get those wigs? From Star Trek, after it went off the air? Great song though!

[tkupman666]

Black people kinda smell.

[billharbert]

Shagtastic baby!

[CaneFu]

What 2 morons didn't like this song?!?

[u000drl]

they look like their wearing rugs!

[u000drl]

new Target commercial

[horsefinger]

best psychedelic song ever made hand down

[bigredneckdoggystyle]

thanks you tube you made an old man happy with this stuff...love the 60's shit

[hahahasolis7]

I heard this song in a target commmercial and I completely fell in love with it so i just had to look it up and now Im very happy cuz this is my new fav. song!!!!

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

Back when men were still cute and had a relative innocence to them. Man, I miss those days. I was a kid in the 60's. What a great soundtrack for my life.

[Megaduck72]

I first heard this song and fell in love with it when I was 9 years old and going through my dad's 45 collection. Love this shit.

[gmh1013]

yeah baby yeah!

[sanseidancer]

Great posting. Thanx for showing that the guys are still playing music and this song after all these years!

[ddring100]

I just had a flash back love this song

[debbie299]

Today's 'NOISE' only wished they sounded half this good or had half the talent!!! THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!!

[ProctoLion]

"It's Freedom Rock"

"Well, turn it up, man!"

[m1kewithaone]

most deffinently one of my favorites, did they ever have another hit?

[TheVineyarder]

aw man damn drug music! those were the days!

[Khultan]

'Complete with Austin Powers outfits?' How utterly fucking stupid of the host. Sigh.

[63gstone]

GROOVEY BABY!

[turkeychuck]

im glad they switched there style

[AndreQozine]

OK now search for Ozzy Type O Negative Pictures of Matchstick Men...

[m1kewithaone]

@AndreQozine ha,ha! oh boy look what you did! ozzy. shot in the dark. see yah!

[SuperNevile]

Heh I can play the intro and I'm not a guitarist! Great confluence of phasing and Lowry

[JaguarDK]

very nice song..those days music still rocks..how much music nowadays you see in 20-30+ years from now and still popular?? not many 

[rob99rst]

priceless 60s song

[ResearchInMotion9000]

I thought Status Quo mainly played on Fender guitars?

[lyndloo]

Great vid ,of the Quo in their younger days on Totps.. Great song .. thanx for posting .. Lyndloo...x

[tfcrew]

one recorded dislike [presently].. I fail to see why as this is such a classic.

[frizzlefrap]

@tfcrew .... song is priceless ..... for it's timing and it's originality

[tfcrew]

@frizzlefrap Re-read my post & You will see that I agree.....

I am not the one who disliked it.

So I forgot to put in a comma...let up.



[cheryllynnmc]

@tfcrew What's to dislike? It's a great song and great guitar work.

[tfcrew]

@cheryllynnmc Re-read my post...I wrote that there is one dislike [still is] and I fail to see why....as [or because, it is such a classic .

My 7th grade teachers weren't that picky

[cheryllynnmc]

@tfcrew I was agreeing with you. Came across pretty feebly, but I was in fact agreeing!!

[cheryllynnmc]

@tfcrew I was agreeing with you.

[frizzlefrap]

such a strong song .... love the bass the best ... i think that makes all the difference in the world ..... of course every instrument makes it the most different kind of sound at that time. never tire of hearing it!

[rob99rst]

great 60s rock.

[elb416ebs380]

This shows what i always hoped for, Rock`n roll never dies, and that`s a fact.

Greatings from Sweden, fan since 1984.

[hodadsmusic]

Oh well, at least the vocals are live.

[frizzlefrap]

@hodadsmusic .... they don't sound like they're live, even though he's laughing in that one part and you may think he's singing live

[MatzeMaerze]

i wish i was born earlier to listen this awesome music live

[SHADOWBOXERBAYBEE]

This song hit the top ten the week RFK was killed. It helped me since I remembered JFK's death, too.

[800764]

'68 the year I was born.

[SuperBrianm]

Eighth grade, 1968, San Francisco Bay Area...Great song to get stoned to.

[DANNY22XX]

the key board player wasnt Andy Bown in 68 it was Roy Lynes

[jannette747]

Great song, really I like it very much ( - :

[msastre9]

The younger and older pictures of them! .

Excellent! Good idea.

[800764]

Rossi & Parfitt are the only ones one this video that are still in the band.

[MrShystie]

I would love to know how many 'shrooms or trips they'd done that day.They look wasted in this vid.You don't get music like that these days do you? I wonder why that could be.....

[FastMg42]

no LSD  around and a dumb down generation

[DarkEgg11]

drumer is in the front how interesting

[Syze1]

fuckin' arseole show a pic of Andy Bown when the keyboard player at that time was Roy Lynes. Get it right you cocks!

[reddwarfian999]

how did they know about austin poers in 1968?

[pattievogt]

I was wondering how they knew about the Austin Powers thing back then too. Anyone got any ideas on that?

[tfcrew]

@pattievogt That was dubbed in w/the upload. Austin Powers is the sole invention of Michael Myers......

[microflavor]

They are having a great time! I love this! Easy song to try and copy, but there's only one Status Quo.

[Swartzie6]

In the Nam smoking weed and listening to this song wondering if we would ever get back home alive...thats how strong that shit was

[frizzlefrap]

@Swartzie6 ..... the black butter?

[m1kewithaone]

@Swartzie6 we were in the air force stationed in fuchu japan from '65-'68 and didn't speak japanese, so we didn't bother to get a tv. so we listened to the 'armed forces radio' remember that? in the morning it was news, then when we got home from school it was all rock and roll clear through the night, (except for more news and some radio shows like dragnet) then i was 13 when we got to san jose ca. and status quo, zombies, turtles, hermans hermits, were playing, it was culture shock, ...

[hl2izawsum]

@Swartzie6 true man that is some true shit bro

[fcarlone62]

@Swartzie6 Glad you made it home alive...and THANK YOU for your service.

[T1122w]

@fcarlone62 thank you my friend, very little respect givin to soldiers of that era..so thank you

[CaneFu]

@Swartzie6

"In the Nam smoking weed and listening to this song wondering if we would ever get back home alive...thats how strong that shit was"

Hey moron, you're only 37 years old and a LIAR because the Vietnam War ENDED the year you were born.

[T1122w]

@CaneFu What are you talking about moron..I'm 59 years old

[CaneFu]

@T1122w

You just changed your age on your profile after you got caught lying you moron.

[dreadlover]

@Swartzie6

Thank you for your courage. God bless you.

[T1122w]

@dreadlover Thanks friend

[LimpLoser]

look at how drugged they are.

[AndreundSvenni]

yeah

[radiohooligan]

Rocking Quo still rocks!

Great song, the first i can remember....

[theean]

God, I am so happy I was able to hear these songs when they came out.

Our generation IS the shit!

Thanks for posting this.

[m1kewithaone]

@theean oh, and you just reminded me of 'so happy together' by the turtles, thanx!

[CaneFu]

@theean

YES OUR GENERATION IS - I remember learning to play this song on my guitar by listening to it on the radio when it was being played in the top 40 back in the late 1960s. Music today is mostly pure crap.

[lukevash]

one of the true great 60's songs

[KatarnandKanos]

I love this song.

[grumpy1069]

One of the Classics..long live the QUO.......

[arielopeal]

this is a awsome video of yesterday and today.........thanks for sharing this timeless song also. Only one thing........it makes me feel older watching the "boys" mature!!!

[laura060366]

Awesome song!

[TheScourgeResistant]

Why the fuck did they not keep there integrity and stay with this?

[dobrotnik]

I totally agree with you!

[pattievogt]

OMG! I love his smile. Now to business...this isa classic. I learned how to play drums when I was 14 years old and this was actually the first song I learned. The Status Quo brings back good, good memories.

[waynealarsen]

truly the Best

[omarquo1]

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bryemycaz]

Very good One little thing wrong though. The keyboard player here is called Roy Lynes he left in 1970. I think youve put a modern day picture of his later replacement Andy Bown up in the clip as modern day.

[peterwalter04]

Its Right so. Sehe ich auch so

[bloofan06]

"Complete with Austin Powers outfits!" ROFLMAO!!! Love this song! Thanks for posting!

[makingsense53]

I loved this song when I was 12 and I love it today. What a great classic. Peace.

[icenine2]

Indeed. That was a time when you only had rock on AM radio and they played a wide variety of music. In New York we had the WMCA Good Guys and WABC with Cousin Brucie. One of the most memorable moments was coming home from church one snowy morning and hearing 'Strawberry Fields Forever' for the first time. That blew my twelve year old mind and changed me for life. What a great era for music.

[mpbunch]

What a great song! Oh the memories..Thanks

[gazzah54]

these guys are so cool

[vmagnani]

F A N T A S T I C !

[PAULLONDEN]

Ofcourse funny....

I bought the single,but...

in retrospect it's candy psychedelia «d*.*b»

[fnlost]

i have the original sheet music for this tune

love it

great memories

[Morr40]

The younger and older pictures of them are so sweet. I am glad that they still play. :)

[IMANOOBMK]

awsome song

[kksd2]

The year was 1968 - OMG I remember that song ! Damn !

[Farrah300]

This is such a way cool song!!!

[luangu]

thanx for the then & now contrast pix--I'd like to see more of that fr other classic rock vids.

[audiophile55]

This is so cool. I like the part where he's laughing.

[akrobatenz]

love it, just love it!

[BrokenWing18]

this is a sweet song

I love