sweet, real nice, my friends band opened for them in a local club in 69 or 70. they were as cool off stage as their throw down on, if memory serves me.
I love these guys. Saw them 3 times live when they used to play a club in Detroit called the Chessmate. They put out three great albums that still get regular play in my house. Love that Basic Blues Magoos LP especially.
Bonjour, vous aimez les sixties ? écoutez et podcastez mon émission "le super son des 60's" sur le site de plumfm. You like the 60's ? please, listen and podcast my broadcast "le super son des 60's", connect to "plumfm". Salut et faites gaffe au rock and roll.
The guy playing lead looks like the guy who sold me a modified hardrock specialized bike in 1999 when I lived in Woodstock - he said he was in Blues Magoos ( I was the clean cut hippy dude who worked at Lanadau Grill as a waiter. I just sold the bike and it served me well. Hope you guys are all well. I always liked your stuff. I have a 60s tribute band called Lemonade Pie in Jersey - we're gonna cover this one. Good luck with your touring. Peace and glad you got it up and going again. Cheers!
It's great to see the Blues Magoos are still around and playing. Showing them at practice is a great idea. You could see that the still love playing. The only drawback was the recent live performance - to capture their essence, I would have turned down the snare drum, bring up the farfisa and add whigged out distortion on the guitar with echo on the vocals.
i randomly bought a worn out, mold damaged copy of psychedelic lollipop at thrift store last month, cleaned it up and loved everything on it! last night my brand new stereo copy of psychedelic lollipop on vinyl came in the mail. "sometimes i think about" is already one of my all time favorite songs.
i love this video, so up close and down to earth. thanks for posting it!
I took my first guitar lessons in a long time so I could get the Mike lead down pat and play with them on youtube. Really fun experience. I must have practiced 30 hours before I got the lead right. Tried to email Mike at his bike shop in upstate New York but he didn't write back. What a great band.
Got to see these guys play again just last month ago in Woodstock at the Bearsville Theater during the 40th anniversary weekend of the Festival, and they were really tight and polished with high energy. But they're playing with a replacement guitar player so their original lead guitarist (who was there) only played the Theremin. Great show!
This is one of the best songs recoded during the 60's, hands down, and you guys sound absolutely awesome practicing this! The guitar lead is absolutely AWESOME!
Back in November of 1966 (8th grade) I was in a little three-piece band. We entered the "Vox/Teen World Battle of The Bands" at Cobo Hall (Detroit) & won 4th place "Honorable Mention". Our prize package included meeting & having our photo taken with the Blues Magoos for publication in the December issue Teen World News. Teen World Inc. went belly about a week later...(LOL) Never even got a copy of the photo. Had fun meeting my (at that time) heroes, though.
Oh great, disabled audio on the sections that are TV video clips; probably in result of a copyright complaint. But isn't this video a historical documentary that is teaching people, who were alive to see it first hand, the history of rock? Doesn't teaching music history constitute fair use?
Nice to see this! Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes and of-course the Amboy Dukes were the very sounds that defined the 60's, and all are still very relevant today!!!
Love the Blues Magoos. One of my fave bands. Nobody in the world ever and since sang the Gotta get away part--- he he he he he he he with 2 singers.A unique part in musical history, like the invention of holes in Swiss Cheese. That statement sounds silly but simple things like that make life special.
Thanks for posting. First time I saw footage of the band after their heyday and they didn't dissapoint at all.
saw the magoos in the 60s in indy with the who and herman hermits magoos had on leather suits with lights everytime they moved the lights went off and on plus strobe lights and i think the first band to use a thermin great band rock on magoos
OUTSTANDING! The Work is...That The OLD GUYS ROCK! As Long as 'THEIR HEARING' is in TACT! TAKE IT FROM 'AN OLD GUY(@56) WHO STILL ROCKS! Playin'&Performing...Even Though its' Mostly "Cover" Work,As A 'HOBBY' (W/not Too Much 'BREAD' Involved -REALLY.) Its' Just GREAT to STILL Keep A HAND IN!!
I was stationed (US Army) in Okinawa circa November of 1967 and while I was at work, the local english language station (KSBK), catering to the U.S. military personnel on the Island, would play "One By One" about once per hour. A great song. Still love it today.
Thanks. So Geoff on drums and Peppy is the guitarist wearing the baseball cap. A different bass player. Amazing when you see them 40 years later. Other than Ralph, I would never have a clue that any of the others were the originals.
What a shame we never heard of them over here. At least not that I know, maybe I was too young to notice... long live internet. There's still so much good music to discover.
But it is so nice to have it all now! I was too young back then but now.. it's a blast to see these bands play!! Thank the powers that be for keeping these guys around and in good shape! They can go the distance and they, like fine wine, only better with age!!!
@bbscala Hello to Ralph and Beka...This Albee and yes my lifetime friend Ralph opened the doors to music which I still enjoy today........Great clip........Good job Peppy...Love you all!
Is that Mike Esposito playing the lead on We Ain't Got Nothing Yet? I would like to know what kind of amp, amp settings and effects he is using to get the reverb/echo sounds during the solo? This is one of my all time favorite guitar solos and I wish the Blues Magoos would get together for a gig in Western NY.
The main effect comes from an Echo-plex tape echo unit. I don't know what the timing is. Maybe you can detect the slap back timing in the audio. But as he's playing triplets, it's probably be something relative. Looks like he was playing out of a Fender 60's era blackface.
Thanks for reply on that. I'll have to look into buying a tape echo unit. I should have gotten the Guild Echorec I acquired fixed instead of selling it. Kicking myself!
I will ask Ralph .. all I ever hear about in the Village is The NIGTHOWL CAFE! ;-) I know there where more but that is where they were playing regularly when they were discovered and signed!
I was there that night. Lot of good bands but seeing the Magoos live was the best. Great set. I remember Billie Jean being a standout and that girl had an amazing solo. You should post a vid of that too.
Thanks for the memory and please tour I'd love to see you again.
Wow -- so crazy how great these guys still sound! Their songs have lived in my head since 1967 and never left! They're part of who I am. Great job Beki!
Beki...Thanks for this insightful video and the clever editing. Wish it was longer and we could hear more of the set list. The guys sound amazingly good and tight for being apart for three plus decades (it is the original five, right?). I wonder where the electric suit is now. Did they do anything from "Basic" at Cavestomp!? Please keep us posted on any forthcoming details on a new reunion.
sweet, real nice, my friends band opened for them in a local club in 69 or 70. they were as cool off stage as their throw down on, if memory serves me.
micheladavis 1 year ago
I love these guys. Saw them 3 times live when they used to play a club in Detroit called the Chessmate. They put out three great albums that still get regular play in my house. Love that Basic Blues Magoos LP especially.
yourtubesteak 1 year ago
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Bonjour, vous aimez les sixties ? écoutez et podcastez mon émission "le super son des 60's" sur le site de plumfm. You like the 60's ? please, listen and podcast my broadcast "le super son des 60's", connect to "plumfm". Salut et faites gaffe au rock and roll.
supersondessixties 1 year ago
BTW you guys sound great.
80sVideoLord 1 year ago
The guy playing lead looks like the guy who sold me a modified hardrock specialized bike in 1999 when I lived in Woodstock - he said he was in Blues Magoos ( I was the clean cut hippy dude who worked at Lanadau Grill as a waiter. I just sold the bike and it served me well. Hope you guys are all well. I always liked your stuff. I have a 60s tribute band called Lemonade Pie in Jersey - we're gonna cover this one. Good luck with your touring. Peace and glad you got it up and going again. Cheers!
80sVideoLord 1 year ago
Loved it then & still love this song.Greatness lives--Bruce in Oregon.
brucer12 1 year ago
It's great to see the Blues Magoos are still around and playing. Showing them at practice is a great idea. You could see that the still love playing. The only drawback was the recent live performance - to capture their essence, I would have turned down the snare drum, bring up the farfisa and add whigged out distortion on the guitar with echo on the vocals.
marcfedak 1 year ago
i randomly bought a worn out, mold damaged copy of psychedelic lollipop at thrift store last month, cleaned it up and loved everything on it! last night my brand new stereo copy of psychedelic lollipop on vinyl came in the mail. "sometimes i think about" is already one of my all time favorite songs.
i love this video, so up close and down to earth. thanks for posting it!
Evan
gilmour509 1 year ago
I took my first guitar lessons in a long time so I could get the Mike lead down pat and play with them on youtube. Really fun experience. I must have practiced 30 hours before I got the lead right. Tried to email Mike at his bike shop in upstate New York but he didn't write back. What a great band.
herpur7 2 years ago
Peppy's still as peppy as can be! he can't stop...
mewrth 2 years ago
How cool
dullsvillain 2 years ago
Great to see this!...Hang in there fellas! thanx for posting and including Mike and other extras!
Utubestir 2 years ago
lykeso> what a great memory!!
(I only have a policefoto when we captured-not the right english word- the universitybuilding)
yours is better!
amriirma 2 years ago
they still sound great Just like the old days! and they seem to have fun....
amriirma 2 years ago
Got to see these guys play again just last month ago in Woodstock at the Bearsville Theater during the 40th anniversary weekend of the Festival, and they were really tight and polished with high energy. But they're playing with a replacement guitar player so their original lead guitarist (who was there) only played the Theremin. Great show!
aeroaero 2 years ago
This is one of the best songs recoded during the 60's, hands down, and you guys sound absolutely awesome practicing this! The guitar lead is absolutely AWESOME!
wshIcldstrtover 2 years ago
What happend to Ronnie Gilbert the Bass Player? Is he still alive?
annerenzo 2 years ago
ain't got nothin yet et gotta get away,
des morceaux extraordinaires.
et les Blues Magoos grands !
MrESCALATOR 2 years ago
awesome......
HistoryofTek 2 years ago
OOPS! should be "....Teen World went belly-UP about a week later...."
lykesOFus 2 years ago
OK still you had a great time. Keep the memories and enjoy this posting.
annerenzo 2 years ago
Back in November of 1966 (8th grade) I was in a little three-piece band. We entered the "Vox/Teen World Battle of The Bands" at Cobo Hall (Detroit) & won 4th place "Honorable Mention". Our prize package included meeting & having our photo taken with the Blues Magoos for publication in the December issue Teen World News. Teen World Inc. went belly about a week later...(LOL) Never even got a copy of the photo. Had fun meeting my (at that time) heroes, though.
lykesOFus 2 years ago
Hey!...I have a copy of the Lykes Of Us 45 that you guys recorded on a small Detroit label (Molt??) .- COOL garage tune!
newcolonyfreak1 2 years ago
Oh great, disabled audio on the sections that are TV video clips; probably in result of a copyright complaint. But isn't this video a historical documentary that is teaching people, who were alive to see it first hand, the history of rock? Doesn't teaching music history constitute fair use?
aeroaero 2 years ago
This is fabulous. They sound great 40 years later. God bless them and let them keep on rocking, What fun.
annerenzo 2 years ago
FABULOUS They still got it
SEVFEST 2 years ago
very cool !
jeffrow1960 2 years ago
Hmmmm? The Dead back together and now the Magoos.....must mark the end of the mayan calender prophecy or something like that! - DOC MILLER
docfret 2 years ago
Nice to see this! Blues Magoos, Electric Prunes and of-course the Amboy Dukes were the very sounds that defined the 60's, and all are still very relevant today!!!
michelesaintthomas 2 years ago
Hope they play the midwest...what a great band. Long live the 60s!!!!!!!!!!!
pilesovinyl 2 years ago
Love them. Pipedream!
phillydog17 2 years ago
Great to see this, wish i could have been there.
RickWhiteArchive 3 years ago
Had no idea any of these guys were laying together. I'd love to see them in the Detroit area.
Beefheartfreak 3 years ago
i worked at the night owl and loved all the bands that played there. but no one beat peppy in personality.
linda connolly
monsoonie2000 3 years ago
Saw this guys every weekend at the Night Owl Cafe in Greenwich Village, NYC. What a blast to see this! Thanks!
spiritbearNY 3 years ago
insane
NEWyorkISkillingME 3 years ago
Love the Blues Magoos. One of my fave bands. Nobody in the world ever and since sang the Gotta get away part--- he he he he he he he with 2 singers.A unique part in musical history, like the invention of holes in Swiss Cheese. That statement sounds silly but simple things like that make life special.
Thanks for posting. First time I saw footage of the band after their heyday and they didn't dissapoint at all.
beatbands1966 3 years ago 2
this was great. the magoos used to play at the chessmate when they came through detroit. i'm glad to see that they are all still
alive.
shadow71 3 years ago
saw the magoos in the 60s in indy with the who and herman hermits magoos had on leather suits with lights everytime they moved the lights went off and on plus strobe lights and i think the first band to use a thermin great band rock on magoos
bluesmagoos 3 years ago
hey this was fun met these dudes in wichita in 1966 great fun rock on dudes god gave rock n roll to you!!!!!!!!!!!!
beefheart67 3 years ago
They keep taking my sites down but i just keep adding this to my favorites.Great post.
NewYorkCityRocks1 3 years ago
OUTSTANDING! The Work is...That The OLD GUYS ROCK! As Long as 'THEIR HEARING' is in TACT! TAKE IT FROM 'AN OLD GUY(@56) WHO STILL ROCKS! Playin'&Performing...Even Though its' Mostly "Cover" Work,As A 'HOBBY' (W/not Too Much 'BREAD' Involved -REALLY.) Its' Just GREAT to STILL Keep A HAND IN!!
BILLPERKS5 3 years ago
"The Blues Magoos" will aways rule 4EVER! & their all from "The Bronx" yeah!!! =0D
tornmask 3 years ago 2
I was stationed (US Army) in Okinawa circa November of 1967 and while I was at work, the local english language station (KSBK), catering to the U.S. military personnel on the Island, would play "One By One" about once per hour. A great song. Still love it today.
Bobkayee 3 years ago
Those haircuts... XD
throneofcrap 3 years ago
magoos rocked in nyc. great show with zombies.
sixitiesking 3 years ago
Was at the show tonight at Irving Plaza.
I've waited much of my entire life to see the Magoos. You didn't disappoint me. Ralph and Peppy, you both sounded great.
Magoos have been a favorite of mine for so many years.
Where is Ronny Gilbert?
TheSpindles 3 years ago
Where's Joey and DeeDee Magoo?
posthastey 3 years ago 2
*LOL*
pgrabar 3 years ago
This is in my favorites. What is NYC garage without the Blues MaGoos
newyorkinthe60s1 3 years ago
Please TOUR again!!! Los Angeles Please~!~!~~
vivver 3 years ago
Way cool. So that's Mike on lead guitar and Ralph on keys and vocals. Are any of the other guys from the original lineup?
gratefuljeff1 3 years ago
gratefuljeff1 asked: Are any of the other guys from the original lineup?
There's also Geoff and Peppy. The only one not in the video is Ronnie (bass).
aeroaero 3 years ago
Thanks. So Geoff on drums and Peppy is the guitarist wearing the baseball cap. A different bass player. Amazing when you see them 40 years later. Other than Ralph, I would never have a clue that any of the others were the originals.
gratefuljeff1 3 years ago
What a shame we never heard of them over here. At least not that I know, maybe I was too young to notice... long live internet. There's still so much good music to discover.
zombfan 3 years ago
But it is so nice to have it all now! I was too young back then but now.. it's a blast to see these bands play!! Thank the powers that be for keeping these guys around and in good shape! They can go the distance and they, like fine wine, only better with age!!!
:-)
Bek!
bbscala 3 years ago
@bbscala Hello to Ralph and Beka...This Albee and yes my lifetime friend Ralph opened the doors to music which I still enjoy today........Great clip........Good job Peppy...Love you all!
overendwat 10 months ago
@zombfan I grew up near where they lived in The Bronx NY...use to see them quite a bit before they became famous.....check out the Young Rascals
jimbronxny 1 year ago
My two favorite New York bands are The Chesterfield Kings and The Blues Magoos!
HemiVic 3 years ago
Is that Mike Esposito playing the lead on We Ain't Got Nothing Yet? I would like to know what kind of amp, amp settings and effects he is using to get the reverb/echo sounds during the solo? This is one of my all time favorite guitar solos and I wish the Blues Magoos would get together for a gig in Western NY.
OScaleAmtrak 3 years ago
The main effect comes from an Echo-plex tape echo unit. I don't know what the timing is. Maybe you can detect the slap back timing in the audio. But as he's playing triplets, it's probably be something relative. Looks like he was playing out of a Fender 60's era blackface.
aeroaero 3 years ago
Thanks for reply on that. I'll have to look into buying a tape echo unit. I should have gotten the Guild Echorec I acquired fixed instead of selling it. Kicking myself!
OScaleAmtrak 3 years ago
Absolutely great. What clubs did they play in the Village? Great post.
guitargreats1 3 years ago
I will ask Ralph .. all I ever hear about in the Village is The NIGTHOWL CAFE! ;-) I know there where more but that is where they were playing regularly when they were discovered and signed!
:-)
Beki!
bbscala 3 years ago
I think there version of Gloria is the greatest of ALLTIME.NYC garage rules!
guitargreats1 3 years ago
This is great!! Hope a tour is still in the cards!
dannystrat 3 years ago
I love you guys
viktoria67 4 years ago 2
I was there that night. Lot of good bands but seeing the Magoos live was the best. Great set. I remember Billie Jean being a standout and that girl had an amazing solo. You should post a vid of that too.
Thanks for the memory and please tour I'd love to see you again.
Souplesse000 4 years ago
Thanks !! Yeah it was a blast.. !!
that girl on lead was ME, by the way! I appreciate your complimetn! I'm RAlph's wife, by the way .. the whole family is Pyschedelic ;-)
Thanks again.. I will pass this on to Ralph! Watch for more Magoo gigs, recordings, etc!
Love,
Beki!
bbscala 4 years ago
Wow -- so crazy how great these guys still sound! Their songs have lived in my head since 1967 and never left! They're part of who I am. Great job Beki!
juttahipp 4 years ago
Ralph looks & sounds the same, & Espo, that was innovative guitar for that time.
One of the best pop songs of all time!
Seeing you guys together makes me what to call some old friends.
JohnFPorcaro 4 years ago 3
What do you do when your sixty from the sixties..........ONE MORE TIME!!! thank you.
Jackamoo1 4 years ago 2
Beki...Thanks for this insightful video and the clever editing. Wish it was longer and we could hear more of the set list. The guys sound amazingly good and tight for being apart for three plus decades (it is the original five, right?). I wonder where the electric suit is now. Did they do anything from "Basic" at Cavestomp!? Please keep us posted on any forthcoming details on a new reunion.
curtismapman 4 years ago 2