Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages - Honey Hush [1965]

[PAULLONDEN]

I like this dude very much (now) ,but compare this to his contemporaries of the time.

Stones ,Kinks,Who,Pretty Things,Yardbirds,Small Faces,and one can only say ,that this sounds very old hat..and it seems Sutch was stuck in a rut.By this time we where already listening to "Satisfaction".He had a habbit of relying on old rock'n'nroll standards,and failing to write his own originals.Although,by his "Heavy Friends"episode, Sutch had it sussed for a short while.

[jdmfonte]

Pete Townshend was the first guy I heard say anything about him , and that was decades ago. His name wasn't as widely known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins, but that's due to alotta factors too numerous to mention. Both cats saw an "area of expertise" and jumped on it, rode it hard and then........

Out come all these VAMPIRES on Tour bands.

?Source Point?

[jorgedean1]

Love me some killer wailin' screamin' boss Sutch!

[colindaleradiosutch]

DAVID LOVED THIS NUMBER, HONEY HUSH. ALSO LIKED TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN. COLIN DALE RADIO SUTCH.

[leoseries]

Come back Monster Raving Loony Party - we need you on May 7th!

[TheNDange]

Cant believe there is so much stuff uploaded on here bless them all Dave, and Dad xx Nicky Dangerfield

[bluesman944]

Lord Such happened to be staying at a hotel where we did one of our first gigs in the early 60's. He sat on a sofa behind the band & was very encouraging..... 50 years later I remember him fondly because of his kind words. RIP Lord Sutch !!

[glaetze]

I dug reading about Lord Such in the Los Angeles Times obituary, regarding the period when he was campaigning for Parliament. One of his suggestions for helping to curtail global warming was to tap into all the people who use treadmills in gyms and convert their energy to electricity. Cool! How hilarious. I wish I had a chance to meet him.

[beelzabubba]

Hilarious for sure! The fact that he even thought global warming was a real issue was enough to make me vote against the wanker. Maybe he meant it as a joke. His original drummer Carlo Little in the Savages gave Keith Moon (when he was 16) the few lessons that he ever took from what I understand, out in Harrow Road.... near Wembley Stadium

[safeway56]

@beelzabubba

Drummer in this shot is Jimmy Evans who I met in the 70's when he was in a band called The Sands Of Time. I lent him money on occasions(always paid me back) and he too claimed to be Keith Moon's tutor !!Not seen him for years though and if he's still with us he'll be around 80 years old.

[beelzabubba]

Safeway56; thanks for the update, very interesting indeed!

[2100Rose]

Never heard this one before but I like it

[rizzdog]

Ritchie Blackmore is about 21 here.

[skok65]

I used to listen to Foghat's version of this all the time.

[simopalmiandre]

ritchie blackmore at the guitar.

[psychkoala]

Wow, I was wondering. It's an interesting version; but nothing I couldn't live without.

The guitar solo is wild & crazy though. I thought to myself "That's Ritchie !".

No one else plays much like that. Ritchie was just so cool, even then. I wish I could put Ritchie & Jimmy Page in a Rockabilly band. They would really tear it up !

[rns68]

legend! ive just read his autobiography and it is brilliant!! what a top geezer. SLS R.I.P. Wish he was still here.

[MJL3764]

Richard have you told candy about this?.

[Erkele]

Wonderfull!!!

[strawwoodclaw]

i want to be at home with my grumpy & jack

[DhAmmED]

hey..but and little carlo...!!??

[WilkyBhoy84]

Saw him live in Falkirk,a Friday night in 1972,the Manique disco.....The bouncers carried him on to the stage in a coffin,the coffin is stood up and he slowly opens the top....my God I'm 18 chasing women...and this happens! what a gig...RIP.

[chrisrenrocks]

im related to him

[123englishnut123]

Saw him at butlins years ago,jumped on the stage and started singin wiv him!great bloke!

[motorvating]

So did I, along with two others, was you one of them. Think the song was about Maggie Thatcher and the Poll Tax.

[Sweetlemonsband]

You've got your dates round if you think that its about Maggie

[motorvating]

Don't know why i posted that, i was chatting with somebody about the time I sang on stage with sutch to a song called Maggie is a cow

[Sweetlemonsband]

Ok, all is forgiven :P

[PAULLONDEN]

Lord Such....

The first "Bad" man of Wreck'n'Roll./

[MuzzikLvr]

This is cool...but I prefer the Foghat version.

[infiltratewithrock]

Johnny Burnette did a great 50's version too. The name is the same as Aerosmith's Train Kept a Rollin. It's just a great song.

[arjdsm]

Lord Sutch knows how to do this song

[hhomer]

It's all about Lord Sutch...guitar players take a number..Lord Sutch was the man..God Bless you Mr Sutch and your family..Homer Crawdad

[robin48gx]

what the guy from deep purple ?

[Ullarsskald1989]

...and Rainbow and Blackmore's Night...

I spoke with Ritchie after a concert over 30 years ago. He had done an interview with a guitar magazine about his classical influences. I got to ask him if he was planning to do a "classical" recording. He was very gracious to a snotty-nosed teenager, who happened to actually ask an intelligent question, answering "no, not at this time."

He has my regard, always.

[Ziggyztarz]

I met Ritchie when he was with Dave Sutch too, I was in my early teens and learning to play guitar, there's many a technique or riff that I've learned from Ritchie. He has always been very 'witty' too and can be very very funny....... I have always thought as 'Lord Sutch' as pretty strange and will never forget the time they all came back to mine and ate everything in the cupboards. My Dad was really cross with me when he got back from night shift. Snowdrop....I miss you X

[6ensible]

ritchie blackmore 3rd from left.

[atcycle]

@6ensible Everyone send him a personal message about how goofy he looked. His guitar work is still, even in its infancy is recognizable.