Bill Hicks Backstage Playing Guitar

[HaLfDeAdArtist1]

If Im not mistaken there 300 pixels in this video. 15x20. Lol. But thanks for uploading a vid of bill.

[Darthbrandon81]

Bill was a great guitarist! I've seen some videos of him and that guy can JAM!

[ghosterdude]

i dont' get it they had camera phones back then?

[JulietsMan]

@ghosterdude You dunce, there's a thing called a 'video camera' that people can use to film things with and it has been around a lot longer than the camera phone.

[ghosterdude]

@JulietsMan sense of humour. older than any video camera.

[T4l0nITA]

nice video of bill, but was this recorded with a calculator ?

[MolotovMic]

@T4l0nITA LOL win

[JulietsMan]

@T4l0nITA Holy god do you have a brain?

[yacanleaveyourHATEon]

singing Bill is cute

[QuinnBand]

thank you!

[666fannyfart]

aint that clever if he doesnt know to plug that guitar in to get a sound.

[samuelshepard]

@666fannyfart did you know that you're still getting a sound AND playing the guitar if the electric guitar is not plugged in? its true go to your guitar center and try one out. tune it to drop D too you tool

[TheYearTwentyTwenty]

@666fannyfart Ain't you fuckin' clever! you can still hear an electric guitar even if it aint plugged in, dumbass. Do you honestly think that hitting steel strings isn't going to make some amount of noise?

[Averagegamer100]

@666fannyfart You're the kind of fucking idiot that Hicks wanted flushed down the toilet.

How stupid are you, to not realize that hitting strings will make noise?

[vegaspoet]

for some great bill hicks stories told by ron shock, type in "the bill hicks chronicles" here on you tube.

[thesandband]

It's wonderful to see Bill palying guitar and singing. He really had a true rock attitude in his comedy. Love you Bill, thanks for posting this.

[VType464]

Shame his Brown Bread ! RIP!

[chicobangs]

Bill Hicks footage is always good, regardless of the quality. Thanks for this.

[Milanotjuh]

plug it in !

[TonyBtheEG]

An overall artist. Not many knew.

[Milanotjuh]

@TonyBtheEG checkout the 3 movies he made on youtube !!

[Jake101686]

Looks like Al Dimeola lol

[nerdyharry]

haahhhhhh

[VHDT10]

I know Tool used a bunch of his quotes especially in the beginning of Third Eye. I actually got into him because of Tool.

[xxNenekoChanXX]

Haha, happened the other way around for me, I got into Tool because of Bill :)

[azwethinkweis]

same here ...also Alex Greys art

[VHDT10]

Yes, Tool is great. Alex Grey is insane. Good stuff. Solute to Bill Hicks.

[THEVELCH]

Does anyone know if that song was an original of Hicks's or something else?

[joshgreen19]

its hicks's

[eatme690808]

It sounds like a '50s ballad, but if you listen closely after he finishes the song, Hicks says, "I came up with that in the car, and I went home and it just came out on the guitar." I.e. it's a Hicks original.

[Pangea1960]

omg, i diddent even know mr hicks played the geetar

[baraka1408]

Holy shit awesome! Thanks for this find!

[DantesObjective]

Bill came down hard from the love he shared. RIP Bill.

[HEV29]

Like the way he makes you wait for the guitar xx

[plasticbudgie]

I hate all you fucker who dis him, hes a true american hero :) im no yank im your average limey...

but damn this guy would make me proud to be american, i adore you bill and fuck all you religious fuckers saying burn in hell... cause you know what if hes burning in hell He is burning with the BEST!!!

R.I.P Bill

[fatboy2007]

he was one of the few who made Americans look good now we're exposed as the fat greedy folk we are..

[TheOtium]

@plasticbudgie

Surfing on the lake of fire, rocking out.

[davidboakemeek]

bill hicks is where it was at. There is no christian god, or whoever said that, its all the same god, That's what bill hicks knew and spread. Please watch "comic outlaw" Hes a fricken hero, maybe no a saint though

[CheeseCakeExplosion]

Aw, Bill. You know, beneath all the cynicism and intellectualism, he was just an inquisitive kid from Texas who loved his Hendrix and his guitar.

[Merkaba4203]

Does anyone else hear Butthead laughing in the background?

[dorisblake]

i love bill, i miss bill, i never got to see him live or anything :(

[bollockowithalob]

@dorisblake

Read the Kevin Booth book. Make up for not seeing the chap.

[dreadbet]

jesus must be smoking a fuckin joint with this guy and laughing his ass off!

[ScotishGeezer]

he didnt beleive in religion

[dreadbet]

yeah dude

but he believed in god!

[purv989]

no dude, not the Christian god. he believed in Love as his god.

[OtisGreen]

You have it EXACTLY right dreadbet.

[Brouf7]

"fuck this jammin' shit lets put out albums"

[TomMSTie]

Bill Hicks, and a Les Paul: two good things that go great together!

[FTIBand]

Looks an awful lot like a Les Paul Classic...the guitar I play now!

[TomMSTie]

Is it Bill who says, "Ah! A fucking purest, huh?"

[SquareRectangular]

Your classic sounds a lot like the guitar I've needed to own for 30 years.

[lamc93]

@FTIBand les pauls are the coolest guitars ever! kudos for bill making up his own song!

[TMotley]

If I ever get money... I'm so going to track down that guitar and use it exclusively forever and ever. Or if I could jack one from his parents for a pretty penny. Maybe they still have the ones he used recording Arizona Bay and Rant in E Minor? Do want.

[666slugs666]

Have fun lol, by that stage he might have actually got famous :P

[dapunkof1975]

Motherfucker looked like a guitar player too.

[Florez531]

he reminds me of stevie ray vaughan (his looks)

[croEdHunter]

I`m trying to find that video where Bill is on a family trip, throwing rocks in a lacke and playing with his nephew... Does anyone have a link?

[JulietsMan]

@croEdHunter What the FUCK is a lacke???

[damnatium]

i'd buy the album

[Muzztein]

he is like jesus ... but real.

[binloved]

I think Jesus is laughing his ass off up in Heaven!

[leazngurl]

Haha... did he say he wrote that song?

[scottyjay12]

oh right was that it!! Cheers newimprovedminkey!! If i ever have any other questions on anything, i'm sure you will have the answer!! thanks again my friend!!

[scottyjay12]

My friend told me that while on stage one time near the end of his life he got so bored with stand up comedy he said to the crowd 'I cant do this anymore' and walked off. Apparently it was in his autobiography. Is there any clips of this on youtube does anyone know??

[newimprovedminkey]

I think what you're refering to was his very last gig, the one following the last recorded gig. It was his girlfriend he called out to because the intensity of the pain he was experiencing from his terminal cancer at that moment was literally and physically unbearable. Boredom had nothing to do with it and no that last gig was not recorded.

[takeahnase14]

this made me well up a little :(

[dummass01]

dude hes playing adam jones' guitar. its a 79 gibson les paul silverburst

one of the best guitars ever

[intrepgun]

definitely not the silverburst. it's got mini-hums, it's got a sunburst finish. it's not a custom, otherwise the headstock would have the diamond thingy with the swooshes.

could very well be one of adam jones's guitars, i don't know. but it's not one of the silverbursts.

however, the silverbursts are great guitars. well, many of them. gibson's quality is shite now. better off with a good ol hagstrom, in my opinion.

[rotgrafix]

cool..my attitude exactly...fuck jamming...lets record.

[niceyumyum]

I'm Spartacus!!! Which one of you is Cunt? May I sniff you? Fuck! These mushrooms are twats!

[resusron]

u cunt u aint hicks!

[DangerousBastard]

Couldnt have been '94, Bill died in February and was noticably ill in the latter part of '93... Maybe '92?

[gibsonguitar11]

think '93 cause i think tool had him on stage or something for one of their shows, and undertow came out in '93

[hunterthompson123]

his last perfomance that was recordeed was only 14 weeks before he died that was at igby's u can watch it on utube

[hunterthompson123]

his last perfomance that was recordeed was only 14 weeks before he died that was at igby's u can watch it on utube

[GasganoFJ60]

hmm.....this looks like it was recorded with a camera phone lol

thanks for posting

[Terminxman]

It wasn't, this had to be around 1994 or something :D

[GasganoFJ60]

Yeah I know. it just looks that way. Perhaps it was a time traveler =D

[666slugs666]

Nah I'd say 1980's Late, by the looks of it. He still is hefty, and wearing the glasses. Kinda didn't see that in 1992-4. Maybe Late 80's early 90's my estimation...

[DangerousBastard]

Nice to see Bill just being Bill if you know what I mean...

[ummaohz]

Bit heated here. There is another video of Hicks playing on youtube where you can actually hear him. That's worth a watch. His phrasing and chords are nice in that video.

[bljam]

I can't find that...what do you search under?

[felixq78]

Stick it up your furry arse dylanbeckett! Do you play? Even Satriani sounds like that when he's not plugged in yah wanker!!!

Pricks like you shit me to tears. probably never picked up an axe in your life and you know it all FUCKWIT!!!

[NurseDischord]

Chill out, dude.

FYI, Satriani sounds immesurably worse when he's plugged in =)

[dylanbeckett]

genius ..but stick to the comedy! freebird!

[dusteroo]

Looks like Adam Jones' Silverburst... Is this from a Tool concert?

[CarlPlaysMusic]

No, more sunburst.

[PikkaBird]

It's not a silverburst... It's difficult to see what the finish is because there are some reflections in te lacquer, but Adam's LP is a Custom, meaning it'd have the big diamond on the headstock. This one doesn't.

[Poonard]

looks like a sunburst to me.

[PikkaBird]

Yeah, definitely a burst of some kind, but no silverburst. It's one of the transparent ones, like heritage cherry or something...

[Dreamweaver393]

The quality is fine, thank you for posting this newimprovedminkey : D

[keltonbell123]

that was classic rare bill hicks thanks for posting