THE SWEET/Teenage Rampage REAL LIVE Performance

[charlenemarie88]

Brian never fails to amaze me! x



[RockbertoRocks]

Nobody rocked harder and influenced other bands like the MIGHTY Sweet. What a band!

[finmarc]

most impressive

[brushuk]

great vocals..................

[brushuk]

@brushuk just watched this again.... fantastic vocals!!

[ravbav73]

isnt it strange that in the 70's the camera man always went to the bass player when there was a guitar solo.check EVERY solo on top of the pops lol.awesome brilliant underated band

[031303131]

"The Sweet"waren in den 70er Jahren die am meisten unterschätzte Band der Welt!!!

Ihre musikalische Bandbreite war so riesig,das nachfolgende Bands bis heute Sequenzen von Sweet in ihr Repertoire einbauen.

Jetzt langsam merkt die gesamte Musikwelt was "The Sweet" musikalisch auf den Weg gebracht haben.

Diese vier Jungs waren jeder für sich phänomenal !!!

Sweet forever

[chrishutt66yt]

AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Judas Priest, Saxon, KISS, Poison, Motley Crue, Sex Pistols, Hanoi Rocks, Def Leppard (of course) and just about every other glam/band from the 80's, Have All taken (or stole) from Sweet! Sorry, if that's too obvious but, I just felt it should be said.

[isgren8]

Thank God for You Tube keep Sweet Alive

I have so many good moments watching these old Sweet videos

And it is written so many times before in this forum, but I do it again

One of the most underrated band and they deserved so much more

And even not proven, there is no doubt that Queen "stole" a lot of the harmonies from Sweet

[Jadranko23]

GOLDEN AGE WHEN ROCK WAS GLITTER, SWEET AND ALIVE!

[sev773]

These kids look like they're 5th graders. I hope they weren't expecting David Cassidy -- because they sure didn't get him! These guys were great at any genre. Long Live Sweet!

[cplegogame25]

this is classic sweet.  the four best guys, each one has their own special personality, making up one of the better bands to come out of the 70's. this was their time and they knew how to rock. no matter which way they try to piece together sweet now, it could never be the same. we can only thank these four guys for sharing their talent with the rest of the world.

[doubleslottedflaps]

steve priest is an awesome bass player. check out some of the early sweet !

[powerman5000ca]

Nicely said flashtheoriginal

Thanks for the Super Classic Sweet share Sweet4everforum

[TheBelly58]

Great track, great memories, but...How come they're not wearing make-up?? Haven't seen Steve Priest as himself before...lol This was 1974, right in their Glam period, so where is the slap!

[gillfrancois]

Punk, Glam, Heavy, who cares? Just listen to the music.

[kohoutekcorporation]

Take away the production gloss of the original single and what are you left with: a tight and fiery heavy rock band.

Fair enough, the image was camper than a row of pink tents, but the 4 boys could rock as hard as the best of them. Classic track.

[vntr2006]

Their self penned album tracks rock...check them out.

[TheJetfighter666]

Great post.. Just goes to show you how good they were live. Where did you get this gem? Most of their vids were dubbed.Thank you so much....Ace Frehley has just done a cover of "Fox on the run" I hope it helps more people discover what a great group the Sweet were.

[flashtheoriginal]

Hell. Not many people realise what a great LIVE band Sweet were. Clearly the posters on this page do - respect. Really loved Sweet - I was 11 when this came out, what a brilliant time to be an Englishman that was - Concorde, platform shoes, Thunderbirds, top of the pops, no benefit sucking eastern block illegal immigrants, spangles, Hai Karate after shave nicked from your dad, auntie brenda coming round to watch The Golden Shot in that tight red skirt, stylophone,Birds-Eye supermousse.....

[bobmorrice]

i want to hear more about auntie brenda :-)

great video

sweet get overlooked when talking about great bands-like most of the 70s glam bands they couldn't give a shit but they sounded and looked the buisness

[vntr2006]

lol agree with all of the above. Also football was class. No Manure or Chelski buying their way to the top.

[MsLucy2012]

@flashtheoriginal Yes miss the old days

[seanthemilkman]

absolutely superb!!! the 70's had such great music and it was fun!...not the ganster rap with its hatred lyrics of today....man i sound old!...lol

[cassidy322]

Sweet were a very underated group..............I always thought they sounded like the early version of Queen vocals

[johannmichael]

always great, a big part of the new bands are only a cheap copy.

f... the music of today.

[InDesign13]

a big part of the new "bands" are shit!

[johannmichael]

thanxs for the answer, i really know the music of today is sometimes good, but it was a big adventure and a big work in the old days.

They have no net, not a lot of managers and not money for pr and commercials.

In my teenager years, we habe only half an hour a music show the week in the tv. today thats mtv, viva gotv and in the other canals always a reason for music.

[Chrisee303]

R.I.P. Brian Connolly and Mick Tucker!

In my opinion, Sweet was the greatest band of 70's!

[catitahBallroomblitz]

simply amazing! This video is great.

I love Sweet. Brian Connoly's the best!

[Brusselsprout06]

Saw Steve Priest's SWEET do this 2 weeks ago....totally awesome!!! STILL.....Steve Priest is GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sanktalucia66]

Haven't watched this for a long time. God how good is it not!!!???

[23266334]

many albums were pretty heavy specialy sweet fany adams 1974 , black sabbath played in the technical extasis back street kids , you will notice the main riff was played first for sweet in the song sweet fany adams , even i hardcore fan of sabath i most be acknowledge

[GottiDaGoodfella]

mick looks like ian from the cult here

[metalbearuk]

If I'm right this performance is from the UK kids programme 'Crackerjack'?

[blueleadguitar]

yes i think it is Crackerjack, and I was watching it at the time and was impressed when Brian broke the mic stand in half!

[bluepowder2008]

there albums are heavy as hell compared to the singles.........awesome underated band great muscians way ahead fo the time a lot of todays bands could learn a lot of sweet.........

[2monaros]

Many Hard Rock and Metal bands were influenced by these extremely talented and underated musicians,who never got the accolades they deserved at the time....history has seen some justice done at last! R.I.P Brian & Mick!!!

[55ChevyBelairs]

RIP BRIAN RIP MICK KEEP ROCKING GUYS

[Frommel2000]

Great, great, great !!

I just love that 70s popmusic !!

[Chthon128]

Put these fuckers up against any of the so-called "bands" nowadays, and you'd see them completely kick today's poser's asses!

WOW! A band that actually sounded "live" like they sounded on record!--without playback, and enhancements from offstage! What a novel concept!

Today's generation has NO CLUE, do they? Bummer....

[WeilderOfWords]

come join the revolution...

[stonedfry123]

@Chthon128 You are soooo right!The Sweet is the Shit!!Long Live Sweet!!

[moggiee1]

@Chthon128 Thanks for this comment - good to know there are still people out there who know about REAL music from REAL musicians

[21pinch]

Stevie cracks me up.  Is that cinnamon gum he's crackin' on? Teenage constipation indeed.

[sanktalucia66]

I'm sure it's cinnamon gum!!!!

[GalacticConflict]

Great group, great song. I loved it when I was a little kid, now I'm (almost) an adult, I've rediscovered it, and I love it again.

[craiglangboy]

I dont remember many so called rock fans taking them seriously when they changed their style back then. Good to see they are getting deserved if not belated credibility many years on. A really great band

[JohnWhapshott]

The Sweet were actually talented musicians who were forced (or chose...) to go down the glam route. Their later work was acoustic harmony, which was great - but uncommercial...

[jimmythecreep]

i believe punk started w/stuff like the electric prunes/count 5/the seeds...the REAL garage noise...which was before the mc5/stooges/velvets/dolls...wh­ich was before the ramones/clash/sex pistols...sweet walked a fine line between glam AND punk(as in a nasty ass attitude combined w/very hooky poptunes). that's my take on these guys anyways. regardless...these fuckers were an amazing band...top flight musicians/vocalists and one of the best rock drummers EVER in mick tucker(r.i.p).

[sanktalucia66]

Bloody good this is!!! Love the song itself, the fact that they are singing live and their cool clothes!

[whitezepp1]

there vocals were amazing,and then certain bands nicked there style er who was one of them Queen.

[xxxstonie]

This is "Glam Rock"....NOT punk.

[hassebas55]

after all the years its stil good hell yes i was 17 years old that time i still have the albums

[killergnome221]

simply the best band to come out of uk

[jaydavee]

I'm glad I got to see that here on the tubes.

[flarelocker]

mick was my older brother i miss so much he died in feb 2oo2

[Khatru57]

Mick Tucker was your older brother?

[ilovericksavage]

aww poor steve lol. he almost got it. he rocks anyway, love him.

[MartyRotten]

WE WANT SWEET!! WE WANT SWEET!!!

[moorlock2003]

All I can say is WOW!

[catonami]

i'm cryng in front of my computer....

AMAZING !!!

[sp4172]

god bless you tube, for those of you who have never listen to The Sweet, now know how unreal this band really was. Angry, Rebellious and Raw, they inspired Punk Rock as well as Iggy Pop and the New York Dolls to what is now known as alternative. Remember that this was recorded 30 + years ago !!! I loved them then and still love them now !!!

[Khatru57]

I remember Sweet very well and I was 14 when Funny Funny charted. They were ok but not in the same league as Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep. I'm sorry but Sweet never inspired punk rock.

[pan68]

In fact Uriah Heep was never in the league of Deep Purple either...

[beamerZ]

@Khatru57: Yes they did; Hellraiser and especially Sweet FA were very inspiring.

I know because i played in punkrockbands in the 80's. Even the few who didn't know Sweet were impressed after hearing Strung up LIVE album.

[Khatru57]

Hi beamerZ.

The punk rock I was thinking about was earlier than the eighties. It was 1977 and bands like Sex Pistols, Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Damned, etc.

They were the original punk rock bands and they'd never admit to being influenced by Sweet.

[beamerZ]

Hi Khatru;

Yes punk began in '76 but the new wave of punk started with the exploited ['punks not dead'] in the early eighties and that was the time punkrock became harder, louder like Discharge for example.

At that time i was in my late teens and playing in punkrockbands and believe it or not, Sweet was mentioned and respected in the scene i was in.

[Khatru57]

Hi Beamer

I'm wondering how much different your punk was to the 1976/77 punks. Today what people call R&B is nothing like the original R&B.

Back in 1977, the original punk bands were anti-establishment and were against pretty much all of the existing bands. That included Sweet who were categorised as being part of the "Glam Rock" movement.

[beamerZ]

Hi Kathru,

Good question; to be quit honest original punk were lower social-class people [no offence] who were unemployed, punk in the eighties was more like a fashionstatement; of course we were 'anti-establishment' [but we came from middle and higher social-class] but aren't all teens anti-everything? The origin of rock n roll was anti-establishment.

The king of glam David Bowie was in all the Punk-magazines [this shows how punk was commercialized] so at that time glam was considered o.k.

[alvo69]

I KNOW Brian's the original thing,anybody see a little bit of Johhny Rotten's mic angst and gestures in this?....By the way... THIS CLIP IS BLOODY CLASSIC!! FANX! from the other side of the pond!!!

[MartyRotten]

I see maybe a touch of Joey Ramone myself. This song is a true classic!!!

[blitzkriegahsofar]

So. That is what we are talking about.

They where just glorious!!!

[ssballs]

wowie,they actually COULD play and sing!this is the first time i've seen a life performance.

[MickeyLove01]

All 4 had excellent singing voices

[InternetToughGuyXL]

This is Rock 'N Roll.

[theSweetQueenie]

great fun :)

[bluesbrother37]

AWESOME POWER CHORDS!!!!

[funkemariechen62]

hallo COMAMAN This song is from 1974. Perhaps maybe before he was knocked down. When you hear his voice in 1975 it`s harder than before.(sorry my english) beate

[funkemariechen62]

hallo COMAMAN This song is from 1974. Perhaps maybe before he was knocked down. When you hear his voice in 1975 it`s harder than before.(sorry my english) beate

[comaman]

Nothing hapende to Brians voice, silly. It's just raw rock n roll. What's the problem?

[funkemariechen62]

die absolut beste Band die ich kenne. Eine Band die auch live absolut super waren. Großartige Stimme von Brian Connolly. Heute jährt sich Micks Todestag zum6.Mal.R.I.P.Brian and Mick Beate

[Longliverocknroll78]

We Want Sweet. We Want Sweet.We Want Sweet.

Sweet rocks.

Thanks for posting, this outstanding video

[SynthetiKTeasE]

this is like the only REAL live song i have heard them sing..

But they dont care! no! nononno!

[ilovericksavage]

well most were cause top of the pops wouldnt let singers to sing live.

[friendofsgran]

what happened to Brian's voice in this?

[Hell1974Raiser]

Klasse Video. Vielen Dank für alle Videos der Sweet.Ich bin Fan der Sweet seit Funny Funny. Brian ist einfach der beste Leadsänger. Immer noch suche ich im Web nach einem Video zu Tom Tom turnaround von den Sweet, ist aber leider nicht zu finden.