@MonaSallie, if you go back far enough everyone was black, but we are just about the palest people on the planet, im quite sure there were no indigenous black people in Scotland.
they fooled me... i was in the iar force in 1973, kunsan, korea. good music, fantastic groove, and a lot of fun. a shout out to all the guys who we at the "Kun" 1974-1975.
Soul has no color...it comes from the heart...these boys are from SCOTLAND..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...AND THEY ARE STILLL JAMMING TOGETHER AFTER ALL THIS TIME!!! ;)
The original drummer Robbie McIntyre died sadly. Steve Ferrone took over. Saw the AWB back in 1973 at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street, London. Amazing live.
If you had "ANY SOUL".....Don Cornelius put you on th "TRAIN"!! These guys had it and deserved every bit of recognition!!.. Yeah, I remember the "BUMP".. and it was a very appropriate dance move for this(and a few more)...Yep..the "BROTHA" on drums IS good!!.
Yes, Steve Ferrone on drums. He's English, from Brighton. He followed the late Robbie McIntosh in the band after Robbie died from drug/alcohol poisoning at a party held by Cher's lawyer in the mid-70s. Both he and Robbie came from Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. And Steve is a huge fan of Robbie's playing. He also did a great job of keeping this great band funky, particularly on the albums 'Cut the Cake', 'Soul Searching', and the live 'Person to Person', which is also great.
Saw them in 75-76-they dropped in on us when we were playing Cut the Cake at a Holiday Inn maybe? Great guys.Gave us free tix to their show.They dressed in Cleveland Indians outfits and grooved especially well..Ah..my sweet bird of youth!
@MonaSallie both ,its both,...the first ppl. os scotland were "black" look up the word scottish........these brothers know their roots, the one on white is mixed with that beatiful black melanin
@MonaSallie it's because he's from Great Britain (Scottish). The white people out there don't have same hangups about black music and culture. That's America's hangup. That's why all the best white music came out of GB
So I have a chance to see this group live, in a small and intimate setting -- for free -- and decided to sample their music here . . . yeah, never heard them before, what can I tell you? Well, I've always been a fan of the mighty James Brown, so it's not that they play funk, funk is good when it's good, great when it's great. But these guys . . . every cut sounds the same as the last. Yep, Average White Band they are. It's not color. It's the feeling. All the same. Borrrring!
@curmudgeonNOT please name ANY group of ANY color whose tracks aren't similar?? And if going to a club now and hearing the same blasting beat all night long isn't Borring, I don't know what is??? This stuff was REAL dance music. Soul music reigns!!!! :-) Peace
@linofoly5 Almost any good jazz group (excluding smooth) will have many different motifs and rhythms. Was at a John Pizzarelli quartet concert last week, four fabulous musicians, not a boring bar of music all evening. But for dancing with variation? Los Lobos? Elvin Bishop? Locally, in Austin: Nash Hernandez. Many many more big names that never turn in a boring evening for listening or dancing.
@linofoly5 Oh, BTW: An evening of dancing needs variations of the dance. I'm getting the idea you are interested in only "free style" dancing, not in couples. Sorry, from where I come from, real social dancing is done in twosomes, from waltz to swing to salsa. I do a pretty mean freestyle (including to funk), but there's more to dancing than just moving and grooving on your own. PS: Today's "club music" is garbage, noise with a beat. Leave as soon as it starts. We agree there.
I considere Stuart & Gorrie as the Lennon & McCartney of Funk. I'm serious, HOW MANY R&B artists could write their own stuff then play their ass off on guitar and/or bass while singing their ass off, all at the same time ?
They were the Lennon / McCartney of funk. It's really unfortunate that Hamish Stuart left the band, he and Alan Gorrie were SOOO good together, IMHO
To be honest, at the time, I did not know these guys were Scottish really did not matter back in the day. All I new was that these guys captured the essence of R&B like no other white band before or after. It was inevitable that they were going to be on SOUL TRAIN.Black college campuses or HBCU's, brought AWB to the top of the charts. If you did not have AWB in your album collection, you were just not in the know.
@steed3256 To quote you: "...thes guys captured the essence of R&B like no other white band before or after" one has to wonder if you have EVER heard of Tower of Power. While I have aways enjoyed AWB, you can't compare them to TOP who after more than 40 years, STILL knocks everyone that sees them in person, out. Pick any song TOP has ever done (or my personal favorite; Funk the dumb stuff) then tell me you still think the same about "other" funk bands.
Nice clip from Soul Train. I can see host Don Cornelius' face when these guys walked in the studio before taping the show. "Who are you guys?" "Hi Don, we're the band."
Hate to burst your little racist bubble, anybody who was anybody that had anything to do with music knew who the AWB was. Even today known as one of the BEST R & B groups. And if you ever seen them in concert you would know why. As a matter of fact Cornelius was one who hyped them and begged them to come on Soul Train when other shows didn't want a white R & B band. Get some knowledge dude.
@candelise Yes. But, Gino Vannille was the first on Soul Train in 1974 or 75 and agine in 1978. You can check his Soul Train performance "People Got To Move" and
"Powerful People." On Youtube. I'm trying to find Hall & oats perfomed on Soul Train in 1982 or 83.
Very, very, very, very few did a live set on 'Soul train'. This is by far one of the best, nope, the BEST. with apologizeto no one. Rock & Roll hall of fame.....nahhhhh....they are MORE than that.
I'm hip -- too many artists lip synched and it was painfully obvious. AWB always nailed it live! everywhere they played! On a side note, it always kind of sucked when a band/group on ST synched it and didn't even have the correct instruments on stage (like a sax, but no sax player, I'm sure the band thought it was silly, too). Oh well, still classic stuff...
Steve Ferrone. I think that's how you spell the name. Last seen with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. if your interested, the lead singer is Hamisch Stuart, last seen in Paul McCartney's band.
@haweye79 Man, the brotha on the kit is 1 of the baaaddest there is, Mr Steve Ferrone. And he's British!! Took over on the kit in AWB in '75 after their original drummer died of an overdose...
ikecot3: As a white guy who was listening to AWB in the 70's, I am compelled to interject that they were not the "blackest white boys" to come from Scotland, BUT they were definitely the most "soulful". . For AWB to create their own sound yet embody the 70's soul/funk era is incredible... I can't think of any other band pulled this off with such honesty, clarity and articulation.
Well Soul Train certainly didn't have a problem having them there nor did the people who were dancing and btw the the drummer Mr.Steve Ferrone is Black
outrundaylite you are an asshole who is totally missing the point of music.tell someone who gives a fuck about your opinion.and irish music has been around a lot longer than rap or funk etc.etc. not that it matters
Outrundaylite is on every AWB video on youtube dissin them. He must have been battered by a white man when he was a wee boy........ What other reason can explain the mans behaviour? I know........ these ''whiteys'' as he likes to call them, have more soul and funk in there big toes than that sad old bigoted racist ever had in his whole body. LOL . Im Scottish mate and he said all those cheeky remarks about Scottish culture etc. 3 words can describe him........... Sad Old Racist.
@scatmando well said man.he was having a go at the irish too.your right he is a sad old racist.i allways tought music was about sharing and enjoying not bitching.class tune anyway
Dear autumnin february et al, i was there . we had AWB at college a couple of times. Happy days. BUT thirty five years or more later there's still younger musicians making good music, you've just got to find it.
Average White Band was said to be some sort of "inside joke" about the climate of some locale being too hot for the average white man. I suspect it was just another device to communicate to music fans that AWB was a white emulator of Black American Music. Take Rap and white rappers for example: Milkbone, Vanilla Ice, Snow; eminem referring to himself as "white 'Pac" (white Tupac Shakur). Color in music doesn't seem to matter until it is [a] white person(s) emulates Black American Music Culture.
Talk'n bout' missing out on a real sound.....Born too late, maybe? would love to have been there then.... There's nothing in my generation that will ever come close to this kind of talent.......
These guys created some of the most infectious grooves on the planet. I always considered Hamish Stuart & Allan Gorrie to be the Lennon & McCartney of funk, because of theses guys writing /playing/ singing abilities.
Not too many bands come from Scotland, and Rock "Soul Train" like AWB. This is a Legendary Group, that should have been in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame a long time ago. Love your Music, that will live on forever.
@snoopydog48us .... I agree!!! In fact, it would be nice for someone to put together an OLD SKOOL concert with them included to tour. Our young people need to know what REAL MUSIC sounds like!!!
you missed the point, this isnt a race issue, ive been listening to this group since the early 70,s my point i made was that this dispells the old myth whites dont have rythm. this was one of my top five bans along with parliment funkadelic, slave, bootsy, isley brothers and earth wind anf fire and can go in any order, has shit to do with race, get the clouds out of your mind
oh im sorry i just looked back at the original comment and you said I have everything they played sorry i thought you said i "hate" everything they played whoops
no problem youngman, and keep up the good work with the drums, heres a drummer you should check out as a matter of fact 2 dennis chambers right here on youtube and chris dave. im a big dave weckle fan also
That myth that you're talking about that "whites don't have rhythm", was not referring to their ability to play instruments and sing, it was referring to natural dancing ability. That means without a lot of learned steps and choreography.
This Funk wasn't born in a Scottish vacuum. This Funk came out of Scotland because Black American Funk first went into Scotland and rocked those white people the way they've never been rocked before. It's like the so-called British Invasion. The Beatles and Stones "invaded" American Music Culture armed with the "weapons" of Black American Music Culture.
excuse me.....but Irish culture is as old if not older than black...and WE HAD/AND STILL HAVE....the beat and the dance for hundreds of years...and brought it to AMERICA!!!!! Move over!
You Irish may have and may still have a beat and you may have brought that Irish beat with you to America. However, that Irish beat isn't the same infectuous, powerful beat of Black American Culture, that beat which has taken the world by storm and has influenced emulators and imitators throughout Europe and yes, even Ireland. Move over? What for?
You are so defensive.......You I can guess have not a clue about a true musician and dance! I personally think life did not pan out for you the way you thought...and you can hinge on all the rhetoric you may like to.....but you are a lost musician or singer/dancer...who never made it...full of ire! How sad are you!
I'm not defensive. I'm precise. You can guess all you wish and all of your guesses would be and are incorrect. Don't worry about my life. This isn't about me. It's about the incursion of a foreign culture into Black American Music Culture. You seem to be indignant over a simple fact. Irish have imitated and emulated Black American Music Culture. The converse has not been true. Stick to those facts and you fly off into your hysterical stupidity.
Fucking awesome. I considered Hamish Stuart & Alan Gorrie as the "Lennon & McCartney of funk", all because these guys can sing AND play there asses off. It was sad to see Hamish go, but just like anything else, all good things must come to an end, unfotunately. Bad ass band!
AWB was ahead of their time, a white band that could really get funky, Hamish had a very one of a kind voice that really made their music along with the funky guitar playing, as a black kid growing up in the 70s they were the real deal. One of my first concerts i saw.
I found a cassette of their live album at my dad's house and this is too funky for a 23 year old like me, haha. Such a deep pocket and everything so tight. Love it.
yup....that's Hamish Stuart..soulman and musician extraordinaire...played bass with Wings - Paul McCartney. Paul was lucky to hire him and he can do it all...
to really appreciate these guys you need to hear "person to person",a live concert double albulm released around 1979. one of the best live albums EVER!!!!!
AWB'S name should have been AAWB Above Average Band. Originating from Scotland, unequivocally the most talented band to come out of Europe including the Beatles!!
Though it was noted that this immortal performer was perhaps the greatest influence on AWB, James Brown was not always (if ever), enamored with AWB, whom he believed was ripping off his style. James gathered his Mighty JB's and the incomparable Maceo Parker and launched a musical response to AWB under the one-time monkier A.A.B.B. - Above Average Black Band. AWB wanted to make the point they were funky white guys. James made it clear to AWB that Funk is Black Culture and he was Funk's master.
Don't try to discuss me. Deal in facts as I do. Fact: AWB performed a tribute to Maceo Parker, James Brown's brilliant sax player. No U.S. Black group has ever performed a tribute to AWB. AWB worships U.S. Black music without which, they wouldn't exist. Mike Hucknall performed a tribute to Bobby Bland, legendary U.S. Black bluesman. U.S.-Irish House Of Pain was a hip hop group. Hip Hop is a movement STARTED BY U.S. Blacks and Jamaicans. If those facts make you defensive, it's not my problem.
Now you're displaying the same defensive behavior most white people resort to when they cannot argue the facts of their incursion into Black American Culture. You attack the character of Black performers, of Black people, or of Black Culture. Whatever Brown's failings, it doesn't change the fact that he was a brilliant showman, a master of the music of Black American Culture and that you Irish and Europeans have imitated and emulated that Black Culture.
But hey, great tune from AWB
josephwilliams1970 1 month ago
@MonaSallie, if you go back far enough everyone was black, but we are just about the palest people on the planet, im quite sure there were no indigenous black people in Scotland.
josephwilliams1970 1 month ago
This band had two of the best singers in R&B but Hamish Stuart is just off the chain..
winpointmedia 1 month ago
oh! Hamish Stewart is singing lead.
plewisg21 1 month ago
Still brilliant! I still have the original vinyls and intend to keep them. Thanks for the video.
plewisg21 1 month ago
Darn! No alto sax solo?
gpatricknavarro 2 months ago
and this shit was sung live, not that lip-sync shit.
crysjumar1 2 months ago
who is lead singer?
crysjumar1 2 months ago
they fooled me... i was in the iar force in 1973, kunsan, korea. good music, fantastic groove, and a lot of fun. a shout out to all the guys who we at the "Kun" 1974-1975.
bosaye v. jeffires
thejeffirescrew 2 months ago
Don't blame it on nothing but the boogie. They always know how to JAM!
MsMissClassy 3 months ago
Soul has no color...it comes from the heart...these boys are from SCOTLAND..HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...AND THEY ARE STILLL JAMMING TOGETHER AFTER ALL THIS TIME!!! ;)
leeann716 3 months ago
This is my song, Yo!!!!
qwandiddy 4 months ago
This episode aired on December 6, 1975 with musical guests Average White Band and The Undisputed Truth.
abc123829 4 months ago
"drop it in the mail"
unique74muzik 4 months ago
@unique74muzik dropitinthemail
crysjumar1 2 months ago
The original drummer Robbie McIntyre died sadly. Steve Ferrone took over. Saw the AWB back in 1973 at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street, London. Amazing live.
tennisman627 4 months ago
@tennisman627 Saw AWB live @ House of Blues in '94. Man they kicked ass.
crysjumar1 2 months ago
The Bump, wow memories from long ago.....Did it to this one and lots of Ohio Players tunes..
thegizable 4 months ago in playlist Average white band
another oldie i like
adamkastner 5 months ago
Steve Ferrone on drums y'all... truth
bluegtr2001 5 months ago 2
If you had "ANY SOUL".....Don Cornelius put you on th "TRAIN"!! These guys had it and deserved every bit of recognition!!.. Yeah, I remember the "BUMP".. and it was a very appropriate dance move for this(and a few more)...Yep..the "BROTHA" on drums IS good!!.
ashmarii1 5 months ago
doing the Bump....damn that was a long time ago.
crysjumar1 5 months ago
Genius.
departments2006 5 months ago
your "ish" better be together coming on the stage of Soul Train...these guys had nothing to worry about....
btinsley1 5 months ago
steve ferrone is the ultimate time machine on drums!
cgord37 5 months ago
The we so popular...the 4th time on Soul Train!!
suntrvlr 6 months ago
The bass player looks a little coked-up
loca65 6 months ago
@loca65 it was the 70's man...
crysjumar1 2 months ago
Who cares where they are from .. it's where their at. They are funky!
qtip1064 6 months ago
scottish funk? you could'nt make it up! brilliant!
gordon7443 6 months ago
Gretsch White Falcon :)
miamigroove 7 months ago
Steve Ferrone plays with Tom Petty also these days! Great versatile drummer.
bassiclogic 7 months ago
Yes, Steve Ferrone on drums. He's English, from Brighton. He followed the late Robbie McIntosh in the band after Robbie died from drug/alcohol poisoning at a party held by Cher's lawyer in the mid-70s. Both he and Robbie came from Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. And Steve is a huge fan of Robbie's playing. He also did a great job of keeping this great band funky, particularly on the albums 'Cut the Cake', 'Soul Searching', and the live 'Person to Person', which is also great.
MrCherryJuice 7 months ago
So Funky!!!!
tatanisha305 8 months ago
Hey Yall, This is Live. Not often on Soul Train! Studio version is better tho
ericcraig5150 8 months ago
Hey Yall, This is Live. Not often on Soul Train!
ericcraig5150 8 months ago
These are my brothas....this takes me way back!...puffpuff give :)
nazr2009 8 months ago
Saw them in 75-76-they dropped in on us when we were playing Cut the Cake at a Holiday Inn maybe? Great guys.Gave us free tix to their show.They dressed in Cleveland Indians outfits and grooved especially well..Ah..my sweet bird of youth!
bassyck 8 months ago
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Steve Ferrone, groove-master general.. absolute class!!!!
samebeat1 10 months ago
Steve Ferrone, groove-master general.. absolute class!!!!
samebeat1 10 months ago
Its Steve Ferrone. Hes the second drummer. There first died. Someone spiked his punch at a party.
pearlgrooves 10 months ago
Been loving this for a long time now and lost it until this finding that brings the good feelings back!
cmc2159 10 months ago
Steve Ferrone on drums, later with Duran Duran, eric Clapton, and since 95' Tom Petty, he is one of the best ever
rmartin1955 11 months ago
THIS IS A BADDDDD WHITE BOY... SOUL IS NOT IN THE SKIN IT'S IN THE HEART !
MonaSallie 11 months ago 11
@MonaSallie both ,its both,...the first ppl. os scotland were "black" look up the word scottish........these brothers know their roots, the one on white is mixed with that beatiful black melanin
mastertung7 4 months ago
@MonaSallie it's because he's from Great Britain (Scottish). The white people out there don't have same hangups about black music and culture. That's America's hangup. That's why all the best white music came out of GB
mlynn1231 1 month ago
@MonaSallie STUPID BOY
fatalfunk 1 month ago
So I have a chance to see this group live, in a small and intimate setting -- for free -- and decided to sample their music here . . . yeah, never heard them before, what can I tell you? Well, I've always been a fan of the mighty James Brown, so it's not that they play funk, funk is good when it's good, great when it's great. But these guys . . . every cut sounds the same as the last. Yep, Average White Band they are. It's not color. It's the feeling. All the same. Borrrring!
curmudgeonNOT 11 months ago
@curmudgeonNOT please name ANY group of ANY color whose tracks aren't similar?? And if going to a club now and hearing the same blasting beat all night long isn't Borring, I don't know what is??? This stuff was REAL dance music. Soul music reigns!!!! :-) Peace
linofoly5 10 months ago
@linofoly5 Almost any good jazz group (excluding smooth) will have many different motifs and rhythms. Was at a John Pizzarelli quartet concert last week, four fabulous musicians, not a boring bar of music all evening. But for dancing with variation? Los Lobos? Elvin Bishop? Locally, in Austin: Nash Hernandez. Many many more big names that never turn in a boring evening for listening or dancing.
curmudgeonNOT 10 months ago
@linofoly5 Oh, BTW: An evening of dancing needs variations of the dance. I'm getting the idea you are interested in only "free style" dancing, not in couples. Sorry, from where I come from, real social dancing is done in twosomes, from waltz to swing to salsa. I do a pretty mean freestyle (including to funk), but there's more to dancing than just moving and grooving on your own. PS: Today's "club music" is garbage, noise with a beat. Leave as soon as it starts. We agree there.
curmudgeonNOT 10 months ago
I considere Stuart & Gorrie as the Lennon & McCartney of Funk. I'm serious, HOW MANY R&B artists could write their own stuff then play their ass off on guitar and/or bass while singing their ass off, all at the same time ?
They were the Lennon / McCartney of funk. It's really unfortunate that Hamish Stuart left the band, he and Alan Gorrie were SOOO good together, IMHO
gblueslover2 11 months ago
To be honest, at the time, I did not know these guys were Scottish really did not matter back in the day. All I new was that these guys captured the essence of R&B like no other white band before or after. It was inevitable that they were going to be on SOUL TRAIN.Black college campuses or HBCU's, brought AWB to the top of the charts. If you did not have AWB in your album collection, you were just not in the know.
steed3256 11 months ago
@steed3256 To quote you: "...thes guys captured the essence of R&B like no other white band before or after" one has to wonder if you have EVER heard of Tower of Power. While I have aways enjoyed AWB, you can't compare them to TOP who after more than 40 years, STILL knocks everyone that sees them in person, out. Pick any song TOP has ever done (or my personal favorite; Funk the dumb stuff) then tell me you still think the same about "other" funk bands.
specialone8 11 months ago
Way way above average white band.
NicotinMan 1 year ago
ya we loved this band , had the albums & went to their gigs and we were proud of the fact they are Scottish! Like us !
hempculture420 1 year ago
its one of my most shameful regrets that Im Scottish but I never got to see them live!!
:-(
pictpixie5523 1 year ago
They were one of the first acts to do it live instead of lip-synching!
kameron95 1 year ago
The drum break is so ridiculous. God they are so funky.
bassjlang 1 year ago
are these guys from scotland?
ARJI1979 1 year ago
The music is timeless. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the outfits and the dance moves. Love, Peace, and Sssssssssssssssssoul!
ohc3rd1 1 year ago
@ohc3rd1 LOL
BigNice001 11 months ago
Nice clip from Soul Train. I can see host Don Cornelius' face when these guys walked in the studio before taping the show. "Who are you guys?" "Hi Don, we're the band."
gwxk 1 year ago 2
@gwxk
Hate to burst your little racist bubble, anybody who was anybody that had anything to do with music knew who the AWB was. Even today known as one of the BEST R & B groups. And if you ever seen them in concert you would know why. As a matter of fact Cornelius was one who hyped them and begged them to come on Soul Train when other shows didn't want a white R & B band. Get some knowledge dude.
billleeocean 1 year ago 6
sang that funki music white boi...
btinsley1 1 year ago
Sacred monsters of the classic funk era ! And they are white ! Respect AWB !
DrLux 1 year ago
Bad ass!!!!
gyypsyy 1 year ago
Any band that makes me happy nowadays deserves a medal.
This is happy life affirming stuff from the seventies.
70's was rich.....................but also some truly awful UK bands POP usually.
Remember slade,sweet,mud ....
teddingtontcu 1 year ago
it's not about race and color. this is music and peace at it's finest
erickBUENO2009 1 year ago
my favorite band ever....
nyke271 1 year ago
And to think that was LIVE too! Holy s**t does it get any better? I think NOT!
These guys were baddass then. check out you tube house of blues videos, they are STIlL amazing!
tremendezfoods 1 year ago
Isn't it great; black folks dancin to a white group? Don't happen much anymore. Ain't many white bands that got the itch like these cats!
soupedguit369 1 year ago
THE SOULLLLLLLLLLL Train the good old days forget the rap lets get back to real music ....
RENTAMOB1 1 year ago
Inspiration for Public Enemy's "Air Hoodlum" and many other hip hop classics...
christophersbishop 1 year ago
The first white guy to play on this programme was David Bowie with Fame.
vicpur 1 year ago
@vicpur I heard that but then I saw Elton John do Philadelphia Freedom, was that before or after?
mlynn1231 1 year ago
@mlynn1231 After what? David was first so suppose Elton was after!!!
vicpur 1 year ago
@vicpur Elton was first. Then David!
Shalady74 1 year ago
@vicpur Didn't Elton do 'Bennie And The Jets' on this show before Bowie? Please tell.
candelise 1 year ago
@candelise Yes. But, Gino Vannille was the first on Soul Train in 1974 or 75 and agine in 1978. You can check his Soul Train performance "People Got To Move" and
"Powerful People." On Youtube. I'm trying to find Hall & oats perfomed on Soul Train in 1982 or 83.
Shalady74 1 year ago
@Shalady74 When WAS 'Bennie And The Jets' released?
candelise 1 year ago
@candelise Yes! Along with Philadelphia Freedom. Elton performed both of the songs!
Shalady74 1 year ago
AWB we miss you in Colorado...
djspillzmj 1 year ago
boobs are awesome
free2fleewithme 1 year ago
white boys oozing FUNK
tberreta 1 year ago
dat cream rise 2 da top y'all
miamigroove 1 year ago
Rock and Roll - Hall of Fame ... worthy.
WTF, Is the induction panel retarded?
I traveled by train to see these guys in the late 70's and slept over-night in the train station to get home.
It was worth it. x 100
Gweeep 1 year ago
Very, very, very, very few did a live set on 'Soul train'. This is by far one of the best, nope, the BEST. with apologizeto no one. Rock & Roll hall of fame.....nahhhhh....they are MORE than that.
billleeocean 1 year ago
I'm hip -- too many artists lip synched and it was painfully obvious. AWB always nailed it live! everywhere they played! On a side note, it always kind of sucked when a band/group on ST synched it and didn't even have the correct instruments on stage (like a sax, but no sax player, I'm sure the band thought it was silly, too). Oh well, still classic stuff...
PMarsh25 1 year ago
Who is this brotha on drums ?? He ain't no joke !! Woo wwwwwwwww
haweye79 1 year ago 9
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jj1347 1 year ago
Hi haweye79
Steve Ferrone. I think that's how you spell the name. Last seen with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. if your interested, the lead singer is Hamisch Stuart, last seen in Paul McCartney's band.
jj1347 1 year ago
@jj1347 Hamish has his own band!
candelise 1 year ago
@haweye79 Man, the brotha on the kit is 1 of the baaaddest there is, Mr Steve Ferrone. And he's British!! Took over on the kit in AWB in '75 after their original drummer died of an overdose...
Muthafunk72 1 year ago
@haweye79 Steve Ferron may be misspelled. He replaced the original drummer that died shortly after their hit Pick Up The Pieces.
klawrence738 1 year ago
@haweye79 .... Brotha on Drum's is Steve Ferron, I think I miss spelled his last name.
klawrence738 10 months ago
@haweye79 MR. Steve Ferrone ♪ Good ear my friend!
Virpatrick 10 months ago
@haweye79 that's Steve Feronne on drums
1484ish 8 months ago
ikecot3: As a white guy who was listening to AWB in the 70's, I am compelled to interject that they were not the "blackest white boys" to come from Scotland, BUT they were definitely the most "soulful". . For AWB to create their own sound yet embody the 70's soul/funk era is incredible... I can't think of any other band pulled this off with such honesty, clarity and articulation.
PMarsh25 1 year ago
Well, Steve is black......his drumming is phenomenal, best inspiration ever for drummers, young and old
drummerunner 1 year ago
See you soon!
kelmadfan 1 year ago
I miss Soul Train
pong224 1 year ago
POOH is an Italian rock band formed in 1966;
Roby Facchinetti (1946), vocals and keyboards from 1966 (main music writer)
Dodi Battaglia (1951), vocals and guitars from 1968 (sometimes music writer)
STEVE FERRONE (1950), drums from 2010,
Red Canzian (1951), vocals and electric bass from 1973 (sometimes music writer),
Valerio Negrini (drums 1966 - 1971, main lyricist for the band).
hydorvox 1 year ago
POOH is an Italian rock band formed in 1966;
by 2009, it had become one of the world's longest lasting bands !
Roby Facchinetti (1946), vocals and keyboards from 1966 (main music writer)
Dodi Battaglia (1951), vocals and guitars from 1968 (sometimes music writer)
STEPHEN FERRONE (1950), drums from 2010
Red Canzian (1951), vocals and electric bass from 1973 (sometimes music writer),
Valerio Negrini (drums 1966 - 1971, main lyricist for the band).
w w w . p o o h . i t
hydorvox 1 year ago
I remember when I was with a lot of black people jamming to this group, we thought they were black!
dancers10 1 year ago
@dancers10 you are so right
Njari 1 year ago
Great memories, Smooth sound. Amazing bass player. Thanks
herdygerdy36 1 year ago
Judge music with ears>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>??????????
xxbulldog74 1 year ago 2
Well Soul Train certainly didn't have a problem having them there nor did the people who were dancing and btw the the drummer Mr.Steve Ferrone is Black
BftLvr8 1 year ago
Hamish is the shit
theagent9 1 year ago
"drop it in the mail".
unique74muzik 1 year ago
they are scottish you fucking jerks!
dsozwald1 1 year ago 9
@dsozwald1 well i guess they funky 2 u heard me?
groove886 8 months ago
It always shocks me when I read a black racist,like below.You would think he would know better.
Duncan464 1 year ago
outrundaylite you are an asshole who is totally missing the point of music.tell someone who gives a fuck about your opinion.and irish music has been around a lot longer than rap or funk etc.etc. not that it matters
saoirseskip 1 year ago
Outrundaylite is on every AWB video on youtube dissin them. He must have been battered by a white man when he was a wee boy........ What other reason can explain the mans behaviour? I know........ these ''whiteys'' as he likes to call them, have more soul and funk in there big toes than that sad old bigoted racist ever had in his whole body. LOL . Im Scottish mate and he said all those cheeky remarks about Scottish culture etc. 3 words can describe him........... Sad Old Racist.
scatmando 1 year ago
@scatmando well said man.he was having a go at the irish too.your right he is a sad old racist.i allways tought music was about sharing and enjoying not bitching.class tune anyway
saoirseskip 1 year ago
Absolutely awesome performance of a timeless classic. I love you AWB!
ezwalker 1 year ago
god send me back to the 70,s where i belong these days suck the country lost all of its soul wcf
Lilly2005japan 1 year ago
get the funk back on!
Poynarse 2 years ago 2
Sounded better live than in the studio...They still do today.
pa017064 2 years ago
Are any of you people enjoying this?
Your keyboard's tippidyappin must be drowning out the funk! ;-)
LOL!
wordreet 2 years ago 2
Dear autumnin february et al, i was there . we had AWB at college a couple of times. Happy days. BUT thirty five years or more later there's still younger musicians making good music, you've just got to find it.
richardwilson1234 2 years ago 2
This era of music reaches my soul (really) and this is as close to it as I will ever get.
AutumninFebruary 2 years ago 2
Steve Ferrone was an influence on my drumming from the '70's. Too bad i can't find any guys in NJ who want to make great music like this again.
njdrumguy1 2 years ago 2
Average White Band was one of the most humble names for a band ever... they were anything but "average". Hamish Stuart's voice is unreal!
DrClaw77 2 years ago 2
Have been singing all day because of this awesome voice!
Poynarse 2 years ago
Average White Band was said to be some sort of "inside joke" about the climate of some locale being too hot for the average white man. I suspect it was just another device to communicate to music fans that AWB was a white emulator of Black American Music. Take Rap and white rappers for example: Milkbone, Vanilla Ice, Snow; eminem referring to himself as "white 'Pac" (white Tupac Shakur). Color in music doesn't seem to matter until it is [a] white person(s) emulates Black American Music Culture.
outrundaylite 2 years ago
This is some of the greatest drumming in history. Steve is a master drummer, and his pocket is ridiculous!
trlgomez 2 years ago 3
Talk'n bout' missing out on a real sound.....Born too late, maybe? would love to have been there then.... There's nothing in my generation that will ever come close to this kind of talent.......
AutumninFebruary 2 years ago 3
i know that is what i am always thinking also
tim123456789123 2 years ago
look harder
nogginboon 2 years ago 2
These guys created some of the most infectious grooves on the planet. I always considered Hamish Stuart & Allan Gorrie to be the Lennon & McCartney of funk, because of theses guys writing /playing/ singing abilities.
gblueslover2 2 years ago 2
Not too many bands come from Scotland, and Rock "Soul Train" like AWB. This is a Legendary Group, that should have been in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame a long time ago. Love your Music, that will live on forever.
snoopydog48us 2 years ago 12
@snoopydog48us .... I agree!!! In fact, it would be nice for someone to put together an OLD SKOOL concert with them included to tour. Our young people need to know what REAL MUSIC sounds like!!!
OGGilmoregirlz1 1 year ago
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snoopydog48us 2 years ago
i have everything they played, the blackest white boys from scotland ever
ikecot3 2 years ago 30
are you talkin about awb
Branman1994 2 years ago
yes im talking about awb
ikecot3 2 years ago
i like them
who cares the race
it sounds good to me
Branman1994 2 years ago
you missed the point, this isnt a race issue, ive been listening to this group since the early 70,s my point i made was that this dispells the old myth whites dont have rythm. this was one of my top five bans along with parliment funkadelic, slave, bootsy, isley brothers and earth wind anf fire and can go in any order, has shit to do with race, get the clouds out of your mind
ikecot3 2 years ago 3
oh im sorry i just looked back at the original comment and you said I have everything they played sorry i thought you said i "hate" everything they played whoops
Branman1994 2 years ago
no problem youngman, and keep up the good work with the drums, heres a drummer you should check out as a matter of fact 2 dennis chambers right here on youtube and chris dave. im a big dave weckle fan also
ikecot3 2 years ago
ya dennis is good
i love dave weckl
never heard of chris dave though ill check him out
thanks
Branman1994 2 years ago
That myth that you're talking about that "whites don't have rhythm", was not referring to their ability to play instruments and sing, it was referring to natural dancing ability. That means without a lot of learned steps and choreography.
In any event, AWB was the ish.
millions2nette 2 years ago
@ikecot3 lol
ravinago 1 year ago
@ikecot3
Yep, that's why I call them the most culturally atypical band in the world.
douro20 1 year ago
@ikecot3 - No Doubt, Average White Band made it funky.
dukejah88 1 year ago
The APOLLO loved them.Brought down the house.
worseto 2 years ago
i grew up watchin soul train and i bought all th funk records of the 70,s the greatest music decade ever! clay
Lilly2005japan 2 years ago 3
I'm a little confused, I just bought this song of iTunes and it's slower than this version.
I guess there was a time on Soul Train when performers would actually play their songs live instead of lip syncing?
This one is a little before my time on Soul Train, but I remember seeing acts like Dazz Band, Gap Band, & D-Train lip syncing.
FunkyRob 2 years ago
Who would have thought that such funk could come out of Scotland?
I could just kick myself for only knowing Pick Up The Pieces.
FunkyRob 2 years ago 3
This Funk wasn't born in a Scottish vacuum. This Funk came out of Scotland because Black American Funk first went into Scotland and rocked those white people the way they've never been rocked before. It's like the so-called British Invasion. The Beatles and Stones "invaded" American Music Culture armed with the "weapons" of Black American Music Culture.
outrundaylite 2 years ago
excuse me.....but Irish culture is as old if not older than black...and WE HAD/AND STILL HAVE....the beat and the dance for hundreds of years...and brought it to AMERICA!!!!! Move over!
HSS420 1 year ago
You Irish may have and may still have a beat and you may have brought that Irish beat with you to America. However, that Irish beat isn't the same infectuous, powerful beat of Black American Culture, that beat which has taken the world by storm and has influenced emulators and imitators throughout Europe and yes, even Ireland. Move over? What for?
outrundaylite 1 year ago
You are so defensive.......You I can guess have not a clue about a true musician and dance! I personally think life did not pan out for you the way you thought...and you can hinge on all the rhetoric you may like to.....but you are a lost musician or singer/dancer...who never made it...full of ire! How sad are you!
HSS420 1 year ago 4
I'm not defensive. I'm precise. You can guess all you wish and all of your guesses would be and are incorrect. Don't worry about my life. This isn't about me. It's about the incursion of a foreign culture into Black American Music Culture. You seem to be indignant over a simple fact. Irish have imitated and emulated Black American Music Culture. The converse has not been true. Stick to those facts and you fly off into your hysterical stupidity.
outrundaylite 1 year ago
@outrundaylite Huh? AWB is Scottish. And they jam, no 2 ways about it -- regardless of where they came from.
kimberly9000 1 year ago
A W Muthaphunkin B....
These are the baddest Hueros!!!!!
kutfree 2 years ago
Fucking awesome. I considered Hamish Stuart & Alan Gorrie as the "Lennon & McCartney of funk", all because these guys can sing AND play there asses off. It was sad to see Hamish go, but just like anything else, all good things must come to an end, unfotunately. Bad ass band!
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NickolasDarling 2 years ago
AWB was ahead of their time, a white band that could really get funky, Hamish had a very one of a kind voice that really made their music along with the funky guitar playing, as a black kid growing up in the 70s they were the real deal. One of my first concerts i saw.
fkclark 2 years ago 5
was starting puberty when i first heard this song and come in my pants!
grazer770 2 years ago
I found a cassette of their live album at my dad's house and this is too funky for a 23 year old like me, haha. Such a deep pocket and everything so tight. Love it.
MusicTheoryMan 2 years ago 2
This is in the perfect key ...Funkey
rockdiga 2 years ago
this is too too damn funky!!!
bigfinewoman 2 years ago 4
awesome tune ! who knew they were from the other side of the pond ?
granger18trains 2 years ago 2
Help... Did this guitar/frontman go on to be a part of Paul Mc Cartney's live band in the 90's??
kdreilly8 2 years ago
yup....that's Hamish Stuart..soulman and musician extraordinaire...played bass with Wings - Paul McCartney. Paul was lucky to hire him and he can do it all...
Wacokid48 2 years ago 2
Thanks Waco. I had this on vinyl and listened to it endlessly (1977) my sophomore year at college. Awesome stuff!
kdreilly8 2 years ago 2
to really appreciate these guys you need to hear "person to person",a live concert double albulm released around 1979. one of the best live albums EVER!!!!!
klmcc01 2 years ago 2
AWB !
nikolagamer222 2 years ago
AWB'S name should have been AAWB Above Average Band. Originating from Scotland, unequivocally the most talented band to come out of Europe including the Beatles!!
bshahiyd 2 years ago
Though it was noted that this immortal performer was perhaps the greatest influence on AWB, James Brown was not always (if ever), enamored with AWB, whom he believed was ripping off his style. James gathered his Mighty JB's and the incomparable Maceo Parker and launched a musical response to AWB under the one-time monkier A.A.B.B. - Above Average Black Band. AWB wanted to make the point they were funky white guys. James made it clear to AWB that Funk is Black Culture and he was Funk's master.
outrundaylite 2 years ago
I love James Brown...always did......WIFE BEATER/JAILBIRD/LOSER!!! Now what.....are you the same? I suspect...got some pent up anager their!
HSS420 1 year ago
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outrundaylite 1 year ago
Don't try to discuss me. Deal in facts as I do. Fact: AWB performed a tribute to Maceo Parker, James Brown's brilliant sax player. No U.S. Black group has ever performed a tribute to AWB. AWB worships U.S. Black music without which, they wouldn't exist. Mike Hucknall performed a tribute to Bobby Bland, legendary U.S. Black bluesman. U.S.-Irish House Of Pain was a hip hop group. Hip Hop is a movement STARTED BY U.S. Blacks and Jamaicans. If those facts make you defensive, it's not my problem.
outrundaylite 1 year ago
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Now you're displaying the same defensive behavior most white people resort to when they cannot argue the facts of their incursion into Black American Culture. You attack the character of Black performers, of Black people, or of Black Culture. Whatever Brown's failings, it doesn't change the fact that he was a brilliant showman, a master of the music of Black American Culture and that you Irish and Europeans have imitated and emulated that Black Culture.
outrundaylite 1 year ago