The Damned - Curtain Call

[Bamafiend2010]

Dude Vanian's killing this thing! Awesome!

[Cathyd381]

Dave Vanian at his most mesmerisingly beautiful best ♥

[billybadbrakes]

Seen them about 25 times!! ..It brings it all back to see the contrast between what the Damned were wanting to do and what the punks who followed them were wanting to hear! They were totally uncompromising in playing this in it's entirity (this is an edit btw). They were showing their psychedelic/goth tendencies and the punks were bewildered, you can see it in their faces!! Even gobbing (which was really big at the time) wasn't going to stop Vanian et-all doing exactly what they wanted to do!!

[eliassailor]

Pause at the end of 2:23 right before it hits 2:24 and be ready to laugh at a funny Dave Vanian face.

Just saw them on the tour they're on right now. The band is in top form and Vanians voice is better than it's ever been imho. The most overlooked underrated band of all time.

[flippyflyer]

@eliassailor Just saw 2011 tour on West Coast...Top form indeed.... including The Capt...where Scabies? Damned Damned Damned!!!

[flippineek]

Field Marshal Slug.... remember?

[balanasplits]

Wonderful, not seen this clip for well over a decade. I want this playing as my lifeless corpse is burnt to ashes, seen these punk fuckers so many times I've lost count. Edinburgh in November again later this year! here's to the next decade of the Damned. Anyone critical of this band should consider that Damned fan's don't give a rat scabies' arsehole what you think, get a life.

[TheJedgeworth]

Just looking at all the comments...still my favorite The Damned Song...no matter what Vanian is now, or what he was then, his celluloid soul is eternally, dangerously, sexual and hypnotic. Interesting how many posts are full of hate and weird, nasty energy, as if some psychic dictator from above is decreeing all things cool to have a nasty or violent edge. Some things and people are just funny, just sexy, relax.

[idiotbox254]

Genius at work. Sensible is the most underated musician the UK has ever produced. Rat Scabies is as good as any "metal" drummer and Dave Vanian is the coolest frontman ever. As much as I am an old school punk it's probably fair to say that the Damned were wasted on punk(s).

[sazzletee]

Vanian was so cool about the invaders. Never missed a beat.

Like a Boss.

[daveated]

theres 10 minutes missin!

[Lytton333]

All those benighted punks didn't really know what to do with such a dark vaudevilian opus.. So, thinking it was another 'punk-song', they just pogo'd and spat at the front.. like they were told to do.

There's nothing more conservative than a old punk-rocker with a studded-jacket ..

The Damned proved that you could take it into different directions. Sensible was always something of an experimental prog-rocker really.. It had to come out sooner or later..

[Mattsass8]

yeah im pretty sure that dude with the yellow hair got his ass kicked back stage by security

[Waldstiem]

ALL YOU FUCKING TWILIGHT FUCKS TAKE NOTES... this is how goth was and should still be... looking good and not afraid to get dirty in the pit and take numbers... just a thought from an original INDUSTRIAL goth and still am at 42... till next time cheers

Waldstiem

[thefakeclare]

The lead singer is a total badass vampire.

[AprilsPurpleSoul]

This is so fuckin' good...

[Mantichora2600]

I really liked the homages to Ray Manzarek and Pete Townshend in the song. Fine work.

[ktalkpasa]

This song gives me serious chills! LOVE IT.

[boogerbenson]

Wow! I had this on vhs till my big fat fucking ex wife taped coronation street over it!!!!!

I nearly killed the twat!

[jamesgreenfield]

@boogerbenson - well she would have deserved it, what a c**t

[Squeaky1423]

beautiful video, wow! Love the stage jumping, lol

[up2space]

i would think twice about the damned. anyone know anything about vanian, i think he is a satanist. why don't you ask him, and if he is, then you know what to do.

[up2space]

@up2space spit in fucking devil face, hey piss in his fuckin face.

[julieanddavid]

@up2space what shall we do SO WHAT HES A SATANIST I AM ASWELL I LOVE IT

WE R THE ANTICHRIST HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

WHAT YOU GONNA DO

[up2space]

@julieanddavid that's for confirming my suspicions. what can you do, you say? you can go to hell. ha ha ha. hey do you know satan? whatya gonna do when you go poof? why does satan need a hell when he has this place? wake up, satan is nothing more than an uninvited buttfuck. not my cup of tea.

[julieanddavid]

@up2space YES I KNOW A LOT ABOUT VANIAN

SO I DON'T NEED TO ASK HIM ANYTHING

YOU PRICK UR MAD COS OF HIS LAST NAME AND THE NAME THE DAMNED

LONG LIVE THE VANIAN'S AND THE DAMNED

[ckyskater456]

So this is the best quality video of curtain call and you didnt upload all of it?BOLLOCKS!

[RetroGuy5000]

song is awsome

[ohio1968javelin]

Great Fucking song Long Live Rock!!!!!!!

[ohio1968javelin]

FUCKING GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!My fav the DAMNED!!Long live Rock

[headwork2008]

this track is awesome!

[EdiesMama]

F'ing Epic! If I could give this vid more than 5 stars I would! I still have this album on vinyl. Dave Vanian I <3 you! Going on 25 years now!

[TheJedgeworth]

Besides, what's a little spit (actually looks more like projectile vomiting) to a man who has obviously rising from a tomb at sunset for 5,000 years, still managed to look hot, keep an incredible voice, and didn't break stride when a complete stranger suddenly wanted to be his "best friend"? I know I asked that we put this 'gobbing" aside - why does it sound like goblins?? but I broke my own rule - not the 1st time!

[Angusismyhero]

@TheJedgeworth Very well said, on both of your comments!

I drove home after I saw them live the other week and me and my friend had this on in the car. Bloody spooky stuff when it got to the middle section, there was no one else on the road and it was all blocked off with cones so we weren't sure where we were going. An example of a song being like the soundtrack to life, just perfect.

[TheJedgeworth]

My favorite The Damned song. Vanian's smile when he says "night obliterates the day and all the fun begins" is one of the sexiest things I've ever seen. Let's put the bit about the gobbing to bed and get on with the mastery of this very under-rated band!

[sazzletee]

@TheJedgeworth Looks like he was kicking something off the stage. Something obviously amused him. I agree by the way.

[TheJedgeworth]

@sazzletee Hi -

Thanks for the reply. Took a look at your site - Adam Lambert ain't too bad!

[sazzletee]

@TheJedgeworth I think so. lol Thanks. Also I just realized. I think he's probably kicking someONE off the stage. lol

[MarioMizune]

まるでジム・モリソンだ

[ZLUGGO]

Such a cool singer, brilliant band and great tune! "Black Album" is underrated. I think it's a terrific album.

[Rawlinson18]

@ZLUGGO One of the best albums ever dark but uplifting.

[ZLUGGO]

@Rawlinson18

Absolutely!

[arnaudbleu]

@ZLUGGO I had problem to recover a CD version of this album. I've just received it 2 weeks ago and i spend time like before singing loud the lyrics with what we call in french "chair de poule". Perfect ! :)

[ZLUGGO]

@arnaudbleu

Ok. Nice one.

[fiskarama]

One of the greatest pieces of music ever! It don't get better than this, I think anyway :-)

[ZLUGGO]

@fiskarama

"Fisk" means "Fish" in Swedish. That is the title of a Damned tune (from their first album).

[TheJedgeworth]

@fiskarama You're right there.

[Yugizzzz]

this rocks crowd surfing is fun too ive done it before

[Yugizzzz]

2:59 haha

[tequilakaren]

what a voice dave as omggggggggg, brought my son up on dave an the damned wot a fekkin great band nuff said !!

[ZLUGGO]

@tequilakaren

Dave is one of the coolest frontmen of all times.

[punktothec]

omg

chill out

if you didnt understand this but in england in the late 70's early 80's it was a show of affection to spit on your heros. it was called gobbing....

stupid? yes. if anyone spat on me i would get pissed...but it happened alot back then and the bands also knew what was up thats why they dont get pissed.

check out 2:02 he gets a nice one right on the forhead befor the music drops...he doesnt wipe it off till 2:24

[hartmusc]

LOL

I saw Public Image play in Lancaster (mid 1980's I would guess).

At the band's entrance, Johnny Rotten (John Lyddon) walked to the front of the stage.

From a sideways view in a balcony, I saw a waterfall of spit (gozz, gob, flob, whatever) going UPWARDS from the floor in front of him.

He stood there without moving for about a full minute.

Then he said to the crowd:

"Your daddies used to spit at me"

Ahh....

Fond memories.

[up2space]

like i said how dare you spit on your heros. thank god sid vicious showed us how to deal with dickheads in the audience. slam them over the head with a bass. if you can't handle that, then don't fuck with the brilliant.

[djfoil]

Nicely said! props.

[jodi183]

@up2space LOL - all Sid could do with the bass was hit people over the head with it. He was so awful playing it, the band usually turned is amp way down or just had it unplugged. Poor Sid was so strung out, he had no clue.

[up2space]

@jodi183 the point was if you were disrespectful, then you got what you deserve. sid knew that.

[Waldstiem]

@up2space dude i so second that.... keep smoking and smashing

Waldstiem... 

[Rawlinson18]

This is Punk, if you disagrree with me i'll come round and rip your Punk hair out, England only, none of your american bunch o turds

[phsycobint]

saw damned in 86 and come home covered in some fuckin mingers flem.dirty bastards. ha ha

[up2space]

on a song like this spitting you should all die. your not punks your shit. that's why punk died. cause the audience was garbage.

[LaineyLose]

You should die and get spit on your corpse. You're not punk, you're shit. All genres of music die sooner or later. It wasn't meant to last. You are garbage and so is your comments.

[LaineyLose]

On a person like you, you should be spat on. This song is great, you are useless.

[up2space]

your comments are worthy of gob. listen to the lyrics, my friend "you get what you deserve".

[vespajedi]

Watch a big lump of gob land on Vanians left shoulder at 1.32..........He doesnt even bat an eyelid!!!....fucking great.....they should bring back gobbing, especially at Take That concerts!!

[up2space]

wow , that was spit he should have went out with a bat and beat the shit out of the teenage culprits.

[up2space]

that's fuckin gross. he should have gotten a bat and beat their heads in. guess he's a piece of shit jus like they are. and i thought the US punk crowd was shit. your all shit..fuckin die you deserve it.

[LaineyLose]

You're fucking stupid. What are you going on about, you looney? You're the only piece of shit, you piece of shit. You're shit, fucking die you deserve it. Beat your head with a bat and do the world a favor.

[LaineyLose]

P.S. Don't bother responding I don't argue with loonies such as yourself and I won't read your comments. Go play in traffic,cunt.

[PSSTControl]

great band & video

[Kelly14UK]

Vanian looks cool as fuck here.

[jangljive]

agreed

[Kelly14UK]

The Damned recorded this in 1980 for the Black Album, but didn't do it live till 1982.

[BodhisattvaxChihiro]

Wow! He's got this kind of Vampiric thing with the organ sound and style (physical)!Nice! My kinda guy!

[danash196]

i wish i looked that cool, excellent song, psychedelic maan

[Herb79]

The Damned: ever the class act - even with better with Vanian, Sensible and Scabies on one stage!

[mdmdawg]

fuckin amazin voice

[mauerblumchen]

seconded

[Indio70]

Super

[CircusOfHeaven]

i absolutely love how wide Dave opens his mouth when he sings

[im0thing]

that is the proper way to sing. if you don't open wide you won't sound well.

[chdcile]

like this one, thanks