Vinegar Joe - Rusty Red Armour (Robert Palmer & Elkie Brooks)

[TheJosapappa1000]

i just liked young robert palmer

[MrLortab10]

Like theRooster said to a Hen on a summer day in Texas,hot enough to cluck!

[SimonDolan]

Elkie Brooks. No more to say!

[bandbase2]

This is not a live performance! Only the vocals are live. The rest is a backing track from the first VJ

album.

[dizzi0000]

Elkie Brooks !!! what a great singer !!!

[1blastman]

Palmer reminds me of the Black Crowes vocalist

[millholmehouse]

robert was so cool, even back then!

[livvynut]

forget the palmer guy elkie's voice is stunning

[livvynut]

@Jivetuna are you always so shallow as to judge people by their looks I know who looks and sounds the best now oh and by the way get off that f in high horse of yours before you fall off and disembowel yourself.IDIOT for the record I like robert palmer and never said other wise you poor sensitive soul.merry christmas

[kkj1966]

Badassed cat shows up at 00.13

[Ozerris]

Well Well that's what a 23 year old Robert Palmer looked like...Wow! I read somewhere Old Grey Whistle is where he met his wife hummmm....

[bandbase2]

@Ozerris No, he was already married before VJ.

[Ozerris]

@bandbase2 You are so right! I have since found that not to be true, but thanks for setting me straight.

[Teddy2tuff]

I sort of imagine this is how Royal Trux would have sounded if they weren't smackheads.

[Polly6761]

Being a huge early Robert Palmer fan, i don't know how I missed this !

"Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley.......Oh my !!!!!!!!!

[zinesilol88]

@Polly6761 Elkie was the powerful voice and stage persona in this band.

[dragonmama12]

lyrics to this????????

[bootersdad]

Wow Check out the Guitar Player! It's Chris Barron From The Spin Doctors!!! LOL!!

[Gabry20002010]

@bootersdad it's true!!!

[TheFlashfloyd]

sexy boy

[zinesilol88]

Elkie Brooks voice is amazing. !!!

[DefLepLvr1]

How cool this is..I never saw this before...and I love Robert so much...it's nice to know more about his early career. How cute he was!

[SimonDolan]

These should have been MASSIVE. Thank God we do have this footage though. Loving Elkie!!!

[nettiebaby45]

OH MY GOD, Robert is soooo cute with long hair,oooooooooo! Er, ahem! The band

was marvelous singing a wonderful tune at The Old Grey Whistle Test. Marvelous, bravo, wonderful. Yes, Yes,yes.

[GeoStratocaster]

One of my favourite tracks from the band. ;)

[jacquesL0711]

WoW !!!!

[notmemate]

Tragically underrated band.

[gawagney]

40 years on and still hot !.........Thanks.

[msstevie1951]

I never would have guessed in a million years this was Robert Palmer! I like it a lot,but he is unrecognizable without his suit and tie! LOL Thanks for sending this my way rocker53zero! ♥

[msstevie1951]

I never in a million years would have recognized Robert Palmer if not for his name being posted on here! Amazing I never saw him out of a suit and tie but I LIKE IT!!!!! A LOT!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­x

[rocker53zero]

Sometimes the component parts of a band, add up to a greater total than the true value of the band. The reverse was true with Vinegar Joe.

[GoshLookAtThat]

Do you think he'd seen Mick Jagger? :)

[deeryker]

o0hhhh fuk fantastic

[obtucewillie]

Look at the piano keyboard ummmmmm whats with that - lip sink recorded job I think either that or the latest foam top key board. But I still love em.

[rocker53zero]

@obtucewillie I agree, the keyboard looks like a trip on bad acid

[BobTheMunificent]

@obtucewillie I think that's just old video tape and video compression artefacts conspiring to distort the image - you can see the hammers hitting the strings as he plays.

As far as I recall, old Grey Whistle Test performances were always live.

[buckley54]

Edison Lighthouse did a vastly superior version of this way back when

[rickxlcr]

Not one of their best, but back in the day there was nobody anywhere in the same league as Elkie,or since come to think of it

[5177845]

I'm sorry, but this is really horrible music and visually embarrassing to watch. Robert was much better off to go solo. Also, Robert probably was trying to copy Mick Jagger because obviously the Stones were so popular, but I hate Mick Jagger.

[Daveynewport]

It was nearly 40 years ago and VJ were to a degree an experimental band early on this was 1972 early in VJ brief career - they got much better.

[Lolita1982]

Hmmm... why on earth does RP remind me of Mick Jagger in this one?? LOL

[gilouseb]

The chords of the song are similar to those of "Honky tonk women". It helps...

[Jutter2]

@Lolita1982

Because he was obviously trying to mimick Mick. I know no other song where he did that, but he was noticably still devolping his own sound while in VJ.