Nils Lofgren - Keith Don't Go

[Hemulen40]

Wooooo, such small hands & such GREAT player !

[ranmore20002000]

Can not believe only 77,000 views.......peps don't know what they are missing!!!!!!!!

[shaolinfingajab]

The 3 people that dont see the utter class on show here are tone deaf fucking morons.

[ranmore20002000]

@shaolinfingajab You are sooooooooooo right!

[LordBlackMass]

If you want to buy copys of the old Grin stuff on CD or even old school Vinyl Bob Berberich the singer/drummer for Grin runs a record store in Baltimore MD called Trax on Wax. He will even sign copys if asked..a super nice guy and a real lost legend of rock n roll

[symorris]

A "message for Millions " indeed!! Keep on "grin"ing

[cosmicrider287]

...and what a voice.

[cs868]

Isn't that Nigel Tuffnel from Spinal Tap sitting in on drums????????

[Clayomayo]

Wait, where's the trampoline??

[ranmore20002000]

@Clayomayo This one jumps even without it!

[AlienshateU]

very cool...

[MrJerryWallace]

Get yourself a "Grin" album. Before this semi-heavy-metal period, Nils' band was playing beach boys era pop songs. Really good lyrics, written by Nils.

[ypesh]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!! finally thank you so much for uploading this, I've been searching ages to find this track, you ROCK!, this tune ROCKS!!!! luv it! 3:44 amazing

[ypesh]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!! finally thank you so much for uploading this, I've been searching ages to find this track, you ROCK!, this tune ROCKS!!!! luv it!

[FilipM1]

One of Nils' best songs in my opinion! Love the drummer in this one!

[hatman1922]

@FilipM1 Mike Zak from Washington DC on drums & Bobby Manriquez on guitar - Bobby's a monster, too!

[jaypauljackson]

Nils Responce to the Rolling Stones Offer.Look for Nils song Beggers Day on crazy horse's first lp

[marioalassio1]

Roscoe Ambel once said about Nils that he can do anything with his voice and his guitar

[B1ggu5]

Rock's best kept secret.

[Pizzo27]

just great!

[geoffnicholson999]

If ever a song didn't require an eight minute version ...

[xCrumpyx]

i hate the fuvking drummer looks like a twat and ruins it. but exellent song and great guitar playing :)

[superquatch]

nils lofgren

[pac401]

the drummer is spazzing out!

[TheLeutrimExperience]

His voice is so enchanting. Best performance of the song, ever.

[kz5757]

song is about keith richards when he was facing prison in toronto 1977 for heroin

[toomanystarfish]

one of the most exciting and original voices the guitar world has ever seen!!! check out his solo on youngstown with bruce... genius!!!

[Wajlonis]

10 tousand guitars wailing Keith don't go! Great song, great lyrics...

[kikque]

Love those screaming bends he runs into from 3.20 onwards. I haven't seen much of Nils before but he's got a fantastic feel.

[mashamorgan]

spoke with Nils a few years back and he told us he was sick of record companies so he planned to bootleg himself!!

[Lipinskis]

I saw Nils in the early 70s in Birmingham (along with Tom Petty who was supporting) .This song is a classic but hasn't got the credit it deserved . Everyone should take 8-1/2minutes out of their live's to listen to this ( Dave)

[63Brummie]

Nice comment mate..

SPOT ON....

[63Brummie]

This is music as it should be played...that groove is passing through the band like an electric charge!

[Kapricorn1]

What a cracker of a song, a saw a shortened version of this on Guitar Heroes at the BBC over christmas (they didnt show the keyboard/guitar duel bit) and it blew my socks off.

[kmazeplvr]

I would really enjoy a post of the Grin song Heart on Fire, which does not seem to be readily available even through itunes. Thanks to anyone who sees this and posts.

[DaughterofKyuss]

Absolutely amazing :-)

[whiskee233]

I dont think thats the version on the dvd...hes wearing a Kimono on that one and sunglasses

[inomawthanu]

i remember nils in a kimono and sunglasses doing 'keith dont go' on OGWT id love to see that again didnt he do 'i came to dance'too? its with wornel jones and rev patrick henderson i think.

be great if someone could share it with us

[ZeDollyDots]

Keith suffers the thing every brilliant musician suffers : the audience isn't following because he's on a different level.

[63Brummie]

LMAO...

Good point buddy :-)

[63Brummie]

The producer was no musician.. right at the begining of Nils solo (having seen him step on his pedal board) he focused on the secong Strat.. Hmmm??

I very small gripe :-)

[crapidious]

If anyone were to post the track "steal away" and let me know, they have got a friend for life!

[john9944]

Love the hair. Nils plays the way that God would if he played a strat. I really like two rhythm guitars one single coil and one humbucker. It sounds like some surreal jam. He is and always has been so great. That Rhodes duet with himself is beyond cool. He has got to be the greatest sideman in history.

[stephon318]

WAAAAT???? why havent I heard this track sooner.. .or better yet seen this video. .Nils is Insane

[B0zz3]

So underrated!

NILS LOFGREN FOREVER

[phddddd]

By whom? No less authorities than Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen claim (other than for Hendrix) he's the best guitarist they've been around ... and he doesn't play a bad piano either ... After the Gold Rush. If anything underrated him it was his penchant for jumping on a trampoline during his guitar solos, at least when he performed under his own moniker. Maybe he's just a better band guy than leader. Nothing wrong with that. That's how Clapton played best as well.

[marioalassio1]

@phddddd I agree regarding Clapton.

[63Brummie]

Peerless... simply peerless!

I really love this track...

[MrWilkinsoni]

love to know where you got the vid. Did you record it yourself off the TV?

[63Brummie]

I think it's available on the best of OGWT test Vol 3???

[madmac17]

A guitar/keyboard duel.........with HIMSELF! How cool is that?

[bertbretherton]

Sublime!

[acupunk74]

Sure wish there was video of Grin somewhere...

[westpenninewoman]

Nimble fingered Nils blows your mind!

[snotmale]

...as good as the first time I saw it! - Brilliant !!

...off to bark up the Vibrolux and '73 Strat now...

[63Brummie]

Rock out with you C%^K out mate!

I love this track.

He uses that band like a magic carpet and just floats off into the ether..

Please import some new ASS for this band to KICK please :-)

[phddddd]

He also added a verse to the remarkable Danny Whitten "I don't want to talk about it." HIs first solo LP is certainly worth getting. He's now with The Boss, after having served Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

[zainsdad]

i only just discoverd just what great player songwriter Nils is, buzzing to here his music

peace

[63Brummie]

There will never be another programme like the Old Grey Whistle Test.. it really opened up my young ears..

The whole band was SLAMMIN on this cut.. but Nils??? oh MOMMA! THAT is how to SOLO...uses the band like a magic carpet..

[zainsdad]

How come he makes it look so so easy........ These guys are very cool

[mow2vu]

smashin good av bin lookin for this for a while, ace!

[RookieSludat]

badassss...

[espresso50]

This is my favorite Nils Lofgren song.

[B0zz3]

I love No Mercy

[Kleaver13GDW]

ive uploaded some nils lofgren songs from the acoustic live album, check them out

[elgordostudios]

I think this was the spring 77 tour, I saw him at the Hammersmith Odeon with Tom Petty as warmup. I was the tall kid with the # 19 Montreal Canadiens jersey mid floor who walked in while Tom was doing American Girl.

[63Brummie]

you lucky git...

Worth the price just to have seen Petty at or near the height of his powers let alone Nils...

[SveNo1]

awesomo10.000! ^^

[nopissinontoday]

Doesn't get any better! Don't take my thumb

[Arseface87]

It's "Don't take my thumb?" Huh. Makes sense I guess. I thought it was "Don't take my fun". I always thought that sounded a bit silly lol.

[misterhazz]

great breakdown with the keys and lead, and the drum beat before it all comes back in is amazing! so subtle but sublime!

[MST720]

I like the acustic version better, and speaking of which what happened to the bridge school fund videos

[chicagowomble]

Stuert Smith was on the Cry Tough Tour in England in '76. If Bobby Manriquez is theother guitarist in this video then I suspect it's from an earlier tour.

[rastaman12345678910]

i think is better in the acoustic version

[Arseface87]

Anyone notice Tom seems to do something with his guitar controls during Nils' solo?

[gfrancisbrown]

Thank You for understanding seattlesparker, funny you should mention sharing, what little that I remember from the conversation that day, Nils was saying that their per diem was quite minuscule as they were a relatively new act on their first national tour, barely enough to cover the dinner they were sharing, not much left over for cigs, which must have cost a whopping 65 cents a pack in those days. Ah, the glamor and the glory of being a rockstar!

[alphaboy1967]

Thank you for posting this fabulous vid...Nils is so so underated....thanks again...regards.

[gfrancisbrown]

You sure about that luderick? In my memory, hazy as it is after 33 years, Tom looked more like the strat dude, my buddy who was with me at the time,initially mistook him for Gino Vannelli. I will watch the video again.

[gfrancisbrown]

I met Nils and his brother Tom (the curly-headed guy playing the other strat) the very same month that this was filmed, my friend and I ran into them at the bar in the Ponchartrain Hotel in Detroit, Nils bummed a smoke off me and we sat around and talked for almost an hour (it seemed). We saw them a couple of hours later when they opened the show for Santana across the street at the Cobo Arena, UN-F**CKING-BELIEVEABLE!!!! they stole the show!

[luderick62]

tom is actually the one in the sunnies playing the archtop. the strat player is some other guy.

[gfrancisbrown]

Wow, I guess eyewitness accounts are unreliable, I didn't even notice Tom there in the background, when I met him he wasn't wearing glasses and was dressed more like the strat dude, Mea Culpa.

[SeattleSparker]

Hey, it's not like band members never swap clothes!

And let's face it; after a few years together bandmates, spouses and people and their pets all start to share similarities. I'm not sure I could have told the 2 guys apart...

[jkaaco]

I was on the entertainment commitee at Montgomery college Takoma park in 1971. Spring concert we put together - The Cherry People, Sageworth and Drums, GRIN and Brewer and Shipley. Great show

[bobdidge]

a seriously underappreciated guitarist - my dad introduced me to his music. lofgren is a legend

[PhantomTroopr]

anyone know what years scott ball toured with him as the bassist? im curious cuz he's one of my college proffesors now.

[Sadsms]

1976

[victoryfurniture]

@PhantomTroopr

Scotty played with Nils in 1975!

[victoryfurniture]

@PhantomTroopr

1975 I saw him at central Park then

[victoryfurniture]

@PhantomTroopr

1975

[MITCHWILD]

I first saw Nils on this tour, at the Greyhound in Croydon, he bounced on his trampoline, landed flat on his back and i swear he never missed a beat, seen him many times, met him four or five times, my favorite Guitarist and a top bloke.

[MST720]

wow he is a lot younger in this

[explodingzebras]

anybody know where I could find whistle test version of back it Up, where Nils an his guitarist play each others guitars?

[westpenninewoman]

A unique nimble fingered talent!

[bertbretherton]

My daughter and I saw him at a small venue in Burnley England years ago and met him after the show. What an unassuming gent - and such a lover of music. One of the unsung greats.

[iSeduce]

Legend. Timeless. I'm 18 years old and I love it.

[neilnils]

This 'Nils' band version was really rockin' out in 1976 during the Cry Tough tour. Classic combo.

[verenigdkoninkrijk]

stop swearing.Looking at Nils this was probably recorded in 1975.(grey whistle test)

He is fantastic and it is not relevant which year it was.

I saw him first live in Paradiso, Amsterdam 1980.Then again in Market Harborough,UK 2001.

He is timeless great and not bigheaded.

Neither is keith by the way,with or without drugs.

Nils is fantastic.

The best thing that comes from the USA

[froglac91]

except The Boss himself.......

[PeteyTee08]

I went to college in MD and knew Nils long before he hooked up with my JerseyBoy Bruce. I loved his solo stuff.....anyone remember College Park circa.....1978-80?

[sophiesage]

Saw him several times at the Psyche Deli!

[Sadsms]

It's definately May 1976 - on the Cry Tough Tour.

[jlambert321]

@verenigdkoninkrijk breaks my heart, nils is springsteens guitarist, and that other guy, little stevie?? can't hold a candle, nils is the shiznet,....

[Crowsfan55]

@verenigdkoninkrijk most underated guitar player ever.....god...listen to him play

[ArnoldCreative]

Wow...what this guy can do with 10 fingers and 6 strings...Thanks for posting!

[toadjust]

Hey Tays69, who's dissing Toronto? I'm just quoting from the live song! Keith's arrest is historical fact. You are just hysterical.

[DangerousBastard]

Anyway, cool video, thanks. I notice 3 Telecaster saddles on a Stratocaster bridge; pretty cool! I've thought about doing that myself.

[GoatHerderEd]

I'm not sure this is May '76. That tour was the Cry Tough tour with Stueart Smith on guitar. I bet this was 74/75.

[chuteok]

Reckon your right mate on the Cry Tough Tour, but then I am am only middle aged and got into him when I pinched my brothers Grin platters {and Todd Rundgren} when he was not around

[Sadsms]

I can assure you guys, it's May 1976. This visit to OGWT was done in the middle of the Cry Tough Tour.

[Sadsms]

Also, Stuart Smith didn't tour with Nils until the 1980's

[monkeyguitarist]

NNNNNNNNNNiiiiiiiiilllllllllll­lllllllllssssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!!

[toadjust]

Maybe that was the live version on Night After Night I'm thinking of.

[toadjust]

I thought it was about Keith's upcoming trial for posession of heroin in Toronto in 1977.

Keith don't go to that town called Toronto.

[chuteok]

No I reckon you are correct, my older bro told me about it, I am 18 months younger and he was into Nils a wee bit before me

cheers

[kingharvest1988]

Nils is the man!!, amazing guitar playing

[B1ggu5]

He looks like Keef here.

[15chipshops]

Incredible version of one of my favourite's which was apparently a tribute to 'Keith Richards'. There were rumours that Keith Richards was about to leave the Rolling Stones due to his aguments with Mick Jagger...

[1PinkFreud]

Hmm, I guess I had that one wrong; I always thought it was a reference to his lifestyle - as in "Keith, don't die on us."

[antibiootti]

nils is really good. yeah. better than those fastfinger shred malmsteens and laihos. hahah lol xDxdxD

[kazan1971]

he is so great!

[seacow1970]

I remember seeing this on a repeat in the early 80's when I was about 11 or 12 and have been waiting and checking regularly for it to appear on YouTube!

Thanks!

[MAXWALLS]

the whole one hour show is repeated often on channel 271 UK performance. next one is 20th november then 30th. great stuff !

[MITCHWILD]

i have seen nils so often i cant remember how many times, met the man on a number of occasions too,realy nice fella.

[drdhk]

Great. I too grew up with Nils. In fact, my son was named "Nils" for a reason...

This clip is first rate, thx!

[WiLMaster002]

Lol this is pretty bad.

I like him best, solo acoustic.

[sudsamatic]

acstrick--

That's actually Bobby Manriquez's pickguard. For some reason when the solo starts the camera goes to the rhythm guitar--not Nils. I saw this 3 guitar linup at Painters Mill Music Fair near Baltimore in '75--a really memorable show. I've seen Nils and Grin quite a few times and I think it was the best I saw. This has to be closer to 1975 than 1978. Nils 1st solo album was 1975 and it doesn't seem likely he would be playing with THAT cover art in the background three albums later.

[Sadsms]

Yes, Your right - it's May 1976, The Cry Tough tour with Scotty Ball on bass, Mike Zack on drums. I got my clips mixed up in my mind and thought it was from either the 77 I came to dance tour or 1979 tour so I played safe and said circa 1978. But of course Wornell Jones was on Bass in 79. I've amended the clip note.

[sudsamatic]

Hope it didn't sound picky regarding the date--I was just trying to place where I was when I saw this lineup. If you've got enough clips to get mixed up with please post em! thanks

[stuporsession]

sadsms; so who is the strat player that plays lead when Nils is singing at the start of the tune?

[Sadsms]

As Sudsamatic said above, it's Bobby Manriquez.

[acstrick]

it's interesting that i saw a flat pick wedged in his pickguard. as all nils fans

 know, he plays with a thumbpick.

[monkeyguitarist]

Yeah, that's why it wasn't on Nils guitar. The pickguard is white. Nils guitar Lite Ash Strato have a black pickguard. It was the guy with long black hair's guitar. Nils use thumbpicks, as you said.

[totalcontrast]

I remember watching this the first time around on the telly on the OGWT. What a great right hadn technique he has too.

[monkeyguitarist]

Oh my LORD ! This is unique ! Wunderbar !

[GoodGigsVids]

This OGWT is on mainstreet TV Sky 271 as I write. GGGGGGGGGGGGreat guitrist

[sophiesage]

Just after his CLASSIC 1st solo album! ( his best album ever IMO ) No one play guitar like this!

[ploopyism]

whats needed is the old grey whistle test performance from around the time of the magnificent cry tough album.

still not available cd for some reason ?

this video is superb by the way

lance