Blue Murder Billy on the Big AL Show

[believer06]

John Sykes is the man. After breathing new life in Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, he comes out with a fantastic band of his own. One of the all time greats in Rock who is vastly underrated.

[psychodad13]

MY GOD look at ALL THAT HAIR!!!!! Love these guys!!!

[badmotorscooter1000]

Carmine is so slick. always confident and in total control.

[CthulhuForCocoaPuffs]

What idiot hit dislike? Come on now, Tony's yellow MC Hammer pants shouldn't be a reason to click that. They still rock.

[JacksonRedRum]

This blows away 95% of the cats out there! Killer! Guitar / Bass / Drums / vocals & songwriting!

[gbarrancos1]

Man, Sykes == Badass. To sing and play along with the main riff. Awesome!

[chevysean]

Wow I remember seeing this a looong time ago. Blue Murder was an awesome band. Thanks for posting this.

[CthulhuForCocoaPuffs]

Wow, hell yeah! I forgot Weird Al had that show on MTV but I remember this performance very well. At that time I didn't really know who Sykes was. But this performance sold me on the band and I went out and got the album after seeing this. Just plain killer, thanks so much for putting it up.

[aaronbergAPB]

Killer performance here by all 3. Very cool post!

[chimptor50]

First, great song and band, Two, how many rock bassists do you see playing a fretless bass!!!! An Third, on, That Metal Show, Sykes announced that he and Mike Portnoy were laying down tracks for demos for a new record and hoping to get Bob Rock to produce! Put on your seat belts when that is released!!!!! I can't wait! I don't remember the bass players name. But what a power trio that will be!!!

[stillofthenightcl]

@chimptor50 Is the amazing Tony Franklin!!! He hope he will be the third musketeer with John and Mike Portnoy!!!

[SMONDERISLAND]

fucking killer.

[bgibson70]

@vannin666 Sykes is what made Whitesnake Kick ass!

[BloodPoisoning1987]

Sykes is back.....and will be more total war, total war moreeeeeee!!!!!!

[fasterplayer65]

TONY CARMINE AND JOHN NOT A BAND- A WALL OF SOUND!!!

[stillofthenightcl]

@fasterplayer65 Yep, but here is Tony Franklin the badasss!!! he really, really rules!!!!

[ybon003]

When he starts talking with that thick pommie accent, oh shit fuckin cracked me up. Wasn't expecting that, you'd expect a californian drawl with that hair!! Bass player has no shoes!!! Great song!

[fasterplayer65]

@ybon003  BRO THATS TONY FRANKLIN!!! FUXING BADASZSS

[stillofthenightcl]

@ybon003 Nobody could dance like that with shoes on!!! :)

[dollybird369]

yes, Sykes is a badass! great stuff, definitely miss these days. thanks for putting this on---glad I found it

[badhorsee]

i only  got 1 question though- howd kajagogoo get on bass? hes good too lol

[badhorsee]

pretty dam good rhythm guitar-WHILE SINGING-sykes is just a bad ass lol

[mtbsnenpt123]

最高！　いいなあ～！！

[mtbsnenpt123]

最高！　いいなあ～！！

[mixmastermonte]

Back before pro tools, and pitch correction you had to find talened people to be in your band that could play and sing.  John is holding down two guitar parts and singing... and he wrote the stuff. These day's why would you practice a guitar when you can play guitar hero?

[cowboyimmortal]

miss this stuff, sykes... one of the best

[hellsbells3084]

People talk about Getty lee and Billy Sheehan as being the bests bass players. But when you really at these guys Tony franklin justs kills man..

[Warthogfan]

@hellsbells3084 Geddy

[hellsbells3084]

@Warthogfan opps

[Museman73]

Sykes playing is always so thoughtful to the melody, Most songwriters never find that balance.

[badhorsee]

most guys who can shred ur head off... cant write a good song for shyt, john sykes can do it all, and he does it with flair and  BALLS, a true guitar hero who sadly to say..alot of people dont even know, sykes is the guy all over the whitesnake album that went no.1, not no vivian campbell or vandenberg-both good players but....nothin on JS-PERIOD!

[KICKYOASH]

@badhorsee Well said Sir !!!

[charlie403b]

One of the best 3 pieces of all time!

[jmitchell67060]

I love the ending they throw in at the end of the song. 

[MrUltraworld]

Amazing

[fretworx]

Saw them live in 91 and all I could do is stand there with a glazed look on my face, occassionally shanking my head in disbelief. If you think this rocks, you should hear the non-video-compressed version.. face melting, just face melting.

[MSKonings]

Bass player looks like that kid from the 2nd Mad Max movie.

[MSKonings]

Bass player looks like that kid from the 2nd Mad Max movie.

[Maysticha]

Não me canso de dizer:John Sykes é o cara!!!!

[Nubias]

Looks like Carmine on the drums,met him in best buy 1 day,he was fantastic,great Human being,yah didn't know they were this good,I heard they were,but never got around to checkin em out. Glad I did!! damn they Rock...

[9pixals]

I think maybe there is a keyboard player off screen. You can see him between 5:06 and 5:10. It doesn't sound like the studio version with live vocals. I think they are just good.

[CastAirLead]

They are right its pre recorded apart from the vocals.

[luccasmaso]

this is fucking awesome

[eoinb57]

I think this is the best live performance ive ever seen

[cghghgm]

Tony Franklin stole my pajamas :D

[RingOfRae]

stop the shit ok ? this is 100% live and this guys fucking rock your ass !

[andybrck]

well there is a keyboard playing 

[MikeMiheli]

the only thing live is the lead vocal mic.

you can tell they are syncing by what carmine is playing on the drums. he doesn't play some of the fills and there are some crashes that he didn't play.

[CastAirLead]

@MikeMiheli bullshit!? Its got to be live!

[CastAirLead]

@MikeMiheli your right. im sorry.

[TheRockchick85]

they are singin live....not like today...were the talkin is even mimed!!!

[SandGs72]

..."All seeing Eye" a top the stage... I guess Weird Al is...you know... By the way, Blue Murder rocks!!...

[fatgordon]

This is slightly different to the album version. And why do the play 'half live'? And why is Tony Franklin in his pajamas? Otherwise, great stuff

[jcm8002204]

the 1:55 snare roll is clearly a missed by Appice.

[saicosis2]

@jcm8002204 LOL guy you are soooooooo wrong about this! If you had ever seen this band live, you would understand that they really were so good it was hard to believe they were playing it.... But they were!

[saicosis2]

@jcm8002204 There is nothing there. You're making stuff up. Be happy that there were once musicians this good that could give a show this intense.

[jcm8002204]

Unfortunately, They are singing LIVE over a pre-recorded audio track due to production constraints....you can see several small miscues (missed cymbal crashes and some minor fret position locations)...but great live vocals...and a great song by seriously great musicians....

[253pete]

Wow tony franklin rocks :@ he can play the hell out of that bass

[doctorx3]

what an insanely talented trio and awesomely cohesive. it's a shame they only put out one album.

[yes90125]

@doctorx3 They actually put out 2 but the second one was shit.....now thats a shame!!

[panikos14]

hell yeah, john sykes one of the best guitar players in history..

[orapp67]

Once you get past the hairbandishness.....Wow! Always like Sykes. He does a fine job as lead man, especially when it's His band. Thanks for posting.

[speedburnervideo]

Scary, great stellar vocals, killer band, killer tone on the axe, geez i LOVE this band! THAT AMP is GOD!