SUEDE - Metal Mickey (Tonight Show)

[sergiopose1]

Anyway, This was an awesome live performance, Bernard here played extremely well with an heavely rock sound. i really fucking love the first Suede! they were sensual and powerly! ..

I have a important question for the Suede fans .. COULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHICH SOUND EFFECTS USED BERNARD BUTLER IN THE FIRST SUEDE PERIOD?!

thanks by a Italian fun! Sergio

[webster670]

WELL worth suffering the few seconds of Jay Leno's intro & the outro. Bernard was the fucking man. Fucking explosive. Threatening. Brilliant.

[Rubyverbena]

i recently found a blog entry written by someone who was in the audience for this show. i can't paste the link here but it can be found by googling "jamie s. rich" and "now you're over twenty one".

i think the author does a good job explaining just how very important this band is to people here in the u.s as well.

[completeunknown83]

@Rubyverbena thanks for sharing. that was an amazing read.

[Steelways]

BERNARD IS TOO SICK IN THIS!!!

[TIMOTHYSAARINEN]

Great shot at 1:14. This band could have, should have been so huge. Bernard Butler was such a great fucking guitar player.

[klinsmeier]

it was performed live - in an excellant way, despite the big show on stage.

Good times, Butler was my guitar and haircut hero!

[joydivision808]

fucking great band

[meadish]

Stellar performance. I'll probably upset some people with this but it needs to be said, compared to this, the Suede of today is like a mediocre pub band playing covers of Suede songs. Brett's voice can't handle singing the song in this way anymore and their current guitarist just slaughters Butler's magnificent guitar parts.

[turricaned]

@meadish - Re: guitarist - not true. I think Richard always acquitted himself very well, especially so bearing in mind he was only 17 at the time he joined. His only limitation was that he felt obliged to crank out "Suede-by-numbers" and so never really got to develop his own style. The problem was, after "Coming Up", Brett got himself so mired in drugs that he ran out of ideas - he admits as much himself in the book.

[squarefred1983]

@turricaned To be honest it was Coming Up that got me into guitar and it's only later that I appreciated Butler. Richard Oakes definetely has his own style. He's good at playing Richard Oakes songs and apparently doesn't enjoy playing songs he didn't write. As a guitarist I definetly find Oakes songs more technically difficult than Butler songs. Butler had more style and attitude and his live sound was epic, that's why people love him.

[saranoid]

devastating. i wept.

[milkwhiteneck]

better than oasis

[demurer]

love the amazing guitar. can't wait to see them live tomorrow.

[Tcoldsteel]

these sods were EVERYWHERE is the music press that i avoided liking them. Now i miss them when i see bernie butler playing. That rocks.

[mekosilvar]

love when the english come over and make everyone in the states look like shit and feel uncomfortable...oh no,.. not another guy that's not into war and wrestling and is he gay?... god i hope so cause a straight guy wouldnt get caught alive whipin it like this...

[matteo12121]

This is fucking brilliant, Brett is a fucking legend.

[clive66swimworldwide]

"Holliesteelsucks", Butlers balls, apparently!....dont be quite so defenswive of your hero, son

[metalli07]

thats nice he shook hands with them afterwards. never seen jonathon ross do that....

[Pemlola]

Bobtastic style icons! I am severely addicted to this!

[electricgoose]

Great stuff. Not sure Leno's convinced, though :-(

[clive66swimworldwide]

FANTASTIC!..Even if they are cheating a bit..(phantom guitar solo player)..some pre-recording, but who cares!

[jeng3000]

Are you sure? Hmm.. I'm a guitarist who can play this song and I'm not picking up on any ghost guitars. Everything you hear can be done with one guitar as long as you know where to add all the right notes that give the impression of a second guitarist. Even when he's doing the solo, he can be hitting bass notes to give the impression of a chord. But maybe you're hearing something I'm not. ;)

[holliesteelsucks]

@jeng3000

Totally agree. 'clive66swimworldwide' has shit in his ears.

[holliesteelsucks]

@clive66swimworldwide

You have shit in your ears. 'Phantom guitar solo player'?

There's one guitar and Bernard Butler's playing it & the sound you hear is coming from that guitar. You might be shit at playing guitar but don't come on ear with your ill-informed comments.

[Reint25]

@clive66swimworldwide No man, Butler was heavily influenced by Johnny Marr, who was known for reproducing his layered studio-guitar sound into live perfomances with just one guitar.

And that fuzz you hear above it (at 0:23) is just some flanger or phaser effect, I have it too, it works automatically (and sort of lives it's own life).

[davidorocks62]

Never sounded better!

[theeldergoth]

Thanks for posting this! Brilliant!

[MissTaylorMercury]

just fabulous!!!! I loveee suede and brett anderson, he's a dream

[stevegerard88]

i love suede

[rebeldiamond1]

Thats is a great performance- love seeing them rock out like that! Thankx for posting this awesome video!

[krancioch]

That's not a cute sideways look, that's mad bernard being mad- at this precise point in history he was a bit unhinged... he's doing his troubled genius look- which he uses often..

[alexweel]

Speaking strictly as a heterosexual man, I must say Bernard is one damn sexy guitar player. Check out the cute sideways look he gives just before his solo.

[fabianfelipe]

Thank for adding this great lost video...!!

[NaMrJellyRek]

WOW

this IS the best live performance of Metal Mickey I have seen so far.

amazing.

what a great time for suede...and the rest of us.

[krancioch]

This is Bernard at his best and maddest. This was the USA tour that went tits up. You can sense the tension between him and Brett in the way Bernard is stomping like a loony and gurning at the camera in his best 'go away I'm mad y'know' sort of way.

Classic classic classic.

Whoever put this on, you're a genius.

[turricaned]

@krancioch - To be fair to Bernard, he was a couple of years younger than the rest of them and while they were on this tour his Dad was succumbing to cancer back in the UK - if anyone had a right to be more fragile than usual at this point it was Bernard. Brett himself said that with hindsight the rest of the band weren't as sensitive to the situation as they should have been...

[gazk116]

awesome vid thanks..bernards solo is great in this, but for bernard solo fans, watch the he's dead live video on here ( from the love and poison video )

[twiginthewind]

Yeah. Butler better than the butter on your bread...

[MaturitySucks2008]

Thats possibly the best live performance of metal mickey i ever heard.

[hennocksholinepurpur]

This line-up of the band was truly one of the greatest (and sadly nowadays largely-overlooked) bands of all-time. The wild brilliance of Butler for one. Cop the look on his face just before the solo: deranged menace! No one looked or played quite like him before or since. As for Jay Leno, Jaded Leno more like...he looks as if he can barely be arsed to read the teleprompter let alone appreciate the genius of the shooting star(s) before his eyes

[Leopi666]

If I recall correctly, Leno said they seemed nervous when the show came back from commercial break. Thanks for adding this! :)

[x06022]

I like bernard's solo!!