Ian Dury - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (live)

[MtDruittRocks]

I used to listen to this whilst @ Mt.Druitt back in the early 80's .. still a F___King brilliant song

[clutterbells]

I am always impressed by the depth of sounds that the Blockheads managed to pull together.

[3carnforth]

Fantastic band, was lucky enough to see them,god what a great song, rhythms amazing,good times !!!!!!!!!!!!

[uwebde]

Ds ist gut, ich liebe dich !

[dbeecooks]

Brilliant!

[acarouselofantics]

i never get tired of this performance

[mjmcc15]

Ian Dury was UK's Jim Morrison

[TheArizonaMark]

@mjmcc15 except Jim wasn't ugly

[IlikefishIlikemusic]

bestbrit band of the 70's? you been avoiding led zeppelin, the who, pink floyd. lol

[Privvyrecords]

@IlikefishIlikemusic nothing compares to the beutiful music of ian dury, true hero. Probably more influential to the running of society than both adam smith and karl marx put togeather!!!!

[markmarktarmann]

@IlikefishIlikemusic dpends what you like and when. for glam folk metal (sounds like a mighty boosh bob fossil introduction) at it's finest led zep fo sho. for gritty poetic brit funk and roll ian and the block heads. who would i rather see live....99 out of hundred nights i'd go see ian and dance. and one night for the stoned out guitar poser wankfest without double tracked studio vocals. plant. eh.

[Interpolantics23]

I've never seen anything like this- amazing!

[mightywickmaster]

Seeing this makes you realize how today's music sucks. RIP Ian.

[fabettoni]

16 people have soiled their undies.

[squidnaki]

Blimy what memories of this during a great time of my life, this was done before the existense of lip sync and synthesizers when the whole band was into it. great music from one of the best pumped punker

[markmarktarmann]

@squidnaki well, there were synths, but were played live, nobody dared to use

loops, 4 fear of being called musical wankers-until ELO came along & reset the standard.for lowness.now w/ playback, madonna, usher, christine aguilera, bieber, j lopez,,lady gaga &the rest today's musical nothings call it musici saw "take that" doing a show last on german tv (land of wankfest spektakal wunders) & they needed a 3 ring fucking circus (literally) around them to sell their performance and song. pathetic.

[doctorstaymoist]

WHAT CLOTH EARED FUCKWITS HIT THE DISLIKE BUTTON !!!!! STILL ITS A FREE COUNTRY (JUST)

[thestraw2]

i am sure he was a Parliamanet Funckadelic lover



[thestraw2]

i am sure he was a Parlimanet Funckadelic lover

[MuckyPup67]

wow, A good old fashioned , workin class,Rock star. HERO!

[andreaprodan]

Along with Argentinean band "SUMO"... this is the BEST band of the Era! Bleedin' great!



[needtashow]

saw them back around this time -they were overwhelmingly awesome

[meisterly]

fuckin give anything to have been in this band playing live. lose yourself in the madness....................

[smithypeart1]

I love the rawness of this,plus it being one of my all time favs

[naoshikato]

please watch "ANDI SEX GANG KAMIKAZE BEAUTY " very awful

[epicblane]

I love it!

[acarouselofantics]

So funky.......that is why I'm glad that people post videos like this! I'm American and grew up with Hip Hop and Gospel music first.....and found out about what some may call New Wave late but I'm so glad that I read about this band from a little magazine that comes from England and I find in the BORDERS bookstore.

[pfalconer]

Christ, Watt-Roy's a tremendous bass player.

[societywench]

Andy Serkis was brilliant in the role, and yes, I was working in London at the time, and it was a great time.

[Interpolantics23]

This is the closet to perfection I think you can achieve for a song

[ShanksDChopper]

Drury performs like a man possessed by the music. And not in a fake pretense sense but in a very real passionate sense. Even looks like he's retching up the words at 1:00 =P

[chillstar]

Funky as you like!

[schlampentusse132]

great and autentic live version of a all-time-classic.

[stoberto06]

what a fuckin song! alot of his studio recordings could be more energetic thats why im glad theres live versions like this

[Smudger830]

@richiep1285

Spot on son.

[meisterly]

wonderful up tempo live version

[indio77777]

The goverrnor.

[Boyrich69]

Enjoyed The Blockheads at Colchester Arts Centre last night. Still going strong and sounding just as good after 32 years!

[joeyinempirestate]

choon rocked a lot of clubs

[paulio11270]

i love ian dury .

[ThatBlokeCalledRyan]

Is he actually playing two sax's?!

[Bietel]

@ThatBlokeCalledRyan Yes, he is! Rahsaan Roland Kirk did that too, and David Jackson of Van Der Graaf Generator. (Look for 'Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer' poster by mihaireal !)

[donnyab]

@Bietel bit of a gimmick...listen to Coltrane he just sound like he is playing two

[Bietel]

@donnyab hahahaha... you're right about Coltrane... still, nothing wrong with a gimmick every now and then. Besides - personally, I think Jackson took it several steps further than that, but...

[bishbosh75]

one of the first songs i remember,my dad was a massive fan was lucky enough to see him before he passed what a fucking gig! they had to drag him off. god bless rip

[xybervid]

3:04 Norman Watt Roy is fabulous!

[twoslices]

@xybervid  Probably nobody better anywhere than Norman

[Dente18]

@xybervid Norman Wat Roy is fabulous all the time! ;)

[VinylGuy63]

Yes kiddies, everyone below is right, this is proper music...the shit you listen to today is unoriginal crap brought to you by record companies.

[fabettoni]

This is so true, when proper artists and entertainers actually ruled music and not bloody corporations.

[georgeman2468]

Fuckin awesome. Proper fuckin music

[1400deadwood]

Ian Drury & the Blockheads had the best stage show of any group of that era. They were second to none.

[rjy8960]

@funkyleo1973: Creativity and passion got stamped on by the desire of big business to make money from shite.

[kasyanov85]

Крутой мужик был

[WoodRatGirl]

OH HIT ME PLEASE! lol sorry abit high here atm.

[scratch885]

A great band of pure class.

[indio77777]

The Governor.

[ninestraycats]

yeahhh

[Freidlon7]

Anyone know the right chords for the bloody chorus on guitar!!!

[dracopticon]

This man, Ian Dury, is a charismatic icon of great ideas. I greatly mourn his passing.

[Jlipnicki]

F......ing excellent.

Non compare.

[Pokal777]

I so much like the live videos of Ian Dury!!!

[jackulrich]

Ian and Band... forewer... great... best ever

[rudydynxx]

its a shame we dont have artists like this anymore,nowadays its all music for the braindead,e,g, xfactor,pop idol piss,,,whats this nation become?,answer,a empty breeding ground for shallow halfwits,,,hopefully things will change.

[ebo319]

I just can say he is awesome and trully artist

[smithypeart]

This song has been in my memory since i was 8 and that was when it was a hit......brilliant and unique song and i love it!!!

[hylozoik]

=)) ian "dory" - you go too early ! ;'(

[DaveyL1954]

The best music in the world like this has been banished to a drawer far far away, where it is forbidden to be played. Instead we have Simon fucking Cowellcunt dictating the country's cultural music output. Him and the accountants. Had this been played today, it would have been written off as shit. Because Cowellcunt has no taste. Listen to the shit he produces. But he has the £££. And thats what matters. Susan fucking Boyleinthebag. I rest my case.

[Realizalize]

@DaveyL1954

Germany has Dieter Bohlen as his counterpart. S. Boye is effing sweet and authentic compared to his "Modern Talking" and stuff.!

-try wiki...

itsawfull

[DaveyL1954]

@Realizalize

Sincere thanks. I'll check it out.

Dave

[markmarktarmann]

@Realizalize bohlen is 100% fucking crap. no talent, just bizness accumen

[mankoka03]

Just saw the movie. What a brilliant performance. Andy Serkis was so intense and had my eyes glued to the screen the whole time. How come movies like this don't get the recognition they deserve?

I love the piano in this song.

[2182248]

Feel it only right to point out that, as a musician I can confirm this is one of the most complicated bass lines ever to appear in a song in the charts - bloody awesome, particularly when joined by other very talented musicians. Brilliant stuff.

[rhythmcorp]

@2182248 check out specials 1979 (4 of 6) and (5 of 6), there's a bassline there too worth mentioning.

[rhythmcorp]

@2182248 ps this guy play jazz in a ska-band, all the while jumping around, and I don't want to play down the basser of Ian.

[The12ozBucket]

Could someone hit TNTMOI please,with an IRON BAR !

[TNTMOI]

Could somebody hit him please -_-

[a19patrol]

With the lies of Dury and Weller,us Brits really have had 2 of the very best front men in the world.Why don't the likes of Simon Cowell fuck off and take his pop idol with him.

[maewe]

@a19patrol what about morrissey

[craigpaterson11]

refreshing to the ear's... and nice to see a blog not been damaged by some twat looking for a a response after some meaningless nonsense..... where has music gone!!!

[IanDuryVideos]

Great clip

[FilipeColez]

jeez..............so brilliant 

[WilkyMay609]

I will tolerate You Tube's cat videos as long as great videos like this are posted. What a performance!

[philday1]

You are so right funky leo - there is no such thing as music any more - it's just product.

[pom651]

Mr D

[jezzysoulboy]

I swear to god this could be one of the best songs ever made... Pure British biznis, we salute you mr dury

[stephengoldsmith1]

saw him at the Gants Hill Odeon London, very early 80@s awsome gig

rip Ian

[spiced32]

cracking tuuune, looks lik the gear was cracking bak then too lol

[groxbrown]

Saw him at the Hammersmith Odeon in early '70s. Don Cherry was playing pocket trumpet in the band. Absolutely awesome to a young American visitor to London. Remember running like hell in the crowd to catch the last tube of the night. Opening band was called Blurt.

[B1ggu5]

This was number 1 the week I was born. :o)

[morganic88]

Amazing song!!!!!! Saxist playing 2 sax at once?! Amazing - hes dueting with himself , haha... Google THEORIONPROJECT

[meltogue]

@morganic88 yes two for the price of one!

[NightcrawlerLuver]

Its nice to be a lunatic!!

[SatsumaTV]

there aren't many songs which are really as utterly perfect as this. i have nothing but respect and awe for ian dury

[100021861]

Fuckin' awesome.

They truly broke the mould after Ian.

[RavingCelt009]

Who's a Blockhead?!

Are you a Blockhead?

Is she a Blockhead? Is he a Blockhead?

Are they Blockheads? Am I a Blockhead?

Maybe we can all be Blockheads together....

[yendytok]

Funky as fuck

[MyAxolotl]

As much as im a big fan of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd,, I LOVE THIS SORT OF MUSIC TOO,, as well as Zappa . Waits,, and Miles Davis,, i might add.,.

[teenageriot123456]

nice guitar solo

[ludo45]

Great! music forever. Chapeau!

[woodsbike]

Huge fun - thanks for posting this!

[1higgipops]

Quite simply awsome

[marianitos8]

sex, drog's and rock&roll

[Tommyfazz]

Keyboards are stunning as is the base...and all the rest is just as good!

[drug76]

Just saw A. Serkis' performance!!! inspiring stuff... "you're born alone and you die alone and in between you need to earn respect' (although that line is Winstone's). That movie spoke to me...

[daddyfunk3]

I've just watched the AmaZing performance that Andy Serkis did on The "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" Movie, it was FANTASTIC!

I agree with Funkyleo1973.....We used to live in a World Where Music was GREAT, INSPIRED & GUTSY.........I remember walking down Wimbledon Broadway as a teenager with Ian's "Hit Me..." blasting out of the Record Shops!

Fucking Awesome! THIS was when Music was GREAT '77, '78, '79, '80, '81, '82

The Mighty "Magnificent" Daddy Funk xx

[drummermizike]

@daddyfunk3 is that movie out yet ?

[delah]

@daddyfunk3

daddyfunk how right you are man, when music fucking scared people!

[Black0bi]

just fucking ace.............love you all.

[BmoreBusker]

Oh man, this is the shit!

[bigeyesupdate]

Love this song Long live the 70's!

[freezazoid]

wow.. england is generally spot on but WTF is this shit? I came across this while reading how bob geldoff accidentally announced this guys death. Which brings me to my second point: Geldoff's daughter is supposedly hot shit on the social seen... so I looked up Geldoff on wiki... AND: So geldoff is famous for being in the Boomtown Rats?! They were a minor group with like two hits. How is this geldoff guy such a recognizable name? he was in a short lived band like tons of other people.

[YodaTalksShit]

@freezazoid

He's basically famous for doing Live Aid, and generally being a busybody cunt more than for his musical career.

[BmoreBusker]

This is classic shit. I'd rather hear this, than what's going on the radio now.

[georgeman2468]

The piano playing is mental on this. Absolutely superb!!!

[greekgirl123ful]

i love this song ,,, brings back good old memories,,, !!!!!!!!!!!!!! watch and learn

[Lurfen]

Ian please hit me your rhythm stick, cus it got the most wicked beat ever!

[oliviajay1]

just trying 2 explain this to my 32 yr old wife..

[evelynmh]

I'm glad I found this...almost forgot about it

[sharpasaneraser]

joe piscopo and tom waits had a kid?

[dansumo73]

RIP Ian, 10 years of missing your genius!

[socalmax]

@dansumo73 Totally agree!

[Campbellteaching]

Best of British, There is so much natural tallent in the UK, lets generate an environment where great stuff like this can come to the surface again. Any way, thanks Ian.

[xreddragonx]

@Campbellteaching There WAS so much talent in the U.K. I mean seriously, what's happened?  So much amazing music used to come out of there. Now it's girl groups, "electropop" divas and mediocre post-britpop.

[sankfinatra]

@xreddragonx Girl Groups being the best of the lot!

[marjoriem2]

Stellar!!! This is so good, thanks for posting this. Oh how I wish someone had this clip with HD and clean audio.... I'd probably faint dead away. I never had the smarts to get turned on to him back in the day. Now what would I give to be able to go back in time and attend this gig!

[wallyofjericho]

i saw him play live with the blockheads,

f*ck muse, f*ck radiohead, that was the best gig i have ever been to, not even a slight competition

[chimpsinsuits]

Dury was a genius. nuff said.

Brits if you fancy hearing some punk hip-hop outta birmingham please check my videos out...

[kerri494]

Wow still great listening to them! Legend they will go on and on. Hit it Ian!!

[Bungay4]

Christ, that sounds good!!!

and after decades ....

where is this stuff now?

[funkyleo1973]

We used to live in a world where stuff as incredible as this actually went to No 1. What the fuck happened to us?

[RcEdits]

@funkyleo1973

its good that it doesn't, the charts is for shit music that only twats buy! but maybe thats kinda the point your making

[Garramedia]

@funkyleo1973

We inhabit the world of television fascism, Funkyleo!...Susan Boyle, etc...Was this what we've been fightin' for?

[jimmy08LTFC]

@funkyleo1973 its all went underground mate..

when acting cool replaced good music

[sankfinatra]

@funkyleo1973  I think it was the Republicans!

[messalion]

@funkyleo1973 mann - what you said litterally made me cry and think about that - todays music is just retard and nothing good and genious as ian durry comes on..............god

[mountainenergei1]

@funkyleo1973

Aye, it's a strange fucking world these days. The odds of something this good hitting number one again are about a million to one.

Forget all this 'misunderstood cult hero' crap, they were HUGE at the time. I saw them in a totally jammed 2500 capacity hall, and they'd sold out the next night as well. This in a small midlands city. They nearly brought the roof down and there were people trying to get through the windows for the next night, including me...

[Sharoney]

@funkyleo1973 A question for the ages, funkyleo1973.

[mrgunn1984]

@funkyleo1973 SHIT IS SO BAD NOW...brilliance escapes the masses

[fierymrjingles]

@funkyleo1973 pop music happened mate its a fuckin travesty to music that all music has to be manufactured ,theres no independant genuis that was about when ian was about , i think all music production corps i.e sony , bmg and the likes should give all their artists an ultimatum to write their own music , n if they cant tell them to fuk right off !

[markmarktarmann]

@fierymrjingles or at least really sing and play it. (i am a songwriter. don't put me out of work)

[armandin2048]

@funkyleo1973 Stock Aitken and FUCKING Waterman in short - oh and people without pubic hair are allowed to buy records now :-))

[Kingfillins]

@funkyleo1973 Corporation took control of our culture.

[bumblebeebattv]

@funkyleo1973 You made a perfect point... If I hear one more thing about Lady gag me with a spoon and Justin Bieber (no, Beaver), I'll scream!! Ian just put it out there the way it should be... Songs of that era were No. 1 material for sure-- shows you how much this world changed. By the way, love your name.

[funkyleo1973]

@bumblebeebattv I once saw an interview with Sting and he was commenting on the fact that at on point everyone in the country everyone knew who was No1 and now that has all changed. It's remarkable to think that some of the greatest bands of the past 30 years would not get deals now. To think that at one point we had stuff like the Police, XTC ect not only making great records but having big commercial success . It's fucking depressing.

[mankoka03]

@funkyleo1973 This is so true. Every time I hear one of these "superstars" sing, I want to puke and cry from the shock. Disgusting, really. Are people brainwashed or just fucking stupid?! And this world is moving forward?

[Gazzthemightyarseole]

@funkyleo1973 we live in a world where being commercial means more than having any sort of musical skill..music rely's on a cosmetic value and vanity now instead of the actual content which is just secondary now.but thats just me....shame tho innit

[hoggeboris]

Fucking awesome!!!

[gregshell]

genius

[testbildmusic]

Funky Stick !!!

[venisfurs]

HIT ME! HIT ME! HIT ME!

[Albatross7100]

Fuc**ng BRILLIANT BINGO tORTURE gARDENS rOCK ON

[leemeires]

you no that hit me lol

[socalmax]

Hit me with another pint.

[1wallydiver]

fuckin genius

[yharyhar8]

this proves to me that with few exceptions...the coolest music has always come from Britain

[TheNaomiengland]

i agree

[aldichiara]

This is just genius.

[KAG12008]

Only one word can describe this and it is "FANTASTIC"

[Hikaks]

hit me slowly...HIT ME QUICK!

i just love this song!!!

[captaincrap1995]

Polo jacket!

[george1punk2]

whats thsi song about?

[henley65]

I just got back from watching the movie and it is AWESOME!!!!!! Go watch it!

[gogs2zot]

I first heard this on a crackly short-wave radio in the middle of the South African bushveld (near the Kruger National Park) in December 1978.

Thirty two years later I still marvel at Dury's genius, the band's sheer talent and one of rock's greatest basslines ever. Watt Roy's riffs are amongst the most iconic of the entire rock era... They define this band - which is timeless. What a pity Ian is no longer with us...

[ady10001]

the man's a genius no question

[Idontkea]

is there anyone quien no le gusta? es fantastique!

[wirejacker]

classic quote from Norman Watt-Roy, the bass player. When asked about the bass line from this song he said he thought he was getting paid by the note :p

[flodehest]

Fantastic song. Ian Dury was a genius. I love this song:-)

[ronvonryan]

The best British poet, the best bass player, and what a great sax solo!!!!!! what a Band. I don't think we have ever produced any Band or singer to best Ian and the Blockheads. They in my humble opinion changed the way we look and listen to British Rock music. No phoney American accent, and put over so well, Ian, you left your mark, and when all the other songs have passed and been forgotten, yours will be still be remembered, played, and enjoyed.

[JoshMufc101]

alan partridge

[gringodeltoro1]

HIT ME GODAMMIT !

[socalmax]

Work week's over. Weekend begins. Hit me with a Guinness. Hit me, hit me, hit me!