Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do

[rjplamf61]

I still love this stuff. I just turned 50 in Nov. and all I listen to and collect is music from the 60's, 70's and 80's. maybe I am biased (i don't think so) there just is nothing out there that is worth listening to.

[MrJohnlrigby]

Yes! I always get a rush when I hear this!

[JasonAlvarado46]

they visited my school... before i joined it :/

[ViajanteB4]

excelente!

[1701wanker]

used to go to glazing school with barry masters saw him a little while ago glad to see him back in the old trade

[KIMWHITE777]

PERTINENT LYRICS FROM MY GENERATION. I ADOPTED SOME OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF THIS SONG, MAYBE I BECAME THIS SONG, AND I LOVE ME.

CLASSIC.

[beanpunk]

i noticed that Paul Gray (bassist) was wearing a beret in this footage, Captain Sensible donned one of them throughout his career, Paul Gray ended up in the Damned and also stuck with Sensible throughout his solo career. I think sensible must've had alot of respect for Paul, i certainly think the guy is a bass genius...beret or not! haha

[MrJmsewell]

35 years ago the world heard this a bloody classic

[67Furi]

Great song!

[patterjak]

@67Furi, A real little known absolute belter, on a great cheap cd called Atomic, new wave hits from 70s & 80s, about £3 from Amazon, check the cd list,

[kizamiful]

oi oi oi !

[bohsgerry]

bootboys to me wore elephant parallei flairs,star jumpers,huge collared shirts,admittedly had hair a la eddie,and listened to progressive rock and ted crossover crap a la mud,wizzard,rubbettes,and showaddywaddy.no connection at all.

[OriginalFrancOPhile]

Does anybody have Media Messiah in a form they can share here or am I going to have to get a USB turntable?

[flaxonx3]

The link between mid seventies boot boys and punk. Why are boot boys the forgotten youth movement. It was from their stock and energy that British punk emerged.

[MrBrianlowdown]

im so happy this old gem didnt get ruined by the populas,being ina movie....us old music lover who have had this gem for 30 years ago im happy to see theres not a million hits on this ...nothing is sacred anymore but sometime they still are cheers...old friends who love and alwayus have loved this song since way before cd,s and ect .....i am happy that there are still old farts like me

[maz832]

This is the best fucking song ever....listen to the lyrics

[andreaprodan]

Lady Di was into these blokes... and maybe she took the title too seriously... for a princess...

Don't mess with MI5

[woodyfurball]

@andreaprodan Lady Di was into alot of things, the slapper got alot of things in her too!

[datingadults2a2]

5 Stars Short Clip

[cryptsub]

damn they're awesome. i only know their photo was on that Damned cover

[nastymonsters2]

Epic drum sound

[sillyjumbledupshit]

saw these in torquay in 1978,UK Subs as support act,guess who we really went to see.

[SuperBoogley]

great memories



[TheBrewforbreakfast]

brilliant brings back those days of trying to buy booze underage sleeping out at deserted railway stations, hiding from the skinheads, lying to M&p about where you've been begging money to get into gigs and trying to act 18 instead of 14. pure bliss.... I'd do it all again.

[lolnrich]

From my teens, really brings back memories

[revup67]

Great post - The UK band the Records blatantly ripped them off with "Starry Eyes" a few years later

[andreaprodan]

@revup67

now that you mention it... yes! Both good songs, but this one just squeezes out the sparks!

[venomironx]

awsome!

[TheAndytagg]

working in brisbane (aus)and this old brickie was telling me about living in england,and he said 'had a great time roadying for the rods" of course I goes Eddie and the hotrods?fantastic this is what youtube is for.

[kram83au]

a bloody classic, the cross over from rock to punk,this song certainly opened the door to punk getting into the forefront of the music. seen them recently in 2010, and they were phuckin fantastic. they sounded a bit like a british new york dolls, totally surprised me as i was just there to see my friends support them. well done lads , very slik indeed.

[emmamckeown]

Ole googleeyes

[Rigsbymortis]

a true classic - however you looke at it

[Deetroiter]

I wish that these punk icons were still known today to the youth. This song changed my life, first heard it on a Die Toten Hosen album. DTH covered this song with some of the original members of Eddie and the hot rods. God damn this song is life and punk values summed up.

[lewisner]

"Tired of doing day jobs with no thanks for what you do". Shit, I'm still doing that 8-(

[spencertheartist]

class

[StixH]

Barry Masters?

[MrBantam3]

A relation of mine was married to Eddie. Crazy tour with the Sex pistols.

[MrBantam3]

@MrBantam3

Thats Ed Hollis the manager, not Eddie the dummy who the band was named after

[VanRomPuyArse]

I saw them do this live at Reading festival, I think it was 1977, excellent song!!!!!!!!

[nemotheband]

sTILL ONE OF THE BEST Songs ever written xxxx,,,

[VL1302]

Time flies. Been years.



[49topcat]

So true..........love it always ;) when i was 15 didn't listen to the words much just loved the tune.......but many years on they amazingly fit the bill.........lol fab song

[49topcat]

So true..........love it always ;)

[davidprust]

twas a philosophy. I WONDERED ABOUT, but did I!

[rikmans6]

Okay today im ''free'' from school ,, Lol

Im going to play Guitar and Graffiti :D!

[KJLJ66]

Love this - my anthem for life!

[kirstyann3]

oh johnnyzorro.... u wish !! lol ! xx

[johnnyzorro63]

Fuckin el!..i'm 14 again!!!!!

[lezhill59]

top tune

[paully1969]

I adore this... thanks for posting

Paully xxx

[KatManDude]

Have always liked this song, but watching this clip it's like one of the Bay City Rollers quit to front a punk band.

[Scotttyist]

Did The Records rip this song off? I'm thinking about their song, Starry Eyes. The chorus is very similar to my ears.

[imagine11ful]

whenever i feel down i listen to this song and immediately feel like taking the world on!

[DavidZeroX]

15 guys didn't do what they wanna do

[DoctorDoBuggerAll]

I do like this band, and love this song, but they do look like Essex's answer to the Bay City Rollers on this footage! lol

[heroineinside]

waw!he's hot!

[theNifflefoot]

An absolute monster. One of the finest songs from the 70s. I saw them live at NYU with Mink Deville. An amazing show from the last good decade of rock'n'roll.

[megafaded69]

15 people don't do anything they want to do.

[Deetroiter]

This kind of punk music is totally forgotten here in the states and Detroit. Such a sad pity, although I can't blame anyone my age of not knowing this music. First time I ever heard this song was on an album from Die Toten Hosen called "learning english". Found the cd in a garbage can one day while garbage picking cool things to skateboard on. Cd changed my life. First exposure to real punk music.

[redhairkid]

The first punk record I bought!

[TheRickynow]

Wonderful Record!

[TRB1946]

Very underated band !

[MrMeadfoot]

JUST BRILLIANT !

[calligh]

Did we have a better undertanding of what it meant to be free back in those days or is our punk generation just a set of ignorant old bastards that know nothing about modern protest music?

[rhinoal]

@calligh I reckon that enough people have had their opinions moulded by the media so as no one knows what is what anymore. I think Freedom was easier to recognise back then than it is now, because the current generation are being given too many options of what 'freedom' actually is these days. Sad, really. Even dreams are being taken away from us all. Mind you, I had a hell of a time during my formative years....'nuff said!

[Jimstuart58]

still a teen?

[thehenryal]

Catchy I must say, I remember this early autumn hit from 77.

[ynnhojify]

banda favorita do dee dee ramone

[NeilThompson30]

Dale Winton just played this on Radio 2 -

'That was Eddie and the Hot Rods but for this record they were just called the Rods - cause Eddie had just left them!!!!!'

[celticduke]

@NeilThompson30 Glad you picked up on that - had me shouting at the radio, I don't think Dale heard me! Just waiting for the year featuring "Centrefold" after J Geils left - lol!

[MsBabster]

first live band i ever saw...actually second band as the members were supporting them..leeds poly 78

[bean6344]

Did pubrock get any better than this?

[nakkajeema]

wlwak is right.

I saw Eddie and the Hot Rods about two years ago. They're a bit of a charmless hard rock band now, but Barrie Masters still wears his bleeding jean jacket undone over a bare chest! In fact, he doesn't look much different to what he did in 1977, until he opens his mouth and you see that he's got about 2.5 teeth. Chew anything you wanna chew, Barrie?

[tonycoote]

This is pure stuff. Rock on Eddie.

[MegaSteviebhoy]

One of the best ever songs from the 70s

[kayrosx1]

my favourite song of the time, brilliant!!

[da1961ja]

Great song

[unfamous13]

power pop classik

[trackside77]

Rock on Trotsky! The last comment basically sums up what is wrong with socialim/communism. These self deluded types fail to understand that people with money provide work for others. Instead they walk around the world with huge chips on their shoulders being resentful of those people with money, and in some cases sponge of the state. No thank you.

[jayboselecta]

@trackside77 some people wont ever fuckin understand, will you? society is shaped like a pyramid, with only so much room for the haves, but plenty of room for the dregs, the oppressed, the victimised, the isolated. shit whats happened to the world, where is the class awareness. only by the unity of all the poor and oppressed do we have a chance...20th century history is the perfect example.

[jonnyhotdog]

@wlwak you for prime minister x

[Toejack61]

They look like punks,but where´s the anger?

[pettystone]

paul gray played in this band

[pragmatismnotidealis]

'It would surprise many to learn that eddie and the hotrods were the ones who paved the way for punk, they prepared us for it. Contrary to popular belief it wasn't the sex pistols, or the clash, and they've never got the credit they deserved'

-John Peel

Im 21 years old I was never around when this song came out yet it still chimes with me more so then most of todays popular dribble...

[dbowl1867]

this song is my life stuck in unemployment s yorks in mid 80s n dessperat to fuck off heared this gave me the bollox to do it

[MikeBlitzMag]

If Rock Around The Clock was the anthem of the 1950s and either (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction or My Generation was the anthem of the 1960s, then a solid case can be made for Do Anything You Wanna Do being the anthem of the 1970s. A classic!

[97cups]

What is Captain Sensible doing in this video and who is on lead guitar ??

[scotsmaninusa]

@97cups not the captain but paul gray who funny enough went on to be The Damned bass player then onto UFO.

[chris6955]

The day they recorded this song I was sat in the Crossed Keys at Maple Cross and they walked all excited about how the song had gone.

The Pub has closed but this song will live on as a classic

[missmarypickford]

Marc Bolans show????

[eddiemcg]

this about sums it all up.

[THEBIKERTIM]

Resurrect this song someone. It's an old classic done Live Here. If BSB are not gonna do it, my new band are gonna do it, if it ever happens. (If you are young don't watch, if you are old watch and enjoy)

[antwanswan1]

@THEBIKERTIM

wats wrong with beuign young????????

[andreaprodan]

Eddie podria ser un pibe de barrio Argentino, o no?

[teetotal33]

Hey I saw the Pet Shop Boys do a version of this at a gig at Teeside University - in 2002 I think. It was very good and Neil Tennant said this was an influencial song for him.

[seanhumby]

looking forward to them live at Nibley Music festival 3rd July 2010!

[B3tty75]

buy me a ticket n I'll buy u a cheeseburger man!..hahahahahahaa..or two! ;-)

[auptt]

pure class genious

[TheMultiOtherman]

These guys are good live

[runekill9]

barry (singer ) stoped at my house XD

[spiderlarry]

Saw Eddie and the Hot Rods at San Diego State in 1977...Lots of punks there, saw a big girl cold cock a guy who kept trying to slam her.

[bigbass3]

Saw Ediie and The Hot Rods, Talking Heads and The Ramones in that order @ The Orpheum Theatre in Boston in 1976/ 77 ... Holy Crap! That show turned my life around. I think it was Five Bucks! The place was half full! Baptisim by FIRE !!! E & the HR's were a great live act.

[written12]

@bigbass3

Now, that was a show! And some of us on the dark side of 40 can remember what it was like to hear bands like the trio you mentioned burst on the scene in the late 70s. They were really cleared the air, cleansed the musical palette, didn't they?

[twizzer22]

oh my god this takes me back to my youth

[ray3mondo]

Top song. Top video. Top upload.

[jamhoward88]

a very underated song that brings back memory's of a better class of music, life and people.......

[dadswizz]

seen them at newcastle city hall just prior to punk. and they were good, i liked the gig a lot. but they never seemed to get the recognition they deserved for playing good honest rock music without pandering to the press or critics etc . he has to be in his late 50s now . .good luck man. , a real rocker ,

[hivesstandard]

i saw him live last year at cheadle town hall. dont get many big gigs any more and its only the singer and i think the basist hu are the actuall ppl from the start of the band the guitarist and drummer died .. they play alot more heavier now but the singers voice is still good and not rough . and the singer said that he would rather play less heavy music. They all signed my shirt after the concert. Love small venues

[written12]

@hivesstandard

Is that style really heavier now? Interesting, isn't it? You wouldn't think they would have gone in that direction. The singer- Eddie?- should have had a bigger career. But good for him for carrying on and good for you lot for showing up for his gigs.

[wlwak]

When I was a young man working in a factory in a Northen Engish town, I heard this song and decided one day to walk out of that shit hole and be free. I never regretted it once.

There is nothing good about grinding out a living in a mind numbing job for a bunch of rats who get super rich off your efforts without so much as a million poun bonus even once a century never mind every fucking year. Fuck capitalism, Fuck the rich and fuck all the stupid cunts who say there is no other option.

[dethbed77]

Hail praise to you my friend

[statementallity]

@wlwak ...nice comment dude !!!!!

[ScotRanger1960]

@wlwak

Well said.

[alexandermorison]

@wlwak

Funny that! I did exactly the same thing. Had a rumble with the foreman and fucked off out of it. Formed a band called the Feckin Ejits and had a laugh for the rest of my twenties. I was a Feelgood fan but loved this song. Powerful stuff at the time.

[lockjaw62]

@wlwak

Here here,Well fucking said that man

[bboma777]

@wlwak Respect to you, nice to meet an enlightened individual.

[RhODomhnaill]

@wlwak Fair play to ya but i didn`t need Eddie and the f`ing hot rods to tell me to do anything i wanted to. I just did it.

[motormadhead13]

@wlwak right on bro.-i did the same thing in 79-

[fedgeno]

@wlwak AMEN!

[nacetroy]

@wlwak cool, what do you do now?

[bubblegum14x]

@wlwak guess what , got back after 30 years of travelling and now even the shit dead end factorys have gone, and all the jobs.

[mjbmedia]

@wlwak so what you doing now mate?  by the way agree with the message you put out

[geoffdoor]

@wlwak so are you signing on then ...being a waste of space ...you fucking lazy cunt ...hope you die soon

[0217676]

@wlwak Nice little story but in reality if you did this you'd end up in the dole queue with every other cunt.

[mikey4664]

@wlwak so what happend?

[gymnosophy]

@wlwak So what do you do now?

[iriegt]

@wlwak yeah man takes me back,17year old in a mind numbing factory job,i got out too,lived free,htchhiked europe,6months in foriegn legion.do anyting u wanna do,fuc the system,lifes out ther,we liv in such a fckd up babylon shitstym,dont be full o regrets wen u get old......

[wegotskillz]

@wlwak

I fuckin love this

[JWintejr]

@wlwak Socialist Basrad - You don't have a clue. Look inside yourself to take care of you - not the rest of the world!

[ghdtreb]

gOOD FOR YOU, THIS SONG PROBABLY CHANGED A LOT OF PEOPLE'S LIVES

[Finbarbarfin]

@wlwak The power of rock n roll. Good on you for having the balls to listen to your heart. You're 100% right. Your life is yours; fuck the would-be slave masters. They need us more than we need them.

[juliehummy]

@wlwak Well said you

[futurenrg]

@wlwak Just curious what you have made of your life since.

Set up your own commercial business? A charity shop? Or did nothing and lived off welfare (for a while)?

Just wondering what 'free' means to you. Free not to work for the company but you don't mind living off society who do have to work for companies so you can afford your free lifestyle? Just wondering...

[Domwhat]

@futurenrg ? ...he could have done anything...Social work, teaching, community work, mentoring... jobs doesnt always mean working for a company, you know!

[jonkheere1]

@Domwhat

True Mate,But in the current economic climate He'd probably be a victim of Government cuts!

[Fireperv]

Oh and back in 76 I saw Grahame Douglas in his earlier persona with the very wonderful Kursall Flyers, a much underated band.

[Fireperv]

Saw them a few years ago at the Limelight in Crewe, Band were fantastic, but nearly out numbered the audience, what a crying shame, pre punk power pop at it's best !

[jacquielinka]

these are on in middlesbrough this week. eddie certainly looks a bit rough in the publicity photos. hard living for you!

[greenonion1000]

What a top song,great band, I remember - vaguely - that the Stranglers kicked the shit outta them at a festival in Camden, as the lead singer Eddie was a bit of a nob apparently. Ah, they were the days, great memories, albeit distant now

[VONCEIL1]

paul gray -great bass player

best damned line up was with paul

[jeanisfuckedoffnow]

@VONCEIL1 i just love em !! i love soul music , but i love eddie ! where are they now ? would love to go and see them !

[Fireperv]

Frankly although that was great, you would be very hard pushed to find a better Damned line up than the current one, only thing that could make it better would be the return of Rat ( never gonna happen !!) Dave, Captain, Monty ,Stu and Pinch ROCK

[steurun]

@dtnlawrence realy ?

[dtnlawrence]

yeh... just behind my house..

we're in a band too. so hes gonna help us out.

get us involved in the music business.

[rollinstonery]

singer looks like e.t

[BingTiddleBong]

The missing link between Glam/Punk

[fiisme3]

That's not true... I met Barrie back in the day and Eddie was infact a dummy that was jokingly given a name and that's how it all started :-) Unless he lied... hmm lol

[kevjkx]

Eddie was ED' Hollis, the bands manager, I'm from their hometown, Dave Higgs, the rythm guitarist is also a friend of mine,

[PunkLobo]

This song is fucking catchy! I hear it at least one time per day.

[28if]

Go check out the Records "Starry Eyes" might remind you of a certain song

[POPSIDER75]

...or was it '77? It's getting late my mind is going blah blah blah

[kidcalabria]

This came out in '78 actually. I know because I remember buying their first album - Teenage Depression - at Christmas '77, together with Never Mind The Bollocks by The Sex Pistols. Not the kind of thing one forgets easily!

[POPSIDER75]

Summer of '76, Whoo hooo!!!

[MoveOnSoulClub]

you need your fucking ass kicking kid

[yellowsub1966]

why so serious pal. it's just my opinion. if you can't take it then don't bother leaving comments "KID!" and you can fuck off as well "samhain66".

[rupertducker]

why ?

[eurodeluxe]

God i used to fancy Eddi hahahaha - horny f***er x

[kidcalabria]

You used to fancy Eddi? No member of Eddie & The Hot Rods was called Eddie. The singer is Barrie Masters, if that's who you mean...

[sunglassesssss]

wicked song... cracking brace of sweat bands to boot!

[ohissatsu]

great song, great memories, seen them at Reading festival in the late 70's, 'probably' best band over the whole weekend. Only one I remember anyways..

[peakhouse]

if The Members didn't listen to this i will top myself....xxxxxxx

[TheBillfer]

singer was in johns children with marc bolan

[hearditman]

No that was the singer with Radio Stars who was in Johns Children.

[zante1954]

my fave band , so good , totally different to the punk etc , original , and so cool ( at the time )... and still cool now !! ! xx