Ian Dury and the Blockheads What a waste

More from Ian and the Blockheads from the same venue as SADARAR

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dury
• Blockheads
• punk
• funk
• new
• wave
• Ian

[njoti]

You are a star Mr Turkeypants.

[haroldturkeypants]

Well thank you,I aim to please.

[GrumblingGrognard]

Vids like this are why youtube is my fav site. Thanks! <period>

[haroldturkeypants]

It,s my pleasure,glad you like it.

[haroldturkeypants]

I think you know that already.

[PeteGeeza86]

This is very,very good.Lyrics are clever and funny,but gritty and in your face.

Funky,cool beats as well.Brilliant,top music.

:-)

[Squab1972]

R.I.P Ian Dury

[MrMercury1959]

Wot a star Ian was rest in peace , ure music lives on

[lplvr70]

Great stuff. I had this performance on an old videotape titled "Punk Rock Revolution" that I bought in high school.

[RogerLevert]

This is live.......the fade out is probably done by the guy who edited this clip.....The Blockheads are one of the best bands in the world...this is realy live

[GaryNull]

>> Is This Live?

Only Ian's singing; the band is a recording.

[GaryNull]

>> And yes, it's live. . . .

Only partly . .

Notice the way it fades out at the end.

I figured out what's going on here:

Ian is live (maybe the sax too), but the band is a recording.

Listen to the band, it sounds too close to the record to be live.

[GaryNull]

Out of the 17,000+ youtube videos I've seen, this is nearing the Top 5.

[Cabronosidad]

Chas was back with the band and the chemistry was complete again, and they were cookin on gas! Thanks for this posting. Check out the Isaac Guillory clips on my site. Another grossly underrated talent!

[Cabronosidad]

Wow! I am fortunately old enough to have seen the blockheads in 1979 when they were at their peak, with Chas Jankel quietly controlling the musical structure of the songs and Ian being wonderfully outrageous, ever the showman. And yes, they were terrifically 'tight' as a band, even with the really tricky stuff like this. I saw then several times thereafter, the final one being a free concert in (I think) Mapperley Park in Nottingham, shortly before Ian died.

[hastingboy]

underated genius

[up2space]

Sounds like the name of a pub band "Kilburn & the High Roads". right? name of the album "Finchley or somewhere like that". I'm comin over, one day, 'ofully. friend up, i'll buy you drinks.