Pretenders - Up The Neck - Capitol Theatre - Sept 27th 1980

[@johnfrei9057]

Every time I see the Pretenders at their peak with the original lineup I get joyful and sad at the same time.

[@mllruss1]

there are some bands that try to sound like this and fail. thank God we have video to preserve a performance like this!

[@scottkent2915]

This was the first band I ever saw in concert, January 1982 in Providence Rhode Island. They were awesome. I can never forget that show...especially Martin shooting sticks off his cymbals into the crowd. So sad losing JHS later that year and then Pete too. I am so glad I got to see them live thanks to a high school friend.

[@b.shupper5067]

Strange how a band can get better 40 years later. Can't explain it, but they've done it.

[@ikemachamer7904]

What a fecking fine line up.

[@curtandoscar]

This is genuinely thrilling stuff to watch. I bought the album when it was new in 1980. I was 15 and stuck in a dumpy town in Vermont where no bands every came. Today was the first day I have seen the original version of the band playing live vs lip synching for videos. Thank god for KZbin.

[@jasonlynn1017]

That howl by Chrissy at the end is some of the most beautiful pain I've ever heard. This may be the best version of this song, and this song may say best what it means to be Romantically doomed and despairing in late Western civilization. FUCK.

[@batphink2655]

Great comment men and women are sworn enemies that's how it works today thanks to far left feminists, the media and Govt!

[@mariazimmerman8948]

that band just blows me away!! go Chrissy!!!

[@silverwood6705]

Any video of the original members playing together, no matter how crappy the quality, is awesome! then Martin is flipping up sticks in the air, then Peter has the best vocal, and Jimmy, as always, puts on a clinic. RIP Fella's...

[@vanstan7929]

Peter has the best vocal?

[@nsmith1586]

Heard pretenders at a party in Summer 1980. Kinks and Jazz and aware. I havve appreciated them ever since.

[@jamesweber5616]

Wow they were on the radio I was 13 and my rock buddies gave me grief but a bass player acknowledged their unique rhythmic palate

[@dreamyblue44]

Heavens, this is the real deal, wonderful stuff! :)

[@dannynicastro3207]

dreamyblue44 it was!

[@Rose-qd2bl]

I saw them at The Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis the first time, the night before I went off to college as a freshman. The Pretenders were the first band to play there. Everybody was dressed up in their mod/new wave/punk finest. when guys *and it was young men) worked up the nerve to dance in their seats, security went ape shit and ejected them quickly, really roughing them up and scaring everyone in the audience not to move a muscle! Chrissie went to the edge of the stage and was really angry at security down front and told them in no uncertain terms to go after the blokes they roughed and ask them to come back to the show. Security defied her at first, She got even angrier and threatened to pull the entire concert down. She was miked and I heard her say " you don't think I know who's brother runs this? ( Bob Dylan's brother.) It was tense. Security and Chrissie went back and forth. Then she said " at my concerts people are allowed to move," she went to the center of the stage and motioned with her hands for us to get up. "Everybody Breathe, Rise. Move!" I'll never forget that moment. It was so exhilarating! Chrissie had picked up british slang and vernacular from living there but it never sounded forced or affected. Unlike Madonna.

[@darinzadina6671]

Rosey I. Wow, awesome story. Enjoyed it very much. What year was that?

[@curtandoscar]

Great story. Thank you.

[@jasonlynn1017]

Chrissy always was the heroine----in every sense---and has the original punk rock guts as you delightfully describe here. She is the real rebel----unlike not only Madonna, whose whole life was affected, but also half the marketeer'd crop of "women in rock" coming a decade later, who couldn't stand a drop of her intensity, or Alice Bag's, Exene's, Janis's, Grace's...

[@normancarbajal5154]

Great album from 1980! 🎸🎶…

[@musibaba70]

I saw they in '87 in Madrid, was spectacular!, She was great!

[@briankennedy1192]

Mind blown, seen them in Sydney 1980.

[@911truthfarmer]

Saw this tour when they opened for the Boomtown Rats at The Warfield and had never heard of them. I sure as hell did soon after. Great band, great songs, great great great!

[@MrDredScott]

I was there. Fantastic.

[@batphink2655]

They would dust Boomtown Rats right off the stage Geldof can not and could never sing, what a arsehole he is! Rumour has it he pilfered millions form the Live Aid charity purse!

[@yetivanmarshall1473]

3468 views, we are the priveledged few! Heard them on King Biscuit way back then and they just blew me away.

[@dannynicastro3207]

....I'm in Love.....1983 to 2019 n beyond...God willing, for myself n hubby. Went back to my senior year in high school, singing this one out every day....what a summer that was...1983. I know this is older....but, we met H n I, and the tunes, the music, was so fresh...Def Leppard, Journey, Ozzy, Stevie Nicks, Huey Lewis, And All the Rest. Most of the good ones stand the test of time. The Police, Zz Top, the Eagles and their solo works later on, 😀😆😁danielle🕊

[@talpajam]

still my favorite Pretenders track - very emo riffs from JHS

[@dannynicastro3207]

talpajam ....always will be mine, as well. From PhillyPA in 2019.🤗😎😁

[@sherryanng19]

My goodness this jams!!!!

[@davidandrews5422]

I saw this lineup in 1981. They kicked fucking ass.

[@johnackerman438]

Pete was great. RIP

[@dannynicastro3207]

John Ackerman rrrrriigghht!!!!...4:38 what...??? SO, I improvised, and...the heart in this guy...not to mention the look of him and the entire band at the time. Saw them twice in 1981...my first and fourth concerts...the good ol days.😃🤗😎

[@dannynicastro3207]

John Ackerman I gotta say it. In the early days, Pete was a Mister in the intro...2 years later and Chrissie had chosen her Mister to be Jimmy Scott! KNOW what I mean??? Women, huh!!!??? And I am one, but wouldn't say as hard, heartless, as our beloved Ms.C Hynde. She was there n we weren't. Still, her preference showed...and karma came down big time, here. It usually does in most situs.

[@silverwood6705]

As was Jimmy, as was Pete, as was Chrissie

[@scotoram8400]

The original line up if I'm not mistaken

[@martyc2637]

Yes it was. Heroin sucks

[@franksmith4277]

The original and best.

[@Paneeks1960]

Thanks for sharing this. The only thing is you may have the venue or the date wrong. I am pretty sure that I saw them in Boston at the Orpheum Theater on the date above, ~ Rob/Boston

[@scotoram8400]

Sweet heart

[@garyschartz3023]

OH' YEAH!

[@chrissvojt3851]

I had tickets Heads up don't ever let anyone hold your Tickets I.did and missed the most Importantt concert the Originals at the The Palidium NYC,1979 Cause of a so call Friend😵 awesome 👍 all originals.

[@somegirls2002]

I saw this group for the first time in I think 1981-82 ish. After Pete and James died. But a great show anyway. I think at the Riviera in Chicago. I know every lyric and beat. Just love this stuff. Really good, but I watched this a couple years ago and now it is just in bits. Seems as though a lot of Pete Farndon has been cut out. He was so good. A shame James did not really get along with him and the band had issues. I liked his bass style. Really tragic stories. This band - as it is here - only lasted a few short years. Instead of working out differences, sort of like the Clash and the Pistols, they just were hasty and split the original line ups up. Which is too bad, because this band could have been another version of the Stones. Chrissie, the female Keith, James Honeyman Scott, close to a Mick Taylor (or Brian Jones) Pete - awesome bassist, Marty, very good drummer. The songs, all very well done, tight band onstage. Egos got too big. And then it was gone. But - two albums and an EP were very good and a great example of late 70s and early 80s rock/punk/new wave or whatever you wish to call it.

[@977Radio]

The whole show is on my website here www.pretenders.org.uk/watch/shows-1980-2020/

[@Brede8260]

How come there seems to be so many concerts filmed in its entirety from Capital Theatre? I have seen Tom Robinson Band, Rainbow, Pretenders, The Police and AC/DC from around same period as this clip, around 1979/1980.

[@lizreichert7529]

It’s hard to believe that this recording is over 40 years old.

[@dannynicastro3207]

RIP....TODAY IS THE ANNIVERSARY 36TH, OF PETE FARNDONS PASSING.....I LOVED YOU....GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL N GOD BLESS CONOVER....SALTY, ONE GOOD, "BAD", TOUGH LADY. I AM 10 YEARS YOUNGER THAN SHE...AND MET MY HUSBAND OF 36 YRS, ON THIS DATE. FIRSTDATE....ACTUALLY MARRIED H IN 1989.....ANYWAY....SLAINTE TO CON, C N MC AND THE REST🕊🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@vr6swp]

3:00 Chambers looses a stick

[@scotoram8400]

So sad about him

[@martyc2637]

Tour de Force

[@lockedtrunk]

No one ever focuses on Martin just killing his drum kit - instead we get close ups of the bassist face ? 🤷‍♂️