★★★ Blue Murder - Billy | Live Tv Performance 1989 ★★★

Blue Murder - Billy (Live Tv Performance)
John Sykes: Guitar And Vocals
Tony Franklin: Bass
Carmine Appice: Drums
Nik Green: Keyboards

[@philosophicalutopia9297]

John Sykes ......monster ....love that twang. Creamy sweet harmonius leads. The 80s...never gonna see a better decade.

[@stanleywissmar3455]

John, Hope your reading this. Please come back and perform again! Your one of the few True guitar Maestros still around (as we've lost Gary and Edward). It would truly be great to see you again! 🙏🎼❤️

[@mauricioalexismartinezmart8085]

John sykes, legend Virtuoso 🎸

[@lecturehc]

Fucking sick! Stripped down, raw, loud, in your fucking face. I love this band, all are exceptional players who have style and charisma. Timeless rock and roll.

[@sixtring73]

No matter how many times I watch this video I get goosebumps and a lump in my throat, it's so good! Can you imagine being in the audience of a show like that and being confronted by this unbelievable power trio ripping their faces off! Sykes' is a master in every way. Those rhythm guitar parts are very difficult on their own, let alone singing over the top of that with a vocal line that is rhythmically different! Yet he makes it look effortless and manages to pull it off so confidently. That lovely wide slow vibrato is signature Sykes. He nails the solo and literally every part of the performance is flawless.

[@shanacervantes6905]

Great band. John Sykes, Tony Franklin, and Carmine Appice all excellent!

[@iancouch9688]

I remember very clearly the day in 89 I got this album on tape..it totally blew me away..and still does..Sykes is so talented..

[@SolBir-Feather]

Wonderful performance‼️😃✌️👍💪😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@thomasmyers9128]

Bass player was Rockin the Mullet...... Sound Garden was out... and just about to put their foot on the Necks of the 80’s...😳 What a breath of fresh Air it was........

[@MnRProdMariolaur]

This band has been always so underrated but not for me because I have listen to this album over a million times, it never gets old on me!!!

[@edwardcora6618]

Absolutely hands down master of the Les Paul !

[@ShawnStaplesFreeGuitarLessons]

Hung out with John, a cool guy. Amazing performance.

[@pcycosocial]

Just to tell how old I am. I remember as a kid staying up late and watching this live.:( the original Blue Murder were amazing musicians. Killer band.

[@tyrannosaurusshred7849]

Tim Fox 🤘

[@panagiotisexplorer213]

The outro is kickass!!!

[@wlmason73]

This is a song aaa off of our debut album. Were a band called Blue Murder. The album is called Blue Murder. The track is called Blue Murder. My name is Blue Murder. I'm playing a Blue Murder guitar. My strings are Blue Murder's, and my hair was done at the Blue Murder salon! Bwhahaha! Awesome live performance.

[@CliffB70]

Tony Franklyn is a legend!

[@gfgranja]

Not because of his clothes kkk

[@rozab17]

Astonishing performance ❤❤❤

[@jlkbbk2003]

Tony Franklin has always been so fun to watch.....never know if he's just a born entertainer or a little nuts.......probably a little both, but he certainly adds to the show

[@MetalSlab]

Such an amazing performance. This kills the studio recording. The weird looking guy with no shoes on is Tony Franklin - a bass guitar LEGEND

[@hatboxjen]

I grew up on Thin Lizzy... Love YOUR work and especially this one. We play it whenever we plug in

[@gitaneVYS491R]

Bought the album when it was released. Still give it a listen now and again. Very impressed by that performance.

[@N13-k7f]

It doesn't get much better than this. Weird Al is like struck by lightning.

[@jrlefty67]

Bass line is kickass!!!

[@suyoon75]

Greatest band in rock history! Amazing!

[@NouveauGod]

Sykesy Looking and Sounding as Fantastic as Ever!

[@cindyamesquita7259]

Tony is rockin that bass! Badass!!

[@frankstrawther7440]

Soo cool dam it would be cool to meet john. But meeting carmine at namm show was pretty cool

[@wink89815]

Saw him last night playing with Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Tony is still one of the baddest bassists.

[@jeffs4760]

One of the best live rockin performances! Fun to watch. Ive probably watched this 30 times over the last year

[@Luvplanet]

DUDE! These guys are ROCKING SO HARD!!

[@MultiVisceral]

They make it look easy, but... Tree guys doing so much music!!! incredible. Thanks for sharing it.

[@8tonsemi]

Love this song! Blue Murder reminds me of UFO in that I can't understand how they didn't become a huge hit?!?!?

[@godzillasimpson8357]

The band came out just whenever hair metal reached its climax. If blue murder came out earlier then they would’ve been way more huge

[@godzillasimpson8357]

Plus record companies censored rock bands that they simply didn’t like. It wasn’t as easy to be noticed then as it is today with all the social media platforms

[@Mattowarrior777]

im buying an agile les paul clone (black) and dirty fingers gibson pickups just because of John Sykes

[@cornytoad]

This whole album kicked ass!

[@icemike874]

Yellow parachute pants...aaaahahaha, Tony's the Best!

[@giminuntung7265]

Wooowww..amazing... 😱

[@幸枝-e9o]

永遠の美しいライオン🦁ヘァーのロングが似合う素敵な王子様ジョンサイクス🎸🎸🎤💓💓貴方にしか弾けないギター🎸プレイを是非ともホワイトスネイクで拝見したいですね復帰を願っています。🎸🎸🎤🍷🍷🍾😎😎🦁

[@jadranovo1]

fantastic song, have a photos with Carmine !!!

[@MrIgorek13]

All i can say Insane Performance❤❤

[@panduabimanyu1781]

Great Band , Great album...

[@strivingx67]

Damn I love this tune!

[@michaelthompson3286]

Still watching in 2021

[@mydayis5]

It appears these guys are playing live......but sounds bloody amazing!

[@ПознающийА.И]

Круть!!! В моей молодости была четкая музыка...👍.

[@composerJHS]

I love you guys…😭😭😭😭

[@oguogu-kx7vk]

so crazy cool!

[@mauricioalexismartinezmart8085]

Retrospective picking john sykes Greats

[@stevejackson8625]

I fucking love these guys! Have since day one and will untill my dyin day. Until my dyin day.

[@RamsesCairoC]

Coño que bien tocas Sykes, gracias!!!

[@luizguerreiro3709]

At 02:26 wtf heavy grooving

[@sebs2306live2]

Reminds me of my HS years...SO simple back then.

[@Luvplanet]

@OUtsidethenine4eva who cares how they look....listen to how great they are playing. ....by the way the barefoot guy is Tony Franklin...the Fret-less Monster-BASE PLAYER

[@biancagerent6552]

Amazing!!!!

[@6StringWoodenFriend]

The ending was great ;-)

[@TheTruthseeker59]

john sykes was the better half of whitesnake!

[@The_Macaroon]

Bass genius Tony Franklin tweeted recently that this "live" version was recorded in the studio a few days earlier with only the vocals being live on the day. Great band though. Shame about the hair cuts lol.

[@EVEROSFP1]

The 80s was the era that hairdressers became rich!lol!

[@The_Macaroon]

@@EVEROSFP1 can't believe I left that comment 7 years ago!

[@EVEROSFP1]

@@The_Macaroon Probably we have commons in the way of thinking!

[@bumbo612]

so badass!

[@chrisb2535]

Love the ending, with all of the fake stops. Ha ha.

[@TheHAZ1983]

what a bash! gfd!

[@martinkyle1463]

Fantastic track, but what are they wearing?

[@CoolMikey81]

2:25. 🤘😀🤘

[@brandondickie3456]

I thought I was listening to ‘west end girls’ for a second

[@Drummerjeffkazee]

Billy ray cyrus killing that bass!! 😂😅

[@tommygw1]

@perle3456 Yes, it's Nick Kershaw on bass, Phil Lynott on Drums and David Coverdale on guitar/voc ;-). Oh no sorry - it's Limahl on bass...

[@Asphaltheizer]

Fun fact: This isn´t live...they recorded this version before in studio...proof? 1:33 drumfill :-)

[@docgonzales]

Live vocals tho

[@mikemccourt6225]

Filler up close shot from the warm up - sound is live in every other shot.

[@IAMINT]

We know Gosh and Sigh, eye roll

[@robluxford204]

If Carlsberg played Sykes tracks....

[@peterortisi6163]

Tony Franlin - How about some shoes bud!

[@Mattowarrior777]

i can swear i hear a fretless bass on Whitesnakes "looking for love"- anyone know if its really neil murray on that track? Things were so screwed up w/ recordings of british bands back then (like black sabbaths weird credits and not knowing who played on albums in the mid 80s)

[@hasrinmacintoshjawie]

😮👍🇧🇳

[@Paulmatthew22]

The song is called Billy fool!

[@k3nnethrfrog]

I love john Sykes and he is a frikin god, completely unappreciated and talented, but I don't think a lot of his live stuff is even him playing, Carmine at 1:33 doesn't add up, 2:16 the guitar chord goes lower when he doesn't even strum, it could be a slide down, but its too strong. 4:46 during the solo john slides down but the guitar keeps going. 4:59 the guitar bends but john delays the whole time. You can also see this on his bad boy live videos.

[@lifeisnice23]

Whaat?! Are you kidding?! Do you really know who John Sykes is? John is one of the most tremendous live performers ever !! On this Mtv special (like the other one of Jelly Roll from the same show) ,Tony Franklin himself said that they had just pre -recorded the music a few days before the show and only the vocals is live singing! That's the way it still works in many tv shows! About the 'Bad boys' video it's obviously live because it's the same live track you can find on the cd 'Bad boy live' , there's only a problem with lips synch between vocals and images...

[@k3nnethrfrog]

+dagmar977 yeah in no way am i dissing him or anything. John is my favorite guitarist at all time and hes just fucking badass, but i was just like "ah wow" when i saw this solo thing,, i know its a t.v. Performance but i never thought much of that. I mean im always like "ok no one can play like him and that's definitely his playing, but why doesn't it line up?" Also about the bad boy thing, specifically on bad boys and we all fall down. On bad boys the bends at 2:02 dont match his picking unless he isn't actually picking his guitar, and on we all fall down at 2:16 john bends his string and he slides down the guitar , when the guitar stilll bends for like a second as he's sliding. At 2:23 he bends the high note and it sounds like he picks it twice when he only picks it once. At 2:48 he stops playing the insanely fast part and bends his guitar! Before the bending starts. And at 2:54 he slides his hand down the guitar and then starts clapping, but the guitar keeps sliding down.

[@k3nnethrfrog]

+dagmar977 im sorry i feel like such an asshole for doing this because john is my inspiration for everything music wise and i hate how hes so under appreciated. I actually own all of the blue murder cds and his bad boy album and ive made my own blue murder pins so dont think im not a fan haha

[@k3nnethrfrog]

+dagmar977 oh crap you mentioned it! I was about to say i think the video sync is just messed up

[@lifeisnice23]

+k3nnethrfrog Don't worry!! I'm sure you're a big fan dude! The fact is that you can find online videos of "bad boys" and "we all fall down" with different edits : only two of them are the real live performances, the others are mixed with different audios and that's why there's the lip synch problem, they don't match in many points ..you just have to check the real ones out , they're amazing ...I wish John would release soon his new album ( can't wait anymore!! 😣 ) and go on tour so we can have new live videos! Fingers crossed 😉

[@CliffB70]

@wlmason73 Hahahahahahaha Brilliant

[@zorroofgarland]

Anyone have a better video of this?

[@Mattowarrior777]

u must not have heard the album, this is definitely live

[@UserUli]

the bass player looks like he had a second job with kajagoogoo

[@JohnSykesFan]

@wlmason73 hahahahaha!

[@michaels2boys]

What is he wearing? Hell it's 1989 bro! And by the way he's the bass player not guitar player!

[@Perle3456]

Sorry, but the one barefoot looks like Nik Kershaw....John Sykes is endowed with great gifts..

[@michaels2boys]

LOL!

[@TheReverend74]

Pop crap at these dayz John should better play with sum true band he d never stood long whether in whitesnake or lizzy think o me words

[@KARFan]

@OUtsidethenine4eva The BASS PLAYER is barefoot and judging by your comment I think it's safe to say that intelligence is not actually your strong side....

[@cruisenby6109]

Anybody else try to click on the gear for a better picture? Ain't gonna happen, this is before good video. Sykes WAS Whitesnake....you can tell here...fucking genius

[@sebs2306live2]

Cruise'n by I never did. Search Sykes on YT...wow !

[@andrewzenn1719]

Why didn't blue murder make it? Bassist dressed like boy George. Drummer looked like a pirate, guitarist had better hair than all women. All were a little iffeminant and over the top image but rocked. . Too bad. Jelly roll should have been released before valley if the kings. Valley made the band look like tolken . Plus the vocals meandered on the albums. There was alot of singing. Sykes has a good voice , but there was alot prolonged notes take the end of.jelly roll. A. Nice arrangement but could have been its own song, and it seemed to force a vocal effort on an upbeat rock song.. that was always my perception, and not hindsight. It was a good, different album.

[@nemtall]

Bass player Kicks though. barefeet or not

[@一比古猪股]

画像が劣化しています。リマスター希望。

[@jlkbbk2003]

I can't imagine the stresses they feel as I have never been there, and regardless of our income, we all have stressors, but I always see this amazing talent yet these guys tend to have such horrible reputations like so many say about working with Sykes (NO ONE is ever just complimentary) or Blackmore (NO ONE I mean no one EVER has a nice word to say about Ritchie and it seems like such a sad legacy to be hated by so many), Jeff Beck is never spoken of as a good person, Jake E Lee seems a bit off at times socially, EVH is looking like a worse person every time he opens his freakin mouth and his overt arrogance is such a turn-off, and there's so many more out there it makes me sad. I think I would want to known as a good person, not like some surgeon who they say of, "His bedside manner stinks; but he knows his stuff" and as a medical person myself I always answer that with; if your bedside manner stinks I say you DON'T know your stuff!" because HOW you treat someone else speaks the most about YOU, and how can someone go through 12-20 years of schooling and training like some surgeons and still can't figure out bedside manner matters........same with guitar players enjoying million dollar incomes because of good fans who support them.....just be grateful and treat others with SOME courtesy and respect. At the end of the day your shit does stink......so I have been told

[@dbsimmz4116]

Ice 18 Bingham: I’ve 18 Bingham: So much truth in your comment. It’s so unfortunate and sad. I’ve been working professionally in the music biz aka the circus since my early 20’s. (turning 60 this yr) I was a working member of the Blue Murder/Sykes camp early-mid 90’s. There’s obviously exceptions to this. On the flip side quite a few of these axe masters aka guitar gods are a lot more humble & thankful than you’d imagine. -DB Simmz

[@ssdtrain1]

hey,, brad pitt on bass!!! lol!

[@dokkenistotallyno1]

Nope, absolutely not live. Look (for example) at 1:33, where there's a snare fill on the track but Carmine just keeps playing the groove.

[@drummersinger5324]

Heavy to the point of nonsense continuously.

[@Schnitzengruben]

Fantastic band, questionable fashion choices though....

[@ritolaudicina3046]

Really good musicians but the song itself just isn't a hit. Try to compare it to bad boys or still of the night it doesn't measure up

[@dwdrumz1]

Canned music and performance. thumbs down. Really! come on guy's you're such legends, you can't really play the music live?

[@allanshawn]

I'm fan of John Sykes but i had to hit the dislike because of the gay base player playing in barefeet i would have beat the holy shit out of him if i was John Sykes!!!!!!

[@OriginalDarkMark]

allanshawn I always play barefoot. When I looked just now, I still had two kids and a wife. Gay?

[@chrisbr1969]

allanshawn Dude, that’s Tony Franklin! Obviously you don’t know music.

[@cast390]

Wtf is with that gay bass player

[@thebiggestwave7047]

Tony Franklin, he's a badass bassist.

[@josephsalinas5272]

homophobic much?

[@cast390]

Joseph Salinas Let me guess,a liberal right?