Bonzo Dog Band - Can Blue Men Sing The Whites

[@ailurophile17]

I've loved these guys for over 50 years now. When I was in the army and surrounded by the likes of Dip Poiple and Led Bedpan, I was playing the Bonzos, Fairport, the Flamin' Groovies and Daddy Cool! I memorized all the Bonzo's stuff as avidly as I did the Firesign Theatre's. Now my wife and I and our 20 year old niece close the show at family affairs with our unique interpretation of "Hunting Tigers Out In India!" Gawd bless the Bonzo Dog Band!

[@DebiusCooperius]

Bonzo and the Groovies, hell yeah, man.

[@yb-rk5oh]

​@@DebiusCooperiusright on

[@vespadavidson2315]

Saw these once at The Hat and Feather..Bath.......just before I got chucked out for having no shoes.......ah the good old days.........................

[@OnlyrepublikafaninNL]

Got all their brilliant albums. "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse' being the best...

[@fidomusic]

Brilliant. And so true at the time. Thanks for posting.

[@peterwebb1862]

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to do a number now that was popular during the Depression, when eveyone was so depressed."

[@texadillo53]

Been a fan of the Bonzos since 68 or before...what a great bunch of musicians. This Texas boy loves em.

[@darrellwilson3661]

Crazzzy!!!!!! I bought the album when it was first released and it's great to hear this track again. Thanks.

[@GrezH]

"Not yet man!" Fantastic stuff guys!

[@pierrealexandre5701]

heard this in 1975,still resonates ....this blew away all the pretension of the big super groups of the day that people worshiped at the time,Hello Led Zepplin fans!...........:)i only listed to Jim McClouds Jazz before midnight before I hear this and Janislav Kovarachesk ambient show

[@sharan5092]

What happens when Irony gets fully Flaggelated !

[@pfaffman100]

Probably repeats,lol.

[@BillLarkinmusic]

One of the best albums ever made ever! anywhere!True.

[@simonpenny2564]

Thankyou Vivian, Neil et al.

[@clemdallaway]

Love it!!! Gonna have to cover this in my band!

[@cosycleaner]

Yep, me too, a Bonzos fan since 1968...unbeatable!

[@autodelete66]

The Best Parody/Satire band ever ! I saw them do a surprisingly unpredictable WHO-Tommy Parody, with a great musical build-up, and then Neil jumps in the air, utters "When I was", then utter silence............ What a delightfulbunch of musical clowns ? Just like this piece here where they impune the Honesty of White Blues performers who NEVER Really had to survive through suffering times.

[@12presspart]

this was a parody of mick jagger uesd to have doughnut in grannys greenhouse

[@Wormtongue13]

"I gotta mess my hair up, I'm gonna make some noise." Genii at work.

[@lewisgreen1633]

Viv was so ahead of his time - genius!

[@MrBazza86]

I am still a huge fan - bought all their albums right back to Do Not Adjust Your Set (1968) - my head is still full of their lyrics and I run them though my head every like I have for the last 40+ years, my bible.

[@antodob47]

Yep. Been listening to them since the 60s. They've never been bettered. Viv Stanshall is one of the best lyricists ever, and the funniest!

[@Drewster58]

I loved this album and it's close musical relatives as played on the Doctor Demento Show in Los Angeles in the early 1970's

[@nhthompson]

Can't decide whether this or "The Strain" is my favourite Bonzo's track. Both great songs and marvelous satires on their idiom.

[@howlindonster6131]

Been awhile since I heard this gem...

[@yuromacviva3695]

been a real long time since I taped this off the radio must be close to 40 years.

[@alanoneill3065]

aye...me too..I used to listen to Top Gear with John Peel on Radio 1 on sundays,,,used a Grundig reel to reel,,and a mike

[@beelaker]

I agree that the Bonzos and the Mothers of Invention head the class of parody with great musicianship. Was lucky enough to them in the early 70s at the Boston Tea Party, Landsdowne Street. We really need a Holodeck and recreate the perfect craziness of a live Bonzo Dog Band show.

[@ISeriouslySuck]

Been listening to them sick I was a kid. Pretty much my first lesson in irony

[@dharmaseed]

This statement is spot on with so many white guitar players out there nowadays. They have no problems to speak of, but the cultural mecca for them is to go out and play blues all night. Not anything else, just BLUES. Gets old after a while.

[@stephengould4343]

One of the great intros.

[@fishynathanfilms]

Unbeatable. Why are we all so serious and "kool" these days?

[@lowellthomasjr.468]

Urban Spaceman? CLASSIC...Bonzos, Monty Python...Peter Sellers and The Goon Show...That Was the Week That Was...love them MADcap Brits...LOL

[@potrezeb1]

silly but great ..saw them loads a times ...wunderbahh !!!

[@plexibill]

i saw these wacos at the michigan state fair ground 2 day rock n roll festiville tolal space cadets never 4git dem cats. 1968 or 1969 cant rember to much i think that was a blotter saturday or maybe micro dot sunday send me back to heaven

[@michellecruz5453]

GENIAL !!!! MUY MUY BIEN ... ONDA PURA DEL 68" !!

[@dharmaseed]

They're STILL right, thirty years later.

[@johnknottenbelt2502]

The forerunners of "Not the 9 o'clock news & Monty Python" & a band WAY ahead of it's time.... Art college miscreants with huge foresight, a lot of talent & verve !

[@sharan5092]

What happens when Irony gets fully Flaggelated !

[@pierrealexandre5701]

oops typos below....you know what I mean...the opening guitar intro still sends a shiver down the spine....parody yet quality parody!!!

[@The3dphotoartist]

At least Vivian left "Arc of a diver" before he passed. Thanks Viv!

[@thegranddilligaf]

@strangeones4 I think the Bonzos were the English (and I do mean English as opposed to British) equivalent of Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention- tight musicianship and intelligent satire.

[@sharan5092]

Only slightly different. What happens when Irony gets fully Flaggelated !

[@anthonypicco7811]

in terms of humor, yes... but they were neer as proficient musically as Zappa and his musician

[@12presspart]

@@anthonypicco7811 frank loved them

[@anthonypicco7811]

@@12presspart I am sure he did, and I meant no ill will to the Bonzos. They were brilliant comedians. I have all the albums. Zappa's band members were always very proficient, top of the line musicians. That's all I was saying.

[@yb-rk5oh]

check out the Liverpool Scene, i got the john mayall Fleetwood Mac chicken shack blues

[@robertsnow608]

GENIUS. Viva Viv!

[@BarrySeymour]

"Shit, man." LOL

[@barrymellish4435]

I remember them form teh Tigers Head Days - now sadly closed and replaced by a block of flats

[@Kestrel_1]

Barry, are you one of The Mellishes? I was at St Joseph's 1959-66; I might have got on the rugby field with Mick once (probably as a waterboy); Rob had returned to school as a teacher in about 1963(?). My friends went to the Tiger's most Friday evenings for the Bonzos but I preferred to hang around Peter Pan Pool and smoke Chesterfields - I already had the blues. Viv woulda unnerstood me.

[@alanoneill3065]

He's got a point....

[@davedoom60]

💗 LOVE YOU VIV 💗

[@Mindermaniac]

@toskoramone you can find the CD's on Amazon for sale complete with bonus tracks, they were all remastered a few years back - downloading is stealing!

[@AdamGillett]

*burns and posts to Tom Waits*

[@redheylin]

true

[@SollyMotherF]

TUNE!!!!

[@rtrepsas]

Nice scalding bluesey intro. guitar solo by Neil Innes

[@autodelete66]

Brilliant Parody on all these White Boys, copping to a Black Blues idiom, without any Really Sorrowful experiences.

[@MartijnHover]

Everybody has sorowful experiences. That is why the blues are universal.

[@duncanparsons]

@Mindermaniac absolutely - debit where debit is due ;-)

[@RcNerd]

Saxondale series 2 lol

[@autodelete66]

Exactly, see my comment.

[@synthonaplinth5980]

Not yet, man.....

[@SuperNevile]

Do blue men sing the whites or are they hypocriiites for singing? ~ Great

[@blazersaint144]

if they are Blue Meanies they can, right Billy ?

[@abcbcde9985]

Not the Blueeee Meaniesssss!

[@dianestack4357]

is it me or does it sound like zz birmingham

[@shirleypena4133]

Two fools still don't believe that blue men can sing the whites. ;)

[@alanoneill3065]

...and it all went downhill from there....

[@2ruedas2]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXWpnmZsrsyeoJI&feature=related this seems to be exactly what they were going about, don't you think? In my mind anyway it's a pretty close analogy

[@chriswhite2576]

Kbo

[@tuxguys]

A comment on "cultural appropriation..." ...and what a stupid concept it is... ...50 years ahead of its time.

[@autodelete66]

See my comment.

[@computerhog1]

great album ...thanks for taking LOTS of lsd guys!! love it!!

[@michellecruz5453]

GENIAL !!!! MUY MUY BIEN ... ONDA PURA DEL 68" !!