Budgie- Baby Please Don't Go REACTION & REVIEW

[@mikedown1250]

Budgie are from my home city of Cardiff. They were miles ahead musically and paid the price being not popular at the time. They threw up a tent in my area and played for free when i was about 12 . RESPECT to budgie ❤

[@JustJP]

Nice!

[@Eduardo-Ferreira1982]

So much we learn reading the comments. 😊

[@Jaozedong-q5h]

More Budgie reactions if possible please!

[@4tuneagent]

Great choice for the Budgie cover of this old Classic! It Rocks. JP, an item of note. When you get to the next song, which is only 2 minutes long, and a very soft ballad, it is best to do the next 2 songs together. It exemplifies the sometimes Budgie tradition of Soft/Heavy, as they like to do in displaying their musical contrast. ("You Know I'll Always Love You"/"You're the Biggest Thing Since Powdered Milk"), together.

[@stuntmankrocmcginty4896]

One of those songs that every band seems to know. Off-hand I can think of AC/DC, Ted Nugent, and Van Morrison's band Them doing it. That last one's my favorite, but they're all valid. Everyone puts their own spin on it.

[@ytcai4535]

Sounds like Bela Lugosi's Dead is tripping out on some Radar Love

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hi Justin. Dave from Across The Ocean. An OK version of this blues standard, but not my favourite, which is from 1964 by the Belfast band Them, featuring a young Van Morrison on vocals. I think there's more of a raw energy and excitement to it.

[@illegal_space_alien]

My favorite cover of this song is the one that AC/DC did. Such raw energy!

[@fenderchamp8241]

Their 2nd Squawk is great! Young is a world, tremendous

[@pookiemartinez1745]

deep cut Banger!

[@pentagrammaton6793]

I love this cover. 🙃

[@shanesmith2853]

Spot on with the Hawkwind reference. If you'd like to hear the connection between blues rock to punk to grunge, check out Dead Moon.

[@ZalMoxis]

I've always loved the classic lineup of Budgie..... This is a cover of an old blues song JP.

[@Malady]

This a cover of a classic blues song.

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

My coal mine canary told me, "Baby Please Don't Go". But I wouldn't Budgie , so away I went. And Ten Years After I came back to listen and talk smack. Peace & Love

[@philippaul66]

YES--You can Talk Talk smack and tell it on the Mountain 🏔️ for Free 😊

[@fredhowell9880]

Hey J, want to discover something by a band that nobody has done before, the band is McKendree Springs, it's a bluegrass band that wanted to get their foot in the door of Rock & Roll. They did a song called God Bless the Conspiracy, it's anything But Bluegrass. Give it a shot, I know your appreciation for that kind of sound.

[@dannylgriffin]

I've recommended McKendree Spring 3 and "God Bless the Conspiracy" to JP three times so far over the last few years, the most recent about a week ago! Haha!

[@chrislewis-n3v]

budgie and the groundhogs were the 2 most overlooked bands of the 1970s- first 3 albums by budgie, the first self titled,squawk and never turn your back on a friend were classicthey excelled at hard rock but also ballads which,apart from zeppelin,was unusual- and no,they dont sound anything like hawkwind!

[@kenhewitt7357]

What a band

[@spawn4582]

The story surprises me again, I thought that the song “baby please don’t go” belongs to the group AC/DC, but I was wrong, I had no information, thank you. There is a video version of "baby please don't go" AC/DC, kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqqtd5apo511Zposi=T2Utu8nZXEHnYrr5 there is a studio version kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ3Zg5qQn6d2rNEsi=GKeL-Ao_2Ww9voun

[@lemming9984]

Singer sounds as though he's on Helium!

[@pookiemartinez1745]

Geddy curse

[@bobholtzmann]

Never heard this version - I thought Budgie would use the 60s version by V. Morrison and Them, and it does use the base guitar riff and rhythm. The vocals are not as good as Van's, and Alvin Lee does a brief vocal line in an oldies medley in a 10 minute version of "I'm Going Home", an amazing concert moment at Woodstock.

[@jameshouston2174]

Try earlier Budgie……Guts….or Nude Disintegrating Parachutists Women…….also an American band called Sir Lord Baltimore…..

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

JP started with Guts and Nude about 2 and a bit years ago.

[@pookiemartinez1745]

@jameshouston2174 this rare 73 live kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKq7nnmDqd6Ci5Y

[@sicko_the_ew]

I think they might've put some distortion on Burke Shelley's vocal (and deliberately kept the sound level of his track way down) to give it something of an "old blues gramophone record" sound? Around that time a lot of UK bands were into the blues, right down to the finer details, and the culture/ mythos of it all, so this fits well with that kind of knowledge of what they're basing their rock on. It's not an accident, and for at least some musicians it wasn't just something they read up on, and picked up some secondhand tricks of. I like the Budgie version, and like how it just gets into that groove and repeats it with not too much embellishment on the top to distract from the way the song keeps "driving forward". I don't know if the AC DC version is better (but it's great) - just to chuck in my 10c worth on that matter. Don't go with the album version of the AC DC version if you listen to it. Look for the "Pop Shop" version (live on a show run by a man called Molly in Australia at about the time when life first emerged onto land from the oceans). It's very entertaining (but maybe that's just down to my being more of a yob than a wanker, as TISM would divide the world). It features the great, but lecherous Bon Scott on vocals. They also change the lyrics a bit ... (Just listen and you'll hear when.) Actually I could just give you the link, nê? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqqtd5apo511Zpo (I also like the Van Morrison version. There are plenty of covers of this song.)

[@sicko_the_ew]

Went looking for the Van Morrison version, and found a more original duet with *John Lee Hooker* kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKiafqSImLKgi6M

[@jimallison6125]

Check out the same song but by The Amboy Dukes.

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

inter resting! energ etic ! over ly familiar but ultimat ely plen ty of fresh emp ty space to put their own Budgie Sounds on it Eye Ee U nique! di olch

[@AJ-wg1xv]

I love Ted Nugent's version the best.

[@kenl2091]

I'm not really hearing the Hawkwind linkage as its way too bluesy for that band. It's a great tune but the production isn't good and the vocals do seem a little too 'speeded up' even allowing for Burke Shelley's particular style (Geddy Lee must have been listening) Should have been kept for live gigs and maybe a bonus track on a CD/box set.

[@lossikuski5336]

AC/DC version of this song is the best!

[@cazgerald9471]

Is there a bad version of this song? Here's a stripped down duet (1992) by two artists who put their own unique spins on this tune much earlier kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKiafqSImLKgi6M

[@michaelfrank2266]

An acceptable cover. : D

[@Kevvinm]

Aerosmith and AC/DC do very good covers of this as well.

[@jfergs.3302]

Musically, a pretty decent version of a much covered blues classic. Sadly, for me, spoiled by that dreadful vocal. Not sure what they did, but sounded almost like played at the wrong speed. Running a little too fast giving it an almost Daffy Duck quality at times... Nice tune, shame about the singer.

[@jfergs.3302]

@@Paul-Martin_67 Indeed. Other than our choice of cartoon character, we agree :)

[@jfergs.3302]

@@Paul-Martin_67Strange eh... fancy hearing everyone like mickey. I could see that getting pretty annoying, though Isuppose he got used to it.

[@ZalMoxis]

That's his normal voice... go listen to some more of the band.

[@jfergs.3302]

@@ZalMoxis I have heard other stuff. And i've never been a big fan, but this just sounded so much worse on this song... go figure.

[@4tuneagent]

Sounds a little faster than the original LP, probably from the uploader's source. I noticed a variation in the 2 channels, which does not occur on the OG. Other than that, no issues, probably was a slight alteration in Burke's voice in the original recording.