The Celibate Rifles - Johnny

The Celibate Rifles (Australia) - Johnny (1989). www.celibaterifles.com/indexb.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celi...

[@user-im5ee7yu5w]

The Rifles and The Scientists on a Double Bill at Bryant's Manly Vale 1983. I was 22 and so happy to be alive. RIP Damo.

[@danno1974ify]

RIP Damien, you lived an interesting life. On your own terms.

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

@Mr X Yeah mate but it needs a lot more to wanna do something or if you did with all the power you need for havin such a life and to stay alive such a cool tough band Rest in Powder from a 58 year old Punk Rocker from Motorcity Stuttgart Germany ☠️💣☠️

[@kobraxxx182]

Rifles + Hard-Ons... what an awesome rock era we had here...!!!

[@alanstrom2221]

Damo was a massive Sea Eagles fanatic, saw him on The Hill at Brookie many times. Damo was a Renaissance man, he could cook you a great meal whilst talking politics, philosophy and of course, Football. I remember one night at The Strawberry Hills Hotel up near Central Station, Sydney, and Damo was reading the lyrics to a new song from a sheet of paper he was holding up on stage. Classic Lovelock and just one of the many, many, many reasons we love him

[@gurto7214]

one of the best rifles songs ever 👍 still pumps me today before a surf!

[@robc8923]

This is still the best Australian track I've ever herd.

[@alanstrom2221]

Hey Rob, if you like this track then you'll probably like Wollongong's fave sons, the mighty TUMBLEWEED!!!!

[@substratum2860]

Definitely up there

[@clacclackerson3678]

Have a listen to Shark Fin Blues by The Drones.

[@ishtishmarhib1265]

My Dad says this track ABBA tried to cover but just coundnt get the rhythm down pat, no shit i said, you need to be Australian to be able to rock it like that!

[@MrPjalex]

😂😂😮😅 really.. you gotta listen to some more stuff from down under

[@baax]

The whole album kills, Paddington RSL 91 or so with the Hard Ons, one of the greatest nights of my life.

[@manonymous4737]

Yup, I would have been there too. I saw them so many times I have lost count, has to be a 100 times. When they did their little Sydney tours we would go see them every night, without fail, like 4 times in the same week

[@fotorabia]

@@manonymous4737 Yup..i was active in that scene as a teenager...one of old schoolmates married a member of The Johnnys.

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Agree Hard-Ons are Killer too 🍻💊🍻

[@metaphyzikal1]

don't forget the Hopetown, it was a bit small, but man it rocked every weekend.

[@baliclubbingtv4156]

RIP Damo. Best years on my life listening and surfing to your tunes.

[@wayneelliott7011]

The Rifles were the Best Live Australian Band I ever experienced. And I experienced most from '73 onwards.

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

The Saints saw them only one time in 78

[@TJjjjjjjjjjj]

I’m sure I’m not alone but this was the first guitar riff I ever learnt ! RIP mate

[@deanjensen3657]

Sad, sad day...RIP and respect from the Gold Coast..

[@fotorabia]

I saw them with the Dead Kennedys in Sydney 1983...

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

DK as opener? 🤣

[@panagiotischaralampopoulos7152]

very underatted group as they were great!!!!

[@sksensksen4506]

got all their albums

[@ianmckenzie1063]

3 times! what a record this was there killer album start to finish it just hsd to be cranked up! sorry for the 3 posts fat fingers rifles 4 Eva miss them dearly good health to all.

[@themillwall442]

Killer song. Band had some absolutely awesome songs.

[@herc_ules_therealone]

In this clip. Damien Lovelock-voc Kent Steedman-Lead Guitar Dave Morris-Rhythym Guitar Jim Leone-Bass Paul Larson-Skins Great clip, thanks for the upload.

[@maxloughlin9971]

Still rocks and always will. RIP

[@OO-yo3up]

Remember them playing in Central Park after the anti-nuke march...must have been the 80s. Still have their posters from when I booked them at the Tradies.

[@davidcochrane2739]

Damien was such a top guy!

[@katalinkiss2421]

RIP Damien

[@mjs121]

Saw these guys a few weeks ago in Wollongong! Awesome show!!

[@darylcumming7119]

Many thanks still have the album some where. It rocks.

[@vernonsultan513]

Just read the news , r.i.p man

[@TheKjammo]

saw these guys out from of the train station in amsterdam back in 86/87 damn good show !

[@ianmckenzie1063]

What we use to do go and get a new record we say there and listened to it

[@ianmckenzie1063]

I remember my neighbour bringing home the blind ear vinyl record from rocking horse in the city ( Brisbane )

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Great punch superb drummer and to see the evolution from 77-89 RnR Killer Band 🍻💊🍻

[@dankells7264]

The rifles!! Raw, real and just rocking as f$*k,. Damo RIP thanks for 40 year of fun, energy and growth.

[@seancyco9446]

Great Aussie Underground Pub/Punk Rock.. I saw them support Jello Biafra & G.S.O.M On my birthday, May 16th 20??. Great Night!!..

[@chamberpot969]

What a belter!

[@frednurk1624]

Rip mate

[@HerbWych]

Fantastic live....I miss the 90's!

[@jimwest63]

Great song, but the video is even better. Is there a higher resolution version anywhere? I can't believe the combination of cool and hilarious. Muppet haired, head banging guitarists, cool shimmying vocalist with a simple zoom out along a ladder / train track. Did the videographer go on to win an Oscar for something? It's between this and Died Pretty's DC for Oz Rock Video of the Century.

[@jashado]

some of us remember, some of us died and don't . thanks for the memories, i live :)

[@FigmentSALabel]

This takes me back. A great clip.

[@mickbroad8819]

RIP ...

[@angela3067]

seeing them again soon, two nights in a row, plugged in and pulled out

[@axelledee1763]

The unplugged show Angela L was awesome. I managed to record their whole set ☺️🖤

[@beetle1835]

one of the great reasons of living in sydney in the '80's

[@iankavanagh1089]

Saw these guys at the Silver Dollar in Toronto. Sadly, it was me and not too many others.

[@user-wc5gi2lz3n]

The mighty Celibate Rifles ....

[@energyslope]

Great song - classic riff

[@MaxSavage]

Great song, always liked this one

[@siegfried1234]

Banger

[@fatarsemonkey]

I have never heard of this band in my life, come home from work, chuck on Rage and this is playing and I thinking wow who is this and then I find out they have avoided my radar for like forty years. How does that happen? Is it the the Mandela effect?

[@bloodyfingers1on1]

never forget them & DK's at the original nulla riot, crazy night !

[@mortizia23]

Se salen de lo buenos que son!!!!

[@luisgonzagarodriguez7662]

Rock&roll muy bueno

[@starseed1352]

Miss Ya Damo I know your in the ocean somewhere.

[@gordillogordillo98]

Empezando el tremendo día, ubuntu

[@alanstrom2221]

I am shocked and deeply saddened by the news that our friend and mate Damien ' Damo ' Lovelock has passed away. I would have seen The Rifles 50-100 times

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

lucky you 58 Punk Rocker from Motorcity Stuttgart Germany ☠️💣☠️

[@danielg2946]

Nice rock, tuned in

[@Scottie_S]

Came back to check out this great song again, and got a real "Denis Leary lookalike' vibe from Damo.

[@rob666-rob]

Love this shit. Miss you Damo🤘

[@ratman872]

The memories playroom great band

[@AUDIOMUNKY1]

Saturday June 23rd at beach rd hotel bondi yeooooooow!

[@gianpaolocastaldo2798]

Rip, man ❤

[@roundhead114]

RIP FROM A JOHNNY

[@piginasack]

Gotta dig out my cassettes - I know Blind Ear is in their somewhere...

[@waydeaarthar7594]

Best live band, West Rydepubs and the Rifles

[@alanstrom2221]

Great Northern Beaches band

[@alanstrom2221]

Damo was a massive Sea Eagles fanatic, saw him on The Hill at Brookie many times. Damo was a Renaissance man, he could cook you a great meal whilst talking politics, philosophy and of course, Football. I remember one night at The Strawberry Hills Hotel up near Central Station, Sydney, and Damo was reading the lyrics to a new song from a sheet of paper he was holding up on stage. Classic Lovelock and just one of the many, many, many reasons we love him.

[@ozhammerhead71]

You are right

[@delfinacruz640]

❤❤

[@rksguit]

Hey Damien,Kel/Kent Dave Paul.Jim,I totally miss rockin out seriously to YOU guys,you just had the ROCK down[even though you'd take the piss out of a statement like that,to the extreme!]],and you guys always sounded incredible LIVE. I seriously miss those days,especially,when you guys,seemed so bemused,that I was SO into your music! Cheers, Bob, also @ soundcloud rks26 "weedling to the max",ha!

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

Who r the losers downthumbing this!?

[@colddaze6680]

just fuckin losers, just like you said mate

[@mickmckean7378]

Go the Rifles!

[@michaelofsydney6128]

Hey Jonathon...it's really a case of you 'needed to be here' Sydney had a very vibrant music scene in the 80's. We know what we had. Today another great aussie rocker died Chrissie Amphlett...you just had to be here mate. A lpot of my international mates reckon Australia but Sydney in particular had the best music scene in the world at that time. Where did you spend the 80's Jonathan? Waht was it like for you?

[@mizachittlin1]

was there myself,,yeah

[@stephenlancaster7038]

so sad did not know he was unwell

[@TheAth8]

more aussie guitars please!!!!

[@noseeumproductions2709]

🤙

[@ScottsGuitarChannel]

Jonathan: it's to the left of your "A" key.

[@garybarlow5446]

ScottsGuitarChannel check wet taxis...cmon

[@ceoofjahsism3245]

My uncle is the drummer

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

Wow sounds great - having lots of fun with him... 🍻💊🍻

[@dccar1]

i hope they come back to queensland.........please guys

[@boggy6060]

Rifles and Birdman !!!!!. Australia's best......

[@TravisAlanHall]

damien was jack johnsons neighbor in Hawaii for a time.

[@miguelgeronimo9487]

Hey Dale.

[@johnmac491]

LOL

[@BAAVIANIST]

ACTUALLY I WAS AN INSPIRATION FOR THIS SONG - THE RIFFS, THAT IS...

[@waggafletcher]

The Chats brought me here.

[@alanstrom2221]

How did they do that? Have they done a cover version of Johnny? Do you know The Chats' band members and they said " Hey, have a listen to " Johnny " by The Celibate Rifles?? Are they transport drivers that brought you to a destination, which is here?

[@12inchvertical]

Well fuck me, these dudes were alright

[@kentgorrell]

Was the key that Johnny tried to sell to the cop in the bar, the key to the stolen car? Or am I just clueless?

[@kemicon]

This song is great. Don't care for the vocals all that much but they get the job done. Sounds kind of like the HellaCopters... 20 years before there were HellaCopters.

[@jasongaudet3026]

Any other Canadians getting Tragically Hip vibes? Just me?

[@danskin1524]

667 on the Richter scale

[@danskin1524]

Good song with long sections of no words like a lot of rigs songs mental

[@danskin1524]

CRS songs of rifs

[@danskin1524]

Orr

[@TwickenStep]

Albo2022

[@martinevensen406]

Better than men at work

[@dischargesummary8794]

What the fuck ha happened to Australia????

[@MrHoefnix]

What's Sting doing in this band?

[@BAAVIANIST]

THE 1980'S...? I WAS IN MY BEDROOM, WHICH I SHARED WITH OLDER BROTHER LISTENING TO PUNK ROCK.. WHICH KINDA BUGGERED UP MY FORMATIVE YEARS - IN SO MUCH AS I WAS CASTIGATED, LIKE SENT HOME FROM PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR PLAYING PUNK ERECORDS AT SCHOOL DISCOS ETC. YOUR MESSAGE READS LIKE YOU SHOUTED THIS DOWN A PHONE. I SUPPOSE YOU HAD TO BE ANYWHERE WHEREIN SOMMAT OCCURED.. ALL I VAN THINK OF IN THE WAY OF WORTHY MUSIC WITH A CAPITAL TWIST OF LAFTER IS MR FLOPPY... INCIDENTALLY I WANT TO LIVE IN OZ...!

[@ernestalkertrap4174]

alice in chains

[@micklafleur]

Can you any harder? Nahhhhh

[@seancyco9446]

On Par With Radio Birdman, Lime Spiders, Hard-ons & Cosmic Physcos.. Aussie Rock @ it's finest!.

[@Nigelxman]

Can we assume that you are joking?

[@ernestalkertrap4174]

se pareze a kurt cobain

[@BAAVIANIST]

AS I SAID: IT IS VERY RARE FOR AUSSIES TO MAKE GREAT ROCK MUSIC - AND THIS IS A CASE IN POINT!!!!

[@BAAVIANIST]

AWWW, NO.... SHIPOFOOLS GETS A COB ON SHIPOFOOLS GETS LIPPY...SHIPPY GETS THE SACK!!!!! R U A DENTIST, BY THE WAY?

[@BAAVIANIST]

p.s. what woul dbe wrong with wishing to live in oz????? are you adverse to whinging poms coming over??????

[@Barrett977]

veramente brutta...

[@ivanmdc22]

Fatti curare

[@BAAVIANIST]

tis very rare for the aussies to make decent rock musak...