Dave Hill from Slade Explains and Plays Chords of Merry Xmas Everybody

Dave Hill from Slade plays the guitar to Merry Xmas Everybody. He shows how rock n' roll and Chuck Berry influenced the song.
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[@limpethead]

Extremely underrated rock band. They could really write awesome songs.

[@StratsRUs]

Dave is a brilliant guitarist.Always sounded epic.

[@kevinobrien1259]

Played on the same bill as Slade in 1970 at an allnighter in London at a club called the Temple, my band Hosanna finished our set and it was nice to see Dave Hill had been standing there watching us, didn't see Slade perform as I believe they were due to go on about 4.00am and it was like a sweat shop in the club and then we got into a ruck with the guy on the door about our fee, he tried the old dodge that he would send us on a cheque, we were East end boys and we had met con men before, so we stood our ground and said we weren't leaving until we were paid., We couldn't leave our truck was on empty and nobody had a pound between us.......happy days ? Sometimes.

[@doubleotwentyone]

What made that track was Jim Lea's bass line, inspired. Reading Dave's book at the moment, well written and very interesting.

[@PeptheViking]

They where one of the greatest Rock bands in the world............................

[@davidwaterhouse2552]

God Bless Dave Hill! dx

[@weejim48]

Sound was a bit tinny on this vid but, Dave Hill . What a legend. I was a teenager when Slade made it big & me & my brothers loved the music. Great vid. 👍

[@ZooScott]

C’mon feel the noise 💥 👀 ❤️ 🎯

[@OsbornIOW]

Dave Hill Taught me a few notes on acoustic guitar back in the 70's in Mum's kitchen. Funny thing is, it was notes to a T rex song !! Lol Good days :)

[@steveturner6770]

Still a star!

[@jonesy2111]

You gotta love Dave

[@geekpie100]

"People didn't have much money, but they certainly had invention." Yes, that was us growing up in a terrace house in Leeds in the early 70s, getting the bumper 2 week edition of the Radio Times and TV TImes; No phone, no central heating, black and white TV, and Christmas was a very, very big deal.

[@johnregan326]

Brilliant stuff Dave🎤🎸👍.

[@laddersworship2575]

legend bro keep rocking

[@MrMariocavalcanti2]

legend!!

[@petervicterius654]

Dave keep on Rocking

[@musicauthority703]

The sound was messed up, but Dave Hill is an amazing guitarist, and extremely underated guitarist. I've been playing guitar for year's, but I would like to learn more about his unique AWESOME technique.

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

Not a great guitarist, but a great showman...In all those years i was a huge fan I never heard anything that made Dave a great guitarist...but he WAS a great showman...

[@tynebar]

Great guitarist PMSFL

[@mohamedsheik4589]

Noddy made slade 😂😂

[@tynebar]

No he didn't. @@mohamedsheik4589

[@johnworby647]

Year's?

[@danielvanhorn911]

Love the song

[@MrRouse]

Dave Hill. You are The BEST and You will forever and ever.

[@wataboutya9310]

I grew up in a government housing estate back in the day so I can relate well to Dave's recollections of Christmas.

[@daviddrummerrichards2724]

Honestly my mate who played guitar in a band we were in in the 70s is Dave hills exact spitting image only difference his guitaring wasn’t as good we were all the same age as slide also

[@keithmatthews1673]

I found some chords on the internet that I use for my own amusement (starts G, B min, D, D sus etc ) and they sort of sound like the song but they are nothing like what he was playing here. Still 1973 was a long time ago!

[@BobK5]

😎

[@davros692]

would be a great idea to issue MXE and dave merry christmas now a n b this year anybody agree!!!!

[@chrisst8922]

Wow. Dave on Dad's guitar.

[@JeaneGenie]

He is amazing is Dave. Really talented showman !

[@tonystoakley5816]

Dave Hill the greatest guiterst ever my guitar hero

[@cliveclive54]

I can remember Ambrose Slade ! gees,I,m old ;-0) \m/

[@jappedut9009]

Me too

[@sega62s]

Tube amp is ideal for rock and slades sound 🍻

[@user-mf6no7jj9w]

👍👍👍

[@quentindail4663]

hi dave hill

[@roofrockerz1233]

Dave could be the Brother of Timothy Spall...

[@johnnurden1767]

Not sure why there is a backing track on this video. It makes it hard to hear Dave.

[@markhamilton4495]

Sounds normal through headphones

[@liborsionko]

Just as well he's not recording this NOW 😂

[@crankjazz]

What is up with the audio? Garbled to the point of it being totally inaudible.

[@PutItAway101]

Left and right channels are out of phase and they cancel each other out, you'll notice the effect or not depending on exactly how your speakers are spaced. It should be audible on headphones beacause the two channels don't mix. I can hear it OK on my room speakers but my little UE roll combines the channels and the result is garbage.

[@dawidschachta4160]

Ggh

[@lmjones7716]

Wolverhampton accent.

[@johnhanna7138]

Very good I think you did that on purpose we can't hear anything just take it of

[@workingboat]

Sure I gotta turn up me ear trumpet....!

[@paulweston285]

As clear as mud

[@awsomeal100]

I Still Think All Four Members Should Get An Equal Share Of The Royalties...After All Slade Is Slade....Had That Have Happened They'd Have Probably Reformed And All Been Quids In....It Was The Principle Of The Thing With Dave And Don And Not Just The Money...And Who Can Blame Them......Slade Would Not Have Happened Without All Four Members...End Of...I Mean Have You Heard Hill's Playing On Slade Alive............F....k...g Awesome....And Don Powell's Thundering Rhythm ....Come On....It's Not Too Late Y'Know.

[@ilovesmysangsomsangsom3500]

Bet you passed Grammar in School….. Capital Letter on every word…..🤣🤣🤣

[@WV591]

what kind of Gibson is that. it's not SG

[@COL321]

Here you go; guitar.com/features/dave-hills-sam-li-custom-guitar-workshop/

[@tonyobbeek8910]

It's my favorite guitar EVER this was a custom made guitar for Dave back in the seventies. The neck comes from a Gibson (can't remember what model) with Fender single coil Rythem and Gibson Humbucker Lead, body is solid Maple and heavy as hell All those fantastic Slade songs sprang from this guitar.........well most of them, it's gorgeous. tones1957 (New Zealand) 2:42

[@Purrplewolf]

The sound isn't working!

[@alexmacleod3728]

You need headphones

[@tynebar]

"bit out of tune but it doesn't really matter" There it is, his attitude for the past 20 year, the bloke doesn't give a f...

[@who8allthepies]

Whoever upliaded this needs to check it fjrst as its lne bjg clister fuck on audio

[@bortsimpson4283]

Fix the sound!

[@BigDwww]

This sounds poor to me , rose tinted ears think , i loved Dave back in the day but its now come to light that Jim did a lot of the solos when Dave was not even in the studio .

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

i AGREE...why some are saying 'the greatest guitarist' is beyond me....

[@johnmccormick8159]

Is this scrambled outside of Britain or something? The audio is comletely unintelligle with the exception of the song itself which is garbled.

[@astragreen]

Can’t hear a word so I had to turn it off, he can’t be bothered to fix the sound he’s not getting my attention, shame because I wanted to listen!.

[@davetaylor7903]

Should have made sure his guitar was in tune before making this video.

[@alanmoor615]

Digsys dinner chords stolen from slade by oasis ..

[@russo10]

I had a rather odd dream about a little elf like person almost a dave gandalf hill dwarf telling me that he played on all of t. Rex hits. But yeah...not a massive slade fan really. Not experimental enough for me. At least sabbath and zeppelin were attempting to find something new, father than Ash in on a tried and trusted t reps formula.

[@kyte4201]

No sound pity

[@silviosouzasilva6524]

Sound ungli

[@johnhanna7138]

I,m beginning to think Dave hill can't play the guitar has anyone ever actually heard him play I for one haven,t I,ve seen all the pretending he,s playing on top of the pops he was doing a interview a couple of years ago for a music channel he had the guitar on his knee and talked about one of the riffs in one of van Morrison songs he never hit the guitar once so this video just adds to my suspicion

[@anoistime2297]

Based on this and other vids I've seen with Dave Hill recently I'm thinking Slade were an early fake boy band and I've loved their music since the 70's that was very sloppy beginner type playing,

[@rongrainger9611]

@Harold Sweathead Poor Dave didn't even get to write the songs, which is why his version of Slade are still gigging. All Slade's hits were Holder/Lea compositions

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

I agree with you...

[@toastertwo1602]

Here's what he can do as a guitarist. At least could back in the days. Pretty mediocre I'd say. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4PKk5qcj8SVjqssi=GUdhUlwB7eb4Cryo

[@paulwitveendaal3381]

Hero But average player

[@mooghead]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWXEZXacebVpkJY Check out his playing here, pretty bloody great!

[@workingboat]

Bollocks to that matey

[@gregwoolliscroft6255]

@@workingboat no, Paul is right...

[@harrygaul4475]

Cannot hear Dave talking at all

[@user-by5kb9pl8l]

Клоун, в тени Ноди.

[@toastertwo1602]

Ну по крайне мере он прикольный.