Dr. Feelgood - Live - Old Grey Whistle Test, 1975

Be so kind and get the f down!

[@philbarber4348]

RIP Wilko Johnson, he did it right, fucking superstar

[@leeinwis]

Not dead if we keep their energy alive !

[@ailurophile17]

@@leeinwis To that end, I've been playing Dr. Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe, and Brinsley Schwarz in my college classes leading up to "The Birth of Punk" and you can only get their through pub-rock! Amazing how much I absolutely HATED 95% of the popular music of the 70's, but LOVED so many little sub-genres than got NO attention or sales here in the good ol' benighted USA!

[@nylesglynn8727]

You always hear about Wilko, but Lee was a great frontman. Great voice, great presence. Died aged 41. Shockingly young.

[@klausrain111]

Yeah, I love Lee Beilleaux, he was a great singer AND perfòrmer, totally unique!😂 He will be widely imitated but never duplicated.😅

[@robertevans6596]

Lucky to have seen them live, alas not with Wilko.

[@Roll_the_Bones]

Honestly, every time I hear these original band performances I'm blown away by The Big Figure, he's doing all the heavy lifting while sitting quietly at the back, no theatricals, just total solidity and rhythm.

[@spitfire155k2]

Like a bass player!👍🏻

[@Roll_the_Bones]

@@spitfire155k2 Exactly so, Sparko & The Big Figure bolted-down each track, & allowed space for all the flashy stuff. Love it!

[@klausrain111]

Duh. He's the drummer!😅

[@TheMusicalElitist]

Underrated drummer

[@oolongoolong789]

Gritty stuff from Dr Feelgood. Tremendous live band.

[@billrana2373]

He's one hell of an axe man jeez man got some stones

[@iainmccoll390]

They really were a great band, very tight all working it together, Wilco with his great spectacular guitar, and lee on leads vocals with all that charisma and controlled aggression and of course out of this world Harmonica thanks for influencing me and all those great blues rock sounds !

[@manonymous4737]

yep. Controlled aggression is an excellent way to put it. He has a powerful presence, I love how menacing he can be when Wilco is doing something mad in front of him

[@gerryvillani2677]

The world's greatest minimalist band.

[@Villa832]

Truly great live band.

[@russianbot1420]

Whispering Bob had his socks blown off that night.

[@citizencairn5230]

Let's be honest here... it doesn't get any better than this

[@simonbarber2098]

Totally agree bro. Saw them at Leicester Poly brilliant. Most important rock band of 70s without these not much owt happens after..

[@kathrynramsay5104]

Just great musicians, they all look so young and handsome. Superb hair all round.

[@barrywoollacott7401]

Brilliant drummer

[@ldhumph70]

Bloody hell they were good 👊🏻

[@klausrain111]

NO OTHER BAND were like these guys!😂

[@-Pol-]

Wilko is utterly mesmerising - I can't think of another guitar player with such an intense onstage presence.

[@bobstirling6885]

Early Feelgood with Wilko were amazing live, I was so lucky to have seen them before he left.

[@tonyn9858]

me to at leicester de Montfort hall .Tone@@bobstirling6885

[@splodge5714]

Absolutely fantastic! Wonderful times. Keep banging them out Wilko.

[@missytreats]

Wilko Johnson - frikken legend!!!

[@flashtheoriginal]

MAGNIFICENT A true live band. Look out for the TOTP performance of Lights Out, where Dr Feelgood were promised a live recorded track would be overlayed by a totally live vocal at the attended studio broadcast. Lee sung totally live on the night....then the BBC knowingly played out the previous days' recorded vocal instead 😮

[@RayyanKesnan]

Crazy how ahead of their time this sounds while also being very blues rock oriented.

[@infoscholar5221]

Legends all.

[@mickymikado1887]

Wow - that is brilliant ✨🤷🏻‍♂️✨ !!

[@mwolski9921]

Fabulous stuff. RIP Wilko

[@cadge]

Bloody genius!

[@nickalina]

There was never a better sound.

[@kathleengrant7702]

Wow! Love percussion, great lead vocal voice, what an awesome song!

[@kathleengrant7702]

Loved the 70's music, I'm so sorry that I don't remember this amazing talent. Probably heard it in the radio, but in 1975, I was 6 y.o.! But later in my preteens, went back back and listened to 60's and 70's music especially British rock and punk.

[@deansongs]

I don't think they were on American radio

[@heraldeventsandfilms5970]

Or UK radio at this time. Shite Britain.@@deansongs

[@klausrain111]

😂Rock and roll, invented in America, did not become amazing as it is today, until the Beatles (from England) appeared on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964. 😅

[@ailurophile17]

I graduated high school in 1971 and absolutely HATED the music that was being played on US radio stations. "Classic rock," yeah right! Wotta misnomer. That forced me to search for music I liked and thankfully I kept finding bands and artists I loved from Big Star to the Flamin' Groovies to Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, Daddy Cool, Blue Ash, Starry Eyed & Laughing and then in 1975, DR. FEELGOOD! I guess there were probably 10 other Americans besides myself who bought an import copy of "Down By The Jetty" which just blew my socks off, and then later in the year, the amazing 'Malpractice" which stayed on my turntable until "Sneakin' Suspicion" came out and replaced it. Wilko was perhaps the most mesmerizing guitar player who ever lived and I'll take him over two dozen Claptons and Pages and all those wankers any day of the week! It was amazing to watch the end of the last episode of the first season of "Game of Thrones" and see the credits listing WILKO JOHNSON! I thought, "Nah, it can't be!" But it was and probably like everyone else who's posted here, I kept abreast of his medical condition and am eternally grateful for the years he still had left in which he had a chance to provide some tutorials and amazing tales from his amazing life. These guys had 3 great albums (and a live one too) in them which is more than you can say about dozens of bands in the so-called R&R HOF. Will Dr. Feelgood ever get in? Right after Graham Parker & the Rumour, Jackie DeShannon, the Honeycombs, and Artful Dodger. I never bothered listening to Dr. Feelgood after Wilko left (I mean, what was the point?), but 48 years later those four albums are still doing heavy duty rotation on my new and improved turntable!

[@bonnie7191]

You missed out by not listening to them after Wilko. They did some more great stuff. If you get time, listen to the 1978/79 live album "As it Happens". Gypie Mayo was a great replacement for Wilko.

[@genki2genki]

You didn't miss a damn thing by listening to those bands. You were way ahead of the average rock fan of that era.

[@albertjanvanhoek294]

"(-) after Wilco left (-)" ... now it's even worse: there is a so-called "Dr. Feelgood" touring with ... nobody from the original line up.

[@ailurophile17]

@@albertjanvanhoek294 That's just sad--sorta like the 20-30 different permutations of the Drifters that used to bamboozle the USA.

[@bonnie7191]

@@albertjanvanhoek294 I've seen the current lineup several times. Not as good as the Johnson or Mayo lineups but still better than no Feelgood at all. At least they're keeping the music alive. Also, guitar, bass & drums all joined the band 11 years before Lee died so they've got history with him. Saw that 80s lineup lots of times & always enjoyed them.

[@ukankypuratun675]

Best live band, did a great Rock Set...

[@birdmansclambake]

This is crazy cool. Love the guitar sound and playing

[@williamelliott4472]

just love the outfit if you are feeling down this is one band that can pick you up, i got to see them a number of times

[@philjames6206]

Aged fourteen, this group nailed me to the wall. A harmonica Lee gave me after a Cambridge gig went South when I left home at seventeen, also my 'Speed Thrills' badge. Shame. Though somewhere amongst the detritus of my life should remain their autographs, a poster and a programme. One of the GOATs.

[@Modell005]

Tops always 👏

[@valerioceruti]

impresionante la presencia de Lee Brilleaux en el escenario, ni hablar de Wilko Johnson, terribles, muy buena epoca de la musica.

[@robnyas]

yup one of the greats i grew up just a few miles away from Canvey Island and saw them on their local turf The Paddocks ( got my picture in the NME on that one ) and also at the Kursal Ballroom in Southend - amazing times as a 19 year old 🤗

[@argopunk]

1975 and these guys were already dressing with sleeker clothes and shorter hair that was to come with the punk explosion. As a kid back then, I recall hating the long hair, beards and flairs, so these fellas would have been cool to me. I only heard about them years later though.

[@stewartmckeand6099]

The SAS of rock!

[@TheLiggster]

Absolutely brilliant 👌

[@robinfereday6562]

I remember Lee’s white jacket from other videos it didn’t look so clean in them😂😂😂

[@shaunhennessy603]

Wilko sure had rhythm ❤️🎸🎶

[@onlyme219]

Wonderful

[@kathrynramsay5104]

wow fabulous,like it was yesterday

[@MrMmnngghh]

The expression on Sparko's face during "Keep It Out Of Sight" that says "lads, we are absolutely slaughtering this right now". Classic.

[@dannoakl]

The power of undiagnosed ADHD.

[@klausrain111]

😂ADHD? Thank God they didn't know about that shit in the 50s or they would've locked me up!😅

[@klausrain111]

😂My rock and roll life started in '58 when I heard Stagger Lee by the great Lloyd Price. Also Lonely Teardrops by Jackie Wilson around the same time. 😅

[@desrosierseric1068]

The whole band is quite fantastic

[@guillermomartin8775]

Muy buen estilo y acordes

[@babycharliebrown]

The tops.

[@rouker1]

Brilliant

[@ruicabral1960]

extraordinários!

[@mikaseppanen5230]

Back in a day (70's-80's), this band made people in Finland thirsty... Live in Tavastia, which is a rock club in Helsinki (Capital of Finland, for you lot) was sold out every time these guys played. The audience was/were completely wasted, no doubt about it. Outscoring every other band when it comes to selling beer & other liquids. This group remains to be the best and most entertaining band of this genre. What a wonderful R&B band, indeed. R.I.P. for Brillo and Wilko.

[@thomasmelber4011]

Never forgotten❤

[@nickush7512]

Enjoyed that... been a long time... thanks dude :)

[@mickkim3654]

Hypnotic. Mesmerising.

[@user-oj1xl6tr3y]

Здорово 👍 рок 🎸 навсегда здорово 👍

[@rouker1]

Proper music fucking raw ……… miles flowers……….knows…………8

[@JDM-zs7rk]

All fire

[@albertjanvanhoek294]

Just as Van Gogh failed to paint in the style of the Impressionists and was almost forced to develop out of that influence an expressive style of his own, Wilco Johnson could not exactly copy the guitar style of one of the most important guitarists in the UK, Mick Green (of “Johnny Kidd and the Pirates”), so that he developed out of that influence his own highly individual style (with influences as well from the percussive guitar style of Bo Diddley and possibly the "claw hammer" technique on a banjo). “Down by the Jetty” remains one of my all time favourite albums: black and white sleeve and MONO: what more does brillant music need …

[@69goldi]

Tight..

[@billyorielly1308]

Seen led zep seen the stones best live band ever the feelgoods not half

[@robinfereday6562]

How does Wilko play like that he plays solos and rhythm at the same time 🤷🏼🤷🏼

[@francislester6327]

The Drummer was “the Big Figure” 👍🏻

[@markmahosky532]

KICK ASS!

[@martindowney8737]

Somehow we have to make it work between East and West. Mr Ronnie O'Sullivan senses this which is why he wants to play in Asia.

[@martindowney8737]

Unesco. Canvey Island when the tide is going out.

[@martindowney8737]

Let me tell you aout a place far far away' Everybody walks down the street like there is gun pointed at their head.

[@richardbull1276]

What are you talking about?

[@ClueSign]

Ah, so that's where Billy Zoom stole his staring and playing style from! RIP Wilko.

[@latexsolarbeef4990]

..and wilko says he took his moves from wayne kramer of the mc5...and i used to be best buds with B.Z.'s ex Denise in L.A.. what a wonderful person..

[@sen5i]

If you watch Wilko explaining where he learnt his style of playing he says he took it directly from Mick Green guitarist for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates

[@ClueSign]

@@latexsolarbeef4990 very cool -- he was so unique in the midst of that era.

[@StephenMerchant-up8sg]

4:00 ooops...someones in the naughty corner 🙂

[@martindowney8737]

Jesus. I thought I had escaped Essex.

[@deansongs]

Less than 400 likes and like 30 comments? Clearly, Brits don't watch as much KZbin as we Yanks :-)

[@russbradley7914]

Saw them live twice around this time in 1974-75

[@mattirakettunen]

Ihan parasta!

[@GodfreyTempleton]

The band destined to never be.

[@nicirvin1994]

I remember seeing this and thinking.. They're all Bat Crap Cray Cray... But On fire.. 🔥

[@martindowney8737]

The crowds in China are too relaxed to dress up. Except for the party members. When do they relax?