Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces (1977)

Live at the Montreux

[@essiejames9492]

I was 24 when this came out and now I'm 71 still listening in 2024

[@jurrealbrecht4419]

I am 24 years old about to listen to this song for the first time. The internet can be a wonderful library :)

[@MarshysStache]

What did you type in to find it?

[@bpabustan]

A band from Scotland that has SOUL! No doubt about that.

[@nobiazcustomsinc5030]

they were from scotland?! I didnt know that!

[@bpabustan]

@@nobiazcustomsinc5030 yes they were. Isn't it interesting that these guys love soul, funk and r&B. That is why many were amazed at them. Scotland is the most unlikely place where you will see a soul band.

[@karolekowalski]

guess how?! halleluiah!

[@karolekowalski]

​@@bpabustanyou AI?

[@nickcaines8976]

Amen to that brother I was 11 years old when that first came out pick up the pieces and I'm still listening now at 60

[@ashfaq1999]

Classic. One of the best songs of the 70’s 💃🕺

[@adewale007]

Scotland has always had the funk. Big love from England.x

[@jekanyika]

I was pretty surprised when I found out they were Scottish . Fair play!

[@davewalkden9978]

@@jekanyika Me too!

[@adewale007]

@@jekanyika Funk is global bubba.

[@traceys8065]

Thank you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jeffreybarkin3177]

And CANADA too! ❤ 😂

[@donnam.cafferty5343]

I was lucky enough to be 16 when this came out. It made me appreciate music & is still one of my favorites now at 61 yrs old. LOL

[@duncangrant4580]

Same age and agree 100%!

[@camilosil9229]

Conheci com Phil Collins.Nao sabia que era Deles.Simplemente Maravilhosa!!!

[@MrNathan791]

Lol ; Yelp I was 16 too. Boy we had so much fun dancing to this song going down our Soul Train line. 😂🎼🎼🕺🏾

[@datadrivenstoryteller]

Player! You will never age!

[@anachronist]

If you're 61, then you were 13 or 14 when this came out. I'm also 61, and I remember this from age 13. I went to a different school that year, and I remember being in my middle school jazz band (I was a drummer) and between rehearsals the bass player was working on this song with one of the sax players for a talent show. One of my favorite songs too. It was years before I learned who the band was that performed it.

[@I.MacGillivray]

The Dundee horns...superb and classy.

[@RoyceKitts]

My son is playing this on guitar in his high school jazz band. His first solo. He said it was a song he was pretty sure I had never heard before. You didn't live in the 70s and not hear this song. It was everywhere.

[@thecuttingsark5094]

White , black, yellow, red, brown. All different until they listen to this. Then we’re all the same.

[@traceys8065]

Blew my mind when I found out the AWB were Scottish!!! I’m 50 and always thought that they were from the US! Such a funky song and the beat is infectious. Classic 🙌

[@Moneytane1976]

Theres a black dude up there on the drums, sure there was no black dudes in Scotland in 1974

[@traceys8065]

@@Moneytane1976 What a stupid comment 😂 I’m sure there were black people In Scotland well before then. And so what if the guy is black? Wtf has that got to do with anything, Or what I originally commented? 😂

[@SamA-cw3be]

@@Moneytane1976there was one man of color on Scotland anyway.

[@blockmasterscott]

They’re Scottish? I never knew that.

[@traceys8065]

@@blockmasterscott Yes! Blew my mind too 🤯

[@rapidrhinoplumbing-monrovi3269]

That little band from Scotland with that BIG BIG BADASSS sound!!!

[@microy]

who would'nt like to hear this again, and again...

[@serpentinefire77]

Molly Duncan RIP, a great saxophonist and a gent.

[@teeramirez464]

😢

[@jeshun7071]

This highly spirited and inspired instrumental with its tight rhythms, animated saxophone & funky guitar licks made this track an irresistable record, released in 1974 it was one of those tracks that was way ahead of it's time, forget about the Average, these guys were Brilliant

[@juancollantescollantes2394]

YES ITS WHAT I CALL A COMPLETE SONG ,nothing missing!

[@hefner311]

When this awesome band performed this. did they ever even fathom the possibility of people like you and me watching it over 35 years later? This is GOOD music... Thanks for sharing

[@mass4630]

soooo true ❤

[@mikemelder5189]

No sound????

[@jd291]

Now it's 45

[@Loneman_OG]

@@jd291 You beat me to it, lol.

[@KB4QAA]

One of the great groove tunes of all times!

[@SpankRamen2]

I was born in 1981, but I wish I was 20 years older. Imagine being a teenager during a musical era like this!

[@quwix4857]

12 years older now, how do you feel?

[@doyrayburn2668]

It was pretty damn awesome, looking back.

[@dimviesel]

@@doyrayburn2668 yep! It was sampled on many different HipHop records back in the 80’s as well. Certified Classic

[@skye.325]

I was a teenager during this. But I didn't like that style of music I was more into Led Zeppelin Pink Floyd and yes - harder Rock

[@Moluccan56]

It was a gas!

[@robertclark2522]

From my home town of Dundee Scotland....mental to think :-)

[@hgbarmann]

Sings better than Galloway.... ha ha ....Dundee Baker....

[@dmco123]

The Horns

[@davidreid2301]

Dundee, Perth and Glasgow...

[@TheScunneredMan]

Not all the band, but all got together in Dundee and that seemed to be their base for a while. So they are regaarded as a Dundee band. Did they not for up at university, or college?

[@speedbirdconcordeBOAB]

Glesga guitars though 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@dalschaef]

We used to run around our 7th grade gym class to this wild and wonderful instrumental. Thanks to all the teachers at Lincoln Middle School who knew the proper way to give the kids a break!

[@D33Lux]

+Dan Goldstein You can't run to this groove, you need to get down and funky to this bad mamma jamma. Can you dig it!

[@maryellenchapa1982]

This music was great wish we had some like this today . Good times and great music!

[@rovireyes5769]

I bought this album in 1975. You knew how much I love to listen to it then. Now, I'm watching this group in video..WOW. IT BLOWS MY MIND

[@JF-xj1hz]

They never ate Haggis! - They Mama must have fed them some SOUL FOOOOOD!😆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏾

[@alanthomson7770]

Yes but probably still deep fried .

[@R4NDOMUS3RNAME]

Hell yeah

[@cessaly100]

Exactly bro!

[@Mhor_Al]

A roll and haggis crispy bacon egg n cheese! Bangin!!! Oh aye and it's got tae be a crispy roll nane of yon East cost "baps" noo that's breakfast fur the soul or just a raging hangover

[@Aidenbvlogs]

My grandfather is in there just stop being rude

[@Gexxon]

That was the true definition of a funky groove! Loved it!

[@thomascarpenter3433]

Nothing Average about this FUNKTASTIC White Band !!

[@TheSanityInspector]

That's a gorgeous Gretsch White Falcon that guitarist is playing.

[@msusanwhaley]

So sorry to hear about the passing of Malcom "Molly" Duncan, age 74, AWB's fantastic sax player. So sad. Praying for his family.

[@AverageJoe2020]

Don' t pray for him, just take joy from what he has given us.

[@SagaciousFrank]

​@@AverageJoe2020, he said he was praying for his family.

[@latyim]

6 éves voltam és már imádtam ezt a dalt.😊

[@eyedocmike]

ABOVE Average!!!!! What a novelty! Musicians that could Really PLAY!!!

[@waltergastiger]

I graduated from High school 3 years ago,whened the Average White Band had this Funky music and one of my Favorite Bands of all time.

[@thelmaharrison7071]

70's music is/was my thang!!! Back then in my much younger years, this one particular tune by the AWB always made me jump up from my seat, whether at home, in a night club, or in public dance parties and just start dancing!!!!

[@48Marlon]

This was a truly talented Bunch, I truly believe they laid the foundation for Phil Collins & Genesis, That Big band sound was truly being missed by most of us who grew up in the late 60 into the 80's Kool & The Gang Earth Wind & Fire & the list goes on, SO when Phil COllins came on the scene We all became instant fans

[@heydaygirl12]

everything about this video just reaks of the 70s! i love it!

[@sewblue187]

All I can think of is hustle man playin this with his kazoo on Martin😂😂😂🔥

[@MoonBeamsChild]

They were so so cold! Love it!

[@DHR2D2]

Sad that in 15 years only 2.2 million people have ever come to visit this amazing and talented bunch. I'll bet of the 2.2 mil visitors, 2mil were other funk drum players. 😂

[@waynelovell1958]

Sounds good today just like it did back in the day. Glasgow guitars Dundee horns and a great drummer, Steve Ferone from Brighton England :)

[@RSTAR2009]

I was just a 7-year-old growing up in South L.A. as this played in heavy rotation on the urban radio. I just learned recently who originally recorded it ( my great-great grandfather is from England too ).

[@lasvegas93delahoya]

i love scotland

[@jeremiahthompson276]

Ramon LeBlanc Harts You know we was bumping this in South Central L.A. Blood!!!!

[@sandyfleming9328]

England Too? The AWB are from SCOTLAND, not England. :-)

[@barneytorr1]

TELT :-)

[@dezastruos]

A pleasure to listen this song again and again!

[@nepiris]

I'm Scottish and remember hearing this when it first came out and just assumed it was an African/American band, amazing. Amazing jazz/funk.

[@britturk123]

Imagine being African American and finding out these Funk masters are white guys not only that but that they are from little rainy Scotland. Apparently James Brown felt out funked when this came out.

[@fresherstraighter]

I love this music. I have a band, and I swear is one of the best music I ever played. I love funk, although I must work a lot to get younger guys to get it, all the shit they have been listening the last years seems to have killed their brain cells...is very difficult to get good musicians who can play this kind of style. Long life to funk!

[@LizbethPlenty]

Where do you play? Still playing it? Let me know if you know the answer to how to get people to play this. Really craving it, at 67 lol. Music is life! Peace

[@marysalisbury9270]

Yes 😂

[@marysalisbury9270]

Right on😂

[@loridoolaghty3453]

I remember skating to this song in 73 and i love it now still in 2019. Funky!!

[@MrNathan791]

What a great band; so tight. I remember when I first heard this classic jam as a 16 yr. old back in ‘77; I thought it was a James Brown instrumental version of his “Cut the cake “ song. Both songs were similar with the beat and the brass placements. Every Thursday at my neighborhood rec. we would have little party for the neighborhood kids and this was one of the main standard for getting everyone out on the dance floor. 🎼🎼🎼🕺🏾🇺🇸

[@RickyPisano]

This record was EVERYWHERE in '74 and '75. Tell you that much. What a time to be 15 years old. We had a BLAST. That's for sure.

[@nonenones3570]

Oh lol.

[@LizbethPlenty]

You said it! Really need music like this now! Come on musicians! ✌🌊💚🤗👍🌈

[@jenniferlewis4369]

Who'd have thought Scots could be so funky! :-)

[@andyquin5386]

Actually, the Average White Band were kicked out of Scotland for not being funky ENOUGH; You should come visit sometime lol

[@jenniferlewis4369]

@@andyquin5386 You've got to be joking, yes?

[@facepalmerchaosalternate127]

No matter what nationality they have, I think they would still rock!!!

[@STRUANOSWALD]

​@@jenniferlewis4369 As a Scot myself who lives in Glasgow, I can confirm that Scotland is super Funky. If you need proof, check out some more recently formed bands; Tom Mcguire and the Brassholes, Corto Alto, Milhouse Collective and Bohemian Monk Machine. Great talent!

[@harko1962]

@@andyquin5386 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@herdygerdy36]

Still sends shivers down my spine. Bought this album 27 years ago. Thanks for the post. Freaking amazing...

[@raginbakin1430]

Hi

[@letome]

I was there when it happened!

[@giorgioebalginelli9396]

La vera funk music che ci ha accompagnato in tantissime belle serate a ballare! Grazie Average

[@GiftHorse123]

Now this is music!!!!! One of my favorite albums, which I still have the original vinyl.

[@soyounoat]

I was in about 8th grade when this song hit the radio. I didn't really get "funk" then - I thought it was the same as the dreaded disco - but I secretly liked it. Years later I understood the difference, and why I liked FUNK. This stuff is BADASS!

[@Spiderwebsider]

Shit. I've forgotten why I was on the computer. There was something I had to do... This always happens when I have a "quick" look on youtube.

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Yes Im into an hour already and my house is a real mess lol

[@markmontaquila2699]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bryan2523]

Great song, these guys can really play.

[@reneelee2761]

Saw them sing this today in Bergen County..Was Awesome !!!!!

[@bashirmuhammad8181]

They blew me away! Wow!

[@markyrwd9692]

Year I was born. What a classic. This place the Montreux had everyone perform their. Watched an Etta James performance from here.

[@milmil6594]

Saw them at front row theater in Cleveland Ohio many years ago..Awesome time

[@thomast893]

Goodnight and god bless Molly R.I.P Malcolm ‘Molly’ Duncan

[@DocMurdock01]

That has to be one of the TIGHTEST rhythm sections ever!

[@hipsterabster]

The one tune I wish to have played at my funeral.. WoW -- What a way to go out!!

[@RonWylie-gk5lc]

Perfect in every way. This was my introduction to this wonderful band when it was first released, it has the same effect on my today as it did all that time ago, .Then I heard Hamish sing and I was blown away. this is a fantastic live version

[@dynagravitomagnetic]

theme song for the year 1977. Could not believe it. these guys were some serious musicians. Nobody anywhere even close to being cool like this band was in mainstream today. Prolly never will be.

[@robertsmith4519]

Brilliant song

[@garyedwards7752]

Going into your favourite night club in '77 and hearing this, you got attitude into your walk as you headed for the bar and you just knew you were going to have a great night!

[@1mikera]

These boys can lay it down, with a signature sound!

[@fredsummerall5233]

Good

[@jbmaillet]

This band will be a mystery forever. I mean, seriously, how many: - white(OK, most of them)... - Scottishmen... - digging Funk... - in the mid-70 (in the midst of the disco area)... - and where able to play some at this top notch level... - and when talented and tenacious enough to get successful... - so much so that we still enjoy their music close to 50 years latter! Let's be serious. 1 chance out of 1000? 10,000? 100,000? 1M? Nah. Not a chance. This kind of statistics anomaly do not occur, period. I think they were either a CIA/Aliens/area 51 experiment of some sort, or an actual miracle. Worldwide, for the Scottish part put aside, except for WAR I can't think of another occurrence. Any idea?

[@magnumpush]

Incredible Band one of the funkiest jams of all time! AWB FUCKING ROCKS!!! No Body Knew They Where White back then. Actually even with the name they thought it was a gimmick some brothers had. They all got that much soul. Every part of this song, every instrument section was funky souful tight. Even with the brother on the drums they proved that some "White Boys Can Funk!"

[@masterxk]

If I remember correctly they are from Scotland. So yes is even weird

[@maryjobrezny3702]

Such greatly gifted men!!!

[@Kassiusday]

THE BAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 👏🏾I used to play that one. !! 🙇🏾‍♂️🙇🏾‍♂️

[@VivacityTS]

RIP Duncan 💔 (saxophone player)

[@Pied777]

that drummer is so tight and groovy, he's a real master ! big up steve ferrone

[@BabyMidgetToes]

This song is timeless.

[@sonny2215]

the average white band is a group that i have followed since their 1st album pick up the pieces ! Than k u 4 giving us the chance 2 listen 2 our favorite songs !

[@condebillinghurst]

¡Qué buena musica de mi epoca! excelente, años que no la escuchaba, pero alguna vez la baile en una disco

[@fiegenfiegen]

Remember. This is live! Great quality for a live performance.

[@marmar9507]

Best funky band ever!! Great AWB Way too funky whooop Thnx for sharing this one

[@davidroberts5322]

That sax....!!!!!!

[@pattykole4852]

Good driving song seize the moment

[@seanmoore3463]

1970's music primer Scottish fellas Playing Memphis soul & Kicking ass...

[@barrysims9906]

Just a kid in high school when it came out. it was on radio all the time we all loved it. glad to have stumbled on this video. The tune popped into my head and I went searching happy to watch this video I was toe tapping.

[@lepoetress]

This was and still IS the jam!!! You got a party rockin' with this one.

[@nataliamachado2893]

Bom demais esse som! Qualidade musical.

[@boombunmi9061]

Another example of Brits taking American music, perfecting it and scaring the shit out of dem.

[@Chris-eo5zs]

Scots...not Brits :)

[@Wiromax3]

@@thebeatcreeper For now.

[@Thefuzzion115]

@@Wiromax3 aye for now, indyref 2 tho :)))

[@thepolitegamer1966]

@@Wiromax3 Hopefully it will remain as such

[@alec4025]

@@Wiromax3 it will still be in Britain unless they plan to dig a big moat and make a new island

[@DHR2D2]

Sad that in 15 years only 2.2 million people have ever come to visit this amazing and talented bunch. I'll bet of the 2.2 mil visitors, 2mil were other sax players. 😂

[@LightningStash]

Wow, what an amazing Song. And I used to think Black Guys were the ones whom were playing the Saxaphone to it. Life is really full of surprises!

[@sherrykins7073]

Damn, this still sounds good... have mercy...

[@Alicia13202]

Absolutely Fabulous ... Certainly not AVERAGE!!!

[@kaizeraustin]

Outstanding ! Love that funkadelic sound. Groovy tunes and groovy threads .

[@ilvisionariowood]

i was born '77 with this song!!! Really Proud!!!!

[@DavidEmailman]

I find this song very FASCINATING.

[@wontollawolf]

I love Candy Dulfer, but these guys remind me of the time when my friends and I did the saxophone and beat the seat , as imitate in our innocence. Pick up the Pieces is theirs and will remain so in our memory. Average White Band, a jazz rock lesson for some people who think white can't sing . AND THEY DID .

[@13towerofpower]

Average Whire Band hrajú zmes blue eyed soul a funk.....nie je to jazz rock

[@wontollawolf]

OK .

[@doglover19591]

Ok, getting a turntable. All of this vinyl from, original era. Jonsin for it now. Bless you!

[@MrGooch78]

Pure music for the soul this morning! Just makes you want to go out and do something!

[@kathrynkazoo]

Still as good as the first day I heard it in my lincoln..

[@markmarikalarayar9476]

Fantastic, awesome music by awb original sound never dies off God bless awb n members

[@Pghmadrosey]

I saw this band in Baltimore in the mid 70's. I had to drag my sister to go with me because the band was still largely unknown and no one would go with me. (Thanks, Lee!). They played a tiny venue that didn't allow a large audience but that place was jammin'. I will never forget what a blast they were. Grateful.

[@pyannaguy]

Tenor players: Always striving to go higher! LOVE it!

[@d.d.danahy3960]

Brings me so much joy...

[@user-ys2wf7vz9m]

🔥🌊🐬💦💧 FIRE 🔥 WATER 🐬 Classic material!

[@teacawksinthehouse]

forever CLASSIC .... I RECALL IN 73 WHEN IT WAS RELEASED. STILL JUST AS FRESH 40 YEARS LATER.

[@ccookk666]

Best tune ever , Going to see them live on monday:D