Headpins, Club Soda, Vancouver, Sept 12 1985

Headpins performance at Club Soda, September 12, 1985. Considered one of Canada's loudest rock bands. The lineup for this Vancouver band included Darby Mills on vocals and Brian "Too Loud" Macleod on lead guitar.
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Production Copyright Stoked Productions 1985

[@brucifer1965]

This is gold to me.....saw them a couple times in the 80s and still listen to them today....such a kick ass band and Darby MIlls, wow, such an amazing vocalist....the best.

[@panko8288]

I was one of those guys that got to volunteer as a 1 day Roady. I was 16. ( I got to polish the cymbals ) Now i'm 59 and it is still one of my most happy life experiences memories of all!! GREAT SHOW!! Off stage. . .Ab Bryant, (Very quiet, nice guy ) Darby Mills, ( Very confident and vocal. a definite Rock star! ) Drummer I never saw much :( Brian To Loud Macleod, ( Such a Friendly, over the top talented musician, and leader! ) He was a HUGE loss for Canadian Rock and roll talent! :( I'm so glad I got to meet and spend a day with him. He taught me in a few short hours, and gave me tips on how to be a REAL solid drummer, and musician. To this day i recall his wisdom.

[@debbiecowan1320]

I was there this night, and the headpins rocked it! Such a fun night and Darby is still rockin it and goin strong!

[@mercedesm.7851]

...what a voice, what an incredible voice.....

[@telsat]

This band was so underrated her voice was amazing probably be of the best in the music industry plus she was so hot ❤

[@mikegendron3723]

38 years Ago!!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, Introducing Canada's "Queen of SREAM" - And still belting it out with the Darby Mills Project - The one The only - DARBY MILLS (63 and still rockin')

[@lennysrubber_boots1908]

MacLeod has his own unique style and sound on the guitar....and I like it.

[@panko8288]

He used a small 1X12 Musicman amp! It was literally only 14X14 square. The stacks were fake! Ha ha ! He would carry it up on stage and just plunk it down as if he was carrying a suitcase! It was awesome, the sound he got out of that little amp! :)

[@SuperBigdaddy1234]

They are all awesome.. Darby has a very unique voice that ive never seen or heard replicated its like a female version of ACDCs Brian Johnson

[@treomobiel]

Only Diana Fuchs and miss Pissing Down comes to mind 😮

[@christinedreger9071]

Oh Darby!!! What a tremendous talent you are!

[@shawnwhite8509]

She was good man.. A natural rough n ready...not to mention mcloud... Old school hard rock with a lil' metal edge... I miss this music being in the forefront but thankful we have a real lot of it to listen to....

[@friguy4444]

One of the funnest things about The Headpins is that when you turn up the volume on their music it ALWAYS sounds better and better. I remember first learning about a Mix being mixed just for this purpose or to accomplish this with this album (I think, my memory might be off). Then when you heard and saw them live they just sounded the BEST! Too Loud McLeod was a sound engineer as well as a ground breaking guitar player and his guitar mixed with the whole over all type of mix was so punchy and you could FEEL the whole works in your chest including the guitar. LOL. Maybe it was just because they played so tight and the Kick drum and bass player were hitting the mark along with the whole group but I swore the guitar was vibrating in my chest LOL. SO cool! This was a drinking band all the way! They sounded better and better as you drank and the music was fun fun fun to dance to and rock to!

[@barkingeye]

Wow. Mark Craney on drums. This is rare. He drummed for Gino Vanelli and Jethro Tull. Sadly gone too soon.

[@DeezNuuts-pb3xj]

One of the top ten bands ever. Love them and the late too loud McCloud.

[@kodiak1966]

Darby was in her prime back then....insane vocals !

[@victorwho744]

Saw them opening for Whitesnake in stockholm after they've released Line of fire. I loved it, and was floored by Darby and the guitarplayer. My brother bought the record after the show, great stuff👊👊👊

[@cowshottv5867]

She was for sure. The whole band was wicked.

[@jaydoubleu3419]

I 1st heard of them on c-fox 99.3 fm in Vancouver b.c. It was the song breaken down back in 1984! When I turned 15 and I’ve been a fan ever since

[@tribzman3977]

Damn I remember C-Fox!!! I worked at 86th St as one of the doorman and stole one of C-Fox's cool 20ft banners with the fox head/face and station logo from the club and took it down to the US to place in my new home's garage as a momento of BC's music after relocating from Vancouver. Great memories of the 80s club scene!

[@metalonroad]

May * Brian "Too Loud" Macleod * R.I.P. 🙏🎸🙏

[@giuseppicamolle50]

1:21 Breakin Down 8:24 Don't Matter What You Say 12:51 Just One More Time 18:27 Never Come And Down From The Danger Zone 23:04 People 32:08 Mine, All Mine 40:51 Death Of Me 45:10 Line Of Fire 51:27 Don't It Make Ya Feel 55:23 Stayin' All Night 1:00:00 Turn It Loud

[@petertuckergoettler5720]

"Thanks For The Memories," merci. * Great "Songs."

[@richardperusse4299]

wow....so rare to have old Headpins complete show....thanks very much ...

[@laytondean6469]

So cool thank you so much. Darby at her best

[@MiddleMalcolm]

Full band lineup: Darby Mills - Lead Vocals Brian MacLeod - Guitars, Vocals Ab Bryant - Bass, Vocals Darcy McDonald - Keyboards, Vocals Mark Craney - Drums

[@stustrummer7485]

BEST LINE UP EVER🤘

[@miner49er79]

The sound track of my youth ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I wore this record out ..............VIVIA HEAD PINS

[@Shadow-sm8hs]

Best live vintage pinheads I have seen to date! Thanks for sharing!

[@anacoreta9381]

Darby was and still is THE VOiCE.

[@adriancook]

She can still to this day kick ass. Check her out!

[@johnpatterson4272]

Great Canadian band who was limited from achieving the real success they were due by the Canadian music and recording industry at the time. Along with Teaze, Toronto, Aldo Nova, Anvil, Killer Dwarfs, Jeff Healey, Max Webster and Rough Trade to name a few all needed American management and proper contracts to make them the superstars they deserved to be. I recall once Molsun's and Labatt's got into Canadian rock music promotion, it seemed these great bands were relegated to the club-circuits and as opening acts to bigger American and British bands of the day.

[@intheboxman9362]

my best canadian band

[@DRFyfe-yb8hc]

Mine also and nowhere to be found on Amazon Music...

[@almartinez3690]

Bought the album and used to rock out to it👏🏼🤘🏼

[@stephonbike71]

awesome band !!!!!! 80's fuckin' rule !!!!!!!!

[@Snowdog2711]

Jesus H...Line of Fire...total vocal commitment. Great guitar playing. Stunning performance

[@debbiecowan1320]

Absolutley amazing! Darby Mills Rocks!

[@ernestoramosgarcia7532]

Nunca los había escuchado, la cantante es genial y hermosa 😎😘 lml 🤘

[@laurarowlett9306]

Ahhhh.....the era of the hairband. One of my absolute favourite bands to see, and I was there for this show. OH how I miss those nights! Great club...many great times in there! RIP Too Loud!

[@Mtl3944]

Saw them in Montreal at the Forum in 83, opening for KISS - excellent show, music sounded awesonme, and Darby was Darby.

[@petertuckergoettler5720]

"Awesome!" Merci.

[@lovingpeace9715]

Love this 3000. Word I'm using some compression and EQ on my output buss sounds killer. Thanks so much

[@DarrenMalone253]

This sounds so awesome 👏 😎 thanks!!

[@dennislaronde1687]

the scream of Canada ..love you Darby

[@kmanyguns]

Crazy ass band in their hey day! saw Headpins open and steal the show for Billy Squire in 1983!

[@angeliquea9707]

Thanks for posting. Great band!

[@LISABEGG1]

Darby you kicked ass!! wow!!

[@eg4752]

Miss too loud rip buddy

[@abadabababadaba4774]

Thanks for sharing! Totally forgot about Club SOda in Van. We used to come over from Vancouver Island and party on the mainland. This is a really great recording you have here or a really great performance! I never saw this one. Bit before me. Seen Robert Plant play at Club SOda after we went to his Concert.💞😎

[@wilee.coyotae2463]

AWESOME UPLOAD!!! THANKS SO MUCH, DUDE! JUST WHAT I NEEDED.

[@trillrifaxegrindor4411]

Macleod was a guitar hero ..................... the guitar work on turn it loud(the entire album) is legendary

[@Hiwaystar396]

I'd Just turned 30 a before this show! Great Stuff Miss you ALL RIP!

[@seanstone8371]

i have been to club soda for many gigs this rocks

[@ingjn]

Saw them in early 80's at Le Spectrum in Montreal with Orphan as the opening band. Great show!

[@richardr3511]

Nice hearing stuff from their 3rd album which seems rare

[@treomobiel]

❤❤❤❤ turn it loud !!! ❤❤❤

[@markflexes]

Love this band. And, what can you say about Brian "too loud" McLeod. Gone wzy too soon.

[@georgyj111111]

What a voice!

[@lukewarmwater5320]

We used to get fuuuucked up at Club soda in the 80s...

[@lukewarmwater5320]

@justdynee I don't think so, there was Club soda and The Metro...I dunno I was shitfaced constantly in the 80s and 90s as well...

[@lukewarmwater5320]

@justdynee Club soda was on Georgia downtown I think and The Metro wasn't far...

[@lukewarmwater5320]

@justdynee Same...I remember (sorta) going to The Metro on Georgia st. was it? Anyhow, I got hammered at home but brought a 12 of off-sale Kokanees to the bar for some idiotic reason and hid it in the hedges outside thinking in the state I was going to be in I'd still remember to grab them on the way out but of course I didn't...fast forward 3 weeks I go back and was sober waiting to get into the metro and I remembered that 12 of Kokanees, I rooted around in the hedges and found the full case! The cardboard was porridge from being rained on but not one beer missing! I drank them all before I went in! Anyhow, dumb story about metal bars back in the day in Van...

[@zaarrd69]

I used to party in this bar a lot. Seen people thrown down those stairs. One night of the week was metal night with half price drinks. Fun times there. RIP Too Loud McLeod

[@mavrosyvannah]

I remember when Bryan died too young. He was the first of the good that died young for me. He was so nice a guy I vowed to be bad half the time so not to get on that list.

[@guymorris6596]

What was the cause of death ?

[@MiddleMalcolm]

@@guymorris6596 Brian had cancer.

[@BRUTUSPLAC]

CCCOOOOLLLLL The REcall them on MTV - 1982-1983

[@ozgisch]

Saw them open up for ZZ Top the same year.

[@markruddock3112]

She Reminds me Of Ruby Starr

[@markodardanis5667]

Bam! Guitar player has the groove of Tommy Bolin.

[@crrscribe]

and drummer Mark Craney played with Tommy on his last tour in 76

[@grabasandwich]

12:56 Just One More Time 51:27 Don't It Make Ya Feel

[@richardmay42]

59:10 Turn it Loud

[@rickhofstee3651]

Please let us have more . Darby Mills

[@spaztekwarrior]

Too Loud MacLeod!

[@petertuckergoettler5720]

"White Towel" ...merci. "Darby Mills" ... I Was That Skinny Cool Dude With Cheap Camera.

[@dorkoize]

Yeah

[@dukejupiter9469]

Go 4 soda📢

[@lakeboy2764]

That's not Bernie Aubin on the drums....

[@FSM46AND2]

Mark Craney RIP

[@Cash_McCoy]

Is "Celebration" on this one?

[@mikerosenthal9863]

no

[@tucker5.712]

..aint no taylor swift here..

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

i wonder who the drummer is in this video ...it's not bernie aubin.

[@antera77]

38:50 Mark Craney en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Craney

[@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568]

@@antera77 thank

[@mightyminx6653]

Lets see how this sits with people.. I have been reading alot of the comments.. Many of you think these guys should have been the next big thing... They for sure have talent but listen to the music of the usa compared to them.. they are a little behind the times.. Honestly they needed some help,in the writing division as well. Canada for the most part up until recently was know as the peaceful country .. Everyone wanted to go to canada to be treated right so forth so forth... Maybe thats why i dont feel the pains of life or the true happiness that is only achieved when you have experienced heartache , real heartache.. So no i can see why they never were anything bigger then what they were.. Ive never heard of them personally

[@Tacomadome24]

I agree with most of what you said, but I think they would have been more successful and charted higher had they been an American band.

[@mightyminx6653]

@@Tacomadome24 I can see that... Good point.

[@mightyminx6653]

@justdynee i KNOW THE WORD "IF" IS A SHIT WORD SOMETIMES, BUT IF YOU WOULD HAVE HAD (sorry bout the caps) a better PR or manager or..I dont know someone that was presenting songs that had that older Pat Benatar or older Heart feel to it.. You would have sailed.. Like i said before and i hope you remember . I said you guys had the talent.. Sometimes making big isnt you but those around you that are holding you back.. Maybe not on purpose but it happens... Can we start this over? You had a rare hard to find powerhouse female voice . I hope you dont blame yourself for how things worked out... Cause in hind sight you have accomplished more then millions of other musicians in bands have.. Im sorry if i made it sound like you were bad or amything.. I think you are great.. Plz have a great daY..

[@PonderosaSoundStudio]

Dude, you're absolutely babbling here. You might first wish to try actually linking your sentences together with a coherent set of thoughts.

[@b.scottfarthingsworth]

@justdynee people get shot up all the time in America? Hmm. I grew up in NY, lived 5 minutes from NYC then lived about everywhere on Long Island. 50 years from birth until I left. Many places lived/hung out in/passed through, never heard a gunshot anywhere other than a shooting range. No one just gets shot up by crazy 18 yr olds. But you're Canadian so how about I say what's liable to happen there? Because there's enough that I witnessed in Quebec to make me say what the whole country must also be like, hmm? Because never experienced more blatantly rude people in my life ever, than when visiting Quebec in Montreal, Toronto, and Mont-Sainte-Anne. It was appallingly obvious, like every morning we were dreading going out and having to talk to anyone. Funny your name looks like 'just die, knee'

[@Love6653]

Me thinks da Headpins are all Head Lady Transgender

[@lukewarmwater5320]

She's more man than you are ya fuckin' pussy...

[@badbillybrookes]

Darby is one hot tight little ass babe who can rock the socks off any man to this day.

[@Love6653]

@@lukewarmwater5320 Calm Down little Girl

[@Love6653]

@@badbillybrookes If You like Dudes HA HA

[@lukewarmwater5320]

@@Love6653 Holy shit that was a real zinger! Well played! Lol!

[@badbillybrookes]

LOVE IT

[@darcyn.buffalo681]

Prettyist Singing Bird.

[@darcyn.buffalo681]

Soo Coolist

[@darcyn.buffalo681]

I miss my Fu.....Rock !!

[@slump75]

Make it stop

[@EliTree-sf1ru]

Say, look who showed up on my feed @todd_kerns @brentfitz

[@treomobiel]

Todd kerns?? Slash Myles bassplayer singer?? 😮