David Bowie - Hang On To Yourself (John Peel Session 16th May 1972)

Just finished putting this one together,
video footage is edited from Friars Aylesbury 15th July 1972
audio is from John Peel Sounds Of The Seventies
Recorded: 16.05.1972 - Broadcast: 23.05.1972
Creation notice: This is to let KZbin or whoever know that I created this video...
This notice by no way means any disrespect to those who own, or to those who originally filmed any of the footage contained within...

[@PaulBrown-uj5le]

Good version!😊

[@mordaciousfilms]

Punk as fuck considering it's 1972!

[@bookbabe001]

Can you say Buzzcocks?

[@mordaciousfilms]

bookbabe001 Yes, but this was before them...Though I could certainly hear them borrowing from this in terms of melodic structure and overall sound. Both fantastic artists.

[@bookbabe001]

Mykee Morettini Of course this was before The Buzzcocks - my point was that they - their whole sound - reminds me of this song. I think Devoto said that he was greatly influenced by Bowie, as did many of my favorite late 70s - early 80s artists.

[@mordaciousfilms]

Most definitely!

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

+Mykee Morettini the Ramones use that bass line in so many songs....like I Don't Want to go Down to the Basement....Dee Dee especially must have loved this song

[@rossmatheson4303]

I love the way Mick's guitar rasps like a Lamborghini Countach. Some sound!

[@therespectedlex9794]

You should write for the Times, or the Express at least.

[@GravityBoy72]

It is a rasp! A perfect rasp!

[@robroyce6845]

heavy bass fuzz from ZSSM Trevor Bolder!!

[@bretolson8484]

@@robroyce6845 can you say where you got this info? I’m a studio geek and we’ll, I don’t REALLY have to know everything exactly, I mean, I guess I’ll survive ;)

[@BeggarsNight]

@@bretolson8484 it’s not a heavy bass fuzz. Ronson himself has already said what it is. A tone bender mkii with a cry baby wah set to tone half open in front of it. You’ll never get a tone bender today. Best I’ve found is a spider fuzz from tru fi pedals.

[@falica77]

Great version. You can really tell during the end how Ronson used his wah pedal to shape his tone. Class act.

[@peteowen3539]

I saw them five weeks later, at his ‘home gig’, The Greyhound, Croydon. Best ever gig I attended.

[@crashstitches79]

Dave n Mick really had a good thing going.

[@crashstitches79]

Just an affirmation. :)

[@CEOof_pipbert]

Real

[@gmpn22]

Fab

[@MB-vk8cv]

Straight punk rock.

[@CEOof_pipbert]

Whatever you say man but this ain't straight

[@lotussacre9849]

Well she's a tongue twisting storm, she will come to the show tonight Praying to the light machine She wants my honey not my money she's a funky-thigh collector Layin' on 'lectric dreams So come on, come on we've really got a good thing going Well come on, well come on If you think we're gonna make it You better hang on to yourself We can't dance, we don't talk much We just ball and play But then we move like tigers on vaseline Well the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar You're the blessed, we're the Spiders from Mars Come on, ah, come on, ah

[@0mega.mechan1c.]

Yes! That guitar tone is crisp, sizzling! YEAH,COME ON...!

[@ElW3]

My dog loves this song

[@waynenorthspacebuoy3529]

Super Stuff ... I hope my YT Bowie songs makes him smile from far far away.

[@mcgoodle]

After this song was released the Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks were inevitable.

[@thevelointhevale1132]

Americans don't get it ... they think the Ramones and New York Dolls had this big influence on British Punk - the UK already had Ziggy & The Spiders, Marc Bolan T Rex, Roxy Music and any number of other absolutely blistering rock bands within the UK pushing the scene in total isolation of what was happening outside the U.K. When you see Steve Jones wearing Mick Ronson T-Shirts ... that should tell you all ya need to know.

[@danw1374]

Spot on mate, we were streets in front over here.

[@SeaBassVamp]

Ultimate combo David & Mick.

[@ww95]

Yeeeeeeeee

[@paolacelletti2056]

Finally I found the video I was looking for, even if the moment when David is not resumed bites the Mick's guitar. This is certainly the only one in wich the Ronson's guitar fellatio has resumed. Thanks to you rp61production for having gifted it to the youtube people. David forever and ever. God bless us. Paola in Roma, Italy

[@simongonzales7877]

OMG does anyone have have a full video of the footage starting at 2:06 ?? I've seen bits and pieces scattered around, but somewhere there must the full performance.

[@rupowell2821]

Great to see woody and Trevor rocking out to this together in the vid!! Class act

[@MichaelCoffman]

That guitar sound Ronson gets here is sick.

[@ECNIV2000]

Always loved the "Peel Sessions versions of songs just a bit better, John brought very a live, raw and hungry quality to them that spoke more to each band's energy, who were lucky enough to have been selected for the honor of doing a "Peel Sessions"!

[@samanthalewin4397]

Did this song inspire punk? It has a very punk sound, but several years early.

[@Bellhelly]

My thoughts exactly. The Ramones "Teenage Lobotomy" sasy wikipedia, but I heard similar sound in The Sex Pistols for sure.

[@danw1374]

Along with T Rex's 'Solid gold easy action' and Roxy Musics Editions of you/Remake Remodel

[@tammyb885]

Damn...🖤

[@waynenorthspacebuoy3529]

Super Stuff ... I hope my YT Bowie songs makes him smile from far far away.

[@davidallen346]

great energy on this track, everything is perfect

[@danw1374]

Punk before punk :)

[@rasenvirus]

a big portion of RAMONE's early songs are more or less a variation of this.. love it

[@AfghanApothecary]

rasenvirus you're spot on m8!

[@AfghanApothecary]

rasenvirus teenage lobotomy

[@1967PONTIACGTO]

rasenvirus definitely the bass line....like I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement.... Dee Dee must have loved this song

[@ignaciocordovadonoso8662]

Yeah, and this had to be an hommage to Eddie Cochran's style.

[@falica77]

One of my fave tunes from Ziggy. Mick rocks on this version.

[@juancastillaalejandro5476]

Bowie siempre lo más!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@andrewtate8303]

Ronson Rocks

[@markferguson3745]

The early cat suits were the sh#t.You never see prints like that even on women's dresses anymore. The live and stripped down versions, especially the early shows, are proper alts to the heavily layered and produced LP versions.Show the true skill of all the band members.

[@treesloth9]

Mick received very little credit for these sessions Without mick there is no sound like this

[@711honved]

What a scorcher! David & The Spiders on top form at my old haunt, Friars Club, Aylesbury. Ronno's guitar just drives the track along at an unrelenting tempo.....But then we move like tigers on Vaseline!

[@tony0000]

You said it, bro!

[@SinSerenity]

My Daddy told me that he thinks of this song when he thinks of our relationship. I agree! 😁

[@adrianramsey1369]

What do you mean by daddy?

[@satanikris]

😳

[@tracy-paulobrien9368]

I just luv this sound......it's always been with me......lol.

[@cornacchie]

Thanks !!!!

[@satyros2]

thank you

[@chriscampbell9191]

Love the BBC track's energy, of course.... And the vid clip is cool. I wasn't aware Trevor Bolder played a slothead Gibson EB-3. He must have had a couple of EB-3's. I think in the Ziggy Movie he's playing an EB-3 with a standard, non-slotted headstock. Sounds the same either way: kickass.

[@waynenorthspacebuoy3529]

Super Stuff ... I hope my YT Bowie songs makes him smile from far far away.

[@dominiquedescottes8314]

LE TALENT ET SES MILLIERS DE FACETTES DE MONSIEUR DAVID BOWIE ....CE GENIE,PARTI TROP TOT....

[@LillianaBMS]

Awww, thanks so much for this!

[@wildanimus2559]

Dedicated to my poor, misled, mainstream primary care physician who strongly encourages me to return to psychiatric care after I had related how psychiatry had very nearly killed me. Read something by Peter Breggin, dude.

[@jesaja53fem]

very good version! Proto Ramones guitar-riff 😁

[@tomfaulkner6616]

Reminds me of 999.

[@centrodieccellenzamicheler1943]

Fantastic Bowie❤

[@earthhugger]

Rock on and ty!

[@falica77]

Mick from about 2:04 on

[@auroradirenzo5767]

love it

[@waynenorthspacebuoy3529]

Super Stuff ... I hope my YT Bowie songs makes him smile from far far away.

[@donabercrombie8534]

trevor bolder and mick ronson put out some phat tone on this toon!!

[@ignaciocordovadonoso8662]

That bass line is just killer!

[@avefiggy2128]

😍😍

[@honour123]

Rock on Ziggy!

[@Straker1923]

Well, come on! Come on! You've really got a good thing going! Great lyrics...they last for ever....

[@danw1374]

Ronno!

[@nicholasdavies6264]

🎸👍🇬🇧

[@falica77]

the bitter comes out better with a stolen guitar

[@rp61productions]

+falica77 Heh! It's a great line that isn't it, got me thinking. Weren't the Sex Pistols accused at some point of stealing Bowie equipment from the back of a vehicle belonging to Bowie's band (guitars, amps etc)?

[@falica77]

+rp61productions Cook and Jones supposedly ripped them off before a gig @ Hammersmith in 72/73. It's mentioned in the Filth and the Fury. They supposedly stole all Bowie's microphones. And maybe more.

[@rp61productions]

+falica77 Yeah that was it, knew it was them two, thanks for the reminder...

[@falica77]

+rp61productions they may have also taken a cymbal or 2.....

[@falica77]

: )

[@orb2150tx]

Love the energy for sure. High caliber. But, damnit man, tune your instruments!