Screaming Lord Sutch - Jack the Ripper

[@theoriginalbadbob]

I saw Screaming Lord Sutch around 1974 or '75. It was at the Bijou theater, in Hollywood, about 20 feet west of Grauman's Chinese Theater. The place only sat about 30 people and played old movies, exclusively. I went there a bunch of times and saw some great movies. Sutch performed by himself, singing and playing an electric guitar, between showings of "Don't Knock the Rock" and "Rock Around the Clock." He sang 50's songs and jumped around like Tinker Bell on speed.

[@Stargazer1975]

Absolutely brilliant. Lord Sutch, Arthur Brown etc...all gods! :D

[@andrija015]

yep, thats true. Ritchie is a living legend.

[@exproggo]

Screaming Lord Sutch lived under the stairs on a Dutch Barge for a decade but it never changed him

[@kingcroak]

Aww, this is entertainment masterclass...

[@Ghoul13th]

I love this song ,thanks for putting this up never saw the video till now .Peace

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

Yeah, he was a great showman. I met him a couple of times- he was a really nice bloke too.

[@spookespook]

This is great! I've never heard of Screaming Lord Sutch until this video, but I bet he would have been a great show to see!

[@RJBinghamesq]

Pity there's a bit missing at the start - but congrats on finding THIS. I saw it on a "soundie" video jukebox in '63. I then SAW the great man twice, in the '70s. First at the Wembley Rock 'N' Roll concert, then at "Flashback '67" - where he nearly burned the hotel down! The man was a god.

[@af4k]

The early 60s were great. I helped set up the mikes etc. for Sutch and the boys once at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge. Back then they used to pull fake guts out of one of the musicians with a saw on a table on stage. They were doing Alice Cooper stuff many years before Cooper! Now the song reminds me a lot of Monster Mash by the great Gary Paxton! Their promo picture was hilarious - Sutch and the band posed with caveman skins on, and each guy with one foot on top of a crocodile!

[@this0033]

I saw him live on stage, he was one of the greatest showmen ever. Not a great singer, but a load of charisma.

[@chuckdee121]

I suspect you couldn't make a video such as this today. Lord Sutch, and the looney party, always remembered. Fun stuff!!

[@snubnoze3]

Very cool!

[@MSoulPoet]

I thought so too! Also "Little Red Riding Hood" by Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs.

[@Straydogger]

Not Ritchie Blackmore on lead guitar.... This is from an interview with him... Who do you think was the first fuzz solo? RB-I've been on the scene for so long. Therefore, I knew pretty well who played om what and when and so on. The first fuzz-box ever used on a guitar for a recorded solo was used by the Rip Chords about 1957. The first fuzz-box solo ever played in England was by a guy named Bernie Watson, on a record in 1960 called "Jack the Ripper," by Sreaming Lord Sutch. It was a B side.

[@Silverdart00]

Screaming Lord Sutch was my second cousin (my dad's cousin).

[@spiderlime]

there's a short story, "dead air" by barbara hambley, about lord sutch being the ripper reincarnate. for years i thought that screaming lord sutch was a fictitous character. the jovial nature of this video, makes it almost a companion-piece for that story. all that remains is a clip by the baker street irregulars i sppose...

[@Atelier-galerie-A-Musso]

Bloody lucky you arrrre, He have not catch ye !

[@stigmartyranny]

lmao cool love sutch just wish the screams & beginning weren't cut. it's the best part.

[@MSoulPoet]

You're a haughty one... you're a naughty one...

[@DominickFontana]

@colindaleradiosutch That's very interesting. Thanks for posting your comments.

[@bollockowithalob]

Nice story.

[@Grammarism]

@PontiusKak In-fact, suffering from depression in 1997, at the death of his mother he shot himself with a former band member's shotgun. Britain's best ever politician.

[@manymystics]

screaming lord sutch is my godfather

[@stiv70]

I believe that was gonna be called "SAUCEY JACK"

[@MrPaperWAit]

thank god the stripes got a hold of this song

[@DjKuboGarGar101]

@DoIphZiggler But The Horrors did a cover of this song. Not the other way around

[@Gamer4672]

creepy guy *the real Jack*....awesome costume....enough said =D

[@DirkShambles]

Geezus...

[@Twigg18]

the horrors version is amzing if you like this song go listen to the horrors version both studio recording and live

[@DjKuboGarGar101]

@MrPaperWAit and The Horrors too.

[@Roggiedodgie]

@Syntox lucky you're here today right

[@AiMuiNoodle]

@MurkyTheParasite yea :) the gruesome's version is good too

[@BadNews885]

I'm fucking into this now

[@christophertritton]

count me in.

[@butterp7]

Is it true that on his albums he had people like Robert Plant and other Zep members, members of the Who, The Beatles, The Stones, do appearances.

[@yukibird0]

here comes johnny

[@MrVaughansChannel]

@Silverdart00 He's your 1st cousing once removed then. If he is your dad's first cousin. Lord Sutch's kids would be your second cousins.

[@spookespook]

Limewire doesn't work on my computer, I've tried it, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but when I type in something to search, it takes FOREVER for it to find it, and then it just stops looking.

[@mrcemetery]

Sutch suffered from depression and committed suicide by hanging on 16 June 1999, following the death of his mother the previous year.

[@nil1230]

you couldnt tell he`s a serial killer "a crazy old man" Pyschopath. .he looks normal . .

[@75amoeba]

SUTCH FOR MAYOR.

[@Buzzer365]

The Joe Meek Society can now be contacted on Twitter @Joemeeksociety

[@heathstjohn6775]

Thanks. Much prefer his later, '70's version. (For the truth of the story, please see 'The Ripper and the Royals', by Melvyn Fairclough, I believe).

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

@DoIphZiggler You're wrong. That was a cover this was the original.

[@spookespook]

Does anyone know where I can download this song?? Of all the different download sights I've been to I haven't been able to find this song????

[@BritIronRebel]

They did a song called Jack the Ripper, but it wasn't a cover of this.

[@samythekay]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrreat! ripping the throat out of those girls on tv must have been a riot back in the 60's

[@peppercub]

or maybe the relevance of the tight ends

[@thejesman]

@DoIphZiggler *facepalm* You realize this was recorded in the 60s, right? The Horrors covered it.

[@trulychloe]

@Silverdart00 really?

[@OutcastT2]

Yeah, what is he 'walking' about?!

[@Chicklo11]

@PontiusKak i believe he got shot...

[@PulaRecords]

This song is from 1963. Alice Cooper was 15 back then.

[@zeikoru]

actually it was, he put a different riff under the words

[@StonefolkNetwork]

Too late, Justin Hawkins from The Darkness is playing him.

[@AlbertMondback]

Pawnage.

[@DukeOfKidderminster]

Why do legitimate comments like this keep getting marked as spam?

[@Silverdart00]

I'm not joking!

[@PontiusKak]

General election coming up. Oh dear, Screaming Lord Sutch, where are you now your country needs you?

[@Syntox]

Screaming Lord Sutch stabbed my mom in a bar fight.

[@PassengersMusic777]

Screaming Lord Sutch forgot to flush the toilet at the gents at a pub I frequented... wot? this isnt a reminiscing place?

[@Fan666Maiden]

@Sid1Vicious84 - xD

[@danturnerguitar]

I have a signed screaming lord sutch 'bank of loonyland' note for sale if anyone wants it?

[@WonderLure42]

yeah, I think Jack White modeled the song more after the One Way Streets version than this one.

[@MurkyTheParasite]

@AiMuiNoodle YEAH BUT THIS ONE IS FUCKING COOL TOO, BUT I AGREE THE HORRORS ARE BETTER!

[@bigpimpin110011]

my stage name is ben sutch

[@PontiusKak]

@Grammarism 'Britain's best ever politician'. Amen to that! Killed off the SDP, Europe's longest-serving party leader and put an end to the 'political' career of Dr. Death. RIP

[@missgenevievelucy]

Hahaha. What even.

[@AiMuiNoodle]

THE HORRORS VERSION IS SO MUCH FUCKING BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@befuddledman]

Is it any wonder that the British gave us goth? (Not to mention punk, and metal...)

[@Sid1Vicious84]

I want to see some go-go girls dancing to this song.

[@markallenkellner]

Geez, of course Grammys don't make an artist, but Jack White will be around for a long time, the guy's an artist, like it or not. Comparing him to Ugly Kid Joe and Clay Aikin just makes no sense. Open your mind a little.

[@strawwoodclaw]

where the fuck is alice cooper wen you need him

[@DocStrange0123]

No fucking clue...

[@porkadachop]

If he were black, original, and good, his name would be Screamin' Jay.

[@farswept]

Well, Alice Cooper thought so [stole his act].

[@Prix21]

hell no the horrors add a better organ

[@TeethSink]

@Chicklo11 He hung himself

[@MSoulPoet]

None more goth.

[@SueOhio2002]

An Alice Cooper wanna be.

[@jawa73]

I guess I don't keep track enough of Corporate Madison Ave Fluff bands like some stupid groupie. He was nominated for grammies? He must be great, after all, so was Clay Aikins & Garth Brookes etc, etc. The Shite Wipes is by far the weakest most boring live band ever ! Not to mention PRETENTIOUS ! In 10 years they will have the musical relevance of Ugly Kid Joe. Just close your eyes & think of England mate !

[@nibs2lou]

Another masterpiece from Telstar troubled genius Joe Meek. He shot himself, you know. (And his landlady.)