SUEDE - Metal Mickey (Tonight Show)

[@whyohwhydoineedachannel6987]

Those four people who scream at the beginning vis a vis Leno’s abject boredom perfectly encapsulate what it was like being a Suede fan in the US at the time. And that was their peak over here.

[@lindamunoz405]

I was there in the audience! Awesome performance! Their first CA performance in the U.S.

[@Mrsomewhatevil]

Bernard was fantastic.I never seen a guitar player like that. and probably never will

[@chrisjames6327]

They were so original when Butler was in the band - like a glam/goth band, predating emo music by about a decade.

[@melina_verbena]

there’s a piece written by someone who was in the audience for this taping called “now you’re over twenty-one” in their “confessions of a pop fan” blog. it beautifully captures a moment in time of excitement for this appearance after discovering and falling in love with the band as a US fan 🖤 definitely worth searching for as i am not allowed to link to it here.

[@BLUEROOMEXITPRO]

This is one of the best live performances I ever seen. Maybe even better than the recorded version. Nice and raw! Suede so underated band.

[@ZagCsik]

I watched this performance. Amazing. Bernard’s guitar playing was inspiring.

[@rebeldiamondz]

Thats is a great performance- love seeing them rock out like that! Thankx for posting this awesome video!

[@webster670]

WELL worth suffering the few seconds of Jay Leno's intro & the outro. Bernard was the fucking man. Fucking explosive. Threatening. Brilliant.

[@rajnirvan3336]

Noticed the presenter introduced them as Suede. I think after this they had to rename themselves as The London Suede in America to me they will always be Suede.

[@klinsmeier]

it was performed live - in an excellant way, despite the big show on stage. Good times, Butler was my guitar and haircut hero!

[@MarcioSilva-ssiillvvaa]

What a beautiful band! Bernard's guitar spits scorching riffs. Abrasive!

[@theeldergoth]

Thanks for posting this! Brilliant!

[@MissTaylorMercury]

just fabulous!!!! I loveee suede and brett anderson, he's a dream

[@turricaned]

@krancioch - To be fair to Bernard, he was a couple of years younger than the rest of them and while they were on this tour his Dad was succumbing to cancer back in the UK - if anyone had a right to be more fragile than usual at this point it was Bernard. Brett himself said that with hindsight the rest of the band weren't as sensitive to the situation as they should have been...

[@밤고개-n4n]

I want to be one of them! They're so cool!

[@PhillipIsAlive]

I love Bernard's style. Classic Chuck Berry duck walk at the beginning. Very nice!

[@fabianfelipe]

Thank for adding this great lost video...!!

[@Reint25]

@clive66swimworldwide No man, Butler was heavily influenced by Johnny Marr, who was known for reproducing his layered studio-guitar sound into live perfomances with just one guitar. And that fuzz you hear above it (at 0:23) is just some flanger or phaser effect, I have it too, it works automatically (and sort of lives it's own life).

[@metalli07]

thats nice he shook hands with them afterwards. never seen jonathon ross do that....

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

metalli07 It wasnt meant to be nice. The showrunners did research and determined it made the host seem more personable if he did that so at some point Jay Leno began to shake hands with all the performers. I think it's ingratiating bullshit that most bands don't care for (like Suede here) and is a way to steal their thunder.

[@chrisjames6327]

They were such an original band when Bernard Butler was in the lineup. It's hard to describe. Sort of like psychedelic glam/goth music?

[@Pemlola]

Bobtastic style icons! I am severely addicted to this!

[@rockinpyro2188]

I just noticed that his blazer is unbuttoned.. Thanks camera guys for zooming in and ignoring a man being flamboyant.

[@MarkWhiley]

@Jonny Half agree with you, no-one does guitar music as brilliant as this today. There's an awful lot of good stuff out there though. Atm I'm getting into John Grant, Sunshine Underground, Terry Poison and a few other bands who I'd rate as brilliant in their own field. As for Suede, I heavily dispute that their best days are behind them. They were beyond brilliant at the Royal Albert Hall last month and have been consistently better the last 6 times I've seen them since their reunion. Yes they were rusty when they got back together, but they are in impeccable form atm. Bloodsports was a great album that I've grown to love, except What Are You Not Telling Me which sounds like a Brett solo off-cut. Next album should be even better.

[@milkwhiteneck]

better than oasis

[@danthefan5378]

Way Better! Bests, dtf

[@garysevern]

absolutely, shame BB left. Still rate this song as the best Britpop era song.

[@saranoid]

devastating. i wept.

[@gazk116]

awesome vid thanks..bernards solo is great in this, but for bernard solo fans, watch the he's dead live video on here ( from the love and poison video )

[@Evie170]

They were so ahead of their time. They influenced Muse and The Killers.

[@mcbillygoat2413]

It was a pre recorded guitar solo on this cut but Suede was extraordinary back then and they still are. I saw them right when this lineup was in the states. Right when they were making a name for themselves and before Dog Man Star came out. Just amazing people, these English rockers.

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

mcbillygoat ! This is NOT a prerecorded guitar solo. All live. You are high.

[@woutwout8398]

No way the guitar solo was pre-recorded. Please stay off those drugs while posting on YT.

[@melodrome]

Speaking strictly as a heterosexual man, I must say Bernard is one damn sexy guitar player. Check out the cute sideways look he gives just before his solo.

[@completeunknown83]

@Rubyverbena thanks for sharing. that was an amazing read.

[@davidorocks62]

Never sounded better!

[@Tcoldsteel]

these sods were EVERYWHERE is the music press that i avoided liking them. Now i miss them when i see bernie butler playing. That rocks.

[@turricaned]

@meadish - Re: guitarist - not true. I think Richard always acquitted himself very well, especially so bearing in mind he was only 17 at the time he joined. His only limitation was that he felt obliged to crank out "Suede-by-numbers" and so never really got to develop his own style. The problem was, after "Coming Up", Brett got himself so mired in drugs that he ran out of ideas - he admits as much himself in the book.

[@klinsmeier]

Yeah, these Brits are great!

[@froggy9191]

Does Brett hit a dodgy note at the end there?

[@zahadou]

umm some Rock and maybe Roll - nice

[@ChainNonSmoker]

No one, does music like this today. Not even suede, Think about it. (after all they're pretty bloody good but not perfect tribute of themselves)

[@ChainNonSmoker]

Dunno what tf I'm on about...

[@twiginthewind]

Yeah. Butler better than the butter on your bread...

[@electricgoose]

Great stuff. Not sure Leno's convinced, though :-(

[@cynzia_d]

BERNARD

[@SKYSAW59]

FANTASTIC!..Even if they are cheating a bit..(phantom guitar solo player)..some pre-recording, but who cares!

[@wavelengthrecords-1]

clive taylor Bullshit. That solo was all the way live! Dumbass.

[@meadish]

Stellar performance. I'll probably upset some people with this but it needs to be said, compared to this, the Suede of today is like a mediocre pub band playing covers of Suede songs. Brett's voice can't handle singing the song in this way anymore and their current guitarist just slaughters Butler's magnificent guitar parts.

[@woutwout8398]

So untrue. They are still a magnificent band. Their recent, critically acclaimed albums are spectacular and Richard Oakes is a force of nature on the guitar who does justice to the Bernard Butler-era songs while being a brilliant composer and riffmaster in his own right.