The Beat Live - Rock Palast - Germany

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For (s)Jack , Deventer , 1995 ... please get in touch :'). also for Freggle ( Deventer ) / Sylvia ( Zwolle ) ;')..

[@TeeKay19]

Thanking Roger for the love, the energy, just the joy of music as an important part of human life.

[@HeidiNietz-mb3vc]

Thanks to everyone in the industry who kept footage safe and available again.❤

[@AlejandroMS67]

One of the greatest bands ever, that more of the world should have discovered long ago.

[@PoliceBoy465]

The great Saxa.

[@Jon-xl6hh]

First heard the beat open for the clash in the '80's. Wish i remembered better, still makes me smile.

[@sspbrazil]

R.I.P. Roger, Everett and Saxa.

[@duantorruellas716]

Yes , peace be with you all . We will miss you , but never forget.

[@michellewilliams3420]

peace, love and unity xxxxxxxxxxxx

[@rlc9]

❤

[@brettjames8220]

This is deserving of a setlist: Cologne, Germany July 23, 1980 1) Pussy Price 2) Two Swords 3) Tears of a Clown 4) Big Shot 5) Rough Rider 6) Best Friend 7) Can't Get Used to Losing You 8) Hands Off...She's Mine 9) Twist and Crawl 10) Noise in the World 11) Whine and Grine 12) Stand Down Margaret 13) Ranking Full Stop 14) Mirror in the Bathroom 15) Click Click 15) Jackpot

[@TeeKay19]

A day after Rankin Roger's passing, thank you.

[@DavidMFChapman]

Such a great band!

[@jimhibs]

Been a fan for 45 years pure class back in the day 👌

[@duantorruellas716]

Pure gold , classic ska done right. Twist and crawl .

[@davidbone2046]

This is simply EPIC!

[@robt7199]

Dave still puts on a heck of a show.

[@HeidiNietz-mb3vc]

I only got to see him as DW and his band in LA. It was surreal. Seeing him performing the beat + lyrics but also watching some audience members on a Hens Night, drunk as in puffy bridesmaids' dresses, dancing some weird non bluebeat dance step to the tunes of Stand Down Margie, Tears of a Clown, Doors of Your Heart , etc to a predominately white audience. Bewildering? Yes! for a moment. Until I used that observed weirdness to map and safeguard my immersion into LA culture.

[@johnozed]

Fare thee well, Ranking Roger

[@sharonduffy6298]

Absolutely brilliant x

[@racketman2u]

two brilliant ska covers here; imo "Tears Of A Clown" and "Can't Get Used To Losing You" are better than the originals

[@kathleen109]

Can't Get Used to Losing You is my favorite.

[@peterbolt9694]

I agree, but this video is worth watching: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJKwiWN5qJp1mZY

[@manonymous4737]

Tears of a clown is the definition of how to do a cover.

[@montgomeryramone9655]

What a joyful sound

[@donnajenkins812]

You live on in our hearts, forever, one love xx

[@Goo96wzlp]

One of the great, great Two-tone's, shame that the remaining boys don't get together and play fer fun.

[@howiewolf5684]

Fantastic! Forgot how great they were... Two Swords....

[@garryhepburn5790]

The Greatest band on this planet EVER !!!!

[@PoliceBoy465]

They called Wine and Grine "Why I Cry". Haha.

[@peterbolt9694]

Did they cry, because Margaret refused to stand down? This is still my favorite political protest song.

[@goldiblacostad828]

LOVE THE TOASTING!

[@AlbertoGarcia-lj8xd]

Grandes los Beat

[@LeotheOrangeCat]

RIP Roger

[@andrewmcgregor9915]

going too see them may 23 at the de la warr pavillion! bitter sweet last time was with roger but no dave! 😢

[@guyhaugo9029]

SAXA.....god bless you

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Blimey, a cover of Pussy Price? Imagine a group covered this song in 2016? Social media would skin them alive.

[@johnnyb8825]

+SoulStylistJukeBox But there'd also be a lot of people who would love it (and I don't just mean men)!

[@kennywilliams6088]

that was then Germany has past us now we are supposed to be multileracial now but we hardly have any reggae on the radio or ska on the radio that's why we need the beat back to mash up the station with the truth!!!! murder style

[@kennywilliams6088]

ps check out mini Murphy which side of the bed free style I got more to up load

[@johnozed]

Do it yourself Kenny! Cerate the music you want to hear so others can hear it!

[@andrewmcgregor9915]

R.I.P Ranking Roger!!!

[@lars-fenin]

noice...

[@tompatrick5507]

SAXA !!!

[@HolySoopCoolers]

Saxa was the man.

[@manuelguillermocalzadodomi9503]

He always was the seventh

[@bealfeirste2056]

Everett morton RIP

[@tommyginshop7702]

Hell's teeth, man, Germany - what gives? 'Why I cry' both beats and pre-empts the current stab-in-the-dark world of televisual subtitling and is also hilarious. Stand down Margaret even now chimes loud and clear, perhaps more so...brilliant post nevertheless - ta!

[@skabuoy]

Not just TV subtitles. I have a Sting bootleg album, where several titles are plain wrong, but the biggest error is the song "Low Life" (a Police single b-side), which is called "Lola". :-/

[@katoness]

Excellent performance from The Beat but whats with the crowd?

[@johnnyb8825]

+katoness Maybe they're not used to this kind of music. I remember the Beat saying that when they played support to the Pretenders in the USA they got a rock audience and people just stood there and gawped.

[@mlwsf]

It's a German Studio audience. Lol

[@skabuoy]

@@mlwsf Rockpalast, on German WDR station, was/(is?) usually a regular gig but with a camera crew to record for TV. They also recorded and aired a lot of festival shows, which I think they still do, with some of them online now. Or at least they were pretty recently (sorry, I can't be arsed to check right now).

[@gregoryspevack2263]

What's up with that first song ?

[@kooljsl]

Saxa use to play for the original singer of that song.

[@johnnyb8825]

@@kooljsl Yes, he worked with the ska/rocksteady/early reggae greats of the 1960s such as Laurel Aitken and Prince Buster.

[@manuelguillermocalzadodomi9503]

Dave blockhead Wright never credited enougth

[@adriantyler6911]

RIP Roger