The Saints ('73 - '78) Know your product Hi-res video HQ audio Ed Kuepper

[@edkuepper4234]

very sad to confirm the news about Chris Bailey dying on the weekend. Chris and I met when we were about 14 during detention at Oxley High School and became close friends which later developed into what I always thought was an extremely strong artistic partnership, I couldn't have hoped for a better singer. My deepest condolences to his wife Elisabet, his sisters Margaret, Carol and Maureen and the rest of his family and loved ones. I'll post something longer down the track but for now..

[@rahbird5845]

Thank you Ed 🙏🏽💔😰 and deep condolences to you! losing your dear friend, artistic brother and band family member. Please take extra good care of your beautiful wonderful self. Gentle healing to you EK 🤍 music is the healer 💟 big love, Rah Bird 🙏🏽

[@stevecityrocker]

My condolences, Ed. All of you fellows were a force to be reckoned with. You inspire me and my band mates to this day. Thank you. Rest In Peace, Chris.

[@theChickenstones]

Nice words Mr Kuepper. Sadly I say RIP Mr Bailey.

[@martw3240]

detention, that's gold bro ,I reckon you wrote this song when ya should been rehabilitating your wicked ways. Time well mispent, Thanks

[@maxpoyser1488]

Dear Ed, Many thanks for your tour a few years back now, your duet with CB, I was lucky to see you at The Vanguard in Sydney. Was a great show, with Chris necking white wine right out of the bottle, goddamn, while Chris was a great showman, he was lucky to have you as the foundation, I guess that is how great relationships work.And then one of us is left behind. My kindest regards, Max.

[@ray.shoesmith]

This song was so far beyond anything anyone else was doing in Feb 1978 its ridiculous.

[@Mark70609]

The horns are divine in this track. They take the song to another place.

[@lozabiamos]

yooooo great gracias

[@HillbillySkeleton]

This brings back memories of the Paddington Town Hall gig with X. Good times. Which will always be fondly remembered. A flame for the zeitgeist of the time that will never go out.

[@20thCB]

Such a kick-ass song, love it. Still sounds fresh after nearly 50 years!

[@robeldridge8689]

My partner and I were hanging out in Paddington in the late 70s. We knew Chris and would say hi, have a coffee sometimes. We were and still are music lovers but back then we knew his band were good, now I am 66 years old and know how GREAT they were. I was on luck puppy to have been around to enjoy it

[@monsterforge1763]

Sad to hear about the passing of Algy Ward a few days ago, a really unique carachter and Bass Sound, much respect...

[@Neilcampbell-gu7uz]

RIP Chris Bailey! Knowing a great product from good ole Brisbane town!

[@davegray2056]

I’m a massive fan of 60’s. 70’s. 80’s rock bands. Tatts, Radio Birdman, etc etc. This band was WAY ahead of everyone. Sax in a punk song/band in the 70’s… Genius….. That bass line…. It’s soooo goood 🇦🇺🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@dalakerdaniel9240]

So many excellent bands from Australia a blessed continent! Did promoted Cosmic Psychos mid 80s and spent a hard night at the 'Red Light District' of Amsterdam tattooed 'nice day go to the pub' on my calf. RB l,Celibate Rifles, to only name a few but one of the best live albums is the hope and anchor one yeah 🍻💊🍻

[@aml3668]

I love that songs like this one to which I react - “wow! this is hell on fire!” - keep it up. For decades! I have passed recognising and loving good music on to my daughter. Listen, and you will know.

[@pleiadian13]

Executed perfectly. A group for the intensity of the times. Catalytic and imposing musically. Very near perfection, no wonder The Saints are unforgettable.

[@eddiej9733]

Near perfect post.

[@impalatube]

I was 7 when I first heard this in 78. It changed my life. Chris has a criminally underrated vocal style.

[@antstead2329]

I've always said 1978 was the best year of music and this certainly helps my case. Wonderful.

[@CharlieTabone-n3v]

Great band, one of the best Aussie products . Remember them on Countdown when i was a teenager. RIP Chris a great servant to Aussie music!!!

[@totalrecone]

Here's a true story. On my fourth aortic heart valve replacement, before going under, I requested this track as my 'Count backwards from Ten" music as the anesthetist did her thing. When I woke up, I had the nurse pop in to visit me at my bedside. She was stoked at the music I chose and wanted to know more so I told her what I knew about The Saints. Watching the nurse rounding the ward doorway doing a pretty damn good imitation of Ed's buzzsaw guitar made me laugh so much I burst stitches.

[@astronautclub9261]

Totally Cool Catchy Tunage

[@petercifuentes2670]

Right up there with the best all time rock songs

[@roberto4061-j7i]

Hard to believe this song didn’t take off in the charts 🤔

[@dmuir7526]

Welcome to Australian radio in the 70’s - early 80’s! I played it often on my FM show in the far NNSW. It won lots of votes.

[@Kwanglebeh]

It did pretty well,Melbourne went nuts on this tune.

[@miketurner4173]

Rip Chris Bailey. Thanks to one of the grandfathers of Punk. Live forever ✌️ the Saints and band that shaped Aussie Rock 🤘🏴🇦🇺

[@paulrfrancis209]

superb song and video too

[@stevecharman8420]

An absolute classic. Back then this was the song that won me over to the Saints.

[@BaronEvola123]

This is marvelous. Never heard of these guys before.

[@BenZeebar]

Saw a version of The Saints perform this in the mid 80s. Ed played bass. Great gig.

[@bernardmeyre]

Yes, great song, great band

[@DavidFoxDotCom]

40 years later....still on regular rotation. Covered by many, but none like the original.

[@tonyowen7473]

their sound and look would not seem out of place in 2025. Crazy good song.

[@micmac09]

Laïc Saints. Thanks.

[@Brando64]

Thanks, Ed! The Saints, The Birthday Party and Laughing Clowns taught me the value of brass in my countries music, which has never been bettered IMO.

[@publicanimal]

Not Radio Birdman?

[@Brando64]

@@publicanimal Nay, I was a bit too young when the Birdman were at their peak.

[@Citizen-op7sy]

@@publicanimal Radio Birdman never used brass on their recordings or live shows

[@DennisMC1974]

R.I P Chris Bailey You Where Awesome 😔🙏🔥

[@kArtoffelkooperative-n7j]

yes top, ich bin gestrandet..

[@allantucker4972]

Thank you

[@adamgoddard3675]

Algy Ward played on my two favourite albums. This one and Machine Gun Etiquette by the Damned.

[@Caos_sol]

Tank is amazing too.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

I don't know what to say, because ...I'm just glad this song exists. I love it every time I hear it..and go Brisso!

[@MikeBlitzMag]

The Brisbane - based Saints' role in the movement that rescued rock and roll from a protracted aesthetic slump cannot be overestimated. And those Sam And Dave-inspired horns on this 1978 monster classic got a nod back in the day from Blitz Magazine - The Rock And Roll Magazine For Thinking People as one of the Best Singles of the Decade. Sadly, we lost front man Chris Bailey in April 2022.

[@dmuir7526]

The most danceable punk diatribe ever written. I adored the clip and every performance of this I ever saw. It was so full of explosions, implosions, ripped out throats from strutting around town young Turk days. And cigarettes. Lots of cigarettes! Sexy, swaggering Irishman & Co. This will be played at my funeral! Xx

[@Kwanglebeh]

Yeah,it was played at mine,went down a treat they tell me.

[@olivier5866]

C'est excellent.

[@tankthelord1178]

Still fantastic.

[@chriskennedy900]

Holy shit, this is fantastic.

[@theselector4733]

Safe travels Mr Bailey. Thankyou for the music.

[@aprilwilcher3311]

Ahhhh. Perfection.

[@ryantimony6692]

Algy RIP

[@TheDjgrrl87]

Very nice!!

[@andykrahling6057]

I stumbled across this album in the States in 1979. This song struck me deeply then, and still does now. Brilliant. RIP Chris.

[@stewajf]

That bass line!

[@bennyshambles]

This and “This Perfect Day” are my favorite Saints tracks. The horns on this are amazing… like Sticky Fingers/Exile on Main St. Stones updated to the Punk era. That aluminum Veleno guitar is amazing. Only seen Ed Kuepper and Keith Levene play them.

[@LucyOLastic]

Love the very metallic sound of Ed's guitar on this. Is it double tracked? Whatever, it sounds how it looks! I think he was pictured with that guitar on his album "Everybody's Got To." I was lucky to see him perform at the Borderline in London back in 1995 I think it was, doing "Honey Steel's Gold." Fabulous night out.

[@PriapeBoudu]

Wow. Just wow.

[@taknothing4896]

Damn, Ed, you sure scored with this one! One of my fave tunes by one of my fave bands, EVER. Thanks so much!!

[@TheElfishGene]

Farewell Algy Ward! 17/05/23

[@andysparks1973]

imagine having some casual drinks with friends and these guys start up . proper amp fkn rock .

[@teelee5559]

best Saints song!

[@themillwall442]

My fav Saints song. Godspeed you Bails.......

[@stevebutler11]

Criminally underappreciated band

[@williambentley2802]

Total madness, they are absolutely flying.

[@martinpiper-ku3vi]

there really good

[@stephaneyana2963]

So good song , top of rocks !!!

[@CON19723]

Great riff.

[@cerimccoy]

Finally, a decent copy!

[@gladdie10]

Epic!

[@markt4110]

Fuck, this is good!

[@seanryan8813]

This song was my generation's (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

[@isgodreal1337]

1977?! Well, then... they were ahead of their time.

[@E.C.2]

Had only heard 75/76 punk rock Saints until KZbin in 07. Had know idea later era Saints were this good. Heard Lazy Cowgirls version before this ditty..

[@andrewfuller62]

@Ethereal Catholic2 Hardly "later era" - this was off just their second album (and best IMHO) barely a year after their debut album.

[@E.C.2]

@@andrewfuller62My income level dictated that a bands later era was anything after the 1st record. #2 The Saints first record was an overpriced import until the reissues,yrs later.That was my version of buying a box set. If you're old enough,you remember this era

[@andrewfuller62]

Perhaps "later album" rather than "era" then.

[@ianbruce892]

Farewell Mr Bailey....🤘👏 As far as I'm concerned, you're The Godfather of PUNK !!!😎🤘🤪👏🏚🎸🎷📯🎤

[@nathantickle1771]

Perfect

[@brianmiller3006]

Original and completely brilliant

[@stevewhite7084]

Had sneer in his voice that Johnny Ploppin could only dream of.

[@ray.shoesmith]

Or Simon Ferocious for that matter

[@Buttermilkjug]

Nice~

[@archtop26]

The best. ‘ Satisfaction’ for our generation.

[@brunoBEGARANI-kx2ey]

RIP Chris Bailey,lPunk legend from Brisbane❤

[@Elysiumrock]

Thanks from Russia!!!!

[@connors7078]

\m/ \m/ Love it!

[@alassinsane1588]

Amazing to think our very own Saints were around pumping out hard core shit well before Sex Pistols. Aussies always been ahead in the game. Rock on 🤘.

[@ИгорьКрылов-э3ж]

Хороши всё же ранние австралийские панки !!!! И кстати голос у фронтмена отличный!!!

[@rautoban]

Chris 🌹

[@higbyprigby9648]

I wonder if Cobain and Albini knew these guys used a Veleno guitar? One or two In Utero tracks feature it and Kurt loved The Saints.

[@wayneatplay]

VALE Chris Bailey.....Gone too Young.

[@martw3240]

neva gonna, yeah

[@robertpembroke8902]

The movie was not, 'Existenz'. It starred Willem Dafoe. That story was about people who had a broadband socket in the back of their neck and they could plug their brain directly into virtual reality. It was based the Farrah Fawcett-Majors Joke. In that joke they use a kitchen tap to extract the bile that will give the Faculty of Medicine a new lease on Life. It's like the belief in bile from a Bear in ancient Chinese folklore. Instead of a bear they use humans vis a vis Soylent Green. (Warren[shooting][Peter] Beatty). I'm up to the Gilbert and Sullivan version of '9 million bicycles in Beijing' song;)

[@davidbolger2000AD]

RIP Chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dannadbigpeepee4845]

R.i.p I knew the saints un 2021 and now Chris is dead 😭

[@falica77]

Ed Do you still have the Veleno? What is / was it like? Brilliant song.

[@theadamgardener]

'Where is the professor? We need him now!'

[@waggafletcher]

This music was brought to you by Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and the former Sir Commissioner of the Queensland Police Service Terrence Lewis.

[@fredgomo]

Ahead of their time. What a great band.

[@swami19581]

Sad news today ❤️

[@aclacgnom1266]

W🥰🤘

[@stephenbleach4668]

Light years ahead of what was occurring over the pond. Perhaps a little dodgy history from my perspective (years of having fun and overindulgence perhaps). The Saints as with other bands of the time are one huge reason I am probably still here today. When you feel isolated, from the values and ethos of your friends and society in general, it often creates a sense of being alienated by what I saw as an utterly irredeemable system of repression. With the built-in expectation that us outsiders (Camus) and obviously many others I did not know, were expected to become drones of a system that could not give a fuck about them, having thrown us overboard years ago. A giant fraud, a political and cultural lie. False Democracy then, and today has now eroded any sense of individual sovereignty, in its place lies of such magnitude and scope, that it's often hard to trust anyone knows this, let alone what the end game is about. Too much political fuckery? Maybe, it's only my overthinking ways. Punk was about self-expression and the desire for less government control over our lives, not the totalitarian overreach unfolding all over the world right now. Punk for me was and is about freedom, liberty, and yes, having the very best times of your life, in this it succeeded beyond my expectations. Sure, as with all things, change is inevitable, I'm not one to live in the past expecting things to stay the same, no one wants to be the old geezer going on about the good old days, boring the fuck out of anyone in hearing distance. Then, no one with half a brain wants to see oppression, censorship, or the current Orwellian control systems being installed to become the norm either. With Punk-the Devil is in the details.

[@jez350]

Amen brother...👍

[@billmago7991]

RIP Chris

[@scorpio8716]

💎🌹

[@spiked1002]

The 70's 'Satisfaction', but the Otis Redding version. Never more relevant.

[@stephenkane2464]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@lazlokovacs2263]

A band that covered Ike and Tina can't be wrong. A "cross-cutting" comment.

[@mikejones-vw6hq]

That brass section is punk as fuck.

[@Semprini537]

This is the Punk version of SMOKE ON THE WATER. With horns

[@MagicThys]

Vale Chris

[@mariam5991]

Vale Chris Bailey.

[@George-lz6ue]

Vale Chris Bailey 11 Apr 22

[@DJ_BJ]

Vale Chris. 😞

[@joserodrigues-vq8pz]

(Yeah All right Sing it up, west coast Too much!) I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!" "Got some great new brand of smokes, cool your head and clear your throat "Keeps you young, yeah, so in touch." Cheap advertising, you're lying Never gonna get me what I want I said, smooth talking, brain washing Ain't never gonna get me what I need "Our new soap that's peachy keen saves your soul and keeps you clean "It's recommended, used by the Queen "Gonna improve your IQ, help in everything you do "It's economic, don't cost too much." Said advertising, you're lying Never gonna give me what I want I said, smooth talking, brain washing Ain't never gonna get me what I need (I said take it Come on Soul man Let's shoot the professor! Alright!) I'm just sitting in my chair when a voice comes on the air Says "Why don't you try it? You'll feel all right!" "It's a great new brand of smokes "Cool your head and clears your throat "Keeps you young and so in touch." Said advertising, you're lying You're never gonna give me what I want I said smooth talking, brain washing You're never gonna get me what I need (What do I care? Yeah! Hey man Where's the professor? We need him now! Gonna tell you 'bout them Yeah we take it all the way 'round the world For that west coast feel Yeah man Yeah everything, let it out It's not what you love Look out on the radio All right Yeah Yeah...)