The Stranglers - "No More Heroes" - Dutch TV 1977

[@Kevinfordsynthesizers]

Jet Black - one of the world’s underrated guitarists.

[@DanFernandesBenficaSaint]

Lol okay mate… watch Satriani play and come back to me. You can see Brian May talking about Nuno from the band Extreme saying he has ability that he can never reach. So then it comes down to personal preference. Punk music is just that… punk, stupid, foolish. The composition of Mozart is far beyond this you will never be able to comprehend my friend. But for music with guitar his ability is very limited. But it’s whether you like punk music which if you do then the joke is on you 😂

[@leopoldbluesky]

RIP Jet. An inspiration to guitarists everywhere (apart from Brazil, apparently)

[@earthsucks9555]

@@DanFernandesBenficaSaint what about Robert Quine? He any good in your opinion?

[@blueshorecreative3146]

I get it

[@paulcampbell1596]

@@DanFernandesBenficaSaint the Strangler's were not even a Punk group........ i grew up in London in the late 1970s and was part of that whole music scene back then and even back then everybody knew this band were way too musical and talented to be labeled Punk....... similar to the Police they were smart and played into the marketing of "angry young bands of the time, but had way more musical chops than their contemporaries of that era.

[@frederickowen4006]

RIP Dave. Looks like you were all having a good laugh back then!

[@jamescolyn5960]

This is fantastic. Kinda wish more and other bands had the audacity to play the musical-star game for what it is.

[@andreafox7267]

RIP Dave Greenfield. No more heroes anymore 🖤

[@antoninotroisi6585]

🥲🥲🥲

[@secallen]

Excellent audio for a live performance. They were a really tight group by then.

[@AutomaticSelector]

+ secallen LOL!

[@bonicon1]

+secallen uh, if you're not being ironic, I'd be happy to explain everything wrong with this video. If you're just being cheeky, sorry, no offense intended. :D

[@RoyBoverhof]

+secallen I think the guy on drums is taking the piss... ;)

[@djharg400]

+Roy Boverhof They Are All On The Wrong Instruments! It's Called Taking The Piss!

[@RoyBoverhof]

djharg /Haggis ... LOL :)

[@YaoEspirito]

THAT'S the way to handle play-back. Punk spirit.

[@dereklowe946]

Incredible performance,these boys put their hearts and soul into it. Hugh's innovative drumsticks keyboards playing is breathtaking. Such lovely down to earth boys.

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Ooooh, I'd introduce them to my mother

[@blueshorecreative3146]

I love it when they play keys with drumsticks. Hugh, wanting to expand his musical boundaries, probably got a lesson from Dave G in the dressing room before. Dave, meanwhile, was only too happy to step into the frontman shoes and deliver this passionate vocal performance. I hope you all took f-in notes, cos they weren't talkin bollocks. There will be a test.

[@Eli-ne3vu]

I'd kill for the original audio xD

[@PhilippaAnneReed]

Gawd bless the Stranglers! I love how JJ only has two bits of drum kit left by the end!

[@carolinehyndes7043]

Dave looks very comfortable with a Bass Guitar probably could play it.

[@johnryder1713]

Rip Dave Greenfield we'll never forget him

[@challis65]

This is fantastic! JJ looks like he's having too much fun and considering a musical career move.

[@Bristolcentaurus]

i wonder what jet thought at the end

[@isaoimanishi4413]

Dear Mr.Dave. His keyboard sound was an integral part of "stranglers sound". We pray for his souls.

[@JDsmiffy1]

Jet Black with an interesting guitar technique!

[@Geese-farting-in-the-wind]

That's exactly how one of Crass used to play.

[@mikewilson3581]

Infinite Barre Chords.

[@m.asquino7403]

First time Ive seen that anywhere

[@drexlspivey5828]

Upside down power chords, it's an idea 🤔

[@BLADE_RISE]

The proper way

[@stephanvenner2939]

Jet Black has really the bottle to play an amazing guitar solo at the end of the song. The tightness of JJ's drumming is vraiment formidable,great fun,cheers!

[@JazziopeiaGirl]

Absolutely brilliant! LOL Best laugh I've had in a while. Clicked on the thumb-nail when I saw Jet Black holding a guitar. Leave it to The Stranglers to provide the justice against lame lip-syncing performances. The Stranglers are my heroes!

[@BrushSPB]

I had never heard about this band till now, but watching this and it seems they were so badass unlimited.

[@undergroundwarrior70]

The Stranglers started in 1974. Their debut album was released in 1977.

[@TINSTAAFL1]

They once tied a French journalist to the Eifel tower, naked. Because he wrote a bad article about the Stranglers. Bad asses, nah...

[@raindogred]

you can't beat a good live performance..

[@MalcNedd62]

This is bloody comical!! Absolutely hilarious! I too noticed that Dave was "playing" the right notes, but as he was originally a guitarist (he still plays acoustic on "Sanfte Kuss") he's bound to know his way around a bass neck to some degree.

[@toothpastaduck3613]

Yep

[@TheMetalMachineMusic]

Awwww bless. Dave's even playing the right bass notes.

[@linzeelostit]

Every band that mimes should do it this way & show what a farce tv is

[@geoffpoole483]

Credit to the Stranglers for doing this.

[@Nick-fi1mc]

@@geoffpoole483 yep....so awesome

[@HarryBuddhaPalm]

@@geoffpoole483 Nirvana would do something similar almost 20 years later. They were pissed that they were forced to mime a song so they intentionally fucked it up.

[@thewhoman3182]

@@HarryBuddhaPalm and new order would also do something similar 10 years earlier than nirvana by insisting on playing live on totp only to badly butcher their song that was already rising in the charts.

[@DerEchteBold]

Iron Maiden did the very same on German TV, I think, in the early-mid 80s

[@40ny]

I bet the producers were thinking "No more TopPop any more!"

[@travisleland1186]

It wasn't their last though.

[@fvdp4710]

Later Iggy Pop was on Toppop, he was fighting with a palmtree...lol

[@martininblack63]

lol I’m just watching this and laughing but just realizing that Dave was actually playing the correct bass lines!!!!! 👍🏻

[@blueshorecreative3146]

yeah, that's Dave. And singing the right lyrics. And enjoying it. What a lark!

[@ddelaney712]

Have to say that these lads are good. Timing, power and precion is not easy live but these lads pulled it of with panache. No lip synching here. Just talent.

[@Trotskyxx]

This is what playback performances always should have been, and should be. Pioneers in everything they did.

[@khoffmansd]

JJ on drums... Hugh behind keys... a Hohner Clavinet of all things... Dave looks like he's actually playing, and then Jet using a beer bottle as a violin bow at the end... too funny.

[@robbiemayer2130]

I have this theory that this performance might've been lip synced

[@finylvinyl66]

+Robbie Mayer Theory? Fact.

[@robbiemayer2130]

good job, buddy.

[@berkokten4444]

you must be fun at parties

[@gardgardner4912]

Robbie... Not theory but certainty..

[@fukmipliz]

No way man! Prove it!!

[@angelicupstart1977]

Just the best ever.

[@splodge57]

Best group ever to play live at the Bol d'or in the early 80s. I'll never forget it, cheers lads.

[@ilanlilo9423]

GENIUS!!!

[@TheTimmyH]

What great memorable sounds of Dave Greenfield on the keyboard...RIP

[@jasmineblack9778]

Greatest band in the history of popular music

[@therollingbeachfloyd645]

Dave Burnel: bass and vocals, Jet Cornwell: guitar, Hugh Greenfield: keyboards and Jean Jacques Black: drums

[@renngretsch]

correction Dave Burnel: bass and vocals, Jet Cornwell: guitar and bottle, Hugh Greenfield: keyboards and Jean Jacques Black: VIOLENCE!!!

[@dermot51]

That's about right.

[@alanstoves295]

It's perfect miming,brilliant

[@ΑΝΤΙ-ρ9τ]

🤣😂 Ι love them .....what a performance 💗......the drummer kills 😁

[@FP51DPO]

All Jet is doing is worrying about the young whipper snapper smashing up his prized drum kit

[@dermot51]

JJ is fucking destroying Mr Duffys kit, excellent!

[@oxfammobile7690]

Brilliant TV moment!

[@stevenrobertson6656]

RIP Dave Greenfield...a genius on bass as well.

[@zugrook101]

I thought the drum player was excellent, a maestro.

[@neiltaylor5175]

Dave does a great job on vocals

[@philipusher4282]

Didn't know they were multi-instrumentalists. Respect

[@GuitarLessonsKellyShenker]

This is just so funny what a great band They truly know how to play to a backing track!

[@stevepettit2064]

it's great this love how they have all swapped their roles for this performance.

[@alanmcclelland5245]

Wow these guys were great live ! 😊

[@zacharylayne7569]

Wow. Excellent live sound.

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting!

[@TINSTAAFL1]

Producer: "Play back this time, lads". The Stranglers : "Hold My Beer".

[@blueshorecreative3146]

Aaah, the stranglers. Webels to the end. This is a fine example of some bands' ridicule of miming their own songs on TV. And it's the funniest I've ever seen, with Iggy Pop's performances on Countdown spectacular. I laugh out loud at getting their in-jokes - playing each other's instruments, singing the other guy's part. Totally wrecking the whole lip sync atmosphere. Hilarious, and thankyou, you funny buggers!

[@baabaabaa-El]

Iggy had been spitting vodka at the teeny boppers!! The Cure playing Primary is pretty fkn funny too mate!!

[@fardelphilippe5991]

Amusant autant qu'excellent, bref les illustrissimes et magnifiques Stranglers en fête!!!! TOP!

[@richardhewit215]

It's good to see them having fun.

[@madfokkers]

RIP Dave Greenfield

[@thegloriousmoodman2152]

Love it.

[@specialse]

Was a big stranglers fan right up to the point many years ago now that i woke up one morning and saw them playing "always the sun " on kids TV show "number 73" :-( never the same after that .....RIP Dave.

[@gilwood7530]

ANYTHING JET DOES IS ALRIGHT BY ME !!!! ROCK ANIMAL !!! I love that dude for 40 + years now

[@08tigerbabe]

This vid is BRILLIANT!!!!! the Stranglers at there best.......taking the piss... luv it

[@glenford2870]

What a great band

[@carlosnetocoelho6852]

Best playback ever! The TV producers sure got mad at them for this stunt 3:)

[@wozardofiz1242]

Mad? This is in the Netherlands not in the BBC dungeons!

[@MrMick50]

That was awesome thanks

[@troysvisualarts]

Hahaha watched both versions of this TopPop performance, love this pisstaking on this one with the members having fun swapping instruments and vocals over, something a band can do on any music TV program that is all miming and backing track, I wonder how this would of all sounded if it were 100 percent live?

[@vitaminb1248]

Awesome! I was only familiar with the other version but this one kicks ass as well! Am curious as hell how the original sound in that room sounded like, probably a lot of nonsense hahaha. Rest in peace Dave

[@DanDanDoe]

The noise must have been terrible. I can imagine the guitars and keys weren't connected to anything, but the drums must have made quite a noise. 😂

[@HansJazz]

Never forgotten this episode of Top Pop.

[@shellydrew100]

Brilliant when i 1st saw this , i thought i'd lost my mind :)

[@stevewood3681]

JJ on the drums, smashed it 🤣😂

[@hammondauger]

i didn't realize what accomplished musicians they were on each others instruments lol priceless footage

[@ChrisM541]

What a stunning live performance. JJB keppin' it real with an honest, tight drum groove, Folks won't know but guitarist maestro JB taught JB every guitar technique he needed to record Blow by Blow, HC - king of the keys, and DG...what can I say! THIS is why Real is Best! Heroes, every one of them!

[@normalnorman41]

brilliant

[@andrewparkinson8837]

Some interesting chords by Dave

[@olabarrietadunn]

Que buenos momentos, jajajajajajajaja, gracias chicos!

[@colosideral]

"Ok guys, can u make a little playback?".... "Yup. No problem"

[@michaeligoe3935]

Love how this band appear to have been so instrumentally interchangeable.

[@Jon_Godfrey]

i might be being a little unfair but I think they might have been miming.... key song of my youth... love it.

[@patrickwest3518]

What a fantastic turnaround best ever band

[@OddmarPedersen]

Fantastic!

[@Cal1gula666]

Multi talented.

[@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja]

Oh Yeah! Oh! We have SO liked to see this live!... ;P Anna,Christine,Tinja&Markku :D

[@Gruntle]

JJ on the drums....awesome!

[@KillAllHippies70]

absolutely fantastic, funniest thing i've seen in ages (i don't get let out much hahaha)

[@WESTPRINGLE]

glad I found this, so funny

[@Pantherace]

Absolute Classic. Super Thanks.

[@kimlacey3552]

Brilliant, very funny, the music was right from the start, all of you. xxxx

[@ddelaney712]

Talented multi-instrumentalist's one and all. We will never see the like again

[@-joe90]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 best play bag ever

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Bloody fantastic every time.👍🇬🇧 Hope to see the Stranglers back on the road after all the bullshit covid .bring on 2021.🎤🎼🎸🎼

[@francescoinblack]

This video is mithical :-D Thank you very much for the post :-D

[@orangeblue61]

Gotta just love these guys :)

[@uwegeller3170]

Thanx for a good laugh...or maybe two,especially to the lads on guitar&bass...cheers 🥲

[@Carcharodon]

Absolute masterpiece

[@johnparrack]

awesome ty...haven't had a laugh in ages..this just did it...superb stuf from the Original MIB

[@mariaaleman6258]

Genios!!!

[@MsAlien911]

That standing jump over the toms,..bloody fit guy!)

[@dennisrockbottomskelly7948]

THE Stranglers were a bit older than most of the other punk/rock bands of 1977, making their music a bit more solid & musical than a lot of other punk bands. Result... some really Great Music. RB/nowretiredfromTheScene&waitingfor1978

[@infocado]

great to see Jet out front - my guitar hero !!!

[@thebarrynormals7214]

my god , what could have Happened if Dave Sang, lol , So many good Memories , Such a sad way to Pass

[@keestel6975]

Heroes!

[@aaronsibley39]

I laughed so much...loved it.

[@Wisconsin222]

I love this video

[@paulschnyder938]

So much talent they were all totally at home with the other's instruments.

[@GlueGuitar]

It seems that Dave is really playing the actual part of his instrument!

[@tonybates7870]

He is, I'm sure of it. I'm a bassist and he does seem to be playing the right notes, even though he's miming, if you see what I mean. Not so sure about Jet Black, though . . .

[@Eleventhearlofmars]

He does it on the keyboard version as well from the same tv show lol, plays it like spot on. 😂

[@onlyme219]

Great to see them perform live :)

[@Lainey555]

If you look really closely you'll notice the picture is very slightly out of sync with the audio, such a shame as this has to be the best live performance of any band ever, sounds just like the studio recording, thanks for the superb music and the happy memories Dave and rest in peace.

[@AshleyPomeroy]

You know, I've never seen Dave standing up before. In colour anyway. He looks sort of normal standing up.