The Thamesmen - 'Gimme Some Money'

[@lmjones7716]

Every time I hear a (pre-Hendrix) sixties guitar solo, I always think 'Go, Nigel, go!".

[@knifelyfe6565]

When you hear Jimi do a Hendrix solo, you should say "Go Buddy Guy, Go Ike Turner, Go Albert King"....Thats where Jimi stole it all from.

[@brettbanta2100]

​@@knifelyfe6565 Yep, Jimi totally stole it

[@andrewgriffin2366]

"Rock on, George!"

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

Well, Jimmy Page played on a lot of hit records (The Who, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, etc) before Hendrix was known, and he was blazing then... he sort of changed how guitar solos sounded before Hendrix came up.

[@kevinohare9216]

Another pre-Tap song that I love. And despite seeing this many times, I still can't even recognize Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer as fresh-faced English lads. This is a gem.

[@silentgd]

maybe because Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) wasnt in the band at this time..that's Ronny Pudding (Danny Kortchmar) on bass

[@Vickytoriahirt1234]

​@@silentgdI'm not even sure if that's Christopher Guest

[@lawrencelampke6007]

Don't forget Ed Begley Jr. on drums

[@silentgd]

it is@@Vickytoriahirt1234

[@mikeking7710]

@@Vickytoriahirt1234 Check out his face during the guitar solo, that's Guest for sure.

[@lqr824]

One of the secrets of the appeal of Spinal Tap is that the music and even lyrics are legitimately excellent. This line at 1:37 is great: I'm looking for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything.

[@MacLeaphart]

The production on this is top notch. Guitar tones, etc are spot on for the British Invasion era music

[@tabithadietrich6321]

They were a huge influence on The Beatles! X)

[@donnovicki9771]

I was never able to decide which band I liked the best: The Thamesmen or The Rutles. Dam they were both so good.........

[@knifelyfe6565]

Checkout "Lemmings Lament". HAPPY LISTENING!

[@CharlesStClair-tb9iy]

Don't forget Lenny and the Squigtones!

[@andrewgriffin2366]

Ouch!

[@constantine5]

This movie was so ahead of its time. So fucking funny.

[@hyperlooprecords1609]

This is just fantastic nobody has come close to getting anyway near this spoofarama..

[@alexanderSydneyOz]

Try All You Need Is Cash, about The Rutles. Similar calibre; both are beyond brilliant

[@hyperlooprecords1609]

@@alexanderSydneyOz Yes you are right.

[@twomindz79]

Stumpy peeps is a drum God! Love live stumpy.

[@StephenFiorentini]

.....He died

[@nicks6813]

You know they secretly/not secretly loved playing in a fictional/real band. Such a brilliant idea with brilliant performers.

[@codjh9]

One of the greatest hits-that-never-was from the 60's. It's ALL good, but one of the funniest lines to me is always 'I'm looking for pound notes, loose change, bad checks, anything... gimme some money'.

[@TooLooze]

The Folksmen "You'll never get to heaven on the wings of a gun." haha

[@azrael0927]

Cliff Main and Chuck McGill rockin' out prior to law school.

[@fluff1353]

The greatest song ever written.

[@atlasking6110]

Rare footage with the legendary Stumpy Pepys on drums!

[@markoman5267]

I wonder how he died.

[@nicktamer4969]

@@markoman5267 Too much money.....

[@ThePorpoisepower]

This scene and many others would not have landed with me had I not watched so many history of rock documentaries growing up.

[@sherrillsturm7240]

...AND "THIS IS SPINAL TAP", I HOPE.

[@Achtung_Maybe]

i feel like not enough people appreciate the absolute unhinged perfection of mckean's facial expressions after 1:57

[@televisierewind5404]

Ed Begley jr on drums... before he became a doctor :-)

[@ourcorrectopinions6824]

And a lawyer.

[@hankkingsley9300]

That look from Begley cracks me up every time.

[@RFXLR]

And he used all that Thamesmen money to buy a Prius.

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@RFXLR pound notes bad checks anything give me some money

[@scottstrand1874]

Is Ed aware of the short lifespan of drummers attached to some groups.😮

[@mebeasensei]

0:33 The drummer's right shoulder "drop-twitch" influenced a lot of other artists, but it took until 1974 (can you believe it - typical corporate types) for Pearl drums - originally in Australia, funnily enough, to design drum kits that made the drop-twitch visible by moving the mike boom higher and the toms lower. They actually reduce the bass drum diameter to achieve it.

[@aaronthesavage3822]

nice copy and paste skills

[@sherrieteller4779]

"Dont get me wrong... Try getting me right... Your face is okay.... But your purse is so tight!" 😂😭🤣✌

[@aerynjoxenisavage2002]

I just now got that double meaning after listening to that song for 20 years. I'm 35. Slow, much?

[@alecchase2000]

Actually, he says "too tight".

[@stevenjohnson243]

@@aerynjoxenisavage2002 i don't think there's any double meaning there

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@aerynjoxenisavage2002 I'm pushing 60 I didn't get it till just now

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@stevenjohnson243 actually now I do think there is

[@muskyme]

Go, Nigel, GO!

[@tunadoomshitpost]

viuviymm

[@darwinblinks]

the greatest comedy of all time

[@xmunki1389]

lmao, the facial expressions are killing me

[@TranscendentBen]

I like how there's an organ (and not a cheap Vox Jaguar or Continental of the time period, but a real Hammond) in the song, but there's no organ onstage.

[@elwyn5150]

Back then, I think EVERYTHING was lip synched and instrument synched to the studio recording. Anyhow, you'll enjoy this from The Box Tops and their invisible horns and strings section and a keyboard player doing magic: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHmcZqpmYtmYpcU&ab_channel=AnythingRock

[@BcharaKaram]

In their Listen to the flower people, you also hear a sitar but don't see it

[@Luka1180]

@@BcharaKaram Couldn't a similar sound be achieved, anyway, with some wacky effects devices? As I recall there are sitar simulator pedals. Also, a lot of instruments are in songs and shows where you don't actually see them in videos or even on stage. Pre-recorded stuff or stuff being played off-stage or in any other way. *EDIT* Actually, I looked into it, and believe it or not, the instrument the dude is playing in the Listen to the Flower People is actually an electric sitar! It's called a Coral Sitar. It looks almost identical to an electric guitar, or would to most people at least, but it is very much a sitar, so it's not a wrong scene nor is it done for humor. It's real.

[@75aces97]

I always assumed that was meant as a pastiche of all those performances in the 1960s on American Bandstand and Ready Steady Go, where the bands were clearly lipsyncing, with offstage horns, organs, string sections, melotrons, etc piped in.

[@NYCHFAN]

😂😂😂 I always laugh at old clips with bluetooth guitars, ha ha ha!!!!

[@hyperlooprecords1609]

Genius piece of work.

[@muesli4597]

I love the lazy eye and the geek drummer

[@akbaranwari3001]

Stumpy was ahead of his time. No heads on the bottom of the toms, and a cutting edge bass drum head. Other than that, spot on.

[@kewkabe]

Amazing solo by Nigel.

[@azapro911]

Lovely to hear an early Kinks outtake.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

This is a spoof band!

[@richsackett3423]

One of my favorite B sides of theirs.

[@michaelwhite2076]

These guys ROCK!!!!

[@edburns00]

Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar as Ronnie Pudding on the Hofner bass.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

It looks more authentic than the color version. That old early 60s TV kinescope look.

[@JoshuaCraigStrain]

Loose change , bad checks , anything .

[@hgxnorton1986]

Gimme some money!

[@hebneh]

It's better in black & white, like this, than in color. That's more in keeping with 1964-'65.

[@mosriteminioncause7741]

I heard there were these "other guy's" from Liverpool ... that saw The Thamesmen's broadcast on the BBC, in Germany at the time, and they said, "Hey Yeah, "Money!" I want money, and you want money - everybody wants money,.... lets put out a song about "Money"...and well you know the rest....

[@DavidHBurkart]

So good!!

[@michaelburke5907]

Is that Ed Begley Jr. on drums?

[@mikeking7710]

Yes it is, he's portraying John "Stumpy" Pepys

[@chriscarlson3700]

The spirit of the British Invasion summarized in one phrase: Go Nigel Go!

[@jbcoops]

I saw them live in SF with my ex... they flew in on wires and Derek was stuck a couple feet above the stage before the roadies cut the wires... just about as phunny as the infamous clamshell incident! there was also probs with a giant satanic goat horned prop as i recall... i can't remember too many specifics cuz i was under heavy sedation. oh yeah... now i remember... Les Claypool from Primus came out in a full-length turquoise moomoo and gigged with the band. GOOD TIMES!

[@AllTheBestCO]

Ed Begley Jr. on the skins! What the...

[@chickensalad]

Holy shit, that really IS him isn't it?

[@jharlson]

I thought it was John “Stumpy” Pepys on the drums.

[@titaniummechanism3214]

If I were in a band, this would be the first song on our debut album.

[@RonWinter335]

Excellent! That's freekin' Ed Begley Jr on the drums and Christopher Guest on guitar!!

[@bluecatky]

Is that Ed Begley Jr on drums?

[@mikeking7710]

Yes, sure is.

[@factchecker]

Isn't this The New Originals?

[@skeneward3104]

Undoubtedly!

[@paulkerrigan4051]

They changed their name back to ‘The Originals’.

[@Bonobo1974]

The Regulars

[@Elementalism]

Now in the where are they now file.

[@rodgerbane3825]

This reminds me of all my social media interactions with folks running for office.

[@hbpencil88]

Those crazy kids, only one thing on their mind. 💁

[@joejones3375]

this is great

[@spottymulldoon5260]

Is that Ronnie Pudding on base?

[@75aces97]

I think it's Seymour Skinner.

[@mikeking7710]

I wouldn't have been able to pick him out, I always thought it was Shearer. But several others in the comments here do say that it is Ronnie Pudding, portrayed by Danny Kortchmar.

[@peacefanz]

ed beagley jr on drums?

[@notmarkatall]

Rutles - like comic and musical genius

[@creativologist1813]

Ed Begly Jr cracks me up at 0:08.

[@Ziggy_Rotten]

He's my favorite drummer, and he's barely in the fucking movie. LOL!

[@Bartonovich52]

How did he die? I don’t think this was the “dust for vomit” drummer.

[@tuttt99]

@@Bartonovich52 No that was Stumpy Joe. Joe Stumpy Pepys died in a bizarre gardening accident. The authorities said that it was "better left unsolved".

[@genericgeorge]

Stumpy is lagging at the back there. Nigel is cooking good on lead...and smiling good

[@tuttt99]

I had a huge crush on Stumpy when I was growing up. I'll never forget where my sisters and I were when we heard the news that he died. We cried and cried. I just wish I had saved the issue of Tiger Beat that reported his death. I hear that it's worth a lot of money now.

[@PockyFiend]

And to think that the lead singer was once Lenny from Laverne and Shirley!

[@mikeking7710]

And much later, he was Saul Goodman's brother Chuck McGill.

[@morningstar8651]

Hard to believe that this would eventually become the greatest british rock group ever; Spinal Tap. They were the band that inspired Led Zeppelin.

[@garysuarez9614]

STUMPY JOE PEEPS oh yeah!

[@RFVCXR200R]

I'm going to tell my kids this was Spinal Tap

[@wyrdingroom6081]

totally forgot EB Jr was in the Thamesmen.. 😝

[@tonymason6686]

I'm obsessing over trying to figure out what song the music notes in the background represent

[@clareredfarn8613]

None - it's gibberish. There's no recognisable time signature. It's the usual story -whenever sign-writers, cake decorators etc want to represent "music" they bung a load of random notes on a stave. It's like selecting letters from the Russian alphabet, putting them together at random and saying the result is Russian. It isn't.

[@tuttt99]

@@clareredfarn8613 Like "Wenn ist das Nunnstuck git und Slotermayer?"

[@cambium0]

@@clareredfarn8613 It's clearly in 2.5/4.

[@Reggie-The-Dog]

This is the 100th comment. Hooray for me.

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Rock In Paradise Stumpy Peeps. I hope you’re staying away from the powered garden tools.

[@judyjudy51]

I wagged school to go and scream at them when they toured Australia in 1864

[@SteveSingsThings]

GSM! Early Stones or Kinks would have had a hit with this.

[@tatetym4301]

Is that actually Michael McKean? It looks so much like him even way before spinal tap.

[@MarkyMark154]

RIP Stumpy Peeps

[@reflectingsoul]

Michael McKean look like a Keith Relf from The Yardbirds.

[@richardclarkson3016]

Could have been bigger than The Beatles if they’d been better.

[@AdrianPG63]

Is that Harry Shearer on the left ?

[@billkalter8309]

The drummer. Is that Ed Begley jr?

[@ThePatank]

2 main characters from better call saul are in this band

[@richsackett3423]

I heard Neil Innes actually wrote this song.

[@mikeking7710]

According to the Wikipedia page for the film soundtrack, which includes "Gimme Some Money", all of the songs were written by Shearer, Guest, McKean, and Reiner.

[@GrtSatan]

Nigel Tuffnel is God.

[@stevenneville6467]

I would upvote this 500 times if I could.

[@leinadsocail9615]

👍

[@tomyost5681]

Stumpy joe peeps , great geek

[@constancehayward1813]

Tom Yost YESs

[@Itelkner]

Geezer.... Stumpy Joe, he's a naughty one...

[@colinwilson5185]

Not dissing, I genuinely like this, but has anyone else noticed how similar this is to John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom Boom?"

[@thesilverfox4466]

Possibly an homage to how the American Blues were a major influence on the British Invasion at this time. Also, in real life, the Animals released a cover of "Boom Boom" around the time depicted in this scene, so that's probably an homage to that as well.

[@soschume]

She brought me here

[@GDuncan8002]

1:04

[@Jlipnicki]

That was Jimmy Page's first group.

[@muskyme]

suhWEEEEET!

[@rkgaustin]

Ed Begley Jr. looking like Garth's dad in this one.

[@peterbland7227]

Ed Begley!

[@monkeytennis7477]

This would be believable except for Ed Begley Jr. sticks out like a sore thumb. Wasn't he on St. Elsewhere around this time? 😂😂😂

[@missnumberthirteen]

yus mate

[@johnclark4593]

Tom Petty: "That movie wasn't funny."

[@badjemima]

Harry Shearer looks disconcertingly like Ed Miliband in this video...

[@beatmet2355]

badjemima only it’s not harry shearer

[@Bartonovich52]

Uhh... Derek Smalls is Harry Shearer.

[@andrewfutterman3346]

That's not Harry Shearer. This was before Derek Smalls joined the band.

[@darronboden9975]

Looks like Ronnie Pudding to me

[@paulhebert8473]

Ronnie Pudding (played by session guitarist Danny Kortchmar) is on bass.

[@ursulaplatt4803]

Are they dissing Brian jones?

[@MVgaming627]

All of the 60s but David has the Jones haircut and Nigel a bit off Jones piss take

[@jshepard152]

Pound notes, loose change, bad cheques, anything...

[@calvinsaxon5822]

Is this woman daft? He wants some money. That's it. There's nothing more to say about it (except for several entire verses).

[@timoaksel9320]

National anthem of the Ukraine.

[@robh7680]

'Green Onions' was such a rip off of this...

[@QE2KC3AngelWindOGodRose4ACJedi]

Ready steady theive

[@QE2KC3AngelWindOGodRose4ACJedi]

No gender no what food poi's...

[@ComicPower]

Looks like a spoof of a 60s video instead of a real one.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

It is a spoof of a 60s video.

[@GlenBoyle-w7v]

Ripping off the yard birds.

[@chimpooey9083]

Fake band! this is actually just #KingsOfLeon in black and white video.

[@encantopoda755]

Irrepetible!!!!!!!

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