Them - Mystic Eyes/Gloria (Music Hall de France, 1965)

[@sandsoftime1954]

Sometimes you forget just how great it is to hear real musicians.

[@speedyaraujo766]

van morrison on vocals billy harrison on guitar and backing vocals alan henderson on bass and backing vocals ray elliot on organ terry noon on drums

[@DerGlaetze]

Them was very similar to the Animals. The soulful voices of Van Morrison and Eric Burdon are so parallel. Both were phenomenal groups.

[@joeyhuebner10]

I think they were far better singers than Mick Jagger

[@dondamon4669]

@@joeyhuebner10 technically yes and I’d say Van was better but not Eric Burdon 😂. They never had Micks Danger and charisma or performed as good. People forget now how much of a rebel Jagger was seen back then.

[@jaywilkinson3522]

Eric Burdon didn't have the solo career Van had tho after.

[@williamleggett5924]

oh man

[@edlyons2146]

The Yardbirds come to mind. Jeff Beck was their lead guitarist at the time and both bands had about the heaviest sound going that early on. Makes the Stones look like lightweights.

[@saca1951]

THEM...ONE OF THE BEST...I was 14 years old when this song hit the air...been listening to 60's rock ever since then and until the day I die...

[@1e0s]

I was four years old & feel the same way. It also became a bit of a favourite on the punk scene when I remember playing it to death. Happy days🎶💕

[@albertofortes8429]

that was the era of awesome music just think of all that music and talent and still is roots to some of todays music keep it going

[@crazyfrog5015]

Oh my God , what an amazing song ! The golden age of music ! ❤🧡💛💚💙💜

[@janhensley3617]

Love, love, love ❤️

[@jvs333]

1965 I was 11 we lived in east LA projects and I remember hearing GLORIA blaring out of houses with teenagers hanging out on the front porches.. great memories!

[@michaelfinneron6939]

I'm glad that J. Edgar Hoover made it to the show.

[@1e0s]

Hahaha😂

[@johnmitchelljr]

Once you hear a Them song you never forget it. Thanks so much.

[@shannonschaerer1010]

I had been watching Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers play "Mystic Eyes" live (a LOT - They covered it VERY well) & "Gloria" by T.P. & the H.B.'s live. I have several versions of that on his live albums as well. Anyway - after listening to those songs, it gave me THIS!! It's Amazing to see how they both started. I knew they were Van Morrison songs, but THIS video says it all. Beautiful & Amazing SOUND quality!! Thanks for sharing!! Peace!!

[@OMVC1957]

WOW two of the best songs from Them ..great live versions ..top marks and favourite cheers for sharing

[@Fuzzbrain61]

Love the Townshend like moves of the guitarist. Great performance from Them

[@eddiee123]

I wonder who (no pun intended) did the windmill first.

[@chriscampbell9191]

@@eddiee123 Keith Richards did it first, though apparently it wasn't an actual stage move. When preparing for a show in London -- which the Who attended, apparently -- Townshend saw Richards do a windmill like motion with his arm. Richards was apparently either messing around or warming up his arm for playing. Townshend thought it looked cool, so he adopted it as a stage move. This guitarist in Them probably is trying to look cool like Townshend. I'm sure other guitarists during the mod era did the same thing for a while.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Gloria was the song that started it all for me. I was 14 years old and hearing that song was the moment I knew I wanted to be a bassist. Still at it 54 years later. 😄

[@TheeMikeForce]

Its near 3 am as I write this... Feeling a bit lonely, maybe... I noticed, one day, that after watching The Walking Dead... that driving through town at all the people moving about... from here to there and back and such. The "living" in so-called real-life are as-if the dead hordes from the show. No fucking difference. None.Today my friend taught me to play GLORIA on the bass while he played guitar and sang. I felt so cool. So. Fucking. Cool.

[@williamleggett5924]

Played this then video a hundred times in a week

[@kathleenphillips6445]

1965. I love looking at the audience, they were blown away.

[@carolweidig4689]

In my time.....we LOVED this song by Van Morrison....Gloria...still do.

[@ronaldwagstaff6271]

My God )))) I can remember when I was 16 years old, and this song Gloria and Baby Please Don't Go hit the chats, it was then so cool and still is today WOW love it.

[@billyballard8994]

drunk nurfies are just that no sense of reality. just....duuuhhhh wtf ima dumdass....that's what u aimed to evoke. ..u got it cm suker

[@janskristoff4948]

You got that right, it is definitely still cool!

[@jitkasuarez]

This is a wonderful video. I'm super-happy these videos survive, they provide a window for those of us who didn't grow up in that time to see what it might've been like for the kids who loved this music. I mean it looks like the parents had to chaperone! That's gotta suck. I love the smirks on the teens' faces when Gloria starts. And that dad gleefully clapping along, god bless him! Great share :D

[@lbcharlie05]

I am almost 70 and lived through this great time in music. But, I am also glad to find these gems on here, 50 plus years after seeing them, maybe. Some of the concert footages of the groups as they first started out are classic now. I never knew Van Morrison was in this group at the time.

[@LPCustom3]

I remember when this came out. I loved it then and still do! Raw energy!

[@danthefan5378]

RAW POWER!

[@lotharroberts5978]

Absolute power. Great audio too. You can hear the bass, which in it self is quite menacing. Love this performance.

[@williamleggett5924]

fantastic really great

[@baronlonny4621]

The mighty "THEM" G-L-O-R-I-A, how could all those people just sit there? What a great band!!

[@martacecilianovoventurino748]

Me fascina este gringuito...canta diferente y esrá¡ guapísimo¡...¡ bravo¡

[@debiedog1]

Van Morrison...a musical genius for five decades......

[@haltmusic]

THIS is why I love Them and KZbin. Fabulous!

[@steppene]

Them played in Stockholm in 1964/65. I was there!

[@lastomykindwill4598]

All these years and this is the first time I've heard Mystic Eyes. I'm blown away. Thanks much

[@1e0s]

Me to & I'm 62. I recall buying Baby please don't go & Gloria when I was a 17yr old punk & playing it to death. Love that I'm old & still on a journey discovering amazing music💥🎶🔊

[@danieltrickey9285]

This is cool. I've never heard a live recording of this song. Only had the record.

[@kevanbrown7620]

Gloria is fckin incredible tune man. Van the Man. T.B. Sheets is 1 of my all time favourite's. It's like a classic Doors track with Van Morrison singing vocals. Of course Astral Weeks, wow, many years ago my ex-wife got me into that amazing piece of work. Bless her. That album hypnotizes me, eveytime i play it.

[@jabax999]

Pretty well every band in Australia played the amazing 3 chord Gloria back in the 60s and even into the 70s. The single flip side was "Baby Please Don't Go." What good value for money that was! Mystic Eyes not so well known but a great tune too. Pure excitement sound as shown by the audience reaction, especially at the end of Mystic Eyes. Even the old guy couldn't not get into it.

[@tom-kz9pb]

The group "Them" had the potential to be as big as the Rolling Stones. The raw, soulful vocals of Van Morrison were complemented with excellent guitar work and organ.

[@dondamon4669]

Morrison was sooo inspired by Jagger you can tell. He got into the blues because of them as well and even grew his hair to be like Jagger

[@captainsoul1953]

They weren't allowed to play on their first album which really pissed them of.....they were more than capable as this recording shows

[@GabrielGarcia-eu6vr]

They really captured that raw, primal sound

[@birgitbreitfeld5876]

Stimme wie aus dem ALL

[@francoisbellefeuille1393]

The organ player plays a big role in the success of this song without being at the forefront.

[@kevanbrown7620]

Same with T.B. Sheets. That is an awesome track

[@paulweiner3650]

Wow , very very good songs !!! I like it

[@Jigaboo123456]

I love it that the little kid about six years old at 3:15 is clapping away, totally "gone" with the music!

[@PAULLONDEN]

You mean at >3:07

[@crobarus]

No fake audience reactions back then.

[@alexandre210613]

On devrait pouvoir l’identifier... qu’il se fasse connaître ! 👍👋

[@danthefan5378]

Yeah Jay, that kid is in the Beat Zone!

[@jeromekandziorskijr6314]

@@danthefan5378 God bless that kid at least he's not clapping to the crap rock of today.

[@coolmanjack1995]

What's that I see? A pre-Townshend windmill?

[@duzoczasuazzaduzo1168]

You have to check the video of High Numbers-Zoot Suit 1964 (the who before name change), you can see the move there

[@perryjacob8850]

Fantastic music.

[@williamleggett5924]

fantastic

[@necromaya]

Best scene? The old dude jamming away in the audience during Mystic Eyes.

[@gerryrobertson973]

Happy birthday V ! Keep it coming pal

[@KellyCorpening]

Everything I could ever want!

[@jaysilver6920]

I always thought i knew who sang GLORIA and it certainly wasn't THEM

[@1e0s]

Wow! Imagine meeting up after the show & being asked your name & saying "Gloria"😍🎶🎼🔊🥁🎹🎸🎙️ 💥💖

[@GrtSatan]

What an awesome track.

[@rainday6]

Van the Man was not yet 20 -- what a powerful voice.

[@macarchers]

Thanks for Them and Gloria

[@randypellegrin1412]

Would you believe them cops arrested the wrong guys

[@mukhumor]

The whole village is rocking. Love it!

[@PorschinBob]

Fantastique !

[@chuy8356]

Legendary band.

[@TheAgingstoner]

Two great songs, an effective band, and a great vocalist and songwriter, who, apparently, can only sing effectively with his eyes shut.

[@1blastman]

The Summer of 1965, a Connecticut boy in Sacramento swimming at the old Beverly Swim & Tennis Club and getting completely blown away by Them and other great bands. "Give me a minute, the stories I could tell..."

[@PAULLONDEN]

Wow... *Great* ...❗❗

[@Nockturnmortem]

I'd bet 100$ that the gentleman on 2:04 is a musician. just by the way he claps...

[@KaptainKopter]

Mystic Eyes stayed number one on my top 20 the whole summer it came out! Incredible

[@moonlightdust1984]

I got to see this lineup in this period ...really cool live...~

[@1e0s]

Wow That's impressive

[@cynic63]

Absolutely great!!!!

[@deadbrides]

Effectivement, Mystic eyes est terrrrrrible !

[@gerryrobertson973]

We are in heaven !

[@rayking1937]

Thank God for my Celtic cousins the Irish (I'm of Welsh ancestry). Love to meet with Van and have a Pint.

[@445Frogger]

So damn good then and now

[@tom8181]

I was 14 its still good

[@MJ-vh3rp]

Lol im 14 now and I love this song its soooo good and my mom actually hates older stuff,she says the music is older than her grandma😀

[@benmeltzer]

"Gloria" starts at 2:28 (after "Mystic Eyes" ends four seconds prior).

[@kpyng]

The Belfast Cowboy in his young and early days...

[@rebornbeaver1511]

Great bass line and windmill guitar

[@lillianthomas4395]

Had both their albums before they split, Them and Them Again,`64 and `65 I think. Great songs on both, Van Morrison was way ahead of his time.

[@rubichatalian3418]

I love that little 4 year old boy clapping in the audience.

[@StratBurst92]

Tight bass playing.

[@daviddenoia2468]

LOVE THE OLD LADY'S FACE AT 4:47!!!!!

[@hambani]

Even the "older" crowd groovin' !

[@carolweidig4689]

I want🥰 to see VAN Morrison recreate the Them version of MYSTIC EYES as he is today.

[@barthelemyferreri9043]

Them❤

[@trfesok]

That little kid would be about 60 now. Wonder if he had any memory of seeing the great Van Morrison and Them?

[@1e0s]

We are the same age & I would've been exactly the same. My Mom says I would sit & stop breathing when Jimi Hendrix & Procal Harum played on the radio I was so mesmerised 😍🎶🔊

[@perryjacob8850]

Spectacular!

[@champan60]

Enorme et RESPECT...................................

[@kalmanbeszteri6680]

Mit 15 jahre ........................!!!!!!! meine liebste music gruppe !!!! Und Heute ist LEGEND !!!!!

[@panatypical]

When French people like you that much, you know you're doing something right.

[@dorvito67]

That's music right there old & young 😁

[@misterklein3687]

definitely my music ooooohhhhh yeeeeaaaaaaaa

[@bluewave7120]

A powerhouse of a band!

[@93KHJBOSSRADIO]

Loved THEM----Think this was fall of 65

[@grahampenman9911]

all time greats

[@jimm6095]

In 1970's interview Jimmy Page(notorious Plagiarist) lied that he played on Them sessions-he did NOT! Only session musicians on Them recordings are Bobby Graham (Drums) and Arthur Greenslade (Piano+Organ), as you can hear(and see) yourself Them guitarists are excellent!

[@quirkwoods]

Sounds like Billy Harrison to me, maybe Jimmy Page just got mixed up.

[@jvs333]

Zeppelin plagiarized everything

[@jimm6095]

@@quirkwoods Page is likes to take false credit for everything-including Big Jim Sullivan's and Vick Flick's guitar solos!

[@playthatsoloboi3705]

never liked Zeppelin..

[@panzade]

@@quirkwoods I’m with you. Billy Harrison, totally underrated guitarist.

[@harryknackers7892]

Some pretty excellent mod fashions in this clip.

[@clairecrook1673]

The original garage band!!

[@georgepetty4096]

THEM--BILLY HARRISON, SNAP CRACKLE, PETER BARDENS AND VAN

[@TheQuicksilverdog]

Those were the days, excelent post!

[@juliancee2317]

Pure Grit!!!!! Great Post!!!!!

[@vicoilsteems9764]

Awesome shit

[@ameno02]

indemodable!!!!!que de soirér dingue avec les them!!!!

[@USCG.Brennan]

Them and the Yardbirds were WAYYYYY ahead of their time!!!

[@williamtilton1652]

them...a very important rock band...originator

[@beboploo]

VAN THE MAN

[@joketeuben6060]

Goede ouwe tijd Tony Teuben Rozenburg mijn eerste aankoop

[@fannypapillon]

Them mit Kravatte.Ein Dokument.Danke Cactus!!

[@jaylunar3561]

garage rock pioneers killin it

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

The guitarist Billy Harrison fixed our washing machine when I was a kid.

[@QueenFan12]

When was this? Surely it was WAY after the 1960s?

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

@@QueenFan12 way way after the 1960's. Mid 1980's. He had his own business. I guess he was an electrician. He also did contracting work in the building trade as a spark. He worked on and off with my Best friend's father who was a plumber. I met him one Christmas Eve briefly as they were heading out to the pub and me and Chris were going into his house. He's very tall...that's about all I remembered about him. This was in a town called Bangor which sits at the mouth of Belfast Lough about twelve miles from the city. That's where I grew up.

[@stephenbbudd]

God Head Genius..... Van the Man invents punk ! 1965.