WILKO JOHNSON & LEW LEWIS LIVE 1982

[@martinhowe1422]

Blessed I was there - set the benchmark for all subsequent R'n'B music.....

[@lesclark2193]

Saw this lineup at Liverpool Dingwalls. Blew my mind!

[@BrianRamseysg01]

Smile .. ing and avein it at the same time!!!

[@gomaguitar1921]

RIP Lew

[@kokobill3565]

Pub Rock Forever!

[@BackToTheBlues]

Excellent upload. The line-up is Wilko Johnson and Lew Lewis with Russell Strutter on bass and Topper Headon on drums. I saw them at The Marquee club in London, with Alan Platt depping for Topper. Alan was a great, driving drummer and had the kit bouncing up and down with the power of his playing. The club was hot, the band was loud and Wilko, Lew and the lads were on great form and gave us a shit-hot show!

[@Fuzzbuzznut]

+BackToTheBlues . The drummer was also Alan Platt on that date .

[@BackToTheBlues]

+patrice buzz It looks like Topper on the footage - he had cropped, dark hair whereas Alan had a lot of blondish hair which went all over the place as he drummed (check out various Wilko Johnson's Solid Senders vids)., Whoever it is, thank you for it, and I wish there was more of it!

[@Fuzzbuzznut]

+BackToTheBlues . We spent the afternoon with them backstage apart from Wilko and I know it was not Topper but a ginger/ blondish drummer . Great afternoon by the way , singing R'n'b stuff , drinking and else . Lew invited us to the restaurant saying we were his cousins but the promoteur knew us so it did not work . He also used one of my friend's Harmonica on one song after dipping it in a glass of wisky . One of the best gig I ever seen and great memories .

[@BackToTheBlues]

That sounds like Alan Platt for sure! Just doesn't look like him in the video. I was friends on the net with Steve Lewins who used to play bass with Wilko in the Solid Senders, and he spoke very fondly of Alan, he liked him a lot and would quote Alan's saying 'be of good cheer'. Have you seen someone's uploaded a vid of Lew Lewis Reformer playing live that they found in a garage? It's pretty good stuff!

[@Fuzzbuzznut]

It Was Buzz Barwell . I saw him too with Lew Lewis Performer .

[@patrickhiggins6726]

Looks like Buzz Barwell (RIP) on drums to me. I saw him the same year of 1982 in Dundalk (July 3rd) with Dr Feelgood.

[@Fogon59]

100% Buzz Barwell on the drums.

[@stuartmcx2983]

I loved Lew, back in the day.. Reformer were the most incendiary & powerful band, blasting thru the post punkness of London's last pub bastions. Wilko & Lew coincided for two nights at the Marquee. Lengendary wail.

[@raphaelrousso7124]

HouHou solid !!!

[@Maki.1028]

ウィルコともやってたのネ💕

[@BrianRamseysg01]

ACE I was too busy being a twat at the time wished I had been there never mind cant change the past if you could it wouldnt last....

[@Fuzzbuzznut]

I could be a twat too at the time as I missed seing them again in Paris later that year , evicted before the gig as i was drunk . Lew evn tried to let me go in saying i was with them but it did not work . Shame on me . hehe !!

[@BrianRamseysg01]

@@Fuzzbuzznut Bummer mate you went to Paris to see them then..