Music ya can't dance to. Hah. I had both Tear Gas LPs. One is duff, the other, simply entitled Tear Gas, is sort of a Scottish version of Cactus. Davey Batchelor, who became Alex Harvey's producer or engineer or something, sang. Fear Gas is apt. Good album, way too hard rock without a distinguishing frontman. Some Zep moves, some Jeff Beck via Zal.
― Dick Destiny (Dick Destiny), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 02:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I heard it! What a man! Purest Glasgow!!
― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom D. (Dada), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
and this is just genius:
NEXT
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
SAHB Stories is late period and not one of their best, sad to say, apart from "Boston Tea Party."
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg9FcXmwnYo&mode=related&search=
This footage of "Vambo" is great.
― Herman G. Neuname, Thursday, 30 August 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm slowly digitizing my singles and I came across this which must have been one of the first ever singles I bought (in Boots for the improbable sum of 52p iirc).Tremendous (even with Steve Wright talking over it)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JvHroG3u5E
― Brandy Frotte and Reel De La St-Jean (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"Whosoever touches one hair on yon grey head, dies...... like a dog"
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
This may be my favourite Youtube clip ever: look at the masked string players - spooky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqx5j-FuqeI
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
man....he was really something.
― the turdlike genius of Jeff Tweete´ (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 25 August 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
So hard to pick just one or two songs to put on a mix. The Hammer Song, The Faith Healer, Give My Compliments To The Chef, or Tomorrow Belongs To Me? Any others?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 16 November 2009 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Alex has been nominated for in an STV 'greatest Scots' poll.
On the website "The panel debate the reasons behind why there have been no musicians nominated for the title of The Greatest Scot." (!)
― Soukesian, Monday, 16 November 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL. Sir Alex was pretty punk rock, so I don't imagine he would care about not being considered a musician.
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 10:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Great film of early SAHB complete w/ John Peel interviewing Alex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJR94zG4_M
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link
... continues ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zONBeYef0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEhhHzil8w
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 December 2023 11:39 (four months ago) link
^warning contains a little bit of festival nudity so NSFW
― MaresNest, Sunday, 17 December 2023 11:41 (four months ago) link
Alex shouting at a bunch of dozy Norwegian hippies, what could be finer?
― Free Ass Ange (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 December 2023 11:56 (four months ago) link
i love everything about this. he was just 34 here. crazy! it also seems crazy that it is 40+ years since he left us. i first heard and fell in love with his music that day as Tommy Vance did a tribute on The Friday Rock show and played Action Strasse and Midnight Moses both of which blew my mind.
talking of Midnight Moses the pre S.A.H.B. Alex Harvey version of that rools -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97my_nlkY_4
― stirmonster, Sunday, 17 December 2023 23:40 (four months ago) link
a sad follow up post, my friend Max Maxwell who fronted S.A.H.B. post Alex Harvey left us today. A true underground hero.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:33 (four months ago) link
i love everything about this. he was just 34 here. crazy
He was 39!
― Nine Inch Males (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:36 (four months ago) link
so he was. arithmetic fail.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 19:50 (four months ago) link
I got to see Alex once, the only time he came to Minneapolis. He warmed up for Aerosmith (just blowing up with Toys in the Attic) and Edgar Winter. The show started very late so Alex was reduced to three songs: "Faith Healer," "Framed" and "Anthem." (I suppose they figured since they had a bagpiper along... ) Venue turned the house lights on in the middle of the last song, which was disappointing/depressing.
He did spray paint VAMBO ROOL on what I remember was one of Aerosmith's speaker cabinets.
― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:54 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRGsuOXJwgI
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 27 December 2023 15:47 (four months ago) link
what if bowie but good
― mark s, Friday, 26 April 2024 11:52 (four days ago) link
alex currently claiming the last witch burned in the UK (isobel gowdie) is his actual-real distant ancestor: "this is true!"
anyway lodger notwithstanding bowie shd have written more songs abt pirates and 17th century witches, you know you agree
― mark s, Friday, 26 April 2024 12:41 (four days ago) link
Alice Cooper but from Scotland
― chr1sb3singer, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:25 (four days ago) link
Alice Coupar
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:27 (four days ago) link