Let's talk about the Sensational Alex Harvey!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zONBeYef0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAEhhHzil8w

^warning contains a little bit of festival nudity so NSFW

Alex shouting at a bunch of dozy Norwegian hippies, what could be finer?

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

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.

i love everything about this. he was just 34 here. crazy

He was 39!

so he was. arithmetic fail.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRGsuOXJwgI

what if bowie but good

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

Alice Cooper but from Scotland

Alice Coupar