OK. Late 70s and Rush is playing the Syracuse War Memorial in support of the album Hemispheres. Me and my buddy Joe Dwyer have front row seats and some band called Horslips is the opening act. They blew me away...this song REALLY blew me away. Went out and bought the album the next day. Horslips rules!
Just like Status Quo, another of these great bands of the 1970's we never heard of in America and I discover forty-plus years later, listening to "oldies" shows on BBC.
Horslips and The Stranglers were two of the most amazing bands when I was growing up. I am so proud that we could produce the calibre of Horslips. Outstanding quality.👍
Horslips are so feckin amazing! Along with Aslan they are part of that 'why didn't they conquer the World?......because they deserved to ' band category.
In 1980 myself & a mate jimmy gallagher thumed a lift from strabane to belfast (we walked most of the way)to watch horslips record the belfast gigs (live) what a nite.and after the gig we walked back to strabane.(90miles)thought nothing of it.was worth every step to be part of it.
John Mc Callion thumbing Strabane - Ballybofey around halloween 79/80 my mate was hit on his thumbing arm by a passing car. who then pulled up and gave us a lift for 5 miles or so but we made it - all classic gigs.
I was there, I'm in the pic on the album cover !!! had met Johnny Fean a few months before in Belfast for a private live session that was screened called Green Rock, he let me play that sunburst Les Paul and let me in for the soundcheck in the Whitla Hall before the gig started .. amazing memories.. both nights .. Johnny was starting to develop a very bad 'habit' .. unfortunately things didn't last long after that, decent fella, inspired me a lot, him and Gary Moore, I can never find any footage of that short lived program Green Rock, I swear they never sounded better ..
Grew Up With Horslips in The 1970s! Went To See Them in The Butt Hall Ballybofey With Its Famous Bouncing Floor! Fab Days! RIP Johnny Fean, So Sad! Always will remember The Pint I Had With You in that Seven Oaks Pub in London 1987!
I never knew they had a music video for this! I broke this album at my college radio station back in 1979/1980. Always came out of the news during morning drive time at the top of at least one hour out of four.
I still have the vinyl album, bought in '78, it just knocked me out. This song, and "Loneliness", "Green Star Liner" and the ballad "I'll Be Waiting" - all fantastic I was living in Seattle, and amazingly, about a month after I bought the album, I read that they were playing in a small club, a tavern called The (Fabulous) Rainbow Tavern. But no one had heard of them, no radio play. Just a handful of us, I stayed for both shows. A timeless album.
I first heard this on (believe it or not) a.m. radio when it was new in the '70's, and bought the L.P. One of my go-to songs still after 45+ years. Still so powerful, and an MTV look before MTV existed! So underrated.
In 2009 fulfilled a bucket list of mine when I saw the legendary HORSLIPs @ 3 Arena Dublin boyhood heroes of mine classic gig classic band "The man who built America" 😎👍 .......
As a child of the Celtic diaspora, I once believed the message of this song. I STILL believe the idea that lies at it's heart. But the bunch of thieves and murderers controlling Amerika today make me indignant and sick. Its time to reclaim the heart and soul of America.
Cotham Bowl, Redcar Feb 1979 - best concert I ever went to despite the silver 'pole dancing poles Barry Devlin. This video brings back so many fab memories. Happy 4th July everyone! x
Real music 80 t the best brings me back with my 3 brothers sadly 1 not with us seen horseslips live brill can't beat live music rest in peace my friend
THANK YOU for posting this. Takes me back - good days :) I'm sitting here smiling my face off. Great music. The music then was soooo good - here's proof.
Bought this single a million years ago, maybe it passed the whistle test. I might not have done if I'd seen their knock off Grey Numan stage set and shirts.
I've just discovered this band and I'm a full convert! It sucks beyond words they never seemed to catch-on in the States. Instead we got 20 years of U2; joy... I've been asking everyone I know if they've heard of them and all I get is funny looks.
I think it was Wednesday 22nd July 1998, kind of after 11 PM CEST +2 GMT, when I first heard this song. I was in Munich, Germany, working as an extern student. The 1998 Tour de France was underway, and Marco Patani won that day's stage of Luchon to Plateau de Beille. The next day was a rest day, and Belgian Tom Steels won the next leg. What an interesting time...
Loved this single in my midteens, had the "man" LP and played the crap out of it,Like alot of the other comments here i never understood why this band never made it bigger?. I guess commercial radio has been around longer than we think.but anyway this tune rocks!
TMWBA is from a 1978 album of the same name which dealt with the fortunes of Irish immigrants to the USA so the song is probably not about one individual. A similar theme had been explored in their previous LP 'Aliens'.
SpitNSpat: You can find this album on eMusic (legal download). All their stuff has been re-released, now they've fixed upsome legal issues with copyright and so on...
You wouldn't happen to have the promo for their song 'Loneliness', would you? I remember it was done at the same time as 'The Man Who Built America'- same set, same 'dodgy threads', and a very cool song.
Their Band name originated from the The four Horseman of the Apocalypse. That interesting that they connected Horse with lypse from Apocalypse. I noticed that just now hearing the pronounciation of both in my mind and cleverly noting that. Anyway can see that though. Their a great band.
40 years later, I'm still looking them up on RUclips. Love Horslips.
OK. Late 70s and Rush is playing the Syracuse War Memorial in support of the album Hemispheres. Me and my buddy Joe Dwyer have front row seats and some band called Horslips is the opening act. They blew me away...this song REALLY blew me away. Went out and bought the album the next day. Horslips rules!
Book of Invasion, one excellent album.....2023, I'm still playing it...on vinyl!
Such an underrated band. I was blown away by this album.
Just like Status Quo, another of these great bands of the 1970's we never heard of in America and I discover forty-plus years later, listening to "oldies" shows on BBC.
Bro you missed out. I jumped on the band wagon in junior high and it got sealed for me in 79 when this album came out. They were great.
Horslips and The Stranglers were two of the most amazing bands when I was growing up. I am so proud that we could produce the calibre of Horslips. Outstanding quality.👍
Jina,,,
A Joke!
One of their best songs, and that's saying a lot. Sensational.
Horslips are so feckin amazing! Along with Aslan they are part of that 'why didn't they conquer the World?......because they deserved to ' band category.
In 1980 myself & a mate jimmy gallagher thumed a lift from strabane to belfast (we walked most of the way)to watch horslips record the belfast gigs (live) what a nite.and after the gig we walked back to strabane.(90miles)thought nothing of it.was worth every step to be part of it.
John Mc Callion thumbing Strabane - Ballybofey around halloween 79/80 my mate was hit on his thumbing arm by a passing car. who then pulled up and gave us a lift for 5 miles or so but we made it - all classic gigs.
I was there, I'm in the pic on the album cover !!! had met Johnny Fean a few months before in Belfast for a private live session that was screened called Green Rock, he let me play that sunburst Les Paul and let me in for the soundcheck in the Whitla Hall before the gig started .. amazing memories.. both nights .. Johnny was starting to develop a very bad 'habit' .. unfortunately things didn't last long after that, decent fella, inspired me a lot, him and Gary Moore, I can never find any footage of that short lived program Green Rock, I swear they never sounded better ..
you are what good people are made of canada better than you
You shoulda stayed in belfeast😂
Brillant. I bought the album. Loved it and still have it. Remember that live performance electric!! Loved to have being there! What a memory John.
Grew Up With Horslips in The 1970s! Went To See Them in The Butt Hall Ballybofey With Its Famous Bouncing Floor! Fab Days! RIP Johnny Fean, So Sad! Always will remember The Pint I Had With You in that Seven Oaks Pub in London 1987!
i'm also from the States, and today is the first time i've heard, and heard of this band - great tunes!
The best Irish band bar none
The way they work the flute into the song is great. Good band...from an American of Irish descent.
I never knew they had a music video for this! I broke this album at my college radio station back in 1979/1980. Always came out of the news during morning drive time at the top of at least one hour out of four.
What a band! The power in their music is unreal. The diversity of musical instruments is amazing. So ahead of their time.
30+ years old and still sounds good.
Great song - I have this on 7 inch vinyl, picture sleeve and yellow vinyl - still in very good condition after 29 years!!
Saw them at the "Bottom Line" in NYC 35 yrs ago,they were outstanding,solid. Still listening to 'em 40 yrs later. Slainte'
I saw them there also!
Loved them in 1979. Still do
Its Ron Burgundy playing jazz flute!! Love this song love this band me dad used to always play them! Got me hooked.
Fantastically brilliant - love the threads, very 1980!
I still have the vinyl album, bought in '78, it just knocked me out. This song, and "Loneliness", "Green Star Liner" and the ballad "I'll Be Waiting" - all fantastic I was living in Seattle, and amazingly, about a month after I bought the album, I read that they were playing in a small club, a tavern called The (Fabulous) Rainbow Tavern. But no one had heard of them, no radio play. Just a handful of us, I stayed for both shows. A timeless album.
I first heard this on (believe it or not) a.m. radio when it was new in the '70's, and bought the L.P. One of my go-to songs still after 45+ years. Still so powerful, and an MTV look before MTV existed!
So underrated.
GREAT BAND AND GREAT SONG.
In 2009 fulfilled a bucket list of mine when I saw the legendary HORSLIPs @ 3 Arena Dublin boyhood heroes of mine classic gig classic band "The man who built America" 😎👍 .......
Accidentally Saw them at the Body Shop in Vancouver back in the 70s
hope you accidentally enjoyed them
I remember watching the music videos on HBO of all places, back in 1980. Great band. I still have the album this song was on.
That's it, before MTV, on HBO's "Video Jukebox" & even if the visuals didn't stick, the melody came back with the force of a jackhammer.
As a child of the Celtic diaspora, I once believed the message of this song. I STILL believe the idea that lies at it's heart. But the bunch of thieves and murderers controlling Amerika today make me indignant and sick. Its time to reclaim the heart and soul of America.
@@shoban Fuck off, twat.
Silly Wizard, The Pogues, and Clannad still give me hope for this world. Don't despair. Have faith-we must.
Saw them last night in the O2 Dublin - Sounding just as good as 30 years ago !
Absolutely brilliant - the song, the message, the arrangement, the musicianship, the harmonies - brings back great memories. Thanks.
Cotham Bowl, Redcar Feb 1979 - best concert I ever went to despite the silver 'pole dancing poles Barry Devlin. This video brings back so many fab memories. Happy 4th July everyone! x
Brilliant song still love it to this day, i swear it would be a hit today
Horslips wrote this in my honour - I worked on the buildings in Philly in 1970 - not a lot of people know this.
Me too!!
me also
A brilliant band, so talented.
Went to see them in the Sports Centre in Cavan. They were fantastic
Used to groove to this back when everybody was listening to AM radio. I was so cool. Still am.
Remember them live at Red Island in Skerries, wonderful band.
Real music 80 t the best brings me back with my 3 brothers sadly 1 not with us seen horseslips live brill can't beat live music rest in peace my friend
THANK YOU for posting this. Takes me back - good days :) I'm sitting here smiling my face off. Great music. The music then was soooo good - here's proof.
I love this track as much now as when I bought the album way back then after seeing them on the old gary whistle test!!!!
Bought this single a million years ago, maybe it passed the whistle test. I might not have done if I'd seen their knock off Grey Numan stage set and shirts.
@@ReverendHowl Nice 'Grey-for-Gary' substitution--but you didn't spell it right! You didn't spell it the American way (Gray)! 😁. 🇺🇲 = #1!
long time since i heard this one,lonleiness was on the same album,good stuff,thanx for posting
Superb...even after all these years
This is brilliant still have the tape my dad bought for it in the early 80's
One of the greatest live bands ever. I've seen the Who ,Zepp. Creedence etc. as good , usually better than all of them.
What an amazing group!!!!!!!!!!
Great band. Under appreciated.
Wonderful song written about my great Grandfather.
WNKU FM in Northenr Kentucky plays Irish music on Sundays and I am loving it.
I hope you'll all be happy to hear that Horslips have reuinted on a part-time basis - what a great (but under-appreciated and overlooked) band!!
These guys and the band The Motors from around this time were freakin incredible and extremely underrated
This band sold out everywhere in IRELAND in their day, I was too young to see them but remember the traffic jams!
Loved these guys back in my youth. Rocking like Blink 182 when they were in grammar school
RIP Johnny Fean - one of the great underrated guitarists.
Rip Johnny
IRELANDS FINEST..AND PAYED THEIR TAX
You say they pay her tax in Ireland. The other Irish bands not?
My favorite Irish band.
Mine too...👍
Saw them live last night in a wee hotel in Donegal . Savage gig . Though this song in particular was special.
Mc groarys culdaff? Was there myself .. brilliant night😀
I've just discovered this band and I'm a full convert! It sucks beyond words they never seemed to catch-on in the States. Instead we got 20 years of U2; joy... I've been asking everyone I know if they've heard of them and all I get is funny looks.
Heard this on WBCN (RIP) in Boston when it came out. Loved it then, haven't heard it in years. A forgotten classic.
fantastic song
I agree 900%! Anytime you can hear or see Horselips is a great day, especially today on St. Patty's day!
I think it was Wednesday 22nd July 1998, kind of after 11 PM CEST +2 GMT, when I first heard this song. I was in Munich, Germany, working as an extern student. The 1998 Tour de France was underway, and Marco Patani won that day's stage of Luchon to Plateau de Beille. The next day was a rest day, and Belgian Tom Steels won the next leg. What an interesting time...
Loved this single in my midteens, had the "man" LP and played the crap out of it,Like alot of the other comments here i never understood why this band never made it bigger?. I guess commercial radio has been around longer than we think.but anyway this tune rocks!
great, how good were these guys?!?!?
Great song... Loneliness is a good one.
TMWBA is from a 1978 album of the same name which dealt with the fortunes of Irish immigrants to the USA so the song is probably not about one individual. A similar theme had been explored in their previous LP 'Aliens'.
As a Musician in my 50's I'm ashamed that I only just discovered this amazing band. How did they NOT become Super Stars? WAY ahead of their time!
I remember buying this album for 5 cents in Peaches records bargain bin. Well worth it I'd say :)
Genius, pure genius!
SpitNSpat: You can find this album on eMusic (legal download). All their stuff has been re-released, now they've fixed upsome legal issues with copyright and so on...
I spin this tune every 4th of july without fail,love it
What a tune 👍
My second favourite band after thin lizzy
Moi bon grupo,Irlanda país de grandes musicos
great memories...
Quality Stuff..
Head East. OMG! Brings me back to the days when Cortland's own Dio was singin' lead for a band called Elf (sp?).
"Get me back to L.A., fifty nine!"
good stuff
they don't make em' like this anymore -- very nice tune
Muito bem!!!
Always Ireland's answer to Jethro Tull. Great band, great track.
IRELANDS BEST EVER BAND
Michael Lennon What about Thin Lizzy?
yip phil linnott top man
Michael Lennon I have heard more of Thin Lizzy but the more I listen to Horslips the more I agree with your original post.
Michael Lennon Have to give Planxty a shout too. So, PLANXTY!
wolf tones,davey arthur pal
god is good i'm from Chicago my family is from northern Ireland
Never mind....
Michael Ohare which is in Ireland so they're from Ireland then. Good.
You wouldn't happen to have the promo for their song 'Loneliness', would you? I remember it was done at the same time as 'The Man Who Built America'- same set, same 'dodgy threads', and a very cool song.
Met Barry in. San fran tour 82 w crime a punk band Barry later gave me ahorslips tee after show at the hotel in. Sf 😅
One of the greatest bands ever... Dunno, but the Book of Invasions is one of the best albums made. This is soo good too!
These guys are as great as Yes and never got the same recognition.
Thanks for the information man. That was really cool to give me the info. Just being a dude, in writing this immaturely. ha, ha. Thanks.
Headeast was a great band...have a few of thier lps myself.
Their Band name originated from the The four Horseman of the Apocalypse. That interesting that they connected Horse with lypse from Apocalypse. I noticed that just now hearing the pronounciation of both in my mind and cleverly noting that. Anyway can see that though. Their a great band.
Top Turn,Brought Up With This Stuff,And I'm English !
thank you!
Magic
I'll be waiting
IRELAND FOR THE IRISH-----IRELAND FOREVER
what is that whistle instrument
Happy Birthday USA!
You may have received an answer to this question. The song title was "I'll be waiting"
horslips are a flower, too.
pure pixie music that will be never a myth.
Which is cooler: Barry's Shamrock bass or Eamon's intense face???
sorry drink takin ,horslip r class..they kept us goin,,