My dad passed away when i was 8 and he left me with this bands music in my heart. Darklands, psychocandy. Guys, you're "cool" hahaha. I loved your music for decades. Potentially my favourite band. Thankyou! I'm turning 30 this year. Perth, Western Australia.
I think it is wonderful to see Chines people enjoying this kind of unique kind of music . JAMChain are unique in music business . I follow them since the first album
Thank you Mary Chain for all of the amazing music over the years. You have helped me through a lot of really crappy times and I’ll always be thankful for that
It can be seen that it is a small theater, maybe 1000 or 2000 people, for Jamc it must have been like going back to the 80s, a really select group enjoying this in the most populated country in the world is wonderful, what a privilege for both!
Psychocandy ripped my head off as a 15 year old, i am nearly 50 and all these years later i still get the same buzz and thrill i had the first time i heard it. The most important album that's been in my life and will always will be.
Killer quote: "Also, at the time, indie music became this unambitious little thing in the corner, that was just happy being small and almost insignificant"
Rock and roll may be dying, but thank heavens we've still got the Mary Chain. Loved this band since I was a pimply schoolboy when Psychocandy came out. They remain so real and unassuming, but secure now in the knowledge of who they are. My favourite band, ever and always. Damn fine acoustics in that concert too... great footage.
Chinese here and saw JAMC on that tour by the Hong Kong stop. The show was a beautiful ode to my highschool days, when I was feeling very much an outsider a lot of time. I used to hum 'Happy When It Rains" whenever it was raining outside in the classroom - a joy that I couldn't find anyone to share irl. JAMC brought me the fuzzy, dreamy warmth that I can still remember clearly - even to this day. Thank you JAMC, you are very important to many of us! :)
Saw them live in Hamburg and they gave the crowd a real blast. Its unbelievable. Their 'It's our music - like it or not'- attitude seems to work even better now they are gnarled 50+ dinosaurs.
This doc has been made with such a love for the band. I have watched it many many times and I can’t get enough of it. The interviewer did a terrific job and so did the editor. The opening shot is almost gold and so is the end. It all adds up. Thanks for capturing my heroes this way 🙏
Wow! I had no idea they had a following like that in China. That's freakin cool. Growing up when they were first making albums I had a hard time even knowing anybody, friends or not, that also liked JAMC. At least more than just a little, I didn't know anyone that was a big fan like me. I guess the whole Internet thing has made everything more accessible. I'm sure if the internet was up when I started listening to them, I would have found some other fans, or friends. And it's just so easy now to hear what's out there, instead of having to hunt through record stores for some new album, or an older one even, that you don't have.
The search was half the fun, though, it was a mission, and the finding gave gravitas to the pursuit. That's missing now and the instant gratification reduces the impact.
Believe it or not, a lot of British bands are quite popular in mainland China. Bands like Suede, Oasis, Coldplay, the Libertines etc. all have quite some followers. Back in high school I once went to a music festival in Beijing just to see Brett Anderson, the singer of Suede. I think in general bands from UK are much popular in China than they are in the United States. :)
@@DYang-gl2dd + Greetings from America. If the music moves you, makes you want to rip the stars from the sky ( to borrow from the lads) so be it, music has no borders... It reveals you have a Rock and Roll Heart Peace
I'm kind of not surprised that they have a big following in China. I live here (Shanghai) and love the place but music, in general, is very "safe" - to the point of being bland. I understand why, but it's one of the few aspects of life here that makes me feel like the Chinese people are missing out a bit. All this, bearing in mind that I don't go looking for more diverse stuff, this is just based on what I occasionally hear on the radio. So yes, much the same scene here that JAMC originally flourished in. There will be so many people to whom this music absolutely SPEAKS, and who are starving for something more than mass-produced pop. I'm happy for both JAMC and China that they have not only been introduced to each other but that JAMC came over to play. Nice little video (though some color grading I'm not such a fan of, but that's just personal taste). Thanks for posting here :)
I sure hope Xi won't start a war with America. Seeing JAMC in communist China gives me hope for mankind but authoritarians always cause pain in the world. Be safe and keep rocking!! :)
@@misteral1083 How do you know? As far as I see it, communist China has been at war with America for the last several years. It's just not yet a military conflict. It seems obvious that communist China wants to supplant America as the world's dominant power.
I remember when the band was going on this tour. It's impossible to imagine that this could happen today under the CCP and Xi. Glad our Chinese brothers and sisters had the opportunity to experience freedom for that moment. God bless JAMC!!! :)
That small story William told is true the original shin ei fuzz Japanese pedal was broken I think he got it for under £40. Took it home and had this terrible sound and that’s one of the pedals you hear on psychocandy. He had two Shin Ei but the fucked up one you hear is that screech
I visited Beijing a few years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Despite the ubiquitous presence of machine gun toting guards, the city seemed eerily peaceful if only for the fact the citizens tacitly understood to mind their own business, go about their daily errands and ignore the idiotic foreigners taking selfies in the area where cries for democracy were met with hails of bullets. So given how rigidly locked down China was in 92, I am baffled how anyone there could have heard of JAMC much less get a copy of their music back when they were only 16-17 years old. Just imagine finding Psychocandy in a black market in Shanghai back in the early 80s when the sale or possession of anything we take for granted in the West would have landed you in a gulag! This is a testament to the true raw artistry that will always be the core of JAMC transcending fads and fashion while enthralling music lovers of any generation, culture, ethnicity or nationality.
I get William, except for maybe a couple of bands, it's hard to get into and understand newer bands (i.e., something from the last 10 years even), so much of pop music isn't even close to rock n roll any more.
Can we expect the record this or next year, thank you I’m 21 bought a drum machine when I was 18 because of jamc, boring shit on the radio just like then.
Of going to school at Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode island friends told me Walter you need to hear Jesus having taken my more than my share of little square pieces of paper and oh cinnamon colored spices Megan took me to see them in Providence and completely blew me away changed my life actually three nights or four nights changed my life when I was 11 I went to studio 54 I'm not sure well it was psycho candy and some singles on creation that they put together some little tour and I was at the living room that I do remember just the distortion like pushing my face back and saying this is real rock and roll third experience was Jackie 60 in the meatpacking district and fourth would be seeing their one-time drummer Bobby form primal scream and seeing scream Angelica at the new Ritz in the around 50 in the 50th Street area of Manhattan though all those nights at Jackie 60 in the meatpacking district were in education in itself as well Anyway to all you beautiful people learn to grow younger and learn to extend that middle finger as menacingly as you can it's the only way to get even, ha-ha-ha
The best bands like the stones primal scream and Jesus and the Mary chain and vu it's echo and the bunny man you know it's music is my third favorite drug and I appreciate everyone who liked my comments it means a lot to me as it seems to mean a lot to you we're all in this together
My dad passed away when i was 8 and he left me with this bands music in my heart. Darklands, psychocandy. Guys, you're "cool" hahaha. I loved your music for decades. Potentially my favourite band. Thankyou! I'm turning 30 this year. Perth, Western Australia.
thank you stella, hester,diane, halo and everyone else who has taken the time to watch for your generally thoughtful and kind words.
I think it is wonderful to see Chines people enjoying this kind of unique kind of music .
JAMChain are unique in music business . I follow them since the first album
It's so unexpected in the best way possible. I'm happy they have fans all over the world.
Loved JAMC since mushrooms in secondary school in 84!!
Thank you Mary Chain for all of the amazing music over the years. You have helped me through a lot of really crappy times and I’ll always be thankful for that
It can be seen that it is a small theater, maybe 1000 or 2000 people, for Jamc it must have been like going back to the 80s, a really select group enjoying this in the most populated country in the world is wonderful, what a privilege for both!
Psychocandy ripped my head off as a 15 year old, i am nearly 50 and all these years later i still get the same buzz and thrill i had the first time i heard it. The most important album that's been in my life and will always will be.
Killer quote: "Also, at the time, indie music became this unambitious little thing in the corner, that was just happy being small and almost insignificant"
Rock and roll may be dying, but thank heavens we've still got the Mary Chain. Loved this band since I was a pimply schoolboy when Psychocandy came out. They remain so real and unassuming, but secure now in the knowledge of who they are. My favourite band, ever and always. Damn fine acoustics in that concert too... great footage.
Chinese here and saw JAMC on that tour by the Hong Kong stop. The show was a beautiful ode to my highschool days, when I was feeling very much an outsider a lot of time. I used to hum 'Happy When It Rains" whenever it was raining outside in the classroom - a joy that I couldn't find anyone to share irl. JAMC brought me the fuzzy, dreamy warmth that I can still remember clearly - even to this day. Thank you JAMC, you are very important to many of us! :)
So beautifully written and expressed by you. JAMC forever (from someone in New York City)...
@@robbrown4621 :) cheers!!!
@@StellasEncounter My pleasure... :)
Saw them live in Hamburg and they gave the crowd a real blast. Its unbelievable. Their 'It's our music - like it or not'- attitude seems to work even better now they are gnarled 50+ dinosaurs.
Happy to see this channel uploading again. Excited for the new album, keep it up 🤘
Same here!!
Dear Eloise the noise pop group they mentioned inspired by JAMC are great - give them a listen
This is spectacular. Loved watching it. Can't wait to see my favorite band live again. 💜
Man it's so cool JAMC are accepted in Shanghai!
Big fan from Brazil since 80´s.
This doc has been made with such a love for the band. I have watched it many many times and I can’t get enough of it. The interviewer did a terrific job and so did the editor. The opening shot is almost gold and so is the end. It all adds up. Thanks for capturing my heroes this way 🙏
Muchas gracias! Cheers from San Diego! Love your song Cut Dead so much. Your music put to skateboarding is pure magic.
Dude at the end walking off seems agitated when his band mate bumped the hell out of em.lol❤️JAMC 4 EVER!
Went to see them in 1985 in Edinburgh (Coasters in Tollcross I think) and saw them on this tour in Hong Kong. They've still got it.
Hi there, do you have any JAMC shirt from 1990’s era? If you have one please let me know! Thank you 🙏
@@halotayo4452 No, sorry mate, they've been lost over the last 30 years!!
@@scottishsimon67 Oh no worries man, thank you for replying 🙏
Wow! I had no idea they had a following like that in China. That's freakin cool. Growing up when they were first making albums I had a hard time even knowing anybody, friends or not, that also liked JAMC. At least more than just a little, I didn't know anyone that was a big fan like me. I guess the whole Internet thing has made everything more accessible. I'm sure if the internet was up when I started listening to them, I would have found some other fans, or friends. And it's just so easy now to hear what's out there, instead of having to hunt through record stores for some new album, or an older one even, that you don't have.
The search was half the fun, though, it was a mission, and the finding gave gravitas to the pursuit. That's missing now and the instant gratification reduces the impact.
Believe it or not, a lot of British bands are quite popular in mainland China. Bands like Suede, Oasis, Coldplay, the Libertines etc. all have quite some followers. Back in high school I once went to a music festival in Beijing just to see Brett Anderson, the singer of Suede. I think in general bands from UK are much popular in China than they are in the United States. :)
❤
@@DYang-gl2dd +
Greetings from America. If the music moves you, makes you want to rip the stars from the sky ( to borrow from the lads) so be it, music has no borders...
It reveals you have a Rock and Roll
Heart
Peace
these guys changed things in their own way. still listen to jamc . this is a nicely put together little film.
Thanks for posting, this was really wonderful and heartfelt.
hope JMAC come to SHANGHAI again!!!!I really love u
"Just have a vision, & follow up!"
I'm kind of not surprised that they have a big following in China. I live here (Shanghai) and love the place but music, in general, is very "safe" - to the point of being bland. I understand why, but it's one of the few aspects of life here that makes me feel like the Chinese people are missing out a bit. All this, bearing in mind that I don't go looking for more diverse stuff, this is just based on what I occasionally hear on the radio.
So yes, much the same scene here that JAMC originally flourished in. There will be so many people to whom this music absolutely SPEAKS, and who are starving for something more than mass-produced pop. I'm happy for both JAMC and China that they have not only been introduced to each other but that JAMC came over to play.
Nice little video (though some color grading I'm not such a fan of, but that's just personal taste). Thanks for posting here :)
I sure hope Xi won't start a war with America. Seeing JAMC in communist China gives me hope for mankind but authoritarians always cause pain in the world. Be safe and keep rocking!! :)
@@robbrown4621 I also hope there is no war, but it wouldn't be China which started it....
@@misteral1083 How do you know? As far as I see it, communist China has been at war with America for the last several years. It's just not yet a military conflict. It seems obvious that communist China wants to supplant America as the world's dominant power.
I remember when the band was going on this tour. It's impossible to imagine that this could happen today under the CCP and Xi. Glad our Chinese brothers and sisters had the opportunity to experience freedom for that moment. God bless JAMC!!! :)
Awesome!
Greatest band ever. Come back to Melbourne!
Old and gray, yes, but still cool as fuck.
I love you guys
Always dug JAMC, but definitely only clicked thanks to the thumbnail featuring Yang Haisong of P.K. 14
Proof enough that regardless of politics, religion, race, geography - great music is universal, and that people are people.
this was seriously awesome
For me it was honeys dead nothing will ever touch that album for me at least
That small story William told is true the original shin ei fuzz Japanese pedal was broken I think he got it for under £40. Took it home and had this terrible sound and that’s one of the pedals you hear on psychocandy. He had two Shin Ei but the fucked up one you hear is that screech
im from China and i have to say JAMC has thousands of fans here
They are amazing.
From Sidmouth to Shanghai...
still cool, thank you.
Spectacular 🖤
实在想不明白，现在都2021年了，谁还会去听英国音乐。如果这是90年代还情有可原，可儿问题这都什么时候了。苏联、法国、巴西，嫩么多好音乐不听，却听这个。真是个闭塞的国家。
I visited Beijing a few years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Despite the ubiquitous presence of machine gun toting guards, the city seemed eerily peaceful if only for the fact the citizens tacitly understood to mind their own business, go about their daily errands and ignore the idiotic foreigners taking selfies in the area where cries for democracy were met with hails of bullets. So given how rigidly locked down China was in 92, I am baffled how anyone there could have heard of JAMC much less get a copy of their music back when they were only 16-17 years old. Just imagine finding Psychocandy in a black market in Shanghai back in the early 80s when the sale or possession of anything we take for granted in the West would have landed you in a gulag! This is a testament to the true raw artistry that will always be the core of JAMC transcending fads and fashion while enthralling music lovers of any generation, culture, ethnicity or nationality.
So well written... Thank you.
Happy When It Rains
💓💓💓
I get William, except for maybe a couple of bands, it's hard to get into and understand newer bands (i.e., something from the last 10 years even), so much of pop music isn't even close to rock n roll any more.
JAMC and Carter. Nobody else matters.
HARDEST WALK
That is a great vid.
How cool is this?
Which multi-effects unit is William Reid using at the beginning?
Can we expect the record this or next year, thank you I’m 21 bought a drum machine when I was 18 because of jamc, boring shit on the radio just like then.
rock'n'roll = freedom
JAMC
I wanna hear coast to coast live please
FAB!!!!
Rocknroll
So interesting to hear a lot Beijing accents and dialects while the live performed in Shanghai LoL
Muito bom.... 🤘
Sounding red hot
Of going to school at Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode island friends told me Walter you need to hear Jesus having taken my more than my share of little square pieces of paper and oh cinnamon colored spices Megan took me to see them in Providence and completely blew me away changed my life actually three nights or four nights changed my life when I was 11 I went to studio 54 I'm not sure well it was psycho candy and some singles on creation that they put together some little tour and I was at the living room that I do remember just the distortion like pushing my face back and saying this is real rock and roll third experience was Jackie 60 in the meatpacking district and fourth would be seeing their one-time drummer Bobby form primal scream and seeing scream Angelica at the new Ritz in the around 50 in the 50th Street area of Manhattan though all those nights at Jackie 60 in the meatpacking district were in education in itself as well
Anyway to all you beautiful people learn to grow younger and learn to extend that middle finger as menacingly as you can it's the only way to get even, ha-ha-ha
TY to. My Shanghai Friend 🙈
The best bands like the stones primal scream and Jesus and the Mary chain and vu it's echo and the bunny man you know it's music is my third favorite drug and I appreciate everyone who liked my comments it means a lot to me as it seems to mean a lot to you we're all in this together
🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
M E G A
Anyone that have JAMC tshirt from 1990’s pls let me know! Thanks 🙏
jesus
This is genius.