I love MF, saw them three times live over the years in berlin, never did see before such a awesome live band, they are definately the best, since 30 years, such a positive vibration, power and tightness of the whole band, amazing! one of the concerts you go out and feel just happy and full of love, peace and freedom...thanx for posting!
Saw them at Trask coliseum in '78. Changed my life. BB's big red Slingerlands were what I dreamed about for months. Had the pleasure of playing a little with Mo years later. Spent time with his family and their approach to life was something that I was not yet evolved enough to understand. To this day I consider it one of my most cherished memories.
I used to go see them every time they played in Charlotte "back in the day", plus there's a club here now that they come to once in a while. They sound as good as ever !! Thanks for sharing this video !
Saw them and listened to them in 1989 in Germany, Paderborn (small town). They played together with the german musician HEINZ RUDOLF KUNZE on stage. First KUNZE with "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz". And then Mothers Finest came. we were about 10.000 people in this stadium. we were like in rock and roll heavon. Mothers Finest gave prove: they were the loudest rockband in the world by that time. 10 miles distance from stadium people werde shocked about the "noise". that was tv-news. we loved them!
Hey Pung-JH Rose class of '80. I saw these guys at the Attic AND at Minges when they opened up for the Brothers Johnson and blew those suckers off the stage. I hadn't thought about the attic in years. Thanx for reminding me.
I used to hear this band on Atlanta radio in the late 70s thru the early 80s. They frickin' rock, dude. I also got to hang out with them in the late 80s when they were putting an act together again for a comeback, and were gigging at a cheesy bar in Panama City in the off-season to get tight again. They had a different singer and guitarist, both excellent, but Wizard was there being his usual funky as hell bad self.
I grew up in Gville 70s and 80s lot of time at the Attic, Pantana Bobs, and many trips to Roadies,The Wildwood Jams, Nantucket, MH, MF, ect. I remember when the attic was the Bucaneer and burned down and then was rebuilt on 4th st. You guys are right this band was on fire back in the day!
I was quite young when I first heard this and I thought it was amazing. Synthesizers! Funk! And Hard Rock! Amazing! And those voices! It blew me away and it still does. Living Colour, Chili Peppers and the rest of you: get down on your knees and say "were not worthy" 'cos you all robbed this band. They were, and always will be the first real crossover band.
When I was in high school I saw Mother's Finest at the Circus Krone in Munich on this 1978 tour. The drummer in my band and I had great seats off to the right of the stage and we could see BB Queen's feet and pedals. What a clinic. They played for a long time and sounded as good as they do on LPs. I don't think MF got their due in the U.S. but I think they did alright in Europe. Having a brother who's into rock and me being into funk, MF was a band we could crank up and both enjoy.
Last I heard,BB was playing for Marshal Tucker. He had also played for Illusion and Molly Hatchet after he left MF. Great guy. They are all great peoples!!
Saw MF the 1st time back in Jan. 1980. I was 15. It was my 2nd concert I've been to. Gonna see My favorite group at the time Aerosmith. The opening act was a new group called 38 Special. They sounded pretty good. The next group was MF, never heard of them and they rocked The Mid South Colosium in Memphis Down!!! Awesome group. Terribly underrated .
I remember MF from The Other Place when I was in school at UGA in the mid 70's. A friend from West Georgia College tipped me off about them and he was right. They were among the Best Live Acts I've ever seen. Awesome live band. Ride the Tiger was one of my favorites from their live LP. Their first 3 albums were among my favorites.
I have that, too. I never listened to it [it's been listened to, just, not by me]. I admired that album cover for years, as a little boy, because it had "puppets" and looked one of those kids' animation tv shows. I didn't know or notice the thing about the pie till I was a teenager. LOL!
My favorite music usually takes me back to Sly & the Family Stone. That kind of music that required no label but was eventually known as Rock-Funk. Mother's Finest: one of the finest bands I've ever listened to. Tremendous live performers. They have a live album and this song is on it. The other great track is their cover of Grace Slick "Somebody to Love".
beirutbill ...I was at that Concert.....Foghat played there another time and had just come out with" Fool For The City"...They were there with the J Geils Band and Foghat was the opening act...people were PISSED about that. I saw the Allman Brothers,ZZ Top,Marshall Tucker,Aerosmith and others there at the Sam Houston....I was so wasted at most of the concerts it wasn't funny...but heck I was 16!
Mothers Finest may not have been of the level of Bob Dylan as far as their songwriting goes, but they were absolutely one of the best live band of their era. What is more is that they were THE premiere live act in Atlanta at a time when that city was changing in a radical way from a backwater, oft times Southern town to the amazing city that you see today. Most people don't realize how rapidily that change happened and the proces started not long before this band hit.
it was called "Another mother further", or something very close to it. I had it for a while, its black on cover with the words in purple like a superman logo..
I don't recall a MF album cover like you're descriging. There's a good history at w**.mothersfinest.**m This band was just amazing. You always hear about "underrated" or "the best band that didn't make it", etc. but MF really was superstar material. Their later incarnations in the 80's til now just aren't near the level of this lineup with Moses on guitar, Wizzard on bass and BB Queen on drums. They need to be in the Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame!!
"Run to YO MAMA'S HOUSE, you can't hide..."haha, yeah I got this song on their Razor & Tie compilation CD and it REALLY SMOKES (no pun intended), lol!!! Too bad the original album it's on is still out-of-print...
..remembering reading an interview with Journey management talking about Mothers Finest completely blowing Journey off the stage during a 70's European tour...
I seen MF blow Big Names Away as the warm up band! In 2009 there isn't a live band anywhere of this talent , music today is crap and these artist that make the big money can't even hold a candle to these guys! best live band EVER!
That Mother's Finest are a criminally unsung band is undeniable. Still, I don't get why Living Colour must be continually vilified for their success. They didn't "pull a fast one" on MF. Vernon Reid has always been careful to present his band as part of a continuum of black or integrated bands stretching back to the original generations. It's unfair to paint LC as thieves capitalizing on MF's work, particularly when they have many other distinct influences as well.
Also sounds like 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden, Curse Of The Pharoahs by Mercyful Fate, and Seek And Destroy from Raven. Check it out very simliar riff, just a few arrangements here and there but the same riff.
I saw MF in Detroit at The Masonic Temple they opened for Patti Smith, I think it was 1977. After MF went off stage everybody was cheering for an encore when someone with a mike said something like, more or louder. Well after that the crowd started booing, if they would have come back out they probably would have thrown drinks at them. Ah the good old days.
Oh, and I seem to recall that guitar player kinda looked like a darker-haired Rutger Hauer. All black clothes, black guitar, tended to sound more like John McLaughlin than Johnny Winter, if you get my drift -- not bluesy, but jazzy in a hard-edged, stacked fifths kinda way.
What's the bloke singing in the second verse? "You can run to the jungle, you can´t hide Run through the city ooh you can´t hide Run to your (???) you can´t hide..." Anybody got the lyrics? Thanks.
If the Wyzard was there it was no "different" singer! Band is for all intent the same -- John Hayes has been up there with Moses Mo for a good 12-14 years. Drummers come and go but Wyz/Joyce/Glenn/Mo are veterans -- and THE best!
is this the band that had that album cover with the pie that had a piece missing, and it looked like a vagina? this was 30 years ago or so. i wish i had it, and i'll bet it's a collectors item. if it's the album cover i'm thinking of.
I do. MF's problem was that right around the time when they truly hit their stride ('76-'81), the airwaves had already become segregated to the extent that they were either too "black" (R&B/Funk/Soul) for white radio or too "white" (Rock) for black radio. Plus it didn't help that the record labels they were on just didn't know how to properly market their unique sound to the public, often having them switch genres from album to album. Simply put, they had the RIGHT sound at the WRONG time, lol.
Which club did you own? Bet I made a house payment or 2 for you. My family owned Pantana Bobs and Happys pool hall well they owned the buildings. back in the day.
Um, the female singer who sang Joyce's parts was a new and different person [to me], not Joyce. Also, the guitarist was a different guy, with a different style. More jazzy and more like the Police, with lots of sus4 chords, add9 chords, few dominant 7th chords, lots of chorus and not much vibrato, and generally a hard, chromey steely sound from his Schechter Telecasters rather than a sinewy, funky, rubbery style. Wyz sang some tunes, but the focus seemed to be mainly on the woman singer.
I love MF, saw them three times live over the years in berlin, never did see before such a awesome live band, they are definately the best, since 30 years, such a positive vibration, power and tightness of the whole band, amazing! one of the concerts you go out and feel just happy and full of love, peace and freedom...thanx for posting!
Saw them at Trask coliseum in '78. Changed my life. BB's big red Slingerlands were what I dreamed about for months. Had the pleasure of playing a little with Mo years later. Spent time with his family and their approach to life was something that I was not yet evolved enough to understand. To this day I consider it one of my most cherished memories.
I love this band. I got the chance to meet them. And party too. What a night that was. They are fecking great.
I used to go see them every time they played in Charlotte "back in the day", plus there's a club here now that they come to once in a while. They sound as good as ever !! Thanks for sharing this video !
i saw this band in 79 & they blew me away!! I forgot how awesome & amazing they really were!! This kicks ass!!
Saw them and listened to them in 1989 in Germany, Paderborn (small town). They played together with the german musician HEINZ RUDOLF KUNZE on stage. First KUNZE with "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz". And then Mothers Finest came. we were about 10.000 people in this stadium. we were like in rock and roll heavon. Mothers Finest gave prove: they were the loudest rockband in the world by that time. 10 miles distance from stadium people werde shocked about the "noise". that was tv-news. we loved them!
Hey Pung-JH Rose class of '80. I saw these guys at the Attic AND at Minges when they opened up for the Brothers Johnson and blew those suckers off the stage. I hadn't thought about the attic in years. Thanx for reminding me.
I like funk-rock since I was 15...I cant believe I got to know Band like this now that I`m 24?? I have to get this DVD.
I've seen them twice over the last year. They're still as awesome as ever.
I used to hear this band on Atlanta radio in the late 70s thru the early 80s. They frickin' rock, dude. I also got to hang out with them in the late 80s when they were putting an act together again for a comeback, and were gigging at a cheesy bar in Panama City in the off-season to get tight again. They had a different singer and guitarist, both excellent, but Wizard was there being his usual funky as hell bad self.
I grew up in Gville 70s and 80s lot of time at the Attic, Pantana Bobs, and many trips to Roadies,The Wildwood Jams, Nantucket, MH, MF, ect. I remember when the attic was the Bucaneer and burned down and then was rebuilt on 4th st. You guys are right this band was on fire back in the day!
I was quite young when I first heard this and I thought it was amazing. Synthesizers! Funk! And Hard Rock! Amazing! And those voices! It blew me away and it still does. Living Colour, Chili Peppers and the rest of you: get down on your knees and say "were not worthy" 'cos you all robbed this band. They were, and always will be the first real crossover band.
When I was in high school I saw Mother's Finest at the Circus Krone in Munich on this 1978 tour. The drummer in my band and I had great seats off to the right of the stage and we could see BB Queen's feet and pedals. What a clinic. They played for a long time and sounded as good as they do on LPs. I don't think MF got their due in the U.S. but I think they did alright in Europe. Having a brother who's into rock and me being into funk, MF was a band we could crank up and both enjoy.
Last I heard,BB was playing for Marshal Tucker. He had also played for Illusion and Molly Hatchet after he left MF. Great guy. They are all great peoples!!
Saw MF the 1st time back in Jan. 1980. I was 15. It was my 2nd concert I've been to. Gonna see My favorite group at the time Aerosmith. The opening act was a new group called 38 Special. They sounded pretty good. The next group was MF, never heard of them and they rocked The Mid South Colosium in Memphis Down!!! Awesome group. Terribly underrated .
Grandioso, lo mejor. Si te gusta el rock, el soul, el funky y todos sus derivados, no puedes prescindir enn ninguna de sus formas de Mother Finest.
I remember MF from The Other Place when I was in school at UGA in the mid 70's. A friend from West Georgia College tipped me off about them and he was right. They were among the Best Live Acts I've ever seen. Awesome live band. Ride the Tiger was one of my favorites from their live LP. Their first 3 albums were among my favorites.
I have that, too. I never listened to it [it's been listened to, just, not by me]. I admired that album cover for years, as a little boy, because it had "puppets" and looked one of those kids' animation tv shows. I didn't know or notice the thing about the pie till I was a teenager. LOL!
Saw them in 1978 with Angel, Humble Pie and Frank Marino...They ROCKED!
My favorite music usually takes me back to Sly & the Family Stone. That kind of music that required no label but was eventually known as Rock-Funk. Mother's Finest: one of the finest bands I've ever listened to. Tremendous live performers. They have a live album and this song is on it. The other great track is their cover of Grace Slick "Somebody to Love".
beirutbill ...I was at that Concert.....Foghat played there another time and had just come out with" Fool For The City"...They were there with the J Geils Band and Foghat was the opening act...people were PISSED about that. I saw the Allman Brothers,ZZ Top,Marshall Tucker,Aerosmith and others there at the Sam Houston....I was so wasted at most of the concerts it wasn't funny...but heck I was 16!
Yes they did kick ass...
Nice funkadelic Funk i will always remember
i can see it great on my screen!
Mothers Finest may not have been of the level of Bob Dylan as far as their songwriting goes, but they were absolutely one of the best live band of their era. What is more is that they were THE premiere live act in Atlanta at a time when that city was changing in a radical way from a backwater, oft times Southern town to the amazing city that you see today. Most people don't realize how rapidily that change happened and the proces started not long before this band hit.
I just lucked out and have that album!
En los 70 Mother's Finest, era para mi, la banda mas genial y cojonuda de los Estados Unidos.
it remember me that song on the first captain beyond album...very similar riff...
Saw them at Bogart's in either 77 or 78 here in Cincinnati.
that just kicks sooooooo much ass! I can't even begin to say.
More More More!!
it was called "Another mother further", or something very close to it. I had it for a while, its black on cover with the words in purple like a superman logo..
I don't recall a MF album cover like you're descriging. There's a good history at w**.mothersfinest.**m
This band was just amazing. You always hear about "underrated" or "the best band that didn't make it", etc. but MF really was superstar material. Their later incarnations in the 80's til now just aren't near the level of this lineup with Moses on guitar, Wizzard on bass and BB Queen on drums. They need to be in the Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame!!
I loved them too. Today... check out the BellRays.
Ya just CANNOT sit still when you hear this song!
That album is out on CD already, but only as a high-priced import. Happy hunting!!
;-)
Beat live Band Ever. These guys made the Stones look like a garage band!
It just don't get no bettah than that! Still Love 'Em!
Awesome.
"Run to YO MAMA'S HOUSE, you can't hide..."haha, yeah I got this song on their Razor & Tie compilation CD and it REALLY SMOKES (no pun intended), lol!!! Too bad the original album it's on is still out-of-print...
..remembering reading an interview with Journey management talking about Mothers Finest completely blowing Journey off the stage during a 70's European tour...
It was a worldwide epidemic plague, every (good) band has had to do that. We too.
I am looking for the incredible song "big shot Romeo" - pls upload this legend song!
Thanks so much !!!
BB plays for Marshall Tucker now. He has been for about 10 years or so.
I seen MF blow Big Names Away as the warm up band! In 2009 there isn't a live band anywhere of this talent , music today is crap and these artist that make the big money can't even hold a candle to these guys! best live band EVER!
That Mother's Finest are a criminally unsung band is undeniable. Still, I don't get why Living Colour must be continually vilified for their success. They didn't "pull a fast one" on MF. Vernon Reid has always been careful to present his band as part of a continuum of black or integrated bands stretching back to the original generations. It's unfair to paint LC as thieves capitalizing on MF's work, particularly when they have many other distinct influences as well.
Hook it up and Listen to the most under rated rock band in History ! This is pure FUNK ROCK !
I agree, I'm from Eastern NC MF is the best live band ever! They would make big names look real bad! I never understood why MF didn't get mainstreamed
if that don't light ya fire...your woods wet!!
Also sounds like 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden, Curse Of The Pharoahs by Mercyful Fate, and Seek And Destroy from Raven. Check it out very simliar riff, just a few arrangements here and there but the same riff.
I saw MF in Detroit at The Masonic Temple they opened for Patti Smith, I think it was 1977. After MF went off stage everybody was cheering for an encore when someone with a mike said something like, more or louder. Well after that the crowd started booing, if they would have come back out they probably would have thrown drinks at them. Ah the good old days.
@WEBBS1LOVE Except for B.B. queen they're pretty much intact and still playing last I heard.
Oh, and I seem to recall that guitar player kinda looked like a darker-haired Rutger Hauer. All black clothes, black guitar, tended to sound more like John McLaughlin than Johnny Winter, if you get my drift -- not bluesy, but jazzy in a hard-edged, stacked fifths kinda way.
Das dat live shit!!!!!!!!!!
What's the bloke singing in the second verse?
"You can run to the jungle, you can´t hide
Run through the city ooh you can´t hide
Run to your (???) you can´t hide..."
Anybody got the lyrics?
Thanks.
If the Wyzard was there it was no "different" singer! Band is for all intent the same -- John Hayes has been up there with Moses Mo for a good 12-14 years. Drummers come and go but Wyz/Joyce/Glenn/Mo are veterans -- and THE best!
Tightest band on the planet MF rule
Oh and another two I forgot, Flash Rockin' Man by Accept and Swords And Tequila by RIot.
is this the band that had that album cover with the pie that had a piece missing, and it looked like a vagina? this was 30 years ago or so. i wish i had it, and i'll bet it's a collectors item. if it's the album cover i'm thinking of.
I do. MF's problem was that right around the time when they truly hit their stride ('76-'81), the airwaves had already become segregated to the extent that they were either too "black" (R&B/Funk/Soul) for white radio or too "white" (Rock) for black radio. Plus it didn't help that the record labels they were on just didn't know how to properly market their unique sound to the public, often having them switch genres from album to album. Simply put, they had the RIGHT sound at the WRONG time, lol.
Which club did you own? Bet I made a house payment or 2 for you. My family owned Pantana Bobs and Happys pool hall well they owned the buildings. back in the day.
i am looking for mothers finest first album with song niggazz cant sing rock n roll
can u help me
ohren orgasmus!
Um, the female singer who sang Joyce's parts was a new and different person [to me], not Joyce. Also, the guitarist was a different guy, with a different style. More jazzy and more like the Police, with lots of sus4 chords, add9 chords, few dominant 7th chords, lots of chorus and not much vibrato, and generally a hard, chromey steely sound from his Schechter Telecasters rather than a sinewy, funky, rubbery style. Wyz sang some tunes, but the focus seemed to be mainly on the woman singer.
can you lighten up the color than repost.. this is just too dark.. almost worthless to watch