The UK Connection-Blackfoot: Favorite & Least Favorite Albums
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Join Pete Pardo, Simon Bray, and Steven Reid for a discussion of their favorite & least favorite albums by Blackfoot. #blackfoot
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You three crack me up every other Saturday. Thx guys. Always a great watch. 👍💯
Best comedy trio talking about music in RUclips?
Absolutely Pete or you three are the modern day three Stooges lol. Entertaining
@@sotdude7 Totally agree. They crack me up every time.
Very excited for this episode! Blackfoot is my 2nd favorite band (after Thin Lizzy) so can't wait! Favorites: Marauder, Strikes, least favorite: Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot & Southern Native (almost can't call this a real backfoot album). Wild card: Siogo
I love Siogo ... somehow what usually didn't work did infact jell for them... Vertical Smiles though lol nope.
They headlined that tour, support was Samson, saw them at the Edinburgh Playhouse, Saturday April 10th 1982 ,absolutely brilliant gig.
The bass player (Wizzard - Jerry Seay) and drumer (Harold Seay) were both from Mother's Finest - so you are wrong about the 'nobody ever heard of them' part :)
That's why I corrected Pete during the show. ;-)
Very cool show thank you! I have not heard Blackfoot but now I know where to start! (Editors note: listening to the Live Highway Song from 1982 - great fun and killer southern rock thank you gents! What a fantastic high energy southern rock extravaganza with sweet sweet playing and singing! I’m amazed I did not know about them as they could have been an opening act at many shows I saw. I did recognize the Johnny Lee Hooker cover Rollin’ and Tumblin’ though. Johnny ‘retired’ to Redwood City CA next to where I grew up. His go to Sunday breakfast place was on the Main Street called El Camino Real named ‘Stacks’ and was a great pancake house and omlet place. Johnny could often be seen there in the 80’s on Sunday morning/lunch with his small entourage and was super friendly and approachable - he would shake your hand with both his hands and say ‘I’m the Boogie Man!’- chills and what a sweetheart!)
Great story about JLH! (He was one of many who covered and / or adapted the song, which was originally written / performed in 1929).
Indeed he was Pablo thank you so much for sharing!
Absolutely brilliant show as always, chaps, so funny. I hadn't heard of Blackfoot before so am off to listen to Marauder.
Bad beer, Steven gets Whatever'ed and Lord Have Mercy'd and Simon absolutely cracks me up several times but the best may have been that he had been looking at Steven and observed that he did have ears thereby implying was he using them. Great, great episode. Pete's three in a row near the end are my current favorites and some of the later releases fall down near the bottom. But in any event, thanks, gents, for such a highly enjoyable episode. Cheers!
Blackfoot were on the ‘85 knebworth bill along with Deep Purple, Scorpions and UFO
I was there,there were that many bands playing that day I'd forgotten Blackfoot were there tbh
I'd have to pick "Strikes" as # 1 for Train,Train & Highway Song alone.
1982 uk tour they were headliners. Saw them in Birmingham with Samson as support. They subsequently released a 7inch single of Highway Song from each venue I believe, I certainly have a copy of the Birmingham release. Keep up the cracking work. Regards
There's a reason beer is also referred to as liquid bread. Great segment, guys!
Yes I saw Blackfoot supporting Scorpions in 1980 at Newcastle City Hall. Went down very well with the crowd and got me into them big time.
I haven't heard any of their newer stuff, so...
Favorites:
1. No Reservations
2. Blackfoot Strikes
Least:
Siogo & Vertical Smiles
Wild Card:
Highway Song Live
Never heard a second of Blackfoot's music but I still enjoyed the show. Thanks lads.
Looking forward to the next episode. Night Of The Demon is fantastic.
Controversial comment alert!
Something I really love about The UK Connection is that you always point me in the direction of something I’ve either never listened to by a particular artist or a band I’ve never even heard of at all! This was certainly the case with the Rick Medlocke Blackfoot album which I’ve just streamed whilst on hoovering duties this morning! I agree with you Steven - going in with my eyes open as to what this album is in terms of style I have to say I absolutely love it! Undiscovered and under appreciated classic Pete!!
Cheers Alan. Good to know I'm not alone... even if there is only two of us! lol!!
Favourites:
Vertical Smiles (excellent commercial rock, at least to my ears. Love the Morning Dew cover! 🙂)
Siogo (see above)
Least favourites:
Strikes (this is the album where the covers feel uninspired)
No Reservations (I like this one just a little less than all the others)
Wild Card:
Southern Native (should it count as a Blackfoot album? Possibly not, but it's an enjoyable set of tunes)
Finally some love for Vertical Smiles, I don't remember it being pissed on this much back when. 😏It's a decent enough AOR album just not a typical Blackfoot album its target audience was different, is it great probably not, but not as bad as some would have us think either just quite the change musically from even Siogo. I think it's a good cover version too of that damn song, not a great song to begin with but this may be the best version of it. It's funny though, speaking of covers, how they managed to make a softer version of the Cetera song than his own version. 🙃
@@reclaimerReclaimer Glad there's someone else out there that doesn't dislike it! It was my first Blackfoot album (sometime in the late Eighties) and I can remember thinking "Wow! This is just like 38 Special!".
I've got most of their catalogue now, and I enjoy most of it but Vertical Smiles is still the one I play the most.
You're right about the Peter Cetera cover! 😂
Saw them in Belfast in their heyday & they headlined. One of the best gigs I ever saw. Blew the power out twice & twice started from the 1st song again. Classic.
Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot: Good commercial/aorish and funky Hardrock. Love it!!!
Hi Pete and Simon and Steven great fun with you,I have not heard of this band, but just to let you know that there's a band in Germany that has the same name,😮
Shocking news!!
Enjoying the show with a rather nice Whitstable Bay, at 4% a "refreshingly light with lively citrus aromas" Pale Ale.
Favourite: Marauder, Strikes,
Least favourite: Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot, Vertical Smiles
Wildcard: Southern Native. It is a Blackfoot album? Don't really care! I think its worth a spin.
Really looking forward to next week's show - three favourites of mine!
Nice to hear a mention of Derby County 😎 up the Rams. Great show guys, looking forward to the next one already.
The live album tour they headlined.
I saw them at Reading, mid afternoon/early evening as I recall as it was still light. Probably a 30 minute set. They were immediately followed by Gary Moore who was touring corridors of power (with Charlie Huhn on lead vocals and posing). One of the songs Blackfoot played was Wishing Well. Which had been brilliantly covered by Gary Moore on Corridors. I remember thinking that, as good as Blackfoot's version was that I wouldn't get to hear Moore's version which I was hoping for. BUT Gary did play it - and it was great. I always wondered if he was happy about that or if words were said. Gary Moore and Ricky Medlocke facing off would have been something to see!
Favorite - Strikes (by a landslide). Least - Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot (buried under a landslide). And a few years removed from seeing their triumphant headline set (w/ an excellent Def Lep) at the Palladium NYC, I had the misfortune of seeing this lineup at the Ritz NYC. At that point, the blackfoot was due to gangrene.
"Cheers " Another great band" Another Great show"", Good Heath to ya", From Sunny Newcastle" Uk.
Pete saying “I’m Rick James bitch” may be one of my favorite recent SOT moments 😂👏🏻👏🏻 Also love Pete going off on the one album. Great show!!
Saw them 1982 at Edinburgh playhouse they were superb, one of the best gigs ever
Great show, guys! Thanks to Uncle Simon for mentioning the late great Neal Casal.
Blackfoot was pretty big in the Southwestern region of the U.S.A. through the mid 80's. Caught Blackfoot live in 1983 with Krokus and Twisted Sister as openers. Awesome performance.
Love the Meshuggah shirt Pete
Yeah!
Great live band! Very loud! Mostly popular in the northeast USA. So much in fact they lived in New Jersey for awhile. They also headlined at smaller venues in the Tri -state area. Seen them a bunch of times headlining the Capitol theatre in Passaic, N.J. and the Palladium in N.Y.C.
Ok lots to get into here as a great show, and loving the idea for the next show re NWOBHM- Demon are fantastic and clearly not classic NWOBHM material, but it's a great sounding format that should have legs for multiple episodes.
Blackfoot. Saw them with Scorpions, and hands down, over nearly 50 years of gig going (and before similar status or named bands would open up or joint headline etc) in the days when the support band was a genuine support or lesser known act, the night at the Glasgow Apollo is easily in the handful of best support band perormances, ever. I can still recall the furore they caused, they were that good. Medlocke singing up a storm, and yes that includes the cover of Wishing Well. Scorpions brought them back again, as well as Blackfoot headlining the Apollo (as Pete referenced), that's how great an impact they made!! And as Steven mentioned, some of the live album was recorded at the Apollo, which was near mandatory to making a great live album. Status Quo, homecoming gig for AC/DC, bits of Roxy Music, Rush for the Exit Stage Left album... you get the idea. It was the greatest venue in the country for a reason (apologies to anyone outside of Glasgow who would even try to entertain challenging this).
Fav 2- Marauder, and a cheat with Strikes & Tomcattin' joint 2nd. Hardier, heavier and tight tight unit.
Least fav- Vertical Smiles- even with a Zal the man cover (and I'm a huge admirer of what he added to SAHB and Nazareth) this album is just so far removed from what great Blackfoot should be. I was going to namecheck Rick Medlocke, but Steven has swayed me into not naming and shaming that for several logical, legitimate observations.
Wild Card- Siogo for the addition of Hensley and the change in direction, but more likely, and more worthy, Fyin High- due to Ricky writing more of the material along with Jakson and still being a more overtly southern album.
Look forward to all the guys here who still remember seeing the Animal Magnetism tour, virtually all unaware of Blackfoot, but to this day still recall the impression created. It was a different world in 80 to the one we take for granted now, with instant information available to us
The 1986 album is by far their worst album, Vertical Smiles (which I always loved) is a masterpiece compared to this 'disco' album from Medlocke.
Blackfoot are a band that I've never actually checked out, no reason for that, no idea why! I'm looking forward to the advice and education on where to start.
I'd start with the debut.
@@ericrobertson2024 Ok thanks for that, I'll do that and probably work my way through them chronologically after that.
@@RustyfaetheShire The albums through Siogo are all worthwhile, Flying High to me is just missing the hooks of the others, although Stranger On The Road is among their best songs....The albums after Siogo are just dull and strange.
Appreciate the help, thanks for that,I'll certainly keep that in mind
My favorite is Marauder but yes their all really good through Siogo
Steven, you got to admit that Pete came up with an admirable Scottish accent on 'Derby County'. 😅
1982 was a great year for Blackfoot. Seen them in the Glasgow Apollo supported by Samson. Seen them at Reading Festival 1982 as special guests on the Saturday night to Iron Maiden. {did Tush as an encore}
I saw Blackfoot support Scorpions on my 16th birthday, in 1980 at Bristol COLSTON Hall. They were epic!
They have a couple great live radio cuts from Denver from 1980? Worth a listen, used “I just want to talk to you” by Moby Grape as opener that was played almost as fast possible.
Love Blackfoot and always happy to see them getting credit.
One of my favourite bands ,I'm sure you're thinking will be similar to mine, let's see!
Saw them support and Headline at Glasgow Apollo. Incredible luve band
Excellent band. I first saw them supporting The Scorpions on the second leg of the Animal Magnetism tour in October 1980 - The night of Matthias Jabs' birthday, (Tygers Of Pan Tang supported on the first leg in May 1980). I saw them headline the Marauder Tour at Birmingham Odeon (various dates of this tour were recorded for the HIghway Song Live album) and somehow (I cannot for the life of me remember how) I managed to get a backstage pass and after the show, I and a few others sat drinking beer and chatting with all 4 of the guys. Rickie Medlocke is a legend. A great storyteller and a very funny guy.
Thanks gentlemen for another funny episode of the uk-connection. I'm not familiar with blackfoot but I'll give them a listen. Cheers! 🍻
Wyzard is the most underrated bass player in rock history, Mothers Finest finest...
Great show!
i just ordered a UK Connection t shirt…props guys
Thanks Sam!
Good show SOT ❤
Blackfoot are my favorite southern rock band. First BF album I heard was Tomcattin. This is my favorite. Marauder and Siogo are just amazing. I don't mind Vertical Smiles.
Being an oldie I saw them here in the UK supporting Rainbow and they blew them away big time.Apparently Richie was not amused....
Great show. Love Blackfoot. My 2 favourites are Tomcattin and Marauder. Least 2 favourites are their 1st 2 albums. Wild Card is Highway Song Live.
Top show- love Blackfoot - gutted I only got to see them once!!
Poor start with the beverages 😅 Really enjoy Blackfoot. Got intrigued with them when I discovered them, when at school in the early 80's, and I reckon it was due to their album covers. 'Tomcattin' (first LP of theirs I bought) , 'Strike' (my favourite) and 'Marauder' (2nd favourite). Flying High is excellent. Never got to see them, annoyingly. Still listen to them from time to time and a few of their songs on my playlists, so the kidults have heard them too.
54:43 I don't know why but Simon letting rip is just hilarious 😅
Saw Blackfoot support Scorpions, they were excellent, then they came back as headliners with Samson fairly shortly after April 82,in the UK. so they could have done a double live.
Steven trailed being wrong on twitter didn’t expect that wrong.So the correct answers.
Favourites Tomcattin’ , Marauder
Least Favourites Vertical smiles Rick Medlocke and Blackfoot
Wildcard SIOGO
So many one LP live albums back in the day, it was unfortunate but not unusual often bands managed to cramp all their best stuff in.
Saw blackfoot on the monsters of rock tour 1981with ac/dc, whitesnake, blue oyster cult and slade they were awesome great days 🤘
I was at the same Edinburgh gig as someone below and fantastic it was too. Based on that, a double live could surely, surely (!) have been put together.
"If the signs say liquor in the front baby
And poker in the rear
All you find is trouble
It's best that you get out of here!"
I'm glad Jakson Spires was brought up a few times. He's a very underappreciated great drummer. My favorites are Marauder and Tomcattin'. Every Man Should Know (Queenie) is my favorite song from them. My least favorites are Vertical Smiles and Rick Medlocke's Blackfoot and my wild card is the live album. I bought the LP of that when it came out from the import section at Tower Records, lent it to a girlfriend, never got it back. Darn high school girlfriends! 😁
On Belhaven Black tonight Stephen.
A classic for sure!
Played on the bill at Knebworth when Deep Purple headlined in 1985
Was lucky enough to see them at the height of their powers. Fantastic live band.
Siogo is my favorite Blackfoot album...The same mid 80s gloss/synths that I liked from ZZ Top,April Wine,Heart but it didn't work for Hatchet, Nugent,Priest,most lol
Turns out "Strikes" was certified gold in 1980 and platinum in 1986, as per the RIAA website. Nothing else has ever certified, at least in the US.
Another great UK Connection. I forget this weeks UK C was Blackfoot so randomly listened to some. The first 2 I heard were Strikes and No Reservations which I liked. There were a few songs (e.g. Take a Train) where if you added distortion were Metallica. Marauder for me was patchy and Vertical Smiles .....No.
Blackfoot are Ricky's baby, probably why he wants to keep the brand alive. Saw them on video during a 'Sounds" magazine special in Glasgow in the late 70's and loved them ever since. Keep up with the comments and we love Southern rock....forever! Don't mess with ma Queenie...or I'll mess with your nose! ;--))
Top two albums for me are Siogo and Marauder. Least favourite are Vertical Smiles and R.M and Blackfoot.
Not sure on the date but saw them in support of the Scorpions on “Animal Magnetism “ tour. They went down a storm 👍🏻👍🏻
Their best album is Highway song Live...
Agreed, love it their studio albums never sounded that great but live they kicked massive butt.
@@LarryFleetwood8675That's right😄👍🤘
April 5 1982, Birmingham Odeon, they were headliners with Samson as support. A superb concert. I still have the tour shirt, programme and ticket stub. I rather like Living In the Limelight.
New live '79 CD ''Live in America''
1. I Can't Be So Bad (I Want to Talk to You) (5:02)
2. Pay My Dues (3:58)
3. I Got a Line on You (5:12)
4. Wishing Well (3:45)
5. Left Turn on a Red Light (4:55)
6. Baby Blue (2:29)
7. Road Fever (5:39)
8. Trouble in Mind (10:34)
9. Train, Train (7:27)
10. Highway Song (10:18)
Maybe a follow up review of this one???
I would venture to suggest that Marauder is one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Listen to Ricki"s vocals on Dry County,- hellfire and brimstone all the way.
I saw Blackfoot @ Reading 1982, superb! Also supporting Scorpions @ Hammersmith 81? Also excellent. As a side note referencing the Steven Reid corrected Mothers Finest, saw them in London supporting Badlands! Great gig, MF we’re awesome!
I know it must be controversial but I have only tuned in for the intro beer reviews and to see which bizarre flavour combo Pete picks to which I will shake my head, Yep he did it again. Beer = Hops ,Malt and fermentation. Not F7cking Peppermint, mangoes, Chocolate .ect. Not bothered about Blackfoot but shall carry on.
What a live band tho! Just in your face around the time of the live album. No effects, tricks, showboating. Les Paul's and Marshalls, thumping drums. Around this time Lizzy, UFO, Scorpions were defining hard rock. Blackfoot in there as well.
The live album was recorded on their 1982 headline British tour in support of the Marauder album.
They also supported the Scorpions in 1980, then played Monsters of Rock in 1981, Reading Festival 1982 and then played on Deep Purple’s Knebworth show in 1985.
I saw ‘em at all of the above 🤘🤘🤘
In Belgium I saw them supporting Scorpions in April 1982. Saw them again at Reading festival in August the same year
Donington 1981. Blackfoot were one of the highlights of the day.
I love Blackfoot! thought this would be easy lol! I do not own Southern Native I don't like it and I don't consider it a Blackfoot album.
Favorites:
1. Marauder
2. Strikes
Least Favorites:
1.Vertical Smiles
2. Rick Medlocke and Blackfoot
Wild Card: Medicine Man
Blackfoot forever..when vertical came there was some disapoint..after siogo.. but morning dew and some other songs..✌️👍
Thanks boys.
Marauder is 11/10
I picked the same as Pete. I have to say Marauder is a perfect record.
Mother's Finest was a fun band back in the day. I'd play Mickey 's Monkey anytime.
I think it's a crying shame that Rickey Medlocke wasn't utilized as a vocalist enough in Lynyrd Skynyrd (lead vocals, backing vocals, or even more duets with Johnny Van Zant)!
My favorites are their first 5 albums are really good
No Reservations
Flyin’ High
Strikes
Tomcattin
Marauder
Mid (ok not solid but not terrible)
Siogo
Least Favorite
Vertical Smiles
Blackfoot were amazing at MOR 1981.
Siogo for the win
The best southern rock band when they do it right. Hands down. Marauder, Strikes and Tomcattin are gold in my collection. I also need to get Siogo. Not sure if I need more. Tell me. The stuff before Strikes sounds ok, but not sure if I need them in my collection. Tears of joy watching this episode
I'd say those first two are well worth having.
No reservations and flying high is fantastic! You even get the Free Bird rendition by Blackfoot on no reservations (I stand Alone)
Flyin' high gets a thumbs up from me but No Reservations I just can't connect with.
I actually like the Rick Medlocke as well. It is much better than Vertical Smiles lol.
No way. lol
Absolutely!
I'm sitting here, scratching my head, wondering "Would Pete like Mother's Finest?" and I'm just not sure...
if you don't like mother's finest then...
Saw them supporting the Scorpions in 1980, Monsters Of Rock '81 but in 1982 they were headlining their own tour promoting Marauder.
For me:
Favorite: Strikes and Siogo (R.I.P. Ken Hensley)
Least favorite: Rickey Medlocke & Blackfoot
Wildcard: Flyin' High and After the Reign
I don't think I know any Blackfoot besides Train, Train which I just listened to and sounds familiar, especially the beginning. Considering I've lived in Florida my whole life it's kind of surprising because believe me we got hit over the head with Southern Rock on the radio. Also just listened to Highway Song and I don't ever remember hearing it. It was good though.
My favorite thing about this episode was the snickering about Pete saying Derby like we say it here. I didn't blink, but then I knew way what was coming being an English football fan when the snickering came (up the fucking Villa!). It's still weird hearing it pronounced Darby, but I go with it in a football context. So when you guys say Kentucky Derby do you still pronounce it Darby? 🐴😂
Their first two are okay. The next three and classic. Siogo is pretty good. I gave up after that.
FAVORITES
1. Strikes
2. Flying High
LEAST FAVORITES
1. Medicine Man
2. Rick Medlocke & Blackfoot
WILD CARD
No Reservations
Typical that the only Southern rock sounding song on the Rick Medlocke album "Saturday night" is a cover from the totally non-Southern rock Dutch act Herman Brood and his wild romance 😁
how is that typical?
Strikes platinum in 1986 in USA
Surprised no-one went for Tomcattin', but it was the first I bought so maybe that's why I like it so much. And I love Strikes... yes it's got a lot of covers but maybe their own songwriting wasn't strong enough at that stage. I loved Marauder at the time, and it's still great, but I think I prefer the other two nowadays. I also like the first two albums, but I don't like anything after Marauder.
One day, the Scotsman may partake in a single malt.
Sorry Damien, I'm not a whiskey drinker at all! Thanks for watching.
Re the live album: If you are only playing support slots then you are only doing max 45 mins per night so where do you get 90 mins of live recordings from?
They were headlining here in the UK when those shows were recorded, so would have been plenty of songs for a double.
All their best stuff is on this live album anyway, in my opinion.
Southern Rock rides again
(Surfing on a sea of tranquility) or tranquilizers your call….
Blackfoot........................................ Rules
Strikes Certified Platinum in 1986
No reservation aint that bad, come on. Even Steve got greatness of the Maruder album though, as did the others. Strike may have covers but any way very close to Maruder in quality.
No, it ain't that bad, but as I said on the show, it's more Southern than rock and that ain't my bag.