I don’t also care if it’s popular or not I’ll always be the same whether the scene does die or not. You seem so annoyed by this and I don’t know why, just tried to do a good thing. Also if you was a real rockabilly you would be happy that young guys like myself are trying to keep the old subculture alive and kicking while you just sit on your arse spitting your opinions which I and nobody really care about. You can’t decide whether I’m this or that. Sorry are my turn ups not tall enough for you!
Got into Rockabilly in 1980, There were about 40 of us in our town all about the same age & we totally bonded thanks to the music & we are still close mates through & through, still play the music & love talking about the old days. London was brilliant, Kensington Market was where we got our clothes, never any trouble in the clubs, Caister was a once a year mass get together & life was a total blast. It felt great to be alive & jive!!!!.
Maybe dying out where you are. It's not dead in the UK. And in the 70s the UK was more American than the Americans. I seen all the big names from the 50s America that come to the UK. The huge revival in the UK brought all the original singers from the 50s to the UK and many of them sounded just as good as they did in the 50s and could not believe their eyes and thought they had went back to the future with all the styles and 50s American cars parked everywhere we made them feel young again sadly many past away but at least they got to re live their dream.
@@ironpunk-vh6k Boozhoo ni'ji! Brother, I'm half Ojibwe and ALL Rockabilly 😂 But sadly, you're right... Great Cultures just homogenizing and dying out because the youngsters just don't care. Hey... Hopefully we'll cross paths at a Powwow somewhere... Just look for a tall, goofy looking Chippewa with a pompadour and Ducktails... Driving a 32 foot long turquoise blue motorhome. Meegwetch!
Lovely video Dylan. I can still remember, today, the first time I heard Johnny Burnette's "Rockbilly Boogie" around 1980. I bought the LP and I've never looked back. Whether I listen to something like that or Carl Perkins "Put Your Cat Clothes On" or Joe Clay "Sixteen Chicks", I feel like a teenager and the music sounds as vivid and exciting as it did 45 years ago. And when you hear something like Charlie Feathers "That Certain Female" - it's just so distinctive, that you either feel that music deep down and it means everything to you, or you just don't get it.
DO NOT MISS DYLAN KIRK ! I am not into the Rockabilly scene but caught him at the Rockin Roundup last year.. he literally blew us all away ... Fantastic.. like I said .. if you get chance.. Don't miss him 😉
I’m a punk who got his start in the subculture through phsychobilly and rockabilly. And I still love the style and music. From my experience, phsychobilly is still alive in Europe, many people including my self make music and attend shows. However I get the feeling that rockabilly is getting smaller. And if it goes it would be devastating. So if you like the music, support your local scene❤
I like his attitude re. lifestyle: he pulls pints for money but his career is music. 100%. All I wanted to do at school was be a rockabilly and I achieved just that. Kids who like the music shouldn't be daunted by the excellent musicianship demonstrated by a lot of the older rockabilly bands who have 30+ years experience: your starter for ten is literally pick up a guitar and mess around with it. Play along to your records, play along with likeminded friends and record it - you'll surprise yourself when you hear it played back. Acknowledge your influences but put something of yourself into it: there's no reason why your personal experiences shouldn't make for lyrics as good as anyone else's experiences.
Hey. I used to go to a rock n roll club in Eastbourne years ago. Fell out of it cz of life, bad knees etc etc etc. We now meet once a month at Eastbourne railway club, depleted numbers, all getting on, few youngsters but they don't dress rockin. Used to go to Weymouth, Hemsby, Brean Sands once a year...best years of my life. Keep rockin ❤❤❤❤
Our culture is resilient and has already experienced bad times like in the 90s. People like Jerry CHATABOX were able to bring it back to life by organizing sumptuous weekends, which we miss today.The problem is no longer only in the UK which is isolated after Brexit and covid, here in FRANCE we have the same problems. A large number of Europeans came to financially support the high quality events created in the United Kingdom such as rockabilly rave, hemsby, atomic, hotrod hairide, rythm riot, etc.. I would like to personally thank Jerry CHATABOX for his support of ROCk'n ROLL and ROCKABILLY.
The problem with the aging and dying Rockabilly scene is that everything seems to be a copy of itself and the past now. When the Stray Cats came along in the 80s they spiced up the dusty fifties sound with some punk rock guitar riffs and attitude. We need something like this that attracts the youth of today. A sound which makes the music edgy and easy to listen and dance to instead of the feeling of enduring your grandpa's records. I don't have a solution myself and I am not even 35. The new 2020s Brian Setzer might be out there somewhere ... who knows?
Stray cats where and still are crap. And who cares if it dies out. The guy talking is emotionally disturbed there is young people getting into the music. Who is this square making a you tube video about himself
Not in my day before the stray cats I was rockin at the ritz to the real stuff in 1977 the girls took of there bra's and the rockin scene was a lot wilder than the stray cats. Later in the late 70s leading up to the stray cats jumping the band wagon. You had phsycobilly and in the 1950s the grandad of punk was Hazel adkins. And if you listen to I hates rabbits by Eddie cochran that also sounds punk and I could name others. The stray cats did nothing for me I'm afraid. 👍🏻
@@MarxIstMuss there is only aging as it did in the 50s there is no dying scene there are countless numbers of cd copy's of records I have that I bought the originals in 1972 onwards I've seen many original and modern bands. I don't like the stray cats. I didn't then and I don't now and that's how it is
This is no word of a lie an all, I walk round in South London where i live and even Kent also when I'm up that way, I'm a bit older than Dylan but even at 27 myself people my age look at ya like your a weirdo, but it's what's we enjoy and the lifestyle we live, dress, listen to the music and breath it. It's a culture and I also wish more young people would be into it and keep it alive an all
I grew up in the "second wave"... The late 70s and early 80s, in Texas. My rockin' parents LOVED going Honky Tonkin' and introduced me to all the GREATS that were still touring at the time. By the mid Eighties and the "third wave" in America (Stray Cats, etc) I was already performing with my own band. In the Nineties and early 2000s, there was a pretty great Scene here in the U.S. ... But the U.K. and European scenes were always a lot more fun. I was always amazed at how well the Cats over there "did the Fifties"... Even better than it was done here in the U.S. BACK IN the Fifties 😂 I guess it was sometime in the 2000s that it started dying out here (as far as I'm concerned). Even the festivals here became more or less fashion shows, it got ridiculous seeing people get to the hotel with three steamer trunks full of clothes for their hourly costume changes. And folks got SO TATTOOED it started looking like everyone was permanently bruised. Us in the "old crowd" would jokingly ask random "Pin Up Queens" exactly where the pattern on their dresses ended and where the full sleeves of ink started 😅 It's sad to learn that this British Scene is winding down... I honestly never would have thought that it would. Thankfully there are still the Stalwarts keeping the blood pumping! I'm pushing 60 uphill now... I came down with three kinds of arthritis and had to quit performing around 2008. But I still LOVE the culture. Hearing Johnny Burnette belting out "Train Kept A Rollin' " is still as exciting to me today, as it was the first time I heard it. I visited England twice years ago... I intend to do so again before they shovel dirt over me... And I hope I get there during one of the Festivals. I'd even like to perform one last time. Toothless and crippled, but I can still ROCK 😂 CHEERS!
The rockabilly scene can be quite insular. Some rockabillies are very unaccepting of new bands coming through,and just want to hear the 50's and 80's wave of rockabilly.
Rockabilly died I would say 2010-2014ish at least here in Los Angeles. The promoters tried including too many different genre bands into the shows which brought different crowds and it just wasn’t a good mix. Fun times though!
That’s when it peaked in the valley. Haha. Idk it died in 2016 and on from what I saw from the valley and LA. We are now in our 30s still rockin the style but older.
@@bcassie If you ask me , what killed it in the valley was that place Viva cantina in Burbank . It started off as a cool lowkey rockabilly spot, then they started bringing in punk bands and it was a weird mix.
@@dennyboy3840 haha I knew people in those bands and how that started to happen. They needed shows to play badly and knew the right people. But sadly killed the vibe. Miss Viva Cantina. So yeah you’re right.
Im 56. Tomorrow I'm going to walk into a "square" record shop in Bristol and ask them where the nearest new wave, Reggie, mod gig as they have records by all them losers...then point out there's an all dayer down in Weston super mare, a sold out gig in Filton and I'm sure I can find at least 2 other rock and roll bands playing in the West country tomorrow
If you want to save that culture try not cursing. Rockabilly is Country, Gospel and R&B that all got together and had a baby. History calls curse-said words cursed for a reason. The soul of Rockabilly is Gospel. If you want to save that culture over there then get close to the Lord. There is more to it than cool hair and cool cars, leather and liquor. Gabriel Dion Valentino, aka, The Lord's Rooster Rocket
Rockabilly is a throwback to a time that we all crave today. The music business puts out total gibberish today. Rockabilly strips it down to the roots. We crave a simpler time and better music
There is plenty of rockabilly with piano 😂 just like there is Hillbilly music with piano. I play a mix of rockabilly and rock n roll I don’t hold myself to one genre. I also don’t class myself as a rockabilly, just “rockin” I like all different forms of that kind of music. Who are you to tell me what I can and can’t do anyway 😂 you seem really pressed
@@bobbyfeathers2279 okay think what you like, however I believe there are a quite a lot of tunes that lean more toward being rockabilly than rock n roll still have piano in them. For example Matchbox by Carl Perkins (The King Of Rockabilly) I’d 100% class a classic rockabilly song that literally has Jerry lee Lewis playing the piano on it. Or going a bit more obscure with Art Buchanan “time will tell” is a perfect example of rockabilly being done with a piano as the instrument at the front. Going back to Carl Perkins though with Jerry lee on keys, I will openly admit Jerry Lee was rock n roll and not rockabilly but you saying that anything that has piano isn’t rockabilly is like saying Carl Perkins wasn’t a real rockabilly 😂
@@dylankirkandthekillers7060 You've well and truly made your mark on the Rockin' scene here so pay no mind to rattled feathers. I'm guessing rattled feathers is either some jealous has been or doesn't hail from the UK.
Real rockabillies don't care if it's popular or not, we love the music and clothes and nothing will ever change that.
Exactly. I'll be rockabilly no matter who thinks it's cool or not
I don’t also care if it’s popular or not I’ll always be the same whether the scene does die or not. You seem so annoyed by this and I don’t know why, just tried to do a good thing. Also if you was a real rockabilly you would be happy that young guys like myself are trying to keep the old subculture alive and kicking while you just sit on your arse spitting your opinions which I and nobody really care about. You can’t decide whether I’m this or that. Sorry are my turn ups not tall enough for you!
@@dylankirkandthekillers7060Calm down, you might get a hair out of place...
@@bobbyfeathers2279 I’m fine, you are the one with the issue clearly 😂
Got into Rockabilly in 1980, There were about 40 of us in our town all about the same age & we totally bonded thanks to the music & we are still close mates through & through, still play the music & love talking about the old days. London was brilliant, Kensington Market was where we got our clothes, never any trouble in the clubs, Caister was a once a year mass get together & life was a total blast. It felt great to be alive & jive!!!!.
When you get hit with the rockabilly bug your hooked for life rocking since 66
Im a young greaser, Im also a full blood native american Both are really dying out And I really hope we can all bring it back
Maybe dying out where you are. It's not dead in the UK. And in the 70s the UK was more American than the Americans. I seen all the big names from the 50s America that come to the UK. The huge revival in the UK brought all the original singers from the 50s to the UK and many of them sounded just as good as they did in the 50s and could not believe their eyes and thought they had went back to the future with all the styles and 50s American cars parked everywhere we made them feel young again sadly many past away but at least they got to re live their dream.
@@ironpunk-vh6k
Boozhoo ni'ji!
Brother, I'm half Ojibwe and ALL Rockabilly 😂
But sadly, you're right... Great Cultures just homogenizing and dying out because the youngsters just don't care.
Hey... Hopefully we'll cross paths at a Powwow somewhere... Just look for a tall, goofy looking Chippewa with a pompadour and Ducktails... Driving a 32 foot long turquoise blue motorhome.
Meegwetch!
Lovely video Dylan. I can still remember, today, the first time I heard Johnny Burnette's "Rockbilly Boogie" around 1980. I bought the LP and I've never looked back. Whether I listen to something like that or Carl Perkins "Put Your Cat Clothes On" or Joe Clay "Sixteen Chicks", I feel like a teenager and the music sounds as vivid and exciting as it did 45 years ago. And when you hear something like Charlie Feathers "That Certain Female" - it's just so distinctive, that you either feel that music deep down and it means everything to you, or you just don't get it.
I may not dress like I did when I was a young rockabilly, but I still love the music.
DO NOT MISS DYLAN KIRK ! I am not into the Rockabilly scene but caught him at the Rockin Roundup last year.. he literally blew us all away ... Fantastic.. like I said .. if you get chance.. Don't miss him 😉
I've been around since I was 14 years old. I'm 61 now and still Rocking in Holland.😅😂😅
U.K. Rockabilly is the Most 🎉Viva, the Kats & Kittens! They keep the movement going 😮Thanks Tom for this Documentary 😅
I’m a punk who got his start in the subculture through phsychobilly and rockabilly. And I still love the style and music. From my experience, phsychobilly is still alive in Europe, many people including my self make music and attend shows. However I get the feeling that rockabilly is getting smaller. And if it goes it would be devastating. So if you like the music, support your local scene❤
I like his attitude re. lifestyle: he pulls pints for money but his career is music. 100%. All I wanted to do at school was be a rockabilly and I achieved just that. Kids who like the music shouldn't be daunted by the excellent musicianship demonstrated by a lot of the older rockabilly bands who have 30+ years experience: your starter for ten is literally pick up a guitar and mess around with it. Play along to your records, play along with likeminded friends and record it - you'll surprise yourself when you hear it played back. Acknowledge your influences but put something of yourself into it: there's no reason why your personal experiences shouldn't make for lyrics as good as anyone else's experiences.
Dylan is a top lad, seen him play many times and also just walking around Margate.
Hey. I used to go to a rock n roll club in Eastbourne years ago. Fell out of it cz of life, bad knees etc etc etc.
We now meet once a month at Eastbourne railway club, depleted numbers, all getting on, few youngsters but they don't dress rockin.
Used to go to Weymouth, Hemsby, Brean Sands once a year...best years of my life.
Keep rockin ❤❤❤❤
Our culture is resilient and has already experienced bad times like in the 90s.
People like Jerry CHATABOX were able to bring it back to life by organizing sumptuous weekends, which we miss today.The problem is no longer only in the UK which is isolated after Brexit and covid, here in FRANCE we have the same problems. A large number of Europeans came to financially support the high quality events created in the United Kingdom such as rockabilly rave, hemsby, atomic, hotrod hairide, rythm riot, etc..
I would like to personally thank Jerry CHATABOX for his support of ROCk'n ROLL and ROCKABILLY.
while waiting for a new rave, let's listen to rockabilly radio..the kool sound of UK roc'nroll...
nice little piece, ive been rockin since the 70s and cantsee me changing any time soon. we certainly need new blood coming through.
Been into it since mid 70s....
He's a great ambassador Tom, very talented lad. (can't use my real name on here - Chris from York) Hope you, Theresa & family are well.
@@MegaVector2011 in Italy at the moment.. Cheers mate
Good documentary good lad Dylan 🎙️🎶🎵📻🎼🚀💥
The problem with the aging and dying Rockabilly scene is that everything seems to be a copy of itself and the past now.
When the Stray Cats came along in the 80s they spiced up the dusty fifties sound with some punk rock guitar riffs and attitude.
We need something like this that attracts the youth of today. A sound which makes the music edgy and easy to listen and dance to instead of the feeling of enduring your grandpa's records.
I don't have a solution myself and I am not even 35. The new 2020s Brian Setzer might be out there somewhere ... who knows?
Stray cats where and still are crap. And who cares if it dies out. The guy talking is emotionally disturbed there is young people getting into the music. Who is this square making a you tube video about himself
@@michaelpearson1272
Woah! Someone needs a great big hug! Poor you
Not in my day before the stray cats I was rockin at the ritz to the real stuff in 1977 the girls took of there bra's and the rockin scene was a lot wilder than the stray cats. Later in the late 70s leading up to the stray cats jumping the band wagon. You had phsycobilly and in the 1950s the grandad of punk was Hazel adkins. And if you listen to I hates rabbits by Eddie cochran that also sounds punk and I could name others. The stray cats did nothing for me I'm afraid. 👍🏻
@@michaelpearson1272
People who love the music care if it dies out? Without fresh blood there is noboby to rock this music in the next 30 years.
@@MarxIstMuss there is only aging as it did in the 50s there is no dying scene there are countless numbers of cd copy's of records I have that I bought the originals in 1972 onwards I've seen many original and modern bands. I don't like the stray cats. I didn't then and I don't now and that's how it is
Really enjoyable watch Tom, great work
This is no word of a lie an all, I walk round in South London where i live and even Kent also when I'm up that way, I'm a bit older than Dylan but even at 27 myself people my age look at ya like your a weirdo, but it's what's we enjoy and the lifestyle we live, dress, listen to the music and breath it. It's a culture and I also wish more young people would be into it and keep it alive an all
I'm 34 and from the Ruhr Area. Keep it goin', buddy !
KEEP ROCKIN' , fellas!
Enjoyed watching this and learnt something, never heard of rockabilly’s before
amaaaazing
Rockabilly was born out of Kentucky mountain music and especially bluegrass.
I grew up in the "second wave"... The late 70s and early 80s, in Texas.
My rockin' parents LOVED going Honky Tonkin' and introduced me to all the GREATS that were still touring at the time.
By the mid Eighties and the "third wave" in America (Stray Cats, etc) I was already performing with my own band.
In the Nineties and early 2000s, there was a pretty great Scene here in the U.S. ... But the U.K. and European scenes were always a lot more fun.
I was always amazed at how well the Cats over there "did the Fifties"... Even better than it was done here in the U.S. BACK IN the Fifties 😂
I guess it was sometime in the 2000s that it started dying out here (as far as I'm concerned).
Even the festivals here became more or less fashion shows, it got ridiculous seeing people get to the hotel with three steamer trunks full of clothes for their hourly costume changes.
And folks got SO TATTOOED it started looking like everyone was permanently bruised.
Us in the "old crowd" would jokingly ask random "Pin Up Queens" exactly where the pattern on their dresses ended and where the full sleeves of ink started 😅
It's sad to learn that this British Scene is winding down... I honestly never would have thought that it would.
Thankfully there are still the Stalwarts keeping the blood pumping!
I'm pushing 60 uphill now... I came down with three kinds of arthritis and had to quit performing around 2008.
But I still LOVE the culture.
Hearing Johnny Burnette belting out "Train Kept A Rollin' " is still as exciting to me today, as it was the first time I heard it.
I visited England twice years ago... I intend to do so again before they shovel dirt over me... And I hope I get there during one of the Festivals.
I'd even like to perform one last time. Toothless and crippled, but I can still ROCK 😂
CHEERS!
Guest appearance from my bass at @2.38 😂
Loved this!
Keep on rockin’ and boppin’ .Great music! Still playing Roy ORBISON ‘ROCKABILLY ‘ EP on SUN records
Rockabilly to me is something that goes in and out i think theyll always be a generation that picks up on it same with any other scene tbh
excellent
in 80's we were calle d'rockers' or' teddyboys.' i was both, loved rockin
HI DYLAN! - it's bacpac. Yeah we see that happening. I stsrted a new dance night in Phoenix and we can't get new young peope to learn.
The rockabilly scene can be quite insular. Some rockabillies are very unaccepting of new bands coming through,and just want to hear the 50's and 80's wave of rockabilly.
Rockabilly died I would say 2010-2014ish at least here in Los Angeles. The promoters tried including too many different genre bands into the shows which brought different crowds and it just wasn’t a good mix. Fun times though!
That’s when it peaked in the valley. Haha. Idk it died in 2016 and on from what I saw from the valley and LA. We are now in our 30s still rockin the style but older.
@@bcassie If you ask me , what killed it in the valley was that place Viva cantina in Burbank . It started off as a cool lowkey rockabilly spot, then they started bringing in punk bands and it was a weird mix.
@@dennyboy3840 haha I knew people in those bands and how that started to happen. They needed shows to play badly and knew the right people. But sadly killed the vibe. Miss Viva Cantina. So yeah you’re right.
@@bcassie Yup those Wild record days were the best at its peak
Im 56. Tomorrow I'm going to walk into a "square" record shop in Bristol and ask them where the nearest new wave, Reggie, mod gig as they have records by all them losers...then point out there's an all dayer down in Weston super mare, a sold out gig in Filton and I'm sure I can find at least 2 other rock and roll bands playing in the West country tomorrow
If you want to save that culture try not cursing. Rockabilly is Country, Gospel and R&B that all got together and had a baby. History calls curse-said words cursed for a reason. The soul of Rockabilly is Gospel. If you want to save that culture over there then get close to the Lord. There is more to it than cool hair and cool cars, leather and liquor. Gabriel Dion Valentino, aka, The Lord's Rooster Rocket
Rockabilly is a throwback to a time that we all crave today. The music business puts out total gibberish today. Rockabilly strips it down to the roots. We crave a simpler time and better music
Rockabilly culture? Well, start with Matchbox by Carl Perkins then the flood gates open.
If he's so into rockabilly, why does he play piano??
There is plenty of rockabilly with piano 😂 just like there is Hillbilly music with piano. I play a mix of rockabilly and rock n roll I don’t hold myself to one genre. I also don’t class myself as a rockabilly, just “rockin” I like all different forms of that kind of music. Who are you to tell me what I can and can’t do anyway 😂 you seem really pressed
@@dylankirkandthekillers7060it's called rock and roll when there's piano kiddo
@@bobbyfeathers2279 okay think what you like, however I believe there are a quite a lot of tunes that lean more toward being rockabilly than rock n roll still have piano in them. For example Matchbox by Carl Perkins (The King Of Rockabilly) I’d 100% class a classic rockabilly song that literally has Jerry lee Lewis playing the piano on it. Or going a bit more obscure with Art Buchanan “time will tell” is a perfect example of rockabilly being done with a piano as the instrument at the front. Going back to Carl Perkins though with Jerry lee on keys, I will openly admit Jerry Lee was rock n roll and not rockabilly but you saying that anything that has piano isn’t rockabilly is like saying Carl Perkins wasn’t a real rockabilly 😂
@@dylankirkandthekillers7060 You've well and truly made your mark on the Rockin' scene here so pay no mind to rattled feathers. I'm guessing rattled feathers is either some jealous has been or doesn't hail from the UK.
Rockabilly isn't a still-life: it's a photograph of something in motion.