If anybody thinks the band look rough on the promo films, you should have seen them live. Rough, ready and one of the best bands of all time. If Lee was still with us he would have put Rag 'n' Bone man in the shade with his fantastic voice and "mouthie" playing. Once a fan of Dr Feelgood, you'll always Feelgood.
I saw them numerous times and all \I can say was attitude...stood eye to eye with Lee numerous times as they often were not at big venues....mesmeric, the whole band ...
@@LaurenceL I walked up to Lee just as they were mounting the stairs to the stage in Amsterdam. Lee turned and spit a big one right on the wall, then climbed and did his thang. Canvey Island kidz, gotta love that.
I bought the single of this track on 45 rpm vinyl in 1978 - on brown vimyl ! Great days pre -CD and imternet streamimg. Also - the band were a great alternative to the likes of Genesis et al and all the disco Donna Summer/John Travolta/Bee Gees stuff back then. Pure nostalgia - don't you just love it ! It's great, too, that today's generation can appreciate this great British Rhythm 'n' Blues band via internet platforms like RUclips - who are probably still very underrated.
i bought this single in 1978 also on brown vinyl & cool for cats on pink vinyl at Waterloo station before a school trip to Belgium,my 1st 2 singles ever.
@@Nictumeni FFS i was just about to post the same :D i got the same 2 singles same day same year - cos the drums on both were so cool - still ended up buying a guitar
Wow......that 20 second guitar solo is so underrated, its criminal...... Bass player sublime. Great, great band, who should have been massive, and I mean massive,. Of their type, we will probably never see the like of them again........ever
Gypie Mayo was such a good guitar player. Very different form Wilko, of course, but he really brought something special to the band. And you are right, we'll never see their like again.
I love Wilko, seen him a number of times, even when he played with the blockheads. His sound is unique and the early Feelgood recordings have an individual sound that wasn't repeated. However Gypie gave them a more cohesive, rounded and complete sound which is what helped give them their only top 10 single. It was however Wilko's guitar playing on their no.1 album stupidity, so you pays your money, you takes your choice. Whoever played guitar, their sound was great.
I suppose it is a bit like farting in church, but I always though Wilko was a one-trick pony. Great for Dr Feelgood, but I always preferred Gypie Mayo's guitar playing.
Still the greatest Rthym and Blues track ever recorded bar none. Style and Menace what a combination. R.I.P Wilko and Lee. Dr Feelgood got into my system from the start.
the lyrics are based loosely on an incident in America when the band had been drinking white Russians ( milk vodka and kalhua) were pulled over for running a red light. Wilko was still in the band then
Lee is performing from experience. One of the greatest frontmen in the history of recent times and a true talent that lost his life to excess. In other words a true Rock star. RIP Lee, you've left your mark big time.
And I am priveledged to have been able to call Gypie Mayo a friend of mine. I met him in the early nineties, and became friends with him not knowing who he actually was, I just knew him as a guitarist called John I met at the local music shop. Really nice guy and one hell of a guitarist.
@MIKE J l cannot be 100% but he played in bands largely unknown or off the radar.I think the band advertised and he won his audition.In the 1970s brilliant guitarists were in abundance,so many remained obscure and unlucky.Mick Taylor of the Rolling stones is one that got a lucky break as did Type.regards David
@Naz Nomad The band hated him -- all that talent and all that speed. But the rest of those fuckers had the absolute pure bollocks... they aren't a band, they're a road gang.
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes - thank you for this. Takes me way back to when music was whatever you wanted it to be. I'm 67 and was spoiled for choice back then - hit the 90's and struggled to even contemplate what music was???? Never mind...this still does it for me and nobody can take it away...
@@oughtonoughton2634 Sorry late reply Jane.. Glad you like my choice while I go up in smoke! What a band, eh? So underated, i could never understand that. Heard them first whilst repairing juke boxes.. That was it! Doc was ALWAYS the test record! xx
Soon as i heard this I ran to the record shop And got it. I can remember the 45s I had at the time. Pistols holidays gstq Pretty vacant. Stranglers nice & sleazy. Buzzcocks promises 3 years later got into the outlaw biker scene Dr Feelgood was as Big as Motorhead Every rally party Not many bands cut it in the punk. bikers. blues & rock scene. But Feelgood had it all Attitude swagger the real deal. Shout out to Wilko. Respect Bro. RIP.
When this came out I was a 13 year old punk fan. I bought this because I liked it and I suppose it was the start of my musical taste expanding. Had to keep it seperate from my punk stuff. Bucking the trend back then could be a nasty business.
Never really gave the band a true listen until much later.. Why did we think we were really rocking, just listening to Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe ? Pretty d*n fine music by those two, but these guys, they mean business !
your never believe how I got into this band but back in them days I was young and the picture cover to the 45 had a lady with the band dressed in white tan tights and high heels . I had to buy it . the song was great I still love the band and ladies in tan tights and high heels lol :)
I saw them live in Aberdeen. He got my sister up to sing with him. It was brilliant. But I've only got it on tape and nothing to play it on. At the end he said 'A Big Hand to the Lovely Lady Herself'.
This was one storming band, without doubt the raunchiest, in your face Blues/Rock band produced on these fair shores, with the possible exception of Steve Marriott's Humble Pie.
Seen them since the '70, also alive. This one is really one of the greateast with Gypie on guitar. Fooling in the shot with Tele, he actually played this with Strato.
Before punk, there was pub rock, where bands would play sort of r n b rock n roll at your favourite place. They proved there was a way to play music that didn't sound like Pink Floyd or whatever, it had a bit of boogie! And you could dance! x
One of them looks like bloody mic jagger, another looks like a drunk stepping out of a bar, the drummer looks like he just came home from private school and the bassist looks like a middle aged dad trying to feel young, but this band is sick🤘🤘
I was just in London this last weekend. I was staying at a hotel near LHR. Anyway, I walked to a local pub and this song was playing as a video on the TV. I had never heard it before...
If anybody thinks the band look rough on the promo films, you should have seen them live. Rough, ready and one of the best bands of all time. If Lee was still with us he would have put Rag 'n' Bone man in the shade with his fantastic voice and "mouthie" playing. Once a fan of Dr Feelgood, you'll always Feelgood.
I have to agree 😭🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸💯🆗
I saw them numerous times and all \I can say was attitude...stood eye to eye with Lee numerous times as they often were not at big venues....mesmeric, the whole band ...
Lucky enough to have seen them live even if I was right by one of the speakers at the front
Saw them three times..not with Wilko though. Great times.
@@LaurenceL I walked up to Lee just as they were mounting the stairs to the stage in Amsterdam. Lee turned and spit a big one right on the wall, then climbed and did his thang. Canvey Island kidz, gotta love that.
A band that played bloody hard, drinks, cigs and fists. The best and toughest pub rock band ever and the best thing to come out of Essex.
Somebody said '...The Sweeney of rock'. Sums them up perfectly. Grubby suits, sweaty faces, booze and ciggies. And one of the best frontmen ever.
@@threadbear Definitely!
Really got to agree,
In the 80s this band almost single handedly kept blues alive. Always a good band to see lives . Good times guaranteed.
I bought the single of this track on 45 rpm vinyl in 1978 - on brown vimyl ! Great days pre -CD and imternet streamimg. Also - the band were a great alternative to the likes of Genesis et al and all the disco Donna Summer/John Travolta/Bee Gees stuff back then. Pure nostalgia - don't you just love it ! It's great, too, that today's generation can appreciate this great British Rhythm 'n' Blues band via internet platforms like RUclips - who are probably still very underrated.
choice
i bought this single in 1978 also on brown vinyl & cool for cats on pink vinyl at Waterloo station before a school trip to Belgium,my 1st 2 singles ever.
@@Nictumeni FFS i was just about to post the same :D i got the same 2 singles same day same year - cos the drums on both were so cool - still ended up buying a guitar
@@mcfcguvnors they were both great tracks & by the way I'm a drummer too,have a good one
…was it also in white, I’m almost certain mine was?
I nicked the 45 of this from Virgin in Nottingham in 1980. Sorry Richard I owe you 17p.
😂😂😂
👍👍
White vinyl?
@@johndowning98 That rings a bell, yes, it could have been white vinyl.
Hysterical 😂😂😂
Sparko's work on the bass always under-rated. Keeps everything together.
Sparko a farken legend.
Proper basslines that hold it all together. Not complicated, and all the better for it.
One of the best RnB bands ever...That is some guitar solo
One of the best bands from these shores deserved more recognition...
I grew up in New Zealand and had their records , people would say who the fuck is dr feel good ? when they looked thru my record collection :)
@SMC Gmail who underrated them and how is it a crime ? They were an amazing blues rock band
Just raw music and I love it.
Lee Brilleaux was born in Durban, South Africa.
Wow......that 20 second guitar solo is so underrated, its criminal......
Bass player sublime. Great, great band, who should have been massive, and I mean massive,. Of their type, we will probably never see the like of them again........ever
Gypie Mayo was such a good guitar player. Very different form Wilko, of course, but he really brought something special to the band. And you are right, we'll never see their like again.
Extremely underrated band. Absolutely amazing. They were still good after Wilko's departure. But, they were their best with Wilko.
I love Wilko, seen him a number of times, even when he played with the blockheads. His sound is unique and the early Feelgood recordings have an individual sound that wasn't repeated.
However Gypie gave them a more cohesive, rounded and complete sound which is what helped give them their only top 10 single. It was however Wilko's guitar playing on their no.1 album stupidity, so you pays your money, you takes your choice.
Whoever played guitar, their sound was great.
Who underrated them?????
I suppose it is a bit like farting in church, but I always though Wilko was a one-trick pony. Great for Dr Feelgood, but I always preferred Gypie Mayo's guitar playing.
The band were never truly appreciated at a national level... but us East End kids followed them everywhere. Canvey Island's finest.
Im 74 loved the song from day one lol love from coventry 😂
They were massive in America, they had name bands supporting them
@@kevinobrien1259 im 74 i loved the song from day
Still the greatest Rthym and Blues track ever recorded bar none.
Style and Menace what a combination. R.I.P Wilko and Lee.
Dr Feelgood got into my system from the start.
Also R.I.P. Gypie Mayo 😞
And Big Figure
Play this at the loudest your speakers can take. Mind blowing your neighbours will love it.
I think Lee has forgotten the milk part and gone straight for the alcohol. Period. This band was pure rock and roll. They sweated rock and roll.
Blues
the lyrics are based loosely on an incident in America when the band had been drinking white Russians ( milk vodka and kalhua) were pulled over for running a red light. Wilko was still in the band then
Lee is performing from experience.
One of the greatest frontmen in the history of recent times and a true talent that lost his life to excess. In other words a true Rock star.
RIP Lee, you've left your mark big time.
And I am priveledged to have been able to call Gypie Mayo a friend of mine. I met him in the early nineties, and became friends with him not knowing who he actually was, I just knew him as a guitarist called John I met at the local music shop. Really nice guy and one hell of a guitarist.
Saw the first gig he did with them in Cardiff after Wilco' left when they introduced this song, less visual than Wilco but a stunningly good player.
Gypie was by far the band's best guitarist. Wilco was excellent but usually limited himself to repeated riffs rather than solos
I think so too. Much as I like Wilco, for me he's a bit of a one-trick pony. Gypo had a lot more to offer a blues band like the Feelgoods.
@MIKE J l cannot be 100% but he played in bands largely unknown or off the radar.I think the band advertised and he won his audition.In the 1970s brilliant guitarists were in abundance,so many remained obscure and unlucky.Mick Taylor of the Rolling stones is one that got a lucky break as did Type.regards David
@@davidglow3 Hahaha 😂
I think you might be wrong there Haha
Was it rock, punk, pop, blues? Fukc knows but I loved it :)
Me too...its got the pumk sound and attitude without trying but like you said it fits anywhere and doesn't matter anyway. Fuck genres let's dance 😉
I never think Sparko gets enough credit for creating the spine of the Feelgood sound.
@Naz Nomad The band hated him -- all that talent and all that speed. But the rest of those fuckers had the absolute pure bollocks... they aren't a band, they're a road gang.
RIP Mr Wilco Johnson,,, there will NOT be any like you & thanks for the sounds!!,
Wilko and he didn't play on this track it was the also late and great Gypie Mayo
This song packs more in less than 3 minutes than many more double albums. Hard Rock at its purest, rawest best.
Oh Yes..!!
You say that about a basic blues rock and roll song. LOL
Great voice tone bang on
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes - thank you for this. Takes me way back to when music was whatever you wanted it to be. I'm 67 and was spoiled for choice back then - hit the 90's and struggled to even contemplate what music was???? Never mind...this still does it for me and nobody can take it away...
Now that's what you call drum and bass
Ditto!
chris walford yep and you can bring it back too
YES I
Great description
Hahahaha
R.I.P. Wilko (he didn't play on this track, I know, but his influence is still felt)
Such a talented band, I love the energy in this song especially the late, great gypie mayo's guitar work, the tone on his guitar and solo are superb!
I heard this on the Greatest Punk Album my dad gave me when I was 4. Pounding it in the car today and having the band play it at my wedding
If I got married, I'd have this played too
RIP Wilko, this is my favorite Feelgood tune. The world is a lot less cool with him gone.
I saw these awesome guys live in market harbour in the UK when I was 16 and loved every minute of it and still listen to this day 🔥🔥🔥
Takes me right back to the 70s! still listening in 2021
Love the Drumming on this one!
Cock on mate and how fucking cool is he.
whoa whoa no cocks out man@@ShaunBoden-zw5zu
Instantly recognisable song from the first few drumbeats. Brilliant. Or Brilleuxant.
A brilliant no nonsense kinda band!!
RIP Wilko bless you for your contribution to new wave and rhythm and blues.
That’s not wilko he had left the band at this point
In any format/combo . . . .Lee was always never going to be less than completely awesome
Saw them live in the mid 80`s. Great band
Lee Brilleux had such intensity! What a legend
Up there with Jagger
Wie sagte Thomad Gottschalk damals in der ARD-Sendung Szene: sinngemäß
Wo fühlt jeder Pimpf sich wohl, bei Milk and Alcohol...
Phenomenal song... one of the Feelgood’s very best.
This is some kick ass rock'n'roll !
One of the most catchy tracks I heard years ago. Classic 👌
These guys are the ultimate in great bands , WOW ive adored them since their beginning ,,Hard rock at its very best lol to all fans xx Jane x
It is Jan 2022 and I am 56yo. I am floored as to just HOW this song/band flew under my radar. Great song. Going to look up more of their music now.
Eh ffs come on.dr feelgood a 80s staple❤
Im confused mate stoned as well but you wrote its Jan 22 but it states it was wrote a year ago can you explain please cocker.
Good night and thanks for the music Mr Johnson...you absolute legend.
Thats Gypie Macoh on lead mate.
Why do we not see bands like this in todays charts? Much better than the formulaic pap, composed by 12 writers, we get fed nowadays
Shame that they never got the breaks - or promotion - to make it huge, but then again, maybe it’s why they are legends now
Dr. Feelgood took the blues and made it their own
You are totally right.
Absolutely Brilliant! Best 70/80s music. Once heard, never ever forgotten! Top boys indeed
Gilbert i adore your comment . What a great bunch of genius fellows xx long n may they give us the ultimate in rock music lol Jane xx
@@oughtonoughton2634 Thanks Jane, I've requested "Milk & Alcohol" at my passing out parade(Cremation) not yet..hopefully!xx
@@gilbertdavies i have to say thats a fine choice for the Crem , its very fitting lol Jane x
@@oughtonoughton2634 Sorry late reply Jane.. Glad you like my choice while I go up in smoke! What a band, eh? So underated, i could never understand that. Heard them first whilst repairing juke boxes.. That was it! Doc was ALWAYS the test record! xx
Classic tune and great solo too.
Soon as i heard this
I ran to the record shop
And got it.
I can remember the 45s
I had at the time.
Pistols holidays gstq
Pretty vacant.
Stranglers nice & sleazy.
Buzzcocks promises
3 years later got into the outlaw biker scene
Dr Feelgood was as
Big as Motorhead
Every rally party
Not many bands cut it
in the punk. bikers. blues & rock scene.
But Feelgood had it all
Attitude swagger the real deal.
Shout out to Wilko.
Respect Bro.
RIP.
Weltklasse. Tolle Stimme.
Proper music!
When this came out I was a 13 year old punk fan. I bought this because I liked it and I suppose it was the start of my musical taste expanding.
Had to keep it seperate from my punk stuff. Bucking the trend back then could be a nasty business.
Fantastic song ahead of there time still rocking years later
great track ..always be one of my favs
Sweet Lord this is still fantastic
This takes me right back to my early teens, buying this awesome new at the time song, on 7inch Vinyl 😊
Had this on white vinyl.
There a time of coloured records.
Tune
Never really gave the band a true listen until much later..
Why did we think we were really rocking, just listening to Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe ?
Pretty d*n fine music by those two, but these guys, they mean business !
Nick Lowe wrote this song.
I was watching Dr Feelgood in Zaragoza (Spain. In 1984.i,ve never forgotten. Incredible!!!
RIP Wilko Johnson
These guys would kick any modern gangsta-rap-sissy-boys asses anytime. Music, attitude, toughness, anything.
YOU TELL THEM Mate 👍👍👍☝👍👍👍👍✌WHAT A BAND g
One of the few songs I heard for the first time and thought..Wow
One of my favorites, takes me back.
Great guitar solo
I’ve been looking for this song for years and I found it. I always thought he was saying “Eye ball drinking alcohol ” 😂
your never believe how I got into this band but back in them days I was young and the picture cover to the 45 had a lady with the band dressed in white tan tights and high heels . I had to buy it . the song was great I still love the band and ladies in tan tights and high heels lol :)
I was 12 when this came out. I considered this to be 'old man down the pub music' lol
Excellent music great memories
A true classic.
Kick arse band, amazing,
Einfach nur gut.....
The Greatest R and B track ever released.
R.I.P Lee.
Rock & Roll at it's finest :)
Derek Price Checkout Hijacked
Top bloody track - total classic!
Awesome band....proper rocking tune....
The best RnB ever!
Fantastic track !!
Love it so great so Memory...
Loving it
Milk and alcohol, know that feeling. On it , 24/7.
that snare sound though!!!
Lee--frontman extraordinaire.
Fire up the Quattro!
Old maybe but still appropriate.
I saw them live in Aberdeen. He got my sister up to sing with him. It was brilliant. But I've only got it on tape and nothing to play it on. At the end he said 'A Big Hand to the Lovely Lady Herself'.
Still love it after all these years a great band!
Gary i love your message lol Jane x
My, they look rough. An absolute classic
wouldn't buy a car off any of them! lol...but christ on a bike, WOTTA BAND!!!!
@@nicksymons9083 I don't think they'd give you the choice, "you are buying this car!"
@Stephen Branley True words!
@@nicksymons9083 "Lee, this gentleman says he does doesn't care for our vehicles. Would you have a quiet word?"
32 people have had too much milk and not enough alcohol
This was one storming band, without doubt the raunchiest, in your
face Blues/Rock band produced on these fair shores, with the possible
exception of Steve Marriott's Humble Pie.
This is why all my broadband goes on youtube- great stuff
just amazing!!!
Unique Sound, Simply Brillauxant!!!
la meilleure période ? le Doc n'a eu que des bonnes périodes :)
What a Tonic!!!!!!!!!!!!
a mix of 50s 60s 70s n 80s
No 80s
Brilliant band. RIP Lee and Wilko
Seen them since the '70, also alive. This one is really one of the greateast with Gypie on guitar. Fooling in the shot with Tele, he actually played this with Strato.
Before punk, there was pub rock, where bands would play sort of r n b rock n roll at your favourite place. They proved there was a way to play music that didn't sound like Pink Floyd or whatever, it had a bit of boogie! And you could dance! x
The Big Figure reminds me of Ray Riordan the snooker player..2 Absolute Legends. Brilliant people will always remain Brilliant.
1978, white vinyl, brilliant
One of them looks like bloody mic jagger, another looks like a drunk stepping out of a bar, the drummer looks like he just came home from private school and the bassist looks like a middle aged dad trying to feel young, but this band is sick🤘🤘
I was just in London this last weekend. I was staying at a hotel near LHR. Anyway, I walked to a local pub and this song was playing as a video on the TV. I had never heard it before...
Wilko - ALWAYS a legend.
He certainly is, but he didn't play on this, it was Gypie Mayo.
i love this song