@@thundercity311 Charts are all bollocks aren't they. It's all contrived cobblers to drive youth to buy $hite... Money over art. Just look at the stream of dross that's made No. 1. Better to be niche?
@Tony J. You may already know this. BBC Radio 2's "Sounds Of The Seventies" hosted by Johnnie Walker has just added the edited single version of this classic to "Johnnie's Jukebox". The listener that recommended it said that she and her friends went to a fairground where they used the full version on the "Waltzer" ride (?). So she knew that the ride was about six and a half minutes. A shame that even the edited single couldn't get into the Top Forty of the day - "42 with a boat anchor rather than a bullet" as my old pal Dave The DJ used to say! Stay safe and well.
I dont often comment on RUclips but i have to say this is brilliant musicianship. A group of skilled guys in their prime feeling their oats. They deserve more credit.
@kenbar4761 "feeling" it means their confident and someone who feels newly emboldened, the description was originally applied to horses and how they act after they are fully fed.
I miss the days when pop sounded like this. Rickenbackers, and songwriters straight from the heart. Cheers to the Motors, the knack, and of Course the Jam!
@@brucerouffian2630 I'm 17 and know it's an electric guitar or bass of some sort. Btw I play in a rock band and our first album is coming out this year. Maybe not all hope is lost yet🤘
The BBC should bring back Whistle Test and give a national platform to bands that learn their craft by playing the clubs, instead we get talentless teenagers that think they can sing in their bedroom so want to appear on X-factor.
Genial Harry Grout - Absolutely agree. Pile in a transit van and head up and down the country building a following. Don’t appear on car crash tv in front of talentless halfwits who think that they are tastemakers. C’mon kids take back the initiative and create the music you want !
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@@ianwilkinson3043 Which is the music what WE want. Down with X-Fucktor!
I totally agree with you. There is no talent anymore these days. The Whistle Test was great and I remember it so well back in the good old days. And If it wasn't for David Attenborough, we would have never had it in the first place as he was the head controller of BBC2 when it all started back in the 70s.
@@ianwilkinson3043 I’d give anything to pile in the back of a transit and go off to a gig now! Covid has really f****d up the live music scene. And yes, bring back the whistle test!
In 1977, I was 10 when I got goosebumps listening to the original version of this track. Now, at 55, I get goosebumps seeing this brilliant live version. What a magic, energetic song.
Post it on here. This is an outstanding performance & one of the finest pieces of rock on You Tube. Not the easiest piece to perform & your son obviously likes a challenge.
Fantastic.......Backtrack my friend to to the fantastic " Ducks Deluxe"....self titled album n taxi to the terminal zone.....I can guarantee you will not be disappointed......
I remember watching this on Whistle Test first time round, and was massively impressed then, and loved it ever since. How it never got higher in the charts I really don't understand. A beast of a song.
OK. I have just watched The Motors on BBC GUITAR HERO'S and was amazed by this absolutely brilliant track. I have honestly never heard it or of them before. Wow. What have I been missing. Proper rock music. I love it.
Loved this first time i heard it late one night in 1977or78 on Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show on Radio 1, still love it today on RUclips in 2023!
I saw these guys in Bakersfield California in December of 1977 opening up for Blue Oyster Cult. I became a fan instantly. That self titled album remains a favorite in my collection as does Bram's first solo effort which was unbelievably great!
Brilliant, awsome, stupendous and first class quality playing that is not often repeated. Only 14119 views for and Justin Bieber has millions. There is no musical justice in this world!
What a pity that the cameraman didn't swing across and focus on Nick Garvey's guitar after Bram Tchaikovsky's solo. Really wanted to see Nick playing that "rolling" arpeggio type riff on the Rickenbacker. You can just tell that these guys have honed their craft playing in pubs. A great piece of proper music to come back to. Thank you The Motors.
First band I ever saw live too! They were opening for UFO and AC/DC in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, in November of 1977! Never heard them again, however, until RUclips
Wasn't this top of John Peel's Festive Fifty for several years (along with Teenage Kicks/Undertones)? Remember listening late at night under the covers with a dodgy plastic earpiece jammed into one ear and plugged into a tiny radio ;-) Epic
That Rickenbacker with a Humbucker bodged just Infront of the bridge toaster 😎. Black Precision with a Jazz Bass neck 😎. Battered red Strat , red hooped T-shirt 😎. Marshall, Hi-watt, Ampeg Amps 😎. SM58 vocals 😎. AKG 414's all over the drum kit (posh) 😎. Mag-fucking-nificent. 😊😊😊
One of the best bands of the era. 'Approved by the Motors' is a classic. While working in a record store during college, the Motors were one of the bands we would constantly play in the store. Both writers have great pop and R&B sensibilities.
Great band and tune that I've never heard of! The Rickenbacker guitarist uses arpeggios that predate Johnny Marr. Very interesting! Thanks for posting...
I'm drawn back to this Motor's clip time and again. Saw Ducks Deluxe live at the Kent Uni during the mid 70's. Would loved to have seen the Motor's live. Perfect pub band.
A very fluent style of drumming that suited the band perfectly... still had loads of drive as well, but the smooth rolls just kept this classic song flowing... love it.
@tutenvanman2715. You may already know this. On Bram Tchaikovsky’s first solo album “Strange Man, Changed Man” (I think it’s called that), he covers Neil Diamond’s “I’m A Believer”. See if you can find the track. Bram and the band’s version is pure Status Quo! Stay safe and well.
Take a trip back in a time machine, and bring it with you to the pub. Tell your mates about it and how much it cost. Play it on a honky-tonk piano. The tune can be "The Day I Spent a Fiver"!
BRILLIANT! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! A MASTERCLASS IN ROCK RIFFS AND PUNK INTENSITY. GOT THE SINGLE (7" VINYL) I'M NOT SHOUTING! MY CAPS BUTTON IS STUCK... 😎😎😎
Superb! A great honest band playing a heads down rocker...Fine songwriting by these lads...Bless em all. Thank you for uploading. Merry Christmas everyone!
the bollox late 70s was a great time to be around gigs in uni s and pubs everywhere and i saw led zeppelin going to see deaf school in liverpool next week god bless babyboomers we were the best
I think there were two or three songs from the same LP that entered different charts around the world. Which should mean a big commercial success, which it didn't. A market survey provided answers; the band members were not good locking enough. When the intended buyers stood in the music store with the LP in hand, looking at the band members on the cover. Many refrained from the purchase. The record company removed the photographs of the members from the cover. But too late, the damage was already done.
......A crying shame when great music is judged on looks, as opposed to skill, talent, and brilliant musicianship....I believe the same injustice befell them in their previous band.....The fantastic " Ducks Deluxe " even to a greater degree...
The Motors were amazing and underrated. I bought this on blue vinyl 12" single and to disagree with eyebrowsed, Airport was and still is one of the best songs ever......
I've been a big Motors fan since the late 70s but never had the chance to see them live. This is the next best thing. Until the internet came along, all I had was "Approved By" and a cassette called "Greatest Hit". Yes, Hit, as opposed to Hits.
guitar interplay on this classic motors track is nothing short of amazing ,its a real shame they went down the commercial route by album 2 and lost a lot of the energy in their songs. This proves what a great band the Motors were.
Found myself here because I quite like the song Airport. Have to say this is amazing, going to find more music by The Motors, didn't realise they were so punk.
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Wow !! What a great performance of an underrated rock song !!
Great track, loved it when I was 16, love it even more now.
The class just shines through , this must be one of the most underplayed records ever.
Hard to believe it didn't make the top 40.
Not in my house its not
not in music house mate!
@@thundercity311 Charts are all bollocks aren't they. It's all contrived
cobblers to drive youth to buy $hite... Money over art. Just look at the
stream of dross that's made No. 1. Better to be niche?
@Tony J. You may already know this. BBC Radio 2's "Sounds Of The Seventies" hosted by Johnnie Walker has just added the edited single version of this classic to "Johnnie's Jukebox". The listener that recommended it said that she and her friends went to a fairground where they used the full version on the "Waltzer" ride (?). So she knew that the ride was about six and a half minutes. A shame that even the edited single couldn't get into the Top Forty of the day - "42 with a boat anchor rather than a bullet" as my old pal Dave The DJ used to say! Stay safe and well.
I dont often comment on RUclips but i have to say this is brilliant musicianship. A group of skilled guys in their prime feeling their oats.
They deserve more credit.
never heard that expression 'feeding their oats' what does it mean?
@kenbar4761 "feeling" it means their confident and someone who feels newly emboldened, the description was originally applied to horses and how they act after they are fully fed.
One of the best intro's EVER!! Never get tired of hearing this track. Always makes me grin. Classic!
My thoughts exactly! Fantastic.
…… and then the song starts. All downhill after that
Great band...sold their soul unfrotunatly....could hsve been the new age beet
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That intro gets me every time, sheer class!!
@@catherinemellin8032 Brahma!
What a great performance,The Whistle test always seem to get the best out of bands
The BBC should show every episode again, classic bands classic songs not like today's manufactured crap
BBC yeah
I miss the days when pop sounded like this. Rickenbackers, and songwriters straight from the heart. Cheers to the Motors, the knack, and of Course the Jam!
Belter of a song isn't it. I am lucky to be old enough to have seen this on TOGWT back in the day. So much energy
@@chrisorso5376 I saw the band perform this live in Glasgow Apollo supporting Wishbone Ash... great night out... one of my favourite songs.
And the kindness of most people.
I wonder how many 18 year-olds know what a Rickenbacker is.
@@brucerouffian2630 I'm 17 and know it's an electric guitar or bass of some sort.
Btw I play in a rock band and our first album is coming out this year. Maybe not all hope is lost yet🤘
The BBC should bring back Whistle Test and give a national platform to bands that learn their craft by playing the clubs, instead we get talentless teenagers that think they can sing in their bedroom so want to appear on X-factor.
Genial Harry Grout - Absolutely agree. Pile in a transit van and head up and down the country building a following. Don’t appear on car crash tv in front of talentless halfwits who think that they are tastemakers. C’mon kids take back the initiative and create the music you want !
@@ianwilkinson3043 Which is the music what WE want. Down with X-Fucktor!
I totally agree with you. There is no talent anymore these days. The Whistle Test was great and I remember it so well back in the good old days. And If it wasn't for David Attenborough, we would have never had it in the first place as he was the head controller of BBC2 when it all started back in the 70s.
Isn't that what Later gives us?
@@ianwilkinson3043 I’d give anything to pile in the back of a transit and go off to a gig now! Covid has really f****d up the live music scene. And yes, bring back the whistle test!
Don’t know how I missed this first time around. Now in 2024 @ 71 young I can’t stop foot tapping to this.
In 1977, I was 10 when I got goosebumps listening to the original version of this track. Now, at 55, I get goosebumps seeing this brilliant live version. What a magic, energetic song.
My son and his mates band, they are 15-18, do this song in their set. It's awesome to see kids so young playing music like this!
Post it on here. This is an outstanding performance & one of the finest pieces of rock on You Tube. Not the easiest piece to perform & your son obviously likes a challenge.
711honved Dead right mate. What song/performance.
katastrophenschutzwa yeah, great to see teenagers still appreciate good music, one of the best songs of 1977, even if it wasnt a big hit
+711honved can mail it if you wanna see it. Just message me an addy.
Top man
First heard this on the alan freeman bbc saturday afternoon show in 1977 . Alan freeman introduced me to so much good music . What a legend he was
Fantastic pub rock classic. Most of the bands and the venues are gone but the music still lives on
Fabulous song. You only hear it once in a while on the radio. Its a real classic.
What a killer song and performance. What happened to music
I live in the states and was 2 years old when this was made. I just found the band recently and been hooked. Awesome!!!
Fantastic.......Backtrack my friend to to the fantastic " Ducks Deluxe"....self titled album n taxi to the terminal zone.....I can guarantee you will not be disappointed......
Astounding track.
The build up at 4.22 is joy to my lugholes!
I remember watching this on Whistle Test first time round, and was massively impressed then, and loved it ever since. How it never got higher in the charts I really don't understand. A beast of a song.
Yeah a beast of a song how about all about the beast to come. How they knew you would get it wrong I smell fish except their all gone to late in 68
@@CharlesMarkell-ne6do Sorry? Je ne comprends pas.
One of the greatest power pop songs ever.
My foot just tapped constantly for six and a half minutes.... and I've been smiling for ten... now THAT's what you call a good tune.
Had the pleasure of seeing them absolutely brilliant 👏 😀 👌 👍🏻
It doesn't get any better than this.
I absolutely love this song and the way its played here. The playing, the attitude , the totally fantastic guitar interplay. One of my faves for sure!
Surely one of the best rock songs of all time, and an Ace band kicking ass.
1978 the year my education started in earnest. Pubs were fantastic back then and there was some excellent music like this around.
Great energy with this performance. Good old fashioned rock and roll !
What a brilliant live performance
This band came through Madison WI in 1978, and the band that I was in opened for them. Great times back then for sure!
O Lucky Man!
Great band. Good times in 1977 when AC/DC UFO an The Motors blew my mind in Knoxville TN.
OK. I have just watched The Motors on BBC GUITAR HERO'S and was amazed by this absolutely brilliant track. I have honestly never heard it or of them before. Wow. What have I been missing. Proper rock music. I love it.
Just watching the same rerun, top tune
How could that have not been in the top 10?
To me the motors. Were the most underrated bands of the late 70"s and to me.dancing the night away,is an awesome song,
Probably the best track ever produced, just formidable ........
Great song . That's a fucking great intro !!!!
Loved this first time i heard it late one night in 1977or78 on Tommy Vance's Friday Night Rock Show on Radio 1, still love it today on RUclips in 2023!
I saw these guys in Bakersfield California in December of 1977 opening up for Blue Oyster Cult. I became a fan instantly. That self titled album remains a favorite in my collection as does Bram's first solo effort which was unbelievably great!
Great double bill, never saw them live, B O C twice 1975 and 1988.
SAw them on Aug 25 1978 in The Marquee Club, Wardour Street.
U lucky cow. Superb band and tunes. Only 58 but getting used to their music. 👍
Brilliant, awsome, stupendous and first class quality playing that is not often repeated. Only 14119 views for and Justin Bieber has
millions. There is no musical justice in this world!
Power performance, just brilliant!!
that middle section , with the guitars , wow, always gets me.
Right! At 4:00? Love it!
What a pity that the cameraman didn't swing across and focus on Nick Garvey's guitar after Bram Tchaikovsky's solo. Really wanted to see Nick playing that "rolling" arpeggio type riff on the Rickenbacker. You can just tell that these guys have honed their craft playing in pubs. A great piece of proper music to come back to. Thank you The Motors.
one of the best records ever
Brilliant Band, VERY UNDERRATED! dx
First band I ever saw live. Love this song. Couldn’t hear for three days afterwards. It was just a great night.
First band I ever saw live too! They were opening for UFO and AC/DC in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, in November of 1977! Never heard them again, however, until RUclips
Great music from a brilliant bunch of musicians!
Ah, yes. The Motors. Driving around in my Olds Cutlass Supreme with this blasting out of the 8-track...such a fine memory.
Wasn't this top of John Peel's Festive Fifty for several years (along with Teenage Kicks/Undertones)? Remember listening late at night under the covers with a dodgy plastic earpiece jammed into one ear and plugged into a tiny radio ;-) Epic
Just discovered this, what a track. Great guitars, great harmonies, great song, just great!!
the whole motors 1st album is like this BUY it !! they went a bit popy after the 1st album but still good
That Rickenbacker with a Humbucker bodged just Infront of the bridge toaster 😎. Black Precision with a Jazz Bass neck 😎. Battered red Strat , red hooped T-shirt 😎. Marshall, Hi-watt, Ampeg Amps 😎. SM58 vocals 😎. AKG 414's all over the drum kit (posh) 😎. Mag-fucking-nificent. 😊😊😊
Very underrated track. One of the best intros EVER.
I wholeheartedly agree mate, such a well crafted song.
I wholly agree.
True
Amen to that mate. Absolute stonker!
One of the best bands of the era. 'Approved by the Motors' is a classic. While working in a record store during college, the Motors were one of the bands we would constantly play in the store. Both writers have great pop and R&B sensibilities.
Best ever underated rock song.
Reminds me so much of when I was skinny.
Great band and tune that I've never heard of! The Rickenbacker guitarist uses arpeggios that predate Johnny Marr. Very interesting! Thanks for posting...
Great riff and rocking song be you a punk a mod a skin or a rocker this has it all for the youth of the time.
What a performance.one of my fav’s on the whistle test.
Bought their 1st album when it was 1st released and now this the first time I ever seen the band members. I know I lead a secluded life!!!
One of the best Whistle Test performances. Thanks for sharing x
I find myself going back to this clip time and time again. I just love the guitar playing and the attitude!
I'm drawn back to this Motor's clip time and again. Saw Ducks Deluxe live at the Kent Uni during the mid 70's. Would loved to have seen the Motor's live. Perfect pub band.
We all know the motors for Airport, but this is by far the best track they ever recorded. A classic.......
I love the way all the lads sing all the way through. What a team effort! Like a barbers shop quartet
Got to be one of the very best guitar bands and certainly great at putting a great track down
Well done guys loved this....
just simple raw talent, today's music is missing
A very fluent style of drumming that suited the band perfectly... still had loads of drive as well, but the smooth rolls just kept this classic song flowing... love it.
Nice comment. He's got a real light touch, almost drumming around the beat at times. Grew up listening to Ringo and Keith Moon I guess.
One of my favourite Status Quo songs .............and that's meant as a compliment to both groups.
@tutenvanman2715. You may already know this. On Bram Tchaikovsky’s first solo album “Strange Man, Changed Man” (I think it’s called that), he covers Neil Diamond’s “I’m A Believer”. See if you can find the track. Bram and the band’s version is pure Status Quo! Stay safe and well.
this band brings back so many memories!..brill!
Awesome song! It just draws you in.😊
Old Grey Whistle Test was well ahead of its time, so many brilliant band went on to be awesome
fabulous ,a masterpiece of punk,pub,prog it's got the lot!
Gives me the chills everytime I hear it!! Perfect rock song from one helluva tIght band!!
Picked up a Motors "best of cd" just on the strength of this track ...best £5 i've spent for a while too !!
Take a trip back in a time machine, and bring it with you to the pub. Tell your mates about it and how much it cost. Play it on a honky-tonk piano. The tune can be "The Day I Spent a Fiver"!
Superb drummer. Great timing.
Absolutely bloody perfect.
BRILLIANT! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! A MASTERCLASS IN ROCK RIFFS AND PUNK INTENSITY. GOT THE SINGLE (7" VINYL) I'M NOT SHOUTING! MY CAPS BUTTON IS STUCK... 😎😎😎
Superb! A great honest band playing a heads down rocker...Fine songwriting by these lads...Bless em all.
Thank you for uploading. Merry Christmas everyone!
Fantastic single that still sounds as fresh today as it ever was
The best UK New wave pubrock/powerpop band; and mr. Bram Tchaikovsky, a genius.
I liked the Motors, but really liked Bram Tchaikovsky more.
Goddamn, this is such a killer rock n roll song!
An exiting song with plenty of umph, love it.
What a great band they were 👍
Greatest pop/rock song ever - thanks for sharing
the bollox late 70s was a great time to be around gigs in uni s and pubs everywhere and i saw led zeppelin going to see deaf school in liverpool next week god bless babyboomers we were the best
pure class just brilliant
I was lucky enough to see The Motors at a gig at Middlesbrough Town Hall in 1978. I remember this song in particular. Fantastic. Great gig!!
just stunningly potent
what a song
loved this 'back in the day' and still love it
thanks so much for this version of an utter classic
My first 12" single. What a tune !!
Stayed up to watch this back in the day, still fantastic 40 years on!
I think there were two or three songs from the same LP that entered different charts around the world. Which should mean a big commercial success, which it didn't.
A market survey provided answers; the band members were not good locking enough. When the intended buyers stood in the music store with the LP in hand, looking at the band members on the cover. Many refrained from the purchase.
The record company removed the photographs of the members from the cover. But too late, the damage was already done.
......A crying shame when great music is judged on looks, as opposed to skill, talent, and brilliant musicianship....I believe the same injustice befell them in their previous band.....The fantastic " Ducks Deluxe " even to a greater degree...
Saw the Motors play at the Town Hall Crypt in Middlesbrough, 1978. Really good night as I recall. This is a favourite song of mine.
I was there too 😀
Some great two way guitar going on here. Excellent stuff.
It just gets better and better with every listen - and it was awesome the first time!
You'd be hard pushed to find bands these days putting so much into it. Class.
Top band and under rated for their late 70's contribution.
This is such a great rock song...one of the best intro's ever. Love it and keep coming back to hear this time and time again.
The Motors were amazing and underrated. I bought this on blue vinyl 12" single and to disagree with eyebrowsed, Airport was and still is one of the best songs ever......
I've been a big Motors fan since the late 70s but never had the chance to see them live. This is the next best thing. Until the internet came along, all I had was "Approved By" and a cassette called "Greatest Hit". Yes, Hit, as opposed to Hits.
Haven't heard this since I bought the single in my teens, late '70s - great to be reminded - what a blinder!
guitar interplay on this classic motors track is nothing short of amazing ,its a real shame they went down the commercial route by album 2 and lost a lot of the energy in their songs. This proves what a great band the Motors were.
Found myself here because I quite like the song Airport. Have to say this is amazing, going to find more music by The Motors, didn't realise they were so punk.
Doesn't get better than this.
The 70s were best for everything, music, TV programmes and football !
Just superb - love it
What a great sound. Take's me back, putting it on the stereo.
John Peel's no.1 song of '77......nuff said