Brownsville Station - The Session WSIU-TV (1972)
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- Опубликовано: 23 янв 2025
- Brownsville Station on WSIU-TV's The Session. Recorded in Carbondale, Illinois in 1972 and aired nationally by PBS in June of 1973. The band members included: Tony Driggins (bass), Michael Lutz (vocals, rhythm guitar), Henry Weck (drums) and Cub Koda (lead guitar). The Session was produced and directed by Bruce Scafe. The songs performed:
Mister Robert
Wanted (Dead or Alive)
Rock With The Music
Jonah’s Here To Stay
Country Flavor
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I've noticed a lot of comments regarding the group's outfits. I've posted a few pictures from the sound check for this Session for anyone interested in their "street clothes" on that day : www.downstatesounds.com/2023/07/the-session-carbondale.html
yeah there clothes are a bit out there..i dont watch the video anyways...there great...
Bass player is wearing style was worn by members of Three Dog Night and Sly & the Family Stone during that era of rock and roll.
That thar is what stage clothes of the era was all about..
Saw them in Toledo Sports Arena
The place Rocked
These Dudes Rocked
It was Insane...
Black rocker here, born and raised in Detroit. Saw Brownsville Station with Bob Seeger at the Autorama in the back of Cobo Hall. Both bands were fantastic, I was happy to see the Black base player rocking out.
Me too!
A few years later, Phil Lynott lead the group Thin Lizzy and played bass, and another decade later, dUg Pinnick led King's X and played bass.
Bass brother easy on the base balls
& Sting lead the Police on bass early 80’s on
Love BS my father met them in a small Italian old school shoe shop in NYC mid 70’s cause he needed work on his left foot riser heel. Dad suffered a serious broken hip injury trying to sneak into the 1939 Worlds Fair. So Dad comes home as always in business suit. This era myself & younger were Beatles/Stones. Dad told us he said to them..”my boys must like you!” Then he told us the same smoking in the boys room.
A band I was in shared the stage with Brownsville back in '69 at The Crazy Horse, just southwest of Kalamazoo. Great group of guys who were out of their minds (T.J. Cronley on drums). Pie fights and fire extinguishers abounded. Our table was just off the edge of the stage, right in front of Tony. He got a big kick out of jumping on our table and screaming in our faces. Our drummer and myself thought we'd play a trick on him by wrapping a straight guitar cord around the table edge. We hogtied Tony the next time he paid us a visit. That ended that. It was a sad day when I heard that Tony had passed. I stayed in touch with Michael off-and-on through the mid '90s. One of the highlights of my time on stage.
As a black kid wanting to rock seeing Tony with Brownsville Station was a revelation. They played my high school in 1972 and it was life changing.
How the hell can a rock band change your life?
@@nathandodge665back of the bus Nathan, you just don't get it... and never will.
@@panheadsforever74 nope sure don't.its just entertainment
Check out the Band LITTLE FEAT 😊
Smoking in the boy's room 😊
The world needs more Brownsville Station
Coming right up
Truth!!!
Definitely🤟🎸
And cowbell
Cub Koda is still a legend around here (Detroit)! Notice the absence of effects pedals…..this was an honest, straightforward rock and roll band, nothing less than a complete blast to see live.
Cool i love seeing done without them , but i think Mike has some on top of his amp
straight in cub and tony using superleads
I hope that heaven has a 1972 section for me. We had the best hair, best clothes. And we made music with guitars instead of computers.
Absolutely!!!!! 🤟🎸. BROWNSVILLE STATION FOR EVER!!!!!
Saw them in the middle of a cow pasture in Shirley, Arkansas, in 1976 with Wet Willie, David Allen Coe, and Grinderswitch. What a party!!!
Came for fashion advice, stayed for the music and fashion advice.
I am the guy that was smokin in the boys room with cub. And we never did get caught. I am fang in the tune. The song came from jailhouse rock by elvis. I taught cub how to play it and he truned that into smokin to thank me for teaching him how to play chords right on the guitar. We were best buddies in high school in manchester michigan. And the bathroom is still there? Full of smoke!
Very cool sir!
Let your yeah be yeah! That's really cool man.. I wish I had a video of the first band I worked with... I did make a cassette tape of them and later on put the cassette on CD... I called themself pauper from Ocean county New Jersey, late 1970s...☄️🎸🎤🥁
Brownsville station and mountain together at a ice rink in Pittsburgh in 1973. The tickets were $3.50. My time goes fast.
Envious
Wonderful footage of this band I could never find a video of these guys... And to be doing this with bands like Alice Cooper, Slade, grand funk, the who, stones, BTO, and the sweet out there.. this footage of Brownsville station got you a subscription..ROCK ON...
The band that brought us the HIT = smokin in the boys room......😮
Huge
Tons of radio\ FM play 👍
and Eat, Sit, and Go…
My band opened for these guys at Bob-Lo Island in '73. They were LOUD!
Summer of 72 ..... Hitched from California to the east coast seeing every concert I could. Happened upon the WIXY spirit of 72 concert at some lake in cincinatti. 1st time seeing them and they completely stole the show (james gang, rasberries,tony joe white, and a lot more. there were 2 stages going, (alternating between bands)..... Brownsville used both of them. 4 piece at the time ... same lineup as here. I never thought their albums did them justice. Their live show was the best
Saw them when they opened for Triumph Feb 1979 at The Fieldhouse in Erie Pa. Great show. Permanent hearing damage in my left ear from that concert. When I woke up next morning after I was totally deaf in both ears & took 2 days for hearing to come back. Left ear was never the same with permanent ringing.
Cub Koda 🌟 🤓 🌟
Ain't nothin like the sound of a Les Paul and a Firebird cranked up and LET LOOSE!!👍✌🤘
And H-Bomb's Ludwig kit is BADASS!!🎼🎵🥁
Henry "H-Bomb" Weck on the DRUMS ! Saw them in the mid 70s at UT-Martin. Blew the roof off!
It's not the kit or the guitar,it's the guy playing it!!!.....
@@johnbock1896you ain't lyin, bro!👍
@@louiebee6745 I'm from Ann Arbor and used to see Lutz jogging around downtown, for years,. ....in the eighties and ninties
Uhhh...John, we do know and realize that. For sure.@@johnbock1896
What an unexpected jolt of pleasure!
This was the ultimate line-up of Brownsville Station.
This is a real treasure, great group captured at their best. Thanks for sharing. Makes my day.
THIS IS SO GREAT , ive only seen bits of this very grainy and in B and W before , WOW can't wait to show my mates this one
What a great band! Super rowdy boogie rock. I always loved listening to Cub Koda's cranked up guitar sounds..
Cub Koda great frontman and underrated guitar player...amazing live band..
🎉 very Kool 🎉 thank you for sharing hope you are well God loves you deeply shalom 🤗🐼♥️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8
Who knew local TV could be so cool?
Channel 62 (DTW) used to show soft porn after 2 a.m.
Rockin' with Cub Koda!
What a great and underrated band! Just when I thought that they l played hard rock, I hear Jonah's Here To Stay on this live recording. It's interesting that Koda admits that it never work in the studio. The version on the LP is weak, but not the one seen here. Lutz's voice is awesome.
This footage is phenomenal, thanks for posting!
Saw them in 1970 or so. Great show band.
Cracking performance. They should have been bigger.
this band jams... rock it!
The best live band ever. When I first heard them play Road Runner in concert I was blown away. I agree that they were one of the most underrated bands of the '70's.
I met these guys around 77, this is fantastic ,love this band live
This is the first video i've seen of them as a four piece. All the videos i've seen previously have been as a three piece with Michael Lutz playing bass.
Same here, this is from just prior to the big breakthrough, one hit of "Smokin' In The Boys Room ".
So thank you for this!
Awesome idea for a channel. I have a lot of listening to do.
¹)/¹¹
Me TOO! and I was at SIU in 1972 w/no TV
Wow I remembered covering one of there songs and they played it... Rock with the Music. I forgot the name of it, great to hear it, I'll bet it's been 50 years since I thought about that tune. Good times.
Thank you very much for posting👌👌👍👍🤟🎸 BROWNSVILLE STATION FOR EVER!!!!!!!
I gotta tell ya',
this was a special treat to see...
I used to take guitar lessons from Michael Lutz at the Grinells music store in Ann Arbor Michigan until Smoking in the Boys Room hit. After that he was touring with them too much & I never saw him again.
Somewhere deep in the Rust Belt, wedged between Prairie Soul and the Chitlin Circuit, lies Brownsville Station. Enjoy your stay
Chuck Berry much ?! Never gets old though ❤
I saw Brownsville Station open for Edgar Winter around 1975...great show !! Thanks for posting this. ( i knew if Edgar was ok with them opening for him they were obviously pro musicians! )
YEAH!! Is a great record 1973 wow! still one of my all time favorites I wonder if there is a CD available would be so good my vinyl is a little worn out played the hell out of that record growing up! I still play it through 😅
It was on Wounded Bird label. A little lo fi and I think out of print. Download though.
hot band!
Holy shit I have been looking for this holy grail for years. Thank you so so so much fir posting this
I have been wondering who this Cub Koda is/was since I was a 17 yr old listening to the Blackfoot Strikes lp and reading the info on the sleeve (I miss that) but now,thanks to you,I know more about the phenomenon that is, Cub Koda. I listened to several other videos with Cub, and was pleasantly surprised!I dig that kind of " less than perfect " playing and singing (I blame American Idol and such for making the general public think that "perfect music "is all that's worth listening to to
i still have my Strikes album, great stuff...!
I too miss those inner record sleeves. They were far more informative than any magazine article.
Saw them in Savannah Georgia in the early seventies they were only a three-piece then
Great I have a lot of their music
:D Thanks! 🤩Tinja,Markku&Huns
YEAH!!!!!!
I remember a 3 piece and Smokin In The Boy's Room.
I used to see these guys in Lansing and Ann Arbor, before they had the money for costumes and high heels. I remember when Cub first perfected his tuck and roll onstage.
Having to sit through a criminal begging for money to get to this excellence. Worth it.
That's too funny. And, you can't fast forward it. The one I keep seeing is the one where she can't get past one sentence with them cutting the take so she can study her next teleprompter line!
@@jimmayors2315 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣indeed. That their propaganda arm, the MSM, keeps propping her up as some brilliant savior: 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
I don't remember them as a quartet..always thought they were a trio..
Same here...who is the 4th guy?
@roadrocket7 Tony Driggins
Back in the 70's, pretty much every band was Glam. Even Rush wore make-up and silk kimonoes. Groovy times.
Can't beat good old boogie woogie
Boy I'd like to have that firebird
Have a vinyl copy of the Yeah! album, the one with smoking in the boys room... Bass player Tony diggins is not on that album what happened to him?
What ever happened to Boogie Rock?...Status Quo, Foghat, Brownsville Station.....Oh, that's right...everybody is grumpy now
Yes I immediately thought of Foghat
awesome bands
I have been saying for a long time that Boogie Rock is long overdue for a major comeback.
Saw them in 72
I saw these guys in the Dayton Music Hall where they were the "warm-up" band for Joe Walsh and the James Gang. They played a 1950s style set with "Roadrunner," "Rumble" and "Hello, Mary Lou", and basically stole the show from The James Gang! Joe Walsh looked kind of pissed that he had to follow them.Check out their showstopper "Martian Blues".
Holy shit I heard cat scratch fever riff right after the guitar part
I wish I hadn’t seen this. This isn’t the Brownsville Station I remember.
now you know what you have been missing
There was so much more than Smokin in the Boys Room and Martian Boogie
,,,,yes,,,,but those kick ass tunes are great by themselves...so good.......peace out!
Just turned my band on to Martian boogie 🤟✌️
You've heard the New York Dolls----these are the Ann Arbor Dolls!!
This is another song off our new album (they have one album) 😅
Go Cub
Is this the Cub Koda who played harmonica on "Train, Train " on Blackfoot 's album "Strikes "?? Has to be Cub Koda is not a common name! Anyway this is a rocking set , I, too love the sound of the Gibson Les Paul and Firebird together and when music wasn't so "perfect" ps what is that fart sound ?
Rickey's grandfather, Shorty Medlocke, played the intro, but you are absolutely correct that this is the same Cub Koda who played on the track. I don't know the precise logistics, but Blackfoot recorded some of the "Strikes" album in Ann Arbor -- Cub mentions their origins when he's doing the band intros -- and drummer Henry Weck was a co-producer.
While I remember Rob Tyner's radio appearances better, Cub Koda used to pop up occasionally as a guest DJ or on-air guest on the radio in Detroit, typically on WRIF, and he always made it worth a listen. And in the "where you least expect it" department, I recently stayed at a night at an RV park, Avinger Station, in Avinger, TX, and there was a sign inside the facilities that warned against "smokin' in the boys room". I told the owner that this Detroiter thought that was a nice touch to go with the park's name, derived from their having the town's old train station on the property as a centerpiece.
@@QuarrellaDeVil Do you remember when Joe Walsh and Ted Nugent guest DJ on WRIF? You could barely understand Joe too many downers I assume. Lol
I saw Brownsville Station in Philadelphia in the 1970s. The singer made a comment about the Dallas Cowboys and they got booed off the stage. LOL
Michael lutz in the blue looked like Mork from Mork and Mindy!
Geddy Lee is wearing funny glasses.
dude with glasses looks like..yup-gety Lee from rush?????hillarious!!!!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?😊
Ted Nugent TOTALLY ripped the first song off with Cat Scratch Fever!
Never heard of this before now. What song, the first? I don't hear anything like Cat Scratch Fever (CSF) in anything they played here. Please elaborate. Wiki for CSF doesn't mention anything about it, and VHI has awarded CSF a 32nd Best Hard Rock Songs of All Time to Uncle Ted's song.
@@jimmayors2315 Mr. Robert from Night on The Town in 1972. Detroit boys and the Nuge ripped it off six years later.
@@DetroitboyTV Totally?? I just listened to them side by side, and they are no where near the same songs. Three chords at the opening of Mr Roberts are simply 3 common chords. Tempo's different, one ends descending back to the opening chord, the other doesn't. One slides into it. One's a shuffle, the other isn't. One is bluesy, the other isn't. Chorus and bridge melody aren't even close. There's more an argument that The Eagles ripped off _Hotel California_ from Tull's _We Used To Know_ then this! Or, Led Zepplin's _Stairway To Heaven_ from Spirit's _Taurus_. I'm just not hearing a "total rippoff" here.
@@jimmayors2315 Either you hear it or you don’t. I hear it.
@@DetroitboyTV I hear it. I just don't think it is a TOTAL rip off.
❤❤❤ HD to go
Gibson Firebird fans rejoice. Steve Stills and Johnny Winter, Texans both, obviously rocked the Bird, too.
Obviously these are the guys who Motley Crue borrowed Smoking in the Boys Room, from.
Martian Boogie
Wow! There has been a decent black and white copy of this floating around for a few decades. Where did you locate this color copy?
That guitarist looks like geddy lee?
What the fuck happened to music man?? I miss these days
You cannot hear it
What was Cub’s real name?
His birth name was Michael John Uszniewicz
@@GreenManalishiUSA He’s great
Two words: Martian Boogie
The only hit I remember is Smokin' in the boys Room!
Now I know where Ted Nugent got the riff for Cat Scratch Fever, it's the first riffs of the opening song!
Hair farmers, unite!
America’s answer to Slade? Discuss…
You beat me to it. Opening song could be on Slade Alive..
Slade were not as musically accomplished as Brownsville Station.@@petegreenfield3645
Dang I wanted to hear “smoking in the baffroom”…😑
Martian Boogey!
What you eatin' there boy? Crayons?
they did much better as b ville statiom than they did as the mike coda corporation!
Mister Robert=CAT SCRATCH FEVER???????????????????
Whats with the farting noise?
Wow...they were amazingly average
I think the only thing black musicians really proved was that white musicians always needed to hit the weights and eat better 😅
These guys were terrible! they have the costumes, and the cliche poses, but man they can't play or sing!
Good musicians, absolutely terrible dressers
That bass player is just plain ANNOYING running around like that.
Que musica tan insipída