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The Stranglers are one of the few bands from the punk/new wave era who have actually transcended from that classification and era and are still listenable and intriguing. Unlike so many of their 'peers' they could actually play their instruments quite well in fact. They are still great with Baz who has done an amazing job since he joined. Stranglers rule!
Cheers for the post again. Always loved this band more than any other. Never seen this before. Watching this you just know that the original line up was coming to an end. Sadly Dave Greenfield passed away recently, and Jet Black still takes a backseat due to his health. Sad to say but I can't see how JJ can continue with Baz Warne has The Stranglers anymore😟 RIP DAVE GREENFIELD 😇😇
Glad you found and enjoyed this Mick. I agree with you re JJ, as I watched a recent video listed as "The Stranglers" and for a minute of the video, I thought it was a tribute band, until I spotted JJ. I think he will keep going, as it's their only way of really earning cash these days, streaming etc brings in next to nothing.
I was thinking they probably don't make much in royalties, as their type of music doesn't get played these days. I hear Golden Brown occasionally, but the tinny sounding punk stuff is well out of date. I saw 10cc at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago, with only one of the original members. They were great. The songs were perfect, and everyone was up dancing. You would not have known it was not the originals, so I suppose JJ could continue playing old classics as long as he has a good backing band. I know you can never capture the same atmosphere without the original members, but the music can still be as good.
@@ScottishTeeVee They recently put up an ambiguous statement on their official website saying "They were almost finished a new album with Dave's involvement & wanted to bring it to fruition by doing a final tour in memory of him..I'm presuming their calling it a day at the end of the UK tour? & your correct they are only a tribute band these days Can't see how Burnel soul founding member could carry on would look ridiculous tbh....Thanks for the post!
Love The Stranglers, especially when Hugh was with them. He (and JJ) is a great hero of mine, but I AM a bit dissapointed that he's somehow getting in the way of the release of "the film". Come on Hugh, let them release it please 🙏😎🖤
Those closing comments by hugh were sadly a sign that his time with the band was comming to an end....looking back now it was a move that commercially would not be beneficial to either camp....the stranglers themselves went through a long period of time when even the the most diehard of fans myself included struggled to make sense of what they were trying to do......all looked lost and by the time written in red was released I think they were about done.......then step forward from the shadows of the north east...with his trusty telecaster in his hands the saviour of the stranglers Baz!.....this is the guy who in my humble opinion saved this band from a watery grave and deserves all the credit.........once back to a four piece band they did what they and every fan wanted them to do.....played great rock and roll again....the tragic sudden passing of Dave Greenfield has left every stranglers fan numb....they deserve a glorious end to their career........let's just hope we can have that chance to do it....not even a world wide pandemic should rob these guys and their amazing fans from one last waltz in black......great post thank you very much .......loved it ...stay safe x
@Eliza Coleman Absolute nonsense. I love The Stranglers with Hugh and with Baz. The Paul Roberts era ... not so much. Other bands have continued with line up changes, why not The Stranglers. Baz and JJ are a great writing team, as good as Hugh and JJ, maybe not but darn close and they get on much better.
Hugh, every song off that album could have been a hit. It's brilliant. Am glad you did one last excellent album as a Strangler before...trying something else. Love you Hugh 🖤
I knew someone who used to speak to waitresses in London with a fake Spanish accent when he ordered. I kept telling him the waitress was Polish, and he didn't have to pretend to be Spanish for her to understand his order.
@@lewis72 Thats'd two more than me, I saw them just once at the Glasgow Apollo. I hope you enjoyed the gigs you attended. Thanks for watching and commenting Lewis 🙂
Possibly the greatest band ever, at least those first 6/7 albums. They'd lost it by dreamtime and 10, and Hugh did the right thing jumping ship. Has there ever been a better song than '5 minutes '?
@@ScottishTeeVee It wouldn't work, too much time gone. I've followed Hugh Cornwells solo stuff - a mixed bag, and I'm afraid what he's doing now, touring the Stranglers catalogue with bass and drums, can sound pretty dire. As for the Stranglers post Hugh, I've never been able to get into it.
I was a young punk in the late seventies and saw the stranglers and the clash Etc and they were both the best live bands of that era and briefly knew Jean when I lived near him in Enfield London and his Triumph
@@riggstwenty2 Nice physique, but his face is well past it. Saggy, baggy and very wrinkled. Years of drug abuse has taken its toll on his looks. He is also quite fat these days, which is surprising since he is so fit.
At this point The Stranglers should’ve dug back into their aggressive past At the cusp of Punk’s 3rd Wave ? They deserved so much more They were The Best of the Class of ‘77 ... I think Hugh made some bad choices . Mind You ! Hugh’s immediate solo albums of that era Guilty & Wired were Superb !! The Stranglers as a band suffered terribly without Hugh in the 90’s on , then with Norfolk Coast , Suite 16 & Baz Warne they recorded their best in well over a decade while Hugh’s music suffered ... Strange History for one of Rock Music’s Best Bands - A Massive 10/10 !! So many fantastic songs , absolutely incredible
I don't know why The Stranglers never made it in the States. I spent my youth travelling the world and always had a selection of Stranglers music on me. If their was ever a hostel party or hotel room session, I'd put them on and all yanks that happened to be present had never heard of them, but loved them. A big opportunity missed for the band.
They did try to make it in the states, playing over 120 gigs with between 1977 to 87, but record sales wise they never even made into the top 100 with any of their single releases. Thanks for watching and commenting David
Little did Hugh know that all the things he had cooking would go off the boil. He would leave The Strangles and spend the next thirty years making dad rock that no one wants to hear.
And what have Burnel's showband put out over the past 30 years?Only Pure shyte.90% of their live shows is material from the Cornwell era. Both sides were creatively dead by the mid 80s
Fully agree. There always fringe, if with a few hits sometimes and one big hit. Burnel's band are a Stranglers tribute band. They should never have replaced Cornwell, Burnet should have stepped up to be the only real front man and just hired a guitarist to be on the side. Not all bands can sustain (no pun intended). They actually had a very long run. The main reason for my spikey comment was how sad I feel when I compare the beautifully, sneering, lean, angry, irritable looking Cornwell from his 20's singing (miming) Nice'n' sleazy on Top of the Pops (or was it Top Pops in Holland) with the totally mellow, old man in the embarrassing Totem and Taboo music video. Even worse when I heard that he will go to someone's living room and do a few songs for a couple of grand. Not sure if that's because he was desperate for such a low pay day or for even some attention and relevance. Still, what have I ever done? Cornwell was a greater singer/songwriter/musician in his day. @@garyhitchcock3828
@@NR-rv8rz Very true 👍 Have to say the Hugh & John Cooper Clark collaboration was gawd awful...Burnel seemed to have lost interest in singing from the early 80s he was singing less and less per album 1 or 2 songs and then hired Paul Roberts as lead vocalist 🤢 As you rightly say a tribute band.
Interesting to hear in the interview JJ Burnel started out on the classical guitar before bass guitar. You can see the quality of their songs comes from a classical background. Wouldn't surprise me if some of the others had a classical background too.
9:30 comment by J J, explains our current ludricous situation perfectly, “maybe our future will be like Rollerball or the Running Man”. That was after a pithy comment about the shallowness of Nationalism.
Hugh must have known he was going to leave at this point. Such a big decision couldn't have been overnight, he must have been planning it for some time. He does look strained here. Pity they couldn't have come to a compromise, and sorted out their differences, rather than him leaving altogether. He sill plays Stranglers' songs on his solo tours, he might as well be doing it with them.
@@ghmusic8116 The other two Stranglers never reported JJ ever thumped them, so why was it only Hugh who said JJ occasionally gave him the odd whack? Did Hugh rub JJ up the wrong way, perhaps?
@@ghmusic8116Yeah, but I always wonder why none of the other Stranglers ever reported JJ thumped them. He seemed to be at loggerheads with Hugh, but Dave and Jet have never said JJ was rough with them.
@@ghmusic8116 I always think the irony is: It was Hugh's group to begin with, and if JJ hadn't picked up the hitch-hiker, met Hugh and left his address, and the other men hadn't gone back to the US and Sweden, JJ would never have become a pop star. He would have gone to Japan, made a career out of karate and none of us would have heard of him! By some fluke, JJ ran into a man who introduced him to some 'would-be' pop stars, he was asked to join cos there was a vacancy and the rest is history.
I remember I rang sky m.t.v up about this show as It was scheduled to be shown and advertised but was cancelled.....it was eventually shown around 2/3 months later . I carnt remember the reason behind the cancellation....but i was told by the producers not to miss it . Ha.
Well, they are from Surrey. Have you seen the house prices around Guildford? ;-) Why wouldn't they speak eloquently? I don't really regard them as a punk band, but most seem to, but it's wrong to even judge all punk bands by the IQ of Sid Vicious.
@@Katehowe3010 Well, I read punk was over by 1979, to presumably if you want to keep making records and getting folks to by them, you would have to move with the current trend. The 80s brought in the new romantic era, so Midnight Summer Dream etc came into being. Can you put on a more useful comment?
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The Stranglers are one of the few bands from the punk/new wave era who have actually transcended from that classification and era and are still listenable and intriguing. Unlike so many of their 'peers' they could actually play their instruments quite well in fact. They are still great with Baz who has done an amazing job since he joined. Stranglers rule!
@@ghmusic8116 Dave Greenfield?? I just listened to their latest and it sounds fantastic and completely Stranglers to me!
Thank you for recording, editing and putting online. Really worth it!
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Absolutely - yet another cracking video from this ace channel and a really interesting interview. Off to listen to Black and White now.
Cheers for the post again. Always loved this band more than any other. Never seen this before. Watching this you just know that the original line up was coming to an end. Sadly Dave Greenfield passed away recently, and Jet Black still takes a backseat due to his health. Sad to say but I can't see how JJ can continue with Baz Warne has The Stranglers anymore😟 RIP DAVE GREENFIELD 😇😇
Glad you found and enjoyed this Mick. I agree with you re JJ, as I watched a recent video listed as "The Stranglers" and for a minute of the video, I thought it was a tribute band, until I spotted JJ. I think he will keep going, as it's their only way of really earning cash these days, streaming etc brings in next to nothing.
I was thinking they probably don't make much in royalties, as their type of music doesn't get played these days. I hear Golden Brown occasionally, but the tinny sounding punk stuff is well out of date. I saw 10cc at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago, with only one of the original members. They were great. The songs were perfect, and everyone was up dancing. You would not have known it was not the originals, so I suppose JJ could continue playing old classics as long as he has a good backing band. I know you can never capture the same atmosphere without the original members, but the music can still be as good.
@@ScottishTeeVee They recently put up an ambiguous statement on their official website saying "They were almost finished a new album with Dave's involvement & wanted to bring it to fruition by doing a final tour in memory of him..I'm presuming their calling it a day at the end of the UK tour? & your correct they are only a tribute band these days Can't see how Burnel soul founding member could carry on would look ridiculous tbh....Thanks for the post!
...great band...was able to see them live in '87 in NY and was even able to chat with JJ for a bit....so many great songs!!
Love The Stranglers, especially when Hugh was with them. He (and JJ) is a great hero of mine, but I AM a bit dissapointed that he's somehow getting in the way of the release of "the film". Come on Hugh, let them release it please 🙏😎🖤
Those closing comments by hugh were sadly a sign that his time with the band was comming to an end....looking back now it was a move that commercially would not be beneficial to either camp....the stranglers themselves went through a long period of time when even the the most diehard of fans myself included struggled to make sense of what they were trying to do......all looked lost and by the time written in red was released I think they were about done.......then step forward from the shadows of the north east...with his trusty telecaster in his hands the saviour of the stranglers Baz!.....this is the guy who in my humble opinion saved this band from a watery grave and deserves all the credit.........once back to a four piece band they did what they and every fan wanted them to do.....played great rock and roll again....the tragic sudden passing of Dave Greenfield has left every stranglers fan numb....they deserve a glorious end to their career........let's just hope we can have that chance to do it....not even a world wide pandemic should rob these guys and their amazing fans from one last waltz in black......great post thank you very much .......loved it ...stay safe x
@Eliza Coleman Absolute nonsense. I love The Stranglers with Hugh and with Baz. The Paul Roberts era ... not so much. Other bands have continued with line up changes, why not The Stranglers. Baz and JJ are a great writing team, as good as Hugh and JJ, maybe not but darn close and they get on much better.
@@ghmusic8116 Disagree so strongly.
Hugh, every song off that album could have been a hit. It's brilliant. Am glad you did one last excellent album as a Strangler before...trying something else. Love you Hugh 🖤
Thank you for putting this up,fasinating stuff
Glad you enjoyed this Vinny
One of the best new wave bands to come out of the UK in the late 70s early 80s. Fab sound.
They weren't new wave.
Hugh from 5:45 about hotels with german accent is downright HILARIOUS 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😅
I knew someone who used to speak to waitresses in London with a fake Spanish accent when he ordered. I kept telling him the waitress was Polish, and he didn't have to pretend to be Spanish for her to understand his order.
Yeah funny. And EVERY hotel has work outside therefore he hates hotels? He.
This is great and much appreciated.
Top Notch ! .. and Don Letts at the end ... Great upload!
Glad you enjoy it John. Do take a look at the many more rare Stranglers videos I have uploaded
I saw these live just the other day (1st Feb, 2022).
Brilliant.
In Glasgow per chance?
@@ScottishTeeVee
No, UEA, Norwich.
@@ScottishTeeVee
Seen them there 3 times now... and at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and the Assembly in Leamington.
@@lewis72 Thats'd two more than me, I saw them just once at the Glasgow Apollo. I hope you enjoyed the gigs you attended. Thanks for watching and commenting Lewis 🙂
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*4 more
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Cheers !
Possibly the greatest band ever, at least those first 6/7 albums. They'd lost it by dreamtime and 10, and Hugh did the right thing jumping ship. Has there ever been a better song than '5 minutes '?
I'd love to see a reunion of Hugh and JJ, just playing the hits and gems from those first albums
@@ScottishTeeVee It wouldn't work, too much time gone. I've followed Hugh Cornwells solo stuff - a mixed bag, and I'm afraid what he's doing now, touring the Stranglers catalogue with bass and drums, can sound pretty dire. As for the Stranglers post Hugh, I've never been able to get into it.
@@paulschnyder938 Same here, I have tried listening to the Stranglers without Hugh, it's just not the Stranglers.
A genuinely great band 1977-1983, a spent force creatively 1984-1990, and the less said about the post-Hugh years the better.
Punkpoetry. Well said 👋 Thats it in a nutshell.
Best bit of kismet I've ever heard, brought loads of joy to my life over the last 40 years.
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You're welcome
Immensely talented band
Yea too good to be a punk band
I was a young punk in the late seventies and saw the stranglers and the clash Etc and they were both the best live bands of that era and briefly knew Jean when I lived near him in Enfield London and his Triumph
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JJB is possibly the sexiest man on earth.
Thanks. I am JJB
Johnny B you are very welcome...... and the sexiest man on Earth. Please continue to be so.
I would have said the same in the late 70s and possibly early 80s, but not now, I'm afraid.
Treasure Hunter UK . Ha ha, still does it for me ! A strangler who does karate , eternally hot ! 😍
@@riggstwenty2 Nice physique, but his face is well past it. Saggy, baggy and very wrinkled. Years of drug abuse has taken its toll on his looks. He is also quite fat these days, which is surprising since he is so fit.
At this point The Stranglers should’ve dug back into their aggressive past
At the cusp of Punk’s 3rd Wave ? They deserved so much more
They were The Best of the Class of ‘77 ... I think Hugh made some bad choices .
Mind You ! Hugh’s immediate solo albums of that era Guilty & Wired were Superb !!
The Stranglers as a band suffered terribly without Hugh in the 90’s on , then with Norfolk Coast , Suite 16 & Baz Warne they recorded their best in well over a decade while Hugh’s music suffered ... Strange History for one of Rock Music’s Best Bands - A Massive 10/10 !! So many fantastic songs , absolutely incredible
Im so glad you enjoyed this Daevid. Thanks for leaving a great comment
Always liked the stranglers the whirly organ sound is fantastic
I don't know why The Stranglers never made it in the States. I spent my youth travelling the world and always had a selection of Stranglers music on me. If their was ever a hostel party or hotel room session, I'd put them on and all yanks that happened to be present had never heard of them, but loved them. A big opportunity missed for the band.
They did try to make it in the states, playing over 120 gigs with between 1977 to 87, but record sales wise they never even made into the top 100 with any of their single releases. Thanks for watching and commenting David
@@ScottishTeeVee I didn't know that. Thanks.
_"Have you all got your Crackerjack pencils...?"_
Little did Hugh know that all the things he had cooking would go off the boil. He would leave The Strangles and spend the next thirty years making dad rock that no one wants to hear.
And what have Burnel's showband put out over the past 30 years?Only Pure shyte.90% of their live shows is material from the Cornwell era. Both sides were creatively dead by the mid 80s
Fully agree.
There always fringe, if with a few hits sometimes and one big hit.
Burnel's band are a Stranglers tribute band. They should never have replaced Cornwell, Burnet should have stepped up to be the only real front man and just hired a guitarist to be on the side.
Not all bands can sustain (no pun intended). They actually had a very long run.
The main reason for my spikey comment was how sad I feel when I compare the beautifully, sneering, lean, angry, irritable looking Cornwell from his 20's singing (miming) Nice'n' sleazy on Top of the Pops (or was it Top Pops in Holland) with the totally mellow, old man in the embarrassing Totem and Taboo music video.
Even worse when I heard that he will go to someone's living room and do a few songs for a couple of grand. Not sure if that's because he was desperate for such a low pay day or for even some attention and relevance.
Still, what have I ever done? Cornwell was a greater singer/songwriter/musician in his day.
@@garyhitchcock3828
@@NR-rv8rz Very true 👍 Have to say the Hugh & John Cooper Clark collaboration was gawd awful...Burnel seemed to have lost interest in singing from the early 80s he was singing less and less per album 1 or 2 songs and then hired Paul Roberts as lead vocalist 🤢 As you rightly say a tribute band.
Yeah, if Burnel had the passion when Cornwel left he could have been a lead singer as he was younger and had the look. @@garyhitchcock3828
@@garyhitchcock3828 "Have to say the Hugh & John Cooper Clark collaboration was gawd awful" Truly God awful and embarrassing, yes.
Interesting to hear in the interview JJ Burnel started out on the classical guitar before bass guitar. You can see the quality of their songs comes from a classical background. Wouldn't surprise me if some of the others had a classical background too.
Brilliant stuff from the stranglers 👍.
Thanks for watching and commenting John
Fascinating.
Love the Meninblack. ✌🏼️
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Thank you for uploading. Have a nice day. 😎
Thank you 🔥
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Can't believe how skinny Hugh's arms were
good old band
9:30 comment by J J, explains our current ludricous situation perfectly, “maybe our future will be like Rollerball or the Running Man”. That was after a pithy comment about the shallowness of Nationalism.
Shallowness of nationalism? Nothing is shallow about nationalism whatsoever. If you are a globalist F off!
@@jonesy2111 Fully agree. The nationalism is what keeps nations alive and with a goal for the future; globalism kills them.
@@jonesy2111 Easy there, Rick. Although I shouldn't be surprised given your viewpoints.
@Jimmy McAllister
Didn't know there was one! What channel?
Hugh must have known he was going to leave at this point. Such a big decision couldn't have been overnight, he must have been planning it for some time. He does look strained here. Pity they couldn't have come to a compromise, and sorted out their differences, rather than him leaving altogether. He sill plays Stranglers' songs on his solo tours, he might as well be doing it with them.
@@ghmusic8116 The other two Stranglers never reported JJ ever thumped them, so why was it only Hugh who said JJ occasionally gave him the odd whack? Did Hugh rub JJ up the wrong way, perhaps?
@@ghmusic8116Yeah, but I always wonder why none of the other Stranglers ever reported JJ thumped them. He seemed to be at loggerheads with Hugh, but Dave and Jet have never said JJ was rough with them.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Thats it exactly Its a pity the way it ended & no contact between both sides ever since (sad tbh)
@@ghmusic8116 I always think the irony is: It was Hugh's group to begin with, and if JJ hadn't picked up the hitch-hiker, met Hugh and left his address, and the other men hadn't gone back to the US and Sweden, JJ would never have become a pop star. He would have gone to Japan, made a career out of karate and none of us would have heard of him! By some fluke, JJ ran into a man who introduced him to some 'would-be' pop stars, he was asked to join cos there was a vacancy and the rest is history.
@@ghmusic8116 Agreed.
I remember I rang sky m.t.v up about this show as It was scheduled to be shown and advertised but was cancelled.....it was eventually shown around 2/3 months later . I carnt remember the reason behind the cancellation....but i was told by the producers not to miss it . Ha.
Interesting, I wonder why it was cancelled.
To think Hugh Cornwell left the band that very year…
When Finland won 95 hockey it ended poor time that day, human are tribes
“There was an armistice”. Don’t you mean amnesty Hugh?
Hugh, you should stop partying until 5 o'clock in the morning. Then, you would get a good night's sleep.
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@@ScottishTeeVee A really nice piece of video, nevertheless ! The older that I become, the more that I like the Stranglers.
Is it me or do JJ and Hugh speak extremely eloquently ??
The both speak quite well, though Hugh drops "um" and "uh" far more than JJ
That's what having a decent education does for you. Both University graduates.
Well, they are from Surrey. Have you seen the house prices around Guildford? ;-) Why wouldn't they speak eloquently? I don't really regard them as a punk band, but most seem to, but it's wrong to even judge all punk bands by the IQ of Sid Vicious.
Burnell also speaks fluent French and has a Karate black belt.
Glen What Box? Because he is a French guy raised in England
Hugh has the same personality as Roger waters… he thought the band would quit after him, he thought he was the star. Well, he wasn’t
Hugh is right about hotels.
What's the date on this interview. Hugh leaves the Stranglers Aug 11th of this year??
Jean Jacques or is it Baron Sirus Greenback lol , I can't tell the difference
The Stranglers best years were the albums from 77-80 ie Rattus-Meninblack! And then, they went soft!
I totally agree
Perhaps they thought Punk had had its day, and they had to change genre to survive.
What an inane comment.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 Precisely!
@@Katehowe3010 Well, I read punk was over by 1979, to presumably if you want to keep making records and getting folks to by them, you would have to move with the current trend. The 80s brought in the new romantic era, so Midnight Summer Dream etc came into being. Can you put on a more useful comment?
Who leaves comments on a video?
Thousands of people
@@ScottishTeeVee whaaaa?
You do.
@@chelseapoet3664 nope
And no ,The Clash. Are not wimps !!!!!!!
They were nicer than you jj
How karma has caught up with Hugh Cornwell!
................................ And then Hugh left the band.................
Endeded when hue left
So did your spelling
Looks unhappy
That's Chris Morris.
Who ? Where?