How this band are not still not be recognised as the best band ever to come out of Scotland is a mystery to me, they were fantastic live, and very underrated.
every year there is an Alex Harvey Day in fact today Feb 4 we are meeting at the tree planted for Alex at the Glasgow Peoples palace and then off to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Experience play everyone welcome every year.. .
@@gerryrodden1983thank you so much for this information, stay strong, in Greece we really love scottish and irish culture and are deeply aware of it... Long live Alex Harvey, a genuine, humble man, a legend, a hero. Stay blessed.
One of my favorite thrills was being able to see SAHB in Elyria, Ohio in 1977!! He definitely had all his SHIT in one SOCK. Miss ya Alex..... (´;︵;`). (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
Brilliant! One of the greatest live bands ever, led by one of the finest frontmen of all time, simply SENSATIONAL. Cried the day Alex left us, God bless his genius. VAMBO ROOL
These performances put much of the stuff currently produced by popular bands into perspective - just a great band with a great band leader and a truly original song - makes me happy to be alive RIP Alex
every year there is an Alex Harvey Day in fact today Feb 4 we are meeting at the tree planted for Alex at the Glasgow Peoples palace and then off to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Experience play everyone welcome every year.. .
Fantastic stuff!! Never has one man looked so stoned on national TV before or since Alex Harvey in the 2nd performance. Great anti-corruption record with a delightful sense of humour we fail to see exhibited on television today.
@@johndillinger8424 I hope not, I'm going to see him in Stoke on Trent next month! www.ents24.com/stoke-on-trent-events/eleven/zal-cleminsons-sin-dogs/1073915165
@@smitbar11 I was there too. I thought Zal looked, performed and conversed afterwards very well for a cadaver. Lol! All joking aside, what a phenomenal gig! One of the best i have attended, and i have seen some incredible bands over the last 36 years since my first gig (Monsters Of Rock festival at Donington '83)!! Just hoping he and the band come back soon. RIP Ted and Alex... \m/
First rate live band, saw them many times. At Portsmouth Guildhall, all seater, a young girl was quietly in front of the stage, security tried to get her to sit in her seat. Alex intervened saying " if she goes, I go". They let her stay .
I've fallen in love with this band, thanks to the radio talk show host Nick Abbot. He said it was his first gigs and one of the best gigs he ever went to, in edinburgh in 1976. He said a siren sounded, a spotlight shined on a brick wall and Alex Harvey kicked through it dressed as Hitler 😅
I love how Alex has clearly been on a month long bender since the last appearance and has rocked up at TOTP studios just wearing a kimono, sandals and a straw hat 🤣🤣🤣
I did watch this show religiously every week with my parents. I can hear my Dad saying who's the berk in the make up? Tony Blackburns political commentary trying to make a witty remark and failing this time miserably! Thank fuck for Harry Enfield doing Smashy and Nicey.
Well, when I was a kid at around this time, my family watched Top of the Pops religiously (would have been serious arguments if someone wanted to watch something on the other side) so I guess we must have sat down to this.
I bought an antique collection of albums and discovered Alex Harvey without an album jacket. It was a collection of his best songs and i cant stop playing them. His band r great musicians and he is unique. After hearing Gang Bang i think i know where Zevon got his Werewolves of London.
Legend he was, remember seeing the band in Mountain Ash in the early 80s, they had to drag Alex out of the pub to perform at the gig, he was absolutely smashed, but what a gig, great memories.
One of the first groups i ever got into. I was 15 years old when i bought the albums (framed. And the live LP) did a great cover of the Tom Jones song Delilah to
My favourite band from my teenage years in the 70's and beyond. Definitely underrated, possibly due to Harvey's uniqueness and their lack of commercial exposure. The Old Grey Whistle Test set 'Give my Compliments to the Chef' and 'Next' are out of this world.
Such a killer song! I love that it’s Scot with an evil gleam in his eye singing it about it. There’s a deep in-joke there somewhere. It’s just a little sad to see the fire go out in his eyes between the two different live versions though. I know that feeling, brother. R.I.P.
Imagine ... Ian Dury and Alex Harvey, with all their mates, singing and playing their hearts out together on one stage. Wilco duelling with The Clown! The bass players losing themselves in the rhythms of dreams. Two drummers! Mad keyboards! That would have been something really special. Am I wrong? x
Rock 'n' Roll Vaudeville. They were my favourites and so glad I saw them a couple or three times back in the day. You want a band with a stage show? Look no further.
Harvey is one of the finest front men that's ever lived, his presence and snarling delivery is utterly magnificent Tom Jones Delilah was a song of infidelity, Harvey's version was cold blooded murder
We never broke away. Sorry Alex........ Our falt. I am in my 60s and just want to hold your hand. Love of the universe to all...... Tell my folks, I'M DOIN WELL......
Saw them live only months befroe this was released - second gig attended and just turned 13. Blew my mind. On alighter note, could the second clip with the straw hat be the winner of the most genuinely deranged/fucked up/dangerous looking frontman appearance of all time on TOTP? He's got that real slit-eyed drunk Glasgow stare that I saw many times in the 70's - like you could be about to get a glass in the face. And he's far too pissed to be acting! God how I miss the old raw characters of rock n' roll (and film.)
Yes, there was a time when groups such as SAHB appeared on primetime "pop" chart shows on tv. I recall being a bit freaked by Zal...Alex was dark, brooding and as sexy as hell. Taken too soon.
Know exactly what you mean, pre punk, both SAHB and the Feelgoods had a sort of Fuck You menace about their attitude, whilst surrounded by a musical landscape of self congratulatory, masturbating musos playing too many notes.
Did I really have music like this in my youth Roxy Music 10CC Sparks Kursall Flyers Dr Feelgood What's happened to music (if you can call it that) today
Ps IM 67 and IF YOU.SPEAK to ANY WOMAN that Was THERE !!!AS a SHARP !!!😁Tasty Teenage Girl !!!THEY WILL TELL YOU THEY ALL MADE the FIRST !!!MOVE ?????THE PANSY .WEIDO BRIGADE ???WERE NOT FK THERE !!!THE TWATS !!! DIFFERENT TIMES AND BRILLIANT TIMES !!!😁and ITS TWATS LIKE Jimmy Savile !!!WHO USED Mentaly sick Girls????HE WAS A BAD MAN g
🎉 very unique band in my opinion..stand out as well .. appreciated all around the world no doubt.. remember seeing them on ..old Gray.. excellent stuff🎉
This band lives forever. I received 2 CDs of theirs at Christmas, my sons listened and delivered. And now they too are hooked. Framed, Next, Faith Healer, BTP, Delilah...ALL CLASSICS
How this band are not still not be recognised as the best band ever to come out of Scotland is a mystery to me, they were fantastic live, and very underrated.
every year there is an Alex Harvey Day in fact today Feb 4 we are meeting at the tree planted for Alex at the Glasgow Peoples palace and then off to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Experience play everyone welcome every year.. .
Nonsense. What are you talking about? They have massive recognition and are not underrated in the slightest.
@@gerryrodden1983thank you so much for this information, stay strong, in Greece we really love scottish and irish culture and are deeply aware of it... Long live Alex Harvey, a genuine, humble man, a legend, a hero. Stay blessed.
Well the Average White Band already staked that claim. The SAHB must be a close second though!
They are recognised as being one of the best bands from the UK of all time, just immense
How refreshing is this compared to the X Factor crap we have today? RIP Alex Harvey, what a star that man was!
defo! hell of a shame rip
IVE GIVEN UP ON MUSIC SINCE THE 90S
@@MrFoxboy7 You are a SMART MAN 😎!!!
One of my favorite thrills was being able to see SAHB in Elyria, Ohio in 1977!! He definitely had all his SHIT in one SOCK. Miss ya Alex..... (´;︵;`). (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)
@@ernielance4758 You are a lucky man!
SAHB could be the most underrated band in the golden age of arena rock.
There again, maybe not. A lot of compertition !
Just brilliant...Never again will there be a band like them!
UNIQUE GENIUS!
I've still got my original vinyl album "NEXT"! he had a flat in 1978/9. Next door to the Taxi office I was manager of. Nice Man TOO!
Jim Gleeson Ah great memories shared. Next is also in my vinyl collection too
@@stephanierobinson7241 wonderful era. SLAINTE! X
No there will never be a band like them ever again so let's fill our boots on you tube until there will never be an audience like us agen. 🌚
Alex's Glasgow accent is absolutely glorious.
Alex was the leader of a brilliant band. As he said of himself and the band “it was a marriage made in heaven” and so it was 😊
The real event was when they were Teargas pre Alex - that was the real marriage
Dont have bands like this anymore. :(
Shedhead 🙌🙌🙌🙌
YO YO
James Steel
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thank god
Absolute genius...if you dislike this one in a gazillion soul, I'm so sorry you don't understand.
alex harvey this isnt just music its a work of art....briliantly facinating and mesmerising
Brilliant! One of the greatest live bands ever, led by one of the finest frontmen of all time, simply SENSATIONAL. Cried the day Alex left us, God bless his genius. VAMBO ROOL
These performances put much of the stuff currently produced by popular bands into perspective - just a great band with a great band leader and a truly original song - makes me happy to be alive RIP Alex
Amen to that 👏👏
SAHB were the best stage act I ever saw,,,
Me too & that includes Bowie, Zeppelin & Purple. Saw them 4 times in 70's & they never disappointed. Great, great band. 2 dead now, Alex & Ted.
So underrated ! Alex I wish you had lived a long life ! Would have been wonderful to see what you could have accomplished 🖤🖤 x
Underated, don't think so.
every year there is an Alex Harvey Day in fact today Feb 4 we are meeting at the tree planted for Alex at the Glasgow Peoples palace and then off to see The Sensational Alex Harvey Experience play everyone welcome every year.. .
Fantastic stuff!! Never has one man looked so stoned on national TV before or since Alex Harvey in the 2nd performance. Great anti-corruption record with a delightful sense of humour we fail to see exhibited on television today.
LOL, I presume you've never seen Brian Jones.
zal cleminson is one of my favourite guitarists of all time.
Died recently.
@@johndillinger8424 I hope not, I'm going to see him in Stoke on Trent next month!
www.ents24.com/stoke-on-trent-events/eleven/zal-cleminsons-sin-dogs/1073915165
Getting mixed up! It was the drummer Ed.
@@smitbar11 I was there too. I thought Zal looked, performed and conversed afterwards very well for a cadaver. Lol! All joking aside, what a phenomenal gig! One of the best i have attended, and i have seen some incredible bands over the last 36 years since my first gig (Monsters Of Rock festival at Donington '83)!! Just hoping he and the band come back soon. RIP Ted and Alex... \m/
@@johndillinger8424
Nope. Very much alive.
First rate live band, saw them many times. At Portsmouth Guildhall, all seater, a young girl was quietly in front of the stage, security tried to get her to sit in her seat. Alex intervened saying " if she goes, I go". They let her stay .
I've fallen in love with this band, thanks to the radio talk show host Nick Abbot. He said it was his first gigs and one of the best gigs he ever went to, in edinburgh in 1976. He said a siren sounded, a spotlight shined on a brick wall and Alex Harvey kicked through it dressed as Hitler 😅
My favourite lyrics from Alex:
I knew we had to say goodbye
When I felt that warmth against my thigh.
Hey.......is that you pissing on my leg?
😁
a fan for over 40 years, rip alex still love sahb
He played in a club I was working in, unbelievable, very small club, he enjoyed the free bottle of Whisky we gave him, all of it! Brilliant show😅👍
What a fabulous band. This is such an intelligently crafted piece. Great humour and observation. Superb musicianship...ON TOP OF THE POPS!!
I love how Alex has clearly been on a month long bender since the last appearance and has rocked up at TOTP studios just wearing a kimono, sandals and a straw hat 🤣🤣🤣
Now that really was a man who was pissed ... look at those eyes but he was still a magical performer ... won't see the like again thats for sure
@@GILLY56ify Reminds me of me Dad to be honest 🤔🤔🤔
Zak Cleminson still tours to this day.
Strength and unity from Scotland. Massive respect from England.
Marvellous, even better 45 years later
One of the very best live bands I’ve ever seen. Total entertainment !✌🏻🇬🇧
Can you imagine mothers and fathers and children watching this together at 7 O'clock on a Thursday?
ha ha hey son who's this sound so good
I did watch this show religiously every week with my parents. I can hear my Dad saying who's the berk in the make up? Tony Blackburns political commentary trying to make a witty remark and failing this time miserably! Thank fuck for Harry Enfield doing Smashy and Nicey.
My dad loved this single, funnily enough!
Well, when I was a kid at around this time, my family watched Top of the Pops religiously (would have been serious arguments if someone wanted to watch something on the other side) so I guess we must have sat down to this.
I bought an antique collection of albums and discovered Alex Harvey without an album jacket. It was a collection of his best songs and i cant stop playing them. His band r great musicians and he is unique. After hearing Gang Bang i think i know where Zevon got his Werewolves of London.
36 yrs ago it unbelievable 30 yrs since Alex passed away time flies.
Legend he was, remember seeing the band in Mountain Ash in the early 80s, they had to drag Alex out of the pub to perform at the gig, he was absolutely smashed, but what a gig, great memories.
One of the best live bands of the 70s awsome.
What a name for a band and what a name for a song. Love that he uses his own accent.
You do know what the title refers to?
@@thewomble1509 No idea
One of the first groups i ever got into. I was 15 years old when i bought the albums (framed. And the live LP) did a great cover of the Tom Jones song Delilah to
copied and admired by their peers, great band and alex was a brilliant song writer, performer, and singer.
Alex was master of the stage. RIP Alex.
My favourite band from my teenage years in the 70's and beyond.
Definitely underrated, possibly due to Harvey's uniqueness and their lack of commercial exposure.
The Old Grey Whistle Test set 'Give my Compliments to the Chef' and 'Next' are out of this world.
Love this man and band so much I named my son after him! There is no other rock singer like him unique like my son😁
what a song this is ,,utter joy ..these guys are genius xx
Spot on,seen them live brill.
Such a killer song! I love that it’s Scot with an evil gleam in his eye singing it about it. There’s a deep in-joke there somewhere. It’s just a little sad to see the fire go out in his eyes between the two different live versions though. I know that feeling, brother. R.I.P.
Imagine ... Ian Dury and Alex Harvey, with all their mates, singing and playing their hearts out together on one stage. Wilco duelling with The Clown! The bass players losing themselves in the rhythms of dreams. Two drummers! Mad keyboards!
That would have been something really special. Am I wrong?
x
"My one regret in life is that I never got to work with Alex Harvey" - Ian Dury
One of they songs you don't mind listening to, Back to back.
Brilliant Band, and a great track.
1976 . What a year . Great band and on point for the time .👍🇬🇧
The best live band ever!
Ich liebe diese Band. 70s Rock ist das Beste, Alex Harvey klasse
I like this guys -still cool and we will watch them in a thousand years....
such an underrated band.
Rock 'n' Roll Vaudeville. They were my favourites and so glad I saw them a couple or three times back in the day. You want a band with a stage show? Look no further.
AW LIVE BANDS.AW WISH THEM ALL BACK. 🏴
STill in love with SAHB, ALEX and ZAL forever !!!!
Playing LIVE. What a concept
Harvey is one of the finest front men that's ever lived, his presence and snarling delivery is utterly magnificent
Tom Jones Delilah was a song of infidelity, Harvey's version was cold blooded murder
What a combination of humour and malice.Nobody could ever do it like Alex.
The best description of that song ever!!
Brilliant description!
We never broke away.
Sorry Alex........
Our falt.
I am in my 60s and just want to hold your hand.
Love of the universe to all......
Tell my folks, I'M DOIN WELL......
Thank you, I have been at the party for ~40 years.
Come aboard folks......
I really loved Alex, as a human.
Need not wait .....
Saw them at the Glasgow Apollo many years ago absolutely brilliant !!!
Saw them live only months befroe this was released - second gig attended and just turned 13. Blew my mind.
On alighter note, could the second clip with the straw hat be the winner of the most genuinely deranged/fucked up/dangerous looking frontman appearance of all time on TOTP? He's got that real slit-eyed drunk Glasgow stare that I saw many times in the 70's - like you could be about to get a glass in the face. And he's far too pissed to be acting!
God how I miss the old raw characters of rock n' roll (and film.)
Saw Alex Harvey band support slade at Wembley in 1973 , what a great pairing .
Great band I went to one of there gigs way back excellent really good
this voice makes me shivering
Saw them Kursaal Southend 1978 - Awesome!
They were just so competent musically and ever so slightly anarchic whatever they did. I miss them to this day.
left us too young
My fantasy night out would be a pub crawl with Alex Harvey and Keith Moon.
Vordman! You would be dead before you hit the ground! LOL.
Uh no. No no noooo.
No Tea included !
just pure class !!!
Oh, that's why we drink coffee. Thanks Alex!
I remember watching this at 7 and liking it like hell so different to what was in at the time fantastic
Will always love you Alexander James Harvey ! You mean so much to me man ! ❤🎶
Best...one my fave bands all time..Scotland..where im from..dad knew Alex
2020 still a classic
Always an undercurrent of malevolence with the SAHB - and it worked. Great performances.
There was something about Alex. His voice, appearance, expression and his his stripey jumper
Yes, there was a time when groups such as SAHB appeared on primetime "pop" chart shows on tv. I recall being a bit freaked by Zal...Alex was dark, brooding and as sexy as hell. Taken too soon.
Great ! I always remember this band. A.H. RIP
This song has claws, they got into me.
A catchy song for sure.
Rip SAHB drummer Ted McKenna
I seen him when he played in Baltimore, Md. in the 70's. a very HEAVY
So original I saw him live at the city hall Newcastle 1973 as a support act for slade had me and my mates gobsmacked
they were a great live band and very tight unlike say the Faces. By far the best pre punk sort of punk band. Meaningless term. They were just unique.
SHAB in no way were a fucking punk band
Know exactly what you mean, pre punk, both SAHB and the Feelgoods had a sort of Fuck You menace about their attitude, whilst surrounded by a musical landscape of self congratulatory, masturbating musos playing too many notes.
@@ambhaz8599 That was a v.good answer.Menace!
Sadly this was the beginning of the end.
Never regained the "Tomorrow Belongs To Me" brilliance.
He often has that minical grin similar to Keith moon of the Who😊
Pure Gold. ✌️
A 40 year old lead singer on TOTP in the mid 70s, how did that happen!?
He reminds me of Bon Scott, another crazy Scot.
dang they failed to get the keyboard solo on camera both times.
Saw them live a couple of tines ...what a show ...miss you Alex ...
Hugh's little smile at 4:17 ❤️
Incredible!!, My God!!
its nice having them play twice but it would of been better if it was 3
He's 41 in this performance! Is there a listing somewhere of the few bands that actually played live on TOTP?
Still great
Did I really have music like this in my youth
Roxy Music
10CC
Sparks
Kursall Flyers
Dr Feelgood
What's happened to music (if you can call it that) today
I know
My dad knew Alex from same place hes my fave Scot band..
only saw him once. He was slightly more pissed than me:)
What a song. What a band. What a performance (for the TOTP teenyboppers!) Tony Blackburn and Noel Edmunds though... make your skin crawl.
Tony Made ME LAUGH !!!! When HE SAID HOW DARE they LEAVE ENGLAND !!!lol g
Ps IM 67 and IF YOU.SPEAK to ANY WOMAN that Was THERE !!!AS a SHARP !!!😁Tasty Teenage Girl !!!THEY WILL TELL YOU THEY ALL MADE the FIRST !!!MOVE ?????THE PANSY .WEIDO BRIGADE ???WERE NOT FK THERE !!!THE TWATS !!! DIFFERENT TIMES AND BRILLIANT TIMES !!!😁and ITS TWATS LIKE Jimmy Savile !!!WHO USED Mentaly sick Girls????HE WAS A BAD MAN g
LOL DIFFERENT TIMES It Was SAVILE THAT WAS DODGY !!!g
Noel Edmonds can be obnoxious without even trying -- a bit of a knob.
What a band...that hint of menace and violence
Pure 1970s Glasgow
🎉 very unique band in my opinion..stand out as well .. appreciated all around the world no doubt.. remember seeing them on ..old Gray.. excellent stuff🎉
This band lives forever. I received 2 CDs of theirs at Christmas, my sons listened and delivered. And now they too are hooked.
Framed, Next, Faith Healer, BTP, Delilah...ALL CLASSICS
I wonder if this made it onto the radio or TV in the USA at the time of the 200 year celebrations?
great song