don't need no women , don't need no wine, cause life is sweet when you hit the mainline.. these lyrics and many others left quite an impression on a young man, recently drafted to go to war, in a place where heroin was readily available
I volunteered (1971) and was, besides everything else, surrounded by "Tincture" (in Germany) (tincture of morphine, which is heroin's mom). And I could buy glass works over the counter in German pharmacies.
One of the best British Blues albums among many great British blues. Chris Youldon had such a perfect voice for interacting with Lonesome Dave and crew.
I bought this album when it came out,loved the track but unfortunately for me i had a bad H habit that started when i was 15yo it led to a life of lot,s of jail time broke my marriage up basically completely destroyed my life,i,m now 66yo and clean but the sad thing for me is all the opportunities i missed due to addiction,so all you youngsters out there KEEP YOUR DISTANCE from it,it willdestroy you in the end.
@@kennylogins4688 Thank you so much for your reply,i,d be only too pleased to give you any info that might help your,e research,I,ve nearly 50yrs of the life of a user in the US and UK,when i tell various people about my past nearly all say"you should write a book!"bu t i,m no writer also a real dunce w/a computer,i live in the UK the US govt deported me in 1976 for drug use and had to leave wife and two children behind,i was 20yrs old with all my family in the USA,LA Calif,you can reach me on Tel 01273-747892 in the UK.
"if you're married you can divorce your wife, but when you're married to H then you're married for life" - my Dad always said that quote because he loved this song (and he wasn't an addict) and I sadly now know how true that statement is. I'm clean now but that shit will haunt me for the rest of my life. Still love this song though!
Oh man, ...feel with you, you not alone :/ ...think we are the club of "clean junkys" or as i say all time, "im clean, but im a morphinist" ...strange what h do with one :( if you on it you not happy, if you are clean, you are not happy, ...but better clean and life with that as on h and life with that ....the sad way of drugs, if you tell taht some young people thay dount understand, thay must often learn itself ...sad!
@@leddaudet2350 oh sweet lidl child, that are the soft version of opiates, take h or morphin, and use needle and spoon and after a few months of useing every day, you can speak about ;) ...but befor, let it be, smoke youre weed and "be cool" ...but as you dount know, drugs are not cool, only childs find it "cool" ...
In 1970, I was in a small independent hardware store looking through a bargain bin. This album was in there. I had not a clue who Savoy Brown was. That turned out to be one nickel (literally) I did not regret spending.
I'm proud to say that I'm from the Motor City and during the mid-Sixties when I started doing jjunk(heroin) Kim &Chris Youlden started to come to Detroit. Theey became fast favorites. Seeing them at The Grande Ballroom with it's 8 inch riser for a stage. Suffice to say savoy Brown was and always be ne of my top 4 bands. ( John Mayall's Bluesbreakers all incarnations The Yar dbirds who were never
+Heather Rippons They were enormously popular, but then they were predominately a Blues band and a Club band at that. They had a lot of well-received albums but they also changed their line-up a lot. About all one could be certain of is that Kim Simmonds would be heading it - the name always stayed with him regardless of the rest of the lineup.
The Ultimate Dope Song, dropped a lot cigarettes, burned my fingers, scratched my nose off, contemplated my shoelaces, from 71 to 82 listening to this master pc all along the way. Did- 4- 11 month treatments starting in 94 with interferon to the last treatment in 2004 of pegylated interferon + ribavirin, but as the song says, the stuff can kill ya, and treat ya unkind. Went into remission once for 90 days. Now it's 2017 I'm on Harvoni, but just found out that the C also gave me NASH, a fatty liver and Harvoni doesn't kill that monster. So Harvoni will at least kick the C out, but won't get rid of the Nash. It's a preservation type thing. I know I've had this beast since 72 or 73, that's 45 years, still paying for that ride. I've only lasted this long, because I quit all drinking in 98, had some luck, and I must have Jesus looking after me. You can't be a dope fiend that long without Fuc***g over a lot of peoples, (sometimes I'm evil so don't get in a huff!) I've tried to make up for all that, I made it this far, seen many come and go,but this NASH is something else I haven't heard about until My Hepatologist laid it out for me. You can never tell somebody on it to drop it, it doesn't sink in. But for all use out there that doesn't fool around with it, leave it alone. Theirs nothing worse than moving to another life, and then finding out 10, 20 years later that you can't pass go.
Savoy Brown's 1970 5th album "Raw Sienna"...everybody was listening to "Looking In" or "Street Corner Talking" at the time... Who woulda thunk this album is one of the best jams out there? Well Leroy did.
Saw them almost every time they hit the Fillmore. Great Band, this is a great rock\blues song. "when you are married to H, you are married for life." Tru Dat!
I Loved it then when it first came out (the song) I Kicked it after i met a Great Woman She Helped me Alot very true lyrics We just had a 40yr anniversary Clean but not sober ( come on you got to have a drink now and then) Ha HA Thanks for posting
One of the greatest white blues vocalist of the British circa 1960-70 era. Raw Sennia and Blues Matter are exceptional. Chris Youlden is the most underated talents in music. Thanks for the post. Check out my new addiction Toots and the Maytals " 54 -46 Is My Number" Rockin' SKA!
I used to think shooting smack was somehow glorious and was chastised for promoting it as such in my pantomimes inspired by this song and other things, circa 1970. Thanks to God I stuck to week and psychedelics for the most part and never developed a true addiction. Prayers for my friends who did and are no longer with us here on earth. Yeah, this song might be Savoy Brown's best.
Rockin British Blues. Along with Humble Pie , Led Zeppelin , Cream , Rory Gallagher , Robin Trower , Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac , Jeff Beck , Ritchie Blackmore et al the music goes home with interest
This tune has so much Jazz infusion like I've never heard before! If you love rock/jazz this is your song 🎵! Peace & Love to you'all that have made it this far...-----js 2-10-22.
This was one of the best blues and truth albums of my time . You did'nt have to be a Vet to feel the pain change going on in our culture at this time . It was something that genreatoins will never be able to experience agin in this country.
Seen Savoy in 69 here in Houston then again after Lonsome Dave and Tone Stevens left to form Foghat. What a great band. Favorite album Looking In favorite song Leavin off the same.
On my list of "Ten Greatest Rock Band LP's ever." And, considering the musical sophistication and the subject matter of the songs, it could almost be considered the FIRST Steely Dan album.
This song can make you laugh, too...back in HS during a talent show, a group of guys got together to perform a "rock" song. The curtains opened and the teachers were already ready to shut them down. They had more speakers than the Who, and when they played, the volume was cranked up. The first time they sang "needle and spoon," the entire school lost it and of course they were shut down. Spring 1971 at Normandy HS. I'll never forget...even if I didn't fully understand at that time! Hey..Im an old timer. Stay away from all of it. You will cut your life short...
I saw Savoy Brown in the early 70's in Tampa, FL. Always a super live band. Few of their LPs do them justice. And having seen Kim Simmonds perform several times in the last 5 years (in small venues) I can tell you he hasn't lost a step as a guitarist. Better even.
This is a very true song written about heroin. One of my best friends died about five years ago while on methadone. He told me he lost all his teeth when they put him on methadone. He went in the USMC in 1973 three months before me. We both ended up with honorable discharges after four years active. He was in the Air Wing and was a technician that worked on guidance systems in missals. After he was discharged he met a girl (both of them were doing heroin) she had three kids from him and then he died. What a tragedy it was.
Lovely. I've missed this for longer than I care to remember. What a group! And don't forget the Groundhogs, or else! Love and soggy wet kisses, Chris Burchardt
@@stephengaydos4346 actually it was chris yuolden , the lead singer, who died from an overdose.. Kim Simmonds and lonesome dave , the keyboard player were the 2 mainstays for savoy brown, were both in foghat
Listening on my 23rd yr. sobriety date:) Lost to many before me/us. Reach out to others even those you might not think are listening? :) A few obscure words & people SHOWING me Happiness is possible & easy without mind altering "stuff" was what finally sank in > Thanks. "PEACE TAKES PRACTICE" Rick western co. Wichita Ks,
Glad to hear it, ive failed too many times it seems,saboxone didn't do it for me. rehab was just a place to meet other people like myself. and find new contacts.well , I hope this will be the time. Your post is greatly appreciated
Yes thank you. My thoughts are for you & the others. Knowing we can just be ourselves without the other mood altering stuff is vital to long term drug,alcohol free,it is learned behavior that keeps us that way. so cliche and simple but reality:) My best wishes, "Peace takes Practice. Rick
WichitaRick HEY bud! Just thought I'd tell ya I been there....Wichita,La. That is.Spent 9yrs there , 70s...80s. Great place til all that fish scale hit! Remember the ice cream bikes? Nothing like a Bomb pop when your.fried! Peace!
Going on 40 years and my ears still love this rough-edged blues band. Thanks for this posting. One of my favorite albums too. Sounds better on vinyl (doesn't everything?). Peace brothers and sisters. It ain't the drug - it's how and why and where and by whom the drug's used, eh? Like somebody said once : "Reality is for people who can't handle their drugs!" Answer here __________. Rock on lorjim58
-GreenerHill, Who said Kim is over rated?? He's under rated, we all got opinions BUT some people just don't have a real good ear for really good musical talent😘🎶😜🎶🎸🎤🔊👄🎩
Saw Savoy Brown Open for Deep Purple 'Smoke on the Water Tour' Providence Civic Center RI.15 yrs old now 59 just took my morning Suboxone waiting to start my Hep-C Treatment.NO Song makes this Dope thang Cool
A really good song about a really bad drug. When this album came out a lot of soldiers returning from Vietnam were hopelessly hooked on ''China White'', a synthetic version of lady H. Many of those boys are a long time gone. I saw far too many check out in a horrible fashion. I guess that's one way to win a war.
Savoy Brown est un groupe de blues rock anglais formé en 1966 à Londres. Bien que britannique il a surtout rencontré le succès aux États-unis. Au cours de son existence le groupe a connu de très nombreuses formations, le guitariste Kim Simmonds, leader du groupe, étant le seul membre permanent.
100% agree! What a unique style! You knew when you were hearing Kim.The sign of a real guitarist. EVH SRV BB & all Kings. Jimi of course. Signature styles.
Came west across the Puget Sound to Seattle from the Peninsula side for the first time back in 86 and my buddies n me were there to party. We got a spot in a local youth hostel and hit the streets lookin for booze, broads n Blues. First marquis to catch my eye was Demitri's Jazz Alley and for one night only was Mose Allison. I was beatin feet fast for the door but my friends were musically tasteless uncouth knuckle draggin basterds fresh out the loggin camp so they bailed as I settled in for the second set of Mose and his 88 keys of cool jazz class. Ended up havin a couple drinks with the man afterwards and went back to the hostel with an assuredness of a memory made for life. My buddies weren't back when I got there nor were they there when I woke up. Apparently they only found booze n Blues as they were all involved in a bar brawl up the road a spell n spent their weekend and a day in the King County Jail. Still have a chuckle to myself every time I tell this story. Must be I'm a seventh son of a seventh son.
To some I'm a wise man, to some I'm a fool But I need a little something to keep my cool I sleep with the sun and I rise with the moon And I feel alright with my needle and spoon I feel alright with my needle and spoon It's difficult sometimes to get my stuff So if I'm evil don't get in a huff I sleep with the sun and I rise with the moon And I feel alright with my needle and spoon I feel alright with my needle and spoon Don't need no women don't need no wine 'Cause life is sweet when you hit the main line I sleep with the sun and I rise with the moon And I feel alright with my needle and spoon I feel alright with my needle and spoon Only one thing that worries my mind The stuff it kills you and it treats you unkind If you're married you can divorce your wife But when you're married to "H? then you're married for life You're married to "H? and you're married for life
Fortunate to see them a few times in SF in 1969. Undoubtedly one of the best live acts ever & Absolutely the Best at doin “The Boogie”! RIP Kim Simmons’s & Black Top Hats Off to Chris Youlden wherever in the Hell He may be..
I think "Blue Matter" was the "high water mark" because of the contrast of 1 side live and without Chris Youlden, and the other Dominated by Youlden and his writing.
@arhatyellow aww haww haww thats cool man i have to agree!!! i'm 36 so i missed the 60's and 70's but these are the tunes i listen to and it's pretty much the way i live my life!This is an awesome tune,kim simmonds was born near where i live!
@tsugacan1 me too. one of the best british blues singers ( James dewar from Robin trower was up there) and one of the best guitarists. These guys stayed blues. All credi to them.
Wish i had listened more carefully at the time,but like a lot of young teens you think you know it all,believe kids it,s pure evil,luckily i survived but so so many of my friends did,nt,don,t be like me now 66yo full of regrets and the pain and worry i caused my loved ones enough preaching,but good luck kids.
I remember this song way back in the day I used to hang out with my brother and his friends 19 years older me and they listen to it was a shoot cocaine little did I know then that I would follow in my brother's footsteps it's sad because they're all gone now none of them live to see past their mid-fifties I lost my brother to that damn the disease of addiction New Year's Day he was 57 years old and not once did he ever try to get clean sober I'm going on three years now it's like this you're either going to get sobered up locked up or covered up
@dangerbooboo, not always, but I rarely not miss the rush and nod of days gone by, its been 22 years since those times, being strung to the hubs wasn't any fun or romantic, but damn! when your high, your superman and your happy you just got feet. Ive never heard a better song that sums up the feeling of being a junkie as "needle and spoon"..............G
No offense to those other fellows who passed through this band, but this line up totally kicks ass and takes names. Just by luck, LPs by this line up were the only ones I purchased. I played the hell out of those records.
Russ Portelli I too am 60 yrs old, and do remember I would hum this tune while I was geezin the un-kind stuff. Let us rejoice in the fact we won that War On Drugs! What a fight it was. Lots of great memories, and many nightmares too.
Great comment. Unfortunately, the N & S and the meth(adone) still haven't acknowledged my divorce papers. Draggin' me (myself) on. Maybe, if I'm one of the lucky, I'll live to join the group and it will be history when I'm sixty.
You have great taste, sir or madam. Are you familiar with the 54-46 that Toots did with Jeff Beck and Pressure Drop with Eric Clapton, also Monkey Man with Gwen Stefani. Might all be on the same album. Very good stuff. And yeah, the Savoy Brown Blue Matter Album may have been the best one. Saw them a couple times here in Detroit and they really boogied.
don't need no women , don't need no wine, cause life is sweet when you hit the mainline.. these lyrics and many others left quite an impression on a young man, recently drafted to go to war, in a place where heroin was readily available
I volunteered (1971) and was, besides everything else, surrounded by "Tincture" (in Germany) (tincture of morphine, which is heroin's mom). And I could buy glass works over the counter in German pharmacies.
In the early 70s, Savoy Brown was the very hippest thing you could listen to.
Blue Matter was my first British blues band record I ever bought. Still love it today! (I'm 76 yrs old)👍👍👍👍👍
One of the best British Blues albums among many great British blues. Chris Youldon had such a perfect voice for interacting with Lonesome Dave and crew.
I bought this album when it came out,loved the track but unfortunately for me i had a bad H habit that started when i was 15yo it led to a life of lot,s of jail time broke my marriage up basically
completely destroyed my life,i,m now 66yo and clean but the sad thing for me is all the opportunities i missed due to addiction,so all you youngsters out there KEEP YOUR DISTANCE from it,it willdestroy you in the end.
Geoffrey I'm writing a story about addiction. Would you be interested in sharing some of your highs & lows that I can taken inspiration from?
@@kennylogins4688 Thank you so much for your reply,i,d be only too pleased to give you any info that might help your,e research,I,ve nearly 50yrs of the life of a user in the US and UK,when i tell various people about my past nearly all say"you should write a book!"bu t i,m no writer also a real dunce w/a computer,i live in the UK the US govt deported me in 1976 for drug use and had to leave wife and two children behind,i was 20yrs old with all my family in the USA,LA Calif,you can reach me on Tel 01273-747892 in the UK.
Thanks.. Do you have what's app? I am based in England!
"if you're married you can divorce your wife, but when you're married to H then you're married for life" - my Dad always said that quote because he loved this song (and he wasn't an addict) and I sadly now know how true that statement is. I'm clean now but that shit will haunt me for the rest of my life. Still love this song though!
I hear ya. Same here. That was the perfect way to say it. It will absolutely haunt me the rest of my life.
I tattooed an H on my ring finger, in honour of this track...
I’m on tramadol AND codeine and weed. Get ya
Oh man, ...feel with you, you not alone :/ ...think we are the club of "clean junkys" or as i say all time, "im clean, but im a morphinist" ...strange what h do with one :( if you on it you not happy, if you are clean, you are not happy, ...but better clean and life with that as on h and life with that ....the sad way of drugs, if you tell taht some young people thay dount understand, thay must often learn itself ...sad!
@@leddaudet2350 oh sweet lidl child, that are the soft version of opiates, take h or morphin, and use needle and spoon and after a few months of useing every day, you can speak about ;) ...but befor, let it be, smoke youre weed and "be cool" ...but as you dount know, drugs are not cool, only childs find it "cool" ...
In 1970, I was in a small independent hardware store looking through a bargain bin. This album was in there. I had not a clue who Savoy Brown was. That turned out to be one nickel (literally) I did not regret spending.
scored!!!
I traded a Jerry Garcia solo LP for Hellbound Train----
I'm proud to say that I'm from the Motor City and during the mid-Sixties when I started doing jjunk(heroin) Kim &Chris Youlden started to come to Detroit. Theey became fast favorites. Seeing them at The Grande Ballroom with it's 8 inch riser for a stage.
Suffice to say savoy Brown was and always be ne of my top 4 bands. ( John Mayall's Bluesbreakers all incarnations The Yar dbirds who were never
Savoy brown the most underrated band of their day blues rock, hot giture riffs deep dark lryics so bad ass.
+Heather Rippons
They were enormously popular, but then they were predominately a Blues band and a Club band at that. They had a lot of well-received albums but they also changed their line-up a lot. About all one could be certain of is that Kim Simmonds would be heading it - the name always stayed with him regardless of the rest of the lineup.
When i was sixteen i use to listen to this all the time. Love Youldens voice.
One of my favorite guitar leads in a song. First time I saw Savoy Brown, the opening acts were Long John Baldry and Fleetwood Mac
This was a 'heads up' back in the day. Who wanted to be married for life?
One great tune which should never get airtime.
RAW SIENNA is their best record. A classic, timeless album, I daresay.
im 64 and savoy is still one of my favs
seven dust
63 love the Savoy.
What a great band they were ...
The Ultimate Dope Song, dropped a lot cigarettes, burned my fingers, scratched my nose off, contemplated my shoelaces,
from 71 to 82 listening to this master pc all along the way. Did- 4- 11 month treatments starting in 94 with interferon to the last treatment in 2004 of pegylated interferon + ribavirin, but as the song says, the stuff can kill ya, and treat ya unkind. Went into remission once for 90 days. Now it's 2017 I'm on Harvoni, but just found out that the C also gave me NASH, a fatty liver and Harvoni doesn't kill that monster. So Harvoni will at least kick the C out, but won't get rid of the Nash. It's a preservation type thing.
I know I've had this beast since 72 or 73, that's 45 years, still paying for that ride. I've only lasted this long, because I quit all drinking in 98, had some luck, and I must have Jesus looking after me. You can't be a dope fiend that long without Fuc***g
over a lot of peoples, (sometimes I'm evil so don't get in a huff!) I've tried to make up for all that, I made it this far, seen many
come and go,but this NASH is something else I haven't heard about until My Hepatologist laid it out for me.
You can never tell somebody on it to drop it, it doesn't sink in. But for all use out there that doesn't fool around with it, leave it alone. Theirs nothing worse than moving to another life, and then finding out 10, 20 years later that you can't pass go.
Didn't your Gastroenterologist tell you if you've been treated with interferon, ribavirin in the past Harvoni won't help you? Better ask. Good luck.
Savoy Brown's 1970 5th album "Raw Sienna"...everybody was listening to "Looking In" or "Street Corner Talking" at the time... Who woulda thunk this album is one of the best jams out there? Well Leroy did.
I've always loved his take on blues rock. Underrated for sure.
I am getting a re-appreciation of Savoy Brown after dropping off around 1974. Kim Simmons has kept at it and some of the later work sounds good.
Saw Savoy Brown way back when at The Fillmore East. Blew my mind.
+Chris Boylan Never wasthere wish I was be fine
Yep, that was the same show, it was 1970. True rocking blues!
Saw them almost every time they hit the Fillmore. Great Band, this is a great rock\blues song. "when you are married to H, you are married for life." Tru Dat!
Saw them at The at the West a couple of times, they rocked
I Loved it then when it first came out (the song) I Kicked it after i met a Great Woman She Helped me Alot very true lyrics
We just had a 40yr anniversary Clean but not sober ( come on you got to have a drink now and then) Ha HA
Thanks for posting
Congrats for being a "survivor".
Heard from a former addict that they only have three exit routes:
1)Sober up
2)Locked up
3)"Covered" up (ie buried)
One of the greatest white blues vocalist of the British circa 1960-70 era. Raw Sennia and Blues Matter are exceptional. Chris Youlden is the most underated talents in music. Thanks for the post. Check out my new addiction Toots and the Maytals " 54 -46 Is My Number" Rockin' SKA!
Sometimes the best songs are about the worst experiences. This is such a song.
I used to think shooting smack was somehow glorious and was chastised for promoting it as such in my pantomimes inspired by this song and other things, circa 1970. Thanks to God I stuck to week and psychedelics for the most part and never developed a true addiction. Prayers for my friends who did and are no longer with us here on earth. Yeah, this song might be Savoy Brown's best.
Rockin British Blues. Along with Humble Pie , Led Zeppelin , Cream , Rory Gallagher , Robin Trower , Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac , Jeff Beck , Ritchie Blackmore et al the music goes home with interest
I found this in my fathers collection and listened to it over and over having no idea what it was about at the time ( I was 13).
Truest song ever written...married for life indeed
Raw Sienna AKA heroin. I used to shoot bags daily to this song. I now have two years clean and sober and still love this tune!
oh wow....damn... ** hug** please stay clean and know you are loved and you are worth your time. PEACE
Congrats
Yup I know plenty of people who died of heroin laced with Fentanyl. RIP Shane!
Buddy Guy but I thought 'if you're married to h then you're married for life'? lol
***** that is why I have never tried it because I know I would like it too much
This tune has so much Jazz infusion like I've never heard before! If you love rock/jazz this is your song 🎵!
Peace & Love to you'all that have made it this far...-----js 2-10-22.
The fantasy days when we were invincible. Now 68 and wondering why?
This was one of the best blues and truth albums of my time . You did'nt have to be a Vet to feel the pain change going on in our culture at this time . It was something that genreatoins will never be able to experience agin in this country.
Seen Savoy in 69 here in Houston then again after Lonsome Dave and Tone Stevens left to form Foghat. What a great band. Favorite album Looking In favorite song Leavin off the same.
On my list of "Ten Greatest Rock Band LP's ever." And, considering the musical sophistication and the subject matter of the songs, it could almost be considered the FIRST Steely Dan album.
To survive this song shows the greatness (or luck?) of Mr. Youlden, not to mention he simply is a great philosopher in his composing.
This song can make you laugh, too...back in HS during a talent show, a group of guys got together to perform a "rock" song. The curtains opened and the teachers were already ready to shut them down. They had more speakers than the Who, and when they played, the volume was cranked up. The first time they sang "needle and spoon," the entire school lost it and of course they were shut down. Spring 1971 at Normandy HS. I'll never forget...even if I didn't fully understand at that time! Hey..Im an old timer. Stay away from all of it. You will cut your life short...
I saw Savoy Brown in the early 70's in Tampa, FL. Always a super live band. Few of their LPs do them justice. And having seen Kim Simmonds perform several times in the last 5 years (in small venues) I can tell you he hasn't lost a step as a guitarist. Better even.
Very underrated group.
"Raw Sienna" is must-have CD/album for everyone into Savoy Brown or want to be...
The burning ash,I awake with a start.It's not the scar on my finger but the pain in my heart-Junkie Chet Baker
This is a very true song written about heroin. One of my best friends died about five years ago while on methadone. He told me he lost all his teeth when they put him on methadone. He went in the USMC in 1973 three months before me. We both ended up with honorable discharges after four years active. He was in the Air Wing and was a technician that worked on guidance systems in missals. After he was discharged he met a girl (both of them were doing heroin) she had three kids from him and then he died. What a tragedy it was.
AmericanIsraeliJew h is bad
Lovely. I've missed this for longer than I care to remember. What a group!
And don't forget the Groundhogs, or else!
Love and soggy wet kisses,
Chris Burchardt
I saw these guys at the filmore east with this line up one of the greatest live bands ever esp. when they broke into the boogie
me too. then they morphed into Foghat (without Kim Simmonds), which I saw twice..
the savoy brown boogie was legendary .
@@stephengaydos4346 actually it was chris yuolden , the lead singer, who died from an overdose.. Kim Simmonds and lonesome dave , the keyboard player were the 2 mainstays for savoy brown, were both in foghat
@@docrupert4753 Chris Youlden is still alive.Look him up playing in a pub in london.
Hernandos Hideaway! One is a side long badass boogie.
Listening on my 23rd yr. sobriety date:) Lost to many before me/us. Reach out to others even those you might not think are listening? :) A few obscure words & people SHOWING me Happiness is possible & easy without mind altering "stuff" was what finally sank in > Thanks. "PEACE TAKES PRACTICE" Rick western co. Wichita Ks,
Glad to hear it, ive failed too many times it seems,saboxone didn't do it for me. rehab was just a place to meet other people like myself. and find new contacts.well , I hope this will be the time. Your post is greatly appreciated
Yes thank you. My thoughts are for you & the others. Knowing we can just be ourselves without the other mood altering stuff is vital to long term drug,alcohol free,it is learned behavior that keeps us that way. so cliche and simple but reality:)
My best wishes, "Peace takes Practice. Rick
WichitaRick HEY bud! Just thought I'd tell ya I been there....Wichita,La. That is.Spent 9yrs there , 70s...80s. Great place til all that fish scale hit! Remember the ice cream bikes? Nothing like a Bomb pop when your.fried! Peace!
Kim Simmonds guitar sound is one of the best ive ever heard on record. It jumps right out of the box and bites you on the ass.
Going on 40 years and my ears still love this rough-edged blues band. Thanks for this posting. One of my favorite albums too. Sounds better on vinyl (doesn't everything?). Peace brothers and sisters. It ain't the drug - it's how and why and where and by whom the drug's used, eh? Like somebody said once : "Reality is for people who can't handle their drugs!" Answer here __________. Rock on lorjim58
Very far beyond what was going on at the time. Extremely sophisticated.
Ya, if i'da partied in the '70's, I'd probably be dead by now...this really puts feelings into words, huh?
-GreenerHill, Who said Kim is over rated?? He's under rated, we all got opinions BUT some people just don't have a real good ear for really good musical talent😘🎶😜🎶🎸🎤🔊👄🎩
me and you did the shag bounce boogie I think....It was amazing if you are the same deb
Love me some Savoy Brown.and I always did too Chris.Married to H then you married for life.
I am listening to it now...But it still feels like not long ago...Gs.
Everyone needs to own this album.
The LP was so great, I bought the CD.
Saw Savoy Brown Open for Deep Purple 'Smoke on the Water Tour' Providence Civic Center RI.15 yrs old now 59 just took my morning Suboxone waiting to start my Hep-C Treatment.NO Song makes this Dope thang Cool
A really good song about a really bad drug. When this album came out a lot of soldiers returning from Vietnam were hopelessly hooked on ''China White'', a synthetic version of lady H.
Many of those boys are a long time gone. I saw far too many check out in a horrible fashion. I guess that's one way to win a war.
One of the GREAT LPs Bar none....or with a bar or at a bar who cares?
Savoy Brown est un groupe de blues rock anglais formé en 1966 à Londres.
Bien que britannique il a surtout rencontré le succès aux États-unis. Au cours de son existence le groupe a connu de très nombreuses formations, le guitariste Kim Simmonds, leader du groupe, étant le seul membre permanent.
Absolutely their best! Why is it no longer available on iTunes? !!
back in the day we left Raw Sienna and Blue Matter on the turntable around the clock!
Another great Youlden vocal!
Overrated? I call bullshit. Kim Simmonds' name hardly ever comes up when people talk about great guitarists. The man is underrated.
100% agree! What a unique style! You knew when you were hearing Kim.The sign of a real guitarist. EVH SRV BB & all Kings. Jimi of course. Signature styles.
Exactamundo.
Totally right.
Not by me!
Why would you listen to some of the best Blues music and give the comment you did
Boogie Canned Heat, Boogie Savoy Brown, Boogie Frijid Pink now, ya gotta put dat boogie down.
This guitar is so raw blues
As an Art teacher for over twenty years, I always had a smile on my face when I picked up a tube of RAW SIENNA paint.
Had this on eight track... Pops into my head regularly. It sounds like a Mose Alison song, but I don't think it is. A nice homage.
Came west across the Puget Sound to Seattle from the Peninsula side for the first time back in 86 and my buddies n me were there to party. We got a spot in a local youth hostel and hit the streets lookin for booze, broads n Blues.
First marquis to catch my eye was Demitri's Jazz Alley and for one night only was Mose Allison. I was beatin feet fast for the door but my friends were musically tasteless uncouth knuckle draggin basterds fresh out the loggin camp so they bailed as I settled in for the second set of Mose and his 88 keys of cool jazz class. Ended up havin a couple drinks with the man afterwards and went back to the hostel with an assuredness of a memory made for life. My buddies weren't back when I got there nor were they there when I woke up. Apparently they only found booze n Blues as they were all involved in a bar brawl up the road a spell n spent their weekend and a day in the King County Jail. Still have a chuckle to myself every time I tell this story. Must be I'm a seventh son of a seventh son.
@@ricaurandt6713 Correctamondo.
It Was Fun Meeting Kim When He Played Here In Omaha!!!
To some I'm a wise man, to some I'm a fool
But I need a little something to keep my cool
I sleep with the sun and I rise with the moon
And I feel alright with my needle and spoon
I feel alright with my needle and spoon
It's difficult sometimes to get my stuff
So if I'm evil don't get in a huff
I sleep with the sun and I rise with the moon
And I feel alright with my needle and spoon
I feel alright with my needle and spoon
Don't need no women don't need no wine
'Cause life is sweet when you hit the main line
I sleep with the sun and I rise with the moon
And I feel alright with my needle and spoon
I feel alright with my needle and spoon
Only one thing that worries my mind
The stuff it kills you and it treats you unkind
If you're married you can divorce your wife
But when you're married to "H? then you're married for life
You're married to "H? and you're married for life
Umm mm mm mm mm. HEYYYY!
Delicious
I never did that big H shit...Liked the song....still do, 45 years after discovering Raw Sienna!
this is the original. that voice is unmistakable...
A word to the 'Wise Guy' as Bill Burroughs would say.
Fortunate to see them a few times in SF in 1969. Undoubtedly one of the best live acts ever & Absolutely the Best at doin “The Boogie”! RIP Kim Simmons’s & Black Top Hats Off to Chris Youlden wherever in the
Hell He may be..
I think "Blue Matter" was the "high water mark" because of the contrast of 1 side live and without Chris Youlden, and the other Dominated by Youlden and his writing.
Great jam. How'd I miss this one before?
one night @ the Capitol Theater in Port Chester NY the boys came our for 4 encores.
Sun coming up when we left the theater.
been a fan for 40 years and am still pissed I missed them in Santa Maria in 1973 ? Give our take you know how it is
Youlden recorded with the Ford Blues Band in 2003. One October Day is on a 1973 album titled Nowhere Road, might indeed be hard to find.
Chris Youlden singing. Sounds like Howlin Wolf.
Howling to the moon!
Yea, the 60's I was doing it too.... singing along.....amazed to be still Kickin......
excellent blues, excellent tune, bad drug.
Heroine sucks.
I heard his on the boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J, May, 1972,
ahhh i love drug songs.
@arhatyellow aww haww haww thats cool man i have to agree!!! i'm 36 so i missed the 60's and 70's but these are the tunes i listen to and it's pretty much the way i live my life!This is an awesome tune,kim simmonds was born near where i live!
great song trying my best to kick it now got a brand new little girl that needs her daddy taking it day by day.
J.R. Humphrey intentential faux pa
YEAH, GET WITH IT DUDE!!!
Power to you, man! Stay strong
lp released April 1970
@tsugacan1 me too. one of the best british blues singers ( James dewar from Robin trower was up there) and one of the best guitarists. These guys stayed blues. All credi to them.
Adventure for a lifetime
Wish i had listened more carefully at the time,but like a lot of young teens you think you know it all,believe kids it,s pure evil,luckily i survived but so so many of my friends did,nt,don,t be like me now 66yo full of regrets and the pain and worry i caused my loved ones enough preaching,but good luck kids.
I remember this song way back in the day I used to hang out with my brother and his friends 19 years older me and they listen to it was a shoot cocaine little did I know then that I would follow in my brother's footsteps it's sad because they're all gone now none of them live to see past their mid-fifties I lost my brother to that damn the disease of addiction New Year's Day he was 57 years old and not once did he ever try to get clean sober I'm going on three years now it's like this you're either going to get sobered up locked up or covered up
man,u r one song short :) happiness is a warm gun by the beatles ... :)
Compare to Bo Diddley's "Bring it to Jerome." Both of these are stellar blues tracks.
If anyone is interested... Chris plays occasional sunday gigs with the Shakey Vic band at the Inn on the Green at Labroke Grove.... Eggo
@dangerbooboo, not always, but I rarely not miss the rush and nod of days gone by, its been 22 years since those times, being strung to the hubs wasn't any fun or romantic, but damn! when your high, your superman and your happy you just got feet. Ive never heard a better song that sums up the feeling of being a junkie as "needle and spoon"..............G
where. has everyone. gone I sure. miss you all Diane
“If you are married you can oh, miss your wife” is what he says.
actually it is the greatest guitar solo ever played ; for this song at that time .
No offense to those other fellows who passed through this band, but this line up totally kicks ass and takes names. Just by luck, LPs by this line up were the only ones I purchased. I played the hell out of those records.
Hear the new version by Foghat on "Last Train Home". It is killer.
seems like yesterday when I first saw them in the 70's, god I'll be 60 in june. now I hum this song almost daily while I shoot my INSULIN!
Best comment ever. lol
Russ Portelli that's funny. i hum while geezin meth. just kiddin. not no more. thank god i'm still alive and healthy@65
Russ Portelli I too am 60 yrs old, and do remember I would hum this tune while I was geezin the un-kind stuff. Let us rejoice in the fact we won that War On Drugs! What a fight it was. Lots of great memories, and many nightmares too.
Russ Portelli Humulin N & R for me these days, from the class of 72 and I do feel alright.
Great comment. Unfortunately, the N & S and the meth(adone) still haven't acknowledged my divorce papers. Draggin' me (myself) on. Maybe, if I'm one of the lucky, I'll live to join the group and it will be history when I'm sixty.
You have great taste, sir or madam. Are you familiar with the 54-46 that Toots did with Jeff Beck and Pressure Drop with Eric Clapton, also Monkey Man with Gwen Stefani. Might all be on the same album. Very good stuff. And yeah, the Savoy Brown Blue Matter Album may have been the best one. Saw them a couple times here in Detroit and they really boogied.
Is Chris Youlden still alive? Being a junkie myself I am suprised I am. Great song which predates my trip to jonestown.