@@mjh5437 Verden Allen(yes) is not on this take : ), as he got involved with some bad company and had exited the band, former Spooky Tooth guitarist replaced him, know who that was?
I made sure to play this song when I (female) drove off for the first time in my new stick shift car. “She’s much too much on the clutch”. Love MTH! RIP dear Buffin and Overend & God bless Ian and Mick 👍
Pretty sure the OP @stes3061 was correctly referring to the great Mick Ralphs playing on the LP he bought, R & R Queen.. Yes, that’s Mick’s replacement in this video, Ariel Bender.
One of my all time fave bands since I bought their first records beginning 70s, don't miss these early albums before they became a Glam Band, great rockers and ballads🎸
One of my favorite all time Mott tunes. Love Dale's drum intro and Overend's bass lines. I saw Ian's "H" guitar on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I'm pretty sure that Ian's "H" guitar was more for show than effect. It looks virtually unplayable and that tuning head would be a nightmare - strings leaving the nut at angles that would make it nearly impossible to stay in tune.
Ian Hunter has a new album out! My man still doin it! " I still love Rock 'n Roll" and will always love Mott! Ian is my very favorite artist that no one talks about enough. Rock on yall!🤘😎🤘
The lyrics to this song is simple but effective. Rock and roll at its finest. Hellva performance. I can relate as I still have an affection for vintage stale air VDubs. Everybody that was born before 1970 has a VW story. My story still lives thru my 59 Karman Ghia vert.
My dads best friend restored Karman Ghia’s as a hobby, loved it when he’d take me for a ride as a little girl. My 1st driving experience was my youngest-older brothers ‘68 blue VW bug, he taught me how to drive a stick at age 16 & gave it to me to use when he left for the army-Germany. What a sweet older brother, almost killed myself several times in that car but that’s young teens, driving a vehicles “life lessons”.
Very cool story. I learned how to drive a stick on a bug too. Me and a bunch of my friends would pool our money together and buy a used bug in the mid 70’s and beat the hell out of it out in the back forty until it ran no more. Lmao and I didn’t even have a learners permit yet. VW’s back then were cheap and if you kept oil in the engine they would get you to your next stop especially with the budget I was on back then. LoL I have a lot of good memories and funny stories with Beetles. Karmann Ghia’s are my passion now. Especially the early ones from the 50’.
@@LEWFROST2: Absolute drivel. They were the first rock band to play Broadway. In '73/'74, they headlined everywhere, including America. Seven hit singles and four chart albums in England.
Keep forgetting - who is the handsome bassist with the gray hair and wearing over the knee-high platform boots? Like his clothes. @1:45 that guitar solo is sure pretty …♥️
@@alzo7891 Haha, really? This is so darn funny! Looks like I’ve got good taste he’s a smoke show hottie, I’ll try to find the song and listen now, am curious Ty.
There’s something about “Half Moon Bay” in the song. Anyways it reminded me of a really good taco restaurant there, I can’t remember the name. But the fish tacos are terrific.
I think that’s why most young guys in teens learned to play guitar with their buddies. They loved fish tacos. We called it FTN back in the day. Free Taco Night
Wouldn't that be something !...but Mick Ralphs had left the band the previous August...so with it being his song with him singing it...I'm sure they wouldn't of added it to the setlist...they did do "Ready for love" though the tour supporting "All the young dudes" which is kind of has a similar song structure...
@@littlebird2276 well in Mott the hoople...no one...they dropped it from the setlist... but as you may know... they re-recorded it for the "Bad company" debut with Paul Rogers on vocals...still I prefer the MTH version ! 👍🏻
@@philipholmes5884 I must have misunderstood your comment above. It reads like Mott played Ready For Love but not El Camino after Mick left. I like both versions, though I know Mick was happier with the BC version
That guitar is cool. It looks like an H. He’s got another that looks like an O, one that’s like a P, one that’s like an L, and one that’s like an E. It spells “Hoople” although he’s only got one O so that’s a problem. (I will write the lead guitarist, at 1:49, might play the most boring guitar solo ever written. Yngwie Malmsteen might say, “Dude! You played maybe 50 notes. I could’ve played 50 thousand during that solo!”)
Sometimes simple is better my friend .Playing 50 thousand plus notes makes a song? The style of Yngwie would clash with this song. Ever hear of soul,or playing with feel? Ill take 70s rock playing over a mechanical tapping,robotic playing any day. You dont need soul for that.
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They don't make them like this anymore. Love the Midnight Special archives! Thank you for all that you share!!!
RIP drummer Dale Griffin and bassist Overend Watts.
You see them like this in their prime,and it seems impossible that they went to old age and death..Is the Bob Harris lookalike on piano still with us?
@@davidglow3 Verden Allen is still around,age 80 now.
@@davidglow3 That's Morgan Fisher, and yes, he's still with us. Lives in Japan, and still active musically, I believe.
@@mjh5437 Verden Allen(yes) is not on this take : ), as he got involved with some bad company and had exited the band, former Spooky Tooth guitarist replaced him, know who that was?
AW THE 70's THE MUSIC THE FASHION. GLAD I WAS THERE!!
Fantastic song from their seminal album - what a great decade for music it was…
I made sure to play this song when I (female) drove off for the first time in my new stick shift car. “She’s much too much on the clutch”. Love MTH! RIP dear Buffin and Overend & God bless Ian and Mick 👍
That's Bender, not Mick!
Remember getting the first Mott lp 1969 I was 15 Rock n roll queen
Wore out my crapoy panasonic turntable Mick Ralphs was a beast
...same age, my first album was Mad Shadows, soon the other Lps followed, we had a great time I think, rock on🎸
That's Ariel Bender
@@jimross2101 ...thats right, Luther Grosvenor, his real name, came from another great band Spooky Tooth, rock on🎸
Pretty sure the OP @stes3061 was correctly referring to the great Mick Ralphs playing on the LP he bought, R & R Queen..
Yes, that’s Mick’s replacement in this video, Ariel Bender.
Bender went on to play in a band named Widowmaker.
One of the greatest band ever!!!
true dat
One of my all time fave bands since I bought their first records beginning 70s, don't miss these early albums before they became a Glam Band, great rockers and ballads🎸
One of my favorite all time Mott tunes. Love Dale's drum intro and Overend's bass lines. I saw Ian's "H" guitar on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I'm pretty sure that Ian's "H" guitar was more for show than effect. It looks virtually unplayable and that tuning head would be a nightmare - strings leaving the nut at angles that would make it nearly impossible to stay in tune.
@@Kevin-mx1vi You hit the nail on the head! Ian has said this more than once!
Great Band
They were so great. LOVE me some Mott!
these guys knew the secret!!!!
Ian Hunter has a new album out!
My man still doin it!
" I still love Rock 'n Roll" and will always love Mott!
Ian is my very favorite artist that no one talks about enough.
Rock on yall!🤘😎🤘
Love the lp jr
This will never get old!!
The lyrics to this song is simple but effective. Rock and roll at its finest. Hellva performance.
I can relate as I still have an affection for vintage stale air VDubs. Everybody that was born before 1970 has a VW story. My story still lives thru my 59 Karman Ghia vert.
My dads best friend restored Karman Ghia’s as a hobby, loved it when he’d take me for a ride as a little girl. My 1st driving experience was my youngest-older brothers ‘68 blue VW bug, he taught me how to drive a stick at age 16 & gave it to me to use when he left for the army-Germany. What a sweet older brother, almost killed myself several times in that car but that’s young teens, driving a vehicles “life lessons”.
Very cool story. I learned how to drive a stick on a bug too. Me and a bunch of my friends would pool our money together and buy a used bug in the mid 70’s and beat the hell out of it out in the back forty until it ran no more. Lmao and I didn’t even have a learners permit yet.
VW’s back then were cheap and if you kept oil in the engine they would get you to your next stop especially with the budget I was on back then. LoL I have a lot of good memories and funny stories with Beetles.
Karmann Ghia’s are my passion now. Especially the early ones from the 50’.
Man we smoked alot to this album
tru dat
Fantastic !!!
Yeah when music was great!
This is gold. Quite literally too
At Last = a little ROCK ! 🎸🎸🎸
Cracking performance
Their live album is one of my all time favorites. Still listen to it today.
That platform shoes!!🤣😂
Ian Hunter: you’re never alone with a schizophrenic.
Great music to exercise to!
I'd love to see the case for the "H: guitar....
Rock'n'rollers, you're all the same. Man, that's your instrument!
it's shaped like an "h"
Driving Sistah!
The best. Thank you.
This band should be in the Rock n Roll hall of flame!!!!
they did have 1 hit....did fill small clubs and theatres..... 0 gold albums... when they played a large venue, it was NOT as the headliner....
@@LEWFROST2: Absolute drivel. They were the first rock band to play Broadway. In '73/'74, they headlined everywhere, including America. Seven hit singles and four chart albums in England.
@@BanalayerPete1972...and all across major venues in Britain and the US with Queen as the opening act!
@@edwardshirley9314: Absolutely - with Queen still crediting Mott with being a great inspiration.
@@BanalayerPete1972 "They taught us how to be rock stars"
Mott the Hoople 1974 vintage. Ian Hunter is a force of nature.
Mott were awesome.
If you don't get it I feel sorry for you.
This was October 1973 🙂
Driving down the Hampstead Way,along the edge of the Heath...Very pleasant ride..
As long as George Michael isn`t lurking in the bushes.
@@mjh5437 l did actually see him a couple of times on the heath..His dad disowned him for being a homosexual,and it all ended up rather sadly for him.
I Dig the rough edges of late 60's to mid 70's R&R...😅
Yes, we wore those clothes in public. If we didn't own them, we raided our girlfriend's closets. (:
Keep forgetting - who is the handsome bassist with the gray hair and wearing over the knee-high platform boots?
Like his clothes.
@1:45 that guitar solo is sure pretty …♥️
The late Overend Watts.
@@michaelschmidt9708 Thank you! What a “different” & unique name.
@@KittyGrizGriz Indeed. Overend was actually his middle name - his first name was Peter.
A band called Mambo Sons did a song about him: “My sister’s got the hots for Mr. Overend Watts.”
@@alzo7891 Haha, really? This is so darn funny! Looks like I’ve got good taste he’s a smoke show hottie, I’ll try to find the song and listen now, am curious Ty.
All the Young Dudes. Says it all.
that was written by David Bowie for Mott
There’s something about “Half Moon Bay” in the song. Anyways it reminded me of a really good taco restaurant there, I can’t remember the name. But the fish tacos are terrific.
I think that’s why most young guys in teens learned to play guitar with their buddies. They loved fish tacos. We called it FTN back in the day. Free Taco Night
"8-track machine playing _Half Moon Bay_ " _Half Moon Bay_ is a 10-minute song from the first Mott the Hoople album, in 1969.
I'm A Cadillac,El Camino Dolo Roso is a great one and I hope they performed it it on the show
Wouldn't that be something !...but Mick Ralphs had left the band the previous August...so with it being his song with him singing it...I'm sure they wouldn't of added it to the setlist...they did do "Ready for love" though the tour supporting "All the young dudes" which is kind of has a similar song structure...
@@philipholmes5884who sang Ready For Love in Mick’s place?
@@littlebird2276 well in Mott the hoople...no one...they dropped it from the setlist... but as you may know... they re-recorded it for the "Bad company" debut with Paul Rogers on vocals...still I prefer the MTH version ! 👍🏻
@@philipholmes5884 I must have misunderstood your comment above. It reads like Mott played Ready For Love but not El Camino after Mick left.
I like both versions, though I know Mick was happier with the BC version
Really live which I think was unusual for the Midnight Special.
Not at all unusual.
Wore platforms 8 inches high size 28 levis We were young lean mean stoned and what a time to be 20
TOP!
Ampeg is making a good showing 😊
When I say, "Mott", you say, "The Hoople", 😂
Yes but that's the version I recall from the 70's. Never heard David's until the live album.
GOD'S WARRIORS GIFTED BY GOD 😊😇👆
Did you see the suits and the platform boots....?
As animated as I've ever seen Ian Hunter.
The band which Mick Jones from The Clash wanted to be in.
Why he's an Areial Bender.
That's what Lyndsey De Paul said Mick Ralphs liked to do sometimes...😂
Luther Grosvenor
@@eirikmoltu553 one of the best (real) British names ever.
@@philipholmes5884 I remember doing precisely the same thing as a drunken teenager all over Notting Hill Gate in the late 1970s🤐
they used to bend car radio aerials in half walking down the street in Germany
どうしたんだ へへいべいべー
同じこと思ってましたw
Is DAT a l6s ?
No it's a Les Paul junior !
Hair
The lead guitar players vest looks like sparkle eyed beans babies.
That guitar is cool. It looks like an H. He’s got another that looks like an O, one that’s like a P, one that’s like an L, and one that’s like an E. It spells “Hoople” although he’s only got one O so that’s a problem. (I will write the lead guitarist, at 1:49, might play the most boring guitar solo ever written. Yngwie Malmsteen might say, “Dude! You played maybe 50 notes. I could’ve played 50 thousand during that solo!”)
I only played five notes, but they were all the right ones
Sometimes simple is better my friend .Playing 50 thousand plus notes makes a song? The style of Yngwie would clash with this song. Ever hear of soul,or playing with feel? Ill take 70s rock playing over a mechanical tapping,robotic playing any day. You dont need soul for that.
@TheDonzim I agree less is more. Let the song breath don’t suffocate it to death.
Watching that bass player keeping a left hand death grip on that neck diving Gibson Thunderbird bass is comical. Beautiful bass though.
Right on @@curtisphilumalee1447
Not a fan of this version. Seems slightly faster than the original and lacks Ralphers smooth tone