I met my wife at an Angels concert when they were playing this song. Literally bumped into her on the dance floor. Played it at our wedding 5 years later and I hope they will play it at my funeral, whenever that is.
Saw them in '81 at the Agora Ballroom in Tampa. We were so psyched and honored that they took the initiative to tour in our neck of the woods. They did not disappoint. No opening band, just 2 hours of non-stop hard rock and a young, limber Doc Neeson climbing walls and balconies while the Brewster brothers and rhythm section tore it up. I'll never forget it.
Rock In Peace Mr Bernard Patrick Neeson. Ten years have passed since you moved on to play in the afterlife with some other greats of rock. Best Aussie frontman ever
honestly, seen, and met many, but Doc one of the best front mans ever. Have scene meet the rest of the band a few times, and they are great, but they are still missing their front man. Live on Doc.
@@jamesuren7199 I could not agree more, I have only recently been able to listen to AC DC without Bonn but I cannot and will not listen to anyone singing with the Angels. Doc one and only
Castle hill rsl, 1986(?) My best mate n i front row centre...mate has a beret n black wraparounds on, doc points to him and beckons, seconds later hes wearing that beret n glasses...marseilles hammers out...fkn awesome. Gave my mates stuff back n thanked him for the loan... We fkn LOVED the angels.
The Brewster brothers , just awsome the entire band were just awsome , never seen the Angels play live but I damm wish I did , RIP Doc you great man ❤️
Bands like INXS, Michael Hutchence never wanted to be a frontman, he never even wanted to sing Midnight Oil Cold Chisel Skyhooks Were all sooooo much more poplar bands than The Angels But did an aussie rock band have a better frontman that Doc Neeson. NOPE. Doc was our "Freddie Mercury" I'm sure fans here will back me up.
@@veganath I saw ACDC with Bon up front live. Bon was a good singer. Not a great singer. He wasn't theatrical like Doc. ACDC attempted to copy the theatrical look of Skyhooks. But it never worked for them, or for their fans.
Great song from a great band.....I saw them more than any other band and they were never less than incendiary. Doc was a riveting front man, one of the very best- and the band were just so damn good live I'd have to rate them as the best Aussie live band I saw ( Next to AD/DC of course!) Should have stuck it out longer in US....they deserved global success. Doc.....I salute you!
I love it! TLDR; This song is a top contender for one of the most exciting and best constructed guitar solos in history! Warning: Crazy insanely detailed attempt to explain this opinion follows. Optional. Can skip. Not recommended. I warned you! There's lot of great musical passages in this song, and the contrast in dynamics between the French interlude and the grand finale is wonderful, but I just want to describe in ridiculous detail what is my favourite guitar solo out of all the incredible ones the Angels recorded. The climb to the high D (here reached at 6:40, but the climb really starts, in a very low gear, after Doc finishes his spoken French, around 5:45) is a sheer masterpiece. The climb kicks into high gear around 6:12 and it's like a rising inexorable tide. The highest note we hear gets higher, then the wave retreats but the next wave gets higher still: at first the highest we hear is the E, then the F#. We keep falling back to the A below but climb again, this time reaching the A above. We fall back to the E that at the start of the passage was the highest we could get on the scale, but after gathering our strength we leap up and leave it behind! The quest to reach that high D we are unconsciously longing to hear is epic. We unconsciously ache for it, the chords all through this have just been alternating A and D. We have rested on the F#, we have rested on the A, we need to reach the D! The genius of the climb to the D is that our approach gets both faster and slower simultaneously as we get closer: the number of notes per bar increases as we ascend the scale more slowly. It creates an exquisite tension! We first hear the C# at 6:28 but then don't get any higher for four whole more bars! But now we don't fall any lower than the high A. We reach that C# again and again and again and again and again and again at the top of the individual phrases, faster and faster and faster! The tension is extreme! We spend more time and more notes each bar on that damn C#. It feels like we have never been anywhere else! (Even more so on the studio version than this rendition) Will we ever reach the D?! Only that D will give us the complete climb we've been aiming at all this time. When we DO finally reach that high D it's an almost orgasmic triumphal release and satisfying relief something like... like... that of watching Doug Walters bring up his Test Match century in a single session with a 6 off the last ball of the day!
Oh my God! Brings back memories of the cassette I literally destroyed by playing it soooo many times. Got booked by the highway patrol one night back in the late seventies. Have a guess what was playing at full bore in the car?; couldn't hear the siren. Chased" for a few kilometres before I realised. The fine was worth it!!
me too, Apollo 1981 Adelaide OMG Life changing best concert. Next best was Dandenong hotel in 84 Doc walked out on top of crowd and threw copies of Adelaide newspaper ‘The News’ I love them and will always cherish them😢
It's the best guitar solo the Angels ever recorded, which makes it one of the best anyone ever recorded! And yes, that's exactly when it kicks into high gear!
Saw these guys many times growing up in Adelaide they were regular features at the arkaba hotel in town. Was a fairly small venue so the ears were ringin all night. Fckn top outfit
This studio 22 sessions saw The Angels at their best the sound the energy ,this was the best line up of The Angels,and I saw/seen them all this was the best,they deserved to be bigger world wide,but like Rose Tattoo they have reached cult status and are a huge influence on so many bands around the world,OZ rock at it,s finest!
Legends. First saw them around 1974-1976. Followed them round the Sydney pubs for years. Monsters of rock. Great days on the Sydney pub circuit. Also Cold Chisel, Jimmy and the Boys, Radiators, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo etc etc etc. A golden age of Aussie Rock! Oz has produced more great bands than any other country. And remember: "No way, get fucked, fuck off!" :-)
These guys Absolutely friggin Rock..seen them early 80's, in Jax. Fla., along with Nazareth, an Blackfoot..!!!! ;);). They were Awesome..!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i agree mate i have been a rock fan for 30 years and i dont rate ANYONE - NO ONE - EVER - better than The Angels ! They are so under-rated its a tragedy!
Doc , we went to billboards in Melbourne Dogs are Talking Tour you came to the bar after the show and sat with us and talked shit with us for an hour or so and shouted us all JD until you left Great memories. R.I.P you have left your memories with a lot of people. 👍🍷
Who else misses this era of Australian rock?
Every day....sadly
Always
ME
20 concerts have all the original records…best days👍👍
Toujours encore et encore 🌟👍🏼
One of the best lead solos way up in the world stop 10
Live music in the 70's and 80's were the best growing up in Australia. Thank you to all those live music venues that supported them.
One of the greatest ever Australian songs
I met my wife at an Angels concert when they were playing this song. Literally bumped into her on the dance floor. Played it at our wedding 5 years later and I hope they will play it at my funeral, whenever that is.
Saw them in '81 at the Agora Ballroom in Tampa. We were so psyched and honored that they took the initiative to tour in our neck of the woods. They did not disappoint. No opening band, just 2 hours of non-stop hard rock and a young, limber Doc Neeson climbing walls and balconies while the Brewster brothers and rhythm section tore it up. I'll never forget it.
Beau titre pour Marseille,souvenir de voyage d'études et amitiés FrancoAussie
dont ask a reason
take me away to marseille
say you love this
One of their best songs ever.
One of the!
World class band with a frontman the equal of any. Angels Be With You, Doc
Fucken legend!!
got nothin to lose!
Bon and Doc Ftw
Best concerts I ever went to. High energy ecstasy.
One of the best non radio played songs ever
This song was played constantly in Oregon when it came out.
My wife boarded with his family at Adelaide when she was teenager, said he was a complete gentleman. So there you go.we all love doc
Doc was a complete gentleman
Doc was a gentleman in every sense but had his moments to
Rock In Peace Mr Bernard Patrick Neeson. Ten years have passed since you moved on to play in the afterlife with some other greats of rock. Best Aussie frontman ever
honestly, seen, and met many, but Doc one of the best front mans ever. Have scene meet the rest of the band a few times, and they are great, but they are still missing their front man. Live on Doc.
Doc and bon two of the best
@@jamesuren7199 I could not agree more, I have only recently been able to listen to AC DC without Bonn but I cannot and will not listen to anyone singing with the Angels. Doc one and only
THE ANGLES live what's there to say bloody legends of all time
Saw them live twice in Portland 1980-81. I wish they would've toured more. I love this band!
I was there at the old Paramount Theater too. They didn’t need a flashy show…the guitars, beat, and that Doc charisma was all it took to be memorable.
Classic song from a great Aussie band, The Angels along with AC/DC and Rose Tattoo are the BIG 3 of Australian classic hard rock! \m/
Watching from Australia.
One of my childhood favorite bands.
I was blessed to have seen them LIVE.
Thank you for the Rock n Roll fellas.
Soy de Argentina fanático de ac/dc y viendo una documental de ellos pude escuchar esta banda como los tattos roses y muy buenas por cierto.
RIP DOC NEESON❤❤❤❤
And Chris Bailey
What a band you guys are legendary rock on doc R.I.P
Castle hill rsl, 1986(?) My best mate n i front row centre...mate has a beret n black wraparounds on, doc points to him and beckons, seconds later hes wearing that beret n glasses...marseilles hammers out...fkn awesome. Gave my mates stuff back n thanked him for the loan...
We fkn LOVED the angels.
Loved them in1978 and still love them.
S33… Not Forgotten, Not Foresaken… SIMPLY SALVATION
The best version of this song I have ever heard and Brewtser Bros Guitar Playing ? Nobody attacks a guitar like an Australian.
That tone screams Australia.
@@radzo1675 Yes and again nobody does it better .
Live at Latrobe uni mate
@@robertj.b2494 This version I love and play it often.
The Brewster brothers , just awsome the entire band were just awsome , never seen the Angels play live but I damm wish I did , RIP Doc you great man ❤️
I grew up in Sydney, saw these guys so many times.
Love these guys.......
Sadly I've only recently 'discovered' The Angels, now trying to track down all their stuff. Fantastic. K77
Bands like
INXS, Michael Hutchence never wanted to be a frontman, he never even wanted to sing
Midnight Oil
Cold Chisel
Skyhooks
Were all sooooo much more poplar bands than The Angels
But did an aussie rock band have a better frontman that Doc Neeson. NOPE. Doc was our "Freddie Mercury" I'm sure fans here will back me up.
Start with "the Angels Greatest" and work from there .....
@@Mexxx65 Bon Scot?
@@veganath I saw ACDC with Bon up front live. Bon was a good singer. Not a great singer. He wasn't theatrical like Doc. ACDC attempted to copy the theatrical look of Skyhooks. But it never worked for them, or for their fans.
Enjoy the journey !
best Aussie band ever to hit the stage - RIP Doc
Great song from a great band.....I saw them more than any other band and they were never less than incendiary. Doc was a riveting front man, one of the very best- and the band were just so damn good live I'd have to rate them as the best Aussie live band I saw ( Next to AD/DC of course!) Should have stuck it out longer in US....they deserved global success. Doc.....I salute you!
Robbinozz Aussie pub bands. Can you get any better ? NO.
It was there manager that screwed the USA deal . He did without talking to Alberts . Thus no home backing.
@@Robbinozz88 wonderfully articulate answer mate......sigh
in all honesty .. loved the angels .. but the oils put on a hella show
❤For my friends of 13 ,love u from92,No Frontiers❤
RIP Doc Neeson. We love ya, mate!
Such a great riff 👍🎸
THANK GOD FOR THE ANGELS
I love it!
TLDR; This song is a top contender for one of the most exciting and best constructed guitar solos in history!
Warning: Crazy insanely detailed attempt to explain this opinion follows. Optional. Can skip. Not recommended. I warned you!
There's lot of great musical passages in this song, and the contrast in dynamics between the French interlude and the grand finale is wonderful, but I just want to describe in ridiculous detail what is my favourite guitar solo out of all the incredible ones the Angels recorded.
The climb to the high D (here reached at 6:40, but the climb really starts, in a very low gear, after Doc finishes his spoken French, around 5:45) is a sheer masterpiece. The climb kicks into high gear around 6:12 and it's like a rising inexorable tide. The highest note we hear gets higher, then the wave retreats but the next wave gets higher still: at first the highest we hear is the E, then the F#. We keep falling back to the A below but climb again, this time reaching the A above. We fall back to the E that at the start of the passage was the highest we could get on the scale, but after gathering our strength we leap up and leave it behind!
The quest to reach that high D we are unconsciously longing to hear is epic. We unconsciously ache for it, the chords all through this have just been alternating A and D. We have rested on the F#, we have rested on the A, we need to reach the D! The genius of the climb to the D is that our approach gets both faster and slower simultaneously as we get closer: the number of notes per bar increases as we ascend the scale more slowly. It creates an exquisite tension!
We first hear the C# at 6:28 but then don't get any higher for four whole more bars! But now we don't fall any lower than the high A. We reach that C# again and again and again and again and again and again at the top of the individual phrases, faster and faster and faster! The tension is extreme! We spend more time and more notes each bar on that damn C#. It feels like we have never been anywhere else! (Even more so on the studio version than this rendition) Will we ever reach the D?! Only that D will give us the complete climb we've been aiming at all this time.
When we DO finally reach that high D it's an almost orgasmic triumphal release and satisfying relief something like... like... that of watching Doug Walters bring up his Test Match century in a single session with a 6 off the last ball of the day!
Met Doc across from my local. He was looking at real estate. Approachable, charismatic bloke.
And what incredible talent.
Oh my God! Brings back memories of the cassette I literally destroyed by playing it soooo many times. Got booked by the highway patrol one night back in the late seventies. Have a guess what was playing at full bore in the car?; couldn't hear the siren. Chased" for a few kilometres before I realised. The fine was worth it!!
Classic
That's the way!!
Legend m8 🙂
R.I.P. Doc! This was the first band that I ever saw live!
Nate Hamon me to at Shellie’s Back in the days brother. If we only had a time machine
me too, Apollo 1981 Adelaide OMG Life changing best concert. Next best was Dandenong hotel in 84 Doc walked out on top of crowd and threw copies of Adelaide newspaper ‘The News’ I love them and will always cherish them😢
For all of my friends❤in 13,QLD,92,75,you know....❤
That guitar riff was a gold mine.
Hell yeah
@@mattharris5067 thebest
Long ago my bro gave me one of their LPs, been hooked since I started listening. She Keeps No Secrets started it.
Pub ROCK at it's best R.I.P Doc
A true legend RIP Doc
Beast part of the song finally started at 6:19. God I e always loved that part... The song just takes off.. 🧡
It's the best guitar solo the Angels ever recorded, which makes it one of the best anyone ever recorded! And yes, that's exactly when it kicks into high gear!
Best Aussie rock band. Will live on forever.
Midnight Oil is better.
Saw these guys many times growing up in Adelaide they were regular features at the arkaba hotel in town. Was a fairly small venue so the ears were ringin all night. Fckn top outfit
This studio 22 sessions saw The Angels at their best the sound the energy ,this was the best line up of The Angels,and I saw/seen them all this was the best,they deserved to be bigger world wide,but like Rose Tattoo they have reached cult status and are a huge influence on so many bands around the world,OZ rock at it,s finest!
RIP Legend cheers for everything love ya
Saw them recently. rip doc. he was missed. ❤
Their strum is mesmerising.
THOSE WHERE THE DAIZE... OH MY... WTFG... BRING IT ALL ON BK... THOSE WHERE THE DAYS MY FRIENDS THOSE WHERE THE DAIZE... GOD BLESS DOC N THE ANGELS...
Yu're great Elly-May. I love your sound. Most of all I love what you stand for "Conquering the odds and doing what you're good at!" ❤️
These guys were/are so good. Blows me away, still.
Oz culture was different then!!
Yep& they still blowin me away.listenin now 🎵🎵🎵🥁🎸🎵🎵
Party on since the '80s, Blessings from Alberta
Rock on, LOVE CONQUERS ALL!!!!!!
Another sad day for Rock & Roll, RIP Doc Neeson.
saw them in Detroit at Club Bookies on 6 mile road back in the 80's. Doc was on top of his game that night.
Nobody owns a stage like Doc!
❤Great Version ❤Vive Marseille et les Roos❤
the angels are the best australian band so much talent fantastic
australians are very proud of our rock bands ,,,,best in the world,,,,,ty for uploading this for everyone to hear our great rockers
Rightly so. The Angels were amazing.
Love is the STRONGEST FORCE, STILL UNDEFEATED
I miss Doc and the Angels , so lucky to have seen them live ! mind blowing
This version is awesome and just shows how good The Angels were . Nobody attacks a guitar like an Australian .
Love these songs
Face to Face was a deadly album
Love the punch of the bass.
Wow just love Angel city as I know them in Canada takes me back
the sound of my misspent youth :)
Legends. First saw them around 1974-1976. Followed them round the Sydney pubs for years. Monsters of rock. Great days on the Sydney pub circuit. Also Cold Chisel, Jimmy and the Boys, Radiators, Midnight Oil, Rose Tattoo etc etc etc. A golden age of Aussie Rock! Oz has produced more great bands than any other country. And remember: "No way, get fucked, fuck off!" :-)
another great band from SA (South Australia)
My favorite angels song
Really, the epic anthem of Angels City
These guys Absolutely friggin Rock..seen them early 80's, in Jax. Fla., along with Nazareth, an Blackfoot..!!!! ;);). They were Awesome..!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
used to see angels and divinyls every weekend for 3 months,diff venue, diff crowds, never disappointed
the best line up of all time - not just Angels - but any band ever - sheer perfection!
Seen them 19 times live. Lots of those at Dalrymple hotel in Townsville and other locations in Townsville. Darwin too
Luv Doc and the Brewster Brothers playing together
What a song!!! Oh la la l shut that door ooh LA LA LA
I will take this guitar solo over any other there is !
this song is a all time great for they ages. only the smart ones get it and appreciate the genius behind its true meaning
Greatest Aussie band ever
Funking oath what legendary band before now and beyond...why waltz !!!!! Adzysouth west.
Brilliant💥💫🎇💥🎇
What a band! The best!!!!
i agree mate i have been a rock fan for 30 years and i dont rate ANYONE - NO ONE - EVER - better than The Angels ! They are so under-rated its a tragedy!
Seen them at House on the Hill in Cairns. Unforgettable
I miss Doc so much. I've seen them countless times over the decades and I never get tired of hearing their music. XX
Love them! Thank you! Favorite song!
Doc you were the greatest frontman
RIP LEGEND
Saw them at the paramount in Portland 1981 .Missing Persons opened and held their own...almost! 7:38
wow!
Best version of the song and best line up of the band.
The Brewster boys...tightest pair of guitars in rock history.
And Australian!
Yes none better .
Angus might have a thing or 2 to say about that.
Heard of the Young's?
My first year in Highschool i discovered the Angels and never looked back❤😂😂😂
Love it.
Doc , we went to billboards in Melbourne Dogs are Talking Tour you came to the bar after the show and sat with us and talked shit with us for an hour or so and shouted us all JD until you left Great memories. R.I.P you have left your memories with a lot of people. 👍🍷
best ever aussie live band
My favorite band bar none!! R.I.P. Doc!!
So so fucking sad. Doc Neeson gave me so such pleasure. An epic performer with no peer….cried a few tears this morning. RIP Doc. Legend,
Doc and the boys used to wind me so much 10 minutes before I put my YZ 250 on the starting gate and then blasted wide open...practice also...
I used to sing and play this in my first road band back in 1980! Takes me right back! These guys sound great still!
Still love you Doc
..... and such a nice man
Magic! Cast to the big sreen and and listen in surround sound.
6:47 whoops. Sometimes even seasoned pros forget their linear scales and play a fret short.
I noticed that too! I have all their songs imprinted on me from all the years as a fan.