Fuck the HOF. They don't have the first clue about actual rock and roll. It's just an excuse for a bunch of music industry chickenhawks and their sycophants to jerk each other off while charging $10K admission prices. Sweet were too damn good for their phony establishment. They've been in my hall of fame for about 45 years now.
Such a fantastic band. Could devestate a live audience with timing, musical ability, and an unrivalled sound structure. I miss them all, but I am forever thankful I can look back and listen to their wonderful contribution to the history of British Rock and Roll.
They already are in the rock and roll hall of fame. That is, the actual TRUE hall of fame that exists in every REAL rock and roller's knowledge... NOT that phony establishment in Cleveland Ohio that charges $10K admission and inducts rappers and pop divas like Madonna while ignoring real rock and roll bands.
I'm 61 and still listening! Wow that's a lot of talent and oh those guys were all so darn good looking! Hell raiser is so hot!🔥RIP and I bet Heaven is rocking!😇🎶✌
I N C R E D I B L E. What I would give to have been in the audience. I’ve watched this endlessly, and it still isn’t enough. ✨Our Brian - our Foursome✨. PURE GOLD. 💛💛💛💛
This is what live rock and roll is supposed to sound like! Killer vocals, heavy beat, and rockin' guitar riffs. I'm going to sound like an old fogie but too much auto tune/pitch correcting nonsense with today's music. These guys delivered live exactly what they delivered on record - kick ass rock and roll, expertly performed.
tinian33 Yes, it does. The Sweet were always a little punky. You can hear their influence in a lot of different bands. The Damned have a Sweet influence and on the opposite end of the spectrum, so does a band like Muse.
Listen to this and then listen to this again so you fully appreciate just how kickass this performance is! Sweet were highly underrated and never taken seriously because of their early bubblegum pop songs; they were more or less a puppet group for the Chinn/Chapman songwriting and producing duo, and also that session musicians were used on their early hits. By the time that Sweet broke free from Chinn/Chapman, began writing their own material and went in a harder rock direction, they were pretty much shunned and ignored. Mick Tucker in particular was one of the greatest 70's British rock drummers; when the greatest rock drummer of all time John Bonham is a big fan of yours, you know you're special! 🥁👊🙏🇬🇧 R.I.P. Mick Tucker, Steve Priest and Brian Connolly
I was ten years old in 1973 and the music was great. Now I'm 60 years old and I hear this songs at home, in my car, at every place...... The best song from Sweet- I think- ist "Healer".
Me too. For some very bizarre reason, there's not much live footage of them from this era, which was without a doubt their 'golden' period. I have no idea why that is. Not only were they an amazing live band, but they were also visually stunning.
Hi guys. I'm sorry I cant remember the exact year cos I'm 62 now but a very good mate of mine, Simon Bishop from Ware in Herts was a big fan but I just didnt get it. I was listening to Hendrix and Deep Purple most of the time. He played me Action, and I thought wow that's got something about it. Long story short. He persuaded me to go and see them at the Locarno Southend and boy was I glad I went!!! Tight as fuck, brilliant vocals and loud as hell!!! What a night. People are slowly realising what a great band they were!!! I saw loads of supposedly great bands in the early, mid 70's on the London Pub and college circuit and very few came up to the standard of The Sweet.
I was 8 years old in 1973. God you're lucky to have seen them. They are the uncredited band that started everything and they were never matched. Gods. Period.
I am 62 too 😉 ... i was a huge fan and brought my records to school for the music lesson ... all boys laughed at me ... so it is going straight to my ❤ reading your words 😘
Jesus this is awesome, just shows they were far far more than the glam/bubble gum pop band they were portrayed as in the early days. They are on fire here
The glam thing was all part of the appeal though. You could tell they weren't taking themselves very seriously, in spite of their talent... which made them all that much more endearing. There was nothing pretentious or pompous about Sweet. They were very, very real.
Just shows how versatile they were. They could do all the styles of rock and do them all very well! I liked all the different types of songs they played, since I liked everything from bubblegum to hard rock in my youth.
Damn that live performance was ace 🤘. While they were before my time, I will forever cherish this band and are my favourite of the Glam Rock era of the 70s. You can also somewhat see how both punk and metal bands were inspired by this band.
What hardly anyone knows: Ozzy Osbourne then declared, that Hell Raiser was the best rock song of the year '73. These four boys were the idols of my 70s. Not just a top rock-band, they were also the block bustering pop-rock-kings. Greetings to Steve and Andy!
I can believe Ozzy said that. I've read interviews with Ozzy where he's spoken very fondly of the glam bands from that era. Had some great things to say about Bowie and Bolan. Obviously Sabbath were off on a very different tangent at that time, but as a musician myself I know that the kind of music one plays isn't necessarily the same as the kind of music one listens to.
Yes, '73 Sweet is definitely their prime year. They continued to make great records after this, but they were just on fucking FIRE here. I much preferred their glam period to the later "moustache and perm" era... though the black leather jacket period ('75-'76) was pretty cool too.
Has always loved Steve priests (R.I.P) sound on the Bass. Heavy Metal anno 1973🤘 The Livesection of the Strung Up album is Heavy as F..k💪🤘👌 Greetings from Sweden, Meshuggahland🤘👽
The first time I saw Mick Tucker play was on Don Kirshner in 74. I was 13 and blown away. Kirshner had the Sweet and Black Oak Arkansas on that night and Tommy Aldridge gave Mick a good run for his money. That was a great show.
Fuck... yes!!! Now this is when I especially would have loved to see them. Their star was really on the rise in '73. For some very odd reason there's not a whole lot of live footage of them from this period. This is just amazing stuff right here! I was only a little kid in '73, not quite old enough to go see them. This really makes me wish time travel was a real thing.
This was my favourite Sweet track when I was at school and seeing it again here I understand why - absolutely mind blowing performance here. And Steve makes my heart race, even now!!
He was a fantastic player. A Jet Harris disciple and better than many other bassists of the era. Sweet Fanny Adams and Desolation Boulevard have some great jazzy parts within some of the songs that show his versatility. And that tone...
@@dontommaso2760 Well said. Another bass player from that era with a similar style and ethos comes to mind... Dennis Dunaway from the original Alice Cooper Band.
@@Brewzerr Yes, definitely...haven't played them for a while so thanks for the reminder ;) Everyone gives Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner credit for their playing (and rightly so) but forget about Dunaway's bass skills. I had to look up what he is up to now and it turns out he is playing with Joe and Albert Bouchard from the Blue Öyster Cult in Blue Coupe. Will check them out tonight!
@@dontommaso2760 Dennis also recently wrote a book of his memoirs from the Alice days, called "Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group". I've already read through it 3 times. Really great stuff. He has a photographic memory. I've been a longtime Alice fan since I was just a kid, and thought I knew everything about them, but this book taught me more than a few new things. I highly recommend that one if you're a fan of the original Alice Cooper Band.
It's a tough call for me. So many glam bands I love, but Sweet definitely makes top 3, along with Slade and T Rex. However there are many days when Sweet is all I want to hear.
Das war schon eine klasse Band , in den 70er ein Hit nach dem anderen , sehr schade ,dass sie sich so Früh getrennt haben , wofür Andy Scott für gesorgt hat. Und mittlerweile gibt es Andy Scott Sweet länger als die original Besetzung.
@@vodafonekunde2809 deswegen mag ich diesen Andy Scott nicht...er war derjenige der Brian aus der Band geekelt hat .😡Brian war Sweet....Sweet war Brain sein Baby.. er hat alles für die Band getan...als es ihm schlecht ging..haben sie ihn fallen lassen.😥. RIP Brian ❤❤❤❤
@@violakupsch5942 Hey Viola,ja das hast du genau auf den Punkt gebracht. Ich mag den Scott genau deshalb auch nicht! Schöne Grüße aus dem Spreewald! 🤗🌷🌻
I spent the best years of my life (adolescence) listening to this music. unfortunately they have never played in my country and this is the first time that I can see how they were on stage! I am moved and excited as a fifteen year even though I am 57 :) thank you my friends!
Their energy is too much for this world. What did we do to deserve them? Damn, these guys are legends. the band started with four best friends. all of a sudden, boom! they're legends!
Awesome, so glad I was able to witness them as a 7 year old on tv in the UK in their heyday. They were THE group for me then, and watching this shows how amazing live they were. Many happy memories.
I was the exact same age when I first found out about Sweet, but I was here in America where they weren't nearly as big. It didn't matter to me though. I heard Ballroom Blitz on the radio and I was instantly hooked. It really cracked open my brain to rock and roll. I was lucky enough to have an aunt who's a few years older then me and was heavily into the glam scene at the time. As soon as she found out I loved Ballroom Blitz she bought me several Sweet records, and that was it for me. i was a major fan at a time when all my friends at school were listening to shit like the Osmonds.
So difficult to find real live performances like this. It's a shame, because they were powerful when they were not forced to lip sync to the studio tracks.
Sehr beeindruckend, denn das ist alles komplett LIVE, großer Respekt, bis auf den "Einspieler" vom Synthesizersound, ist alles PUR und großartig gespielt. Mick Tucker an den Drums ist natürlich neben Andy Scott die "halbe Mete", obwohl der Gesang richtig gut ist und auch Steve Priest darf man am Bass mit seinem Gesang nicht unterschätzen. Klasse gemischter LIVE Sound!!! Beste Grüße, Horst Lemke, Musikproduzent, Germany Ps. Und ein riesengroßer The Sweet Fan, die meine gesamte Jugendzeit musikalisch geprägt haben...smile
Just watching these guys .from LA I came to realize if it wasn't for these guys we wouldn't have Mötley Crue. Or maybe even GnR all these years later .so yeah!!! Sweet Roxx
This is when the band was on fire - They playing all so friggin tight and watch how Mick wrecks those drums - Pity the other tracks from this performance got lost and are not available on video ( but audio on "Strung Up"). I would have loved to see how Andy did that extended guitar thing on " Done me wrong alright".
Thats a good point. KISS was a cluster of British ideas. I can go through UA-cam and find where they got it all. The Mott the Hoople video in LA shows Luther Grosvenor (Ariel Bender) sporting the shoulder pads Ace wore. Sweet & Slade wore the same platforms and pants. Roy Wood and early Sweet sported the war paint. Wood has a video that has almost the same paint design Ace Frehley used but Ace moves the star. The drum intro on Gud by T'Jane is the same intro to R & R all night if you listen closely. KISS was just a cover band in the UK.
Law Dog I think for a U.S act to break in the U.K, and vice versa of course, in marketing terms there has to be a unique selling point, and kiss just didn't have one for the U.K market in the mid to late 70"s. In other world markets the situation was very different of course.......
David Hall Absolutely! KISS was the palatable version of Glam in the USA in the 70's. Bands like Slade, Sweet,Mott, and T Rex toured up and down America but barely dented the scene. The consumer tastes in the UK and America at that time were night and day. Great point!
@@KaaneDragonShinobi I see this a lot in various discussions about Sweet, where people act as if Sweet were out of place, or didn't belong in the glam scene... which baffles me. They were such an integral part of that scene. In my opinion, the "big 3" of UK glam were Bowie, T Rex, and Sweet. Of course later on they dropped the make up and the glitter, but only after glam itself fizzled out some time in late '74 or early '75. So did Bowie and nearly every other big player from that scene. It still doesn't change the fact that they were all what made glam what it was.
Was very fortunate enough to see sweet at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago for the Desolation Boulevard tour and I remember Mick Tucker doing a drum solo that was relentless he was an underrated phenomenal drummer
True, however there was a lot of really pompous, pretentious, boring "rock" bands back then that were being portrayed as 'serious' rock, the likes of which Sweet never fit in with. Bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake, & Palmer that were all about technical proficiency and self-indulgent "virtuosity". Sweet definitely had the talent to go that way, had they so chosen... but instead they didn't take themselves too seriously and rocked out like their asses were on fire. Thank fuck for that. Maybe the critics and the arty college types wrote them off as being a "pop group for 12 year old girls", but history has shown that they were definitely *NOT* that. It's not like Sweet were another Bay City Rollers. They were the perfect band for their time, and they influenced so much of what was to come with punk, heavy metal, and other new genres. Even today, young kids are still listening to their music. Can't really say the same for bands like Yes, ELP, or Genesis.
@@Brewzerr I was a little kid when ELP played CalJam'74. Never followed them, always loved rock 'n roll. Anyway, I recently saw a video of that concert and was shocked at how ridiculously horrible ELP was. I mean, what the hell were they doing? They weren't even close to rock 'n roll.
@@tonybrown8006 Exactly. It was all just a bunch of pretentious art school wankery, but there sure were a lot of people who bought into that crap. As you can see from that butthurt zigsvids comment, they're still out there. My initial comment must have disrupted his wank session to his 20 minute Rick Wakeman keyboard solos. Oh well. He even blocked me before I had a chance to respond. Typical.
Вот это офигеть какой накал.А Мик вообще крутой парень,это же надо как отдаваться музыке.Брайн молодец.!! Респект им,ребята супер.Если бы я была на концерте, я бы наверное от избытка эмоций ...
Habe über 150 Concerte erlebt von. AC/DC bis ZZ TOP.. THE SWEET war Klasse LIVE IN OFFENBACH in den 70er-Jahren..!! THE SWEET LIVE IN OFFENBACH-GERMANY 02.02.1973 🎸🎸💖💖💥💥🎆🎆🌈🌈🎈🎈🎸🎸🎸🎸 Eintritt : Abendkasse 9,- DM. Besitze die Eintrittskarte noch 🤗💤🎇🎸 WOW.. 🎉🎉MICK TUCKER.... 💥💥
Would like to see the full show, I mean the live audio is amazing, but definitely watching the whole performance live would be beautiful!!! Thankfully I have both for my favourite Sweet's song!!! Hell Raiser is spectacular, better than the studio sound!!! 😍🙌👏🎸🎸🎶💖💅💃
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How about this, The SWEET should be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2017!!!!!!!!!!!! Thumb it up!!!!!!
Totally agree !!
it's a pity pure pure class
Why?
For sure...but they better hurry up..
Fuck the HOF. They don't have the first clue about actual rock and roll. It's just an excuse for a bunch of music industry chickenhawks and their sycophants to jerk each other off while charging $10K admission prices. Sweet were too damn good for their phony establishment. They've been in my hall of fame for about 45 years now.
Such a fantastic band. Could devestate a live audience with timing, musical ability, and an unrivalled sound structure. I miss them all, but I am forever thankful I can look back and listen to their wonderful contribution to the history of British Rock and Roll.
We want Sweet for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....🇬🇧💞🇬🇧
They already are in the rock and roll hall of fame. That is, the actual TRUE hall of fame that exists in every REAL rock and roller's knowledge... NOT that phony establishment in Cleveland Ohio that charges $10K admission and inducts rappers and pop divas like Madonna while ignoring real rock and roll bands.
I agree! Amazing band. 🇬🇧
Vero 👑
ROCK AND ROLL ❤️
UP !!!
Wanting to be accepted by some club is the antithesis of 'rock n roll'.
@@Andybaby Sad but true.
Oh...myyyyy...oh...MAN!!!!!!! Now THIS should be considered Gold Standard for live performances🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤❤⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🤘🏻
Holy cow, an actual live performance from the boys!! Awesome!!! 🥰
Four potential lead singers with great range gave Sweet their unique sound.
I'm 61 and still listening! Wow that's a lot of talent and oh those guys were all so darn good looking! Hell raiser is so hot!🔥RIP and I bet Heaven is rocking!😇🎶✌
Mick Tucker the best rock n roll drumer ever !!!
Only the original Sweet will do it for me. Each member is a star!
I N C R E D I B L E. What I would give to have been in the audience. I’ve watched this endlessly, and it still isn’t enough. ✨Our Brian - our Foursome✨. PURE GOLD. 💛💛💛💛
Saw them twice live. It was a great experience
Mick Tucker, amazing drummer.
The vocals range with in the band is brilliant
Amazing performance. What a great band...all great singers, all great musicians. Totally underrated giants of British rock and pop.
Brian and Steve were just friggin amazing!!!
This is what live rock and roll is supposed to sound like! Killer vocals, heavy beat, and rockin' guitar riffs. I'm going to sound like an old fogie but too much auto tune/pitch correcting nonsense with today's music. These guys delivered live exactly what they delivered on record - kick ass rock and roll, expertly performed.
Demelza1964 Actually, the opening riff with vocals sounds like punk rock.
tinian33 Yes, it does. The Sweet were always a little punky. You can hear their influence in a lot of different bands. The Damned have a Sweet influence and on the opposite end of the spectrum, so does a band like Muse.
but it's not live as claimed in the title.
@@davidfelix2594 Yes it is? It's from their concert at the Rainbow Theatre in 1973.
@@davidfelix2594 not in rainbow? Or you mean dubbed?
Always was and always will be one of the best bands of all time
Listen to this and then listen to this again so you fully appreciate just how kickass this performance is!
Sweet were highly underrated and never taken seriously because of their early bubblegum pop songs; they were more or less a puppet group for the Chinn/Chapman songwriting and producing duo, and also that session musicians were used on their early hits.
By the time that Sweet broke free from Chinn/Chapman, began writing their own material and went in a harder rock direction, they were pretty much shunned and ignored.
Mick Tucker in particular was one of the greatest 70's British rock drummers; when the greatest rock drummer of all time John Bonham is a big fan of yours, you know you're special! 🥁👊🙏🇬🇧
R.I.P. Mick Tucker, Steve Priest and Brian Connolly
I'm Italian. My father have LP "Live in England '73" . I think Brian Connolly was one of the best voice ever. I love this band. MERAVIGLIOSI
Suuuuuper tight live band, wow!! The Sweet so underrated, all 4 completely in sync...
I was ten years old in 1973 and the music was great. Now I'm 60 years old and I hear this songs at home, in my car, at every place...... The best song from Sweet- I think- ist "Healer".
Mick Tucker: What a great drummer!!
Wow, I remember sitting in the wings at this gig as a child. The energy was like nothing I'd seen.
Perfection, everyone of them. Oh I wish the whole concert was around.
Apparently it was but it deteriorated due to bad storage conditions. What a loss.
Me too. For some very bizarre reason, there's not much live footage of them from this era, which was without a doubt their 'golden' period. I have no idea why that is. Not only were they an amazing live band, but they were also visually stunning.
I think most of this or very similar is on the Strung Up album
One word brilliant
Hi guys. I'm sorry I cant remember the exact year cos I'm 62 now but a very good mate of mine, Simon Bishop from Ware in Herts was a big fan but I just didnt get it. I was listening to Hendrix and Deep Purple most of the time. He played me Action, and I thought wow that's got something about it. Long story short. He persuaded me to go and see them at the Locarno Southend and boy was I glad I went!!! Tight as fuck, brilliant vocals and loud as hell!!! What a night. People are slowly realising what a great band they were!!! I saw loads of supposedly great bands in the early, mid 70's on the London Pub and college circuit and very few came up to the standard of The Sweet.
I was 8 years old in 1973. God you're lucky to have seen them. They are the uncredited band that started everything and they were never matched.
Gods. Period.
Cool as fuck, Sweet FA and I love Deep Purple like no other, Ian is my fav drummer.
I am 62 too 😉 ... i was a huge fan and brought my records to school for the music lesson ... all boys laughed at me ... so it is going straight to my ❤ reading your words 😘
Extremely underrated band. That was a tight performance.
The best version of one of the best rock songs ever.
Absolutely right !!
Jesus this is awesome, just shows they were far far more than the glam/bubble gum pop band they were portrayed as in the early days.
They are on fire here
They were hard as hell, on and off stage, dont let those ladies haircuts fool ya!!
There were pure fire!!!
The glam thing was all part of the appeal though. You could tell they weren't taking themselves very seriously, in spite of their talent... which made them all that much more endearing. There was nothing pretentious or pompous about Sweet. They were very, very real.
Just shows how versatile they were. They could do all the styles of rock and do them all very well! I liked all the different types of songs they played, since I liked everything from bubblegum to hard rock in my youth.
Damn that live performance was ace 🤘. While they were before my time, I will forever cherish this band and are my favourite of the Glam Rock era of the 70s.
You can also somewhat see how both punk and metal bands were inspired by this band.
One of the greatest fucking live rock and roll videos EVER.
What hardly anyone knows: Ozzy Osbourne then declared, that Hell Raiser was the best rock song of the year '73. These four boys were the idols of my 70s. Not just a top rock-band, they were also the block bustering pop-rock-kings. Greetings to Steve and Andy!
He did? Very cool if true.
@@bradleyferrier5118 Yes! Andy said in an interview. And sad, Steve is gone.
@@ThomasSLutter they were as heavy as any early metal band, and that's, um, sweet about Ozzy!
Yes, very sad about Steve.
I can believe Ozzy said that. I've read interviews with Ozzy where he's spoken very fondly of the glam bands from that era. Had some great things to say about Bowie and Bolan. Obviously Sabbath were off on a very different tangent at that time, but as a musician myself I know that the kind of music one plays isn't necessarily the same as the kind of music one listens to.
Ozzy did a song called Hell Raiser too, which may or may not have anything to do with anything...
Sweet was the first rock band I met at the age of 6 and it marked my childhood and adolescence. Sweet unforgettable band !
This is how I remember them when I saw them at the Apollo in the 70s absolutely Brilliant memories
the quality is fantastic, I think this is real metal
Amazing Band... unforgetable...Rip Brian Francis Connolly forever..Rip Mick Tucker and Stevie Priest..love You too much!!! 💕💕💕🇧🇷
This is how I want to remember Sweet.
Yes, '73 Sweet is definitely their prime year. They continued to make great records after this, but they were just on fucking FIRE here. I much preferred their glam period to the later "moustache and perm" era... though the black leather jacket period ('75-'76) was pretty cool too.
This could possibly be the live gig that ( Larry Mullen the drummer of U2 ) said it was the best live he had seen of the Sweet back in 1973.
Has always loved Steve priests (R.I.P) sound on the Bass.
Heavy Metal anno 1973🤘
The Livesection of the Strung Up album is Heavy as F..k💪🤘👌
Greetings from Sweden, Meshuggahland🤘👽
We love you Sweet !!!!
The first time I saw Mick Tucker play was on Don Kirshner in 74. I was 13 and blown away. Kirshner had the Sweet and Black Oak Arkansas on that night and Tommy Aldridge gave Mick a good run for his money. That was a great show.
Fuck... yes!!! Now this is when I especially would have loved to see them. Their star was really on the rise in '73. For some very odd reason there's not a whole lot of live footage of them from this period. This is just amazing stuff right here! I was only a little kid in '73, not quite old enough to go see them. This really makes me wish time travel was a real thing.
How has this only had 190k views in 10 years? They were as tight as hell live and that was a lot of noise for the money from 4 guys.
This was my favourite Sweet track when I was at school and seeing it again here I understand why - absolutely mind blowing performance here. And Steve makes my heart race, even now!!
Seems he has that effect on all us gals :-D
My fave hit as well.Another - Teenage Rampage. ( That' s the essense of Sweet band)
Sweet meine Helden seit über 51 Jahren, ihr ward einzigartig. 💖💖💖💖 Brian der beste Frontman den es je gab💓💓💓💓💓 Jungs ich vermisse Euch...... 💞💞💞💞
Habe THE SWEET 1973 in Offenbach LIVE erlebt. Eintritt 11 DM. GREAT CONCERT 🎸💃🎊🎉🎇🌀💫✳️✨⭐💥🔝💃🎸
Oh man thank you so much, you bring me back to that time, I saw them live two times and it's was awesome..
Nagyon jó neked, írigyellek érte, hogy neked volt alkalmam látni őket!
Absolutely superb. Steve Priest is a great player and is oozing humour. God bless them all...
He was a fantastic player. A Jet Harris disciple and better than many other bassists of the era. Sweet Fanny Adams and Desolation Boulevard have some great jazzy parts within some of the songs that show his versatility. And that tone...
@@dontommaso2760 Well said. Another bass player from that era with a similar style and ethos comes to mind... Dennis Dunaway from the original Alice Cooper Band.
@@Brewzerr Yes, definitely...haven't played them for a while so thanks for the reminder ;) Everyone gives Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner credit for their playing (and rightly so) but forget about Dunaway's bass skills. I had to look up what he is up to now and it turns out he is playing with Joe and Albert Bouchard from the Blue Öyster Cult in Blue Coupe. Will check them out tonight!
@@dontommaso2760 Dennis also recently wrote a book of his memoirs from the Alice days, called "Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group". I've already read through it 3 times. Really great stuff. He has a photographic memory. I've been a longtime Alice fan since I was just a kid, and thought I knew everything about them, but this book taught me more than a few new things. I highly recommend that one if you're a fan of the original Alice Cooper Band.
@@Brewzerr Cheers mate - found it on Amazon so it is on its way now.
The Best Glam Rock band ever
It's a tough call for me. So many glam bands I love, but Sweet definitely makes top 3, along with Slade and T Rex. However there are many days when Sweet is all I want to hear.
Unfassbar - treibt mir auch heute noch die Freudentränen in die Augen: Sweet 4fr!!!!☆☆☆☆
Das war schon eine klasse Band , in den 70er ein Hit nach dem anderen , sehr schade ,dass sie sich so Früh getrennt haben , wofür Andy Scott für gesorgt hat. Und mittlerweile gibt es Andy Scott Sweet länger als die original Besetzung.
@@vodafonekunde2809 ja leider!
@@vodafonekunde2809 deswegen mag ich diesen Andy Scott nicht...er war derjenige der Brian aus der Band geekelt hat .😡Brian war Sweet....Sweet war Brain sein Baby.. er hat alles für die Band getan...als es ihm schlecht ging..haben sie ihn fallen lassen.😥. RIP Brian ❤❤❤❤
@@violakupsch5942 Hey Viola,ja das hast du genau auf den Punkt gebracht. Ich mag den Scott genau deshalb auch nicht! Schöne Grüße aus dem Spreewald! 🤗🌷🌻
Brian war einzigartig und wird unvergessen bleiben 🥰
I wish someone would put out the complete concert before I die! If they filmed this song then they must have filmed the whole show!
Sería fantástico!!
Apparently it was, I read somewhere that the BBC filmed it...
That's what I was thinking, too, it must be around somewhere...
MICK TUCKER WAS A GREAT DRUMMER
Ahead of his time !!
@@bobbydale1938 A Sandy Nelson disciple.
@@BadVatoSam thanks did not know :)
Way overlooked...Always in Bonhams shade...Mick was brilliant.
One of the Best!
I spent the best years of my life (adolescence) listening to this music. unfortunately they have never played in my country and this is the first time that I can see how they were on stage! I am moved and excited as a fifteen year even though I am 57 :) thank you my friends!
Какие эмоции ,какой накал страстей ,уникальные и неповторимые ,вы и сегодня в тренде ! ⚡🔥🎶
This band is just really amazing in every way!
Their energy is too much for this world. What did we do to deserve them? Damn, these guys are legends. the band started with four best friends. all of a sudden, boom! they're legends!
Oh, I`m soooo in love with these fantastic guys 4ever!!!!💖💖💖💖 And wow, it`s live and every note was hit - really amazing!!!!🤘🥇🎆
Such a raw and dirty sound, phenomenal.
It was christmas time withThe Sweet in London...thanks..I was here
Did you see how fast Mick Tucker was moving. Awesome batterie.
Mick is fantastic! Like an octopus having arms everywhere at once, lol. Will always love and miss him.😘💜
mick tucker , was so awesome behind those drums , great video. love sweet
+posturex1 incredibly amazing. He had power,groove,technique and imagination, i love his fills
One of the most kickass and all around solid rock and roll bands ever. They deserve more credit.
I wish Andy would start releasing more complete concerts like this finally. We SWEET fans cou,d use some more live visual material
Very good rock music and good rock bands. Relaxing to listen to. Thank you very much.👍👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Awesome, so glad I was able to witness them as a 7 year old on tv in the UK in their heyday. They were THE group for me then, and watching this shows how amazing live they were. Many happy memories.
I was the exact same age when I first found out about Sweet, but I was here in America where they weren't nearly as big. It didn't matter to me though. I heard Ballroom Blitz on the radio and I was instantly hooked. It really cracked open my brain to rock and roll. I was lucky enough to have an aunt who's a few years older then me and was heavily into the glam scene at the time. As soon as she found out I loved Ballroom Blitz she bought me several Sweet records, and that was it for me. i was a major fan at a time when all my friends at school were listening to shit like the Osmonds.
So difficult to find real live performances like this. It's a shame, because they were powerful when they were not forced to lip sync to the studio tracks.
Find the Musikladen show from 1974!
Love this live version.
They
Brian
Steve
Mick
Andy
Could do it all
Punk
Glam
Rock
Metal
Pop
Bubble Gum - little willie is the GOAT of all time !!!!!!!!!!!
How many band sounds have come alone because of this band .
Incredible. Nothing beats 70s rock. Nothing.
What a great band 🎶👍
These 4 guys were the best 👌
Love you ❤
Sweet-Music never dies!!!
What a great band.
Great, Great, Great. TOP Live Performance and a very good sound at the "70"
Sehr beeindruckend, denn das ist alles komplett LIVE, großer Respekt, bis auf den "Einspieler" vom Synthesizersound, ist alles PUR und großartig gespielt. Mick Tucker an den Drums ist natürlich neben Andy Scott die "halbe Mete", obwohl der Gesang richtig gut ist und auch Steve Priest darf man am Bass mit seinem Gesang nicht unterschätzen. Klasse gemischter LIVE Sound!!! Beste Grüße, Horst Lemke, Musikproduzent, Germany Ps. Und ein riesengroßer The Sweet Fan, die meine gesamte Jugendzeit musikalisch geprägt haben...smile
Habe THE SWEET in den 70er-Jahren in Offenbach LIVE erlebt. Tolles Concert..
Allesamt klasse Musiker..!!
Bin 2000 geboren und höre sehr gerne Sweet. Einige wundern sich, dass ich die Band überhaupt kenne… ist ja vor meiner Zeit.
Fantastic stuff! Like others I was a Zeppelin, Sabbath, Purple, fan in 1973, but bands like The Sweet could play as well as any of them.
Yes, I agree: "Totally underrated giants of British rock and pop." great musicians. Best singer/front man ever. Sweet was not the same without Brian!
This band was so good!!
Just watching these guys .from LA I came to realize if it wasn't for these guys we wouldn't have Mötley Crue. Or maybe even GnR all these years later .so yeah!!! Sweet Roxx
Great post.That was magical, what a band.
estou agora bêbado ouvindo esse som no volume 10. meu pai me colocava pra ouvir com meus irmãos quando crianças. adoro
Seu pai sabia curtir um rock in roll dos bons ,abraco🤙🤙🤘🤘
This is when the band was on fire - They playing all so friggin tight and watch how Mick wrecks those drums - Pity the other tracks from this performance got lost and are not available on video ( but audio on "Strung Up"). I would have loved to see how Andy did that extended guitar thing on " Done me wrong alright".
the grand opening to the Sweet live - strung up album - unforgettable!
50 years ago this month. And no laptop needed to perform as a band and blow the doors off the venue.
I always think the reason that kiss did'nt break big in the UK was we had the sweet, and they were better
Thats a good point. KISS was a cluster of British ideas. I can go through UA-cam and find where they got it all. The Mott the Hoople video in LA shows Luther Grosvenor (Ariel Bender) sporting the shoulder pads Ace wore. Sweet & Slade wore the same platforms and pants. Roy Wood and early Sweet sported the war paint. Wood has a video that has almost the same paint design Ace Frehley used but Ace moves the star. The drum intro on Gud by T'Jane is the same intro to R & R all night if you listen closely. KISS was just a cover band in the UK.
Law Dog given the fact the that both gene Simmons and Paul Stanley were both keen UK glam aficionados you are undoudedtly correct on all points!
David Hall They make it pretty clear too.
Law Dog I think for a U.S act to break in the U.K, and vice versa of course, in marketing terms there has to be a unique selling point, and kiss just didn't have one for the U.K market in the mid to late 70"s. In other world markets the situation was very different of course.......
David Hall Absolutely! KISS was the palatable version of Glam in the USA in the 70's. Bands like Slade, Sweet,Mott, and T Rex toured up and down America but barely dented the scene. The consumer tastes in the UK and America at that time were night and day. Great point!
Much underrated. Very tight sound and a good rock band. Overshadowed by the glam era
How were they "overshadowed by the glam era"? they were one of the key components of that era.
@@Brewzerr My thoughts exactly, they WERE the glam era. Quintessential combination of hard rock with ostentatious spunk.
@@KaaneDragonShinobi I see this a lot in various discussions about Sweet, where people act as if Sweet were out of place, or didn't belong in the glam scene... which baffles me. They were such an integral part of that scene. In my opinion, the "big 3" of UK glam were Bowie, T Rex, and Sweet. Of course later on they dropped the make up and the glitter, but only after glam itself fizzled out some time in late '74 or early '75. So did Bowie and nearly every other big player from that scene. It still doesn't change the fact that they were all what made glam what it was.
This is seriously deadly music forever... Love the Sweet xo
Well. Who not love them do not know a F. Shit about rock music, they whas a rock band,I I love and always will love them. Rip Brian and mick
Steve priest the best bass, Brian best vocals and Mick best drummer...best musicians ever!
Just freaking amazing!!🎤🎸🥁😊
I thought Hellraiser was the best song I had ever heard when I was 13 in 1973. I still do. R.I.P. guys.
Mike at its best - the man with the goldern arm - one of the best drummers of all times.
Was very fortunate enough to see sweet at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago for the Desolation Boulevard tour and I remember Mick Tucker doing a drum solo that was relentless he was an underrated phenomenal drummer
Sad days...R.I.P. Steve Priest,72. June 5, 2020
simply the best,for ever
What a killer live band.
Superb performance..epic
WOW They were great live.
Back then music as so good that people thought this was a pop group for 12yo girls. They'd blow away almost any rock band of the present day.
True, however there was a lot of really pompous, pretentious, boring "rock" bands back then that were being portrayed as 'serious' rock, the likes of which Sweet never fit in with. Bands like Yes and Emerson, Lake, & Palmer that were all about technical proficiency and self-indulgent "virtuosity". Sweet definitely had the talent to go that way, had they so chosen... but instead they didn't take themselves too seriously and rocked out like their asses were on fire. Thank fuck for that. Maybe the critics and the arty college types wrote them off as being a "pop group for 12 year old girls", but history has shown that they were definitely *NOT* that. It's not like Sweet were another Bay City Rollers. They were the perfect band for their time, and they influenced so much of what was to come with punk, heavy metal, and other new genres. Even today, young kids are still listening to their music. Can't really say the same for bands like Yes, ELP, or Genesis.
@@Brewzerr I was a little kid when ELP played CalJam'74. Never followed them, always loved rock 'n roll. Anyway, I recently saw a video of that concert and was shocked at how ridiculously horrible ELP was. I mean, what the hell were they doing? They weren't even close to rock 'n roll.
@@Brewzerr Just fuck off...
@@tonybrown8006 Exactly. It was all just a bunch of pretentious art school wankery, but there sure were a lot of people who bought into that crap. As you can see from that butthurt zigsvids comment, they're still out there. My initial comment must have disrupted his wank session to his 20 minute Rick Wakeman keyboard solos. Oh well. He even blocked me before I had a chance to respond. Typical.
@@ZIGSVIDS Did someone get their widdle feewings hurt? Suck it up, buttercup.
Le duo Brian - Andy,complices,un régal ! 👍👍
What a Brilliant Band. Loved them then, still do now at 61.
Вот это офигеть какой накал.А Мик вообще крутой парень,это же надо как отдаваться музыке.Брайн молодец.!! Респект им,ребята супер.Если бы я была на концерте, я бы наверное от избытка эмоций ...
Точно.
This and Teenage Rampage are some of my all-time favourite songs.
For me it's Teenage Rampage and Wig Wam Bam, but Hellraiser comes damn close.
Slip of the toung.
Ballroom Blitz und Hell Raiser
Habe über 150 Concerte erlebt von. AC/DC bis ZZ TOP.. THE SWEET war Klasse LIVE IN OFFENBACH in den 70er-Jahren..!!
THE SWEET LIVE IN OFFENBACH-GERMANY 02.02.1973 🎸🎸💖💖💥💥🎆🎆🌈🌈🎈🎈🎸🎸🎸🎸
Eintritt : Abendkasse 9,- DM. Besitze die Eintrittskarte noch 🤗💤🎇🎸
WOW.. 🎉🎉MICK TUCKER.... 💥💥
Would like to see the full show, I mean the live audio is amazing, but definitely watching the whole performance live would be beautiful!!! Thankfully I have both for my favourite Sweet's song!!! Hell Raiser is spectacular, better than the studio sound!!! 😍🙌👏🎸🎸🎶💖💅💃