Bad Company: In Performance | Music Documentary | Simon Kirke | Paul Rodgers | Mick Ralphs
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2022
- This is the ultimate critical review of the classic era of Bad Company on stage, on film and on record. Drawing on rare live performance footage along with the reflections of founder member Simon Kirke, and a team of distinguished critics including biographer Steven Rosen, this rock doc reviews the era which propelled Bad Company to worldwide stardom.
Director: Bob Carruthers
Featuring: Jerry Bloom, Les Davidson, Tony Dolan, John McKenzie, Simon Kirke, Steven Rosen, Ken Sharp, Terri Sharp
Band members: Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke, Boz Burrell
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Love Bad Company, but can't agree that they devoured Led Zeppelin. Why must we always compare? Just two great bands giving all they've got in their own way. That's what music is all about and as musicians, we should all just aspire to be our best. So sick of all the criticism. If you don't like them...don't listen! If you do...good on you. It's a free world. Rock on.
Hear, hear on that! Zeppelin were singular and untouchable. No one could ever follow them. Bad Co did what it did and it stood on its own. You’re right in saying there’s no need to compare the two. Bad Co knew their place and didn’t overstep or rip off anyone.
Two different schools---Bad Company was more interested in hit singles and radio airplay, Led Zeppelin was more interested in being a jam band--exploring and progressing. The only thing had in common was management and record labels
The guy in the interview who said bad company devoured led Zeppelin must have never listened to or seen Zeppelin live at their peak otherwise he'd know what a ridiculous statement he made
Bad Company
@@benjack8477 Have to agree. Don't know where he got that.
I am so thankful that there was a Bad Company growing up in the 70's/ early 80's. My children are thankful...even my neighbors are thankful when I play their music really loud! 😊
I made my way to the front of the stage, reached out my hand and shook Paul Roger's hand. I won a big jackpot in the casino,was my anniversary to my amazing wife. It was a day to remember with great fondness. 👍
If Mick Ralphs should ever read this comment I want to say "Thank you for all the great music and I wish you well. I am only a year behind you and I too suffered a stroke, so I understand something of what happens. God bless you Man!"
Love Mick Ralphs songwriting and guitar abilitys he's been one of my biggest guitar influences before I heard Van Halen original lineup running with the devil blew me away but still before Van Halen Bad company was my first distorted guitar band I first got into as a child and still am a big fan of Bad company mick sets apart from most other guitar players very underrated unappreciated but phenomenal guitarist I have many favorite guitarists but Mick Ralphs is one of my biggest influences besides Eddie Van Halen Criss oliva and David gilmour
Paul Rodgers is so good he has a gift from God. He never fails to blow me away and still sounds great today.
A true freak of nature. It's amazing how good his voice still sounds. He never disappoints! I've seen him in one incarnation or another 4 times over the last 30 odd years and he can still belt it out. Amazing singer!
Even with 'the Firm' which could have been a monster .. if they lasted.
Amen to that.
Funny...what is it about his voice?
He could have started a Polka band and probablly still would have been world famous.
After it's all said and done, The Beatles were the greatest band ever but Paul Rodgers - greatest singer.
He always sounded so natural. I think his voice aged well because he never had to strain in order to deliver the notes.
Paul was also a blackbelt in karate
When you sit down and think about all the combinations in rock, singers, guitarists, songwriters, drummers, etc., the chances of things "clicking" like this, as in Bad Company, is so incredibly RARE... add in the egos, drug use and all that and you've got a very rare situation indeed. There have been so few of these over time in Rock, its mind boggling. If Paul Kossoff hadn't been a drug addict, Free would have still been an awesome band and might have gone further. And Andy Fraser on the bass was AWESOME, what a soulful player, reminds me a lot of Jack Bruce. But had not the stars aligned to bring us Bad Company, the world would have certainly been a lesser place!
Can’t believe Peter Grant and Swan Song balked at the band name initially. “Bad Company” is one of the best band names EVER.
Yes indeed...particularly when his main management band were called Led Zeppelin...I think it was Keith Moon who made a comment about them going down like a lead baloon. Two iconic names that suited them both...and they just sound so right.
A similar thing happened with the name of Paul and Simon's first band, Free.
The band were offered a record deal by Chris Blackwell owner of Island Records on condition that they changed their name but they refused and decided to walk away. Thankfully the record company relented and signed them up
ZEPPELIN IS THE GOAT
In my opinion Bad Company was a great band but Free were something else entirely. They were magic. Something about those 3 playing together and Paul's vocals was just perfect. Like CCR they could do so much with the simple blues / rock and roll formula of a few chords and good vocals
Free was so good that they were all right now....
agreed!
@@colocopper8464😅😅
These had gone too American sounding.
Yea Free had that special raw sound that got refined in BC
Paul Rogers best rock singer of all time
I dont think so, it was Bon Scott
My teenage years, love Bad Company I had all their albums!! Such an unique sound, love Paul Rogers! Awesome documentary, thank you for sharing this awesome video 😊💓🤘✌️
Paul Rodgers was one of the sexiest singers ever in rock and roll history. And his voice? Deserves a spot of its own in 20th Century music.
If God was asked to create the perfect rock singer, it would be Paul Rodgers. No one comes even close, and the proof of that he still sounds great today in his seventies. Add to that the phenomenal songwriting and guitar talents of Mick Ralphs, you have music made in heaven.
Not to forget that Simon Kirke was a freaking beast on the drums, and what can you say about Boz Burrell other than being a great bassist who complimented the band so well.
Rodgers is the best British singer ever. Only Coverdale comes close.
I thought they were rather ho-hum.
@@alibobsmarland9572 I'm voting for McCartney yakity yak don't sass back the Beatles sold 600 million albums a number Bad Company could only fantasize about.
@@Frank-ky8bk Rolling Stones miles better.
Its really great to hear Paul Rogers heralded as having the best voice in rock and roll.
Its not really a title anyone can be crowned , its all subjective ..but rogers does undoubtably have a truly astonishing strength tone phrasing ..everything to his voice i have yet to hear anything so accomplished
Great voice the best actually still sounds brilliant at 70 loved bad company huge part of my youth oh yeah
Rodgers always sounded great. Saw him live in the seventies, eighties, nineties and most recently in 2018, and he was vocally on point every night. Fabulous band. A real capacity for hits especially in America. Incredibly, NOT IN THE ROCK & ROCK HALL OF FAME while far lesser acts continue to be inducted.
Who cares about the Hall of Fame?
The bands most certainly not. It’s a joke.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 I agree but I think it rankles Paul Rodgers, especially considering his colleagues who have passed on (Boz Burrell, and from Free, Paul Kossoff and Andy Fraser) and more recently Mick Ralphs incapacitation via stroke. Yet they still have this massive media giant blocking their path to what is ultimately peer recognition for that half-assed industry, such as it is.
@@Ed9870 It appears that the R&RHOF has little or no respect for the artists that it pretends to represent. Take a look at a video made when Steve Miller was inducted, it's criminal the way that they treated him and his guests. Miller gets up at the press Q&A and basically tears them a new one! He tells off the publicity manager of the event and tells her to shut up and listen and maybe she'll learn something. The museum itself is a joke. It is a rather poorly thought out and laid out mess.
@@UNUSUALUSERNAME220 I saw that With Steve Miller. He always was a guy who was not to be pushed around. I also saw where Van Morrison refused to participate and thought the entire enterprise was bullshit. That being said, I still don't think a proper R&R Hall can be without Paul Rodgers in it.
@@Ed9870 I couldn't agree more! He's a class act. I don't remember hearing any bad stories about him either. I called into a radio show when he was being interviewed and was able to ask him a question. I was still pretty young, maybe 13. I screwed up my question because I was nervous and he just went with it. Everyone that called in got an autographed album (I forget what he was doing at the time, I should take a look) his voice is still strong and he has reached the level of legend vocally.
My favorite band of all time. Luckily to have seen them live. Paul is the best rock singer frontman ever. Mick's guitar is amazing. Songwriting is one hit after another, with many different sounds.
“Shooting Star” couldn’t have been written for Paul Kossoff’s untimely death, because it came out in 1975, while Koss died in 1976
Been a fan since 74. Rock Steady with BC until I die.
Holy wow, Paul Rodgers was a HOTTIE...! Sure, he has that amazing voice but I had no idea he was also a veritable rock god on stage. Couldn't take my eyes off his body, lol. Great doc, i never knew much about the band but have been adoring their debut album for the past twenty years...
Paul Rodgers has a great blues voice.
Ronnie Van Zant heard Paul Rodgers and Free playing at a skating rink in Jacksonville, FL. Ronnie wanted to be Paul because he felt he was the ultimate lead singer. After that night, Free was a model for Ronnie and his friends who morphed their band into Lynyrd Skynyrd.
When I was a kid, I thought it was so cool, LS was a southern rock band, great US band, but Bad co was from the UK. and were kinda a southern rock band.
This is the ultimate comment and just my favorite story...so thank you...Paul plus Lynard is lethal
In the early 80’s, Steve Perry cited Paul as his favorite rock & roll singer. Lou Gramm also named Free as one of the bands that he was into before joining Foreigner.
Merle Haggard was as big of an influence on Ronnie as Paul.
@@krisscanlon4051 Absolutely.
The song "Bad Company" by the band "Bad Company" on the album "Bad Company."
Imagine if they had released that song on their own label called Bad Company records? That would have hilarious.
Spinal tap moment with the band names
Rogers is gifted with a special voice. the songwriting fit that voice perfectly. the instrumentalists were geniuses too, playing every song with a rocking feel, but an underlying minimalism. no "overplaying", which was encouraged at the time. I theorize that bad company is what ac/dc modeled themselves after. tidy perfection. so great.
Loved Bad Co. and find it odd that they don't get remembered as often as they deserved.
Shooting Star was dedicated to Paul Kossoff when I saw them at Earls Court Summer of '77. Great concert
I just heard that the legendary BAD COMPANY was NOT in the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame!!! Wwhhaaatttt!!!!!
Take it as a sign of quality
1:12 "They devoured Zeppelin". It was at this point that he turned off the documentary.
Exactly the same here
makes me #3
I would have appreciated an explanation.
@@dakotaslim right!!!!
"They devoured Zeppelin"??
So....did Zeppelin show them the beef?
I discovered Bad Co in the mid 80s as a teenager. I loved their music and the original line up was great. Truth be told though Holy Water is one of my all-time favorite albums.
Correct ! They sure are over looked . I am 61yo and I love bad company for their sound and what a voice Paul Rogers had .
When I mention the band to people when in a conversation of music ,it just goes over their heads 🤔
His voice is still strong.
Mick Ralphs is one of the most underrated guitar players in rock.
It’s not Ralph’s, it’s Ralphs!
@@philfyphil Damn auto correct 😬
Mick Ralphs is one of my biggest influences on playing guitar besides Eddie Van Halen Chris oliva a from savatage
That he is and so is a few more they give Page way too much credit as well as Randy rhoads and a few others
The word "underrated" has been overused, and applied to everything, that it is now meaningless.
First 2 albums .... more than perfect !!!
Their first 5 were perfect.
THIS BAND AND LED ZEPPLIN ARE THE GREATEST BANDS IN THE WORLD BAR NONE AND MUSIC UNFORTUNATLEY WILL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS THIS.
Bad Company was one of the greatest Rock and Roll Bands of our time. And yes they had one of the finest debut albums in Rock history but let's not forget Led Zepplin, The Cars or Foreigners first debut album just to name a few which each one had many hits that still reverbs across the airwaves even today and will live on forever and ever as time goes on. Great music that gave us all great memories from our past. Thanks Bad Co. We love your tunes always will. 👍👌😎
Bad Company wrote the recipe for American Rock right up to present day, i hear their signature in so many U.S. bands.
Bad company came to America at the right time....you make it in America...you made it to the top....congratulations bad company and free...thanks for the music
Rock Hall worthy big time…
Straight Shooter is probably my no.1 favorite album. Also, I love all all the free music too.
Honestly thought this was an American group back in the day!! Lol Cruisin the back roads of Mt Juliet Tennessee with Bad Company!! Best band EVER!! Peace brother
boz was rock and roll until the day he died with a joint in the ashtray. big 🎧 and a record from my dad is my earliest memory of music. love free and bad co
Bad Company was the first rock band that I ever really got into, thanks to their Holy Water album, which came out I think in my freshman year of high school. Wanting to hear more from this great band I had just discovered, I went to the nearest record store and found their "10 from 6" greatest hits album, which blew me away. I recognized Paul Rodgers' voice quite easily as I had heard the Free song "All Right Now" plenty of times, and immediately fell in love with their older tunes. I ended up buying their first five albums and listened to them to bits. They're not my favorite rock band anymore, as not long after that I discovered Led Zeppelin, which completely changed my world, but Bad Company will always hold a special place in my heart. And I still can't resist listening through the full Straight Shooter and Burnin' Sky albums (the latter is severely underrated).
I first got into bad company listen to shooting star on the radio at 11 years old then my love for hard rock and heavy metal kind of spun off from
I didn’t realize how much Paul Rogers looks like Bon Scott
It's mostly the hair and even some of his stage moves but yeah, exactly what I was thinking! Lol. Waitin for him to switch voice completely and go into "Highway to Hell!" bam bam bam 🎶🎸 Lol
I saw Bad Company in high school -- my first rock show. I was stunned at how much more dangerous they sounded and how much more dangerous the audience was than I'd imagined in my bedroom with headphones on.
Bad Company is a Super Awesome Band! Love my Bad Company!!!
Thanks Paul & Simon & Mick
Unfortunately a Bad Company concert was the worst experience I ever had at a concert" Nothing about the band " In Atlanta on the Desolation Angels Tour they played four songs one being Oh Atlanta then some dumbass threw some fire works on stage. Paul said if it happened again they would leave and not come back on stage. Chorus of the fifth songs and fireworks hit the stage. True to his word he stopped and said If you saw who threw that you should kick his ass and the band walked off stage and did not return. Long day just to hear four songs but hearing Oh Atlanta in Atlanta was great
I saw them in Dallas on that tour. I had all the 8 tracks.
Paul Rogers voice is the best. He needs to be in the rrhof. He has a one of a kind voice which we will never hear the likes of again. Just as most of our favorite singers. Band is awesome also. Fabulous
The best rockband forever..
The ultimate 70's band
Why these guys aren't in the Rock & Roll HOF is one of the greatest mysteries of life. There is no justice in the music industry.
And Hip Hop artists are , What part of R&R is that , hoping they won’t have to wait as long as Yes and the Doobie Brothers did 😎
Who cares about the Hall of Fame?
The bands don’t give a toss. It’s a joke.
Nøt beeing there is an honour..
Rock blues guitarists and a rock blues singer. Go figure. I have that first album. Never noticed the palm. I have to dig it tomorrow now. lol Seriously one of my favorite bands. I grew up from a teen to a young man in the 70's. This was my music. I was laso learning to play guitar at this time and most of these songs are not that hard. First albums are great learning tools. Bad Co , Aerosmith's first album and Skynyrd's first album along with Tom Petty's first album with a hit on them any way are all great learning tools. What kids have today that we didn't have because we were learning by ear is youtube. There is a lesson out there for almost every song. I am surprised at how many I got almost right. After you tube a few tweaks and they were perfect. Great video. this is the best Bad Co documentary I have seen because it's at the root. I was going to go see them a couple years before the pandemic but didn't go when I learned Mick wouldn't tour over seas anymore and he would not be there.
Don't forget about Van Halen, Boston, Styx, REO and all the others!
Great band...Paul's vocals...and Mick's vibrato...
Koss had a better vibrato.
it’s not a pissing contest.🙄
@@littlebird2276: Right on...
The ultimate Rock 'n Roll Fantasy.
Seemed like every amplifier on stage was an Ampeg.
Underrated super group. It’s a shame the RHOF has not inducted Bad Company.
That organization is a joke.
Chaka Khan IS though 😏 ,( in the RHOF) Yeah, it is NOTHING less than a horrid joke and major diss to the REAL RnRollers... total BS 😒
The keyboard Paul Rodgers is playing in the song "Bad Company" isn't a Wurlitzer; it's a Fender Rhodes. Doesn't look like an 88; maybe a Mark1 Stage /73, or more likely, a rare limited production Fender Rhodes Mark I /54 keys model with separate cab(s). Wurlitzer made a 200, that contained 64 keys; (or five octaves). Fender made 54, 73, and 88, keys keyboards. Wurlitzer only made 64 keys in their electric pianos. Also, Wurlitzer's use reeds while Fender Rhodes use tines. This makes for two very different sounding instruments: the Fender Rhodes are far more subtle than the harsher sounding Wurlitzer "bark". Neither company is making these keyboard instruments any more. However, a company called "Vintage Vibe" which started out making replacement parts but, for now, is making reproductions of the Rhodes, which are currently available. I'm not sure about them reproducing the Wurlitzers; you'd have to check on that if you're interested.
All time greats . Bad company 🎙🎸🤠
They deserve to be in the Rockin Roll Hall of Fame for sure I could name a few to take out an replace with these guys.
Never really crossed my mind, but I would choose Bad Co over Led Zeppelin every time.
I like the Howe era too.
RIP...Howe...
Outstanding! Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
The first "rock concert" I ever saw was Bad Company at Canada's Wonderland!
This was Awesome! Love the Guitar breakdowns as well! Thanks
I didn't watch this fill documentary but why didn't they ever credit Brian Howell for saving the band when Paul was gone for years.Brian's vocals was kickass rock in the 90s and they NEVER GAVE HIM CREDIT FOR IT.
Saw Bad Company back in,79 Simon Kirk really not known for playing solos . Played the best drum solo I ever saw . Also saw Tommy Lee he was good but not that night got schooled by Simon . Not to mention the total debacle of the R and R H of F not to have Foreigner or Styx but Bad Company? Is like really F... Up the should change the name of the place the one in Cleveland those people are lost.
Grew up with heavy BC influence in the late 70s early mid 80s as a young kid, but yeah, when the earlier new wave of Heavy METAL hit (American AND British) and CRUE hit with the SHOUT LP and Looks That Kill video was on MTV startin in' latter '82 throughout 83 etc, Tommy Lee was SUCH a HUGE influence on me as a young little drummer boy in 4th-5th grade learning on the snare drum 🥁, in H.S. band. I could already hold the beat down to MOST of the Bad Company songs as I was mostly self taught on the actual drums myself. Loved/love Bad Company as they were always my big brother's band as well. NO BS, just straight up REAL deal R n R! 😎🤘🔥🤘
I adore Free and Bad Company due to Paul Rogers’ voice. I find it annoying that they have been so underrated.
Thank you for all your contributions to my childhood soundtrack. And nobody else wants to hear it BUT also the Brian howe bad co. Loved it
Though I'm a huge Paul Rodgers fan, I think Brian Howe held his own and had a great voice so...I agree
You cant go wrong with either.I got into them in the Brian Howe years and I love ALL thier stuff. My first concert was Bad Company on their Here Comes Trouble tour along with Lynyrd Skynyrd on their Last Rebel tour.
Saw them in my home town, Vegas '74, hot August night, their first tour, early in the tour also. Awesome is all I can say, saw them that they would be around for awhile back then! You could feel it
In manchester uk there was a venue called hardrock stretford all the top bands played there eg bowie wings ect , two bands who stood out for me where bad company and humble pie the thing they had in common they both had brilliant frontmen vocalist and great musians who could play gret days
Rough Diamonds wasn't their worst album, it was just different. Songs like Cross Country Boy are great. It's probably my favorite album by them.
I saw them with Robert Hart as frontman.They warmed up Ted Nugent and I thought that it should have been the other way around.I rushed out and bought Company of Strangers😁😁
Still own every original 5 studio releases. Great rock history. Never done live the same way twice. Live veterans.
no bands do it live the same way twice.
@@j.dragon651 bold statement. Rock on.
@@j.dragon651 whats the name of your band dragon?
I'm happy that both Bad Company with Paul Rodgers and Led Zeppelin became successful. Most guys in both bands have a close criss cross history with each other. I just love music. ❤Behind The Music has a great documentary on Bad Company and their past, showing how they got to where they got. The interweaving between Paul Rodgers, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, the loss of John Bonham, even the way Joe Walsh got into the Eagles thru Paul, is all explained, and really is interesting. Paul had strokes in both 2016 and 2019, but had surgery on one of his carotid arteries and lived. He had to learn to talk again, but was successful, thank God!
Still thnk,They👍Sound awsum.
One of my Fav. Classic Rock groups.Back then.& Still IS! Their awsum Singing Makes Them. Classic,& Classic,Always BE.👍😎👍🎸🎤🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🤍💫🖤🎸
Very VERY good band. The fact that these guys are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is well.....foolish.
They did NOT devour Zeppelin.
That made me crack up! 🤣
Yeah, I honestly DK WHERE THAT really came from personally, but....? Oh well...Lol
Boz Burrell reminds me a lot of Leon Wikeson from Lynyrd Skynyrd---not necessarily for his bass playing, but for his really chill, laid back vibe--and also the fact that he was such a "mad hatter"--wore lots of different head coverings😋
Good comparison - Leon was also the primary backup singer on Skynyrd. Another one is Michael Anthony from Van Halen
@@1982Dawg Well, Michael Anthony was anything BUT laid back! His vocal was kind of obnoxious, in my opinion. Sort of reminds me of Patrick from the Spongebob cartoons
The soundtrack to my young life ...
Great band, my older sis got me into them and free. Have to disagree that they were better than Led Zeppelin but opinions are personal I guess.
No band was better than Zepp. I think what he was talking about was how their songs were played on the radio more than Zepp. They were played on FM rock and were played on top 40. Zepp had just a few songs that were played on Am Radio.
Crazy Circles by Bad Company!!!
The song of Life!!! My absolute most favorite song by them, and 2nd most favorite song of all time! I want that and Beautiful Day by U2 played at my funeral!!!
Love the live footage.
Love the band and nice guitar breakdown as well.
Bad company indeed. Pure bluesy rock n roll at it's best
They make a BFD about Boz Burrell "coming from" King Crimson. He was only on ONE album, "Islands" and toured with them for that one. Next up was John Wetton and "Lark's Tongue in Aspic," a totally different approach, as was "Islands." These people can't hide the superficiality of their knowledge.
I own every album of Bad co .
Deep Purple would have been all wrong for Paul Rodgers--but not any more wrong than Queen was, in my opinion. For one thing, Deep Purple did not come from the blues like Paul Rodgers did. Purple's roots were in American psychedelic garage rock with proto-prog classical/heavy metal leanings. For Paul to join Purple would be for him to give up his first love. He would have to scream and shout like Ian Gillan, and that's not his school
It would have been different, as Blackmore wanted to move on to Rodgers way of singing. But then Coverdale would have been stuck in Redcar. So it worked out quite nice after all
@@eirikmoltu553 And then when Coverdale made the band too "funky" with his singing and musical style preference, Blackmore jumped off, so Ritchie may have wanted to do funkier music, but when he saw what it really was, he went back to what DP Mark 2 was doing with Rainbow.
Boz should have done some songs on lead vocals
My favorite Bad Co song is "Wild Fire Woman". It's an underrated Bad Co song. 💃🏻🔥
Free...Bad Company . The best Band forever..
Two bands 🙄 don’t bother replying.
I love both incarnations of Bad Company. In my opinion they sell theirselves way too short on the Brian Howe years.
The video for How Bout That is awesome... just listen to feel like making love while you watch it
Brian Howe Bad Company put Bad Company back into the national scene touring arenas, selling platinum albums with--Fame & Fortune (1986), Dangerous Age (1988), Holy Water (1990), Here Comes Trouble (1992), What You Hear Is What You Get Live (1993). The songs were well crafted, polished, and well produced, which offered a different feel, and sonic attack compared to the classic era of Bad Company. Brian Howe was brought in by (Mick Jones of Foreigner), and it was going to be supergroup, but their management decided to use the name Bad Company. By 1994, there were some tensions building between Brian Howe and the rest of the band. Brian Howe was replaced by Robert Hart in (1994-1995). Bad Company went on tour with their third singer with the albums (Company of Strangers 1995), and (Stories Told & Untold 1996). By 1999, the classic lineup of Bad Company reformed. The Brian Howe era of Bad Company was my favorite era for they transformed into something special. Sadly, the current lineup of Bad Company does not perform any of the "hits" from the Brian Howe era.
In 2007 I was excited because "Bad Company" was going to play at the racetrack where I was working... so the night of the concert comes and it turns out to be Brian Howe... how disgusting that Brian Howe would parade around calling himself Bad Company... If he had any talent he would use his own name to tour... If he wasn't gifted the name of Bad Company by the record company the garbage albums he made wouldn't have sold at all and he wouldn't have been able to tour...Mick Ralphs was so embarrassed and ashamed of Howe he refused to tour with him and referred to him as "the dork"... Thank God Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke, and Ralphs before his stroke, toured for many years to repair the damage Howe did to the legacy of Bad Company... R.I.P. Boz Burrel
Love the footage , and the interviews . Freaking hate the critics. F them .
Unfortunately, Paul truly died way too early as a guitar teacher I have certainly rucked my students using Paul’s techniques a great deal learning. His vibrato is something that may be only he could ever do but I truly believe he was one of the most talented guitarist to ever come out of the UK, or for that matter to ever play in the industry Again his youth and his addiction, unfortunately destroyed him, but I think with a less Paul, he was certainly a Jimi Hendrix waiting to happen. He truly just did not have enough time and with the pressures of life and truly his addiction. We saw the magic he worked in a variety of albums on the guitar. He and Paul Rodgers were certainly a team that would not have been stoppable. I often wondered why Paul did not ask Jack Bruce to join him with Bad Company lol but as it worked out, definitely a powerhouse band and I’m so happy for Paul Rodgers and his accomplishments certainly the greatest singer to ever come out of the UK and rock music And Paul truly had so much more to offer. I think it is truly a shame but also one of the driving fax that helped Bad Company succeed where free did not. Paul was certainly wiser and his leading of this band, and should be commended for his lifetime commitment to rock ‘n’ roll. He really is an amazing guy but again I think Paul legit is just not rated as high as he should be, I have one of his collectors choice Gibson less Paul and I honestly tell you it’s the one I play most often when I am doing a gig for Fire & Water is still the song I play the most and backstreet Crawler, of course, he was a blessing to us. Thank you for the documentary, but Paul was no burden to these guys. He was the inspiration for them, and his memory helped them move forward and gave them something to strive for as well as the experience that Paul gave Paul Rodgers that is from the free life or life of that band 16:47
Yes somebody’s just reminded me thank you to ever posted this
And then 50 years later saw Paul in Carcassonne!!!
12:58 Correction: he adds a B flat on top (not C) which makes it an F suspension.
Interesting that Simon points out Boz had only been playing Bass for 18 months. I always suspected Boz had listened and learned more than a few riffs from Andy Fraser- that helps confirm my suspension. But of course Boz makes them his own and integrated well with Bad Co.
Free was my favorite between the two (though I love both bands) because they left this "Space" in the songs that gave it a kind of funk-groove using silence as opposed to filling every measure and beat with sound (Alright Now is a perfect example).
RIP Paul Kossoff Andy Fraser and Boz Burrell
💕
I grew up as a kid in the 70's and 80's " And my.mom would listen to the rock stations and then my dad would have his 8-track collection " Lol 😆 " And I loved listening to the James Gang and the Band!! Thin lizzy " Lynyrd Skynyrd!! And of course everyone loved Bad Co.!!!! I I was a teenager in the 80's and Bad Co. Was always on rotation!!!! With TED NUGGENT!! Free for all was my shiat!! And then of course the music of the day was great!!! It had it all!! And people like Jim Croce was a great man and singer!!!!: but bands like journey and Foreigner and early Van Halen!!!!" But anyway " Bad Co. Was the best of the best bands ever to play solid 💯 Pure Rock music through and through!!!! Led Zeppelin wasn't too far behind them!!!!?? Just saying ya'll!!? God bless you all today 🙏 Shalom
Great Band! It's one of my top faves, but no band devours, Zepplin. Pllleease
My husband shook Paul's hand and wouldn't let go,,,, till Paul got a Rose for me--- and still have it in a book
Mick Ralphs is the man! also I loved the 2 incarnation of Bad Co
Thanks Bad Co what a band
This may piss off a lot of people and frankly I don't care! My favorite Bad Company album is Dangerous Age with Brian Howe on lead vocals!
first 2 albums is good.. after tat erm... so. so