R.I.P. dear Kelly. You are sorely missed. I still remember the day in the early 1980s when I strolled into Pier Platters Records in Hoboken, NJ and saw the Hit And Run LP. I had never heard of Girlschool before (no internet!), and took a chance on buying it. It quickly became one of my favorite records at the time, and I have loved Girlschool ever since. What an awesome band.
@@JoeyDNo3 Could be. I moved there in '82, but I'm not sure when Pier Platters opened. They were literally about two doors down from the Clam Broth House, where I lived.
One of the most defining songs of metal. That guitar line is epic. Me and the boys were kinda swept away with this band back in the day, kinda still are.
@@roadkillofficialaustralia I feel the same way. Runaways are good, I liked the debut, kinda lost interest after. They did it first, but I think both Joan Jett and Lita got better (and bigger) when they went solo. Girlschool may not be the first, but all around probably the better band compared to The Runaways.
2005, first trip into Europe in an artic, got on the Lille ring road at rush hour and the mp3 on shuffle sparks up with this... I've never felt more alive!
Absolute quality. Heard it for the first time on my original vinyl album Axe Attack. The bands on that classic compilation truly influenced me and I'm eternally grateful.
This was the first GS song I ever listened to back in Jan-94 when I was almost three years in this long suffering journey into Heavy Metal. It was a filler at the end of a Sex Pistols tape and somebody said it was Blondie, but I thought "whose is that voice? This must be a Jennie Garth kinda girl; and who is playing that guitar? It must be an Adrian Smith or Dave Murray kinda guitar player" and it came out to be Bernadette Jean "Kelly" Johnson, and a poster with her was in my room for almost ten years.
You′d better run You'd better run You′d better run from the Devil's gun The race is on The race is on So you better run from the Devil's gun Strange things happen If you stay The Devil will catch you anyway He′ll try to find you So take care The Devil will seek you everywhere And when he finds you You′ll soon find out The Devil's fire it won′t go out He burns you up And soon you'll know The Devil′s grip just won't let go
AND DO KNOW ALREADY WHO IS BEHIND OF THE ONE OF THE BEST GUITAR RIFFS MADE IN ALL THE HISTORY OF MUSIC. AND STILL IS SITTING FOR GOOD IN MY HEAD! STILL IS PLAYING ON AND ON INSIDE!!! WHO PAID FOR THIS? IF I HAD A BOY, WOULD IT GET TRANSFER FROM HEAD TO MY KID`S HEAD, IN GENES??? FUNNY THOUGHT, INTERESTING IDEA THOUGH. I `M NOT COMPLAINING AT ALL, I LOVE IT! HERE WE GO AGAN! GITTA GO! AOTHER "RACE TO RUN" WITH THE DEVIL? STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON OR NO REASON??? REGARDS, THOMAS(POLAND-CHICAO)
What is your top-list of Australian groups? Your musitians are great, there is something... I don't know, maybe special in Australian rock? For example, last year I found and listened several Naggets records (you know, garage rock from different eras and countries), and Australian Naggets stands aside. I like it!
@@fedir_sh More recently I'm into Psychedelic Porn Crumpets from Perth W.A. Got their 2115 album "High Visceral" so cool. Favourite oldies like '70s Masters Apprentices (their drummer Colin Burgess was the original drummer for AC/DC).....Kahvas Jute, whose bass player Bob Daisley joined Rainbow and Ozzie Osbourne as well as Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath. Then Angels, early Divinyls, Rose Tattoo, Cruel Sea. That sort of stuff. Oh! I forgot early '70s vintage Aztecs. Can't leave them out
Excellente reprise de ce morceau rock, hard rock même. C'était déjà un tube à l'époque, en 69 je crois. Vu le marasme de la musique 🎶 actuelle, heureusement que des formations hommes 🚹 ou femmes 🚺 perpétuent encore de nos jours le rock avec son rythme et ses valeurs. ROCK N' ROLL is not dead !😂
According to The Rocker there’s a book coming out about the guy who wrote this. Great riff…P.S. he also gad a song on The Bodyguard Soundtrack. Which of course sold Millions!!!
Lemmy said this band was really good. He wasn’t lying 🤘
He never lied. He always said it as it was!
Aea
When was lemmy ever wrong same with danko jones tho thats a lot newer
noooo, so good..im loving
He also said these girl can drink us under the table
R.I.P. dear Kelly. You are sorely missed. I still remember the day in the early 1980s when I strolled into Pier Platters Records in Hoboken, NJ and saw the Hit And Run LP. I had never heard of Girlschool before (no internet!), and took a chance on buying it. It quickly became one of my favorite records at the time, and I have loved Girlschool ever since. What an awesome band.
Wirhout looking I'd say 82 ???
@@JoeyDNo3 Could be. I moved there in '82, but I'm not sure when Pier Platters opened. They were literally about two doors down from the Clam Broth House, where I lived.
@@monstergirl7695 wow . Would you believe , 1980 !!!!🍻
One of the most defining songs of metal. That guitar line is epic.
Me and the boys were kinda swept away with this band back in the day, kinda still are.
It isn't Girlschool's song. Hmmmmm
@@patrickmohan2220 yeah, the gun made it first but
@@Brodyyyyyyyyyyyy Yeah, GUN recorded it in1969, when I was in high school.
@@patrickmohan2220 Still a rocking track , and far prettier than Gun .
@@richarddixon7276The Gun's version blows this version away. As does Judas Priest's.
Great band and saw them support motorhead several years ago.Once you hear the bass line in this you can't not hear it.Kelly was a superb lead guitar.
I lost count of the number of times I broke the speed limit, with this song playing in my car.
This man speaks of the truth.
They supported ZZ Top too when i see them either ‘82 or ‘83. I can’t remember the exact year
Of all the female bands, the bangles, the go go's, vixen, ect. These ladies, could keep up with the boys, and then some.
Saw them with Motörhead a few times. Immense. These gals can rock!! 🤘🏻
Schooled
the Gun wrote this in the 60's that song was way before its time.
One of the first bands on MTV--great rock and the guitarist who is now deceased (cancer) was one of the best ever!
Love you Kelly,and the rest of the band.God bless you.
The greatest all female hard rock/heavy metal band of all time! \m/
Er.. yeah, but some may say the Runaways. I agree with you though, these chicks rocked.
@@nigden1 Really like The Runaways, the debut was really good but....the consistency, sadly ended there.
@@roadkillofficialaustralia I feel the same way. Runaways are good, I liked the debut, kinda lost interest after. They did it first, but I think both Joan Jett and Lita got better (and bigger) when they went solo. Girlschool may not be the first, but all around probably the better band compared to The Runaways.
Saw them many times and they were great. However, the greatest female band is Lovebites. Indeed, they stand with the all-time great of metal!
Probably and most likely the very best female rock n roll band in the whole wide world …. Saw them plenty in the day !
And Rock Goddess
2005, first trip into Europe in an artic, got on the Lille ring road at rush hour and the mp3 on shuffle sparks up with this...
I've never felt more alive!
i saw Girlschool and Motorhead together in 84 fuck what a performance, i was 16 loved rock, loved all haha
I saw this band open for Deep Purple in 1985 in Philadelphia. I had 3rd row from the stage. Great show!
Absolute quality. Heard it for the first time on my original vinyl album Axe Attack. The bands on that classic compilation truly influenced me and I'm eternally grateful.
Axe attack , now that brings back memories. First rock album I ever bought
Axe attack vol 1 and 2 haha now theres a blast from the past
@@byronsprophet both quality
Me too
Me Too ! and still have Axe Attack 1 and 2 Fab Comp Albums ~ and Saw Girlschool at Manchester Academy in 87
Kelly johnson as good as most male guitarists rip, Jackie chambers also,class band xx
Allegedly Kelly's guitar playing impressed Jeff Beck
First seen them in Columbus ohio, opened up for Iron Maiden and Judas priest.... 1981
What a classic Riff that is, if you ain't seen Girlschool live you ain't lived.
If only it was originally their riff
@@Brodyyyyyyyyyyyy does it make you feel special that you know that this is a cover?
@@tedsexhaver idk what I was thinking when I said this lol, I guess I did 🤣
@@tedsexhaver Does it make you feel inadequate? You're very touchy there sailor.
This group should of been bigger
In my mind I play the guitar like Kelly! Forever missed! ❤️
This was the first GS song I ever listened to back in Jan-94 when I was almost three years in this long suffering journey into Heavy Metal. It was a filler at the end of a Sex Pistols tape and somebody said it was Blondie, but I thought "whose is that voice? This must be a Jennie Garth kinda girl; and who is playing that guitar? It must be an Adrian Smith or Dave Murray kinda guitar player" and it came out to be Bernadette Jean "Kelly" Johnson, and a poster with her was in my room for almost ten years.
The song that led me to break the speed limit more times than "I can't drive 55".
Amazing! Big energy, amazing band
Awesome version of this great old song… fantastic lead guitar… those girls sure could rock out! ❤❤
You′d better run
You'd better run
You′d better run from the Devil's gun
The race is on
The race is on
So you better run from the Devil's gun
Strange things happen
If you stay
The Devil will catch you anyway
He′ll try to find you
So take care
The Devil will seek you everywhere
And when he finds you
You′ll soon find out
The Devil's fire it won′t go out
He burns you up
And soon you'll know
The Devil′s grip just won't let go
Merci 🎸
Its motives are very clear and encouraging
Kelly me manque 😢 c était un Ange🧚♀️🎸
Goosebumps
AND DO KNOW ALREADY WHO IS BEHIND OF THE ONE OF THE BEST GUITAR RIFFS MADE IN ALL THE HISTORY OF MUSIC. AND STILL IS SITTING FOR GOOD IN MY HEAD! STILL IS PLAYING ON AND ON INSIDE!!! WHO PAID FOR THIS? IF I HAD A BOY, WOULD IT GET TRANSFER FROM HEAD TO MY KID`S HEAD, IN GENES??? FUNNY THOUGHT, INTERESTING IDEA THOUGH. I `M NOT COMPLAINING AT ALL, I LOVE IT! HERE WE GO AGAN! GITTA GO! AOTHER "RACE TO RUN" WITH THE DEVIL? STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN FOR A REASON OR NO REASON??? REGARDS, THOMAS(POLAND-CHICAO)
Una de los mejores covers del rock!!
Que grande Kelly!!
god this was my childhood (my dad would play these sort of british heavy metal bands and its was the best thing ever)
rip kelly.
If you had a guitar like that you'd better be able to play it , and god couldn't she , be safe 💝
Wow, just awesome. Great riff, audio quality is fantastic (title doesn't lie) and the colors! So much color in the picture quality.
Saw them at the Kinsmen Field house in Edmonton with Scorpions & Iron Madden back in the 80’s. Awesome concert!
I saw them live in Portland in the same show with Iron Maiden and the Scorpions.
What a crazy good song! Really cool girls.
@fed_sh They're great. I had the original 1969 GUN version.
@@warrenbridges1891 British rock rules )))
@@fedir_sh I agree. Although I'm Aussie and also have my local favourites.
What is your top-list of Australian groups? Your musitians are great, there is something... I don't know, maybe special in Australian rock? For example, last year I found and listened several Naggets records (you know, garage rock from different eras and countries), and Australian Naggets stands aside. I like it!
@@fedir_sh More recently I'm into Psychedelic Porn Crumpets from Perth W.A. Got their 2115 album "High Visceral" so cool. Favourite oldies like '70s Masters Apprentices (their drummer Colin Burgess was the original drummer for AC/DC).....Kahvas Jute, whose bass player Bob Daisley joined Rainbow and Ozzie Osbourne as well as Uriah Heep and Black Sabbath. Then Angels, early Divinyls, Rose Tattoo, Cruel Sea. That sort of stuff. Oh! I forgot early '70s vintage Aztecs. Can't leave them out
These girls broke the mold
This is really high Quality. It got me moving i tell you.
I HAD A CHANCE TO CATCH THEM AS ONE OF THE OPENERS FOR IRON MAIDEN..FIRST TIME I HEARD OF THEM..I WAS HOOKED....STILL AM..!!..🤟
Exelente banda, me gusta el sonido de estas chicas wow
What a killer riff!!!!
I have not seen this video in 42 years......summer of 82 mtv ......
Saw them in concert back in 1981
I love the Redhead❤
Awesome band, with awesome sound!!
Awesome
Love and miss y’all
Please come to oklahoma
Extremely cool
To the band, thanks for terrifying me as a child, I had PTSD at 6 years old.
Rock hard brothers and sisters 🌟🔥⚡✌🤝🤘
Great and unique sound ...it is my opinion
Excellente reprise de ce morceau rock, hard rock même. C'était déjà un tube à l'époque, en 69 je crois. Vu le marasme de la musique 🎶 actuelle, heureusement que des formations hommes 🚹 ou femmes 🚺 perpétuent encore de nos jours le rock avec son rythme et ses valeurs. ROCK N' ROLL is not dead !😂
Une opinion que partage tout à fait. 😀
R.I.P. my Kelly .......😢😢
🙏Rest in peace, Kelly Johnson! We love you!
K.J RIP... 😢
Damn good song!
Wow this is such a quality riff. Not hard to play but awesome to hear. Lots of energy. A shame I haven´t discovered this band earlier.
Its a cover of a Judas Priest song....
Judas Priest’s version is also a cover......
@@sweetcheetah who is the original artist?
The original is by a band called ‘The Gun’ xx
Originally by The Gun, Adrian and Paul Gurvitz who had some success later with Baker Gurvitz Army
That was dam' impressive...
Can't help to invision this jam on STRANGER THINGS as they ready-up to fight Vecna.
Saw them last night in Manchester most excellent
Saw these in Canterbury in 1981 ..
You know Gil Weston is my great aunt
Seen these at some boozer in Northampton boozer early 80s 😅 👍👍
Vancouver Island ❤
According to The Rocker there’s a book coming out about the guy who wrote this. Great riff…P.S. he also gad a song on The Bodyguard Soundtrack. Which of course sold Millions!!!
I remember seeing the drummer (Denise I think) in a music/drum shop in Surbiton..
First time I ever saw this band was at Hammersmith Odeon, can’t remember who they were supporting I’ve got their first vinyl they released
This song, yes, i was 17, luv kelly johnson
What can you say other than "that was fcking awesome"....
Bloody awesome 🤘🏼
A typing error while having the intention to view Judas Priest's version brought me here.
And look how fortunate it turned out for you 😊
Did Judas priest cover this or otherway around. The song of jp was like 77-78 recording
They both covered GUN
@@Brodyyyyyyyyyyyy ow ok
@@shagstars Gun did it in 1968/'69. I was in high school back then.
Ótimo Som!
Cooler Cover from Gun Original from 69
ROCKNROLL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kelly johnson♥️🙏
igazi nagy racendo dal imádom halgatni
very nice
that bass player is so damn cute
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proper music
Girl power baby😜😜😜🤘🤘🤘
身体揺らしながらベース弾いてるの可愛い(非常にマニアックな感想)。
派手なメンバーの中では一見地味で、初期の頃にはよくメインボーカル担当してたが、その可愛い声質のせいでメインボーカル外されたベースのエニッド推し(非常にマニアックな感想)。
She...
This is an all girl band
Tonight The Token Detroit!
🤘😎
Didn’t they push fast Eddie Clark from Motörhead
Shit hot band!! ❤😊
Danke ❤❤😂❤😂❤
the wind at 2.00 ...
🤘🏻
damn this slapsx
That riff sounds exactly like status quo' track 'Gotta go home' from 1970
Maybe Status Quo went into original artist "Gun" concert in 1968
@@V4nh4K3ttu I've just seen GUN's original version, and I prefer it to the girl school version, apart from the weird laughing thing lol
ewart tv?
Thats heavy Metal, from the 60's (gun)
Nwobhm at its peak
The late Jeff Beck could not believe that the lead guitar work on this song was by a woman. That's how good a guitarist Kelly was.
😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
The guitar riff takes a lot of practise
i think it was either joe satriani or steve vai who said "theres no way thats a girl soloing like that" kelly johnson was ahead of her time
@@robcampbell67 It was Jeff beck who said it...
@@drumbodubois3896 right right thank you
It only sounds exactly like the riff from status quo' track 'Gotta go home' from 1970
@@1972piledriver In case which it is copied from original "Gun" who made this song in 1968
Axe attack 1980
Me Too ! Still got Axe 1 and 2 ~ Fab Comp Albums ~ and saw Girlschool Manchester Academy 87
Red the best !