Dunno if you guys gives a shit but if you are stoned like me atm then you can watch pretty much all of the new movies and series on instaflixxer. I've been streaming with my gf recently :)
This was in 1986 and it was one of my friends 15th birthday...we bunked the train from Southampton to Waterloo...did the punk shops on Carnaby St and then bunked the tube to Clapham Common...we were greeted with loads of police checking tickets at the top of the tube stairs...somehow they didn't check ours and we got free... It was an amazing day with some great artists playing...B.A.D being the pinnacle...there was also a Reggae Sound System behind the stage !! One of my memories was of a Rasta walking through the crowd with a huge snake wrapped around his neck while Gil Scott-Heron played 'The Bottle'...seems like it was a dream now that it's over 30 years ago !! Saw B.A.D loads in the 80s all over the UK in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, London etc but this was the first time I ever saw them live and one of my favourites !
I came up from Winchester, probably same train 🤣😂 I was the one in the green shirt, dark hair.....and way thinner dancing on the stage in this. Fantastic day and perfect performance!
My comment 15 years ago from my earlier account is still here. That was 2007, a time i found out about youtube. For an 80s kid who never get to watch these bands during my era, youtube is a time machine that takes us back to our young and restless period. Big thanks to you fir uploading this video. One of my top ten posts here . Godbless everyone.
80s' music was defiantly the era,i grow up in Australia and we had good music,my only regret in life is that i wasnt in england at that time,were the music was unreal,so many great bands,new romantics the list was endless.talk talk, big audio, psychic furs just to name a few.
Get music back to the level of ex-Clash project? Not gonna happen, mate. The Clash, Mick&Joe, were like The Beatles. Not gonna happen again. Be grateful you were there.
B.A.D Shows that anyone can get get a record deal with an awsome accent, great members, and a smash hit like this. btw im only 14 wasn't even born in the 80's and this is one of the best songs I'v ever heard. Big Audio Dynomite Forever :)
We were there Yvette and Monique, right down the front as always! Actually we were on the photographers stand! Amazing gig, we waited all day, I got mugged and we didn't have anywhere to stay until our big sis came and rescued us! But it was all worth it! Love BAD
I was there for this one, it was a free all day gig on Clapham Common. Shame BAD only got to do three songs as they and Gil Scott Heron were the highlight acts. Oh, and Boy George was bottled off the stage. Top day out.
most of the time live music is better, but this song's gap between the live version and the record version is incredible. the single can't hold anything to this performance.
Just found this vid today. One of the best things to come out of the 80s and still sounding as good as it did. In terms of live performances - I've not seen many better than this. Excellent post.
Ritual - ideas - relativity Only buildings- no people - prophecy Timeslide - place to hide - nudge reality Foresight - minds wide - magic imagery>>>>> Thank you!!! (tears from crying) The best video, wow, thanks again....
I saw a crowd like that, only more, take the stage while the Clash played 'Working For The Clampdown' in Detroit on the Combat Rock tour. It's too bad it happend the way it did with that lot, but Mick PROOVED who the musical spirit of that band was. B.A.D. were fantastic, those first lp's were so great. What a place Mick & his band's fill in history.
This is along with the Clash and Big audio one of the most important music groups in history, Just like the Beatles! Just listen to the words and the beat!
still rofl at gazzasandersons comment, so true. loved B.A.D back in the day and still love there songs shame this is the only song there really remembered for as most of there others are just as good
You in New Orleans? Man, I'm the jealous one! BAD played a flawless set, never hit a bum note. Highlight of the night: battle of all saints road - utterly fantastic
love it ,lucky enough to watch this at the newport centre.bad stopped after every track to reharge the "beatbox" ..this is music,million times better than the SHIT NOWADAYS
@HarrytheHorse i think you're definitely right. i remember that i watched this video broadcasted on japanese tv when i was a student, back in the late 1980s (88 or 89, sorry, i'm not sure).
Met a dwarf that was no good dressed like little red riding hood bad habit taking life a calling card a six inch knife ran off really fast mumbled something 'bout the past. ...... thats what im talking about!!
Great 'Performance'( pun intended) ,Tribute to the works of the late Nic Roeg... this is one of the few clips that captures how great BAD could be ('86-'88ish)... But does anyone have a definite date? ,As it doesn't look like January in Clapham..(!). & I like Micks "let 'em be" response to clearing the stage of 'Proto-Bez invasion'
Thanks John...so that was the gig with Peter Gabriel , Sting, Gil Scott Heron...etc Assuming they only had time for 3 songs (?) , what were the others?.. ' C'mon every beatbox ' ,'medicine show' ??
@@andchat6241 Yes, it was that gig. In 1988 the highlights were released on a commercial video called "Freedom Beat" which is where this was taken from. I'm assuming that's why there is a mix up with the year stated in the video title. They played "BAD" that night and (I think) "Medicine Show", but my memory is fading, maybe it was just the two songs.
Thanks for info John.. I've told a few people BAD 'live' could be as good as the Clash(who I also saw '80-'82)....this is one of the few bits of footage that gets that across ,I think..
Totally agree mate. Their power live sometimes doesn't come across in bootlegs/TV appearances. I have a few videos on my channel where they come close though, the Eurotube performance of Medicine Show is excellent.
Greeeat footage! Not crazy about the higher pitched singing in this verision, though...the style in which it is sung on the the album cut is a big part of what makes this tune.
How has this only got 84,649 viewings? I must have watched it myself at least 200,000 times.
Love you Mick. Once a Clasher, always a Clasher.
What a good comentary!!! I've been listening about 100000 billones times like you dude!!!!
I think I'm clocking 8 zillion
It's us four .. account for the 459,000 now!!
Right 👉🏽 low ball count. Mick rocks.
One of the greatest song ever... this live version is brilliant.
deadly
Dunno if you guys gives a shit but if you are stoned like me atm then you can watch pretty much all of the new movies and series on instaflixxer. I've been streaming with my gf recently :)
@Joshua Owen yup, I've been using instaflixxer for years myself :)
it is awesome
Actually superior live than on vinyl. Not many bands can pull it off.
This was in 1986 and it was one of my friends 15th birthday...we bunked the train from Southampton to Waterloo...did the punk shops on Carnaby St and then bunked the tube to Clapham Common...we were greeted with loads of police checking tickets at the top of the tube stairs...somehow they didn't check ours and we got free...
It was an amazing day with some great artists playing...B.A.D being the pinnacle...there was also a Reggae Sound System behind the stage !!
One of my memories was of a Rasta walking through the crowd with a huge snake wrapped around his neck while Gil Scott-Heron played 'The Bottle'...seems like it was a dream now that it's over 30 years ago !! Saw B.A.D loads in the 80s all over the UK in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, London etc but this was the first time I ever saw them live and one of my favourites !
Excellent memories thanks for sharing. Love Bad but never seen live! This looks awesome x
Caramba que registro memorável, muito obrigado!
I came up from Winchester, probably same train 🤣😂 I was the one in the green shirt, dark hair.....and way thinner dancing on the stage in this. Fantastic day and perfect performance!
@@waynemcgearey956 Fantastic Wayne ! Just watched it and saw you on the stage...'Magic imagery oh ho' !
My comment 15 years ago from my earlier account is still here. That was 2007, a time i found out about youtube. For an 80s kid who never get to watch these bands during my era, youtube is a time machine that takes us back to our young and restless period. Big thanks to you fir uploading this video. One of my top ten posts here .
Godbless everyone.
How am I just seeing this?!? The studio single is great , but this Live version has so much energy and life! Simply fantastic!
80s' music was defiantly the era,i grow up in Australia and we had good music,my only regret in life is that i wasnt in england at that time,were the music was unreal,so many great bands,new romantics the list was endless.talk talk, big audio, psychic furs just to name a few.
I wonder how many decades it would take to make a ladder so music can climb back up from what it is now..... to what it was... back then ?
Get music back to the level of ex-Clash project?
Not gonna happen, mate.
The Clash, Mick&Joe, were like The Beatles.
Not gonna happen again.
Be grateful you were there.
B.A.D Shows that anyone can get get a record deal with an awsome accent, great members, and a smash hit like this. btw im only 14 wasn't even born in the 80's and this is one of the best songs I'v ever heard. Big Audio Dynomite Forever :)
This was June 28th 1986! One of the best nights of my life. A crate of Heineken and local herb, yeah what a day it was!
We were there Yvette and Monique, right down the front as always!
Actually we were on the photographers stand!
Amazing gig, we waited all day, I got mugged and we didn't have anywhere to stay until our big sis came and rescued us!
But it was all worth it!
Love BAD
Yvette Clark Great gig wasn't it ! I was there too...15 yrs old.
I was there for this one, it was a free all day gig on Clapham Common. Shame BAD only got to do three songs as they and Gil Scott Heron were the highlight acts.
Oh, and Boy George was bottled off the stage.
Top day out.
This would have been a great show to be at, the crowd is jumping the whole time and the band is tight.
Fuming Riley I was 15 and I was there...it was amazing !!!
I was 17 and there. It was short and sweet but what a memory.
most of the time live music is better, but this song's gap between the live version and the record version is incredible. the single can't hold anything to this performance.
Totally agree! I check back in now and again to enjoy the magic 👍 Its saved in my favourite playlist.
Mick Jones .simply the best........greetings from Argentina
Just found this vid today. One of the best things to come out of the 80s and still sounding as good as it did. In terms of live performances - I've not seen many better than this. Excellent post.
Ritual - ideas - relativity Only buildings- no people - prophecy
Timeslide - place to hide - nudge reality
Foresight - minds wide - magic imagery>>>>> Thank you!!! (tears from crying) The best video, wow, thanks again....
80s decade f-last music decade- now its all crappy times- 80s were soooo fresssh
FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!!
Yes I was there!!!
One of the best live vids on UA-cam
ive still got my red (BAD) hat after all these years, still quite good condition concidering. mick was the best.
Met Mick Jones at Ncle Mayfair backstage on this tour, fine chap!
This is brilliant. What a fantastic song and great band.
2021 e Sempre !!!
At the brief instrumental interlude, at around 3:03, as the bouncers are clearing the stage of the riff raff, Jones can be heard saying "Let em be."
yes, you're right, testimony as to what the guys really like...
Sums it up perfectly ay mate.
Just not fazed..reads how people are reacting...
Compare to (1 of micks 'heroes')Keith Richards early '80s hitting guy with guitar...
Love that they all carry on playing when the stage is invaded
How good does that gig look!What a crowd!!
absolute classic, fresh as a daisy
who do you think you are.... the lone ranger....come on
i've never seen or heard this song live, ever. thanks. i love a rare one.
haha look at all the headers on the stage danceing,hello from ireland
I saw a crowd like that, only more, take the stage while the Clash played 'Working For The Clampdown' in Detroit on the Combat Rock tour. It's too bad it happend the way it did with that lot, but Mick PROOVED who the musical spirit of that band was. B.A.D. were fantastic, those first lp's were so great. What a place Mick & his band's fill in history.
Way way ahead of their time. samples and crossover tunes....Fucking brilliant.
Loved just recently getting into this. BAD
This live version is so awesome!! They included everything from the album version!! Percussionist is also amazing!!!
What a live song,what a crowd,amazing!!!
This is along with the Clash and Big audio one of the most important music groups in history, Just like the Beatles! Just listen to the words and the beat!
Saw them with P.I.L. in San Jose, CA
(I know....). Blew my eardrum out at that show.
Danced my ass off though!
I love how Mick plays the little guitar solo at the beginning slighty different from the record
can't agree with you more, wish therewas a HQ audio version of this one. So much better.
Excellent band, saw them live in Sir Henrys in Cork many moons ago, great memories.
Thank you for posting
The year I graduated from high school sigh.. Best time of my life!
A cool melody one of the defining sounds of the 80's
I was at this one, boy did they come on late, but it was worth it.
That is the dogs bollocks of a tune. Thanks for posting it man
Rock on dudes
peace and love everyone
fantastic song!!!!!!!brings back so many memories!
BAD playing Coachella festival with the original line up this year.Amazing!!!!!!!!
This is actually from the Freedom Beat concert at Clapham Common 28th June 1986
il be onstage if i were in this concert too!! big audio dynamite..they were just awesome!!
2021 it's still B.A.D #StaySafe #MusicArmy #oneworld
still rofl at gazzasandersons comment, so true.
loved B.A.D back in the day and still love there songs shame this is the only song there really remembered for as most of there others are just as good
Don't worry about it man/girl I was born in 1964 and I wish I was at the WHO's gigs. some times life sucks!
peace n love for every one
Thanks for uploading this. What a magical performance. It blows the studio version away.
Orgasmic, Mick jones is legend , Best version iof this i have ever heard wish i had been there
Underrated band -- Mick so fucking ahead of his time. And all those allusions to Nicholas Roeg's films - what a smartie-pants!
@XTCoello
the NAME of this song is:
"E=mc2"
(just like Einstein's Theory)
at one point big audio dynamite had a dj..my dad was the dj no lie:3
I have to watch this video at least 5 to 10 times a day. I love it.
You're a legend, Mick.
You in New Orleans? Man, I'm the jealous one! BAD played a flawless set, never hit a bum note. Highlight of the night: battle of all saints road - utterly fantastic
Thank god for my dad introducing this band to me.
will they play again together wow mis this mega vibe
Good reliable legacy of the CLASH !
music is not made like this anymore,,, good stuff
Ohh, I haven't heard this for soooo long,
and can you believe it, I was just singin' it
the other day!!!
Thax for posting!
Its still very very good . Top stuff .
fantastic concert...wish i was there
love it ,lucky enough to watch this at the newport centre.bad stopped after every track to reharge the "beatbox" ..this is music,million times better than the SHIT NOWADAYS
Love that higher octave in the verses! Thank You!
music++
stage dancers++
atmophere+++++
good all round really :)
What a performence,just like Jaggers film.
@HarrytheHorse
i think you're definitely right.
i remember that i watched this video broadcasted on japanese tv when i was a student, back in the late 1980s (88 or 89, sorry, i'm not sure).
I'll be see them live at Manchester on 8th April. Can't wait
saw them play at brixton academy in their heydey,
was a hugely enjoyable gig with a great atmosphere!
they were pretty cool & original.
I was at that one too. Run DMC support...what a night!
when I was happy, and I often danced alone or..
They were on fire here
Saw them at Exit 2 days ago! Much love!!!
great song,awesome performance.
remind me london years. saw them in clapham common.
Atemporal
Met a dwarf that was no good dressed like little red riding hood bad habit taking life a calling card a six inch knife ran off really fast mumbled something 'bout the past. ...... thats what im talking about!!
Boss boss boss.
That's the fun stuff. Used to jam this whole
"cassette" back in the day.... What!
Fantasticaaaaaaaaaa
brilliant - looking forward to the reunion in 2011
Great 'Performance'( pun intended) ,Tribute to the works of the late Nic Roeg...
this is one of the few clips that captures how great BAD could be ('86-'88ish)...
But does anyone have a definite date? ,As it doesn't look like January in Clapham..(!).
& I like Micks "let 'em be" response to clearing the stage of 'Proto-Bez invasion'
It was June 28th 1986, the date on the video is wrong.
Thanks John...so that was the gig with Peter Gabriel , Sting, Gil Scott Heron...etc
Assuming they only had time for 3 songs (?) , what were the others?.. ' C'mon every beatbox ' ,'medicine show' ??
@@andchat6241 Yes, it was that gig. In 1988 the highlights were released on a commercial video called "Freedom Beat" which is where this was taken from. I'm assuming that's why there is a mix up with the year stated in the video title. They played "BAD" that night and (I think) "Medicine Show", but my memory is fading, maybe it was just the two songs.
Thanks for info John..
I've told a few people BAD 'live' could be as good as the Clash(who I also saw '80-'82)....this is one of the few bits of footage that gets that across ,I think..
Totally agree mate. Their power live sometimes doesn't come across in bootlegs/TV appearances. I have a few videos on my channel where they come close though, the Eurotube performance of Medicine Show is excellent.
Bless ya Mick and the 700 hp Cobra, greatest rap I ever heard
Don Letts = Legend!
Got my tickets for Liverpool 29th of March get in there...
Greeeat footage! Not crazy about the higher pitched singing in this verision, though...the style in which it is sung on the the album cut is a big part of what makes this tune.
Boss. Boss absolutely Boss.
Mick Jones great performance.
I wish they would re-unite for a tour or one off show.
'The Best Band in West London'... B.A.D!!
Mick...what a voice. (Both definitions).
This Rocks....looks Like Every one is having a BLAST. Killer!!!!
sooo good!!!
Mick should have sung it in this key on the record. Excellent version.
amazing! love them
beautiful
NME band wagon bands take note. This is how a pop band should sound.
This is such an amazing performance. Better than the original!
look at all the heathers dancing on the stage haha
Why doesnt music sound as good as this now?
'The Globe' is a masterpiece!