I actually grew up with these guy in zion Illinois. I was at the show that they were singing about. It was the last show I went to before I went to prision for 10 years. My cousin dated joe back when they used to crash at her house on Enoch st. in Zion. I watched them write and practice songs that ended up being on Ham Fisted - Pack up the cats. It's so surreal. I was a shorty back then so it wasn't like we were bro's or nothing. It's just cool to hear people talking about them and me being so close to action like that in the beginning.
That’s awesome! So now I have to know: Do you know what the hell was wrong with Joe? Was he wasted on substances or something? That’s what I always took it to mean...
@@guitarmatricide4834 I think he's just poking fun at how critical the fans were, it took the fun out of playing shows. This band is still amazing, in fact I'm going to see them in Baltimore tomorrow night. Cheers!
@@miameramusic I think you're spot on. I wonder if they know how much their fans love their music. I was lucky enough to see them in Chicago a few times, and each time by accident. I was going to concerts that had no opening act listed, and found out at the door Local H was opening...Best surprises ever!
@@unclececil Very cool surprise indeed! I saw them open for Saul Asylum, but when I saw them headlining their own show last week they totally blew me away. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Radkey, the opener, was also very cool.
@@chucklaneChuckylane What do you do when opinions are everywhere? What do you do when its nothin you want to hear? WHAT YOU DO? - Scott Lucas, 1997. Twitter person in 2021: Cancel.
The fact you said foo fighters live I’ve seen foo fighters live and yeah they are one of the best bands to see live. Says volumes about local h. Never saw them live 😩
Scott's said in many interviews not to live in the past, and that it's better in a way that his band got kind of big but never REALLY big, and so they've had to keep plugging away. And they are.
Only 720000 views? Man this song is so under appreciated. I mean the band as a whole are under appreciated. I only came across them a few years ago(thanks to you tube oddly enough) and I'm still baffled how little radio play and exposure they got.
cayla simmons My favorite album is Good As Dead from them I'd check that out. They're most famous song Bound For The Floor is on that one, Eddie Vedder is also really good.
Great song. My favorite thing about it is the craftsmanship of the chorus, with the stopping transition on the snare strike, the one-beat rest, then the full band re-entrance on the next beat with the huge unison bend to high E, the tambourine shaking, and the rhythm guitar doing the slow three chord walk up the fret board. It's hypnotic.
This is an absolute 1990’s classic. In high school I played in a straight edge hardcore band and when this song first came out on the radio we were all cruising to the bookstore in my OG Caddy and we all said at once “we need to cover this!!!!“ Which always threw people off at shows yet they loved it because we just put our little twist on it and did more of a yelling hardcore punk vocal over top and it just worked really well as a positive youth crew hardcore song. I think a big part of it was that the rest of our original songs were about the kids, shows, having a real PMA message, so it fit!!! Thank you Local H and not just for this gem but the many power pop masterpieces you wrote for us kids in the 90’s!!!!!!
Obviously since Marcie Playground is awful and has no good songs, and Everclear is one of those shitty bands you liked as a teen but realized how bad they sucked when you grew up.
@@KingofCrusher that’s fairly apt. I never cared for Marcy Playground and Everclear had two decent albums but Art let fame get to his head sometimes. Not out of touch like Billy Corgan could get but still questionable at times.
I saw them about 4 weeks ago. They competed with Green Day's House of Blues Concert very well. Scott signed a copy of their new record, and I shook hands with him. Very nice guy
You can’t say underwater bands are lame and cheesy those famous bands like oasis or even more pop stars like Justin Bieber are lame and cheesy Especially Bieber
@@owentdi3613 oddly, I have seen Bieber (thanks to my young daughter who ended up about a month later not liking that kind of music anymore, phew! It was a few hundred dollars down the drain but thankfully her music tastes changed. At least she knows who Local H are) but it looks like I'll never get to see Local H live as I am down in OZ (Australia) and the last time they came (1996) I missed out. It was not great when I had to say the last concert I went to was Bieber, but I was so glad when I went to the next concert (a band called The Screaming Jets - who are a rockin' Aussie band) as it wiped out having to say J.B was the last concert I went to.
The one thing you can say about Scott's lyrics is that they're very straight forward. No underlying meanings. Really pay attention to Pack Up The Cats and you'll realize that it's a concept record about making it.
I enjoyed the hell out of this band, song in the 90s and 20 or 30 yrs later they still jam 30 yrs in the future i will still be jamming to this song if the world is still here by then
first of all, the chorus to this song just KILLS... it's funny how this song meant one thing to me when i was young wanna be rock star and something different now that i'm older and adjusted. these days the song is an allegory of fatherhood
I saw Local H back in the middle to late 90's at a small club called the "Toy Tiger" in Louisville KY. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.. Those guys Kicked Rock N Ass!!!.. Love Them!!
"I was born in 1971 and moved to L.A. from my hometown D.C. in 1980, and Oh' Boy..!! Growing up in the 80's with such great and amazing bands was so fucking awesome..!! And this song reminds me of all of those great times that I had when I moved out to L.A., and FUCK..!! I WISH THAT I COULD GO BACK..!! Regardless of all the hard times and being homeless on SkidRow, music like this got me thru..!! I know Local H wasn't around back then, but the style was, and All Of Us Kids Were Right..!! We are a dying breed, and need to bring ALL OF THAT TYPE OF MUSIC BACK..!! NOW..!!" 👍❤🔥
Growing up too poor to have cable, I've never seen this music video before. That is a shame, but I'm glad today I righted that wrong. You probably don't care about the rest of my comments, but I wanted to put it down somewhere while I'm thinking about it. ... So I've been doing some 30 day music "challenge" on Twitter and have been having a hard time thinking of the last day "A song that reminds you of yourself" because as I've gotten older, all the songs that I still love no longer really describe me or my outlook. I'm no longer a teenage pining for someone that doesn't even realize I'm alive. I'm not looking for a random hookup while drunk on the dance floor. I don't even listen to the radio anymore. I'm no longer the intended target of music, it feels like. Then this song came on while I was taking my afternoon break at work and I realized I'm still the kid that gets pissed at a bad show. Sure, I'm a grown man and all that, but I still get super upset when a show goes poorly and nearly left the last show (Dollyrots! They rocked!) before they even came on because I was angry that there were two opening acts and not just one. Glad I stuck it out though. I've gotten similarly bummed at other shows over the last 10 or so years, because now that I could afford to go, the shows didn't live up to my expectations.
Label shenanigans did them in, and their label's new owner prioritized Teen Pop over alternative rock. It had reverberations that have led to today, and Local H was one of the first casualties if not *the* first.
You can feel the time before phones in this song like bro I'm 31 on the edge of tech and nature bro this song was before it's time and bro you know what's up. God I love this song God fr I love the feel of this without phones all nithing but old skopl dialogue
I heard a song by Local H called bound for the floor many years ago and didn't know the name of it but always knew the lyrics then I rediscovered them after youtube came around and ever since I don't know what I was listening to until I rediscovered that song and I just love this band so much.
I find myself listening to Local H, Hum, Tad as well as Failure. These 4 bands have really stood the test of time and still sound relevant. Amazing music, very criminally underrated.
There were so many bands playing this kind of music in the 90s. But now I’m getting to where I really miss it. This sound was so commonplace back then, and I never thought the styles would change, but they’ve certainly drifted away over time. Now, I understand the way things looked and sounded when the CCR and Beatles sounds become less commonplace as they grew older.
Underrated song from an underrated band
Most underrated band of our time.
They took it from two R.E.M. songs - Oddfellows "Local" 151 and Swan Swan "H"
Totally agree!!! You my friend have great taste in music.
And this a great concept for a video. kinda reminds me of sweating bullets by megadeth.
Underrated comment as well...
all the kids are now adults.
we were cool in the 90's though
The duo took shooting and cloneing themselves
We're still cool ✌🏼
All the kids are still cool. Still rockin here.
occupynewparadigm no ur not old man
occupynewparadigm jk
I actually grew up with these guy in zion Illinois. I was at the show that they were singing about. It was the last show I went to before I went to prision for 10 years. My cousin dated joe back when they used to crash at her house on Enoch st. in Zion. I watched them write and practice songs that ended up being on Ham Fisted - Pack up the cats. It's so surreal. I was a shorty back then so it wasn't like we were bro's or nothing. It's just cool to hear people talking about them and me being so close to action like that in the beginning.
That’s awesome! So now I have to know: Do you know what the hell was wrong with Joe? Was he wasted on substances or something? That’s what I always took it to mean...
@@guitarmatricide4834 I think he's just poking fun at how critical the fans were, it took the fun out of playing shows. This band is still amazing, in fact I'm going to see them in Baltimore tomorrow night. Cheers!
@@miameramusic I think you're spot on. I wonder if they know how much their fans love their music.
I was lucky enough to see them in Chicago a few times, and each time by accident. I was going to concerts that had no opening act listed, and found out at the door Local H was opening...Best surprises ever!
@@unclececil Very cool surprise indeed! I saw them open for Saul Asylum, but when I saw them headlining their own show last week they totally blew me away. One of the best shows I've ever seen. Radkey, the opener, was also very cool.
My dad grew up in Donavon and he tells me he would go to all the concerts around. He's got all the CDs and everything
Man this takes me back. I can smell the beer and sweat and smoke. Better days, boyos.
"Their minds are logged on to the net" Oh my....if only we knew it'd get much worse
Bet ya never thought it'd get like this! 2020
@@chucklaneChuckylane What do you do when opinions are everywhere? What do you do when its nothin you want to hear? WHAT YOU DO? - Scott Lucas, 1997.
Twitter person in 2021: Cancel.
Now I gotta go listen to the album for the 100,000th time . Cheers! @@talkingnart1563
Probably the best sounding live band I have ever heard outside of Foo Fighters....so much energy during their set.... Thank you Local H!
And they are just 2 dudes, and they sound like an entire band, they are great, seen them many times in chitown where they are from.
Interesting you say that. When Foo Fighters started off they played shows together
The fact you said foo fighters live I’ve seen foo fighters live and yeah they are one of the best bands to see live. Says volumes about local h. Never saw them live 😩
I love both Local H and the Foo Fighters. Two amazing bands!
I miss this era
Dale Sutherland this band still rips, broski
Dale Sutherland damn good era
Scott's said in many interviews not to live in the past, and that it's better in a way that his band got kind of big but never REALLY big, and so they've had to keep plugging away. And they are.
This is when music and videos were great
Music is great, fucknut
This is what everyone says about culture from when they were 12. Music is still great, videos are still great, and whatever comes next will be great.
Arvetis I strongly disagree, and I'm 21, so I'm not nostalgic for the 90s or anything like that.
love the diversity of the crowd.
actually it was all clones of the band members
Derf...
Patrick Waste lol fr
Steel preferably
Yeah, it was pretty 50/50, not a lot of women though
Lyrics are just as relevant if not more so today.
The fact that this album got kneecapped due to nothing more than a shitty label merger is a crime. The people deserved to hear this gem.
Only 720000 views? Man this song is so under appreciated. I mean the band as a whole are under appreciated. I only came across them a few years ago(thanks to you tube oddly enough) and I'm still baffled how little radio play and exposure they got.
Just two guys made this music. Pretty impressive.
Why u think they aren't more famous
+Shawn7687 My thoughts exactly I couldn't believe it was just two instruments for these songs. Crazy.
+jebril I'm just now starting to listen to this band and I already love it. Any song suggestions? :)
cayla simmons My favorite album is Good As Dead from them I'd check that out. They're most famous song Bound For The Floor is on that one, Eddie Vedder is also really good.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
Great song. My favorite thing about it is the craftsmanship of the chorus, with the stopping transition on the snare strike, the one-beat rest, then the full band re-entrance on the next beat with the huge unison bend to high E, the tambourine shaking, and the rhythm guitar doing the slow three chord walk up the fret board. It's hypnotic.
All the kids are tirrrrred and turn awaaaayyy
Just saw them this year! GREAT CONCERT! Go see them!
This is an absolute 1990’s classic. In high school I played in a straight edge hardcore band and when this song first came out on the radio we were all cruising to the bookstore in my OG Caddy and we all said at once “we need to cover this!!!!“ Which always threw people off at shows yet they loved it because we just put our little twist on it and did more of a yelling hardcore punk vocal over top and it just worked really well as a positive youth crew hardcore song. I think a big part of it was that the rest of our original songs were about the kids, shows, having a real PMA message, so it fit!!! Thank you Local H and not just for this gem but the many power pop masterpieces you wrote for us kids in the 90’s!!!!!!
I wish I could hear your cover
Seen them with Marcy’s playground and everclear last year. Local H opened, but was by far the best there.
Damn, that's a cool line-up!
I wanted so bad to go to their two balls and a dick tour. I heard about that concert though. I can see why they'd be the best.
I saw them on that tour too!!!! And yes, they were the best. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Obviously since Marcie Playground is awful and has no good songs, and Everclear is one of those shitty bands you liked as a teen but realized how bad they sucked when you grew up.
@@KingofCrusher that’s fairly apt. I never cared for Marcy Playground and Everclear had two decent albums but Art let fame get to his head sometimes. Not out of touch like Billy Corgan could get but still questionable at times.
Thank you honey 🍯❤
CLASS OF 1984
ICONS 🌎👑♾️
Saw these dudes in Dallas about twenty years ago. One of the best shows I've ever been to. These high-fiving mother motherfckers crushed it.
Looking back on this music video is/was meta af! Hands down one of the best grunge band I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing live.
how this video didn't win any awards at the time is still beyond me.
I saw them about 4 weeks ago. They competed with Green Day's House of Blues Concert very well. Scott signed a copy of their new record, and I shook hands with him. Very nice guy
Great song. These guys should have been as famous as Smashing Pumpkins...
Couldn't agree more.
Ha. That is funny. These dudes are lame and cheesy.
You can’t say underwater bands are lame and cheesy those famous bands like oasis or even more pop stars like Justin Bieber are lame and cheesy Especially Bieber
@@owentdi3613 oddly, I have seen Bieber (thanks to my young daughter who ended up about a month later not liking that kind of music anymore, phew! It was a few hundred dollars down the drain but thankfully her music tastes changed. At least she knows who Local H are) but it looks like I'll never get to see Local H live as I am down in OZ (Australia) and the last time they came (1996) I missed out. It was not great when I had to say the last concert I went to was Bieber, but I was so glad when I went to the next concert (a band called The Screaming Jets - who are a rockin' Aussie band) as it wiped out having to say J.B was the last concert I went to.
wish joe never left
56 YEARS OLD AND SEARCHED FOR ONE SONG FROM THESE GUYS. WOW! TALENT IS THERE. SHAME THEY DIDNT GET MORE
The one thing you can say about Scott's lyrics is that they're very straight forward. No underlying meanings. Really pay attention to Pack Up The Cats and you'll realize that it's a concept record about making it.
Thank you! I've always said that Pack Up The Cats is a concept album and people thought I was nuts.
It payed off tho. Many outlets declared Pack Up the Cats as one of the best albums of the 90s!
I can't name another duo that hit as hard as these two. Definitely my fav iteration of LH...
I enjoyed the hell out of this band, song in the 90s and 20 or 30 yrs later they still jam 30 yrs in the future i will still be jamming to this song if the world is still here by then
By then they'll have ran out of eighties stuff and we'll finally reach the nineties.
@@Sluntrox The 90s was the best times the world has ever seen, the world changed from about 99 and up till today!!!
LONG GONE BUD...It's already over we just don't know it yet...Enjoy it while it lasts.
This was raw fun rock that was refreshing after listening to 5 years of rain-soaked dude’s musical therapy sessions.
Such an amazing band.
first of all, the chorus to this song just KILLS... it's funny how this song meant one thing to me when i was young wanna be rock star and something different now that i'm older and adjusted. these days the song is an allegory of fatherhood
I saw Local H back in the middle to late 90's at a small club called the "Toy Tiger" in Louisville KY. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen.. Those guys Kicked Rock N Ass!!!.. Love Them!!
Let's go 2024!
"I was born in 1971 and moved to L.A. from my hometown D.C. in 1980, and Oh' Boy..!! Growing up in the 80's with such great and amazing bands was so fucking awesome..!! And this song reminds me of all of those great times that I had when I moved out to L.A., and FUCK..!! I WISH THAT I COULD GO BACK..!! Regardless of all the hard times and being homeless on SkidRow, music like this got me thru..!! I know Local H wasn't around back then, but the style was, and All Of Us Kids Were Right..!! We are a dying breed, and need to bring ALL OF THAT TYPE OF MUSIC BACK..!! NOW..!!" 👍❤🔥
The kids will bring it back. That's their specialty.
How the f**"k I only knew this band now? Sweet tones they have!
His voice is everything that was right about the 90s.
I was 16, this was one of my favorite bands. Life comes at you fast….
I saw them a few times in the 90's. They were not lame. Such a big sound from just 2 guys. Fun times and memories.
One of the greatest, had to make their own crowd. We're here.
what a cool riff
This is what rock n roll looks like.
Amazing!!!
Lord i love this song. One of my all time favorites, can't believe how old it is
Good ol' days... I miss this.
IKR 😉👍
ITS ONE OF DEM CD'S YOU CAN LISTEN TO ALL THEE WAY THROUGH...WELL AT LEAST I CAN...I LIKE ME SUM LOCAL H.....
20 years flew by.
Always loved them. It's so catchy and underrated. Heavy and clever.
Favorite Local H song, no question.
Still one of my favorite bands and reminds me of home.
Bad ass band! Love them. Best band of best genre.
Growing up too poor to have cable, I've never seen this music video before. That is a shame, but I'm glad today I righted that wrong.
You probably don't care about the rest of my comments, but I wanted to put it down somewhere while I'm thinking about it.
...
So I've been doing some 30 day music "challenge" on Twitter and have been having a hard time thinking of the last day "A song that reminds you of yourself" because as I've gotten older, all the songs that I still love no longer really describe me or my outlook. I'm no longer a teenage pining for someone that doesn't even realize I'm alive. I'm not looking for a random hookup while drunk on the dance floor. I don't even listen to the radio anymore. I'm no longer the intended target of music, it feels like.
Then this song came on while I was taking my afternoon break at work and I realized I'm still the kid that gets pissed at a bad show. Sure, I'm a grown man and all that, but I still get super upset when a show goes poorly and nearly left the last show (Dollyrots! They rocked!) before they even came on because I was angry that there were two opening acts and not just one. Glad I stuck it out though. I've gotten similarly bummed at other shows over the last 10 or so years, because now that I could afford to go, the shows didn't live up to my expectations.
Love this song...my fave Local H song! Best song of the 90's indeed.
Fuck you, douchebag.
why can't we have music like this anymore :(
Just, such an underrated band. Even in 99 they were underrated.
Damn man, this video is fucking awesome! I can't believe how seamless they made it look. I didn't know you could even do stuff like this back in 98.
God Fish but unfortunately with the rise of Teen Pop stealing their popularity
You know, '98 wasn't the Stone Ages. Tech was pretty good. We even had computers and used the internet then. :)
What a good song should have been a hit
dakielster me too but unfortunately a guy named Lou Pearlman started the Teen Pop revolution and ruled the charts
Label shenanigans did them in, and their label's new owner prioritized Teen Pop over alternative rock. It had reverberations that have led to today, and Local H was one of the first casualties if not *the* first.
2nd band out of Illinois.
You can feel the time before phones in this song like bro I'm 31 on the edge of tech and nature bro this song was before it's time and bro you know what's up. God I love this song God fr I love the feel of this without phones all nithing but old skopl dialogue
Never too old to like new music!
That guitar solo takes me back
THIS BAND!!
This should have millions of views.
Still my favorite band
So underrated. Glad they are still touring!
I was born in 91' and I was subdued to listen to boy bands in my early age....but this is the shit I've really should have been listening to!!!!!
I got pulled over while listening to Local H, and the cop gave me the keys to the city
In memory of my friend Pat died so soon but missed dearly everyday...Pat showed me this song ahhh so many memories
The best band in the world. If I had not caught the video on ABC TV RAGE here in OZ, I would not know of this band.
needs more views this is nuts
Island records holds a grudge.
2024 and this song still remains true as hell
This song rules.
They wer sooo underrated
1998... beautiful, i remember this song!!!
I heard a song by Local H called bound for the floor many years ago and didn't know the name of it but always knew the lyrics then I rediscovered them after youtube came around and ever since I don't know what I was listening to until I rediscovered that song and I just love this band so much.
most underrated song
Can’t wait to see them in Pittsburgh tomorrow night!!! Anyone else going?
The fact 2 guys made all this sound still blows my mind. Great duo.
just 2 guys on the video too
The Cheap Trick of the 90’s!!!
They shouldve been the biggest rock band ever!!!!! Such a great song and video!!!!!
I find myself listening to Local H, Hum, Tad as well as Failure. These 4 bands have really stood the test of time and still sound relevant. Amazing music, very criminally underrated.
Don't forget Material Issue!
@MyJunior1975 I was born in 1990. I wish i could have remembered more of the 90's. anything before '95-96' is blurry to me
The last area of greta music from great bands.
I’m offended this doesn’t have a million views
Local H is the true successor to Nirvana
There were so many bands playing this kind of music in the 90s. But now I’m getting to where I really miss it. This sound was so commonplace back then, and I never thought the styles would change, but they’ve certainly drifted away over time. Now, I understand the way things looked and sounded when the CCR and Beatles sounds become less commonplace as they grew older.
The drummer is incredible!!! 🥁🔥 AWESOME DRUMMER!! 😊🩷🤘✌️
Best performance I've ever seen for the money and only 2 band members....seen them many times!
I got a lap dance to this song back in 98 right after high school at de ja vu 😂 in San Diego California
Ha! I remember watching this video on MTV 120 minutes.
i love that all of the audience is local h doing all different things. it cracks me up
much better than "Espresso"
Gotta love Local H! Disliking them isn't even an option. This song...this song just rocks. Nothing more to it.
The crowd was fading fast
best song of the 90's !!!
Man I miss being a kid only for the musix
best song ever
Favorite Local H song
Havent heard this song for long years wow......
I love how the two guys in the band are also all the extras in this video. It's really impressive for 90s music video special effects
Fall 1998 driving around listening to this on the radio.
Their Nirvana Halloween set was incredible
they’re always incredible
@docu4
Word
this band is so underrated