It was 1999 a horrible year for music. The charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups. The rock charts were filled with nu-metal and creed. Then Rowland S. Howard came and dropped this bomb of true rock n roll. Raw, gritty, emotional, brutal, sexy, and dark. It was my saving grace.
This was FANTASTIC. Thank you for uploading. As a guitar player and Guitar Maker (PureSalem Guitars) I have been a huge Roland fan since first hearing him in The Birthday Party. He has his own style and sound ... he is an original. Anyone complaining about his guitar tone or technique is either a musically uneducated child or a narrow minded player who worships at the house of John Mayer. Closed minded classic rock blues purists. His use of just two pedals the MXR blue Box and Distortion + never fail to amaze me. REUSS EFFECTS released a signature Roland S. Howard pedal and it’s fantastic. Long May his music play !!!! -Rick Sell / PureSalem Guitars
I´m fairly certain that " ´Musical proficiency` per se " comes right at the bottom of Rowland´s priorities when he is coming up with these songs . Same with Keith Levene , same with John McGeoch for that matter .
Given your expertise, what can you tell us about how Rowland got his sound. I mean, he doesn’t use a slide and yet on some sounds there’s a keening sound like a slide, and he doesn’t seem to be pedal crazy but he gets this remarkable range of sounds.
@@written12 Without researching it, I'd say this particular guitar sound simply comes from the combination of 1. his Jaguar guitar and whatever single coils he's running 2. whatever "distortion" or overdrive he's using (a RAT maybe?) 3. his amp, which I believe was a Fender. Anyone else care to chip in/shed more light? I love Howard and regret that I never saw him live in any capacity. I love his sound, lyrics, songwriting, the whole damn thing.
Yes, and let’s not forget Del Shannon wrote this song. Even the original, lyrically and musically, has this mournful quality. I mean, the lyric has the man recounting his leaving this woman with a sense of of the mystery and power of love and how one person can hurt another, even when it’s unintentional. Rowland was drawn to songs like this, wrote them himself of course. He loved Lee Hazelwood. No surprise there.
Roland Solo Howard does these fabulous breaks and tempo changes,,,,,he constructs everything around his guitar....no theatrics, no stage persona..just his brilliant guitar playing-masterclass.... and he's so unassuming and polite!!
Thanx Stanislav...there is not a piece of visual material that I have watched as many times as this live performance.....great listening to Roland, but even greater seeing him in action....but cheers to Mick Harvey, Brian Hooper and Harry Howard.....GREATEST PERFORMANCE I'VE EVER SEEN....and I have been to live concerts(i.e. Muse....brilliant band)
I upoladed it back in 2013 and since then the video has gathered almost 50k views but in 2018 it was taken down with a strike on my channel. Now it is back for good I hope. Thanks for watching
Just saw a film called the beach the guy in it said he bought a jacket a cowboy style embroidered jacket in Melbourne he said he got back to his hotel room and thought what did i buy a dumb jacket like that for he thought ill never wear it he had a few drinks and thought he’d put the jacket on and went to a pub and some guy said thats the greatest jacket i ever seen he bought him a drink the guys name was rowland s Howard
Thank you again Stanislav....it is with great sorrow that I'm quitting my all-time favorite musician......not because he offended me...or at least his music, what with him not really being here anymore.......it's personal...became a bit of an addiction.....Yes I get addicted to my kind of music....thank you for providing me with so much fun!!!!!
Great comment, thanks for pointing that out. I haven’t listened to a lot of out-and-out new guitar based music for the past 15 years all the post punk rehashes bore me. They may appeal to some fair enough but seem so safe to me. Appearing to be artsy in execution but don’t have the genuine bite, hunger or danger to them whatsoever.
Very good. Nice song. Eddie Van Halen said if it was not for drugs and alchohol he would never had produced the music that he did. Part of the population has to be sacrificed to save all the population. Brett Whitely, an artist said similar.
@@louisreeve6830 Well I dunno about that. I dunno what world you were living in but it was all over the radio in Melbourne in 99 and everyone I knew bought the cd and loved it. I didn't even know it came out on vinyl back then, I thought everyone had chucked out their record players.
You hear those shit Iron Maid (they never do, they ne a good song), Motley Crew, Ozzy , Kiss, etc. And after you hear Rowland, you see how life is unfair. I heard the Chinese say the best skill is LUCK, if you don't have luck it doesn't matter if how much you have talent. If he born in Califórnia He would be between the greatest All those shit were luck, they born in the right place,
In the same league as Wilko Johnson and Andy Gill from the Gang of 4. There own distinct style. Much better than these posers who try to impress by playing boring riffs.
so strange he's called adolescent by Clinton here, what is it exactly? his lyrics always strike me as aged, morose only in the way elderly people are, as if things are so serious you can only laugh at the cruelty
"Indie " ? We live in a " cult - of - death " society , thus I suppose that applies to pretty much everybody, every label etc ... I would love to know ( as one example ) what´s King Buzz of the band Melvins " swagger" for them to be such an appreciated band ... Captain Beefheart , Miles Davis , Jaco Pastorius , Coil ... I do get what you mean , in a way , I guess , yeah ... look at the cult of death around people like Morrison , Syd Barrett or Ian Curtis - it´s revolting , in some cases it even clouds my judgement of those person´s gifts, talents, work ... but yeah , I basically do not feel it here ... it´s all a question of what you´re looking for in music too , obviously ... few people out there would see PIL´s Keith Levene as one of the greatest rock guitarists but to me ( much like Rowland here ) any one of them strums a chord and I instantly know who it is , and that very peculiar sound is what brings me satisfaction .
@@saraivatoledo1842 Im a guitarist/singer and until recently performed ( more than 1000 shows) in various bands. Im not one to inellectualize music but i can easily draw a line in the sand and as to what is talent and what is not. All Rowland had was his crutch of alcoholism and heroin. Post modernists of course will find some romance in all of this pretentious, film noir lifestyle but in reality it only leads to a painful and miserable life....and death.
He looked so fragile. But he caressed hearts with his voice and sliced up souls with his guitar... Dearly missed.
love this comment, really described him so well
It was 1999 a horrible year for music. The charts were dominated by boy bands and girl groups. The rock charts were filled with nu-metal and creed. Then Rowland S. Howard came and dropped this bomb of true rock n roll. Raw, gritty, emotional, brutal, sexy, and dark. It was my saving grace.
1999 was a bad time for music but frankly compared to the crap these days it was heaven
Boy bands are dope
@@Tarsus-y4d youre a bad searcher then i guess
A Diamond
Nice!!!!
Love Mick's drumming.
R.i.P Roland s Howard the six strings that drew blood you will never be forgotten
Brilliant performance by all, special mention and RIP to the brilliant Brian Hooper, master bassman.
e.g. EXIT EVERYTHING
26:04 Did he write White Wedding?
Are you asking me? I was talking about Exit Everything and the fabulous bass line that he DID write@@jeepster755
Absolutely brilliant bass playing and the drumming lay down a perfect background for Roland to shine
White wedding is a billy idol cover@@jeepster755
This was FANTASTIC. Thank you for uploading. As a guitar player and Guitar Maker (PureSalem Guitars) I have been a huge Roland fan since first hearing him in The Birthday Party. He has his own style and sound ... he is an original. Anyone complaining about his guitar tone or technique is either a musically uneducated child or a narrow minded player who worships at the house of John Mayer. Closed minded classic rock blues purists. His use of just two pedals the MXR blue Box and Distortion + never fail to amaze me. REUSS EFFECTS released a signature Roland S. Howard pedal and it’s fantastic. Long May his music play !!!! -Rick Sell / PureSalem Guitars
I´m fairly certain that " ´Musical proficiency` per se " comes right at the bottom of Rowland´s priorities when he is coming up with these songs . Same with Keith Levene , same with John McGeoch for that matter .
Given your expertise, what can you tell us about how Rowland got his sound. I mean, he doesn’t use a slide and yet on some sounds there’s a keening sound like a slide, and he doesn’t seem to be pedal crazy but he gets this remarkable range of sounds.
@@written12 Without researching it, I'd say this particular guitar sound simply comes from the combination of 1. his Jaguar guitar and whatever single coils he's running 2. whatever "distortion" or overdrive he's using (a RAT maybe?) 3. his amp, which I believe was a Fender. Anyone else care to chip in/shed more light? I love Howard and regret that I never saw him live in any capacity. I love his sound, lyrics, songwriting, the whole damn thing.
Bloody hell well put.
@@RipReed Fender Jag, broken Blue Box, Mxr distortion plus and a twin, or at leas that was his Birthday Party rig 🤷🤷
I cannot get enough of this bloody performance. I have been listening several times a days for a month. Brilliant.
Wow, this is just solid great music! Rowland was a gift to us all!
Everything about Roland S. Howard's songs strike the right cord with me.
And the right chord. Just finding out about this man. Wow.
Ye.....I have a term for the Roland experience-Rolandesque....not a single song that does not hold my attention from intro to end
Yes, and let’s not forget Del Shannon wrote this song. Even the original, lyrically and musically, has this mournful quality.
I mean, the lyric has the man recounting his leaving this woman with a sense of of the mystery and power of love and how one person can hurt another, even when it’s unintentional.
Rowland was drawn to songs like this, wrote them himself of course. He loved Lee Hazelwood. No surprise there.
@@written12 Good point!!
Un artista total, inolvidable. Único. Se te añora, amigo.
Rowland S.Howard y John MacGeoch RIP los dos,son 2 de los mejores guitarristas,si no los mejores,del post punk.
My 2 favorite guitarists
Roland Solo Howard does these fabulous breaks and tempo changes,,,,,he constructs everything around his guitar....no theatrics, no stage persona..just his brilliant guitar playing-masterclass.... and he's so unassuming and polite!!
Damn, this is sick.
I don't think anyone has ever used the same guitar as long as Rowland just amazing.
he had a unique way of playing the Fender Jag. - Iconic person in all sens of terms 💜 RIP Rowland
The KING OF THE JAG..‼️👁🙏🏻
Forever my favourite guitarist.
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THS !!!
THANK YOU !
Thanx Stanislav...there is not a piece of visual material that I have watched as many times as this live performance.....great listening to Roland, but even greater seeing him in action....but cheers to Mick Harvey, Brian Hooper and Harry Howard.....GREATEST PERFORMANCE I'VE EVER SEEN....and I have been to live concerts(i.e. Muse....brilliant band)
Totally agree. I also watch this masterpiece quiet often. Enjoy and have a great day!
Amazing live, so trippy and ritualistic...
One of his Greatest live performance ever
espectaculargenio...suban mas..gracias
フジロックで目の前で見た。
最高のギター音
気持ちいい音
永遠に聴いていたい
このヴィンテージギターは今どこにあるか知ってますか？
Well, that was pretty damn amazing.
The king of the Jag..RIP🙏🏻👁
La classe
Thank you a tonne for reposting this! I was gutted when the original was taken down. This version of Dead Radio is biblical.
I upoladed it back in 2013 and since then the video has gathered almost 50k views but in 2018 it was taken down with a strike on my channel. Now it is back for good I hope. Thanks for watching
Just saw a film called the beach the guy in it said he bought a jacket a cowboy style embroidered jacket in Melbourne he said he got back to his hotel room and thought what did i buy a dumb jacket like that for he thought ill never wear it he had a few drinks and thought he’d put the jacket on and went to a pub and some guy said thats the greatest jacket i ever seen he bought him a drink the guys name was rowland s Howard
who made this film?
@@kw2785 Warwick Thornton
I’ll just put this on repeat now... Thank you for posting this stunning performance.
Aussies should be proud.
We are!
honest and straight forward to the end
Excellent! Thanks so much for uploading the entire performance.
Очень круто!
Thanks for sharing this! Never seen the whole thing, it’s incredible
KW C you are very welcome, enjoy! This gig HAS to be on youtube
Prima Musik Danke für den Tip Flo
holy fkn shite...
this is incredible.
Thank you for posting this. I watched this years ago and it changed my life.
Qué guitarrista impresionante! Teenage Snuff Film y Pop Crimes son casi obras maestras.
Casi? Qué les faltó??
@@bruno_schumann masterpieces!
youtube attention s'íl vous plait....Roland Solo Howard is numero uno......
I love this! God. Thank you.....
Crazy Perfect! 31/12/2021
I will always love you for this xxxxx
Ma découverte de 2021 !! Bien meilleur que Nick Cave à mon avis... beaucoup plus sincère, bcp plus "terrestre" comme son. Ca gicle c'est parfait !!
Thank you again Stanislav....it is with great sorrow that I'm quitting my all-time favorite musician......not because he offended me...or at least his music, what with him not really being here anymore.......it's personal...became a bit of an addiction.....Yes I get addicted to my kind of music....thank you for providing me with so much fun!!!!!
THX ive missed this as it has gone from UA-cam. Big THX!
liked it..its like the ramones but slower
great...
Thank you for making this available
Love for music
Has a cooler person ever existed?
The Six Strings That Drew Blood!
AMAZING
You’re the messengers!!!!!!
Cool on so many levels. Everyone else, go home!
This is amazing. thank you for sharing this video
Melbourne Legend
Roland, Brian H Hooper and Mick Harvey!
Would have sold my grandma into slavery to see this gig!
Красивый
🖤
GIGANTE
18:05 Shivers
🙏🖤🥀
the townes van zandt of postpunk
Qué barbarie😎😎😎
Mick Harvey is a genius‼️👁
Thnx! Missed It!
He looks like an older Ian Curtis!
10:20 "Isn't rock music adolescent?" How I miss parent culture smackdowns with our long, lost transgressive artists.
Great comment, thanks for pointing that out. I haven’t listened to a lot of out-and-out new guitar based music for the past 15 years all the post punk rehashes bore me. They may appeal to some fair enough but seem so safe to me. Appearing to be artsy in execution but don’t have the genuine bite, hunger or danger to them whatsoever.
@@Havencheese all of the post, none of the punk?
So sad he left us too soon.
35 days after this concert Rowland S. Howard passed away
Very good. Nice song. Eddie Van Halen said if it was not for drugs and alchohol he would never had produced the music that he did. Part of the population has to be sacrificed to save all the population. Brett Whitely, an artist said similar.
mix of Johnny Cash, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Keith Richards
Yes, but I'd replace Keith Richards with Johnny Thunders, and add Ennio Morricone and Lee Hazlewood.
@@HowManyHenrys & Billy Idol
@@HowManyHenrys Much more like it . Defz .
@@HowManyHenrys
what year? 99, around the time Teenage Snuff Film came out?
I’m pretty sure it’s ‘99
homeboy had a guitar tone, whew
Teenage Snuff Film: The last great rock record. Great timing, just before the horrific culturally sterile new millennium started.
said the fossil.
@@AleksandarBloom Are you Groucho Marx in disguise?
@@spacedebris566 rowland was devastated with its muted reception and the initial vinyl run only sold 500 copies
@@louisreeve6830 Well I dunno about that. I dunno what world you were living in but it was all over the radio in Melbourne in 99 and everyone I knew bought the cd and loved it.
I didn't even know it came out on vinyl back then, I thought everyone had chucked out their record players.
@@spacedebris566 that's good to hear
I heard this perspective from mick harvey
Hi Stanc9ant keep away
You hear those shit Iron Maid (they never do, they ne a good song), Motley Crew, Ozzy , Kiss, etc. And after you hear Rowland, you see how life is unfair.
I heard the Chinese say the best skill is LUCK, if you don't have luck it doesn't
matter if how much you have talent.
If he born in Califórnia He would be between the greatest
All those shit were luck, they born in the right place,
And who is playing keyboard and acoustic guitar?
In a pretty subtle manner , that dude adds a LOT to what´s going on in this ... I´m also not quite sure who that might be .
@@saraivatoledo1842 it's written in the description of the video... pénible
In the same league as Wilko Johnson and Andy Gill from the Gang of 4. There own distinct style. Much better than these posers who try to impress by playing boring riffs.
Wasn't this by Jay's and the Americans originally.?.
What year is this?
Probably around 1998-2000, most of the setlist is from Rowland’s first solo album, which came out in 1999
Why did the most handsome guy in the world die when I was 9 years old?
THEY MADE HIM DO WHITE WEDDING
Anybody curious how Heroin feels like ? It feels like this guitar sound ... is what it feels like .
🤔
Who did drop dead now ? Its too much. 🙏
Did Roland get murdered ,?
He sadly had liver cancer
so strange he's called adolescent by Clinton here, what is it exactly? his lyrics always strike me as aged, morose only in the way elderly people are, as if things are so serious you can only laugh at the cruelty
The most dreadful sound ever to eminate from a Fender Jag. Untalented, paper thin vocals, messy garage band audio. Just dreadful.
Great tastes , yeah ? Coldlay and Nickelback much talent ? Yeah , rock´n ´roll !!!!!!
@@saraivatoledo1842 Every indie fan loves you when youre dead. Swagger is one thing, incompetence entirely another.
"Indie " ? We live in a " cult - of - death " society , thus I suppose that applies to pretty much everybody, every label etc ... I would love to know ( as one example ) what´s King Buzz of the band Melvins " swagger" for them to be such an appreciated band ... Captain Beefheart , Miles Davis , Jaco Pastorius , Coil ... I do get what you mean , in a way , I guess , yeah ... look at the cult of death around people like Morrison , Syd Barrett or Ian Curtis - it´s revolting , in some cases it even clouds my judgement of those person´s gifts, talents, work ... but yeah , I basically do not feel it here ... it´s all a question of what you´re looking for in music too , obviously ... few people out there would see PIL´s Keith Levene as one of the greatest rock guitarists but to me ( much like Rowland here ) any one of them strums a chord and I instantly know who it is , and that very peculiar sound is what brings me satisfaction .
@@saraivatoledo1842 Im a guitarist/singer and until recently performed ( more than 1000 shows) in various bands. Im not one to inellectualize music but i can easily draw a line in the sand and as to what is talent and what is not. All Rowland had was his crutch of alcoholism and heroin. Post modernists of course will find some romance in all of this pretentious, film noir lifestyle but in reality it only leads to a painful and miserable life....and death.
shhhhhhh
Good guitar sound. Otherwise shite.
Brilliant lovely man
♾
what year was this?