Sturmer was an all time great vocalist. When his voice is bare on Bellybutton, the way it goes into that raspy territory is incredible, the simultaneous control and passion
I was fortunate enough to see Jellyfish open for Tears For Fears back in 1993. I'd only heard their name at the time. They completely blew me away. One of the most memorable performances I've ever seen. It's too bad they didn't last
I was today old when I found out how great of a live band they were. Seriously, I've loved this album since it came out but just assumed they were more of a studio band. Never guessed they'd be able to recreate that sound live so well. Makes it an even bigger shame they imploded so early.
One of the greatest live gigs I ever saw. They sounded incredible. I'd never heard of them. Got dragged to the show by a friend. They opened with No Matter What by Badfinger and I was hooked.
I saw them open for Black Crowes at Mesa Amphitheatre in June of 1991 - blew me away, bought the CD the very next day. That they were able to replicate the layers of their studio sound live was a-mazing.
@Ian Morris I remember when I got the Fan Club box and upon hearing the live sets being gobsmacked that they could pull everything off live. They are in my pantheon.
1994 and I'm serious death metal fan working night shifts. Me and my mate used to play CDs during the night and one day he brings in "Spilt Milk" and Hush comes on, he says "Give it a chance!", 45 minutes of the most amazing music I'd heard in many many years. I was a huge Queen fan from around 8 years old until i was 13 and found Iron Maiden, and I've always maintained that Jellyfish sounded like Queen but in the best way possible, they extracted the essence of Queen's song writing and updated it. Such as shame that Jellyfish came at that period between hair metal and grunge and just got forgotten, but some of us will always remember.
It’s often said that it’s the friction between band members that creates the musical masterpieces in this world. Never more true than with these cats. Their individual music has greatness, but when combined in Jellyfish, ahhhhhh... PERFECTION. Wish they could have held it together.
Criminally underrated band. I saw them live half a dozen times in San Francisco- The I-Beam, The Warfield, and even the Hard Rock Cafe restaurant (KFOG broadcast, remember?). No backing tapes, computers, Autotune, etc. More talent in Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning's little fingernails than the other early 90's dreck- Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.
When I first heard this album I thought "how would they ever do a live tour with this music?" Sort of like Sgt Pepper, it's one thing to do it in the studio, but another entirely to play it live (esp the harmonies). But they did it. And I'm bummed that I wasn't there.
Young people: listen to a real band playing and Singing complex harmonies live on stage. No backing tracks or musicians off stage to help out, pure pure class. Fantastic!!!
Eric Dover did an AMAZING JOB of replacing the beloved Jason Faulkner and Tim Smith replacing Manning was probably a bit easier as manning came later than phase one - but Smith was still a glorious transition from the predecessor. Both Dover and Smith nail their parts
Eric Dover getting no love in this clip and he rips that solo too. Jellyfish still remains a criminally underrated band and largely ignored by the masses. Just a killer band. Andy Sturmer had the voice of an angel and bashed his cocktail kit with precision. Jason Faulkner & Eric Dover stunning guitarists and equally great vocalists. RJM was on another level.... And the way those vocal harmonies akin to Queen & Beatles (which were obvious influences). We need them back now, I think the world is ready now (even though I was ready in 1989 when Bellybutton was released).
Not only was it PHENOMENAL, but they did it LIVE! I want to hear the stories about why Andy might have been a challenge to work with -- where are the hangers on trying to cash in?!?!
When your singer drums, AND plays his crash like a ride, you get cymbal bleed in lead vocal mic. Great mix otherwise. Love this song. "Shake that woody...St. Pinoccio."
Was he the best singing drummer ever? Given how good his drumming is and then how strong and accurate his voice is? Usually Phil Collins wins the polls for best singing drummer. (There's also Buddy Milles, Skip Spence, Levon Helm... and ?) But Sturmer was just great. PS Does he still sing?
I dont think skip spence ever drummed and sang at the same time though.. Maybe, been a while since i heard that jefferson airplane record. The drummer for moby grape was a singing drummer though, as was the drummer of buffalo springfield, El Duce of the Mentors, Robert Wyatt of the soft machine, thats all i got off the top of my head...
Levon Helm, Don Henley, Karen Carpenter... Does /Did Dave Grohl ever drum and sing at the same time? Andy puts so much power into both! Thanks for your reply. PS I forgot about Keven Godley of 10cc, with his astounding clear falsetto!
Sometimes you're too good. And that's not good. They just didn't have enough original lure to make them special. They were incredible. But maybe just not original enough?!
I don't agree with that, they are plenty original. Queen influences for sure, but not the same. It's a huge shame they weren't hugely famous but the music world is littered with such disappointments. The masses have generally horrid musical taste.
Criminally underrated band
Sturmer was an all time great vocalist. When his voice is bare on Bellybutton, the way it goes into that raspy territory is incredible, the simultaneous control and passion
Another band that should've been huge.
James Leslie agreed
@@sarahchambers1803 so criminally underrated.
To me they're huge!!!! ❤❤❤
This is their only song of note I don’t think they deserve fame any more than anyone else
Rat what? So regardless of talent people shouldn’t deserve fame?
I was fortunate enough to see Jellyfish open for Tears For Fears back in 1993. I'd only heard their name at the time. They completely blew me away. One of the most memorable performances I've ever seen. It's too bad they didn't last
I was today old when I found out how great of a live band they were. Seriously, I've loved this album since it came out but just assumed they were more of a studio band. Never guessed they'd be able to recreate that sound live so well. Makes it an even bigger shame they imploded so early.
One of the greatest live gigs I ever saw. They sounded incredible. I'd never heard of them. Got dragged to the show by a friend. They opened with No Matter What by Badfinger and I was hooked.
I saw them live on 3 occasions. One of those performances was acoustic. The sound and harmonies were unbelievable!
Saw them on Spilt Milk tour 💚🥰
I saw them open for Black Crowes at Mesa Amphitheatre in June of 1991 - blew me away, bought the CD the very next day. That they were able to replicate the layers of their studio sound live was a-mazing.
Pretty much the best live band I ever saw and I worked for a major label.
Their talent was/is stratospheric…
How talented, singing, while standing while drumming. Jeez!
ANYTIME I need to be humbled as a musician-- all I need is to see and hear this
@Ian Morris I remember when I got the Fan Club box and upon hearing the live sets being gobsmacked that they could pull everything off live. They are in my pantheon.
And they're pulling it off as a quartet. Any other band would need 6,7,or 8 players to even attempt music this complex live.
You don't see to many lead singer drummers and you see even fewer drummers that play while standing up. If any at all. Interesting group!
Don't forget he is a fantastic songwriter too! Sturmer makes even the best guys jealous.
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Cocktail DrumKits are for
hipster scum.
Brilliant lyricist.
@@paperviewcast Spot on.
Really??! How did this band not become a stadium crushing mega-act?!?
They hated each other.. lol.
Grunge
And it' s sad as we haven't seen this level of genius (with the excpetion of Likerish Quartet) since
1994 and I'm serious death metal fan working night shifts. Me and my mate used to play CDs during the night and one day he brings in "Spilt Milk" and Hush comes on, he says "Give it a chance!", 45 minutes of the most amazing music I'd heard in many many years. I was a huge Queen fan from around 8 years old until i was 13 and found Iron Maiden, and I've always maintained that Jellyfish sounded like Queen but in the best way possible, they extracted the essence of Queen's song writing and updated it. Such as shame that Jellyfish came at that period between hair metal and grunge and just got forgotten, but some of us will always remember.
I can't stop listening to Jellyfish.
Me neither
How they managed to sound better live is absolutely incredible 😮
It’s often said that it’s the friction between band members that creates the musical masterpieces in this world. Never more true than with these cats. Their individual music has greatness, but when combined in Jellyfish, ahhhhhh... PERFECTION. Wish they could have held it together.
I am AMAZED at how good that sounded LIVE. Pretty amazing
randomly found these guys, absolutely insane talent
Criminally underrated band. I saw them live half a dozen times in San Francisco- The I-Beam, The Warfield, and even the Hard Rock Cafe restaurant (KFOG broadcast, remember?). No backing tapes, computers, Autotune, etc. More talent in Andy Sturmer and Roger Manning's little fingernails than the other early 90's dreck- Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.
.....Did you ever see them when they were Beatnik Beach?
I would have given ANYTHING to have seen that.
Dear baby Jesus, these guys were the best!!!
Gave me chills. So good. So much talent.
When I first heard this album I thought "how would they ever do a live tour with this music?" Sort of like Sgt Pepper, it's one thing to do it in the studio, but another entirely to play it live (esp the harmonies). But they did it. And I'm bummed that I wasn't there.
I'm so glad I found this band!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing.
My God they were so good. Saw them at the Warfield in San Francisco shortly before the breakup. It was amazing.
performers and musicians right here!
Young people: listen to a real band playing and Singing complex harmonies live on stage. No backing tracks or musicians off stage to help out, pure pure class.
Fantastic!!!
Somewhat Polyphonic!
Harmonies! OMG.
All amazing but the singer/drummer is phenomenal!
Wow. How these guys weren’t huge is unbelievable.
I'm in love with this song
Eric Dover did an AMAZING JOB of replacing the beloved Jason Faulkner and Tim Smith replacing Manning was probably a bit easier as manning came later than phase one - but Smith was still a glorious transition from the predecessor. Both Dover and Smith nail their parts
Poor lead guitarist didn't get a look in; cameraman fixed on Sturmer during the solo. Great band, great arrangement.
That's my boy Eric Dover!
Eric Dover getting no love in this clip and he rips that solo too. Jellyfish still remains a criminally underrated band and largely ignored by the masses. Just a killer band. Andy Sturmer had the voice of an angel and bashed his cocktail kit with precision. Jason Faulkner & Eric Dover stunning guitarists and equally great vocalists. RJM was on another level....
And the way those vocal harmonies akin to Queen & Beatles (which were obvious influences). We need them back now, I think the world is ready now (even though I was ready in 1989 when Bellybutton was released).
One of the greatest bands ever!
Still gives me goosebumps ❤
That’s how you play a song of that calibre live.
There are those who don’t know Jellyfish and the fans ❤
Not only was it PHENOMENAL, but they did it LIVE! I want to hear the stories about why Andy might have been a challenge to work with -- where are the hangers on trying to cash in?!?!
When your singer drums, AND plays his crash like a ride, you get cymbal bleed in lead vocal mic. Great mix otherwise. Love this song. "Shake that woody...St. Pinoccio."
Right Tony, Andy's drum setup, technique, vocals so good as is the rest of the band tight pulling these songs off live, WOW ! ...
マイク・ポートノイが好きな曲ってところが好き。
Damn that was TIIIGHT! Where's the rest of the gig?!
The concert of which this video was taken from is titled something like Jellyfish live 1993 Germany
great band it is sad that they couldn't become as famous as they should
I can't imagine how much they must have rehearsed.
A real band!
Buy the solo album of Roger Joseph Manning jr. (keyb., add. git., add. voc.) "The Land Of Pure Imagination".
I still get heartburn 💚
Loved The lite brite on stage on this tour 💚💚💚
I always wondered why these guys didn't get bigger
Holy shit this is good
Stratospheric talent
So, so great!!!!
Was he the best singing drummer ever? Given how good his drumming is and then how strong and accurate his voice is? Usually Phil Collins wins the polls for best singing drummer. (There's also Buddy Milles, Skip Spence, Levon Helm... and ?) But Sturmer was just great. PS Does he still sing?
I dont think skip spence ever drummed and sang at the same time though.. Maybe, been a while since i heard that jefferson airplane record. The drummer for moby grape was a singing drummer though, as was the drummer of buffalo springfield, El Duce of the Mentors, Robert Wyatt of the soft machine, thats all i got off the top of my head...
Levon Helm, Don Henley, Karen Carpenter... Does /Did Dave Grohl ever drum and sing at the same time? Andy puts so much power into both! Thanks for your reply. PS I forgot about Keven Godley of 10cc, with his astounding clear falsetto!
Roger Taylor
Phil Collins!
Dean Castronovo ..
INCREDIBLE
WOW !!! SO good!
Um, more please.....Oh, wait.....
RoyWoods, wizard in the beginning
If you search YT you'll find their excellent cover of I Can Hear the Grass Grow. They were big fans.
Thanks amigo 😘
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The beginning is similar to “ Eddie’s rock” By wizard
Totally Pro...
Looks like the show I saw from that tour at Roseland Ballroom, NYC. Anyone know where this was filmed?
this is from 1993 in Germany.
i think this is the source ua-cam.com/video/HB_lZoXu7ww/v-deo.html
Wow
Impossible
No cell phones!
IhateGary stfu it was in 1993
Also no digital cameras either then :-)
Ok Boomer
Sometimes you're too good. And that's not good. They just didn't have enough original lure to make them special. They were incredible. But maybe just not original enough?!
Yep. That is it in a nutshell. Roger mentioned that they were trying to be a combination of Queen and The Partridge Family on their first album.
I don't agree with that, they are plenty original. Queen influences for sure, but not the same. It's a huge shame they weren't hugely famous but the music world is littered with such disappointments. The masses have generally horrid musical taste.
Dead audience