Awesome ! Absolutely wonderfully talented musicians . Come on Eric , get on the phone to Graham , and make up . Get together again , all of us 10 cc fans miss your wonderful guitar solos !
Never get tired of this sublime piece of music. Great songwriters and musicians that were revolutionary in the studio but live they were in my opinion even better! Caught them live a couple of years or so ago - they still got it!
This is 10cc at their glorious best. They were such a brilliant live band. Eric's guitar solo on this is truly brilliant. He is a very underrated guitarist but on his day he can match anyone. Have seen them live many times but this is easily the best version of this song I have seen. I don't think we will ever see a reunion now, I don't think Eric has the stomach for it. Luckily we have this video and our memories of one of the UK's finest.
I saw them do this in 1980- stunning live and I can remember it like it was yesterday. I had all the early albums in the mid 70's lent to this rock music mad 14/15 year old by the prospective member of parliament (Labour) from my area. Being a proud Mancunian (a person from Manchester) myself makes it extra special.
О, ТенСиСи! Почему я не видел этой записи раньше? Мне 21 год и я уже лет 7 наслаждаюсь, временами переслушивая этот альбом! Стюарт на высоте, а соло Гудмана просто потрясно!
I think this is the best version of this song on u tube,,,, and ive listened to all of them i think,... the bass and lead solos are absolutely brilliant they were a wonderful band.
At the time, they had probably some of the very best sound engineers in the business. I've heard that at this particular show the engineers employed the Rolling Stones Mobile one portable studio in the back parking lot to assist with the sound onstage.
Fantastic footage from the 'Live and let Live' era. Thank you. The entire album is such an underestimated masterpiece. Great musicians at work. Some of today's 'Bands' should take note...There's no substitute for talent!
This just highlights how good this group was. With a lead guitarist the caliber of Eric at the helm. Thanks Annie for posting this epic video. Would love to see the rest of this concert . : - )
@10cc4me. Ditto! I was sitting here watching this with headphones on and could barely speak when my wife came in and asked what I was listening to. Just too choked up to tell her! I don't know if it's because they were my favorite band through those formative early- to late-teen years, but for me the music of 10cc is something that makes me so glad to be alive.
The old man had this concert on video in the 80s, and I remember watching this when I was 11 years old and loving the bass solo (had never seen one before!) and thinking the guitar solo was one of the greatest things I had ever heard/seen! In fact I used to watch it and rewind it to watch it again over and over. That video got lost a long time ago and it's great to see this here. Brings back a lot of fantastic memories.
When my brother was 17 he learned to play the opening of 'Feel the benefit' on his guitar. I always admired him for that :). Another great classic, Graham lookin good.
I am so glad you put this on youtube. One of my all time favorites from 10cc. Love Eric,s guitar work at the the end of the track. One of his best. I saw 10cc live at Odean New st Birmingham during ''Original Soundtrack'' era. Thay had a power cut on starting Somewhere In Hollywood, but no problem to start again. Thanks again Clive
one of the best rock songs ever, listening to it for over 25 years...and i've never seen it performed at all, until now. thank you! thank you! thank you! p.s. i thought nobody knew about this song but me...boy, was i wrong!
Well...I never thought that this song could be faithfully reproduced live. Wrong as ever! Marvelous! Annie...so many others have said thank you to you for your hard work and dedication in putting all these 10CC songs on YT, so my words are just an addition. But, thank you Annie...thank you very very much.
as with prt 1 &2....WOW!!!!! To me....the guitar solo is one of the cleanest, tastiest in modern music. I say this becaus of it being NOT overplayed. There is a remarkable amount of restraint that is played out perfectly....(just my opinion)
I just wanted to say thank you Annie for sharing this fabulous footage of this epic number. 10cc is delicious, and does not get the recognition they deserve for such talent, skill and color they bring to rock & pop music.
I saw them play this in Edinburgh in (I think) the late 70s and still have the LP somewhere in the attic at home. Bass, guitar and vocals are inspirational. Just stunning - thx for putting it up. And they were great at the Cornbury Festival too even if it was p***ing it down with rain. Another UK tour pleez.
superb song and guitar by eric! graham were's our back stage passes from congresshalle zurich 1980 (THE ONE WHERE THE ELECTRICITY WENT!!) All the way to switzerland!from cliff british airways, quay st.
My Dad and my brother were at this concert. In my opinion, Eric Stewart's solo is one of the best ever - second only to Dave Gilmore "comfortably numb" Earls Court.
Thanx for these vidz Annie...I'm a long time fan of 10cc..HUGE part of my teenage years..saw them in a tiny theatre in Dayton,Ohio on the "Bloody Tourists" tour...still one of my favorite shows of all time.I've known about the 77' video but,have never been able to track it down and the older vids are like long over-do xmas pressies!!Thanx again!!ALL THE BEST! Starry
I was fortunate to see them play the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium at the time they were promoting "Bloody Tourists". Fabulous concert. Hard to fathom why these guys weren't five times as popular as they were.
Thanks, I remember seeing this tour. On the crossfade from pt. 2-3 the lighting guys mirrored the transition making it seem like watching a video production.
Thanks to AnnieOakley53 for posting this...MADE my weekend...Unbelievably talented guys who made fantastic music with a minimum of rock and roll posturing. True musicians.
I've often wondered if there was anyone out there who thought You've Got a Cold/Benefit was a good tune.I've played the hell out of it over the years.based on the comments,I'd say I wasn't alone!What a jamb on this vid.
I wish they had all 3 parts together, but I'm sure there's a reason why they didn't (UA-cam restrictions?). But this is a great closing segment to 10cc's anthem. To my knowledge, no other song they recorded sounded quite like this one. It's one of my favorite epic jams. Right up there with the "Supper's Ready's" etc...
Hello 10cc fans...I have a selection of 10cc memoribilia, Programmes, Concert Tickets, Live photos from a concert in Scarborough, East Yorkshire, Graham Gouldmans plectrum and a floor songsheet, handwritten in Eric's writing! (Honest, I was a hugh fan back in the day and got to see them 7 times and mostly got front row and loved to collect what I could) Also saw the original line up in the early seventies in the famous Apollo. Anyway, if anyone is interested, let me know. Thanks, Chris H
Saw This performed live in Buxton by Graham Gouldmans 10cc, for that gig Rick Fenn had been replaced by Rupert Fenn who was excellent,Best 10cc track ever!!!!!!!!
Less than 44.000 viewers (plus 1 dislike) I don't believe it. I put this solo in my top favourite twenty guitar solos along with classics such as Stairway to Heaven, Comfortably Numb, Sway, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Crossroads ect
I totally agree with Eric being under-rated, in my opinion he was THE BEST, certainly UK guitarist. That's saying something with Knopfler and Clappers on the list, but he shades them for inventiveness, I think. Maybe Carlos would get it world-wide, depends on what style you like, Carlos is really a "seat-of the pants, one-take wonder". a few bum notes, but fantastic energy.
Unfortunately UA-cam only allows 10 minute uploads hence having to split this epic track. Personally, I think this live version is even better than the original recording.
@rmoore615 Yes I agree, and no effects to cover up any lack of technique either. The solos in I'm Mandy Fly Me always make the hairs on my neck stand up.
@FionaSeinfeld Hate to be a nit, but I don't think you mean "penultimate." That word means "next to last." So, you are actually saying that this song is the next to last. I'm an English teacher, so I do this type of annoying thing. With that off my chest, let me add to all of the complimentary things said here. I grew up listening to 10cc studio albums and never dreamed they could pull of their studio songs in a live venue. I stand corrected. Thanks, Annie, for exposing me to 10cc live.
@StarryKnightMusic Hi and thanks for your message. Just to let you know that I've made a disk for you featuring the full 1974 10cc at the BBC concert and the 1977 Live at Hammersmith Odeon in 1977. Please let me have contact details and I'll send off to you by air mail. Best wishes Annie
Awesome ! Absolutely wonderfully talented musicians . Come on Eric , get on the phone to Graham , and make up . Get together again , all of us 10 cc fans miss your wonderful guitar solos !
Sure!!
The base solo shows the huge musical respect they had to one another.
One of my favourite 10CC songs. Fantastic bass solo and Eric Stewart's guitar solo is awesome. Great recording.
Never get tired of this sublime piece of music. Great songwriters and musicians that were revolutionary in the studio but live they were in my opinion even better! Caught them live a couple of years or so ago - they still got it!
This is 10cc at their glorious best. They were such a brilliant live band.
Eric's guitar solo on this is truly brilliant. He is a very underrated guitarist but on his day he can match anyone. Have seen them live many times but this is easily the best version of this song I have seen.
I don't think we will ever see a reunion now, I don't think Eric has the stomach for it. Luckily we have this video and our memories of one of the UK's finest.
The best group ever fprmed brilliant musicians.....
Eric Stewart has to be one of the most underrated guitarists ever! The guy's a genius
I saw them do this in 1980- stunning live and I can remember it like it was yesterday. I had all the early albums in the mid 70's lent to this rock music mad 14/15 year old by the prospective member of parliament (Labour) from my area. Being a proud Mancunian (a person from Manchester) myself makes it extra special.
О, ТенСиСи! Почему я не видел этой записи раньше? Мне 21 год и я уже лет 7 наслаждаюсь, временами переслушивая этот альбом! Стюарт на высоте, а соло Гудмана просто потрясно!
I think this is the best version of this song on u tube,,,, and ive listened to all of them i think,... the bass and lead solos are absolutely brilliant they were a wonderful band.
David Cox totally agree was done at Wembley conference centre 1982 had the video (remember them!!) Check out art for arts sake same gig brilliant
At the time, they had probably some of the very best sound engineers in the business. I've heard that at this particular show the engineers employed the Rolling Stones Mobile one portable studio in the back parking lot to assist with the sound onstage.
Check out Veronica's Rock night
Fantastic footage from the 'Live and let Live' era. Thank you. The entire album is such an underestimated masterpiece. Great musicians at work. Some of today's 'Bands' should take note...There's no substitute for talent!
Brilliant one of the best live bands ever.....
OMG!!! Eric Stewarts feel the benefit solo influenced my own playing forever,sassy blues!!LOVE 10 ccccccccccccccccc !! Some geetar player no mistake!!
Brilliant!
Still sounds good after all these years!
Absolute tour de force!
You can tell when a track is good you feel it in your bones, this is one of the chosen few.
This just highlights how good this group was. With a lead guitarist the caliber of Eric at the helm. Thanks Annie for posting this epic video. Would love to see the rest of this concert . : - )
God loves 10CC because the music is heavenly.
@10cc4me. Ditto! I was sitting here watching this with headphones on and could barely speak when my wife came in and asked what I was listening to. Just too choked up to tell her! I don't know if it's because they were my favorite band through those formative early- to late-teen years, but for me the music of 10cc is something that makes me so glad to be alive.
The old man had this concert on video in the 80s, and I remember watching this when I was 11 years old and loving the bass solo (had never seen one before!) and thinking the guitar solo was one of the greatest things I had ever heard/seen!
In fact I used to watch it and rewind it to watch it again over and over. That video got lost a long time ago and it's great to see this here. Brings back a lot of fantastic memories.
When my brother was 17 he learned to play the opening of 'Feel the benefit' on his guitar. I always admired him for that :).
Another great classic, Graham lookin good.
This is the Great song. I love it.
and I love ERIC.
I am so glad you put this on youtube. One of my all time favorites from 10cc. Love Eric,s guitar work at the the end of the track. One of his best. I saw 10cc live at Odean New st Birmingham during ''Original Soundtrack'' era.
Thay had a power cut on starting Somewhere In Hollywood, but no problem to start again. Thanks again
Clive
one of the best rock songs ever, listening to it for over 25 years...and i've never seen it performed at all, until now. thank you! thank you! thank you!
p.s. i thought nobody knew about this song but me...boy, was i wrong!
Well...I never thought that this song could be faithfully reproduced live. Wrong as ever! Marvelous! Annie...so many others have said thank you to you for your hard work and dedication in putting all these 10CC songs on YT, so my words are just an addition. But, thank you Annie...thank you very very much.
Another grat video ! Graham is on fire with the bass guitar.
Damn right - Eric's solo is just a perfect piece expression without spilling his guts out in notes.
This is awesome 🎸
Good music. I feel the benefit.
What.??? You feel Rick Fenn a bit???
I had this on Betamax tape and lost it somehow through all my lifes confusion....SOOOOOOOO nice to see it again....xxx
Thanks for posting! What a good song!Feel the benefit is my all time favourite!
as with prt 1 &2....WOW!!!!! To me....the guitar solo is one of the cleanest, tastiest in modern music. I say this becaus of it being NOT overplayed. There is a remarkable amount of restraint that is played out perfectly....(just my opinion)
Saw this tour in Gothenburg, Scandinavium 25 years ago. Still makes me happy. Most awesome band ever.
I just wanted to say thank you Annie for sharing this fabulous footage of this epic number. 10cc is delicious, and does not get the recognition they deserve for such talent, skill and color they bring to rock & pop music.
Still got this album on vinyl, loved the inside cover of them wearing the deep sea diving suits, a fantastic album.
Simply awesome.
I saw them play this in Edinburgh in (I think) the late 70s and still have the LP somewhere in the attic at home. Bass, guitar and vocals are inspirational. Just stunning - thx for putting it up. And they were great at the Cornbury Festival too even if it was p***ing it down with rain. Another UK tour pleez.
superb song and guitar by eric! graham were's our back stage passes from congresshalle zurich 1980 (THE ONE WHERE THE ELECTRICITY WENT!!) All the way to switzerland!from cliff british airways, quay st.
Thanks Annie....I had never seen them perform this song before and it is one of my all time favorite 10cc compositions.
My Dad and my brother were at this concert. In my opinion, Eric Stewart's solo is one of the best ever - second only to Dave Gilmore "comfortably numb" Earls Court.
Thanx for these vidz Annie...I'm a long time fan of 10cc..HUGE part of my teenage years..saw them in a tiny theatre in Dayton,Ohio on the "Bloody Tourists" tour...still one of my favorite shows of all time.I've known about the 77' video but,have never been able to track it down and the older vids are like long over-do xmas pressies!!Thanx again!!ALL THE BEST! Starry
I was fortunate to see them play the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium at the time they were promoting "Bloody Tourists". Fabulous concert. Hard to fathom why these guys weren't five times as popular as they were.
thank you so much for showing us this, Iv'e soooo missed this album......
GREAT version.
This concert was shown on Channel 4's opening night in '82 here in the U.K.
Awesome! Thank you!
Muchos gracias Annie :)
thank you so much for this annie i never thought id hear this again great live song
Awesome! thanxs Annie! x
Soooo professional - respect.
Thanks, I remember seeing this tour. On the crossfade from pt. 2-3 the lighting guys mirrored the transition making it seem like watching a video production.
Brilliant and thanks for uploading a vid of "Silly Love" cause I heh, love that song.
awesome song, awesome bass solo
this is just a great performance Eric really makes the guitar sing
Amazeballs 🤘🤘…. Grahams base solo top notch … but Eric’s solo absolutely Awesome 💙🥰💙🥰💙 👌👍 … xx
Thanks to AnnieOakley53 for posting this...MADE my weekend...Unbelievably talented guys who made fantastic music with a minimum of rock and roll posturing. True musicians.
10CC'S CROWNING JEWEL!
I've often wondered if there was anyone out there who thought You've Got a Cold/Benefit was a good tune.I've played the hell out of it over the years.based on the comments,I'd say I wasn't alone!What a jamb on this vid.
I just wish I could have been at that small venue.I saw Alvin Lee in the same style venue and it will stay with me till I take the dirt nap.cudo's.
thank you for posting this! 10cc is amazing
sheer class!
although I am an ELO nut I truly love this band Deceptive Bends was class!
Eric 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The ending is VERY reminiscent of Yes's "Starship trooper"....
I wish they had all 3 parts together, but I'm sure there's a reason why they didn't (UA-cam restrictions?). But this is a great closing segment to 10cc's anthem. To my knowledge, no other song they recorded sounded quite like this one. It's one of my favorite epic jams. Right up there with the "Supper's Ready's" etc...
Hello 10cc fans...I have a selection of 10cc memoribilia,
Programmes, Concert Tickets, Live photos from a concert in
Scarborough, East Yorkshire, Graham Gouldmans plectrum
and a floor songsheet, handwritten in Eric's writing! (Honest, I was a
hugh fan back in the day and got to see them 7 times and mostly got front row and loved to collect what I could)
Also saw the original line up in the early seventies in the famous Apollo.
Anyway, if anyone is interested, let me know. Thanks, Chris H
Saw This performed live in Buxton by Graham Gouldmans 10cc, for that gig Rick Fenn had been replaced by Rupert Fenn who was excellent,Best 10cc track ever!!!!!!!!
gouldman on bass -very exciting!
Was anybody out there at the Uptown in 77? WHATFKN SHOW!!!!
Less than 44.000 viewers (plus 1 dislike) I don't believe it. I put this solo in my top favourite twenty guitar solos along with classics such as Stairway to Heaven, Comfortably Numb, Sway, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Crossroads ect
I totally agree with Eric being under-rated, in my opinion he was THE BEST, certainly UK guitarist. That's saying something with Knopfler and Clappers on the list, but he shades them for inventiveness, I think. Maybe Carlos would get it world-wide, depends on what style you like, Carlos is really a "seat-of the pants, one-take wonder". a few bum notes, but fantastic energy.
This is at least comparable to Dave Gilmour on "Comfortably Numb" or Jimmy Page on "Stairway to Heaven" imo.
At the Manchester Apollo would be good.
Not easy to make a bass solo work, but they do. I love 10cc. I miss great music like this.
Unfortunately UA-cam only allows 10 minute uploads hence having to split this epic track. Personally, I think this live version is even better than the original recording.
Thanks so much for posting this. Best piece they have done, any chance of Rock and roll lullaby?
@rmoore615
Yes I agree, and no effects to cover up any lack of technique either.
The solos in I'm Mandy Fly Me always make the hairs on my neck stand up.
@deadhead723 It's a Fender Jazz Bass - my favourite, but I'm not in GG's league!
That would be Rick Fenn, one-time session musician, now part of Gouldman's latest version of 10cc and friends.
it was like my secret for the longest time: "i know something you don't know, nah, nah, nah, nah, NAHHHHHH, nah!
Who's that in the white jacket on guitar? Looks a bit like like Kevin Peek from Sky et al! Couldn't be, could it??
@FionaSeinfeld Hate to be a nit, but I don't think you mean "penultimate." That word means "next to last." So, you are actually saying that this song is the next to last. I'm an English teacher, so I do this type of annoying thing. With that off my chest, let me add to all of the complimentary things said here. I grew up listening to 10cc studio albums and never dreamed they could pull of their studio songs in a live venue. I stand corrected. Thanks, Annie, for exposing me to 10cc live.
@StarryKnightMusic Hi and thanks for your message. Just to let you know that I've made a disk for you featuring the full 1974 10cc at the BBC concert and the 1977 Live at Hammersmith Odeon in 1977.
Please let me have contact details and I'll send off to you by air mail.
Best wishes
Annie
@zekedog111 you saw be-bop?lucky you,and 10c???I would give my eye teeth two of my arms and two of my legs to see 10cc!
Hello Annie,
How can I get a copy of this?
Would very much appreciate it!
Mari
Sorry, Glasgow Apollo
10cc