A tour bus carrying the Bangles stopped for gas in my home town when I was probably 12 or 13. I was getting a pack of Twizzlers staring at Suzanna Hoffs when Micki Steele patted me on the head. There’s my brush with rock n roll fame.
Right after what those damn eyes do the way she looks when she holds her 🎸 🎸 Lawwd Jimi said it..Whatever It Is That Gyrl Put a Spell On Me... And Dave Coverdale was right.. Thi is The Loves That We Been Searchin For
I agree this is a great cover of a S&G song. However, you must have missed the Yes cover of "America". IMHO that is the definitive version of that song!
They can still hit the harmonies & play their parts. They're better than most bands I've heard from this era in terms of sounding close to what they were.
The Bangles were a band, for sure. When I first saw them in the early ‘80s, Go-Go’s were all the rage (and now in the RnR HoF). But their singular talent was Jane Wiedlin; not so, the Bangles, who were-a BAND!
*SUCH* a great little band. I feel like the music industry chewed them up in the late 80s, but at their peak they were wonderful. Check out their instrumental "Bitchen Summer" which rocks in a very similar way to this track.
It's so great the just see and hear a great, great band without sparklers, rockets, fog machines, explosions and torches all over the place. Just good, hard played MUSIC done by wonderful performers -- The Bangles! Thanks ladies!
True garage band sound. Keep it simple and rock it. That's the way it should be. They all played well and sound great. All four of these ladies are in their 60's. I've seen a lot of old bands who didn't need to keep playing in public. These ladies NEED TO keep playing. Great job.
What's astonishing is hard the riff rocks on acoustic in the original recording. I enjoy the Bangles version more, and Vicki Peterson is an excellent guitarist; but Paul Simon banging that riff on 12-string accoustic is extremely impressive,
I just love it's the original four California girls playing on top of it. There isn't extra back up players or or musicians in the background. It's just the four still sounding and playing so well together! Oh, and having fun.
It’s hard to believe that some-if not all-of these ladies’ ages begin with a 6. They play and sing like they did when their ages began with a 2, and the harmonies are spot on.
Wasn't crazy about the Bangles in my youth. I was pretty much a Hard Rock Freak. But as I grew I really fell in love with the Girl's. They have been timeless.
I was also a rocker who warmed to the bangles when they released Hazy Shade of Winter. Years later I learned it was a Simon and Garfunkel tune but they played it like an iron maiden song.
The 80s were off the hook 🪝 if you purchased a ticket 🎟️ for the Merry Go Round and forgot to jump OFFF, then it shows kiddo, they sound great. Keep on Rocking Gals
Okay, everyone agrees that Susanna Hoffs was and is the most beautiful, but for me, as a teen girl in the 80s, there was nothing more power- and beautiful than Debbi Peterson behind the drums. Especially in this song! I don't know how many times I listened to this bit up and down on my cheap pink Walkman and imagined myself being that cool and playing the drums like Debbi.😆 The Bangles were just the best.🥰
It is so cool to see female performers who are "real", meaning no Auto tune crap, dancers writhing around, no lip syncing, no foul mouthed rap or ebonics. Just a real band doing their thing with drums/bass/guitars/vocals. Awesome even if one isn't a Bangles fanatic. I am not, but still like them for what they do.
@@johndavid8815 Yeah, some of the newer broads are "doodle pads" and it isn't very becoming. What's up with the black chicks and tattoos? To me, they look like a skin rash or sores on them.
@@dougdavis8986Why? They did this particular song well enough, and I didn't hear anything that would warrant such. The old gals even harmonized well. Hell, considering that they are all grandma age even in this video, I give them much credit.
This past October as in two months ago, the man who wrote this song the one and only Paul Simon turned 82 years old. These ladies still sound as fantastic as ever.
Well look at that! The Bangles doing a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and bringing back the original retired bass player. These ladies are rocking it here. That first EP the original 4 put out is still rocking!
Most ppl don't even know that this is a Simon & Garfunkel song that came out in the late 60s. I saw S&G in 2004, and they sounded so damn good and were so spot on it was amazing. You don't hear much of them today even with all the nostalgia, but to me they are up there with the best of them for their era.
Thank you so much for this! Normally I don’t click on renditions played when they are older because I’m scared I will get sad that they look so old. My God I think they are still so awesome and beautiful, I’m inspired! I needed this, time to get off my lazy butt. Thanks again!
I think Susanna Hoffs found the fountain of youth and drank it dry
She was born January 1959 ❤
She's stayed beautiful
Good to know I'm not the only one who's thinks she's even hotter now than back in the eighties ❤❤
I love her! ❤
Is that really her? I thought they got a replacement that looked like her and thought it was kind of cheesy. She looks like shes 30.
A tour bus carrying the Bangles stopped for gas in my home town when I was probably 12 or 13. I was getting a pack of Twizzlers staring at Suzanna Hoffs when Micki Steele patted me on the head. There’s my brush with rock n roll fame.
I'm jealous !
@@jimthomson2684hii😊
Hoffs is still stunning!
The Bangles absolutely owned the 1980s. Still the greatest band of all time!
I worked security at a Bangles concert in 1986.
Susanna is even more beautiful now than back then.
Susanna Hoffs...pure beauty.
Omg... Look that incredible Susan Hoffs... Still beautiful as in the early days. 🤩😍❤️❤️❤️
She & the others look youthful-even a bit over 60!
@@swimlaps1 yes, she turned into 65 last week.
I fell hopelessly helplessly in LOVE with Susanna Hoffs and her Rickenbacker guitar back in the day. Still feel the same!😃
shes still beautiful . Im in love with Agnetha Faltskog help
Join the club pal
I have been in love with this woman,who I have never met,more than my first wife.Don' t tell her that.
Right after what those damn eyes do the way she looks when she holds her 🎸 🎸 Lawwd Jimi said it..Whatever It Is That Gyrl Put a Spell On Me... And Dave Coverdale was right.. Thi is The Loves That We Been Searchin For
She's not only beautiful please. She is Talented.
Please. Has Done the learning-work.
Doesn’t get any better than that. Congrats ladies, you still have the sound and style we all fell in love with.
You said it…..much respect to these ladies. Cool even now.
The best Simon and Garfunkel cover ever done.
You must have never heard Disturbs sound of silence.
I agree this is a great cover of a S&G song. However, you must have missed the Yes cover of "America". IMHO that is the definitive version of that song!
They can still hit the harmonies & play their parts. They're better than most bands I've heard from this era in terms of sounding close to what they were.
But I still miss Michael.
Best looking front girl of all time. Love this rendition!
They still kick ass! 🥰 susanna is an alien or sold her soul. No way she looks like that at 64.
She was just a stripling then, only 59.
One of the most recognizable opening riffs of all time…
They have all aged awesomely.
I was so in love with the Bangles growing up in the 80’s. They still sound and look great!
Oh, Suzanna, don't you cry for me... Every time I hear your voice, I get an extra heartbeat.
Best Bangles song ever.....but I miss Michael Steele
I truly respect a girl band that actually IS a band...they are. NIce Richenbacher.
What girls? 😅
I truly respect a band that actually IS a band... Regardless of their gender
@@endlichdrin nobody says women band. 😂
The Bangles were a band, for sure. When I first saw them in the early ‘80s, Go-Go’s were all the rage (and now in the RnR HoF). But their singular talent was Jane Wiedlin; not so, the Bangles, who were-a BAND!
*SUCH* a great little band. I feel like the music industry chewed them up in the late 80s, but at their peak they were wonderful.
Check out their instrumental "Bitchen Summer" which rocks in a very similar way to this track.
Brilliant version of this song by the best girl band ever. Absolutely love it 👍👍
She might not have the heavy makeup and teased hair anymore, but Susanna still looks damn good.
True musicians and they sound the same as they did in the 80’s!! Bangles Rock!!!!
Vickki, timeless beauty
She is still red hot !
It's so great the just see and hear a great, great band without sparklers, rockets, fog machines, explosions and torches all over the place. Just good, hard played MUSIC done by wonderful performers -- The Bangles! Thanks ladies!
Imagine a Super Bowl halftime show without lip syncing……
Or autotune!
As long as the band is great I don't mind sparklers, rockets, fog machines, explosions and torches all over the place.
True garage band sound. Keep it simple and rock it. That's the way it should be. They all played well and sound great. All four of these ladies are in their 60's. I've seen a lot of old bands who didn't need to keep playing in public. These ladies NEED TO keep playing. Great job.
Nice one, Dave🎉
That's quality.
They've still got it.
That lead riff is so freaking good!
Simon and Garfunkel
What's astonishing is hard the riff rocks on acoustic in the original recording. I enjoy the Bangles version more, and Vicki Peterson is an excellent guitarist; but Paul Simon banging that riff on 12-string accoustic is extremely impressive,
I just love it's the original four California girls playing on top of it. There isn't extra back up players or or musicians in the background. It's just the four still sounding and playing so well together! Oh, and having fun.
@@jakeolthof best cover anyone has ever done on a song.
@@RockabillyQueen 🙌🕺🤘😋🤘🙋♂😁✌😎
They may be grandmas now, but they can still rock!
Susannah Hoffs is still sexy as hell at 60 years old!
They sound amazing and NO AUTOTUNE!
yes...another "No autotune" crack...:)
@@richbailey8174 And why not?
Because we see that stupid comment all the time@@nazfrde
It’s hard to believe that some-if not all-of these ladies’ ages begin with a 6. They play and sing like they did when their ages began with a 2, and the harmonies are spot on.
And it's not often that you see senior girls in mini-skirts. They still have the figure for them. Remarkable looks and sound.
6 is the new 3
At this gig Susanna and Vicki would have been in their 60s, Debbi and Annette have both passed 60 since
Same as the Stones? Why such a mystery? Old people are cool these days and are the best at actual rock music these days
@@shaunhouse8469Suzanna would have been 60 exactly
I was moved to tears.
Absolutely one of my all-time fave covers.
Without a doubt!!!!!
These gals still Rock !!!###
Love their enthusiasm. They sound great!
Holy crap. They still rock. Awesome
I always dug their version of this song...very cool 😎
The harmony vocals blew me away.
Best cover ever!
Sucked !
Wasn't crazy about the Bangles in my youth. I was pretty much a Hard Rock Freak. But as I grew I really fell in love with the Girl's. They have been timeless.
snap
I was also a rocker who warmed to the bangles when they released Hazy Shade of Winter. Years later I learned it was a Simon and Garfunkel tune but they played it like an iron maiden song.
It's pretty amazing that these four started it all in Susanna's garage 40 years ago. And here they are all playing and sounding amazing!
With age comes wisdom.
@@darrylwiggins4799 And iffy back and eyesight unfortunately !
Still the most beautiful voice in the world.💗
So integral to Less than Zero, 1 of my favorite all time movies
Absolutely amazing….and they are in their 50’s and 60’s
Real classics never get too old to listen to. Or to look at. The Bangles and their music qualifies on both counts.
Hear, hear.
Super-underrated band, but at least they're known for their music more than being a girl band. Love them!
So special thank you ladies
NIGEL in Canada🇨🇦
hello from Canada , sounds great ladies
'Eternal Flame' gives me goosebumps
MING TEA, ha, ' at the BBC'
These girls literally don't age. Neither does their music
Just to think, 38 years before they went on stage here they all met up in a garage in LA through some ads in the paper.
Suzy just gets better with age. My God she's stellar.
The 80s were off the hook 🪝 if you purchased a ticket 🎟️ for the Merry Go Round and forgot to jump OFFF, then it shows kiddo, they sound great. Keep on Rocking Gals
The Bangles are phenomenal 💜I'm an 80's fan! :)
Damn they still got it!
Hampton Bay Days, I wad at the corner of the right side of the stage. Watching Susan the whole time. Just beautiful.
Okay, everyone agrees that Susanna Hoffs was and is the most beautiful, but for me, as a teen girl in the 80s, there was nothing more power- and beautiful than Debbi Peterson behind the drums. Especially in this song! I don't know how many times I listened to this bit up and down on my cheap pink Walkman and imagined myself being that cool and playing the drums like Debbi.😆 The Bangles were just the best.🥰
Love u bangles! Awesome song from the less than zero .
They sound and look amazing.
LEGENDARY.
great way to open a set!
Suzanna Hoffs and her Rick are one of the most iconic symbols of the late 80s.
I LOVE this song. One of my top five favorite songs.
Still madly in love with Susanna Hoffs after all these years.
Such a babe.
One of the few times a cover was made better than the original.
❤girls with guitars!
No Auto Tune ... I LOVE IT 🥰😉
It is so cool to see female performers who are "real", meaning no Auto tune crap, dancers writhing around, no lip syncing, no foul mouthed rap or ebonics. Just a real band doing their thing with drums/bass/guitars/vocals. Awesome even if one isn't a Bangles fanatic. I am not, but still like them for what they do.
performers who were real? yeah, it was called the 80's.
And no ink
@@johndavid8815 Yeah, some of the newer broads are "doodle pads" and it isn't very becoming. What's up with the black chicks and tattoos? To me, they look like a skin rash or sores on them.
They might actually need auto tune!
@@dougdavis8986Why? They did this particular song well enough, and I didn't hear anything that would warrant such. The old gals even harmonized well. Hell, considering that they are all grandma age even in this video, I give them much credit.
This was excellent...
Susanna Hoffs is gorgeous and intelligent what a great and rare combo
This past October as in two months ago, the man who wrote this song the one and only Paul Simon turned 82 years old. These ladies still sound as fantastic as ever.
They are timeless! Few bands are.
They can still belt it out. Good, solid rock band.
The drummer is still the drummer
Where do you get these exclusives?
@@De5O54 ha ha ha
Well look at that! The Bangles doing a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and bringing back the original retired bass player. These ladies are rocking it here. That first EP the original 4 put out is still rocking!
Simon and Garfunkel not Tom Petty
@@seanoconnor5404 @Julie Hamlin is referring to the restored group lineup (which Petty did with his bass player), not the composer of "Hazy"
Absolutely phenomenal! I love when bands play their old songs!
not their song though ;-)
it is Paul simons song not theirs
The bangles were on MTV in like 82 and there was this 5' very pretty woman with 4' hair , I was like hmmm, me likey !! 😀👍
Most ppl don't even know that this is a Simon & Garfunkel song that came out in the late 60s. I saw S&G in 2004, and they sounded so damn good and were so spot on it was amazing. You don't hear much of them today even with all the nostalgia, but to me they are up there with the best of them for their era.
Mate, almost everybody knows the original version
Thank you for the upload.
The best version of this song that I have personally ever heard
STILL got it ♥
I'm wordless! They are so great still! I wish I was there. Thanks Tony for sharing.
Always a pleasure to share with other fans!... :)
I take back every negative thing I ever said about the Bangles... wow!
Looking and sounding great girls!
OMG absolutely AWESOME!! I would LOVE to see The Bangles live in Australia 🤩
Susanna and her Rickenbacker. ❤
Great to hear them cover this great Simon and Garfunkel song! :-)
The world's hottest grandmas. They still have it.
Great sound for live playing, fantastic !!
Best looking girl to ever rock a Rickenbacker ❤
So nice that they’re not all tattooed up.
This was just in 2019...how can Susanna Hoffs stay hot for that long?? And they were still playing and singing great here. Thanks for sharing!
Susanna = ❤
Susanna Hoffs is stunning for a 60 year old girl here. And she's still an incredible performer.
but the others looked like grandma´s
@@stefanjohansson-cw1ro You'll look like one when you reach 60+. It's natural, you know.
That would be a woman.
Is she 60??? No way!!! She’s stunning
Just checked out wiki…she is 64 now. Mind blown
Total 💜
Killer show. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this! Normally I don’t click on renditions played when they are older because I’m scared I will get sad that they look so old. My God I think they are still so awesome and beautiful, I’m inspired! I needed this, time to get off my lazy butt. Thanks again!
so no rolling stones for you ?
@@nitamartens8602oooh good idea! I’m over being afraid, I ain’t no spring chicken myself
Smooth like aged whiskey.
Great song by a great band. With the stunningly gorgeous Susannah Hoffs! I yi! ❤
Goosebumps all over. 🤩
So awesome! One of the anthems of GenX 👍👍
Us old boomers were into this too.
Depuis plus de 40 ans ! Bravo les filles !
Pleased to have seen them live. Great musicians
Still rockin…love these girls!
Just love them!
Wow in the eighties i was stunned by and in love with the Bangles but they still rock as day one and I still love their music even more as i did than!