The opening song that became "Don't Die," which Richard calls "There's Something Wrong Here," went through a period of constant change in rehearsals. Before that, we in the band just called it "Bernadette," after the song by the Four Tops, due to the descending chords in the chorus. Being in this band was a true blessing, an education-and-a-half, and a ton of fun.
@@PatL77 idk you tell me, I would be a tourist if I came back. I'm not interested in coming back but I'd be interested in knowing if there's an actual underground scene so enlighten me, why you so mad?
Thanks for publishing this clip. Hell was the most captivating persona in the early NY Scene; his shows as a member of the Heartbreakers in late 75 through about March 76 at CBGB were powerful experiences. He was fresh, raw and didn't give a f*ck. The rhythems are still bouncing arouind inside my head.
☆Absolutely luv this♡♡♡Love comes in spurts-one of my all time fave songs, and Richard Hell and the Voidods, bands of all time♡♡♡Thanks for sharing this, and thanks CBGBS!☆
Supposedly they did a UK tour back in 77. Recall an interview with Quine where he said that he tried to get Richard to tour more but he wasn’t into it.
Great to see Quine ripping it up again. But I do think that the Voidoids were better when Hell was playing the bass himself instead of having another guy do it.
@@jpgsf1978 OK, so Hell wasn't a great bassist but he was certainly better playing the bass than when he later switched to singing only and was hanging on the mic. Quine says he got more and more lazy the more he did that and the music wasn't as good as when he was playing bass.
Yeah …. He talks about this in the book , this is the restart..,,they played with just IvanJulian … it was more swing .., This is with Quine .,,, AND no one say s ( Richard doesn’t mention it , even in the book .,,,, Lou Reed stole Quine.
As the bassist who first took over when Richard decided to stop playing, I heartily agree. When he asked me to take over, I found that most of the parts he had been playing could not be improved on, but needed to be played as he originally did. The minute I tried to go all 'musician' on the bass lines, I knew I was on the wrong track - listen to "New Pleasure" off the first album, and you'll hear his inventiveness, rich tone, and intuitive style. Richard was a way better bassist than he's ever given credit for - or even credits himself. Glad to report that everyone in this video except BQ are alive and well, still living in New York City, and still in touch. Ivan and I played a gig together last month!
Pretty much… he wasn’t horrible but he but he knew that just around the neighborhood there were plenty of very decent Bassists , for example Xavier on these songs. When you look at how strong yet melodic Fred Smith was, especially how he could lock in with Billy Ficca, was certainly not your average rock drummer. Billy played parts that on one hand was totally rock solid, while playing really complex & creative parts on top of that solid bottom… that helped create the spaces in and around Lloyd & Verlaine pyrotechnics… Richard was all over the place but in no way able to match Fred’s ability at locking into parts that would be extremely melodic, but relatively simple. Television could never have created Marque Moon, Friction or the rest of what their work had evolved into. Richard a very interesting writer but he was pretty much classic punk, especially when he played bass… But he always wanted to be the writer/vocalist it always seemed where his heart was…
I had a shirt like that in about 2006/7 when I was a big fat, bloated b*stard off methadone and pills. I used to occasionally drag my over-sedated, constipated, corpulent arse out to the pub to get boozed up on top of the prescription stuff and shirts like that were in some sort of fashion? in 06/07 and I had one. Hehehe.
Quine once stated that Ivan Julian was a better rhythm guitarist than him, so that's why they chose to divide the guitar parts like that and let Quine play most of the leads. That's pretty high praise coming from someone as innovative as Quine.
The fact that you think Quine was up there merely tolerating the company of his band mates doesn't say much for your notions of Bob's integrity as a musician. Good thing for the rest of us that you actually know fuck -all on the subject.
@@chriscoughlin9289 Imagine this band without Quine. They never would have landed a record deal. He was the only irreplaceable member in my opinion. The complexity is all Quine. Quine is what made this band special. He was 37 at the time of this recording, and he was never a punk. The only thing I can say about Hell's vocals and writing is that Tom Verlaine did it better. They put out two decent records that I own, and like, but without Quine, they wouldn't exist. This is just my opinion, if you don't like it just know that I don't give a fuck-all what you think.
@@bean-spiller Nobody said Mr Quine wasn't the most talented member of the band, dumb@$$. Just that one would have to be a fecking moron (like,say - you) to claim to know and profess admiration for his work... and still think that he was content to spend his days slumming with people he considered his inferiors. Yep - high praise right there, indeed. And you didn't SAY he was the MOST talented one - you said he was the ONLY talented one. Why idiotically pretend that nobody will notice you moving that goalpost? BTW? If you don't give a fuck all about my opinion, it really doesn't say much about your estimation of the value of your own time to be writing such a butthurt reply. Now - On yer bike, whiner.
Been hearing the same nonsense about Verlaine for 50 years. Thought his fretwork was too Cipollina/ Grateful Dead/Crazy Horse hippie, too. Fuck em all, I say. CB's transformed a bloated, necrotic American cultural landscape. Ask any of the musicians that bubbled up in the punk scene in my native LA - barely a year later.
I will never not greatly lament that I wasn't alive to experience 1970s New York. CBGB's, Max's Kansas City, Studio 54... *cries* lol
The opening song that became "Don't Die," which Richard calls "There's Something Wrong Here," went through a period of constant change in rehearsals. Before that, we in the band just called it "Bernadette," after the song by the Four Tops, due to the descending chords in the chorus.
Being in this band was a true blessing, an education-and-a-half, and a ton of fun.
That 75-79 period at CBGB's was magical and gritty and new. I miss it, and now New York is like Disney world.
❤I was there... So lucky...
You don’t like pirates of the Caribbean ride?
What do you know about the current state of underground music in nyc? You sound like a tourist.
@@PatL77 idk you tell me, I would be a tourist if I came back. I'm not interested in coming back but I'd be interested in knowing if there's an actual underground scene so enlighten me, why you so mad?
Not mad at all officer. Just trying to find my way to disneyland.
Fuckin' Robert Quine, ladies and gentlemen. Sweet.
I spent summer of 79 in CBGB.
I hosted a book signing for RICHARD HELL at the NAC on Gramercy Park decades later.
THANK YOU Hilly, Aldon and Richard.
What did you think of his book?
He's a phenomenal writer/artist.. Phantastic.
Bob Quine on fire!
RIP an Originator!
Incredible guitarist
Wow! Never seen this before! And how incredible was Ivan Julian!
Thanks for publishing this clip. Hell was the most captivating persona in the early NY Scene; his shows as a member of the Heartbreakers in late 75 through about March 76 at CBGB were powerful experiences. He was fresh, raw and didn't give a f*ck. The rhythems are still bouncing arouind inside my head.
I love the way he dressed i guess Malcolm McLaren did too lol
No no ….. that happened 4 prior to this
☆Absolutely luv this♡♡♡Love comes in spurts-one of my all time fave songs, and Richard Hell and the Voidods, bands of all time♡♡♡Thanks for sharing this, and thanks CBGBS!☆
Thanks for this from a dumb southern boy. Punk rules!
"Love comes in spurts." Great song. Saw them at Max's and somewhere else I can't remember. 😎
It was that memorable. 😂
This is priceless. thanks !
1 of the only 1977 bands i never saw live in the 70 s or 80 s..they almost never played in uk or eu..a real pity..as i loved them😊
Supposedly they did a UK tour back in 77. Recall an interview with Quine where he said that he tried to get Richard to tour more but he wasn’t into it.
They support to Costello,79,playing to a bewildered pop audience...lucky to see em...Costello asked them to support,and John Cooper Clarke...
@@bklyntonw3187 they did a gig in the 80 s in rotterdam too..a pity i missed it
Quine holding up the wall and kicking butt!
Good Upload. Cheers!
great...thanks
:D Thanks! 😎🌹
Xavier GREAT on bass and backing vovals!
Yeah he sounds fine, but I never saw him, was he long with the Voidoids?
@@baronsaturday9560 - Just for 1979.
Thank you!
Pure and simple. The guy can't sing. Pure and simple. I love it.
🖤
Quine will be heard
I couldn’t stand it…
Great to see Quine ripping it up again. But I do think that the Voidoids were better when Hell was playing the bass himself instead of having another guy do it.
Hell couldn’t play to save his life !
@@jpgsf1978 OK, so Hell wasn't a great bassist but he was certainly better playing the bass than when he later switched to singing only and was hanging on the mic. Quine says he got more and more lazy the more he did that and the music wasn't as good as when he was playing bass.
He’s def more exciting to watch when he’s playing the bass.
Yeah …. He talks about this in the book , this is the restart..,,they played with just IvanJulian … it was more swing .., This is with Quine .,,, AND no one say s ( Richard doesn’t mention it , even in the book .,,,, Lou Reed stole Quine.
As the bassist who first took over when Richard decided to stop playing, I heartily agree. When he asked me to take over, I found that most of the parts he had been playing could not be improved on, but needed to be played as he originally did. The minute I tried to go all 'musician' on the bass lines, I knew I was on the wrong track - listen to "New Pleasure" off the first album, and you'll hear his inventiveness, rich tone, and intuitive style. Richard was a way better bassist than he's ever given credit for - or even credits himself.
Glad to report that everyone in this video except BQ are alive and well, still living in New York City, and still in touch. Ivan and I played a gig together last month!
Great. Nothing more to say
Richard Hell was from Lexington Kentucky. A lot of folks don’t realize that.
is that a Kentucky accent he's parading?
Kicks so much ass
Mark was with the Ramones by then.
allways with Sunglasses and Cigarette: Robert Quine! Later he was working with Lou Reed...
Among many others. Listen to Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend" LP for some peak Robert Quine!
@@bean-spiller And Richard Lloyd
Buenisimo
it's just sad that Bob Quine ran out of time before he picked a side.
Marky Ramone (Bell) on drums.?? Still have and listen to my copy of Blank Generation
by 79, he was gigging with the Ramones. Solid drummer.
@@bklyntonw3187 Really, He was in the Ramones.
Richard Hell had many drummers. This isn't Marky.
Who is on drums and bass?
I should have been rich, but i'm just digging a chinese ditch - RICHARD HELL ON THE HEARTBREAKERS
HOLY f*ck,man...these guys were the REAl sh*t. Amazing.
RB/nowretiredetc........
Interesting that Hell didn't move to NYC till he was about seventeen yet he talks almost exactly like Joey Ramone. Was that on purpose? lol
It's silly to quantify "punk rock " but without Richard Hell it would have been different.
Had Hell given up the bass at this point?
Pretty much...easier to be a frontman
Pretty much… he wasn’t horrible but he but he knew that just around the neighborhood there were plenty of very decent Bassists , for example Xavier on these songs. When you look at how strong yet melodic Fred Smith was, especially how he could lock in with Billy Ficca, was certainly not your average rock drummer. Billy played parts that on one hand was totally rock solid, while playing really complex & creative parts on top of that solid bottom… that helped create the spaces in and around Lloyd & Verlaine pyrotechnics… Richard was all over the place but in no way able to match Fred’s ability at locking into parts that would be extremely melodic, but relatively simple. Television could never have created Marque Moon, Friction or the rest of what their work had evolved into. Richard a very interesting writer but he was pretty much classic punk, especially when he played bass… But he always wanted to be the writer/vocalist it always seemed where his heart was…
@@krisscanlon4051 Then he tried to be an actor for awhile.
@@danenberghelm Thanks, I really liked the Voidoids but Television post Hell is just amazing.
I was at that gig
Any stories?
I can't find what song this is at 8:25 and it's bothering me so much
We're covering "The Book Of Love," originally by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders.
Cheers!
@@jahnbon thank you!
@@jahnbon this version by Richard Hell is way better
classic, did someone get this with their cell phone ?
Cell phone in ‘79?!😂
Lol!
I had a shirt like that in about 2006/7 when I was a big fat, bloated b*stard off methadone and pills. I used to occasionally drag my over-sedated, constipated, corpulent arse out to the pub to get boozed up on top of the prescription stuff and shirts like that were in some sort of fashion? in 06/07 and I had one. Hehehe.
Marky Bell on drums ?
doesnt look like him
Pretty sure he had moved to the Ramones by this point
Robert Quine on lead guitar. The only talented musician on that stage.
They are all talented. Ivan Julian is an amazing player, Marky is a great drummer and Hell is a solid bass player. Go sit down.
Quine once stated that Ivan Julian was a better rhythm guitarist than him, so that's why they chose to divide the guitar parts like that and let Quine play most of the leads. That's pretty high praise coming from someone as innovative as Quine.
The fact that you think Quine was up there merely tolerating the company of his band mates doesn't say much for your notions of Bob's integrity as a musician.
Good thing for the rest of us that you actually know fuck -all on the subject.
@@chriscoughlin9289
Imagine this band without Quine. They never would have landed a record deal. He was the only irreplaceable member in my opinion. The complexity is all Quine. Quine is what made this band special. He was 37 at the time of this recording, and he was never a punk. The only thing I can say about Hell's vocals and writing is that Tom Verlaine did it better. They put out two decent records that I own, and like, but without Quine, they wouldn't exist. This is just my opinion, if you don't like it just know that I don't give a fuck-all what you think.
@@bean-spiller Nobody said Mr Quine wasn't the most talented member of the band, dumb@$$.
Just that one would have to be a fecking moron (like,say - you) to claim to know and profess admiration for his work...
and still think that he was content to spend his days slumming with people he considered his inferiors.
Yep - high praise right there, indeed.
And you didn't SAY he was the MOST talented one - you said he was the ONLY talented one. Why idiotically pretend that nobody will notice you moving that goalpost?
BTW? If you don't give a fuck all about my opinion, it really doesn't say much about your estimation of the value of your own time to be writing such a butthurt reply.
Now - On yer bike, whiner.
Never understood the appeal of hell. His singing is god awful. Dylan hit notes. Hell can’t even sing in key.
It makes sense though. Hell was and still is a huge Dylan fan. He got a lot of his inspiration from Dylan.
Been hearing the same nonsense about Verlaine for 50 years.
Thought his fretwork was too Cipollina/ Grateful Dead/Crazy Horse hippie, too.
Fuck em all, I say.
CB's transformed a bloated, necrotic American cultural landscape.
Ask any of the musicians that bubbled up in the punk scene in my native LA - barely a year later.
See where Shane got that part . Exclusively