Lead guitarist starts shredding one of the best solos ever, and the cameraman decides it's a great time to focus only on the bassist and lead vocalist hopping around.
Forrestcupp, you are absolutely right. I directed multi-camera shows for almost 40 years and I believe the director and the cameraman didn't have a clue about their subjects music. The cameraman could have saved the director (if there was one) by tilting down from the head shot to the guitar. Better yet, get a frontal shot of this great piece of guitar playing! Rick
man fucking shut up, shove your elitist bullshit up your ass and get the fuck over yourself, there's always been good music and there's always been bad music, that's never going to fucking change, look harder
That guitar player sure was the real deal. I like that he can replicate his studio version of the the solo with the same amount of energy and flash on stage.
I love the way he picks during the solo. I've always thought this is one of the greatest solos ever recorded. Because it's been branded as "Pop" it gets overlooked. Great solo!
PopShop2012 YES. I am well old enough to remember when this song came out. I came across the radio as a pretty good rocking radio hit. The short solos throughout the song got my attention. But then I heard that solo at the end... and thought. whoa....
@@Loosehead You're referring to the "45 version", which was a common practice at the time when it came to published recorded music in general. Most radio stations used these abbreviated versions, so they could cram more sponsor time into the same space of time.
This song rocks and the solo is my favorite. Berton Averre is a master maestro and has to be the most underrated guitarist in the world IMO. Great vid. Thanks.
I've thought the same thing ever since I was a 14 year old in 1978. At 59 I am still flabbergasted why he and that solo are not talked about by every guitar player since!
I remember waiting on line for tickets over night for this show. I was 2nd on line. Everyone had a great time. In the morning News cameras came over to us asking why we waited over night for tickets and asking us who The Knack were. The concert was amazing. Still have my ticket stub and program. Had a great time.
One of the tightest live performances I have ever seen. When one can say that 'live' sounds better than the album, and with that guitar solo....... the Knack fucken rocked!
The Knack were such a great band. Great musicianship, songwriting & performing. Bruce Gary was one one of the baddest ass drummers in rock & Doug wrote such melodic, well structured songs. They have their own secure spot in rock`n roll history IMO.
What a shock! I wasn't even aware Doug had cancer.....I toured with them in summer of 1979 - Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Orleans........30+ years ago! Doug was impossibly energetic and Sharona (who went with us) was a sweetheart! RIP Doug.....you WILL be remembered!
Came here hoping to get some hints for working out this solo, always loved it and thought there;s some cool licks and technique to learn from it. My mind is blown at how accurately he plays it live with an almost cleaner tone. It's a bummer the cameras weren't focused entirely on his fret work the whole time. Pleasantly surprised to see so many comments about how others appreciate the solo, that's so cool. Guitar magazines never have this song in their "TOP 100 SOLOS OF ALL TIME" and they bloody well should. It's a masterpiece.
I was there - in the video, I'm the petite girl with short black hair at 1:18! At the time I was seeing a guy who worked for Capital Record A & R at the time, who made sure I was up close to the stage. It was a GREAT show!
I'm 42 and I remember it very well. Had the album. Brings back memories of a junior high school party. I play in a cover band and this song still goes over really well.
Got me through a 7 week hospital stay. Me and three of my best buddies/fellow patients playing pin ball in the adolescent wing rec room '79-'80. This played with the bass way up constantly. Good time in a bad situation.
And Yes indeed, this is absolutely one of the very best top-drawer guitar solos I've ever heard. I can't think of another one that more elevates my spirit. It makes me happy and free. The closest would be Terry Kath. I remember the very first time I heard this solo section. When I heard the album. It magically and seamlessly included this unmatched masterpiece solo which I'd never heard on the radio. Ugh. AND HOW GREAT IT WAS TO HEAR AND HEAR AGAIN!! I could not believe the emotions he was educing from within me with his guitar playing, his deeply passionate solo over those powerfully propelling chords, and the passionately powerful bass and drum team that would be the envy of any band. I felt taken out of my own sphere. And I still felt like that every time I listened to it today. Undefinable. A truly gargantuan guitarist. And a truly deeply underappreciated group of absolutely stellar musicians, whose sum was so much greater than the parts. A real BAND. No wonder they so effortlessly pulled off their Beatle-esque "Maybe Tonight". All they had to do was Act Naturally.
Agreed! This is the last time you ever heard an extended guitar solo in a major pop song. I remember back then, it was the solo that every guitarist had to learn. Just like how Terry Kath's solo on 25 or 6 to 4 was in 1970. My Sharona seemed to cap of the decade in style.
This is a great version of a great pop song - I remember how these guys were mocked by us all back then due to the hype, but 30+ years later it's a great song about underage poon...
Ah! 1979. I was 9 years old. I thought the Beatles had returned in a new form. For 6 months that year, all Disco and Punk had to take their fighting outside while The Knack reminded us, or for a lad my age, re-introduced the rock world to the 1st generation of Brit rock. Never has any band before or since captured the songwriting brilliance of the Beatles, the sleaze of the Stones and the juggernaut power pop of The Who so perfectly. Sometimes in the same song!
@@SteveOuimette absolutely. I’m always surprised when they actually show the guitarist when they play a solo. This was some great footage of the side of F’ing head. I expect them to do this, but it still irritates me every damn time.
This song always takes me to the same place.... at the county fair, riding the Matterhorn. They always blasted rock songs, and this was the biggest song of that summer. My babysitter bought the album for me the next day, and we jammed it while my parents were at work!!
@viscig60-- You took the words out of my mouth! One of the all-time great melodic leads & the camera couldn't be bothered. I was bitching at the guy out loud with "the guitar, you idiot, the guitar:" lol
Incredible band! Way more then just a one hit wonder. The Knack were at their best during this gig, and it's a shame this concert was only released on LaserDisc. Still waiting for a re-realese on DVD.
I love CZcams so much more now. The Knack never got the credit they deserved. They weren't one hit wonders. Rocket O' Love is another great song that will get your motor running if I may borrow that.
I got kicked out of a Cafe around 10 pm Philippine time in 1980 dancing to this! SOBER! What a night that turned out to be..I believe the world series was playing and by the time that was on, I wasn't so sober!😂
Proud to have such a hot song with my name in it. Showed it to my teen aged daughter! Asked her what her generation has today to equal its energy?! Those were them days!!! Too bad so few people have found this fab video!
My First Concert, 1979 Sophomore Year....in The Collisium at Seattle Center.... FRONT ROW and EVERYTHING WE WANTED IT TO BE!! I'll never forget that feeling.! It was the beginning of several years of concerts, including: Guns and Rose's opening for The Rolling Stones in LA (1989?) The US Fest in San Bernadino (1983) The Tubes, Peter Gabrial and Bowie in New Westminster (1982?) I don't remember every concert or every date... but I do remember that FEELING....and it all started with THE KNACK!! We'd have to describe it back then as..."Totally Awesome to the MAX!!"
Where was I? When I first heard this I started dancing and playing the air guitar on top of an F-111D at Cannon AFB NM. Wow, great memories and a SUPERB live video...much thx for posting
proper music, maybe just that old that i miss those times, but it still sounds bloody great. sad the mans gone now. he changed lots of peoples lives with this great sound.
R.I.P. Doug Fieger, and Bruce Gary, we miss you, we love your music....Brillant song.... One of the ROCKINGEST songs EVER! Damn didn't know Messi was so talented in music
♬ Ma ma ma ma ma ma my Sharona! Ma ma ma ma ma ma my Sharona! ♪♬ ♬ Ma ma ma ma ma ma my my mine..ine Sharona! Wow! ♬♪ Their rhythmic tight sound is very best! This is too famous song to forget. I was in Japan. The Knack has come to Japan to show the live concerts in 2005.
This song was huge the year I graduated from HS. It was literally THE song at the time. It brings back so many memories! I'm so sad to hear that the lead singer died so young...RIP Doug.
Our generation was very lucky in terms of music and other things. There was such a can do feeling in the air. It was a great time to be young. What do kids today have that comes anywhere close to that?
A guitar solo like this one comes along once in a lifetime and the cameraman blows it.
At 3:18 they're coming in behind him thinking he's wrapping up, and then realize he's STILL not done! Haha.
This is #1 award on "Best Guitar Solo With Worst Camera Footage" on a live show.
Burton Avarre’s solo…one of the most underrated and overlooked great guitar solos!!!
I noticed that lol
Yep superb solo, and listen to the tone! Practically ripping the strings off of that thing and doing it with practically no gain!
Spot on. The official video masks it as well by having the guitar set on a more 'soft tone'
Lead guitarist starts shredding one of the best solos ever, and the cameraman decides it's a great time to focus only on the bassist and lead vocalist hopping around.
That's exactly what I thought!!!
Spot on..jc
Forrestcupp, you are absolutely right. I directed multi-camera shows for almost 40 years and I believe the director and the cameraman didn't have a clue about their subjects music. The cameraman could have saved the director (if there was one) by tilting down from the head shot to the guitar. Better yet, get a frontal shot of this great piece of guitar playing! Rick
Cameraman not a guitar player ☹️.
Sometimes they did that on purpose so you cant see what he's doing.ive seen that before.trying to hide the solo from other guitarist.
Bruce Gary, what an incredibly fast and perfectly timed drummer. RIP
42 years later and this still rocks ...says a lot about music in 2021!!!
Says a lot about you. Every generation invents its own. 2021 music is no better or worse. .
@@ancientmariner3077 No, it's worse. We'll see how much of 2021 music is being talked about in 2063.
No , it says a lot about bloody good music whatever the year and this is one of those songs . I am an old hippie and this one got me up and dancing :)
man fucking shut up, shove your elitist bullshit up your ass and get the fuck over yourself, there's always been good music and there's always been bad music, that's never going to fucking change, look harder
Back when music had spirit.
That guitar player sure was the real deal. I like that he can replicate his studio version of the the solo with the same amount of energy and flash on stage.
Like they should!!
Ummm, the record was essentially a live recording. Best band I've ever seen.
I love the way he picks during the solo. I've always thought this is one of the greatest solos ever recorded. Because it's been branded as "Pop" it gets overlooked. Great solo!
PopShop2012 YES. I am well old enough to remember when this song came out. I came across the radio as a pretty good rocking radio hit. The short solos throughout the song got my attention. But then I heard that solo at the end... and thought. whoa....
so tasty and melodic!
It gets overlooked because most versions omit that awesone guitar solo.
@@Loosehead You're referring to the "45 version", which was a common practice at the time when it came to published recorded music in general. Most radio stations used these abbreviated versions, so they could cram more sponsor time into the same space of time.
@@Loosehead Yes, the radio edit cuts out the solo. What an awesome solo it was!
This song rocks and the solo is my favorite. Berton Averre is a master maestro and has to be the most underrated guitarist in the world IMO. Great vid. Thanks.
I've thought the same thing ever since I was a 14 year old in 1978. At 59 I am still flabbergasted why he and that solo are not talked about by every guitar player since!
Best guitar solo ever!
I remember waiting on line for tickets over night for this show. I was 2nd on line. Everyone had a great time. In the morning News cameras came over to us asking why we waited over night for tickets and asking us who The Knack were. The concert was amazing. Still have my ticket stub and program. Had a great time.
Eliot Wien what a night that must have been!
what a night it must have been...
youre lucky
You in the video? lol
Could've done a double bill with The Raspberries!
R.I.P. Doug Fieger, and Bruce Gary, we miss you, we love your music....Brillant song....
One of the tightest live performances I have ever seen. When one can say that 'live' sounds better than the album, and with that guitar solo....... the Knack fucken rocked!
THE KNACK..My Sharona.for me.the geatest pop rock music of all time.
The Knack were such a great band. Great musicianship, songwriting & performing. Bruce Gary was one one of the baddest ass drummers in rock & Doug wrote such melodic, well structured songs. They have their own secure spot in rock`n roll history IMO.
This is why Old time Rock and Roll is always the best
They’re tight as that snappy snare the drummer has. This is a tremendous performance
One of the very best yet at the same time, most underrated guitar solos in all of rock history.
What a great live performance!!
The song, the album and the band that dominated the summer of 1979...and deservedly so.
Berton Averre's solos are amazing!
Bruce Gary kicked the shit out of a set of drums!!!! And that lead solo..... LEGENDARY!!!!
Awesome song and Band!!! Amazing Solo...Berton Averre , one of the best guitar player of all the time!!!
What a shock! I wasn't even aware Doug had cancer.....I toured with them in summer of 1979 - Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Orleans........30+ years ago! Doug was impossibly energetic and Sharona (who went with us) was a sweetheart! RIP Doug.....you WILL be remembered!
Came here hoping to get some hints for working out this solo, always loved it and thought there;s some cool licks and technique to learn from it. My mind is blown at how accurately he plays it live with an almost cleaner tone. It's a bummer the cameras weren't focused entirely on his fret work the whole time. Pleasantly surprised to see so many comments about how others appreciate the solo, that's so cool. Guitar magazines never have this song in their "TOP 100 SOLOS OF ALL TIME" and they bloody well should. It's a masterpiece.
This one and Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers, "Runnin Down a Dream".
Best guitar solo ever. Totally underrated.
One of the best rock song ever... great guitar solo.
this was the final nail in disco music's coffin - rockers like myself couldnt wait to trash disco for rock and roll again. this was our anthem!
I always loved this song when it came on my car radio.
This is a great performance - such energy.
The lead guitar 🎸 🤩 one of the best solos on record. They knew it
that just changed my life
Gosh! That guitar solo - always causes orgasms to my ears, whenever hear it (Berton Averre - half-God! 😍)
I was there - in the video, I'm the petite girl with short black hair at 1:18! At the time I was seeing a guy who worked for Capital Record A & R at the time, who made sure I was up close to the stage. It was a GREAT show!
How old are you now if i may ask
@@freezingclockhands I was 22 then-how time flies, but I remember it all.
@@lilg3754 wow
Un solo fabuloso... and a Townshend windmill from Fieger at 5:39! This song never ages for me, it's always 1979.
Love the song, good music never dies back in the days rip doug
I'm 42 and I remember it very well. Had the album. Brings back memories of a junior high school party.
I play in a cover band and this song still goes over really well.
Oh to go back to 79 and party w/the Knack live once.
Great guitar solo and the camera was everywhere but the guitar!
Uno de los grandes solos de guitarra de todos los tiempos. Huyaaaaaa!!
One of the greattest all time's guitar solo . Huyaaaa!
Either somebody dubbed the music to this video, or the boys were playing to a backing track. Still a great song.
Got me through a 7 week hospital stay. Me and three of my best buddies/fellow patients playing pin ball in the adolescent wing rec room '79-'80. This played with the bass way up constantly. Good time in a bad situation.
One of the ROCKINGEST songs EVER!
The solo is so good that he doesn’t have to improv at concerts and he can play it straight off the track
I love how the people dressed
That guitar solo, quality
Glad to see a version with the full guitar solo .. kicks ass!
And Yes indeed, this is absolutely one of the very best top-drawer guitar solos I've ever heard. I can't think of another one that more elevates my spirit. It makes me happy and free. The closest would be Terry Kath.
I remember the very first time I heard this solo section. When I heard the album. It magically and seamlessly included this unmatched masterpiece solo which I'd never heard on the radio. Ugh. AND HOW GREAT IT WAS TO HEAR AND HEAR AGAIN!!
I could not believe the emotions he was educing from within me with his guitar playing, his deeply passionate solo over those powerfully propelling chords, and the passionately powerful bass and drum team that would be the envy of any band. I felt taken out of my own sphere.
And I still felt like that every time I listened to it today. Undefinable. A truly gargantuan guitarist.
And a truly deeply underappreciated group of absolutely stellar musicians, whose sum was so much greater than the parts. A real BAND. No wonder they so effortlessly pulled off their Beatle-esque "Maybe Tonight".
All they had to do was Act Naturally.
Agreed! This is the last time you ever heard an extended guitar solo in a major pop song. I remember back then, it was the solo that every guitarist had to learn. Just like how Terry Kath's solo on 25 or 6 to 4 was in 1970. My Sharona seemed to cap of the decade in style.
Berton Averre cranking up the Gibson Les Paul...!
great solo
If I had been in the band at that moment I would have dropped my guitar or drumsticks to just have stood back to watch Berton Averre's solo.
Fantastic bridge/solo in this song
this a great rock testimonial, I bought this record when I was 10 and wore it out. it's great to see it live in all of its rawness.
This is a great version of a great pop song - I remember how these guys were mocked by us all back then due to the hype, but 30+ years later it's a great song about underage poon...
If 17 is underage. Fieger was 25 when he wrote it about her. Sharona Alperin's happy.
42 years now!
Keith Moon Eyes!!
For realz!
Ah! 1979. I was 9 years old. I thought the Beatles had returned in a new form. For 6 months that year, all Disco and Punk had to take their fighting outside while The Knack reminded us, or for a lad my age, re-introduced the rock world to the 1st generation of Brit rock. Never has any band before or since captured the songwriting brilliance of the Beatles, the sleaze of the Stones and the juggernaut power pop of The Who so perfectly. Sometimes in the same song!
Love the song, good music never dies back in the days rip doug
One of the ROCKINGEST songs EVER!
Not one f*cking closeup of the guys hands
hell yea!!! they rocked when i was in highschool...1979!!!
Awesome!
Like his hand action on the mike stand at the end! Brilliant performance.
Quite the performance! Back when everything was loose, with everyone just slidin' along! We'll never see anything like it these days.
@@tombeyer375 No, we never will.
@@fiona4423 🤣
yeahhhh babyyyy que revienteeee
This footage is gold, thanks for posting. NYC Carnegie Hall!? Wow! Thanks for the great songs Berton and Prescott... RIP Doug and Bruce.
I saw them at Carnegie hall. All I remember. Is the timer with the tenths of a second ticking away.
These guys were tight!
RIP Doug, always loved your performance of this gig
A GREAT talent, Michigan remembers, RIP Doug !!!
I was 15 in 1979. We had no internet, but we had very good music ;-))
@viscig60
Well spotted, this song has a great solo, its a absolute classic in many ways
Best pop/rock song EVER!!!!
Every cameraman. Every. Time. I've lost count how many times that crap has happened.
@@SteveOuimette absolutely. I’m always surprised when they actually show the guitarist when they play a solo. This was some great footage of the side of F’ing head. I expect them to do this, but it still irritates me every damn time.
@@dennisfox8673 1000%, lol!
@@SteveOuimette Not the cameraman - the director! Has no clue what good shots to get!
One of the best solos ever on one of the catchiest songs of the era.
bestest fucking awsome guitar solo in the world
This song always takes me to the same place.... at the county fair, riding the Matterhorn. They always blasted rock songs, and this was the biggest song of that summer. My babysitter bought the album for me the next day, and we jammed it while my parents were at work!!
38 here and totally remember this jamming on the radio in my cousin's bitchin' camaro. I loved this song as a kid.
@viscig60-- You took the words out of my mouth! One of the all-time great melodic leads & the camera couldn't be bothered. I was bitching at the guy out loud with "the guitar, you idiot, the guitar:" lol
This solo is just... Fantasitc.
Incredible band! Way more then just a one hit wonder. The Knack were at their best during this gig, and it's a shame this concert was only released on LaserDisc. Still waiting for a re-realese on DVD.
I love CZcams so much more now. The Knack never got the credit they deserved. They weren't one hit wonders. Rocket O' Love is another great song that will get your motor running if I may borrow that.
Just superb! Very few bands nowadays could play and sing as well as this live! Amazing.
Always like this song....These guys were great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got kicked out of a Cafe around 10 pm Philippine time in 1980 dancing to this! SOBER! What a night that turned out to be..I believe the world series was playing and by the time that was on, I wasn't so sober!😂
기타솔로 예술입니다.... 크아..........
rock you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amo esta canción , es demasiado genial y el sólo es uno de mis favoritos
Proud to have such a hot song with my name in it. Showed it to my teen aged daughter! Asked her what her generation has today to equal its energy?! Those were them days!!! Too bad so few people have found this fab video!
Love that song
I was just listening to the studio version and this concert version of My Sharona is right on the money.. Tight!!
Great performance
My First Concert, 1979 Sophomore Year....in The Collisium at Seattle Center....
FRONT ROW and EVERYTHING WE WANTED IT TO BE!!
I'll never forget that feeling.! It was the beginning of several years of concerts, including: Guns and Rose's opening for The Rolling Stones in LA (1989?) The US Fest in San Bernadino (1983) The Tubes, Peter Gabrial and Bowie in New Westminster (1982?) I don't remember every concert or every date... but I do remember that FEELING....and it all started with THE KNACK!! We'd have to describe it back then as..."Totally Awesome to the MAX!!"
このMY SHARONAが間違いなくベスト
Quite possible the most underrated guitar solo of all time. Berton Averre completely killed it!
Could not agree with you more. This solo is up there with the best of them.
I feel your pain. I'm 38, and although I remember hearing it on the radio, I was too young to really appreciate it.
Where was I? When I first heard this I started dancing and playing the air guitar on top of an F-111D at Cannon AFB NM. Wow, great memories and a SUPERB live video...much thx for posting
proper music, maybe just that old that i miss those times, but it still sounds bloody great. sad the mans gone now. he changed lots of peoples lives with this great sound.
R.I.P. Doug Fieger, and Bruce Gary, we miss you, we love your music....Brillant song....
One of the ROCKINGEST songs EVER!
Damn didn't know Messi was so talented in music
♬ Ma ma ma ma ma ma my Sharona! Ma ma ma ma ma ma my Sharona! ♪♬
♬ Ma ma ma ma ma ma my my mine..ine Sharona! Wow! ♬♪
Their rhythmic tight sound is very best! This is too famous song to forget.
I was in Japan. The Knack has come to Japan to show the live concerts in 2005.
Antonio From caracas- Venezuela I was there in NYC.
One of the great live performances ,
This song was huge the year I graduated from HS. It was literally THE song at the time. It brings back so many memories! I'm so sad to hear that the lead singer died so young...RIP Doug.
Our generation was very lucky in terms of music and other things. There was such a can do feeling in the air. It was a great time to be young. What do kids today have that comes anywhere close to that?
GReat song ever.............................
I guess they didn't think it was cool to show the guitarist actually playing the solo back in the 70's.