They MFing killed it. What a band. Gary Wright plays keyboard-electric guitar solo. Mike Harrison sings with his soul. Spooky Two is one of my all time favorite albums.
This track appeared on the “Nice Enough to Eat” island records sampler album circa 1971 , this track was listed after the equally impressive At the Crossroads by Mott the Hoople. I had this album and in very early 1972 during a very dark period of my life these 2 tracks along with Woman by Free got me through, I just played them constantly at that time. Now listening and watching this in 2023 Mike Harrison’s voice sounds just as good as it did in the dark winter days of my life in 1972
Mike Harrison's vocals are pretty amazing-40 years on. I fact the whole band seem to have been stuck in a time warp and incredibly, are still playing like it's 1969-pretty awesome!
smashie2000 Sad to hear that. I used to work with Mike in the mid 90s but lost touch with him when he went off to join Hamburg Blues Band. When did he pass away?
Mike had a brief comeback with a band called Saigon. Live in Carlisle is still one of my best 3 gigs ever. Got to play with him once in a jam session. By far the best musician I've had the honour to play with :-)
I knew these guys in '69. I worked on the road crew in California on a tour that also had the great Terry Reid opening. Luther Grosvenor was on lead guitar. He later became Ariel Bender when he joined Mott the Hoople and after that he was in Stealer's Wheel (Stuck in the Middle with You) for a while.
Gary´s keyboard solo (from 4:01) is a lection on simple, but most effective playing, everything directed toward the next level of cooking up the music, the listener . Oooooh, extremely intense performance from all.
Man, I love that Spooky Tooth! Looks like they have most of the "Spooky Two" lineup! I actually have an A&M pressing of that album from '69! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!
Wow! They've still got it! The singers voice is still fantastic. Almost a forgotten band, they were a really big act back in the late 60s. They played Edgbastion University in Birmingham in 1968 and were supported by Black Sabbath. Only about 12 people came out of the bar & into the hall to watch the 'unknown' support band - the rest only wanted to see the mighty Spooky Tooth...
OUT freaking STANDING...GREAT to see a reunion that is SO SHARP...tight stuff here kids !!! Saw Gary Wright in N.Ridgeville,OH in '74. A Month before the Dream Weaver stuff came out...just as fine here with Mike and this line-up,WOW...
lol, funny cuz I've been listening to the song for 30 years and I ain't dead yet. That whole thing was absurd in nevada.. the old man can still rock, 5 stars. :)
Fantastic to see they are still Playing this all time classic!Love the single audience scream at 2:13,right on time no less,would of been great for a live recording if one was made here! Also,some very rare studio rehersal footage of Spooky Tooth performing this track no less,has just been uploaded to YT lately.Well worth checking out,great material and performance as well.A search for this track and studio should return the appropriate clip.Is somewhat lacking here without the Hammond.Thanks
JP's version is arguably superior to the original ST version, but this particular live version is superior to all, as it seems! The synth guitar solo in particular was a joy to hear!
Great song and awesome musicianship and perfomance from Mike, Mike and Gary! Progressive underground rules! Larkio Music LLC the best company in the world!!!
Holy crap! It's great hearing this stuff, being born in the 60's, somehow I'm relating - lol Gary Wright, Mr. Dreamweaver?? Great tune and yes, it's DIFFERENT!!! And yes, Rob Halford sings differently, but I'm digging this version as well, being a big Priest fan. Thanks Rock on!! \m/
Brilliant, and sounds like a the original, though better. Still got the original single on Island. Cant beat the old bands resurrected. Supreb stuff. rock on and on and on.
Some kids in Nevada were drinking, and doing drugs one night, (Who both had been mentally abused, and beaten by their fathers year's before) decided to make a suicide pact, the night that they did it, they just happened to be listening to Judas Priest "Stained Class" album which had the cover on it. After all was said, and done it was just an attempt by the parents to try, and get a ton of money by taking Priest to court.
Hey Mac , it was because they recorded this song and like you the daft wanker who tried to blame Judas Priest for their actions didn’t hear the original , they heard the priest version .
I think one of them was called Tommy Vance. He blew his face off but survived for a couple of years afterwards. A sad story all around. Priest were the scape-goats but as mentioned above, the were found not guilty. If you listen to the Priest version you can hear someone say "do it" just after the "better than me" in the first line of the second chorus. The case was based on that "subliminal" message. There's a really good documentary which may be on YT somewhere.
Better By You, Better Than Me is a Spooky Tooth song, precisely written by the keyboardist Gary Wrigth. The song, however, became famous for the cover made by the English metal group Judas Priest and for the 1990 trial in which the latter were accused of having led to suicide two young American boys, through a series of subliminal messages entered in the song that according to the accusation would be noticeable by listening to the record in reverse. At the end of the trial, the band was acquitted because, according to the judge, the hypothetical hidden messages are not due to anything other than a combination of sounds and words.
underplayed under rated missed this band growing up one of my nephews had an album by them but never had chance to listen to it thanks for sharing this
RIP Mike Harrison, Gr8 Vocalist in a truly underrated band. Always loved these guys. Was lucky enough to see them in N.Y. in 1969. I turn people onto Spooky Two as often as I can.
Wow, Mike Harrison still sounds awesome!
That doesn't happen very often. Such an exciting voice!
They MFing killed it. What a band. Gary Wright plays keyboard-electric guitar solo. Mike Harrison sings with his soul. Spooky Two is one of my all time favorite albums.
Always loved this group. When Spooky Two came out I flipped. What songs! What vocals! RIP Gary and Mike.
This track appeared on the “Nice Enough to Eat” island records sampler album circa 1971 , this track was listed after the equally impressive At the Crossroads by Mott the Hoople. I had this album and in very early 1972 during a very dark period of my life these 2 tracks along with Woman by Free got me through, I just played them constantly at that time. Now listening and watching this in 2023 Mike Harrison’s voice sounds just as good as it did in the dark winter days of my life in 1972
Music is therapeutic if listening to the ones . I hope your doing well . Peace and love my friend
What a voice!
Incredible action !
Look at all the old guys in the audience, every one of them on a nostalgia trip.....you can't beat it.
Now it's eleven yrs later and you're an old guy.ironic huh?
Harrison sings with such authority. Age certainly hasn't withered him.
Guys did a great job here . love it ! Took me years to realize Judas Priest didn't write it
One of the best super groups of all time
I loved this tune! Mike Harrison still sounding just as good as back in the day, wow!
my uncle gave me his two Sppoky Tooth albums and now I have their CD's...rock-n-roll will never die
His voice is simply awesome. I really like Judas Priest's cover, but the version by ST is even better.
extremely underrated band!!
Mike Harrison's vocals are pretty amazing-40 years on. I fact the whole band seem to have been stuck in a time warp and incredibly, are still playing like it's 1969-pretty awesome!
Rest in peace Mike :(
smashie2000
Sad to hear that. I used to work with Mike in the mid 90s but lost touch with him when he went off to join Hamburg Blues Band. When did he pass away?
Darren, on the 26th March, I couldn't make the funeral as it was back home for him.
this sounds better than the LP from '70, Harrison has gotten better with age it sounds like.
Dont agree but damn he sounds great here!
Just thinking the same - they were good though in the 70s saw em live at the Country club many times as my slightly used brain tells me
I don't agree, the original LP sounds much better!
Such a great band, three of them passed away far too early. Rock em upstairs Mike
Gary still resembles a miniature Gitmo inmate with a giant stylophone, and Mike Harrison still looks excrutiatingly cool :D
Mike Harrison sounds as good as ever. Amazing!
What a vocalist, utterly effortless, a man born to sing! RIP Mike.
Wow... still has the pipes... and the band.. at this show very tight.
We gotta keep going.
This might be the best live recording I've ever heard. It sounds so HEAVY. Great song and Mike Harrison sounds fantastic.
Mike had a brief comeback with a band called Saigon. Live in Carlisle is still one of my best 3 gigs ever. Got to play with him once in a jam session. By far the best musician I've had the honour to play with :-)
Im sure i use to work in the same place as Mike a company called Hays
Mike Harrison still has it, great performance
Really strong performance!
They play better than 40 yrs. ago,
all three: Harrison, Kellie and Wright.
I knew these guys in '69. I worked on the road crew in California on a tour that also had the great Terry Reid opening. Luther Grosvenor was on lead guitar. He later became Ariel Bender when he joined Mott the Hoople and after that he was in Stealer's Wheel (Stuck in the Middle with You) for a while.
And it was preserved on the DVD "Groupies"
This is the first time that I have heard a song by tow different groups and I love both versions. Spooky and Judas
Wow. These guys play same good sound like more than 30 years ago. It's still a damn great song.
Gary´s keyboard solo (from 4:01) is a lection on simple, but most effective playing, everything directed toward the next level of cooking up the music, the listener .
Oooooh, extremely intense performance from all.
how amazing is this????? sing it loud brother!!!!!
Man, I love that Spooky Tooth!
Looks like they have most of the "Spooky Two" lineup!
I actually have an A&M pressing of that album from '69!
I LOVE IT SO MUCH!
I do to' went to Woodstock 69' did you go?
Still have original album bit beat up now but I love it rip guys
I have the original. I'd never sell it.
New guitarist and bassist otherwise the same
Spooky 2, one of the best of its era. First heard this on the Island sampler "Nice Enough to Eat" in about 1970
Mike Kellie was a great drummer. He was in the Punk band " The Only Ones".
One of my favorite bands, one must check out the spooky 2 cd, heavy organ, gut wretching vocals, a must for spookytooth fans
Wow!
They've still got it!
The singers voice is still fantastic.
Almost a forgotten band, they were a really big act back in the late 60s. They played Edgbastion University in Birmingham in 1968 and were supported by Black Sabbath. Only about 12 people came out of the bar & into the hall to watch the 'unknown' support band - the rest only wanted to see the mighty Spooky Tooth...
I used to play this song inna cover band in the 70's, still rocks the house. Cheers!!!
Gary Wright never really got the credit he truly deserved for his incredible songwriting.
One of the first riffs I learned to play on my old 'Broadway' electric guitar, way back 196.....9? Sweet.
OUT freaking STANDING...GREAT to see a reunion that is SO SHARP...tight stuff here kids !!! Saw Gary Wright in N.Ridgeville,OH in '74. A Month before the Dream Weaver stuff came out...just as fine here with Mike and this line-up,WOW...
This is the sort of stuff you really needed to see. Absolutely amazing.
lol, funny cuz I've been listening to the song for 30 years and I ain't dead yet.
That whole thing was absurd in nevada..
the old man can still rock, 5 stars. :)
When music became magic........
Still sounds amazing!!!
Wow. I'm an old school ST fan and this one sounds as good as the original!
Class act. The old boys still have it
Watching and listening to Spooky Tooth on Holloween. Cant get better.
Fantastic to see they are still Playing this all time classic!Love the single audience scream at 2:13,right on time no less,would of been great for a live recording if one was made here!
Also,some very rare studio rehersal footage of Spooky Tooth performing this track no less,has just been uploaded to YT lately.Well worth checking out,great material and performance as well.A search for this track and studio should return the appropriate clip.Is somewhat lacking here without the Hammond.Thanks
I think that both versions are great !!
What a fucking incredible piece of music.
Wow, wish I still had my old Nice Enough To Eat! compilation.
Awesome, loved them many years ago and still do.
JP's version is arguably superior to the original ST version, but this particular live version is superior to all, as it seems! The synth guitar solo in particular was a joy to hear!
Awesome...Incredible....i'm speechless ....great performance
This is the original song. It's written by Gary Wright (the keyboard player in red) and was originally on their second album "Spooky Two" in 1969.
Monsters-Loved them from their beginning !!!!
a classic !
And this is amazingly faithful to the '60's original.
such a good voice!!
Great song and awesome musicianship and perfomance from Mike, Mike and Gary! Progressive underground rules! Larkio Music LLC the best company in the world!!!
just the greatest british rock band ever!!! No one else comes even close !
Gary Wright American
Must have been a great experience , was really into TERRY REID back then also ,all this stuff is timeless from then ...thanks..
Late night high school music for me.
Thanks for the memories. 1970 ish, I think this album came out.
this guy has an awesome voice...I'm impressed! All this time I thought it was a JP song
Oh Cool I don't know many that even remember this group but I loved them lol. thanks for the down load
Simply Brilliant! As good, if not better than the original recording!
fitzpatrickken aaaa
indémodable, les années passent, la voix du chanteur toujours au top
Man is this for real, what a survivor...
voice is great
Great rock band.
Holy crap! It's great hearing this stuff, being born in the 60's, somehow I'm relating - lol Gary Wright, Mr. Dreamweaver??
Great tune and yes, it's DIFFERENT!!! And yes, Rob Halford sings differently, but I'm digging this version as well, being a big Priest fan. Thanks Rock on!! \m/
good Lord, Mike Harrison sounds inCREDIBLE! and just RADIATES confidence... amazing!
It’s amazing how good Mike Harrison is here..
Какая мощная вещ, первый раз я её услышал в исполнении Джудас Прист, спустя 40 лет эффект тот же, пронимает до кома в горле !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since now, never heard the original... Also real great! Old men still keep on rocking!
Whatever-Spooky Tooth are on my bucket list
Mike Harrison sounds like Steve Mariott in small faces and humble pie. Very good.
Wusste garnicht, dass es diese Videos gibt von meinem Freund Mike, grossartig!
Still awesome !
You guys are the balls....
Please give us more!!!
wow - they still sound good! what a great band...
He still sounds WONDERFUL!!! ROCK ON, GUYS!!! x0!
Brilliant, and sounds like a the original, though better.
Still got the original single on Island.
Cant beat the old bands resurrected.
Supreb stuff.
rock on and on and on.
Wating for some Gary Wright with Wonder Wheel.
simplement génial !!! que de souvenirs !!!!
The old fellas can STILL ROCK!
first heard this on a sampler album in the early 70s, loved it then & they still sound as good now
A Class Act
Spooky Tooth sounded really fine for being "long in the tooth".
nice. he still got the voice.
what a voice ! still ! on of the best bands ever.
Incredible, I had never listened to Spooky Tooth playing the original. I still prefer Judas Priest's cover, but good sirs, you've earned my respect!
How is it that Judas Priest got in trouble for this song, when they didn't even write it?
sick teens interpreted these lyrics. just finding reason and justice for senseless deaths. i think your question was rhetoric but felt like answering
Some kids in Nevada were drinking, and doing drugs one night, (Who both had been mentally abused, and beaten by their fathers year's before) decided to make a suicide pact, the night that they did it, they just happened to be listening to Judas Priest "Stained Class" album which had the cover on it. After all was said, and done it was just an attempt by the parents to try, and get a ton of money by taking Priest to court.
Hey Mac , it was because they recorded this song and like you the daft wanker who tried to blame Judas Priest for their actions didn’t hear the original , they heard the priest version .
I think one of them was called Tommy Vance. He blew his face off but survived for a couple of years afterwards. A sad story all around. Priest were the scape-goats but as mentioned above, the were found not guilty. If you listen to the Priest version you can hear someone say "do it" just after the "better than me" in the first line of the second chorus. The case was based on that "subliminal" message. There's a really good documentary which may be on YT somewhere.
Better By You, Better Than Me is a Spooky Tooth song, precisely written by the keyboardist Gary Wrigth. The song, however, became famous for the cover made by the English metal group Judas Priest and for the 1990 trial in which the latter were accused of having led to suicide two young American boys, through a series of subliminal messages entered in the song that according to the accusation would be noticeable by listening to the record in reverse. At the end of the trial, the band was acquitted because, according to the judge, the hypothetical hidden messages are not due to anything other than a combination of sounds and words.
Great.---.where has it been..they still rockin...one of my favorites with evil woman and .wa9ting for the wind...***
Important band, which has influenced many other bands.
wunderschön!
so geil ....
underplayed under rated missed this band growing up one of my nephews had an album by them but never had chance to listen to it thanks for sharing this
RIP Mike Harrison, Gr8 Vocalist in a truly underrated band. Always loved these guys. Was lucky enough to see them in N.Y. in 1969. I turn people onto Spooky Two as often as I can.
awesome!!!!!!!!!!
I wish they'd play the U.S. Spooky really is a great band.
What a fucking incredible piece of music. (2)