Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Mama live on GTK , more Thorpie at ozblogdownunder...
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@TheGroovySideOftheTube2 ай бұрын
This track should appear and be played as mandatory entertainment on every aircraft landing in Australia - WELCOME TO AUSTRALIA!
@ACDZ123Ай бұрын
Yep. Not that other stupid welcome they give 🇦🇺🇦🇺
@glennscott24882 жыл бұрын
I'm a retired guitarist and I got to meet Billy backstage at an Alice Cooper gig not long b4 he passed and I got to tell Him how "mama" made me say yes to guitar no to drums. That song n groove changed everything 4 me. RIP Mr Thorpe as I called him. Respect. 😎🤘
@stevegordon84742 жыл бұрын
Before AC/DC, there was Billy Thorpe And The Aztecs! One of the loudest bands ever still to this day over 50 years later. Besides having one of the most powerful voices worldwide, Billy was a very inclusive performer, he wanted everyone at his gigs to have a great time, and we all did. First class.
@RETROSATAN5 жыл бұрын
The Aussie scene is one untapped goldmine. so freakishly underrated and overlooked.
@Empirism5 жыл бұрын
Yeah man! It's certainly refreshing, that there is no "this sound like AC/DC" on the comments xD
@jamesbluntirules5 жыл бұрын
So very well said
@Garrysullivanjones4 жыл бұрын
Taman shud compAny Caine Wendy s , legends, Billy Thorpe. Masters, Aussie rock man
@billfilice6408Ай бұрын
It sure is. Bands like Billy Thorpe Rose Tattoo Radio Birdman The Angels The Skyhooks The Saints Johnny Diesel etc. Never bothered to crack the American market because they didn't need to. They're God's there
@shanebrbich56984 жыл бұрын
How many of us in our teens came home (usually on a Saturday night early Sunday) drunk to watch Rage and see Billy and the Aztecs
@iansail9316 жыл бұрын
Billy Thorpe was an icon in Australian rock music.
@dennisbrinckley4474 Жыл бұрын
Wasn't he a Pom?
@markflint2629 Жыл бұрын
@@dennisbrinckley4474 He was an Australian citizen
@billriddel408312 жыл бұрын
wow the aztecs were even louder than buffalo live apparently!!! now that is volcanic oz rock!!!!!
@diamondfilms52279 ай бұрын
As a kid growing up in Australia these classic Aussie sounds made the world seem a very exciting place, now looking back is it really brilliant that their is that distinct Australian rock sound, which certaily shaped the way we all danced!
@justinparkerthewildwolf63942 жыл бұрын
Billy's guitar is so loud its blistering, its amazing he doesn't blow his mind completely
@krissyj23694 жыл бұрын
When television was television and music was music, bloody brilliant. Miss you, talented, amazing musician Mr Billy Thorpe and his Aztecs. I have watched this so many times always blown away.
@timklecha14013 жыл бұрын
Such a powerful tune.
@paulwilliams-or8hq2 жыл бұрын
The same man that sung Over The Rainbow lol
@benji27411 жыл бұрын
Shivers down the spine everytime I hear it...just timeless ... and Thorpey's voice was one of the few that could match the playing
@anneonyme35442 жыл бұрын
Its basically Robert Plant's voice (not saying it is common though)
@RoryGFan-392 жыл бұрын
@@anneonyme3544 he sounds more like Steve Marriott in my opinion
@diannerussell9653 Жыл бұрын
This song is sensational. Billy was a great showman and could really belt out a song I used to watch GTK on the ABC when it was on Fridays nights I was only about eight years old, my sister had a huge crush on Billy Thorpe. The band members used to live near Sydney University. I was only a kid and I met the band members and Billy a few times my stepsister used to hang out with them in the old Terrace the band members shared. I remember my Dad blowing he’s top and placing a curfew on my stepsister when Dad found out she was doing dope with them, they where doing more then weed. However I love this performance by them. Such stamina. Billy really felt the music. Great song too. 🌟⭐️😇🇦🇺
@DarrenAllen196912 жыл бұрын
Thorpie was the loudest because he found that he could piggyback his amps, thus The Aztecs were the loudest band in the country at time. The large Marshal Stacks that say Led Zeppelin used were just too expensive to buy at the time. My mum worked at The Whitehorse so she saw him twice a week there for a few years. Good times in rock for Melbourne. RIP Thorpie
@ianhardy49306 жыл бұрын
Darren Allen AZTEC ENERGY .. SUK MORE PISS !! .. i guess 😎
@philipjones66413 жыл бұрын
Those were the days! I believe the Whitehorse is no longer, gone in the name of "progress".
@cm-pr2ys2 жыл бұрын
WHAT? I can't hear you!
@shaunmcewan54942 жыл бұрын
hows her hearing?
@Kwanglebeh Жыл бұрын
@@philipjones6641 Pretty sure the site is now occupied by a hardware shop that sells sausages.
@dialbello2611 жыл бұрын
What a great loss to Aussie music. Nothing beats the raw intensity of BT and the Aztecs. Saw them in the 70's and still get a chill.
@ReedBender113 жыл бұрын
During my angst driven teenage years Billy showed me the way to evolve through Sex & Drugs & Hard Rock - thank you Billy ! Billy Thorpe had more balls than a billiard table-& his energy & attitude on stage was phenomenal ! How cool (and a thing unknown now) for a band to do a 10 minute song & have it on air (thanks GTK) Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs= Legend
@matsoforgetso36652 жыл бұрын
Best ever Aussie song ever made. 400 watts of Oz brilliance
@ianhardy4930 Жыл бұрын
I think 400 watts was just in billy's foldback ..at least .. Aztec energy
@bluecollarbytes726710 ай бұрын
what a great band. Nothing fake in this music.
@MrSadsack564 жыл бұрын
that 9mins would have taken up the whole segment.. from memory gtk went for 10 mins .. bloody unreal how this still beats the shit out of most bands since
@peterthomas46473 жыл бұрын
Correct - after Bellbird, before the ABC News at 7:00pm. I was lucky to see "Thorpey" twice - Rosebud, 1972; and Darwin, about 1992.
@petermcculloch49332 жыл бұрын
@@peterthomas4647 Doctor who was between GTK and the news
@Thriplebuttix16 жыл бұрын
Beautiful to the ears! Gibson through Mashall, no pedals. Love this! Thanks Billy! If this was the only song you ever did, it would have been more than enough!
@hawkesworth171210 жыл бұрын
I saw Billy for the last time a couple of years before he died and every time I go to bed to the sound of my Tinnitus I think of him.
@reedbender11792 ай бұрын
🤣 ...👉 best comment of the decade🏋♂
@MandyDewhurst6 жыл бұрын
This clip got me hooked on Billy Thorpe, Good thing my Dad was a fan. I learnt heaps off him. True Aussie legend for sure!! R.I.P Billy n Dad
@RoryGFan-394 жыл бұрын
I may not have learned about Billy Thorpe through my dad, but most of the music I love and listen to regularly I learned about from my dad who I lost earlier this year.
@MandyDewhurst4 жыл бұрын
@@RoryGFan-39 very sorry for you're loss.
@RoryGFan-394 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@iansmith82633 жыл бұрын
Heaps, lol
@markboller43133 ай бұрын
Wow. Excellent sound. ❤❤❤ This is truly a knockout classic song.
@chiselfan198117 жыл бұрын
Long live Billy Thorpe, and long live Aussie Pub Rock. If it wasn't for Billy, I doubt there would've been any Pub Rock and I totally love Aussie Pub Rock. Even if I was born in 1981, still love the Aussie rock.
@Eskay12065 ай бұрын
I was born in 1963 and I think I got the best of it all from 60's to the 80's. saw ACDC at the local town hall, Chisel at the beginning in the Largs Pier hotel, INXS, The Models at the botanical gardens. and then all the touring Aussie bands from the 70's and 80's. great time to be young
@1blastman2 ай бұрын
@@Eskay1206 It was a great time to be alive! Young or old.
@laurieaylmore7676 Жыл бұрын
Some Where, Over The Rainbow ! Billy turned the corner Loved all his music .GTK . what a little gem that was .
@debbiemcindoe37792 ай бұрын
I saw him perform 25.2.2007 at Westernport hotel San Remo...HOLY FUCK...he was electrifying! He died 3 days later. I am firever grateful & blessed for having that experience❤
@user-ed6nv6ep8h2 ай бұрын
Did he look healthy? Bill is the King.The greatest rock singer in the world.We were blessed.
@dj0019713 жыл бұрын
This is Billy doing what Billy always did best..... being Billy. Larger than life and fkn awesome.
@newcastlerabbit13 жыл бұрын
Billys kicks some serious ass in this.Can feel the hair raising my neck! Man this can never date,this is a priceless clip.
@voguevague11 жыл бұрын
When music really had a pair !!!
@jfielder483 жыл бұрын
Man, I have to say that this is my kind of music and these guys know how to deliver!
@BrankoDuskovic2 ай бұрын
Thorpie was just naturally popular, nothing to do with newspapers, etc. He played and people loved his sound, and they followed him around. When he came back from the US after 20 years, they went back to see him. Nothing like it anywhere else.
@johntractor97993 жыл бұрын
Possibly one of the best voices around, live and really nailing it while playing guitar, he became quite an accomplished guitarist this night using a cranked distorted amp but without a great deal of sustain, not so great for soloing. No signs on voice degradation at all even toward the end.
@silvertriOZ8 жыл бұрын
used to go and see the Aztecs in some huge pub in Melbourne (Matthew Flinders maybe) on a Sunday afternoon, you had to buy a meal to get a ticket otherwise no alcohol, Lobby used to turn up drunk and jam with the boys, those were the days...
@wayneelliott70112 жыл бұрын
Wonder I still have my hearing, saw The Aztecs so many times. Ears used to ring for days after!
@nitrameable8 жыл бұрын
I've never heard this until now, and oh man, this is amazing. I thought I was well versed in the classics and I guess I was wrong. What a voice!
@paulcleary96948 жыл бұрын
+nitrameable Welcome to the world of Billy Thorpe.The greatest.
@sandstone22217 жыл бұрын
This bloke is a genius. Everyone in heaven will go deaf. Keep on rockin Thorpie.
@bradplath4948 Жыл бұрын
Billy had so many careers The child star The screaming girls pop star The hard rocking loud rock star you see here And of course the latter day mature icon Australian Legend
@finaldestination58473 жыл бұрын
This song is so epic... I wish it would be a 80 minutes long version of it !!
@djhagler5 жыл бұрын
Damn, what a set of pipes! Great track.
@Heavypsychoverdose11 жыл бұрын
The Aztecs are on fire!! Classic from ABCs Get To Know (GTK) show
@areyashore3 жыл бұрын
I remember so vividly when he turned and asked me ..how do we sound..I was like..yeah..good...sittin on the floor..few feet away from him suckin on my beer n smoke. .he's like good. So cranked it up a notch.let loose a bit..before we called it a night.
@areyashore2 жыл бұрын
1971..returned 18 years in 93..don't get this on tele no more do we...Wayne use to take care of him n many people..ya know..yeah under Abe
@MultiDesignGuy3 жыл бұрын
Total Legend give me right arm for a voice like that
@RexBarca4 жыл бұрын
We used to have such a strong local Australianb music scene.
@blueycarlton13 жыл бұрын
@MichaelKingsfordGray As far as I remember the Australian Govt. didn't ban any records. It was the radio stations who arked up against the mainly British owned record companies who demanded extra payment or royalties for playing mostly British records on the radio. So the radio stations refused to play them for 6 months until the record companies came to their senses. This gave some local bands a chance to cover some of the British songs and to have hit records here in Oz in their own right.
@fulltimevanlivingandoutdoo41363 жыл бұрын
Dec 4 2020: listening to "unknown" to me Aussie pop and rock. This guy is awesome.
@EkBalam70717 жыл бұрын
Poder Azteca! A powerful song, good oldie. Bien pacheco ese!
@krissyj23695 жыл бұрын
Love you forever Billy, classic Australian Rock Legend, sorely missed.
@byronsiren5 жыл бұрын
Incredible. Reminds me of Humble Pie.
@RoryGFan-394 жыл бұрын
His voice really is similar to Steve Marriott's
@thomasfarmer17303 жыл бұрын
The early 70’s..when rock got louder and heavier
@rickabbott52972 жыл бұрын
My Idol , just brilliant especially the rare album Thumpin Pig and Puffin Billy. My opinion was his very best work (RIP CHAMP )🎸🎸👍👍👍☮️
@user-ne6ov8bx2e6 ай бұрын
Truly one Assie legend Rip Billy luv 🖤 this song 😎👍
@TalentlessMusic919 жыл бұрын
I'll never get tired of this headbanging brilliance. Billy was a beast on the axe!
@REBELIOUS615 жыл бұрын
Loudest band! I may have been a very young kid when these guys were around, but they are legendary to the power behind them and that of Billy Thorpes voice. My HERO to this day!
@BassGirlSusan196114 жыл бұрын
Thorpie you rocked our sox off for years, my kids went to the same high school as you, they've never forgotten you there. RIP x
@steverambo43698 жыл бұрын
The best voice in Aus. rock music. What was even better, you could understand what he was singing. Jimmy Barnes and Angry Anderson are rank amateur fucking screechers in comparison. He may be gone but certainly not forgotten by those from that era.
@paulcleary96948 жыл бұрын
+Steve Rambo Jesus.For the first time in my life ,i am thinking i could not have said it any better.Well said.
@bradcollier72888 жыл бұрын
my sentiment too...
@bradcollier72888 жыл бұрын
I was very lucky to see him play live at an intimate gig in my home town before his passing.
@steverambo43698 жыл бұрын
Brad Collier Lucky man. I hadn't seen him in concert since he first went to the U.S. in the latish 70's. Still sounded pretty bloody good from what I see on the Tube. Will always be part of my life story.
@steverambo43698 жыл бұрын
paul cleary Ta, mate. A special breed of singer and man.
@chriscampbell91913 жыл бұрын
Cool to see Billy Thorpe playing. this was long before I'd heard of him, or his influence on Oz rock. All I'd heard was Children of the Sun, which was the only Thorpe track played in the US. From vids like these one can tell automatically that Thorpe was quite the player. It also sounds quite loud -- I mean, the stage volume must have been blistering. Elsewhere I've read the amps Thorpe used were 300W or something like that. Thanks for posting this.
@petermcculloch49332 жыл бұрын
Listen to Rose Tattoo and Billy Thorpe performing Going Down
@chriscampbell91912 жыл бұрын
@@petermcculloch4933 I love the Tatts. I'll try to find that vid. Thanks for the suggestion.
@MrMacca69696 жыл бұрын
Fuck yeah!I even live in his home town,and even spent some time in his home suburb.RIP.Rock In Peace Billy.A true wildman of Aussie rock!!
@thefox194812 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Mitcham next suburb up the highway from the Whitehorse and we could hear him when we went for a burger at the George A cafe.....Ahhh those were the days.
@philipjones66413 жыл бұрын
Donvale boy myself.
@shovelleer14 жыл бұрын
@Badge290 He was the greatest I had the pleasure of having a drink with him at the Village green in 1971-72 I think and those days were the greatest as He never forgot me and always said hello I feel priveliged one of the all time grats
@Mticen17 жыл бұрын
brilliant, just amazing RIP billy
@TheBrynus7 жыл бұрын
THE BEST Aussie pub band ever............................RIP Billy...you will live forever.
@paulcleary96947 жыл бұрын
Billy Thorpe,best R/R singer ever,in the world.
@rachelsayer432510 жыл бұрын
missed by many Thorpey. This song is genius
@rachelsayer43258 жыл бұрын
+sr197877 absolutely agree
@rachelsayer43258 жыл бұрын
+sr197877 absolutely agree
@Garrysullivanjones4 жыл бұрын
Playing this now, again . Sweet guitars, epic
@stephentroisi5827 Жыл бұрын
Billy knew how 2 rock.
@Superyob17 жыл бұрын
The best 2 aussie gigs I ever saw was Sunbury 75 & Thorpie on the "Lock Up Your Mothers" Tour in the late 90's. R.I.P. Thorpie
@bkpenta13 жыл бұрын
The Boggo Road Jail DVD is brilliant! This guy was one talented dude!! Grab a copy and watch it if you can you won't be dissappointed!!
@areyashore3 жыл бұрын
Cheers. Fun putting that gig together.
@floydster239 жыл бұрын
This is balls out awesome. Australian blues / rock had it bang on in the 70's. Just listen to the drive you get in this & Coloured Balls "Working Mans Boogie". Not subtle, just a pounding guitar pushing the song forward.
@sordidone17 жыл бұрын
The legend will live on and on, and on...the most prolific rocker this country will ever see. R.I.P. Billy Thorpe, you've earnt it!
@KnEpH1318 жыл бұрын
Sent here by Warren552011!....Thank you Warren! This is pure 1960-1970's badass bitchin' raw rock and roll. Favorited.
@vincentbodega165111 жыл бұрын
Knew about BT but wasn't aware of his stint as a blues-rocker. Love this. Totally primal and all the better for it. He sure knows how to wring the neck of a Les Paul. The tone is wicked! Thanks for posting.
@philipjones66413 жыл бұрын
You must have been living under an actual rock to not notice Billy's hard rock band?
@reedbender11792 ай бұрын
@@philipjones6641 🤣 ...👌
@paulcleary96948 жыл бұрын
i watch this many times,every week.Thanks Bill.Miss you Bill.
@Bazza1025b17 жыл бұрын
RIP Billy. Wake em up, and shake em up in heaven!
@justmaz200417 жыл бұрын
wow what a talent this guy had and what a loss to the music industry will be sadly missed .
@stuartcox63955 жыл бұрын
Raw, loud, AWESOME.
@michaeloflannegen Жыл бұрын
Thorpe and The Aztecs, raw power and exceptional chemistry. Gone too soon.
@swinetrek5 жыл бұрын
So good. I can FEEL how loud it was. Another 10 pound POM done good! Same as Brod Smith, Jon English, John Farnham and those Scottish boys, the Youngs. Fuck knows where Oz Rock would be without them
@bhuvidya5 жыл бұрын
And Ronald Bedford Scott!
@fossie3211 жыл бұрын
Awesome! One of the first groups I saw live, when they played in our little theatre at Melbourne uni about the time this was recorded. Thanks!
@whytegroovin3 жыл бұрын
damn it , i love that bluesy raunchy sound !!!
@56music813 жыл бұрын
when I was fifteen around time of this vid, used to go to Electric Circus, club in Brisbane, see Billy, he would be on a stage only about 10 inches high, all the audience would sit on the floor and listen to Billy blast the hell out of the place, each song was like this, more of a jam really, would last for 8 - 10 mins, he looked just like this then...great memories
@allanpope197117 жыл бұрын
R.I.P billy! you were the legend of rock. Sunbury 1972 was a great moment etched in our hearts forever. so sad of his passing this morning at 2am
@iansail9315 жыл бұрын
Billy Thorpe was remarkable and sad that the world was not able to witness him and the Aztecs in their later years. They were the best,by far, the best rock band in Aust at that time.
@deltamx5 жыл бұрын
I saw Billy and Aztecs at la trobe uni Loudest most exciting group I ever saw
@bhuvidya5 жыл бұрын
you lucky bastard
@garyinnes71939 жыл бұрын
Oh Keeerist thats good! The power, the power!
@Colin56ish2 жыл бұрын
They had the loudest set in Australia at the time. We're all deaf now!
@BTW... Жыл бұрын
Thank you ABC ... gotta love ya.
@wrongangle48812 жыл бұрын
A direct influence on AC/DC and it shows
@deltamx14 жыл бұрын
they were the loudest band i ever heard..one night at La trobe uni it was incredible..one of 5 best australian bands..thorpie was the real deal
@lynneobrien60749 жыл бұрын
Gone, but never forgotten. Love Ya Thorpie, Lynne XXX
@wickedloudone9 жыл бұрын
This is just pure bad-assness! Good heavy rock and roll ain't dead yet...
@harryanthony13585 жыл бұрын
Hello sara
@MandyDewhurst4 жыл бұрын
2020 Billy. Still listenin.
@jimblues2117 жыл бұрын
We all loved ya Billy and your music will live on forever
@allanpope26257 жыл бұрын
Gil Matthews. Aztecs new drummer at the time. Brilliant song!!! RIP Billy
@blueycarlton6 жыл бұрын
Alan Pope Just heard (17/08/2018) Aztec drummer Gil "Rat" Matthews on radio ABC Melbourne being interviewed about his company Aztec records releasing the complete set of Go! recordings. He said that in 1958 aged 11, he did a tour of the US with Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich! Gil said he could read drum music at the age of 5, must have a child prodidgy. He was greeted at Disneyland by Walt Disney himself, introduced to the Mouseketeers and made an honorary member. His nickname "Rats" came from Thorpe . Billy called he that because he said that when a mouse grows up it becomes a Rat.
@zombiewolf68095 жыл бұрын
@Warren552011 and don't forget that he could also fart in perfect time to the beat
@surferchamp2114 жыл бұрын
I first saw this early one morning on RAGE, about 20 years ago. I just finished reading 'Thorpies Time On Earth' fanstic!!! RIP legend, The best in Australia
@earthimp72779 жыл бұрын
his music will never age
@martinbushell61133 жыл бұрын
Only the best, listened to Billy and the Aztecs many times at Berties and Village Green, etched in my memory for ever, will catchup one day and do it all again R.I.P
@shovelleer9 жыл бұрын
brings back good memories
@GregTheBearMorris3 жыл бұрын
This is something special indeed!!
@MrKerryp5111 жыл бұрын
Lobby taught Billy some of the more bluesy parts of guitar playing. Both were Queensland boys and had some association back towards the mid '60s. Saw the two of them on stage at Festival Hall (Bris) and Lobby was getting more into weed than music at the time. Thorpie blew him away (it was just after Bill and the Aztecs came back from England.
@eyeprod310116 жыл бұрын
Hell Yeah! My kind of blues. Never heard of this guy before now
@Garrysullivanjones4 жыл бұрын
eyeprod do you still listen to this song 11 years later? It is awesome btw...
@lynneobrien607410 жыл бұрын
Billy is and always be the best !!!! Love Lynne XXXX
@mapachehombre7410 Жыл бұрын
Man if yuh never got on with your neighbors just blast em out with Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs