Hey John, I’m in my late 50s too. I got this band via Wilco, and the amp he is using, a H & H British transistor amp. Which I have. Not much info online about them. Mark Bolan of T Rex , and Bauhous used them.

Always new of this band but never listened wish I did now my own fault fucking class

Bingo! Welcome to the club. Wilko only one no one like him. Probly too painful.

@@carl1964carl Very popular amps back in the day, we ran them in clubs in the 70s/80s several of my mates had them as pa amps and heads for little stacks. Never had one go down despite some pretty awful neglect. Cool green light too.

@@bobjary9382 gee thanks for that info Bob, still got one here in Melbourne, heavy thing

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Well when illness came to get him he fought it galently. Saw him with the solid senders band in 1979 I believe. Great man of rock

@@boum62 I think he just seemed to accept his mortality and be determined to live whatever time he had left to the absolute full - and so he did. So should we all.

So sorry Johnny "Walker"... :-(

Style on legs!

Blood, Sweat and Beers

All the Tv shows preformance. Top of the pops etc....were played over a backing track without vocals. Reason was clarity for the broadcast. so no this was not all live.

@@bruggmanbrandon5272 This is live.

@@bruggmanbrandon5272 this is live - its all miked up and Wilko is hitting the odd bum note / sharpening strings too. Those guys couldn't perform to playback convincingly - take a look at any Top of the Pops recording to see that.

agreed.

He could play some nice guitar too.

He was superb. Such presence

Two geniuses in one band! 😂 that doesn't happen too often!😅

He was great on slide guitar as well, great performer all the time. Cheers from Milano 🎉. Pier

Wow what a blast

With out a doubt 😅

I was VERY late to the party. So glad to have finally discovered this. Reminds me a bit of Eddie and the Hotrods.

AND Lee !!!WHAT A GEEZER R&B Man g

Punk started on tea-time TV (we had something similar on YTV - we might even have had this as well).

Rock n Roll, yes, RnB, yes……but punk? WTF are you talking about?

@@333daveh5 you clearly don’t know your music history, pal. Joe Strummer of The Clash quoted the Feelgoods as a key influence on punk….but, hey, what would he know? 😎

@@davidbowman6740 they may well have influenced many bands of that era - some of whom were to become early founders of the punk movement - but that’s not what you said. You implied that the Feelgoods were the first punk band. I don’t need to be a music historian to know the difference between RnB and punk - I’m old enough to have lived through that era and whilst I thought Dr Feelgood were a breath of fresh air to the music scene in the early/mid 70s, punk (in my opinion) destroyed it (in much the same way as rap has done more recently).

@@333daveh5 Hmmm….you need to read between the lines a bit more intuitively, I think. What I was implying was that the Feelgoods brought a punk sensibility which definitely influenced many young London musicians at the time. These were as diverse as Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg and Ian Drury, who all acknowledged the influence of the Feelgoods on the punk scene. The fact that you don’t like punk is irrelevant.

He did Portsmouth Poly SU one time in early 80s,. I had the new *German* girlfriend with me, Marlene. We were propping up the bar when he came on & I said "Cmon Marl we've got to get to the front" "Why? We can hear ok from here". "No, the front. You need to see his eyes." 2 songs later she's screaming down my ear [put on your best German accent] "Dave I know you like him but he looks like he comes from an asylum!" She's been a Wilko fan ever since :o)

He still is, even if he doesn't bounce around quite as much.

That is one wicked riff! My legs are tired from just looking at him...

WilKo.

He IS amazing

Im watching that one off Southend Pier you shoulnt get more Feelgood unless you can afford the pill.

AKA Grope and Wanker. On e of many pubs and gigs by them in the 70s. Including New years eve in HAMMERSMITH.

I saw them there too. One of the best pubs of the 70s scene

😂no Wilko, no Gang of Four or U2.😅

Simple and effective,as the whole band is,great ones

Couldn’t agree more. I saw him in a pub in new cross & he was mesmerising.

Had no idea this guy existed until his passing….damn shame

Great Man g

What dumb fucks do not like this all 177 of you.

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Except this band are British. :)

@@captainnivenBut there music is American based. Boom Boom, Route 66, etc

​@@Datanditto except it isn't. They were as English as they come. The Feelgoods owed as much to the old Mod scene and bands like The Pirates, as they do to any americana. That and amphetamines. :)

@@captainniven More than half of their songs were written by American songwriters, their sound is Chuck Berry, Little Richard and rocket fuel.

Think even Hendrix would have admired Wilko's playing, only ever saw his band once at a student bash WJB, awesome as you might expect. ... i was no student i might add

Multi Strickland ever heard of Jeff Beck? Come on. This guy is a unique primitive guitarist like Luther Perkins. I sense pharmaceutical influence.

And Knopfler: A godhead on the guitar.

Come on... this is a dance band and the guitar playing reflects that. Mods would ride a long way to see Doctor Feelgood. Beck doesn't do this kind of thing.

Agreed. An amazing Tele sound. Ronnie Woods How Can It Be with the Birds comes to mind.

Yes, we've heard of Jeff Beck. This is rock and roll! When was the last time anybody danced to Beck?

He does it wrong.

It's a strange thing. They seem to have flown under the radar of so many people who were already around when Dr. Feelgod came rockin' and rollin' around. It's amazing, really. Brilliant band. Unbridled, raw energy without getting lost in endless noodling. There's a reason why those guys - Wilko especially - have influenced so many people who found themselves playing punk/post punk just a few years later.

Dr. Feelgood had trouble cracking the U S. market. They had a lot of problems and they simply gave it up. The Jam had similar problems as well.

KZfaq Same goes for hundreds of thousands about Rory Gallagher

@@philodonoghue3062 So true. Rory was my first live rock show ever, many years ago. Unforgettable, both the man and the music. Not wanting to sound overly dramatic, but this is a memory that I'll cherish till my dying day.

@@renderizer01 Know the feeling. When I learnt he’d died (on public library internet), - not being melodramatic - I felt like my father had died and a concrete power pole had been driven through my chest.

hey was that Trent park college?. I seen wilko there back in the day waz as some.......

It was at Shoreditch College of Ed.

@@christophermartin7927 He does sound just like him.

At least the real Larry Grayson was funny. This bloke is unbearable. A lot of British television was just like this in the 1970s.

@@richardwatts2095 it was. But looking back now I wouldn't wish it different

And The Pink Fairies were better still.

mark robins. Shut up. Late but fair.