Yes. I saw them both at Paso Robles. As much as I love Elvis Costello, I have to say that Nick kind of stole the show a little.

GTA!

The toured as "Rockpile" for several years prior to SOP.

Along with Graham Parker, they define the tail end of the 70s for me.

No I can't lol hilarious...Nick the really cool insurance adjuster! Lowe is the bees knees.

Bus conductor on the 65 bus. Dead ringer. Dave as driver! Brilliant.

Haberdasher

Fashion designer

I hope so.

Massey Hall, what a great venue.

He opened with this at Tanglewood too this summer

Absolutely.

I heard that Nick wrote it with Thin Lizzy in mind... check out Will Birch's forthcoming Lowe biography.......

Yep for sûre

Yeah I never really thought of it but isn't it essentially a rewrite of Reelin in the Years? Trying to see the connection 2 Phil and Company and Basher? I guess that would be phonogram records which had a connection 2 stiff records. I guess his delivery is kind of in that Phil kind of way which is weird because Elvis Costello had that husky tone to his voice and obviously he was part of Lowe's crew. Then again I guess this is all an offshoot of Pub Rock and Birch would know all that 1976 cross over into New Wave Punk

Actually, Nick himself said it was Steely Dan ("Reelin' In The Years") that was borrowed from, not Thin Lizzy.

Billy plays the solo.

Guitar sound reminds me of Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns and Money".

the song was on university challenge and they thought it was thin lizzy as well. so did I

Like a cross between Steely Dan and Thin Lizzy. I love this song.

@Musical Box No, but the similarities between this, SD's Reelin in the years and TL's Boys are back in town are obvious. Fun (off topic) fact: Huey Lewis recorded with both Lizzy and Lowe back then.

@@JeansWebbTv Nick himself said that it’s more Steely Dan than Thin Lizzy.

Mr Spectacals I still have the album!!! Feb 2nd 2020! New of the song! Not the video! Love You tube!

Too cool for school!

OMG... too funny. I just heard this song watching Rock N' Roll High School last night (2021) and looked it up! - ha ha

minus the casket

How cool would it have been for them to collaborate on some tunes? Damn, we were cheated when Gram left us. I live @ 30 miles from the Joshua Tree Inn, it's still there and fans show up every year on the anniversary of his death. I really want to make it there this year on September 19. Don't do drugs, kids! Stick with cannabis, it won't kill you!

I loved him too in my teens and Dave Edmunds ! Lucky to see them both at Chalk Farm Roundhouse in 1977

Yeah, the one I heard on the radio around 1979 or 1980 had only his voice in the chorus. Maybe he's here with Rockpile.

@@mxyzptlkdelperu3252 I think this was the single version? And the one we all heard was on the Ramones movie soundtrack!

​@@el0blainoThe single version (on Stiff Records) was the same as the album version.

So true yet have faith,be positive and follow thee golden rule of your time here on mother Earth while rocking on.

I like the real original better. The video looked like it was shot on a rooftop. Don't misunderstand, it is good. Love Nick Lowe!

RNR High School introduced me to this as well 👍

Now people

if you haven't already discovered the band he did with Dave Edmunds,,check out Rock Pile

Yeah! So cool to find a gem like this, huh?

😳

WXRT has turn me to Nick Lowe , Elvis Costello The Clash and so many more...

@@dwh7434 These were all the acts of my young adulthood! They all kick ass!

Yes, Steve..we know the words. Lol

And so it goes, and so it goes...

😂😂😂awesome!!!!!

yay cuz good for us! 🤗 Nick Lowe man.

I hooked up an Acoustic 360 to an Acoustic 370 once. Not 50,000 watts, but still loud.

The "others" are guitarist Billy Bremner and drummer Terry Williams. Nick Lowe produced the Pretenders, and Williams was in Dire Straits, not the Pretenders. You are right that there was only one RockPILE album, but Rockpile played on three Dave Edmunds albums and one Nick Lowe record.

@@tygrkhat4087 Rockpile played "the concert for Kampuchea" in Dec'1979. (Queen, McCartney E'Costello, the Specials, Pretenders, Ian Dury & the B',the Who, etc -and Robert Plant of Zep' came on to do vocals for the old Rockabilly tune "Little Sister" (video can be found on YT/a 33LP and film was released -not in circulation now; a brilliant charity concert set. If I had a Time Machine, that's one destination for my choice.

@@jonathanmurphy3141I fully agree. I had the cassette of the concerts, just a stellar lineup and great songs. And the players in the Rockestra, holy cow! 3/4 of Led Zeppelin (Plant, Bonham and Jones), half of the Who (Townshend and Jones), half of Rockpile (Edmunds and Bremner), plus James Honeyman-Scott, Ronnie Lane and Bruce Thomas of the Attractions.

Nick and Terry never played with the Pretenders. Also, I never heard of Rockville.

One of my favorite movies

I just looked at him and thought Gram then a minute later seen the comment. WoW

If you want to see youthful Lowe, check out Brinsley Schwarz.

I think he got handsome with age.

Maybe Dave has been retired for 5 years.

i think it's stinkey persian>>>mandola effect?

Wonderful! Kiss the sky.....Kiss this guy! Hendrix sang both versions! Thought the later was a better lyric!

I always thought "snakey Persian"

No, it's "snake-hipped", I asked him when I had the good fortune to meet him in 2002. AZLyrics agrees: www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nicklowe/soitgoes.html

I also asked him about the "SBDs" that would be clearing the street in his song "Half a Boy and Half a Man". Boy, I really had that one wrong! He explained that it's the "S.P.G.s", The Special Patrol Group (SPG) of London constables that were especially known to get overly violent when dealing with citizens (especially punk rockers). I was too embarrassed to tell him what "SBD" stood for, and that I assumed the guy in the song had especially powerful farts! lol