Stairway To Heaven - The Beatnix

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17 жыл бұрын

From the early 90's Australian TV show The Money Or The Gun by The Beatnix, Australian Beatles Tribute Band.

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@johntdrums 11 жыл бұрын

I was the drummer here. We had permission to perform the song. We did it as a parody. Basically, what if The Beatles had recorded Stairway To Heaven? How would it have sounded? This is what we came up with. No disrespect to Led Zeppelin... We love them! It was just a bit of fun and was part of an Australian TV series back in the early 1990s in which many different bands did their own versions of the song - Rolling Stones and The Doors included! It mightn't be perfect, but it was a laugh...

@charlyW34 Жыл бұрын

Hi John. Excellent job, quite audacious. It would have been a bigger challenge to record the song as the beatles sounded much closer to when the song was written. Imagine if it were to be a cover tune on a potential follow up album to Abbey Road. That would be VERY interesting.

@blindhorse796 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant this mate. I perform in trib called Led Zed. This is going into the set 😂

@keithlatham4500 Жыл бұрын

Hey John. I remember when this was broadcast. It was always my 2nd favorite of the S2H covers from Money or the Gun (tied with the Doors version). 1st place had to go to Leonard Teale of course.

@kelseymathias3881 11 ай бұрын

@zepppublications9996 Better than Led Zep version!

@beatrixwickson8477 10 ай бұрын

I remember seeing this when it aired and was amazed at the cleverness and craft that this required. I bought the album and video and have listened to it many times since. Even now I watch it on KZfaq often. Thank you very much. It is beautiful.

@rocknrollforever10 13 жыл бұрын

I'm a fan of both bands (The Beatles and Led Zeppelin) and I think this is brilliant! Remember: "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." - Mark Twain

@TotalSinging 2 жыл бұрын

This is from an Australian tv show in the late 80s / early 90s called ‘The Money or The Gun’. Every week they had a different tribute band on (eg. Beatles, The Doors) and they all had to play Stairway To Heaven in the style of that band. There was a CD called Stairways To Heaven, where every song was… you guessed it…

@mmmmmhhhbeepbeep 6 ай бұрын

Stairway to heaven?

@steventylerrocks8382 7 жыл бұрын

I was in a pretty bad mood, but then I heard this. My god, what a great arrangement.

@Creaulx 4 жыл бұрын

Every couple of years I come back to the well.

@jerste 9 жыл бұрын

Every four years I post an insightless comment to celebrate this masterpiece. See you in 2019.

@Dracopol 8 жыл бұрын

+jerste Profound!

@AwesomeRobot15 8 жыл бұрын

I bet I actually will see you then

@jerste 8 жыл бұрын

+AwesomeRobot15 I certainly do hope so!

@AwesomeRobot15 7 жыл бұрын

2 more years to go...

@bestestinventions7032 5 жыл бұрын

it won't be long...

@Creaulx 12 жыл бұрын

I still freakin' love this. Everything I've ever wanted to do musically, encapsulated on one video. Also, I've been drinking.

@jimmyfastiggi1013 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!!

@rods6405 2 жыл бұрын

me too drinking that is

@kennethwood3984 2 жыл бұрын

🤣👍

@debishelton9647 2 жыл бұрын

@etovakala 9 жыл бұрын

Man, Led Zeppelin really butchered this song when they did the cover!

@ssurfcity 8 жыл бұрын

+EtovaKala You win the internet.

@slvrpheonix_9502 7 жыл бұрын

EtovaKala it's not the beatles it is a tribute band called beatnix and they sing songs like the beatles would sing it so beatles never did it

@SlowMotionAtomicBomb 7 жыл бұрын

I mean...

@TheDustyk47 7 жыл бұрын

EtovaKala. One of the funniest comments I've read in a while! Thank you!

@didrikvegemdidriksen4250 7 жыл бұрын

Beatnix was an autralian ( down under) answer to the Beatles in the 60's, and a good one to11

@phoebecatgirl9968 9 жыл бұрын

BEST parody of this classic song!

@johntdrums 11 жыл бұрын

In response to standbyme, you're right. I've posted before that I was the drummer on this clip. It was based on I Wanna Hold Your Hand, but we kept incorporating Twist & Shout into the end of each bridge (middle section). At the end we converted the whole thing to Twist & Shout, which is fairly obvious. I'm glad you liked it, as compared to many other people who thought we were Devils or something! This line-up of the Beatnix disbanded in 1995. But 'John' and 'Paul' still exist as 'The Beatels'.

@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke 2 жыл бұрын

It's really cool how you guys were able to take "I wanna hold her hand" and "Twist and Shout" and put the Stairway to Heaven lyrics to it. Not just cool... friggin awesome... or "epic" as it has become these days.

@awdouth 2 жыл бұрын

I've always loved this cover!

@ajsvideodump 2 жыл бұрын

same Beatnix who recorded that album It's Four You or no relation?

@handsomeloverboy8818 2 жыл бұрын

Its a combination of I want to hold your hand and please please me and twist and shout

@mickhamilton2913 2 жыл бұрын

Same band. I produced that album.

@CreativeVideoZone 11 жыл бұрын

It's like the early Beatles continued to exist in an alternate dimension!

@ddk999 10 жыл бұрын

Pure genius. Love this.

@bertrowland4706 5 ай бұрын

How did I miss this all of these years?!?!?

@dynjarren7523 5 жыл бұрын

Stairway in Beatle style? I didn’t think it was possible but this mashup is brilliant and shows exactly how it’s done! Amazing! When he sings whispering wind it sounds ridiculous though! Good job!

@anotherhunkydory 2 жыл бұрын

What's next? I get no Walrus man?.....

@justanotherfrog 14 жыл бұрын

we watched this in my History of Rock music class today. This is so great!

@dougdickeson3865 9 жыл бұрын

Totally brilliant, I love this!

@JF-eu4xz 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. Sounds like a miracle. Never heard them ever before.

@stany30 17 жыл бұрын

The transition between "hold you hand" and "twist and shout" are cool, hard to notice they are so smooth... all the while singing stairway to heaven.

@TobyKruit 15 жыл бұрын

Those guys are amazing. This is totally awesome. They've really got the Beatles feel going on!

@sithering 11 жыл бұрын

Anyone who doesn't think this is pure genius shouldn't be allowed to listen to music

@BROOKS39 10 жыл бұрын

This was from "Money or the Gun." Each week a different band would do a cover of Stairway to Heaven.

@jbclaussner9936 5 жыл бұрын

BROOKS39 who would tune in to that listening to the same song over and over again but in different ways

@swinetrek 5 жыл бұрын

@@jbclaussner9936 Lotsa people. there were some amazing versions

@tieukhavu8832 3 жыл бұрын

I want to hold your Stairway.

@hankkingsley2976 3 жыл бұрын

@@jbclaussner9936 sadly the Rolf Harris version has disappeared after his problems

@hankkingsley2976 3 жыл бұрын

I mean it is a hell of a concept and there are a lot of great covers of this but I still think Stairway to Gilligan's Island is the best

@TonyHickschick 11 жыл бұрын

I have heard the original Stairway to Heaven but don't know it well, yet I absolutely love what was done here. It is so Beatlish. I love songs in the style of the Beatles.

@welldarn5063 10 жыл бұрын

Fighting over who's better (Led Zep or the Beatles) is like arguing whether food or water is better. You need both to survive YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT.

@MrGOW3fan 9 жыл бұрын

In this case, if Led Zeppelin was water, water's better lol

@LightTouchWoodstock 9 жыл бұрын

***** In that case, if there is no Zeppelin, life just isn't worth living! Physical Graffiti LIVES in our CD player. :-)

@colton8331 6 жыл бұрын

horsemann12 Thd beatles are water. You can't hate the beatles, but I could say otherwise for zepplin. both great

@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 5 жыл бұрын

@@MrGOW3fan ignorant

@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 5 жыл бұрын

Right Angelina , Right

@bryonmartin9221 3 ай бұрын

I was just alerted to this, and it's found a place to fill the hole in my heart that I didn't know was empty! My god, thank you!

@Solothread17510 10 жыл бұрын

Now go listen to it backwards!

@chrisakarazor9612 3 жыл бұрын

It tells you instructions on how to build a Viking ship

@BuffaloC305 2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisakarazor9612 Oh darn... I was thinking it was a map to find Paul.

@DeepForestGreen 16 жыл бұрын

I love the Beatles and I love Led Zeppelin, this is great stuff! An excellent parody in good taste!

@kandeman50 16 жыл бұрын

This was nothing short of brilliant. They have incorporated numerous Beatle riffs, harmonies, hooks and other musical cues into a thoroughly amusing rendition of Stairway. Maybe the Ruttles did it first, but this was truly unique by taking the tired old Zep classic and infusing it with early Beatles styling. The mimicking of classic Beatles movements was icing on the cake. Thoroughly professional and entertaining.

@Billinois78 Жыл бұрын

I remember my dad telling me about the time he saw The Beatnix playing at Madison Square Cavern. Rinzo played a half-hour version of the "Moby Dick's Garden in the Shade" drum solo.

@bryandaley5738 2 жыл бұрын

I have never seen this before. It is both hilarious and excellent as well as a very creative take on how the mid-60’s fab 4 would play this tune. Super fun

@litterboxplayhouse 13 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine if they had actually wrote this song and released it like this? Something tells me that it still would've been a hit, although a hit with highly mysterious lyrics for the time period...

@chrisst8922 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite cover of Stairway, I find myself playing it like this most times, In case the viewer didn't spot it the backing is I Want To Hold Your Hand and Twist And Shout.

@walesdad 13 жыл бұрын

Words cannot describe how great this is,always brings a smile to my face.

@KnightBiologist 7 жыл бұрын

Crazy man, just cuh-razy! Love it.

@F1Fanatic 11 жыл бұрын

This is hysterical...

@oreokitty116 8 жыл бұрын

I love this so much!

@rayl6901 Ай бұрын

FANTASTIC!!!!!

@rcentinella 13 жыл бұрын

An awsome and so beautiful confusion. These guys are simply great!!!! The Beatles should be pleased!

@IbanezArtist85 6 жыл бұрын

I love it! This is so well done. These guys are great!

@maxhlz 11 жыл бұрын

Instant eargasm!

@peterolbrisch1653 2 жыл бұрын

This isn't just the Beatles. this is early Beatles and they still rock this song.

@macdonad 4 жыл бұрын

Just discovered this. Utter genius.

@Joshhieyify 4 жыл бұрын

Should've named it "I wanna stairway to heaven:

@JosephMichaelSoos 2 жыл бұрын

I wanna heave your stairway and shout.

@Aviatrix23 16 жыл бұрын

Great imitators. They knew how to incorporate different trademark moves and vocalizations to adapt it to a non-Beatle song. Very talented.

@jinura 14 жыл бұрын

As both a Zeppelin and a Beatles fan i think this made both my days laugh, and gave me 3 minutes of great music..

@fritstimmersr4293 4 жыл бұрын

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow I love this version

@BuddyBoy600alt 8 жыл бұрын

Let's hope UMG_MK does not get this song blocked.

@mrdumbname 13 жыл бұрын

i actually want to learn how to play this and sing it, this is honestly genius

@TheDejael 8 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is WAY COOL!

@kenzhou807 7 жыл бұрын

please listen this reverse song..

@TeleNikon 5 жыл бұрын

This is astonishing.

@SuperNevile 9 жыл бұрын

What was on the B side.....let me guess...."Whole Lotta Love" in the style of "Twist and Shout"

@DandyLion662a 7 жыл бұрын

Now if they could just reverse-engineer something like All My Loving into something similar to Zep's Stairway. That would be treat.

@kevinhendryx665 7 жыл бұрын

"Kashmir" as country-western, featuring Ringo on vocals.

@karleneblaser1261 6 жыл бұрын

NO! Just NO!

@meyou-dv8ns 5 жыл бұрын

Get back - good times style , and i do not mean JJ Evans Kid Dynomight

@chrisst8922 3 жыл бұрын

Twist and Shout is at the end of this one.

@MentallyGuitarded12 8 жыл бұрын

If you play this backward and listen carefully you can hear "Satan wants to hold your hand".

@LCDSZephiris 8 жыл бұрын

+Martin Genesius Hahaha made my day

@matt1524 7 жыл бұрын

hahahahaaha

@getulioprates 7 жыл бұрын

Best Commment ever!!!

@just1again 12 жыл бұрын

This is GENIUS!

@boogiefever1985 16 жыл бұрын

All that glitters is gold, and this is definitely GOLD

@pcsbeat 10 жыл бұрын

Genius!

@fossie32 10 жыл бұрын

Hehehe hahaha they are going to the toppermost of the poppermost!

@hsslaw 14 жыл бұрын

This is great. It would have gone straight to #1 in 1965!

@vortexfilmmakers4045 7 жыл бұрын

So catchy

@alexyamach3635 9 жыл бұрын

This is hilarious. Australia's version of The Rutles

@derekrichardson9133 8 жыл бұрын

nah, listen to it backwards and it says 'its been a hard days satanic rite'

@GroovyShelly 11 жыл бұрын

This is so friggin' wonderful.

@amsedelm 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant!!! Ha ha!!!

@sd31263 7 жыл бұрын

Shows that the lyrics to "Stairway" are pretty ridiculous when taken out of context. Actually, they're pretty ridiculous in context, too.

@lordcinturon 5 жыл бұрын

Also how long winded and indulgent zep was sometimes. They managed to cut this song to about 1/3 the length.

@belladonichaze3213 4 жыл бұрын

@@lordcinturon oh stop

@JumpingTomato 14 жыл бұрын

Hahaha :) It's actually pretty impressive people can cover Stairway like this! It had the typical Beatles-vibe to it! Hilarious!

@davidsydow6524 3 жыл бұрын

This is way beyond brilliant!

@vootie99 12 жыл бұрын

BEST... VERSION... EVER...

@TheAppleTreez 11 жыл бұрын

My ears are confused...

@tyumi9319 9 жыл бұрын

Rick Wright on lead vocals it looks.

@BruceCoble 8 жыл бұрын

+Tyler Costa Actually, it was me doing the John, Steven Shipley doing the Paul, David Wood doing the George & John Taylor doing the Ringo...lots of fun too...and produced by Keith Walker!

@nickfriend9677 8 жыл бұрын

No, his name is John Lennon

@BruceCoble 8 жыл бұрын

Hi The. No, that is not John Lennon, it was me pretending to be John...though thanks for the compliment :)

@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke 10 жыл бұрын

This is awesome!

@guitarjamesadc 12 жыл бұрын

This was Awesome! Just to hear a twist on such a classic song!

@richbutcher4466 3 жыл бұрын

Again, another example of Led Zeppelin stealing a song and claiming it as their own!

@tikibongo99 10 жыл бұрын

The Beatnix's version is better than Led Zep's version.

@pedrosantos3712 9 жыл бұрын

wtf

@Philmod68 8 жыл бұрын

+Dave F Hahaha! I agree Dave!

@EthanAndViolaVlogs 7 жыл бұрын

Dave F NO. NO!!!!

@Bexter_109 6 жыл бұрын

What

@roshic2314 5 жыл бұрын

Dave F fuck

@ChantMacleod 13 жыл бұрын

Amazing and perfect.

@tgassen 9 жыл бұрын

OMG, this is GREAT!

@jackoclub 16 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely brilliant and original! Who would have tought!!! LOL

@rocknrollroy2007 14 жыл бұрын

The Beatnix are awesome! I absolutely love this! Very tastefully done.

@TheBeetools 14 жыл бұрын

Very Well done!!! I had a great pleasure watching this video ...

@dabble778 15 жыл бұрын

Riffboy, yr a genius ;-) This song was from a TV show where Stairway was played in many different styles. The Beatnix did it in a Beatles style, there was a country version, even Rolf Harris with wobbleboard. It was all in good fun. I saw this band in the late 1980s and they were excellent. They play very close to the records & obviusly love The Beatles. Methinx you are just a flamer anyway. Have another beer...

@TonyHickschick 8 жыл бұрын

Love,love,love this!

@SophieAmazing 15 жыл бұрын

This is AMAZING!

@Galantski 13 жыл бұрын

Kudos for a truly brilliant arrangement.

@themofc 16 жыл бұрын

love the PLEASE PLEASE ME lick. this is fab. now, that's entertainment. lots of work went in to this. great production value.

@mussman717word 15 жыл бұрын

That is so kick-ass, man. It's like retro heaven, man. 2 of THE BEST bands ever!

@JohnD640 12 жыл бұрын

They used to get a guest on this show to do a version of this song every week. The Rolf Harris one got into the charts over here and then he did an album of rock covers!

@JohnSmith-oj6ir Ай бұрын

Outstanding!

@MattDrumBat 14 жыл бұрын

The best version of this song EVER!!!!!!!!! A little "That Thing You Do " before the end part.

@mylovesongs2429 5 жыл бұрын

LOL Great stuff!!! Thanks for sharing!!

@AirKIng74 13 жыл бұрын

Both bands (The Beatles and Led Zeppelin) are great. That's why both of them are still listened to today. I certainly can't predict the same thing happening to other singer today. coughbiebercough

@ohforrobbie 8 жыл бұрын

This is exquisite!! Brilliant!

@rentmusical2010 13 жыл бұрын

Fab! I love Beatles and Led Zeppelin - and I have a sense of humor and fine tuned sense of music appreciation that "gets it." Thanks! (No sacred cows were harmed in this production.)