Mick Green was a legend 🤘🤘🤘

The band I saw the most in the 70s..the gigs were so intense..just brilliant! .great blokes too..I was a proper punk back in 78 and this great band had an 80% punk audience coz they could cut it..seriously play up against any of the new bands and we loved it..they even played top bill at reading in 78..that was a heck of a thing for a band with its roots in the early 60s..so yeah this band are my heroes!

Met this lot after a gig in Folkestone 77, absolute gents...and what a show!

Mick Green taught so many of the guitarist's of his time how to really play a guitar, I saw him play 10 times & Clapton about 8 times, so I know the difference, and I played bass guitar for a famous group of the time & met them personally, but both were fantastic. Memories for life!

Сильнейшие рокеры суперская группа рок 🎸 навсегда здорово 👍

just discovered the pirates after Wilko Johnson said Mick Green was his guitar hero...holy cow what a guitarist. ..rip

One of, if not the best live versions where you can hear the lyrics and not garbled rubbish

Wilko Johnson sent me here, why you ask....well, Wilko was a honest sort of man who without attempting to became a legend. Wilko consistently stated Mick Green as his mentor his inspiration . Another guitar player mentioned Mick Green also, that would be Pete Townsend, yes THAT Pete. Wilko refined what he learned from Mick. Wilko always went to extremes to make it known about Mick, this is a main reason, one of the main reasons, why I think Wilko is a legend , a legend to friendship and loyalty,, oh yeah he was a genius on the guitar , a Telecaster of course

RIP Mick, the world has lost a Great guitarist

Saw them at the Greyhound Fulham Palace Road, I believe they recorded Out of their Skulls there, excellent

Excellent and thank you.🇬🇧

How everything is perfectly divided between vocal and guitar. The rhythm section is great. I'm going crazy... Since 1979, when I first heard Mick Green ! Russia is thrilled... and for a long time...

This is the REAL rock'n roll! GREAT BAND!

Mick Green had a touch of magic about him, he could switch it and drop back and then explode, incredible. I was lucky to meet him late on, totally unassuming nice bloke.

A phenomenal band! Up there with Led Zep, ZZ Topp and The Who - The Pirates should have been as big as those other power trios. You might disagree (feel free) but maybe Frank the drummer wasn’t quite up with Keith and Bonzo. But as for raw power and sheer rock, The Pirates were the best!

simply the best ever.....long live the Pirates.

Whow,what a powerful Rock n´Roll Band! We love it! The Pirates,absolutely great Musicians!

Micky Green - Master of The Telecaster!!

2:40 - Mick Green was a genius. Great playing and great tone.

A really good old Rockpalace/"Rockpalast" Concert from 1979! What a splendid Guitarplayer! We love The Pirates! This old great Fender Telecaster Electricguitar rocks wonderful! Special greetings from Berlin-Kreuzberg/West-Germany.

Yeah! Rock and Roll!

Green used to play lead and rythm at the same time, shit knows how but the mman was awesome. I saw them at Sheffield and Torquat in '79. Brilliant!!!

Now thats what you call a Rock and Roll band.POW.

Best sound, best rock'n'roll!

I bought The Skull Wars 1978, and it hit like the hammer. This sounds still damned good.

l saw them a few times right at the height of punk in the UK... They seemed to fit in perfectly.

just a great band,love em.

Just fantastic ❤👍

"Best sound, best rock'n'roll!"

Nobody wears a tele like Mick. R.I.P. a one off.

THE Power Trio.

Yeah! Thanx for this! Frickin' AWESOME!!!

fantastic! Its not easy to make the go go go sing interestingly. wish I’d seen them in late 1970s

great band,love em'

Saw these guys around the same time as this at the Music machine Camden and I guarantee they were the real deal...

Best cover

Saw rthem live in the '70s. Unbeatable.

Geil! Thanks for posting this.

What a fucking rocking band

Very talented

Kickin' ass and taking names!!! Bonus Comment: AND they're all out of bubble gum...

Yeah

These guys kick but!!!🤟🎸🔥

Mick Green is above the crowd. What a great version of this classic tune?

Gooooooöd!

Power n speed 👍👍👍👍

when rock was rock.

Tavastia-club. Helsinki. Finland 1978.

What Rockers

Mick Green is the british Link Wray

More energy than a nuclear power station!

This video or for that matter any video of this band doesn't do them justice. The live shows were Incredible...

this knocks the J Hendrix version into a cocked hat!

This band never fail to deliver. Hilarious timing on the caption, 3 minutes in! Like, how many times have you heard him sing "Johnny B. Goode" when it fades on? Great stuff though.

3000 miles per hour.

@admanphoto On Wilco's web site interview, he says he tried to copy Mick, and thought he had. Then once Wilco had perfected his style, he realized he hadn't. By then Wilco had his own unique style.

Bloody hell, Mick Green was goooooooood!

Go.

Good band, a lot better than many of the punk bands, but lacking the right image for the times.

Sounds like a Bermondsey boy? I was too busy on Clash and Ruts back then. forgot about these guys, Where psycobilly was born.

Japanese Futoshi Abe followed Mick Green.

LOL...Mick and Wilko - when too much pharmaceutical grade speed was barely enough

:D

Mick Fecking Green

I saw The Pirates live in late December 1979 at The Birmingham Odeon, when they supported AC/DC on the extended leg of the Highway to Hell Tour, where Def Leppard has been support for the original dates. Sadly, the drums were so loud that they drowned out the sound of the rest of the band.

try a band called charlie croker and the providers on you tube a punky rnb outfit from the 90's, cab driver, the croker , can't get enough and others are excellent

Does anyone have the lyrics?

This Drives-The Dogs Bo--ocks.......

Some people say: "Clapton is God". I've always believed that if God wanted to play guitar, he'd want to play like Mick Green.

It was called pub rock for a very good reason.

Great band all of em but well looking at the drummer...well now we know who ate all the pies!!!

Put a shirt on Frank!!

Is this the same band as Johnny Kid and the pirate's?

jep

In "G"

mr green was the boss

JOHN BELLUCI DRUMMER

I just got listen to that "amazing version" and I don't like it. Very amateurish, no ball's and poor audio quality, sorry! No one can equal this Pirates version: strong voice, straight bass and unique guitar and drum playing. Pure energy, just my opinium.

Crap

Mike Green is great man..but sounds like he play wrong notes..start G, is`t too down..gotta be C

Singer is weak

Crap !!!