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RIP Wilko Johnson

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  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    So sad at this. I know it shouldn't be a surprise and I hated seeing the Wilko thread come to the top of the Charlton Life pile because I always feared the worst. Great musician and a top bloke. RIP.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    edited November 2022
    https://youtu.be/LeoKCJNI-k4

    Wilko and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home

    Love this video.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Great entertainer with personality. RIP. So sad
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/LeoKCJNI-k4

    Wilko and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home

    Love this video.
    That track and the album it's from (same name) are both  tremendous.
  • Oakster2
    Oakster2 Posts: 312
    edited November 2022
    what a phenomenal band DF were - the YouTube video of their opening few songs in Southend is as visceral as rock and roll gets!

    https://youtu.be/GzF0AETdRF8
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    RIP. Great guitarist. Saw him back in the early 80s at the Tramshed. Last time I saw him was supporting Stranglers at UEA in Norwich. 
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    RIP Wilko. True guitar legend and great performer. Saw Dr. Feel good many times and Down By The Jetty is still regularly listened to by me. She Does It Right with that Wilko guitar is fabulous. RIP
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Oh bloody hell this is sad news.  My in-laws used to love Dr Feelgood.  He was supposed to be doing a gig sometime around/after xmas in London that my bro-in-law was taking his Mum and my wife to in honour of their Dad.

    RIP Wilko
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    edited November 2022
    Very sad news.  Saw Wilco and the solid Senders at a student gig at Thames Poly many years ago. I'll always remember the first time I saw the feelgoods on TV.  Someone posted the clip earlier in the thread.  It was a program called "The Geordie scene". I could never work out how a band from Essex got on to this show.  I'm glad they did, they really owned the stage that day.
    RIP Wilco.
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    Alex Wright said:
    Very sad news.  Saw Wilco and the solid Senders at a student gig at Thames Poly many years ago. I'll always remember the first time I saw the feelgoods on TV.  Someone posted the clip earlier in the thread.  It was a program called "The Geordie scene". I could never work out how a band from Essex got on to this show.  I'm glad they did, they really owned the stage that day.
    RIP Wilco.
    Dr Feelgood were the first band me and my mates got into as a kid. So much energy and character.

    Bought blues to life in the UK.
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  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    So sad, he put so much energy and love into the music he played, he even managed to defy death for a good while while he continued touring and playing great rock n roll.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    Amazing talent; one of a kind - we won't see his like again.

    RIP
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    I was playing the Daltrey album and Doctor Feelgood albums all day yesterday. YouTube took a bashing as well, one where he is giving a masterclass on his guitar style. One of a kind and a hugely underrated guitarist. 

    RIP Wilko - you made the most of that extra time you were given.
  • CostaFortune
    CostaFortune Posts: 402

  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    Shame. All the best Wilko - RIP
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    edited November 2022
    Came home from school one day in the early-ish '70s, turned on the telly and Dr Feelgood were on some kids music show.  Blew my tiny mind.  I only saw Wilko live once but he was superb.  RIP.

    Edit: the TV appearance must have been The Geordie Scene performance mentioned above.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/LeoKCJNI-k4

    Wilko and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home

    Love this video.
    Not just Wilko and Roger but Norman Watt-Roy, bass player from The Blockheads.
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    I remember seeing this clip a couple of years back, really good.👍🏻
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    I watched Oil City Confidential last night, a cracking documentary by Julien Temple with lots of Wilko input. Mrs Brilleaux Snr is the real star though.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    AddicksAddict said:
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    https://youtu.be/LeoKCJNI-k4

    Wilko and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home

    Love this video.
    Not just Wilko and Roger but Norman Watt-Roy, bass player from The Blockheads.
    And the drummer is Dylan Howe, son of guitarist Steve of Yes fame, who also joined The Blockheads albeit only a few years before the death of Ian Dury and some 20 years after the original band's formation.
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,781
    Tom Robinson on Radio 6 at the moment doing a tribute show to Wilko.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    bobmunro said:
    I was playing the Daltrey album and Doctor Feelgood albums all day yesterday. YouTube took a bashing as well, one where he is giving a masterclass on his guitar style. One of a kind and a hugely underrated guitarist. 

    RIP Wilko - you made the most of that extra time you were given.
    That masterclass is a classic - as a guitarist myself I tried to copy it and I can tell you he makes it look so easy but there was only one Wilko Johnson!
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,441
    https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-wilko-johnson-inspired-paul-weller-and-the-jam/

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