[Music] RIP Steve Priest

[The Large One]

Bass player from The Sweet.

"We just haven't got a clue what to do..."

 

[Chicken Run]

Bass player from The Sweet.

"We just haven't got a clue what to do..."

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I haven’t a clue who he is but RIP Steve [emoji29]

 

[pasty]

Loved The Sweet back in the day

 

[Is it PotG?]

Used to scare me as a young lad, no idea why. 1.35 - 1.45.

RIP

 

[Worried Man Blues]

My dad used to come in and see me watching them on TOTP and mutter shake his head wander away, brilliant RIP

 

[lawros left foot]

They might be the first band I ever saw live, can’t remember if it was Sweet or Slade.

Very different band live, than the ‘Wigwam Bam’ ‘Little Willy Willy’ chart music band.

Excellent live.

RIP Steve.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

I adored Sweet when I was a young girl. Ticked all the boxes for someone my age then, but even now I look back and think they were bloody brilliant, and not just because I fancied the lead singer. Easy to dismiss by music connoisseurs, but they were definitely the best of their type (in my humble opinion).

 

[Lower West Stander]

For all my tastes in alternative music I absolutely loved Sweet.

Excellent songs well produced by Chinnichap, charismatic stage presence and a great flamboyant front man.

And Andy Scott was way ahead of his time.....

 

[timbha]

I adored Sweet when I was a young girl. Ticked all the boxes for someone my age then, but even now I look back and think they were bloody brilliant, and not just because I fancied the lead singer. Easy to dismiss by music connoisseurs, but they were definitely the best of their type (in my humble opinion).

Brian Connolly was the lead singer

 

[Is it PotG?]

Brian Connolly was the lead singer

It's a PUPPET!

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Brian Connolly was the lead singer

Yes, I know. And I fancied him. In fact, I was probably in love with him.

 

[GT49er]

Sweet - best known for cheesy but catchy glam-pop - but like several bands of that ilk (Slade and Mud for example) they could actually play and were, when not earning a living playing cheesy pop, pretty good bands.
Anyway, RIP Steve.

 

[pasty]

Sweet - best known for cheesy but catchy glam-pop - but like several bands of that ilk (Slade and Mud for example) they could actually play and were, when not earning a living playing cheesy pop, pretty good bands.
Anyway, RIP Steve.

Well after their heyday and back when I was in the RAF we booked MUD for a gig in the NAAFI. Was a bloody brilliant cheese-tastic night. Would have been '82 or '83.

 

[blue'n'white]

RIP Steve - never saw the original band but I saw the other (Andy Scott) version of Sweet last year at a festival - excellent musicianship.
Good memories of the early 70s and some classic tracks.

 

[pearl]

Yes, I know. And I fancied him. In fact, I was probably in love with him.

Brother of Mark McManus (Taggart)

 

[studio150]

Always preferred Slade over Sweet but still today if a Sweet song comes on the radio, I immediately recognise it as Sweet and know the song, they were that big in the 70s.

RIP

 

[GT49er]

Brother of Mark McManus (Taggart)

Step brother.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Saw a lot of bands in the 70's but Sweet at The Dome 1973 remains one of my favourite gigs. There were a lot of mums & dads with their kids present as I expect they thought Sweet were an inoffensive Glam Rock poptastic kind of band, WRONG! The show opened with 'The stripper' blasting out over the P.A. with a back projection on stage of some bird taking all her kit off. When she got down to nothing Sweet ran on stage, Mick Tucker did an almighty 'Gob' across his drums and they burst into Hellraiser with the amps turned up to 11. They played all their hits but a lot of heavier stuff which they used to put on the 'B' sides of the singles. One of the loudest and funniest bands I ever saw, RIP Steve and thankyou.

I think this was recorded on the same tour that we saw them, the sounds a bit shaky at the start but it was 47 years ago!

 

[papajaff]

Brilliant band, massive part of my youth along with so many other fantastic bands of that time.

RIP Steve

 

[Marxo]

Very good bass player. Just watched this "Sea of Tranquility" video (a great music channel) about the Sweet's albums.
Really good and informed review.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2etoMr_1I