British guitarist analyses The Easybeats' hidden technical mastery!

Tonight we're going back to the 60's to take a look at The Easybeats performing 'Friday on my Mind' thanks to Studio Hamburg who have allowed us access to this exclusive performance!

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[Gd]

This song is about 25 years ahead of it's time. And it hasn't gotten old or dated. Songwriting perfection. Straight to the point, no fluff no filler. Just brilliant on all levels.

[pleasantvalleypickerca]

How did I miss this!? One of the greatest songs ever written! Anyone working a Monday to Friday job totally gets this masterpiece!!!!

[thejoker-iemm]

Yesss I remember this band 🤩(I'm 62) Many thanks from Italy for this video 👍

[deniseorvik]

I was the president of the Easybeats fan club, many times I went to the house in Burwood

[EddieBlatt]

YES, YES, YES.
I tried playing this song as the lead guitarist in a rock band in the early 70s, but we collectively couldn’t pull it off. Why? Because it has ‘hidden technical mastery! 50 years later I still can’t play it properly. 😂Thanks Phil, it’s about time someone noticed just how sophisticated this song really is!

[WillyDaC]

As an official geezer and a working musician in the 60's, this song was catchy enough to grab attention. However today, at 72 years old, I only just realized that I've basically been a fan of the Young family nearly my entire life. My mind is officially blown.

[DocReasonable]

Incidentally, Stevie Wright is only 19 here. George Young was only just 20. And this is after they'd already had years' worth of smash hits in Australia. LEGENDS!

[shellylyndsley]

Wish we still had music like this around today. Love the sound. Thanks Fil 😙

[granthurlburt]

I still love this song. I truly believe that pop music from the mid-Sxties to the mid-Seventies was like a movement in painting, a unique movement when there was relative freedom in at least Europe and North America due to a pretty good economy, the baby boom of youth liberated from the "fears that our parents grew by", and the volume and new sounds provided by electrical amplification and electric guitars. The musicians were musicians and composers before they wanted to ber rock stars.

[stephenclark]

One of my favorite songs from the 60's. Nice pick!!

[queenslander]

Absolutely, and the that smile on Stevie’s face is always hypnotically intoxicating.

[anEyePhil]

I'm 72 and grew up on these guys 1965+. Check out their other unique songs/sound - Sorry - Come and see her - Good Times - Women. Rhythm and lead guitars were George Young and Harry Vanda. They later wrote some great tunes eg Love is in the Air. I was so grateful to be a teenager then. They were Australia's Beatles.

[stephensmith]

Stevie's tale was one of tremendous highs and lows ... I would talk to Stevie on Wednesday afternoons when heading to school sport as he was in a convalescent hospital in the 70's in Sydney . The hospital specialised in "deep sleep therapy" which was exposed as a killing field, he was lucky to survive . He was polite and friendly despite being sedated . He later hit the heights again later with Evie parts 1 & 2 but addiction continued to riddle his body
and performances became few until his death . Meanwhile Vander and Young continued to thrive giving early impetuous to ACDC and became master producers .

[louiserawle]

Yaay thanks Fil..loved the easy beats, great Aussie band

[trixier]

IAhhh, the sheer exuberance of being young in the Sixties! What a time to be young! I miss it so much.

[johncarterbrown]

One of my all time favourite songs from the 60s - I was born in 1950. I saw a video clip somewhere of Stevie Wright, talking about this song. He said it was written in a key that was a bit too high for him. If you watch him singing it live you can sympathise with him. Great singer and front man though.

[tezzrterry]

Harry Vanda, and the Youngs were a powerhouse of rock music. They influenced so much.

[markbyfield]

Arguably the best Australian song ever written

[danielroberts]

Legend has it that when Paul McCartney first heard 'Friday On My Mind' on the radio he rang the station and asked them to play it again.

[agatta]

thank you for that! I love the Easybeats and Stevie is one of my favorite frontmen, he was amazing on stage ❤️