Portugal. The Man - People Say [Live At Stubbs]

Live performance of "People Say" by Portugal. The Man off their album, The Satanic Satanist, at Stubbs.

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Lyrics:
Save me, I can't be saved
I won't
I'm a president's son
I don't need no soul

All the soldiers say
"It'll be alright,
We may make it through the war
If we make it through the night."
All the people, they say:
"What a lovely day, yeah, we won the war.
May have lost a million men, but we've got a million more."
All the people, they say.

Share with me all of your pain
I won't
Share your love
I need all your love

All the soldiers say
"It'll be alright,
We may make it through the war
If we make it through the night."
All the people, they say:
"What a lovely day, yeah, we won the war.
May have lost a million men, but we've got a million more."
All the people, they say.

Save me, I can't be saved
I won't
I don't need no love
I'm a president's son

All the soldiers say
"It'll be alright,
We may make it through the war
If we make it through the night."
All the people, they say:
"What a lovely day, yeah, we won the war.
May have lost a million men, but we've got a million more."
All the people, they say

It'll be alright, It'll be alright
It'll be right now
It'll be alright, It'll be alright
It'll be right now

It'll be alright, It'll be alright
It'll be right now
All the people, they say

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Portugal. The Man took 2017 by the horns after a considerably long gap, between records. They spent years working on an album called Gloomin + Doomin before later developing what would become known as their latest studio album WOODSTOCK. Fate struck lead singer, John Gourley, twice. First, John got some parental tough love from his old man. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?,” John’s dad asked. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” The whole thing got John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and more importantly, about how to get off of it. Second, John found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival, which ultimately knocked something loose in his head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them.

With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and threw it out. The band went back to the studio – working with John Hill, Danger Mouse and longtime collaborator Casey Bates. In this new-found creative territory, the album that became WOODSTOCK rolled out naturally from there. Fast forward to present day and it was impossible to escape the album’s first single “Feel It Still,” which dominated the charts and radio airwaves in 2017. The 6X Platinum Certified hit reigned at #1 at nearly all radio formats, including Top 40, as well as Alternative, where the song held the chart’s top spot for a mind-blowing 20 weeks, breaking the record for most weeks at #1. Yes, you read that right. 5 guys from Wasilla, Alaska who have played nearly 1,500 shows in their career broke Alternative radio records and had a #1 song at Pop radio. Billboard Magazine even went as far as to call the song, “the unexpected rock crossover hit of 2017,” while Rolling Stone listed it as “one of the best songs of 2017.” AND THEN…the band kicked off 2018 by winning a GRAMMY Award for “Feel It Still.” WOODSTOCK has since been certified gold, as has their second single “Live In The Moment”.

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[fullmetalfunk]

Don't get the hate for this performance. Sounded good to me. Strings break, shit happens. He played it off perfectly too, like a true frontman should. Kudos to John.

[PhantomOperaTV]

I love it that Gourley was just laughing while singing. That was a REAL rock moment. I'm looking forward to seeing you guys sometime soon. Don't know when, but I waiting for a Wisconsin date!

[gdub]

Portugal. You will always and forever be my favorite band.

[manuelo]

Drove to Austin for this show spontaneously for a friends birthday.
Have seeing them 3 times before in passed tours, this was a defining show for them and they did a solid set. Sold out Stubs.
They have a great commitment for live shows, I recommend you catch them more than once.
PTM + ATX = Best weekend of my life.

[xawhshiiizjess]

Remarkable music, I love these guys dearly <3

[ReadingMay]

God damn, i'd pay for a DVD of this concert

[broncassolver]

It'll be alright It'll be alright all the people they say. I don't think he got embarrased, he know that it is

[manuelo]

I've seen PTM 6 times, I agree this isnt their most solid live show
But if you attend to any of their show, they usually kill every song, when it comes to Live Performance they are high in my book.

[PhantomOperaTV]

No fair. I want to be Portugal's rhythm touring guitarist!

[InWitheNew]

@derpity derp@ they are playing fine. if you listen to it it's actually just a terrible set up job. the guitars don't match the bass tuning and the mic set up is garbage as well. band is performing fine.

[AM-qzcm]

Nice that he laughed at himself when he flubbed the guitar 'solo'.

[AlexandreMoita]

4 People have no soul ;) 664 know what it's about

[peteski]

His guitar tech should have assisted getting him strapping on and plugging in that replacement guitar instead of running straight off. Not great work there tbh….

[thricepudding]

they obviously had a few technical errors throughout like a quarter of the song..

[derpityderp]

@TheBsauced you just dont want to admit they sound bad live.

[RhythmGrizz]

wow... that was embarrassing... poor guy...