billc
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Post by billc on Jan 5, 2012 21:02:13 GMT
Looking up the Yes gig at the Victoria Ground on the 17th May 1975.
One of the supporting bands was the Sensational Alex Harvey Band who did there cover version of " Delilah". I wonder whether this was the first time that it was ever sung at a Stoke ground?
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Post by stokie_back_in_notts on Jan 5, 2012 23:19:03 GMT
Not sure if it was the first time Delilah was sung but I can confirm that SAHB sang their version of Delilah as I was there. The other abiding memory was the downpour that happened before YES came on stage and Patrick Moraz (who was then the keyboard player) having to wipe the keys of the grand piano with a towel before playing. I don't remember any claims of illegal use of a towel though
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 5, 2012 23:26:53 GMT
Yes promised to return to do a free gig as that one had to be cut short due to it getting a touch dangerous on stage with the rain.
Anything been announced yet?
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Post by pretzel on Jan 5, 2012 23:39:07 GMT
I was there too  |
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Post by theteacher on Jan 6, 2012 0:03:48 GMT
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Post by wagsastokie on Jan 6, 2012 9:48:26 GMT
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Post by torquaypotter on Jan 6, 2012 10:31:21 GMT
Thank you very much not seen that for ages .I remember watching that live on the o g w t once again you,ve made an old man very happy lol
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Post by conzdad on Jan 6, 2012 11:17:11 GMT
If you are into Yes then check out Canadian band Mystery excellent stuff and their singer is one Benoit David who has just toured with Yes as replacement for Jon Anderson.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 12:33:39 GMT
awesome awesome thread
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Post by Davef on Jan 6, 2012 12:48:18 GMT
Yes promised to return to do a free gig as that one had to be cut short due to it getting a touch dangerous on stage with the rain. Anything been announced yet? Last I heard they were planning a gig to mark the official completion of the Lorne Street Stand. |
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Post by passtheoatcakes on Jan 6, 2012 13:12:28 GMT
Top quality thread this one. Full of cold and feeling sorry for myself as us blokes are apt to do and the Youtube link made me laugh out loud, so thanks boys! I didn't go to this gig, as I went to see Zeppelin at Earls Court the next day, but I could hear the music in my back garden over a mile away! SAHB were gods and I am SURE this was the first time Delilah was sung at our ground. I prefer this explanation as to why we sing it than the 'Mr Booth claiming it was all his own idea' line. RIP Alex me boy!
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Post by wizzardofdribble on Jan 6, 2012 16:11:43 GMT
SAHB played Trentham Ballroom a few years earlier and their Delilah and 'St Anthony' will NEVER be forgotten Knocks that Welsh windbag into a cocked-hat  |
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Post by madelinesmithmmmh on Jan 6, 2012 16:21:49 GMT
Apart from the rain, 2 memories (I am pretty sure from that day)
The use of an aerosol can by Alex defacing some of Yes's white curtains.
Him warning a couple of lads about to stop a territory dispute in the crowd by a simple "Not while I'm on stage" in his soft Glasgow burr. They did.
BTW - Better Yes gig was a couple of years earlier at Trentham Ballroom on a blazing summer day. Playing football earlier and finding out half of Yes were in our team, then Jon Anderson aplologising they couldn't do "Starship Trooper" without some effects!
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Post by papasmurf69 on Jan 6, 2012 17:37:54 GMT
Does anyone know when fans started singing Delilah? I remember it being sung when I was young (not too long ago) but always thought it was a new thing back then.
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Post by meatus on Jan 6, 2012 18:25:58 GMT
Apart from the rain, 2 memories (I am pretty sure from that day) The use of an aerosol can by Alex defacing some of Yes's white curtains. Him warning a couple of lads about to stop a territory dispute in the crowd by a simple "Not while I'm on stage" in his soft Glasgow burr. They did. BTW - Better Yes gig was a couple of years earlier at Trentham Ballroom on a blazing summer day. Playing football earlier and finding out half of Yes were in our team, then Jon Anderson aplologising they couldn't do "Starship Trooper" without some effects! He sprayed "Vambo Rool" across the backdrop SAHB played Trentham in spring 77 - still got the badges in the loft |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Jan 6, 2012 20:12:08 GMT
FFS allelujah! Been saying this for yonks that Delilah originated from this gigg which I attended but have been shot down in flames by those supposedly ITK . Alex Harvey led several hundred Stokies singing Delilah and it stuck ever since. Every other story is pure bollox.
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Post by thirtyeiighth on Jan 6, 2012 21:57:32 GMT
The very first time i myself heard Delilah sung by stoke fans was when i was a young kid going one of my first away fixtures with my older brother, we were on our way to Bolton, round about 1977 i think. we caught the PMT special from Longton Bus Station.
A load of lads at the back of the bus sang this almost all the way to Burden Park.(apart from when the bus stopped at traffic lights and every body just opened the little windows and gobbed on any body who was silly enough to be standing close!)
So yeh, the SAHB link does seem to be closer to the mark.
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Post by pretzel on Jan 7, 2012 0:17:01 GMT
and yes it is a genuine, authentic recording of the first time it was sung on The Boothen End. Not bad for a 36 year old bootleg eh? |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 7, 2012 0:29:59 GMT
FFS allelujah! Been saying this for yonks that Delilah originated from this gigg which I attended but have been shot down in flames by those supposedly ITK . Alex Harvey led several hundred Stokies singing Delilah and it stuck ever since. Every other story is pure bollox. Yet there isn't anybody who can remember Delilah being sung on the Boothen in the 70's on a matchday.  |
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Post by str8outtahampton on Jan 7, 2012 10:42:57 GMT
FFS allelujah! Been saying this for yonks that Delilah originated from this gigg which I attended but have been shot down in flames by those supposedly ITK . Alex Harvey led several hundred Stokies singing Delilah and it stuck ever since. Every other story is pure bollox. Yet there isn't anybody who can remember Delilah being sung on the Boothen in the 70's on a matchday. It's always going to be difficult to establish the origin of something like this - and memory is in any case notoriously unreliable. But I am reasonably confident that the reason no-one can remember D being sung on the Boothen on a matchday in the years following the SAHB appearance is that it wasn't. And nor was it sung at that time at away matches either. That does not of course mean that it wasn't given an airing on the back of a PMT en route to Burnden Park in 1977/78 *. And nor does it mean that the May 1975 concert was not the original prompt - although the alternative explanation (police warn sweary fans in away pub in the 80s, who then start singing the song that was playing on the juke box - the Tom "Jones the Groans" version of D) seems more plausible. * Incidentally, I think this was the game where for a period of about 10 mins in the second half rival fans on the open end pelted each other with coins. |
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Post by Paul Spencer on Jan 7, 2012 11:59:55 GMT
The OP said it stuck ever since the Alex Harvey gig - it didn't.
The reason nobody can remember it being sung on the Boothen in the 70's is because (as you've correctly said) it wasn't sung on the Boothen until the 80's.
It's one helluva stretch to suggest that a few hundred hippies signing along to it at the Vic in the 1975 was the original prompt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2012 12:07:53 GMT
Im with Paul Spencer on this one- it was never sung on the Boothen or anywhere else i travelled in the 1970s.
I went to Bolton in 1977 mentioned earlier on one of the coaches from the ground- it wasnt sung there either but there wasnt much singing done as i recall- as the terracing was ripped up for use as missiles injuring around 100 ( it wasnt coins so much as oil drums and rocks which caused the damage)
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Post by The man from Utch on Jan 7, 2012 12:27:56 GMT
Yes promised to return to do a free gig as that one had to be cut short due to it getting a touch dangerous on stage with the rain. Anything been announced yet? So big name rock bands as well as big name teams don't fancy playing on a wet and windy night at Stoke  |
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Post by guernseydave on Jan 7, 2012 13:44:47 GMT
I started going to away games in 1975. I never heard Delilah until the 80's either.
Now some other songs ;D
GD
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Post by woodin43 on Jan 7, 2012 18:11:54 GMT
Delilah definitely wasn't sung in the 70's after this gig, but I definitely think it originates from this version rather than the Tom Jones one. I've always thought that. I couldn't get tickets for this and had to make do with listening from my house in Fenton. I saw SAHB at Trentham afterwards....brilliant band!! Thanks for the link, Pretzel...oh and nice pic of Zal too!
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Post by pretzel on Jan 7, 2012 22:08:51 GMT
Delilah definitely wasn't sung in the 70's after this gig, but I definitely think it originates from this version rather than the Tom Jones one. I've always thought that. I couldn't get tickets for this and had to make do with listening from my house in Fenton. I saw SAHB at Trentham afterwards....brilliant band!! Thanks for the link, Pretzel...oh and nice pic of Zal too! Much as I'd love it to be so because I'm a fan of the band, I think it's just coincidental that SAHB sung it on The Boothen a decade before it became a terrace anthem. The question keeps cropping up and all I can do is keep putting this video up to support the most likely explanation of Why Why Why it gets sung |
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Post by wagsastokie on Jan 8, 2012 2:46:58 GMT
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Post by bobnolan on Apr 23, 2020 7:45:23 GMT
and yes it is a genuine, authentic recording of the first time it was sung on The Boothen End. Not bad for a 36 year old bootleg eh? Hey...wondering where you found that recording of delilah from 1975 as i am tge guy who recorded it!!! I lost the tape in 1982 at a party and knew it by heart as i listened to it so often. I gavent heard it since tgen. Im gobsmacked!!!!! |
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Post by werrington on Apr 23, 2020 7:57:59 GMT
Yes promised to return to do a free gig as that one had to be cut short due to it getting a touch dangerous on stage with the rain. Anything been announced yet? Last I heard they were planning a gig to mark the official completion of the Lorne Street Stand. Wtf are they waiting for then? 8 years after you posted that it’s been completed ....well the seats are in but underneath is sill a building site apparently with no amenities or toilets, slowly slowly its getting there 😊 |
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Post by somersetstokie on Apr 23, 2020 8:00:13 GMT
Toilets are a controversial issue at the Vale, and in fact are rarely mentioned.
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