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Post by cheeesfreeex on Feb 24, 2018 16:36:48 GMT
Tim
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Feb 24, 2018 21:11:52 GMT
Excellent celebration of OGTW on BBC4 last night.
Danny Baker made some good points to be fair but you get the feeling he's just waiting for other people to draw breath so he can rabbit on ad infinitum.
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Post by claytonscrubs on Feb 24, 2018 21:44:00 GMT
Excellent celebration of OGTW on BBC4 last night. Danny Baker made some good points to be fair but you get the feeling he's just waiting for other people to draw breath so he can rabbit on ad infinitum. I thoroughly enjoyed it.I could listen to whispering Bob Harris soothing voice all night. I’m not a Danny Baker fan, he just loves the sound of his own voice too much...... As for Ann Nightingale, what a stunner she was in those days.😜 And what fantastic hair Gary Numan has for his age...lol 😉
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:39:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:40:22 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:42:23 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:44:36 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:46:11 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:47:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 23:56:02 GMT
Danny Baker probably did not watch it that much. Me? I watched most episodes. In the early days it was very precious usually on at 11.00 pm on a Tuesday night. If you missed it you missed it. There was no facility to record it. No catch up. And definitely no +1. I have posted a few of my favourites, but could go on all night. The great crime is the number of sessions the BBC destroyed.
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Post by Dutchpeter on Feb 25, 2018 0:03:05 GMT
The guitarist in Ducks Deluxe ( who’s name escapes me) was born in Stoke, and was later in The Motors (Airport!). This clip however is a great bit or raw rock n roll (just like Dr Feelgood), and demonstrates one of the more unfashionable precursors of Punk. Edit: and of course Motors bassist Andy Mcmasters is on keyboards in this clip.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 13:07:41 GMT
A few of you may remember and appreciate a little known band called the Smiths.
Their frontman was called Morrissey.
In 1973 he watched this "Mock Rock" and discovered he had an interest in music and that life was worth living after all.
and
I've got The Smiths 1986 OGWT, and also the Melvyn Bragg South Bank Show special "The Smiths - From Start To Finish" on VHS. Somewhere.
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Post by pretzel on Feb 25, 2018 15:57:20 GMT
I've always loved The Whistle Test and watching it on Friday brought back many good memories. As a youngster, stumbling across Whispering Bob late one night on BBC2, it really did feel like you were part of some secret society where they were sharing something new and exciting that was only for discerning people like yourself Watching on Friday was particularly special for me as the first live studio band was someone I'd hosted as a support act at a small gig we put on in Tittensor a couple of years back. It's no surprise to anyone there that night that they've since gone on to get regular Radio 2 airplay as well as appearing at Cambridge and Glastonbury festivals. This is a video from that show
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Feb 25, 2018 16:06:33 GMT
"Ladies & gentlemen in the organ audience, Rory Gallagher."
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Post by harryburrows on Feb 28, 2018 19:51:24 GMT
Bonnie raitte covering one of the brilliant john Prine songs
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Post by cheeesfreeex on Feb 28, 2018 21:56:55 GMT
Bonnie raitte covering one of the brilliant john Prine songs Sturgill Simpson is an interesting newish country dude. There's an hour and a half of him and your mate on youtube.
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Post by The Drunken Communist on Sept 6, 2023 19:56:10 GMT
Having just had this song on I thought I'd check if we had a thread on here, turns out we did but so many of the videos have been deleted, so can we update them...
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Sept 6, 2023 20:06:10 GMT
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Post by Paul Spencer on Sept 6, 2023 23:31:03 GMT
Obviously not from an OGWT original performance but they dug out the original Whistle Test cameras and lighting to create an authentic (non digital) OGWT live recording ...
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Post by Paul Spencer on Sept 6, 2023 23:43:13 GMT
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Post by Paul Spencer on Sept 7, 2023 0:04:46 GMT
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Post by wannabee on Sept 7, 2023 0:24:33 GMT
Ironic on a day when The Stones are back in the news and this old thread gets revived with Rory who declined an invitation
Throughout his career, the great Jimi Hendrix spoke at length of his appreciation for Gallagher’s talents, most notably when he appeared on the long-running popular afternoon talk show, The Mike Douglas Show. Douglas asked Hendrix: “What’s it like to be the best rock guitarist in the world?” and, pausing for a moment, Jimi then beautifully responded: “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Rory Gallagher.”
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Post by elystokie on Sept 7, 2023 6:02:18 GMT
Ironic on a day when The Stones are back in the news and this old thread gets revived with Rory who declined an invitation Throughout his career, the great Jimi Hendrix spoke at length of his appreciation for Gallagher’s talents, most notably when he appeared on the long-running popular afternoon talk show, The Mike Douglas Show. Douglas asked Hendrix: “What’s it like to be the best rock guitarist in the world?” and, pausing for a moment, Jimi then beautifully responded: “I don’t know, you’ll have to ask Rory Gallagher.” The Who, the Stones and a couple of other bands of the day watched Jimi Hendrix at his debut UK gig in a small club in Soho, afterwards, rather than go for a drink with everyone else Pete Townsend wandered off. When asked where he was going he apparently said 'Home, to practice' 😃
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Post by elystokie on Sept 7, 2023 6:34:28 GMT
The legendary John Otway, saw him and Wild Willy Barrett for the umpteenth time at Leek Foxlowe earlier this year, great night, not quite so energetic these days tho 😃
7:24 is when he crashes his bollocks into a speaker, really hurt apparently 😂
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Post by pretzel on Sept 7, 2023 6:59:08 GMT
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Post by Eggybread on Sept 7, 2023 9:45:13 GMT
It was so far behind the times. They had to be practically forced to have the first punk groups on. Some young punks accosted Bob Harris with broken bottles in a London club demanding when they would play some groups on his show. One of Bobs friends got glassed that night and needed 14 stitches. It didn't happen until 1978 when The Adverts played.
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Post by spitthedog on Sept 7, 2023 10:05:53 GMT
It was so far behind the times. They had to be practically forced to have the first punk groups on. Some young punks accosted Bob Harris with broken bottles in a London club demanding when they would play some groups on his show. One of Bobs friends got glassed that night and needed 14 stitches. It didn't happen until 1978 when The Adverts played. I really liked this period where there was a crossover between the old and the new. John Peel encapsulated it, I remember John Peel shows where he would be playing Pink Floyd, Wreckless Eric, Althea and Donna, Duane Eddy, Richard and Linda Thompson, The Four Brothers (Zimbabwe), The Desperate Bicycles, King Tubby, Ivor Cutler, The Ruts, Medicine Head, Captain Beefheart, The Ramones, all alongside each other. Bizarre combinations but it really worked. It was truly inspirational for a teenager growing up and certainly opened my mind to the world of music. OGWT was a bit slower to it but got it eventually.
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Post by Eggybread on Sept 7, 2023 11:18:16 GMT
It was so far behind the times. They had to be practically forced to have the first punk groups on. Some young punks accosted Bob Harris with broken bottles in a London club demanding when they would play some groups on his show. One of Bobs friends got glassed that night and needed 14 stitches. It didn't happen until 1978 when The Adverts played. I really liked this period where there was a crossover between the old and the new. John Peel encapsulated it, I remember John Peel shows where he would be playing Pink Floyd, Wreckless Eric, Althea and Donna, Duane Eddy, Richard and Linda Thompson, The Four Brothers (Zimbabwe), The Desperate Bicycles, King Tubby, Ivor Cutler, The Ruts, Medicine Head, Captain Beefheart, The Ramones, all alongside each other. Bizarre combinations but it really worked. It was truly inspirational for a teenager growing up and certainly opened my mind to the world of music. OGWT was a bit slower to it but got it eventually. John Peel was superb and a massive influence on my music taste and of course The Mighty Fall and as you say Beefheart and Zappa who I saw live many moons ago. I used to tape him and listen the next day after school. Pity about his time in the USA with "young girls".
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Post by jimmygscfc1234 on Sept 7, 2023 11:32:33 GMT
The great Little Feat. Their live double Waiting for Columbus is one of the best and I loved their later two albums as much as their earlier stuff, although I read that Lowell didn't like the direction they were taking.
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Post by Paul Spencer on Sept 7, 2023 11:35:42 GMT
It was so far behind the times. They had to be practically forced to have the first punk groups on. Some young punks accosted Bob Harris with broken bottles in a London club demanding when they would play some groups on his show. One of Bobs friends got glassed that night and needed 14 stitches. It didn't happen until 1978 when The Adverts played. I really liked this period where there was a crossover between the old and the new. John Peel encapsulated it, I remember John Peel shows where he would be playing Pink Floyd, Wreckless Eric, Althea and Donna, Duane Eddy, Richard and Linda Thompson, The Four Brothers (Zimbabwe), The Desperate Bicycles, King Tubby, Ivor Cutler, The Ruts, Medicine Head, Captain Beefheart, The Ramones, all alongside each other. Bizarre combinations but it really worked. It was truly inspirational for a teenager growing up and certainly opened my mind to the world of music. OGWT was a bit slower to it but got it eventually. Absolutely. I remember John Peel's Festive 50 had Stairway Heaven at number 1 one year and then the following year, out of nowhere, it was Anarchy in the UK! Great times ...
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