I'm sure the fabulous Billy Preston has played with most of the greats and I went looking for a suitable one to put up from youtube.I've found a good un here all right.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSHBIXfFPE
get thee to the library before the c*nts close it down
we are a bunch of twats commenting on a website.
I'm sure the fabulous Billy Preston has played with most of the greats and I went looking for a suitable one to put up from youtube.I've found a good un here all right.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/kxSHBIXfFPE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/kxSHBIXfFPE</a>
Do tell us more Jambo.Once again it's fascinating to hear how these early exposures to different stuff has such a bearing on individual musical tastes?I mean I had zero exposure as a kid to any of the raw undiluted black music but huge exposure to late '50's white pop/r&R and the more sanitized Chuck berry/Little Richard/Sam Cooke black music. So I presume it's why the delta blues stuff forinstance has always been such a difficult area for me to genuinely enter into its undoubted joys even when I've really given it a go. Also the jazz funk type stuff and modern R&B has never grabbed me yet I find most of Sly Stone's stuff and certainly Stax, atlantic and Motown an absolute treasure trove.Interested to get other takes.
.... call and response field song ...
Good to hear you've discovered the joys of REM Paul, one of only a handful of bands i loved during the 80's, my entire teens (i was born in 70) spent listening to REM, XTC, Prefab Sprout or music from decades past.
My personal favourite is "Run for home".The Lindisfarned Christmas gigs at Newcastle City Hall are legendary, well round these parts they are.Click the link and see/hear them perform Run for home during their 1987 christmas gig.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9QjyTAxPMs
Its all about winning shiny things.
Here is a question for you's.Beatles or Stones. And why?Ohh, and who's seen one, or even both these great bands play live?
Some good choices there Alan X, i'm a huge fan of Freda Payne's "Band Of Gold", it's such a great song.Aaah the infamous Knebworth '76, all sorts of rumours abound about that particular gig, certain members of 10cc's road crew claim that the Stones sabotaged their sound during their set, if so it's kind of ironic that they ended up getting blown away by Skynyrd.Meek's Production still sound other worldly 50 plus years after he recorded them.
This a few years earlier but a cracking song:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/TAICRqPA5ns?fs=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/TAICRqPA5ns?fs=1</a>Unit 4 + 2, Concrete and Clay
It's bizarre watching that back, to think that in a few months I'd be watching the Clash, Buzzcocks and the Slits at St Albans City Hall.
No one admires resilience when you were just plain wrong all along - that's just twattishness.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/ubIt94oLaBI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/ubIt94oLaBI</a>Or this one. Check out the planet sized afro!
My Nana's favourite singer was Jim Reeves and if it is okay I will put a few up that I remember hearing being played at hers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_sU0pAE-fEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTmMDhvhXZchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA2NSXKWIqwThere's 3. I dunno how to show the video in here
Watching a tv show only a few weeks ago and that song came on at the end and thought wow that's really good, I remember the song at the time but too young to fully appreciate just how good the band and the song was. Singer from Liverpool as well. brilliant song for the period.
Ha ha- cheers for that Oldie lad. Just looked it up on Wiki. I never knew the lead singer was scouse. I guess as all the various Merseybeat bands disbanded - all 400 of them - their members had to end up somewhere!!!Off Wiki:Thomas John George 'Tommy' Moeller (born 23 February 1945, Liverpool): lead vocalist, guitar, piano was lead singer, frontman and main songwriter in Unit 4 + 2 with their biggest hit being "Concrete and Clay; he was also the brother of Billy Moeller, who became public face of the one-hit wonder, Whistling Jack Smith who took "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" to number five in 1967.
Country at its best. A simply superb song, beautifully crafted and that tells a story with sufficient detail to let your imagination run riot, and then some, a relaxed and effortless delivery that just couldn't be bettered and a production with just the right level of backing, not too intrusive, to emphasise and reinforce the melancholic lyrics....I always thought this is a song up there with Dylans finest.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/HaRacIzZSPo?fs=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/HaRacIzZSPo?fs=1</a>
To be honest I got that info off Wiki as well a few weeks back Timbo , wanted to know more about the group and who was involved in the recording. can hear the Drifters influence running though it. am sure the singer must be a big fan of Ben E king,sounds brilliant, same with some of the backing.Didn't find any info though so still in the dark.
Digging around a bit it seems like he was born in Liverpool but was at school down south with Peter Moules (according to Wiki) when he joined up with Brian Parker, who'd been in The Hunters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_%28instrumental_band%29
Interesting, thanks Alan. easy to forget all the instrumental bands around those days.can see Brians years of learing how to play instrumentals shine through in Concrete and the Clay."In truth, there were a number of instrumental bands around in the very late 1950s and early 1960s, who played in a similar style and their sound was more a product of the guitars and equipment available at the time"Bit unkind, if you mean they didn't have the long sustain and fuzz that later appeared to make playing far easier while sounding far better than you actually were then I suppose your right but without all those things you had to rely on pure talent, the instruments themselves were superb a lot of the time. still sought out today and fetch a high price.
It's pretty straightforward PaulFirst of all you copy and paste the following for any video link you wish to make: flash=500,400]https://www.youtube.com/v/ XXX[/flash]Then if you take forinstance your Jim Reeves 'Welcome To My World' video then in place of the three highlighted XXX's, paste in the final sequence of letters at the end of the 'Welcome to My World you tube link - namely in this instance r_sU0pAE-fE Finally stick an open square bracket in front of the first flash word as follows [flash - The final result will be as follows:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/r_sU0pAE-fE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/r_sU0pAE-fE</a>Hope that does it for you
I don't think it was meant as a criticism - just a statement of fact. And the style and sound was generally based on precision and tone rather than effects pedal, feedback and the like.I'm always amazed at photos of the Beatles live at Shea Stadium compared to modern stadium concerts - a back line of Vox amps and speakers:
