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Post by Miranda on Oct 8, 2019 0:00:38 GMT
The Git Up
And my favourite #Challenge
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Post by yankee on Oct 11, 2019 15:09:56 GMT
On this date in 1975 the sketch variety program "Saturday Night Live" made its debut. 44 years later its still on the air.
The host for the first episode was George Carlin. And the original cast of "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" included such "unknowns" as Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Bill Murray.
The musical guest was Janis Ian and of the songs she played was the lovely bittersweet ballad "At Seventeen"
Couldn't find a clip from SNL but happy to use this lovely version from your Grey Whistle Test. 
Love how Janis is retuning her guitar whilst bantering to the audience at the same time. I play guitar myself and that aint easy! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 15:19:11 GMT
Pink Floyd at the BBC. There is quite a lot, actually. This is from 1974.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 16:05:00 GMT
And Echoes from 1971
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2019 16:26:57 GMT
In memory of Ginger Baker -- Cream Farewell Concert as transmitted on BBC TV January 5th 1969
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 17:46:14 GMT
Uriah Heep - Gypsy (Long Version) as part of a playlist of Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2019 20:28:08 GMT
Uriah Heep - Gypsy (Long Version) as part of a playlist of Very 'Eavy... Very 'Umble Fab song choice. Loved Uriah Heep once I discovered them (I was too young to have heard them in their heyday!  ) Didn't ever see them live till about 10 years ago, and then it was a small gig in a church hall in Thanet somewhere. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 20:36:07 GMT
I got the album when it first came out, and infuriared my parents, playing it as loud as I dared, until they insisted I get a set of headphones. It was the one that drew the final limit of what was to be tolerated.
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2019 20:39:04 GMT
I haven't subjected you lot to my all time faves yet - Rush.
This is from the album that first attracted them to me. They are Canadian, and really not (or weren't) keen on the British
I think they quite like us now. They have been going for over 40 years. Not much chart success (only Spirit of Radio really - this was on the B side of that) although they did have a few releases. But mainly an album group.
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2019 20:44:55 GMT
I will restrain myself from posting whole Rush albums, but I highly recommend ones called 2112 and Hemispheres - and Fly By Night, and, ooh, Moving Pictures. I could go on - you get the picture!  They went a bit 21st century lately (after Signals, so I have lost touch with them!) |
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2019 20:57:24 GMT
Ooh ... I must tell you, I'm going to see Steve Hackett (from Genesis) on 3 Nov. He's playing the complete Selling England By The Pound. MrC and I have tickets for it (bought months ago), but it now falls on the first weekend after MrC's chemo so he really won't feel up to it. My brother who lives in Brighton is going to come with me instead. And it'll be nice to spend some time together.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 20:58:56 GMT
I think it is good to hear what different people like; it broadens our horizons into surprising areas. We used to bring albums to school, and would be able to play them in our classrooms over lunch, things from Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, and so on, the only rule was to keep the classroom door closed.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 17, 2019 21:11:32 GMT
We did that too. But where I lived it was mostly reggae and soul and disco. Except for one poor girl who bought I'm the One That You Want from Grease. So many curled lips...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2019 21:23:16 GMT
There was one room in our school that was all Bay City Rollers, Sweet, Slade, Mud, etc. I knew that it was the end of the world when we heard a classroom full of girls singing 'Wig-wam bam, gonna make you my man, Wam bam bam, gonna get you if I can'.
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Post by cakewalk on Oct 17, 2019 21:42:55 GMT
Sweet were good though. They did some fantastic songs, beyond the glam rock stuff ... Love is like Oxygen for example.
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Anymore to come?
