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Post by stevej on Jul 15, 2021 16:18:00 GMT
If you're familiar with this UK group at all, it's odds-on you'll have seen their performance of 'The Muffin Man' on Beat Club. The group released a self-titled LP on Deram full of wonderfully catchy toytown pop-pysch tracks, a handful of which were released as single A/B sides. I just stumbled across this clip of them on french tv miming to 'Jack'- not entirely convincingly as the track is full-blown orchestral pop. In fact I wonder if they got to play on their Deram recordings at all?
Anyway, to the clip!
Steve
PS- If you've never heard the World of Oz LP, here's an outstandingly good track 'King Croesus'.
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Post by Simon B Kelly on Jul 16, 2021 4:50:51 GMT
The drummer isn't even hitting the drums or the cymbals - he's just air drumming! The obvious giveaway, of course, is there isn't a microphone in sight and none of the electric instruments are plugged in...
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jul 16, 2021 9:49:42 GMT
The absence of leads has always baffled me on a TV performance; after all, if a band is going to great lengths to pretend to be playing live then why don't they go that little bit further and have a lead coming from the guitars and bass? I remember one occasion (TOTP I think) where Marc Bolan had a curly lead coming out of the jack socket on his Les Paul guitar and going into his back pocket!
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Post by richardwoods on Jul 16, 2021 14:14:59 GMT
I think I can recollect a band being on TOTP with leads connecting bass & lead guitars together. Canβt for the life of me think who it was.....
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Post by John Green on Jul 16, 2021 17:40:30 GMT
I remember one occasion (TOTP I think) where Marc Bolan had a curly lead coming out of the jack socket on his Les Paul guitar and going into his back pocket! Better than cold fusion!
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Post by Peter Stirling on Jul 16, 2021 23:06:34 GMT
The absence of leads has always baffled me on a TV performance; after all, if a band is going to great lengths to pretend to be playing live then why don't they go that little bit further and have a lead coming from the guitars and bass? I remember one occasion (TOTP I think) where Marc Bolan had a curly lead coming out of the jack socket on his Les Paul guitar and going into his back pocket! The public's awareness of radio mics was a boon to TOTPs they could stick a bit of cable out of an ordinary mic and pretend it was the aerial LOL
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Jul 21, 2021 4:23:29 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks they've always been a bit.. shite? The Action couldn't get their incredible album out back then but these could?? Baffling. Nice clip though. π
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Post by stevej on Jul 21, 2021 8:44:53 GMT
I guess their 'psychedelic' credentials were based on the track 'Like A Tear' which was on Bam-Caruso's 'Staircase to Nowhere' compilation LP in the late 80s. Amazingly I've just stumbled across some footage of the band recording that very song, taken from a 1969 BBC2 documentary called 'Workshop: The Same Trade As Mozart' mainly looking at electronic music composition, but taking in other aspects of the recording industry. This is fascinating- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EAwCiI37hYSteve
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jul 21, 2021 8:54:49 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks they've always been a bit.. shite? The Action couldn't get their incredible album out back then but these could?? Baffling. Nice clip though. π Agreed, Thomas.. I could never fathom why "Muffin Man" and "Peter's Birthday (Black And White Rainbows)" were included on a few psychedelic compilations.
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Post by johnpoole on Jul 21, 2021 9:01:20 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks they've always been a bit.. shite? The Action couldn't get their incredible album out back then but these could?? Baffling. Nice clip though. π It would have been easier to get an LP released on Deram in 1969 than for EMI in 1967 without a hit single (I'm not sure that the Action got any further than recording a few tracks for a possible projected album)
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Post by Thomas Walsh on Jul 21, 2021 15:09:10 GMT
Am I the only one who thinks they've always been a bit.. shite? The Action couldn't get their incredible album out back then but these could?? Baffling. Nice clip though. π It would have been easier to get an LP released on Deram in 1969 than for EMI in 1967 without a hit single (I'm not sure that the Action got any further than recording a few tracks for a possible projected album) It is a very good point John but BOY did they have an album ready!! I don't say this lightly but possibly THE greatest lost 60's album next to 'Smile' at the time (for me anyway). It's all out there now but studio 2, George Martin at the helm, it would have been memorable. Dip your toe in with "Things you cannot see" on YouTube.
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Post by garygraham on Jul 22, 2021 16:52:56 GMT
The absence of leads has always baffled me on a TV performance; after all, if a band is going to great lengths to pretend to be playing live then why don't they go that little bit further and have a lead coming from the guitars and bass? I remember one occasion (TOTP I think) where Marc Bolan had a curly lead coming out of the jack socket on his Les Paul guitar and going into his back pocket! Because it was mainly for teens and non tech people who didn't know or care. Not for us poring over YouTube videos 50 years later
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Post by richardwoods on Jul 22, 2021 17:08:40 GMT
The absence of leads has always baffled me on a TV performance; after all, if a band is going to great lengths to pretend to be playing live then why don't they go that little bit further and have a lead coming from the guitars and bass? I remember one occasion (TOTP I think) where Marc Bolan had a curly lead coming out of the jack socket on his Les Paul guitar and going into his back pocket! Because it was mainly for teens and non tech people who didn't know or care. Not for us poring over YouTube videos 50 years later Well, yes thatβs true. But who wants to grow up completely? Not meππ»
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jul 22, 2021 20:59:13 GMT
The absence of leads has always baffled me on a TV performance; after all, if a band is going to great lengths to pretend to be playing live then why don't they go that little bit further and have a lead coming from the guitars and bass? I remember one occasion (TOTP I think) where Marc Bolan had a curly lead coming out of the jack socket on his Les Paul guitar and going into his back pocket! Because it was mainly for teens and non tech people who didn't know or care. Not for us poring over YouTube videos 50 years later I don't think you'd have to be very 'tech' to know that a guitar lead was supposed to go into an amp socket, not into someone's arse pocket - I was only 14 or 15 at the time and I realised that it was about as likely to work as Giles' rather daft (not to mention downright dangerous) cartoons showing an electric guitar lead going into a light bulb socket!
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Post by John Green on Jul 22, 2021 21:38:28 GMT
Because it was mainly for teens and non tech people who didn't know or care. Not for us poring over YouTube videos 50 years later I don't think you'd have to be very 'tech' to know that a guitar lead was supposed to go into an amp socket, not into someone's arse pocket - I was only 14 or 15 at the time and I realised that it was about as likely to work as Giles' rather daft (not to mention downright dangerous) cartoons showing an electric guitar lead going into a light bulb socket! Mind you, always worked when we wanted to play the record-player!
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