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Post by Stevo42 on Dec 30, 2011 0:54:44 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 1:18:48 GMT
Very interesting performances indeed.
All of them appear to be from wiped editions of Top Of The Pops.
Maybe Ray ought to get onto this lot?
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Dec 30, 2011 2:23:18 GMT
Very interesting performances indeed. All of them appear to be from wiped editions of Top Of The Pops. Maybe Ray ought to get onto this lot? And here I am bleary-eyed working on a slow PC. Well, I would like someone to check my work - for obvious reasons, but I think 2 are missing performances. The first seems to be 04/10/74 or 07/11/74 - both exist, one being the Dick Emery recovery. January (Noel) is either 16/11/75 or 13/12/75, both wiped. Just a Smile (DLT) is 11/09/75, wiped! I would like any additional help and insight anyone can bring, please!!!!!!!!!!!! I will also contact the poster via my youtube a/c when I'm back properly online in the New Year. |
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Post by Chris Dabbs on Dec 30, 2011 9:38:07 GMT
Happy New Year everyone! This is a great find. Magic must be from the November '74 edition, as it is a different performance to the previous month's. Let's hope for more bumper finds in 2012! ;D Very interesting performances indeed. All of them appear to be from wiped editions of Top Of The Pops. Maybe Ray ought to get onto this lot? And here I am bleary-eyed working on a slow PC. Well, I would like someone to check my work - for obvious reasons, but I think 2 are missing performances. The first seems to be 04/10/74 or 07/11/74 - both exist, one being the Dick Emery recovery. January (Noel) is either 16/11/75 or 13/12/75, both wiped. Just a Smile (DLT) is 11/09/75, wiped! I would like any additional help and insight anyone can bring, please!!!!!!!!!!!! I will also contact the poster via my youtube a/c when I'm back properly online in the New Year. |
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Post by Chris Barratt on Dec 30, 2011 9:38:13 GMT
Magic is definitely 7/11/74 - it was a quick-fire live broadcast I understand hence the rudimentary camera-work. I'd guess this comes from a different source to the Emery tape, possibly all three originate from someone connected to the band?
January is 16/1/75 and Just A Smile is 11/9/75
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Dec 30, 2011 9:49:59 GMT
Magic is definitely 7/11/74 - it was a quick-fire live broadcast I understand hence the rudimentary camera-work. I'd guess this comes from a different source to the Emery tape, possibly all three originate from someone connected to the band? January is 16/1/75 and Just A Smile is 11/9/75 Yes, excuse my bleary typing earlier. But that's what I meant. ;D |
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Post by Richard Hunter on Dec 30, 2011 11:24:25 GMT
Really pleased to see "Just a Smile".
A great song which should have done better in the charts when it was released. Only got as high as number 31.
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Dec 30, 2011 12:20:36 GMT
A great song which should have done better in the charts when it was released. Only got as high as number 31. And, indeed that was on its 2nd release : originally released in 1974 prior to 'Magic', and didn't chart at all. I remember it well from being a power-play on Radio Luxembourg. Their best song, probably. |
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Post by Chris Dabbs on Dec 30, 2011 12:54:52 GMT
Would love to see Call Me Round turn up sometime. Pilot were and still are very much an underrated band. A great song which should have done better in the charts when it was released. Only got as high as number 31. And, indeed that was on its 2nd release : originally released in 1974 prior to 'Magic', and didn't chart at all. I remember it well from being a power-play on Radio Luxembourg. Their best song, probably. |
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Post by Chris Barratt on Dec 30, 2011 13:08:14 GMT
Pilot are certainly in hindsight an interesting bunch. They had the ability to write great pop songs but they came at a time of musical transition when bands could be become unforgiveably old hat overnight with 'no way back'. All of them were uncomfortable with the 'teen band' tag and were consumate musicians (in spite of David Paton & Billy Lyall having brief stints with the Bay City Rollers). Billy Lyall quit in early 76 with lofty ideas to record a good solo album (that bombed completely) and soon ended up sessioning for the likes of Dollar, Stuart Tosh went on to join post Godley & Creme 10cc and both Paton & Ian Bairnson became part of the post-punk nouveau-prog scene and played for the likes of Alan Parsons, Kate Bush and Bucks Fizz (Bairnson co-penned some of their hit singles). David Paton was Elton Johns bass player for some time, and played at Live Aid.
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Post by markjhaley on Dec 30, 2011 14:39:01 GMT
Really delighted to see these clips emerge.
Pilot were one of my faves in the 70s. I was hoping one of the clips would be 'Call Me Round' but... mustn't grumble.
The 2nd release of Just A Smile was slightly different to the first. It's the same track with some guitar overdubbed by Ian Bairnson who I don't think had joined the band when it was first recorded.
Going by some of the text the uploader has posted, it does seem to be somebody who knew the band and states they are in the front row of the 'Penny In MY Pocket' clip.
There's other Pilot stuff from the same user I've never seen before. At least 4 other tracks !
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 16:33:03 GMT
Now if only we could find some early Bay City Rollers footage with the Pilot members, that would be a treat! Like this picture shows...  |
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Post by Richard Hunter on Dec 30, 2011 16:40:09 GMT
For music trivia fans Pilot's "Magic" is one of Brian Wilson's favorite songs.
Apparently he loves the harmonies in the song and from a man who was an expert in such fields I would take that as a great compliment to the band.
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Post by markboulton on Dec 30, 2011 21:24:04 GMT
And here was me thinking an unbroadcast test edition of TOTP from sometime in August 1963 had been discovered!
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Post by John Green on Dec 30, 2011 22:48:00 GMT
Same here.
It could have been worse.There's a three-piece band from Glasgow called Marco Polo...
As it is,I'm envious of,and grateful towards everyone who makes a find.
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