Thanks for this post. I was the guy playing trumpet

@iainmacfadyen1101

Жыл бұрын

Can any one remember the guy who played really good finger style guitar through a radio on suchehall Street

@roberthenderson7062

Жыл бұрын

@@iainmacfadyen1101 its so long ago but i do remember seeing that guy,great guitarist

@iainmacfadyen1101

Жыл бұрын

@@roberthenderson7062 yea he was pretty amazing stuff a nice bloke to gave me the names of the guitar players and started me on my journey.. My mum used to buy him lunch

@gordonferguson9394

Жыл бұрын

No problem - I dug out this old video after seeing Robert The Robot on the Lost Glasgow FB site. A few folk in the video have been in touch having seen this footage for the first time after 39 years!

@maybankstudios6955

Жыл бұрын

Recognised you straight away Robert!

Back in 1984 few people could afford video cameras and they could quickly attract a crowd if you were filming on the street. Great to see these buskers especially the robot- there were a couple of guys who performed as robots for many years and always gathered a large crowd. They were a big part of the fabric of life on the street during the 80s and become quite iconic in their own right. I wonder what happened to them- they must be knocking 60 now!

@ajs41

4 ай бұрын

You normally hired a video camera for a few days, rather than owning one. Radio Rentals.

@markdillon5494

2 ай бұрын

@@ajs41 Yeah TVs and video recorders all hired from Radio Rentals or Telebank round my area. We didnt own our living room TV or VHS player for years. The amount of rental paid for these things we could have bought 10 TVs. People were just skint back then.

Good memories, who remembers the scrambles at weddings 😂?

@starofdavid9919

6 ай бұрын

They were great.

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

​@@starofdavid9919hi in Oban

Not a single face staring into a mobile phone. Good times.......

Wasn't rob the robot on rab c nesbit 'season's greet'? Wee penny whistle guy, we saw him every Saturday outside boots on sauchiehall st. Great you uploaded this.

@tok1964

Жыл бұрын

Yes he was

@TS-1267

11 ай бұрын

... Decked Out In "Mcewans" Lager Livery... LONG LIVE 'RAB!'…✌️🤕🥂

@anonUK

11 ай бұрын

I recognised where the preacher was standing at the beginning of the video from the Seasonal Greet, where the preacher was played by Peter Capaldi.

Nae danger man, the robot speaking!! Aw these years I thought he actually wis a real robot. Stuff a childhood nightmares but a big part of many of our memories and a good buzz. Quality upload.

@Buster_Piles

Жыл бұрын

He's lucky he didnae get punched right in the cyberplums touching up they wee lassies.

@JimHopper81

5 ай бұрын

How's the eye Marco ? Has Porrini apologised yet ?

At the end is my two old mates Andy and Mark, I should have been there 😆 edit: oh wait, I am at 07.47

we were down there every saturday, know robert from those days, remember a band playing on Argyle st that turned out to be the BMX bandits, used to sing "the wheels on the bus" and a parody of "psycho killer" called "psycho chicken"

@SlowLane-pv3nf

Жыл бұрын

I also remember them doing wheels on the bus. Thanks for the reminder. I still stop to listen to buskers today. Some mince, some great, but all need that wee bit of bottle.

@SlowLane-pv3nf

Жыл бұрын

Also Roller-coaster by the Sea (Jonathan Richman)

The good old days before the internet (sorry YT). Bustling City Centre and shops thriving.

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hello from Oban 😅

There were some brilliant busking acts in Buchanan St in 1984/85. I rember the two 'Egyptian' sand dancers especially. Whatever happened to them? Then there was the smiley old accordionist who played opposite Frasers main entrance for a couple of years.

@irc6587

8 ай бұрын

The sand dancers may have been Mike Rowan and his pal just before he became Big Rory the Giant Scotsman. Who retired this year. kzread.info/dash/bejne/faZ60Kihm67NoMo.html

Yeah I rember Robert the robot when going shopping outside Irvine mall late 90s early 2000 with my kids outside what everyone wants it was bustling I went thayr last month its dead !!! Omg the high Street is dead all over its really sad to see!!!!!! Times have changed but not for the better!!!! Bring the high street back & Robert the robot!!!!😢

@LexEllis

19 күн бұрын

I moved on to become Dunno the Clown! :)

Gaun yersel, lads! Gie it laldy!

12:07 That's Robert (Henderson?) Used to play in a band with him.

i wasnt born till december 1984 great seeing how the city looked back then

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

Our High street were hoching back then.

HELLO FROM OBAN

ONE DAY THESE GLASGOW BUSKERS MIGHT SPOT THEMSELFS ON KZread? AFTER ALL THESE YEARS 😮

Toon looks buzzin

0:17 and they all laughed and mocked him. Now look at us!

And not a junkie or begger in sight.

@jasonmudgarde286

11 ай бұрын

Even during Thatcherism people were looked after far better,.

@bushwhackeddos.2703

11 ай бұрын

Or an enricher

@anonUK

11 ай бұрын

​​@@jasonmudgarde286That was Thatcherism phase 1. And yes there were homeless people in ever greater numbers than before. The Embankment in Central London was known as "Cardboard City". We've now endured it for 44 years and Keir Starmer's not going to change that because he's after those precious Southern English Boomer votes.

@BlowinFree

11 ай бұрын

Or a burkaRus

@knockshinnoch1950

11 ай бұрын

Don't kid yourself, they were there back then too.

2:20 .... "… SILENCE IN COURT!… I SAY OLD BEAN!…"…🤕✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Haha 5:40 attempt to insert previous females Streptococcus into unwilling child's ear😂😂 That robots a right Bawbag!

The Guitarist at the start of the video looks like Jim McCulloch from the Soup Dragons/BMX Bandits?

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

hahah remember those days and the breakdancers with their roll of lino busting the moves outside lewis department store yae cannae whack the glesga buskers god i miss the 80s when life was easy lol🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣take ma hat aff tae the buskers

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

@lochlomondpirate

Ай бұрын

@@jaye26 awerite jaye i was in oban last week for lunch love oban im up ther pirating quite a lot ganivan sands is a favourite bay 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I've met the man behind the robot suit......he's a Legend....🫡

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

HI from Oban

This was In the days before buskers started using amplifiers.👍

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

Upload more, this was brilliant.

Is that Rab the robot?

Must have really been a robot his lips never moved once

Anyone remember the old bloke who wore the tartan scarf often tied it around his guitar with 3 strings on it and had two teeth, only one song ( I’m putting on the agony I’m putting on the style 😂

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

Glasgow was Glasgow back then and shops all open and not a …………….. In sight.

My old man caught me smoking when one of these clios appeared on stv

@kevindunne6832

11 ай бұрын

@@Lee-nh5bb aye just a bit he had hand,s like fckn shovels never missed

@Lee-nh5bb

11 ай бұрын

@@kevindunne6832 A bloody dangerous man! And just when you thought you were safe, smoking miles away from home!

@kevindunne6832

11 ай бұрын

@@Lee-nh5bb aye well we live an learn ,never done me no harm over the years

@Lee-nh5bb

11 ай бұрын

@@kevindunne6832 Who, your dad or the smokes?!

@kevindunne6832

11 ай бұрын

@@Lee-nh5bb both I still smoke ,gave up the whacky baccy an booze but still like ma wee roll ups

😂 This is one day before I was born. April 1st 84 lol

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

How can s robot be sponsored by candleriggs market?😂😂

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

Here's 8 yr later! kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaOew7OkYNzNlqw.html

Moving buskers along,the police should be charged.

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

How come all the people are Scottish?

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

Far too young to be smoking.

That robot was crap

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban

The robotics guy used to be outside the Savoy Centre every Saturday. Refreshing to see not one Eastern European playing the kid-on electric violin! Proper buskers and proper Glaswegians.

@jaye26

Ай бұрын

Hi from Oban