Climax Blues Band's "Couldn't Get It Right" has been No 2 in "Top of the Pops" (BBC) on Nov 4, 1976
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@saullyons6 ай бұрын
2024 WHOS STILL JAMMING?!
@johncortez2009
5 ай бұрын
I am I just turned 50 in October Just a little kid listening to all this type of music what's the best time
@chavon3467
5 ай бұрын
Love this tune still (2024)
@cchild9110
4 ай бұрын
Me! ❤🎶
@MrRainer-tu8nf
4 ай бұрын
👍
@user-us5jz4nt9w
4 ай бұрын
Meet me at the roller rink. Skate on
@kevinforth76183 жыл бұрын
Listen! An actual performance, kids - no lip syncing, no computers, no auto-tune. Just talent and hair.
@Alltime2050
10 сағат бұрын
A lot of music on TV and in movies was lip-synced back in the day. That is nothing new.
@LWH768 Жыл бұрын
I'm a 55 year old black man raised in the projects of NE DC, and this is one of my favorite songs from the 70's era. DCOG
@chriscoughlan5221
5 ай бұрын
projects, what type projects would they be? i´m always looking for new projects, something new!!
@joannefalkinder393
4 ай бұрын
You have taste 😉
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
4 ай бұрын
It's bizarre these dudes are from the UK. Sound like true bluesmen.
@dmitryowens
4 ай бұрын
I'm a 54 year-old metal musician and I love it.
@chriscoughlan5221
4 ай бұрын
Projects, what are they !?
@paulhill7818 Жыл бұрын
2023. Who's Jamming to this Song still?? 😎
@bravoaddictAnn
6 ай бұрын
Jamming to it in 2024!! 😎
@jim32664
6 ай бұрын
Me too!
@elektrolyte
6 ай бұрын
still vibing in Feb 2024 Johannesburg, SA. the 70's were THE BEST by FAR This song was in the charts when I finished school in 1976, in Cape Town and the local band, McCulley's Workshop covered it on Sunday nights at the Canterbury Inn, in Rondebosch. Don't know how i ever drove home after the place closed at midnight
@devils_advocate5311
5 ай бұрын
2024 and this tune is still a fave of mine. I feel robbed that there’s no cowbell in the live version! Haha.
@paulfalconer4988
5 ай бұрын
2024 and I'm still jamming - love it !!! great music from the 70s and this is one kick ass song. thank you Climax Blues Band, you guys rock !!!
@udave44495 жыл бұрын
Can i have a show of hands if you're still listening to this in 2020
@tammiprice6351
5 жыл бұрын
3-13-19
@1nnu3ndo
5 жыл бұрын
Still listening? I've actually randomly discovered this gem today.
@scotnick59
5 жыл бұрын
Oh, hell yeah!!
@dawnl1769
5 жыл бұрын
Meee ! 70s !
@brianvincentdoucet4273
5 жыл бұрын
Until recently, I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid. And until I found this video, I could not identify the group or the song.
@maddmaАй бұрын
I was 16 when this song came out. I'm now 64 and I still love it.
@beaubartlett6824
Ай бұрын
RIGHT ON!!!
@TheLimbReaper
2 күн бұрын
I'm 60 now and was 12 when this came out.
@groovedohg4 жыл бұрын
Colin Coopers (main singer) voice always reminded me of the singer in the band Exile. Remember the song Kiss you all over?
@TentinQuarantino_
4 жыл бұрын
There is an absolutely hilarious video of that song on KZread, lemme find it for ya.
@TentinQuarantino_
4 жыл бұрын
Ok. Here it is. It was kinda before people knew how to make videos, so the singers look alive and the band looks like they’re on double quaaludes. Enjoy kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaSVpbqtkcu-qM4.html
@groovedohg
4 жыл бұрын
@@TentinQuarantino_ I know why you say its hilarious , basically because its a bit OTT. The bass player is a bit non existant emotion wise. I also looked at their Midnight Special version where they did it live, and it is the best version. It was a great song at the time. I would have been around 16 to 18, and I was heavy into Status Quo, but I didnt mind this song. Some disco songs like I feel love, Disco Inferno and Staying Alive would be many blokes guilty pleasures.
@k.j.g.9601
4 жыл бұрын
tiffd98133 bwahahaha Holy shit, those bangs have to be immortalized as the Apex of cringe! In their defense that was peak of cheesy music and frankly the backlash was warranted...
@TentinQuarantino_
4 жыл бұрын
K.J. G. I know, right? But in all fairness, that goofball had a really good reputation for helping others and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. I just had to look him up. He died young but I never got a reliable report on how.
@drewfinisher112 ай бұрын
any other 53 yr old folks like me still love this in 24? never thought back then I was listening to some of the best songs ever to be written 🎶
@dick9101112
26 күн бұрын
I'm 71 and couldn't agree more.
@TheJohnnyMonoDisease
4 күн бұрын
I’m 53 and completely agree. We had it so good.
@jontymo2 жыл бұрын
That high pitched vocal backing is awesome!!!!!
@audreynorstrom3455
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly that’s what makes this entire song so iconic! At least that’s what makes me remember it from my childhood
@naomiderulo8246
11 ай бұрын
Yes!! Agree 1000%
@univibe239 жыл бұрын
From 68 to 76 was a magical time in music history. Some of the best pop/rock music ever made.
@scotnick59
9 жыл бұрын
Completely agree with the above comment
@theoriginalbillholt
8 жыл бұрын
+Dave Wray Link Wray?
@rubicon-oh9km
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agreed. The zenith in music history.
@chee5935
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!
@MadMaxx63
7 жыл бұрын
It was such an amazing time...do you remember ordering albums via mail like "Summer of 76" only to find out it wasn't the original artists? So many copy cats it was unbelievable but shows just how GREAT the music was!
@ottoerich54453 жыл бұрын
The fact that they sound so good just raw with no auto tune like nowadays is just amazing
@RedArrow73
2 жыл бұрын
Just the occasional Conn Strobo-Tuner.
@brian_hibbs
6 ай бұрын
@@RedArrow73such a beautiful tuner.
@markgreene6349
2 ай бұрын
Not amazing.. it's talent... gotta love analog.. everyone had to play live back then....
@lisacassar94865 ай бұрын
Its 2024 and this song is still great! Love Love it❤🎶
@brucemcfarland32787 жыл бұрын
Not too many people probably ever noticed, but these dudes aren't just singing 3 part "harmonies" they're singing in 3 freakin "octaves" at the same time!!! Listen carefully! Lead vocalist on the low part, bass player in the middle and guitarist way up on top!! One of the very first bands to pull that shit off! (Very cool effect!) The Steve Miller Band was the only other band (I think) to even attempt that back then. Or ever for that matter! SMOKIN!!!
@wickedfood
6 жыл бұрын
Love the vocal arrangement as well as that of the music- the way the guitars and sax blend to form one new sound. Awesome live performance from musicians' musicians.
@fishwhiskey160
6 жыл бұрын
Spot on Bruce! Thanks for pointing it out!
@johnshawcross217
6 жыл бұрын
Well spotted Bruce and thanks for pointing that out. Yeah it works.
@migcheldirksen9866
6 жыл бұрын
Bruce McFarland thats what this song one of the best
@earlyjenkins6275
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah Bruce this one of first 3 albums I bought.i know that to.only true music lovers know and pick up on that.yeah Steve Miller damn good singer and picker to brother.peace to you.the 70s was the real deal.
@floraline71533 жыл бұрын
All their little heads are bopping up and down in time to the beat. What a great scene. Bring this back and cure the world!
@dgodrummer8110
Жыл бұрын
we'd have to be smokin' a shit ton of weed to bring back dem times. I'm trying my best to do it on my own.
@yabbaguy
Жыл бұрын
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I'd probably have been the same back then: but a lot of them have eyes for the camera and are probably just trying to look good on TV back when not just anybody could be on screen. Yet I think in its own way, people are being there and present in a cool moment.
@josippe7888
Жыл бұрын
I love your comment. ❤️
@andywells3972 жыл бұрын
Book me a seat in a time machine back to the 70s..am 60 now and that decade was the best ever for music..
@kevinhullinger8743
2 күн бұрын
Yea, the music was genuine!
@RichardTetta4 жыл бұрын
This totally captures the 70s for me...dudes with dorky clothes & hair, but damn could they sing and play the hell out their instruments. Fantastic tune.
@lindahandley5267
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the clothes...I even got accused of being a hippie. LOL!
@bapete5159
4 жыл бұрын
Richard Tetta Miss those Days....👍🇬🇧🤓
@bapete5159
4 жыл бұрын
Max Herron Sr Yes them ladies were.....and also they were Silicon Free.....👍🇬🇧🤓
@nancy9478
4 жыл бұрын
Looks like any hs dance I ever went to. Class of 77 in the house!
@runninrebel1520
4 жыл бұрын
And they’re way cooler than these little soy boy betas today
@URanInTheUglyForest9 жыл бұрын
Look kids! No auto tune. No drum machine. No computer based instruments. It's what's referred to as talent.
@TheSanityInspector
5 жыл бұрын
Before we had Pro Tools, we had pros!
@Trytocookthis
5 жыл бұрын
UR, you gotta keep an open mind with today's artists, not all machines sound bad. But I will have to say that this is one hell of a great video and the era back then, for me, was nothing but great music to get me through my life.
@kevinforth7618
5 жыл бұрын
Yep - and no lip sync. Just musicians playing and singing. Great video.
@LordKenebutch
5 жыл бұрын
And no cow bell, damn!
@barbaracozart9099
5 жыл бұрын
Agree!!!!
@georgeharleydavidsonrider1564 жыл бұрын
Anyone listening in 2020 .
@annebooth9632
4 жыл бұрын
Me!
@BlueToneBatey
4 жыл бұрын
Yes - music of my teen years. REAL MUSIC and real musicians. That era is gone I'm afraid. Still a few "getting it right" but not many.
@jeffshinn2434
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I am!
@quintas66
4 жыл бұрын
Just listened to this today on Spotify!
@brianvincentdoucet4273
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely!
@crash96322 жыл бұрын
Can we please go back to this time
@ddemonjjv2 жыл бұрын
Back when the music was pure, vocals, instruments, no high tech alterations. Thanks for the video.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256
10 ай бұрын
To be fair nearly all of TOTP was mimed. If I remember correctly the early shows didn't even have the original music but used the BBC orchestra. I think for Musician's Union reasons. I was horrified to learn a few years ago that some of The Old Grey Whistle Test was fakery too, although the percentage of proper live music was much higher. When I was younger I had much more respect for OGWT because it had cool music and was (apparently, and mostly) live. The acts that mimed (e.g. The Rolling Stones) was more due to the bands not trusting that the Beeb would do justice to their sound. Although I might be being too generous. I knew someone who went on TOTP as part of the audience. They had tiny audiences they moved between the stages. If they'd zoomed out the studio would be pretty empty. So, as far as TV music was concerned, maybe not high tech alterations but certainly a few low tech ones. Most of the rock bands that appeared were miming to music they played on tour so, quite often, although not plugged in (or in the case of drums, miked up) they would still play what they'd normally play. Problem was the directors would always without fail misread what was going on and cut to the wrong camera. It was almost perverse how they managed to get it wrong every time. So if you were trying to cop what the guitarist was actually doing (silently) you would be out of luck. latter bands (especially US ones who didn't get the point of miming or ones who'd already made it) would parody the show they were on doing guitar sols with saxophones etc. My favourite one was when The Eels went on to do Novocaine For The Soul with the drummer behind a tiny kids drum kit. next to the drums is a marshall stack. Eight inches high. And the bass player and guitarist have alternate genuine or toy sized instruments. So the Beeb were conplicit in the joke. So funny. Bands like Madness and ShawaddyWaddy (however that's spelled) would also ham it up quite a bit.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256
10 ай бұрын
Oops. I re-watched The Eels and it's toys all the way. The Beeb still had to be complicit though. By 1997 even they didn't take themselve too serioulsy.
@beenaplumber8379
5 ай бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 These guys were definitely not miming. If they were, they had to re-record the song, because this is not the arrangement they recorded and released. Way too much work.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256
4 ай бұрын
@@beenaplumber8379 I agree. I play drums, bass and guitar and everything matched up (e.g. HiHat, fills, cymbals). Drummers rarely do the exact same thing so that''s usually a give away. The harmonic on the guitar was not there when visually not there and the solo looked like the right thing. They also had a Marshall Amp just off stage and they were also all plugged in. I was more talking about TOTP rather than the Climax Blues Band, who I saw live many moons ago and were excellent. But TOTP started out not allowing the bands to actually play their own songs and used the TOTP orchestra with a newly recorded vocal track. I think because of Musicians Union limitations (i.e. recordings putting musicians out of work). They moved on to having most (not all) bands playing to their own songs often not even bothering to plug the guitars in. You'd hear horns that weren't there and second guitar parts with only one guitarist, and maybe the drummer would only have half his kit. It wasn't the bands decision. The bands had been playing their hit songs at hundreds of gigs so were fully capable of doing it (guitar bands at least) and they quite often played what they would have played even though not plugged in. It would be harder not to. One of the reasons I think was it's hard to get the sound right for a live band and TOTP was put out weekly with little foreknowledge of who they'd get. It was chart-based and the band had to be available. I found a youtube of the 1970's band "Free" on TOTP and, even though the main riff was recorded with at least two guitars (that's why it doesn't sound quite right when cover bands do it), I could still see Kossoff was playing one part of the riff and using upstrokes which filled in a piece of the puzzle for that riff. But he wasn't plugged in. He was just playing what he normally played when gigging. I was horrified to learn that even on the Old Grey Whistle Test some bands where not playing live, although most were, which is why it was better than TOTP. So, in short, I was definitely not taking a pop at The Climax Blues Band, but at the show itself, which was more often akin to a band karaoke than a true live performance. It was not unusual to see some bands taking the piss and miming to the guitar solo on saxophone or a toy guitar. When Eels did it, their drummer used a childs drum kit. Hillarious.
@beenaplumber8379
4 ай бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I get it. I re-read your first comment, and I misunderstood. I thought you were having a go at the extraordinary Climax Blues Band. (I say that because over here in the US they were a one-hit-wonder with Couldn't Get It Right until 1980 when they charted with I love You. I thought they were just some pop band. I've only now discovered what I've been missing!) Uh, sorry this got so long! OGWT & TOTP sound like The Midnight Special and American Bandstand here. Midnight Special was mostly live, and I think Bandstand was entirely pre-recorded lip synch. I learned one additional reason some networks and programmers insisted on miming the performance - they wanted to be absolutely sure the vocalists wouldn't violate their S&P (standards & practices) rules about language or content, like Jim Morrison did when The Doors played live on Ed Sullivan. I think another downside of playing live on TV is that you're at the mercy of TV sound people who might know nothing about how to make live music sound good. I've seen performances that were clearly live but one of the guitars was faded so low you couldn't hear their solo, and they might try to use TV mics on your guitar cabs, etc. I play bass, and my band did a half-hour music set for a tiny weekly local TV program in Minneapolis. (That's no boast - any local band could get in line for a date on that show for no pay; our date was in January 1996, and we broke up 3 months later.) We put on a great show, but the sound was atrocious! We had a bandleader whose name was part of the band's name, so everything was focused on him, as it should be, but his (rhythm) guitar was cranked!!! And it sounded incredibly screechy. (Awful preamps on the TV sound board? They used their own mics on the guitars, and I have no idea what they were.) Our lead guitarist sounded good, but he was kinda drowning under the rhythm guitar. My bass was predictably almost inaudible, though my tone was good in the mix. (I went direct from my rack into the board.) There was no reverb or compression on anything. I suspect there were similar limitations on OGWT. On most clips I've seen from that show the vocalists are singing into 2 mics taped together. During one performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had the impression Ronny (lead vox) was favoring the mic he heard in his monitor, which was not the mic used for the TV mix. The level was low and inconsistent, though Ronny was a very experienced vocalist. I had the impression the band's sound guy wasn't involved. The Midnight Special always had a pretty decent mix though. I don't know if they had talented house staff that only did music or if the band's regular sound people were involved, but it was always quite good. Ok, some of the vocal mics occasionally clipped, but that's ok. That just meant it really was live! Sorry this got kinda long... Talking music with a musician is something I miss. I've only played one gig since COVID, and my tired old back still hurts from that! Rocque on!
@IntergalacticSpaceKitten3 жыл бұрын
The song is just the grooviest and coolest. That chill as hell sounding voice and the lyrics "Time was drifting, this Rocker's got to roll, so I hit the road and made my getawayyy". How much cooler can you get? It's so brilliant and I'm addicted to it.
@blackmore4
3 жыл бұрын
"How much cooler can you get?" Er, quite a lot. Especially at the time. My older brother had just bought 'Anarchy in the UK' ;)
@furfamilysue
2 жыл бұрын
I like your comment. His voice is cool!
@MrChubbington
2 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 anarchy in the UK came out a year later…. This dates before punk rock. It’s cool and for those who were around back then ( myself). Couldn’t get it right , looks like you couldn’t get it right either.
@blackmore4
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrChubbington No, you're the one who "couldn't get it right". Climax Blues Band released the single of 'Couldn't Get It Right' in October 1976 and performed it on this Top of the Pops in November 1976. The very same month in which the Sex Pistols released 'Anarchy in the UK'.
@andrewdouglass1427
2 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 Poseur by proxy! (Note: Sid never stood trial for Nancy's death)
@dibber432 жыл бұрын
One of the VERY rare occasions, in the 70's, when a live performance isn't using a taped version of the studio track!!! COOL!!!😎
@61Slughi
2 жыл бұрын
And they're not speeding it up like a lot of band do when they perform live.
@dibber43
2 жыл бұрын
@@61Slughi True dat!😉👍
@jeffduncan9140
2 жыл бұрын
As good or better than the studio version. Nice
@EdMcCornhole
2 жыл бұрын
Back when nobody knew how to dance! This audience anyway!😂
@sascharosinski1309
Жыл бұрын
....and it sounds great! 😎👍🏻
@badspellah2 жыл бұрын
Fuckin criminally underated band and song
@kimmergonzales9792
2 күн бұрын
@@badspellah Great song, for sure!
@edearnshaw14753 ай бұрын
Back then..good times no cell phones just living the moment
@lindasmallwood1570Ай бұрын
My show of hands. Loving it still June 2024.
@mikeking7381
19 күн бұрын
July 2024👍😎
@karenstoddard8278
17 күн бұрын
@@mikeking7381Also July 2024. Great song ✌🏼
@rickciardella
6 сағат бұрын
@@mikeking7381July 31 2024 from Thailand
@coolguy41792 жыл бұрын
Just more proof that the 70's were the best decade for rock music.
@edp3202
2 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in my mom's car listening to this great music. Still remember those happy times.
@wills4689
Жыл бұрын
I wouldnt go that far. Two different styles of music. "Bang your head..Metal Health will drive you mad".
@sootysdisco26885 жыл бұрын
1976...teenagers still listening in 2019...you?
@tkohl
5 жыл бұрын
Have the album on vinyl...1976=15
@Professor1997HL
5 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1997 and I love this song! My generation of music is just awful.
@rhondawilliams5859
5 жыл бұрын
Sootys Disco, Hello my friend 😊, I'm still listening in 2019🎵🎤🎶😀.I was 13 in 1976.😎😎 Now I'm 55 and I miss the good ole days.🎼😍🎵🎤🎶
@nissansilviakouki
4 жыл бұрын
22 and loving this
@MrAdamJoel
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in ‘76. Song showed up on my feed. Good stuff.
@terryhilburn6016 Жыл бұрын
I'm still lost in the 70's and here it is 2022. I wish there was such a thing as a time machine. I'd be gone you guys would never see me again .
@clairejohnson6522
Жыл бұрын
I'm coming with you!
@carolleslie517
5 ай бұрын
DITTO THAT!!
@davidimrie6916
25 күн бұрын
HEY!! What about me??
@karenstoddard8278
17 күн бұрын
🤗I’m going too!
@petersawyer80446 жыл бұрын
RIP Colin Cooper (Sax) and Pete Haycock (Guitar) Greatly missed.
@AlexSosaBolivia2 жыл бұрын
Just warming up for the summer of '77. Fantastic stuff. What an era, what a time to grow up.
@bapete5159
Жыл бұрын
So true mate.....👍🇬🇧🤓
@tonyr.3435
Жыл бұрын
Turned 16 that year. It really was a great time to grow up, sooo much great music. My first concert was in '77 at the Kingdome in Seattle, a little group named Led Zeppelin.
@dskywalker3397
28 күн бұрын
Summer of 77 was a magical time.
@hunterlee81324 жыл бұрын
What a great song, I'm 57 and I never get tired of listening to it!
@GUR-ARYEA
4 жыл бұрын
Join to my rocknrol page and channel please.
@gary3696
4 жыл бұрын
It'll still sound just as great..maybe better when you hit 65yo, best wishes keep rockin them years away.
@kellylarsen577111 ай бұрын
Great song from the mid 70's that I'm still listening to in 2023
@u.hinson63009 жыл бұрын
Anyone who invents a time machine, please let me know asap so I can go back to a cooler world!
@tonyrome3119
9 жыл бұрын
U. Hinson take me with you ))
@u.hinson6300
9 жыл бұрын
+Tony Rome I wish my friend!!
@RICHBLACKCOCK
6 жыл бұрын
u hinson u dont approve of the world u now inhabit.
@butchstoneyrock4379
6 жыл бұрын
Damn straight!
@dominickcastiglione5908
6 жыл бұрын
U. Hinson You took the words right out of my mouth. Get me out of these horrible times and drop me off in the mid-1970s
@tonygp29272 жыл бұрын
Omg! Great memory of a great song! April 1977! I'm cruising in my father's 1973 Olds 98 Luxury sedan! My friend Vinny Santinello in the front seat, Pat in middle, Karen, Erin, and my friend Mike Calvito and his sister Susan in the back seat! Al the girls singing this song! Queens Village forever! Great friends! Great time! Kool girls! Rip Vinny!
@geomcc109
2 ай бұрын
You grew up in a Cameron Crowe movie!
@1069Woodsy
22 күн бұрын
Kept away from Son of Sam
@jerryblake40882 жыл бұрын
I miss the 70s, AWESOME.
@michaelbaker35984 жыл бұрын
Everything about this is just COOL
@beanmchne4 ай бұрын
This is phenomenal 👍 great live performance.
@whitedust69610 жыл бұрын
ladies and gentlemen music doesnt get much better than this
@healthyone100
9 жыл бұрын
RIGHT ON!
@dominickcastiglione5908
6 жыл бұрын
whitedust696 100% AAA
@lewicindabaker465
6 жыл бұрын
I TRULY LOVE THIS
@thctommy8055
4 жыл бұрын
Cool
@pauldd70333 жыл бұрын
Show me anything on commercial radio today that can even touch this! It doesn’t exist.
@martinleavitt6094
3 жыл бұрын
👍
@rebeccadee4107
3 жыл бұрын
I heard it on the radio station in my truck.
@michastarzewski2445
3 жыл бұрын
Foget it!
@richardtaylor8595
3 жыл бұрын
commercial radio sucks .When Clear Cannel and I Fart Radio took over, radio has sucked since. If I ever hit the lottery I will start my own station and make music great again. That is my dream.
@rebeccadee4107
3 жыл бұрын
@@richardtaylor8595 lol! I think about winning the lottery and having my own radio station too!
@KurtSlotkowski-hj8jd4 жыл бұрын
Back then, black music and white music both had more soul and the message which reflected that soul. The mood of the music always matched the message. And the message always reflected a soul that was more gentle and slow to base emotions because in those days people generally, with some exceptions, had a stronger sense of redeeming values. Not so anymore. The parents of relatively more recent generations had parents who compromised those values due to bad lifestyle choices and just bad choices in the means they chose to support themselves and their families. It is as much for reasons of not taking personal responsibility as it is for economic reasons that all of this has happened the way it has. And now we have a generation that is lost and no way to seek recourse. And with Covid-19 always looming over our heads, it only diminishes opportunity and the possibility to take responsibility while also taking away the liberty so necessary to learn not to take things for granted anymore. The Covid-19 and all of the lockdowns and extensions are as much a politicized hoax as the virus itself is real.
@davidpicard53765 ай бұрын
There is also a valid reason why we cling to this era regarding the music. It was so important to us with the few distractions of entertainment available to us at that time and as far as our working lives were concerned, there was no free ride. It was a far more disciplined time with no technology to aid us and as Rose tinted our glasses might be, if we were returned to that time there's a fair few from this current generation that might well curl up into a foetal position. Music was such an important escape back then it had more relevance in my humble opinion.
@marcusbuckner5582
3 ай бұрын
1945-1995 was the most revolutionary era of music; all genres….. now everything is dead……
@deenine2 жыл бұрын
This was the day I was born.
@sfedroid3 жыл бұрын
I saw these guys around 1981 and they put on a great show, excellent playing, and had a chat backstage about their guitars and they were really cool, down to earth and modest. It was basically my first time meeting people I'd idolised through the Johnny Walker and Friday Rock Show, and it was a real pleasure to discover they were just real nice guys.
@Kaleiddmode
3 жыл бұрын
Pete Haycock seems to have been a lovely guy
@debchabotte6634
Жыл бұрын
@@Kaleiddmode he was... a personal friend of ours we went on tour with him and Pete Haycock's True Blues, in Germany in 2008.. Had the most fantastic time... I posted vids on my channel google the band title.
@scars56292 жыл бұрын
Killer band. I was lucky to have older brothers that jammed to this all the time in the 70s, as well as montrose, Dwight twilley band, foghat, Nazareth, kiss, heart, fleetwood mac, zz top, lynyrd skynyrd, molly hatchet, marshall tucker band, rolling stones and on and on and on. I was a lucky little dude.
@DevilDogDen17752 жыл бұрын
They were such an underappreciated band ...
@dianaengel21802 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the post....72 years old, I am, and still rocking!!
@McMillanScottish5 жыл бұрын
For ONCE, a 70’s TV performance which was not lip synced. Thank you.
@mikepreston-engel88696 жыл бұрын
Underrated classic which is one of the great tunes that epitomizes my life in the 70's.
@user-hv8vu8dg9x
3 жыл бұрын
Great song and incredible live version!
@hamishanderson6738
2 жыл бұрын
& the gold-plated guitar!
@snafu7691
2 жыл бұрын
It's not underrated else i doubt it would be a classic
@Charlotte666665 жыл бұрын
Watching this in 2019 and wishing I was in the 70's...
@user-kq5qp6dh8l
4 жыл бұрын
I was there... Used to have all albums
@smc8440
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Best freaking decade.
@coops9871
4 жыл бұрын
Take me with you
@bubbalover71
3 жыл бұрын
Just wait til 2020...
@mckessa17
3 жыл бұрын
60's 70's and 80's were very cool. Wish I could relive it
@guilhermegarcia87503 ай бұрын
This is so smooth, damn. Fun lovin criminals brought me here. 🇧🇷
@Smudgie9 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when bands believed in their musicianship enough to play live on TOTP. Radical!
@revengerabbit8408
8 жыл бұрын
+Phil Porter The bands that played on the show didn't have any say in the matter when TOTP decided that bands would lip sync.
@robertglenn5398
8 жыл бұрын
+Phil Porter Indeed, Phil...back in the day when AutoTune and ProTools were someone's nightmare concept. It's so freakin' fun to watch musicans play real musicians. I really took it all for granted back in the day. As a drummer, I had to really know my meters and such in order to keep a job. Today, it's "No Experience Necessary." And by the way, I see Kanye West, the greatest fraud of them all, one more time, I am going to have to assassinate something!
@kenholland911
8 жыл бұрын
+robert glenn h hopefully it will be kanye
@robertglenn5398
8 жыл бұрын
+Ken Holland Would love to put Kanye in an open-air limo and do a repeat of Dallas...
@kenholland911
8 жыл бұрын
And award medals to the shooters on the grassy knoll.
@Nyquest2 жыл бұрын
I met Colin Cooper In Wigan early 90's. A lovely fella, what great band
@devilfan2k2 жыл бұрын
Not one dislike. Faith in humanity restored.
@LA_Commander Жыл бұрын
Love to see all the young people dancing and enjoying the music together, black and white, all equals. Too bad we didn't have more of that here in America, with our quasi-segregated TV shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train.
@edgriemsmann46973 жыл бұрын
Takes me back to a much better place
@henrypang47345 ай бұрын
Heard it on the radio, shazam it. What a song!!! Feels more like song than today's music.
@thechief56702 жыл бұрын
I hear so much Ween in this song and I love it, the beat the instrumental and the VOCALS oh my god dude a Ween song before their time a fabulous gem great band.
@jeffsparey95852 жыл бұрын
From a time when if you couldn't cut it live you got found out,not like now where a computer makes you sound good if you can't sing,take me back to the 70,s
@rgrndu4 жыл бұрын
One of the best songs to come out of the 70’s. When I hear this I think of “So Into You” by Atlanta Rhythm Section & “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck. Still love all three.
@jradawson
2 жыл бұрын
Greatest comment ever.
@kbusby4824
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@standwellback7252
2 жыл бұрын
Presumably you also do an air marimba solo half way through Moonlight Feels Right like I do???
@jamesbacchi5353
Жыл бұрын
Funny, I get that exact feeling too…. It’s gotta be that Fender Rhodes
@joelmartel98422 жыл бұрын
All the good movies should end with this awesome song.
@lynndee26442 жыл бұрын
AWESOME SONG AND GROUP!!!!! 2021 STILL LISTENING... What was so freaking awesome back in the day, without noticing then, was the fact that, " We All Got Along '!!! No racist crap! Now, it's just sad. Everyone is for ONLY themselves! A certain age group has destroyed everything. It's heartbreaking! 💔😡 music is all that is left except for the memories in our heads. God Bless you and good luck... you're gonna need it!
@RichardRitenour0522
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have said it any better, sad but true.
@stevenharris7162 жыл бұрын
Jamming out... Drinking some brews tonight & reminiscing... This is a great one!
@nereydacortes1297
2 жыл бұрын
hey, wish I could join you !
@stevenharris716
2 жыл бұрын
@@nereydacortes1297 I guess ya just did! Have a good one....
@Ronno46913 жыл бұрын
One of THE songs of the 1970s for me. So atmospheric.
@paulcook32752 жыл бұрын
Every day on KEZY in Anaheim, CA, they would play this during what was my driver's education class. Even in AM, the song resonated. Cannot hear it without thinking about how it was way back when.
@susanl85095 ай бұрын
Oh the song of my teen years!
@Johnfreedom643 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh yes the 70s where the fabulous bands were plentiful and the the superb songs were everywhere....my favorite decade 👌👍✌✌✌✌
@garyfrost95804 жыл бұрын
You cannot help but get pumped up when you hear this tune. Smooth , upbeat and you can dance to it !
@wisheybonez
Жыл бұрын
Me too. 😀
@wazhoola146 жыл бұрын
This is the shit! How can you not like this? sound is superb, great song, excellent musicians, they literally piss this with ease, so cool.
@gomogo2000
3 жыл бұрын
No excrement here. Just pure talent and joy!
@flywithseaguls3 күн бұрын
I saw them live on March 10, 1984 in the hall of a restaurant in Xanten-Birten, Germany, in front of a maximum of 150 people. More people weren't there because there was a printing error on the tickets: Climex. The innkeeper was able to motivate them to still play a full concert with a few trays full of beer. It was wonderfull and will always be in my heart! I still have the tickets!
@ertlk243 жыл бұрын
This was literally the 1st band I saw in concert, they opened for Bad Co. Cleveland Coliseum; 1977-ish
@tbone2451
3 жыл бұрын
Cleveland rocks!!
@billthomas9328
3 жыл бұрын
Me too. They opened for Alice Cooper im 76. I was in third grade lol
@jimswordsnchords1759
3 жыл бұрын
You guys are lucky, lucky. Musta' been good times.
@thomasfoss9963
3 жыл бұрын
We saw them twice live in the 70s in Chicago- Once with Foghat in the Auditorium-- the other I don't recall.
@thomasfoss9963
3 жыл бұрын
I do recall them playing "I am Constant"-- and 7th Son!!!!!!
@wininspn8 жыл бұрын
Nice to see a live '70s performance with original sound!
@donwoodward79446 жыл бұрын
Love his baritone voice. Excellent live band. I'm impressed.
@atlasadonis3752 Жыл бұрын
Right on. This song needs played more. Thanks for upload ❤✌🤘
@littlehootch4 жыл бұрын
It's 100% live. Talented group. Love it.
@alamedacustomholsters2 жыл бұрын
You didn’t know it then but those were the best times in your life.
@user-jm2eq9nk1e Жыл бұрын
アメリカ在住の1977年、毎日ラジオから流れていた。中毒性が高い。
@jgmatp2 жыл бұрын
awesome song! totally remember this from the 70s
@nigel9003 күн бұрын
All the Greatest music has Already been done…
@reeshmead17883 жыл бұрын
Nice to see everyone dancing. That is a real special band. Iconic.
@ReneJustice-mb7hu7 ай бұрын
Love this song!💕💕💕
@videogeekin2 жыл бұрын
“ When music still had talent and class. By the 1990’s was the beginning of the end.”
@ninamartinez51712 жыл бұрын
The era of the 70's Wolfman Jack, Solid gold dancers, Y 100 raido station, Americans, were living it up. God i wish i could travel back to the 70's
@scottdunn21784 жыл бұрын
November 1976, I was 10 years old, listening to Boston, Kansas, etc. Great memories.
@inarahlucero28184 жыл бұрын
When musicians did not sign contract deals with the devil,they played with their heart and soul..
@rgrndu
4 жыл бұрын
Inarah Lucero Contracts with the devil go back to the start of rock n roll.
@takenoprisoners5113
4 жыл бұрын
WRONG!
@alyb731
4 жыл бұрын
I actually thought bands got screwed over much more then.
@affectionatepunch
4 жыл бұрын
Tell that to Badfinger
@shabadoo24
4 жыл бұрын
Badfinger, The Chambers Brothers, Tommy James, Steve Marriott
@deborahcrossley5255 жыл бұрын
Best ever live performance on Top of the pops. Genius.
@georgeclarke11833 жыл бұрын
Great song reminds me of my youth some Great songs made in the 70s
@atworkstation10 жыл бұрын
Peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 in the spring of 1977.
@healthyone100
9 жыл бұрын
SHOULD HAVE HIT NO.1
@38ddkelly
5 жыл бұрын
And #2 was the lame "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer. #1 was Stevie Wonder's excellent "Sir Duke"
@rgrndu
4 жыл бұрын
Kelly02895 Love When I Need You, which went to no.1
@kingstumble5 жыл бұрын
RIP Colin Cooper. The most laid back frontman you have ever seen. Just relied on his talent. And a thoroughly nice bloke to boot.
@bernardwallace41655 ай бұрын
The 70s really did have some good sounds.
@TintarellaDiLuna642 ай бұрын
60yrs still listening; Climax blues band, Cristoffer Cross, Toto, Hall&Oates etc. Completely right, no autotunecrap and naked bodies..
@marko511d9 жыл бұрын
I forgot this song existed until I heard it lately..love it!!! can't listen to it enough.
@Grvthang10 жыл бұрын
I met these cats when they were playing the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas behind Johnny Winter in '76. We hung out together for 3 days and had a blast. It wasn't until I walked in on the sound check for their gig and they were playing this song that I realized that they had a hit record out. Nice group of easy going blue-collar dudes.
@Dicegirl72
5 жыл бұрын
Great story!
@MissAstorDancer
5 жыл бұрын
@penn707 Jerk
@FOROW99
5 жыл бұрын
I wasn't there dude.
@mrwhite26284 күн бұрын
Iwas jamming to this when it came out. Still jamming to it all these years later. Great song!
@SladesVWBeetle5 жыл бұрын
What an amazing time to have lived in.
@Mermaid22614 жыл бұрын
Playing real instruments!!! Who'd of thought!?! Glad I grew up when I did! I'll be 58 this year and still listen to this music.
@jeffkramer285 жыл бұрын
Wow. Nice that it’s actually a LIVE performance and not just a lip sync to playback. Great tune.
@supremepartydude4 жыл бұрын
Climax blues band and panama red - two of life's greatest pleasures.
@rickyb50624 жыл бұрын
there’s so much I can say about these musicians playing real music back then! I would literally run out of space and run out of breath talking about how real and how amazing it was to have humans actually playing instruments and actually singing. This is one of my favorite songs by the way!
@philjamesakaowlman62303 жыл бұрын
For the cynics and doubters in the comments below, this is definitely a live performance, as a musician you can just tell, great track as well not so bluesy as funky rock
@martinashton6629 Жыл бұрын
I saw these guys in the mid 70s in Stafford, their home town, at a charity gig to save a local Hotel from demolition. Couldn't Get It Right was in the charts and the atmosphere at the night club, Th Top Of The World, was electric! The place was absolutely heaving, with no restrictions on numbers in those days and no air con either! I've been to many a concert over the years and it was probably the best I'd been to for enjoyment and I'm sure the band must have felt the same. Needless to say the building was saved and is there to this day. Thank you fellas.
Пікірлер: 3 200
2024 WHOS STILL JAMMING?!
@johncortez2009
5 ай бұрын
I am I just turned 50 in October Just a little kid listening to all this type of music what's the best time
@chavon3467
5 ай бұрын
Love this tune still (2024)
@cchild9110
4 ай бұрын
Me! ❤🎶
@MrRainer-tu8nf
4 ай бұрын
👍
@user-us5jz4nt9w
4 ай бұрын
Meet me at the roller rink. Skate on
Listen! An actual performance, kids - no lip syncing, no computers, no auto-tune. Just talent and hair.
@Alltime2050
10 сағат бұрын
A lot of music on TV and in movies was lip-synced back in the day. That is nothing new.
I'm a 55 year old black man raised in the projects of NE DC, and this is one of my favorite songs from the 70's era. DCOG
@chriscoughlan5221
5 ай бұрын
projects, what type projects would they be? i´m always looking for new projects, something new!!
@joannefalkinder393
4 ай бұрын
You have taste 😉
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017
4 ай бұрын
It's bizarre these dudes are from the UK. Sound like true bluesmen.
@dmitryowens
4 ай бұрын
I'm a 54 year-old metal musician and I love it.
@chriscoughlan5221
4 ай бұрын
Projects, what are they !?
2023. Who's Jamming to this Song still?? 😎
@bravoaddictAnn
6 ай бұрын
Jamming to it in 2024!! 😎
@jim32664
6 ай бұрын
Me too!
@elektrolyte
6 ай бұрын
still vibing in Feb 2024 Johannesburg, SA. the 70's were THE BEST by FAR This song was in the charts when I finished school in 1976, in Cape Town and the local band, McCulley's Workshop covered it on Sunday nights at the Canterbury Inn, in Rondebosch. Don't know how i ever drove home after the place closed at midnight
@devils_advocate5311
5 ай бұрын
2024 and this tune is still a fave of mine. I feel robbed that there’s no cowbell in the live version! Haha.
@paulfalconer4988
5 ай бұрын
2024 and I'm still jamming - love it !!! great music from the 70s and this is one kick ass song. thank you Climax Blues Band, you guys rock !!!
Can i have a show of hands if you're still listening to this in 2020
@tammiprice6351
5 жыл бұрын
3-13-19
@1nnu3ndo
5 жыл бұрын
Still listening? I've actually randomly discovered this gem today.
@scotnick59
5 жыл бұрын
Oh, hell yeah!!
@dawnl1769
5 жыл бұрын
Meee ! 70s !
@brianvincentdoucet4273
5 жыл бұрын
Until recently, I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid. And until I found this video, I could not identify the group or the song.
I was 16 when this song came out. I'm now 64 and I still love it.
@beaubartlett6824
Ай бұрын
RIGHT ON!!!
@TheLimbReaper
2 күн бұрын
I'm 60 now and was 12 when this came out.
Colin Coopers (main singer) voice always reminded me of the singer in the band Exile. Remember the song Kiss you all over?
@TentinQuarantino_
4 жыл бұрын
There is an absolutely hilarious video of that song on KZread, lemme find it for ya.
@TentinQuarantino_
4 жыл бұрын
Ok. Here it is. It was kinda before people knew how to make videos, so the singers look alive and the band looks like they’re on double quaaludes. Enjoy kzread.info/dash/bejne/gaSVpbqtkcu-qM4.html
@groovedohg
4 жыл бұрын
@@TentinQuarantino_ I know why you say its hilarious , basically because its a bit OTT. The bass player is a bit non existant emotion wise. I also looked at their Midnight Special version where they did it live, and it is the best version. It was a great song at the time. I would have been around 16 to 18, and I was heavy into Status Quo, but I didnt mind this song. Some disco songs like I feel love, Disco Inferno and Staying Alive would be many blokes guilty pleasures.
@k.j.g.9601
4 жыл бұрын
tiffd98133 bwahahaha Holy shit, those bangs have to be immortalized as the Apex of cringe! In their defense that was peak of cheesy music and frankly the backlash was warranted...
@TentinQuarantino_
4 жыл бұрын
K.J. G. I know, right? But in all fairness, that goofball had a really good reputation for helping others and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. I just had to look him up. He died young but I never got a reliable report on how.
any other 53 yr old folks like me still love this in 24? never thought back then I was listening to some of the best songs ever to be written 🎶
@dick9101112
26 күн бұрын
I'm 71 and couldn't agree more.
@TheJohnnyMonoDisease
4 күн бұрын
I’m 53 and completely agree. We had it so good.
That high pitched vocal backing is awesome!!!!!
@audreynorstrom3455
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly that’s what makes this entire song so iconic! At least that’s what makes me remember it from my childhood
@naomiderulo8246
11 ай бұрын
Yes!! Agree 1000%
From 68 to 76 was a magical time in music history. Some of the best pop/rock music ever made.
@scotnick59
9 жыл бұрын
Completely agree with the above comment
@theoriginalbillholt
8 жыл бұрын
+Dave Wray Link Wray?
@rubicon-oh9km
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agreed. The zenith in music history.
@chee5935
7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!
@MadMaxx63
7 жыл бұрын
It was such an amazing time...do you remember ordering albums via mail like "Summer of 76" only to find out it wasn't the original artists? So many copy cats it was unbelievable but shows just how GREAT the music was!
The fact that they sound so good just raw with no auto tune like nowadays is just amazing
@RedArrow73
2 жыл бұрын
Just the occasional Conn Strobo-Tuner.
@brian_hibbs
6 ай бұрын
@@RedArrow73such a beautiful tuner.
@markgreene6349
2 ай бұрын
Not amazing.. it's talent... gotta love analog.. everyone had to play live back then....
Its 2024 and this song is still great! Love Love it❤🎶
Not too many people probably ever noticed, but these dudes aren't just singing 3 part "harmonies" they're singing in 3 freakin "octaves" at the same time!!! Listen carefully! Lead vocalist on the low part, bass player in the middle and guitarist way up on top!! One of the very first bands to pull that shit off! (Very cool effect!) The Steve Miller Band was the only other band (I think) to even attempt that back then. Or ever for that matter! SMOKIN!!!
@wickedfood
6 жыл бұрын
Love the vocal arrangement as well as that of the music- the way the guitars and sax blend to form one new sound. Awesome live performance from musicians' musicians.
@fishwhiskey160
6 жыл бұрын
Spot on Bruce! Thanks for pointing it out!
@johnshawcross217
6 жыл бұрын
Well spotted Bruce and thanks for pointing that out. Yeah it works.
@migcheldirksen9866
6 жыл бұрын
Bruce McFarland thats what this song one of the best
@earlyjenkins6275
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah Bruce this one of first 3 albums I bought.i know that to.only true music lovers know and pick up on that.yeah Steve Miller damn good singer and picker to brother.peace to you.the 70s was the real deal.
All their little heads are bopping up and down in time to the beat. What a great scene. Bring this back and cure the world!
@dgodrummer8110
Жыл бұрын
we'd have to be smokin' a shit ton of weed to bring back dem times. I'm trying my best to do it on my own.
@yabbaguy
Жыл бұрын
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I'd probably have been the same back then: but a lot of them have eyes for the camera and are probably just trying to look good on TV back when not just anybody could be on screen. Yet I think in its own way, people are being there and present in a cool moment.
@josippe7888
Жыл бұрын
I love your comment. ❤️
Book me a seat in a time machine back to the 70s..am 60 now and that decade was the best ever for music..
@kevinhullinger8743
2 күн бұрын
Yea, the music was genuine!
This totally captures the 70s for me...dudes with dorky clothes & hair, but damn could they sing and play the hell out their instruments. Fantastic tune.
@lindahandley5267
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the clothes...I even got accused of being a hippie. LOL!
@bapete5159
4 жыл бұрын
Richard Tetta Miss those Days....👍🇬🇧🤓
@bapete5159
4 жыл бұрын
Max Herron Sr Yes them ladies were.....and also they were Silicon Free.....👍🇬🇧🤓
@nancy9478
4 жыл бұрын
Looks like any hs dance I ever went to. Class of 77 in the house!
@runninrebel1520
4 жыл бұрын
And they’re way cooler than these little soy boy betas today
Look kids! No auto tune. No drum machine. No computer based instruments. It's what's referred to as talent.
@TheSanityInspector
5 жыл бұрын
Before we had Pro Tools, we had pros!
@Trytocookthis
5 жыл бұрын
UR, you gotta keep an open mind with today's artists, not all machines sound bad. But I will have to say that this is one hell of a great video and the era back then, for me, was nothing but great music to get me through my life.
@kevinforth7618
5 жыл бұрын
Yep - and no lip sync. Just musicians playing and singing. Great video.
@LordKenebutch
5 жыл бұрын
And no cow bell, damn!
@barbaracozart9099
5 жыл бұрын
Agree!!!!
Anyone listening in 2020 .
@annebooth9632
4 жыл бұрын
Me!
@BlueToneBatey
4 жыл бұрын
Yes - music of my teen years. REAL MUSIC and real musicians. That era is gone I'm afraid. Still a few "getting it right" but not many.
@jeffshinn2434
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I am!
@quintas66
4 жыл бұрын
Just listened to this today on Spotify!
@brianvincentdoucet4273
4 жыл бұрын
Definitely!
Can we please go back to this time
Back when the music was pure, vocals, instruments, no high tech alterations. Thanks for the video.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256
10 ай бұрын
To be fair nearly all of TOTP was mimed. If I remember correctly the early shows didn't even have the original music but used the BBC orchestra. I think for Musician's Union reasons. I was horrified to learn a few years ago that some of The Old Grey Whistle Test was fakery too, although the percentage of proper live music was much higher. When I was younger I had much more respect for OGWT because it had cool music and was (apparently, and mostly) live. The acts that mimed (e.g. The Rolling Stones) was more due to the bands not trusting that the Beeb would do justice to their sound. Although I might be being too generous. I knew someone who went on TOTP as part of the audience. They had tiny audiences they moved between the stages. If they'd zoomed out the studio would be pretty empty. So, as far as TV music was concerned, maybe not high tech alterations but certainly a few low tech ones. Most of the rock bands that appeared were miming to music they played on tour so, quite often, although not plugged in (or in the case of drums, miked up) they would still play what they'd normally play. Problem was the directors would always without fail misread what was going on and cut to the wrong camera. It was almost perverse how they managed to get it wrong every time. So if you were trying to cop what the guitarist was actually doing (silently) you would be out of luck. latter bands (especially US ones who didn't get the point of miming or ones who'd already made it) would parody the show they were on doing guitar sols with saxophones etc. My favourite one was when The Eels went on to do Novocaine For The Soul with the drummer behind a tiny kids drum kit. next to the drums is a marshall stack. Eight inches high. And the bass player and guitarist have alternate genuine or toy sized instruments. So the Beeb were conplicit in the joke. So funny. Bands like Madness and ShawaddyWaddy (however that's spelled) would also ham it up quite a bit.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256
10 ай бұрын
Oops. I re-watched The Eels and it's toys all the way. The Beeb still had to be complicit though. By 1997 even they didn't take themselve too serioulsy.
@beenaplumber8379
5 ай бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 These guys were definitely not miming. If they were, they had to re-record the song, because this is not the arrangement they recorded and released. Way too much work.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256
4 ай бұрын
@@beenaplumber8379 I agree. I play drums, bass and guitar and everything matched up (e.g. HiHat, fills, cymbals). Drummers rarely do the exact same thing so that''s usually a give away. The harmonic on the guitar was not there when visually not there and the solo looked like the right thing. They also had a Marshall Amp just off stage and they were also all plugged in. I was more talking about TOTP rather than the Climax Blues Band, who I saw live many moons ago and were excellent. But TOTP started out not allowing the bands to actually play their own songs and used the TOTP orchestra with a newly recorded vocal track. I think because of Musicians Union limitations (i.e. recordings putting musicians out of work). They moved on to having most (not all) bands playing to their own songs often not even bothering to plug the guitars in. You'd hear horns that weren't there and second guitar parts with only one guitarist, and maybe the drummer would only have half his kit. It wasn't the bands decision. The bands had been playing their hit songs at hundreds of gigs so were fully capable of doing it (guitar bands at least) and they quite often played what they would have played even though not plugged in. It would be harder not to. One of the reasons I think was it's hard to get the sound right for a live band and TOTP was put out weekly with little foreknowledge of who they'd get. It was chart-based and the band had to be available. I found a youtube of the 1970's band "Free" on TOTP and, even though the main riff was recorded with at least two guitars (that's why it doesn't sound quite right when cover bands do it), I could still see Kossoff was playing one part of the riff and using upstrokes which filled in a piece of the puzzle for that riff. But he wasn't plugged in. He was just playing what he normally played when gigging. I was horrified to learn that even on the Old Grey Whistle Test some bands where not playing live, although most were, which is why it was better than TOTP. So, in short, I was definitely not taking a pop at The Climax Blues Band, but at the show itself, which was more often akin to a band karaoke than a true live performance. It was not unusual to see some bands taking the piss and miming to the guitar solo on saxophone or a toy guitar. When Eels did it, their drummer used a childs drum kit. Hillarious.
@beenaplumber8379
4 ай бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I get it. I re-read your first comment, and I misunderstood. I thought you were having a go at the extraordinary Climax Blues Band. (I say that because over here in the US they were a one-hit-wonder with Couldn't Get It Right until 1980 when they charted with I love You. I thought they were just some pop band. I've only now discovered what I've been missing!) Uh, sorry this got so long! OGWT & TOTP sound like The Midnight Special and American Bandstand here. Midnight Special was mostly live, and I think Bandstand was entirely pre-recorded lip synch. I learned one additional reason some networks and programmers insisted on miming the performance - they wanted to be absolutely sure the vocalists wouldn't violate their S&P (standards & practices) rules about language or content, like Jim Morrison did when The Doors played live on Ed Sullivan. I think another downside of playing live on TV is that you're at the mercy of TV sound people who might know nothing about how to make live music sound good. I've seen performances that were clearly live but one of the guitars was faded so low you couldn't hear their solo, and they might try to use TV mics on your guitar cabs, etc. I play bass, and my band did a half-hour music set for a tiny weekly local TV program in Minneapolis. (That's no boast - any local band could get in line for a date on that show for no pay; our date was in January 1996, and we broke up 3 months later.) We put on a great show, but the sound was atrocious! We had a bandleader whose name was part of the band's name, so everything was focused on him, as it should be, but his (rhythm) guitar was cranked!!! And it sounded incredibly screechy. (Awful preamps on the TV sound board? They used their own mics on the guitars, and I have no idea what they were.) Our lead guitarist sounded good, but he was kinda drowning under the rhythm guitar. My bass was predictably almost inaudible, though my tone was good in the mix. (I went direct from my rack into the board.) There was no reverb or compression on anything. I suspect there were similar limitations on OGWT. On most clips I've seen from that show the vocalists are singing into 2 mics taped together. During one performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had the impression Ronny (lead vox) was favoring the mic he heard in his monitor, which was not the mic used for the TV mix. The level was low and inconsistent, though Ronny was a very experienced vocalist. I had the impression the band's sound guy wasn't involved. The Midnight Special always had a pretty decent mix though. I don't know if they had talented house staff that only did music or if the band's regular sound people were involved, but it was always quite good. Ok, some of the vocal mics occasionally clipped, but that's ok. That just meant it really was live! Sorry this got kinda long... Talking music with a musician is something I miss. I've only played one gig since COVID, and my tired old back still hurts from that! Rocque on!
The song is just the grooviest and coolest. That chill as hell sounding voice and the lyrics "Time was drifting, this Rocker's got to roll, so I hit the road and made my getawayyy". How much cooler can you get? It's so brilliant and I'm addicted to it.
@blackmore4
3 жыл бұрын
"How much cooler can you get?" Er, quite a lot. Especially at the time. My older brother had just bought 'Anarchy in the UK' ;)
@furfamilysue
2 жыл бұрын
I like your comment. His voice is cool!
@MrChubbington
2 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 anarchy in the UK came out a year later…. This dates before punk rock. It’s cool and for those who were around back then ( myself). Couldn’t get it right , looks like you couldn’t get it right either.
@blackmore4
2 жыл бұрын
@@MrChubbington No, you're the one who "couldn't get it right". Climax Blues Band released the single of 'Couldn't Get It Right' in October 1976 and performed it on this Top of the Pops in November 1976. The very same month in which the Sex Pistols released 'Anarchy in the UK'.
@andrewdouglass1427
2 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 Poseur by proxy! (Note: Sid never stood trial for Nancy's death)
One of the VERY rare occasions, in the 70's, when a live performance isn't using a taped version of the studio track!!! COOL!!!😎
@61Slughi
2 жыл бұрын
And they're not speeding it up like a lot of band do when they perform live.
@dibber43
2 жыл бұрын
@@61Slughi True dat!😉👍
@jeffduncan9140
2 жыл бұрын
As good or better than the studio version. Nice
@EdMcCornhole
2 жыл бұрын
Back when nobody knew how to dance! This audience anyway!😂
@sascharosinski1309
Жыл бұрын
....and it sounds great! 😎👍🏻
Fuckin criminally underated band and song
@kimmergonzales9792
2 күн бұрын
@@badspellah Great song, for sure!
Back then..good times no cell phones just living the moment
My show of hands. Loving it still June 2024.
@mikeking7381
19 күн бұрын
July 2024👍😎
@karenstoddard8278
17 күн бұрын
@@mikeking7381Also July 2024. Great song ✌🏼
@rickciardella
6 сағат бұрын
@@mikeking7381July 31 2024 from Thailand
Just more proof that the 70's were the best decade for rock music.
@edp3202
2 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in my mom's car listening to this great music. Still remember those happy times.
@wills4689
Жыл бұрын
I wouldnt go that far. Two different styles of music. "Bang your head..Metal Health will drive you mad".
1976...teenagers still listening in 2019...you?
@tkohl
5 жыл бұрын
Have the album on vinyl...1976=15
@Professor1997HL
5 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1997 and I love this song! My generation of music is just awful.
@rhondawilliams5859
5 жыл бұрын
Sootys Disco, Hello my friend 😊, I'm still listening in 2019🎵🎤🎶😀.I was 13 in 1976.😎😎 Now I'm 55 and I miss the good ole days.🎼😍🎵🎤🎶
@nissansilviakouki
4 жыл бұрын
22 and loving this
@MrAdamJoel
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in ‘76. Song showed up on my feed. Good stuff.
I'm still lost in the 70's and here it is 2022. I wish there was such a thing as a time machine. I'd be gone you guys would never see me again .
@clairejohnson6522
Жыл бұрын
I'm coming with you!
@carolleslie517
5 ай бұрын
DITTO THAT!!
@davidimrie6916
25 күн бұрын
HEY!! What about me??
@karenstoddard8278
17 күн бұрын
🤗I’m going too!
RIP Colin Cooper (Sax) and Pete Haycock (Guitar) Greatly missed.
Just warming up for the summer of '77. Fantastic stuff. What an era, what a time to grow up.
@bapete5159
Жыл бұрын
So true mate.....👍🇬🇧🤓
@tonyr.3435
Жыл бұрын
Turned 16 that year. It really was a great time to grow up, sooo much great music. My first concert was in '77 at the Kingdome in Seattle, a little group named Led Zeppelin.
@dskywalker3397
28 күн бұрын
Summer of 77 was a magical time.
What a great song, I'm 57 and I never get tired of listening to it!
@GUR-ARYEA
4 жыл бұрын
Join to my rocknrol page and channel please.
@gary3696
4 жыл бұрын
It'll still sound just as great..maybe better when you hit 65yo, best wishes keep rockin them years away.
Great song from the mid 70's that I'm still listening to in 2023
Anyone who invents a time machine, please let me know asap so I can go back to a cooler world!
@tonyrome3119
9 жыл бұрын
U. Hinson take me with you ))
@u.hinson6300
9 жыл бұрын
+Tony Rome I wish my friend!!
@RICHBLACKCOCK
6 жыл бұрын
u hinson u dont approve of the world u now inhabit.
@butchstoneyrock4379
6 жыл бұрын
Damn straight!
@dominickcastiglione5908
6 жыл бұрын
U. Hinson You took the words right out of my mouth. Get me out of these horrible times and drop me off in the mid-1970s
Omg! Great memory of a great song! April 1977! I'm cruising in my father's 1973 Olds 98 Luxury sedan! My friend Vinny Santinello in the front seat, Pat in middle, Karen, Erin, and my friend Mike Calvito and his sister Susan in the back seat! Al the girls singing this song! Queens Village forever! Great friends! Great time! Kool girls! Rip Vinny!
@geomcc109
2 ай бұрын
You grew up in a Cameron Crowe movie!
@1069Woodsy
22 күн бұрын
Kept away from Son of Sam
I miss the 70s, AWESOME.
Everything about this is just COOL
This is phenomenal 👍 great live performance.
ladies and gentlemen music doesnt get much better than this
@healthyone100
9 жыл бұрын
RIGHT ON!
@dominickcastiglione5908
6 жыл бұрын
whitedust696 100% AAA
@lewicindabaker465
6 жыл бұрын
I TRULY LOVE THIS
@thctommy8055
4 жыл бұрын
Cool
Show me anything on commercial radio today that can even touch this! It doesn’t exist.
@martinleavitt6094
3 жыл бұрын
👍
@rebeccadee4107
3 жыл бұрын
I heard it on the radio station in my truck.
@michastarzewski2445
3 жыл бұрын
Foget it!
@richardtaylor8595
3 жыл бұрын
commercial radio sucks .When Clear Cannel and I Fart Radio took over, radio has sucked since. If I ever hit the lottery I will start my own station and make music great again. That is my dream.
@rebeccadee4107
3 жыл бұрын
@@richardtaylor8595 lol! I think about winning the lottery and having my own radio station too!
Back then, black music and white music both had more soul and the message which reflected that soul. The mood of the music always matched the message. And the message always reflected a soul that was more gentle and slow to base emotions because in those days people generally, with some exceptions, had a stronger sense of redeeming values. Not so anymore. The parents of relatively more recent generations had parents who compromised those values due to bad lifestyle choices and just bad choices in the means they chose to support themselves and their families. It is as much for reasons of not taking personal responsibility as it is for economic reasons that all of this has happened the way it has. And now we have a generation that is lost and no way to seek recourse. And with Covid-19 always looming over our heads, it only diminishes opportunity and the possibility to take responsibility while also taking away the liberty so necessary to learn not to take things for granted anymore. The Covid-19 and all of the lockdowns and extensions are as much a politicized hoax as the virus itself is real.
There is also a valid reason why we cling to this era regarding the music. It was so important to us with the few distractions of entertainment available to us at that time and as far as our working lives were concerned, there was no free ride. It was a far more disciplined time with no technology to aid us and as Rose tinted our glasses might be, if we were returned to that time there's a fair few from this current generation that might well curl up into a foetal position. Music was such an important escape back then it had more relevance in my humble opinion.
@marcusbuckner5582
3 ай бұрын
1945-1995 was the most revolutionary era of music; all genres….. now everything is dead……
This was the day I was born.
I saw these guys around 1981 and they put on a great show, excellent playing, and had a chat backstage about their guitars and they were really cool, down to earth and modest. It was basically my first time meeting people I'd idolised through the Johnny Walker and Friday Rock Show, and it was a real pleasure to discover they were just real nice guys.
@Kaleiddmode
3 жыл бұрын
Pete Haycock seems to have been a lovely guy
@debchabotte6634
Жыл бұрын
@@Kaleiddmode he was... a personal friend of ours we went on tour with him and Pete Haycock's True Blues, in Germany in 2008.. Had the most fantastic time... I posted vids on my channel google the band title.
Killer band. I was lucky to have older brothers that jammed to this all the time in the 70s, as well as montrose, Dwight twilley band, foghat, Nazareth, kiss, heart, fleetwood mac, zz top, lynyrd skynyrd, molly hatchet, marshall tucker band, rolling stones and on and on and on. I was a lucky little dude.
They were such an underappreciated band ...
Thank you for the post....72 years old, I am, and still rocking!!
For ONCE, a 70’s TV performance which was not lip synced. Thank you.
Underrated classic which is one of the great tunes that epitomizes my life in the 70's.
@user-hv8vu8dg9x
3 жыл бұрын
Great song and incredible live version!
@hamishanderson6738
2 жыл бұрын
& the gold-plated guitar!
@snafu7691
2 жыл бұрын
It's not underrated else i doubt it would be a classic
Watching this in 2019 and wishing I was in the 70's...
@user-kq5qp6dh8l
4 жыл бұрын
I was there... Used to have all albums
@smc8440
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Best freaking decade.
@coops9871
4 жыл бұрын
Take me with you
@bubbalover71
3 жыл бұрын
Just wait til 2020...
@mckessa17
3 жыл бұрын
60's 70's and 80's were very cool. Wish I could relive it
This is so smooth, damn. Fun lovin criminals brought me here. 🇧🇷
Back in the day when bands believed in their musicianship enough to play live on TOTP. Radical!
@revengerabbit8408
8 жыл бұрын
+Phil Porter The bands that played on the show didn't have any say in the matter when TOTP decided that bands would lip sync.
@robertglenn5398
8 жыл бұрын
+Phil Porter Indeed, Phil...back in the day when AutoTune and ProTools were someone's nightmare concept. It's so freakin' fun to watch musicans play real musicians. I really took it all for granted back in the day. As a drummer, I had to really know my meters and such in order to keep a job. Today, it's "No Experience Necessary." And by the way, I see Kanye West, the greatest fraud of them all, one more time, I am going to have to assassinate something!
@kenholland911
8 жыл бұрын
+robert glenn h hopefully it will be kanye
@robertglenn5398
8 жыл бұрын
+Ken Holland Would love to put Kanye in an open-air limo and do a repeat of Dallas...
@kenholland911
8 жыл бұрын
And award medals to the shooters on the grassy knoll.
I met Colin Cooper In Wigan early 90's. A lovely fella, what great band
Not one dislike. Faith in humanity restored.
Love to see all the young people dancing and enjoying the music together, black and white, all equals. Too bad we didn't have more of that here in America, with our quasi-segregated TV shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train.
Takes me back to a much better place
Heard it on the radio, shazam it. What a song!!! Feels more like song than today's music.
I hear so much Ween in this song and I love it, the beat the instrumental and the VOCALS oh my god dude a Ween song before their time a fabulous gem great band.
From a time when if you couldn't cut it live you got found out,not like now where a computer makes you sound good if you can't sing,take me back to the 70,s
One of the best songs to come out of the 70’s. When I hear this I think of “So Into You” by Atlanta Rhythm Section & “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck. Still love all three.
@jradawson
2 жыл бұрын
Greatest comment ever.
@kbusby4824
2 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@standwellback7252
2 жыл бұрын
Presumably you also do an air marimba solo half way through Moonlight Feels Right like I do???
@jamesbacchi5353
Жыл бұрын
Funny, I get that exact feeling too…. It’s gotta be that Fender Rhodes
All the good movies should end with this awesome song.
AWESOME SONG AND GROUP!!!!! 2021 STILL LISTENING... What was so freaking awesome back in the day, without noticing then, was the fact that, " We All Got Along '!!! No racist crap! Now, it's just sad. Everyone is for ONLY themselves! A certain age group has destroyed everything. It's heartbreaking! 💔😡 music is all that is left except for the memories in our heads. God Bless you and good luck... you're gonna need it!
@RichardRitenour0522
2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have said it any better, sad but true.
Jamming out... Drinking some brews tonight & reminiscing... This is a great one!
@nereydacortes1297
2 жыл бұрын
hey, wish I could join you !
@stevenharris716
2 жыл бұрын
@@nereydacortes1297 I guess ya just did! Have a good one....
One of THE songs of the 1970s for me. So atmospheric.
Every day on KEZY in Anaheim, CA, they would play this during what was my driver's education class. Even in AM, the song resonated. Cannot hear it without thinking about how it was way back when.
Oh the song of my teen years!
Ahhhh yes the 70s where the fabulous bands were plentiful and the the superb songs were everywhere....my favorite decade 👌👍✌✌✌✌
You cannot help but get pumped up when you hear this tune. Smooth , upbeat and you can dance to it !
@wisheybonez
Жыл бұрын
Me too. 😀
This is the shit! How can you not like this? sound is superb, great song, excellent musicians, they literally piss this with ease, so cool.
@gomogo2000
3 жыл бұрын
No excrement here. Just pure talent and joy!
I saw them live on March 10, 1984 in the hall of a restaurant in Xanten-Birten, Germany, in front of a maximum of 150 people. More people weren't there because there was a printing error on the tickets: Climex. The innkeeper was able to motivate them to still play a full concert with a few trays full of beer. It was wonderfull and will always be in my heart! I still have the tickets!
This was literally the 1st band I saw in concert, they opened for Bad Co. Cleveland Coliseum; 1977-ish
@tbone2451
3 жыл бұрын
Cleveland rocks!!
@billthomas9328
3 жыл бұрын
Me too. They opened for Alice Cooper im 76. I was in third grade lol
@jimswordsnchords1759
3 жыл бұрын
You guys are lucky, lucky. Musta' been good times.
@thomasfoss9963
3 жыл бұрын
We saw them twice live in the 70s in Chicago- Once with Foghat in the Auditorium-- the other I don't recall.
@thomasfoss9963
3 жыл бұрын
I do recall them playing "I am Constant"-- and 7th Son!!!!!!
Nice to see a live '70s performance with original sound!
Love his baritone voice. Excellent live band. I'm impressed.
Right on. This song needs played more. Thanks for upload ❤✌🤘
It's 100% live. Talented group. Love it.
You didn’t know it then but those were the best times in your life.
アメリカ在住の1977年、毎日ラジオから流れていた。中毒性が高い。
awesome song! totally remember this from the 70s
All the Greatest music has Already been done…
Nice to see everyone dancing. That is a real special band. Iconic.
Love this song!💕💕💕
“ When music still had talent and class. By the 1990’s was the beginning of the end.”
The era of the 70's Wolfman Jack, Solid gold dancers, Y 100 raido station, Americans, were living it up. God i wish i could travel back to the 70's
November 1976, I was 10 years old, listening to Boston, Kansas, etc. Great memories.
When musicians did not sign contract deals with the devil,they played with their heart and soul..
@rgrndu
4 жыл бұрын
Inarah Lucero Contracts with the devil go back to the start of rock n roll.
@takenoprisoners5113
4 жыл бұрын
WRONG!
@alyb731
4 жыл бұрын
I actually thought bands got screwed over much more then.
@affectionatepunch
4 жыл бұрын
Tell that to Badfinger
@shabadoo24
4 жыл бұрын
Badfinger, The Chambers Brothers, Tommy James, Steve Marriott
Best ever live performance on Top of the pops. Genius.
Great song reminds me of my youth some Great songs made in the 70s
Peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 in the spring of 1977.
@healthyone100
9 жыл бұрын
SHOULD HAVE HIT NO.1
@38ddkelly
5 жыл бұрын
And #2 was the lame "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer. #1 was Stevie Wonder's excellent "Sir Duke"
@rgrndu
4 жыл бұрын
Kelly02895 Love When I Need You, which went to no.1
RIP Colin Cooper. The most laid back frontman you have ever seen. Just relied on his talent. And a thoroughly nice bloke to boot.
The 70s really did have some good sounds.
60yrs still listening; Climax blues band, Cristoffer Cross, Toto, Hall&Oates etc. Completely right, no autotunecrap and naked bodies..
I forgot this song existed until I heard it lately..love it!!! can't listen to it enough.
I met these cats when they were playing the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas behind Johnny Winter in '76. We hung out together for 3 days and had a blast. It wasn't until I walked in on the sound check for their gig and they were playing this song that I realized that they had a hit record out. Nice group of easy going blue-collar dudes.
@Dicegirl72
5 жыл бұрын
Great story!
@MissAstorDancer
5 жыл бұрын
@penn707 Jerk
@FOROW99
5 жыл бұрын
I wasn't there dude.
Iwas jamming to this when it came out. Still jamming to it all these years later. Great song!
What an amazing time to have lived in.
Playing real instruments!!! Who'd of thought!?! Glad I grew up when I did! I'll be 58 this year and still listen to this music.
Wow. Nice that it’s actually a LIVE performance and not just a lip sync to playback. Great tune.
Climax blues band and panama red - two of life's greatest pleasures.
there’s so much I can say about these musicians playing real music back then! I would literally run out of space and run out of breath talking about how real and how amazing it was to have humans actually playing instruments and actually singing. This is one of my favorite songs by the way!
For the cynics and doubters in the comments below, this is definitely a live performance, as a musician you can just tell, great track as well not so bluesy as funky rock
I saw these guys in the mid 70s in Stafford, their home town, at a charity gig to save a local Hotel from demolition. Couldn't Get It Right was in the charts and the atmosphere at the night club, Th Top Of The World, was electric! The place was absolutely heaving, with no restrictions on numbers in those days and no air con either! I've been to many a concert over the years and it was probably the best I'd been to for enjoyment and I'm sure the band must have felt the same. Needless to say the building was saved and is there to this day. Thank you fellas.