T.Rex - the creation of Marc Bolan, the band’s leader, creative director and sole song-writer - was born out of the late-1960s’ hippy counter-culture. Bolan’s road to superstardom took him from 18-year-old folk singer to proto-punk guitar thrasher in John’s Children, via the blissed-out Tolkien-washed mysticism of Tyrannosaurus Rex to fully-fledged Glam Rock idol in T.Rex. Following their breakthrough 1970 hit, Ride A White Swan, T.Rex became the biggest pop phenomenon of the new decade, scoring chart-topping, award-winning singles and LPs across Europe, the Far East, and Australia, while finding success in North America via the top-10 single Get It On (Bang A Gong) and hit albums Electric Warrior and The Slider. Decades after Bolan’s tragically early death, the influence of T.Rex is still felt across the music world. His status as one of the leading British music stars has recently been recognised with the induction of T.Rex into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
No one should insult the talent of these three by pretending this is some sort of «real» recording or even jam. This is a «play something so we can get a photo» thing. The microphone is backwards(like a joke), and they are positioned weirdly and wrong for recording, so there are no sound engineers involved in this- but the lighting and posing is perfect: So yes, a photo op while pretending to play together on an old joke of a song.
I’m not disagreeing with you that this is not a serious recording situation, but how in the heck are you seeing that microphone as backwards? He’s using the mic stand as an upright stand instead of using the boom to extend the mic towards him, but nothing is “backwards”.
Well he is singing into the top of a Neumann u87....the capsule /diaphragm are on the front and back which accounts for the lack of presence in his vocal...all of Ringo's fills match up with the video...its live in the studio
