***AT 47 MINS in the music sounds discordant and he sings OUT of tune, but DAVY did tune, his 🎸 in a weird way ,when he sang* **YELLOWMAN. "* HE WAS MY PAL, *******
***DAVYS MOTHER WAS FROM JAMAICA, AND HIS FATHER WAS FROM STORNOWAY ISLE OF LEWIS OUTER HEBRIDES , FROM A VILLAGE, ON THE ISLAND.,, AND HIS FIRST LANGUAGE WAS GAELIC..2nd, WAS ENGLISH, ..* " WE BELIEVE HE GOT HIS TALENT FROM HIS MOTHER'S SIDE OF THE FAMILY. BUT THE GAELS HAVE DEEP, MUSICAL ROOTS ALSO..***********
****DOES. LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE BELOW AND FIND OUT.**WATCH THE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE OF IAN MACORMACK STUNG BY BOX JELLYFISH WHILE SPEAR FISHING 🐟AT NITE IN MAURITIUS PRONOUNCED DEAD AND AWOKE IN THE MORGUE AFTER A VISIT TO HEAVEN AND HELL.DOES LIFE EXIST AFTER DEATH?WATCH THIS THOUGHT PROVOKING STORY AND FIND OUT.*****
***VETERAN SCOTS GUARDS**** " I MET DAVY IN TENERIFE, HUNG, OUT WITH HIM FOR A WHILE, HE PLAYED AND SANG * YELLOWMAN* AND THE WHOLE HOLIDAY COMPLEX. CLAPPED..IT WAS JUST AWESOME, BUT DRUGS, WERE THE RUIN OF DAVY, HE .....LOVED SPEED , AND W!AS AN ADDICT..BUT A LOVLY GUY. !!****
Privaledged to have seen him play one of his last gigs in Kendal. He started off playing his known 60s stuff really badly, and he had a reputation for turning up off his rocker and playing badly. About 50% of the audience left after the first 30 minutes. Hed taken a break, came back on, sat down, picked up the guitar, looked at the crowd and said “Now weve removed the non-believers, lets get down to the real music” He went on to play about an hours worth of amazing lost eastern european / roman folk music.
Daveys album Folk Blues and Beyond was my introduction in the late 60s. I was lent it by a friend who considered it his most treasured album. I collected as many of Daveys albums as I could find during the early 2000s ans finally saw him live at the Junction Cambridge thanks to my friend Clive Carol. Sadly just before Davey passed away.
The Half Moon /Les Cousins Stalwarts -Bert Jansch, John Renbourne , MC Carthy .Last saw at Buxton Blues Festival supporting reemergence of Led Zeppelin. Ask Bob Dylan & Paul Simon NB BBC4 & Leonard Cohen around at same time NB Greenwich Village cafe society & Irish /Dust bowl connection?
all those shots of cigarettes, which killed him, make me wince. I know 8 million die every year of the drug's effect, but when you think about this one genius being taken down by them, it really hits you. What a bloody waste.
Someone has already named it in this comment section: "It's "Blues in My Heart," by Benny Carter; it dates to 1931. Davy makes some significant changes here to the chord progression."
I remember having a jam with him back in the late 60s and the early 70s in his flat in Camden Town after I came back from India along with Jim Moyes (guitar) who introduced me to Davey and Keshav Sathe, Tabla, who I think played on a couple of Davey's songs. He had a Sitar hanging on the wall and when I occasionally popped by for a cup of tea we would jam a bit. I last saw Davey just before he died trying to keep warm in bed in the middle of winter. Bit sad really.
The opening shot after the credits is the gold blocking on Davey's scrapbook. He made 2 large volumes..there was a great photo of Frank Zappa in a clipping. I think the scrapbooks are now lost ..
Hi, this takes me back to the last day of shooting this....it was a sad day, as we all went our separate ways and I have lost track of many part from Krusher and Tanja, who is married to Phil Alexander. Tanya produces Gogglebox now. It was a hoot shooting the show, and the Kozmos was an..... interesting experience...depending on how many sherbets Krusher had before the show !
Thanks for commenting, I'm really glad that you've got some pleasure from watching the clip. Are there any particular guests or events that stick in your memory?
OMG, I just discovered this mini-doc. I am a huge DG fan since I first heard him in 1985 when a like-minded old school vinyl junkie told me to buy the new compilation 'Folk, blues and all points in between' on CD, which I was loathe to do at the time. I hated the advent of CDs. But this CD blew utterly blew me away in the same way my first hearing Johnny Winter blew me away ca. 1970, thanks to my older brother playing me the album Second Winter right when it came out. It was just astonishing stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks guitar playing. Being a long-time Johnny Winter and blues fan in general since 1970, when I heard Davey's version of 'Leaving blues' I flipped my lid he was so good. Johnny covered Leaving blues and I LOVE his version. The next song on the DG CD was Cocaine blues. Equally good. Then his cover of Broonzy's 'Rock me baby', every bit as original as JW's cover on Still Alive and Well. I was already mesmerised and hooked. By the time the CD got to track 5, 'Skillet', I was in ecstasy. He is that good. I later bought a rare EX copy of the original LP by Davey, 'Folk, blues and beyond' at a record fair in Europe. Even later, still being a vinyl junkie, I sought and found a Mint copy of his non-LP 45 cover of 'Both sides now' by Joni Mitchell. This is just pure ear candy, blending folk, jazz and blues stylings in one 6 minute single. This is not the single version, but close, and gives you an idea of his utter mastery of the guitar and the whole trans-folk-jazz-blues idiom. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oa9PXESJINQ.html Actually, I would say he IS the master. I saw Pentangle live, as well as John Reborn and Wizz Jones in respective solo shows. I just wish I had seen Davey. Thanks to whoever uploaded this! I hope it leads to more people discovering Davey's music. Here is a cool link to see Davey in action as a young man: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tWeejHJxGjs.html
To be honest I don't think that it would compete with a DVD release those are usually driven by financial interest and not by the will to share great musician to the public
I saw davey and john Renbourn play up stairs at a brewery in York...I think kay Thompson who ran his fanzine midnight man had helped organise it...great night and davey commented on a cartoon I had drawn of him in the fanzine...
Davey was a genuis blues/folk/jazz/Celtic musician, but lost to drugs and drink for a large part of his life. Unfortunate for him and for us. In this documentary he is a shadow of his peak.I remember visiting Collets back in 1975.
Wonderful; thank you so much for uploading this! I love this quote: "The way to make an audience quiet is to play quietly. If you start playing loudly, you do it badly--because you're irritated--and it shows." Sage advice.
I watch this show regularly from when it was called 'The Power Hour' and for me it was great. I was 13 or 14 when I first started getting into metal which would've been 1988/89 and it was hard to get albums of bands in my area. Magazines like 'Kerrang' and 'Metal Hammer' helped find out more stuff. I've no idea how I found out about this show, it was maybe from a school friend who watched it as well, but it was really great seeing videos of bands you'd only read about or heard on a tape. Hard to believe I was getting into this music 30 years ago but there you go, time flies when you're having fun. Still go to the odd gig when there's good bands to see in Ireland. Last year was good, seeing Iron Maiden in Belfast and Slayer in Dublin. I don't remember seeing this last episode of Noisy Mothers back then but it's still nostalgic for me. Cheers for the upload!
The thing is now though, i was born in 91, you go into a guitar shop and almost everybody knows a good tune, so i suppose its about knowing a whole repertoire of good tunes. I love the simplicity of music back then though, one guy walks into a bar and plays a song in a funny way and everyone's impressed and he makes a name for himself, i love that. I know a place in Donegal where myself and my dad go for trips and its a late night early 18th century wine bar and you can walk in at 10 and he'll close the doors after a while and theres a band there or someone playing the guitar and he'll close the doors and you could be there until about 5 in the morning, and this guy spent a lot of time in London in the 60s, he's got good stories. So i suppose there are still places like this but are there any: Davy Grahams?, Donovans, Bert Jansches, John Rebourns and so on?, because if there are its very hard to find them, and there wasn't that dominant chart crap that we have now.
And these guys could barely make a living. There was bad as well as good. There may not be a cultural movement for this kind of folk at the moment that's _visible_ . But youtube will show you that there are many more young people who are into this stuff and can play it than existed back then. It's easier to learn, and decent instruments are more affordable.
The show startes with a woman going into an underpass and the presence of a Bee. I do recall this series called 'The Other Side' I think these were very late night on ITV or C4. I knew Davey and had no idea he was the subject of this excellent series. I am pleased to find it.
Anji ran a coffee bar called 'The Farm' in Monmouth street with her friend Dodi Farr - the daughter of Tommy Farr the boxer. Her brother was Gary Farr. Anji and Dodi had a first floor flat opposite to The Farm. I was a friend of both Davy and Anji. Anji, small in stature, had a beautiful smile and a personality that matched the smile. I was never particularly into the folk scene - jazz was my thing - but we did jam occasionally down at The Gyre & Gimble. For a time I lived in the same flat, 26 St Charles Square, with Davey and various others. I remember my good friend, who also lived in the flat, the late Sydney Katzenell, who was also a very fine guitarist, saying about Davy " He can do things do things on the fret board I could not do even if I wanted to". What happend to Anji? I heard that she had died at a fairly young age. But of this I am not sure.
@@golden1789 Hi, It is possible, but I regret I have no clear recollection about meeting your mother. It was a great time to be in London and the number people drifting in and out of this particular obit presented a veritable panorama.
@@golden1789 My pleasure. Regret I was not able to be more informative. Dodi Farr who ran ' The Farm' would have perhaps known her. She will, if still alive now be an elderly lady. The last reference to her, more than ten years ago, was that she was living in Mallorca. Gary Garr, her brother, who was an RB musician, died young in the USA.
