Whoever filmed this was a genius. Unless the cinemascope-looking wide screen was done recently, the filmmaker knew what he was doing to feature the band. They looked so cool with the matching brown-face Fender Showman amps lined up and the awesome drum set. Read somewhere that the amps were borrowed from the Japanese people for the show.
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I remember this well and the Evel mania in general of the early '70s, especially among young boys. My younger bother had one of those wind-up Evel Knievel "stunt cycle" toys. I bet he wishes he still had it. Every neighborhood had an Evel wanna-be, who was generally that one wild-ass kid in the area that would do just about anything someone dared him to do. The Evel kid in my neighborhood was Randy. We were the same age and had gone to school together since kindergarten. His thing for status and attention among his peers had always been doing what most other kids wouldn't do, and when Evel came along, his thing became jumping his stripped down, banana seat stingray over increasingly long distances and more numerous objects (trash cans, other kids, etc). He had a natural talent for it and was as skinny as a rail, which I guess meant less wind resistance in flight 😄and weight coming down on landing. Both things helped him usually (but not always) pull off his stunts with a minimum of injury. I remember him talking several younger boys in the neighborhood into laying on the ground side by side in between his impromptu and untested scrap-wood-on-cinder-blocks ramps so he could jump them. Luckily for all involved, the entrance ramp didn't collapse when he hit it, as sometimes happened, and the jump was successful.
What a treat to see this on video! I was there listening to it on the radio when it first came out. You gotta be good to put out instrumental music to compete with the incredible rock era music of the 60s. The Ventures just kept on amazing us with their drums and guitars. Unforgettable music!
Oh this is so good, we had the best music, now that is mega talent! I could listen for hours. I bet the people went nuts over hearing some real American music!
