16sillyducks makes indie films and music videos. It started in the 70s with an 8mm clockwork camera. The camera was a Russian Quartz and cost around £25. Now our main lens is an iphone 11 pro, but we still have the Quartz. Somehow I think in 40 years time we'll still have the Quartz, but not the Iphone. Anyway we don't especially have a mission statement. Just good music.
No idea how this appeared on my feed, but brought back memories of my generation. I was 19 in 1976. Loved the Harry Worth impression. All the 'youngsters' shown in this will be like me, in their mid 60's by now. If I'd known it was going to be this hard, I wouldn't have bothered getting old.
Nice one! I did the same as well. Mid 80's used my Radio Rentals freebie - hire of a video camera for a day. I just took Vids of my area, no rhyme or reason and no documantary style. Just a youngster messing about with an early Video camera. Good stuff to see your footage online. At least generations to come will be able to view it!
I used to drive these buses out of Knightswood Garage. Exact fare only.. I used to get offered cans of beer for the fare to Drumchapel ! Thanks for posting a wee snapshot of a while ago.
Really nice video, thank you so much for sharing. I fish quite a lot and often get a pang of worry that I've left my waders at home!!! I'm glad someone was there to remind him :-)
ha..yes indeed. THanks for the reply. I revisited the area for a music video a couple of years ago for my song I Am the River ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iuGlpFe6sf8.html
I guess you didn't like it Alan, and you left before Richard Thomson (another phoney?) and the Dustmen strike up at Maryhill. PS the mates I filmed this with were from the soo'side as you call it. I was brought up in Scotstoun and Partick. My daughter does call me the original hipster though. (Can't stand coffee though) Take Care
@@16sillyducks to say your video is representative of 1970's Glasgow just isn't factual. Perhaps you can post one of 1970's Gorbals or Calton to balance it up. You'll find most people from the Soo'side call it the Soo'side. Even people from other parts of the city know this. You obviously don't. Cheers
Love this song. I heard it recently on BBC Radio Scotland's Iain Anderson Show. I explored Tom Houston's music further which resulted in the purchase of his CD's.
All the elderly men watching tbe young man with envy in their eyes wishing they can go back and now that young man looking back wishing to go back too. My mother was a young woman back then and my dad was in his 30s. I would think them to be free my mothers mother ran the show in her life as her dad passed away when she was young. She made she sure she would marry young to my dad after them meeting in the hospital. She claimed her mother threatened her to be thrown on the streets if she refused. But my mother was said to always be a odd one even since she was little. I know her to be a sociopath narcissist myself. I also know my mother to lie and twist the truth to suit herself regularly. So I'm not sure what the truth there is. But if it were true her life and choices wouldn't have been free back then she had no choice but to become a nurse back then she claimed. I always felt her freedom must have come when she walked out on my dad but she had it free in their marriage all along she ruled the house she put out the orders nasty orders such as beat me up abuse me use me as a scapegoat murder and slaughter and dump the pets... everything was about her being served when I was growing up and she wanted nothing to do with us she constantly wanted us to serve her or not be heard or seen. And she constantly blamed everything on my dad while abusing him and spending his money on her own luxuries and our family into bankruptcy. Then when he ran out of money she left and got money through my brother and I. And left the adult children with my dad as I know now it would cost her to take them on rather than give her child support income unlike me and my little brother. Oh how things only got worse from there... but for me going out and travelling around whenever I liked feels like freedom... because I was trapped indoors 24 7 and made a house slave for my mother since I was a little girl. So freedom now is having my own mind feelings choices freedom will etc... I see family and groups as restrictive as like those times when it was the norm and not treated as abuse and neglect. My mother and dad married in 1970 and had my brother in 1971 and my sister in 1973... my mother murdered another sister between 1978 and 1982. I believe it was between my two brothers who were born in 1976 and 1980 because she has had boy and girl and boy and girl but my family claim it was before my sister in 1983 was born. My brothers gave me the hardest of times for being born because the family did not want me. When my little brother came along everyone favoured him most and said it should have stopped at him but I should not have been born. I think it was the another sister envy conflict thing. My mother set siblings up again each other she did it also by setting favourites but she changed it often to start conflict most of the times it was females against males. She was also herself envious if female rivalry even with her own daughters. I got a lot of that abuse for that very reason too. Even at 6 years old when I had no idea why I was hated so much and abused for no reason. I thought people nowadays generations now adays was getting more abusive an disrespectful but it really has always been the case. I think the 70s was when the corruption began. That was when manners and maturity and respect and that stopped and everyone for themselves began. They were not as loud in the 60s around it as they were in the 70s there was a balance there between those with a older generation background and the young who took over. I noticed in the 70s video and throughout my childhood too that there were quite a lot of elderly about maybe it was not because there was more of them just that they are retired and have no work or study like the younger people or adults have so they get out more... but nowadays there are less of the elderly there are more youths and kids everywhere I've noticed. Strange times... Anyway Enough babbling.
Your mother sounds like an evil manipulative narcissist.I hope you’re a happier person now and have got to enjoy your life,also getting to love your pets without her killing them.🌿🌹🌿
Thanks for posting, I enjoyed watching and its good that you included footage of the army being sent in to clear the rubbish from the bin strike, also liked the soundtrack from B,S, a good Glasgow group.
I remember it well, if you walked in Parkhead with your boyfriend they would give him a kicking for no reason other than because they could. It wasn't enough to seriously injure but a few bruised ribs.
Before I left Glasgow in 1978, a period of indiscriminate slashings became the local pastime. Glasgow is not held in great regard by this native son. However, you can take the boy out of the Calton but you can't take the Calton out of the boy. I never returned.
I was 13 in 1971. I recognise Botanic Gardens and Cleveden Rd, and remember warching the army drive a long line of these trucks up to the Rubbish Disposal Works at Dawsholm Park during the binmen strike. Our bit of Glasgow was rather less threatening than where some of you folks seem to have lived !
