t is indeed striking how often the term "underrated" is used nowadays, often without any real basis. The inflationary use of this term in comments and discussions has become tiresome and trivializes the actual value of a well-founded critique or analysis. Just because something is less well-known doesn't automatically mean it's underrated. This excessive use has turned into an empty cliché that reveals more about the lack of reflection by the users than about the subject itself. Truly underrated things are rare and require a deep analysis and thoughtful argument to justify such an assessment. Those who use the term carelessly demonstrate that they don’t understand the difference between being unknown and being underrated. This not only dilutes the meaning of the term but also causes legitimate criticism to be overlooked. Therefore, it’s advisable to ask yourself next time whether something is really underrated or if it’s just a superficial judgment. In doing so, you can help elevate discussions back to a more substantive and valuable level.
I saw KISS open for Sabbath (W / Ozzy), Alice Cooper (Nightmare), James Gang, Sammy Hagar, Boston, Edgar Winter, Rush, Skynyrd (W/ Ronnie), Madam-X and many others, but NONE of them could hold a candle BTO! If I could go back in time to relive just one concert it would be BTO at the Montreal forum all the way! What a band!
I remember watching this game being a big fan of his. I said after the third inning to my brother I think he’s unhittable today. The movement on his slider was unreal.
Here in the mid US when the 80's got started lotsa stuff was going on, NWOBHM was awesome, at the time I didn't know White Wolf were Canadian, at least for me I thought for the longest time they must be a part of the NWOBHM I know better now years later but thankful for what I would call a Canadian rush of bands around the same time that are just as timeless, especially years later on a cloudy windy night watchin this great show White Wolf just displayed, I'm seeing some of the old school New Wave bands really getting some love nowadays and WHITE WOLF in my mind, it'd be nice if they were getting some to... Rock On!
yeah, like the coldest water on the hottest day this was great to enjoy, been a fan since the good MTV days way back when, I honestly didn't think this could be anywhere near as good being from 2010 but I was wrong they rocked this out! Big Thanks..
This video is clearly uploaded from a consumer-grade videocassette. The audio recording is over-modulated on the videotape - there are many audible instances of blatant clipping - listen again to the announcer's voice at 04:11. However, it is all that is available on RU-vid. I might have an audio-only safety copy on 1/4 " tape, but not likely. My pocket diary for 1976 records that we did a first audio mix of this show on Monday Jan 26 1976, likely to a quick 16mm single track recording, with a final mix of a recut version [this video] over two days - Saturday April 10 starting at 10 am for reel [part] one, and Sunday April 11 for reel two [times not diarized]. My diary shows I took Monday off in exchange for working the weekend! The editors brought this 16mm show to me in two ~ 25 minute parts which was the longest continuous run-time we could handle to record a mono three-track [D M F = dialog, music, sound-effects] mix on two 2400 foot spools of 35mm magnetic film [running at 90 feet per minute], our standard & preferred final mono format for episodes of "The Beachcombers", which was a hugely popular TV show in those days produced by CBC Television in Vancouver. From these 35mm 3-track recordings I would later make 16mm soundtrack optical negatives, 16mm magnetic single-track mixdowns for subsequent double-system transfers to videotape, and often safety backup full-track 1/4" tapes with Nagra's Neopilot sync. I worked in the Sound Department of Alpha Cine's Vancouver film lab at 916 Davie Street as a re-recording sound mixer. We operated in those days as a subsidiary of Alpha Cine Seattle's operation, DBA Northwest Sound Services. In 1975 I had been working there for four years, ever since being hired as the uncredited second mixer, working under head mixer Barry P. Jones, on Robert Altman's film "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" in May/June 1971, which was a box-office flop but is now considered a masterpiece. Long story about the strange quality of it's mono sound... Barry Jones & I mixed the pilot episode of "The Beachcombers" in the late summer of 1972 when I had just turned 24. That show changed my world. Barry left our studio sometime in 1974[?], which left me as the go-to guy in Vancouver to mix professional multi-track film-originated TV shows, commercials, countless industrial documentaries on 16mm, 16mm Canadian feature films made in BC & Alberta, and a VERY few 35mm feature-length movies. I was quite good at the job, winning a couple of CBC-sourced awards for the mixes I did for CBC on two of their documentaries "Tankerbomb" & "Jon Vickers", but I found the office politics of the business quite stressful. I left in early 1982 when I was offered a job more to my taste back at UBC in the Geophysics Dept. as a glorified lab tech, working with a friend & fellow UBC Physics undergrad who had gone on to do a Ph.D. in Glaciology and needed a grunt he could trust. That is another story...
just found this - a very clean upload of the intro/outro of a 1975 episode of Beach entitled "The Hexman" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ej4OcOH19ls.html
I have been a fan of WW since their first album but they have slipped my mind as of late. Finding this was great. They sound great (14 years ago). Would have loved to see them live.
Saw BTO maybe about ‘78 as headliners in outside concert, in Grand Forks, ND. Head East was an opening act. Again saw the Bachman-Turner tour in 2012. Fred sounded top shelf! Have always been a favorite band of my youth.
At their peak here. Band sounds great overall. Met Kerry the guitarist years ago. Nice guy (Canadian, eh). Shame they never got bigger. Thanks for the memories.
Wow AWESOME!! Thanks for posting. Impressive vocals! Glad you took them seriously and glad for your abilities!!! The major winds added the perfect backdrop!
@coldistheshoulder What happened to that WW Doc that used to be up? Never heard of these guys back in the day but the documentary was a great watch & I'd love to see it again.
Gran sorpresa me llevo al escuchar esta banda con sus melodías como si el tiempo no pasara, white wolf es una de mis bandas de la adolescencia y ya cuento 52 años. Tengo 2 vinilos, el endangered species y el standing alone de la época. Suenan cañonazo en este video. Mención especial para el viento que aportó lo suyo en el momento preciso jaja.
White Wolf - Shadows In The Night. es una maravillosa canción y todas las que adornan ese precioso disco. Los llevo en el corazón desde mis 13 años, actualmente tengo 52. Cheers from Chile.!
The rock and roll hall of fame is nothing but a joke rap is not rock and roll and other acts that aren't rock can't blame the bands not in probably because they don't want to be.
I saw the video for this on satellite tv as a kid in a lonely place. I never forgot it and somehow remembered it for decades and eventually found it online years ago finally hearing it again after years of wondering if i dreamed it or had it mixed up with some other song. I had a very serious connection with this on a deep personal level that stayed with me for life. I could say all the cliché things but it would taint the truth which is much more elevated than that sorta stuff suggests. Cool to see they are still killing it. I can't believe that song wasn't a hit, it was for me. The biggest ever.
Fred Turner was such a great lead vocalist . a big part of the bands sound . they were a great band . first time i saw them was1976 . Canadian Rock LEGENDS .
Thank you so much for posting this! Got introduced to BTO in 6th grade through my friend's older sister, in maybe '73, she was away and my friend showed me her room and it was BTO-themed, with black light posters and such, and I thought it was so cool, and then I heard their music and it was even cooler!
Imagine if Bachman never left The Guess Who. Put all those BTO hits alongside all the Guess Who hits and you would have one hell of a legendary Canadian band that would be "too good" to be in the so called Rock n Roll Hall of Shame
