still vibing in Feb 2024 Johannesburg, SA. the 70's were THE BEST by FAR This song was in the charts when I finished school in 1976, in Cape Town and the local band, McCulley's Workshop covered it on Sunday nights at the Canterbury Inn, in Rondebosch. Don't know how i ever drove home after the place closed at midnight
Ok. Here it is. It was kinda before people knew how to make videos, so the singers look alive and the band looks like they’re on double quaaludes. Enjoy ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OpaCXtahXxk.html
@@TentinQuarantino_ I know why you say its hilarious , basically because its a bit OTT. The bass player is a bit non existant emotion wise. I also looked at their Midnight Special version where they did it live, and it is the best version. It was a great song at the time. I would have been around 16 to 18, and I was heavy into Status Quo, but I didnt mind this song. Some disco songs like I feel love, Disco Inferno and Staying Alive would be many blokes guilty pleasures.
tiffd98133 bwahahaha Holy shit, those bangs have to be immortalized as the Apex of cringe! In their defense that was peak of cheesy music and frankly the backlash was warranted...
K.J. G. I know, right? But in all fairness, that goofball had a really good reputation for helping others and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. I just had to look him up. He died young but I never got a reliable report on how.
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I'd probably have been the same back then: but a lot of them have eyes for the camera and are probably just trying to look good on TV back when not just anybody could be on screen. Yet I think in its own way, people are being there and present in a cool moment.
Omg! Great memory of a great song! April 1977! I'm cruising in my father's 1973 Olds 98 Luxury sedan! My friend Vinny Santinello in the front seat, Pat in middle, Karen, Erin, and my friend Mike Calvito and his sister Susan in the back seat! Al the girls singing this song! Queens Village forever! Great friends! Great time! Kool girls! Rip Vinny!
It was such an amazing time...do you remember ordering albums via mail like "Summer of 76" only to find out it wasn't the original artists? So many copy cats it was unbelievable but shows just how GREAT the music was!
Killer band. I was lucky to have older brothers that jammed to this all the time in the 70s, as well as montrose, Dwight twilley band, foghat, Nazareth, kiss, heart, fleetwood mac, zz top, lynyrd skynyrd, molly hatchet, marshall tucker band, rolling stones and on and on and on. I was a lucky little dude.
Turned 16 that year. It really was a great time to grow up, sooo much great music. My first concert was in '77 at the Kingdome in Seattle, a little group named Led Zeppelin.
To be fair nearly all of TOTP was mimed. If I remember correctly the early shows didn't even have the original music but used the BBC orchestra. I think for Musician's Union reasons. I was horrified to learn a few years ago that some of The Old Grey Whistle Test was fakery too, although the percentage of proper live music was much higher. When I was younger I had much more respect for OGWT because it had cool music and was (apparently, and mostly) live. The acts that mimed (e.g. The Rolling Stones) was more due to the bands not trusting that the Beeb would do justice to their sound. Although I might be being too generous. I knew someone who went on TOTP as part of the audience. They had tiny audiences they moved between the stages. If they'd zoomed out the studio would be pretty empty. So, as far as TV music was concerned, maybe not high tech alterations but certainly a few low tech ones. Most of the rock bands that appeared were miming to music they played on tour so, quite often, although not plugged in (or in the case of drums, miked up) they would still play what they'd normally play. Problem was the directors would always without fail misread what was going on and cut to the wrong camera. It was almost perverse how they managed to get it wrong every time. So if you were trying to cop what the guitarist was actually doing (silently) you would be out of luck. latter bands (especially US ones who didn't get the point of miming or ones who'd already made it) would parody the show they were on doing guitar sols with saxophones etc. My favourite one was when The Eels went on to do Novocaine For The Soul with the drummer behind a tiny kids drum kit. next to the drums is a marshall stack. Eight inches high. And the bass player and guitarist have alternate genuine or toy sized instruments. So the Beeb were conplicit in the joke. So funny. Bands like Madness and ShawaddyWaddy (however that's spelled) would also ham it up quite a bit.
Oops. I re-watched The Eels and it's toys all the way. The Beeb still had to be complicit though. By 1997 even they didn't take themselve too serioulsy.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 These guys were definitely not miming. If they were, they had to re-record the song, because this is not the arrangement they recorded and released. Way too much work.
@@beenaplumber8379 I agree. I play drums, bass and guitar and everything matched up (e.g. HiHat, fills, cymbals). Drummers rarely do the exact same thing so that''s usually a give away. The harmonic on the guitar was not there when visually not there and the solo looked like the right thing. They also had a Marshall Amp just off stage and they were also all plugged in. I was more talking about TOTP rather than the Climax Blues Band, who I saw live many moons ago and were excellent. But TOTP started out not allowing the bands to actually play their own songs and used the TOTP orchestra with a newly recorded vocal track. I think because of Musicians Union limitations (i.e. recordings putting musicians out of work). They moved on to having most (not all) bands playing to their own songs often not even bothering to plug the guitars in. You'd hear horns that weren't there and second guitar parts with only one guitarist, and maybe the drummer would only have half his kit. It wasn't the bands decision. The bands had been playing their hit songs at hundreds of gigs so were fully capable of doing it (guitar bands at least) and they quite often played what they would have played even though not plugged in. It would be harder not to. One of the reasons I think was it's hard to get the sound right for a live band and TOTP was put out weekly with little foreknowledge of who they'd get. It was chart-based and the band had to be available. I found a youtube of the 1970's band "Free" on TOTP and, even though the main riff was recorded with at least two guitars (that's why it doesn't sound quite right when cover bands do it), I could still see Kossoff was playing one part of the riff and using upstrokes which filled in a piece of the puzzle for that riff. But he wasn't plugged in. He was just playing what he normally played when gigging. I was horrified to learn that even on the Old Grey Whistle Test some bands where not playing live, although most were, which is why it was better than TOTP. So, in short, I was definitely not taking a pop at The Climax Blues Band, but at the show itself, which was more often akin to a band karaoke than a true live performance. It was not unusual to see some bands taking the piss and miming to the guitar solo on saxophone or a toy guitar. When Eels did it, their drummer used a childs drum kit. Hillarious.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I get it. I re-read your first comment, and I misunderstood. I thought you were having a go at the extraordinary Climax Blues Band. (I say that because over here in the US they were a one-hit-wonder with Couldn't Get It Right until 1980 when they charted with I love You. I thought they were just some pop band. I've only now discovered what I've been missing!) Uh, sorry this got so long! OGWT & TOTP sound like The Midnight Special and American Bandstand here. Midnight Special was mostly live, and I think Bandstand was entirely pre-recorded lip synch. I learned one additional reason some networks and programmers insisted on miming the performance - they wanted to be absolutely sure the vocalists wouldn't violate their S&P (standards & practices) rules about language or content, like Jim Morrison did when The Doors played live on Ed Sullivan. I think another downside of playing live on TV is that you're at the mercy of TV sound people who might know nothing about how to make live music sound good. I've seen performances that were clearly live but one of the guitars was faded so low you couldn't hear their solo, and they might try to use TV mics on your guitar cabs, etc. I play bass, and my band did a half-hour music set for a tiny weekly local TV program in Minneapolis. (That's no boast - any local band could get in line for a date on that show for no pay; our date was in January 1996, and we broke up 3 months later.) We put on a great show, but the sound was atrocious! We had a bandleader whose name was part of the band's name, so everything was focused on him, as it should be, but his (rhythm) guitar was cranked!!! And it sounded incredibly screechy. (Awful preamps on the TV sound board? They used their own mics on the guitars, and I have no idea what they were.) Our lead guitarist sounded good, but he was kinda drowning under the rhythm guitar. My bass was predictably almost inaudible, though my tone was good in the mix. (I went direct from my rack into the board.) There was no reverb or compression on anything. I suspect there were similar limitations on OGWT. On most clips I've seen from that show the vocalists are singing into 2 mics taped together. During one performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had the impression Ronny (lead vox) was favoring the mic he heard in his monitor, which was not the mic used for the TV mix. The level was low and inconsistent, though Ronny was a very experienced vocalist. I had the impression the band's sound guy wasn't involved. The Midnight Special always had a pretty decent mix though. I don't know if they had talented house staff that only did music or if the band's regular sound people were involved, but it was always quite good. Ok, some of the vocal mics occasionally clipped, but that's ok. That just meant it really was live! Sorry this got kinda long... Talking music with a musician is something I miss. I've only played one gig since COVID, and my tired old back still hurts from that! Rocque on!
There is also a valid reason why we cling to this era regarding the music. It was so important to us with the few distractions of entertainment available to us at that time and as far as our working lives were concerned, there was no free ride. It was a far more disciplined time with no technology to aid us and as Rose tinted our glasses might be, if we were returned to that time there's a fair few from this current generation that might well curl up into a foetal position. Music was such an important escape back then it had more relevance in my humble opinion.
Not too many people probably ever noticed, but these dudes aren't just singing 3 part "harmonies" they're singing in 3 freakin "octaves" at the same time!!! Listen carefully! Lead vocalist on the low part, bass player in the middle and guitarist way up on top!! One of the very first bands to pull that shit off! (Very cool effect!) The Steve Miller Band was the only other band (I think) to even attempt that back then. Or ever for that matter! SMOKIN!!!
Love the vocal arrangement as well as that of the music- the way the guitars and sax blend to form one new sound. Awesome live performance from musicians' musicians.
Yeah Bruce this one of first 3 albums I bought.i know that to.only true music lovers know and pick up on that.yeah Steve Miller damn good singer and picker to brother.peace to you.the 70s was the real deal.
From a time when if you couldn't cut it live you got found out,not like now where a computer makes you sound good if you can't sing,take me back to the 70,s
UR, you gotta keep an open mind with today's artists, not all machines sound bad. But I will have to say that this is one hell of a great video and the era back then, for me, was nothing but great music to get me through my life.
I saw these guys around 1981 and they put on a great show, excellent playing, and had a chat backstage about their guitars and they were really cool, down to earth and modest. It was basically my first time meeting people I'd idolised through the Johnny Walker and Friday Rock Show, and it was a real pleasure to discover they were just real nice guys.
@@Kaleiddmode he was... a personal friend of ours we went on tour with him and Pete Haycock's True Blues, in Germany in 2008.. Had the most fantastic time... I posted vids on my channel google the band title.
The song is just the grooviest and coolest. That chill as hell sounding voice and the lyrics "Time was drifting, this Rocker's got to roll, so I hit the road and made my getawayyy". How much cooler can you get? It's so brilliant and I'm addicted to it.
@@blackmore4 anarchy in the UK came out a year later…. This dates before punk rock. It’s cool and for those who were around back then ( myself). Couldn’t get it right , looks like you couldn’t get it right either.
@@MrChubbington No, you're the one who "couldn't get it right". Climax Blues Band released the single of 'Couldn't Get It Right' in October 1976 and performed it on this Top of the Pops in November 1976. The very same month in which the Sex Pistols released 'Anarchy in the UK'.
This totally captures the 70s for me...dudes with dorky clothes & hair, but damn could they sing and play the hell out their instruments. Fantastic tune.
AWESOME SONG AND GROUP!!!!! 2021 STILL LISTENING... What was so freaking awesome back in the day, without noticing then, was the fact that, " We All Got Along '!!! No racist crap! Now, it's just sad. Everyone is for ONLY themselves! A certain age group has destroyed everything. It's heartbreaking! 💔😡 music is all that is left except for the memories in our heads. God Bless you and good luck... you're gonna need it!
Love to see all the young people dancing and enjoying the music together, black and white, all equals. Too bad we didn't have more of that here in America, with our quasi-segregated TV shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train.
I hear so much Ween in this song and I love it, the beat the instrumental and the VOCALS oh my god dude a Ween song before their time a fabulous gem great band.
Every day on KEZY in Anaheim, CA, they would play this during what was my driver's education class. Even in AM, the song resonated. Cannot hear it without thinking about how it was way back when.
+Phil Porter Indeed, Phil...back in the day when AutoTune and ProTools were someone's nightmare concept. It's so freakin' fun to watch musicans play real musicians. I really took it all for granted back in the day. As a drummer, I had to really know my meters and such in order to keep a job. Today, it's "No Experience Necessary." And by the way, I see Kanye West, the greatest fraud of them all, one more time, I am going to have to assassinate something!
One of the best songs to come out of the 70’s. When I hear this I think of “So Into You” by Atlanta Rhythm Section & “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck. Still love all three.
commercial radio sucks .When Clear Cannel and I Fart Radio took over, radio has sucked since. If I ever hit the lottery I will start my own station and make music great again. That is my dream.
Back then, black music and white music both had more soul and the message which reflected that soul. The mood of the music always matched the message. And the message always reflected a soul that was more gentle and slow to base emotions because in those days people generally, with some exceptions, had a stronger sense of redeeming values. Not so anymore. The parents of relatively more recent generations had parents who compromised those values due to bad lifestyle choices and just bad choices in the means they chose to support themselves and their families. It is as much for reasons of not taking personal responsibility as it is for economic reasons that all of this has happened the way it has. And now we have a generation that is lost and no way to seek recourse. And with Covid-19 always looming over our heads, it only diminishes opportunity and the possibility to take responsibility while also taking away the liberty so necessary to learn not to take things for granted anymore. The Covid-19 and all of the lockdowns and extensions are as much a politicized hoax as the virus itself is real.
I saw these guys in the mid 70s in Stafford, their home town, at a charity gig to save a local Hotel from demolition. Couldn't Get It Right was in the charts and the atmosphere at the night club, Th Top Of The World, was electric! The place was absolutely heaving, with no restrictions on numbers in those days and no air con either! I've been to many a concert over the years and it was probably the best I'd been to for enjoyment and I'm sure the band must have felt the same. Needless to say the building was saved and is there to this day. Thank you fellas.
I was 1 years old when this song came out, but I swear it must have been imprinted on me by AM radio while I was sitting in the car seat. I just get a happy warm feeling whenever I hear this tune. Had to look it up on RU-vid to see what Climax Blues Band looked like, and now I love the song that much more. :)
Of ALL the bands I dealt with backstage ...these guys were the wildest .I had lots of alcohol and giant cheese trays and cold cut trays . Well they were in dressing rooms making hay...I ended up with cheese and meat everywhere...LOL , my associate was a-bangin' on the doors to get the gals to stop screaming. Too much fun. They calmed down when I got the prime rib ready!!! Loved these guys!
there’s so much I can say about these musicians playing real music back then! I would literally run out of space and run out of breath talking about how real and how amazing it was to have humans actually playing instruments and actually singing. This is one of my favorite songs by the way!
For the cynics and doubters in the comments below, this is definitely a live performance, as a musician you can just tell, great track as well not so bluesy as funky rock
