Classic rock radio wouldn't SUCK nearly as bad if they played bands like these on occassion. Conquistador was a rare forgotten treat. 30 Days has always been a favorite. How many times can a person hear Sweet Home Alabama and Old Tome Rock and Roll without going postal? It doesn't help that they've added Enter Sandman and Sweet Child of Mine to their neverending cycle of unimaginative tripe to the hourly lineup. Midnight Special ROCKS. I DON'T NEED NO DOCTOR!!!!
So true, I especially love watching bands here that didn't become household names, or have a top 40 hit, but rocked. I hear songs here that bring back memories of milestones that happened while they were on the radio.
Steve Marriott, one of the greatest rockers ever. Anyone young and wants to see a truly great singer/guitarist, man, Steve Marriott is it. Lot of people dont know, but Steve was an actor first. His family had him audition for early roles, got some work, and actually put himself through an acting school, the school agreeing to be paid when he made money from acting jobs. His family wanted him to keep going on in acting, but he had that calling MUSIC!
> 50 years ago I was 13, life & people were radiating on a whole other enlightened-level. Today in my opinion we've been in a slow-steady decline down into mediocrity & the mundane.
We were listeners back then (& maybe just in a little bit in awe of the spectacle). My wife is younger & always asks "...how come they're just sitting there". Every time! ;-)
I go down to the front and dance with others at concerts. When I saw Gregg Allman before he passed, he said “if you show us how much you love our show, we’ll give you a great one!” Or something along those lines, you bet I was up and shaking a leg, musicians love it when the crowd is engaged, it’s called Call & Response. At John Mellencamp w/Donovan opening, the whole huge indoor venue was up on their feet dancing/singing along, one of the best shows I’ve seen.
Steve Marriott ladies and gents. Puts all the rest to shame. Singing like that, performing like that and with one of those old Les Paul strapped around his guts! Must have weighed more than him! Fackin legendary. Procol Harum and Gary Brooker amazing stuff. Great show. RIP to all of the great musicians in this show that have passed on. Thank you. We're still listening ❤
I was 16 in Nov. 73 . Atlanta was Rocking with Alex Cooley`s Electric Ballroom , we was getting in at 17 , 18 was legal . The Greats Tore That Place Up . FUCK IT I Want Relive My Childhood & Yes we the lucky ones to survived are still listening RIP Steve Marriott 🎸
@@gregoryduncan3067I can't remember any band playing 7 songs on a show (perhaps they bumped the Kinks?) and judging the songs they will play I think we will see Mick Grabham on guitar instead of David Ball who replaced Trower, then decided to split.
Do you know who the female backup vocalists are that sang with Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre? I thought they were part of the Blackberries, but they don't look the same
It's sort of a gut feeling, but based on this and other videos I've seen, pretty sure that Steve Marriott fully "went black" back then, as the saying of his time period goes...
Humble pie on absolutely fire. Nobody but nobody could touch the Pie in there prime!! Such a pity the toot and blow killed there creative powers!! Will never see there like again!!!
Yes and F(WBB). "This war we are waging is already lost /The cause for the fighting has long been a ghost/Malice and habit have now won the day/The honours we fought for are lost in the fray". Two songs about the futility of war and conquest, as relevant then as now, 50 years later
Stunning performances across the board, and exceptional sound. Procol Harum was exceedingly musical, and Humble Pie (Marriott) was unbelievable in intensity.
Thank God and Burt for making this video of Humble Pie available! There's so very little live video...and now you can see how visceral and savage they were. Check out any live audio of them in the early 70s and it's off the hook! No way Mick was ever gonna let Steve Marriott in the Stones. Jerry Shirley fantastic drumming, Black Berries wailing. And Clem Clempson brought a lot after Peter Frampton went solo. This has been the greatest find!
@@delmedeiros3570 His real name is David “Clem” Clempson, born in 1949. He’s still alive at age 74. I love the cool “ nicknames “ given to band members, Boz Burrell comes to mind.
@@KittyGrizGriz yes, now I understand. It seems to me that he used his first name (David) at the time of the Colosseum. I think I read this once. All the best my friend.
@@GalaxyRover1020 Thank you & most definitely! Can’t forget Greg Ridley, he’s one of my favored bassists, it’s my favorite instrument to hear, gotta have that back beat rhythm section.
So many amazing performances, but from a songwriting perspective, I give the nod to Alvin Lee and Mylon LeFevre's, "Carry My Load". That should be a staple on classic rock stations.
One of the advantages of being Old… I never missed the Midnight Special!! Thanks so much for bringing this to RU-vid!!! 💜🎶💜 Awww. Whiter Shade of Pale … my favorite by them. 💞
I also never missed The Midnight Special, one of the best part of growing up in the 70’s, well actually I was already in my 20’s, the music was awesome💯%
it has nothing to do with old, it has all to do with for me as a stoner as seeing it on tv wasted so I missed a bunch of episodes cause I was outside crawlin around the town lookin for pussy but now in the fuckin 2000s I can watch them again
I became a teenager right in the middle of the Midnight Special's brilliant run. I thought it was going to last forever but there has been nothing like it since.
A friend walked down the aisle at her fancy wedding in 1980 to this, organ only no lyrics. Can still picture her gorgeousness in a tall white hat with her veil falling all around… the song…set the “mood” perfectly, Chills inducing! The groom was folk-alt country-country rock singer Jimmy LaFave may he R.I.P.🕊️❤️🎶
I used to sneak upstairs and watch the midnight special without my parents, knowing because I loved it so much. I believe it was the last show before the national anthem came on, and then went to White Noise.
Steve Marriott: one of the greatest voices in rock. Yet, he's not on the Rolling Stone Magazine's list of 200 great singers... Fun fact, the best known version of Procol Harum's Conquistador from their live album was recorded in Edmonton, Alberta Canada with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Nov 1971 and released in 72.
Nice to see Procol Harum. Mick Grabham was good on the Conquistador guitar solo but nowhere close to the great solo that Dave Ball played on the Live album with the Edmonton Symphony. Steve Marriott looked like he was having a great time singing with the Blackberries and Humble Pie
Great line up!! A real treat to see Humble Pie and Alvin Lee's supergroup - they're all but forgotten now. Humble Pie should have been MEGA - they were that good, and The Blackberries have real pedigree - they played with the Ike and Tina Turner Review, and Ray Charles.
fuckin right I partied with him and he is short and he made fun of his height and his beer gut he had. I had to call him a dirty street rat shit it was so perfect.
I saw Steve Marriott and the packet of three in a little club in Chicago back in the early 80's . He stood on a stage about 4 ft high and I stood about 5 ft in front of him all night . He is definitely a force of nature. 😮
This is a trip back to those great days. Procul Harum doing "Grand Hotel"...Gary Brooker was in a class by himself! As was Steve Marriott! Good times. 😻🌹
Great to see Gary Brooker and Procol Harum again. Thanks for sharing. The performance in Denmark in 2006 is probably the best that they did. They only got better with time.
Great show, makes my evening. Procol Harum: Gary Brooker is an amazing vocalist but my top pick for talent in that band is Chris Copping - a real bad ass. Copping excels on both the bass guitar and organ, yet never shows off. Humble Pie though, to me, while superbly talented, come across like a caricature. A spoof of a highly drugged up British rock band along with doped up black singers. Steve Marriott with that fake mustache - I know its glued on, I can tell. He stole Gary Brookers stache and pasted it on his own face.
BJ WIlson (Octopus) for me the best rock drummer ever. He played and caressed the drums not like Bonham et al who bashed the drums as hard as they could.
I remember when Black Crows started out mentioning how they reminded me of Humble Pie, the group of younger people sadly didn't know who they were. Steve Marriott never achieved the fame or fortune he deserved. So incredibly talented.
Opening Conquistador just blew me away..... Gary just passed this past year. Musicians were so commonplace back then that you didnt realize you were witnessing Maestros in their craft.
Stephen.Peter.Marriott!!!! That is all. We even got choreography with the Blackberries. Handsome Gary Brooker has no business looking like he should be selling insurance while singing soulfully like that. Just amazing.
Collectively known as The Blackberies, Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews and Clydie King were individually previously members of The Raelettes (Ray Charles) and The Ikettes (Ike & Tina Turner), then collectively backing vocalists for Pacific Gas & Electric, as well as working with The Supremes. The Blackberries were hired by Marriott for the album "Eat It" and tour (1973/1974). The Blackberries then went on to tour with Pink Floyd for "Dark Side Of The Moon", recorded again with Humble Pie on "Thunderbox" (1974), as well as doing a second stint for Pink Floyd`s "Wish You Were Here" tour (1975).
Ah, more than that, they also blew the roof off! In fact, after the show, Michael Caine went to see Steve Marriott and told him, "you were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!!"... :-P
What a powerhouse. Bundle of energy. Amazing energy. Vocals, guitar, harmonica, Steve did it all. Noticed (also the late) Jim Capaldi background singing with Alvin Lee. One criticism…. Really wish the cameramen gave a full stage shot of PH so we could have got a glimpse of BJ the drum MAGICIAN.
I remember hearing Wolfman Jack on late night FM radio and after his show was over, the local station played full albums with no breaks. What a time to be alive. What has happened.....
radio stations used to be independent instead of owned by national corporations like clear channel. a bunch of business guys did free market business things and radio has been worse because of it for 30 or 40 years now... not that most of us care since we can listen to pretty much any full album at any time.
Great to hear live music after last episode where acts only mimed playing. Especially enjoyed hearing "Whiter Shade of Pale." Unusual for a band to have two keyboard players. That organ part was borrowed from Bach!
Too bad Procol didn't do "Strong As Samson", but they did some interesting stuff from their Grand Hotel/Exotic Fruit era. "Drunk Again" was an obscure B-side at this time.
Whiter Shade of Pale: One of my favourite songs, ever and one that fills me with nostalgia and longing every time I hear it. Transports me back to my idyllic teenage years, which is when it came out
Steeleye Span. I loved that. I never heard of them. now I just ordered one of their cd. Thanks, Burt Sugarman, for releasing these. I watched these shows when I was a teen. Great stuff.
A song like this has even more significance if you know about the "Auld Alliance" between Scotland and France. This is a request from the Scots to the French for protection from England. It's pretty similar to the help France gave the rebelling American colonies during our revolution.
Absolutely amazing ... an Anglophile's dream, musically speaking. Such an incredible lineup of talent, all in their prime, tho' sadly so many of these talented musicians are no longer with us. Gary Brooker, such a class act, and isn't that Keith Reid, Procol Harum's lyricist, as the dude with the horn at 11:42 and 11:55? Also nice to see Steeleye Span with Maddy Prior dancin'.
Alvin Lee issued "On The Road To Freedom" in late '73 (with LeFevre), and this is that record's band. The other TYA members had nothing to do with it, as they were on their last legs together before '74 breakup. Nice to see Boz in post-Crimson, pre-Bad Co performance . That record's worth checking out, but don't expect TYA-type boogie. It has several guest stars on it, including Capaldi, Winwood, & Harrison.
Good eye man. I was a huge Ten Years After fan too and even bought Alvin Lee's On the Road to Freedom with Mylon LeFevre lp and saw Ten Years After back in the day.
I was just wondering if there anymore power vocal groups like in the sixties and seventies. Can’t think of anyone who can do these vocals today, or no one gets the opportunity to showcase them anymor
Procol Harum were so talented, they took rock way beyond any boundaries. Steeleye Span was really good too. Alvin Lee is best with TYA. Humble Pie is better as a raw band.
2012 We saw Procol Harum and Yes together ❤ at Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. Now both bands are gone, with Gary Brooker dying Feb.24, 2022, the day Putin invaded UKRAINE 🇺🇦
So excited to see my guitar hero Alvin Lee with Mylon LeFevre! ⚡️🎉 I understand their band consists of Jim Capaldi, Ian Wallace, Boz Burrell, Steve Winwood, & Mike Patto. ⚡️❤️🎸
Wow; I've never seen this live version of 30 days in a hole. So loose and "sloppy" in the VERY BEST way; Marriot was a god damned total rock star. And the addition of the blackberries is awesome.
Steve Marriott never saw the success that many less talented stars of that time. He had the most incredible rock voice ever. 30 Days in the Hole was one of my all time favorites, I wore that album out!
I was 13 that year and every week I couldn't wait to see this show, I always hoped for a big rock band I liked but I realized the real popular bands would've been too much money to book them, but they had some cool bands and songs I liked. Brings back so many memories.
These guys could rock hard and with anybody! And Steve has always had what I consider to be the perfect rock and roll voice. He was a powerhouse! The Blackberries, outstanding harmonies. PERFECT.
