I got a laugh out of Kevin Eldon at the premier of Funny Cow a couple of years ago and it is one of the highlights of my life :-). Nice to see Philip Pope, writer of so much great TV music, on the drums as well
Yes yes yes. I remember the OGWT. 15 year old rock connoisseurs at my all boys' grammar school in West London, pretentiously w**king on about last night's OGWT and wasn't it brilliant ? Yeah. Brilliant. Yawns and slips into a deep coma.
I remember the episode well because our coin-operared Telly thrived on dad's enthusiaststic but precise hammer-fist blows and foul language on that occasion melding with the vibe. Decimal money was never the same.
Cruel but a very accurate reflection of what people really thought about the Old Grey Whistle Test. There was no band so cool and exciting it couldn't wrap its grey cloak of boredom around and sap all the life out of.
Not true. John Otway and 'Wild' Willy Barret's 'Cheryl's going home' is an iconic peformance that just happened to occur on OGWT. Watch till the end if you haven't seen it....totally epic!! 😄 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3V_32BS-ALw.html
Not so - OGWT was the programme where you got to see bands play live (unlike TOTP). Plus you didn't have to be in the top 40 to get on thus providing a route onto mainstream television for lesser known bands. Two performances that come to mind being Talking Heads "Pyscho Killer" and The Runaways "Wasted" neither of which would probably have got air time on TOTP.
The Old Grey Wrinkled Testicle - yep, that's exactly my recollection of the few episodes I nearly sat through. The question: Is it possible to make a pop music show so dull the audience will be numbed in to insensibility? The answer: Yes, yes it is.
Almost nothing makes me laugh these days... but I was nearly pissing in my trousers with this one! Their sense of parody of wonderful! hahahahahahahahahahaha I've always LOVED Harry and Paul.
That is a very sweet (and genuinely vintage) Epiphone Dwight. I think PW has a decent collection of guitars that have been featured on the show (The Bono/The Edge sketches come to mind).
At a time when pubs closed at 11pm, everywhere else 2pm, the 3 TV channels mostly ended at 12pm but for Open University. There was nothing to beat staggering in at 2.30 am, cracking a Party 7 and finding this antithesis to Top of the Pops was on.
@Lee Wardle If I'm guessing correctly, that's 12 a.m. (not wishing to seem pedantic, but you might have thought StevieZero66 was referring to him guessing you meant 3 stations = telly, but not realised he was actually guessing that you had incorrectly stated the wrong time).
How many hours Prog shite did we have to endure on the Whistle Test in the hope of 3 mins of greatness from bands like Dr Feelgood, Capt Beefheart, the Ramones, Bowie or The New York Dolls etc ? Spot on again Harry and Paul.
Inevitable i guess.That original creative pulse from the golden years had to fizzle out given the political zeitgeist enacted with the resurgence of crony corporate fascism surfacing at the late 70's point.Music as a force for change and personal evolution got its due sacrifice on the anvil of rampant materialism of the time and enter rap into the mix,essentially weaponizing the tendency in later years .Coup- de- grace time. Strange seeing old Bob hitching his pony to garbage 'New Country' acts these last years though, like it's the new prog,which in itself was tedious,Gentle Giant and such is a painful listen lol.(Yes) being the opposite scenario...more 'Dram' than 'prog' but awesome nonetheless.
@@andyaccount I nearly passed out from laughing first time I saw that episode. 🤣 How he keeps his face straight while he comes out with this stuff is beyond me. Him and Matt Berry both have the power to reduce me to tears laughing with just a few words...
@@undango Quite right. The left are all-out to ban or destroy everything they can on any bogus pretext. And they'll keep doing that until we start to hurt them.
Man I loved that program and most of the bands on there,who actually could play and write there own music, yes actual musicians I'm gutted it sums up old white farts like me😂🤣🤣🤣 they got everything spot on.
I remember an absolutely wonderful and totally 👌 super episode of TOGWT where the Rolling Stones appeared. They were boring. The ROLLING STONES ! I think they were told if you want to be on Whispering Bob's show, you MUST play something that little old ladies can fall asleep to. I can't remember the date, but I think it might have been off Some Girls, one of their most dull albums IMHO.
Didn’t Bill Bailey have a spoof of some late night “too kool for cats” jazz program that didn’t actually exist? Same thing. Not British, but I remember seeing TOGWT in the early 80s on holiday. When it came on, my Brit friends treated it like a church service. Very serious business.
@@albertbatfinder5240 There was a thing like that on a show called The Fast Show. This might be it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MsQYzpOHpik.html
I never understood the hating on senior presenters in the BBC music department inc radio, they just seemed to come across as "gently edging them out" whilst being comedians with fk all to do with music industry and then top of the pops became saturated with rap and rave acts and it became unwatchable.
Paul Whitehouse is either a very good mime or he was actually playing the guitar part live. His fingers were certainly following all the right movements.
He recorded Stone Free in late'66. Jimi just stood back and said "call it the Paul Whitehouse Experience, Chas, let me know if you need a rhythm guitarist. " fact
“I want something dull” that is so spot on lol. The “old grey whistle test” are you kidding me? No wonder no one likes the BBC it’s so cheap and dull with no behind the scenes talent.
Ok . . .let's be honest . . .the majority of the bands in the studio were shyte . . . The 2 exceptions are. . . Gary Moore- back on the streets 1977 ( literally the epitomy of rock music! ) . . . And king crimson - frame by frame 1978 ? . . . Let battle commence!!!!! . . . Be nice
