I so so agree with you. I’ve been thanking God that I was born when I was to enjoy all these old wonderful bands and live when things were so much simpler and happy and joyous.
Thank you, Eight to the Bar !!!! I heard this in 1967, I was 18, and new in the Military... Loved their music - all of it !!! Still do over 50 years later !!! The Hollies killed it !!!!
Strangely enough I never heard of the Hollies until recent years.. and knew absolutely nothing about them! I've been a Beatles fan since way back.. 1965 actually since my reaction to a song they did which played on the radio. Anyway, so I don't go off track.. back to the Hollies. Just let me say a few things about this group. Allan Clarke excellent singer, Graham Nash (who later joined CSN&Y) very good guitar player and singer, Tony Hicks top notch guitar player, Bob Elliot very good drummer and Bren Calvert very good bassman. A very talented band that deserves the spotlight.. and should be called one of the best bands ever! Thanks for accepting my comment!
Very talented band. It's tempting to say Bobby Elliot and Tony Hicks were underrated musicians but the band was underrated despite being "just a pop group." That was some very well crafted pop. Look Through Any Window , Dear Eloise, and Stop, Stop, Stop were quirky and creative.
@@lostintime8651 Yeah, I stopped fighting the Moronic "Underated" BS. Clueless ppl: For whatever reason call the world's Greatest Musicians/Groups "Underated" I'd try to explain the MEANING of that word... to no avail. & Hey ! Look !! Things in ALL Country's are getting so much better !! Right.. & I'm an Optimist !! "That's allright, I still got my guitar"
Echolette amps. Wow. Obviously filmed in Germany (well, West Germany as it was known then). I'm always impressed at how good the Hollies sounded live. They were known as a singing pop group, and I knew they played on their records, but hearing these live recordings you can tell they were able to deliver the songs live quite well.
In my opinion the Hollies were a much better live performing group than the Beatles. Their harmonies were spot on when performing live whereas the Beatles harmonies often fell flat, perhaps due to the din of the screaming.
I believe Tiny Hicks loved the guitar from the age of 3. There are few bands who can perform so well live like, The Hollies. I've seen them play many times in life and not once was I disappointed in their performance. Incredible band. One of the best for sure.
Now THAT was music..., no trashy lyrics, can actually understand them, and they aren’t “talking” through a song - they are SINGING. Best music generation...
Not only is Tony Hicks doing his usual brilliant guitar work here, but Graham Nash is doing some lead work also, very impressive. Always loved this band!
They had really good songs on their albums that never made it as hits. I listened to their CDs the last two nights and just was amazed how great all their songs were.
Underrated? Inducted Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2010.. Ivor Novello Award Outstanding Contribution to British Music1995 .over 30 chart singles 22 on Billboard Hot 100..have been in the charts for 5 decades. The Hollies..like Rolling Stones are only two brit bands from the 60's still touring full time through past 5 decades until present time to out sold concerts. Underrated musically means not famous low standing...hardly describes The Hollies who have a solid gold standing world wide in rock pop category.
Actually, my favorite bands’ first record came out in1969, and they still tour, far more and far more often than the stones or the hollies...they’re called YES! Just saying.
"Stop, Stop" and "Bus Stop" crystallized and affirmed the attraction to girls I had in my 9-year-old mind. The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Dave Clark 5 also had the same effect, but these two songs almost whacked my upside the head with their mesmerizing, romantic lyrics
When Bobby says 'Maureen my girlfriend at the time" actually became his wife and was Tony Hicks sister. Sadly she passed in 2012 or 13. So Bobby & Maureen had a long a marriage like bandmates Allen and Tony who are still married to original wives..Allen 55 yrs Tony 45yrs.
David Wells Not so unsung, but I agree not sung LOUDLY enough. He was a talent, back in the days when evrybody was looking at Jeff, Eric,Duane, etc. Hicks had a fast group to compete with, but he held his own.
Absolutely wonderful band and so talented,Allan Clark was world class, they were like the Beatles rolling stones non stop on the radio,but like all the 50s 60s our UK was booming,industrial shops stores etc etc etc,,
I read once that the reason why Tony played so much 12-string in the band's early days was to sound as much like 2 guitars as possible, because Graham's guitar wasn't really plugged in. I was a little surprised to see and hear him playing with Tony here.
02:53 Just imagine being in the audience and dancing to this song. I wonder what it must have been like before all the fake, commercialized music hype we suffer nowadays and be clued-in to where the latest bands were playing and finding a way to attend the concert. Also, I would love to talk to the surviving dancers and ask them what it was like.
He questioned where the money was going and the business stuff if truth be known and the powers that be didn't like it best bass player they ever had RIP Eric
Echolette Amps by Klemt of Germany...this must be the german TV show Beat, Beat, Beat. They used those as house amps for all the acts. I've seen videos of the Kinks and the Tremoloes with the same gear.
Tony, Bobby, and Berne were all part of the Dolphins. At this point they should have called themselves Allen and Gram with the singing Dolphins. Just a joke hahah
I think they all came from the best (and also rival s) bands from the Manchester area - merged The Deltas (wh managed to change their name to The Hollies) and The Dolphins -
The hollies want to greatest bands from the British Invasion era I and Eric Was a very good bass player and he played a FendervI String bass which was awesome and Tony Hicks was one the best we can CarPlay is around in the drama was really good to
And ironically, we who are sensitive to such musical nuance are also not "the lucky kind" either. After all - while everyone is marveling at catchy melodies like "The Kids are Alright" people like you and me have to deal with knowing it's really a rip from All My Loving...alas...
Clarke and Hicks seem to brush it off so casually as it being a "change of life issue" that Haydock had because he was newly married but I have read it from various sources that he was unhappy because he felt that he and the others in the band were being ripped off financially by their management and by promoters and he refused to play until he was paid back the money he felt was owed to him. The others organised for Bernie Calvert to replace him.
Wonder if Hicks still has that Les Paul. It's worth a fortune now. They stopped making them in 61, 60 being the last ones till they started making them again in 68. This is 67 so his is a 58, 59 or 60 since it has the burst finish and the prices of those year models are incredible.
I think he also owned that Black Beauty Nash is playing. You see him playing it on the studio footage for "On a carousel". It's said that Nash was never plugged in but he obviously was here and you can hear 2 guitars playing rhythm plus the twin lead chase sequence. Good stuff. Shame there's nothing here about what a good bassist Bernie Calvert was. The bass on this song's recording even caught he attention of no less than jazz legend Ray Brown. Good piano player too,
Tony always had very cool guitars, but I doubt he still has it, there are some great close-up shots of it in this video, it seems to have a distinct mark between the volume knobs and the grain patterns can be seen, probably could be identified by a sharp-eyed, diligent LP nerd on Burstserial.com. And lets not forget about one of the coolest 12-strings, the Vox Phantom 12 that he traded away for a Rickenbacker 12 that he ended up not liking and wishing he had his Vox back, I wonder who has that now ?
Zuerst kam Klaus Voormann als Ersatz für Eric. Doch als er von Nash gesagt bekam, dass er nur Angestellter werden würde, ging er wieder. Aber die Ideen für die Bassparts zu Bus stop stammen von Voormann.
I love the fact that their performance of Bus Stop was live. There was so much lip synching and even using the recording for most of the instrumentals.
It's from the German TV show "Beat Beat Beat" where every band (bar solo-singers) performed live. The Kinks, Small Faces and the Yardbirds all appeared on it
The Hollies have told many stories over the years regarding the reasons for Eric's sacking from the band. The truth is that he'd discovered that the band were being fleeced by their management. He spoke out about it and was sacked by their management. Shamefully the rest of the band allowed him to be sacked. Then they found that he had been right after all. They were being robbed. But by then he had been consigned to history while they enjoyed international fame and success. Never has one of them admitted the injustice done at the time, and they remain silent. Guilt is a powerful emotion.
It’s not the first or only time management pitted band members against each other over money. A similar thing happened to Rory Gallagher’s band Taste, and the band didn’t survive. Rory had a strong distrust of managers after and had his brother , Donal, handle everything from then on. So many bands were being cheated and working for very little at the hands of unscrupulous managers back then.
@@LG-kl3co What I was meaning was - if they didn't have a bass player at that moment in time and the guy who wrote the song they were recording on that day happened to be a bass player. Oh never mind...
The Hollies: better than Beatles. No doubt. But the great fab four counted by very help with Brian Epstein and George Martin. Epstein powered the Beatles with his great marketing knowings. Few people knows that the Hollies career started BEFORE the Beatles. That's because that fact the group with Alan Clarke ahead left behind, but not too much
I kinda thin k the same. just The Beatles were far more popular outside UK and that was bc of their management by Brian Epstein - I've read that Epstein wanted to manage The Hollies as well but John Lennon convince him to not doing 😢 I bet Lennon felt daunted a bit
I wonder how the timeline really is. There is video of Eric playing bus stop on a TV show with the band. Did he finish some commitments before he left?
yes, bc Bernie s already in the recording but he didn't appear bc of commitments a t his factory job (I think the Hollies also hired Klaus Voorman and Jack Bruce as session bass players before they could stay with Bernie as a bassist)
Bernie played on the record but didn't join the band immediately. Eric was still with the group and that was his last appearance before Bernie became an official member.
This was in Germany and in the 60's the tv audience crowd was not too rambunctious. They rarely even smile and yet had the priveledge of hearing every popular brit band of the era. Maybe they were told by show producer to look like that....who knows. Many brit bands said their contract in Germany used to be one show recorded for tv and 3 to 4 extra set shows that weren't. So imagine doing 5 sets a day.
@@tarnsand440 Yes they were. It was told to be 'cool' and not to act like an insane fan girlie. This came from all that 'being intellectual' in the 1950s, like wearing black and glasses and enjoy NOTHING, but call it all idiotic and old fashioned. Since the audience was payed, they had to follow the rules. You should have seen us private when visiting concerts. By the way, at the same time the Japanese and the British said on their chairs like wax dolls, hardly moving a finger to applause. That looks strange to ME. Believe me.
Purely as musicians, the Hollies were at a very high level - there's no doubt that Bobby Elliot was one of the best drummers of the 1960s. However, the Hollies relied a lot on outside writers for many of their hits, and the Beatles were more versatile and profilic songwriters.
@@johnwoods1922 That may be the truth.... however... when you listen to the song "The air that I breathe" in it's original form... the Hollies version stoked it into a timeless flame where as the original version barely gave off a spark. As executions go... the Hollies know how to execute a song and bring it to it's full potential. The Beatles on the other hand went from old time rock and roll to a more progressive psychedelic style and in my opinion were over rated due in part to the theory of Paul's alleged death. That is why they sold so many albums in those days. They were great at marketing more than just their music... they also did TV and movies too. The Hollies were all about the music... despite doing covers, and they were real good at it. Their cover of the very last day is way better than Peter Paul and Mary's version. I have respect for both bands.
