The Charlatans with Rob Collins, it was this incomparable groove, it was the powerful Hammond organ hypnotizing... it was Indian rope at Reading ! This music is still alive, watch and listen to these 8 minutes of essential happiness live !
Hard to believe that this level of musicianship was taken for granted back then - 'Play your own instruments? Of course... why not? Write your own songs? Definitely... Actually sing live? C'mon now... we're a band!!'
Ray Manzarek from The Doors was by far the best keyboard player until Rob Collins came along, obviously Ray Manzarek was a big influence for Rob but Rob is now the king off keyboards, nobody plays the Hammond like this guy, absolute legend. ROB R.I.P MAN
I saw them play Newcastle city hall in 1991 on the - between 10th and 11th tour, they were fuckin flying by then. As much as I passionately loved Some Friendly, the Me. In. Time 12" was a breakthrough that led the way to their 2nd album, which was a monumental step up musically. I grew up and matured from baggy after hearing that. I'm still that same kid now, 30 years later and it's still my favourite album by them.
Same here. And Up To Our Hips comes a close second. I love the B-sides that came with the singles of that time period too, like Green Flashing Eyes and Backroom Window. They had a Garage Band groove about them. Tight unit. R.I.P. Rob R.I.P. John
Contemporary garage band at the time. I loved the hammond organ, still do. Best gig I ever went to in early 90s, blew my mind . I saw all the popular bands around then.
5 dislikes. Baffling ! This and Everything Changed are their greatest moments. First got them when I saw a ‘still’ from the Indie Chart on The Chart Show-1989. Got that 12 inch. Everything Changed on the B. They were superb. I was 19, in Boro. The height of all the indie-dance fusion- they rocked. Saw them at Newcastle Riverside in May 91. Incredible.
@@chefstarr33 I grew up on the VENTION rob was about four years older then me i used to see him around abit of a lad going around with some top lads on the square shops and the pub He lived not far from bayton road from the fish & chip shop. My sister lives across the road from the shop.
@@chefstarr33 Did not know how good he was till we see him with the band.Such a shame what happend to him he was dam good RIP ROB and JON BROOKES RIP was dam good. Rob was called COLLOW around vention.
nelly This was indeed before the only one I know, Not long before though It was the first single that didn t do well but got popular later Live it was always popular though I saw them 4 times in the early 90s My favourite indie band ever, I put them above the roses and that's saying something!
Debut single, one of the first songs the earlier incarnation of the band wrote - here they have their 2nd guitarist Mark Collins, making his debut replacing Jon Baker. "Indian Rope" very likely a reference to (60's hammond supremo) Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll and the Trinity's arch organ groover "Indian Rope Man" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-byt1piBQvAk.html
