Widowmaker - Old Grey Whistle Test 

Who knew Bob would go on to write some of the best songs ever written? What a legend.

Huw playing some nice slide and Steve Ellis sounding like Marriott.

The 2 Windowmaker albums are still in regular rotation in my home. Loved that band!

I remember Widowmaker being on the bill on the 'Who Put The Boot In' tour in '76. I was still at school and wasn't allowed to go to the Parkhead gig in Glasgow, just up the road from where I lived at the time. I was gutted because my favourite band, SAHB, were on the bill. I would have loved to have seen these guys too.

Brilliant!! Didn't even know there existed any Widowmaker live footage!

Bob Daisley excellent lyricist!!! Ozzy lyrics.

Really cool imaniginative intervallic jumps in the bass playing and Entwistle-type feel. I like this guy Bob Daisley!!!

Just fantastic. I saw them at the Marquee just a few months later. What a great bassist Bob is.

Thanks for making this available to view. I saw this band in early '76. They were a strong, tight band, typical of that era. This is only the second time I've heard them! I really enjoyed their performance - and the whole night as I recall, was pretty good. The iconic and legendary venue they played at [Nelson Imperial Ballroom], burned to the ground only weeks later. The site is some sort of social housing now. Little did any of us know that the dreaded punk/new wave nightmare was lurking around the corner. Looking back, the tragic fire seemed like a symbolic portent of the end of a great 'rock' era.

Thanks for uploading. This is great! Pay no mind to the haters on here, their self-titled debut album & Too Late To Cry are criminally underrated records.

saw this group in Columbus, OH around '76 at the Agora... Luther wasn't happy after the show... walked right off the stage through the crowd to the entrance/exit of the building

BRILLIANT !!!!I CAN'T BELIVE IT !!!!ALL those Yrs ago !!!!Great BAND 😊This track & Hobo's Son 👍✌✌✌👏g

Good singer

Im here coz I'm a Huw fan!!

I ❤ this video clip!! Early holiday gift 🎁 Thanks Santa❄(Bob Daisley💋)

Nice 70’s vibe!

Sounds amazing

Huw’s slide sounds great on this!

That first album is fantastic. Glad I found this here.

I was at the Newcastle City Hall gig in 1976 when Widowmaker supported Uriah Heep, that was a loud night, heheheheheeee .....the band sounded brilliant, nice upload Bob.

Both "Ellis" albums are brilliant too, buy on sight.

Mark II with John Butler as vocalist was the best line-up - their "Too Late To Cry" 1977 album has several really strong songs / guitar playing .... but, no video of this line-up :-(

Steve Ellis underrated singer.

Totally Brilliant.

BRILLIANT!!!!.....LOVE IT!!!

Knew nothing about them until I read Daisley's book. Thanks for posting.

Wow, pretty good. Heard of them but the first time I've actually heard them. Exactly the kinda stuff I was listening to back in the 70s. And still today🤘⚡✨

Saw them as a 15 year old at Celtic Park in Glasgow in 1975 along with Alex Harvey Band, The Who and a few others.

Loved this band ever since I heard them!

Thanks for posting. Always loved these two tracks. They should have been massive!

Nice, i have only heard Bobs, stuff from Rainbow onwards

I recorded this on a cassette tape from the tv, with others like Hendrix form the Lulu show, jo jo gimme, just love this band!

I remember this band, but I never checked them out. I will now!

This is so GREAT!

Saw these Glasgow 76 Great Stuff

Remember it well and it still sounds good.

Saw them at Folkestone Leas in the 70's - great live band

Awesome.

This is one of the 25 albums I kept when I sold my collection before moving a couple of years ago.

I am reading Bob's book so I had to check this out.

Class 👍

Another great band that should've ended up in the charts.

very underated band , top stuff

That's the second time Huw was on OGWT. He was on it with Leo Sayer previously.

Brilliant

Sorry I missed you boys back in the day.

so cool to see them live. been a fan for almost fifty years.

Awesome

I love it I love that hat you’re wearing good groove I like the good band Singer reminds me of Steve Marriott and kind of a lot of ways and I love the groove Look at you 💋

Boy you can tell what a damned fine Bass player Bob was at an early age,.He's all over it~

I loved this album and the next one with the new vocalist. Always a Daisley fan (starting here, where I first heard you!) and a big fan of Luther/Ariel. I've never seen this. Thank you! Now how about second LP stuff?

Saw them supporting Nazareth 1976 - Close Enough for Rock and Roll tour, Birmingham Odeon - My first ever gig. I had no clue who they were back then. Since bought the remastered Widowmaker CD when it was re-issued.

So grateful for this RU-vid stuff....I only saw them one time at Parkhead in Glasgow on the the Who tour 1976

a Happy 75th Birthday to Luther on 23rd December.

Saw Widowmaker in support of Uriah Heep & ted Nugent in Springfield,MA. summer of '77, i believe. Great show.

Pretty good mix.

Great clip

Thought this was gone forever knowing that the BBC in their infinite wisdom wiped loads of footage from both Top of the Pops and the Old Grey Whistle Test.

Fantastic.

I saw Widowmaker in 1976 (the support act was Quartz) Luther Grosvenor “Ariel Bender” was well lit before he took to the stage and had to be carried off at the end , good show though.

The host really fires you up before the show.

I saw them at Charlton football club supportingThe Who. I still have the vinyl LP

Steve Ellis ( born in 1950) is now 74... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ellis_(musician)

Great song ☺

Wonderful

A genuine super group.

This band were ace

"Whispering" Bob Harris.

Saw you guys at the Marquee in '76 - a great night. But then again wasn't every night at the old Marquee f'n brill hahahaha

I liked the second song.

👍

Bob Daisley on Bass

Reminiscent of David Coverdale.

Nice band - should have had better recognition

Following in the grand BBC tradition of great live sound recording but camera unerringly focusing on the wrong guitarist

A real mystery here. Two amazing albums. Had the chops to go far and nothing happened. United Artists really screwed this up

Who’s the other guitarist

1:52 Robert Plant on vocals...ops I want to say Steve Marriott...

From all accounts ,Ellis became a pain,what a shame

Singer sounds like Rod Stewart a little

Not really too different from Rose Tattoo.

Annoying video counter.

The host of this show always annoyed the hell out of me. Barely watchable.

The sound guy cut Luther's guitar about 1/3 of the way into the tune. Shame on him. The slide guitar is dialed-in, so no big deal.

You ain't telling me that first song was good 🙄. I can see why you left this band Bob. No chemistry happening here

This is very very boring...a typical example of the sorry state of British hard rock in the mid-70's...The 2nd album improved things a bit not much....what a waste of talent....

The bands wikipedia... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker_(UK_band)

These guys opened up for Ted Nugent in Mannheim Germany when I was in 8th grade, 1976 👍 They were good. Ted Nugent was great!