Favourite Old Grey Whistle Test Performance.

ourmaninthenorth

In celebration of the 3 hour special on Friday, what are your favourite performances? 



https://youtu.be/Lxw51M7wAGk

richardhomer

Love this. The song’s been done to death but his playing here is so vibrant - and that voice....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=051_taCenfU

Fretwired

Has to be Dutch band Focus .. they saved the show. There was no way of measuring whether anyone was watching the show and BBC bosses were thinking of cancelling it. On came Focus - they weren't played on the radio and nobody had heard of them. After one appearance UK record shops were inundated with demands for their two albums .. Polydor had one plant running 24/7  to keep up with demand. Focus had two albums in the charts a couple of weeks later and the OGWT was saved (story comes from Whispering Bob himself).

Here's an excerpt ...

Fretwired

Found a more coherent track by Focus from the same session ..

Deadman

Has to be Dr Feelgood 

Deadman

And The Damned have got to be the only ones who '''lost it" during a performance:

proggy

Deadman said:

And The Damned have got to be the only ones who '''lost it" during a performance:

That drummer obviously wasn't happy that day.

west

nils lofgrens set , first time i saw lenny breau style right hand harmonics ( and went wow ) and trampoline somersault thingy watsit

west

scalino65

Humble pie, black coffee is great. I think Marriott turns up years later to do all or nothing and pretends he can’t hear whispering bob and tells him to speak up. 

RobDavies

I was never a Bon Jovi fan, but always thought this was rather good....

Jalapeno

SAHB  -  Next!

(Or SAHB - Faith Healer)

Honourable Mention - The Tubes - White Punks on Dope

Neill

How about the "Chairman of the Bored"  Iggy Pop.  Great guitar playing from Scott Thurston and yes that is Glen Matlock on bass.

Philly_Q

Same clip I always post on these threads....

Chuffola

This has got to be up there for me - Little Feat at their imperious best

EricTheWeary

Bob was on breakfast telly this morning and there were a few seconds of him interviewing an extremely rough looking Keith Richards, so maybe that. 

https://youtu.be/EBeO3i-dUOU

DarnWeight

When I think of this song, I immediately think of this performance of it...



"That'll do"

Really really love the Feelgood's "Roxette", and Talking Heads doing "Psycho Killer" too.

axisus

Off the top of my head I'd say Dr Feelgood Roxette and SAHB Delilah

Having been catching some OGWT shows late evening on TV recently, I'm reminded as to what a great show it was. I'd love to have online access to the entire run again, I very much enjoy it on whilst noodling around online with my iPad, and there are plenty of performances that you just HAVE to stop and watch.

Roxette video added earlier by someone, so here's SAHB hamming it up beautifully with Delilah!

bingefeller

Thin Lizzy with Gary Moore - 

Budgie

Patti Smith performing Horses



New York Dolls



Roxy Music

Philtre

Not a Meat Loaf fan but this was...memorable: