The Old Grey Whistle Test thread

Fretwired

I loved this show back in the day .. one band the show introduced me to was ZZ Top ..




Post vids of acts you liked ..

not_the_dj

I never saw it at the time, but here's Marillion in their early prime And the majestic Mike Scott and The Waterboys (rubbish quality unfortunately and they never seem to include their appearances on the repeats/DVDs :-( )

Fretwired

Great Marillion track .. saw them a few times live.

Jalapeno

Lowell George at the peak of his powers with Little Feat  ....

Jalapeno

This totally freaked me out originally

SAHB Next

Fretwired

The Lowell George track reminds me of this Captain Beefheart track ..

ourmaninthenorth

Loved the old black and white cartoons and footage they used on some tracks. Can't find the cartoon I remember for Achilles Last Stand, but here's another Zeppelin track with the sort of footage I'm on about...

And one of my all time favourites...

Fretwired

And another powerful track ... PiL ..

not_the_dj

Of course there was the definitive performance of May You Never by John Martyn

DulcetJones

I've come across some good vids on youtube from that show.

Fretwired

Loved the black and white vids and John Martyn .... May you never is a great track ..

Jalapeno

Couple more SAHB

Deliliah



And the excellent Faith Healer

Fretwired

Deliliah .. great performance. I remember watching that [being an old git].

not_the_dj

Wasn't there a great b&w clip of some skiers they put to Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells? Can't find it.

Jalapeno

Here ....

not_the_dj

That was it...nice one.

Jalapeno

Never forgiven Janet Street-Porter for cancelling TOGWT.  At least Jools' Later is kind of a replacement.

Here's more wierdness, Roxy Music (still with Brian Eno then) - Ladytron

Jalapeno

Meet Talking Heads for the first time ! Dat bass tone, awesome !!!!

Jalapeno

The Specials !

EricTheWeary

Think I only saw it about twice. I bought my brother the DVD box set of the shows a couple of years ago and must borrow it at some point.
I have a distinct memory of Wreckless Eric over one of those B&W montages and very much recall ZZ Top.I had read about them in Sounds and persuaded my parents to let me stay up to watch them on OGWT. I have seen a lot of the other band clips since but seeing ZZ Top doing Jesus JLC when I was still a school lad was mind blowing.

EricTheWeary

Jalapeno;26885" said:

Meet Talking Heads for the first time ! Dat bass tone, awesome !!!!

That was on some tv show the other week and I was struck by how good the bass was.