Our Favorite Television Appearances | Fan Favorites Ep. 30
Added 2024-10-02 02:11:00 +0000 UTCThis turned out to be an extra-special episode. We tried out a new genre this month, and our community responded! I'm proud to take you through the favorite television appearances of our favorite bands and musicians as voted on by the community. There's some real iconic events represented here. I hope you enjoy!
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I think it was part of his strap.
Kathy Ratino
2024-12-27 03:54:08 +0000 UTCAnd later, pyrotechnics.
Henry Weisenborn
2024-11-10 02:36:31 +0000 UTCJimi Hendrix and The Jimi Hendrix Experience were pulled off the air during a 1969 BBC television show after they broke into an instrumental version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" instead of finishing their first hit, "Hey Joe": The performance The band's performance was part of the BBC's A Happening for Lulu music variety show, hosted by pop singer Lulu. After a powerful rendition of "Voodoo Child", the band stopped mid-song while attempting "Hey Joe" and instead broke into "Sunshine of Your Love" as a tribute to the recently disbanded Cream. The aftermath The band's performance shocked the show's producers and delayed the evening news. The BBC banned the band from performing on their television. The significance The band's performance is considered a legendary moment in rock 'n' roll television. Hendrix would not return to the BBC studios, but his time at the BBC remains considered timeless.
Bryan Tursk
2024-10-06 18:14:46 +0000 UTCDoug--and everyone else who suggested ideas--thank you! This was a blast! More fun than I was expecting. Also, I took a few notes... 1. The organ that Ray Manzarek was playing was, I'm pretty certain, a Vox Continental. It was an electric organ that was popular in the 60s, and had the advantage of being portable. Many models (like Ray's here) featured black white keys and white black keys. 2. Paul Simon and George Harrison put a great big lump in my throat. I remember watching that episode of SNL. 3. The members of the Jimi Hendrix Experience were Noel Redding on bass and the amazing Mitch Mitchell on drums. Also, when Jimi ditched the song he had promised to do, and started playing something else...well, let's just say that the BBC frowns on such behavior. Young man, you were supposed to play a certain song. You deviated from that, and that is unacceptable. You may leave now. 4. Anytime The Who were forced to do a lip sync, Keith would always make a big show of how he wasn't actually playing at all. He would ignore his own fills and throw his sticks in the air. Because he didn't give a $#!+. The explosive charge that he put in his kick drum that night was more than even Keith expected. 5. Don't get me started on annoying coverage of music acts. It's one of my biggest peeves, and "Take a Pebble" was damn near destroyed by the hideous, despicable, "artistic" choices the director of this travesty made. Also...that was a portion of "Tank" from Side 2 of the first album that they threw in in the middle of "Pebble" while Keith was playing the clavinet. "Knife Edge" was, thankfully a bit easier to watch. Both performances were pretty special, though! 6. Sorry, no Wolfman Jack. He was the host of the show, and introduced all the performers. This video cuts off his intro, sadly. My memory from the night before my vacation was of Wolfman introducing them. I wish it had been on this! 7. Thank you, Megan! Ringo, too! That was so much fun to watch. John and George, by the way, were terrified when that crane camera was literally right over their heads. 8. Finally..."She's a problem-solver!" I laughed out loud! It's just one of the many reasons why we love you, Doug! Thanks for continually delivering great stuff!
Bill Brinkmoeller
2024-10-04 08:04:28 +0000 UTCRegarding the Who performance, because the vocal mics were live, Keith had to keep from hitting his cymbals and drums. His weird performance is his way of still being energetic while pantomiming. And he also used to put an explosive in one of his kicks that he would set off during the guitar smashing. For this show, and without telling anyone, he put several explosives in the kick.
Greg Goddu
2024-10-04 02:20:23 +0000 UTCELP - Knife Edge: Doug, what you tried to identify as a theremin is actually a "ribbon controller", and accessory for the Moog. Technically it is a potentiometer that allows for glissando effects, show wise Keith used it to move a bit more on stage (and sometimes to perform "inappropriate gestures" with it ;)
Bernie
2024-10-03 20:42:02 +0000 UTCAwesome! I'd put this one in the top 3 of Fan Favorites (which is a lot to say, FF's are always excellent and there is a lot of very tough competition). Thank you for making an exception and playing the 2 EL&P entries back to back, I think it worked pretty well
Eusebio R-Z
2024-10-03 17:38:30 +0000 UTCLive8 was the 20 year anniversary of LiveAid, and coincided with a G8 summit in Scotland. It was in support of the Make Poverty History and ONE campaign to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals to reduce extreme poverty worldwide. It's also part of the reason I work in international development.
Ian Swank
2024-10-03 15:30:18 +0000 UTCAnd even a chunk of "Tank" in the middle of "Take A Pebble".
Tom (the soggy one)
2024-10-03 01:26:52 +0000 UTCMagic is the key word. All of this episode conjures up magic. However I try to master music, I am always its supplicant. I think the same is true of all the artists in this episode. BTW I think the Knife Edge Bach quote is from the French Suite No 1 (allemande).
Adie
2024-10-02 23:00:14 +0000 UTCGreg had a large furry critter attached to that guitar.
Potted Rodent
2024-10-02 19:10:13 +0000 UTCThe reason for the tribute was that Cream had announced they were disbanding earlier the same day.
rogerb
2024-10-02 19:00:02 +0000 UTCI remember hearing the story of this performance, supposedly Jimi is "waving off" Lulu, because they were supposed to have a duet or she was coming to the stage, and he decided he'd rather do his Cream tribute instead.
Potted Rodent
2024-10-02 18:59:27 +0000 UTCRe. Hendrix being pulled off the air. The BBC ran a tight ship, a News programme was scheduled to follow, Probably 'At Six PM precisely'. So Hendrix breaking off into unscheduled waters caused quite a commotion amongst the establishment BBC hierarchy. It's Noel Redding on Bass, and Mitch Mitchell on Drums, the original Jimi Hendrix Experience members. I like the little communication glances and smirks they gave each other before breaking off from Hey Joe. They were high on potent hashish, as revealed by Noel in an interview for BBC Radio1 sometime in the 90s.
FallingLeaf
2024-10-02 13:16:00 +0000 UTC“She’s not evil … she’s just a problem solver!” 😂😂😂 Wow, Doug - that had me in stitches! What a great FF collection!! Thank you so much for the shout-out. 😊 I’m delighted that y’all had such a good time with this category!! Such variety and imagination, well done everyone!!👏👏👏
Margaret Barnes
2024-10-02 07:42:07 +0000 UTCThis is an exciting video. Indeed, bands always complained (and still do) about the sound of playing live on television. The lip-sync versions are not always horrible and musicians often try to replicate precisely what they play. Thankfully, shows like Beat Club and Old Grey Whistle Test put great efforts and resources into bringing true live performances to television with great sound. (The Doors are definitely playing live here, and sound great.)
Guitar Channel
2024-10-02 04:50:28 +0000 UTCWhat a fantastic set of songs. I’m in awe of all the amazing performances and the knowledge of this fan base. Great pick Pam! I had never seen that Genesis performance. Incredible and like she says. They were babies for heavens sake! What incredible talents at such a young age! I’ll never get enough Paul Simon and or George Harrison. Just wow. I still ugly cry at Bridge Over Troubled Water. That entire event was so powerful and moving. I felt my soul heal more after every performer. Great job Doug and Meg. This was so fun to watch 💕🏆
The Nanny named Fran
2024-10-02 04:22:51 +0000 UTCthe solo section of Emerson in Take a Pebble is not open improv! that's all from the studio version but he's playing it very fast and not using the proper pacing cause it looks like he just wants to speed up that long solo keyboard part 😆
Jason Stockwell
2024-10-02 02:30:17 +0000 UTC
