Old Grey Whistle Test
Old Grey Whistle Test
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K12beano

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20,854 posts

299 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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Wow.... eeee:

Late Night Line Up

The Old Grey's Whistle Test.

New Sheet music comes in....

Take 'em down to a pianist in the Old Greys and if they could whistle it after a few airings it passed.....

Are you getting all this???

Small Faces in the 60s...

Stanley Unwin


and a tiny studio and....


Wow!



what do we remember OGWT for?


(Wishbone Ash)

davepoth

29,395 posts

223 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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Freebird.

hidetheelephants

33,929 posts

217 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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You are Rowley Birkin QC AICMFP.

Malam

719 posts

227 months

Wednesday 24th August 2011
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These are my favourite OGWT performances..

Humble Pie- Black Coffee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylviT4C0cmQ

Captain Beefheart- Upon the my-o-my
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21voUGVzym4

Captain Beefheart- This is the day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDCHSI2KnAA

Lou Reed- Waiting For My Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw7RnZUWGrc



GnuBee

1,324 posts

239 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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Surely this has to be a contender...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DsUoYk-V2U

Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Delilah

5705

1,165 posts

176 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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John Martyn: acoustic, distortion and echo! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n7KUUUdIOg

anonymous-user

78 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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kiteless

12,386 posts

228 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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K12beano

Original Poster:

20,854 posts

299 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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kiteless said:
st!!! Not only is that so AWESOME! I think that's the actual footage that led me to believe my dream life would be living Jim Morrison and Rory and die appropriately young !!!!!!

Cheers for that reminder !!!! thumbup

HarryW

15,836 posts

293 months

Thursday 25th August 2011
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Funnily enough stumbled across these the other day and boy did it bring back some memories,

Dave Bowie from 72;

'Oh you pretty thing' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A576vUpoUKs

and a rare viewing of 'Five Years' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=louXPUW7tHU

jet_noise

6,002 posts

206 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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Dear All,

more than the music the thing that I remember is the cartoons showed for non-live tracks, [bob harris] mm, nice, [/bob harris]

regards,
Jet

Zad

12,948 posts

260 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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YouTube doesn't do these shows justice. On the occasion BBC3 shows these tracks, the audio and video quality is superb, they really don't look like old shows.

Focus : Hocus Pocus / Sylvia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v7LzOeTkfM

Ganglandboss

8,500 posts

227 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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