Post your favorite clips from U-Tube, let's start a collection

**journeybear** · Oct-03-2009, 3:24pm

Here's Tony Joe White and Johnny Cash doing his best known song, "Polk Salad Annie." Some pretty funny interaction. Love the sideburns, too.

**journeybear** · Oct-03-2009, 3:50pm

Speaking of Humble Pie, here's an unplugged version of "Say No More" from way before the unplugged concept, with Steve Marriott on ukulele ...

My favorite Humble Pie song, though, is "30 Days In The Hole." Never would have tried Newcastle Brown if I hadn't heard about it here. Can't find a live video that holds up to the album version, so here's one with lots of live footage.

But my favorite out of all these is this live version of Small Faces' "Tin Soldier," bad sound and all. A lot of energy here, devoted to a pretty tricky song. Warning: it's loud!

**jamann** · Oct-03-2009, 8:36pm

Here's one of my favorite YouTube videos. Very unique and very cool!

jamann

**Eric Hanson** · Oct-03-2009, 9:13pm

This one is of the same band as above and is quite entertaining. Maybe not the best singing but definitely entertaining. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhjOfp42uEA

**journeybear** · Oct-04-2009, 12:17pm

My favorite band to come along in the 1980s is Scotland's Big Country, who came along about the same time as Ireland's U2 and Wales' The Alarm. In 1983 I saw these last two, with Marshall Crenshaw stuck in between, but their gig opening for Hall & Oates got cancelled when one of them got sick, so I didn't get to see them till a decade later. Somehow they never caught on here like U2, but I loved their unique sound, very high-endy and able to switch from dreamlike and ethereal to high energy and even gritty effortlessly. Theirs was a very different dual guitar approach, usually not blues-based but more steeped in folk traditions, and would incorporate such dynamic interchanges as Bruce Watson crosspicking while Stuart Adamson played melody. Very appealing to a mandolinist. Sometimes their guitars sounded like skirling bagpipes, in the best possible sense. They were one of a very few bands unafraid to spend a lot of time in the higher register and really make it work - Grateful Dead are the only other band I can think of right now successful at this - and often instead of slamming power chords as most bands would do, they were sending out these high strong signals that in lesser hands would have sounded shrill or whiny, but in theirs were thrilling. They should have been playing mandolins.

I am still knocked out by their debut album, "The Crossing," definitely in my top ten post-60s list, and so wanted to hear them live I was willing to pay Hall & Oates prices just to hear their opening set. I did get to meet them and get their autographs when they played a club date in the mid-90s but it wasn't the same - their sound really needs to be let free in a large or limitless space.

Sorry to go on like this, but I think fewer people in this country, possibly everywhere else too apart from Scotland, remember them than have forgotten them or ever even knew they existed, and even if they do they just remember the song title "In A Big Country." They had a lot going on. Here are a couple of my favorites from them: "Inwards" and "Fields Of Fire." The first and third are from a 1986 gig at The Pier in NYC, which looks like it was an incredible gig all around. About 5:00 in you can see Stuart gets distracted, just as the song is hitting its peak, and soon stops the band and goes into the crowd, guitar still on, to stop some rowdiness. Then the band picks up where it left and finishes out, hardly missing a beat (though a bit of the magic) - a great moment in rock and roll history, IMO. The second version is from Glasgow's The Barrowlands New Year's Eve 1982/1983, a show that included a pipe band at midnight. (I'm sparing y'all from that, though it's at youtube if you want it.)

On a sad note, Stuart Adamson committed suicide about the same time that George Harrison died. Those couple of weeks were pretty tough for me, as much as I admired and respected these great musicians and loved the music they produced, and having to write obituaries for them was not easy. But at least there are videos such as these that keep memories alive.

**catmandu2** · Oct-04-2009, 12:43pm

Journeybear-

Thanks for posting those clips--brings back a lot of memories...I couldn't get enough of this stuff when I was a kid. I was 11 when Rod's EPTAS came out, and I was hooked...so much that I subsequently went back to Faces catalogs...(especially as Rod went "forward" into pop, and never recovered). Twelve-string guitar is still my preferred axe--emanating largely from what I heard these guys do in the early 70's. As one of my young bandmates says, we were fortuate in that there was plenty of great rock in the 70s--these guys had a soulful rawness that was very captivating for me, as I wasn't captivated very long with American rock bands of the era.

I'm going to post that Steve on uke vid on the ukulele group site. Very nice.

Steve Marriot was something special. And Pete could sure tear it up as a blues-rocker--he didn't do badly as a pop-star of course, but I preferred his bluesy-rockin Humble Pie incarnation.

**Rick Schmidlin** · Oct-04-2009, 12:56pm

Here are two favorites of mine from the past. They got me into old time music,happy Sunday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Qfh...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skU-jBFzXl0

ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY

**journeybear** · Oct-04-2009, 1:52pm

Originally Posted by catmandu2

Journeybear-

Thanks for posting those clips--brings back a lot of memories...I couldn't get enough of this stuff when I was a kid. I was 11 when Rod's EPTAS came out, and I was hooked...so much that I subsequently went back to Faces catalogs ...

I've gone on a few of those excursions myself after learning of one performer or another and wanting to know more about their roots and influences, how they got to the point where they had such a effect on me. The whole Small Faces/Faces/Rod Stewart/Humble Pie conglomeration intrigued me for awhile, probably starting with "Itchycoo Park" and "Tin Soldier," reaching fruition with "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake," one of my all-time favorite albums. I had to find out where all this came from and how these guys interrelated. I was thrilled to see Humble Pie in 1972, with a then-hardly-known Nils Lofgren opening, while "Rockin' The Fillmore" was out.

Same with Rod, to a lesser extent. I started with "Gasoline Alley," still my favorite of his, then had to seek out his first solo album. His first four albums were very influential for me, helping to define my idea of what a backup band should sound like. That includes Mickey Waller, whose drum sound I envision about as much as his more famous peers Mitch Mitchell, Keith Moon, and John Bonham. Then of course I had to try and decipher how he fit into the Faces' tangled history. Then there's Ron Wood, weaving his way through British blues-rock bands. Some of The Faces' albums feature some of sloppiest yet most fun playing deemed worthy of release by well-known musicians on major labels. "Had me a real good time ..."

**first string** · Oct-04-2009, 2:23pm

Seen some videos from the Transatlantic Sessions, but not this one. I normally prefer Tim O when he's playing traditional music, but this original tune is just gorgeous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkDz4T2eVE

Another great one from the first Transatlantic Sessions--one of my favorite versions of one of my favorite songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bO-2Pc00U8

But most importantly (though devoid of mando content) we have Otis at Monterey Pop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHXutgxpjgU

**BlueMt.** · Oct-04-2009, 3:56pm

That "Brother Wind" clip is also one of my favorites and Darrell Scott does a nice job on the mando. Another from that album that I really like is "Shattered Cross" written by the late Stuart Adamson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DjA...e=channel_page

**Mandoviol** · Oct-04-2009, 9:49pm

Originally Posted by BlueMt.

That "Brother Wind" clip is also one of my favorites and Darrell Scott does a nice job on the mando. Another from that album that I really like is "Shattered Cross" written by the late Stuart Adamson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8DjA...e=channel_page

His version of "Shattered Cross" is probably one of the best things I've ever heard (I listen to it all the time off the album). By the way, how'd you find the video? I was trying to upload it earlier and couldn't find it again on Youtube...

**cheesecutter** · Oct-04-2009, 10:20pm

Now take the 1st page or any one of them of the thread and turn on each video and see what you get......it kinda cool then as the vids end it gets just as weird in reverse. Kinda Joe Craven like.....Its quite rythematic. What a trip.

**BlueMt.** · Oct-04-2009, 10:24pm

Originally Posted by Mandoviol

His version of "Shattered Cross" is probably one of the best things I've ever heard (I listen to it all the time off the album). By the way, how'd you find the video? I was trying to upload it earlier and couldn't find it again on Youtube...

I tried to find it yesterday and it wasn't there. When I saw "Brother Wind" posted here I looked again and there it was.

I've listened to Stuart Adamson's version and Darell Scott's original version and I much prefer this one.

**journeybear** · Oct-04-2009, 10:25pm

Originally Posted by cheesecutter

Now take the 1st page or any one of them of the thread and turn on each video and see what you get......

It's a pretty diverse collection, that's for sure. Representative of our own diversity, I reckon.

Originally Posted by BlueMt.

Another from that album that I really like is "Shattered Cross" written by the late Stuart Adamson...

Thanks for that. I'd read that toward the end he'd been working on projects in Nashville, but haven't looked into how they had progressed. Guess it's time to dig a little deeper there. Big Country country? Hmmm ...

**Mandoviol** · Oct-04-2009, 11:58pm

Originally Posted by BlueMt.

I tried to find it yesterday and it wasn't there. When I saw "Brother Wind" posted here I looked again and there it was.

I've listened to Stuart Adamson's version and Darell Scott's original version and I much prefer this one.

Well, and he's got Paul Brady with him (and uilleann pipes--everything sounds better with those)!

And hey, they've got a video out now from Series 4!

**TEE** · Oct-05-2009, 8:35am

Rain and Snow , Rowan and Rice , Double tremelo work at around 5:00 with mandolin and mandola.

**Jim MacDaniel** · Oct-05-2009, 10:33am

Lyle Lovett, w/ Sam...

**journeybear** · Oct-05-2009, 11:24am

Originally Posted by Tone Monster

Here are two favorites of mine from the past. They got me into old time music,happy Sunday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Qfh...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skU-jBFzXl0

ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY

Well, it was nice to see the late Herbert Khaury - I mean, Tiny Tim - again, in peak form. That Lawrence Welk version of "Winchester Cathedral," though, was pretty insipid - and considering what it started out as ...

Here's the version I remember, by The New Vaudeville Band. This is not live, of course, but cute anyway.

From the same show, much better video quality but another song first ... FFWD to 2:52

**MLT** · Oct-05-2009, 11:38am

Here are two of my favoites fom the Beyma Bros that were released this year.

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**hank** · Oct-05-2009, 1:12pm

Norm and Tee I really like that version of Rain and Snow as well. Sharon and Peter's mandolin and mandola tremelo together sound like the perfect match. Great video. Thanks

**mtucker** · Oct-05-2009, 1:51pm

Good stuff, thanks. As a first call bassist, Leland's been a busy man for many years.

**TEE** · Oct-05-2009, 2:09pm

Originally Posted by hank

Norm and Tee I really like that version of Rain and Snow as well. Sharon and Peter's mandolin and mandola tremelo together sound like the perfect match. Great video. Thanks

Sorry, Norm I did not see where you had already posted Rain and Snow- It is a great arrangement of that song, hank. Glad you enjoyed it (again).

**Jim Hilburn** · Oct-06-2009, 8:49am

Let's see if this works.
if it does, this is from the Transatlantic session with a room full of great talent.

**Igor** · Oct-07-2009, 8:10am

Jethro and Chet together! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wGUPN9-cj0

**journeybear** · Oct-07-2009, 8:27am

That is too fine, even the chit chat ("What do you feel like pckin' there?" "The one we rehearsed?"). I'm going to post it right here:

In fact, if I may make a suggestion, folks, whenever possible embed the videos here so the rest of us don't have to go opening another window. It'd be much more convenient. In case you don't know how, there are just a few steps - copy the embed code (to the right of the clip at youtube), click on the youtube icon above the message pane, post the code in the pop-up, click OK, and presto-change-o! This way it's a collection of videos, not a collection of links.

Thanks ...