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

[journeybear]

While looking through the archives of Shocking Blue ("Venus") clips on youtube I found this, from 1972. The visuals aren't much, but the audio is a surprising treat - a nice bit of mandolin there! Pretty early use of mandolin in rock, and pretty well integrated, too.



Now, as much as they are known only for that one song in the US, they had a successful career for several years. I picked up an album at a resale shop in the 80s and it really knocked me out - one of the best dollars I've ever spent. "Venus" was just the tip of the iceberg; plenty of the songs on the album are just as good, if not better. Like this, one of my favorites:



There is a live album from a 1971 show in Japan; clips are worth checking out. They had it going on!

[Ed Goist]

Can't believe I'm just finding these now! Two of my favorite musicians.
I wish the audio were a little better. Still, this is fantastic stuff!

[Norm Buck]

Maybe someone can imbed this video for me... though some think he's a poser, apparently Mr. Skaggs takes him seriously... Youtube video "Old Enough" Jack White with Ricky Skaggs....

[Kip Carter]

Maybe someone can imbed this video for me... though some think he's a poser, apparently Mr. Skaggs takes him seriously... Youtube video "Old Enough" Jack White with Ricky Skaggs....

This the one you mean?


Regards,
Kip...

[Ed Goist]

Well, I'd say this is certainly a worthy reason to bump this thread! Enjoy.

[Zeke Chandler]

Flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station. Copenhagen Phil playing Ravel's Bolero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrEk0...layer_embedded

[journeybear]

My my my, the things that show up on youtube! Shocking Blue - Rock In The Sea. Another song from the Dutch rockers featuring mandolin. Pretty cool early mando-rock from 1972 - bit of distortion on the solo, neat ascending tremolo riff. Wonder how many of their songs included mandolin? This is two so far ...



And Happy 100,000 Views, good old thread! You don't look a view over 99,999.

[Ed Goist]

My my my, the things that show up on youtube! Shocking Blue - Rock In The Sea. Another song from the Dutch rockers featuring mandolin. Pretty cool early mando-rock from 1972 - bit of distortion on the solo, neat ascending tremolo riff. Wonder how many of their songs included mandolin? This is two so far ...
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And Happy 100,000 Views, good old thread! You don't look a view over 99,999.

Very cool! Quite catchy, and a very nice little mando part...I love how they show the Strat at ~2:28 when the mandolin tremolo riff is being played.
Oh, and this song actually has the lyric "I wish I was a mole in the ground" !??!
Move over Dylan.

[journeybear]

Well, that's cribbed from some old-timey song or other. Holy Modal Rounders did a song by that name, not sure of its origin. Robbie Van Leeuwen, Shocking Blue's main songwriter, was a big roots music fan and worked those kinds of rural images in pretty often. They did a rave-up yet twangy version of "Boll Weevil," for instance. Very interesting band.



Live version, very different. Recognize some of the footage? Actual performance videos are hard to find but out there.

[Trent Crawford]

Being new to the forum, and this thread, i`m excited to sift thru the pages and check out these vids over the next few weeks! The 1st page was great!!!

: )

[Ed Goist]

Quite possibly the greatest video I have ever seen...
I want to jam with this lady.

[AlexBL]

That WAS the best video I've ever seen. Wow.

[Francis J]

I just have to post this one from Andy Irvine's 70th Birthday bash in Dublin with Donal Lunny, Paul Brady, Liam ÓFlynn and the people from Mozaik. Just a few days old, it has a class that'll last!

[robinson.sam8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE65R-GKpKk&feature=plcp

This series has way too few views on youtube. 5 part series of Sam Bush interviews and performances for WSM in Nashville


sorry, I don't know how to embed it

[strings777]

Quite possibly the greatest video I have ever seen...
I want to jam with this lady.

That was a very cool video Ed...I wish I was that limber!

[Brutus1999]

ARRRRGGH! There are already 1190 posts on this thread! CURSE YOU, original poster! Going through them all to see if the one I want to post is already there is JUST TOO MUCH WORK! Really, it's like WORK instead of FUN, dammit! So I'll just go through a few every day, I guess, and I hope I eventually catch up to the end ---- I was gonna post the Sierra Hull at ten years old with Sam Bush (I think the title is Italian) because that video will cause many to just sell their mandolins and take up the kazoo....

[Kip Carter]

Not necessary a favorite but an interesting old clip that someone else might find interesting and pleasing...


Kip...

[Ed Goist]

Don Grieser and Mike Compton with a killer version of 'Lonesome Moonlight Waltz'



And here's Tater solo with 'Talkin' 'Bout You'...

[OhmyDarlingDear]

These guys, Profane Sass, just won a tranitional folk cover contest where the winner was hand picked by Niel Young himself ( http://www.talenthouse.com/cover-song-for-neil-young ).

Mandolin, Banjo, Viola, Bass, Spoons....

[Ed Goist]

This absolutely floored me!
Kind of a wonderful "Adele meets the American Blues"...
ZZ Ward...Definitely an artist to watch IMO. I give this a "Solid A".



And a couple more...Wow!

[Ed Goist]

Move over Thile and Daves, here comes Julin and Strings.

[mandophil(e)]

Those dudes are awesome.

[Dobe]

Still my favorite thread ! Ane reminds me of a Scandahoovian Karen Allen (in appearance). Great artist; cute little Martin too !

[journeybear]

So there I was, watching yet another tedious French movie - in which it takes a long time for anything to happen and then when something does one isn't sure what it was, and the movie ends by just stopping (this style seems to be all too common in the French movies that come to our local art cinema; hopefully there are other better movies being produced by the historically superbe French cinema industry) - when a song appeared in the soundtrack, in English, with a mandolin in the mix. So naturally I had to stay through the movie until the end for the credits (well, I was still hoping the movie would add up to something more than a slice or two of life (it did not)), and learned it was "The Water" by Johnny Flynn, harmony vocals by Laura Marling. I had not heard of him, but have seen her on the tube a couple times, one of several British singers currently being touted as The Next Big Thing. In case you're wondering the movie was called "L'Amour De Jeunesse," somehow translated for the American market into "Goodbye First Love" (rather than "The Love Of Youth"), so you can plan to avoid it and save yourself from wasting nearly two hours better spent otherwise. Nice enough song, though ... Ironically, the video is like a four-minute French film as described above (my only other choice I could see for a studio version of the song is just a still photo) - footage seemingly randomly assembled with no plot or conclusion. No high hopes for the genre, mind you, but it seemed eloquently appropriate given the context. Additionally, the star of the video drives a Peugeot, another French connection.



There is another video of the two of them just sitting in a garden having a nice relaxed time with the song - nicely done, even with no mandolin.

[journeybear]

And now for something completely different ... from the fairly ridiculous to the sublime ...

It's not really musical - there is music, but it is somewhat incidental - but this recent discovery is one of my all-time favorite videos. That's because forty years later, with the help of the interweb and a couple of kind souls in the know, as well as my own perseverance and ingenuity, I was able to track down someone with whom I had had a brief but memorable, ah, let's say a fling. It's an incredibly long story from another life, so I am going to just hit the main points - ran away with the circus, met a beautiful tight wire walker (is there any other kind?), made beautiful music together (oh, stop! - she on guitar, me on mandolin), much to the consternation of my fellow workers (she was several steps up in class in the circus hierarchy), and though we only had a few weeks together, she left an indelible impression on me. One of my best songs came from this, fueled by the nearly undeniable fact that we were not meant for more than this, despite a wish that the song could bring her back to me - believer in romantic notions that I am - and as time wore on and our paths long ago diverged in the woods, I never expected to see her again. But as I said, fate and/or the interweb intervened, and we have managed to reconnect. In the process of searching for her, I was quite pleasantly surprised to find even one video in her prime, doing her act - the climax of which is a full split on the tight wire. I will grant that this is not the most spectacular show ever, but in its small way it was quite thrilling, and knowing her adds an extra dimension.This is surely not the best video of her best performance - when she was really on her game she would hold that position for a long time as she seemed to float in the air, while in the audience ladies swooned, men mopped their brows, and children of all ages stared slack-jawed. It was really something to behold. But this is so much better than nothing, living proof that 1 is much, much greater than 0.

And now, ladies and gentleman, turn your attention to the center ring, for the amazing Miss Dagmar, as she dazzles you with her skill on the tight wire!




As to the music ... this was a few years after I knew her, and she was now working in a Mexican circus. It was 1978, "Rocky" was surely all the rage, and the drummer is just killing it. She seems quite oblivious, though, concentrating on her act (as she should).