If I was in charge of the Beeb or B.B.C. I would play old episodes of "Rock Goes To College" and "The Old Grey Whistle Test" from the nineteen seventies and eighties on a weekend evening.
This was back when great rock bands would play a gig in a college campus and the beeb would film it and air it to the world and his wife and even to folk in Ingerland.
Smashing rock bands like Canada's April Wine and that Australian band from Scotland: ACDC would strut their stuff and my mum would shout up the stairs: "Turn it down it's like a bloody fairground". I would turn the knob down to 9 on my 14 inch black and white (monochrome) portable television with the rabbit ears aerial. Happy days!
Here's a video that I am always playing. I would love to have seen Bon Scott and the lads live:
Watch the Sikh guy at the beginning in the audience. His face is a picture. He looks so so happy!I love this song. It's a story about the evolution of Heavy Rock. If you don't like Heavy Rock come back tomorrow and I will write about something else!
Billy Connolly said in one of his books I have read. Rock n roll music started with Elvis Presley in the fifties. I think he was right . Life must have been pretty dull without Chuck Berry or Elvis? I am currently playing Chuck Berry records on You Tube at the moment. I am starting to think that Chuck is truly the king of Rock'n'roll.
It must have been rather like when we got the Internet in 2009 and my rural life entered the twenty first century. Before that I would go the library now and again to get on the old Tinternet and T'web.
Did you know it was an English man who invented the Internet? What a clever man.
If I reach a very old age and end up living in an old folks home. I won't be singing that Vera Lynn song: "Whale meat again". It will be ACDC or Black Sabbath: "Paranoid". I might be in my sixties but I still rock.
Sorry if you are not singing into your hairbrush or playing air guitar with the house brush.
I really need to see some live Heavy Rock music again soon. Country and Irish is not the same some how. I will write about something else tomorrow and thanks for commenting on my last post.
That dog has the most expressive face! I love that! As far as the voting...women gained the vote a hundred and four years ago in my country. And now suddenly, women are losing rights. I will always vote. It may not make a difference, but I will always vote.
ReplyDeleteThumper tells me she's got Irish relatives who emigrated from St John's in New Brunswick Debby. They are in a Thin Lizzy cover band.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. I 5oyally agree with you about voting. I sometimes think that the powers that be want us all to live in towns and cities and that is where they spend money on the infrastructure. Hope you like the music video.
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ReplyDeleteNot a fan of Heavy Rock but everyone is having a great old time there.
ReplyDeleteI bet your air guitar took a bashing.
I have very eclectic music taste JayCee. Prog and Heavy are my favourites. It's all Country and Irish and Trad down here. I don't mind a bit of "diddly dee" music but I will have to wait to get a yearly prog fix at a music festival in Blighty next year. I try not to be a one trick pony with my blog subjects. I have had over 34000 hits/ reading my blog this month. So I must doing something right. Thanks.
ReplyDelete70's rock was so cool, growing up with their music as the sound track of my life, so many good bands, it was a great time to be young, Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteI was more 80's and nineties Marlene. But I do love the seventies bands. Even the sixties and back to Chuck Berry in the nineteen fifties. I always have a rock tune playing in my mental jukebox of an head.😊
ReplyDeleteI smiled at 'diddly dee.' I watched without the sound on - rather pointless, I suppose, but it was interesting just to focus on the visual.
ReplyDeleteIf you have seen a traditional Irish folk band you understand 'diddly Dee's Jabblog. I like Sharon Shannon very much and I have seen her here in Bantry and at Cropredy music festival in England. I love the energy of my featured Heavy Rock band and how they tell you the history of Rock'n'roll from Blues to Heavy Rock.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine you in The Golden Pines Residential Home headbanging in the day room with the other old wrinklies as Keeley the care assistant comments, "We put Black Sabbath on for them every morning. It makes em feel as if they are reliving their youth. Now excuse me - I need to clean Dave up again... Oh David, what have you done love?"
ReplyDeleteThey would be saying to me: "David why do you keep banging your head against that wall sweetheart?" I would reply: " Because it feels so good when I stop".
DeleteI just hope they don't play: "Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree".😊
It might be "The Green Green Grass of Home" sung by Tom Jones on a loop over and over again. Could Hell be worse than that? "Oh! It's all down his legs Janice!"
DeleteOr maybe: "There's No One Quite Like Grandma" and "Mistletoe And Wine" on the loop? There are plenty to choose from.
DeleteBlack Sabbath and Paranoid - sounds like heaven! Certainly one of my favourite tracks/bands....
ReplyDeleteYou have got good music taste Will. "War Pigs" would be an appropriate track to play at the moment. Birmingham's produced some great bands.
ReplyDeleteThere is a series on the history of rock music , I think it is on YouTube...and a fascinating history of country music, a film by Ken Burns broadcast in at least eight episodes on PBS America..it's on Netflix as well apparently...but really worth watching as many rock singers came from country music.
ReplyDeleteThen there is Jools Holland's programmes..I suppose the nearest we'll get now to the Old Grey Whistle programmes
Thanks GZ. Radio people like Tommy Vance, Annie Nightingale and John Peel gave us so much cerebral and social great music. I use to watch the "Tube".
ReplyDeleteThere was an episode of Rock Goes to College broadcast last year, for some reason. It was The Police before they hit the big time and despite the rubbish filming it was amazing. My husband wasn't that impressed. Paranoid is very much his thing!
ReplyDeleteI will have to look on good old You Tube for the Police video Tracey. I love early Black Sabbath. I never saw them live but I did see Ronnie James Dio. Thanks.
DeleteBeautiful Bella! Our house is definitely a heavy rock house. The 70's was by far the best decade for music in my opinion. Husband has been looking for an old school stack hi-fi for ages. Our original one broke a while ago. He found one for sale in Barnsley, so off we went. It's 25 years old, perfect working order and has cd, turntable, radio and tape. Now off round the chazzas in search of tapes!! So far we've found Gary Moore for £1!!
ReplyDeleteHi Mrs LH. I once saw Gary Moore at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1986. Parisienne Walkways is my favourite track of his and Thin Lizzy. Some of those old vinyls are worth a lot of money. Thanks.
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