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"Colour Me Pop" 1968 BBC
There was a performance on this show shown in color (American spelling) on BBC TV during the summer of 1968. "Lazy Poker Blues", and "Love That Burns" were played live on TV. The audio of those recordings are the alternate versions from "Jumping At Shadows", and "The Vaudeville Years". The audio of those recordings are poor, which means it's second+ gen recording. Where is the video?
I went to "wiped.com" (a website devoted to lost video, and audio material), and discovered that the show "Colour Me Pop" is in high demand for the videos that still exist of bands from the late 60's. Many claim that the BBC erased their footage right after broadcast, yet someone responded that two years later when Peter Green left the band, the BBC showed this footage in tribute to his departure. To make this footage more rare, Peter Green is playing his Fender Stratocaster. It doesn't matter the guitar, the tone is amazing! |
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Celloid Heroes....
Thanks, slipkid. I didn't know that there was a site dedicated to this magnificent course, bless them....
I went and had a look at the page in question: http://wipednews.com/2009/03/29/colo...sing-material/ Just think that the BBC had the nerve to erase ANYTHING from this Golden Age of British Music! Who the hell would make a decision like that??? What a loss!!! A few years back we (here on The Ledge) were discussing the film from Njårdhallen, Oslo taped by NKR-TV on the 3rd of october 1969 (screened the next year). Some clips of it are on Youtube or on The Early Years video. The full concert might still be in the vaults according to - I think - ledgie dansven. Maybe other European countries have film, like Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden....??? There is a website for Free Festivals in the UK, where they are looking for film of The Bath Festival 28th of June 1969. There was a film crew there that day. And the description here gives a good idea of the problems of finding footage from these events. It has still photoes of FM: http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/bA1.html Oh Well.... Ms Moose Last edited by Ms Moose; 01-09-2011 at 01:39 PM.. Reason: spelling |
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Yeah, well... Same problem over here in Holland. The Den Haag venue, shown on TV by NCRV (Netherlands Christian Radio Vereniging [Association]) has been erased as well. The Bas***ds!
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The BBC has many countries, and copies.
Wouter,
I'm hoping that somewhere in Australia, or Canada, this footage still exists. As for Amsterdam, or Norway, it's a long-shot. That "Sugar Mama" from Holland 2/69 was shown on television??? I think my head just exploded. I've played that song (bootleg) for Green fans, but more in the Hendrix/Clapton/Allman realm. They say it's on par with Jimi Hendrix. Last edited by slipkid; 01-10-2011 at 01:16 AM.. |
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Baaaaang!!!
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I am usually not a violent person, but this "erasing-footage business" makes me want to organize a posse. Ms Moose |
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Sugar Mama gone
Slipkid and MsMoose:
Don't worry, as I mentioned above, it was the Den Haag venue that was broadcasted on TV. They played Den Haag at appriximately 20:00 o'clock. Later, at 24:00 they played in Amsterdam. Sugar Mama was from the Amsterdam show, thus not in Den Haag, thus not on on TV, thus not erased, thus nothing to be mad about. |
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the tone
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such is the case with Peter Green doodyhead |
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Les Paul not strat
I went to "wiped.com" (a website devoted to lost video, and audio material), and discovered that the show "Colour Me Pop" is in high demand for the videos that still exist of bands from the late 60's. Many claim that the BBC erased their footage right after broadcast, yet someone responded that two years later when Peter Green left the band, the BBC showed this footage in tribute to his departure.
To make this footage more rare, Peter Green is playing his Fender Stratocaster. It doesn't matter the guitar, the tone is amazing![/QUOTE] It was I who posted on that site about seeing the tribute when Peter quit. It was on an edition of Late Night Line Up on BBC2. a live magazine prog broadcast at perhaps 10.30 every night. I believe the clip they used was Love That Burns .(but I might be conflating (Ooh Matron!) I also of course saw the Fleetwood Mac Colour Me Pop when it was broacast . Peter used his Les Paul on all songs , to the best of my recollection ,except , in a filmed insert of Need Your Love So Bad, and .I could be wrong ,but I think he was playing a strat in this , poss even a Sunburst one and I think?he was sitting on a chair !!?(it was 40 years ago!!) I think this bit was in B&W, but its possible I saw the whole thing in B&W as we may not yet have got a Colour TV ! The basis of the show was they put a band on the studio for a 30 poss 40 minute prog presumably taped prior to broadcast , and let them get on with it playing live (no audience incidentally )therefore it was unusual to have a filmed part . Other lost Colour Me Pop gems include a very young Free, Chicken Shack , Frank Zappa and many, many more - including the pick of the so called "underground bands "of the time in fact - those that did sessions on John Peel's Top Gear Radio show though there were also some "middle of the road and "pop" artistes So you could say all these recordings are reported missing in Acton (English BBC related joke ) Last edited by THD; 02-12-2011 at 06:32 PM.. Reason: just adding a little more info |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtmW2ek7WkQ This is also on the Fleetwood Mac "The Early Years" DVD. Great posts you've been making, THD - keep it up. I know a lot of us here would love to hear more of your recollections of seeing the band play live, as well as of all those lost TV appearances. |
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Just looked at the you tube clip. I have seen this before ,as it happens ,but I'm convinced the filmed insert on Colour Me Pop was not this .The only other things I remember about what I saw was that it wasnt in a studio ,it was in a house or something ,and, as I say ,my memory is of Peter sitting on a chair ,possibly astride it ,with it turned round the wrong way (obviously he wasnt playing a guitar at this point though he might still have been wearing it ) It was more like an early pop promo vid ! Now that's what I remember ,but I'm old enough and ugly enough (as my dad used to say )to know that after all these years it's only too easy easy to combine two different events into the one memory etc . But I'd dearly like to be proved wrong about all my reminiscences of this .cause that would mean that the tape of the prog has turned up !! Come on someone prove me wrong ! Finally ,Jeremy seems to be the only Fleetwood Mac member who post here, and he was there when they recorded it, and judging from the Peter Green doc ,his memory is spot on .( One of the delights of that prog was to see him interviewed - in all my time of following this band I had never seen him talk !) Last edited by THD; 02-12-2011 at 06:34 PM.. |
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That Youtube clip is from a dutch tv appearance. According to Hjort's book "Strange Brew" it was filmed on the 26th of september 1968. Danny had just joined at the end of the summer. I really hope you are proven wrong too. Ms Moose Last edited by Ms Moose; 02-10-2011 at 03:40 PM.. Reason: spelling |
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I saw them 7 or 8 times whilst Peter was in the band , and a further 4 times before they settled in the US . I wish I'd seen them more, but I was still a schoolboy at the start,(well actually up till Peter left !!) and I guess I was still getting pocket money from my parents ,and this had to pay for records and everything else , sheet music and saving up for a better guitar, and a few performaces by other people Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Aysley Dunbar Retaliation , John Lee Hooker etc So: Battersea Town Hall ,London oct 22, 1968 ( I was 16) Surrey rooms Oval cricket ground, London, May 8,1969 Royal Albert Hall with Duster Bennet & BBKingJune 30 ,1969 (Def saw this line up , but they did earlier Albert hall show with BB, so some doubt as to which I was at, though my memory is that it was after seeing them at the Surrey Rooms ) The Round House Feb25 1970 Ditto Venue (but poss not -the doubt here is that I think I saw them at the Round House on a total of three occassions ,but that doesnt fit with the published gig lists! ) The Lyceum Ballroom ,Strand, London 12 April ,1970 Roundhouse( Peters last Appearance possibly 24 April 1970, but see above) ......................................... Imperial College London (Peter had left ,but was in the front row watching the band!) Kensington Town Hall Bob Welch(this is weird but I can't remember much about him being there and perhaps he wasn't?) (Jeremy had left) and Danny definitelty there (Mick did an amazing free flowing drum jam afterwards belying his self confessed limitations ) Marquee (Bob Welch , but was Danny there?) City University ? Some other university or College ,Bob Weston etc I will post my memories of each one if you like, but which is the best thread to do it on ? I mean, I wasn't the only one at these events, and I 'd love for it to jog other peoples memories ,but they won't find them on a Colour Me Pop thread will they ? Or maybe they will! Last edited by THD; 02-12-2011 at 06:38 PM.. Reason: more accuracy over dates and doubts over line up |
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In fact I'd love to hear your recollections of seeing Cream, Hendrix, Hooker, and others too! |
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Thank you for answering my questions. Did you really see FM and BB King? I wish there were audios (and films too) of those concerts. We would LOVE to have you post all your memories. Great idea with the new thread and the idea of copying them onto the new thread. No wonder "the teens" are also called the formative years: important experiences, sight, sound and smell seems to make a lasting impression as they have with you. Fantastic! Ms Moose |
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