cytania Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Start of last night's show, wallop! A song called 'Get Out Of Denver' which might be a Pete Seeger cover but sounded like the band playing Johnny B. Goode badly with cobbled together lyrics... But the attitude was there; lead singer wearing his girlfriend's oriental silk top, the drummer playing in his underpants and the bass player actually sporting a black t-shirt with the word 'PUNK' on it in big white letters. If labels make genres... Quote
Clarky Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Loved their 'Do anything you wanna do' [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQ4oNk7Pqc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQ4oNk7Pqc[/url] Quote
Jerry_B Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Pub rock rather than punk rock, surely...? Quote
JPAC Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 (edited) Not just a song, a way of life... My own now tatty vinyl single copy from '76, photographed today by a Nokia phone btw. Edited September 23, 2011 by JPAC Quote
daz Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 yeah the Rods were pub rock badwaggon jumpers, pretty good live though by all accounts. I am recording all the TOTP and will carry on till they stop airing them. Not for at least anoither year they said. Just wish they had started earlier. We missed all the good T-Rex and Alice Cooper, Sweet etc by not starting till Spring of 1976. Quote
fatboyslimfast Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Was thinking the same - gotta be the start of punk on TOTP... Quote
fatboyslimfast Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 [quote name='daz' timestamp='1316772107' post='1382568']Just wish they had started earlier. We missed all the good T-Rex and Alice Cooper, Sweet etc by not starting till Spring of 1976. [/quote] Apparantly they chose 1976 as this was the first year that they have a full archive of - before that a lot of the tapes were subject to the wiping tradegy. Quote
WHUFC BASS Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 [quote name='Clarky' timestamp='1316763999' post='1382423'] Loved their 'Do anything you wanna do' [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQ4oNk7Pqc[/media] [/quote] One of my favourite songs of all time. Seen them a few times live and they're great. Quote
molan Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Definitely part o the London pub rock scene that preceded punk, along with people like Ducks Deluxe,Brinsley Schwarz, Tyla Gang, maybe even the 101'ers. Saw them a few times between '76 and '78, always a good night out but the set was always a bit limited. Loved Do Anything though Quote
Low End Bee Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtqvOysZ6I[/media] This is a good bit of Hot Rods action introduced by vintage Whispering Bob. Quote
apa Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Im sure the OP wasnt trying to be too serious and I take the point but Im sorry, in no way whatsoever are Eddie and the Hotrods punk!!!!! Punk was an attitude rather than just music or fashion. And to clarify, Dr Feelgood had more 'attitude' in Mr Brilleaux's little finger than most punk bands but it wasnt the 'Punk attitude'. A Quote
Jerry_B Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 That said, some punk covers bands consider them to be punk, in my experience (i.e. the ones that asked me to join). Ditto for The Jam. I'm not sure why! Quote
Sonic_Groove Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1316786238' post='1382902'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXtqvOysZ6I[/media] This is a good bit of Hot Rods action introduced by vintage Whispering Bob. [/quote] The bass on the album version of that is sublime! The great [url="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.gray/archives%20&%20stories1.htm"]Paul Gray[/url] Spotify link: [url="http://open.spotify.com/track/7iL9RinqQ7l2bTIc8defR1"]Eddie & The Hot Rods – The Beginning Of The End[/url] Brendan Edited September 23, 2011 by Sonic_Groove Quote
kevin_lindsay Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 1976 - I was fourteen and the punk thing was just exploding. Eddie and The Hot Rods werenever considered "punk, more like pub rock as someone mentioned earlier. I bought the Damned, Damne, Damned album, which is generally considered the first punk album released. The Sex Pistols were pretty much the thing the papers vented their rage onto. Just remember something, one of my friend's at school asked me "have you heard the Sex Pisols new single? It's calledCrispy Pancakes!". Turned out he was referring to "Pretty Vacant"!! Hahaha. And still to this day, whenever I hear Pretty Vacant, I think "Crispy Pancakes"!! Hahaha Quote
Marky L Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Paul Grey.. a very melodic bass player. An all time bass hero for me Quote
Spike Vincent Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 First Punk band on Top of the Pops - The Adverts,Gary Gilmore's Eyes.Tony Blackburn looked quite disturbed by the whole thing. Quote
wez Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 omg eddie and the hotrods, blast from the past we used to cover 'Do anything you wanna do'.... forgot all about that Quote
daz Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 I didnt realise that TOTP had live bands on in those days. No wonder it sounded so bad Jimmy Saville seemed to like it though Quote
Oopsdabassist Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 [quote name='Marky L' timestamp='1316805663' post='1383301'] Paul Grey.. a very melodic bass player. An all time bass hero for me [/quote] He likes playing up the dusty end don't he? Great stuff, might have to suggest covering em! Quote
von Braun Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 For some reason, always thought it was The Damned's "New Rose"....I can remember it being a celebrated event among the cognoscenti at school. But hey, I've just celebrated my 48th birthday and things is getting hazy! :-) Quote
Musky Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 [quote name='Marky L' timestamp='1316805663' post='1383301'] Paul Grey.. a very melodic bass player. An all time bass hero for me [/quote] Something of a hero for me as well (at one point anyway - I'm a bit too old for heroes nowadays) . The weird thing is I used to work at the same company as him and chatted with him quite a bit. And I never twigged it was Paul Grey I was talking to. What a muppet. Quote
daz Posted September 24, 2011 Posted September 24, 2011 [quote name='von Braun' timestamp='1316871119' post='1383898'] For some reason, always thought it was The Damned's "New Rose"....I can remember it being a celebrated event among the cognoscenti at school. But hey, I've just celebrated my 48th birthday and things is getting hazy! :-) [/quote] it[i] was [/i]the first punk single, but was never on TOTP Quote
Ou7shined Posted September 25, 2011 Posted September 25, 2011 [quote name='daz' timestamp='1316837921' post='1383554'] I didnt realise that TOTP had live bands on in those days..... [/quote] This disturbs me. Quote
daz Posted September 25, 2011 Posted September 25, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Ou7shined' timestamp='1316947045' post='1384580'] This disturbs me. [/quote] What disturbs you?. the fact i didnt know it or the fact that miming was how it was always done. If they played live it was a rareity you could see the bands always mimed. In fact it was famous for it. Many bands took the piss by taking the strings off the guitars etc. I remember Captain sensible of The Damned doing this and a few weeks later in the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME"]NME[/url] or [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounds_(magazine)"]Sounds[/url] he told how the producers assistant was noit at all happy and tried to get them to put them back on. [quote] Initially acts performing on the show [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_sync"][color=#0645AD]mimed[/color][/url] to the commercially released record, but in July 1966 — just after the show had been moved to London — and after discussions with the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians%27_Union_(UK)"][color=#0645AD]Musicians' Union[/color][/url], miming was banned. After a few weeks during which some bands' attempts to play as well as on their records were somewhat lacking, a compromise was reached whereby a specially recorded [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backing_track"][color=#0645AD]backing track[/color][/url] was permitted — as long as all the musicians on the track were present in the studio. The TOTP Orchestra, led by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Pearson"][color=#0645AD]Johnny Pearson[/color][/url] augmented the tracks when necessary. This set-up continued until 1980, when a protracted [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicians%27_Union_(UK)"][color=#0645AD]Musicians' Union[/color][/url] strike resulted in the dropping of the live orchestra altogether and the use of pre-recorded tracks only. This accounts for a number of acts who never appeared on the show due to their reluctance to perform in this way[/quote] This is in complete contrast to live broadcasted 1980s music show [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tube_(TV_series)"]the Tube[/url], which insisted bands perform live and didnt allow backing tracks or miming . Leading to some bands who had been invited on deciding to not appear as they couldnt play properly live. Edited September 25, 2011 by daz Quote
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