Deep Thought Posted January 17, 2018 Share Posted January 17, 2018 This probably my favourite ‘On the whole I’d rather be in Philadelphia’ TOTP moment. https://youtu.be/otZ8Bq7lXag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 12 hours ago, Hobbayne said: Didnt they have plastic cymbals painted gold, so they did not make any sound when they were hit? Would have been quite interesting to hear a band miming with live cymbal crashing. Plus the inch thick foam rubber mats on all the drums... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted January 18, 2018 Share Posted January 18, 2018 14 hours ago, Hobbayne said: Didnt they have plastic cymbals painted gold, so they did not make any sound when they were hit? Would have been quite interesting to hear a band miming with live cymbal crashing. All drummers need a set of those. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 On 14/01/2018 at 18:10, fleabag said: That looks more like a foldback problem than any deliberate attempt not to bother. I remember seeing a now famous Pebble Mill at One act who had the same problem. Cant remember the band though Gene Pitney? I remember that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 I do remember one entirely live performance on TOTP: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 Say what you like about TOTP being contrived and controlled by the old boy network. Those of us who were there watching the telly at seven O'clock every Thursday evening are still talking about it and remembering artists as if they had attended the performances themselves. Thirty years from now, I don't think we'll remember so many of the equally good, sometimes better, artists of today even with instantaneous global communication and clever marketing. In its day TOTP was the sole source of video* promotion for bands. Apart from posters, album artwork and pop magazines you could only guess what a band might look like as you listened to a low-fi MW transistor radio. God forbid that you should tune that lovely warm sounding valve radio set to a pop station. Your parents would have a fit. Today there are so many promoters and outlets for video that that marketing power has been diluted for them all. In this century, mistakes are easy to edit out and that perfect image of how the promoter wants you to be seen is preserved in binary forever. As a consequence of quality editing it is rare to see the day to day foul-ups that occur. These days the bits that are edited out are kept for collectors of bloopers who are looking to market a collection of out-takes. More revenue for someone I suppose. Personally, I like to see how bands used to cope with stuff like that when they were dropped in it, so to speak. Today everyone has the option of 'phoning a friend' if they're the slightest bit uncomfortable. *In this instance, just for convenience, lets ignore the fact that the term video became popular later. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted January 20, 2018 Share Posted January 20, 2018 I knwo we're getting OT a bit, but... sometimes you just have one of those nights... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerstodge Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 15/01/2018 at 21:25, Frank Blank said: This one? The vocals sound live on this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 6 minutes ago, rogerstodge said: The vocals sound live on this never noticed that before, but yeah live vocals, I reckon or bloody good miming which, judging by the way they're 'playing' their instruments wouldn't happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerstodge Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 20 minutes ago, PaulWarning said: never noticed that before, but yeah live vocals, I reckon or bloody good miming which, judging by the way they're 'playing' their instruments wouldn't happen Vocals sound completely different to the single Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 On 21/01/2018 at 14:31, PaulWarning said: never noticed that before, but yeah live vocals, I reckon or bloody good miming which, judging by the way they're 'playing' their instruments wouldn't happen IIRC there was a time when auntie had acts do live vocals to backing tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 6 minutes ago, spectoremg said: IIRC there was a time when auntie had acts do live vocals to backing tracks. ...and they said the Japanese introduced Karaoke to Britain. Good old Auntie Beeb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Slightly of Topic but I only just found out the Guy from Boney M didn't sing on any records , it wa the German producers voice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 1 hour ago, lojo said: Slightly of Topic but I only just found out the Guy from Boney M didn't sing on any records , it wa the German producers voice Frank Farian. And Milli Vanilli was his brainchild. The biggest musical scam of the 90's. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/07/milli-vanilli-scandal/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 2 hours ago, Hobbayne said: Frank Farian. And Milli Vanilli was his brainchild. The biggest musical scam of the 90's. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/12/07/milli-vanilli-scandal/ He was such a silly Billy that Milli Vanilli. FFFS! (For Frank Farian's Sake) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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