Top of the Pops in 68

[ARGH]

A VERITABLE BEVVY of classic Fender action...Ashtrays and all,The Move using a Bass 6...Interesting to see how in different the style,thedrummers are playing.

[agoulding]

what?

[OldGit]

[quote name='ARGH' post='355314' date='Dec 15 2008, 07:52 PM']A VERITABLE BEVVY of classic Fender action...Ashtrays and all,The Move using a Bass 6...Interesting to see how in different the style,thedrummers are playing.[/quote]


Got a link Ross?

[Mickeyboro]

A Tardis would be better!

[beerdragon]

There's this one.
BBC iplayer.

[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008njrq/Top_Of_The_Pops_1968/"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008n..._The_Pops_1968/[/url]

[lowdown]

[quote name='Mickeyboro' post='355453' date='Dec 15 2008, 10:45 PM']A Tardis would be better![/quote]

Remember, we're talking 68'
Could be an Acid trip going down....MAN!

Garry

[ARGH]

BBC4,early on,just surfing channels,and a pleasant shock..Maple Necks,Rosewood necks,a few freaky whacked out paint jobs...Jimmy Saville in an Arran Sweater with a major league Turtle neck...

They must have had cash in those days,was the Fender P around £100 due to import duty in the 60s? Noticed a lot of flatwounds being mimed with as well on the footage.

[YouMa]

68 Good year mate shame about barrett leaving floyd though.(Wish i had been 17 in 68)

[OldGit]

[quote name='YouMa' post='355537' date='Dec 16 2008, 12:25 AM']68 Good year mate shame about barrett leaving floyd though.(Wish i had been 17 in 68)[/quote]


I was, for some of it. It was OK ..
I didn't know what gems I was surrounded by though ...

[Weird War]

The Move = great band.

[tombboy]

'68 was a great year for me.... I came into existence!!!

Edited December 16, 2008 by tombboy

[bumnote]

Whats that bass that Ace keffords playing on Fire brigade?

[casapete]

Looked a bit Precision like to me?
And don't you think he looked like Paul Whitehouse?..!!!

[bumnote]

[quote name='casapete' post='356444' date='Dec 16 2008, 10:21 PM']Looked a bit Precision like to me?
And don't you think he looked like Paul Whitehouse?..!!![/quote]

If you look it has a smaller body and a rounded top horn like a telecaster. I wondered if it was a trecision that had been cut down but the headstock didnt look right

Yes he does look a bit like paul whitehouse, At the time he was seen as ultra cool

[GreeneKing]

I was 14. Falling in love with 'Relics', Yes, Wishbone Ash and Afghan coats if I can remember correctly.

Oh as well as the girl next door

[wateroftyne]

It's a 1966 slab-bodied Precision, of which very few were made and almost all were distributed in the UK. Famously played by Ace, Entwistle and your man out of T-Rex.

Very mysterious basses - find one, and you'll be a rich man (or woman).

[ARGH]

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='356516' date='Dec 16 2008, 11:20 PM']your man out of T-Rex.[/quote]
Visconti?

[wateroftyne]

Steve Currie, I think?

Anyway - here it is in action:

[ARGH]

Bet they weighed a ton

[GreeneKing]

No she wasn't THAT heavy

[Paul Cooke]

ah... TOTP, late 60's early 70's... we used to have it on every week in the common room... total silence as we'd have a reel to reel tape recorder set up with the microphone up to the speaker to record it...

[casapete]

Great air drumming on the T.Rex clip!

[squire5]

Did anyone notice the Fender 5 string being played by Alan Price's bassist.Not many of them about.Ace Kefford's bass seemed to have a slight mod around the top bout.

[guzzibass]

Ok - fast forward to 1971 Middle of the Road - Jazz bass and Sally Carr looking great in those hot pants

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq6TRf2iMbI&feature=related"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq6TRf2iMbI&...feature=related[/url]

[bumnote]

[quote name='squire5' post='357361' date='Dec 17 2008, 09:43 PM']Ace Kefford's bass seemed to have a slight mod around the top bout.[/quote]

Im glad you noticed Im sure there is something 'different' about that bass. The top horn doesnt look right, and it almost looked squashed