Got to see Alex Harvey Band on a number of occasions they were great to watch Live what as happened to the music where did it all go wrong the 60S and 70s was a great time to be on the scene I loved it then and still do..
Amen tae that brother im still getting answers n wisdom fae Mr Alex Harvey luv the way music appears at times of lkn answers peace ❤ Roderick Harvey 🏴
@@ThePhototroon to wear my SAHB Tshirt, day or night, is to invite fellow Sensationalists to come share their memories of when they saw Alex & witnessed his SAHB. Even now, after all this time, his fans remain slightly puzzled about what they saw but all agree with you ... Sensational!
Saw them in Slough about this time. One of the great nights of my youth. When you could watch a great band close up without having to take out a mortgage. Pity those Oasis fans having to pay a fortune to see them in the far distance
Unfortunately never saw them live. However, I saw the reincarnation of Sahb in 2000 with all of the band in Tottenham Court Road. Wow! Love this band. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band!
I remember Whistle Test. But not OGWT. I was 3 when this was broadcast so I've never quite got why SAHB was just so revered. I've friends born late 1950s and they said that the reaction to Alex Harvey was similar to Bowie a few years earlier. Its fascinating. There's definitely something, actually More than something, of Bon Scott about Alex. That unchained Scotsman. But what a wonderful snapshot in time this episode is.
@@SirArthurStreebGreebling aye. Alex was indeed a rare talent, he had everything in his repertoire, more than likely his ear was tuned to the very early evolution of blues, soul, Honky Tonk & the other sounds coming across the Atlantic, as well as his Scottish heritage. Finding Tear Gas & cleverly moulding them into his SAHB was in itself a stroke of genius. But above all the Stage presence of Alex mesmerised everyone who saw him live. He somehow conected, personally, with his audience. The Soldier on the Wall & The Mafia Stole My Guitar, Alex's albums without SAHB are also equally, artistically & musically brilliant,,, in my, very, very, partisan, opinion. RIP Alex.
@@sicks6six the equivalents of swifties in the 70s were listening to the bay city rollers and the new seekers and buying those TOTP albums with re-recorded versions of hits on. Nothing changes. Some people want disposable pop and don't want or need music to make them thing. And that's ok. Horses for courses. Sam Smith means nothing to me, but that's because he's not meant to. I'm 52. But if he makes some people happy, then great.
What a magnificent collection of artists and songs. You have to feel sorry for people who never experienced how great musicians were then. Brave, daring, rebellious, non conformist, big hairy assed men and sexy looking women, them were the days! I was reminded in my old age how grear theses artists were. Nazareth. SAHB. AWB. spine tingling stuff.
SAHB were absolutely brilliant, I saw their '75 tour, absolute at the top of their game! This is just brilliant. Love Nazareth too, great band, one of the heavies and influential.
Here in 2024 - I still love SAHB and Nazareth, such great music. But this whole episode was pure class and such good quality picture and sound. Thank you so much.
Remember trying to persuade my Mum to let me stay up and watch the Whistle Test, there were so many fantastic singers and bands who did not go on Top of the Pops… Happy Happy days…
I recently saw somebody state online, that Liam Gallagher is the greatest frontman of all time..bloody hilarious….in my humble opinion, there’s only one candidate….and that is the incomparable Alex Harvey…and how brilliant to see SAHB in their pomp with two amazing performances!
@kjm5155.........that's so funny. SAHB were just Brilliant. AH was the tommy Steele of Scotland. He put theatre into Rock music. He was a proper front man
@@davidpost6902 Before SAHB, Alex had done the hard yards…through Skiffle, Jazz, and then the Soul Band….he opened for the Beatles on their first ever tour(in Alloa)…he did the whole Hamburg thing just like the Fab Four….he played in Hair….he lived with Bowie….Mike Oldfield played in his band before SAHB….he deserved every piece of success that came his way…..he paid his dues and more! In my mind, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band are…and we’re… the finest band that Scotland has ever produced…if it wasn’t for those pesky Liverpudlians….I would say these Islands!😆
@@johnmcnulty9070 It's all down to personal taste...but I would suggest the majority of people that saw Alex 'live'...would be hard pushed to name anyone better.
Hands down TOGWT was the greatest music show ever, just got to look at the line up each week, the live performances and the fact you saw acts you otherwise would not have seen. It was my highlight of the week and I still miss it a lot. Just like I miss the Wardour Street Marquee Club as one of the greatest music venues ever.
And that children, is what proper rock music was all about. The guitar player in Stone The Crows was Les Harvey, Alex's younger brother, who died having been electrocuted on stage during a pre-show soundcheck in Swansea in May 1972.
@@apollomemories7399 Alex recorded an extremely cathartic version of 'He ain't Heavy He's my Brother'. The pain of Alex is clear to hear, & to those don't know the story, the way Alex sings, it just sounds awful. It's to be found in the deeper recesses of RUclips somewhere.
Les Harvey was my favourite guitarist at the time of his death and Stone The Crows my favourite band. Saw SAHB at Bolton Institute of Technology in the mid seventies. He invited people from the audience to do their own thing on stage and then promptly threw back into the crowd if he didn’t like their singing. Absolutely hilarious and a brilliant gig that still lives in the memory.
@@alistairliddell505 if I had the pleasure, where to start asking of his memories of TOGWT, Alex & SAHB would be a great place to start. Has Whispering Bob wrote his memoirs do you know? If not he certainly should.
Great episode. Seeing SAHB and Naz made me think of all the amazing vocalists Scotland has produced, i.e. Bon Scott, Dan McCafferty, Alex Harvey, James Dewar (Robin Trower, Stone The Crows), Davey Pattison (Gamma, Robin Trower), Brian Connolly (Sweet), Frankie Miller, Kal Swan (Tytan, Lion), Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Maggie Bell, a.o.
And some more: John Martyn, Al Stewart, Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Mark Knopfler, Shirley Manson (Garbage), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Gerry Rafferty, Jim Kerr (Simple Minds), Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile), Billy MacKenzie (The Associates), Jack Bruce (Cream), Pye Hastings (Caravan), Ivor Cutler, Donovan, Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band), Bert Jansch (Pentangle), Mike Scott (The Waterboys).
SAHB stage shows were amazing, dramatic and so hilarious at times. ‘Dancing Cheek to Cheek’ live was just so funny. But the musicianship was always first class, and perfectly delivered.
Saw Nazareth live around this time. So great! Hair of the Dog is a phenomenal song! However, my number one Scottish love will always be Gerry Rafferty ❤
Just love TSHAB! The beautifully comical choreographed gyrations of Zal and Chris in Delilah were simply - DELIGHTFUL. Zal is one of coolest guys in the industry and a great performer and was the perfect foil to 'raving-mad-pal' Alex Harvey.
Used to go to the Sunday folk nights in the Salutation Hotel in Kinross ..pretty sure Rab Noaks Archie Fish and Barbra Dickson all played there,,,great nights
my most precious thing ever, is my Alex Harvey autograph , on the back of my concert ticket. He signed it "Vambo Roolz Alex Harvey". their live album is one of the best live albums of all time. Live they were an unstoppable force of nature. Alex was the best frontman ever . i was incredibly sad when he passed, but keeping the faith{healer} by regularly playing SAHBs albums
Farewell by Rod Stewart just floored🫢 me, brought back so many memories growing up a teenager in Fiji in the 70s🥺🥲where'd all them years go🤔Thanks for the upload 🌴🇫🇯🌹🇦🇺😎👍👊
Well said. We definitely need more peace & love in these troubled times. Still, in 75 the Vietnam war ended but the Lebanese war started. I was 10 in 75 bit too young to appreciate the bands here but later on I caught up.
Back when I was a kid, I was seventeen when this episode went out, the OGWT was absolutely essential viewing. Now it was a long time ago, although it seems like bloody yesterday, but I really had no recollection at all of this episode, but what a show. Thanks for posting and thank you Scotland, some great music and The Sensational Alex Harvey band were mesmerising.
Once seen never ever forgotten! Alex had a mesmerising & menacing stage presence & His SAHB were fantastic musicians that made all that noise look fun & effortless.
I saw them at Clifton College of Education, Nottingham. Support 'band' a middle aged stripper. Got fondled by a guy behind me who mistook me for his girlfriend. Awkward moment for both of us...
31:21 They're actually from fife - a strange, weird and backward place across the water from edinburgh. That said, Naz were a cracking good Rock band. R.I.P. Dan.
@@apollomemories7399 Glasgow, where they`re so posh the club you with a perrier water bottle before stabbing you. They at least then phone you an ambulance.
@@andicampbell8621 You might be surprised just how few the number of stabbing incidents are these days. And they tend to be a scheme problem. You could in theory walk around the west-end for years non-stop and never get accosted.
@strexus Alex and the band...."Framed", just a brilliant album, and all the following SAHB albums ....Loved his new band " The mafia stole my guitar " album. R I P Alex, sadly gone way before his time...A one off musician who truly was sensational. ...
I've been to see Killing Joke for many years & only just realised that the intro song they always played was Booids by SAHB, sometimes they used Faith healer too.
Brilliant show. Dan McCafferty's patter is magic, it was nice to see Blue and Rab Noakes again but in the end Alex totally stole the show. It's just a pity that Gerry Rafferty didn't also feature.
Alex Harvey was followed by Stone the Crows, Alex brother Les played lead guitar, he was electrocuted on stage when his guitar touched something live, they were a great band.
Pure nostalgia forme when Dan was talking about playing the Burns Howf, we played there and in the Dial Inn, the Maggie & the Amphora around ‘77 &’78. I recall the pay in the Howf was £12……but no free beer! Great times!👍🎶🎶😂
I might have seen this when it first aired, but I certainly haven't seen it since. I saw SAHB twice, once with the Who at Charlton Athletic and again at the Liverpool Empire on the tour when the live album was recorded. They were, what's the word? Oh yeah, sensational. I have never enjoyed a gig more than their Liverpool performance. Alex had the whole audience in the palm of his hand. Utterly brilliant. Alex had a touch of the psychopath about him. He could charm you and scare the sh!t out of you at the same time. I wasn't a huge fan of Nazareth, though I loved their covers of My White Bicycle, and especially This Flight Tonight. The only album I bought was Rampant.
amazing stuff. just superb. at the time, in america we had no idea this stuff existed in this way. broadly speaking we lacked the desire for the theatrical I think.
First time seeing the video of Delilah LoL, 😁bloody brilliant. AWB, adding more to picking up the pieces of my teenage years in Fiji before moving to Australia😊🌴🇫🇯🌹🇳🇿😎👍👊
1975, it really was a much simpler time. Just listen to the talent. Delilah was AHB biggest chart hit reaching the top 10 in 75. My mum was a big Tom Jones fan and this version had her clutching her pearls... as kids we never ever considered it was a song about domestic abuse and murder! Great clip of AWB at the end. Seeing all these guys in their prime- awesome!
SAHB lucky to catch them live in 74 and 75 lancaster uni and stoke city football ground on a bill headed by Yes faith healer intro still gives me a lft of mood halcyon days as a 16 yr old Ogwt forever!
VAMBO ROOLS!!! And Dunfermline's*, (Fife), finest, Nazareth... w/ Dan McCafferty r.i.p. - one of the best vocalists the UK ever produced. (* - Also, hometown of The Skids/Big Country, too).
@@williamwallace5857 Eric Idle sent up Whispering Bob and the OGWT in an episode of 'Rutland Weekend Television'. Patchy, like a lot of Eric's stuff, but some of it is genuinely funny. I think Neil Innes is in there somewhere.
The Old Grey Whistle Test; the way that many of us (most of us?) in the UK found out about new bands, in the 1970's. No internet; only a few radio and TV channels.; one magazine (Melody Maker). We owe a debt of gratitude to the presenter "Whispering Bob" Harris, and to the BBC for commissioning the series. Here is one more episode: ruclips.net/video/P19EKSBUWE8/видео.html
May 30, 1975 Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Give My Compliments To The Chef, Delilah Rab Noakes - Stepping Stone, Turn A Deaf Ear Dan McCafferty - interview Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces (film) Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog, Guilty (live film) Blue - Red Light Song (promo)
This looks and sounds a lot better than it did when I watched OGWT on a B&W telly in the 70s. Was the show filmed or recorded on videotape? The image quality here is excellent.
![The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - In Concert (1974) [Live At Rainbow Theatre]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iA-zLw0JVlQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - In Concert (1974) [Live At Rainbow Theatre]](/img/tr.png)
Got to see Alex Harvey Band on a number of occasions they were great to watch Live what as happened to the music where did it all go wrong the 60S and 70s was a great time to be on the scene I loved it then and still do..
One thing for sure about the Alex Harvey Band they were absolutely Sensational.
Amen tae that brother im still getting answers n wisdom fae Mr Alex Harvey luv the way music appears at times of lkn answers peace ❤ Roderick Harvey 🏴
@@ThePhototroon to wear my SAHB Tshirt, day or night, is to invite fellow Sensationalists to come share their memories of when they saw Alex & witnessed his SAHB. Even now, after all this time, his fans remain slightly puzzled about what they saw but all agree with you ... Sensational!
Right on,I saw them at Celtic Park supporting the Who in the 70’s.🎶👍🎶🇿🇦
Saw them in Slough about this time. One of the great nights of my youth. When you could watch a great band close up without having to take out a mortgage. Pity those Oasis fans having to pay a fortune to see them in the far distance
Unfortunately never saw them live. However, I saw the reincarnation of Sahb in 2000 with all of the band in Tottenham Court Road. Wow! Love this band. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band!
I'm 74 for the next few weeks and lucky to be here, damn I miss SAHB and Nazareth. Oh and Whispering Bob the best DJ bar none.
Mother dear did you hear how they’re teaching me to do the goose step, classic opening line
To say this is a gem is an understatement, fifty minutes of pure class.
er, I think you meant 'crass' ....
Nazareth were my band growing up, Dan McCafferty had one helluva voice. 👌
Thank goodness this episode with Alex & SAHB is preserved... just sorry for this generation who never will know how Sensational Alex & SAHB were 😢
100% agree, they were amazing.
I remember Whistle Test. But not OGWT. I was 3 when this was broadcast so I've never quite got why SAHB was just so revered. I've friends born late 1950s and they said that the reaction to Alex Harvey was similar to Bowie a few years earlier. Its fascinating. There's definitely something, actually
More than something, of Bon Scott about Alex. That unchained Scotsman.
But what a wonderful snapshot in time this episode is.
@@SirArthurStreebGreebling aye. Alex was indeed a rare talent, he had everything in his repertoire, more than likely his ear was tuned to the very early evolution of blues, soul, Honky Tonk & the other sounds coming across the Atlantic, as well as his Scottish heritage. Finding Tear Gas & cleverly moulding them into his SAHB was in itself a stroke of genius. But above all the Stage presence of Alex mesmerised everyone who saw him live. He somehow conected, personally, with his audience. The Soldier on the Wall & The Mafia Stole My Guitar, Alex's albums without SAHB are also equally, artistically & musically brilliant,,, in my, very, very, partisan, opinion. RIP Alex.
a generation that listens to Sam Smith and Taylor Swift would never listen to The SAHB or anything else that made your mind think,
@@sicks6six the equivalents of swifties in the 70s were listening to the bay city rollers and the new seekers and buying those TOTP albums with re-recorded versions of hits on. Nothing changes. Some people want disposable pop and don't want or need music to make them thing. And that's ok. Horses for courses. Sam Smith means nothing to me, but that's because he's not meant to. I'm 52. But if he makes some people happy, then great.
I was 23. Great times. Great music. OGWT on TV every week. What a time for music.
Was in my late teens, didn't realise at the time that the 1970s were a golden decade for music. What have todays youth got? Taylor Swift!
Amazing show . Sadly missed .
I was 21. Totally agree mate best days :)
Same here ! I was travelling around the world as a service engineer so I missed many of these productions! Great to catch up all these years later!
Eu tinha 22, vivi esta época, o auge.
What a magnificent collection of artists and songs. You have to feel sorry for people who never experienced how great musicians were then. Brave, daring, rebellious, non conformist, big hairy assed men and sexy looking women, them were the days! I was reminded in my old age how grear theses artists were. Nazareth. SAHB. AWB. spine tingling stuff.
A moment in time when we were young and happy but all gone never to return
This show kicks ass; Alex Harvey Band knocked it out of the park. hair Of The Dog.
Arse mate
SAHB were absolutely brilliant, I saw their '75 tour, absolute at the top of their game!
This is just brilliant.
Love Nazareth too, great band, one of the heavies and influential.
I remember this OGWT episode. Great trip down memory lane. Thank you from a proud Scot.
Here in 2024 - I still love SAHB and Nazareth, such great music. But this whole episode was pure class and such good quality picture and sound. Thank you so much.
Remember trying to persuade my Mum to let me stay up and watch the Whistle Test, there were so many fantastic singers and bands who did not go on Top of the Pops… Happy Happy days…
I recently saw somebody state online, that Liam Gallagher is the greatest frontman of all time..bloody hilarious….in my humble opinion, there’s only one candidate….and that is the incomparable Alex Harvey…and how brilliant to see SAHB in their pomp with two amazing performances!
@kjm5155.........that's so funny.
SAHB were just Brilliant.
AH was the tommy Steele of Scotland.
He put theatre into Rock music.
He was a proper front man
@@davidpost6902 Before SAHB, Alex had done the hard yards…through Skiffle, Jazz, and then the Soul Band….he opened for the Beatles on their first ever tour(in Alloa)…he did the whole Hamburg thing just like the Fab Four….he played in Hair….he lived with Bowie….Mike Oldfield played in his band before SAHB….he deserved every piece of success that came his way…..he paid his dues and more! In my mind, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band are…and we’re… the finest band that Scotland has ever produced…if it wasn’t for those pesky Liverpudlians….I would say these Islands!😆
@@kjm5155 Absolutely! Well stated. If only their famous Christmas shows were filmed. 🤔
There were so many great frontmen, impossible to pick the greatest.,
@@johnmcnulty9070 It's all down to personal taste...but I would suggest the majority of people that saw Alex 'live'...would be hard pushed to name anyone better.
Bob......., that Jacket? AWESOME! And that is not modern day pain in the a$$ sarcasm........, I love that jacket.
And OGWT......, never be bettered.
Hands down TOGWT was the greatest music show ever, just got to look at the line up each week, the live performances and the fact you saw acts you otherwise would not have seen. It was my highlight of the week and I still miss it a lot. Just like I miss the Wardour Street Marquee Club as one of the greatest music venues ever.
SAHB. My first big concert at age 16 or 17. (1976) Traveled from Andover Hants to London. What a show
And that children, is what proper rock music was all about. The guitar player in Stone The Crows was Les Harvey, Alex's younger brother, who died having been electrocuted on stage during a pre-show soundcheck in Swansea in May 1972.
@@apollomemories7399 Alex recorded an extremely cathartic version of 'He ain't Heavy He's my Brother'. The pain of Alex is clear to hear, & to those don't know the story, the way Alex sings, it just sounds awful. It's to be found in the deeper recesses of RUclips somewhere.
@@BelleBlu Can't say I was too fond of The Hollies version either. Everyone records a dud at sometime. Even David Bowie.
Fair enough - I guess Darwin was right!
Les Harvey was my favourite guitarist at the time of his death and Stone The Crows my favourite band. Saw SAHB at Bolton Institute of Technology in the mid seventies. He invited people from the audience to do their own thing on stage and then promptly threw back into the crowd if he didn’t like their singing. Absolutely hilarious and a brilliant gig that still lives in the memory.
Crazy to think this is 50 years old next year!
I had the pleasure of meeting 'whispering Bob' recently. An absolute gentleman.
@@alistairliddell505 if I had the pleasure, where to start asking of his memories of TOGWT, Alex & SAHB would be a great place to start. Has Whispering Bob wrote his memoirs do you know? If not he certainly should.
Great episode. Seeing SAHB and Naz made me think of all the amazing vocalists Scotland has produced, i.e. Bon Scott, Dan McCafferty, Alex Harvey, James Dewar (Robin Trower, Stone The Crows), Davey Pattison (Gamma, Robin Trower), Brian Connolly (Sweet), Frankie Miller, Kal Swan (Tytan, Lion), Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Maggie Bell, a.o.
And Rod the sod
Fish
@@TheLastOilMan He is from London.
Don't forget Derek Fish and Marillion. Superb band
And some more: John Martyn, Al Stewart, Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Mark Knopfler, Shirley Manson (Garbage), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Gerry Rafferty, Jim Kerr (Simple Minds), Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile), Billy MacKenzie (The Associates), Jack Bruce (Cream), Pye Hastings (Caravan), Ivor Cutler, Donovan, Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band), Bert Jansch (Pentangle), Mike Scott (The Waterboys).
SAHB stage shows were amazing, dramatic and so hilarious at times. ‘Dancing Cheek to Cheek’ live was just so funny. But the musicianship was always first class, and perfectly delivered.
Alex was pure theatre , entertainment at its best and his band were indeed Sensational 🎸👍🎸
SAHB, Scotlands greatest rock band.
Brilliant ........ in all my 67yrs, nothing to top OGWT
Bob Harris was in his 20s when this was recorded. Let that sink in.
Challenging paper route?
@@ayrshireslim9565 Right onto the papers after the milk round.
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R.I.P. Rab Noakes. OGWT is much missed.
Noo ! Is Rab Noakes passed? I worked with him when he was a producer many years ago. Sad
SAHB, Scotland's greatest rock band ???, I think so. And Nazareth weren't too far behind. Fabulous post many thanks.
@@smooman792 The greatest from Scotland is The Rezillos, end of.
Saw Nazareth live around this time. So great! Hair of the Dog is a phenomenal song! However, my number one Scottish love will always be Gerry Rafferty ❤
@@Every_Day_islike_Sunday ruclips.net/video/kCF0uMYjGB4/видео.htmlsi=MgGW5pUd1kfFoWHU ❤️
Gerry Rafferty - Dougie Maclean, Davy Spillane and Annie Lennox. All beautifully musical Scottish people.
Whispering Bob takes me back to my teenage years
Just love TSHAB! The beautifully comical choreographed gyrations of Zal and Chris in Delilah were simply - DELIGHTFUL. Zal is one of coolest guys in the industry and a great performer and was the perfect foil to 'raving-mad-pal' Alex Harvey.
Excellent Program , Amazing performance of SAHB and Nazareth . Final Band Soberb ! Congratulations BBC .
The producer, who ever he was, deserves huge credit for this. It wouldn't happen now. Can you see how these things have changed..?
Used to go to the Sunday folk nights in the Salutation Hotel in Kinross ..pretty sure Rab Noaks Archie Fish and Barbra Dickson all played there,,,great nights
my most precious thing ever, is my Alex Harvey autograph , on the back of my concert ticket. He signed it "Vambo Roolz Alex Harvey". their live album is one of the best live albums of all time. Live they were an unstoppable force of nature. Alex was the best frontman ever . i was incredibly sad when he passed, but keeping the faith{healer} by regularly playing SAHBs albums
@@thekierongiles 😢 I feel your pain fellow SAHB'er
'The only band I'd buy a ticket to see Is The Alex Harvey Band.' Frank Zappa. Enough said.
Great quote.
I didn't know that and really pleased that I do now.
Yes, nuff said.
Bruce springsteen,
dude we got to meet i love SAHB and Frank bigtime .... southern England
Greatest export from Scotland after my dad
SAHB,totally 'out there' and totally brilliant.So glad i saw them all those decades ago.
Farewell by Rod Stewart just floored🫢 me, brought back so many memories growing up a teenager in Fiji in the 70s🥺🥲where'd all them years go🤔Thanks for the upload 🌴🇫🇯🌹🇦🇺😎👍👊
These artists had it all great vocal, great musicianship stage presence and great tunes saw AH at Celtic Park in 76 he was brilliant
I watch this rendition of Give My Compliments to the Chef more than a thousand times and never get boring. Truly a mark
Absolutely fabulous! Saw them in 2021, still smashing it.
Thanks for the wonderful music and have a wonderful weekend. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
Well said. We definitely need more peace & love in these troubled times. Still, in 75 the Vietnam war ended but the Lebanese war started. I was 10 in 75 bit too young to appreciate the bands here but later on I caught up.
'All this crazy gift of time' - peace
I never new there was a Scottish edition of OGWT. A big regret that I never saw SAHB live.
Me also
Back when I was a kid, I was seventeen when this episode went out, the OGWT was absolutely essential viewing. Now it was a long time ago, although it seems like bloody yesterday, but I really had no recollection at all of this episode, but what a show. Thanks for posting and thank you Scotland, some great music and The Sensational Alex Harvey band were mesmerising.
@@walesdad That's the word for Alex & SAHB "Mesmerising" ... with a touch of menace 😂
REAL music, God the SAHB were truly magnificent ❤❤
Totally love thos era. This was my time of prog rock. Always loved the whistle.
Tuesday's nights were the best 👌 MASH followed by the Whistle Test , Bob and top quality music , Happy days
@@andyslater2609Amazing time to be alive.
the best wee country in the world ,
Aye right but we still let Westminster rule us more like the thickest wee country in the world
@@saorsa5 "Cap in Hand" - The Proclaimers
I saw SAHB backing Mott The Hoople. At that time I had not heard of them. Have to say they took the show for me even though Mott were great.
An absolute beauty of an episode.
Nazareth were a great band, and that beautiful Black Beauty custom LP🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Would loved to have seen Alex Harvey band, totally brilliant. Next.
Oh man they were amazing live. The best 🤟🏻
Once seen never ever forgotten! Alex had a mesmerising & menacing stage presence & His SAHB were fantastic musicians that made all that noise look fun & effortless.
I saw them at Clifton College of Education, Nottingham. Support 'band' a middle aged stripper. Got fondled by a guy behind me who mistook me for his girlfriend. Awkward moment for both of us...
Saw them first time when they supported slade in 1973 at Earl’s Court then saw them in 75 and last time in Bristol in 76 , bloody good .
31:21 They're actually from fife - a strange, weird and backward place across the water from edinburgh. That said, Naz were a cracking good Rock band. R.I.P. Dan.
Edinburgh - a strange, weird and backward place across the country from Glasgow.
@@apollomemories7399 Glasgow, where they`re so posh the club you with a perrier water bottle before stabbing you. They at least then phone you an ambulance.
@@andicampbell8621 You might be surprised just how few the number of stabbing incidents are these days. And they tend to be a scheme problem. You could in theory walk around the west-end for years non-stop and never get accosted.
@@apollomemories7399 Edinbuggers.
@@grobbler1 Noticeably.
amazing record of scottish bands/artists circa 70's.
I wish Jack Bruce would have been on as well but I loved the show. And I'm embarrassed to say I always thought Nazareth were American. 🥺
Didn't realise how great the musicians in the Sensational Alex Harvey Band were
The best live band Scotlands ever produced.
@strexus Alex and the band...."Framed", just a brilliant album, and all the following SAHB albums ....Loved his new band " The mafia stole my guitar " album. R I P Alex, sadly gone way before his time...A one off musician who truly was sensational. ...
I've been to see Killing Joke for many years & only just realised that the intro song they always played was Booids by SAHB, sometimes they used Faith healer too.
Great to see some footage of Robbie Mcintosh the AWB's original drummer before his tragic early death.
Never seen Robbie playing live.
Remember all these shows never missed one
Love Nazareth. What a voice..Axle rose based his voice on him..
Brilliant show.
Dan McCafferty's patter is magic, it was nice to see Blue and Rab Noakes again but in the end Alex totally stole the show.
It's just a pity that Gerry Rafferty didn't also feature.
Alex Harvey was followed by Stone the Crows, Alex brother Les played lead guitar, he was electrocuted on stage when his guitar touched something live, they were a great band.
“Whispering” Bob Harris those were the days.
Pure nostalgia forme when Dan was talking about playing the Burns Howf, we played there and in the Dial Inn, the Maggie & the Amphora around ‘77 &’78. I recall the pay in the Howf was £12……but no free beer! Great times!👍🎶🎶😂
First time ever hearing this or the band thought I knew all the great bands this group rocks
Great musicians in those days. Minimal effects, analogue recording; it'd be very difficult for modern bands to replicate this now
I might have seen this when it first aired, but I certainly haven't seen it since. I saw SAHB twice, once with the Who at Charlton Athletic and again at the Liverpool Empire on the tour when the live album was recorded. They were, what's the word? Oh yeah, sensational. I have never enjoyed a gig more than their Liverpool performance. Alex had the whole audience in the palm of his hand. Utterly brilliant. Alex had a touch of the psychopath about him. He could charm you and scare the sh!t out of you at the same time.
I wasn't a huge fan of Nazareth, though I loved their covers of My White Bicycle, and especially This Flight Tonight. The only album I bought was Rampant.
@@Pwecko Alex was indeed truly Mesmerising. & His SAHB were brilliant musicians & his perfect gang!
Rampant is a great album as is hair of the dog
Thank god i lived through these days.....................
amazing stuff. just superb. at the time, in america we had no idea this stuff existed in this way. broadly speaking we lacked the desire for the theatrical I think.
SAHB saw them back in the day - great show!
Dan McCafferty what a legend.
SAHB, brilliant, Zal & the McKenna’s…..fantastic!🎶🎶🎶🎶🏴
I was in a band with Ted and Hugh straight out of school. They were cousins, not brothers.
SAHB, Naz and AWB, class!
First time seeing the video of Delilah LoL, 😁bloody brilliant. AWB, adding more to picking up the pieces of my teenage years in Fiji before moving to Australia😊🌴🇫🇯🌹🇳🇿😎👍👊
One of the best TV shows ever
Totally agree.
great stuff. ogwt at its best.rock on
1975, it really was a much simpler time. Just listen to the talent. Delilah was AHB biggest chart hit reaching the top 10 in 75. My mum was a big Tom Jones fan and this version had her clutching her pearls... as kids we never ever considered it was a song about domestic abuse and murder! Great clip of AWB at the end. Seeing all these guys in their prime- awesome!
SAHB lucky to catch them live in 74 and 75 lancaster uni and stoke city football ground on a bill headed by Yes faith healer intro still gives me a lft of mood halcyon days as a 16 yr old Ogwt forever!
VAMBO ROOLS!!! And Dunfermline's*, (Fife), finest, Nazareth... w/ Dan McCafferty r.i.p. - one of the best vocalists the UK ever produced. (* - Also, hometown of The Skids/Big Country, too).
Great to see a full programme instead of a compilation. Shame they can’t or won’t show all the programmes again. Slava Ukraine !🇺🇦
Rab Noakes' drummer is Pick Withers, later of Dire Straits.
And the rest of the band are Lindisfarne in one, two or more manifestations...
Yea.playing openhand style.p
He played with Gerry Rafferty as well. Gerry's 'Sleepwalking' album, if memory serves me right.
I think he played with Dylan too .
Also the drummer with the Mellotron-heavy prog band Spring
I had the chance to see Rab Noakes live a few years ago, i didn't go and he died shortly afterwards. I deeply regret it.
Maggie Bell, that’s how you sing young ladies
Bob is so sweet to let his audience know about the Old Gay Whistle Test homage to him..
GREY.
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46:28 is what i am referring to - i remember it well..
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@@williamwallace5857 Eric Idle sent up Whispering Bob and the OGWT in an episode of 'Rutland Weekend Television'. Patchy, like a lot of Eric's stuff, but some of it is genuinely funny. I think Neil Innes is in there somewhere.
@@peterfreeman6677 Umm, I know.
Met them on a train from Glasgow to Inverness when I was 15 and the drunk Alex assaulted me for no reason.
the theatrical alex harvey band ,zal cleminson surely inspired the modern batman .
The Old Grey Whistle Test; the way that many of us (most of us?) in the UK found out about new bands, in the 1970's.
No internet; only a few radio and TV channels.; one magazine (Melody Maker).
We owe a debt of gratitude to the presenter "Whispering Bob" Harris, and to the BBC for commissioning the series.
Here is one more episode: ruclips.net/video/P19EKSBUWE8/видео.html
Robbie McIntosh, what a marvellous drummer he was. Groove for days. Taken by the dreaded Smack way too soon. RIP.
Alan Gorrie also od'd at the same party and was kept alive by Cher.
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Yes, the ultimate groover. And yes, a premature demise. A sad tale.
If you were ever lucky enough to see SAHB at the Glasgow Apollo during this era you will understand this vid.
May 30, 1975
Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Give My Compliments To The Chef, Delilah
Rab Noakes - Stepping Stone, Turn A Deaf Ear
Dan McCafferty - interview
Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces (film)
Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog, Guilty (live film)
Blue - Red Light Song (promo)
Stone The Crows?
Nazareth are rock God's R I P Dan 😁😁🤘🤘
@@karlalton3170 ahem! & Alex with his SAHB 🏴
This looks and sounds a lot better than it did when I watched OGWT on a B&W telly in the 70s. Was the show filmed or recorded on videotape? The image quality here is excellent.
So many poseurs around in the 70's!
Such as?
Nazareth were the original AC/DC.
This is why there was Postcard Records.
AWB.....such a groove!
Dan McCaffery & Rab Noakes died two days apart in November last year
Ten McKenna died January 2019, Hugh McKenna December 2019.
Friday nights - the OGWT was the only reason to leave the pub early :)
I seem to remember it being 9 o'clock on Tuesday nights?
Zal had one of the best guitar tones ever!
Not sure what tone is but fantastic theatrical guitar player.😊
Nazareth…. Hair of the dog…. That 8-Track tape took a beating in my 68 Nova !