Yes; it has both those items on said DVD. I couldn't be less interested in both as I consider LS to be nothing more than a bar band and Lennon to be quite over-rated (it must be "if you were there things" - I can't stand The Beatles either). Of a more interesting nature is the addition of one Edgar Winter (and his) Group playing the mid 70s classic "Frankenstein". Mr Telemeister would know Winter as being Albino Blues Guitar legend Johnny Winter's lesser known brother AND as Edgar was the saxophonist on Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell".
Feel free to listen to a smattering of British "pop" music before the Beatles (Tommy Steele, Matt Munro, Alma Cogan), and then listen to it during and after (the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Animals, the Kinks), bands for whom their success opened the door. Western music would be entirely different, even now, without their existence. The defence rests.
I think Adam Taylor had the OGW DVD, tis most good. I have to say the funniest thing is the Dr Feelgood performance, the bassist (or guitarist, I can't remember) is clearly speeding his face off and is to tense and taut looks like he's going to rupture a blood vessel at any moment.
The DVD is also funny for the how obviously it come across that Bob Harris hates punk as much as John Peel loves it hehehehe
Ah, that would be Wilko Johnson, the manic Feelgoods guitarist (a Telecaster man - HA!), and I don't think he was on speed. That was just his onstage style. They were never the same after he left. I once passed him in the street in South Kensington, sometime in the early '80s, and said "Hello Wilko." He shook his head about, pudding basin haircut flying, to see who was greeting him, said hello back and glanced at me with that same thousand-yard stare he used onstage.
Did Van Leer write it, or did Jan Akkerman? Well, when such things were still important to me, I laboriously learnt the tune note-for-note and can actually still play it. In fact I did just the other day, but obviously with nowhere near Mr Akkerman's smooth chops. Only guitarists of our generation would appreciate such a nerdy achievement.
I went to see them play at Wolverhampton Civic in 1976. Unfortunately, Jan had just quit, and Philip Catherine subbed for him, studying the chord charts on a little chair in front of him. No fun, no guitar high-jinks, bloody dull in fact, and frustrating too as there was a bomb scare and everyone had to get out.
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Date: 2006-04-02 10:26 pm (UTC)Is it the same DVD set that has the Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird, and the Lennon interview? There was some marvellous stuff on that one.
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Date: 2006-04-03 07:09 am (UTC)The DVD is also funny for the how obviously it come across that Bob Harris hates punk as much as John Peel loves it hehehehe
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Date: 2006-04-03 01:44 pm (UTC)Good music; hopeless at naming his tunes.
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