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George Elias · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 17 Location: youngstown ohio

This is not from Youtube, but it does show the 45 Fife Piper by the Dynatones...interesting that Hannah-Barbara, yes the same HB of cartoon fame, produced this disc. Again, can't wait for Joe's input...

http://fleamarketfunk.wordpress.c.../15/the-dynatones-the-fife-piper/

George Elias · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 17 Location: youngstown ohio

Found a really far out cable access show in Chicago called "Chi-ca-go-go" man!

It's a kid's dance show, and it's a total trip!

They did an interview with the Pretty Things. Check out some of the other vids from the show while you're at it. The website mentions some other 60s acts who appeared, but I can't find the vids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rK8AmU-iXc

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JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Friends I encourage you to check out this Swedish group, The Tagues:
One of the best Beatles influenced groups of the mid-60s...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyQ5zhtvwDw&feature=related

JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Joe_Stax · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:44 am Post subject:

The Bonzo Dog Band!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdA4zKp-00
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:59 am Post subject:

More Bonzos! Black and white madness from British tv...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz6KHhRGVKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hyPUBEh9SA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj86_2tAtdU
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Astrakhan · Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 135 Location: nowhere, man

The Bonzo Dog Band = black and white and weird all over. Entertaining, though.

I have to say the clip for Look Out There's a Monster Coming disturbed me a bit, if only because of the make up on the band. That period has to be the last time it was even remotely acceptable to do blackface, at least in England. You'll note the guitar player isn't wearing makeup. At least in this clip...

The ventriloquist business was funny. Funny strange and funny ha-ha.

One question, though. Were the vocals live? It seemed obvious that the playing was mimed, but it seemed like they were actually singing. Was this a common practice? I'd always assumed that if a group was miming to a song, it was all prerecorded?

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Joe_Stax · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject:

All of the Bonzo video is weird. The medley clip is probably the most straightforward in a "showbiz" kind of way, though.

I think that piece is a little older than the other ones, if only because there seem to be more band members on hand. Originally there were anywhere up to a dozen Bonzos, but by the time they started recording it was down to about 7. Given that someone else was on the drums while "Legs" Larry Smith was joining in with vocals and dancing suggests to me that the drummer on Equestrian Statue (and as the vent. dummy) was Sam Spoons, who, along with bassist Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell appeared on the first album, but left before the second.

Thinking of the second album, the Urban Spaceman clip looks like it was shot during the photo shoot for the second album cover (Donut in Granny's Greenhouse), using the same costumes and the dogs, etc. I kept looking for Joel Druckman in the footage. Druckman was an American living in the UK, and ended up playing bass for a bit with the Bonzos. He can be heard speaking on the We Are Normal track, and is on the cover for Donut. Beyond that, he doesn't seem to have been with the group for long.

About the vocals, yeah, it looked like they were done 'live' to pre-recorded backing tracks. I don't know how common that was. Most 'performance' footage I've seen was usually lip-synced, too. But as I think about it, the Small Faces stuff I posted a while ago, where they do the B-side of Ogdens looked like it had live vocals, too.
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:38 am Post subject:

Here's an old favorite, Sam Hall by Frank Tovey. It's from an excellent album called Tyranny and the Hired Hand. Well worth a listen!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_wJYXGuafM
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:20 am Post subject:

It's SMOKE TIME again! Dig High in a Room!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J87HNLdoshs

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