Entertainment For Lively Minds
Dr Feelgood
Posted by IanP on 23 April 2010 - 8:35pm.
Anybody else getting excited yet?
I've been cooking Mrs P Coq au Reisling, and treating her to this to prepare her for Oil City Confidential:
She's not that impressed so far
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I'm excited
but in a kind of deferred way as it's on the old Rupert Dark Lord of All Matter's Box of Infidel Tricks
I grew up in Southend
They were my first band. Loving this
Half an hour into it....
....and they havent reached the bands music yet.........but its still absolutely addictive. Have to turn off now, the Mrs is back from putting kids down to sleep. Will continue this tomorrow. Can't wait to get to the meat and bones of the Feelgoods story.
Fantastic!!! DVD apparently comes out in June. Waiting to find out what extras will be included. Think I will be purchasing this one.
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Great documentary
ranking alongside the Tom Petty one as two of the best I've seen about a band.
Lee's Mum
Deserves a movie of her own.
They mean something to me. They were the last band I saw at the Newcastle Mayfair in 1987 (which means it was Lee Brilleaux and some others) before I left home for London on a National Express coach.
Three days after that I was at the Town and Country Club in Kentish Town watching Wilko Johnson and Norman Watt-Roy.
As usual..
...Beezer Barrons speaks the truth. Lee's mum was a star.
Thought it was a great show.
Wilko was brilliant, I want to go see him!
Question for Mr Hepworth
What's not "musically all that great" about this? It's fantastic
Thanks for that
Mr Texture, absolutely wonderful. I agree it's a strange thing to say but I think he meant it in the sense of proportion between visual effect and technical musicianship. This was the time of ELP, Yes, Queen etc where virtuoso performances were de rigeur and this is pretty basic stuff, I think the hardest part is the gob iron.
Made my Saturday morning, I think I'm gonna have to play that again.....
Feelgoods on OGWT
Here is the full March 75 OGWT appearance
It was astonishing to realise...
...just how young they all were, even though they didn't look it - I suspect Lee Brilleaux was born a bloke rather than a boy.
Whereas the accompanying 1977 Sight and Sound...
showed Ian Dury & Blockheads (without Davy Payne on sax who presumably hadn't joined yet) to be fantastic. I thought if they're the opening act, how amazing are the Feelgoods going to be?
Pete Drummond bigs them up. Opening shot and I'm thinking why is Wilko playing a gold Les Paul. Why is he dressed in white? And the horrible reality dawns: it's Gypie Mayo, and the whole show is sadly, average. Feelgoods without Wilko = not much cop in my opinion
agreed re Sight N Sound
Ian and the Blocks were fantastic on that live show - despite some decidedly dodgy off-key vocals - but what a great live band! The Feelgoods were probably doing their best, but one suspects the magic had indeed been lost with Wilko's departure some months beforehand. I gathered the same from the pace of Oil City Conf beforehand: the band's post-Wilko period was covered in about two minutes.
But the question remains, was that Pete Drummond's own woolly jumper, and if so, had he been wearing it since his days at Big L?
I absolutely loved the Sight and Sound......
.....and have been waiting for the BBC to repeat it for years. Even though its not Wilko its still one of the best live TV performances i've ever seen. Maybe i'm the only one who thinks that???
Anyway, went to bed when the movie finished and woke up to the horror that my skyplus box had failed and not recorded Sight and Sound. Absoutely gutted. It recorded the movie fine and that being repeated several times over this w/e, but no repeat for Sight and Sound.
Yes, I know there's the iplayer but I really wanted to burn a copy of it to DVD. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ;o(
my favourite track. how to play rock'n'roll in a suit
Route 66 Live Southend, 1975. You can't beat this with a stick
Can somebody tell me why...
....the sight and sound in concert is not available on the iplayer???? my skyplus box refused to record it, its only shown once over the w/e and my only way to watch this is on iplayer. So I go and check it out and its nots available. What is the issue that prevents this concert being repeated on iplayer???
Extremely annoying.
Can't say why
it's not available on iPlayer. Usually a rights issue. It is, in the meanwhile, available via thebox:
http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=38966
That link doesn't seem to work......
.....sadly.