Seems he has form in replacing people in bands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Walker

It was a great evening. Probably my fifth Missing Believed Wiped.

First of all there was a non-music session which presented a short documentary on the archive of Bob Monkhouse: A somewhat obsessive collector of movies and of home taping. Over 30.000 of his VHS cassettes are now with an archiving group called Kaleidoscope. Info here: http://www.petford.net/kaleidoscope/bob's-full-house.html

Then a short talk and 10 minute reel from BSB (remember them) where most of their archive has been junked. This was produced by Noel Gay, and independent production house who did 5+ hours of programming a day for the BSB stations. This includes the TV debuts of Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci (gosh!), all of the Hitler sitcom Heil Honey I'm Home (only one episode was ever broadcast due to "outrage") and the entire run of I Love Keith Allen (I'm able to cope with the loss of this).

After that we had the full first episode of His Lordship Entertains, a 1972 sitcom set in a stately home turned hotel, written by and starring Ronnie Barker. Maybe it was being in a room with other people, but this was very funny. It was wiped at the time because it got bad crits. If it existed in full today it would sit happily in that Ronnie Barker DVD boxset. The show also featured and unrecognisable David Jason too.

Finally a recovered 1966 episode of Till Death Us Do Part. I have never really “got” TDUDP; being Irish and of a certain age I never really had the social and historical insight that underpins the show. Having now lived in London for 6 years, and one copy of Austerity Britain later, I enjoyed the show like never before.

End of part one.

While waiting for the music evening to begin, they played us the audio from Radio London in April 1964 premiering “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” This was interesting as the DJ spelt out the name, and explained they were playing the single before it was released to gauge public opinion for Deram. It didn’t assume any media-savvy on the part of the audience. Good.

DogFacedBoy has given a pretty good outline of the shows. Time for Blackburn showed that TB was doing the extraordinarily corny jokes that he now tweets all the way back then. DFB forgot to mention the forgettable performance of Keith Hampstead doing his new single “I Started A Joke”. Where is Keith now?

Look Hear! was fantastic, the real hidden gem of the evening. Pristine quality copies of the shows. I was watching the Black Sabbath piece wondering “who he?” on the vocals. A bit of googling last night taught me that this Sabbath footage is very rare: Walker was a temp. vocalist who had previously done time in The Idle Race and Fleetwood Mac who had been drafted in to replace Ozzy. Look Hear! was the only public outing for the DW-version of Sabbath before Ozzy took his old job back. They never even made it to the studio. The clip last night hasn’t been seen in full since 1978. So, hen’s teeth material.

My favourite piece was The Selector singing Too Much Pressure while the stage was invaded by about 100 local 10-19 years olds.

The 1976 DIddy Hamilton TOTP reënforced the “punk had to happen” maxim. DFB forgot to mention that it featured R & J Stone “And we do it”, in a performance like this one:

And so to Pink Floyd. The tape is/was in dire condition. The second verse and most of the second chorus is essentially missing. But it is amazing. The Floyd look fantastic.

The rest of the 1967 TOTP was great.

When they reshowed the Floyd again at the end it was even better because you knew what to expect, in terms of distortion, so you could enjoy what you got. It’s as if the tape was trying to remember the performance, instead of record it.

According to the curators, the tape has been handed back to the BBC and Pink Floyd management saying “it could be used as a DVD extra.” I’m curious to know who would have had access to a domestic video recorder in 1967 - the BFI notes state that it was a significant rock person who taped it originally. Townshend was my guess or George Harrison via Dhani perhaps?

So, Word Massive, check those boxes of VHS tapes in the attic for any gems.

I remember Dave Davies being wrongly introduced as Ray. I think he actually corrected fluff before he started playing - have I remembered that right? It was a long time ago...

Stone clip was hilarious as he kept cracking up all the way thru and she wasn't having no nonsense. We remarked on his similarity to Carlos The Jackal

And Keith Hampstead was so shockingly awful I had tried to erase him from history completely. John Walker's 'And I Love Her' wasn't that great either,

Now recall Blackburn's quip to Daltrey barechested in his brown leather fringey vest - "Nice to see you keeping abreast of the times, Roger' got a great 'You prat. If we weren't on television....' look

I was at the first bit too - was surprising to see Iannuci acting onscreen and his clip and the Morris voxpops went down a storm. I agree that the Barker sitcom was rather good, better than some of the stuff of his that has emerged on DVD.

Also good to see another clip of Heil Honey I'm Home rather than the usual one. There has been far more risky stuff aired since I don't see why it couldn't get some kind of airing even in its rather downgraded condition

The audience for Look Hear were indeed very entertaining a) for the cameras seemingly moving down kids and bashing them out of the way to get a better shot and (b) the one big punk bloke who was desperate to get onstage with The Swinging Cats (n their epeleptic fit dancer) and was one of the first to get up next to Pauline Black. Also loved yer man from The Beat's white teardrop guitar.

The guy who intro'd the Look Hear clip said he had six episodes on tape which included The Specials and others. It was in astonishingly good quality it would be great to see more.

Is there any way to get hold of copies of the Look! Hear! videos?

I was in the audience for several of these, and remember seeing the Swinging Cats, Magnum and The Selecter.

"The audience for Look Hear were indeed very entertaining a) for the cameras seemingly moving down kids and bashing them out of the way to get a better shot" - yup, and you should have seen the faces and heard the language of the camera operators (and this at the BBC too!).

"My favourite piece was The Selector singing Too Much Pressure while the stage was invaded by about 100 local 10-19 years olds." - as was mine, I was one of those 100 local kids (hence I would love to see the video). PS. I swiped a drum-stick from The Selecter, ah happy days at Pebble Mill.

at the NFT was from the personal collection of one of the presenters who just asked one of the crew to run him off copies in stunning quality. It may well be a rights nightmare to release but i'd love to see em

We were warned that if dodgy cameraphone footage of any material turned up on Youtube then there would be no of these unearthed music TV events in the future.