Retro Rockin' Midnight Special Video Thread

mike65

Found these, from a show called (you've guest already, right?) the Midnight Special which ran on NCB in the good old days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=503gY16QU_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiA8AVpf6M4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NIFfbSt4GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ0VNT9vTls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lUYsy2MD54

Now why didn't we have TV like this?

damonjewel

Some great clips there, muchos gracias for the Roxy Music, it made my day,

Anymore?

120_Minutes

now i know what show this was taken from. this was 1973.


i'll say that again: 1973!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U

utter genius.

damonjewel

Actually I find this really annoying about the Old Grey whistle test, they must be sitting on an absolute goldmine of live studio footage from the seventies and eighties but anytime there is a retrospective done by the BBC we get Lynard Skynard and Meat Loaf. Thankfully that Focus clip is one that escaped

120_Minutes

were you not aware of the whistle test dvd?

damonjewel

I am and it completely illustrates my point,

Look at the tracklist, yes there are some cracking bits there but then there is some awful ones and ones we have seen agaian and again and again. E.g. I know that CAN appeared on the show, we never get to see that session.

Tracklist: Alice Cooper 'Under My Wheels' 1971 / Elton John 'Tiny Dancer' 1971 / Curtis Mayfield 'We Gotta Have Peace' 1972 / Randy Newman 'Political Science' 1972 / Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge 'Help Me Make It Through The Night' 1972 / Bill Withers 'Ain't No Sunshine' 1972 / Focus 'Sylvia/Hocus Pocus' 1972 / Rory Gallagher 'Hands Off' 1973 / John Martyn 'May You Never' 1973 / The Wailers 'Stir It Up' 1973 / Roxy Music 'Do The Strand' 1973 / The Edgar Winter Group 'Frankenstein' 1973 / New York Dolls 'Jet Boy' 1973 / Tim Buckley 'Dolphins' 1974 / Captain Beefheart 'Upon The My O My' 1974 / Little Feat 'Rock 'N' Roll Doctor' 1975 / Dr Feelgood 'Roxette' 1975 / John Lennon 'Stand By Me' 1975 / The Sensational Alex Harvey Band 'Give My Compliments to the Chef' 1975 / Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Freebird' 1975 / Emmylou Harris 'Amarillo' 1976 / Bonnie Raitt 'Too Long at the Fair' 1976 / Tom Waits 'Tom Traubert's Blues' 1977 / Otway & Barrett 'Really Free' 1977 / Talking Heads 'Psycho Killer' 1978 / XTC 'Statue of Liberty' 1978 / Blondie '(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear' 1978 / Val Doonican & Charlie McCoy 'Stone Fox Chase' 1978 / Meatloaf 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light'1978 / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 'American Girl' 1978 / The Police 'Can't Stand Losing You' 1978 / Bruce Springsteen 'Rosalita' 1979 / Iggy Pop 'I'm Bored' 1979 / Tubeway Army 'Are Friends Electric?' 1979 / The Specials 'Message To You Rudi' 1979 / The Damned 'Smash It Up/I Just Can't Be Happy Today' 1979 / The Ramones 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' 1980 / PIL 'Careering' 1980 / The Teardrop Explodes 'Reward' 1980 / U2 'I Will Follow' 1981 / Nine Below Zero 'Stone Fox Chase' 1981 / Japan 'Ghosts' 1982 / Robert Wyatt 'Shipbuilding' 1983 / REM 'Moon River' and 'Pretty Persuasion' 1984 / Simply Red 'Holding Back The Years' 1985.