The Golden Age Of TV..........

Like Manny's thread but different.........TV performances from the 70's on a range of shows like Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Old Grey Whistle Test, Music Laden etc........


Who are those two mugs at the start .........

That AC/DC clip rules and Bon was the man.

Rose Tattoo what a cool band that I missed out on til a few years ago.

More Manny..........

I love Sweet and that has to be one of the nastiest bass lines I have ever heard! Nice little guitar solo.

For a second there I thought Johnny Thunder might actually be playing in tune! Cool song and cool live clip, sadly the first time I heard this song was from Sid Vicious's solo LP 'Sid Sings' which I believe also features Johnny Thunders.


Excellent live clip of Aerosmith and after watching this live clip, it makes me wonder why Jack Douglas brought in ringers to play on the studio version of this song.

manny wrote:

I love Sweet and that has to be one of the nastiest bass lines I have ever heard! Nice little guitar solo.

People underestimate the Sweet, that is just one nasty pissed off performance. Attitude in spades rendering alot of Punk and Heavy Metal since rather tame.


Talking about attitude here's the TV performance that started a revolution in the UK.........

The Sweet were completely misunderstood, I think it maybe because of their earlier hits such as 'Wig Wam Bam' and 'Little Willy'. which btw I still like those tunes but they became a whole different animal then what they started out as of.

One of my fav performances from the New York Dolls.

Not from the 70's but it may as well have been..........

Very cool RP!!!! Never heard of Cruel Sea but that was a killer live performance.

An old classic (even though lip synched):

"Bowzer" was my hero when I was a kid.

Coloured Balls in 1972.........

Fat Freddy wrote:

"Bowzer" was my hero when I was a kid.

LOL!! I remember this show!

I'm sure I saw The SAHB on American TV back then. I don't think it was The Midnight Special, so it must have Ben Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. I have a tape of a concert they did in New York which might be the same tape that aired on TV, but I'm not sure. I remember Alex painting "Vambo" on the wall in both performances though. It was the first time I'd ever heard of Alex Harvey.

update: It was a 1976 (?) show shared with Grover Washington Jr(!) and People's Choice (whoever that was?).

Muppet Show?