Lindisfarne are awesome. I’m a 38 year old chappie who, and it’s a sincere blessing, through my late Father was brought up with a diet of Cockney Rebel, Toto, Genesis etc etc. I resemble greatly the late, great Geordie genius Mr. Alan Hull, I continue to wear flared jeans/trousers, cravats, velvet jackets etc and I would have traded eternity to have a wee dram with Mr. Alan Hull, who evidently could drink anyone under the table!
I was 18 when this concert was played,I was tunnel vision on disco and reggae.Masses of brilliant music floated past me like wind driven clouds.i remember this particular song from being a kid and others of a similar vein,I e Simon and Garfunkels Sounds of Silence but most just floated past.Still we have TH-cam where I can now catch up with the clouds that floated past me.
What a cracking programme "Rock Goes To College" was. Love this song-I think it is Lindisfarne's best. Ray Jackson (on Mandolin and backing vocals on this video), treated us to a live version of this song when he played for us at Grayshott Folk Club with The Acoustic Gathering back in October 2011. They also played "Meet Me On The Corner". It was agreat night and Ray Jackson is a top bloke, in my opinion.
Different times...better times when music was just bloody good quality, raw, natural and talent running through it. We are soaked in over produced sterile impotent rubbish these days.
I know that bands do variations on a theme when performing live. I understand that. But tbh, I prefer the studio recorded version of this song. This live version doesn't add anything. It just subtracts. It's a very good song, though.
@ Copyright This......There is still good music out there, just don't expect to hear it on the radio. You have to seek it out and it can be extremely rewarding.
I'm not talking about the quality of his performance or the recording of it (I prefer live anyway). I'm talking about the way he's chosen to arrange and phrase the song- but we'll agree to differ anyway.
I was at Essex Uni then but missed this. Damnations! Ents managed to get in lots of really good bands. Hello fellow Essex grad, unless of course you came in from the town to see the concert.
My Biggest problem with life is that mine should have started 40 years earlier. Music just simply lacks the poetic beautiful qualities it once had. Next time you reminisce of the good times and musical genius of the 60's and 70's spare a thought for us younger generation who are expected to be satisfied with big black men who talk into a microphone about how great they are over a generic synth reece and call it music, then charge you an insulting price for it. You don't know how lucky you are.
"Banshee playing magician sitting Lotus on the floor, belly dancing beauty with a power driven saw, had my share of night mares, didn't think there could be much more, then in walked Rodric Usher with the Lady Eleanor" Alan Hull was inspired by Edgar Allen Poes The House of Usher to write the song. Us Geordies in Essex are always misunderstood by the way which is why we prefer to stay up here
@@toshishimura The first word is "Bashee", not "Banshee". A Bashee is a type of Indian flute. And apart from passing reference to Roderick Usher, the song has absolutely nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe's story.
This would have been much better had the vocalist not insisted on messing about with the original melody and doing a piss-poor Bob Dylan impression. I think after punk, a lot of bands felt they had to rock things up a bit.
Exactly. Even Gallagher & Lyle rocked up 'When I'm Dead and Gone' at the end of their concerts during the punk era - but that didn't bother me in the slightest, and neither does Alan's lead vocal on this version of Lindisfarne's best song.
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Great band. Shame they didn't get the plaudits they deserved.
I grew up in the Sixties and Seventies and Lidisfarne were always there and always being brilliant.
Such a brilliant song. RIP Alan. ❤
Lindisfarne. I remember them. Fog on the Tyne, a classic.
It's amazing when you look back there was so many great bands -glad I lived though it !
One of the most romantic tunes I've ever heard,together with Judy Blue Eyes from CSNY........
Lindisfarne are awesome. I’m a 38 year old chappie who, and it’s a sincere blessing, through my late Father was brought up with a diet of Cockney Rebel, Toto, Genesis etc etc. I resemble greatly the late, great Geordie genius Mr. Alan Hull, I continue to wear flared jeans/trousers, cravats, velvet jackets etc and I would have traded eternity to have a wee dram with Mr. Alan Hull, who evidently could drink anyone under the table!
I was 18 when this concert was played,I was tunnel vision on disco and reggae.Masses of brilliant music floated past me like wind driven clouds.i remember this particular song from being a kid and others of a similar vein,I e Simon and Garfunkels Sounds of Silence but most just floated past.Still we have TH-cam where I can now catch up with the clouds that floated past me.
Saw them live earlier this year, still as good as ever!
What a cracking programme "Rock Goes To College" was. Love this song-I think it is Lindisfarne's best. Ray Jackson (on Mandolin and backing vocals on this video), treated us to a live version of this song when he played for us at Grayshott Folk Club with The Acoustic Gathering back in October 2011. They also played "Meet Me On The Corner". It was agreat night and Ray Jackson is a top bloke, in my opinion.
AC/DC played this venue too ...same year. What a contrast !
Ray Jackson Played The Mandolin on Rod Stewarts Mandolin Wind.
And Maggie May, but never got the name check (royalties) Credit notes quoted, "the bloke from Lindisfarne"!!!😮
I only appreciated this music after I had lived through it.
Now I can't get enough of it.
Seen these guys at Glasgows Apollo in 79 ,, amazing , then again when Allan hull passed they played a few gigs in Bourbon st Glasgow venue
...never gets old...
welcome video of a great song.
Love this song, so beautiful ❤xx
Screw perfection, I love this
I was at that uni at that time and strangely missed this!
I went to Uni at Essex in the 80s, bollocks I missed them but I did see salt N peppa who were awesome
Just brilliant
Absolutely underrated Seen them at the city hall Newcastle Xmas concerts
Alan Hull was a genius. His Pipedream album is a classic.
Different times...better times when music was just bloody good quality, raw, natural and talent running through it. We are soaked in over produced sterile impotent rubbish these days.
It's his song, he can do what he wants!
Introduced by Pete Drummond, ex DJ from Radio London 266 on the MV Galaxy.
CLASSIC no Words
Brilliant 👏
Great track, love it :)
Rock goes to college, happy days
Being my alma mater , I wish I had been there to attend it, but far too young, sadly.
wonderful,have a Greatest hits vinyl,& always figured this song is from the days of King Arthur...beautiful!!
very true
I was there...!!!
Name of my late grandmother... 😐👍✝️
They were the most underrated band in the world , blew the Beatles away in my opinion
I know that bands do variations on a theme when performing live. I understand that. But tbh, I prefer the studio recorded version of this song. This live version doesn't add anything. It just subtracts. It's a very good song, though.
@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw . I agree, but we have both.
@ Copyright This......There is still good music out there, just don't expect to hear it on the radio. You have to seek it out and it can be extremely rewarding.
I'm not talking about the quality of his performance or the recording of it (I prefer live anyway). I'm talking about the way he's chosen to arrange and phrase the song- but we'll agree to differ anyway.
One of my all time greats top banana
born too late for my favourite music like this stuff
Never too late, enjoy !!
Hey, I was there!
I was at Essex Uni then but missed this. Damnations! Ents managed to get in lots of really good bands.
Hello fellow Essex grad, unless of course you came in from the town to see the concert.
Excellent:
Supertramp did this show i recall ...
Not the best version to be fair. Love this song.
anyone old enough would know anybody over 14 had facial hair in the 70s even the women
I've still got mine - haven't shaved since 1970.
This is better than Be Bop Deluxe
And Sailor
Ray Jackson playing his ass off but only one camera shot of him? C'mon now
no - I've yet to find an amateur recording of a live gig that sounds better than the record!
My Biggest problem with life is that mine should have started 40 years earlier. Music just simply lacks the poetic beautiful qualities it once had. Next time you reminisce of the good times and musical genius of the 60's and 70's spare a thought for us younger generation who are expected to be satisfied with big black men who talk into a microphone about how great they are over a generic synth reece and call it music, then charge you an insulting price for it. You don't know how lucky you are.
You do have some good music, but even my daughters like a lot of my "oldie" music:-)
off white's the new black.x
What is the 1st lyric of this song? why is he barely dancing beauty with a power driven saw?
"Banshee playing magician sitting Lotus on the floor, belly dancing beauty with a power driven saw, had my share of night mares, didn't think there could be much more, then in walked Rodric Usher with the Lady Eleanor" Alan Hull was inspired by Edgar Allen Poes The House of Usher to write the song. Us Geordies in Essex are always misunderstood by the way which is why we prefer to stay up here
@@toshishimura
The first word is "Bashee", not "Banshee". A Bashee is a type of Indian flute.
And apart from passing reference to Roderick Usher, the song has absolutely nothing to do with Edgar Allen Poe's story.
@@mandolinic oh yes it does!! Do ur research then apologise!!😉
I think they are still performing
Studio recording with headphones on.
I don't think i've ever heard better guitar, except maybe Lakky Lady by Status Quo.
I hear It better ♥️
Pete Drummond ...
@zincfreud - Belly dancing
Yes we know. Do you think it sounds better than the original arrangement?
Pete Drummond clearly thinking hes cooler then he is 😆
I love this song but this version isnt very good, lets be honest now.
This would have been much better had the vocalist not insisted on messing about with the original melody and doing a piss-poor Bob Dylan impression. I think after punk, a lot of bands felt they had to rock things up a bit.
Exactly. Even Gallagher & Lyle rocked up 'When I'm Dead and Gone' at the end of their concerts during the punk era - but that didn't bother me in the slightest, and neither does Alan's lead vocal on this version of Lindisfarne's best song.
Beautiful song, my fav of theirs but this is bloody awful
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I was there too. And they were duff. Out of tune catterwaulling in the air.
They'd probably had too much Newky Broon - not for the first time, and not for the last! That was Lindisfarne!
Born in the wrong generation:( wish this kind of stuff was around now
It is still around .. just not on the radio/telly whatever ... but good music never dies...
You know it's crap when its compared unfavourably to Status Quo.
Nicely out of tune....
Beatles crap lindisfarne great
This is awfull!
Mr. Alan Hull, shall be forever a pioneer, don't give me The Beatles because they are hideous amateurs, whereas Lindisfarne are the Northern Lights.