Best 3 dollars i ever spent on a concert in 1973 along with humble pie. Im 70 yrs.old now and get the stoke i got in 1973. Greatest of times and freakin great music came out it.
3 bucks huh? Wow! I saw Humble Pie at the Earth Tavern in Portland, Ore ( here) for 7.50 and 9.00 Besides Queen, its still best if all my concert attendings! We were both blessed!!
No doubt they have chops but their music did not blend well. The phrases were all over the place and didn’t make sense. Lyrics were garbage. This song had potential but was not pieced together very well.
Love “Blowin’ Free”2:17Ted Turners lead is brilliant. Feels like this mystical-magical song is about lil’ ole me; “Her hair was golden brown, she was far away, I found it hard to reach her.” I’m an Enigma…✌️
1973 -- The greatest year ever. 19 yrs. old, Norton Motorcycle, flying high performance airplanes, traveling and listening to THIS kind of live music every day. Yes it was living a dream....
I usually run to bavk in black and we will rock you ( to warm up) 😊. My bf is going to see them tonight at the Arcada in st. Charles. With the only guy that likes them. He plays band sings blues and rock harmonica.
Wishbone Ash is a band you never hear of anymore. You would think you would hear this song on classic rock stations but you never do. That's a shame because this is one of the best rock tunes ever!
Definitely Wishbone Ash, ive been a 5 decades fan of this outfit they were the first rock band to play tradional ""Celtic and historic ""music and they were great
Those who control radio just stick to the same hundred songs. Even the Stones have put out great music in later years - but it's never played !!!### Oh, and Ted Turner's playing just had a minimalist beauty to it !!!
Agree 💯%. So wish they’d been on my radar back then and I’d seen them perform, like the prog rock genre. Thank goodness for these vids, I love this song especially, it feels like it’s about me; Her hair was golden brown, she was far away, I found it hard to reach her; I’m and Enigma…✌️
This was a song that I related to in the early 70s. The girl in my case was so beautiful and cool that she would only ever be in my dreams. We've now been married for 44 years, she's still beautiful and cool and I'm still smitten!
I'm now 70 ex. Drummer and saw these guys and humble pie together and your right both of those bands deserve props. Should be in the rock hall of fame in Cleveland.
This is great. At the risk of sounding old: I think rock music had much more spirit in the seventies and eighties of ast century than it has now. Rock groups like Ash, Led Zeppelin, deep Purple etc. seems to be a thing from the past because no new such groups are emerging any more... Too bad, I will just have to listen to thses old songs!
Every member of the band deserve recognition for their contribution to music especially in the early 70s. Their debut album was a portent to their talent.
My debut live concert in 1978..... Sheffield City Hall......ticket cost about 8 quid I seem to remember......hooked for life......so professional and so good.
1973 senior year. I was awakened every morning by Scoot in the Morning, 99.5 fm out of New Orleans, WRNO . Sweet memories. Young people today have no idea, but I guess every generation says that about their young folks. Enjoy it while you can. Your youth is fleeting.
Roger: WRNO; the Rock of New Orleans! Long live Mike & J. Mark Costello, Weird Wayne, Your Pal Al... Concert trips to Baton Rouge & Gulfport on the WRNO Magic Bus... Back when AOR ruled the air waves. Album Hour... King Biscuit on Sunday nights... WRNO was the soundtrack to my teenage years, and my 20's.
Ah yes... but how about the Deluxe Edition of Argus with a live BBC set from the Paris Theatre in 1972? A good way to end a hard day at work, I'd say...
@@stankatic8182 Yeah probably right but it’s hardly been out of one of my CD players in years. UFO double is also fab and some of the Whitesnake also good. But as I’m very much stuck in Classic Rock territory. Was in Glasgow to see AC/DC doing the Blood live and I can’t forget the mighty Quo who I also saw do the live album there. Sadly that venue no longer exists. But those were the days of Man and Guitar and a Marshall Plexi or Superlead. No big fancy stadiums and flashing lights and pedalboards the size of suitcases. Just hard rock at its best.
I always liked AC/DC live from Donnington Castle. It’s basically a greatest hits with more lively sped up versions of everything. Whole Lotta Rosie really cooks. After hearing those versions so many times, when I hear Back in Black come on the radio it just seems slow and really laid back lol
I’m 32 now. I have never heard of this band before, my family friend Tom took me to see this band for the first time in my life until that night. That was 7 years ago. What an amazing night of my life, I got to meet mr Powell for like a minute. My father was in line. I guess from my memory mr Powell what did you think of the show? I guess I said it was BRILLIANT*. He laughed his ass off. My dad and Tom told me he is Scottish and that is why he laughed, he enjoyed it.
Saw them perform about 3 years ago. Only original member is Andy Powell and he was absolutely amazing! Hubby saw them in the 70’s in their prime! ❤❤❤🎶✌️🎸
And I am 66 with a similar story. My high school and college days were so full of the explosion of great talent and great music exploring many directions. Today's "music?" Ack!
They were a great band. I saw them 3 times in a club in New Orleans called The Warehouse.I was 14 and 15 & 16. Still have all my ticket stubs. What a great time it was for music. Lisa
The Warehouse was one of the best venues for live music in the 70's; saw so many great shows there- Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Blue Oyster Cult, ELO, Dave Mason, Eric Burton, Alvin Lee, Allman Bros., Peter Frampton, Rush, Brian Auger, etc., etc.
My first concert Head East, Aerosmith and Wishbone Ash at Mississippi River Festival Edwardsville Illinois.....the two leads were amazingly powerful for me.....this is the line up that I like the best ....but the newer ones are quite good as well....am 60 now still a fan....
This is definitely a great feel-good rockin' classic! Full of great riffs, superb tempo-changes, the opening is excellent ... Wishbone Ash is one of the most underrated and generally unknown bands of all time. My brother turned me on to these guys when he took his stero and record collection to college, and left me virtually tune-less. Ash, Yes, Todd Rundgren, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk and Dave Mason were the five albums he left me. Been a HUGE fan of five of the six ever since ...
Some of the most beautiful melodies ever played are on this Album. Still playing the vinyl after all these years and it still sound magic. Saw them live at Lancaster University in 76 or 77 (too old to remember which) but I’ll never forget the gig.
Love these guys and this song. Way back, when I was 18, 1971, a couple of friends and I would drive up to Kenosha WI to go drinking from the burbs of Chicago. IL still was 21 and WI was 18. We found one of those college stations way at the end of the dial that played progressive rock songs and when we heard Phoenix we went wild. I had to run out and find that album and bought it as soon as I could. Loved all the songs on it. Love their work.
Back when bands had talent, wrote their own songs and played all the instruments themselves. Argus is one of the best albums ever done. Top 100 easy out of tens of thousands.
Saw them in the 70s in colo spgs Colorado. Argus made me want to march into battle with the king. .im 63 now and still listen to argus a couple times a month.
You got that right !!..Argus possibly one of the best English rock albums ever ..certainly ever track perfect ..seen em in 82 in Lisdoonvarna..line up had Laurie Wiseman Andy Powell and Trevor Boulder from Bowies band on bass ..brilliant
I can't believe this concert is 51 years old, such a great rock band. I saw them live in Waikiki back in 1974 when I was 18 and there was Kona Gold being passed all around and we were all tripping on blotter acid. Good times if you were a Head...
I so loved this band. Had a hard time finding others that liked em' too. At times it was difficult to find their albums. They rocked big time. I particularly loved the harmony guitars. These guys and the Allman Bros.
Schön wie die Menschen abgefahren sind zu den Songs von Whisborn Ash damals in den siebziger Jahren. Schön daß ich auch diese Zeit damals mit 16 Jahren miterlebt habe. Klasse Band und damals eine meiner Lieblingsband. Geile Songs haben die herausgebracht. Danke 🌅
There was a harmonious richness to their sound, it seemed to be laced with inherent beauty bound up in myth and legend. Argus was a rock album of seminal importance, these guys played with control and passion which rendered them more like a warm desert wind than a rock juggernaut.
Excellent post ROSS!! You summed up the parts that truly made the unique "wishbone" sound. They are quintessentially british as humble pie, zepp, mott the hoople and uriah heep and iron maiden after them. Even though those bands sound nothing alike their english blood and unique phrasing are the ever present but suttle voicing of these bands. Long live the (brian may) Queen!!
LOVE Wishbone Ash, I saw them during the (US) Live Dates Tour, the middle band was Camel and the opening band making their first tour was a band a had never heard of, but when on to be sorta big..........KISS (really)...!
Being a Wishbone fanatic followed and saw this band live all over the world.....they are the best ever at what they do.......twin lead guitars still sounds so fresh.....roll on November Edinburgh, Glasgow then Lochgelly what a week for me that will be good times coming back.....remember never ‘ Throw Down the Sword’....
I loved seeing Wishbone Ash live. I remember the guitarists standing back to back and walking each other back and forth across the stage jamming out killer riffs. Very cool!
Whenever I can I turn my son on to some of the old music that I grew up listening to and he always tells me that he has already heard that! He is soon to be 39 years old! And he knows more about the music I grew up with than I do! Amazing! A very musically inclined young man!😊❤❤❤
So many memories! First love and the introduction to REAL music! What an awsome group of musicians, with a unique sound! The title track Time Was, says it all, an era gone but not forgotten!
Ted Turner was seriously underrated, it was his skill and talent that allowed Andy Powell off the hook and be able to play all the fancy stuff, they had a telepathic closeness in their playing.
I'm sad and happy at the same time if that was possible. I absolutely loved Wishbone Ash and saw them live at Birmingham Town Hall, that famous venue that was so much part of my musical education back in the early 70s. I had all their early albums and had forgotten all about them hence the mixed emotions. I miss those days so badly when we had all our lives in front of us and everything seemed possible. Such a great time to be alive and in your teens and early 20s.
Agree with you 100% I'm proud to say that I am of the few who listen to wishbone Ash and I'm only 20. I saw Matin turners wishbone in Shepherds bush almost a month ago. Must have been 1 out of 4 of the youngest there. This band rocks big time. Wish my generation had music like this now. But we dont. Anyway Rock on!
Happy Birthday to Steve Upton, drummer with the great blues rockers Wishbone Ash. It's a very rare story in the hectic, unpredictable world of music that a guy, especially a drummer, would stay with a band for 2 decades. That alone should win an award of some kind. He was born today in 1946.
Wishbone produced some of the finist rock during my infancy. A critical time as i entered alcoholism and truency but my education was during these years and thank God i bore witness to a magnificent band.
So great. My old band used to play 3 WA tunes and they were all tight as hell yet like sailing across the ceiling. To me WA never sounded like anybody else.
I graduated from high school in 1973, so I am very familiar with this band and this song. Wishbone Ash was noted for its innovative use of twin lead guitars and progressive folk fusion. Great band. This was my favorite song.
@Bob Hoffman See Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_Ash And they were there in the early days. www.offbeat.com/articles/wishbone-ash-twin-guitar-attack/ southingtonobserver.com/local-news/schools/the-double-lead-salute-of-wishbone-ash-fires-straight-ahead/
Best 3 dollars i ever spent on a concert in 1973 along with humble pie. Im 70 yrs.old now and get the stoke i got in 1973. Greatest of times and freakin great music came out it.
3 bucks huh? Wow!
I saw Humble Pie at the Earth Tavern in Portland, Ore ( here) for 7.50 and 9.00 Besides Queen, its still best if all my concert attendings!
We were both blessed!!
@@ltodd6184 In the immortal word of Eric Cartman : I really, really, really hate you guys ! ;
I saw them in 73 too. I was a senior in HS. They played with Blue Oyster Cult. It was fantastic.
Cool mon...Cool memory !
Some ways it's so nice to be old. But the whole music scene is completely fake now. At least was real back then. I'm 63.
This was a fabulous band that never received the recognition they deserved !
Argus was a very popular album in '72. WA sort of fizzled out shortly afterwards. One of my favorite Rock albums. :)
They had some amazing guitar solos/jams within many tunes. love um.
I'm sporting a wide stance
Everybody at my school had at least 1 Ash LP (usually _Argus)_
No doubt they have chops but their music did not blend well. The phrases were all over the place and didn’t make sense. Lyrics were garbage. This song had potential but was not pieced together very well.
Love “Blowin’ Free”2:17Ted Turners lead is brilliant. Feels like this mystical-magical song is about lil’ ole me;
“Her hair was golden brown, she was far away, I found it hard to reach her.”
I’m an Enigma…✌️
1973 -- The greatest year ever. 19 yrs. old, Norton Motorcycle, flying high performance airplanes, traveling and listening to THIS kind of live music every day. Yes it was living a dream....
750 Commando
@@johnthonig8832 Hey, nowadays, I ride a Triumph, the epitome of British Cool along with the Kinks and PG Wodehouse !
Sunderland won the cup!
I was 21 a wee bit older but with the same feelings.
18, long hair no money a BSA hang overs and into Hendrix as well happy days 😢
In 73' I was 16. The song, the audience. What a time. Take me back.
A very underated band . what a time for music ! glad i survived the seventies to talk about it .
Now 69 years old, but still rocking, doing half marathon still, music like wishbone ash keep me moving mile for mile, one of the greatest bands ever
Am 72 and still walking 20 odd miles a week and saw the band in Lochgelly a year or so ago.
I usually run to bavk in black and we will rock you ( to warm up) 😊. My bf is going to see them tonight at the Arcada in st. Charles. With the only guy that likes them. He plays band sings blues and rock harmonica.
Unexpected thing is how these videos are giving me particular appreciation for that twin lead vocal attack. Great singers, not just players.
YESSS! You are so right ! Great singers and musicians!!!
Wishbone Ash is a band you never hear of anymore. You would think you would hear this song on classic rock stations but you never do. That's a shame because this is one of the best rock tunes ever!
Totally agree. The intro is phenomenal!!!
Corporate radio stations only play corporate owned songs.
@@sparkymcplumpthepolydactyl2079 they are still gigging in the UK
Definitely Wishbone Ash, ive been a 5 decades fan of this outfit they were the first rock band to play tradional ""Celtic and historic ""music and they were great
Those who control radio just stick to the same hundred songs. Even the Stones have put out great music in later years - but it's never played !!!### Oh, and Ted Turner's playing just had a minimalist beauty to it !!!
Saw this band in Winterland (San Francisco) what a treat for guitar lovers
An absolute milestone in 70’s British prog rock
Agree 💯%.
So wish they’d been on my radar back then and I’d seen them perform, like the prog rock genre. Thank goodness for these vids, I love this song especially, it feels like it’s about me;
Her hair was golden brown, she was far away, I found it hard to reach her;
I’m and Enigma…✌️
It was a lot cooler being 20 in the 70’s than 70 in the 20’s
Brother ain't that gospel. I wouldn't change a freaking thing.k kanoa.
Music like this will never be made again, Please help and preserve it to share with our children and grandchildren
Hope you did.
This was a song that I related to in the early 70s. The girl in my case was so beautiful and cool that she would only ever be in my dreams. We've now been married for 44 years, she's still beautiful and cool and I'm still smitten!
shangrilaresort -congrats!
I totally understand where you are coming from!
Great Story ! Is she still in your case though? You should really let her out occasionally.....:)
Well done, man !
Cool man!
I was fortunate enough to see these guys back in 1973 and 72. They are way under appreciated.
I had the 8 track
I'm now 70 ex. Drummer and saw these guys and humble pie together and your right both of those bands deserve props. Should be in the rock hall of fame in Cleveland.
I remember this as I was a senior in High School! Loved it then and still listen to Wishbone Ash to this day!!
Saw them in a small pub in HIGH STREET, Columbus, Ohio '73
Best decision we ever made 🎶🎶🎶
What a pleasure to watch this great band in Belfast back in the day. Fabulous concert.
Argus was one of the great rock albums of all time.
It certainly was Sir.
yes,one of ten !
It is the possibly the best. The songwriting and performance on the album are amazing!
@@georgehatfield2171 So true!
Still is!☺️
Just another piece of magic music as a teenager growing up with this.🏴
Unsung heroes are Wishbone Ash. Their albums from the early 1970s have stood the test of time.
WISHBONE ASH WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITAR BANDS EVER, THEY WROTE GREAT MUSIC ,THEY WERE ONE OF A KIND, GREAT MUSICIANS. Bob.
This is great. At the risk of sounding old: I think rock music had much more spirit in the seventies and eighties of ast century than it has now. Rock groups like Ash, Led Zeppelin, deep Purple etc. seems to be a thing from the past because no new such groups are emerging any more... Too bad, I will just have to listen to thses old songs!
Actually there are a tremendous amount of new bands that are rocking out there... 🤘
@@airzillarocks ill take me olde r n r
100% correct!!!!!
Yes man..BAD COMPANY ''another group I still listen too
Absolutely 100000% fantastic
Takes me back - still playing all these nearly every day, nothing like a talent to last 'til the end of time!
I'm 26 and my dad take me to a concert today, they are still playing that good 😲
Every member of the band deserve recognition for their contribution to music especially in the early 70s. Their debut album was a portent to their talent.
High respect to all four members. High quality music like this is (unfortunatly) no made anymore. Thanks to all members of Wishbone Ash. Much respect.
They are still going but in separate bands, the first 3 Wishbone albums are brilliant rock albums and vastly underrated. 🎸🎸🏴🏴☮️☮️👍👍😎😎
My debut live concert in 1978..... Sheffield City Hall......ticket cost about 8 quid I seem to remember......hooked for life......so professional and so good.
Brighton Dome for me..... ears still ringing 3 days later !! 1972... 50p on the floor
@@skookumjack 6 years later and £7.50 more.....I was seen off!! 😁
Sheffield City Hall for me too, although it must have been 1977 as that was my last year at the Poly.
A superb 70's live Rock Band. Saw them a couple of times with this line up. Blowing Free was always a highlight
1973 senior year. I was awakened every morning by Scoot in the Morning, 99.5 fm out of New Orleans, WRNO . Sweet memories. Young people today have no idea, but I guess every generation says that about their young folks. Enjoy it while you can. Your youth is fleeting.
Roger: WRNO; the Rock of New Orleans!
Long live Mike & J. Mark Costello, Weird Wayne, Your Pal Al...
Concert trips to Baton Rouge & Gulfport on the WRNO Magic Bus...
Back when AOR ruled the air waves.
Album Hour...
King Biscuit on Sunday nights...
WRNO was the soundtrack to my teenage years, and my 20's.
Follow up...
Zebra used to do a KILLER VERSION of this back in their early days.
@@lespauldisciple3349 True Dat, my Brother!!
This is one criminally underrated band.
I was 12 when my brother played me this band and i have loved them ever since and now I'm 60
Love these guys, this song. Thanks for sharing.
I saw them in concert when i was a young lass. Fantastic. Still listen to "Live Dates" often.❤
Great Song by these guys. And great guitar picking
Every Wishbone Ash post band using duel + guitars just say Thank You
I was 16 when I bought Argus in 1972 , still play today.
I first heard WA in '73. Have always loved their music. Just saw Andy Powell in Lake Worth, FL and he can still play it!
Argus greatest studio album ever!! Greatest live album? Humble Pie at the Fillmore. Those were the days oh youngsters of the modern world.
Ah yes... but how about the Deluxe Edition of Argus with a live BBC set from the Paris Theatre in 1972? A good way to end a hard day at work, I'd say...
Greatest live album ? That's quite a stretch there.
@@stankatic8182 Yeah probably right but it’s hardly been out of one of my CD players in years. UFO double is also fab and some of the Whitesnake also good. But as I’m very much stuck in Classic Rock territory. Was in Glasgow to see AC/DC doing the Blood live and I can’t forget the mighty Quo who I also saw do the live album there. Sadly that venue no longer exists. But those were the days of Man and Guitar and a Marshall Plexi or Superlead. No big fancy stadiums and flashing lights and pedalboards the size of suitcases. Just hard rock at its best.
I always liked AC/DC live from Donnington Castle. It’s basically a greatest hits with more lively sped up versions of everything. Whole Lotta Rosie really cooks. After hearing those versions so many times, when I hear Back in Black come on the radio it just seems slow and really laid back lol
seen these rockers in ill.at the auditorium theater in the 70s. great then and now. miss those days. thank god for you tube too relive the past.
such a unique band. Never heard music like this from any other group. Superstars.
I’m 32 now. I have never heard of this band before, my family friend Tom took me to see this band for the first time in my life until that night. That was 7 years ago. What an amazing night of my life, I got to meet mr Powell for like a minute. My father was in line. I guess from my memory mr Powell what did you think of the show? I guess I said it was BRILLIANT*. He laughed his ass off. My dad and Tom told me he is Scottish and that is why he laughed, he enjoyed it.
Why is there only a "Like" button? Where's the "Absolutely f**king love" button?
Fucking ah bro I second third fourth and fifth that comment. Kd. San diego.
Saw them perform about 3 years ago. Only original member is Andy Powell and he was absolutely amazing! Hubby saw them in the 70’s in their prime! ❤❤❤🎶✌️🎸
I'm 52 year old Canadian but didn't get into this band till last year when I bought some used vinyl at a discount store. What an awesome band👍👍
And I am 66 with a similar story. My high school and college days
were so full of the explosion of great talent and great music exploring many directions.
Today's "music?" Ack!
Welcome to the party......I've loved them for almost 50years.....and still do!
God Bless all, who did thought that this band, did not ROCK!!
Wonderful sound all round - they don't make em like that anymore !
I watched this live on Rock Concert in 73, still love this song. Cant think how much better it would sound with a Les Paul, as I have played it since.
They were a great band. I saw them 3 times in a club in New Orleans called The Warehouse.I was 14 and 15 & 16. Still have all my ticket stubs. What a great time it was for music. Lisa
whàt happy dayys ĺise
The Warehouse was one of the best venues for live music in the 70's; saw so many great shows there- Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Blue Oyster Cult, ELO, Dave Mason, Eric Burton, Alvin Lee, Allman Bros., Peter Frampton, Rush, Brian Auger, etc., etc.
They were one of my favorite bands of the 70's and even now. Wishbone ash 4 was one of the all time albums for me and still is.
The Warehouse booked a lot of the same bands as the Armadillo in Austin. 2 of the best concert venues in the country
The Warehouse, New Orleans in March 1976, with Styx opening.
Saw them in London in 73 Brilliant what an Album 💿 Argus 👌🎶🎤🎸🎸
My first concert Head East,
Aerosmith and Wishbone Ash at Mississippi River Festival Edwardsville Illinois.....the two leads were amazingly powerful for me.....this is the line up that I like the best ....but the newer ones are quite good as well....am 60 now still a fan....
This is definitely a great feel-good rockin' classic! Full of great riffs, superb tempo-changes, the opening is excellent ... Wishbone Ash is one of the most underrated and generally unknown bands of all time. My brother turned me on to these guys when he took his stero and record collection to college, and left me virtually tune-less. Ash, Yes, Todd Rundgren, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk and Dave Mason were the five albums he left me. Been a HUGE fan of five of the six ever since ...
Some of the most beautiful melodies ever played are on this Album. Still playing the vinyl after all these years and it still sound magic. Saw them live at Lancaster University in 76 or 77 (too old to remember which) but I’ll never forget the gig.
great band, bit before their time, harbingers really, I loved them then and now.
How couldI have gone through life without listening to these fellas. They're really good. What a revelation!
Love these guys and this song. Way back, when I was 18, 1971, a couple of friends and I would drive up to Kenosha WI to go drinking from the burbs of Chicago. IL still was 21 and WI was 18. We found one of those college stations way at the end of the dial that played progressive rock songs and when we heard Phoenix we went wild. I had to run out and find that album and bought it as soon as I could. Loved all the songs on it. Love their work.
Back when bands had talent, wrote their own songs and played all the instruments themselves. Argus is one of the best albums ever done. Top 100 easy out of tens of thousands.
id put it in the top ten . its that good
absolute
What are you talking about? There's more bands than ever doing that now, get real
I still have this album ☺️
Saw them in the 70s in colo spgs Colorado. Argus made me want to march into battle with the king. .im 63 now and still listen to argus a couple times a month.
Seen them live so so underrated. One of the best live performances I’ve seen. 👍👍👍
One of the best rock bands ever, and a classic track, brings happy memories of my youth lol
You got that right !!..Argus possibly one of the best English rock albums ever ..certainly ever track perfect ..seen em in 82 in Lisdoonvarna..line up had Laurie Wiseman Andy Powell and Trevor Boulder from Bowies band on bass ..brilliant
Yep
Going to see them next week
The band stands the test of time, hope we all do too.
I can't believe this concert is 51 years old, such a great rock band. I saw them live in Waikiki back in 1974 when I was 18 and there was Kona Gold being passed all around and we were all tripping on blotter acid. Good times if you were a Head...
I so loved this band. Had a hard time finding others that liked em' too. At times it was difficult to find their albums. They rocked big time. I particularly loved the harmony guitars. These guys and the Allman Bros.
allman bros never came to G B ,such a shame
Wishbone Ash and the Allman Brothers were the best dual guitar bands ever, of course Jimi Hendrix was also the best guitarist.
@@stevegeorge4686 hi man, the Allmans did play in G.B. '75 if i recall correctly.
In my opinion the best two live albums ever made were Allman Brothers at the Fillmore and Wishbone Ash Live Dates!
Schön wie die Menschen abgefahren sind zu den Songs von Whisborn Ash damals in den siebziger Jahren. Schön daß ich auch diese Zeit damals mit 16 Jahren miterlebt habe.
Klasse Band und damals eine meiner Lieblingsband.
Geile Songs haben die herausgebracht.
Danke 🌅
There was a harmonious richness to their sound, it seemed to be laced with inherent beauty bound up in myth and legend. Argus was a rock album of seminal importance, these guys played with control and passion which rendered them more like a warm desert wind than a rock juggernaut.
Excellent post ROSS!! You summed up the parts that truly made the unique "wishbone" sound. They are quintessentially british as humble pie, zepp, mott the hoople and uriah heep and iron maiden after them. Even though those bands sound nothing alike their english blood and unique phrasing are the ever present but suttle voicing of these bands. Long live the (brian may) Queen!!
LOVE Wishbone Ash, I saw them during the (US) Live Dates Tour, the middle band was Camel and the opening band making their first tour was a band a had never heard of, but when on to be sorta big..........KISS (really)...!
Wishbone Ash was F'N great !
the Golden Age of Wishbone Ash.
those two guitars screaming
This guys are/were awesome....I have 4 of their albums....underrated band for sure.
Being a Wishbone fanatic followed and saw this band live all over the world.....they are the best ever at what they do.......twin lead guitars still sounds so fresh.....roll on November Edinburgh, Glasgow then Lochgelly what a week for me that will be good times coming back.....remember never ‘ Throw Down the Sword’....
Jejku, jak dawno nie słuchałam! Zaświeciło się światełko w sercu moim...
I loved seeing Wishbone Ash live. I remember the guitarists standing back to back and walking each other back and forth across the stage jamming out killer riffs. Very cool!
One of the first live bands I saw in 1978 when I was 16! Brings back great memories! 😁
been listening to this for 50 years
Forget this great band for 40 years. Thanks for posting
The Blues Deluxe radio show brought me here. Thanks for playing Wishbone Ash!
Whenever I can I turn my son on to some of the old music that I grew up listening to and he always tells me that he has already heard that! He is soon to be 39 years old! And he knows more about the music I grew up with than I do! Amazing! A very musically inclined young man!😊❤❤❤
I saw them in Houston Texas at a club "Of Our Own" in the early 70's. Outstanding and have never forgotten them. As a musician it made a mark on me.
I remember driving the 2-lane blacktops of Western Iowa in my friends Pontiac Firebird listening to this when this came out. Freaking great.
Saw Martin Turner in Bristol the night before Dartmouth and the band were superb. Played all the Ash classics and nailed them.
So many memories! First love and the introduction to REAL music! What an awsome group of musicians, with a unique sound! The title track Time Was, says it all, an era gone but not forgotten!
Brilliant song brings back so many happy memories for me from the seventies
Saw these loads of time at Liverpool stadium, they never disappointed me,one ove the most underrated bands ever.
Ted Turner was seriously underrated, it was his skill and talent that allowed Andy Powell off the hook and be able to play all the fancy stuff, they had a telepathic closeness in their playing.
I'm sad and happy at the same time if that was possible. I absolutely loved Wishbone Ash and saw them live at Birmingham Town Hall, that famous venue that was so much part of my musical education back in the early 70s. I had all their early albums and had forgotten all about them hence the mixed emotions. I miss those days so badly when we had all our lives in front of us and everything seemed possible. Such a great time to be alive and in your teens and early 20s.
Just saw them recently and Blowin' Free gets even better with age.
saw them in Düsseldorf that year i guess, amazing
"Time Was" a Beautiful Time where "Blowing Free" was More than Just a Song it was The America Way and it was GREAT !!!
Agree with you 100% I'm proud to say that I am of the few who listen to wishbone Ash and I'm only 20. I saw Matin turners wishbone in Shepherds bush almost a month ago. Must have been 1 out of 4 of the youngest there. This band rocks big time. Wish my generation had music like this now. But we dont.
Anyway Rock on!
Happy Birthday to Steve Upton, drummer with the great blues rockers Wishbone Ash. It's a very rare story in the hectic, unpredictable world of music that a guy, especially a drummer, would stay with a band for 2 decades. That alone should win an award of some kind. He was born today in 1946.
Should have posted the date! That makes him 11 years older than me . . .
One of the first concerts I went to in Louisville Kentucky. Great times where did all the years go.
Loved Wishbone Ash, I went to see them at Newcastle City Hall, England when I was 17yrs
HELL YEA...Wow, what a great song and performance. These guys are beyond smokin!!!
Wishbone produced some of the finist rock during my infancy. A critical time as i entered alcoholism and truency but my education was during these years and thank God i bore witness to a magnificent band.
You Tube has taught me that anything from 1973 that gets over a million views must be good
SuperYockster, that’s a damn good comment.
Try 1974 - even better!
73 that's when I got started, 63 now, still love metal 👍👍🤘🤘🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@RJPaul-px6vt Relayer, YES.😃😃😃🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@RJPaul-px6vt most underrated band ever
A great band, Andy Powell and his Flying V Phallus ruled. We, as teenagers were captivated by their sound.. And I still am now.
Saw Wishbone in the early 70s. Loved them all this time,x
I saw Wishbone Ash 2 or 3 times in concert in the seventies. They were one of my favorite bands. Never hear them on the radio.
So great. My old band used to play 3 WA tunes and they were all tight as hell yet like sailing across the ceiling. To me WA never sounded like anybody else.
I graduated from high school in 1973, so I am very familiar with this band and this song. Wishbone Ash was noted for its innovative use of twin lead guitars and progressive folk fusion. Great band. This was my favorite song.
@Bob Hoffman See Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishbone_Ash
And they were there in the early days.
www.offbeat.com/articles/wishbone-ash-twin-guitar-attack/
southingtonobserver.com/local-news/schools/the-double-lead-salute-of-wishbone-ash-fires-straight-ahead/
First concert I seen 1974 Wish bone opened up for Robin Trower Milwaukee. Kick but. wish bone Ash the Allman brothers off the UK
Great group . Deserved to be more famous . Loved em . Another genius British artist from back then .