I remember seeing this on TV in the mid-80's on Australian TV. I knew all their hits from the radio, up until then, but I thought this was so bizarre. Fascinating. His.. heavy metal guitar (?) solo, the jazzy bass line, the bongos and tambourine... Even the way it was recorded. It was nothing like I'd heard, and certainly not by the time I'd heard it in the mid-'80's. As a teenager, and musician, it stretched my imagination - made me "think outside the box" of creativity.
Funny you mention that you come from Australia, one of my favorite songs of all time is called 'Electric Blue' and is by Icehouse, an Australian band ... they took the name from the lines on this song
The songs of T Rex are prominent features of the movie "Longlegs." Three of their songs, including lyrics, are featured. And an artsy photo of Marc Bolan in top hat are on the wall in Longleg's living quarters. My son has recently taken an interest in T Rex.
I had the great pleasure of seeing T. Rex December 19th 1970 at the Brighton Big Apple, supported by Status Quo no less! Sadly I had to leave to get my train home (I was only 15) just after the acoustic set when they were getting into the electric set with Elemental Child. Still a good memory!
Interesting how this performance catches just the moment of their transition from hippie folkie acoustic band to Glam Rock. They don´t have a drummer yet. You still get the bongos guy but now with electric guitar and bass
The transition had been going steady for a couple of months short of two years by this point. Starting with an electric song Do You Remember at an April 1969 Lyceum gig (with the original bongo man Steve Took playing bass) then two tracks on a Peel Session (Once Upon The Seas Of Abysinnia and Iscariot) with electric guitar, then the single King Of The Rumbling Spires/Do You Remember and eight other tracks for a possible fourth Bolan/Took album, four of which ended up on A Beard of Stars with Took's parts overdubbed. Then when Mickey Finn replaced Took, there were regularly electric + bongos, electric + bass and even keyboard + bongos songs in the set. ABOS got finished and released and a fifth album got recorded (which came out eventually as the T.Rex brown album) and Ride A White Swan got done during the album sessions. Then Steve Currie joined and you get the stage you see here. By the time this was filmed, Hot Love and Woodland Rock had already been recorded with Bill Legend as session drummer under his real name Bill Fifield. The next step was when Marc started wearing shiny Alkasura jackets and satin trousers an TOTP the following month, instead of the old hippy denim/t-shirts.
talking of the original bongo man Steve Took, he actually pushed the heavy Electric Rock boat out a lot further than Marc ever did - check this out!: th-cam.com/play/PL26V-Mm9m7oCTZhzf_qKeHkhsc99YxhZU.html
@@SkisgarSkwig Punk hatred of hippies starts with Marc Bolan's rejection of the hippy underground in March '71. That's why punks were happy to go along with him calling himself Godfather of Punk in '77.
This is a stunning performance of this song! I don't often prefer his live versions (once in a while maybe, but not often) but this one is exceptional!
Oh man, marc could rock out when he wished. Check out his blues from another dimension on this rare 1974 track! th-cam.com/video/E4tW8AtCxWA/w-d-xo.html
They didn't have decent synthesisers at this point. Marc got a keyboard player Dino Dines in '74. He would have loved to have had modern keyboards with all the settings so he could reproduce all Tony Visconti's string arrangements live in concert if he could have done back in the day.
Well it's very simple you see@@creganblack - it's a pedal that you wire up inbetween the guitar and the speaker and then stamp on to change the guitar sound and make it a bit louder and thengo quiet when you release it. There are two particular tricks you can do with it - let a chord ring out and then press and release the pedal several times to get a "wah wah wah wah wah" sound - hence the name - or else you can strum the guitar and press the pedal up and down in time with the strum to create a squelchy sound like how when two people are shagging and their private bits are rubbing against each other - this sound appears in a lot of old funk and disco records.
great. Loved T. Rex first time around and still do. Marc Bolan was amazing. Yes he was the start of the glam rock. He was out of this world in the UK before Bowie was (and I love Bowie too)
T. Rex were a British Rock and Roll band formed in 1967 by singer/ songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. Bolan was a magic Rock and roll influence to many hard rockers not only glam rock, like New york dolls, The Ramones, Slash and GNR, Grunge bands, even Iggy Pop loved "his way to make real rock and roll".
Noone wrote songs so out of the world as Bolan. The trippy uninhibited lyrics and then the amazing riffs and beats. And then there's the performances. Impossible to cover them. Inspired soundtrack for the movie.
the very moment they switched to a classic big rock band and bolan became a god. perhaps marc bolan isn't as well remembered these days as say bowie or freddie mercury, other glam rock frontmen, but he was the first and one of the greatest
Listen to 'The Man Who Sold the World', Bowie's album from 1970. Wears a dress on the cover, uses riffs that would later be used by Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, and King Gizzard 45 years later. First song is him encountering Satan and ends with him being fucked to death. Also, "She Shook Me Cold", a mutation of Sabbath and the Velvets but with way more distortion.
He started to get his looks back right before his death. He stopped with binge drinking and cocaine, probably due to the birth of his baby. His cheekbones were reappearing.
@@somebraveapollo8211 More than that! He looked exactly like he did in 1972 again in 1977. Look at this video of marc talking about The Ramones in 77. He looks exactly like his former self again.. th-cam.com/video/_HfWO8AJHGI/w-d-xo.html That and there are still fantastic songs from futuristic dragon and dandy in the Underworld as well as scatterings of fantastic songs in the prior 2 albums.
TRex on the Beat Club show! Fantastic! Because they filmed and recorded everything in high quality for posterity on their TV show. It was live in the Studio! Check any artist on Beat Club. I think it was a German Pop show. Not lip syncing! Wonderful! 👏🏻🎸😎
“LET ME IN NOW AND ITLL BE NIIIIICE, MAKE ME GO NOW AND I’LL HAVE TO COME BAAAAACK, NOT ONCE, NOT TWIIIIIIIIIIICE, BUT AS MANY TIMES AS I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!” - Long Legs
Finding the two Electric Warrior ones will be easy, but when the Longlegs to T. Rex pipeliners find THIS one, it'll be like finding a serial killer in a haystack...
You've got to wonder if it's alll lip-syncs or if it's playing live, but he was a genius with putting these videos together it's like he took Live recorded music of alternate versions and tags and then dumped them over lip-synced versions,its absolutely insane I can't figure it out ..whoever the fuk is playing guitar it's on par with Jimi Hendrix this s*** is so awesome it's absolutely amazing I cannot believe it
Yes it's definitely a composite performance. He's miming a lot of it: the tambourine at the end doesn't match, most obviously. But who cares, right? A large part of his brilliance was in presenting himself as a star, like he does here. And yes, the guitar is totally fantastic!
@@neilgardner2583 Well, 'pretty much live' is basically what I was saying, it's a composite of a few different live takes, I expect. But who cares, it's so good, and it's undoubtedly Marc on guitar, I'm not questioning that.
Guitar is double tracked. He would almost always do this even with home demos. Vocals too. After the basic guts of the song is layed down. Think you can see two simultaneous images of him playing the separate parts in the clip.
They already had Bill Legend by this point as a session man for Hot Love and Woodland Rock and he would soon join up full time in time for the US tour in April. Bill actually used to come onstage halfway through Jewel, joining in suddenly during the long jam at the end: th-cam.com/video/6Zd9xSwVWWo/w-d-xo.html
Here in the States Marc and Co. didn’t have the Beatle like mania breakthrough like he and his band did did in Europe . Sure there was the hit Bang a Gong and album Electric Warrior charted but TRex like Roxy Music remained a cult item . American audiences were getting conservative although they did embrace Jethro Tull and Yes . Why ? Well TRex like Roxy Music were about ten to twelve years too early for the United States .
Jesus if I was the bongo player I would have been scared I was gone looks like the writing is on the wall that no longer will my instrument be needed or heard lol
I cannot imagine life without T.Rex.
Marc Bolan was unbelievably Epic
Finally T-REX is in the Rock and roll hall of fame,it took way too long
WAY too long mate...
40 years too long Still well well deserved
My heart is Bolan's real hall a fame
They are like in the top 20 of best bands in my mind
Hahaha for real man
on your short time on this earth you caused a storm.46 years since you left us and still causing waves
Bolan has become such a major influence on so many other artists even he would blush. amazing guitar player.
“I put on my longlegs!”
what happens if i.... CHEESE AND CRACKER!!
Oh gawd, Noobs
And an Avatar styled like My Generation
What an i n n o v a t i v e Era this is
@@Ritff666l-e9e i fuckin hated the movie
100% why I'm here. 🤣
without T.Rex we cannot live. Genius
Now THIS is music! LONG LIVE T. REX ✊✊✊
Check out marc on this fantastic rare 74 track! th-cam.com/video/E4tW8AtCxWA/w-d-xo.html
I remember seeing this on TV in the mid-80's on Australian TV.
I knew all their hits from the radio, up until then, but I thought this was so bizarre. Fascinating.
His.. heavy metal guitar (?) solo, the jazzy bass line, the bongos and tambourine... Even the way it was recorded.
It was nothing like I'd heard, and certainly not by the time I'd heard it in the mid-'80's.
As a teenager, and musician, it stretched my imagination - made me "think outside the box" of creativity.
Funny you mention that you come from Australia, one of my favorite songs of all time is called 'Electric Blue' and is by Icehouse, an Australian band ... they took the name from the lines on this song
@@ricardocardoso6383 "..eyes, electric blue.."
One for the music trivia buffs.
Thanks
saw this on sbs music show.. brilliant
The songs of T Rex are prominent features of the movie "Longlegs."
Three of their songs, including lyrics, are featured. And an artsy photo of Marc Bolan in top hat are on the wall in Longleg's living quarters.
My son has recently taken an interest in T Rex.
Longlegs (2024) starring Nic Cage and Marc Bolan/T. Rex. Dope film. It doesn't suck, that's for sure.
My son too!
I wrote a book about Bolan's songwriting. He was definitely the most unique artist to have roamed the Earth. he was a complete one-off. Genius.
Where can we read this book? I love everything related to Marc.
Beat Club!!!
Watched every episode on here!
Marc and T Tex were so dang ahead of their time!
I had the great pleasure of seeing T. Rex December 19th 1970 at the Brighton Big Apple, supported by Status Quo no less!
Sadly I had to leave to get my train home (I was only 15) just after the acoustic set when they were getting into the electric set with Elemental Child. Still a good memory!
Interesting how this performance catches just the moment of their transition from hippie folkie acoustic band to Glam Rock. They don´t have a drummer yet. You still get the bongos guy but now with electric guitar and bass
The transition had been going steady for a couple of months short of two years by this point. Starting with an electric song Do You Remember at an April 1969 Lyceum gig (with the original bongo man Steve Took playing bass) then two tracks on a Peel Session (Once Upon The Seas Of Abysinnia and Iscariot) with electric guitar, then the single King Of The Rumbling Spires/Do You Remember and eight other tracks for a possible fourth Bolan/Took album, four of which ended up on A Beard of Stars with Took's parts overdubbed. Then when Mickey Finn replaced Took, there were regularly electric + bongos, electric + bass and even keyboard + bongos songs in the set. ABOS got finished and released and a fifth album got recorded (which came out eventually as the T.Rex brown album) and Ride A White Swan got done during the album sessions. Then Steve Currie joined and you get the stage you see here. By the time this was filmed, Hot Love and Woodland Rock had already been recorded with Bill Legend as session drummer under his real name Bill Fifield. The next step was when Marc started wearing shiny Alkasura jackets and satin trousers an TOTP the following month, instead of the old hippy denim/t-shirts.
talking of the original bongo man Steve Took, he actually pushed the heavy Electric Rock boat out a lot further than Marc ever did - check this out!:
th-cam.com/play/PL26V-Mm9m7oCTZhzf_qKeHkhsc99YxhZU.html
GOD!!! I hate hippies!!!But,yeah....
@@SkisgarSkwig Punk hatred of hippies starts with Marc Bolan's rejection of the hippy underground in March '71. That's why punks were happy to go along with him calling himself Godfather of Punk in '77.
@@SkisgarSkwigyep since ass wars haven't gotten any stupider Happy 50th anniversary of 1972
This is a stunning performance of this song! I don't often prefer his live versions (once in a while maybe, but not often) but this one is exceptional!
Thank you for the memories ❤.
This is why they're my favourite band
Лучший из групп 70 годов Т-рекс, это был шикарный Марк Болан с его голосом, придыханиями, ну Чудо!!! 👍❤️👍
Одноименый лучший из пяти
This appears to be live...?
Holy shit! i had no idea he could play like that!
Now you know
Oh man, marc could rock out when he wished. Check out his blues from another dimension on this rare 1974 track! th-cam.com/video/E4tW8AtCxWA/w-d-xo.html
No synthesizers or special effects. Just great songs!
Not until Futuristic Dragon at least.
If it sounds good it sounds good
They didn't have decent synthesisers at this point. Marc got a keyboard player Dino Dines in '74. He would have loved to have had modern keyboards with all the settings so he could reproduce all Tony Visconti's string arrangements live in concert if he could have done back in the day.
Whats a wah wah pedal then?
Well it's very simple you see@@creganblack - it's a pedal that you wire up inbetween the guitar and the speaker and then stamp on to change the guitar sound and make it a bit louder and thengo quiet when you release it. There are two particular tricks you can do with it - let a chord ring out and then press and release the pedal several times to get a "wah wah wah wah wah" sound - hence the name - or else you can strum the guitar and press the pedal up and down in time with the strum to create a squelchy sound like how when two people are shagging and their private bits are rubbing against each other - this sound appears in a lot of old funk and disco records.
This is The Great
Grooving Rock Music !!
My life began with Marc Bolan and he’ll be the last person I’ll listen to. Love you, Marc.
great. Loved T. Rex first time around and still do. Marc Bolan was amazing. Yes he was the start of the glam rock. He was out of this world in the UK before Bowie was (and I love Bowie too)
Wow, this is just crazy! Hugely underrated guitarist
Those guitar solos are dope
Amazing!! Simply Amazing guitar playing!!!👏
Marc Feld was very Brilliant ! Lidten to his guitar ! Wow! Brilliant guitarist,songwriter & Singer! 😊jon fisher
As soon as the goose bumps have gone down, I will brew up and watch this again :)
At times like this I wish Marc were still alive so he could enjoy some of that soundtrack residual cash. Glad they stuck a more obscure song in there.
T. Rex were a British Rock and Roll band formed in 1967 by singer/ songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. Bolan was a magic Rock and roll influence to many hard rockers not only glam rock, like New york dolls, The Ramones, Slash and GNR, Grunge bands, even Iggy Pop loved "his way to make real rock and roll".
GnR covered Buick Mackane I think
Gee I loVe T-Rex gee musicians back then really knew their stuff !!! Beautiful
Awesome , 1970 t rex album is superb also, if you haven't heard it check it out x
Brilhant! T. Rex Finally.
This shit is so underrated.. the guitar is so great.. who let it happen???
Awesome Bass playing by Steve Currie.
T. Rex producer, Tony Visconti, who also played bass with Bowie, said Steve Currie was an incredibly gifted bassist.
What a jewel!!
✌😉
perfect performance and song ,mood,time,dct
Noone wrote songs so out of the world as Bolan. The trippy uninhibited lyrics and then the amazing riffs and beats. And then there's the performances. Impossible to cover them. Inspired soundtrack for the movie.
🗣 Mark Bolan , bio je *Omiljeni* rok muzičar moje supruge Juce .
Beat Club live vocals AND backing, ROCK FULL POWER
My fav trax of marc's x
BC was the best music channel ever....and Uschi best presenter....🍻
the very moment they switched to a classic big rock band and bolan became a god. perhaps marc bolan isn't as well remembered these days as say bowie or freddie mercury, other glam rock frontmen, but he was the first and one of the greatest
Listen to 'The Man Who Sold the World', Bowie's album from 1970. Wears a dress on the cover, uses riffs that would later be used by Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, and King Gizzard 45 years later. First song is him encountering Satan and ends with him being fucked to death. Also, "She Shook Me Cold", a mutation of Sabbath and the Velvets but with way more distortion.
@@rapabsinthe786 Pet Sounds
Hear hear, Thousand Marc Feld Charms
Luv'd TRex since my teens lluv this has resurfaced because of longlegs.
oh my... t.rex only really delivers live. its mesmerizing
Who’s here after watching Longlegs??🙋🏽♂️
YURR
12.78
Present!
Meeeeeee!
Here Here!!
Just brilliant! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Marc lad go easy on 'em
Superb!
You're watching the 70's being born, conjured into existence by a magician with a six-string magic wand.
Thank you Beat Club for this!!
Nobody aged more quickly in rock than Marc. In just a few years it would all be over. True rock god here though.
He started to get his looks back right before his death. He stopped with binge drinking and cocaine, probably due to the birth of his baby. His cheekbones were reappearing.
@@somebraveapollo8211 More than that! He looked exactly like he did in 1972 again in 1977. Look at this video of marc talking about The Ramones in 77. He looks exactly like his former self again.. th-cam.com/video/_HfWO8AJHGI/w-d-xo.html That and there are still fantastic songs from futuristic dragon and dandy in the Underworld as well as scatterings of fantastic songs in the prior 2 albums.
The king bolan wizardry on guitar wow waves from bonnie Scotland 😊😊😊
...the bomb!!!!
The wave was forming . . .
Uma das melhores banda que surgiu nesse mundo.
Oh! There she is! The almost-birthday girl!
Brilliant video to go with a brilliant track.. 👍👍
Brilliant.
Awesome
my love my loss
Gracias 💝
TRex on the Beat Club show! Fantastic! Because they filmed and recorded everything in high quality for posterity on their TV show. It was live in the Studio!
Check any artist on Beat Club.
I think it was a German Pop show. Not lip syncing! Wonderful! 👏🏻🎸😎
Those were the days when public TV in Germany had class. Glad this has been saved for posterity.
How brilliant no computer generated crap and only 3 genius's. Bolan likes to ROCK
The King of the Mountain Cometh
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Bloody great tune, reminds me a little of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
Красава!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Rock and Rollers UNITE
This whole LP is psychedelic AF
How many landed here thanks to Longlegs (2024)? Either way, T-Rex is the pure dope sh-t.
... supernatural...
Still quite psychedelic. Impressive.
The Boys nailed it. Fandabbeedozee.
⚡️✨😊
much prefer this live version.wasnt he just great!
Freaking WOW 🤩🎩🦢👍💋♥️🙏
最高？。！、👍👍🎶
“LET ME IN NOW AND ITLL BE NIIIIICE, MAKE ME GO NOW AND I’LL HAVE TO COME BAAAAACK, NOT ONCE, NOT TWIIIIIIIIIIICE, BUT AS MANY TIMES AS I LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE!”
- Long Legs
Nic cage nailed the notes🤟
🙏16.09.again....2022...🙏❤
Finding the two Electric Warrior ones will be easy, but when the Longlegs to T. Rex pipeliners find THIS one, it'll be like finding a serial killer in a haystack...
You've got to wonder if it's alll lip-syncs or if it's playing live, but he was a genius with putting these videos together it's like he took Live recorded music of alternate versions and tags and then dumped them over lip-synced versions,its absolutely insane I can't figure it out ..whoever the fuk is playing guitar it's on par with Jimi Hendrix this s*** is so awesome it's absolutely amazing I cannot believe it
Yes it's definitely a composite performance. He's miming a lot of it: the tambourine at the end doesn't match, most obviously. But who cares, right? A large part of his brilliance was in presenting himself as a star, like he does here. And yes, the guitar is totally fantastic!
@@bencolemanart Absolute rubbish it is pretty much live!
@@neilgardner2583 Well, 'pretty much live' is basically what I was saying, it's a composite of a few different live takes, I expect. But who cares, it's so good, and it's undoubtedly Marc on guitar, I'm not questioning that.
Guitar is double tracked. He would almost always do this even with home demos. Vocals too. After the basic guts of the song is layed down. Think you can see two simultaneous images of him playing the separate parts in the clip.
What happens if I...
This song is a jewel. It's also easy to play, as featured on "chordify"
Well if Prince didn't nick his act from this, then I don't know what.
Hendrix.
@@donnieka696 ,Full circle ⭕️.
@H Kay Not foolish at all, oh 'wise' one ;) While Prince copped more from Hendrix and Sly Stone, you can't exclude Bolan from his moves.
And then took things to a whole new level
Both of them were ripping off Hendrix and Little Richard (although I think Bolan was also an inspiration for Prince).
Imagine if a drummer like John Bonham played on this
They already had Bill Legend by this point as a session man for Hot Love and Woodland Rock and he would soon join up full time in time for the US tour in April. Bill actually used to come onstage halfway through Jewel, joining in suddenly during the long jam at the end: th-cam.com/video/6Zd9xSwVWWo/w-d-xo.html
bill legend was a great drummer in TRex....imo
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 hot love top of the pops 71 no bill leg land.
@@karlarmstrong That was him on the record tho, sessioning under his real name Bill Fifield, recorded late Jan '71.
Bill Legend does just fine we don't Bonham! What a dumb thing to say!
...il classico D I A M A N T E...nel L E T A M E...
ACE
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This reminds me of led zeppelin with bongos
Def some second side of III vibes here
Riff reminds me of Voodoo Chile stripped back. Lead guitar is like a banshee. Prehistoric and sci fi at the same time.
LongLegs🦵🦵
..everyone talks about David Bowie...rolling stones...the clash...etc...but no one ever mentions Marc Bolan...!!!???!!!???
Here in the States Marc and Co. didn’t have the Beatle like mania breakthrough like he and his band did did in Europe . Sure there was the hit Bang a Gong and album Electric Warrior charted but TRex like Roxy Music remained a cult item . American audiences were getting conservative although they did embrace Jethro Tull and Yes . Why ? Well TRex like Roxy Music were about ten to twelve years too early for the United States .
The seventies.
He wrote this for his wife, June ❤
Wow never knew this genuis was marc learn something new everyday 😎😎😎
Not true! The song is about Marc's spiritual journey.
One. Of. Mystery Geoffrey
"what happens if I…"
...marc bolan... honestly... sometimes...you could be forgiven for thinking he could fart thunder ⚡
this is about dune right?
Jesus if I was the bongo player I would have been scared I was gone looks like the writing is on the wall that no longer will my instrument be needed or heard lol