I saw this live last night and am only 40, loved it, the audience was great, they really seemed to enjoy playing . I know it's only one of the guys, but it was still great.
Great reaction, thank you ❤ If I would be allowed to listen to 5 bands only, Wishbone Ash would be one of it. Luckily I have seen them 3 x live, having a great time with my husband who sadly past away too early. He was the one who introduced WA to me, and I still remember how I was blown away. If someone would ask me which songs I like most it would be Phoenix and F.U.B.B. Greetings to all music lover from an old German lady ❤❤❤
This time where music was only music, no machines, no auto tune... Just pure talent was doing the job. What a blessing to have been a teen at this time
Wishbone Ash, the beauty of simplicity and competence: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and drums, NOTHING ELSE. Perfect vocalization, wonderful songs. The best of great English rock! His album Argus, from the early 70s, is a landmark in world music, like Sargent Peppers of the Beatles. His song Persephone, very sensitive and beautiful: You listens to it twice and it never leaves his head. I met Wishbone Ash by chance in the 70s when I was in my early 20s. I'm 73, he's with me to this day. It's impossible to listen to a W.A. song and not like it. As I said, the best of great English rock... Paulo Sérgio Pecchio Campo Belo neighborhood - São Paulo - Brazil.
While I agree with you about the dual lead thing, I found it interesting the Laurie Wisefield played all the lead in this clip. I saw them live a few times, can't remember how many now. But with both Ted Turner and then Laurie Wisefield. But once Martin Turner and Steve Upton left I started to lose interest.
I hear u, I am 67 also. Argus was the 2nd vinyl album I purchased in '72. Deep Purple Machine Head was the first. Still have Argus on vinyl as I am glad I took care of my vinyl.
ya .. Hell man NO DOUBT !! .. Criminally .. along with so Many .. AXE was a Hell of a band .. same thing .. So Underrated .. WISHBONE ASH is a Unique banc I think .. Not Many Sounded like them . The First 3 Albums .. after that .. they weren't the Same .. anymore ..
So much good music came from Rockpalast, why we, the US, doesn't have this is shameful. I was in Germany around this time and we used to watch this all weekend, many bands playing 24 hours.
I was on holiday in 1971 to see my Aunt and Uncle in London Ontario Canada, l was 16, was introduced to the album Argus by a son of friends of the family. Wow. Played the king will come tonight in 2024. I hear you my friend. ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I was in a band back in ‘76. These gentlemen heavily influenced our sound with their dual lead guitar harmonies and tightness live. It’s awesome great stuff like this gets posted for ‘Memory Lane’ - Keep On Rockin’…👍🏼😎
Over the years I have owned a cassette, an LP album, a CD and a High Res download of the original Live Dates release. Loved this group since was 16 years old, and I'm 63 today.
By my calculation I’m a few years older 69 at the time of writing. I was drawn to the Album Argus simply because of the artwork on the cover just something about it. Then came the music just unbelievable top top notch played it over and over it’s given me priceless memories from those times to this very day.
Twin leads are ausom love Priest,Maiden and Wishbone.I just love rock in general, Now they call maroon 5 and cold play rock. Damn this is just the begining young rock fans . Use youtube and explore the ''oldies'' you will not regret.
These guys are incredible....and very underrated....i saw them twice in the 70s and still listen to them today....the tours i saw were Wishbone 4 and There's The Rub
They still play mostly in EN/EU! Go see them in the future! I saw them several years ago, also after that Martin Turner band playing the entire Argus album.
I saw Laurie Wisefield when he was still playing with Home. In the early '70s had tickets to see The Pink Fairies, at Peoples College in Nottingham, but they split up (yet again) and Home took the gig. Home were a great band including Laurie Wisefield and Clifford Williams (who joined AC/DC in 1978).
Been a fan of Wishbone Ash since my teens. Very underrated band, wrote great songs and played them beautifully with great energy and fire. Definitely one of my top five favorite bands of all time!
Two guitarists swapping lead and rhythm but still displaying their differing styles - Laurie doing the Strat/delay justice with soaring plectrum work and then Andy with his more spikey, fingerstyle approach (reminds me a little of Richard Thompson). It all gels magnificently for a great live recording
If you just discovered The King Will Come in 2015 then you need to go back to the beginning of Wishbone Ash and discover more beautiful music ! Too many to mention but this clip is in my top 3 .
Martin Turner, Steve Upton, Andy Powell and Laurie Wisefield were an amazing lineup in Wishbone Ash. I wish I could have seen that lineup of Wishbone Ash in concert!
It was around this time I became aware of Wishbone Ash. Hell it might've even been clips from this concert I saw back then on TV, don't know if it was Midnight Special or Don Kirshners Rock Concert.., most likely the later. I just remember seeing Laurie Wisefield & thinking damn he's a great guitarist.
Just recently found my old tickets from their Newcastle City hall gigs! Saw them more than any band back in my 'hairy' days. This footage brings back such fond memories.
Saw them yesterday in Amsterdam....wauw.....still playing as 50 years ago...one the favourite bands of my brother who passed away two years. But I grew up with this music...and happy to be part of that musical time
For me the best band of all time. Bought my first Wishbone Ash album in '72 when I was introduced to Wishbone by a colleague. Subsequently bought everything I could lay my hands on. Had the good fortune to watch live both the original lineup with Ted Turner and the lineup with Laurie Wisefield. Time Was, The King Will Come and Throw Down the Sword will be played when they burn me in the box. 72 now so who knows.
You won't be seeing any band like this one coming around. They really are a big secret from folks around in the 70's that dug rock music. One of the key signatures of the band was going from all-out guitar jamming to quiet strumming. It brought you up and down in the traditional rock format rather than Pink Floyd type effects for instance. True rockers here. The Argus album had this sort of medieval theme which for me was more subtle in its deliver rather than a time mood piece.
I have used this style of writing songs for many years decades. Their influence of double leads in harmonies and same for vocal harmonies. It etched in stone for me.
In the fire, the king will come. Thunder rolls, piper and drum. Evil sons, overrun, Count their sins judgment comes. The checkerboard of nights and days Man will die, man be saved. The sky will fall, the earth will pray, When judgment comes to claim its day. See the word of the prophet On a stone in his hand. Poison pen revelation, Or just a sign in the sand? The checkerboard of nights and days Man will die, man be saved. The sky will fall, the earth will pray, When judgment comes to claim its day. See the word of the prophet On a stone in his hand. Poison pen revelation, Or just a sign in the sand?
@@Snipely I guess the '54 he was using either had a really good original bridge pickup, or it was replaced and had the tone control routed to it to take out some of the brightness 'cause that thing sounds fat!
I’m 22 years old and wishbone ash is my favourite band in the world ❤ Stray , UFO , groundhogs and Hawkwind all the way! I travelled from Canada to Uk to see them! So happy I have a great taste in music 🎉
2 of the greatest guitar solos of all time in the same song. Done by two totally different guitarists. What does that tell you about the 1970s!! Pure Fun Pure Freedom!!
Saw them many times in the early 70s.... but they were always the opening act.... to Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band. I guess they couldn't achieve headliner status without a hit single. In Chicago they were one of the opening act for Traffic, along with the then unknown Roxy Music, and the pre-Nicks/Buckingham Fleetwood Mac
I read somewhere that Phil Lynott and his thin Lizzy bandmates used to go to WA gigs and were once overheard saying ' this is the sound we want'. Go to the wishbone ash distillation album and listen to a live song called 'lookin for a reason' then you will understand.
Just loved this band & song in the70's ..... brilliant & thank you from South Frica after all these years still so amazingly awesome .... thank you so much !!!
I heard W-Ash as the opening act for Ten Years After at a concert in Stuttgart in 1992. I really, really liked W-Ash. Because of TYA I went to the concert, the fourth already, but I liked Ash the best. Later I heard W-Ash again at Rockpalast TV. Just great. And it's true: I've never seen such a great, powerful strat in the solo of "the king will come" from Laurie. Very, very, very good.I listen to this song with the solo several times a week. Divine. The most under rated band of time!! No wonder Tina Turner and Joe Cocker hired him as their guitarist. Sorry for my (geman) english.
Hello Harris I found date 3. I can only compare the song "The king...". With the song and only with "The king.." I find the strat so empty and therefore need the reverb. At 9:41 and a little later as well, possibly because of the Wah Wah pedal, hearing a discord. The Gitarre-run from 9:52 sounds really great. That's just my feeling about this song. I don't know how Laurie manages the Strat in 1996 to sound so great. "Pure goosebumps skin" by this song. I know and hear Clapton, Hendrix, A Lee, Page, ....
I still have the vinyl of that album. And to those that think Laurie is coming off as a smarta•• chewy gum. He looks to me like he is enjoying playing the song. Most likely the gum is for dry mouth from smokin the weed! As we did. I really like how he is playing it. Very ethereal. 😁🖖✌️.
Saw them within days of this TV performance in Freiburg/Black Forest in December 1976, and the concert blew us, my friend and I, away. They were in exceptional form then, Laurie ruled.
Saw the band in 73? at Auckland New Zealand's Western Springs venue. Friggin amazing. The lineup was Martin, Ted, Andy Powell and Steve Upton from memory. I was about five metres from the stage with Andy right in front of me and I remember him watching me as I studied his guitar playing.. So cool. Will never forget those two lead guitars going for it. Of course it was a huge sound system - so much better than any stereo! Met a guy a few years ago who had also seen them on the same tour but in Wellington a couple of days later.
One of my most favorite songs from one of my most favorite album by one of my most favorite bands! I’ve dug Wishbone Ash since when their very first album was released up until now and till the day I die.
Love the lyrics, must be talking about King Jesus!!!! When the King comes, He'll bring judgment to the unbelievers and reward to those who have put their trust in Him!!!!!!! The Prophets have spoken!!!!!
Woefully underappreciated great band - this original lineup was a phenomenal live band - saw them in Houston TX when I was in high school in 1972. Ted Turner and Andy Powell had a great musical vibe - they were one of the best twin lead guitar bands out there. Lyrical and melodic playing that complemented each other. Was no showing off - no 'hey kids look how many notes I can play in this measure!' Too many bands do that stuff. Gag
I saw Ash a few times at the Glasgow Apollo in the 70's, a mate caught one of Stevie Uptons drumsticks at a gig. Great band, loved them since 72 onwards and still play their stuff regularly.
I still have Wishbone Ash, Argus, Pilgramige, Wishbone Four, Live Dates and There's the Rub, on vinyl. Also a pretty knackered version of Live Dates on a pre-recorded tape. About sixteen years ago. I saw both versions of Wishbone Ash, within weeks of each other.
I remember John Peel heavily promoting the band just before the first album was released and I simply just had to go and see them, especially when I heard Phoenix (the best rock track ever IMO). I remember the band touring a lot of smaller venues in the UK and it was not expensive to go and see them at that time. I was heartbroken when Ted Turner left the band and at first thought Laurie Wisefield was a bit arrogant and cocky but boy could he play.Seeing the band back in the early 70s were some of the best experiences of my life.
Agree for the most part. What always rubbed me the wrong way was how Laurie, seems to play, the original Ted parts with such bland emotion and chewing his gum...like oh this is easy. Then when he plays his lead parts, which are quite good, he has all this emotion and body english. You always got to respect the guys who invented the parts to begin with. And you're respecting the fans who were inspired by those original notes. They're the legends who made the song....imho. Plus, at my first concert of theirs, is when Laurie showed up, '75?. Me and my friends were all like, where the heck is Ted? Laurie had this same smirky look, for that show too, it just broke my heart...
@@raynic1173 Fully agree, I loved when Ted Turner was in the band, hence the comment about how I enjoyed seeing them in the early 70s. I also think that this period was the most creative in terms of their music.
I loved Weisfield’s joy and style every bit as much as Turner. I’ve never seen him as arrogant at all and I’m hardly alone. Especially after hearing from the musicians who have worked with him over the years, who I trust a hell of a lot more than internet comments. I need better reasons than what I’ve read to throw any shade his way but to each his own. Hopefully we can agree every one associated with this band has been great.
I bought “Live Dates” the year it came out and listened to it every single day after school. It had a profound and lasting influence on my career and subsequent compositions. It was that brilliant.
Great band loved them in the 70s growing up , got the album Argus for Christmas 🎄 I listened to it non stop for about two days ( on headphones plugged into my record player ) great memories.
I've often thought about the great music of the 80s and alternative rock of the 90s, and I deplore that John Lennon never lived to hear it. If he had, would he have revived his music career? Maybe created a great new band with Paul, George, & Ringo, but with a new sound and a new name? / But then, I think of numerous great bands that he surely did hear--Allman Brothers, Boston, Heart, Van Halen, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Crystal Gayle, Aerosmith, Robin Trower, Santana, (he did like New Wave, The Cars, etc.), and if he listened to Wishbone Ash, he was a bit more blessed than I thought.
Saw them in the Kinsmen Field House in Ed monton Alberta, and got to see and hear it all again in Sherwood Park,,40th anniversary tour, damn near to the day,,met so many people in the literal back row, Yugo, Hung , norwegian, was an incredible experience,I was singing and playing air guitar and so were they,,we were all just honored to be there,,Argus was and always will be, Number 1, to me,,fricking wow,,,so good,,
Now 70 years old, isn’t it amazing that the music of our youth is now the music of our twilight. Transports me back every time I hear it.
Still brilliant music.
Very moving comment. I am very near your age, I feel this way entirely. And this is a most brilliant version of this gem of a tune.
I saw this live last night and am only 40, loved it, the audience was great, they really seemed to enjoy playing . I know it's only one of the guys, but it was still great.
Saw them in the Theatre Royal, Norwich in mid 70's, one of the best live bands I ever saw. I am also 70, still love these sounds.
i'm a gen-xer and i appreciate and rock out on music such as this.
I am 61 and my daughter at 19 says that Wishbone Ash music is intellectual! Do you oldies agree? Gal loves it so much.
61 years young too and I think she's right
The album version of errors of my way is about as melodically beautiful as it gets
Compared with the majority of today’s efforts we hear from the music industry anything with more than three chords would be considered as so I think
Love them! Had MANY a parties jamming to this awesome band! Good times!
Certainly do ! Your Gal's got taste for real music played by real musicians.
Great reaction, thank you ❤ If I would be allowed to listen to 5 bands only, Wishbone Ash would be one of it. Luckily I have seen them 3 x live, having a great time with my husband who sadly past away too early. He was the one who introduced WA to me, and I still remember how I was blown away. If someone would ask me which songs I like most it would be Phoenix and F.U.B.B. Greetings to all music lover from an old German lady ❤❤❤
This time where music was only music, no machines, no auto tune... Just pure talent was doing the job.
What a blessing to have been a teen at this time
3 guitars..don't hear that too often..such a classic..I am 61 and this was my favorite tune when was 16
Да я тоже слушал подростком эту музыку, жил в г. Алма-Ата(Казахстан) теперь нет ни той страны, ни молодости, но осталась прекрасная музыка
You have got great taste in music Phillipe 😂🎉😢😮😅😊
❤Danke ❤😂😂❤erkommt❤❤😂❤
@@patrickjwhelihan5431 I'm 64 and it's still my favorite tune ! Saw them live 3 times as a teen , once with Styx as the opening act !
Saw them in my youth....Argus is still one of the greatest albums ever made
Wishbone Ash, the beauty of simplicity and competence: lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and drums, NOTHING ELSE. Perfect vocalization, wonderful songs. The best of great English rock! His album Argus, from the early 70s, is a landmark in world music, like Sargent Peppers of the Beatles. His song Persephone, very sensitive and beautiful: You listens to it twice and it never leaves his head. I met Wishbone Ash by chance in the 70s when I was in my early 20s. I'm 73, he's with me to this day. It's impossible to listen to a W.A. song and not like it. As I said, the best of great English rock...
Paulo Sérgio Pecchio
Campo Belo neighborhood - São Paulo - Brazil.
51 years after I first heard the Argus album, it's still one of my all time favorites!
This was and always will be what guitar rock should sound like.
Saw them live twice in the early 70's. Awesome. One of the all time great dual lead guitar bands.
While I agree with you about the dual lead thing, I found it interesting the Laurie Wisefield played all the lead in this clip. I saw them live a few times, can't remember how many now. But with both Ted Turner and then Laurie Wisefield. But once Martin Turner and Steve Upton left I started to lose interest.
@@IanGee-007 originally, Ted Turner played all the leads in this song. It's the only song on Argus where Andy Powell has no solos.
I saw them play at Portsmouth Guildhall, think it was more mid to late 70s.
Halte durch🎉❤
At 67 I love and still listen to Wishbone Ash...💓
I hear u, I am 67 also. Argus was the 2nd vinyl album I purchased in '72. Deep Purple Machine Head was the first. Still have Argus on vinyl as I am glad I took care of my vinyl.
Ditto
One of the most underrated bands ever!!
Indeed
ya .. Hell man NO DOUBT !! .. Criminally .. along with so Many .. AXE was a Hell of a band .. same thing .. So Underrated ..
WISHBONE ASH is a Unique banc I think .. Not Many Sounded like them . The First 3 Albums .. after that .. they weren't the Same .. anymore ..
100% accurate
Was thinking the same
They were so Damn good live, each and every time, ballz to the wallz!
So much good music came from Rockpalast, why we, the US, doesn't have this is shameful. I was in Germany around this time and we used to watch this all weekend, many bands playing 24 hours.
I was on holiday in 1971 to see my Aunt and Uncle in London Ontario Canada, l was 16, was introduced to the album Argus by a son of friends of the family. Wow. Played the king will come tonight in 2024. I hear you my friend. ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
I was in a band back in ‘76. These gentlemen heavily influenced our sound with their dual lead guitar harmonies and tightness live.
It’s awesome great stuff like this gets posted for ‘Memory Lane’ - Keep On Rockin’…👍🏼😎
６４歳の爺です。何年か前来日して川崎のチネチッタのコンサートを見に行きました。当初のメンバーから随分様変わりしましたが、アンディーだけは結成当時のメンバーのままでした。お客さんの年齢層も私と同じくらいでしたが、客席の横で踊っている方もいました。アッシュは私の青春そのものです。高3の文化祭でバンドを組んで、アッシュのキングウィルカムなどをコピーしたことは私の貴重な財産です。今でもアッシュがいつの日か来日してくれることを祈っています。その際は何があっても絶対に行きます！！！
Wishbone Ash-I've listened to them since the 1970's and their music never gets old. What a great, under-appreciated band.
Still listening 2023 🎤😍❤️🎵🎶🤩💕💕
Over the years I have owned a cassette, an LP album, a CD and a High Res download of the original Live Dates release. Loved this group since was 16 years old, and I'm 63 today.
Happy Birthday!
Wie ich 🤗🤗🤗
By my calculation I’m a few years older 69 at the time of writing. I was drawn to the Album Argus simply because of the artwork on the cover just something about it. Then came the music just unbelievable top top notch played it over and over it’s given me priceless memories from those times to this very day.
I am too, 61
Still listen to this 2020!
Twin leads are ausom love Priest,Maiden and Wishbone.I just love rock in general, Now they call maroon 5 and cold play rock. Damn this is just the begining young rock fans . Use youtube and explore the ''oldies'' you will not regret.
Me too!
There is two Finish guitar players who played in this great band Ben Granfelt and Muta Manninen....
2021
2021 anyone?
These guys are incredible....and very underrated....i saw them twice in the 70s and still listen to them today....the tours i saw were Wishbone 4 and There's The Rub
They still play mostly in EN/EU! Go see them in the future! I saw them several years ago, also after that Martin Turner band playing the entire Argus album.
They are one of the Classic Rock Legends, so they are not underrated at all. ✌️☮️✌️
@@nc6571 you'd be surprised...i know people who never have even heard of them
I saw Laurie Wisefield when he was still playing with Home. In the early '70s had tickets to see The Pink Fairies, at Peoples College in Nottingham, but they split up (yet again) and Home took the gig. Home were a great band including Laurie Wisefield and Clifford Williams (who joined AC/DC in 1978).
I agree 200$
THE guitar band of the 70's.
Been a fan of Wishbone Ash since my teens. Very underrated band, wrote great songs and played them beautifully with great energy and fire. Definitely one of my top five favorite bands of all time!
Two guitarists swapping lead and rhythm but still displaying their differing styles - Laurie doing the Strat/delay justice with soaring plectrum work and then Andy with his more spikey, fingerstyle approach (reminds me a little of Richard Thompson). It all gels magnificently for a great live recording
Man this song gives me chills, and I just discovered it in 2015, and I'm not a youngster!!!! Such a tight band, and inspiration to many to come.
If you just discovered The King Will Come in 2015 then you need to go back to the beginning of Wishbone Ash and discover more beautiful music ! Too many to mention but this clip is in my top 3 .
I just discovered it today… And I’m an old fart myself
Evil will be vanquished and Good will reign once again. Greed and Hatred will be no more. It is prophesied
This is the definition of guitar playing.
Iron Maiden were cleaaarly influenced by this band.
Laurie Wisefield
Martin Turner, Steve Upton, Andy Powell and Laurie Wisefield were an amazing lineup in Wishbone Ash. I wish I could have seen that lineup of Wishbone Ash in concert!
@mags jay please say more…I first heard their debut album in the later 1970’s and think they had a unique and special vibe.
None of them even come close to Ted Turner
@@clivenaylor5392 .. Fred Turner😊
It was around this time I became aware of Wishbone Ash. Hell it might've even been clips from this concert I saw back then on TV, don't know if it was Midnight Special or Don Kirshners Rock Concert.., most likely the later. I just remember seeing Laurie Wisefield & thinking damn he's a great guitarist.
@@ingfig1Fred or Ted still brilliant
I saw them a few years before this. Best dual lead I ever heard. Kiss opened; my girlfriend and I waited in the lobby till they were done.
This song is a great mix of folk and straight out rock. A real masterpiece.
Just recently found my old tickets from their Newcastle City hall gigs! Saw them more than any band back in my 'hairy' days. This footage brings back such fond memories.
Saw them yesterday in Amsterdam....wauw.....still playing as 50 years ago...one the favourite bands of my brother who passed away two years. But I grew up with this music...and happy to be part of that musical time
For me the best band of all time. Bought my first Wishbone Ash album in '72 when I was introduced to Wishbone by a colleague. Subsequently bought everything I could lay my hands on. Had the good fortune to watch live both the original lineup with Ted Turner and the lineup with Laurie Wisefield. Time Was, The King Will Come and Throw Down the Sword will be played when they burn me in the box. 72 now so who knows.
Same!
Such a great band.I saw them live.Was unforgettable
You won't be seeing any band like this one coming around. They really are a big secret from folks around in the 70's that dug rock music. One of the key signatures of the band was going from all-out guitar jamming to quiet strumming. It brought you up and down in the traditional rock format rather than Pink Floyd type effects for instance. True rockers here. The Argus album had this sort of medieval theme which for me was more subtle in its deliver rather than a time mood piece.
I have used this style of writing songs for many years decades. Their influence of double leads in harmonies and same for vocal harmonies. It etched in stone for me.
This is a really great live version of this song. Brilliant.
In the fire, the king will come. Thunder rolls, piper and drum. Evil sons, overrun, Count their sins judgment comes. The checkerboard of nights and days Man will die, man be saved. The sky will fall, the earth will pray, When judgment comes to claim its day. See the word of the prophet On a stone in his hand. Poison pen revelation, Or just a sign in the sand? The checkerboard of nights and days Man will die, man be saved. The sky will fall, the earth will pray, When judgment comes to claim its day. See the word of the prophet On a stone in his hand. Poison pen revelation, Or just a sign in the sand?
Laurie was the master at sliding into a riff and nailing it everytime .
1975-76, these guys were the class of rock music.
Saw these loads of times at Liverpool stadium they never disappointed, one of the most underrated bands ever.
I spent many happy hours at the Stadium watching them before legging it to Lime Street to get the last train home. Great times , great band
same for me , great times@@stevenewton6360
OMG! Incredible musical talent. None of the crap from these days can challenge the hard and progressive rock music of 70's.
was a fan back in the 70s. now i found these vids ive watched them 100 times. renewed my faith in real musicians!
2021 and I am still listening. Everybody needs a friend or some good testosterone Music.
Saw these guys live in Austin circa 1972. Fabulous band way ahead of their time. Still great to listen to.
Lucky you
Seen play can’t remember when 1980
That's one of the best tones from a strat that I've ever heard! Laurie was on FIRE!!!😁
Totally Agree
@@jojobutcher sounds like a humbucker on roids
Crazy cool
Especially that solo. Spectacular.
@@Snipely I guess the '54 he was using either had a really good original bridge pickup, or it was replaced and had the tone control routed to it to take out some of the brightness 'cause that thing sounds fat!
Yep; I agree as well !
I’m 22 years old and wishbone ash is my favourite band in the world ❤ Stray , UFO , groundhogs and Hawkwind all the way! I travelled from Canada to Uk to see them! So happy I have a great taste in music 🎉
2 of the greatest guitar solos of all time in the same song. Done by two totally different guitarists. What does that tell you about the 1970s!! Pure Fun Pure Freedom!!
Beautiful tones from both guitars...so glad that Spotify randomly put this song on my playlist. I’m looking forward to more.
Saw these guys in college in '73. Sentimental journey.
I have never heard this band, although I'm listing music since the 70's. What an incredible sound! An incredible to discover such a jewel!
Going to be in Tampa FL, soon .
Saw them many times in the early 70s.... but they were always the opening act.... to Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band. I guess they couldn't achieve headliner status without a hit single. In Chicago they were one of the opening act for Traffic, along with the then unknown Roxy Music, and the pre-Nicks/Buckingham Fleetwood Mac
@@michaelbrinkers1145gonna love steve miller band
Try Live Dates album! You won’t be disappointed.
Discovering this band for the first time and wondering where they've been my whole life. Their first three albums are pure gold
I read somewhere that Phil Lynott and his thin Lizzy bandmates used to go to WA gigs and were once overheard saying ' this is the sound we want'. Go to the wishbone ash distillation album and listen to a live song called 'lookin for a reason' then you will understand.
Just loved this band & song in the70's ..... brilliant & thank you from South Frica after all these years still so amazingly awesome .... thank you so much !!!
I heard W-Ash as the opening act for Ten Years After at a concert in Stuttgart in 1992. I really, really liked W-Ash. Because of TYA I went to the concert, the fourth already, but I liked Ash the best. Later I heard W-Ash again at Rockpalast TV. Just great. And it's true: I've never seen such a great, powerful strat in the solo of "the king will come" from Laurie. Very, very, very good.I listen to this song with the solo several times a week. Divine.
The most under rated band of time!!
No wonder Tina Turner and Joe Cocker hired him as their guitarist.
Sorry for my (geman) english.
Check Mark Birch performance at Live Dates 3😉
@@harrisgmts8688
Hello and thank's for your answer.
Sorry,
witch is "Live Dates 32"?
Please send a link from the video "Live Date 3". Thanks.
Hello Harris
I found date 3.
I can only compare the song "The king...". With the song and only with "The king.." I find the strat so empty and therefore need the reverb. At 9:41 and a little later as well, possibly because of the Wah Wah pedal, hearing a discord. The Gitarre-run from 9:52 sounds really great. That's just my feeling about this song. I don't know how Laurie manages the Strat in 1996 to sound so great. "Pure goosebumps skin" by this song. I know and hear Clapton, Hendrix, A Lee, Page, ....
@ a concert with 10 Years After and Wishbone Ash : Heavenly
I still have the vinyl of that album. And to those that think Laurie is coming off as a smarta•• chewy gum. He looks to me like he is enjoying playing the song. Most likely the gum is for dry mouth from smokin the weed! As we did. I really like how he is playing it. Very ethereal. 😁🖖✌️.
How is this song not more famous? One of the best of all time...
Oh my goodness I have listened to Wishbone Ash since the early 70's...💓
Laurie Wisefield!!!!!! Great guitarist and vocalist. A great addition to the band at the time.
So underappreciated! My first live show. Blew me away !
This lineup is my favorite. Laurie is a great great guitarist👍
together with Andy Powell unbelievable in de 10e macht
ウィッシュボーン.アッシュの最高傑作アルバム、アーガスを初めて聴いたのが1978年。2021年の今も聴いてます。
私はWarrior、The King Will
Come、Throw Down The Swordが大好きです🥰
もちろん今でも聴いてます🤗
I had forgotten all about these guys. They are incredible! Hadn't heard them since 1976.
Besser als jeder Rock heutzutage...Handhaben pur...mit Leidenschaft....genial
Saw them within days of this TV performance in Freiburg/Black Forest in December 1976, and the concert blew us, my friend and I, away. They were in exceptional form then, Laurie ruled.
True.been listening to them
For over 50 years.
Fav album.Pilgrimage.
I rate Argus in the top 10 Albums . I bought this early. Wish I could have seen them live . Privileged to have found them. I pity the kids today.....
I agree, for me it plays like a medieval story with battles and all that.
Saw the band in 73? at Auckland New Zealand's Western Springs venue. Friggin amazing. The lineup was Martin, Ted, Andy Powell and Steve Upton from memory. I was about five metres from the stage with Andy right in front of me and I remember him watching me as I studied his guitar playing.. So cool. Will never forget those two lead guitars going for it. Of course it was a huge sound system - so much better than any stereo! Met a guy a few years ago who had also seen them on the same tour but in Wellington a couple of days later.
First time hearing this. Great guitar tone 👍
Ever so often getting fascinated by Martin’s bass
Very distinct and beautifully played
Regal.
Love this fabulous band.... Takes me back to 75..... Want Cruz ...
One of my most favorite songs from one of my most favorite album by one of my most favorite bands! I’ve dug Wishbone Ash since when their very first album was released up until now and till the day I die.
I first saw them in Austin and then in Houston back in the mid70’s. Still listen to them to this day, timeless, fabulous.
In Iraq, in the 70s , we listened to two rock favourites, deep purple and wishbone ash. Wishbone ash first album is a classic.
a most underrated Band ..love them
Most of all I love Wishbone Ash, perfect twin guitar leads and harmonies. True masters, true innovators.
The best live band. 🎸🎸All time
One of the best bands of all times...
Not only dueling guitars, but dueling vocals. These guys sound great together. Andy’s single vocals just aren’t the same.
Guitar and Bass ☝️ :D
Love the lyrics, must be talking about King Jesus!!!! When the King comes, He'll bring judgment to the unbelievers and reward to those who have put their trust in Him!!!!!!! The Prophets have spoken!!!!!
Which one of all Jesuses that have lived do you mean? and will he come back as a sceleton? or a fat old man?
Woefully underappreciated great band - this original lineup was a phenomenal live band - saw them in Houston TX when I was in high school in 1972. Ted Turner and Andy Powell had a great musical vibe - they were one of the best twin lead guitar bands out there. Lyrical and melodic playing that complemented each other. Was no showing off - no 'hey kids look how many notes I can play in this measure!' Too many bands do that stuff. Gag
I saw Ash a few times at the Glasgow Apollo in the 70's, a mate caught one of Stevie Uptons drumsticks at a gig. Great band, loved them since 72 onwards and still play their stuff regularly.
I saw her in Sankt Wendel Germany in 1984. My god where has the time gone?
i`ve seen this concert 76,.and began to play guitar. And i love it til this day
When Wishbone Ash were at their very best with Martin Turner on lead vocals and bass
I still have Wishbone Ash, Argus, Pilgramige, Wishbone Four, Live Dates and There's the Rub, on vinyl. Also a pretty knackered version of Live Dates on a pre-recorded tape.
About sixteen years ago. I saw both versions of Wishbone Ash, within weeks of each other.
I remember John Peel heavily promoting the band just before the first album was released and I simply just had to go and see them, especially when I heard Phoenix (the best rock track ever IMO). I remember the band touring a lot of smaller venues in the UK and it was not expensive to go and see them at that time. I was heartbroken when Ted Turner left the band and at first thought Laurie Wisefield was a bit arrogant and cocky but boy could he play.Seeing the band back in the early 70s were some of the best experiences of my life.
Agree for the most part. What always rubbed me the wrong way was how Laurie, seems to play, the original Ted parts with such bland emotion and chewing his gum...like oh this is easy. Then when he plays his lead parts, which are quite good, he has all this emotion and body english. You always got to respect the guys who invented the parts to begin with. And you're respecting the fans who were inspired by those original notes. They're the legends who made the song....imho. Plus, at my first concert of theirs, is when Laurie showed up, '75?. Me and my friends were all like, where the heck is Ted? Laurie had this same smirky look, for that show too, it just broke my heart...
@@raynic1173 Fully agree, I loved when Ted Turner was in the band, hence the comment about how I enjoyed seeing them in the early 70s. I also think that this period was the most creative in terms of their music.
I loved Weisfield’s joy and style every bit as much as Turner. I’ve never seen him as arrogant at all and I’m hardly alone. Especially after hearing from the musicians who have worked with him over the years, who I trust a hell of a lot more than internet comments.
I need better reasons than what I’ve read to throw any shade his way but to each his own. Hopefully we can agree every one associated with this band has been great.
@@jimo50 Every early video of him where he has to play teds parts it's obvious. You can see it clearly in this video.
"Phoenix (the best rock track ever IMO)" Agreed 100%!!!!!
Top notch from all the guys. Just a fantastic band.
Still sounding epic in 2023
I had totally forgot about Wishbone Ash. Thanks
And, this kids is music. BOOMERS!
These guys were great with the rhythm and then their vocal and guitar harmonies. Great song!
What a brilliant live sound and so tight😀
Still listening in 22 anyone else?
Oh, yea
I bought “Live Dates” the year it came out and listened to it every single day after school. It had a profound and lasting influence on my career and subsequent compositions. It was that brilliant.
Great band loved them in the 70s growing up , got the album Argus for Christmas 🎄 I listened to it non stop for about two days ( on headphones plugged into my record player ) great memories.
I love this song since I was a child
I've often thought about the great music of the 80s and alternative rock of the 90s, and I deplore that John Lennon never lived to hear it. If he had, would he have revived his music career? Maybe created a great new band with Paul, George, & Ringo, but with a new sound and a new name? / But then, I think of numerous great bands that he surely did hear--Allman Brothers, Boston, Heart, Van Halen, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Peter Frampton, Crystal Gayle, Aerosmith, Robin Trower, Santana, (he did like New Wave, The Cars, etc.), and if he listened to Wishbone Ash, he was a bit more blessed than I thought.
Love the tone out of that lead Strat. OMG ! perfection.
For an interesting contrast, check out the version of Persephone, from this concert. Powell's V is sonically exquisite.
@@grouchomarxist666 thanks .. I will
Saw them in the Kinsmen Field House in Ed monton Alberta, and got to see and hear it all again in Sherwood Park,,40th anniversary tour, damn near to the day,,met so many people in the literal back row, Yugo, Hung , norwegian, was an incredible experience,I was singing and playing air guitar and so were they,,we were all just honored to be there,,Argus was and always will be, Number 1, to me,,fricking wow,,,so good,,
What a band!!!! Superb
brilliant vocals by martin and andy i saw them live 1976 glasgow apollo