just before this legend passed , he was rollin n ballin like the Boogie-meister he was. RIP , Bolan...you're still rocking across time, 20th century boy...
I saw the T Rex tribute show at City Winery with his son a few years back but never had the chance to see T Rex and we didn’t miss anything around then.
If this was supposed to be Marc Bolan in a state of decline he seems to be playing the hell out of his guitar and singing his ass off, regardless. A bonafide rock and roll star and consummate professional who always gave it everything that he had with heart and soul🥃🌹🇬🇧🖤✌🏼
Well zthe best Performance from Marc Bolan. So underrated in USA . I was since 1971 Fan from Marc and I life in germany. Keep a little Marc in your ❤🦖🎸
Saw Marc Bolan at The Santa Monica Civic when I was 17. I too was blown away by His showmanship and His guitar playing was so different and "avant gar". Unforgettable!
Very cool. I saw two shows, both at the Hollywood Palladium during the Electric Warrior and Slider tours. He just owned the stage and both were great nights!
Marc is so beautiful in every period of his life I don't care what anyone says. Heck the man was only in his 20's already a multimillionaire so he had plenty of time to reinvent himself and never was a has been. Talentless twats take cheap shots at Marc because they are envious of his beauty and musical genius. Marc is a legend that has earned every shred of his iconic status. The haters could neva and Gloria Jones what a voice!
@@bowie12 haters gonna hate, you are obviously a lost soul. so sorry, what u into fleetwood mac or something? lol. if u hate him why u here? i already know,u r in love with him too,and u be all suppressed and can't help but watch. hoping u get boogie fever someday.
Just think … he was only 23- 24.yrs old here … imagine what he could have accomplished had he been been around longer ? … I put him up there with Prince Thank you Marc Bolan
@@beecee2205 He was solo 1964-1967, In '67 he did a few months in John's Children before forming Tyrannosaurus Rex. He turned 23 on 30 Sept 1970 a couple of days before Ride A White Swan was out. He turned 24 on 30 Sept 1971 shotly after Electric Warrior came out. By 25 in 30 Sept 72 penultimate UK top 2 hit Children of the Revolution was dropping down the charts and the Tanx album was in the studio.
i had only listening to T Rex studio releases until very recently when i stumbled across a live concert by them here on you tube and was blown away at Bolan's guitar playing live....which one just doesnt really hear on the studio versions....
I was at this show. Had a great time was a fan. Tickets to don k filmings were free just had to listen to radio KNAC 105.5RIP great early la station and head down to Licorice pizza record store when they announced start of availability. Went to a lot of dk rock concert filmings always a good time. 👍
Started watching Don kirshner when I was a kid , so many great bands including this one still one of my favorites ! Other memorable favorites ELP, cheap trick, Prince!, Black oak Arkansas, bad company ,,, the list goes on and on!
First T Rex song I ever heard was Planet Queen (on 8 track I believe) and I was a Marc Bolan fan ever since. He's quite possibly one of the most underrated musicians of all time IMO.
Well it was 50 years ago, but I do remember the show which was great! Marc Bolan was a great front man and great guitarist. Me and a buddy of mine use to get free tickets to Don Krishner’s rock concerts on KLOS radio at the old Long Beach auditorium. We went to quite a few shows, including Rush (original) with John Rutsey! The 70’s was absolutely the best decade!!!
Saw T.Rex November 1974 at the Cleveland Agora , right up front ! Grabbed his foot once and he just looked down and smiled. When he slid down on his knees to play I grabbed hold of his red Les Paul ! This outfit here he is wearing looks to be the one he wore that night also!
Oh my frikkin gawd! i have just had a religious experience i was not expecting! ( although i have already been on the Bolan Boogie for decades now) this has me re-tuned so that i feel 20 instead of 60 for real! the man is truly electric everlasting life. he is so present that i can literally smell him and he splashed me with his magical sparkle and i feel born again in the best way. can i get a witness? Gloria. So attuned and grooving together and they made Rolan Bolan. they were working on so much more greatness... don't you love that song 'Skateboard' they sang together?
Wow Marc and Steve are just absolutely vibing I’ve been a fan for a year now and it’s my first time watching this. This performance is so amazing wish the guitar of zip gun boogie was that strong in the studio version I love it
I remember this. First time ever hearing about and watching this tv program of Marc Bolan and T.Rex. I was 13. Great to see this classic. Thanks for posting this!!!!
72, my first girl friend was addictet by Bolan n T. Rex. For me as a Stones hard core fan, it was just glamour stuff, good to dance sum tracks...74 was the last decade, not for the Stones but for T. Rex :-) anyway was a good time..yeahhhHHH
Found T.Rex a couple months ago!! Now I can’t escape!! 😂 I used to watch Don Kirshner concerts all the time!! Music was so good 60’s, 70’s, early 80’s. What happened?? Pretty much crap now cuz artists have no talent! Darn auto tune .... Thanks for this!! 😁
@joe public Very interesting! What are Luddites!? I love music & my dad was in the music industry back in the 60’s & 70’s but never heard that term before. 🤔
@joe public OOOHHH … So in a musical sense of the word Luddite it’s referring to the loss of required skills & talents to produce music such as good vocals, playing instruments, composing, & writing music by the use of autotune technology & computer generated instruments! 😬 Then Artists really don’t have to be that talented to create a song. And, if they do perform live there’s a backing track to support them. Dang!! There’s always a wizard behind the curtain!!
Despite the considerable excess poundage he was carrying, that’s one of the best live readings of ‘Jeepster’ I’ve seen. Interesting too that the addition of a keyboard player and Gloria on backing vocals had finally restored all the elements that went missing when the admirable Steve Took was ditched. As I’ve said for half a century now, it took five people to replace that guy…
Jesus, that guitar tone! And no pedals; and no feeling like he needs to change it; just one meat tenderizer of a tone that he's gonna beat you with all night long! F**k me, that is rock guitar!
Marc's spirit will live on I hope he's watching over. His. Fans. I. Have visited his. Resting place in London at golders green and put a flower on the grave my co worker was taking. Photos. At the time I. Even. Wrote. An emotional poem. For him. I wander if his spirit got. To read it
I was at this show and if you look closely, Marc switches his Les Paul for a cheap Fender copy and THAT is the guitar he thrashes, we saw it all, editing shows only what they wanted you to see... It was a cool show though.....!
The background singer, Gloria Jones, was his girlfriend. She is also the one who was driving the Mini Cooper that he died in. She lost control of the car one night after a party in London, hitting a fence post and then a tree. She survived with a broken arm and jaw, and he was killed instantly. An odd piece of trivia: She was the original artist behind "Tainted Love" back in 1965. (Yes, that "Tainted Love" that was redone into the 80s anthem by Soft Cell) Another odd piece of trivia? If you insist ... that opening gag of him being lifted up on that star at the show opening was copied by Marilyn Manson during his infamous tour with Hole. Instead of a star outlined in lights, he used a cross made of TVs.
Birmingham Odeon 1974, that star lifted up on a dark stage lights flashing then ... Pow! Bolan jumped from out of the middle of it, strutted across the stage and all hell broke loose. I’ll Never forget that intro ..he certainly had an aura about him.
Those girls in front are dancing up a storm! That’s Rock n Roll! If you can get the girls dancing you got something! And Bolan had the Boogaloo Blues and the Zip Gun Boogie!! 🎸👏🏻😎
I prefer this over the Midnight Special performance 👍😎 Wish they'd done 20th Century Boy. That sly "hand wave" a little after @ 19:57 was dope, somehow I missed it earlier!
Definitely influenced a lot of bands and player, the new york dolls and Johnny thunders and sylvain sylvain no doubt about it. Oasis aswell and many more, guns roses you name it
Ahhhh! Early 70's! Gravesend Bklyn. Mini Bikes! Hotttt lookin babes! Great Food! & ROCK n ROLL! Theee Freaking BEST! Decade of My Life! FONDEST of Memories!! God Bless....
In this time .is when the people calling to Mr bolan the glamwurst.sad time to him.but like ave fénix the man back again in perfect shape.God bless you Marc
Yeah he was a real person, people forget that and have that perfect Hollywood style in there heads. Marc was the man and he kicked arse that night. I loved it. His guitar sounds dangerous and snarly. He was probably living the life of excess but its his life. Iike your comment by the way.
I had this posted on here a few years back & it had millions of views ... then rascal big brother youtube took it down whilst a couple other people still had much crappier versions still up & posted, Ii see now yours & just one other persons is left, so who knows ... i wish u luck. ( watch out though, coz people get envious & viscous, is your version is better, mine was pure mint & so i don't know if it was jealousy or the actual agency as they claim, but someone reported it in any case. ) - Keep a lil' Marc in Your Heart ... Rock On & All the Very Best 2 Ya !!! ♥ PEACE, LUV & SWEET SWEET COSMIC BLISS !!! ♥
0:18........my oh my.......how the mighty can stumble. While others became the "Thin White Duke"..... some react quite different to coke it seems. Never saw Steve Curry so animated , 5:14 he wore one of Marc's jackets for this occasion . Still got one of these tambourines , fought real hard for it and cost me a black eye. Sure must be worth a few grand now .
Todays' music scene is full of rotten ketchup on top of silicon chips. Or to put it more simply; there is only one THING used to replicate instruments while the artist/singer merely attempts to provide un-emotive and passionate-less vocals on top of or over and that thing is? A COMPUTER. That's not music - it is farking god damned NOISE. Take me to the time machine now please. Oh and that's going BACK in time please. 1960s & 1970s please. The British Rock Invasion, Los Angeles/San Fransisco [folk rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, & progressive rock] Monterey, & Woodstock. Here endeth the lesson.
@@Blackscorpion1963 You deserve a Pulitizer prize. You explained it well. Everything about today's music is fake. Fake singing, - Fake instruments - Fake performances - make the crappy songs, crappy vocals, and crappy production even worse. I'd rather listen to disco.
@@fmonster man, I asked the same question. Thanks, FUZZM0NSTER Great harmony vocal on Jeepster. She puts some notes in there you don’t have on the recording. Piercing, high notes, sounds kind of minor. Anyway, it’s great. How did Gloria manage to recover emotionally from the terrible accident? 1978, right?
I think Gloria Jones had a good voice, but in my opinion her voice and Marc’s together are like nails on a chalkboard. They just do not go together. She is annoying as heck when she sings vocals with him. Alone, she’s fine.
I realise Bolan had seen better days by 1974, but noneyheless his performance is great if not brilliant. He inspired millions and many entertainers styled their looks and performance. I can even see him reflected in the band members of KISS.
KISS may have been influenced by their style but musically they don't hold a candle. The Dolls were much better than KISS. Kiss lost the roll part of rock and roll.
Please forgive us!!!! I myself became enthralled with Marc much later after I graduated from High School. Yes, I knew of "Bang A Gong" & "Jeepster" but only as classic rock staples, I didn't know who T. Rex really were until 1984. Too little, too late...
Just discovered Marc Bolan now!! I’m enthralled with T.Rex ... I just finished High School when Marc passed away. Too bad I missed his greatness back then!
Debra, honey you are 40 yrs to late, but better you found it now than newer. No other lead singer, songwriter produced the amount of songs, poems as he did, and most of them did not seen the daylight jet. He was not only a showman but very human to!!!!
The irony is that contemporary commentary insists Marc and T.Rex were roundly dismissed as an English pop group out of their depth in America. And that's true for the time. But compared to performers today he almost seems like Mozart.
The reporters of the era want to compare everything against the phenomenon of The Beatles. They were a black swan. Anything less than pandemonium is considered lacking. When in fact, Ringo was quoted that he had never seen such a level of enthusiasm as he saw at a TRex show. Someone here can certainly dig up the proper quotation and context.
That's hardly a recommendation......anything from 45 years ago seems cool compared to today's shite ......Even Mussolini seems a pleasant character compared to Trump.
The US didn't understand groups like T. Rex (as well as the Sweet and Slade) because they weren't 'heavy' of 'progressive' imaged enough to be pigeonholed for FM radio, and they also were too hard hitting to be pigeonholed as AM radio, pop acts. The only US act to deal with the same issues, but were able to transcend that divide were probably KISS -- probably because they had such an explosive stage act, and got accepted that way.
hard to watch this after seeing the Wembley matinee show from 2 years earlier, this is the start of the Gloria Jones era....sad to see how far Bolan had deteriorated under her influence (and I say this as a Bolan fan since 1972).
I agree, Colin. I've just watched the Wembley shows, where he's fantastic but in this one he looks bad enough to be in a T-Rex tribute group, and the end bit - throwing down the guitar/Hendrix bit is terrible. However, his guitar playing in the show is pretty good! My first record was The Slider, which I bought in 1973, aged 11.
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just before this legend passed , he was rollin n ballin like the Boogie-meister he was. RIP , Bolan...you're still rocking across time, 20th century boy...
Life's a gas.
@@fmonster Rabbit Fighter , Jojo dontcha know...?
he actually lived another 3 years, so hardly just before
Brilliant… love the sound of his Les Paul
Marc + Les Paul = Happy
Marc Bolan is a great musician and fashion man❤ T. Rex is an important page of the music.
MARC BOLAN GENIUS❤
I give you hot love.
Saw T. Rex in 1974, January Leicester UK. I remember it being intense, very hot, very loud. I loved it! I was 14.
I would love to hear more about that show!
Yes, they were one LOUD band - a lot louder than the records would have led you to expect...
I saw the T Rex tribute show at City Winery with his son a few years back but never had the chance to see T Rex and we didn’t miss anything around then.
Me too, saw them Free Trade Hall Manchester ‘74
@@susankirkland3852 I was there,
He was a great guitar player, loved T-Rex and Marc Bolan the whole band were just grooving good vibes.
the groover honey Yea
Marc Bolan is a monster of a guitarist!!!
Very underrated guitarist❤
@@keithleivers4061 plays very well too!!
A B O S U T E l Y .
@@keithleivers4061
not underrated mediocre at best
The only song I knew of theirs was Get It On (Bang a Gong). so now I am catching up and this is sure a treat! 😀
If this was supposed to be Marc Bolan in a state of decline he seems to be playing the hell out of his guitar and singing his ass off, regardless. A bonafide rock and roll star and consummate professional who always gave it everything that he had with heart and soul🥃🌹🇬🇧🖤✌🏼
Yes!
Well said
Well zthe best Performance from Marc Bolan. So underrated in USA . I was since 1971 Fan from Marc and I life in germany. Keep a little Marc in your ❤🦖🎸
Can't stop bopping my head to his music it's just full on boogie
Saw Marc Bolan at The Santa Monica Civic when I was 17. I too was blown away by His showmanship and His guitar playing was so different and "avant gar".
Unforgettable!
That is a keeper memory that could never be forgotten.
Fantastic! What else do you remember about the show?
Very cool. I saw two shows, both at the Hollywood Palladium during the Electric Warrior and Slider tours. He just owned the stage and both were great nights!
Love this. Saw Marc in 1972. He came out drunk or stoned. Played like we wanted. T REX, T RIFFICT.
Where was this Dan? and do you remember bits about the gig?.... i know it was a long time ago :)
@@Grogster2 it was in Arlington, Texas I think on the University of Texas at Arlington... A theatre there.
Marc is so beautiful in every period of his life I don't care what anyone says. Heck the man was only in his 20's already a multimillionaire so he had plenty of time to reinvent himself and never was a has been. Talentless twats take cheap shots at Marc because they are envious of his beauty and musical genius. Marc is a legend that has earned every shred of his iconic status. The haters could neva and Gloria Jones what a voice!
Beautifully stated. Thank you.
LOL He was crap, a washed out has been...
sing it sister!
@@bowie12 haters gonna hate, you are obviously a lost soul. so sorry, what u into fleetwood mac or something? lol. if u hate him why u here? i already know,u r in love with him too,and u be all suppressed and can't help but watch. hoping u get boogie fever someday.
Best sounding LIVE performance I've ever seen of Marc and T Rex! He really was very charismatic on stage! What a doll!
XOXO
Love how he puts up the Les Paul and brings out the Strat for the abuse. 🤣
What a show! Bolan boogie! Jitterbug boogie on a Saturday night!
He just can't hide when he's happy and enjoying himself....that smile 😀
Rockin Rollin Bolan & Gloria's backing vocals ARE Glorious! Magic, as we say here in Scotland
Just think … he was only 23- 24.yrs old here … imagine what he could have accomplished had he been been around longer ? …
I put him up there with Prince
Thank you Marc Bolan
Good point!
He was actually just gone 27 here (October 8th 1974, 8 days after his birthday).
Bolan was born in 1947. He was playing in groups in the mid 60s in London, 23/24 he surely aint here,
@@beecee2205 He was solo 1964-1967, In '67 he did a few months in John's Children before forming Tyrannosaurus Rex. He turned 23 on 30 Sept 1970 a couple of days before Ride A White Swan was out. He turned 24 on 30 Sept 1971 shotly after Electric Warrior came out. By 25 in 30 Sept 72 penultimate UK top 2 hit Children of the Revolution was dropping down the charts and the Tanx album was in the studio.
i had only listening to T Rex studio releases until very recently when i stumbled across a live concert by them here on you tube and was blown away at Bolan's guitar playing live....which one just doesnt really hear on the studio versions....
I agree
What a great performance! Marc's guitar sound is so powerful. The whole band are groovin'!
I was at this show. Had a great time was a fan. Tickets to don k filmings were free just had to listen to radio KNAC 105.5RIP great early la station and head down to Licorice pizza record store when they announced start of availability. Went to a lot of dk rock concert filmings always a good time. 👍
Started watching Don kirshner when I was a kid , so many great bands including this one still one of my favorites ! Other memorable favorites ELP, cheap trick, Prince!, Black oak Arkansas, bad company ,,, the list goes on and on!
And we used to be able to watch it all on free TV….. we now live in an age where the music flat out sucks, and you get charged a premium to watch it!
First T Rex song I ever heard was Planet Queen (on 8 track I believe) and I was a Marc Bolan fan ever since. He's quite possibly one of the most underrated musicians of all time IMO.
I am earing to this band for first time in my life. Ir is a amazing, wild and nice experience.
Engrossing performance artist.
i was there! been looking for this for some time!
Wow! What do you remember about the concert?
Well it was 50 years ago, but I do remember the show which was great! Marc Bolan was a great front man and great guitarist. Me and a buddy of mine use to get free tickets to Don Krishner’s rock concerts on KLOS radio at the old Long Beach auditorium. We went to quite a few shows, including Rush (original) with John Rutsey! The 70’s was absolutely the best decade!!!
Saw T.Rex November 1974 at the Cleveland Agora , right up front ! Grabbed his foot once and he just looked down and smiled. When he slid down on his knees to play I grabbed hold of his red Les Paul ! This outfit here he is wearing looks to be the one he wore that night also!
what a beautiful experience
Omg that is so cool! What a memory!!
you touched god now u r holy too
Oh my frikkin gawd! i have just had a religious experience i was not expecting! ( although i have already been on the Bolan Boogie for decades now) this has me re-tuned so that i feel 20 instead of 60 for real! the man is truly electric everlasting life. he is so present that i can literally smell him and he splashed me with his magical sparkle and i feel born again in the best way. can i get a witness? Gloria. So attuned and grooving together and they made Rolan Bolan. they were working on so much more greatness... don't you love that song 'Skateboard' they sang together?
Been an great fan of t rex since 70s, but we cant forget the incredble bass player steve curry either.
yes!
Wow Marc and Steve are just absolutely vibing I’ve been a fan for a year now and it’s my first time watching this. This performance is so amazing wish the guitar of zip gun boogie was that strong in the studio version I love it
Not some of his best songs on Show here. There is much better stuff in his catalogue and much better performances at an earlier point in his career.
Yes!
Yes definitely would have made the single a lot stronger having that boogie riff in the track
I remember this. First time ever hearing about and watching this tv program of Marc Bolan and T.Rex. I was 13. Great to see this classic. Thanks for posting this!!!!
72, my first girl friend was addictet by Bolan n T. Rex. For me as a Stones hard core fan, it was just glamour stuff, good to dance sum tracks...74 was the last decade, not for the Stones but for T. Rex :-) anyway was a good time..yeahhhHHH
Right on great marc ⭐⭐😉💜
Rock on!
Mr. Feld kickin it.
Found T.Rex a couple months ago!! Now I can’t escape!! 😂 I used to watch Don Kirshner concerts all the time!! Music was so good 60’s, 70’s, early 80’s. What happened?? Pretty much crap now cuz artists have no talent! Darn auto tune .... Thanks for this!! 😁
@joe public Very interesting! What are Luddites!? I love music & my dad was in the music industry back in the 60’s & 70’s but never heard that term before. 🤔
@joe public OOOHHH … So in a musical sense of the word Luddite it’s referring to the loss of required skills & talents to produce music such as good vocals, playing instruments, composing, & writing music by the use of autotune technology & computer generated instruments! 😬 Then Artists really don’t have to be that talented to create a song. And, if they do perform live there’s a backing track to support them. Dang!! There’s always a wizard behind the curtain!!
@@debramoore7513 Marc was the actual wizard ❤
Tan joven , tan talentoso Marc Bolan
Despite the considerable excess poundage he was carrying, that’s one of the best live readings of ‘Jeepster’ I’ve seen. Interesting too that the addition of a keyboard player and Gloria on backing vocals had finally restored all the elements that went missing when the admirable Steve Took was ditched. As I’ve said for half a century now, it took five people to replace that guy…
You mean poundage regarding replacing Took with 5 people or Marc's actual body weight?
@@krisscanlon4051 Marc was drink too much wine.
@@krisscanlon4051 he means Marc had put alot of weight on
Jesus, that guitar tone! And no pedals; and no feeling like he needs to change it; just one meat tenderizer of a tone that he's gonna beat you with all night long! F**k me, that is rock guitar!
Sound city Amps
Fuck yeah man
He used to play through an "always on" Dallas rangemaster treble booster. Same as Rory Gallagher, and Brian May and maybe MIck Ronson
He does have some pedal on the stage as he turns the knob around 24 minutes in but you are right about the tone of his Les Paul it just shreds 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Marc's spirit will live on I hope he's watching over. His. Fans. I. Have visited his. Resting place in London at golders green and put a flower on the grave my co worker was taking. Photos. At the time I. Even. Wrote. An emotional poem. For him. I wander if his spirit got. To read it
Catch a bright star and a place it on your forehead
yes he hears all our messages. i'm not just saying that. i am in touch. lol and hurray!
really awsome tunes..seen most of all the best bands,, unfortunately didn't see T-REX...
I don’t need TV when I got T Rex
STUNNING thanks for sharing 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧 x
I was at this show and if you look closely, Marc switches his Les Paul for a cheap Fender copy and THAT is the guitar he thrashes, we saw it all, editing shows only what they wanted you to see... It was a cool show though.....!
Extraordinaire !
The background singer, Gloria Jones, was his girlfriend. She is also the one who was driving the Mini Cooper that he died in. She lost control of the car one night after a party in London, hitting a fence post and then a tree. She survived with a broken arm and jaw, and he was killed instantly. An odd piece of trivia: She was the original artist behind "Tainted Love" back in 1965. (Yes, that "Tainted Love" that was redone into the 80s anthem by Soft Cell) Another odd piece of trivia? If you insist ... that opening gag of him being lifted up on that star at the show opening was copied by Marilyn Manson during his infamous tour with Hole. Instead of a star outlined in lights, he used a cross made of TVs.
Wrong about Tainted Love. She did a cover of it.
@@hardlines2635 No, Ed Cobb, an American, wrote it, she recorded it. You are wrong. Hers was the original release.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_Love
Not a Mini Cooper. It was a Mini 1275GT
He had a kid with her who still lives in/around London. Also believe he was married to someone else at the time.
@@hardlines2635 Nowhere above do I say that she "wrote it". Her version was the first time it was a hit with Radioplay.
Super MARC :)
Marc could sure make that Gibson sing.
Wow, great too see this
That was one killer ass live performance of jeepster holy crap
Yes!
Birmingham Odeon 1974, that star lifted up on a dark stage lights flashing then ... Pow! Bolan jumped from out of the middle of it, strutted across the stage and all hell broke loose. I’ll Never forget that intro ..he certainly had an aura about him.
Were there many there? I saw them there 3 years later on the 'Dandy in the Underworld' tour and it was poorly attended...
Wow!!
I was there too Les. I think it was 20th century Boy as opener. Remember how he ripped the ass out of his rainbow trousers?
BOLAN COULD WAIL ON GUITAR ! He really had it all going here .
He had gotten much much better than 71-72 he was always an amazing artist just his playing here was on fire.
Those girls in front are dancing up a storm! That’s Rock n Roll! If you can get the girls dancing you got something!
And Bolan had the Boogaloo Blues and the Zip Gun Boogie!!
🎸👏🏻😎
The bolan rockin look how it is done you lot now legend
I prefer this over the Midnight Special performance 👍😎 Wish they'd done 20th Century Boy. That sly "hand wave" a little after @ 19:57 was dope, somehow I missed it earlier!
wonderful !!!
A CLEAR GENIUS ,WHAT A SOUND HE GOT OUT OF THAT LES PAUL
Definitely influenced a lot of bands and player, the new york dolls and Johnny thunders and sylvain sylvain no doubt about it. Oasis aswell and many more, guns roses you name it
The clash, Kiss, Def Leppard etc
My babe my love he's my Jeepster🖤🖤🖤🖤
I got to see this live,at the old Long Beach Auditorium ,a whole week of DK RC , for free.
Wow! What else do you remember about the show?
Marc was certainly jamming on his Les Paul and lets show some love for Mickey Finn on bongos and Steve Curry on bass
The groovers!
I aint got TV but I got T Rex
Carry the news
@@fmonster BoogaLoo2
Yeah.
All the young dudes by mott the hoople
@@alicegrant3731 Right Happy Xmas
Мировая легенда, как метеорит пролетел, но как здорово, что осталось его наследие.... 👍❤️🌹❤️👍
Маленький Марк - великий Человечище! Царствие ему Небесное! Keep a Little Marc in Your Hearts!
Ahhhh! Early 70's! Gravesend Bklyn. Mini Bikes! Hotttt lookin babes! Great Food! & ROCK n ROLL! Theee Freaking BEST! Decade of My Life! FONDEST of Memories!! God Bless....
In this time .is when the people calling to Mr bolan the glamwurst.sad time to him.but like ave fénix the man back again in perfect shape.God bless you Marc
I literally went into RNR Orbit just now.. That last jam.. 🌟💫💫💫💫💫💫💫💫 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I was 19 in 1974
Love Them Still♥️🌟💙🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was 19 in ‘74 also and I, too, still love Marc best! 💕
That extra weight , bigger hands more power over that les paul.
Mark was the Rocka Roller !!
THAT NIGHT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah he was a real person, people forget that and have that perfect Hollywood style in there heads. Marc was the man and he kicked arse that night. I loved it. His guitar sounds dangerous and snarly. He was probably living the life of excess but its his life. Iike your comment by the way.
fantastic t rex marc bolan was superrrr
I had this posted on here a few years back & it had millions of views ...
then rascal big brother youtube took it down whilst a couple other people still had much crappier versions still up & posted, Ii see now yours & just one other persons is left, so who knows ... i wish u luck.
( watch out though, coz people get envious & viscous, is your version is better, mine was pure mint & so i don't know if it was jealousy or the actual agency as they claim, but someone reported it in any case. )
- Keep a lil' Marc in Your Heart ... Rock On & All the Very Best 2 Ya !!!
♥ PEACE, LUV & SWEET SWEET COSMIC BLISS !!! ♥
I would have gone out of my mind seeing this live
True and headed straight back to the box office and asked for your money back...
I was 10 when this came out. I saw it on TV and I remember thinking it was awesome.
Been looking for this the internet started
I'm your toy
Not seen this before. Awesome !!!
めちゃカッチョイイ❗ワン＆オンリーのマーク・ボランのチリメン声ばかり評価されてますが彼のギタープレイもホンマにカッチョイイんよね❤❤❤
Best version of "Bang A Gong" ever!
THE KING!!!🌹❤️❤️❤️🙏✝️🌄
0:18........my oh my.......how the mighty can stumble. While others became the "Thin White Duke".....
some react quite different to coke it seems. Never saw Steve Curry so animated , 5:14 he wore one of Marc's jackets for this occasion . Still got one of these tambourines , fought real hard for it and cost me a black eye. Sure must be worth a few grand now .
R N R survivor you are, man.
He was drinking a lot of brandy. The sugar caused weight gain according to Marc
Bravo 👏👏
touched by a god! priceless. just hold it and get infused with the richness of his being.
That jacket 🖤
This was Marc's worst time in his career, that's how good he was, at his best a real star not many around today!, rock on marc x
This guy Was cool. .
he was the nazz
You can start to see the bloat from the booze and coke. So glad he was clean, sober, slim fit and healthy and on the up before he died in 77.
Gloria's voice so extraordinary here
I was hoping Flo & Eddie would have been there..
but she’s filling in nicely
One background singer can do it. This one.
Baby baby oh baby.
love it
It was good of Marc to let a Homeless bloke pay piano for him ... nice one!
Love it 😍
There was a lot of exciting music back then Marc was one of the top innovators and risk takers. Today's music is lame.
There’s still a lot of great music out there today. Not so much maybe in mainstream, but still a wide range of great music everywhere
@@losangelesministryproject8509 agree wildly.
Todays' music scene is full of rotten ketchup on top of silicon chips. Or to put it more simply; there is only one THING used to replicate instruments while the artist/singer merely attempts to provide un-emotive and passionate-less vocals on top of or over and that thing is? A COMPUTER. That's not music - it is farking god damned NOISE. Take me to the time machine now please. Oh and that's going BACK in time please. 1960s & 1970s please. The British Rock Invasion, Los Angeles/San Fransisco [folk rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, & progressive rock] Monterey, & Woodstock. Here endeth the lesson.
@@Blackscorpion1963 You deserve a Pulitizer prize. You explained it well. Everything about today's music is fake. Fake singing, - Fake instruments - Fake performances - make the crappy songs, crappy vocals, and crappy production even worse. I'd rather listen to disco.
The spirit of Bolan lives on through Ty Segall’s music. Search, listen, and ye shall surely hear...
Rock Concert was sooooo much better than Midnight Special. Better groups and live performances.
shine the light on D
Who is the lady on vocals, keyboard and tambourine. Is it Gloria Jones by any chance?
Yep
Yes that is Gloria Jones. I love her recording of "Tainted Love" as well as the more well-known recording that came later.
@@fmonster man, I asked the same question. Thanks, FUZZM0NSTER
Great harmony vocal on Jeepster. She puts some notes in there you don’t have on the recording. Piercing, high notes, sounds kind of minor. Anyway, it’s great. How did Gloria manage to recover emotionally from the terrible accident? 1978, right?
1977
I think Gloria Jones had a good voice, but in my opinion her voice and Marc’s together are like nails on a chalkboard. They just do not go together. She is annoying as heck when she sings vocals with him. Alone, she’s fine.
I realise Bolan had seen better days by 1974, but noneyheless his performance is great if not brilliant. He inspired millions and many entertainers styled their looks and performance. I can even see him reflected in the band members of KISS.
And new york dolls too.
New Yorkshire dolls mentioned them as inspiration so they must have heard of him around 71-73
KISS may have been influenced by their style but musically they don't hold a candle. The Dolls were much better than KISS. Kiss lost the roll part of rock and roll.
He was doing great after about 75/76 he was clean and booze free and had lost the extra weight. Very sad then he died. Tragically
Marc went down hill fast. Pity the Americans never saw the Ride a White Swan Marc, who blew us all away in the UK.
Please forgive us!!!! I myself became enthralled with Marc much later after I graduated from High School. Yes, I knew of "Bang A Gong" & "Jeepster" but only as classic rock staples, I didn't know who T. Rex really were until 1984. Too little, too late...
so true.
Different Marc from the 2 gigs at London swimming baths 1972.
@@glenndouglas8822 I bet!
Just discovered Marc Bolan now!! I’m enthralled with T.Rex ... I just finished High School when Marc passed away. Too bad I missed his greatness back then!
Se te extraña maestro ❤
brilliant
The year he started putting a lot of weight on always put a good show on
Wasn’t the weight gain bright about because of drug use. I’ve seen him puffier, but by 77 he was back to Lady Stardust form.
Debra, honey you are 40 yrs to late, but better you found it now than newer. No other lead singer, songwriter produced the amount of songs, poems as he did, and most of them did not seen the daylight jet. He was not only a showman but very human to!!!!
Its a shame he never really caught on in the states.
Underrated band from back in the day
Amazing!
The irony is that contemporary commentary insists Marc and T.Rex were roundly dismissed as an English pop group out of their depth in America. And that's true for the time. But compared to performers today he almost seems like Mozart.
The reporters of the era want to compare everything against the phenomenon of The Beatles. They were a black swan. Anything less than pandemonium is considered lacking. When in fact, Ringo was quoted that he had never seen such a level of enthusiasm as he saw at a TRex show. Someone here can certainly dig up the proper quotation and context.
That's hardly a recommendation......anything from 45 years ago seems cool compared to today's shite ......Even Mussolini seems a pleasant character compared to Trump.
@@fmonster brilliant words. man.
The US didn't understand groups like T. Rex (as well as the Sweet and Slade) because they weren't 'heavy' of 'progressive' imaged enough to be pigeonholed for FM radio, and they also were too hard hitting to be pigeonholed as AM radio, pop acts. The only US act to deal with the same issues, but were able to transcend that divide were probably KISS -- probably because they had such an explosive stage act, and got accepted that way.
@@chriscampbell9191 The fact they had to change the name of 'Get It On' says it all - talk about '2 countries divided by a common language'! :)
DAYUM!
They were beyond their time by decades.
very very super
Gosh he really looks little different here. Too much wine. Ringo loved this guy. What a loss.
ISIS was around in '74? They looked pretty harmless back then. Anyway, Marc Bolan was such a talent! Love ol T-Rex!!
Had a diff meaning in 74 i guess
Yeah who,d of thought they started out as backing group for T.Rex .lol
Great guitar lead ...on bang a gong.......yep.
get it on!
Who’s singing harmony on the choruses. She’s good.
Gloria Jones . . . a Northern Soul legend (and Marc's girlfriend) . . . 🎸🐸🎸
And mother of his son
The one that crashed the car that killed him.
hard to watch this after seeing the Wembley matinee show from 2 years earlier, this is the start of the Gloria Jones era....sad to see how far Bolan had deteriorated under her influence (and I say this as a Bolan fan since 1972).
Ain’t that the truth?
I agree, Colin. I've just watched the Wembley shows, where he's fantastic but in this one he looks bad enough to be in a T-Rex tribute group, and the end bit - throwing down the guitar/Hendrix bit is terrible. However, his guitar playing in the show is pretty good! My first record was The Slider, which I bought in 1973, aged 11.