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This actually a live recording – isn’t it? Let’s have some more!

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This is bloody great. Live, surely? Unlike that “Tin Soldier” clip that’s everywhere.

Please post some Actual Live Clips from this era.

NOT miming.

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  1. Fleetwood Mac live and loud (in a BBC studio) in 1969 playing Oh Well. I love how laid back musicians were at that time. I was going to post the Hendrix “Lulu Show” clip from around the same time but I think that’s maybe too well known now.

  4. French TV was also good for live performances in the late 60s as now found online: here is Fairport Convention with Judie Dyble, and Martin Lambert on drums, doing the Emitt Rhodes song.

    • Terrific band whose name I’ve not seen mentioned in donkey’s years.

      Birth was a great song.

      Sad they seem to have been so largely forgotten.

  9. Mark Evanier (US writer, producer & blogger Newsfromme.com) says that he was told by an experienced TV director, when miming to records or pre-prerecorded tracks:

    “Very often, you’ll find that the singers will do a good job but they’ll be consistently a fraction of a second behind their voices on the track. That isn’t a problem in itself because you can always slide the track a few frames and put their lip movements in perfect sync with the track. The trouble is when you have a drummer in the shot because most drummers are precisely on the beat so if you slide the track, you put the drummer out of sync. Usually, I have to split the difference but a better way is to just not get the drummer in the same shot as the singers if you can arrange it.”

  10. Ok, so not the same era, but I’m impressed by this clip of Split Enz. They succeed because they don’t overplay at all, just stick to the song. Tim Finn only plays guitar on the choruses and Noel Crombie rattles percussion only when needed. Meanwhile Eddie Rayner works twice as hard as everyone else on the keyboards.

  12. Wonderful clip. Steve Marriott was Mother Nature’s answer to the important question: what if the Artful Dodger had been born with an all time classic soul voice? Sang everything from his boots, huge fan.

  15. In case you haven’t heard of these chaps, they were a mildly popular pop combo from Liverpool and this is one of the best tunes that their bass player Paul McCartney wrote. Enjoy

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