The Nice - Get to you (BBC's Top Gear)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- A glittering cover of The Byrds' success titled "Get to you", dating 1968. The song comes from the BBC's Top Gear sessions. Enjoy it!
Band-members, Musicians and Performers
• Brian Davison - Drums & Percussion
• Keith Emerson - Keyboards
• Lee Jackson - Bass & Vocals
Glad someone else has picked up the greatness that is this little tune
Ok people. That bass line on the piano from 2:53 to 3:26 is the bass Emerson uses on Take a Pebble some years later on the first ELP album
Gareth Thomas
You are the only person to have remark that !!
Bravo
I was searching someone who hear !!
Same ostinato.
This was written by the Birds. Took me a while to figure out because no credits were given and this is an album track.
amazing video
thank you very much for this. I had a tape version of it in 70s,the full version, not with the cut bit at the end ,on a compilation. I remember hearing this in my kitchen when it was first broadcast. I wonder why they never seemed to perform it? I saw them a lot and never heard it done.
You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you. It's cool to hear all this particulars about The Nice. I find that "The nice" have some primeval force, a powerful expressive freedom and cleverness that few groups (except perhaps the Pink Floyd) had at those times.
This is actually a performance from late 1969 roughly about the same time the studio tracks for "Five Bridges" and "Elegy" were recorded. The 1968 version featured David O'List on guitar and vocals with a significantly different arrangement.
Thanks for uploading this. Beautiful song.
You're welcome! You're too kind, and your words make me happy! ...I adore the Nice
From 2:40 to 3:00 photo
of the cover of 4 way street, C.S.N. & Y. ... ?
Its the Top Gear Session alright! Interesting cover!
Lee Jackson didn’t have the greatest vocals in the business but crikey he sounds MEGA on this!
Top Gear was originally a short-lived pop music show on the BBC Light Programme in the mid-1960s. The programme comprised a mixture of records and live sessions, was introduced by Brian Matthew, and featured many popular guests such as Jimi Hendrix, Free, The Beatles, The Who, Dusty Springfield, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks, Nice and Manfred Mann. This is a recording coming out from that programme, and was made in Londo, August 23, 1968. Today's Top Gear doesn't include music shows any more. Cheers!
I think there has been a bit cut at 5 .20, when the piano stops and the organ comes in, you can hear the sharp transition. I remember there being a slow transitional part in between. john peels top gear was an afternoon programme, following his original night ride show that was similar to his original perfumed garden on radio london in 1967
This is interesting! Not only the Move did cover the Byrds... But this is more of an interpretation btw. I've stumbled across this because I was looking for pictures of London in the 60's. I remember buying an import of the recently released "Sweet heart Of The Rodeo" there in '68. Before that I saw the Nice perform at Sunbury. Then again in Darmstadt. I never cared much for them until I've heard this. Thanks for posting!
another bit of trivia, the person who gave me a copy of this on tape, gary, can be seen on " emerson solo " on my channel at 4 . 42 to 50, with a white striped jumper. met him at his 1st concert, jackson heights lyceum london 1970
also, john peel had a radio programme on saturday afternoons in 1969 from which this track is taken.
Never heard this before, love this band and thanks for posting it . BTW, does anyone know what became of Davy O"List ? I really liked his guitar on the first album.
He was instrumental in putting Roxy Music together but declined to join the band. About 20 years ago I think he went under the pseudonym of “Seal”. Recently he released a really good album entitled “Second Thoughts”. Shame he didn’t get more success, I thought he was mega in The Nice. I think the story goes that Keith wanted to be the centre of attention on stage, fair enough I suppose but bad news for Davy.
From what I understand Davy started to realize that Keith Emerson was the main focus of the band, so he would play behind a curtain, so eventually he left. Keith Emerson sought another guitarist to replace him including Steve Howe, but that didn't happen, so once they were a trio Keith liked that format which he carried over to the ELP lineup.
Keith Emerson's life story was first published in 2003, and we have been working on this documentary adaptation and update since 2007 due for release in October 2015.ruclips.net/video/frho6D6Yt8M/видео.html
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OMG I heard a Take a Pebble embryo! XD
Like the James Bond quote.
What is the connection with CSN&Y?
none. It's a cover of a Byrds tune from after Crosby was fired from the Byrds during The Notorious Byrd Brothers sessions
the title of this song is "better than better" at album "america bbc sessions"?
At 7’33 Emerson plays a riff well known but i can’t remember the title ?
Help 😉
some Nice riffs and chords are in ELP pieces, such as Karn Evil 9
Tchaikovsky. The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
Isn't this from "America..the BBC Sessions"?
Yes, the same song... :)
What have this to Top Gear on BBC to do? This is not from Top Gear. Can you please answer me about what is Top Gear about this. :-)
'top gear' was the oddly named radio 1 show of john peel around 1968/69 that played tracks like this,nothing to do with that motoring macho lads thing with the abominable jeremy clarkson.
I wonder what would have become of the nice if they had a better vocalist
They wouldn't be The Nice without those vocals.