I so so agree with you. I’ve been thanking God that I was born when I was to enjoy all these old wonderful bands and live when things were so much simpler and happy and joyous.
Thank you, Eight to the Bar !!!! I heard this in 1967, I was 18, and new in the Military... Loved their music - all of it !!! Still do over 50 years later !!! The Hollies killed it !!!!
Very talented band. It's tempting to say Bobby Elliot and Tony Hicks were underrated musicians but the band was underrated despite being "just a pop group." That was some very well crafted pop. Look Through Any Window , Dear Eloise, and Stop, Stop, Stop were quirky and creative.
@@lostintime8651 Yeah, I stopped fighting the Moronic "Underated" BS. Clueless ppl: For whatever reason call the world's Greatest Musicians/Groups "Underated" I'd try to explain the MEANING of that word... to no avail. & Hey ! Look !! Things in ALL Country's are getting so much better !! Right.. & I'm an Optimist !! "That's allright, I still got my guitar"
Echolette amps. Wow. Obviously filmed in Germany (well, West Germany as it was known then). I'm always impressed at how good the Hollies sounded live. They were known as a singing pop group, and I knew they played on their records, but hearing these live recordings you can tell they were able to deliver the songs live quite well.
In my opinion the Hollies were a much better live performing group than the Beatles. Their harmonies were spot on when performing live whereas the Beatles harmonies often fell flat, perhaps due to the din of the screaming.
Not only is Tony Hicks doing his usual brilliant guitar work here, but Graham Nash is doing some lead work also, very impressive. Always loved this band!
When Bobby says 'Maureen my girlfriend at the time" actually became his wife and was Tony Hicks sister. Sadly she passed in 2012 or 13. So Bobby & Maureen had a long a marriage like bandmates Allen and Tony who are still married to original wives..Allen 55 yrs Tony 45yrs.
They had really good songs on their albums that never made it as hits. I listened to their CDs the last two nights and just was amazed how great all their songs were.
Underrated? Inducted Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2010.. Ivor Novello Award Outstanding Contribution to British Music1995 .over 30 chart singles 22 on Billboard Hot 100..have been in the charts for 5 decades. The Hollies..like Rolling Stones are only two brit bands from the 60's still touring full time through past 5 decades until present time to out sold concerts. Underrated musically means not famous low standing...hardly describes The Hollies who have a solid gold standing world wide in rock pop category.
Actually, my favorite bands’ first record came out in1969, and they still tour, far more and far more often than the stones or the hollies...they’re called YES! Just saying.
I believe Tiny Hicks loved the guitar from the age of 3. There are few bands who can perform so well live like, The Hollies. I've seen them play many times in life and not once was I disappointed in their performance. Incredible band. One of the best for sure.
Now THAT was music..., no trashy lyrics, can actually understand them, and they aren’t “talking” through a song - they are SINGING. Best music generation...
David Wells Not so unsung, but I agree not sung LOUDLY enough. He was a talent, back in the days when evrybody was looking at Jeff, Eric,Duane, etc. Hicks had a fast group to compete with, but he held his own.
Strangely enough I never heard of the Hollies until recent years.. and knew absolutely nothing about them! I've been a Beatles fan since way back.. 1965 actually since my reaction to a song they did which played on the radio. Anyway, so I don't go off track.. back to the Hollies. Just let me say a few things about this group. Allan Clarke excellent singer, Graham Nash (who later joined CSN&Y) very good guitar player and singer, Tony Hicks top notch guitar player, Bob Elliot very good drummer and Bren Calvert very good bassman. A very talented band that deserves the spotlight.. and should be called one of the best bands ever! Thanks for accepting my comment!
"Stop, Stop" and "Bus Stop" crystallized and affirmed the attraction to girls I had in my 9-year-old mind. The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Dave Clark 5 also had the same effect, but these two songs almost whacked my upside the head with their mesmerizing, romantic lyrics
Echolette Amps by Klemt of Germany...this must be the german TV show Beat, Beat, Beat. They used those as house amps for all the acts. I've seen videos of the Kinks and the Tremoloes with the same gear.
Absolutely wonderful band and so talented,Allan Clark was world class, they were like the Beatles rolling stones non stop on the radio,but like all the 50s 60s our UK was booming,industrial shops stores etc etc etc,,
The hollies want to greatest bands from the British Invasion era I and Eric Was a very good bass player and he played a FendervI String bass which was awesome and Tony Hicks was one the best we can CarPlay is around in the drama was really good to
He questioned where the money was going and the business stuff if truth be known and the powers that be didn't like it best bass player they ever had RIP Eric
Wonder if Hicks still has that Les Paul. It's worth a fortune now. They stopped making them in 61, 60 being the last ones till they started making them again in 68. This is 67 so his is a 58, 59 or 60 since it has the burst finish and the prices of those year models are incredible.
I think he also owned that Black Beauty Nash is playing. You see him playing it on the studio footage for "On a carousel". It's said that Nash was never plugged in but he obviously was here and you can hear 2 guitars playing rhythm plus the twin lead chase sequence. Good stuff. Shame there's nothing here about what a good bassist Bernie Calvert was. The bass on this song's recording even caught he attention of no less than jazz legend Ray Brown. Good piano player too,
Tony always had very cool guitars, but I doubt he still has it, there are some great close-up shots of it in this video, it seems to have a distinct mark between the volume knobs and the grain patterns can be seen, probably could be identified by a sharp-eyed, diligent LP nerd on Burstserial.com. And lets not forget about one of the coolest 12-strings, the Vox Phantom 12 that he traded away for a Rickenbacker 12 that he ended up not liking and wishing he had his Vox back, I wonder who has that now ?
And ironically, we who are sensitive to such musical nuance are also not "the lucky kind" either. After all - while everyone is marveling at catchy melodies like "The Kids are Alright" people like you and me have to deal with knowing it's really a rip from All My Loving...alas...
I read once that the reason why Tony played so much 12-string in the band's early days was to sound as much like 2 guitars as possible, because Graham's guitar wasn't really plugged in. I was a little surprised to see and hear him playing with Tony here.
02:53 Just imagine being in the audience and dancing to this song. I wonder what it must have been like before all the fake, commercialized music hype we suffer nowadays and be clued-in to where the latest bands were playing and finding a way to attend the concert. Also, I would love to talk to the surviving dancers and ask them what it was like.
Tony, Bobby, and Berne were all part of the Dolphins. At this point they should have called themselves Allen and Gram with the singing Dolphins. Just a joke hahah
I think they all came from the best (and also rival s) bands from the Manchester area - merged The Deltas (wh managed to change their name to The Hollies) and The Dolphins -
Clarke and Hicks seem to brush it off so casually as it being a "change of life issue" that Haydock had because he was newly married but I have read it from various sources that he was unhappy because he felt that he and the others in the band were being ripped off financially by their management and by promoters and he refused to play until he was paid back the money he felt was owed to him. The others organised for Bernie Calvert to replace him.
The Hollies have told many stories over the years regarding the reasons for Eric's sacking from the band. The truth is that he'd discovered that the band were being fleeced by their management. He spoke out about it and was sacked by their management. Shamefully the rest of the band allowed him to be sacked. Then they found that he had been right after all. They were being robbed. But by then he had been consigned to history while they enjoyed international fame and success. Never has one of them admitted the injustice done at the time, and they remain silent. Guilt is a powerful emotion.
It’s not the first or only time management pitted band members against each other over money. A similar thing happened to Rory Gallagher’s band Taste, and the band didn’t survive. Rory had a strong distrust of managers after and had his brother , Donal, handle everything from then on. So many bands were being cheated and working for very little at the hands of unscrupulous managers back then.
I love the fact that their performance of Bus Stop was live. There was so much lip synching and even using the recording for most of the instrumentals.
It's from the German TV show "Beat Beat Beat" where every band (bar solo-singers) performed live. The Kinks, Small Faces and the Yardbirds all appeared on it
@@LG-kl3co What I was meaning was - if they didn't have a bass player at that moment in time and the guy who wrote the song they were recording on that day happened to be a bass player. Oh never mind...
Zuerst kam Klaus Voormann als Ersatz für Eric. Doch als er von Nash gesagt bekam, dass er nur Angestellter werden würde, ging er wieder. Aber die Ideen für die Bassparts zu Bus stop stammen von Voormann.
The Hollies: better than Beatles. No doubt. But the great fab four counted by very help with Brian Epstein and George Martin. Epstein powered the Beatles with his great marketing knowings. Few people knows that the Hollies career started BEFORE the Beatles. That's because that fact the group with Alan Clarke ahead left behind, but not too much
I kinda thin k the same. just The Beatles were far more popular outside UK and that was bc of their management by Brian Epstein - I've read that Epstein wanted to manage The Hollies as well but John Lennon convince him to not doing 😢 I bet Lennon felt daunted a bit
I wonder how the timeline really is. There is video of Eric playing bus stop on a TV show with the band. Did he finish some commitments before he left?
yes, bc Bernie s already in the recording but he didn't appear bc of commitments a t his factory job (I think the Hollies also hired Klaus Voorman and Jack Bruce as session bass players before they could stay with Bernie as a bassist)
Bernie played on the record but didn't join the band immediately. Eric was still with the group and that was his last appearance before Bernie became an official member.
This was in Germany and in the 60's the tv audience crowd was not too rambunctious. They rarely even smile and yet had the priveledge of hearing every popular brit band of the era. Maybe they were told by show producer to look like that....who knows. Many brit bands said their contract in Germany used to be one show recorded for tv and 3 to 4 extra set shows that weren't. So imagine doing 5 sets a day.
@@tarnsand440 Yes they were. It was told to be 'cool' and not to act like an insane fan girlie. This came from all that 'being intellectual' in the 1950s, like wearing black and glasses and enjoy NOTHING, but call it all idiotic and old fashioned. Since the audience was payed, they had to follow the rules. You should have seen us private when visiting concerts. By the way, at the same time the Japanese and the British said on their chairs like wax dolls, hardly moving a finger to applause. That looks strange to ME. Believe me.
Purely as musicians, the Hollies were at a very high level - there's no doubt that Bobby Elliot was one of the best drummers of the 1960s. However, the Hollies relied a lot on outside writers for many of their hits, and the Beatles were more versatile and profilic songwriters.
@@johnwoods1922 That may be the truth.... however... when you listen to the song "The air that I breathe" in it's original form... the Hollies version stoked it into a timeless flame where as the original version barely gave off a spark. As executions go... the Hollies know how to execute a song and bring it to it's full potential. The Beatles on the other hand went from old time rock and roll to a more progressive psychedelic style and in my opinion were over rated due in part to the theory of Paul's alleged death. That is why they sold so many albums in those days. They were great at marketing more than just their music... they also did TV and movies too. The Hollies were all about the music... despite doing covers, and they were real good at it. Their cover of the very last day is way better than Peter Paul and Mary's version. I have respect for both bands.
Man, I am so glad to have been alive during this period, and glad some of these days were filmed for posterity sake.
I so so agree with you. I’ve been thanking God that I was born when I was to enjoy all these old wonderful bands and live when things were so much simpler and happy and joyous.
I am 70 years old now and still miss this group. Manchester I love you.
Love The Hollies, fan for 55 years, one of the top bands of all time
Tony Hick's 🎸 a world class guitarist on the Rickenbacker love listening to this band 🎻 long live the Hollie's 🎼🎹🎼
That's a Les Paul he's playing.
@@berrypicker5001 Yeah, a 58 or 59 Burst ! ( Still Mint ) NO less !!
Great on the VOX, too!
Actually, it's Hicks, and the Hollies.
TONY HICKS COULD MAKE A TREE BRANCH SOUND LIKE AN HARP! TALENT I WISH I HAD...THE BAND WAS AN HUGE PART OF MY MUSIC LISTENING ...AND STILL IS TODAY
Thank you, Eight to the Bar !!!! I heard this in 1967, I was 18, and new in the Military... Loved their music - all of it !!! Still do over 50 years later !!!
The Hollies killed it !!!!
Loved the Hollies... Gifted Musicians and Vocalist....
To my ears, Eric and Bernie were both fine bass players. RIP Eric.
01:40 Pure analog, low-fi sound with vintage amps and great vintage guitars. Pure pop heaven
Very talented band. It's tempting to say Bobby Elliot and Tony Hicks were underrated musicians but the band was underrated despite being "just a pop group." That was some very well crafted pop. Look Through Any Window , Dear Eloise, and Stop, Stop, Stop were quirky and creative.
Underrated? What the heck are you talking about? Anyone who's anybody knows about The hollies and many were inspired by them.
They were incredible even now were still talking about them 🙄
I was lucky to see their concert in 74 in Grand Forks, ND. Styks was their warm up band.
Music that grabs the soul is welcome, whatever one labels it--pop etc.
@@lostintime8651 Yeah, I stopped fighting the Moronic "Underated" BS. Clueless ppl: For whatever reason call the world's Greatest Musicians/Groups "Underated" I'd try to explain the MEANING of that word... to no avail. & Hey ! Look !! Things in ALL Country's are getting so much better !! Right.. & I'm an Optimist !! "That's allright, I still got my guitar"
Absolutely underrated band but especially Tony and Bobby... history speaks for itself! There's no second guessing history!
The best group ever love all The Hollies especially Allan Clarke
That is my Uncle Bernard, what a beautiful human being, so many special childhood memories with him 💙💙💙💙
Those Les Pauls that Graham and Tony are playing would be worth a fortune now.
The best music of my life, it always said something to me
Echolette amps. Wow. Obviously filmed in Germany (well, West Germany as it was known then). I'm always impressed at how good the Hollies sounded live. They were known as a singing pop group, and I knew they played on their records, but hearing these live recordings you can tell they were able to deliver the songs live quite well.
In my opinion the Hollies were a much better live performing group than the Beatles. Their harmonies were spot on when performing live whereas the Beatles harmonies often fell flat, perhaps due to the din of the screaming.
03:07 Keep in mind you're listening to two guitarists playing a counterpoint solo to a great pop song live...
there are no "second takes."
I was gonna say. The difference between this and most "live" 60s videos. This is actually %100 live
My old man saw them quite a few times..think they were the best live band around..better live than on record
I was 13 when this song came out, and itwas, and still is, one of my favorites ❤
A rare (especially for that era), authentic live appearance! Impeccable performance!
Not only is Tony Hicks doing his usual brilliant guitar work here, but Graham Nash is doing some lead work also, very impressive. Always loved this band!
I didn't know that he could do that, I thought he was just a strummer.
When Bobby says 'Maureen my girlfriend at the time" actually became his wife and was Tony Hicks sister. Sadly she passed in 2012 or 13. So Bobby & Maureen had a long a marriage like bandmates Allen and Tony who are still married to original wives..Allen 55 yrs Tony 45yrs.
God bless 😇
Very underrated band. Great pop songs & Tony Hicks, boy could he play the guitar!
Też lubię słuchac stare,dobre przeboje. - Pzdr. z "3city"
Not past tense, Maria. He is still doing it. The Hollies are still on tour!
They had really good songs on their albums that never made it as hits. I listened to their CDs the last two nights and just was amazed how great all their songs were.
Underrated? Inducted Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 2010.. Ivor Novello Award Outstanding Contribution to British Music1995 .over 30 chart singles 22 on Billboard Hot 100..have been in the charts for 5 decades. The Hollies..like Rolling Stones are only two brit bands from the 60's still touring full time through past 5 decades until present time to out sold concerts. Underrated musically means not famous low standing...hardly describes The Hollies who have a solid gold standing world wide in rock pop category.
Actually, my favorite bands’ first record came out in1969, and they still tour, far more and far more often than the stones or the hollies...they’re called YES! Just saying.
Love the way Allan Clarke looks and performs he can really dance love it
I believe Tiny Hicks loved the guitar from the age of 3. There are few bands who can perform so well live like, The Hollies. I've seen them play many times in life and not once was I disappointed in their performance. Incredible band. One of the best for sure.
Is "Tiny" supposed to be a pun?
Hicks was ahead of his time....how many dimes did I drop in the Jukebox for this song back in ‘67?
Nuncahabiaoldomejormusica amen❤
The one-measure Bobby Elliot drum break at 3:33 is complete GENIUS!
He’s a bit too busy on them drums,should be a solo drummer
@@alfching2499 I have to agree, Bob always went a bit over the top playing live.....there again, I think most drummers over play live.
Classic, timeless pop rock tune.
Now THAT was music..., no trashy lyrics, can actually understand them, and they aren’t “talking” through a song - they are SINGING. Best music generation...
No musician here - but man was Tony Hicks the unsung hero of this group?
No, that is drummer Bobby Elliot.
David Wells Not so unsung, but I agree not sung LOUDLY enough. He was a talent, back in the days when evrybody was looking at Jeff, Eric,Duane, etc. Hicks had a fast group to compete with, but he held his own.
Strangely enough I never heard of the Hollies until recent years.. and knew absolutely nothing about them! I've been a Beatles fan since way back.. 1965 actually since my reaction to a song they did which played on the radio. Anyway, so I don't go off track.. back to the Hollies. Just let me say a few things about this group. Allan Clarke excellent singer, Graham Nash (who later joined CSN&Y) very good guitar player and singer, Tony Hicks top notch guitar player, Bob Elliot very good drummer and Bren Calvert very good bassman. A very talented band that deserves the spotlight.. and should be called one of the best bands ever! Thanks for accepting my comment!
Tony Hicks A genius of his time
Love ❤️ the hollies pure greatness.😊
Certainly one of our very favorite bands!
Bobby Elliot was a fantastic drummer
Is.
Great drummer 👍 always felt his playing was more ‘modern’ that a lot of the other drummers of the time
"Stop, Stop" and "Bus Stop" crystallized and affirmed the attraction to girls I had in my 9-year-old mind. The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Dave Clark 5 also had the same effect, but these two songs almost whacked my upside the head with their mesmerizing, romantic lyrics
Bus Stop- my favorite Hollies song!
The Hollies,
¡The Best of The Best!
reminds me of houston texas when I discover this song in the 90s
what was that double lead.... 30 secs of avant- grade ... again underrated in every way
fantastic band one of the best.
Loved The Hollies...Bobby Elliott was a great tight conscientious drummer...
Selwyn Katz Yes he was. He was like a rock, he kind of held it all together.
Self taught, not one lesson
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Eric did make one last appearance with The Hollies in 1966 miming to Bus Stop on Top of the Pops his last performance with the group
I love Bus Stop😊👍💜🇦🇺
Allan Clarke is so adorable Id like to ride the Bus with him
You guys rock
I should pay The Hollies more attention
I understand. So many groups came from Britain at the same time, it was hard to keep them all straight.
Tony hicks brilliant!
Next to "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" I think this is the best song the Hollies did.
The first twin guitar solo I ever heard...beautiful!
L Paine me too
L Paine you never heard the Allman Bros? All of their solos were slide/and dickie
@@ziblot1235 True. But the Hollies were first I believe.
harmonizing guitars too now this is THE BAND's BAND
Echolette Amps by Klemt of Germany...this must be the german TV show Beat, Beat, Beat. They used those as house amps for all the acts. I've seen videos of the Kinks and the Tremoloes with the same gear.
Bloody brilliant Bobby Elliot at 3.33
Such a wonderful video
Absolutely wonderful band and so talented,Allan Clark was world class, they were like the Beatles rolling stones non stop on the radio,but like all the 50s 60s our UK was booming,industrial shops stores etc etc etc,,
Bernie Calvert with basically not a lot to say about just about anything, preferring to largely keep to himself.
The hollies want to greatest bands from the British Invasion era I and Eric Was a very good bass player and he played a FendervI String bass which was awesome and Tony Hicks was one the best we can CarPlay is around in the drama was really good to
He questioned where the money was going and the business stuff if truth be known and the powers that be didn't like it best bass player they ever had RIP Eric
Beautiful
I had a crush on Tony Hicks and his guitar.
i ain't got a gay bone in my body but i got a man crush on young Tony LMFAO
I can only understand those feelings. Such a sweetie!
Wonder if Hicks still has that Les Paul. It's worth a fortune now. They stopped making them in 61, 60 being the last ones till they started making them again in 68. This is 67 so his is a 58, 59 or 60 since it has the burst finish and the prices of those year models are incredible.
I think he also owned that Black Beauty Nash is playing. You see him playing it on the studio footage for "On a carousel". It's said that Nash was never plugged in but he obviously was here and you can hear 2 guitars playing rhythm plus the twin lead chase sequence. Good stuff. Shame there's nothing here about what a good bassist Bernie Calvert was. The bass on this song's recording even caught he attention of no less than jazz legend Ray Brown. Good piano player too,
I was thinking the same thing when I saw Tony's Les Paul.
Tony always had very cool guitars, but I doubt he still has it, there are some great close-up shots of it in this video, it seems to have a distinct mark between the volume knobs and the grain patterns can be seen, probably could be identified by a sharp-eyed, diligent LP nerd on Burstserial.com. And lets not forget about one of the coolest 12-strings, the Vox Phantom 12 that he traded away for a Rickenbacker 12 that he ended up not liking and wishing he had his Vox back, I wonder who has that now ?
Ya, one of the rare times we actually hear Nash's guitar live. Not the only time but so often he was mixed out or not plugged in.
Wonderful!..
Bernie was a great Bass player
I love his playing on I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top.
@@bramleydragon His playing on Romany and On A Carousel were great.
Fabulous
Things We Said Today...listen close.
I always thought the same thing. After the verse By August she was mine...the next line that would lead in perfectly is..We are not the lucky kind.
And ironically, we who are sensitive to such musical nuance are also not "the lucky kind" either. After all - while everyone is marveling at catchy melodies like "The Kids are Alright" people like you and me have to deal with knowing it's really a rip from All My Loving...alas...
Nice Catch! 100% correct.
watching this old clips tells me I have aged.
So then: Wednesday-afternoon, Mey-18th in 1966 @Studio 3 - - The holy Hours. 😉
Seeing Nash playing guitar live, I find it weird that he barely picked it up when he was in CSN
I read once that the reason why Tony played so much 12-string in the band's early days was to sound as much like 2 guitars as possible, because Graham's guitar wasn't really plugged in. I was a little surprised to see and hear him playing with Tony here.
@carywiesner769 Ignorant question from a non musician:
Why wouldn't Graham's guitar not be plugged in? It's not like he sucked or anything...
@@johnvandam106 I'm a guitarist, and I would also love to know.
Grandeees
The Hollies
02:53 Just imagine being in the audience and dancing to this song. I wonder what it must have been like before all the fake, commercialized music hype we suffer nowadays and be clued-in to where the latest bands were playing and finding a way to attend the concert. Also, I would love to talk to the surviving dancers and ask them what it was like.
I think bob elliott is a better drummer than ringo!
Wish they had called me. I was playing bass with a group back then. Oh well. Then I wouldnt been able to go to SE Asia in the Navy
Tony, Bobby, and Berne were all part of the Dolphins. At this point they should have called themselves Allen and Gram with the singing Dolphins. Just a joke hahah
I think they all came from the best (and also rival s) bands from the Manchester area - merged The Deltas (wh managed to change their name to The Hollies) and The Dolphins -
Clarke and Hicks seem to brush it off so casually as it being a "change of life issue" that Haydock had because he was newly married but I have read it from various sources that he was unhappy because he felt that he and the others in the band were being ripped off financially by their management and by promoters and he refused to play until he was paid back the money he felt was owed to him. The others organised for Bernie Calvert to replace him.
In fact, he was right! Michael Cohen nearly pulled them into bankruptcy as Bobby Elliott said in his bio. Book.
They all got ripped off , The Beatles, Stones Dave Clarke 5 ....everyone of them !
@@LG-kl3co And in the case of the latter, reportedly Dave Clark ripped his bandmates off himself!
The Hollies have told many stories over the years regarding the reasons for Eric's sacking from the band.
The truth is that he'd discovered that the band were being fleeced by their management. He spoke out about it and was sacked by their management.
Shamefully the rest of the band allowed him to be sacked.
Then they found that he had been right after all. They were being robbed.
But by then he had been consigned to history while they enjoyed international fame and success.
Never has one of them admitted the injustice done at the time, and they remain silent.
Guilt is a powerful emotion.
It’s not the first or only time management pitted band members against each other over money. A similar thing happened to Rory Gallagher’s band Taste, and the band didn’t survive. Rory had a strong distrust of managers after and had his brother , Donal, handle everything from then on. So many bands were being cheated and working for very little at the hands of unscrupulous managers back then.
don’t think anyone could out sing backup as Graham Nash! didn’t think crosby, stills, Nash was better artists than the hollie’s. My thought only.
and had the best pop drummer of the sixties and seventies
Nostalgia
I love the fact that their performance of Bus Stop was live. There was so much lip synching and even using the recording for most of the instrumentals.
It's from the German TV show "Beat Beat Beat" where every band (bar solo-singers) performed live. The Kinks, Small Faces and the Yardbirds all appeared on it
Wonderful song written by the great Graham Gouldman of 10CC. A perfect pop masterpiece.
heard he was 15 or 16 when he wrote this.
Behave..its trite
And go way back, Shayne was with the wonderful Lone Justice with Maria McKee, great great band! Long-haired rocker then, you Wldnt recognize him. :-}
'58.'59 or 1960 Les Paul...Tony Hicks!!!
Probably a very stupid comment, but why didn't Graham Gouldman play bass on Bus Stop?
Simply because he wasn't in the group or perhaps he was simply unavailable.
I believe he was about 16 or 17 years old....and wasn't a Hollie !
@@LG-kl3co What I was meaning was - if they didn't have a bass player at that moment in time and the guy who wrote the song they were recording on that day happened to be a bass player. Oh never mind...
Zuerst kam Klaus Voormann als Ersatz für Eric. Doch als er von Nash gesagt bekam, dass er nur Angestellter werden würde, ging er wieder. Aber die Ideen für die Bassparts zu Bus stop stammen von Voormann.
Echt?
i knew eric and he was quite a character ,it was about cash he left so he told me,he did love cash ,,ha ha ha,,xx
The Hollies: better than Beatles. No doubt. But the great fab four counted by very help with Brian Epstein and George Martin. Epstein powered the Beatles with his great marketing knowings. Few people knows that the Hollies career started BEFORE the Beatles. That's because that fact the group with Alan Clarke ahead left behind, but not too much
I kinda thin k the same. just The Beatles were far more popular outside UK and that was bc of their management by Brian Epstein - I've read that Epstein wanted to manage The Hollies as well but John Lennon convince him to not doing 😢 I bet Lennon felt daunted a bit
Bus Stop was 1966..
I wonder how the timeline really is. There is video of Eric playing bus stop on a TV show with the band. Did he finish some commitments before he left?
yes, bc Bernie s already in the recording but he didn't appear bc of commitments a t his factory job (I think the Hollies also hired Klaus Voorman and Jack Bruce as session bass players before they could stay with Bernie as a bassist)
RIP
If Eric Haydock didn't play on Bus Stop, then why does he appear in the video of Bus Stop from Top of The Pops (June 66)?
I think it's Bernie Calvert you are looking at! Bernie and Eric were dead ringers for each other and it caught me out many times in the past.
@@kevvome Double-checked, it was Haydock in the video. He left the following month. The Hollies misremembering their past. Lol
@@jhboob HA! Sure looks that way doesn't it? I hope they don't forget the chords and the words too or it'll be The Wallies.
Bernie played on the record but didn't join the band immediately. Eric was still with the group and that was his last appearance before Bernie became an official member.
BOB FOR GOVERNOR
Graham Nash
Great live performance. Too bad the audience wasn't into it.
This was in Germany and in the 60's the tv audience crowd was not too rambunctious. They rarely even smile and yet had the priveledge of hearing every popular brit band of the era. Maybe they were told by show producer to look like that....who knows. Many brit bands said their contract in Germany used to be one show recorded for tv and 3 to 4 extra set shows that weren't. So imagine doing 5 sets a day.
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Yes they were. It was told to be 'cool' and not to act like an insane fan girlie. This came from all that 'being intellectual' in the 1950s, like wearing black and glasses and enjoy NOTHING, but call it all idiotic and old fashioned.
Since the audience was payed, they had to follow the rules.
You should have seen us private when visiting concerts.
By the way, at the same time the Japanese and the British said on their chairs like wax dolls, hardly moving a finger to applause. That looks strange to ME. Believe me.
Maureen is Tony Hicks sisters.
Today, we celebrated the name Maureen. We have a FB page, with all Maureens.
Maybe Tony Hicks' sister?
My opinion thus far... the Hollies were better than the Beatles.
Purely as musicians, the Hollies were at a very high level - there's no doubt that Bobby Elliot was one of the best drummers of the 1960s. However, the Hollies relied a lot on outside writers for many of their hits, and the Beatles were more versatile and profilic songwriters.
@@johnwoods1922 That may be the truth.... however... when you listen to the song "The air that I breathe" in it's original form... the Hollies version stoked it into a timeless flame where as the original version barely gave off a spark. As executions go... the Hollies know how to execute a song and bring it to it's full potential. The Beatles on the other hand went from old time rock and roll to a more progressive psychedelic style and in my opinion were over rated due in part to the theory of Paul's alleged death. That is why they sold so many albums in those days. They were great at marketing more than just their music... they also did TV and movies too. The Hollies were all about the music... despite doing covers, and they were real good at it. Their cover of the very last day is way better than Peter Paul and Mary's version. I have respect for both bands.
Everything is so perfect in this song from lyrics to harmonies....didnt graham gouldman write this? Brilliant
El Mell Yes. G.G
Good melody naff lyrics but unbelievable guitar work and drums..so tight..but its hard to get involved when the song is so trite
oh my god
tony so cute
And one day he wasn't here , yea ok
Music was a tough business back then.
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I DID NOT HEAR BASS G ON THIS. FAKE DEMOS