Telling the Real and Tragic Story of Atomic Rooster w/ Barry "Mr Vertigo" Winton
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- From their explosive beginnings to their turbulent highs and lows, Atomic Rooster's tale is one of creativity, resilience, and innovation. Helping me tell their story is a familiar face you all know. He knew the band personally and shares his never before shared on video stories. It’s "Mr Vertigo" Barry Winton. Today, we'll travel to key locations that define their legacy, starting with their origins right here in London. Join us as the real story unfolds..
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In September 1970, I bought a ticket to see Taste with Rory Gallagher at Lancaster University. A few hours before the gig we were told that they had broken up and another band would appear instead. After 2 boring support acts that almost put us all to sleep (the beer didn't help), Vincent Crane walked onstage around midnight and just hit one note on his Hammond B3 at enormous volume whilst shouting "Wakey, wakey....!". We soon did.
The whole band then broke into "Death Walks Behind You". A memorable moment at this late stage of my musical journey. I still cannot decide whether I am pleased I saw Atomic Rooster or sad that I missed out on Rory G.
What an amazing story! I can just imagine it.
Your interviews with Barry are amazing. Keep 'em coming! I need to get more Atomic Rooster. All I have is the In Hearing Of album, which I thought was pretty good.
Not sure about the Greg Lake and Robert Stigwood’s daughter bit. Stigwood was gay and never had any kids
Really digging John du Cann's work. Such an impressive career. The Attack, Five Day Week Straw People, Andromeda, Atomic Rooster, Hard Stuff. All awesome.❤
Great musician!
Check out my John DuCann playlist
There is one collaboration album with Arthur Brown and Vincent Crane which gets overlooked. Faster Than The Speed Of Light on Innovative Communication label. Released in 1979. This is an absolutely great album in my opinion.
I collect records mainly 90s -2000s but like to watch any videos about record collecting. I enjoy your videos going out to record shops,something I wish I could do more! This mini series with Barry is so interesting and I think I could listen to him all day talking with passion and authority on the subject. So glad you met him and brought him into my world.
Thanks mate! Barry is definitely a character. I'm happy to give him the platform for fellow collectors to hear his stories!
Great video. My route to Atomic Rooster was through Hard Stuff. In the 1970's I was living with a couple bikers and hippies in a log house on the Strait of Juan De Fuca. The three most played albums there were Led Zep II, Uriah Heep Sweet Freedom, and Hard Stuffs Bulletproof. I'd never heard anything so hard as that Bulletproof album. Very aggressive in your face guiitar work. Loved it. So I became a John DuCann fan and tracked down his previous stuff and really liked the 3 Rooster albums he was on. In 1968 the hit Fire was one of my favorite songs. Learning it was Vincent Crane suddenly made sense. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is an album my wife hated at night time with its galloping keyboards and kinetic vocals and screams. It prevented her from falling to sleep. The album is great but it caused me trouble in the girl department.
Loved ‘ Death Walks Behind You ‘ saw Atomic Rooster at the Rugby Polytechnic around 1974. I asked if I could have Vincent Crane’s autograph and one of the roadies took me backstage after the show. He was a real gentleman and spared me a few minutes of friendly conversation. The opening band was ‘ Hustler ‘ they were really good also.
Great story Kevin! thanks for sharing :)
My Dad played Atomic Rooster for years ...he's passed away now.
Brian Down...North Thames Gas....I have his records.
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Keep playing them...!!!!!
Can't get enough of these Mr. Vertigo convos!
Atomic Rooster were jazzy heavy prog rock at it's best. Quality band.
Great video thanks very much 👍👍👍🤓
Glad to have Mr Vertigo back with his great knoledge and stories. Keep them coming.
IMHO, the backing music is a bit of a distraction, and Mr V deserves a better set with less ambient noise.
Death walks behind you I’ve owned for longer than l care to remember great album. Love the video and Barry so interesting and passionate.
Vincent and Arthur released an album together on Innovative Communications label, Germany 1979, called "Faster than the speed of light" produced by Krautrock maestro Klaus Schultze, and backed by the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra. The inner lyric sleeve includes a great photo of the two of them together. I know Vincent appeared on at least one Achim Reichel album in the early 80's but cannot recall which one because I (stupidly) sold my copy many years ago.
Yes the Roosters were a very strong tight rock band . Excellent drummer and keyboard
I always thought that Vincent Crane was a great musician and composer that Arthur Brown album and those early Atomic Rooster albums are great one of my favorite songs is WINTER the words an music is so haunting there have been times In my life that I could relate to this song it’s such a sad but beautiful song i love this song 🥀
oh yes Winter................still on heavy 'Rotation
This is awesome. As an American musician I love to hear the stories of The Great British musicians from the inside. Thank you for posting this. Atomic Rooster is one of my Favorite Bands of The Early 70s. I wish I had The Opportunity to Meet The Great Vince Crane. 🙏🏻
Would like Barry to talk through the history of Curved Air/Cressida/Aunt Mary (Janus)/Ben (Vertigo).
Amazing video! Love listening to Barry’s stories. Many facts I did not know…such a great band, especially the John du Cann era.
Very nice editing also! 👏🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
I band I have heard of for years but never actually listened to. Ver interesting story. Cheers Jake. (P.S. Very nice to meet you and Dave at Southend Record Fair the other week. Hope you found some gems).
You must pick up Death Walks and have a listen! It's a great album. Nice to meet you too, sorry that we weren't able to stop and talk properly!
Nice to see Bazza sharing some of that immense knowledge and enthusiasm. Haven't seen him for over thrity years, and the shop in Balham he mentions in passing must have been Hugo Chavez-Smith's Magic Mixture shop, a unit in a run down converted fleapit cinema which is now a Sainsburys carpark. Anyway, main reason for writing is that I interviewed Pete French about 1991 or 2, and he was a nice feller. When discussing his Atomic Rooster stint, he told me that as far as he was concerned he was being asked to join a band with John Cann and was bemused to find him gone; also, the vocal takes on the album were actually recorded as his audition takes, and he was never asked to re-record, which he put down to the parsimony of the management. He also had some stories about leaving Cactus and being told the Mafia were after him - Bogart and Appice being connected from their Vanilla Fudge management, but that's a whole other matter...
Fantastic video, very interesting.. thanks Mr V for sharing your memories 🙏..
Great job on the presentation vinyl hunters 🙏..
Glad you enjoyed it
Just watched the video and it’s very interesting. Been an ELP fan for many years and heard a bit of the Nice but not too much of Atomic Rooster, I’ve also met Barry on a few occasions and he’s always mentioned Vincent Crane and said what a nice man he was .
I used to see them regularly at the Marquee in the early 80s. John used to have a photo of Hilda Ogden pinned to his shirt
Another great video! Keep it up!
Thanks! Will do!
Great video always good to see Barry Winton some amazing insights into such an underrated musician
Vincent Crane was an unsung hero. Not only was he immensely creative but he held the show together when others lost their way. I saw him in an incredible performance of the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and then with Atomic Rooster in north London. At the latter gig - everyone except Crane was drunk and pissing around. Crane soldiered through and more than made it worth the admission price (assuming I paid, often I didn't).
I have been asking various people on YT in the last year begging for a documentary on A.R. but no response until this, the guy you are talking with may have been one of those people i asked, if so thanks, if not it doesn't matter, the main thing is it got done !, thanks very very much 🙏🙏🙏🐔
This is interesting and I did follow the band back then. Shame the video is drowned by the music, as well as the road noise.
Great job and great show 🎉❤
Glad you enjoyed it
Thàt was a great show, I love hearing stories from people like Barry who were around back then.
A fascinating insight into some great musicians and bands from the golden period for rock music. Bought many of the albums mentioned at the time, and still own many in either vinyl or other formats. Many thanks for a great vid.
Rock on!
Brilliant band..
Imagine if they did all their albums with Palmer and Farlowe 🫨
Superb video thanks. I saw them live back in 1971 I think at Lowestoft College, such a memorable gig with Vincent throwing his long hair around over the keys. Sad that he passed so early - I also saw them live again at Cambridge Rock Festival a few years ago but not sure about either line up at the gigs.
I'd have loved to have been there! Such a talented person.
Fantastic interview & great info ! Have you thought about becoming a music journalist? I think you have the 'art' of the interview. RCM could do with you! Well done indeed Jake !!
Thank you Mark! No I haven't thought about it. I suppose I already am to a degree! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Good stuff, do more of this mate
Thanks, will do!
Couldn't watch very far, music too loud and can't hear him talk.. excuse me but I'm old
I can hear music ,but it is very subtle, I don't think it overpowers the talking.
This was a superb interview Jake, Barry again providing a wonderful commentary
Thank you mate! Glad you enjoyed it
Very Nice Story
Idk, kinda hard to beat the Farlowe/ham sandwich era 😂
Many thanks to Barry and The Vinyl Hunters ✌️✌️
Paul Hammond was my friend I found his stolen drum kit when I auditioned for Stereolab
Really?? thanks for sharing! What's your story of knowing him?
Could listen to this dude all day, lol.
When did Chris Farlow join them ?
I own all their music. Didn't know about them until the late 1980's early 90's after they were long gone. Long before the internet a man from England sent me their albums from there to the US where I lived in Oregon at the time. Loved their music then and still do now. I really do feel that Vincent Crane was either the best keyboardist of all time or at least is up there with the best of the best. Their music changed quite drastically from that first album until it got greasy..... I like all of it. From the first one to the last.
i always thought if BBA had a proper vocalist. it may have pushed them over the top. Pete would have been great. never saw that cloth cover of made in England ! cheers.
Great episode , made me go off and resurch attomic rooster i can hear that opeth were influenced by them from the herratage album on.
Oh absolutely. You can hear so much of their heritage in Heritage!
Very interesting. As usual Bazza you brought it to life
He definitely did!
Too many OK's...😊
Expresso Barry
Glad Barry is back😊
Great video, and very moving. Valentine's Days are usually either joyous or the opposite. Poor Vincent. Tomorrow Night is an exceptional song and a deserved hit.
The band's story is complicated, but very interesting. Both Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy (two of my fave bands) had plenty of line-up changes too. Incidentally, Bullet / Hard Stuff appear on the front cover of Funky Junction Play a Tribute to Deep Purple, the '73 album of Thin Lizzy Mk.1 playing five DP tracks and interesting oddities. So many coincidences!
The 1980 Atomic Rooster album is very enjoyable. It's great to hear how that album came to be. You and Mr Vertigo do a great job here. Subscribed, and thank you.
New sub from me !
thank you for this video, it's the first video of this format about Atomic Rooster and Vincent Crane on yt! it was moving and I learnt new stuff ;w;
Poor Vince...
“Ok”.
Had "In hearing of"on album Nice and greasy i have on compact disc..
David Sutch was the original certainly in the UK and modelled his stage show on Screaming Jay Hawkins
Ironicly, I play Made in England and Nice n Greasy more than the Duu Cann era , But still love the early material, Not to mention Hard stuff ,Andromeda. Fuzzy Duck.
Digging Barry's Star Wars shirt
He always picks out a great t shirt, to his credit!
A friend of my half sister, Edward, said that a certain connection of Atomic Rooster , witnessed the formation of a band that later became Spinal Tap, was he joking ?
Roosters one time drummer was Ric Parnell who was later known as "Mick Shrimpton" in Spinal Tap lol
So thats prolly the connection?
Where can we get Barry's Vertigo book? ☮️&❤
Arthur Brown is awesome too
Nice Jake, Mr Vertigo, AR, Andromeda, Hard Stuff, V.Crane and Carl Palmer, Thanks for that from germany Ingo the Vinyl Ghost
Hey Ingo! Glad you enjoyed
Great work , wonderful to see you both bringing a terrific band into the light . Always loved the first album as I 'm a Carl Palmer nut and he comes out the gate fully formed on that album , Decline and Fall has some fantastic Hammond too , always liked Vincent Crane's tone
Rock on!
12:30 - did he say the first death metal album?
Yes he did!
@@thevinylhunters I agree with him on this. I've always said that Onslaught Power from Hell was the first, which is an unpopular viewpoint, but I can see where he's coming from with Atomic Rooster.
Chris Farlow was a powerful singer. I think he’s still with us but I don’t know if he performs or records anymore.
Still singing live with Coloseum.
Please cut the irritating back ground music as I tuned in to listen to the expert . It’s unnecessary and adds nothing to this video.
You are right. It's so bloody annoying
It's become revisionist wisdom that Rooster were always destined to be a 2nd division Prog band. This perception is perhaps inevitable given the unevenness and polarity of their output e.g they sit quite comfortably on the shoulders of Heavy Prog, Gothic Rock, Symphonic Prog but also Metal and Funk/Soul depending at which point you dip into their 9 year career. However, I think the main reason is that they are appraised using criteria inapplicable to their music. (Ditto Hendrix) If traced to its source, Vincent Crane's muse is closer to James Brown than it is to any of the anticipated precursors of Progressive Rock
Barry is amazing !!
thanks for this .. these insights are great.. now held as a documented perspective and that is priceless
Glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting stuff👍
Okay
I've seen Arthur Brown live this year. Thought he was absolutely awful.
the bloke is in his 80s,have more respect
I saw him last year I thought he was amazing ?
Zep were crap on occasion,if they were off their tits,especially Page.
G'day to you, Ah yes another of the Brilliant Groups when Mentioned folk would Shrug their Shoulders and say "Who?" like Budgie and Van Der Graaf Generator! Perth West Aust.
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Another great video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Man soooo much editing.. can’t imagine being the interviewer sitting there listening this guy ramble….. I would shoot myself in the head .. lol