Ep 52 - The Midnight Special | January 25, 1974
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- Hosted by the Steve Miller Band with special guest appearance by Brownsville Station, Tim Buckley, James Cotton Band, Genesis, James Gang, and Wolfman Jack.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:13 - Steve Miller Band - The Joker
00:05:09 - James Gang - It Must Be Love
00:09:52 - Brownsville Station - Smokin' in the Boys Room
00:14:09 - James Cotton Band - Rocket 88
00:17:33 - Tim Buckley - Dolphins
00:21:02 - Steve Miller Band - Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma
00:27:38 - Genesis - Watcher of the Skies
00:35:20 - James Cotton Band - Big Boss Man (with Steve Miller)
00:38:50 - Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle
00:47:03 - Genesis - The Musical Box
00:55:22 - Tim Buckley - Honey Man
01:00:42 - Steve Miller Band - Sugar Babe
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I never missed The Midnight Special during its original run, and I watch it every week now. Thank you so much for making these available to us. It's truly a high point of the week.
Where do you watch it?
@TheDivayenta You're commenting on the video for this week. They post every Friday evening.
@@TheDivayentaif you meant where did you watch it originally, on the NBC television network following The Tonight show on Friday night. I believe the first episode aired sometime during the summer of 72 and it became a regular series not too long after that. The show ran for about 360 episodes, although for a lot of us the quality went down after Helen Reddy took over as the permanent host
@@TheDivayenta Right here on The Midnight Special's RUclips channel!
@@johnsmithsonpercussion
Did you watch in on NBC TV from 1973-1981?
Steve Miller is a phenomenal guitarist. Great sense of melody. People don’t talk about how really good he is.
it would help if two of his biggest hits weren't such horrible songs (Take the Money and Run; Abracadabra). Those are both "lunge for the radio button as soon as i hear the first two notes" songs for me.
Whereas two of the songs in this show are favorites of mine. The Joker is wacky singalong fun, and Fly Like an Eagle is a thing of beauty.
You probably know the story, but Miller's family were friends with Les Paul, back in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Paul gave Miller his first guitar lesson.
T Bone Walker also gave him guitar lessons when he was young. He was a friend of the family. I’ve seen Steve interviewed where he talks about his influence on his style.
Yep! He played at ‘67 Monterey Pop Festival. Wish I’d been old enough and able to attend.
Hi name is Steve “Guitar” Miller. So some people do know. Just saying.
Les Paul taught him 🎸 guitar
A different time and place. A different world. The 1970s . If you weren't there you don't know. But if you were there you wonder where did all the music go? There is nothing going on like this today. We have lost something that can never be replaced. But we have Midnight Special to remind us! Thanx to all responsible persons!
I feel... happy and sad at the same time.. yearning for the glory days.. grateful for the 70's.. . Almost depressed that there's no emotion in new music. Yes, indeed, thanks to those responsible .
Great to see more James Gang era Tommy Bolin!
Right!
Tommy Bolin was a great singer AND guitarist. Love his eclectic styles -- jazz, blues, rock etc... wonderful string arrangements, Zephyr, James Gang, etc.
James Gang without Joe Walsh is just another so-so 3-man rock combo. Nuthin’ special
Genesis classic lineup doing a full version of Watcher of the Skies and Musical Box? Priceless. The audience weren't ready for that.
😆😄😃
I was thinking the same thing. Genesis hadn't really broke in the US quite yet and they trotted out two of their more freakish tunes and stage shows. Selling England had come out the year before but they probably thought the songs as to British and wouldn't play well to an American audience. Imagine Firth of Fifth & Cinema Show on TMS.
This was on TV! A 10 minute song?!!?! on TV!!??! You'd never see that now. 1 song!?! 10 minutes!! AMAZING.
Seeing Miller's introduction was great. People still remember Genesis long after he has been forgotten.
I knew Jeff Buckley's dad had been a singer, but I didn't know Tim's music. What a stunningly beautiful voice. So tragic to have lost them both at such early ages.
Honestly, Steve Miller is a musical genius. He flew slightly under the radar and could do any style of music. I loved his later early 80's material. The song Keeps Me Wondering Why is one of the best rock / pop songs ever written.
A couple years before "Fly Like An Eagle" was released and became a staple on radio. Here we have an early rendition as Miller continued to refine and perfect it until he was ready to unveil the iconic version in 1976.
It's sure a different version.
That version of JOKER SUCKED
HE WAS OFF KEY, OUTTA TUNE, AND OUTTA STEP....IT WAS AS IF HE PURPOSELY TRIED TO PLAY IT AS UNRECOGNIZABLE AND UNFAMILIAR AS POSSIBLE...
FAR REMOVED FROM THE ORIGINAL
Never understood why an artist does that?
I have a gazillion versions of IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED by the ABB, and every version was coherent and I knew it AS IMOER
JUST SAYING
Steve Miller is well known for playing his songs much differently than those well polished versions that appear on his albums. For many years it was a hallmark of his shows that his performances were more blues and guitar driven. It has really only been in the past few decades in which audiences demanded album like mixes and note for note deliveries of the source material.
Knowing that, was part of the thrill of attending one of these concerts. Artists were also known to "throw" a performance from time to time due to a variety of reasons such as disgruntlement with management or venue demands and of course just getting too loaded pre-show.
@@egroegmcdonald9870 Well said. There's always been two sides to Stevie Guitar Miller, the bluesy space hippie seen here -- but then there's the more commercial facade he also embraces. Those who go back know he's always blended the two to varying degrees, and rather successfully.
@@MARKIEBANUNCEmaybe it’s because his guitar was upside down 🤷♂️
Steve Hackett of Genesis was tapping here in 1974…he often gets overlooked for his ingenuity…
Hackett didn't ivent tapping, either, homie.
ruclips.net/video/Z6ZhiEj3G3A/видео.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapping
Yeah, I noticed that, always thought this was a Van Halen thing for the most part.
ha, I was just gonna say that!
Steve is a great guitarist and if he had stayed with Genesis I think they would have been even better. He wanted more song writing input but he just wasn’t as good at it as Tony Banks & Mike Rutherford; Phil didn’t write much until Duke.
Dang...Genesis, Steve Miller, Tim Buckley, and Brownsville Station...This one should totally rock. What a lineup.
It sure did!
Does anyone recall Genesis doing Robbery, Assault and Battery on the show? It was a music video, not a performance.
James Cotton stole the show along with Brownsville station. I saw James Cotton with the J Geils Band at Robert’s Stadium in Evansville Indiana in 1974 when I was 14. I figured out I liked the blues
Yeah watching it rn
This is definitely a rocking midnight special...
Obviously Joe Walsh left the James Gang at this point still rocking thou..
Rock on peeps 🎸🥁🎹
Ok just want to add this
After finishing up watching this episode
Peter Gabriel with Genesis was mad awesome the last song he walks off stage during the tuné then returns as an old man😊 I was like holy moly just fantastic 👏🏽 I wasn't familiar with his stage show..
I only knew their tuné
Lamb lies down on Broadway he surely changed...then a Bearded Phil Collins on 🥁. Cool show for sure..👍🏼👍🏼...
@@nighthawkde4522 so that was really a video 🤔 they really didn't perform that on TMS??
Damn, James Cottons drummer is killing that Shuffle on Rocket 88. That guy is definitely a Jazz drummer, he’s left hand is blazing on that shuffle beat.
That left hand is MOVING!
Yep -- absolute murder!
What’s his name??
@@KittyGrizGriz I believe his name could be Ken or Kenny Johnson… not to be confused with Chris Isaak’s drummer by the same name.
Yes man!! Great snare shuffle
You just never see this raw talent anymore , let alone a live show!
I thank God every day for my awesome dad who introduced me to all these great bands. Wow.
This is the best line up ever on the
Midnite Special. The year I graduated from High School. 1974. Every thing about
The early Seventies culminated to a
fantastic year to be young and all be.
1974. Steve Miller wrote some great tunes
In these days.
I graduated in '74 as well. Instead of attending our class "commencement" I went to a Steve Miller/James Cotton/Boz Scaggs triple-bill in Seattle ... I will remember always Graduation Day !!! 🙃
Yep. Same year of graduation for me. Never missed this show.
Ha! Yeah! Graduated in ‘74 too! Greatest era for music and to be alive😎👊🏼
Steve Miller wrote Fly Like An Eagle already in 1974 while the same title album came 1976?
'74 grad too. I saw Genesis live in LA in '75 and was blown away with The Musical Box and Watcher of The Skies as the final two songs. This show captures what was too come.
Too bad kids today don't have anything like this on TV today to get them excited about music like we did back then. Better times, I say.
Front man of the James Gang pinching his nose to change the tone of his voice is genius!
Or cocaine drainage!
Genesis!!!! Wow!
Yes, wow, but not in the way you mean.
That was a ride
Peter Gabriel was completely insane!
Wow. I am SOOOO glad I grew up in the 70's!
Man, Tommy Bolin is smokin' with the James Gang! And is that tiny Muddy Waters playing sax with James Cotton??? lol
I wish there was more video of Tommy in this era. It was a different James Gang without Joe Walsh, but they still had some great songs.
Ha no Muddy there. But James Cotton did play with Muddy. I saw Muddy, James Cotton and Johnny Winter together on the tour for Muddy’s album Hard Again.
@@bradsense7431 lol, yeah. I knew it wasn't Muddy. I got to see them around at the Taste of Chicago. Not sure it was the Hard Again tour or maybe a little later
@@daveguitarnowski4402 I meant not to be laughing at you but at the fact it did look like a tiny Muddy. Sorry if it came across wrong. Having lived in Chicago area most my life I have also been to the various music and food festivals like Taste of Chicago over the years. When I saw the Hard Again tour it was at The Auditorium Theatre and I believe it was 1977. I also saw Muddy (without Johnny or James) at Chicagofest on Navy Pier and at Harry Hopes in Cary IL which was a small club with a very close and intimate stage which was very cool to see performers.
Steve Miller is so good. His mastery of the blues and then using parts of those riffs in his songs. It’s amazing.
Any TV program in America in the early 70s that can showcase the talents of Genesis, the James Gang and Brownsville Station is on the "cutting edge of cool" in Western pop culture in my book, and the Midnight Special was just that---also with the coolest rock host in the world, Wolfman Jack, bringing them all in!
Midnight Special > American Bandstand
P.S. This was Tim Buckley's only nationwide performance on TV. He would be dead from an Heroin overdose within 2 years. Really a great loss.
Uh, no.
ruclips.net/video/vaa22ULitds/видео.html
I'm pretty sure Buckley appeared on the Tonight show early in his career when he had a lot more hair, perhaps right around the time of his 2nd LP Goodbye and Hello. His singing was appreciated by the likes of Paul Robeson and Leontyne Price. Almost every album he did was completely different from the previous one. You are correct that his passing was a great loss.
@@williamgreenfield9991 Yeah well, I guess I should have said "his second and last" nationwide. And I'm not counting his filmed appearance on one of the last "The Monkees" episodes.
Tommy Bolin was right
!
What a talented man gone too soon.
James Gang BANG is dynamite because of Tommy, which holds up today.
Most Excellent show, as I'm sure they all are.
I hadn't thought I'd have the chance to see Tommy Bolin.
Thank You
I remember watching this live when it first aired when I was 8. Our babysitter was excited to see Steve Miller and allowed us to stay up to watch the show. Seeing Genesis amazed me at that age and I have been a fan since.
Strange this was aired in 74 when by that point they were already on Lamb. I would have been 7 and pretty sure I'd have been scared shitless seeing Gabriel as the old man.
Loved that Brownsville Station “Smokin’ In The Boys Room". That’s how I first remember that tune.
Thank you to the channel for allowing those who didn't live at that time to experience a little how magical it must have been to turn on the television and come across these artists. This episode in particular moved me with Tim Buckley singing Dolphins, one of the most beautiful songs in his voice!
very very beautiful
This is Genesis,way before Phil Collins even took over,this was the Prog/Rock era circa 1967-1975 era.great episode.
Tommy Bolin!! 🥰
I love his “Teaser” & “Private Eyes” albums after just discovering him this year - darn it but better late than never as they say.
What a talented guitarist-slide player he was & sadly gone, much too soon at age 25. He’s very handsome and what a stage presence here, love his smokin’ hot shiny 3 piece outfit! 🔥 Whew!!
8/1/51 - 12/4/76 R.I.P.🤍🤍🤍
My Favorite Tommy Bolin is with The James Gang.
BANG is all that ! ! !
Drop the needle and let it roll !
@@dougklapper9028 I need to listen to more of Tommy’s songs with the JG, this is my 1st time listening to the band with him in it, & like this song, thank you! xxx
The two albums I mentioned are on my “wish” list 🤞
In Dec. Of 1976, my girlfreind of the moment and I flew to south Florida to visit my parents for Xmas. At their new home in Boca Raton. Tommy Bolin had recentaly OD'd and died at that big red hotel on Miami Beach with the windmill in front where 163rd st. Met A1A. Today it's all changed, all gone. Sorta like poor Tommy Bolin. At least he didn't join the "27" club. He was too young by 2 years.
@@markmoriarty7388 Aww, thats so very sad to hear, thanks for sharing as I didn’t know where Tommy had actually passed away. Deaths do to overdose/addiction/misadventure are especially hard, he had so much talent. Makes me wonder if it was because of the pressures from the music industry? Guess we’ll never know.
Tim Buckley was someone very, very special, as was his son Jeff. The band "Beautiful Day" sang this song too. Both versions are equally beautiful.
Brownsville Station!
Brownsville Station, saw them in the Atlanta Omni, in 1973. Sad they only did one song on this episode.
They were great. A lot of sound for 3 pieces.
@@JamieAndersonMusic You should have herd them in 73 @ the Atlanta Georgia Omni. Spooky Tooth & Black Oak Arkansas. BOA was the 3rd band up. Brownsville station, 1st up. Spooky Tooth 2nd. good show.
That rhythm section Fly Like an Eagle is bad ass.
Fly like an Eagle to Funkytown
Not as good as from original tune
I wonder what the TV audience in January of 1974 thought when they saw Genesis? It's a real bummer that the group couldn't do the full version of the Musical Box!
Probably something like WUDDAFUG???
If they already were familiar with David Bowie, it wouldn't have seemed too unusual.
@@leestamm3187At least Bowie had tunes back then!
Steve's best albums was before (1971), and guitar playing. I remember watching show back then...it was the first time I heard "Shu ba da do ma ma ma ma."
…Enter Maurice🎶🎶🎶
@@jamesheuer5139 yeecch....I'd rather Maurice exit!
Had a great time tonight even fighting the bumps and lumps on I-70. Great episode. My happy surprise was Tim Buckley.
Enjoying the rocking sound of, The James Cotton BAND.
I honeymooned in Chicago in 1988. Went to his club and he was there stoned out of his mind. Got to meet him though which was cool. Dude knew how to rock!
A most excellent show. Everyone was very good here. I find it interesting that Steve Miller would go out into the audience and meet the fans. it really shows that he cares about his fans.
34 seconds in and my mouth is on the floor. I can't believe this lineup. All on one show? 😮
LOL ...
This is James Gang 2-3 years after Joe Walsh went solo.
Kinda bummed about it 😕
Yes Joe had moved on from the James Gang before the first episode of Midnight Special aired. Sadly not much (or any?) video of that version of the JG. There’s a performance or few of Joe Walsh and Barnstorm on an earlier 1973 episode of MS.
Tommy Bolin on guitar.
Tommy Bolin R O C K S
Mind blowing to watch Jeff Buckley's Father Tim Buckley performing live.
Oh wow, you know Tim was Jeff's dad! You are so cool.
@@manwithumbrella And you are? Lame.
@@KevKavanaghHe sure is, great call! 😂
He was definitely at a firing on all Pistons so to speak right around the time when he had lost just about all of his fans! Soon to become unemployed in driving a taxi all over again with no guitar
Those would definitely moonwalk type moves
R.I.P. Dickey Betts 🎸🤍🤍
We’ll ALL miss you and your musical talents 😿 darn it, the “greats” we grew up with are passing at lightning speed now.
Which has nothing to do with this episode, but then virtue signalers gotta virtue signal.
@@manwithumbrellaYou’re obviously seeking out attention here in any way you can, it’s very sad.
If you were a true lover of music and the ones who influenced our lives you’d show some respect, here instead of “bird dogging” me.
Now Buzz Off.
Before my razor sharp teeth & claws make an appearance. 😂
@@KittyGrizGriz WHat a great explanation of how I'm wrong, and your post is 100% relevant to the subject of this thread. You are amazing!!!
@@manwithumbrella Virtue signaling my, my 😁 how does the “meaning” apply to what I, first wrote here? Betcha can’t explain it, miserable attention seeker…Bye Bye. 😘
Listen to how well Peter Gabriel & Phil Collins’s voices blend. In the end Phil was the obvious choice to take over as singer when Gabriel left, since he could sing the old material so well. Though I don’t think Genesis ever did the vocals on Watcher of the Skies after Gabriel left.
phil had done all of the harmony vocals but after peter left. the band was trying to find a vocalist as phil was coaching potential vocalists into singing the old songs but the band realized that phil should sing. phil reluctantly sang on the album "a trick of the tail" as he ended up the vocalist and the rest is history.
Neat to see Phil Collins on drums here.
@@crlaw75 Phil was always a great drummer. Too bad he can't play anymore.
Buckley, one of the best ever voices.
I saw Steve Miller for the first (!!) time last summer 2023. Great show and so glad I finally got to see him live. Thanks to Midnight Special for bringing us these fun shows. Takes us all back to a happy time in our lives. Thanks for the memories, keep rockin!!
Wheres boz?
💀..except, perhaps, for thee negligible fact that Vietnam was 🇻🇳 still verry much a sadly unfinished "endeavor"..
@Pwrcritter ..💀..actually, a good question..✌️💀✨️
OMG johnson killing it on bass on s miller shu ba da mammamamamama
Oh yes. I never realized he played Albert King style (strings flipped). Right handed neck on a left handed body.
The sax guy in James Cotten band looks like Muddy Waters!
Agree!
I think his name is George Adams 1940 - 1992 but not 💯% sure… hmmm
He needs to be named here.
The badassery Brownsville Station could conjure on a stage is off the charts. energy galore, humor, riffs out the wazoo and power! Such a grossly underappreciated band.
Koda should have ditched those goofy looking glasses though.
You got that right! I love em.
That bassist was WAY out David Lee Rothing David Lee Roth. Loved this song.
@@williamkoppos7039Thank you for naming the bassist dressed in all white with cool bright colors & stacked platform boots, I LOVE his outfit here! It’s hard to tell if David Lee was actually playing a “bass” here as he moves so much! 😅
Never knew Steve Miller played a left-handed strat upside down. Wow mind blowing
Great episode! Genesis footage from this era is rare and this some of the best
So cool. Steve Miller doesn't get enough credit for his guitar playing.
You hit one stinker with that much delay and your fu uh uh uh uh uh uh uh ked.
That gi tar he's holdin'!
@@pariaheepheavily modified LP jr
Man really glad to find this channel!!! So good to watch this artists , this golden era of good music...So rich in performance and creativity...😎🙈🙉🙊💯😊👋👋✌
Far out! This is by far my favorite Midnight Special so far, and I have been blown away so many times! Really enjoyed Steve Miller’s evolving his earlier collaboration with Paul McCartney “My Dark Hour” into this version of “Fly Like a Eagle” (loved the “Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” intro) and knowing where he would take it in 3 years.
I remember this show staying up late in the 70's listening to this fun music. It an was awesome time to be alive. Compared to this garbage we are subjected to to us today.
Same here now at 62 I wish to have those days
There was a lot of great music then, but there's a lot of great music now. I'm 64 and just in the last couple of months I've been blown away by Lucy Rose, English Teacher, NewDad, St Vincent and The Last Dinner Party, all excellent.
This looks like the line up at a Texas Jam, or US Festival or something they would hold at the Tulsa Motor Speedway. A solid line-up of Rockers, have your lighters ready to hold up, and plenty of rolling papers! Steve Miller, Genesis, James Gang, and Brownsville Station all played the Tulsa Assembly Center in 1975/1976-time frame, so this not only a trip in the Way Back Machine for me, but also a trip back to my favorite venue for Rock and Roll. James Cotton Band and Tim Buckley have the potential to be one of those groups whose songs were great but aren't played on the oldies channel today, maybe one of those lost memories I get on here from tine to time.
Boy, I really missed out on the “Tulsa Time” train to see these shows?! Sadly I didn’t see any that you mentioned but we had - enjoyed so many musical greats passing through our town back then!
@@KittyGrizGriz Every week seemed to bring a great band to town. Then having Leon Russel, with George Harrison and Eric Clapton recording at his studio, and the great local music scene was 🔥. The Tulsa 70s Counterculture was off the hook. It's hard to believe that the guy who played the Big Bopper was also Mazzepa Papazoidie, and the origin of a lot the counterculture. Gaylord Sartane was an excellent graphic artist and a genuine funny guy!
@@robmatlock7675 You’re not kidding! My chiropractor owns Leon Russells recording studio that he built on Grand Lake. I went to a party at his home in TTown but sadly missed out on the lake house parties. Tulsa - OK is truly an epicenter of talented musicians/songwriters, there’s “something” magical in the water here.
@@KittyGrizGriz As long as you are not drinking from the Arkansas River, 🤣🤣
@@KittyGrizGriz Was it my imagination or did Phil Collins have a strong resemblance to Collin Farrell?
I want to thank God and my parents for giving me birth at a time when I was old enough to remeber each and every show the Midnight Special aired...If I could just go back to this time if only for a day it would be nirvana.
You just went back for a moment, and so did I! Timeless show.
Thank you for the music. Meant for everybody.
Don't allow the matrix to go against itself. . What's up MIT❤
Watched this after Saturday night live in the mid-seventies. As a huge fan of Tommy bolin this is one of the clearest videos I’ve ever seen him in. RIP too young. 2 years after this video
SNL was on Saturday nights & Midnight Special was on Friday nights? I recall all those FAB years ago watching Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert on Saturday night✌️❤️
Midnight Special came on after the Carson show on Friday nights (technically Saturday morning I suppose, though that may have varied depending on what time zone you watched it from), and was always 90 minutes long.
THere's a nice documentary about Tommy Bolin (even his parents are interviewed)
awesome! Finally the entire episode . been wanting to see for 30 years! Genesis best band ever!!!!!
I've been waiting over 50 years to see the whole show again! Made me an instant fan of Genesis. Excellent quality.
I could never get into them. Pretentious BS.
@@joequeer3385 I dont like early Genesis either..too each his own. Peter"s stuff doesn't do it for me at all..
A obvious KISsS fan... @joequeer3385
@@dougwalsh9610 LOL I'm about as far from a Kiss fan as you can find. Saw them open for the Hunter Ronson band when they were just starting. Worst band I ever saw. Journey played that show too pre Steve Perry. They weren't much better.
Wow… all my teenage dreams at once Steve Miller, Tim Buckley and Genesis…. That Buckley footage is amazing particularly from his most underrated period… and Fly Like An Eagle is insanely funky…. Made my weekend !!
This stuff is priceless I would love to thank you tube for all their great work what a show that they do
Steve Miller’s bass player. Blimey, what a musician!
I was just thinking the same thing ❤
This is when the folks in front rows enjoyed the shows, not a bunch of pretentious pricks, like now.
Totally expected a super jam with Genesis and Brownsville Station.
WOuld've been an improvement.
It's April 2024. I'm almost 56 years old and this is the very first time I've ever seen Steve Miller. And I've had his albums and CDs before too! But he's not on them, it's just art! So weird..
Steve Miller rarely appeared on US television. So don't feel you missed anything cause there was nothing to see lol He appeared a few times in the old days but very little after 1982
He appears in the cover photos of many of their albums. Old timers like me remember them well.
WOW! Tim Buckley doing Fred Neil !!
It was the opening track on his 1973 'Sefronia' album.
Does a pretty nice take of it too.
Thank you for this, I didn’t know who he was.
Just read that Fred Neil wrote the lyrics to 1969s “Midnight Cowboy” movie theme song - 1966s “Everybody’s Talkin’”;
made famous by Harry Nilsson.
Cool to know!
@@KittyGrizGriz Neil wrote more than just the lyrics, he composed the music to that classic tune too. 🤠
@@bjr4567Yes, I didn’t get that “far” delving into his background, thanks! I love this show & collaborating with like minded music lovers, it’s a learning - sharing experience for me.
Had a girlfriend in the late 70’s who was enthralled with Peter. My guess is (55:07)
this was the show that set the pace for the life and style that followed.
Shows like this remind me how absolutely truthful artists can be on stage.
Enjoy the enjoyment!!
As a lady here, your girlfriend had great taste hehe, 😍 Peter Gabriel is an absolutely gorgeous man, with beautiful expressive eyes, too. Swoon!
Wowssa I sure do remember Steve Miller and all the greats August 1974 I made it to 13 and many more great years to come now soon to be 63 the years go by so fast.
My first concert Steve Miller/Beach Boys, Giants Stadium NJ 1978, I was 11.
What a great collection of artists. The 70's music will never be repeated.
I turned 14 on the day this episode aired (January 25, 1974). Those were the days!
I turned 14 in dec of 73
Yay! Steve Miller Band doing a superb early version of Fly Like An Eagle....
Wow...these shows are hitting their stride now. What a lineup. Thank God!
74 years old here, Genesis wow,saw them live in 71,mind blowing. On California sunshine at the lyceum in the strand in London.
damn, Steve Miller is a much better vocalist than I thought, his live performance here has a lot of vocal nuance, vibrato, and soars way more than on the albums.
What a great archive of Amazing music..
Shubadudumamamama yeah!
GENESIS: Lead guitarist fingertapping at -18:31(1974)_ PRE Van Halen. Is that a very young Phil Collins on drums?
LOL ... fretboard tapping was happening long before Hackett picked up on it, homie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapping
Yes that is Phil
Great episode because so many great singer songwriter, great groups. Inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Tim Buckley . what a songwriter what a voice- Utherworldly.
I teased a student when Motley Crue made smokin in the boys room a "hit". I told her about Brownsville Station I never felt so old.
Thank you Leadbelly for the inspiration. And Wolf Man for the "Pompidous of Love". ❤
Thank you! I was not aware of this great version of "Rocket 88". Jackie Brenston, backed by Ike Turner's band, took the song to number 1 on the R&B chart way back in 1951. Some people and many videos declare it as the first R&R recording. It has a R&R arrangement, but the underlying rhythm is a shuffle and is still "jump blues".
Too many liberties are taken when declaring what rock's first R&R single was. Though there will always be plenty of loose knit candidates for this distinction, for me it will always be Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" from 1955. That's the tune that truly - and unmistakably - broke the dam wide open.
@@bjr4567 Agreed! My view is that various people should be credited with different aspects of R&R. Most obvious is Chuck Berry's guitar technique. It's pretty much the way that R&R is still played today. Fats Domino's "triplet" piano notes is another R&R staple. Then there is Elvis' singing. As soon as everyone heard it, they recognized that this was how to sing R&R. Anyway, it doesn't really matter what the first record is. People just post about it to stir up discussion, get views etc.
Woah...
Tim Buckley footage...most rare stuff
17:33
55:22
I loved this show as a kid and Don Kirshners rock concert.😊
Well my Fellow friends of the 1970s..I was 17,in 74..wanna be Rock an blues BASS PLAYER ..WHAT A GREAT TIME WATCHING MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
I was 15, Best times with the best music. 🎉
This was the highlight of the week,then after was Don Kirshners Rock Concert,by that time you were getting tired,or had a lot of beer,and the pizza was coming,a living room with all your friends,monday back to school...repeat next friday night
After watching the Genesis performance and trying to figure out what the hell Peter Gabriel was trying to convey within the songs context. He lost me but I figured out blotter acid takes you to another dimension. Meatloaf’s message I fully understood.
I didn’t get into Genesis until the Duke album and was able to see them live in support of that album. Their live performance was unbelievable along with the visual part of it. It reminded me of seeing ELP during their Brain Salad Surgery tour. Ridiculously good and worth the ten dollar general admission ticket by Beaver Productions.
One of the best episodes of TMS, Steve Miller Band, James Gang and of course, Genesis! Greetings from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Such a good ol’ rockin’ band that Genesis. Having fun and rocking the night away.
Pretty cool. I saw The Steve Miller Band twice live. I also saw James Cotton live. The other acts, including Brownsville Station, The James Gang, and Gensis were great too. Cheers! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️
When Bowie was in his ‘Ziggy Stardust’ phase, Peter Gabriel said, “Hold me pint mate. And watch this!”
I was only 1 and a half here so obviously don't remember this but I do remember seeing commercials for it when I was older. I also have a memory of waking up and going in the living room and this show being on, don't have clue who was on there but if my parents were watching it was probably a country artist of the time. The best time for all music for sure ! the 70s/80s was the best music will ever be I guess. Thank you so much for putting these shows on you tube for those of us who didn't get to see it the first time.
The late great Tommy Bolin! (00:05:09 - James Gang - It Must Be Love)
Ooof! I like his musical/style guitar slinging here, he’s a fabulous player. Tommy’s a major smoke show hottie…his shiny outfit looks so good on him, too!
😍! A rare visual treat! 🤩!
Steve Miller performs an early version of "Fly Like an Eagle" here, more than 2 1/2 years before he officially released that album. Plus cool footage of Tommy Bolin with The James Gang.
Thank you so much for preserving this treasure!
Thank you for posting these! I’m 14 again in ‘74! Sounds better than ever with my gummie 🥳😇
Tim Buckley = Pure excellence!
Going to be a good Friday night premiere.
Oh this gonna be good
Neat to see Gibsons with P-90's & Mini Humbuckers. That striped black & white LP Brownsville had was epic same with Steve's psychedelic 'Maker. Fly Like An Eagle being fleshed out live.
Great episode, talk about a great line up! Extra cool having Tim Buckley perform. Thanks!