Rare Bird was one of the FINEST bands to come out of Britain’s Prog Rock movement in the late 60’s-early 70’s…Why they didn’t receive more recognition, I’ll never know…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
@@maxwellfan55 Most definitely! “Somebody’s Watching” by Rare Bird is one of my all-time FAVORITE albums! I used to play it constantly when I worked as a college radio DJ! I STILL listen to that album, too! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿💥💥💥💥💥💥
There are quite a lot of great bands in the UK, USA and all over that were worthy of greater fame. The Beatles created a tsunami of bands that produced the greatest music era ever. The mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. There was so much music and bands with excellent original music and only so much radio time. It was hard to get on the radio. We were so lucky to have so much great music.
Not only did the European broadcasters hold on to a lot of great recordings from this era, they also (unlike the BBC) allowed the bands to play live rather than miming or singing live over a prerecorded backing track.
this song opens up memories of my dad driving his alfa romeo GT in the autostrada at 200kmh with 3 little kids in the back seat and the Rare Bird cassette playing! Still have the same tape some 48 years later
I was nearly that dad, years and years ago. I thought I had it under control. We all lived. No arrests. I don't drive at all anymore. LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Steve and Dave, and a girl called Spook, lived in the basement flat at 38 Elm Park Road, Chelsea, when I was sharing the top floor flat. Nice guys, and very talented. 'As your mind flies by' remains one of my favourite driving albums.
Criminally underrated band. Found a 2nd hand copy of their first album way back in 1981 and have loved it since. Never seen this clip before. So awesome.
Here it is 2021, and this is the FIRST time I have ever heard this group!!!! Can't believe it, They are so GOOD!!!! I was just out of high school when this first came out, WOW!!!!!!
"I'm on my way To steal the day Turning to gold Warm from the cold The devil is near I cannot hear Your world is cold Turning to gold The angel's here To cast out fear Glitter of hope Sever the rope The devil is near I cannot hear Your world is cold Turning to gold Beautiful scarlet, someone's really gonna hurt you The birds are all singing, but noone's gonna sing for you Time was when, smiling faces all around Beautiful scarlet, get your feet on the ground Beautiful scarlet, there is a tear in your eye The winter went slowly, but summer's gonna pass you by I used to be happy, just following you around Beautiful scarlet, get your feet on the ground I'm on my way To steal the day Turning to gold Warm from the cold The devil is near I cannot hear Your world is cold Turning to gold"
@@Stargazer-px7fw Oh I genuinely don't know. Only recently got into Rare Bird, so I couldn't say. The packaging is just copies of the albums, and barely readable, but music is fine. Sorry - can't be any more help.
@@martinmolloy5876 It’s indeed great music. I discovered this band in the late 90s and I’ve been a fan ever since. I was curious about the remastering and the bonus live cd. I’m gonna stick to the stand-alone versions, which I do already have, though. Thanks!
Had the Rare Bird album with this song and Sympathy as part of the record. Always thought they were great. Singer, I believe, is one of best of the early 70's and has virtually been forgotten. Thank goodness RUclips is around to document this greatness. Drummer could give Mirch Mitchell a run and keyboardists mixing classical and rock vibes are just super. Outstanding song and performance. Wish I had seen them live back in the day. Great post. Thanks.
a friend turned me on to these guys back in 1970, we were in high school and really exploring the music scene then and what a scene it was. so many great bands and concerts.
Tony Banks of Genesis describes the keyboard sound of Genesis and his particular style heavily influenced by Rare Bird in the late 1960s. A legacy indeed.
There's a thing i love is when the live version of some bands sound diferent that the studio version, but without making the song bad, and this ones a fine example. I think that the only bands that never failed me on a live version were Blue Oyster Cult, Rare Bird and Pink Floyd.
Van der Graaf Generator's studio albums give a good impression of what they were like live. (It was definitely that way round, in my opinion, rather than the live performances being a possibly strained attempt to recreate something conceived in a studio.) I saw them live many times, and it was always a thrill.
Yes, even down to the tradition jazz stick grip. Rock drummers back then were more jazz influenced. Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker, Ian Paice, even Bill Ward to a degree.
@@vigilenci I was talking more rock drummers, not jazz rock ones who were already in jazz or jazz rock bands, like Hiseman who is great too, one of my faves. Also Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine, and John Marshall of Ian Carr's Nucleus and later period Soft Machine. So many in prog came from at least some jazz background. Carl Palmer, Bruford, etc
This might be the BEST piece of film I've ever encountered on YOU TUBE!!!! WOW GOLLY!!!! Now I feel like I've really seen RARE BIRD live and got that rare chance to peruse their equipage - a fetish of mine. Herein you will see why the incredible sounds of the 60's can never be replicated. In a word - TECHNOLOGY. This sort of equipment no longer exists not to mention the musical "chops" . . . i.e. the expertise.
Just sorting this Box set and is great and listening to Epic forest album and like the content and Remember this group but could not afford to buy their albums till now and it brings back many Memories of those Years so i am enjoying them on CD. Chris Tredwell Birmingham UK
Я слушал их пластинки в начале 70-х годов. Музыка на высоком профессиональном уровне. Может быть на уровне Proсol Harum. Отличная группа второго эшелона арт-рока. I listened to their records in the early '70s. Music at a high professional level. Maybe at the level of Proсol Harum. A great second-tier art rock band.
Rare Bird was one of the FINEST bands to come out of Britain’s Prog Rock movement in the late 60’s-early 70’s…Why they didn’t receive more recognition, I’ll never know…👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Agree. Have you heard RB's "Somebody's Watching"?
@@maxwellfan55 Most definitely! “Somebody’s Watching” by Rare Bird is one of my all-time FAVORITE albums! I used to play it constantly when I worked as a college radio DJ! I STILL listen to that album, too! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿💥💥💥💥💥💥
There are quite a lot of great bands in the UK, USA and all over that were worthy of greater fame. The Beatles created a tsunami of bands that produced the greatest music era ever. The mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. There was so much music and bands with excellent original music and only so much radio time. It was hard to get on the radio. We were so lucky to have so much great music.
This song and this album got me through my early teens. Thanks to a band that didn’t get the attention they deserved in the early 70s.
Great clip. German TV once again putting the BBC to shame in keeping such historic performances in their archives.
I don't even speak about France... Shit on radio and TV since the 70
Not only did the European broadcasters hold on to a lot of great recordings from this era, they also (unlike the BBC) allowed the bands to play live rather than miming or singing live over a prerecorded backing track.
this song opens up memories of my dad driving his alfa romeo GT in the autostrada at 200kmh with 3 little kids in the back seat and the Rare Bird cassette playing! Still have the same tape some 48 years later
Bellissimo!!!
and it plays... i have some..
GREAT!!!
Cool.
I was nearly that dad, years and years ago. I thought I had it under control. We all lived. No arrests. I don't drive at all anymore. LOL. Thanks for sharing.
Steve and Dave, and a girl called Spook, lived in the basement flat at 38 Elm Park Road, Chelsea, when I was sharing the top floor flat.
Nice guys, and very talented. 'As your mind flies by' remains one of my favourite driving albums.
Criminally underrated band. Found a 2nd hand copy of their first album way back in 1981 and have loved it since. Never seen this clip before. So awesome.
The drummer is straight up gas
Here it is 2021, and this is the FIRST time I have ever heard this group!!!! Can't believe it, They are so GOOD!!!! I was just out of high school when this first came out, WOW!!!!!!
Highly recommend their first two albums - Rare Bird and As Your Mind Flies By.
"I'm on my way
To steal the day
Turning to gold
Warm from the cold
The devil is near
I cannot hear
Your world is cold
Turning to gold
The angel's here
To cast out fear
Glitter of hope
Sever the rope
The devil is near
I cannot hear
Your world is cold
Turning to gold
Beautiful scarlet, someone's really gonna hurt you
The birds are all singing, but noone's gonna sing for you
Time was when, smiling faces all around
Beautiful scarlet, get your feet on the ground
Beautiful scarlet, there is a tear in your eye
The winter went slowly, but summer's gonna pass you by
I used to be happy, just following you around
Beautiful scarlet, get your feet on the ground
I'm on my way
To steal the day
Turning to gold
Warm from the cold
The devil is near
I cannot hear
Your world is cold
Turning to gold"
Awesome! Tragedy day of Darkness our World and lost Soul!! Genius Musicians!
Merci pour les paroles👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
RIP Graham Stansfield! What a great organ player. All these guys are fantastic--Steve Gould, Dave Kaffinetti and Mark Ashton.
Спасибо что напомнили! Пойду поставлю, послушаю, в очередной получу удовольствие! 🎉
Good music for all time tks
редкая группа и редкие птицы! Гениальная группа!
И не менее редкий комментарий на русском языке под подобной музыкой...
@@druzhkoin13 отрадно видеть российские комментарии, музыка вне времени
@@colossusweb8037 мы есть тут 🤝🤝🤝🍷
Гениальная композиция! И два первых альбома группы тоже гениальны. "Бриллианты" прогрессива!
This band should have been HUGE. Just bought the new box set. Fab.
Question about the box: is it a new remaster or they just reuse the ones from the stand-alone versions released years ago? Thanks!
@@Stargazer-px7fw Oh I genuinely don't know. Only recently got into Rare Bird, so I couldn't say. The packaging is just copies of the albums, and barely readable, but music is fine. Sorry - can't be any more help.
@@martinmolloy5876 It’s indeed great music. I discovered this band in the late 90s and I’ve been a fan ever since. I was curious about the remastering and the bonus live cd. I’m gonna stick to the stand-alone versions, which I do already have, though. Thanks!
Incredible band .
Many thanks for posting
Had the Rare Bird album with this song and Sympathy as part of the record. Always thought they were great. Singer, I believe, is one of best of the early 70's and has virtually been forgotten. Thank goodness RUclips is around to document this greatness. Drummer could give Mirch Mitchell a run and keyboardists mixing classical and rock vibes are just super. Outstanding song and performance. Wish I had seen them live back in the day. Great post. Thanks.
one of the most underrated groups of the seventies. Great music
Phenomenal band. There was never any justice in the world of music and success or "failure"
a friend turned me on to these guys back in 1970, we were in high school and really exploring the music scene then and what a scene it was. so many great bands and concerts.
Wooow! Amazing song!
Great song!!
I love Gould's voice 🥵
Classic!
badass keyboard solo!
Great band!!!
I had the honor of being in a band with David Kaffinetti a few years ago, he's also known as Viv Savage in Spinal Tap
Tony Banks of Genesis describes the keyboard sound of Genesis and his particular style heavily influenced by Rare Bird in the late 1960s.
A legacy indeed.
Rock'and'Roll Yesterday today and always
real musicians brilliant music
top notch
@1:55 to @2:07 - Fun fact: That's David Kaff who played Viv the keyboardist for the legendary fictitious Prog Rock and Metal band Spinal Tap
There's a thing i love is when the live version of some bands sound diferent that the studio version, but without making the song bad, and this ones a fine example.
I think that the only bands that never failed me on a live version were Blue Oyster Cult, Rare Bird and Pink Floyd.
Wow i just realized ive never really listened to Pink Floyd live, thanks, for me the best life Performances where and are from Tool
Van der Graaf Generator's studio albums give a good impression of what they were like live. (It was definitely that way round, in my opinion, rather than the live performances being a possibly strained attempt to recreate something conceived in a studio.) I saw them live many times, and it was always a thrill.
😊@@IchDuForeverExplorering
The distinctive features of the band's sound were
Steve Gould characteristic dramatic vocals, the absence of a rhythm guitar, and dual keyboards.
Mark Ashton, the drummer, reminds me Michael Shrieve and his drums break on Santana's "Soul Sacrifice" , that was filmed in Woodstock, 1969
Yes, even down to the tradition jazz stick grip. Rock drummers back then were more jazz influenced. Mitch Mitchell, Ginger Baker, Ian Paice, even Bill Ward to a degree.
@@RocknJazzer and we can add Jon Hiseman, he was incredible on Colosseum's "Valentine Suite"
@@vigilenci I was talking more rock drummers, not jazz rock ones who were already in jazz or jazz rock bands, like Hiseman who is great too, one of my faves. Also Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine, and John Marshall of Ian Carr's Nucleus and later period Soft Machine. So many in prog came from at least some jazz background. Carl Palmer, Bruford, etc
@@RocknJazzer I see
This might be the BEST piece of film I've ever encountered on YOU TUBE!!!! WOW GOLLY!!!! Now I feel like I've really seen RARE BIRD live and got that rare chance to peruse their equipage - a fetish of mine. Herein you will see why the incredible sounds of the 60's can never be replicated.
In a word - TECHNOLOGY. This sort of equipment no longer exists not to mention the musical "chops" . . . i.e. the expertise.
I came to this from recently discovering Graham Field and Fields - love it. Thankyou YT and Beat-Club ♥
Não conhecia essa banda...adorei o tecladista, o baterista, o vocalista....(a música)❤😍❤
Just sorting this Box set and is great and listening to Epic forest album and like the content and
Remember this group but could not afford to buy their albums till now and it brings back many
Memories of those Years so i am enjoying them on CD.
Chris Tredwell Birmingham UK
oh Rare Bird - what a fine group - what a great song ;-)
What a ....Musicians!!! Bravo !!!💚💛🧡❤ His voice! Thank You !
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Danke fürs Senden ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Danke
Otro buen grupo de la época fuerte de los teclados!!
MAGNIFICENT!
How can be a band be so good without having a guitar player?
That’s the schtick of this band. Check out Birth Control, hungarian band Scorpio, and Atilla - young Billy Joel’s rock band
Again, I have to mention Van der Graaf Generator!
@@Twirlip2 or Still Life among others.
Just discovered them recently. Those first two albums are amazing. Sounds great live.
Awesome......
Gold!!!
Jewel!!!
Спасибо
Un son super !!!! Merci
This is the best song of the Rare Bird 🕊️
Great song, love the band configuration.
The piano sound at 4:33 is so wonderful
Man !!!
Ахереть. Яка вестчь)))😢😢😢❤❤❤😮😮😮
FIRST CLASS !
J'avais une dizaine d'années quand j'ai eu le 33 tours dans les mains. Ca devait être en 1972 ❤❤❤❤❤
Steve, where are You???
Grupa zatrudnia doskonałych muzyków... podziwiam sekcję rytmiczną i klawiszowca. Perkusista jest piękny...
great...
Wow... they have a lot of power! 👊🏼
They are so fantastisch
Muito bom, os três primeiros discos são excelentes
very very good old band..........................................
To bad they existed in the same space and time as the gods of rock (Led Zeppelin), This band deserve much more credit and recognition!
це неймовірно дуже гарно класика психодел рок
First time I know about them. Amazing....
Though I have had the l.p disc. since I was 10th grade now I have no more player I am happy to listen to it here.
The best song!!
Bacana demais 👏👏👏👏👏🎼🎵🎶🇧🇷
What a power!!!!
didn't expect to be amazed by the drummer or really anything on this song I never heard
Viv Savage on keyboards... prior to joining one of England's loudest bands, Spinal Tap!
I think rarebird along with Focus gypsy and Renaissance have to be the most underrated groups around😢 how sad what great musicianship😢
Я слушал их пластинки в начале 70-х годов. Музыка на высоком профессиональном уровне. Может быть на уровне Proсol Harum. Отличная группа второго эшелона арт-рока. I listened to their records in the early '70s. Music at a high professional level. Maybe at the level of Proсol Harum. A great second-tier art rock band.
эшелоны , эшелоны --- то мне страшно, то мне грустно, что я маленький такой 😉
Wow!!!
Я плачу
What great to find a live thing of rare bird on yt. Great this great band. People listen to Rare Bird. Energy and great compositions
The band Genesis were jealous of.
They were both on famous charisma label
Never like genesis
@@LoveEm-r9i I don't know you can hear tracks like the knife being influenced by rare bird
🔥
TRES Cool
Bravooo
2024 awesome group
super
This was music....
I still have the vinyl
L'orgue génial
개인적으로는 Symphathy라는 곡보다 이 곡이 더 마음에 듭니다..이 앨범 가지고 있었는데 지금은 어디 있으려나...30여년전에 샀던 LP였는데~치지직거리는 앨피음이 그립다는 생각이 가끔 듭니다.
I have that vinyl it's very much ❤❤
Сильно...
I think that’s Viv Savage on the electric piano… : )
very underrated band. THose days, if you made it with a ballad, the band's carreer was ruined...
Viv Savage!
Zach de la Rocha is a time traveler
But Steve's still kickin, and kickin HARD still...
super ficking double fantastic 😲😲😲
Sound City amp =)
great band, great song, not famous enough, even not in those days
David Kaffenetti ( Viv Savage / AKA David Kaff from Spinal Tap) on Keys Right side of screen
Anybody knows what organ Dave Kaffinetti is playing? Really curious...
Hammond?
😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😍
Wracked up at least a 100 of those views. 😅