They had 6 No1s, people forget that, they were by far the best live band i ever saw, and i have seen them all since the late 60s, and in Noddy Holder they had the best rock voice in music, they were such a good time band, and very very loud, i was not surprised by their performance at Reading, they were simply awesome live.
As a 70s Kid I loved them in my early teens. Their legendary status was sealed at Reading festival in 1980 where they stole the show on an afternoon that’s seared in my memory.
Their the best band of the early 70’s for me! I’m a 90’s indie kid really and was born in the 70’s so don’t remember them, but during the 90’s there was a mini revival of 70’s music being liked in a kitsch way, and what with the Gallagher’s name dropping them as an influence came to my attention in a big way! And everyone was throwing their old vinyl out at the time because of cd’s being the in thing, so I managed to get Slade albums pretty cheap and I found out just how great they were!! Good video by the way and I will check out the book definitely!!!!
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea 1131am 23.3.24 all the brummie tough lads (circa 1972) stood in the pub effing and jeffing and giving it: i dont half fancy yours kindda schtick whilst dressed in platforms flares and make up. ah...well........................ as the mods did, previously, i surmise. i have no idea why, but when those dudes wax lyrical about the past and the bands they enjoyed and the fashions they latched on to - i piss myself laughing. refer to the tough lad lark and the fay fashions that accompanied such a stance....
Met Daryl at Slade convention, he gave a talk about the book, I was lucky to win it on a Slade forum quiz! Excellent tome about a fabulous band, best live band but also wrote great songs not just hit singles
What a wonderful discussion about Slade I didn’t want it to end, perhaps a part two please👍 I always thought it was ironic about Slade’s lack of success in the U.S and yet it was in NY in September 73 that they recorded Merry Xmas Everbody…. In a heat wave no less! Even using instruments and studio that John Lennon had used earlier in the year….) Had Slade done four equal slices of the pie with the songwriting spoils like Queen agreed to do and I believe 10cc did then perhaps Dave H and Don P wouldn’t have continued slogging it out through the years, long after Noddy and Jim departed. Noddy’s autobiography Who’s Crazee Now from the 90s is a brutally honest read, said it how it is. Always thought the movie Flame was quite brilliant. Don P in recent years did a joint tour with Andy Scott & Suzi Quattro in Australia. Noddy, Jim Dave & Don back on a Unplugged performance with all the songs done in a softer vein could really work, although they probably wouldn’t want to, but still….. For me they were a real life force through that early part of the 70s. Get Down And Get With It woke me up to Slade and Everyday & How Does It Feel remain true classic pop songs. Will buy deffo this new book😎👌
Thanks chaps. Looks like an essential purchase for my Christmas reading. One of rock's most enjoyable pub discussions is 'Why were Slade so bloody great' ? Worthy of a separate programme (Hint, hint).
My first memory of Slade is of seeing them play a song called’Wild Winds A-Blowin’ featuring Jim Lea on violin on a teatime kids’ TV show and thinking ‘ofh, a skinhead band’. That was unheard of and the only aspect of note. Then they had a minor hit with Get Down Get With It which, viewed with the finely grained detail of teen prejudices was a glaring anomaly: skinheads playing what would be considered a rocker/greaser song. Somehow they elbowed their way through all that on their way to what they became.
Nod has recently been treated for cancer. He was on local telly up here in the NW recently. He looks poorly but seems to be making a good recovery. Re the football thing. Around 1973, my dad took me to the Tranmere vs Wolves FA Cup tie. Nod and Jim were standing behind us. Nod wasn't wearing his mirror hat and nobody at school believed me when I told them the next day.
There was a brief early 80's revival of heavy metal in the UK that Slade rode. I recall headbanging to Slade and Saxon at a metal nightclub in Scarborough.
Beg to differ all you want. Flame is absolutely the best film about what being in a band looked like then. Nothing else has come close to that level of realism, allied to great music and musicians who can actually act.
Remember dialogue with Dave Hepworth some years back He felt they were good but that the records did not have enough bottom end whoomph.....respect Dave and love his books but still beg to differ....plenty enough whoomph for me......ten times the band Oasis could ever hope to be
@@apollomemories7399 I seem to recall this rule also applied to Bowie and Roxy while over at the adjacent girls school they had to create a demilitarised zone to separate the warring Osmonds and Jackson 5 fans. However, I categorically deny that I ever hid my Slade albums in T Rex album covers when my friends came over. Totally untrue. It was the other way round.
@@patrickkelly2301 Oh no at all. That must have been some bored pop scibe making stuff up to fill a blank page. Both Bowie and Roxy fans converged at every juncture and probably is most cased gelled into one. Even Bowie himself waxed lyrical on that first Roxy album. I would say there was no point hiding what wasn't going to get played. Besides, you wouldn't want to be rolling spliffs on a decent album cover, would you?
@@apollomemories7399 your right about the Bowie and Roxy gangs gelling but that was post-school for me. For the record I suspect most of us liked most of what we were hearing but you had to step gently around the various rivalries. Incidentally, the first album I ever bought was Neil Diamonds Greatest Hits. Not sure where I hid that.
@@patrickkelly2301 I see my last post had some weird spells. A tad trying writing in the near dark in the back of a moving car. But I had to laugh - had that Neil Diamond album been discovered as someone's possession at my school, they'd have been laughed all the way back home to mother and forever ridiculed. Of couse, in retrospect it appears that old Neil did in fact have a few very good tracks under his name.
Saw Slade at a Socialist rally in the early seventies along with George Melly and Vinegar Joe amongst others.I do remember a massive Amp collection being stacked up behind them and I have to say they were bloody great as were (sshh whisper it)Gary Glitter and the Glitter Band.
So, you were at a Socialist rally protesting the very economic system that produced those amplifiers that impressed you so much.. Good grief... Where do you think those amps were built, Bulgaria?
I don't think Glam Rock transferred over to the US. Of course, the Glam Rock movement encompassed the hard with the soft, Osmond's, Cassidy, Glitter, Mud etc - rightly or wrongly lumped together with Slade & Sweet. The Bay City Rollers had the Tartan look, so I guess Slade dressing in Tartan too aligned themselves to the movement. Also Radio 1 DJs championed the music as both young & old could enjoy this PARTY POP, particularly Ed Stewart. We tend to think of the likes of Peel, Crowley, Gillett etc as being vital for promoting new music / trends, but back then, suggest Ed Stewart did a great deal of good for Glam Rock & offshoots (L De Paul, New Seekers etc). I really think most music 72/73 was glammed up. Thanks to all for the video, one of your best.
I've not ref. to Wikipedia only now & see they had their first Top 10 UK hit single in 1971 (but I take your point 74/75 were their hit years). In my list of bands, I put "etc" as obv it's not an essay on Glam Rock. I was comparing soft/hard artists who came under the umbrella of Glam Rock (as I see it). Wikipedia lists BCR as Glam Rock (in part but not whole, so you have another point). Of course all these things are open to debate, but I think in all your replies to mine, you've perhaps overlooked that I was making general observations where as I think you wish to judge everything within the exact time frame of the video / book. I was just widening it out, that's all. Thanks for taking the time to reply, and Roxy Music & Bowie feature prominently in my own record collection, although I do have one BCR CD, a greatest hits! That's it! @@apollomemories7399
@@markwatkins8309 That 1971 BCR hit was made by a very different pop group from the one as re-introduced in 1974. And I ask myself, why the hell am I even discussing BCR, they were absolutely awful! I think anyone can tell you that T. Rex, Slade, David Bowie and Roxy Music WERE Glam Rock. All the others simply followed with not a jot of any actual influence. The BCR were not Glam (and shame on that fool who wrote that entry on Wikipedia - I'm forever making factual ammendments on it) and were simply that of Teeny-Bop Pop. There was nothing remotely rock about them and their audience were 12 year old schoolies. An unmitigated embarrassment all round. Quite how they could ever get a listing anywhere near the same page as either Bowie or Roxy is patently ludicrous.
Picking up on one of David's earlier points, those 2/3 years of submissive audiences, I think that can apply to the early years of the OGWT, maybe the TV show was reflecting that reverence, personified by Bob Harris's interview technique.
😁🤙🏻🫶🏻 i nearly dropped my shopping cart (if that's possible) in my local grocery store last year and they played it's Christmas (brissie Australia)😁 I do wish that RUclips had a scream emoji 😊 Don can't play anymore because he can't remember the way to play the music now 😔 🎶🎵
Rick Nielsen or Tom Petterson said that the Slade had every cheap trick in the book...that is beyond awesome...they were just plain ole straight fwd rockers glam or not
i take issue with the comment that Slade are still around and Sweet aren't. At least Sweet tour and RELEASE NEW MUSIC which Slade does not. Okay only Andy Scott remains but the brand is active.
The book is an excellent read. I'm not too happy that the Foreword section of the book was written by Bob Geldof though. For him to be singing their praises after not asking them to be on Live Aid, has a hollow ring to it.
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One of the best ever UK bands. Untouchable live. One of the biggest influences for punk bands and what came after. Great book too.
Just the best band around in the 70's. especially Live !
They had 6 No1s, people forget that, they were by far the best live band i ever saw, and i have seen them all since the late 60s, and in Noddy Holder they had the best rock voice in music, they were such a good time band, and very very loud, i was not surprised by their performance at Reading, they were simply awesome live.
As a 70s Kid I loved them in my early teens. Their legendary status was sealed at Reading festival in 1980 where they stole the show on an afternoon that’s seared in my memory.
I loved this band as a kid in the 70´s/80´s and still do!
just a great book, about the best live group in in england in the 70,s early 80,s. never got the credit they deserved, sadly never to be repeated
Flame is a great film and great soundtrack
Last proper working class band this country has ever had .Great songwriters and musicians god bless em
What about Oasis?
Slade hit you at full throttle from the first note to the last note.
Saw Slade at the Marquee 72' they were brilliantly loud! Gave Noddy my red hat which he wore on TOTP the next day
He's right my brother was a big slade fan and got punk right away
Their the best band of the early 70’s for me! I’m a 90’s indie kid really and was born in the 70’s so don’t remember them, but during the 90’s there was a mini revival of 70’s music being liked in a kitsch way, and what with the Gallagher’s name dropping them as an influence came to my attention in a big way! And everyone was throwing their old vinyl out at the time because of cd’s being the in thing, so I managed to get Slade albums pretty cheap and I found out just how great they were!! Good video by the way and I will check out the book definitely!!!!
Slade, a rambunctious reminder of a vanished world by Daryl Easlea 1131am 23.3.24 all the brummie tough lads (circa 1972) stood in the pub effing and jeffing and giving it: i dont half fancy yours kindda schtick whilst dressed in platforms flares and make up. ah...well........................ as the mods did, previously, i surmise. i have no idea why, but when those dudes wax lyrical about the past and the bands they enjoyed and the fashions they latched on to - i piss myself laughing. refer to the tough lad lark and the fay fashions that accompanied such a stance....
Met Daryl at Slade convention, he gave a talk about the book, I was lucky to win it on a Slade forum quiz! Excellent tome about a fabulous band, best live band but also wrote great songs not just hit singles
What a wonderful discussion about Slade I didn’t want it to end, perhaps a part two please👍
I always thought it was ironic about Slade’s lack of success in the U.S and yet it was in NY in September 73 that they recorded Merry Xmas Everbody…. In a heat wave no less! Even using instruments and studio that John Lennon had used earlier in the year….)
Had Slade done four equal slices of the pie with the songwriting spoils like Queen agreed to do and I believe 10cc did then perhaps Dave H and Don P wouldn’t have continued slogging it out through the years, long after Noddy and Jim departed. Noddy’s autobiography Who’s Crazee Now from the 90s is a brutally honest read, said it how it is. Always thought the movie Flame was quite brilliant.
Don P in recent years did a joint tour with Andy Scott & Suzi Quattro in Australia.
Noddy, Jim Dave & Don back on a Unplugged performance with all the songs done in a softer vein
could really work, although they probably wouldn’t want to, but still…..
For me they were a real life force through that early part of the 70s. Get Down And Get With It woke me up to Slade and Everyday & How Does It Feel remain true classic pop songs.
Will buy deffo this new book😎👌
Thanks chaps. Looks like an essential purchase for my Christmas reading. One of rock's most enjoyable pub discussions is 'Why were Slade so bloody great' ? Worthy of a separate programme (Hint, hint).
Well THAT was awesome!! Top interview.
My first memory of Slade is of seeing them play a song called’Wild Winds A-Blowin’ featuring Jim Lea on violin on a teatime kids’ TV show and thinking ‘ofh, a skinhead band’. That was unheard of and the only aspect of note. Then they had a minor hit with Get Down Get With It which, viewed with the finely grained detail of teen prejudices was a glaring anomaly: skinheads playing what would be considered a rocker/greaser song. Somehow they elbowed their way through all that on their way to what they became.
Nod has recently been treated for cancer. He was on local telly up here in the NW recently. He looks poorly but seems to be making a good recovery.
Re the football thing. Around 1973, my dad took me to the Tranmere vs Wolves FA Cup tie. Nod and Jim were standing behind us. Nod wasn't wearing his mirror hat and nobody at school believed me when I told them the next day.
I LOVE Slade
No mention of the brief return to the charts in the early 80's with We'll Bring the House Down.
thoroughly enjoyable video even for a hardened The Sweet fan.
"Talk about having your mellow harshed..." That cracked me up; how am I going to use that?
❤ Daryl,nice bloke - his wife used to make me bread pudding 🌞🎶🤩🤗👍
Great stuff. Good to see Daryl being interviewed. Looking forward to reading my copy.
Yes, Daryl comes across well. Informing in an upbeat, interesting way.
@@markwatkins8309 Daz is a mate of mine so it was really lovely to see him being interviewed on my favourite music podcast.
Johnny Ramone ( not a stoner!) in his last interview said his 2 favourite bands were the Doors and Slade. He saw Slade live.
I saw Slade in 1977 opening for
Aerosmith , REO Speedwagon too.
Not mentioned was Slade's impressive '80s contribution: My Oh My and Run Run Away were brilliant and big hits.
Yes, that's true, a kind of comeback with many hits around that 80s time as you say, Daniel, till, I think, the Wall Of Sound record, early 90s.
We'll Bring The house Down was also a hit in 1980. Annoying that Slade's biography is confined to the '70s. My Oh My reached number 2 in the UK.
My Oh My should (freak Flying Pickett's) have been Christmas number one. Undoubtedly brilliant. Slade's best song. Noddy and Jim still creating magic.
There was a brief early 80's revival of heavy metal in the UK that Slade rode. I recall headbanging to Slade and Saxon at a metal nightclub in Scarborough.
Flame is still the best film made about a band.
I beg to differ.
If you say Sgt Pepper with the Bee Gees I will chin you🤣@@BigSky1
@@SamLowryDZ-015 Never seen that and have no interest in it.
Beg to differ all you want. Flame is absolutely the best film about what being in a band looked like then. Nothing else has come close to that level of realism, allied to great music and musicians who can actually act.
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Remember dialogue with Dave Hepworth some years back
He felt they were good but that the records did not have enough bottom end whoomph.....respect Dave and love his books but still beg to differ....plenty enough whoomph for me......ten times the band Oasis could ever hope to be
America preferred Kiss. A second rate Slade.
Yes. And "2nd rate" is being kind about it.
KISS admit Slade was huge influense for their career
Gene Simmons has said that Kiss were greatly influenced by Slade.
If I recall correctly you could like T Rex or Slade - not both. Terrific chat, again.
Totally wrong. We loved them both.
@@apollomemories7399 I seem to recall this rule also applied to Bowie and Roxy while over at the adjacent girls school they had to create a demilitarised zone to separate the warring Osmonds and Jackson 5 fans. However, I categorically deny that I ever hid my Slade albums in T Rex album covers when my friends came over. Totally untrue. It was the other way round.
@@patrickkelly2301 Oh no at all. That must have been some bored pop scibe making stuff up to fill a blank page. Both Bowie and Roxy fans converged at every juncture and probably is most cased gelled into one. Even Bowie himself waxed lyrical on that first Roxy album. I would say there was no point hiding what wasn't going to get played. Besides, you wouldn't want to be rolling spliffs on a decent album cover, would you?
@@apollomemories7399 your right about the Bowie and Roxy gangs gelling but that was post-school for me. For the record I suspect most of us liked most of what we were hearing but you had to step gently around the various rivalries. Incidentally, the first album I ever bought was Neil Diamonds Greatest Hits. Not sure where I hid that.
@@patrickkelly2301 I see my last post had some weird spells. A tad trying writing in the near dark in the back of a moving car. But I had to laugh - had that Neil Diamond album been discovered as someone's possession at my school, they'd have been laughed all the way back home to mother and forever ridiculed. Of couse, in retrospect it appears that old Neil did in fact have a few very good tracks under his name.
Without Nod, it ain't Slade - it's the Dave Hill Band.
Hill just keeps going because he's broke unlike Nod and Lea.
Come on,man...say it proud..Noddy Holder IS a National Treasure.
Saw Slade at a Socialist rally in the early seventies along with George Melly and Vinegar Joe amongst others.I do remember a massive Amp collection being stacked up behind them and I have to say they were bloody great as were (sshh whisper it)Gary Glitter and the Glitter Band.
Saw GG on the uni circuit in the early 80s - absolutely brilliant show.
So, you were at a Socialist rally protesting the very economic system that produced those amplifiers that impressed you so much..
Good grief...
Where do you think those amps were built, Bulgaria?
Yes I did attend this Young Socialist Rally but only as a Spy the Smell was horrendous.@@tomcarl8021
They certainly don't speak to each other.
I don't think Glam Rock transferred over to the US. Of course, the Glam Rock movement encompassed the hard with the soft, Osmond's, Cassidy, Glitter, Mud etc - rightly or wrongly lumped together with Slade & Sweet. The Bay City Rollers had the Tartan look, so I guess Slade dressing in Tartan too aligned themselves to the movement. Also Radio 1 DJs championed the music as both young & old could enjoy this PARTY POP, particularly Ed Stewart. We tend to think of the likes of Peel, Crowley, Gillett etc as being vital for promoting new music / trends, but back then, suggest Ed Stewart did a great deal of good for Glam Rock & offshoots (L De Paul, New Seekers etc). I really think most music 72/73 was glammed up. Thanks to all for the video, one of your best.
So, no mention of David Bowie and Roxy Music? The Bay City Rollers had not much to do with Glam and they didn't "arrive" until 1974.
I've not ref. to Wikipedia only now & see they had their first Top 10 UK hit single in 1971 (but I take your point 74/75 were their hit years). In my list of bands, I put "etc" as obv it's not an essay on Glam Rock. I was comparing soft/hard artists who came under the umbrella of Glam Rock (as I see it). Wikipedia lists BCR as Glam Rock (in part but not whole, so you have another point). Of course all these things are open to debate, but I think in all your replies to mine, you've perhaps overlooked that I was making general observations where as I think you wish to judge everything within the exact time frame of the video / book. I was just widening it out, that's all. Thanks for taking the time to reply, and Roxy Music & Bowie feature prominently in my own record collection, although I do have one BCR CD, a greatest hits! That's it!
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@@markwatkins8309 That 1971 BCR hit was made by a very different pop group from the one as re-introduced in 1974. And I ask myself, why the hell am I even discussing BCR, they were absolutely awful!
I think anyone can tell you that T. Rex, Slade, David Bowie and Roxy Music WERE Glam Rock. All the others simply followed with not a jot of any actual influence. The BCR were not Glam (and shame on that fool who wrote that entry on Wikipedia - I'm forever making factual ammendments on it) and were simply that of Teeny-Bop Pop. There was nothing remotely rock about them and their audience were 12 year old schoolies.
An unmitigated embarrassment all round. Quite how they could ever get a listing anywhere near the same page as either Bowie or Roxy is patently ludicrous.
In your view. Not mine. @@apollomemories7399
@@apollomemories7399 That first BCR hit was played constantly over the speakers at Elland Road in the early 70's.
Picking up on one of David's earlier points, those 2/3 years of submissive audiences, I think that can apply to the early years of the OGWT, maybe the TV show was reflecting that reverence, personified by Bob Harris's interview technique.
a great band that was too often misunderstood, and after 1985 Noddy wasn't into it any more
I distinctly recall hearing “Anarchy…” for the first time when it came out and thinking they copied Slade. Still do, in fact.
😁🤙🏻🫶🏻 i nearly dropped my shopping cart (if that's possible) in my local grocery store last year and they played it's Christmas (brissie Australia)😁
I do wish that RUclips had a scream emoji 😊 Don can't play anymore because he can't remember the way to play the music now 😔 🎶🎵
I remember Give Us A Goal quite vividly for some reason, though as far as I remember it wasn't much of a hit, sadly.
Rick Nielsen or Tom Petterson said that the Slade had every cheap trick in the book...that is beyond awesome...they were just plain ole straight fwd rockers glam or not
Bets on what that Harvest record label is …..I’m betting Roy Wood : Forever.
Close, but no cigar. It's See My Baby Jive by Wizzard. Record Collector's calendar.
i take issue with the comment that Slade are still around and Sweet aren't. At least Sweet tour and RELEASE NEW MUSIC which Slade does not. Okay only Andy Scott remains but the brand is active.
The book is an excellent read. I'm not too happy that the Foreword section of the book was written by Bob Geldof though. For him to be singing their praises after not asking them to be on Live Aid, has a hollow ring to it.
Always wanted to see them again in a reunion tour. Won't happen now.