Have grown up (well sort of) with this Mans music a big part of the soundtrack of my life! 50 years later this music still brings tears to my eyes!! But they're Joyous tears of love and almost forgotten days!!... X
How we miss this time of great creativity. The likes of talent of one man and his guitar has been lost in the mists of time. There never was a time like this (late 60s early 70s) before or afterwards (now) when music was so good. I am biased (lucky) because I 'came of age' during this period.
When I was 15 years of age in 1969 I went to Stockport to live with a family there for the summer holidays. The son made me listen to "Flat, Baroque & Berserk", and I was smashed with delight. Though I had very very little money I bought the LP and took it home to Germany and love Roy's voice and wonderful lyrics to this day. Thank you so much for loading this up! Seeing and hearing him playing live gives me great joy.
This guy is incredible! A bit before my time, but I love all the stuff on Flat Baroque and Berserk. His high falsetto voice is so beautiful and complimented by his masterful guitar playing just brings it all together. No one writes songs like this anymore, which why his stuff never gets old to me.
Utterly sublime...this should be the most watched thing on You Tube. Aspiring singer-songwriter-guitarists, this is what you need to be listening to to measure up...oh no, that's world's gone, hasn't it? Or has it? Stunning, gob-smacking vignette of a truly great artist at the top of his game.
What an absolute joy to see such a fabulous piece of footage of my old friend and musical hero. Thanks for posting this, I feel quite uplifted. Moments like this are rare.
This was around the last time I saw Roy (at the Colston Hall, Bristol) - we baby-sat Nick while Roy performed. He then took me to his home in Oxfordshire & put me on a train to London at Didcot - many thanks old pal ! See you soon!
This is brilliant stuff. I saw Roy many times back in the 70s and his gigs were always wonderful, and wonderfully unpredictable. As well as the beautiful songs (quite often with bits of lyrics forgotten) there was always a lot of rambling chat which was part of the charm of a Roy gig. Thanks so much for this video.
My elder brother saw him at Warwick Uni folk club about 1967. The first thing he did when he got on stage was light an absolutely enormous joint... Hence the stopping and starting, and rambling chat, maybe?
@@bobgreen8142 I think it was compulsory as far as he was concerned. My favourite song of his is "Nobody's got any money for the summer." It struck a chord at the time on "The Rock Machine Turns You On" -except of course for scoring...
Yeah you go to one of Roys gigs and the audience bless em were always throwing Spliffs onto the stage and bless him he smoked them!!! Different times, beautiful memories of previous lives!!...
Roy has been family in a lot of ways for my entire life, a voice of desperate endless frusteration, that soothing reminder that alone is not as it seems sometimes, that in this bedlam we do have similar woes. No division just a howling ode to madness and beauty and long lost love.
Many thanks for posting this absolute gem. Roy Harper is one of the greatest singer songwriters of all time. He gets little or no recognition. I first saw him as a teenager in 1984 or so. He would often start and stop songs and start again. Great to see that captured here. Interesting set. This is before South Africa was released and also North Country was only released in 1974. Roy is always an inspiration to see live and this film is one of the best examples of this period.
Amazing- at last! There are ALWAYS treasures left in the archives so everyone listen up and cherish this and never stop the hunt for things as marvellous and unique as this! Thanks for sharing
What a guitarist , I got 2 c him live at The Beck theatre in Hayes in 1984, after the gig he let me a couple of friends come back stage 4 some Refreshments,....shortly after SIR James Page arrived and me and my friends were star struck
@@markhartley628 I can believe that because Roy played 4 gigs with Jimmy in 1984 and were hanging out a lot together shortly before they made the Jugula album. Did you see Roy on Sky Arts last night on the Hawkwind at Summer Solstice gig at Stonehenge in 84? I'm sure I could smell the drugs coming off my TV. Have seen Roy myself, many times, at least 40 odd I reckon since around 1977ish. Last one was about 5 years ago where I had a long chat with him backstage after the gig.
Nice find. North Country reminds me of Roy at Cardiff Coal Exchange. Nick in support. Roy gave his perception of Dylan appropriating the song and after a heckler was removed pledged to never play 'the valleys again'. There is nothing like a Roy gig. His last few years of playing live with The Bedford Strings were some of the most sublime.
Unfortunately (for me!)I don’t believe he has been to wales in a long time, I can imagine that gig was the catalyst, shame really. I’d heard he vowed to never play the valleys again but it’s nice to know the history behind it! Thank you for this ☺️
Does anyone remember the story in Circus magazine circa 1972 about how Roy nearly died after giving one of his sick sheep mouth to mouth resuscitation. The ewe was sick with anthrax! I love Roy Harper! Have a cigar, dear boy!
Just a question: Was Roy Harper the first act (Edgar Broughton the second) for Pink Floyd at the park (Hyde Park in 1970)? And did he sing a song called I've got a hard on for you, baby?
Yes, he had indeed been unwell, but not for reasons of that old load of cod's wallop that you claim. In fact, he had the genetic disease HHT (look it up), which caused abnormal blood vessel formation in his lungs, where eventually he had to have stents inserted into his bronchi.
Hmm. If you're a bit confused, you're right to be. Girl from the North Country was written by Dylan, though, it's true he largely wrote it in England and it does reference Scarborough Fair... I guess Roy didn't have Wikipaedia to check these things...
It was neither written by Dylan or Carthy it’s an old traditional folk tune well over a 100 years old which has been altered abridged and changed much over the years by various artists . Dylan largely brought it to a wider audience with hie rendition in the early ‘60’s.
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Have grown up (well sort of) with this Mans music a big part of the soundtrack of my life!
50 years later this music still brings tears to my eyes!!
But they're Joyous tears of love and almost forgotten days!!...
X
How we miss this time of great creativity. The likes of talent of one man and his guitar has been lost in the mists of time. There never was a time like this (late 60s early 70s) before or afterwards (now) when music was so good. I am biased (lucky) because I 'came of age' during this period.
When I was 15 years of age in 1969 I went to Stockport to live with a family there for the summer holidays. The son made me listen to "Flat, Baroque & Berserk", and I was smashed with delight. Though I had very very little money I bought the LP and took it home to Germany and love Roy's voice and wonderful lyrics to this day.
Thank you so much for loading this up! Seeing and hearing him playing live gives me great joy.
That's my hometown!
@fantasypgatour Hurray to Stockport!
This guy is incredible! A bit before my time, but I love all the stuff on Flat Baroque and Berserk. His high falsetto voice is so beautiful and complimented by his masterful guitar playing just brings it all together. No one writes songs like this anymore, which why his stuff never gets old to me.
@davidsims4993 FB&B is one of my all time fave albums. Never get sick of listening to it.
Listen to Stormcock perhaps the best record ever made.
Gold dust!! Always adored 'South Africa' so to see this is just sublime.
Fishy once just takes me away to idk where...how beautiful and sad all at once. Hats off to Roy Harper!
He's among my big favourite artists! Fantastic fingerpicking.
Roy is absolutely worth the time
Utterly sublime...this should be the most watched thing on You Tube. Aspiring singer-songwriter-guitarists, this is what you need to be listening to to measure up...oh no, that's world's gone, hasn't it? Or has it?
Stunning, gob-smacking vignette of a truly great artist at the top of his game.
But yet a guy rating Pizza's on youtube get 4 million views 🤣
BTW, I like watching those pizza reviews too.
No hats or even cigars needed for this performance. Just incredible! Thank you...
I love that the credits call the first song 'a traditional English song' after Roy's gentle dig at Bob Dylan nicking the tune
What an absolute joy to see such a fabulous piece of footage of my old friend and musical hero. Thanks for posting this, I feel quite uplifted. Moments like this are rare.
This was around the last time I saw Roy (at the Colston Hall, Bristol) - we baby-sat Nick while Roy performed. He then took me to his home in Oxfordshire & put me on a train to London at Didcot - many thanks old pal ! See you soon!
This is brilliant stuff. I saw Roy many times back in the 70s and his gigs were always wonderful, and wonderfully unpredictable. As well as the beautiful songs (quite often with bits of lyrics forgotten) there was always a lot of rambling chat which was part of the charm of a Roy gig. Thanks so much for this video.
My elder brother saw him at Warwick Uni folk club about 1967. The first thing he did when he got on stage was light an absolutely enormous joint... Hence the stopping and starting, and rambling chat, maybe?
@edeledeledel5490 indeed, I saw him indulging in herbal refreshment, often passed up to him by an audience member, several times.
@@bobgreen8142 I think it was compulsory as far as he was concerned. My favourite song of his is "Nobody's got any money for the summer." It struck a chord at the time on "The Rock Machine Turns You On" -except of course for scoring...
Yeah you go to one of Roys gigs and the audience bless em were always throwing Spliffs onto the stage and bless him he smoked them!!!
Different times, beautiful memories of previous lives!!...
Hats off to Harper
A pleasant and stark reminder why I became a musician.
South Africa is absolutely beautiful, despite the stop and start.
Roy has been family in a lot of ways for my entire life, a voice of desperate endless frusteration, that soothing reminder that alone is not as it seems sometimes, that in this bedlam we do have similar woes. No division just a howling ode to madness and beauty and long lost love.
Many thanks for posting this absolute gem. Roy Harper is one of the greatest singer songwriters of all time. He gets little or no recognition. I first saw him as a teenager in 1984 or so. He would often start and stop songs and start again. Great to see that captured here. Interesting set. This is before South Africa was released and also North Country was only released in 1974. Roy is always an inspiration to see live and this film is one of the best examples of this period.
Amazing- at last! There are ALWAYS treasures left in the archives so everyone listen up and cherish this and never stop the hunt for things as marvellous and unique as this! Thanks for sharing
2:30 -- Girl from the North Country
6:33 -- Another Day
10:20 -- Feeling All the Saturday
13:20 -- South Africa
Thank yoy dear
Wonderful, well done for digging this out.
Excellent version of South Africa, so laid back, yet so powerful. Roy Harper on the cusp of stardom...
What a guitarist , I got 2 c him live at The Beck theatre in Hayes in 1984, after the gig he let me a couple of friends come back stage 4 some Refreshments,....shortly after SIR James Page arrived and me and my friends were star struck
@@markhartley628 I can believe that because Roy played 4 gigs with Jimmy in 1984 and were hanging out a lot together shortly before they made the Jugula album. Did you see Roy on Sky Arts last night on the Hawkwind at Summer Solstice gig at Stonehenge in 84? I'm sure I could smell the drugs coming off my TV. Have seen Roy myself, many times, at least 40 odd I reckon since around 1977ish. Last one was about 5 years ago where I had a long chat with him backstage after the gig.
Fantastic. I was laughing out loud during "Feeling All The Saturday" and halfway through "South Africa", where he stopped and started again.
So raw and beautiful.
Fantastic... thanks for sharing this treasure!
Thanks for rescuing this rarity! Classic early Roy.
Brilliant find (has made my day !) ... thanks for sharing.
Precious! It's not every day that I get stuff like this. Thank you so much.
what a unique talent- thanks for the post
Awesome. Thank you so much. Wonders never cease !
Beautiful. I love that these old performances can be found and shared
Was smoking to much weed.😎🥴👌👍
Too.
Thank you for posting this wonderful, important document.
Cuantos años escuchándote sin poder verte,ahora poder disfrutar doblemente con tu presencia...
Excellent, many thanks!
This a little piece of magic, thank you for finding it.
wow,beautiful and amazing footage
always loved 'south africa
What a great find! Thanks very much for posting this!
Roy pure genius
Its just lovely
"Flat, Baroque & Berserk", & the track "Another Day" in particular, will stay in my heart.
Thanks so much for posting , beautiful , TT
Nice find.
North Country reminds me of Roy at Cardiff Coal Exchange. Nick in support.
Roy gave his perception of Dylan appropriating the song and after a heckler was removed pledged to never play 'the valleys again'.
There is nothing like a Roy gig.
His last few years of playing live with The Bedford Strings were some of the most sublime.
Unfortunately (for me!)I don’t believe he has been to wales in a long time, I can imagine that gig was the catalyst, shame really. I’d heard he vowed to never play the valleys again but it’s nice to know the history behind it! Thank you for this ☺️
Magical ✊🏻
Amazing find.. Thanks
What a treat!
I can’t believe this is the same singer as “Have A Cigar”
Very highly talented
What a gem.
Love that .. for various reasons .
Excellent.
Was he an influence on Ian Anderson? I think you can really hear it, especially on ' another day'.
Does anyone remember the story in Circus magazine circa 1972 about how Roy nearly died after giving one of his sick sheep mouth to mouth resuscitation. The ewe was sick with anthrax!
I love Roy Harper! Have a cigar, dear boy!
Apparently that story was BS. He had some genetic condition that caused his illness. Nothing to do with snogging sheep.
Yes the first time i heard Roy my late brother who turned me on to him told me that story
HAPPY BITHDAY ROY
What is the music playing during intro? Sounds like Gong on steroids...love it as much as Roys set.❤
It's Roy and Jimmy Page playing 'The same old Rock ' from the LP 'Stormcock'
is he referencing Jackson C Frank before the first song? Sounds exactly like blues run the game.
He is telling Dylan off.
wonder what he was doing playing for ilea ,perhaps a fan there??..who knows
Just a question: Was Roy Harper the first act (Edgar Broughton the second) for Pink Floyd at the park (Hyde Park in 1970)?
And did he sing a song called I've got a hard on for you, baby?
Sorry, I just remembered that was Kevin Ayers.
So was then Roy Harper in that concert too?
Fab!
Roy had been unwell due to getting a weird bug from giving one of his sheep the kiss of life.
Yes, he had indeed been unwell, but not for reasons of that old load of cod's wallop that you claim. In fact, he had the genetic disease HHT (look it up), which caused abnormal blood vessel formation in his lungs, where eventually he had to have stents inserted into his bronchi.
Thanks for clearing that up!
Bob Dylan claimed and recorded Girl from the North Country. I think that's the reference.
Well, the lyrics are almost entirely Dylan's but based on the traditional English folk song Scarborough Fair.
N’ ganz ganz krasse Kollege!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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He’s so nonchalantly Mancunian in this. I then realised he’s from Rusholme.
So Dylan did not write these words?
Footage starts proper at 1.32.
Nice, despite the ego tripping.
obviously they would not do an edit :-)
IKEA has a TV Chanel ???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂
Hmm. If you're a bit confused, you're right to be. Girl from the North Country was written by Dylan, though, it's true he largely wrote it in England and it does reference Scarborough Fair... I guess Roy didn't have Wikipaedia to check these things...
Dylan didn't write North Country - he nicked it from Martin Carthy but never owned up
It was neither written by Dylan or Carthy it’s an old traditional folk tune well over a 100 years old which has been altered abridged and changed much over the years by various artists . Dylan largely brought it to a wider audience with hie rendition in the early ‘60’s.
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What a treat....!!