Roxy Music ~ If There Is Something 1972 (Live)
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- Roxy Music ~ If There Is Something 1972.
From the bootleg album 'First Kiss'
Bryan Ferry (Keyboards, Vocals)
Andy MacKay (Saxophone, Clarinet, Oboe)
Eno (Synthesiser, Electronics, Backing Vocals)
Phil Manzanera (Guitar)
Rik Kenton (Bass)
Paul Thompson (Drums)
Producer - Pete Ritzema
Engineer - Mike Franks
Studio - Maida Vale 4
BBC sessions
Recorded 18 February 1972
Listed as 18 July 1972
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If there is something that I might find
Look around corners
Try to find peace of mind I say
Where would you go if you were me
Try to keep a straight course not easy
Somebody special looking at me
A certain reaction we find
What should it try to be I mean
If there are many
Meaning the same
Be specific just a game
I would do anything for you
I would climb mountains
I would swim all the oceans blue
I would walk a thousand miles
Reveal my secrets
More than enough for me to share
I would put roses round our door
Sit in the garden
Growing potatoes by the score
Shake your hair girl with your ponytail
Takes me right back (when you were young)
Throw your precious gifts into the air
Watch them fall down (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The hills are higher (when we were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The trees were taller (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The grass was greener (when you were young)
Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
You used to walk upon (when you were young)
Favourite ever Roxy track.
Even on a day when you are feeling a bit down for whatever reason Roxy tracks lift your mood , especially this one , and also different live versions of it I have heard over the years -Viva Roxy Music, Apollo 2001 etc .
This track is genius , absolute dynamite .
Don’t know what I would have done without Ferry/ Roxy and Bowie , their music was ground breaking , innovative and the brilliant lyrics took your mind away somewhere else away from the day to
day grind - away to a happier state of mind.
Crazy, 52 years ago and still fresh as a daisy. I was into them from the first chord and still am up to this day, Fantastic Roxy,
Also Roxy / Ferry have been such a musical influence on so many bands / artists over the years right up to the present day - legends
As has Bowie .
I want to do a collection of the 12 minute versions of If There Is Something. What a brilliant song. Starts out as a country version then moves into all the solos, guitar, sax, keyboards, and then back to the brilliant Bryan Ferry lyrics. Sublime
It's like the beginning is iconic rock n roll but then it leads to...something....that can't be described.
I had the Roxy music- Roxy music album when it came out on vinyl (33)
For me this has always been 3 very separate songs, the first part timed to be a single (45) plus two other songs that were too short to do anything much with. For me the third and last part (shake your hair girl) is the most haunting and touching.
Hallucinating! Roxy were really from another planet way back then.
Agreed , Ahead of their time by 10 years.
My favorite song by RM, and in my opinion the best version of this song, where is possible to hear one mix of glam and progressive rock
One of my favorite moments in the song both here and on their debut ' Roxy Music' is Ferry losing it,voice cracking passionately on ''Throw your PREEEECIOUS gifts into the air.'' A primitive POW! on his stylised melodic cool.
Growing potatoes by the score . . . .
I'm so sorry for missing this when I was young. This is so much rock n roll.
I thought this was a sleazy pop band, but I was so wrong. This is great, as progressive as many other bands at that time.
I salute them for there contribution to the music history.
Well said, Maverick. Roxy Music were ahead of their time for sure.
They ARE a "sleazy pop band!" LOL!--(But seriously, I figure you were talking about their Avalon phase or maybe the first thing you heard was "Love Is The Drug?")
Better than my first kiss… will treasure this forevermore ~
How come nobody has video of one of their actual concerts performing this amazing song live.
Probably they weren't video taped at the time...would have been awesome..
I do have!
@@GK-ji3pmI have a link with it!
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Whoever you are, BoucherPhil, take a bow.
What a find.
+Peter Bracken, Philip was my brother, sadly he committed suicide last year
Phil Manzanera's playing on this song is so smoooooth!
Manzanera is a guitar legend. Better than Dave Gilmore.
is it phil manzanera ? it could be David Olist as I dont think phil had joined at this time
Absolutely brilliant .Viva Roxy Music.Throw your precious gifts into the air.
Sad thing is this music is all but forgotten..sad. 9:41 is chilling til the end..
Insanity. What a performance.
My favourite song from one of my all-time favourite albums.
I believe I was the first person in my town to buy their first LP when it came out (having heard this song on John Peel on Radio 1). In my humble opinion, this is one of the greatest songs written by anyone anywhere at any time. I love the studio version, but he ending to this ("Shake your head girl") outdoes the studio version. Thanks for posting this!
Eno was just right on this version!!
There is an excellent live version on Viva....
and we all like the sax dont we.
Simon Artley
Es la mejor versión de esta canción. En los solos enloquecen los músicos de la banda.
7:40 - 9:20 What a melodie.
Got into them when all I want is you came out ! Country life soon followed then the rest ! Love Roxy
My first exposure to this song was David Bowie's cover, and I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know it was a Roxy Music song.
If you're saying you didn't recognize the title of the song as Roxy Music, go ahead and be ashamed...Otherwise, the cover itself is musically unrecognizable as RM
IMHO, the bowie version sucked terribly, it is completely soulless. The roxy evokes lots of emotion.
Wow, the early Roxy is quite something. Thanks for the clipp.
Magnificent!
Brilliant
I wasn't born till 6 months after this album came out
I believe ROXY MUSIC will go down in history as the best band. PFunk can really rock, too. The romance is heavy.
me too
This version is actually from a BBC radio session recorded in July 1972. The sax player is Andy McKay and, I believe, Rik Kenton played bass on this one.
John Wetton's Bass is so incredibly cool on this performance
The sessions comprising this set pre-date Wetton's stint in the band. This is apparently founder-member Graham Simpson, according to Roxyrama.com, although the uploader has it as Rik Kenton. Beats me.
But yeah, great playing.
Christopher Thomas
it's not John Wetton it's Rik Kenton. Graham Simpson played on the session dated 4th January 1972, with Davy O'List on guitar. This track is from 18th July 1972...this time with Rik Kenton on bass and Phil Manzanera on guitar. Info from Roxyrama.com. And yes the bass and the whole track is awesome! cheers lads
*****
I should note that the track is listed as 18th July 1972, but was recorded 18th February 1972
***** A man who takes his time to get the facts right. I tip my hat to you.
Wetton wasn't with Roxy Music when this happened..
I love this song. So trippy
Always good to hear such an array of songs with wonderful accompanyment.
Wow ! Thanks for this , you can really hear Eno's treatments here , especially on Andy's sax - very trumpet - like . Also the backing vocals were very good ! Hope theres more where that came from ! Thanks very much !
Might not be the same genre, but this sound reminds me of King Crimson.
Peter Sinfield produced the actual finished product--album-wise...
Ferry auditioned to be lead singer of King Crimson before he formed Roxy. Luckily he didn't get the gig!
Cool band! They really stayed low key in the US. I think their only big hit in the US was "Love is a Drug."
Excelent.
This is fantastic!
Thanks so much for this, one of the greatest ever. It's orgasmic.
Simply sublime!
Wow, never heard a different "version" of Manzanera's solo in the middle (Had only heard the one from Viva!...)
Powerful stuff!
epic!
Thank you!
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This performance is amazing, with Eno's treatments to the fore, and reminds me an awful lot of King Crimson (which I like). Incredible, many thanx 4 postin', didn't know this bootleg, just Champagne & Novocaine
Alex Balaclava
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I have the LP.. Champagne & Novocaine..My Favorite!
I used to have a bootleg Roxy LP called: Absinthe makes the heart grow fondle. Sadly, I lost it during those nightmarish years.
Anyone following after Andy Mackay, is only emulating his ground breaking performance.
Sorry Jorja.
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Really wish I wasn't 10 years old when this came out.
things have really changed. i was 18. saw them in boston. 74.
How would your life have been different, exactly??
@@richrol58 Why did you ask that question?
As far as I can figure I meant that he thinks things would have been different if he had not been 10 years old at the time the album came out--maybe I over thought it? Could he have just meant he wishes he had been old "enough" to be able to enjoy it when it first came out? I was 14 when it came out and I didn't even get into rock music until 3 or 4 years later and I still was (am) able to enjoy it...At any rate I have to thank you for bringing attention to this video again--I seem to have no memory of seeing it the first time--I must say I like the more "structured" guitar solo on VIVA...
@@richrol58 OK, we're good!
Care!
I was at this and many of their early tours. Let me tell you this may be great but does not do the concert full justice!
I liked it at the time but now much prefer the versions in the film FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL and the Hammersmith Apollo live version c 2001.
Shake your hair with your ponytail...
Average cost of a wedding in Canada is now 31 000 dollars!
Is this the first cut or the later one? The first one is with Davy O"List right?
Was a cut before this i believe, late '71.
so.john's very nice vocals
ferry's allway do nt vocals
isit voice's.no?
all album information's.
Robert Fripp on guitar?!
Phil Manzanera my friend. Fripp only ever played on a Ferry b-side called 'As the World Turns'. ruclips.net/video/J8rdwLNl8q4/видео.html
Phil Manzanera
Google before you post shit 🙄
too much fuzzy guitar, and not enough sax of the magical Andy Mackay. the Viva version is much much better.
Erm............this (in my opinion) is far superior (particularly the ending section).