Wow, such a great memory. I had joined Al’s band as a piano player in early 1975 and the song On the Border (the opening song here) was the first time I played guitar in his show, starting in late 1976.
Great to hear from you Peter; interesting to hear how the video represents a significant milestone in your own career. Thanks for calling by and commenting!
Wow. Mr. White, my dad saw you with Al in concert during the tour for YOTC at the University of Alabama. My parents saw you in concert as a solo artist in Washington in the 2010’s, You’re very talented. Stay safe.
Hi Peter - met you in Reading, PA with my daughter. Told you Time Passages was our father- daughter dance. Hope to see you at your Christmas concert if you are coming back to Reading.
Saw you for the first time rock it at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1978 on the “Time Passages” tour - and many times thereafter…. You are an essential part of Shot In The Dark and Al’s classic sound, Peter….! Have some good photos of you playing with Al-
Man.. Peter White commented. We all are blown away by your guitar playing. Then you play the piano as well. So much talent. Love that classical guitar playing in On the border. Cheers✌️
Born in the year of the cat, 1963, I just melted when I heard this. Finally at age 60 a few months after the year of the cat I am going to see him March 29, 2024. Counting the days. At 13 or 14 I lost it hearing this.
For those of us who grew up in the 70's, can we achknowledge pure, unadulterated musicianship? No autotune necessary, just God given talent! These days, unfortuntely, are gone forever.
First time I saw Al Stewart in concert was in St. Louis 1989. I was blown away by how many of his songs I had heard before. Started getting any album I could find, have 8 vinyl LPS and 12 cds of his music. To this day I am still discovering great gems of his catalog. Thanks to all that put this great music on here for everyone!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Oh I love this song The Year of the Cat Al Stewart he is phenomenal 🐈🐱🐈🐱🐈🐱🎸🎶🎵🎶 great rhythm and also I love the lyrics as well memories of when I was when my life was simple and my body did not have a dimple!!!!!
Hearing YOTC hundreds of times, I'm amazed that it's 2022 and first time seeing this amazing performance. Live, no-gimmicks, just hard-working true talent all around!!!
My life is complete now...lol I just heard Al Stewart play "Road to Moscow" live on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert... Thank you so much for uploading this and keeping the flame lit...
I started listening to his recordings and purchasing albums in 1977. I saw him live for the first time in 1980. I love hearing these youthful renditions when those high notes were in his repertoire. Aren't we lucky that we've heard him singing old and new songs after all these years? All the high notes may not be there anymore, but we know where they were, and lower octaves are fine, too.
I bought Past, Present and Future about a month before Year of the Cat. Modern times , Last Days of the Century, Time Passages, Indian Sunmer, Famous last words...
Really fine playing on that Ovation Peter! I adored Al Stewart in the '70s but your acoustic playing and Tim Renwick's electric leads facinated me. Thank you for such fine moments in music.
I saw it in the US in August of 77. I had previously heard YOTC on the radio that spring,then OTB, starting in June. It’s fair to say I was mesmerized. I’ve searched for this footage for several years now….and in over 44 years, I never again saw it, until today. It’s even better than I remember….Thank you!
I love Al Stewart's distinctive voice. Orange is my favourite album probably because that's the one I bought first. Have it now on CD. Definitely part of my life's soundtrack.
I was hired at the end of the 1974 TV taping season for the late night concert show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, as their "audience consultant", primarily to distribute free concert tickets to get an audience for the program. In 1975, I lobbied the show producers Bonnie Burns & David Yarnell, to try to get Al Stewart on to the show. By 1976, Year of the Cat was a hit, and Al was on the show. Sadly, he performed at a 3pm time slot, before we let the audience into the Longhorn (aka Aquarius) Theater. I was one of the few staff folk to be there for this performance.
Beautiful renditions of all these songs...and surprised at the quality of the audio!!! I love the interplay of all the instruments at the end of Year of the Cat, it was always there but just seems much more vital in this performance. And there will always be something so incredibly haunting by the last line of Roads to Moscow ....and unfortunately the tragic futility of a homeland invaded in that part of the world at the hands of a villainous despot is still relevant today. History never stays history for long, which is why I always respected Al for singing about it.
I was lucky enough to see Al and the band in 78? In Minneapolis. A very intimate concert in a theater that had beautiful acoustics. The band sounded unbelievable and Al's voice was great. (The PA stacks looked like oversized home speakers,nothing bigger was needed. The building was that acousticlly transparent. A concert I will never forget. "Roads to Moscow" is still the most beautiful song written in the 70s , thank you Al and company.
Great spirited version of YOTC. Peter White, such a good musician. Think Don Kirschners other claim to fame was discovering The Monkees. They were just supposed to just be a TV "Band", but weren't actually all that bad.. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" good social commentary.
My God, Peter White around here, what's a comentator of luxury about this video. A very special day today..!! Thanks a lot David for giving us, so so great moments..!!
This brings me back to my misspent youth so clearly, I absolutely remember sitting in the living room and watching this on the telly.I always watched this show on channel five out of N.Y.C. it was on on Saturday nights at eleven o'clock so you would always hope that the artist you wanted to see came on before S.N.L. started at 11:30. Such great memories, they don't make'em like this anymore.Oh yeah that Don Kirshner guy was such a hoot, Paul Shaefer on S.N.L. btw did an amazing job impersonating Don Kirshner on a few occasions, it was spot on.
How wonderful to see this amazing video . Roads to Moscow is amazing. Love seeing it performed live. Outstanding bit of video! Keep rockin Mr. Stewart. Thank you.
Wow, such a great memory. I had joined Al’s band as a piano player in early 1975 and the song On the Border (the opening song here) was the first time I played guitar in his show, starting in late 1976.
Great to hear from you Peter; interesting to hear how the video represents a significant milestone in your own career. Thanks for calling by and commenting!
I was a sophomore in high school, and had a shirt just like the one you’re wearing in YOTC, Peter. Good times, the 70’s were…🤔
Wow. Mr. White, my dad saw you with Al in concert during the tour for YOTC at the University of Alabama.
My parents saw you in concert as a solo artist in Washington in the 2010’s,
You’re very talented. Stay safe.
Hi Peter - met you in Reading, PA with my daughter. Told you Time Passages was our father- daughter dance. Hope to see you at your Christmas concert if you are coming back to Reading.
Saw you for the first time rock it at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1978 on the “Time Passages” tour - and many times thereafter…. You are an essential part of Shot In The Dark and Al’s classic sound, Peter….! Have some good photos of you playing with Al-
Man.. Peter White commented. We all are blown away by your guitar playing.
Then you play the piano as well. So much talent. Love that classical guitar playing in On the border.
Cheers✌️
Born in the year of the cat, 1963, I just melted when I heard this. Finally at age 60 a few months after the year of the cat I am going to see him March 29, 2024. Counting the days. At 13 or 14 I lost it hearing this.
How was the show??😊
He was awesome!
For those of us who grew up in the 70's, can we achknowledge pure, unadulterated musicianship? No autotune necessary, just God given talent! These days, unfortuntely, are gone forever.
Those were the days!
Peter White = Legend ! AL STEWART - IMMENSE TALENT !
First time I saw Al Stewart in concert was in St. Louis 1989. I was blown away by how many of his songs I had heard before. Started getting any album I could find, have 8 vinyl LPS and 12 cds of his music. To this day I am still discovering great gems of his catalog. Thanks to all that put this great music on here for everyone!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
You are most welcome I'm glad you are enjoying the channel!
Keep up the great work thank you again
Oh I love this song The Year of the Cat Al Stewart he is phenomenal 🐈🐱🐈🐱🐈🐱🎸🎶🎵🎶 great rhythm and also I love the lyrics as well memories of when I was when my life was simple and my body did not have a dimple!!!!!
Incredible performance by Al and Peter White! Such a great surprise to see this video. Many thanks!
Glad you enjoyed; thanks for watching!
Hearing YOTC hundreds of times, I'm amazed that it's 2022 and first time seeing this amazing performance. Live, no-gimmicks, just hard-working true talent all around!!!
Dang, I was only 13 going on 14 and fell in lust with this music. OMG finally at age 60 I am going to see him live on March 29, 2024. Yowza
Hope you enjoy the show!
Where? My bday is the 31st, this would be an amazing show!
So very underrated it's almost "criminal"!!
Al Stewart was never underrated!
My life is complete now...lol
I just heard Al Stewart play "Road to Moscow" live on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert...
Thank you so much for uploading this and keeping the flame lit...
Thanks for watching Dan!
Best live version of "On The Border". Beautiful arrangement. Bravo!!!
Isn't it just the best! Happy to hear you enjoyed it Sam!
I think your British Al I 💕 your music first herd you at age 16or17 and my go to song in Great Lake state of Michigan
Al's voice and all of you bring back wonderful memories! I was only 12 when this concert happened.....but thank you! Takes me back to a better time.
Though I've seen Al Stewart in concert many times, I still wish I could have been in the audience way back when!
Peter you are legendary dude, thanks for your great talent.
I started listening to his recordings and purchasing albums in 1977. I saw him live for the first time in 1980. I love hearing these youthful renditions when those high notes were in his repertoire. Aren't we lucky that we've heard him singing old and new songs after all these years? All the high notes may not be there anymore, but we know where they were, and lower octaves are fine, too.
We're certainly fortunate to have enjoyed Al's career for so many years!
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I loved Al Stewart since 1974. Nostradamus.
I bought Past, Present and Future about a month before Year of the Cat. Modern times , Last Days of the Century, Time Passages, Indian Sunmer, Famous last words...
Really fine playing on that Ovation Peter! I adored Al Stewart in the '70s but your acoustic playing and Tim Renwick's electric leads facinated me. Thank you for such fine moments in music.
I saw it in the US in August of 77. I had previously heard YOTC on the radio that spring,then OTB, starting in June. It’s fair to say I was mesmerized. I’ve searched for this footage for several years now….and in over 44 years, I never again saw it, until today. It’s even better than I remember….Thank you!
Listening in 2024 and beyond ! A young Peter White and Al Stweart ! One of the best video
שלושה שירים מצויינים, שלושה ביצועים מצויינים.
I love Al Stewart's distinctive voice. Orange is my favourite album probably because that's the one I bought first. Have it now on CD. Definitely part of my life's soundtrack.
Very similar to Norwegian wood!
I was hired at the end of the 1974 TV taping season for the late night concert show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, as their "audience consultant", primarily to distribute free concert tickets to get an audience for the program. In 1975, I lobbied the show producers Bonnie Burns & David Yarnell, to try to get Al Stewart on to the show. By 1976, Year of the Cat was a hit, and Al was on the show. Sadly, he performed at a 3pm time slot, before we let the audience into the Longhorn (aka Aquarius) Theater. I was one of the few staff folk to be there for this performance.
I didn't see Credits in this video. Who was the guy on piano that looked like Eddie Van Halen?
I’m back again!!! Just love his music, the sound of the instruments, and that caustic guitar!!! ❤
Beautiful renditions of all these songs...and surprised at the quality of the audio!!! I love the interplay of all the instruments at the end of Year of the Cat, it was always there but just seems much more vital in this performance. And there will always be something so incredibly haunting by the last line of Roads to Moscow ....and unfortunately the tragic futility of a homeland invaded in that part of the world at the hands of a villainous despot is still relevant today. History never stays history for long, which is why I always respected Al for singing about it.
Thanks for watching John I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The sound recording is just perfect..
Never get tire to listen to that music. Good old days, the '70.
Dang he is such a cutie. I'm still in lust with the music and person. 47 years now I am going to see this amazing beautiful man in concert.yowza
Timeless talent…
Sounds as good now as it did back then - classic stuff. Road to Moscow live - WOW!
Amo su voz y su presencia¡ Gracias All 😘😘
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed!
Loved the guitar playing On The Border ss well, it made the song🎉
I was lucky enough to see Al and the band in 78? In Minneapolis. A very intimate concert in a theater that had beautiful acoustics. The band sounded unbelievable and Al's voice was great. (The PA stacks looked like oversized home speakers,nothing bigger was needed. The building was that acousticlly transparent. A concert I will never forget. "Roads to Moscow" is still the most beautiful song written in the 70s , thank you Al and company.
Great spirited version of YOTC. Peter White, such a good musician. Think Don Kirschners other claim to fame was discovering The Monkees. They were just supposed to just be a TV "Band", but weren't actually all that bad.. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" good social commentary.
My God, Peter White around here, what's a comentator of luxury about this video.
A very special day today..!!
Thanks a lot David for giving us, so so great moments..!!
Thanks for watching Jose!
Never had a chance to see AL live so this is priceless. A fan since the 70's, this is a real treat!
You are most welcome, thanks for watching!
I always hear, "the ghost moon sails among the clouds" when I look up into the sky at night. Thank you.
Love you Al 🎉❤saw you last night in SLO
Vídeo está acelerado 😢 eles não cantaram nessa rotação .
These have mystique and myst rolling off of them like final scene from Casablanca...
This brings me back to my misspent youth so clearly, I absolutely remember sitting in the living room and watching this on the telly.I always watched this show on channel five out of N.Y.C. it was on on Saturday nights at eleven o'clock so you would always hope that the artist you wanted to see came on before S.N.L. started at 11:30. Such great memories, they don't make'em like this anymore.Oh yeah that Don Kirshner guy was such a hoot, Paul Shaefer on S.N.L. btw did an amazing job impersonating Don Kirshner on a few occasions, it was spot on.
Glad you enjoyed it William thanks for watching!
Incredible. Simply incredible.
Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed!
This is
NOT 1977 by that time I was playing my sax solo on YOTC with Al Stewart so this has to be late 1976
Thanks Phil; I will update the video title accordingly!
Such great old classic songs. Peter White is still the best on his guitar work with Al.
Song makes me cry. Pay attention. Hero, sent to die in camp.
Excellent versions of all three songs, although I could have done without the dubbed in applause.
i had no idea that Howard Stern sang backround harmony vocals and tambourine in Al Stewart's band.
How wonderful to see this amazing video . Roads to Moscow is amazing. Love seeing it performed live. Outstanding bit of video! Keep rockin Mr. Stewart. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Really cool stuff thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I wore out my Last Days of the Century cd.
Yep I love that album!
Besides Peter White, who are the players in the band? Amazing!
No idea, sorry! Perhaps someone else in the know will see this and enlighten us...
I think todsy it would have been recorded direct through the mixing board
forgot about "on the border" great song.
Cool dude
Thanks for watching!
Wow this is such a find,just fantastic😄
Thanks for watching Doug; glad you enjoyed it!
I had to play this on one of my systems that would blow me out of the water!!!
wow i am impressed.....plays well live!!!
The bass cabinet on his right, with the baby blue, looks like an old one I used to have. It's an Acoustic, with 1x18 in a W configuration.
Yes it's a 301.
The real Peter White? O my.
Name of the quitarist
So beautiful, such a talented group. Thank you for you!!! ❤️
Thanks for watching!
You’ve created an amazing archive here, well done and thanks. Just subscribed 😀
You are most welcome! Doing it for the love of Al's music and makes me very happy when I get comments from people who are enjoying it!
The Crumar Orchestrator!
Splendid, that Freeman strings sounds awesome, thanks for posting
You are welcome, thanks for watching!
That's how it's done kids!
SU VOZ ES BELLO
Simply great!
WOW¡
Masterful.
👍
Thanks for watching!
WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!! Who's the sax player...?
Nobody knows yet! Marc was asking on ASFAB and asked Peter but neither know - so it’s a mystery still to be solved!
@@TheAlStewartArchives , never seen him before....