NEIL INNES - PROTEST SONG - Rutland Weekend Television
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Neil Innes sings a protest song for a spoof of The Old Grey Whistle Test, on BBC's Rutland Weekend Television, that originally followed a sketch by the Fabulous Bingo Brothers.
Neil Innes was associated with, and Eric Idle part of, the earlier Monty Python's Flying Circus before formulating the now cult Rutland Weekend Television, that featured the Beatles spoof 'The Rutles.'
"I've suffered for my music and now it's your turn."
azapro911 The best intro ever! ❤️ 😂
OUCH!
He may be accused of being confused, but he was average weight for his height.
If McCartney gets a knighthood, and Dylan gets a Nobel prize, then Innes deserves to be Emperor of the universe, with a constant, free supply of crisps.
Cheese and onion !
@@johnenglish929 DO I have to spell it out?! 😅
Rest In Peace, Neil. You were brilliant, funny, and sweet.
This gets my vote for best Dylan parody ever.
if not for Dylan this Genius would be on everybody's lips
You should check out "My Polka Dot Undies" by Bowser & Blue.
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"Bob Dylan Blues," by Syd Barrett.
Loudon Wainwrights "Talking Bob Dylan."
I always got a kick out of the way he tries for the higher register...and immediately gives it up.
Jennifer Schillig - That's the best part.
So damn funny!
"I've suffered for my music. Now it's your turn." :lol:
“...sound your horn, if people get in your way.”
Genius.
I have been looking for song this since I was 17 years old when I first heard it on rutland TV. FOUND IT .....YES. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.. SO FUNNY. The first time I heard it on TV my boyfriend & I belly laughed together, it was ace.
This is so fucking funny. And yet respectful - but so fucking 😂 😂 😂! It is such a shame that history records Neil Innes as a Monty Python bit player. He was a great songwriter and satirist in his own right! ❤️
"and have me a f*cking good time" was what he sang live at the Hollywood Bowl...
That's how I always remember it....
Don't think the BBC would be happy with the correct lyrics :-(
Live at the City Center actually. He didn't sing this song at Hollywood Bowl. He sang "Urban Spaceman" and "How Sweet to Be an Idiot".
I don't know what is better--the intentionally horrible harmonica playing or the lyrics or the voice. It is all just brilliant. Mr. Innes does not get enough credit!
He's definitely the "Eighth Python" (Carol Cleveland is the seventh).
@tuttt99 ... and the 555th Beatle
I laughed out loud, all over again. Many thanks RIP.
We love your music and the world is slightly darker now you've gone. RIP Mr Urban Spaceman.
I got to see him sing this when Monty Python played the City Center in New York back in the 70s and I haven't heard it again since that day! Thanks for posting this!
@PookaDude42 That album is the best! Bryan Adams is one lucky dude...
That harmonica playing made me laugh so much I nearly had a hernia! :)
Sounds like a Innes or Bonzo song! I Nearly Had A Hernia 😂!
"I may be accused of being confused, but I'm average weight for my height, my philosophy like color tv, is all there in black and white..."-lol! Idle and Innes were gold.
Clever fellow, most entertaining. Did some excellent stuff.
my hero
The one musician who never took himself seriously, presented by the one TV presenter who never allowed his ego to ruin his programmes = "whispering" Bob Harris
Yes! *jumps up and down*
🤔🤣👍❣️🇬🇧
innes, a genius. Thanks for everything - keynsham was superb.
ONE OF THE NICEST PEOPLE YOU COULD MEET BLESS YOU MATE j Vincent Edwards love and peace
The beginning is classic : "I've suffered for my music. Now it's your turn." Brilliant !
RIP and Thank you Mr. Innes. You will be missed.
My favorite Neil Innes song ever! RIP, you silly, silly man.
Thanks Mr Innes,for all of it,the Bonzo's, Rutles, monty python etc etc.
I used to play this song in the car loudly , with all the windows down
Great Memories
Neil Innes was a brilliant writer
But, he was the guy who sang to "Sir Robin" in "The Holy Grail", right? I love him. He's a genius.
"I suffer for my music, and now it's your turn". Love it.
You're absolutely right.
So sad to hear of the death of Neil Innes today. Had to listen to this song as it's the one I remember best from Rutland Weekend TV all those years ago. Never been able to listen to Bob Dylan without thinking of "rain on a tin roof..."
And "The Secret Policeman's Ball" where I first heard it! Brilliant Bob Dylan send-up! Particularly the single note played on the harmonica! Probably an audio test pattern parody. Genius!!!
I love this song. Saw Neil Innes in Phoenix back in the 90's. I loved all the songs he did in MP. What a genius
That is just SO funny and SO clever. Does anyone else think that, aside from all the deliberate laugh places Neil Innes went for, there's a great harmonica play in there?
I've just been reading through and enjoying your comments on this. :)
Sorry, I meant to say about the tuning up the guitar stuff at the beginning. Just brilliant. Nowadays everyone seems to rely on their electronic tuning devices to keep themselves in line. There is no reason for guitarists not to just tune by ear even though it saves us from many minutes of the 'tuning drama'. ;)
You either get it or you don't, but for me it sums up that mad Englishness that you see every weekday morning in Hyde Park between seven and half past nine.
It's fairly explicitly Bob Dylan. It's ironic more than earnest.
Neil also played the part of 'Ron Mcnasty; in 'The Rutles' and adapted and scored all the music in that film, as well as singing and playing in it.
I had forgotten all about this song and knew every word once it started.
Listening to Keynsham and remembering Neil and the Bonzos at Bournemouth O2. He will be missed.
Sad to hear we've lost a genius. RIP Neil.
RIP to the great Neil Innes
Bless you, Neil. Thank you.
I remember the first transmission of this in 1975 - doing my A levels, full of anxiety. It was so unexpected that evening on telly - and just so very funny. Thanks for posting, Jimmy - a truly great artist. Wonderful to see Bob Harris. OGWT was part of our lives then.
Who else could have rhymed "mise en bouteille" with "birthday"? Genius.
"Uh, this next number is a protest song." He sounds like he wouldn't protest if you put four million volts through him!
That's soooo funny!!! I wished, there were more ppl like neil innes in the media!!
My Dad had a great sense of humour. He introduced me to tgis is a song.
Here's to you Dad. I hope you're having fun wherever you may be up there.
Anyway, thanks for the memories. 🤗
This man is a genius.
Genius? In the same way Crossroads was a RADA masterclass.
OMG, what perfect parody! I had never heard this song before. I love you even more now Neil!
A very talented person
We really need another.
Surely Innes should have gotten the Nobel price!
Three and sixpence.
Brilliant through and through - and that final clunking into the mike stand at the end was the absolute cherry on the cake. RIP, genius 💓
Simply, Neil at his best. Classic.
Love it! Great memories. Neil Innes is SO underrated.
"i'VE SUFFERED FOR MY MUSIC NOW ITS YOUR TURN"
Effin hilarious Dylan imitation. Love it.
A class act. Funny when I first saw this thirty-something years ago, and even funnier today.
I think I've just been run over by Rosa Parks driving the freedom bus.
I saw Neil do this one live with MPFC at City Center, NYC in 70's. Brilliant!
It's great to see this. I had the LP back in the seventies. Innes does a great John Prine imitation.
I do like the introduction. A classic.
Un amore. I love it. Neil Innes supreme genius and artist parodistic. GREAT!
Neil is such a great musician. I love him!
I haven't heard this in years. I use to have Monty Python Live at the Civic Center I think it was called. I believe it came out in 1976.
No one like Neil
Miss you
fab, thanks Neil.
Nobel prize material.
gets the dylan harmonica perfectly
All the best Neil RIP.
Dat mouth organ sounds so brill I´m SHREDDIN tears .
RIP Neil. :'(
"Turn on your headlights, and sound your horn," (Beep beep on the harmonica).
I knew it would happen. I went into a panic attack as soon as he started playing that Mouth Organ.
Brilliant.
My favorite of his was Twyfords Vitromant (the name on my toilet). RIP Neil
Actually, judging by the stage set, this isn't RWTV - it's the BBC's "Old Grey Whistle Test".
+James Fnordner Oh - i didn't read the "About". Oops.
@poptartjen
It's even better on the "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" performance. here he doesn't get the pause quite as well as he does on the album
So talented and funny.
RIP Neil!
This is from Monty Python's City Center performance album from the mid 1970s.
From Rutland Weekend Television.
The bonzo's to do 2017 Euro Vision for RUK please!
my god, i have never seen that before. brilliant!
What I find so interesting about Neil Innes' stuff is that he's not a comedian but that he's a warped mirror. He's a fine musician and gifted lyricist, but his "parodies" aren't so much "funny" as "true".
That said: I, of course, busted a gut at 2:46. :D
RIP Neil :-(
I love him
Well, he was in the Holy Grail. And yes mainly live shows. And the Concert For George. So he's an honorary member.
RIP Neil Innes. See you in Shangri-La, man x
Yeah, but most Python fans and Eric Idle and other Python members consider Innes to be the 7th (or 8th if you count Carol Cleveland) Python.
Yes indeed, one and the same, and he's Monty Python's singing minstrel and Ron Nasty of the Rutles too.
2:44 cracks me up. My favourite RUclips upload ever - thanks for posting.
Dylan stole it all from innes
Nigel Tufnel is of course the loudest guitar player in history, but this guy must be the loudest harmonica player.
Not a total Bob Dylan spoof. It's inspired by a John Prine performance of "Dear Abby" on the old grey whistle test, 1973. (on youtube, ), with a nod towards Dylans harmonica and lyrical style.
bloody brilliant...
Wonderful!
i haev the rutland weekend lp,thought it was great.
RIP😢
2:01 LOL. oh sweet neil, he is such a genious! a´talanted singer and songwriter who is not afraid to make fun of himself and everyone else.
This always KILLS me!
Waaaahhhahahaha...the harp!!!! OMG *screeeeaaaaam* :-D
This was good too.
Can this be forgotten? He nailed n
Absolutely Fab
neil is the man!!!comical?genius?BOTH!!!???
Genius vx