T. Rex- Get It On (Bang a Gong) REACTION & REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
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The quip about Wakeman picking up royalties is actually very accurate. Rick told Marc that his gas would be cut off if he didn’t pay his bill. Bolan told him to come to the studio. Rick asked what Marc wanted. Just do the sweep down the keys. Rick did it. Thanks very much said Marc, and that was that. Rick picked up his session fee and paid his gas bill.
Btw, next you should do Jeepster 👍
😅 Maybe after rip-off from Cat Stevens he smartened up a bit. lol - p,s, Cat probably didn't rip Rick off, but the records execs did? Anyway, times were different back them.
From the UK here, T Rex is something of a legend, Marc unfortunately died young in a car accident so on one hand his career was cut short, on another, his legacy untarnished (unlike some others). But shortly before his death he was championing acts like The Damned, Hawkwind and other underground bands and so a new wave flavoured resurgence in popularity was definitely a possibility.
Extremely proficient at the rockin boogie, he pumped out great song after song. But also the song on this album Cosmic Dancer shows that he could reach beauty as well.
“You got a hubcap diamond star halo.” Immortal line.
"I got a Rolls - Royce, because it's good to my voice", from "Children Of The Revolution".
Elton joined T-Rex on the Top of the Pops performance of this song.
"Meanwhile I'm still thinking"!
Direct nod to Chuck Berry there.
When the Rolling Stones "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" was on the radio in 1974, I remember thinking that the main guitar riff sound was similar to this song.
The expression 'It's a vibe' was made for songs like this.
Power station w Robert Palmer has a great cover of this, but nothing beats the original. Loved it as a kid many years ago.
One of the greatest songs to ever play the drums to in a live setting . A masterpiece .
The words do not exist to describe how fans of Tyrannosaurus Rex felt when they first heard this on the radio. If they did I don't think RUclips would allow them to stay up for very long.
OK. So Marc Bolan is a legend, more here in the UK, unfortunately he didn't 'crack ' the USA, as they say. There is more to this pixie poet than this song suggests. He started as a duo, namely, Tyrannosaurus Rex, later shortened to T.Rex. The former was acoustic based eventually moving into electric and then becoming a four piece band. His early acoustic stuff is great. But if you're looking for Marc's guitar playing skills, check out the track, "Midnight ". Or the classic, "Elemental Child", from the earlier era. So much to say about this man, poet, groover, songwriter and underrated guitarist !. But I'll be here all day! BTW, Wakeman was financially challenged at the time so Marc got him the session to help him out. Cool dude.😊 🎸
" Meanwhile I was still thinking" the last lyric of the song is from a Chuck Berry song, "Little Queenie", which at the time of this recording was recorded by The Rolling Stones.
Electric Warrior to me is hands down one of the best albums ever recorded. In the guitar you can also hear the influence of the band's previous incarnation as Tyrannosaurus Rex which was more folk-inspired.
Marc Bolan was such a legend and contributor to rock as a genre. There was a resurgence of glam rock in the 2000s in Europe, and I don't even want to imagine my highchool years without it. The US was really missing out on Glam and Prog!
I came here to say the same. Electric Warrior is a somewhat neglected masterpiece
Nobody is gonna argue with a classic.
Love T Rex. Marc Bolan was such a star. Great songs, great voice, great musical personality all round. Thanks for the video and review. 😎😎
Thank YOU twiggly :)
Absolute genius of a song. Clever lyrics.
Have a listen to 20th Century Boy. Has a really raw punky sound.
This might be one of the only songs where really like the redone by the power station rather than the original. It's just kicks so much booty!
Can't beat the music of the 70's.
Personally i believe the 60's does.
To think this was the kids music of the day...." little rockers".....glad i was a kid at the time....great stuff👏👏👏
2:44 It is incredible to think this (and Roxy and Bowie and later Soft Cell or The Smiths) were actually mainstream and young audiences loved it… impossible by today’s idiotic standards.
@@p.m.8666 agree 💯 %
There's a really great strut to the music on this one. Bolan's guitar is fantastic and the sultry singing is just perfect. Glam rock at its finest. What a talent Marc was.
A strut indeed Jeremy!
It's wild how this is the one song that lives in the public consciousness in America when every song on this album is a stone cold ten outta ten.
Hi JP. DP from UK. The epitome of feel-good 70s glam rock. Seeing T Rex and other flamboyant artists performing their hits on the UK TV show Top of The Pops was a Thursday evening tradition for so many of us. So Long Ago (but) So Clear! (that's Vangelis, not Wakeman!)
Agree 💯 %😊
The song of 1971. It was everywhere.
"You're built like a car..." - "You're just a Jeepster for my love."
Marc Bolan is a legend. R.I.P.
Classic rock song. Bass is awesome.
1971 as a 7 year old in front of TV with TOTP on, strumming my tennis racket, Yeah Baby
I was never a great T Rex fan but I do like this one.
One of my favorite songs, probably on my first or second or third etc., mixtape recorded on my cheap cassette recorder off the AM radio stations. I took those tapes with me when we moved across the country, it kept me sane, relatively. It’s been on several mixes since, CD, streaming, mind tablets…
Power Station’s version is good too.
@Paul-Martin_67
Sun, actually, it’s an old pen and ink thing. I was looking for anything circular I could use for my avatar but I’m running out, so there might be details of doodles, medium and larger works of watercolor, ink, acrylics older oils. Just goofing.
The reason it was renamed in the US was because another song called Get It On by Chase was already on the charts. That one is also worth a listen. It's a great horn rocker in the vein of Chicago or Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Bill Chase the lead screech trumpet. Livin In Heat was another one of theirs.
Wow! I haven't heard this song in quite a while. It's a good tune and was a hit if I recall. Brings back memories.
My older brother loved them-The Hits like this^ -but I wasn't so enamored at 1st. After a couple of yrs came to love those. Often time opens up vistas. I'm amazed that you JP can home in on it merits, & meaning, on one listen from de3cades away. - In my defense was still in my teens, & a lot of super music was coming out of the radio, but still.
Proper chart-topper.
One of great bands of all time great music live high power music
Also provided a hit for 80's supergroup / side project Power Station.
The original glam rocker and just oozed style. David Bowie has a song about him that's just gorgeous called Lady Stardust.
Marc Bolan was the epitome of Glam Rock, along with Bowie and Roxy Music / Eno.
T. Rex is all about the beat and the feel. The lyrics are often so obscure as to seem meaningless and just for their sound - but the groove is great. Catchy boogie. And you're right, Marc had a ton of sex appeal - something of a Pan-like figure. And he bridged the gap between the hippies of the late 60s and the glam rockers of the 70s better than just about anyone. You want feel-good music? Put on some T. Rex.
The only surviving member of the original T.Rex is the drummer Bill Legend, he now lives in the USA in the Rocky Mountains.
This will probably get me flamed, but it's my opinion so, so be it. Marc had a huge stage presence. He drew audiences' eyes like a magnet does iron. He became, during his short professional life, one of the greatest influences for the Glam Rock scene. That said, there was a whole lot more style than substance to T Rex. Despite the amazing, eclectic imagery in the lyrics that made each song stand out as a total work of art, the actual lyrics were a simple, repetitive agglomeration of literary and cultural references on a college Freshman level. Also, the short, punchy, made-for-radio length of the songs always left me longing for an extended jam of every song. What made T Rex work was always Marc, himself--his stage presence, the fact that he actually could play guitar well, and the image he projected. Watching him in live recordings was awesome, yet tinged with a growing awareness that he was very much a diva. He looked happiest in the recordings when he was the center of attention. He, according to rumor, famously fired band members who started to show him up. And the strict radio-play song lengths never gave him the chance to shine as brightly as he could have if he'd just cut loose once in a while. I think "Ballrooms Of Mars" might just be his best song because he DID let himself cut loose a bit more than he usually did on the albums. Also, it showed that he could compose more nuanced lyrics while at the same time fitting into his established groove. To be clear, I don't dislike Marc or T Rex, I just wish he'd lived long enough to reach his full potential. --Dan
An absolute classic to be played through your Meze 99 Classics, they're great headphones. I have a gold pair. Marc Bolan was my 1st crush as a teenage girl and I still play T.Rex's music today.
This is a legendary hit from the 70s
In case you think the intro sounds familiar Oasis lifted it to use on their track Cigarettes and Alcohol.
Marc Bolan loved it up the back!
Fun fact Marc Bolan played guitar on David Bowies track The Prettiest Star
Good trivia! The version most people know, on the Ziggy Stardust album, was played by Mick Ronson.
@simonspeak9288 Indeed Mick Ronsons was certainly the better known version
This cheered me up, on a wet grey day. Good memories.
A well crafted piece of rock and roll, deceptively so: there's a lot of little variations going on that keep it interesting. Very Chuck Berry influenced.
This comes from the time when I was just becoming aware of popular music, so all those mid-period T-Rex hits have memories for me.
I was in junior high school (the awful name "middle school" didn't exist yet) when "Bang a Gong" hit the charts. When I started high school and got a bigger allowance, the only T. Rex album I could find was their then-latest one, The Slider, on cassette with a cover photo by Ringo Starr of Marc Bolan wearing a cooking pot as a hat. Try reacting to the title song or really anything from it. And thanks for hearing the whole song before reviewing it.
For decades this was the only song I'd heard from T-Rex. Now I've heard others, but this is still the only song by them I can name. Good review. It's a fun song, but not a standout.
Great dance tune
Such a great song. So nasty!
I like T-REX but L❤VE Tyanosaurus Rex 👌
More hooks than a fishing tackle box.
First 45 I went out and bought with my hard earned allowance, check out the B side.
The whole _Electric_ _Warrior_ album is a classic and worth a listen.
The line “built like a car “ back then cars especially muscle cars had beautiful lines and sexy engines the rumble of a good souped engine is still one of the sexiest sounds in life. As a Rock and Roll Motor Head teenage girl in the 70s , got just what he said. Glam Rock was such a great subversive sound back then, boys being as raw and sexy as they hoped girls or boys or both would be too ☮️
T Rex were hugely important in the development of pop (and particularly glam-rock) in the UK in the early seventies yet I was never much of a fan (I was 12 when it was released. Debora by the earlier Tyrannosaurus Rex version of the band was a favourite though) They did open the doors to bands such as Slade, Sweet and even Gary Glitter (sorry, but I can't rewrite history) which were more to my taste. This was good-time boogie driven pop/rock with - at the time - a modern image and nobody except the very square could truly hate it. Hearing it now, I do feel 12 again, which can never be a bad thing.
… did open the doors…
You know how couples have ‘our tune’? This was my parents tune. It’s what they danced to when they were courting and feeling romantic. When I was a kid they sometimes used to dig out the single and dance to it in the lounge for old times sake, much to my chagrin. No child likes to see their parents getting all soppy and romantic in front of them. But, fair play, if it hadn’t been for this song, they might not have got married and I might not exist!.
Love T Rex
Lovely story Grillo :) Your parents had good taste
This original is great but Power Station's cover of this is awesome
Andy’s ferocious guitar work.
20th Century Boy is the one you want.
Killer guitar and amazing bv's.
IF YOU LIKE THAT THIS ONE IS GOOD TO LISTEN TO IT,power station bang a gong
Was a popular tune. Must have heard it a gazillion times on the radio. I never once stopped to listen to the lyrics. I am now going to let you tell me. :))
Great early 70s single here cool band love you
Not sophisticated but you cannot underestimate the impact of T.Rex and Marc B on glam rock, especially in the UK. Cool dude. One of my favorite concerts was T Rex and the Damned, archetyical punk rockers, on the same bill. The fact that pogo'ing punk fans and teeny glam fans (and a handful of prog rock fans like me!) could groove together at the same gig speaks volumes for the universality of music.
5:40 there's an unwritten rule in great songs - less is more 🙃
Flo and Eddie (aka Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan ) lead singers of Zappa circa 1970 -71 and The Turtles from the 60s sang background chorus vocals on this. Also they're solo artists in their own right, worth hearing.
Still love Keep it Warm from Flo and Eddie
@@MJ1 Yeah! The whole "Moving Targets" albums is memorable and a great listen.
The Turtles are worth a deep dive...
Groovy!
a thing i've noticed is the mic peak in the seventh "get it on"
For what it is, it's hard to fault it. It's the "sound of a time" - one of those little three year epochs we sometimes have. That said, the glam rock songs I tend to sometimes go seek out to listen to don't sound like this. I like something more uncouth and yokelish for some reason. Must be a natural peasant or something. For instance I like the kinds of songs the Sweet wrote to please themselves, and not their bank manager.
Or maybe it's the songs that Chapman and Chinn wrote for their rockier aspects?
I wonder if Chapman and Chinn wrote Get it On. One of the hallmarks of songs from this time is that so many of them are written by just two songwriters (who had the magic formula that led to the beautiful money). There are even Suzi Quatro songs written by them, I think.
In my farmyard, after we've mucked out the pigs we listen to *Mud - Tiger Feet* . Now that's glam! ruclips.net/video/yzp9RRf4dU8/видео.html
If you insist on something more refined, though, I suppose I'd have to go with something more up to date, like *Jon Lajoie's - Pop Song* ruclips.net/video/ijr4rwb2WbE/видео.html
Bolan was a limited but interesting and creative musician. Not as artsy as Bowie, but to me he was the true master of glam rock.
'Electric Warrior' is a classic.
Electric Warrior & The Slider albums were the two Teeny Bopper , Glam albums that made it big time. This musical style was sort of his trademark.
Flo & Eddie on background vocals, two singers from LA’s The Turtles. They also do some great background vocals on Psychedelic Furs’ Love My Way… if you like this you should check out Mott The Hoople’s Roll Away The Stone… the kind of behind the beat guitar riff was a big influence on Knopfler, reportedly… kinda all goes back to Chuck Berry, the girl/car lyrics too…
Music is getting better keep it up 👍
power station get it on bang a gong is a much sexy song
Elerctric Warrior, first Album I bought, but then I discovered Bowie...
I did seek out and get the Album released before E-W, some good stuff on there - but Bowie...
A classic. Nothing fancy. Just well done.
20th Century Boy next, from T. Rex, since you did Jeepster already.
One of the most dirty and sweet songs ever. Pure sex. Epic.
Fun song
Don't stop now. Maybe a touch of 'Mambo Sun' or 'Children of the Revolution' and if you like some sludgy blues, 'The Slider'
Absolutely “Mambo Sun” and “Children of the Revolution”!
Would add “20th Century Boy” and “Hot Love”.
🎉 Nice reaction…now, try-on Robert Palmer & Power Station’s version‼️
Take me, for a meanwhile I'm still thinking.
a reference and nod to Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie"
@@ChasBeauregarde Oh yeah.
He was a glam precursor to Bowie and seemed to be universally attractive. Watch a video or two. A damn shame he died, because he would have been as popular as Elvis or Raymond F. Bigelow Jr. This album was on heavy repeat in my first apartment. "Broken Hearted Blues" was a sweet little song that still goes through my head quite regularly. No idea Wakeman was on this, but I also had Tales of Topographic Oceans there, and Strawbs, because of Rick, and Gryphon, because of Rick, who had a hubcap diamond star halo. Crimson lyricist, Pete Sinfield, great "Still" refers to "Beatles and Bolans" in the lyric. Mott the Hoople in "All the Young Dudes" asks why he would need TV when he's got T. Rex.
I wonder what incredible music we’ve missed out on by Marc dying so young, only 29 .
Try listening to Black Country Rock, Bowie's take on Marc Bolan
finally
Flo & Eddie on backing vocals (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles)!
I never knew that. I remember Flo and Eddie when they would run the weekly music item on Peter Gzowski's 90 minutes Live
Learning all the time…
For those unaware of where the "Flo & Eddie" moniker came from, when they joined the Mothers of Invention, it was still the days when most artists used made-up names when guesting on albums, as they legally couldn't record anything for a label other than their own. Zappa christened them "The Phlorescent Leech and Eddie", which quickly got shortened to Flo & Eddie.
Mark Bolan had some great material, not a huge T Rex fan, but I appreciate them.
I'd be really fascinated to get your reaction to the mid 80s Power Station version of this song. Just saying.
Marc had crazy levels of Charisma, wrote some of the greatest riffs ever.... but was possibly the worst lyricist the world has ever known. Bless him.
But…just like Jimbo Morrison, Bolan was great at nonsensical soundbites. “Hub cap diamond star halo”? Genius!
In The Children of the Revolution, he sings "I've got a Rolls Royce, 'cause it's good for my voice". Which is either pure genius or the dumbest lyric ever, I'm not sure...
@@DrStrangelove3891 Genius!
When it takes about 6 people to write the…ahem…’lyrics’…to a Beyoncé chant, then that’s dumb 🤔
His Surreal lyrics were brilliant.
Cigarettes and Alcohol
Blondie's live show had a rocking unrehearsed version of "Get It On" for their encore -- meanwhile, I was still thinkin" (a call back to "Little Queenie").
ruclips.net/video/ID0AzfA8ehw/видео.html
Now do another Get It On .... by Kingdom Come, a notorious band from the late 80's
jim morrison ... it is not obvious, but i do get what you mean with that.
Take a listen to Elton John's "Levon." Rick Wakeman's on that, too, playing the background organ part. Wakeman was everywhere for a few years there, beginning when he was 16 and playing uncredited sessions because the Royal Conservatory of Music forbade it. He got busted during his last year there and they gave his ass the boot.
Cool. Never knew that
Rick was doing sessions when he was still at what Americans call high school. When he went to the Royal College of Music in 1968, he carried on doing the sessions. He left by mutual agreement and his tutors realised that he had come to the end of what they could teach him . He was such an accurate sight reader and improviser that he was known as one-take Wakeman. Bowie wisely let him do his own thing on Hunky Dory.
Built like a car, have you seen some the desirable cars of that era, Ooohh Curvy sleek and definitely feline 😛
A Chief of the Metropolitan police even said if he saw someone driving in London in a red E-Type jaguar with the top down, he'd have to arrest them for indecent exposure.
Not 'deep' enough to warrant much reaction though I liked it back then. A simple pop-py novelty song.
Unfortunately with the Vietnam War raging, T-rex with the three minute Pop song was just not inline with the mood of the nation.
I think this song is about fucking.
There is no deep meaning to "Bang a Gong" it is simply the fact that Gong rhymes with On. That's it..