Favourite Old Grey Whistle Test Performance.

Philtre

And don't forget the classic Tubes with White Punks on Dope:

57Deluxe

This is difficult to answer cos is a blurring to what I remember ACTUALLY seeing on the original night of broadcast and what I may have seen on later docu/repeats/online.

I never saw Bowie or Roxy first time and they would be it, but at the time I was avid mad for any episode where I would be able to see someone I liked and how they played the songs/gear etc as TOTP was never a guide here.

So - would be all of early BeBop Deluxe and most deffo The Stranglers although there seems to be no online footage I can find.

Nils Lofgren too firm;y springs to mind cos I wanted to see how he played solos in Kieth Don't Go and Back It tUp as I had just got my Strat then and loved his tone and these great songs.

I used OGWT pretty much as I use YT now - that and live gigs and NME/MM were the order of the day for us then!

The new Strat would have been on my lap to watch this!

fob

proggy

Chuffola said:

This has got to be up there for me - Little Feat at their imperious best

That's my favourite too, best band and performance I've ever seen on the Whistle Test.

57Deluxe

/\ best documented live use of a then new Pignose used as a preamp!

JezWynd

EricTheWeary said:

Bob was on breakfast telly this morning and there were a few seconds of him interviewing an extremely rough looking Keith Richards, so maybe that. 

Couldn't have been as disasterous as the Kossof interview with a Road Manager helpfully on hand to decipher Paul's mumblings. (iirc)

west

 

jack bruce 81 clem clemson david Sancious billy cobham

west

Red jump suit lol so 80's ...

west

Philtre said:

Not a Meat Loaf fan but this was...memorable:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

This ^   i was SO enamered by bob kulicks Bc rich mocking bird ( at the time obvs )  i bought 2 ... 87992 and 87993 ... i bought the first in that music shop in roath /cardiff who were the only uk dealer  for a grand and traded in my randy rhodes 1979 les paul custom for £400 quid  what a twat ;( but lol , and about a year later one second hand from a lad in sheffield for £500 i think ... i played the marque ( the real one in wardour st )  the following week and my guitar tech said have you looked at the serial numbers and low and behold consecutive serial numbers a great gig ensuded and i got my cock sucked after ... which was nice ...

p90fool

Some crackers in this thread I'd forgotten about, I'd have Wis'd everyone if I could be arsed! 
Here's another memorable one....

ourmaninthenorth

https://youtu.be/MZ2DdrTPY58

https://youtu.be/9ARTgy5V4MI

https://youtu.be/y5DW1LuFGjs

Remember those cartoons they used to do on the New Years Eve specials..?

https://youtu.be/yK0jmWG-5_Y

Fretwired

DarnWeight said:

When I think of this song, I immediately think of this performance of it...



"That'll do"

Really really love the Feelgood's "Roxette", and Talking Heads doing "Psycho Killer" too.

I love that PiL performance .. I saw it broadcast.

equalsql

My faves..

Ry Cooder 



Bonnie Raitt



And finally the quite brilliant Terry Reid

scrumhalf

This one is quite brilliant.

axisus

So much greatness in this thread! Can we send a link to Jools Holland? It might help to spruce up his shiny yet facile show.

boogieman

This: https://youtu.be/UOB9pt9UKNc

Plus lots of good stuff already mentioned. Little Feat and Focus have to be up there, Edgar Winter doing Frankenstein too. 

Deadman

Some great shouts on here. I particularly love the Roxy Music and Robert Wyatt suggestions. Can't find Tubeway Army's Are friends electric vid out there but I love that too. Apologies for putting Bono on here but this left a lasting impression on me when I watched it (on its first airing). I was 10 and thought it was amazing music:

IvisonGuitars

Stevie all the way for me...

ourmaninthenorth

Here you go Neil....

https://youtu.be/CBOZVYTIBZU

Freebird