Mississippi - It's A Long Way There (LRB song) - 1973
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2022
- Extraordinary archival footage from the Australian national broadcaster (pop/rock show "Get To Know") of the band Mississippi, from which Beeb Birtles, Graham Goble and Derek Pelicci would go on to form the Little River Band, performing what, several years later, would become the debut LRB single. It would also blow out to an 8-minute album epic that remains one of the greatest Australian recordings of all time. This clip appears never to have aired since its initial broadcast in 1973. No internet mention, Mississippi did not record it... were they saving it up? Did they themselves not realise how good it was? Did the broadcaster understand the significance of what they were sitting on? Comments welcome!
Oh man this is GOLD
I was Blessed to work with John Lead vocals here, I arrived from England in 1974 Christmas Day remember Cyclone Tracey ? Anyway John was a Car Spray painter same as me, gave me advice regarding wages etc, told me he was in a band who had a Gold selling Album in 1972 , I thought this blokes having me on ? He said go to the record shop in Clayton Melbourne which I did and there he was on back of Lp , I eventually bought the Lp put thought ok but nothing special opps big mistake here ? I’ve now got the Album on cd which I got from John’s Brother living in Adelaide, he sent me a copy with a song sleeve showing John’s writing of some of the songs ? Excellent as well , when I played it I thought WOW what a Band this is just like Crosby/ Stills/Nash the rest is history, not long after I met Geoff Cox who just came of a tour of the States America remember Drummer Derick damaged his hands ? He replaced him, such memories, got lots more also Re - The Hollies Allan Clarke- Graham Nash grew up with them 2 🏴🇦🇺👍😀❤🙏
John Mower (vocals), Graeham Goble (guitar), Beeb Birtles (guitar), Russ Johnson (lead guitar), Derek Pellici (drums), Colin Deluca (bass)
John Mower my big brother.
Wow now I can see where LRB developed from!
I miss you bruv's your always with me in my heart.
Omg the early days of those beautiful harmonies and guitar work already obvious 🙏
Great find
The original. Still a good version
love it
Wow
Their best track by a long way
I wouldn't say that. Days On The Road I'd rank equal to it as well as The Night Owl. However the one song that l.r.b. will probably be best remembered for is Reminiscing. It was a touch boring but it's the best that Glenn Shorrock has ever sung. He was actually English born although you'd never know it from his singing.
It's a long way there was their most technical song and longest . Such a classic
Kind of similar to the yardbirds/led zeppelin situation where dazed and confused was played by the yardbirds with Jimmy page who went onto form led zeppelin one band emerging into another band it worked well In both situations
Pretty much identical; except for Glen in LRB version.
And....except for Rick Formosa....
Umn, it wasn't lrb's debut single... Curiously Killed The Cat was in 1975 followed by Emma in 1976 and then It's A Long Way There.
this is great, but LRB is more punchy especially with Ric playing guitar
mutton chops pelicci
It’s half of LRB already. Where did you find this?
It's unbelievable isn't it. Rage played it with no fanfare at all. I wrote to Graeham Goble about it, he had it already but told me some interesting things about it. They used it when they were auditioning singers for LRB. And on stage Mississippi would often do 18 minute versions of it. He said that it kind of wrote itself over time, through improvising on stage and keeping the bits they liked.
@@peteb1206 I’d pay real money to see the classic lineup one more time.
@@Sozjot of LRB? It's never going to happen. The three guys who created the vocal sound, Glenn Shorrock, Graeham Goble and Beeb Birtles, have been frozen out of the band. The three formed their own group for an album and tour quite some years ago now, but it didn't get the attention it deserved. They are legally not allowed to use the names Little River Band or LRB, even though they created the band. The current version of the group fronted by Wayne Nelson which fairly regularly tours the US I'm sure puts on an entertaining show, but if they ever tried to tour Australia under the name LRB there would be outrage.
Imagine how great L.R.B. would have sounded if both Shorrock and Farnham, were with the original lineup.
Two big egos together in bands very rarely works. And lets face it to be the front man in a great ground breaking band you need to have one!@@murrayleewilson0755