Busking band plays Stairway to Heaven at Oxford Circus, London under the Xmas lights (20 Dec 2018).
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- I was doing my Xmas shopping down Oxford Street (London) on Thursday night (20th Dec 2018), when I was stopped by the awesome playing of this three-piece rock band, busking at Oxford Circus late in the evening; they created a super atmosphere and played many songs, I caught parts of Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven; the solo at 2:12 particularly impressed me - I always dreamed what the solo could sound like if Page had made it longer on record (not found in any of the great man's live versions alas), this chap seems to have incredibly made that happen (it has that melodic continuity and verve) - more surprisingly as it was bitterly cold, so much that the bassist wore gloves, so the speed and agility of the lead guitarist's work was even more impressive. There's nothing quite as inspiring as a Gibson Les Paul screaming into the cold night air; the recording does not do justice to this very powerful live performance.
I was truly astounded, like me many stopped to watch them (to my sides) while others carried on with their hectic Xmas shopping; I must've watched them for half an hour; I recorded this clip on my Samsung smartphone, which gave a fair recording, I must say. I didn't get the band's name so if anyone knows them (or watched it too) do please comment below so we can give them their due recognition ... anyway, thank you lads, you helped warm and cheer up a chilly but magical night for me, and others lucky enough to catch this fantastic performance - rock on!
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No copyright of song or band material, uploaded purely for entertainment sake - no monies earned or sought, purely a freebie upload. Love & Peace, MrSq. xx (21/12/18 London, UK).
Filming & video copyight: Mr Squooze, Lon.
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Can we just appreciate how the bassist is playing with gloves on
Haha
Dont see why people are being so negative about this, personally I think you lads did a class job. Keep up the good work 🙏🏾
Anyone who will bear their musical soul/talent to the masses and isn't appreciated for giving it their best shot has absolutely nothing to regret! BRAVO!
@Hal Newell... bearing you soul is one thing ... and I would tend to agree with you!! I have been in this crazy biz we call "music" for over 40 years and have worked on every level... both on the stage in a professional touring act as an opener for many very serious national acts, as well as being a live sound engineer at the F.O.H./MON. WORLD/ level
and a studio engineer as well with an ASC (college University in Greenwich Village, NYC... The only!) and pretty much recorded just about every genre of music in the rainbow!!
HOWEVER...... I have watched several of these guys videos on Y.T., occasionally they nail it and it also looks like they have "interchangeable parts" in this band... Soooo, what I am trying to say is, rehearsal is the place to work ALL the bugs out including EVERYONE'S audio levels and seeing as how they play at this location on a fairly regular basis, they all should know where to be to have it sound the very best they can!!!
In this business...... YOU ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOUR LAST PERFORMANCE AND... AND IN THE MOMENT, what I mean by that is, if by chance a major label "anyone" (producer/studio owner/engineer/tape operator/intern ...... A club or venue owner...OR a professional musician incognito or even Me... hears the one song where you just butcher it to hell and gone... and not all polished and tight ...... stick a fork in them, they are done!! AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN THE NEXT UNDISCOVERED ACT until that moment...... had they shined like highly polished chrome on a Sunny, blue sky day!! FACT!!!!!!!!
So when I critique a band, it is from the heart... good or bad, I don't blow smoke up someone's arse...... I just call it like I see it!!!!!!! Because if everyone tells them "they are great," "they really put their heart and soul into it," "it takes a lot to get up there in public" well, I am not trying to be sarcastic, BUT that is what we as musicians do and in front of of tens of thousands, and just do that shit with the volume of your guitar yo-yoing and they won't have mean old BK saying they didn't sound good...... oh no, no, no.... it's much worse, the crowd starts throwing shit up on stage.... bottles, feces, vomit, spit, piss, lighters, shoes, sneakers, fireworks, for Christ's sake even humans get thrown up on stage and what ever the hell else they can get their hands on ... ya know to get a point across!!!!!!! So in retrospect I am being nice by being honest and only throwing "words" at them... ya dig!?!? I hope they get to the top of the R-n-R heap one day or wherever they want, just do it and expect constructive feedback, and sometimes the honest feedback is the harshest of feedback!!! But it's the stuff that generally motivates people to get better, like way better to shut down the hardest of criticism and to say... neener, neener-boo, boo we don't suck any more (at least regarding my feedback to them!!) and look at us shine with our new recording contract or Our date book filled, ETC.!!
ANYWAY, KEEP ON KEEPING ON GENTLEMEN!!!!
PEACE 🤘
Wow!
This was most excellent version. Haters are gonna hate. They always show what sad little people they are with their comments. Keep on busking guys.
Man who comes up to the guitarist at the end...
“CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE THE APPLE STORE IS?”
And she's buying a stairway to heaven in Oxford Street...
London is an amazing city, beautiful at Christmas, loved being there
Dear Steve Burk: The heartland of British spirit: The capital of my soul, being bred and reared there in my impressionable years as a youth. Even the cracks, crevices and culture of everyday life away from the tourists' vicinage, proved worthy of residing there. Enthusiasm drained when I was expatriated (not voluntarily) to a superpower -- which ran me down with its people's psychological war machine.
That's heavy, man! Cheers!
im an ex disc jocky and i had a retail music shop....selling records.....please folks, just enjoy whatever any person offers....but dont give horrible crits......may Peace Be Upon You as Jesus Said....and I happen to be a Muslim with the same greeting.....may you all go in Peace! i enjoy any musician
Rashid Abass: How was your DJing in Pakistan, was it good?
One of music's GREATEST!!!! classics & these musicians play it like it should be played. with PASSION!!!! & NO boring IMBECILE!!! saying NO!!! stairway played here. It's a song to hear & to be enjoyed wherever it is played or performed. 👍😉
It must be something to be one of the members of Led Zeppelin and have people play your songs all over the world, and especially in the heart of the city that you are from. Jimmy lives only a few miles from there.
Well one or two negative comments there, if that was me playing any of those three instruments l would be extremely proud, well done lads cracking playing as for those doubting your playing, well it's easy for a dreamer to type anything in to a keyboard.
To Colin M: I agree with your comment. Well done. I also like your last sentence, proving the lack of character and masculinity by the envious, being an anonymous keyboard warrior devoid of spunk.
I'm investing in a Stannah Stairlift To Heaven. Apparently I'm not certain to reach the aforementioned destination until I've settled the bill in full
Hilarious!!!! Lol.
nice corner... I fall in love when I visited London in august....
Federico Gallo: I fell in love when I had returned to visit London on a few occasions since leaving the home of my training and rearing during my long impressionable years. ------------------------------ There is something in the air which plumes enthusiasm and intrigue, while NYC's purveying pungent *pollution, permeating* to where jadedness just generates a jagged mind!
They have been outside London Bridge station thursday and fridays since July. They seem to do exclusively classic rock... Born to Be Wild, Hotel California and tonight saw them doing More Than A Feeling - the reason I went on youtube in the first place was to see who they are
Excellent rendition of a classic......
Outstanding
Abaolutely amazing
why not simply enjoy whatever offering by any artist.......im an ex disc jockey and a difference should be appreciated guys....come on????
Very Good
I love the little Breakbeats drums
It's really nice and the guitar sounds pretty.~^^
Not bad at all. Great street entertainment shows why London is the best..."Stairway to the Tube".
Jimi page who lives in London could so easily have been doing his Christmas shopping that night 🙂
Voice Voice must with his very young girl friend.
Can't wait for the Muse cover complete with droids and light show!
Hell yeah this drummer nailed it
Spencer Kragseth LOST IT SEVERAL TIMES.
Then you have ZERO appreciation for Bonham's talent...
Great music and now I know what busker means
Robert Peters: I wish many would know what buskers go through. It is hard work, with little glamour, without the agents to lift them higher in the field.
You're good!!!
Band the best !
Given my name, I'm all the drums
This is cool ass lilminiature set up.
I think is cat streets I see yesterday in Vauxhall is amazing
Is The street Cats.
Lale
This place is Miguel Montalban's.Who permits others here?
Check out a couple more amazing buskers- Miguel Montalban ( I think he plays here also) and further amazing polish guy Mariucz Goli.. Both have albums you can buy on their web page. Both guitarists
the ones comeing out from underground to listen to Heaven bita Zeppelin,while the ones going underground going to Hell AcDc buskers downstairs ha'
If you're going underground......surely you're listening to The Jam?
Yall need a singer 👍
England do the best buskers in the world 😂👌
But I think these guys are from Europe! TBC ....
SO TRUE haha ENGLAND ROCKS
should have played "high way to hell" with all the pedestrians going down the subway.
oh yeah, especially in cess pit London. What about Chris Rea - the road to hell?
LOL!!! :-) Funniest thing I've heard all day!
Nah man, London is beautiful, esp at Xmas.
God there a bit bloody good aren’t they?.
로버트플랜트의 칼칼한 목소리
지미 페이지의 현란한 기타연주
존보넴의 다이나믹한 드럼
베이시스트가 존폴존스 던가?
기억이 가물가물하네요.
레드 제플린..
Please send translation in English! I'm in the UK.
He wrote name of zeppeline members
i don't know wha 'you said, but i agree
NOOOOO STAIIIIRWAAAAAY!!!!!!
Haha! Rock on Wayne!!
Street Cats.
Play Cold As ICE
Where's the vocals? 🤔
damn man!!...i'm late again!!
No vox, Green Manalishi. Cheers.
Not a hard solo ; Am pentatonic; Don't forget the "F" on the first scale run at the end on the 5th string
WileECoyotey YOU TELL EM --- KEEP EM IN LINE WILE. GET ON TO EM ABOUT THOSE DRUMS BEING OFF TIMING AND CYMBAL EMPHASIZES USED INCORRECT OFF THE ROLL.
What a bell end. Where's your video of you playing this with your band Wile? Yeah, exactly, shit the fcuk up!
NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN MAN!
Wayne's World!!
No Stairway denied
The 'No stairway to heaven'
Statement is so cliché 😄
Jesus... this one went to hell in a hand basket in about five seconds after the gtr player started the solo!! It sounded really good( trust me, or I would tell you if it sounded like a whale fart in a wind tunnel...)until he started upping his volume and mucking with the foot pedals!! Sometimes it is better to just stay in the pocket and leave "good enough" alone!! But worrying about your own place in the overall sound caused the entire song to fail...... and miserably at that!
ANYWAY, KEEP ON KEEPING ON GENTLEMEN!!
PEACE 🤘
Yup.
To bk Schyster: I beg to differ regarding adjusting his instrument. They are busking in the street, not Abbey Road Studios. Situations change: cars are moving, there are different types of vehicles, speeds and engine sounds; people are in different moods expressing themselves audibly and affecting the sound. He is in different segments of the piece where volume and synthetics need to be adjusted according to the spirit and style of the music.
@@eddyvideostar I am not any the lad can't play, and yes there are certainly "street sounds" however after going back and listen to this for the 22nd time ( with the last two being pushed through my McIntosh 275 system ...... yeah, I know we are not at #3 Abbey Road... but I want to give the benefit of the doubt... ya, man!) and really listened and not a lot of street noise was apparent in the mix and I have to trust that no board was used to mix the final sound. He was, still even in the dynamical sense of sound, louder than the rest of the lads... REMEMBER, I did say that it didn't sound bad until he either lost timbre from being too loud, or direction from concentrating too much on his spacial placement in the composition. In short something happened to cause him to try a compensation adjustment that led (all puns intended...)him to wallow a bit through his solo, which in turn detracted from the overall final quality of the song...... You must remember... a musician is almost always directly rated on his last performance and should always strive to be as perfect as possible... street band or studio stars, the end result is ALWAYS judged!!
To:@@TheRealBKSchyster To Bk Schyster: I applaud you on your extensive experience and credentials. There is no harm in believing you; though, my intrigue mounts regarding your *obsession* for this band of reduced talent, who is busking in the streets valiantly for a couple of bucks. *practicing, growing and experimenting.* Why would a person of your caliber put so much effort into listening so many times to the point of many questioning your mental state? You write a long comment of pedantic particulars and punctiliousness as if with every breath they take, they are endangering the aspect of losing out on a great contract by being snubbed by high-class promoters.
@@eddyvideostarThank you for any compliments , AND I can assure you that my mental health is quite sound! Are you a musician your self, do you play an instrument? I have devoted my lifetime to the art of music, spent many hours a day in the pursuit of musical perfection and I was always judged, at first by my parents, then my friends, also by those colleagues that I studied with. As time passes, my teachers became more critical and this all drove me to excel beyond the expectations of those who pushed me the hardest. The fruits of my labor eventually paid off in dividends that far exceeded my own expectations!
So at times I can be critical of others, but I never forget that they are putting every effort forward to be the best they can be! And ask any hard working musician or band if they want a contract with a major or any label for that matter, and I assure you the response would be a resounding YEAH MAN, YES SIR, LET'S SIGN UP, and after all why learn how to play an instrument just to play for your kid sister's doll collection. No it's to play in front of a crowd of people 100 or 100,000, the number matters only when you raise your expectations of success. Also if you were to know the number of those "recognized" and where they were playing at the time, it would astonish you, and to know that if the question were posed to the one who said... "these guys rock, let's sign them up" why or what was the factor that made you stop before going into the subway station, I will bet the answer would be based on talent! I mean when was the last time you heard of or saw with your own eyes someone recognized because they were playing horribly or "wallowing" through a solo? Remember, I did say they sounded really good and only until the guitar player hit the lead ( even though they had ad-libbed the entire song to fit their needs)did the bands SOUND become out of control and swimming for dry safe land! Ultimately I was giving constructive criticism, which in itself is meant to encourage that guitar player and his band to always strive for your best performance, which at the time was not his best and I will almost guarantee that if you were to ask him, he would agree. Because you never know who is listening and how they could change a bands life and in the blink of the eye for that matter!
the rythm from slow to speed ...
Is there in England ?
陳先生 yes, this is England
in London, see notes. Cheers!
Central London and freezing cold in England as always ;o)
Thanks a lot bro,such a beautiful city with double deck bus,I remember seeing this city in a pet shop boy's Eastern boy and western girl music video before.
Butchered very badly in guitar center if you play this your band for life when i left i had two sign a consent form allowing them two play the video they made of me playing it note for note beat for beat step for step
Thats not true at all. I have heard it played countless times there
I guess when you cover the greatest tune ever, you want to make it your own, but the intro sucks.
Don't criticize just appreciate live music when you see it.
@@johnwhite2438 Would happen to be kin to Jack
Dude messing with his amp for no reason every two seconds is hilarious.
AND HOW!!! You know how I feel about it!!!
@@TheRealBKSchyster To Bk Schyster: Please send us a link to your polished videos. Share your talent with us. Give us joy instead of grief.
Cold, stiff fingers and all. If men and women are all the same, how come you don't see a female band out there playing for money?
why do you comment like this?
@@shootfirst2097 you moron
@@alankernaghan7623 Thank you very much, Alan. Well done.
I can hear the butchering but can't see any meat!
guitar way off man.....
The artist is playing his own rendition . And he’s playing beautiful
Geschnitten
Schnauze
Some groups shold not be covered. They are sacared.
Then we'd never get to hear a gutsy live version, for future generations and in the street for free - that's quite limiting. As Blake wrote in Eternity:
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.
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they are scared or sacred???
Dial in dude.. Reaching for the amp WAY to many times in this Classic Song disrespectful...
But it is outdoors in freezing conditions and they are buskers, not Led Zep. It felt good live, to me.
Did you ever watch The Song Remains .. Page is forever twiddling his amps and fx boxes! It's live action, warts and all.
What was with this? So wrong. Even sped up the tempo in the solo out of nowhere. This sucks.
very bad,original is something completely diferent