Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live at The Old Grey Whistle Test 1973 / BBC Studios
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2017
- Bob Marley & The Wailers performing at The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1973. The songs are 'Stir it up' and 'Concrete jungle'. A legendary live studio performance. It was their first trip to the UK.
Amezing very beautiful
The best live performance of any band, absolute perfection
@YellowOnline 'exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally' definition of hyperbole. No YellowOnLine that's your opinion but I do mean it literally and I those are my opinions
almost as if it's lip-synced. oh wait.. it is lip-synced
It's lipsynched
Best reggae line-up EVER! Needless to say is the best Wailers formation as well...
😊
You can see and feel that they're all absolutely feeling the music they sing and play. Incomparable. Absolutely fantasitic. There can be no other reggae band like the original Bob Marley & The Wailers.
Concrete Jungle a timeless masterpiece
...and my ALL TIME favourite reggae tune....
Bob Harris tells the story about this day. They had a major problem as they smoked so much weed all day that when they came to film this the cameramen had red streaming eyes and could barely see what they were filming :)
Imagine that hahaha
OUI LES MEILLEURS MUSICIENS DE TOUS LES TEMPS ❤
Bunny Wailer 🕊 together again with Bob & Peter. R.I.P.
Can't get better than this absolute quality at the peak of their powers
Can you imagine being in that studio...
Exactly.
Brilliant performance. Spotless
With Bob Harris on the BBC grey whistle test
No music effects me in a similar way to this....it’s beyond words
As I'm listening to this, I'm thinking, this is the music that came from a little rock! Incredible.
🎉❤ 1973.. salute to all born that yr in uk
Salut ! I arrived June - smack bang in the middle of the concrete jungle.
@@gooders7366 🔥 I born in Feb like bob lol there's a day between us, obviously he born before I , also ♒ and we in the age of Aquarius 🔥 .all Wats in the dark is coming to life in the world 🌍
.for sure
no sun will shine in my day today
Lets not forget the great work from the studio engineer .....whomever they were .... if he hadn't got the reverb "spot on" its a totally different vibe .... Thanks for the posting & info Ronald. This be my highest rated LIVE VIDEO Marley clip. !
(It's "spot on" because they're miming to the actual album cuts)
@@analogikahamburg pretty sure the vocal tracks are live.
@@djendick yep, just the vocals, though. FINALLY got around to actually creating a direct comparison:
ua-cam.com/video/iH9_MGJZEeY/v-deo.html
I remember the first time I heard Reggae music. I liked the bass right away from the start but the rhythm I didn’t understand at first. I knew I’d exotic and different but had no idea how versatile that rhythm could get. Faster it was Ska music and related to Ska a lot easier because it was faster than Reggae’s slower grooves. But I eventually got it and realized this was exciting new music of a kind I never heard before. Now I love both Reggae and Ska equally!
Bob Marley is the King of Reggae. But Jimmy Cliff came out first in the early Seventies and was the first Reggae star I remember seeing!
RIP Bob Marley and Peter Tosh 💐
This union could have never been by chance!....jah works🔥
So unique. Bob was one of a kind.
Oh Lawd Almighty. This is sublimity beyond comprehension.
pure magic
bob marley, peter tosh and bunny wailer, beautiful 💚
This is a winner, no doubt!
Beyond words. I and I feel cool now!
crazy to think before he was famous he worked in a Chrysler Assembly Plant in Newark, Deleware.
and he made song about it , which is my favorite .....
This was it!
Nicest version of Concrete Jungle that I am aware of (second half of the video)
just perfect! PERFECT!
Kevin Githongo Thank you. I found the original footage and edited the two clips together.
Priceless. Thank you so much. I love the two performances. Especially the Concrete Jungle one.
Effortless Groove today's musicians put so much energy trying into looking like there groovin with the facials and body movements but back n the day real players made It look easy,like these dudes who are absolutely nailing it
They are the same live if you ever get to see them. Obviously Bob wont be there but the band still has it.
🔥 😅
good lord that bass line on stir it up, giving me chills
I can imagine that. :-)
Aston Barrett, legendary reggae bassist extraordinaire. 😁
nice one Bob & crew
Marley and Wailers at their best, in my opinion--early '70s, Rasta Revolution. Musicianship simple, Bob sounds great (tho he always did), Bunny and Peter vocals gorgeous ("Concrete" brings shivers--"never know what sweet caress is."), and his best songs (tho more great ones would follow, of course). Odd that there are so many "Bob Marley fans" but so few visits to this clip. I guess many really love the Ganga more or the spiffier sound.
Childe Harold Very true. I think this is reggae at it's best.
why doesnt this have 14m views already ?
hatim soudani I don't know. 🙄
indeed. it seems to be harder to find on youtube than other versions. don't know why..
Martin vd Linden if you can't tell i've been looking for that exact video for months , so happy i found it
You're all welcome. 😉
A lot of people don't know about the old grey whistle test... A lot of people broke there!!! Like rappers on Tim Westwood...
Just perfect, I wish I'd been there in person.
Barrett brothers top
Rip✍✍✍
@0:00 Stir it up, @3:51 Concrete Jungle
Bob was 28 here
Peter Tosh perfectly nailed the Stir It Up guitar solo. It sounds exactly like the studio version except for slight improvisation at the end. It's funny to hear some people call this lip-synced -- maybe they should go ask Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift if it's lip-synced. Chris Blackwell aka Whiteworst deserves a (what's left of his) lifetime of criticism for not keeping the Wailers united. He seemed to have no problem keeping the rest of the band, Downie, Lindo, Seeco, and the Barretts, etc. I kinda feel that if Seeco stayed on board (and/or joined soon after Tosh, Bunny left) then Whiteworst could've done what was needed to keep everybody around. Whiteworst immediately went about finding new guitar players for the Wailers. The Wailers already had a maestro named Peter Tosh, Whiteworst's discoveries didn't measure up to Tosh, and he ended up needing 2 replacements to equal one Tosh. Blackwell a real caper imo. It's priceless to watch him spend decades in interviews attempting to justify why he broke apart the greatest band that was ever formed in the history of human music.
Just enjoy the times they were together and did their brilliance. Don't keep hanging on the things that could've been
@@rootsriders Every story has 3 sides: yours, mine, and the truth. Let's portray a side that isn't in almost every Marley or Wailers documentary where Whiteworst justifies his banality.
@tenaciousRas The solo is not a guitar. It's a Hohner Clavinet D6 keyboard, and it's not "exactly like" the studio version, it IS the studio version. The band is miming to a remixed edit of the album cut. The vocals are the only thing that's live.
I've finally got around to creating a direct comparison, here:
ua-cam.com/video/iH9_MGJZEeY/v-deo.html
Well said.
Two facts. The OGWT was always a live show - this was not mimed. Second am I alone in thinking that it was a great shame that the Wailers split just as they were breaking through.
Only the vocals are Live:
ua-cam.com/video/iH9_MGJZEeY/v-deo.html
Bob Marley was the first to openly stand up for weed among famous people. After that, came Cheech And Chong who made movies about weed, NWA and Tupac Shakur who smoke weed on interviews, Cypress Hills who made rap songs mostly about weed, Snoopp Dogg, Dave Chappelle who made a movie about weed called Half Baked, Mike Tyson who has a weed farm in California and now Joe Rogan who smokes weed on his podcast.
Not forget Peter Tosh. He was basically offering his whole life and career to his political and spiritual fight especially for the herb.
@@arktos7270 exactly the all time great ,the black prophet they try to erase from the reggae universe. What a true rebel ,the malcolm X of reggae
You obviously never heard of the force of nature which was Peter Tosh whose first international hit single was LEGALIZE IT. He was the one who was reguarly brutally beaten by the Jamaican police, sometimes almost to the point of death for smoking and publicizing the benefits of weed, or Herb as he often referred to it. He was the one who took out a full page advertisement in one of Jamaica's most prostegious daily newspapers to publicize the lyrics of legalize it, after the Jamaican radio stations banned this song. There are so many other examples that I could provide, but it would take up a lot of space.
@@jeanclarke9106 Of course I have heard of Peter Tosh !!! Peter was a band member of Bob Marley's group The Wailers. Bob was the one that encouraged Peter and everyone around him to push to legalize weed. The reason Marley is the king of pushing for it is because instead of promoting crime and anti establishment (which weed smokers were known for), Marley pushed for morality in his songs and unity. That is what got people to think differently about weed smokers. Yes, there were others around pushing for weed use. However, Marley was performing his weed and Rasta style since the early 60s. That led to even white Americans starting to take it in the 60s psychedelic movement and the "be free" hippy movement. Even the Beatles started using weed because of Marley and Paul McCartney of the Beatles even got arrested in Japan for being caught with weed. Nobody had the international platform that Marley achieved and still is standing on decades after his death when it came to openly weed smokers. So, now that you know the truth Jean, you may want to look further into saying I was wrong. Your welcome.
This performance is live vocals over an instrumental playback. The band is miming. I've created a straight-up comparison with the "Catch a Fire" album. "Stir It Up" is definitely the album version, remixed, as I demonstrate here:
ua-cam.com/video/iH9_MGJZEeY/v-deo.html
Some more details:
1. The synth at the beginning of "Stir it Up" is an ARP Odyssey, not a Minimoog. That particular sound cannot be produced by the synth shown.
2. The synth sound has this "woaaaah" swell at the beginning of each note played. The first few notes, he's shown twisting the filter knob for that effect. The next few notes, same effect, no knob-twisting.
3. At 1:05-1:09 the instruments briefly drift out of time with each other, exactly like on the studio recording.
4. At around 1:12, the hand in the background plays the downbeat on the clavinet, while the actual clavinet track heard does not (it is the exact phrasing on the record, in fact).
5. The solo from 2:40 onwards is a Hohner Clavinet keyboard (the keyboard facing right with the wooden top). The solo is EXACTLY the phrasing (down to the exact wah-wah movement) of the album version. Peter Tosh is faking it on the guitar (either that, or we're simply not hearing anywhere what he's actually playing - unlikely, given how small the room is and how his amp sound must bleed all over the vocal and drum mics), and the keyboard player is sitting at the Fender Rhodes piano - a different instrument, facing front.
6. At 3:36, he's back at the Clavinet, but what he's miming does not at all match up with the solo heard. In fact, he's caught by surprise by one part.
7. "Concrete Jungle" has the exact same set-up, the exact same microphones, but somehow, a completely different bass sound.
8. 6:50 We're looking at a Clavinet solo. As you can clearly see at 5:35 (it's the black keyboard behind Bob in the shot), it IS NOT PLUGGED IN AT ALL (the silver socket is the audio output). We're also hearing the bubbly off-beat Hammond organ on the recording - which he somehow isn't playing (It's below the Clavinet).
9. 7:05 The Clavinet that we're hearing play the solo ISN'T ACTUALLY PLUGGED IN (the silver socket is the audio output).
7:20
I thought for the first few minutes that they were lip synching everything is so perfect! Good Lord what a band.
am i only one hearing false start about 0:17?
I heard that too
who is guitarist in hat with glasses?
Peter Tosh.
Peter Tosh
didn't KNOW bob marley did TOP OF THE POPS..............i guess all you people don't even realise
This is Whistle Test, a whole different animal to TOTPs. It was screened late for grown ups and featured great artists and superb production techniques. I loved watching it, but hated the over commercialised TOTPs. Just listen on headphones if you don't believe me.
You edited the video and remove THE WAILERS title on the video?
I made 1 video of two clips I found on the web. Did not change anything else, besides the information at the beginning. I added that.
@@ronaldvanlieshout736 I hear you men...but the original clips show that it is The wailers not BOb & The wailers
Better call it a "live appearance". They're not performing live. The music is a playback of the album versions.
Proof or it’s not true
@@tylerpeters1872 Okay. I'm not going to give a full sound technicians' rundown, which involves things like reverbs used on the vocals and the organ, but:
1. The synth at the beginning of "Stir it Up" is an ARP Odyssey, not a Minimoog. That particular sound cannot be produced by the synth shown.
2. The synth sound has this "woaaaah" swell at the beginning of each note played. The first few notes, he's shown twisting the filter knob for that effect. The next few notes, same effect, no knob-twisting.
3. At 1:05-1:09 the instruments briefly drift out of time with each other, exactly like on the studio recording.
4. At around 1:12, the hand in the background plays the downbeat on the clavinet, while the actual clavinet track heard does not (it is the exact phrasing on the record, in fact).
5. The solo from 2:40 onwards is a Hohner Clavinet keyboard (the keyboard facing right with the wooden top). The solo is EXACTLY the phrasing (down to the exact wah-wah movement) of the album version. Peter Tosh is faking it on the guitar (either that, or we're simply not hearing anywhere what he's actually playing - unlikely, given how small the room is and how his amp sound must bleed all over the vocal and drum mics), and the keyboard player is sitting at the Fender Rhodes piano - a different instrument, facing front.
6. At 3:36, he's back at the Clavinet, but what he's miming does not at all match up with the solo heard. In fact, he's caught by surprise by one part.
7. "Concrete Jungle" has the exact same set-up, the exact same microphones, but somehow, a completely different bass sound.
8. 6:50 We're looking at a Clavinet solo. So far, so good. But we're also hearing the bubbly off-beat Hammond organ on the recording - which he somehow isn't playing (It's below the Clavinet).
9. 7:05 The Clavinet that we're hearing play the solo ISN'T ACTUALLY PLUGGED IN (the silver socket is the audio output).
I'll stop there.
@@tylerpeters1872 I love love love BMW, and there is a depth and divine inspiration to his performances that is rare anywhere in music (or elsewhere, for that matter). But this appearance is NOT a live performance. In fact, it is well known that the Wailers' first tour of the Babylon was anything but pleasant. They hated much of it and were pretty unhappy (no doubt their experience infused the concerts they gave and made shows like the on released on "Live at the Lyceaum" all the more furious and flammable).
I have no doubt that publicity stunts like this stupid playback show contributed to the negative experience.
I mean no disrespect to anyone here.... Bob Marley and the Wailers music gives eternal life and joy - but I am glad someone else has said its not a 'live performance' - and I agree it isn't - the reverb for a start is clearly from a studio not live... and the lead guitar parts on concrete jungle, if I remember where played in the studio by some American session musician - cant remember his name - and you can hear those parts in this performance - not really a reggae style, and the solo and Moog parts in Stir it up aren't possible live.... like I say - I mean no disrespect - I LOVE the wailers and they were peerless musicians and live performances - this simply isn't it though
@@placidcasual9872 Guitar was Wayne Perkins from the Muscle Shoals; John Rabbit Bundrick (of Free) did the organs and clavinet.