Ryan Express Vintage circa 1979 - Reeling in the Years

VHS Video filmed around 1979
Some serious sync issues but will hopefully bring back some memories of a time when you could go see a band play live 7 days a week.

[@michaelgunn9245]

Best band by far... AND still doing the business.. Maybe under different name, 40+ years, but still SUPREMELY EXCELLENT.. 6 stringed bass guitar and a voice.. SUPERB John...

[@hb6351]

Thanks for posting. To think I got paid to listen to this. A diamond in the hand

[@red-skye]

Great find... takes me back to Thursday nights in the Staging Post, Airdrie when it was full of fellow aspiring musicians. Fond memories and looking back a great slice of life!

[@John-yi1mk]

All the young guitarists wishing thy cold play like Dougie Smith.
A great player a great band.

[@f100pigs]

Best nights ever in Wishaw.

[@resonatebeauty]

cheers from Texas, USA you guys rocked back then and still do - more posts if ya got em?

[@Molnboman]

It was the early in the week residencies in the Exchequer bar in Glasgow that got me into Steely Dan etc....Thanks

[@sawt00th]

I remember Dougie had a Marantz tape recorder that could slow songs down. I’d take my rock and metal tapes over and he’d slow them down, work out the notes and teach me the riffs. 😀

[@billpickle2875]

One of the best players in scotland that dougie smith

[@lloydwilso]

is this the same band that played in the meadowhead hotel near briech/west calder?

[@jameslally3685]

Certainly is; every Sunday night.

[@lloydwilso]

@@jameslally3685 it was a Friday I went

[@jameslally6143]

@@lloydwilso , I honestly can't remember them playing on a Friday night; always a Sunday for me. Two of the guys, John Hanon (bass and vocals) and David McGinn (keyboards and vocals) still do quite a bit of gigging around the bars of the West of Scotland under the 'guise of Nightfly.