@Freakyears Elton lover He wasn't there yet but yes, later he made a huge difference. To Walter... sorry but I was just watching this and thinking how weak Nigel's playing was here.
Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson were the perfect rhythm section for Elton. I’ve never understood why he dismissed them after “Captain Fantastic”. In hindsight, it was a bad career move.
@@Al-ImprovEd2022 he talks about it in his autobiography. He worked with them again afterwards, but he chose to branch out in his music in a way he often describes as lazy
Dee Murray was brilliant with his bass playing here. He filled all the open sections superbly. Didn’t need a guitarist on this song. Well done Dee; well done Nigel; well done EJ.
This is not an "outtake", it is another live version!, and an excellent one at that. From the first chords of this song (studio version too) any good musician realises they are hearing a truly great original composer, who is coming up with NEW evocative chords! Truly original.
This is a song with lots of "layers" when done in the studio but has problems in being transferred to a 3 piece live performance. The timing is out of sync and the drums, excellent in the studio, don't seem to work. Elton's voice is off-key in several places and, overall, this version just doesn't gel.
I hear you, but I didn't hear those shortcomings you mentioned. There's only one hiccough in the drums near the start which Nigel soon cleverly corrects, and I didn't hear any off-key vocals -- only slightly shaky. I've been playing this song on the piano since about 1975 (when I found some fairly accurate sheet music for all his early stuff) and I thought his voice followed the unusual chord changes pretty much 'on the money'. I think the only real problem is trying to cover such a great studio recording with only a 3 piece, and the fact this performance has no reverb on it. (The TV studio is a bit 'dead' acoustically.) Also, the tempo was too slow, which can affect the overall sound (and the...'gusto' of the performers) negatively.
Great vid! This is known as a "Bling Shot" take, or a "Dummy Take", which is recorded after the 'real' one. It is for backup footage only - when they're editing the main one. In other words, they always get a bling take incase the camera man screws up anywhere on the main one. So they have spare shots to dub over the other at certain frames. Notice lots of close-up shots & you don't see mouths or hands etc? Well that's what this is for. That's also why the artist doesn't sing his or her best!
we can't ever go back there now really , can we ! when we look back from whence we came and to understand how music and performances such as this from wonderful performers had spoken to us deeply , it seems rather sobering to see where we are now , atleast for me it tends too ! elton is great all along the way though !
Missing David Johnston who was a important influence on the direction Elton's music style would take...he brought him from over experimentation that was evident in his early albums to more mainstream , he and the other band members would take Elton's musical " bare bone's" and add their instrumentation and backing vocals and polish the song into a diamond ...well Elton is a musical genius and brilliant preformer his success was a collaborative effort and he's admitted that on several occasions in documentary's about his career!!💕🇬🇧
Amen. RIP Dee. Here's Dee's findagrave page if you want to leave 'flowers' which you can type a little message in, or read others. www.findagrave.com/memorial/6798978 Excellent bass player, in my opinion. Fun bass player.. he played a lot of kind of fills and grace notes that other bassists wouldn't bother with. Dee Murray, John McVie and Doug Stegmeyer will always be my fav bass players.
Great rhythm section too -- Nigel Olsson on drums (he was on Uriah Heep's "Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble" album too), and Dee Murray on bass. (Though they are both a bit laid-back here compared to the studio version.)
Love these two as well, and I'm glad they finally got their chance to play on all studio recordings a couple albums later. The studio recording of this is the great Herbie Flowers on bass.
Yea his vocals are raspy and he doesn’t articulate now. He does a weak Leon Russell impersonation now. He’s retired now, I think. He doesn’t smoke and could have easily done diaphragmatic exercises to improve his voice. I’m with you after 1990 his voice was toast.
It's called metamorphosis. Elton grew into the person he was supposed to be. All his music is superb, and it changed, no need for negatively, only love.
@@RefaceDepot Elton toured with Nigel and Dee. Johnstone featured on multiple early studio tracks. They came together as a band on the 1972 album Honky Chateau.
At 2:40 they start to lose the timing, and between 2:44 and 2:46 the timing is all messed up. I'm going now to the aired version to see if they got it right (but I could guess they did get it right there).
Ive read a lot of articles and watched a lot of YT videos about Nigel and from what I gather, Nigel just really loves to play Elton and Bernies music, I feel that its his happy place.
I'm just curious for reasons I'm not sure- but was Elton popular with the ladies in the US or UK much back around this era? I wasn't born til 1988 so you know.. wasn't around lol.
I was in love with him at age 5... Valerie Bertinelli was in love with him. He was the cutest, most special, adorable soulful man a lot of us had ever seen
Oh yeah! He was the stuff of a pre-teens/young teens dreams. Remained so until the gay talk started around 1975. Then he did the Rolling Stone article coming out as bi. It was several years more before he came out as gay.
Where do you get the dvd? And why the hell does the Elton camp keep releasing 20 different compilations of greatest hits 1 and 2 when they have these goldmines? Makes absolutely no sense.
EJ TRULY IS A MUSICAL SAVANT.......HES BEYOND BRILLIANT AS A COMPOSER.....AND PIANIST VIRTUOSO......A ND AN EXTRAORDINARY SINGER....... MOZART 'S GOT NOTHING ON ELTON
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What could be better than a piece of early Elton , Bernie and Elton are legends plus Dee Murray and Nigel Olsen still sounds great as it always
Elton John would never had his sound without Nigel behind him.....bloody brilliant Rock n Roll Drummer.....
and Dee Murray. Dee's bass playing on the album Too Low For Zero is killer !
@Freakyears Elton lover Hell, The Three of them!! The most underrated and underappreciated and criminally overlooked band ever
@Freakyears Elton lover He wasn't there yet but yes, later he made a huge difference. To Walter... sorry but I was just watching this and thinking how weak Nigel's playing was here.
I agree ☝️ never hear him mentioned. I love the way he swings his arms, reminds me of Dave Grohl.
I emulated Nigels style. It worked well with Eltons music. I’m a fan of Elton with Dee and Nigel without the others or the frills.
Ridiculously cool, as are all these early Elton performances. So original; so pure. Gospel, folk, blues, rock, it’s all in the mix…
I wish there was more of this type of stuff.
Lyrics every bit as good as Lennon and McCartney. Musicianship even better. Nothing compares to 69 to 76 Elton. Brilliant and prolific.
Yes, one of the greatest runs in pop music history. Up there with the Beatles 63-70, and The Who 68-73.
Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson were the perfect rhythm section for Elton. I’ve never understood why he dismissed them after “Captain Fantastic”. In hindsight, it was a bad career move.
Early Elton might be the greatest music ever made.
I didn’t know he dismissed them! Never gave a reason?
@@Al-ImprovEd2022 he talks about it in his autobiography. He worked with them again afterwards, but he chose to branch out in his music in a way he often describes as lazy
Dee Murray was brilliant with his bass playing here. He filled all the open sections superbly. Didn’t need a guitarist on this song. Well done Dee; well done Nigel; well done EJ.
Every sung note and every played note expertly crafted by supreme talent.
The soundtrack to my youth. Love you EJ
that voice......... what a gift
One of my very favorite Elton John songs. He is a genius and no one writes like him.
“Like he did.” Even he couldn’t do this again. Nobody can. That era is long over.
He just wrote the music
I love vintage Elton...the best! His band was great!
I've been an Elton fan for nearly 35 years and never seen this outtake. Great early stuff.
Same here, and I've been a fan for 48 years.
I waited almost 50 years to hear this exact version. Nigel Dee Elton number one group in rock history
Elton..
Nigel Olsen..
Dee Murray.....
A Wall of sound..
Saw them in Dallas
May of 70.....
Never saw anything like this show...
Was Amazing
Definitely an outtake. This is totally different from the original that aired on BBC in 1970.
This is not an "outtake", it is another live version!, and an excellent one at that. From the first chords of this song (studio version too) any good musician realises they are hearing a truly great original composer, who is coming up with NEW evocative chords! Truly original.
This is a song with lots of "layers" when done in the studio but has problems in being transferred to a 3 piece live performance. The timing is out of sync and the drums, excellent in the studio, don't seem to work. Elton's voice is off-key in several places and, overall, this version just doesn't gel.
I hear you, but I didn't hear those shortcomings you mentioned. There's only one hiccough in the drums near the start which Nigel soon cleverly corrects, and I didn't hear any off-key vocals -- only slightly shaky. I've been playing this song on the piano since about 1975 (when I found some fairly accurate sheet music for all his early stuff) and I thought his voice followed the unusual chord changes pretty much 'on the money'. I think the only real problem is trying to cover such a great studio recording with only a 3 piece, and the fact this performance has no reverb on it. (The TV studio is a bit 'dead' acoustically.) Also, the tempo was too slow, which can affect the overall sound (and the...'gusto' of the performers) negatively.
@@charlemagnekarldergrosse2832 I actually like the "no reverb"--makes it sound tryly "live", like they're in you're living room!
Great vid! This is known as a "Bling Shot" take, or a "Dummy Take", which is recorded after the 'real' one. It is for backup footage only - when they're editing the main one. In other words, they always get a bling take incase the camera man screws up anywhere on the main one. So they have spare shots to dub over the other at certain frames. Notice lots of close-up shots & you don't see mouths or hands etc? Well that's what this is for. That's also why the artist doesn't sing his or her best!
Great piece of info - thanks for sharing it...
Thanks but I love this, sometimes less is more. Elton is rellaxed.
Fascinating bit of information.
That band . The best love to go back in time and see him sing like that again.
Holy crap this is beyond brilliant!
we can't ever go back there now really , can we !
when we look back from whence we came and to understand how music and performances such as this from wonderful performers had spoken to us deeply , it seems rather sobering to see where we are now , atleast for me it tends too !
elton is great all along the way though !
Grew up rocking to this man
Raw and real, it doesn’t come much better than this and he’s still doing it today…..2023
Missing David Johnston who was a important influence on the direction Elton's music style would take...he brought him from over experimentation that was evident in his early albums to more mainstream , he and the other band members would take Elton's musical " bare bone's" and add their instrumentation and backing vocals and polish the song into a diamond ...well Elton is a musical genius and brilliant preformer his success was a collaborative effort and he's admitted that on several occasions in documentary's about his career!!💕🇬🇧
RIP Dee Murray
Amen. RIP Dee. Here's Dee's findagrave page if you want to leave 'flowers' which you can type a little message in, or read others. www.findagrave.com/memorial/6798978 Excellent bass player, in my opinion. Fun bass player.. he played a lot of kind of fills and grace notes that other bassists wouldn't bother with. Dee Murray, John McVie and Doug Stegmeyer will always be my fav bass players.
Dee on Grimsby at 3:33. Neat little thing.
The Greatest Melody Writer Ever In Popular Music
Historic. Fantastic. Thank you.
Wow...Nigel can lay that backbeat all the way back to the last zeptosecond!
Fantastic! Blown away!
Ah brilliant what a power trio
Really enjoyed this!!
Love this song, glad it doesn't get overplayed like Levon and Tiny Dancer
I love early EJ music!
Great rhythm section too -- Nigel Olsson on drums (he was on Uriah Heep's "Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble" album too), and Dee Murray on bass. (Though they are both a bit laid-back here compared to the studio version.)
this is nothing compared to the fillmore shows but then again this was for tv and in a small studio
Love these two as well, and I'm glad they finally got their chance to play on all studio recordings a couple albums later. The studio recording of this is the great Herbie Flowers on bass.
can't beat this.
thnx for this
This is the Elton John that I was able to listen to once upon a long ago.
Yea his vocals are raspy and he doesn’t articulate now. He does a weak Leon Russell impersonation now. He’s retired now, I think. He doesn’t smoke and could have easily done diaphragmatic exercises to improve his voice. I’m with you after 1990 his voice was toast.
@@TheBella2u i disagree, id say it dipped around 2010 . I really like his 90s voice and how it sounded in the early 2000s.
I liked his earlier 70s stuff... didn't care for what came after.
It's called metamorphosis. Elton grew into the person he was supposed to be. All his music is superb, and it changed, no need for negatively, only love.
Nigel is INCREDIBLE....
Elton Hercules John. Bernie Taupin. Nigel Olsson. And the late, great Dee Murray.
Forget about it...
where was Davey Johnstone (sp?). was he in the band then?
@@RefaceDepot Elton toured with Nigel and Dee. Johnstone featured on multiple early studio tracks. They came together as a band on the 1972 album Honky Chateau.
Amazing
Best version : acoustic piano wonderful voice and the cute Nigel and late Dee
I actually love how obnoxiously tight the closeups were back then. 😆
You know only three person it is amazing Music had soul
What a statement I really like this song
Here you go April Martino Wilson!🌲☃️
a musical god. Just amazing.
Soulful
This is just plain Mr. John, love it.
I can just imagine how much better it would have been with Bill Bruford and Chris Squire accompanying Elton.
3 grandes
Great to see Dee.
Sounds like an early version, before recording it for the album. Maybe it was just written it in the last week, or something.
genial elton, nigel, and dee saludos en youtube...la honorable sociedad
Merci
good times for sure
Things are getting desparate when its been 8 years nobody listenens! wow!2022!
Did you guys SEE that Ginormous Slingerland Kit Nigel was playing? He must of had the biggest kit of that time seriously!!
That's what Elton said when he was introducing Nigel on the tv special.
damned good
1
The best singer & Piana player ever!
At 2:40 they start to lose the timing, and between 2:44 and 2:46 the timing is all messed up. I'm going now to the aired version to see if they got it right (but I could guess they did get it right there).
Dee and Nigel!
Nigel is always happy 😊!
Ive read a lot of articles and watched a lot of YT videos about Nigel and from what I gather, Nigel just really loves to play Elton and Bernies music, I feel that its his happy place.
@@preesi1403Nigel is a very humble, sweet and very nice man. Was able to meet him at the Elton expos in 1998 and 2000. He has alo of gratitude.
That was sad, I’m glad he did more.
nigel Olsson is very young here in this song
They all were and considering his fate, Dee Murray's life was more than half over. R.I.P. Dee Murray.
He was 21
The Sound Quality On This Is Amazing - I Am Sitting Here In Ecstasy, I'm A Little Bit Of A Fan ....Um, Yeah
Nope A&R Studios, is also said on the album, "We would like to welcome you to the A&R studios in NYC"
Nigel Olsson!
q dureza tiene el baterista ( sin desmerecer su talento, obviamente)
Bsst version! 🖤
Outtake? No, it's a live version of the song he shortened...
Every Live performance is an Out-Take. As far as perfection, as I mentioned it's live. And it's hard to sing. :)
ps: que temon!
Not bad for 23 years old.
This is fantastic how is it an outake?
Dee Murray... the best bass player ever...
It so good without guitar !
🔊🔊😎🎹🎹🎹🎹
I'm just curious for reasons I'm not sure- but was Elton popular with the ladies in the US or UK much back around this era? I wasn't born til 1988 so you know.. wasn't around lol.
I was in love with him at age 5... Valerie Bertinelli was in love with him. He was the cutest, most special, adorable soulful man a lot of us had ever seen
Oh yeah! He was the stuff of a pre-teens/young teens dreams. Remained so until the gay talk started around 1975. Then he did the Rolling Stone article coming out as bi. It was several years more before he came out as gay.
What happened to the last verse ? Must have Ben a time thing
credits in the end are incorrect; it's Kay Gardner, not Kay Garner
elton
no its an outtake.
i have the dvd
it is
Correct .. but, without words and rhythm ….brilliance never accomplished , such as this !
What exactly happened?
Did someone mess up audio levels or something?
Same song, just the chat before-hand that was left out originally.
Where do you get the dvd? And why the hell does the Elton camp keep releasing 20 different compilations of greatest hits 1 and 2 when they have these goldmines? Makes absolutely no sense.
usually not my favorite song...but this version is amazing.
As I suspected: no timing muff in the aired version.
Moon Zappa?
EJ TRULY IS A MUSICAL SAVANT.......HES BEYOND BRILLIANT AS A COMPOSER.....AND PIANIST VIRTUOSO......A ND AN EXTRAORDINARY SINGER....... MOZART 'S GOT NOTHING ON ELTON
hes not wearing gloves either
Why is this an out take? Why should an artist play the same thing every time?
yeah. Im fuckin sick of new releases of the same shit
I wanna see some 1970-79 shit on dvd
Elton is definitely not pleased with this performance. Look at his face at the end of it and then he asks 'can we do it again.'
Awfull Grand Piano sound O.o But rest is awesome! :D