OT - Which of these bands have I NOT seen live?

[MadAmster]

Shouldn’t you say which one? Anyway...whichever one was right and The Tams ‘cos I’ve never heard of them.

Two decent songs from them Be young, be foolish, be happy from '68 and, of course Hey girl, don't bother me from '64

[MadAmster]

Thats one for MA, but I remember a single in the early 70s that was dismal

Hey girl was 64 and be young was 68.....

[Andy_Faber]

Hey girl was 64 and be young was 68.....

GP's clearly only got a pop fan's handle on things, he's talking about the rerelease of Hey Girl so he would be familiar with the blue and red leather suits I referred to earlier. This was also played a number of times at The BBG in 1971, which was what turned me onto it as I stood on my milk crate waiting for the game to start, and from there onto soul music in general, so I have a real soft spot for it...

Edit, sounds such a simple song, but I've been trying for 40 years to master it on guitar and my incompetence has defeated me

[Geoff Parkstone]

Even I was only 9 in 1964, don't think we had a telly and couldn't access pirate radio that far from North Sea... Might have heard a wee bit of Radio Luxembourg anyway point being I wouldn't have heard any music on radio at that age that I would recognise

[ramAnag]

erm, I saw neither of them, see post 117 above

Ah...sorry I was confused by Swale saying...’Showaddywaddy and Bay City Rollers?’ and you promptly replying...in post #115, ‘That’s the one.’

So have we agreed it was Mud and The Tams and only the former are actually embarrassing?

[Geoff Parkstone]

no, its not the Tams - where did you get that idea from

post 115 was in response to andy's 113

the idea that a 60s american soul band would share a stage with mud is perhaps disingenuous

[MadAmster]

GP's clearly only got a pop fan's handle on things, he's talking about the rerelease of Hey Girl so he would be familiar with the blue and red leather suits I referred to earlier. This was also played a number of times at The BBG in 1971, which was what turned me onto it as I stood on my milk crate waiting for the game to start, and from there onto soul music in general, so I have a real soft spot for it...

Edit, sounds such a simple song, but I've been trying for 40 years to master it on guitar and my incompetence has defeated me

Forest don't bother me, Forest don't bother me, go away come back another day, don't bother me.... followed by F U, F U C........... and you can guess the rest was an in vogue chant for a while on the Popside.

[ramAnag]

no, its not the Tams - where did you get that idea from

post 115 was in response to andy's 113

the idea that a 60s american soul band would share a stage with mud is perhaps disingenuous

Hardly disingenuous. Confused maybe, although there were some very strange bedfellows/stage sharers in the seventies.
So who did you see Mud with? Seems to have got lost.

[Geoff Parkstone]

The Rubettes 😱. Double header during rag week. The previous year was John Lee Hooker with Canned Heat. Sublime to the ridiculous

[ramAnag]

The Rubettes ��. Double header during rag week. The previous year was John Lee Hooker with Canned Heat. Sublime to the ridiculous

Indeed...about as dreadful - and embarrassing - as Showaddywaddy and the BCR’s then. You should have sacked - or worse - the Ents Sec. and re-engaged the one from the previous year.