Dear waitingman,

[reynardo]

Remember what we were discussing the other night about having been born 20 years too late?



While some people might not remember (or know yet) who The Who are, Marmalade I know best from a Murder Most Horrid episode. Traffic - ohhh taht would have been fun.












This one I chose mainly because the first actor listed later came to fame as Mr Humphries in "Are You Being Served?"
















Now I know I can hear you gnashing your teeth. This would have been October 1966.














October 1967. Syd Barrett would have still been in Pink Floyd.


I particularly love the line about the Small Faces - "We have been assured by the group that this time they will definitely appear."




Please don't cry.




All pictures sourced from Strawberry Walrus, particularly their page on the The Mersey Beat.
Warning - pic medium-heavy.

Comments

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Somebody claimed that a cover band had done a better job of See Emily Play.

Blasphemy, pure blasphemy.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

True. Occasionally, though, the cover version is ... more interesting than the original.

So, when we get the time machine going, wanna come join us hit Liverpool and London from 1963 onwards?

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Quote I heard from someone who had watched Live 8...
"Why were those guys playing the theme to CSI?"

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not saying all cover versions must be inherently bad, or never as good as the original, just that when you're covering something done by Syd Barrett or Barrett's Floyd, the lack of Syd will greatly hinder your effort. Then again, if you remade it note for note and trying to copy every facet of its original feeling... you'd defeat one possible purpose of covers, which is to do something different/your way.

Hopefully we'll spend some extended time in Ladbrooke Grove, maybe turn up at a party where Michael Moorcock introduces us to Arthur C. Clarke and William Burroughs, who apparently got along like a house on fire? See what it was like when Dave and Nik didn't hate each other? Try the good acid?

[harliquinn.livejournal.com]

Is there room for one more?

(although, I must admit I only have a passing familiarity with The Herd. As in, I know they existed. Here ends my knowledge.

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

David Bowie's version on PinUps is pretty good ~ though I prefer the version of 'Arnold Layne' he does with Gilmour & Rick Wright on David Gilmour's recent DVD...

[waitingman.livejournal.com]

The Herd was the band Peter Frampton was in before he joined up with Steve Marriott (Small Faces) in Humble Pie.

Here endeth the Pete Frame/Glenn A Baker lesson.

Oh... & Rey...

WAAAHH!!!

Although ~ if we'd been born 20 years earlier, we'd be Baby-Boomers... & look how most of them have turned out.