Beat Club

Episode 64

February 27th 1971

Ike & Tina steal the show.

What is the biggest problem in Vacaville?

I'd suggest a lack of education.

regards

Titus

Ike & Tina Turner - I Want To Take You Higher/River Deep, Mountain High

                    /Honky Tonk Woman/Proud Mary

Golden Earring - Holy, Holy Life

Atomic Rooster - Tomorrow Night

John Mayall U.S.A. Union Band - My Pretty Girl

T. Rex - Ride A White Swan/Jewel

Tom Paxton - Vietnam Song

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Episode 63

January 30th 1971

There are features on

Lol Coxhill & David Bedford and Incredible String Band

and an interview with The Band's Robbie Robertson

which includes a live clip.

Joe Cocker - Cry Me a River

Patto - San Antone

Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - Mister Freako/Resurrection Shuffle

Iron Butterfly - Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)/Butterfly Bleu

Butterfly Bleu is the highlight

featuring Mike Pinera who, perhaps. never got the recognition he deserved.

Mike died of liver failure in November 2024 aged 76.

regards

Titus

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Episode 62

December 31st 1970

New Year's Eve 1970...hmmm, got me reminiscing.

My Mum would exit via the back door just before midnight.

Many others of her generation would do the same

before navigating their way to the front of their houses.

After the stroke of midnight/neighbourly good wishes

they would then re-enter via the front door.

This tradition was "bringing in the New Year"..it died out.

The Wild Man Fischer/Zappa clip alone is worth the download

but the whole episode is excellent IMO.

UFO - Boogie

The Move  - When Alice Comes Back to the Farm"" and/or ""Brontosaurus

Warm Dust - Indian Ropeman/Worm Dance

Emerson, Lake, & Palmer - Take a Pebble/Knife Edge

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Episode 61

November 28th 1970

This one features:

Stone the Crows - Danger Zone/Love 74

Colosseum - Take Me Back to Doomsday/Tanglewood '63

Fotheringay - Too Much of Nothing

Muddy Waters - Blow Wind Blow/Honey Bee

regards

Titus

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Episode 60

October 24t 1970

This one has an interesting item on weed

and some quite extraordinary footage of Northern Ireland.

After a clip of Janis Joplin we get music from:

Amon Düül II - Between the Eyes/Eye-Shaking King

Incredible String Band - Everything's Fine Right Now

Ginger Baker's Airforce - 12 Gates Of the City

/Early in the Morning/Toad/Sunshine of Your Love

What's behind door number three? :)

regards

Titus

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Episode 59

September 26th 1970

This one has a Zappa interview and Tony Iommi playing a white SG.

What more could you ask for?

regards

Titus

Status Quo - Spinning Wheel Blues/April, Summer, Spring and Wednesdays

Third Ear Band - Hyde Park

Black Sabbath - Iron Man/Paranoid

Eric Burdon & War - Paint it Black/Spill the Wine

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe

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Episode 58

September 5th 1970

With items on Radio Caroline, The Rolling Stones, Woodstock,

a guy who talks and walks a lot and other stuff I don't understand.

The footage of the short-lived Hard Meat is the rarity here.

regards

Titus

Hard Meat - The Ballad of Marmalade Emma & Teddy Grimes

Pretty Things - Cries from the Midnight Circus

Cat Stevens - Lady D'Arbanville/Hard Headed Woman

Free - Fire and Water/All Right Now

Humble Pie - For Your Love

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Episode 57

August 15th 1970

Nice feature on the MC5 on this episode.

regards

Titus

Atomic Rooster - Save Me

Steamhammer - I Wouldn't Have Thought

Edgar Broughton Band - Apache Drop Out/Silver Needle

Dr. John -Mardi Gras Day

Jethro Tull - With You There to Help Me/Nothing is Easy

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Episode 56

June 27th 1970

Some sections on David Peel in this episode who's album 'The Pope Smokes Dope'

was produced by John Lennon making it a collector's item for Lennon/Beatles fans.

Peel has connections to Kevin Michael 'GG' Allin (born Jesus Christ Allin)

who is/was...er...shall we say interesting?

Worth a wiki.

regards

Titus

Van der Graaf Generator - Whatever Would Robert Have Said?

Brinsley Schwarz - Ebury Down

Santana - Jingo-Lo-Ba/Incident at Neshabur

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime/Mighty Man

Family - The Weavers Answer

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Episode 55

May 30th 1970

Nice segments with Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash on this episode

...and the cool Sabs footage of course.

regards

Titus

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Rare Bird - Sympathy/Beautiful Scarlet

Black Sabbath - Blue Suede Shoes (snippet)

Jody Grind - Paint It Black

Blodwyn Pig - See My Way

Renaissance - Kings and Queens

Canned Heat - Future Blues

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Episode 54

April 18th 1970

Los of weird German stuff I don't understand

including a guy who stands on his hands.

musical interludes from:

The Move - Brontosaurus

When Alice Comes Back to the Farm

Taj Mahal -Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day

Marsha Hunt - Keep the Customer Satisfied

Johnny Winter - Johnny B. Goode

It's a Beautiful Day - Soapstone Mountain

The Flock - introduction/Clown

Taj Mahal - Sweet Mama Janisse

The Who - The Seeker

Johnny Winter - Mean Town Blues

regards

Titus

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Episode 53

March 28th 1970

Some good clips but the meandering format is a bit much.

Even with my wife translating I struggle to understand

what is going on during the non-music sections.

Early Mott/Broughtons makes up for it though.

regards

Titus

Mott the Hoople - You Really Got Me/At the Crossroads

Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Rolling Home/Billy and His Piano Without

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love (film)

Edgar Broughton Band - American Boy Soldier/Love In the Rain

Marsha Hunt - Keep the Customer Satisfied

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Episode 52

February 28th 1970

Don't like the Jackie Lomax song.

Otherwise this is a good episode.

regards

Titus

Badfinger - Rock of All Ages

Taste - If the Day Was Any Longer

Bobbie Gentry - Louisiana Man

Clouds - Big Noise from Winnetka

Atomic Rooster - S.L.Y.

Jackie Lomax - How the Web Was Woven

Badfinger - Come and Get It

Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Joe Cocker - Dear Landlord

Jethro Tull - The Witches Promise

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Episode 51

January 31st 1970

At last we get some colour footage.

Excellent selection on this edition.

There is a weird thing that seems to be about hair

and the constant Aktion Sex ist Mies message.

I'm not sure what the point of all that is.

Meine Frau says it is supposed to be satire.

regards

Titus

Humble Pie - The Sad Bag of Shaky Jake

Free - Mr. Big

Juicy Lucy - Chicago North-Western

Renaissance - Island

Spirit - 1984

Colosseum - The Machine Demands a Sacrifice

John Mayall -  I'm Gonna Fight for You J.B.

Canned Heat - Let's Work Together/Move on Down the Road

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Episode 50

December 31st 1969

I said this was the first episode in colour.

That was not correct!

I won't say that again until I actually see one in colour.

No rubbish on this one IMO.

Eddie Hardin and Terry Reid are legends.

Dave Dee is starting to annoy me already

and his ex-buddies get a slot on the show.

I really like their song which annoys me even more.

Steamhammer are interesting. Steve Jolliffe joined them

after being in an early incarnation of Tangerine Dream.

Steve rejoined Tangs in 1978 for the Cyclone album and subsequent tour

which I saw in Manchester.

I had a seat close to the stage which was great

but I came out with a stiff neck from twisting my head around

to look at the laser patterns they were shooting onto the ceiling.

I remember Edgar Froese playing guitar inide a circular 'cage'

whose bars were green laser beams.

regards

Titus

Steamhammer - Lousiana Blues

Eddie Hardin and Peter York - Tomorrow Today/The Pike

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Tonight Today

The Chicago Transit Authority - I'm A Man

Janis Joplin - Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)

Terry Reid - Superlungs My Supergirl/Rich Kid Blues/Highway 61 Revisited

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Episode 49

November 29th 1969

This one has some stuff they've shown before.

I think it is the last black & white show.

The Man footage is really good.

I should post something by them.

regards

Titus

Man - 2:30 Definitely

Yes - No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed

Caravan - Magic Man

Champion Jack Dupree - Schooldays/Calcutta

Babylon - Into the Promised Land

Man - Brother Arnold's Red and White Striped Tent

Delaney & Bonnie (with Eric Clapton) - Poor Elijah

/If There's a Will there's a Way

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Episode 48

October 25th 1969

This one includes an interview with Christopher Lee!

...and some weird stuff about Hare Krishna/the Conservative Party.

regards

Titus

Blodwyn Pig - Modern Alchemist

Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Tea & Symphony - Boredom

The Nice - Hang on to a Dream

Barry Ryan - The Hunt

Joe Cocker - Delta Lady

Chicken Shack - Tears in the Wind

Marsha Hunt - Desdemona

Vanilla Fudge - Shotgun

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Episode 47

September 27th 1969

This is the first episode from the 5th series.

Dave Dee is Uschi's new co-host

It starts with a piece about Lulu marrying into the BeeGees

with which they seem obsessed.

The format has changed and here we get a lengthy

Who section (not live) promoting 'Tommy'

plus Fat Mattress, Blind Faith, Vanilla Fudge

and footage from the Isle of Wight festival.

Trying an alternative storage site with this one.

regards

Titus

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Episode 46

August 30th 1969

This is the last episode of the 4th series

and it marks the final show with Dave Lee Travis.

In series five Uschi's co-host is Dave Dee.

By my calculations Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

have appeared on Beat Club a record breaking 12 times.

I'm beginning to wonder if Dave Dee

has compromising pictures of the show's producers.

regards

Titus

Deep Purple - Hallelujah

Three Dog Night - Try A Little Tenderness

Procol Harum - Long Gone Geek/interview

Tim Rose - Hey Joe

Interstate Roadshow - Grindy Grind

Windmill - Big Bertha

Jimmy Ruffin - I've Passed This Way Before

Steamhammer - Junior's Wailing/When All Your Friends are Gone

The Move - Curly

Humble Pie - Alabama 69/Natural Born Boogie

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Episode 45

August 2nd 1969

I don't fully understand the seegments with pirates etc.

Even my translator was confused/dismissive.

Robin Gibb quits BeeGees..Shock! Horror!...Pope Held!

regards

Titus

Dave Clark 5 - Live in the Sky

Steppenwolf - Sookie, Sookie

Paul Revere and the Raiders - Out on that Road

Marmalade - Baby Make It Soon

The Rainbow People – Living In A Dream World

Robin Gibb - Saved by the Bell

The Rolling Stones - footage from tribute to Brian Jones

Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525

Clodagh Rodgers - Goodnight Midnight

The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A.

Thunderclap Newman - Something in the Air

Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace a Chance

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