This is what Paul ,I mean Billy was doing besides the Beatles

Wow the band sounds great!!!

2:46 Quentin Smirhes father? :D

Very Bob Calvert !

I love this kRazY stuff_ lol_ Better than Kiss's theatrics_ Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band or whatever they're called are great

Amount of effort and thought and rehearsal that went into the visual show....

Sheer genius !

I don't know much,but I know what I like and I like this.........

William Shepherd was and still is a genius. He could do it all from Stanshall to McCartney and who knows what else lies between.

Get's more intriguing with every view. Bless I was lucky to follow all they have done in the 60s & 70s

Painful.

My fave Bonzo's track along 'we are normal' a big influence

Magical Mistery Tour

SAHB meets Svankmajer - superb

Viv could have made magical mystery tour or Sgt peppers lonely heart club band albums very similar song writing and costumes?

Faul's off his head !

Roger Ruskin Spear was being very naughty in this one!

Oh. My. God. 🚬😎👍

Satire at it,s best🇬🇧 🤔 🐸 🙉 🌀 From the states🇺🇸

Dennis Cowan looks a little like Eric Idle

Biily and the Bonzo's

biG Grunt was the brainchild of Vivian Stanshall and was created following the demise of The Bonzo Dog Band. Although Stanshall had released a single with his 'Sean Head Showband' after the Bonzo's had split, biG Grunt was intended to be Stanshall's major new post Bonzo project. biG Grunt included two members of the Bonzo Dog Band. The Bassist Dennis Cowan (who was also working in Neil Innes' post Bonzo band, The World) as well as the Bonzo's 'third songwriter',reeds player and eccentric inventor, Roger Ruskin Spear. The other members of biG Grunt were guitarists Bubs White and 'Borneo' Fred Munt (both of whom were members of the Bonzo's road crew) and on drums Ian Wallace (also of Innes' The World and later King Crimson) biG Grunt's career was shortlived spanning from 1970 to 1971. They released only one single, 'Blind date', (written for, but turned down by crooner Matt Monroe). It is the story of a gorilla and a pygmy who meet up through a dating agency. It was doube A sided with 'Suspicion', a song by another of Stanshall's short-lived groups, 'Vivian Stanshall and his Gargantuan Chums.' biG Grunt also recorded four titles for the John Peel sessions in March 1970. It was their first public appearance and the four titles, recorded live, were; 'Blind Date', '11 Mustachioed Daughters' (from the Bonzo Dog band's second album), as well as 'The Strain' and 'Cyborg Signal'. These tracks demonstrate the humour and musicality of biG Grunt as well as the originality and musical diversity of the band. These four songs range in sound from country and western parody through to a rock instrumental 'freakout' not unlike many progressive bands of the day. biG Grunt played a number of well recieved live shows and also appeared on the BBC's "Marty Amok" for comedian Marty Feldman. Despite largely enthusiastic responses from the music press and public alike, the band had, to all intents and purposes, become defunct by the summer of 1971 due to the personal problems of it's founder and leader Vivian Stanshall. biG Grunt never developed into the major project that Stanshall had hoped for but nevertheless, for a time, biG Grunt achieved a genuinely original and pioneering sound that fused avant garde music with surreal visuals and distinctive humour.

Paul is dead

Forty thieves had he Out for what we all want Lots of LSD

Satans' house band, truly a nightmare trip through Hell

Swap Viv Stanshall for Captain Beefheart and it would fit perfectly with the Captain’s output.

I LOVE this band ❤️ SO Funny and Cool 😎 😄

Why is it everyone were good musicians back then?

Captain beef hearts lost band!!

A clear example of the best in absurdist humor,sorely missing in today's music in any genre.

Fantasy double bill:The Bonzos and The Residents.

This performance seems as if Viv threw it together at the last minute. And yet, ever since I discovered it I can't stop coming back. I also can't put my finger on what, if anything, is being parodied, as though everyone's in on the gaff but me. Anybody know where it was taped?

tanx

Sounds a cross between The Who, and Pink Floyd ✌️

still the best, still watching in my dotage, thanks for the memories guys from the bottom of my heart

Viv I love you

The goons, python and the undeniable link between this and music, thanks Vivian......

forever in my heart

Weird - and Cool

So far out they're never coming back .

god bless viv

Thanks to KZbin this highly entertaining late 60s psychedelic rock absurdist theatre song is accessible anytime. It seems to me like it's a friendly parody of "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream. For years I only encountered Vivian Standshall in UK mid 60s rock history books.

The leg is a theramin. Because of course it is.

still with ya Viv. Thanks to Neil, too. Many fab memories.

MACCA.

Lyrics 11 Moustachioed Daughters. Running in a field of fat. The full moon high, the mandrakes speak, please come To our sabat. The changing children shiver round the fire their Mothers dance. Strangely painted faces that smile but never laugh. The crow pecked gibbet's victim, swings broken in his cage His hands cut down to make a crown to wear as a Homage. Round and round the magic things our fingers fastly Rush And wolf like things and toads with wings whisper wetly "Come with us" Fresh plucked eye of a favourite cat, pulped and mixed With white hens fat, a lapwings wing, and lions roar, like belladonna to make your eyes Like a beast To anoint the body and make it shine To drink and make thyself divine To choose another form and make it thine And knowledge of a blasphemy And fill the fetid air With ancient lies And leprous cries This night he will be there A madness has the mouthsgate wide, As one they sway and moan, And every brutish face is turned To see our goat kings throne

Speaking of people I wish were still alive.

The COMICAL FLEETWOOD MAC! LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM!

Homer Simpson's head way before

There's a better quality video of this at kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2HPYpuOmdVokM0