Cado Belle @ The Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 1975

Cado Belle play at the Third Eye Centre in 1975. The quality of the video is not great as it was recorded on a Sony Portapak the first portable video recording system , This footage was shot by Jak Milroy and was recently digitised for an exhibition about The Third Eye Centre at the CCA in Glasgow,

[@rmil4531]

Sad to hear Alan Darby has passed away. Great guitarist.

[@coling6750]

Still play their music to this day...timeless!!

[@GB-hy3lu]

Loved Cado Belle in the 70's, just learned of the passing of Colin Tully, an enormous loss

[@karma133]

It's great that this still exists. It shows clearly how good the band was. Their album was a bit sanitised, and didn't capture their energy or excellent musicianship. The guy who was the technician at the drama department at Stevenson's College in Edinburgh made an excellent sound board recording of one of their legendary gigs at the (I think) Allan Ramsay Hotel at this time. Heard it once- it was superb. Would love to know what happened to that.

[@robertthom100]

What a memory. I was there in 75... Still play their music. Robert of the Flowerpots, Burgundy France. Great band and with Maggie's vocals should have made it big time !!!

[@baragentledragon]

such a crying shame theres very little footage of such a highly talented totally original fantastic band, :(

[@jazzjocal]

Thanks for uploading this. Brought back some great memories of this band. Saw them at The Rainbow Finsbury Park, but they only played in the upstairs foyet rather than the main theatre. Studio recordings as well done as they were never really captured the band properly. Similar to AWB they really jammed and with Maggies vocals soaring above that was just the business.

[@YolTube]

Wow!! Thanks for posting this! Could only dream of seeing Cado Belle live!! Awesome!

[@douglasbinnie8737]

Doug Binnie, Dundee I still play that album over and over. Only time I ever saw them live was in the Barracuda, Dundee. Thanks for uploading the clip.

[@Gordon1957]

First time I've seen footage of this great band. I finally got a copy of their classic album with e.p. tagged on. Sounds as good as it did nearly 40 years ago.

[@MickLamont]

My band supported Cado Belle at this gig. I had no idea it was videoed. No-one had personal video recorders or players in 1975.

[@suerabjohns2642]

Still got your old gig diaries? Any idea what date this was? I hitched through from Fife to see them at one of the 3rd eye gigs. I remember Davy was about keeling over with the Flu that night, and I crashed at Alan's flat. Was the same day a friend of mine got married, so might be able to identify it. Would be nice to know if this was th same night!

[@MickLamont]

Hi, Sue. I cannot give you the exact date but it was just before Christmas 1975 - may be in the week leading up to Christmas. A Friday I think, in fact I am sure it was the Friday before Christmas. If you saw the support band, the singer fell over taking the drums with him. Are you related to Pete Rabjohns who is a FB friend of John Coletta?

[@sz5876]

That's awesome

[@AFaceintheCrowd01]

Part of a fantastic UK funky soul scene that included Kokomo, Gonzalez, FBI and Moon. A gig every night of the week.

[@rbthnnng]

great to see them on video after all these years. I was a big fan back then and probably went to see them about half a dozen times. Would love to see the OGWT footage again too. Don't recognise the first song but "paper in the rain" one of my favourites. If you've any more footage please upload it.

[@robertfort4804]

Saw them in 75 when we lived in the UK, I really liked the way they did Airport Shutdown funny how that song stayed in my head all these years. I contacted the band a few years ago and told them I remember the song being a lot more jazzy and he said that they did do it more jazz tempo in the live shows.

[@paulblakey4589]

Superb

[@richardsteed3928]

I cant believe this was filmed I 1975! Is that Maggie Reilly on vocals?!

[@wayneblanchard97]

Yes, Maggie Reilly on the microphone.

[@EgoShredder]

The legendary Geddy Lee on bass as well.............only kidding!

[@denisespencer6550]

Maggie looks brilliant

[@jimbaird3386]

Saw them at Paisley town Hall. Fab band.....

[@dannym5345]

looking for the back of my head here was there saw them a lot in the third eye think the 1st track was named after one of the bands dog if memory serves me correct dill or something like that

[@sz5876]

This song needs to be worked into a '70s style exploitation movie.

[@unclebill1948]

Would love to have been there. Great bass sound, but I think that the AWB had a better drummer at that time.

[@suerabjohns2642]

HH 115 VS-bassamp combo as I remember (had one myself for awhile) - Simpler days

[@EgoShredder]

If you were starting now it would be a laptop with Amplitube virtual amp software going through a powerful P.A. system. I suppose all the stage amp and cab stacks are just hollow wooden props these days?

[@kenwindsor]

Just in case you have not seen this one - great quality recording of Maggie and Cado Belle kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXjHkoljbdOmnZo