Old Grey Whistle Test - Scotland 1975

[@tunnel7]

Got to see Alex Harvey Band on a number of occasions they were great to watch Live what as happened to the music where did it all go wrong the 60S and 70s was a great time to be on the scene I loved it then and still do..

[@ThePhototroon]

One thing for sure about the Alex Harvey Band they were absolutely Sensational.

[@rodharvey8463]

Amen tae that brother im still getting answers n wisdom fae Mr Alex Harvey luv the way music appears at times of lkn answers peace ❤ Roderick Harvey 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@SpireUtd]

@@ThePhototroon to wear my SAHB Tshirt, day or night, is to invite fellow Sensationalists to come share their memories of when they saw Alex & witnessed his SAHB. Even now, after all this time, his fans remain slightly puzzled about what they saw but all agree with you ... Sensational!

[@charlieconnelly5514]

Right on,I saw them at Celtic Park supporting the Who in the 70’s.🎶👍🎶🇿🇦

[@johnfarnborough6424]

Saw them in Slough about this time. One of the great nights of my youth. When you could watch a great band close up without having to take out a mortgage. Pity those Oasis fans having to pay a fortune to see them in the far distance

[@jeniferallan6693]

Unfortunately never saw them live. However, I saw the reincarnation of Sahb in 2000 with all of the band in Tottenham Court Road. Wow! Love this band. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band!

[@josephkilpatrick1767]

Mother dear did you hear how they’re teaching me to do the goose step, classic opening line

[@JCL-n7y]

I'm 74 for the next few weeks and lucky to be here, damn I miss SAHB and Nazareth. Oh and Whispering Bob the best DJ bar none.

[@SpireUtd]

Thank goodness this episode with Alex & SAHB is preserved... just sorry for this generation who never will know how Sensational Alex & SAHB were 😢

[@robertmeader10]

100% agree, they were amazing.

[@OlafProt]

I remember Whistle Test. But not OGWT. I was 3 when this was broadcast so I've never quite got why SAHB was just so revered. I've friends born late 1950s and they said that the reaction to Alex Harvey was similar to Bowie a few years earlier. Its fascinating. There's definitely something, actually More than something, of Bon Scott about Alex. That unchained Scotsman. But what a wonderful snapshot in time this episode is.

[@SpireUtd]

@@OlafProt aye. Alex was indeed a rare talent, he had everything in his repertoire, more than likely his ear was tuned to the very early evolution of blues, soul, Honky Tonk & the other sounds coming across the Atlantic, as well as his Scottish heritage. Finding Tear Gas & cleverly moulding them into his SAHB was in itself a stroke of genius. But above all the Stage presence of Alex mesmerised everyone who saw him live. He somehow conected, personally, with his audience. The Soldier on the Wall & The Mafia Stole My Guitar, Alex's albums without SAHB are also equally, artistically & musically brilliant,,, in my, very, very, partisan, opinion. RIP Alex.

[@sicks6six]

a generation that listens to Sam Smith and Taylor Swift would never listen to The SAHB or anything else that made your mind think,

[@OlafProt]

@@sicks6six the equivalents of swifties in the 70s were listening to the bay city rollers and the new seekers and buying those TOTP albums with re-recorded versions of hits on. Nothing changes. Some people want disposable pop and don't want or need music to make them thing. And that's ok. Horses for courses. Sam Smith means nothing to me, but that's because he's not meant to. I'm 52. But if he makes some people happy, then great.

[@wynhughes9072]

I was 23. Great times. Great music. OGWT on TV every week. What a time for music.

[@glen1555]

Was in my late teens, didn't realise at the time that the 1970s were a golden decade for music. What have todays youth got? Taylor Swift!

[@skylarkman2000]

Amazing show . Sadly missed .

[@MrLespaul2000]

I was 21. Totally agree mate best days :)

[@senianns9522]

Same here ! I was travelling around the world as a service engineer so I missed many of these productions! Great to catch up all these years later!

[@marceloaraujo8728]

Eu tinha 22, vivi esta época, o auge.

[@rickallen6378]

This show kicks ass; Alex Harvey Band knocked it out of the park. hair Of The Dog.

[@markmcneill2904]

Arse mate

[@stevenbrownlie2095]

I remember this OGWT episode. Great trip down memory lane. Thank you from a proud Scot.

[@NigeyH2466]

Remember trying to persuade my Mum to let me stay up and watch the Whistle Test, there were so many fantastic singers and bands who did not go on Top of the Pops… Happy Happy days…

[@rockerrob61]

To say this is a gem is an understatement, fifty minutes of pure class.

[@Kiltoonie]

er, I think you meant 'crass' ....

[@brit50ify]

SAHB. My first big concert at age 16 or 17. (1976) Traveled from Andover Hants to London. What a show

[@claudiadind5726]

A moment in time when we were young and happy but all gone never to return

[@michaelschmidt9708]

Great episode. Seeing SAHB and Naz made me think of all the amazing vocalists Scotland has produced, i.e. Bon Scott, Dan McCafferty, Alex Harvey, James Dewar (Robin Trower, Stone The Crows), Davey Pattison (Gamma, Robin Trower), Brian Connolly (Sweet), Frankie Miller, Kal Swan (Tytan, Lion), Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Maggie Bell, a.o.

[@TheLastOilMan]

And Rod the sod

[@TheLastOilMan]

Fish

[@terryguest6035]

@@TheLastOilMan He is from London.

[@HighOnFire1997]

Don't forget Derek Fish and Marillion. Superb band

[@apollomemories7399]

And some more: John Martyn, Al Stewart, Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), Mark Knopfler, Shirley Manson (Garbage), Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull), Gerry Rafferty, Jim Kerr (Simple Minds), Paul Buchanan (The Blue Nile), Billy MacKenzie (The Associates), Jack Bruce (Cream), Pye Hastings (Caravan), Ivor Cutler, Donovan, Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band), Bert Jansch (Pentangle), Mike Scott (The Waterboys).

[@quotemenot7520]

Hands down TOGWT was the greatest music show ever, just got to look at the line up each week, the live performances and the fact you saw acts you otherwise would not have seen. It was my highlight of the week and I still miss it a lot. Just like I miss the Wardour Street Marquee Club as one of the greatest music venues ever.

[@MultiArkle]

Used to go to the Sunday folk nights in the Salutation Hotel in Kinross ..pretty sure Rab Noaks Archie Fish and Barbra Dickson all played there,,,great nights

[@kjm5155]

I recently saw somebody state online, that Liam Gallagher is the greatest frontman of all time..bloody hilarious….in my humble opinion, there’s only one candidate….and that is the incomparable Alex Harvey…and how brilliant to see SAHB in their pomp with two amazing performances!

[@davidpost6902]

@kjm5155.........that's so funny. SAHB were just Brilliant. AH was the tommy Steele of Scotland. He put theatre into Rock music. He was a proper front man

[@kjm5155]

@@davidpost6902 Before SAHB, Alex had done the hard yards…through Skiffle, Jazz, and then the Soul Band….he opened for the Beatles on their first ever tour(in Alloa)…he did the whole Hamburg thing just like the Fab Four….he played in Hair….he lived with Bowie….Mike Oldfield played in his band before SAHB….he deserved every piece of success that came his way…..he paid his dues and more! In my mind, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band are…and we’re… the finest band that Scotland has ever produced…if it wasn’t for those pesky Liverpudlians….I would say these Islands!😆

[@SpireUtd]

@@kjm5155 Absolutely! Well stated. If only their famous Christmas shows were filmed. 🤔

[@johnmcnulty9070]

There were so many great frontmen, impossible to pick the greatest.,

[@kjm5155]

@@johnmcnulty9070 It's all down to personal taste...but I would suggest the majority of people that saw Alex 'live'...would be hard pushed to name anyone better.

[@jimmccork]

SAHB stage shows were amazing, dramatic and so hilarious at times. ‘Dancing Cheek to Cheek’ live was just so funny. But the musicianship was always first class, and perfectly delivered.

[@charlesdoherty104]

Alex was pure theatre , entertainment at its best and his band were indeed Sensational 🎸👍🎸

[@Every_Day_islike_Sunday]

Saw Nazareth live around this time. So great! Hair of the Dog is a phenomenal song! However, my number one Scottish love will always be Gerry Rafferty ❤

[@OlafProt]

@@Every_Day_islike_Sunday kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXSpYaiDjs96eJYsi=MgGW5pUd1kfFoWHU ❤️

[@Deebz270]

Gerry Rafferty - Dougie Maclean, Davy Spillane and Annie Lennox. All beautifully musical Scottish people.

[@Deebz270]

Just love TSHAB! The beautifully comical choreographed gyrations of Zal and Chris in Delilah were simply - DELIGHTFUL. Zal is one of coolest guys in the industry and a great performer and was the perfect foil to 'raving-mad-pal' Alex Harvey.

[@brianreilly1904]

These artists had it all great vocal, great musicianship stage presence and great tunes saw AH at Celtic Park in 76 he was brilliant

[@apollomemories7399]

And that children, is what proper rock music was all about. The guitar player in Stone The Crows was Les Harvey, Alex's younger brother, who died having been electrocuted on stage during a pre-show soundcheck in Swansea in May 1972.

[@SpireUtd]

@@apollomemories7399 Alex recorded an extremely cathartic version of 'He ain't Heavy He's my Brother'. The pain of Alex is clear to hear, & to those don't know the story, the way Alex sings, it just sounds awful. It's to be found in the deeper recesses of KZbin somewhere.

[@apollomemories7399]

@@SpireUtd Can't say I was too fond of The Hollies version either. Everyone records a dud at sometime. Even David Bowie.

[@Kiltoonie]

Fair enough - I guess Darwin was right!

[@smooman792]

SAHB, Scotland's greatest rock band ???, I think so. And Nazareth weren't too far behind. Fabulous post many thanks.

[@johnmcnulty9070]

@@smooman792 The greatest from Scotland is The Rezillos, end of.

[@WilliamdeSouzaSantos-kv9pc]

Excellent Program , Amazing performance of SAHB and Nazareth . Final Band Soberb ! Congratulations BBC .

[@cliftonkenny2507]

Farewell by Rod Stewart just floored🫢 me, brought back so many memories growing up a teenager in Fiji in the 70s🥺🥲where'd all them years go🤔Thanks for the upload 🌴🇫🇯🌹🇦🇺😎👍👊

[@garyowens1517]

Crazy to think this is 50 years old next year!

[@StewartyMac]

Bob Harris was in his 20s when this was recorded. Let that sink in.

[@ayrshireslim9565]

Challenging paper route?

[@mvwmark8955]

@@ayrshireslim9565 Right onto the papers after the milk round.

[@63mckenzie]

'The only band I'd buy a ticket to see Is The Alex Harvey Band.' Frank Zappa. Enough said.

[@martydav9475]

Great quote.

[@apollomemories7399]

I didn't know that and really pleased that I do now.

[@nicmart]

Yes, nuff said.

[@johnoneil7235]

Bruce springsteen,

[@thekierongiles]

dude we got to meet i love SAHB and Frank bigtime .... southern England

[@TheCameraNever]

Here in 2024 - I still love SAHB and Nazareth, such great music. But this whole episode was pure class and such good quality picture and sound. Thank you so much.

[@anthonyalfredyorke1621]

Thanks for the wonderful music and have a wonderful weekend. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.

[@diabolicalartificer]

Well said. We definitely need more peace & love in these troubled times. Still, in 75 the Vietnam war ended but the Lebanese war started. I was 10 in 75 bit too young to appreciate the bands here but later on I caught up.

[@martinh6677]

'All this crazy gift of time' - peace

[@johnsenior466]

Whispering Bob takes me back to my teenage years

[@alistairliddell505]

I had the pleasure of meeting 'whispering Bob' recently. An absolute gentleman.

[@strexus]

SAHB, Scotlands greatest rock band.

[@theart8039]

Great musicians in those days. Minimal effects, analogue recording; it'd be very difficult for modern bands to replicate this now

[@magnusheridersson4338]

Great to see some footage of Robbie Mcintosh the AWB's original drummer before his tragic early death.

[@pjlogan386]

Never seen Robbie playing live.

[@brianmillerthomas]

Didn't realise how great the musicians in the Sensational Alex Harvey Band were

[@strexus]

The best live band Scotlands ever produced.

[@brianwoods2395]

​@strexus Alex and the band...."Framed", just a brilliant album, and all the following SAHB albums ....Loved his new band " The mafia stole my guitar " album. R I P Alex, sadly gone way before his time...A one off musician who truly was sensational. ...

[@rorymclauchlan7475]

The producer, who ever he was, deserves huge credit for this. It wouldn't happen now. Can you see how these things have changed..?

[@edwardmorton6691]

What a magnificent collection of artists and songs. You have to feel sorry for people who never experienced how great musicians were then. Brave, daring, rebellious, non conformist, big hairy assed men and sexy looking women, them were the days! I was reminded in my old age how grear theses artists were. Nazareth. SAHB. AWB. spine tingling stuff.

[@thekierongiles]

my most precious thing ever, is my Alex Harvey autograph , on the back of my concert ticket. He signed it "Vambo Roolz Alex Harvey". their live album is one of the best live albums of all time. Live they were an unstoppable force of nature. Alex was the best frontman ever . i was incredibly sad when he passed, but keeping the faith{healer} by regularly playing SAHBs albums

[@bob4analog]

Totally love thos era. This was my time of prog rock. Always loved the whistle.

[@andyslater2609]

Tuesday's nights were the best 👌 MASH followed by the Whistle Test , Bob and top quality music , Happy days

[@skylarkman2000]

​@@andyslater2609Amazing time to be alive.

[@Pwecko]

I might have seen this when it first aired, but I certainly haven't seen it since. I saw SAHB twice, once with the Who at Charlton Athletic and again at the Liverpool Empire on the tour when the live album was recorded. They were, what's the word? Oh yeah, sensational. I have never enjoyed a gig more than their Liverpool performance. Alex had the whole audience in the palm of his hand. Utterly brilliant. Alex had a touch of the psychopath about him. He could charm you and scare the sh!t out of you at the same time. I wasn't a huge fan of Nazareth, though I loved their covers of My White Bicycle, and especially This Flight Tonight. The only album I bought was Rampant.

[@johnnyblunder]

Would loved to have seen Alex Harvey band, totally brilliant. Next.

[@avfc1956]

Oh man they were amazing live. The best 🤟🏻

[@SpireUtd]

Once seen never ever forgotten! Alex had a mesmerising & menacing stage presence & His SAHB were fantastic musicians that made all that noise look fun & effortless.

[@prog2303]

I saw them at Clifton College of Education, Nottingham. Support 'band' a middle aged stripper. Got fondled by a guy behind me who mistook me for his girlfriend. Awkward moment for both of us...

[@raymondbonington9355]

Saw them first time when they supported slade in 1973 at Earl’s Court then saw them in 75 and last time in Bristol in 76 , bloody good .

[@Creepycottages]

I saw SAHB backing Mott The Hoople. At that time I had not heard of them. Have to say they took the show for me even though Mott were great.

[@taxi134-y1q]

SAHB,totally 'out there' and totally brilliant.So glad i saw them all those decades ago.

[@dilltdog1158]

SAHB were absolutely brilliant, I saw their '75 tour, absolute at the top of their game! This is just brilliant. Love Nazareth too, great band, one of the heavies and influential.

[@MickRiley]

Remember all these shows never missed one

[@stephenmorris4848]

Absolutely fabulous! Saw them in 2021, still smashing it.

[@kmickp1166]

SAHB, brilliant, Zal & the McKenna’s…..fantastic!🎶🎶🎶🎶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@thomaswigfield7623]

I was in a band with Ted and Hugh straight out of school. They were cousins, not brothers.

[@knotbrooktaylorpoetry1239]

SAHB saw them back in the day - great show!

[@jimhutchison]

the best wee country in the world ,

[@saorsa5]

Aye right but we still let Westminster rule us more like the thickest wee country in the world

[@JoeCantona-u4s]

@@saorsa5 "Cap in Hand" - The Proclaimers

[@gerrycoogan6544]

Brilliant show. Dan McCafferty's patter is magic, it was nice to see Blue and Rab Noakes again but in the end Alex totally stole the show. It's just a pity that Gerry Rafferty didn't also feature.

[@doubledee7517]

Nazareth were my band growing up, Dan McCafferty had one helluva voice. 👌

[@stephenfoster8859]

“Whispering” Bob Harris those were the days.

[@frankprice7575]

REAL music, God the SAHB were truly magnificent ❤❤

[@andrewjsmith4585]

An absolute beauty of an episode.

[@kmickp1166]

Pure nostalgia forme when Dan was talking about playing the Burns Howf, we played there and in the Dial Inn, the Maggie & the Amphora around ‘77 &’78. I recall the pay in the Howf was £12……but no free beer! Great times!👍🎶🎶😂

[@robertlees7528]

SAHB lucky to catch them live in 74 and 75 lancaster uni and stoke city football ground on a bill headed by Yes faith healer intro still gives me a lft of mood halcyon days as a 16 yr old Ogwt forever!

[@anne-marietimoney1517]

R.I.P. Rab Noakes. OGWT is much missed.

[@fionaewen6231]

Noo ! Is Rab Noakes passed? I worked with him when he was a producer many years ago. Sad

[@grobbler1]

31:21 They're actually from fife - a strange, weird and backward place across the water from edinburgh. That said, Naz were a cracking good Rock band. R.I.P. Dan.

[@apollomemories7399]

Edinburgh - a strange, weird and backward place across the country from Glasgow.

[@andicampbell8621]

@@apollomemories7399 Glasgow, where they`re so posh the club you with a perrier water bottle before stabbing you. They at least then phone you an ambulance.

[@apollomemories7399]

@@andicampbell8621 You might be surprised just how few the number of stabbing incidents are these days. And they tend to be a scheme problem. You could in theory walk around the west-end for years non-stop and never get accosted.

[@grobbler1]

@@apollomemories7399 Edinbuggers.

[@apollomemories7399]

@@grobbler1 Noticeably.

[@alistairliddell505]

I never new there was a Scottish edition of OGWT. A big regret that I never saw SAHB live.

[@kingcormack8004]

Rab Noakes' drummer is Pick Withers, later of Dire Straits.

[@stevevincent4276]

And the rest of the band are Lindisfarne in one, two or more manifestations...

[@pjlogan386]

Yea.playing openhand style.p

[@AlanRafferty]

He played with Gerry Rafferty as well. Gerry's 'Sleepwalking' album, if memory serves me right.

[@jimfritz2087]

I think he played with Dylan too .

[@DuncanWEDD2019]

Also the drummer with the Mellotron-heavy prog band Spring

[@filipedoria9561]

One of the best TV shows ever

[@skylarkman2000]

Totally agree.

[@walesdad]

Back when I was a kid, I was seventeen when this episode went out, the OGWT was absolutely essential viewing. Now it was a long time ago, although it seems like bloody yesterday, but I really had no recollection at all of this episode, but what a show. Thanks for posting and thank you Scotland, some great music and The Sensational Alex Harvey band were mesmerising.

[@SpireUtd]

@@walesdad That's the word for Alex & SAHB "Mesmerising" ... with a touch of menace 😂

[@mvwmark8955]

Bob......., that Jacket? AWESOME! And that is not modern day pain in the a$$ sarcasm........, I love that jacket. And OGWT......, never be bettered.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

1975, it really was a much simpler time. Just listen to the talent. Delilah was AHB biggest chart hit reaching the top 10 in 75. My mum was a big Tom Jones fan and this version had her clutching her pearls... as kids we never ever considered it was a song about domestic abuse and murder! Great clip of AWB at the end. Seeing all these guys in their prime- awesome!

[@brianhoughton4509]

great stuff. ogwt at its best.rock on

[@ayrshireslim9565]

I had the chance to see Rab Noakes live a few years ago, i didn't go and he died shortly afterwards. I deeply regret it.

[@jimhutchison]

the theatrical alex harvey band ,zal cleminson surely inspired the modern batman .

[@peterfreeman6677]

May 30, 1975 Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Give My Compliments To The Chef, Delilah Rab Noakes - Stepping Stone, Turn A Deaf Ear Dan McCafferty - interview Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces (film) Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog, Guilty (live film) Blue - Red Light Song (promo)

[@toomuchinformation]

Stone The Crows?

[@merlin5476]

I've been to see Killing Joke for many years & only just realised that the intro song they always played was Booids by SAHB, sometimes they used Faith healer too.

[@bernmahan1162]

Nazareth were the original AC/DC.

[@andipandi5641]

Bob is so sweet to let his audience know about the Old Gay Whistle Test homage to him..

[@williamwallace5857]

GREY.

[@andipandi5641]

@@williamwallace5857 46:28 is what i am referring to - i remember it well..

[@andipandi5641]

@@williamwallace5857 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIfKfYh9m8mKZ7c

[@peterfreeman6677]

@@williamwallace5857 Eric Idle sent up Whispering Bob and the OGWT in an episode of 'Rutland Weekend Television'. Patchy, like a lot of Eric's stuff, but some of it is genuinely funny. I think Neil Innes is in there somewhere.

[@williamwallace5857]

@@peterfreeman6677 Umm, I know.

[@cliftonkenny2507]

First time seeing the video of Delilah LoL, 😁bloody brilliant. AWB, adding more to picking up the pieces of my teenage years in Fiji before moving to Australia😊🌴🇫🇯🌹🇳🇿😎👍👊

[@terrymckenna1918]

Thanks for posting👊

[@knucklebutty]

Thank god i lived through these days.....................

[@thetonetosser]

Robbie McIntosh, what a marvellous drummer he was. Groove for days. Taken by the dreaded Smack way too soon. RIP.

[@apollomemories7399]

Alan Gorrie also od'd at the same party and was kept alive by Cher.

[@cheezhead6007]

​@@apollomemories7399omg

[@MrCherryJuice]

Yes, the ultimate groover. And yes, a premature demise. A sad tale.

[@bigg7047]

Love Nazareth. What a voice..Axle rose based his voice on him..

[@rorymclauchlan7475]

If you were ever lucky enough to see SAHB at the Glasgow Apollo during this era you will understand this vid.

[@gb5uq]

Dan McCafferty what a legend.

[@eastcoaststudio_bne]

Holy heck, thats good!

[@oscarramage95]

Dan McCaffery & Rab Noakes died two days apart in November last year

[@apollomemories7399]

Ten McKenna died January 2019, Hugh McKenna December 2019.

[@leeder92]

And then Annie Nightingale took over and it all went south.

[@martydav9475]

They started having dire rubbish like Mick Hucknall and the obligatory equally dire animated cartoon (the equivalent to Pans People on Top of the Pops. Nightingale would later reinvent herself as some kind of dark, edgy club DJ who played effing-and-blinding Rap but that choker she always seemed to wear was a sure sign of her undoubted middle-classness). Benny Hill, of all people, did a wicked pi** take of Bob Harris with the whisper, the beard, the loose waistcoat, the shirt mostly undone, the chest hair and the medallion. John Peel used to hate some of the Prog Rock types on OGWT but the physical resemblance between Harris and Peel, at that time, was striking. Did they know each other or even meet at all I wonder.

[@SpireUtd]

@@leeder92 not as horrendously south as the woke BBC having women commenting on the football who can't seem to help engaging their nasal passages whenever possible!

[@apollomemories7399]

@@martydav9475 Much to do with the rubbish bands who couldn't play properly. Much of post-punk was perhaps interesting as a record, but woefully inadequate when attempted to be performed live. Obviously Harris and Peel knew each other from Radio 1, where they both broadcast sessions from many of the same bands from 1972 onwards. Since you don't seem to know that aspect of their history, I'd also say I'm not so sure the prog rock types that Peel did dislike ever appeared on OGWT and think you only have half the story on that. And Peel too, was also undoubtedly middle-class.

[@martydav9475]

​​​@@apollomemories7399Peel was indeed middle-class as his Radio 4 programme Home Truths tended to demonstrate (I recall an item on a middle-aged, middle-class academic woman whose family were aghast when she got a tattoo on her thigh). I recall also being in soulless, bleak B&Q once when Peel's voice could be heard loudly advertising Fisons fertilizer. Peel's apparent devotion to Liverpool FC tended to wear thin as he rarely attended matches and started watching Ipswich instead as it was nearer. Peel always looked dismayed and uncomfortable at Glastonbury as he had to introduce various rubbish on the main stages as Jo Whiley, a musical vacuity, looked on. ( In later years Whiley was joined by another musical vacuity, Lauren Laverne).

[@apollomemories7399]

@@martydav9475 Whiley and Laverne, what a duo. Loathed in equal measure. My better half commented that she thought Laverne was going for the "earth mother" look having piled on the weight and wearing one size fits all this size cover-up clothing. But, it's the other two on Glastobury, the ginger knob and the other woman with dark hair, who do my head in.

[@colinbrown2012]

AWB.....such a groove!

[@Angus_McCrory]

Pick Withers on drums for Rab Noakes. Next minute, playing drums in Dire Straits........

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

Fully bearded and all.

[@teebeeformeg]

Brilliant ........ in all my 67yrs, nothing to top OGWT

[@darrenedwards8433]

Zal had one of the best guitar tones ever!

[@keithausten4230]

Not sure what tone is but fantastic theatrical guitar player.😊

[@clausm2203]

Great show

[@johnfarnborough6424]

Maggie Bell, that’s how you sing young ladies

[@MediaGrope]

Greatest export from Scotland after my dad

[@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx]

This looks and sounds a lot better than it did when I watched OGWT on a B&W telly in the 70s. Was the show filmed or recorded on videotape? The image quality here is excellent.

[@ChicTumshy]

This is precious

[@karlalton3170]

Nazareth are rock God's R I P Dan 😁😁🤘🤘

[@SpireUtd]

@@karlalton3170 ahem! & Alex with his SAHB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@smooman792]

Love the Rezzilos too.

[@photodom2000]

The OGWT got me into Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. I was also 'fortunate' enough to see the legendary Paul Kossof interview when he was so jagged up on heroin I doubt he could remember his name. Other great performances (in my mind,) were Lynard Skynard and Supertramp. And yes, I also had to convince my parents to let me stay up and watch the OGWT in the early 70's. PS I wonder how many people know where the title of the programme came from?

[@legacyofpop]

I do..... I believe that if the old fellas that worked as stage hands whistled tunes that they heard in rehearsal... you passed the old, grey whistle test... Am I right ? or was that just fanciful legend.. ?

[@Voidoid77]

VAMBO ROOLS!!! And Dunfermline's*, (Fife), finest, Nazareth... w/ Dan McCafferty r.i.p. - one of the best vocalists the UK ever produced. (* - Also, hometown of The Skids/Big Country, too).

[@itsayesfromme2669]

Saw SAHB at Park Head where they blow The Who off the stage.

[@matthewtaylor7355]

Saw Hendrix at the Bag o Nails in 1966. He did the same to the Who

[@apollomemories7399]

They were very good, but they did not blow The Who off the stage. They made the mistake of doing that Hugh and Zal spot where Alex stole Zal's guitar, which went on far too long and killed the momentum because half the audience couldn't see what was going on. When The Who hit the stage and Moon did that cartwheel right across the front of the stage (from Townshend's spot over to Entwistle's on the left) before getting behind his kit, then Townshend's opening chords for Can't Explain, the place went 10 feet up in the air. And the volume was beyond belief, well it would be being the most powerful pa system in the world.

[@ianmorrison554]

Absolutely! Brilliant gig. Police announcements in between acts telling what cars had been broken into!

[@apollomemories7399]

@@ianmorrison554 And in Glasgow's east end, too, who'd have thought?...

[@stewartbalmer1515]

My brother in law told me about that said the crowd were calling for the who to get of and let Alex Back on

[@IanAnthonyMartin]

19:45 Yes, that singer was Scots, but you'd hardly think so!

[@colincarroll7954]

Currently doing country music on Radio 2 UK

[@Crichton51]

SAHB, Naz and AWB, class!

[@blath19]

Friday nights - the OGWT was the only reason to leave the pub early :)

[@Belfast-Biccy]

I seem to remember it being 9 o'clock on Tuesday nights?

[@DavidPatersonPortraits]

Met them on a train from Glasgow to Inverness when I was 15 and the drunk Alex assaulted me for no reason.