Pentangle - Live Norwegian TV '68

[@mattychapati]

One of the best folk bands in to come out of the UK. All top flight musicians. I've been listening to them for years. My main instrument is drums and percussion. Terry Cox had all the ruduments and I always admired his style and pure genius. Two of the best folk guitarists, Bert and John RIP and the very beautifully understated Jacqui Mcshee. I met Danny Thompson in 1994 in Watford harlequin shopping centre in the UK. I was holding the door open for whoever was behind me and low and behold it was Danny Thompson. He was a true English gentleman and very personable. I shook his hand and we spoke for a while. Initially my wife thought he may of been one of my old school teachers ☺ Great band that I still listen to 45 year's on since I first heard them.

[@markwelton9428]

Their magic just never fades. I first saw them 53 years ago and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. It was like witnessing a divine miracle. And it still is. Thank you so much for posting this wonderful performance!

[@thetourmalinechamber]

How lucky and blessed are you. Cheers from Brazil 💎

[@CBBovey]

This is about as good as a live band gets, it's simply phenomenal. A masterpiece of five great musicians at the top of their game captured forever, how cool is that!

[@maxwellfan55]

Very cool indeed!

[@starcloud4959]

So much better than arrogant metal.

[@chiplovitt8538]

Two of the best acoustic guitar players of all time, a great singer, and brilliant rhythm section. It just doesn't get any better than this.

[@DjNikGnashers]

You forgot, probably the best double bass player that ever walked the earth.

[@uweboll8833]

YES!!!

[@Janarnaud54]

Yes

[@oftin_wong]

You guys need to expand your music listening

[@Jonpriley]

1:42 The Time Has Come (Anne Briggs) 5:49 Mirage (Pentangle) 8:45 A Woman Like You (Bert Jansch) 12:47 Turn Your Money Green (Furry Lewis) 15:53 Hear My Call (Staples Singers) 20:06 Haitian Fight Song (Charles Mingus) 25:42 Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (trad.) 29:00 Belles (Pentangle) 35:34 Bruton Town (trad)

[@connorharrington617]

Makes me very proud to be british. Listening to this while driving my 1961 MG Midget mk1

[@danielgiraud1118]

Midget ? Midget ? Tu as bien dit Midget ? Quelle surprise ! Ma petite amie Chris de Muswell Hill, Londres, a commis l’exploit de perdre sa cerise dans une Midget en 1971. Aussitôt, je l’ai encouragée à contacter le Guinness Book of Records pour y figurer. Au fait, j’y pense, c’est peut être avec toi qu’elle a perdu sa cerise ? À condition que tu aies 20 ans en 1971. Alors mon cher Connor, comment c’était ? As-tu souffert ensuite de courbatures ? Est-ce que les pompiers sont venus vous extraire avec un ouvre-boîte ? As-tu gardé l’empreinte de ton volant sur les fesses pendant une semaine ? Est-ce que ta mère le sait ? Ah, sacrée Midget !… Une jolie voiture élégante pour anglais raffiné. **** Midget ? Midget ? Did ye say Midget ? Wot a surprise ! My gurlfriend Chris frae Muswell Hill, Lunnon (smile), committed the feat o’ a-losin’ her cherry in a Midget in 1971. I immediately encouraged her tae contact the Guinness Book of Records tae be included in. By the way, I think ‘bout it, maybe it was wi’ thee that she lost her cherry ? Provided thou wert 20 years yongë in 1971. Sae, my dear Connor, how was it ? Did ye suffer frae aches afterward ? Did the fire department come an’ pull ye oot wi’ a can opener ? Did ya keep the imprint o’ thy steering wheel on yer butt fer a week ? Does thy muther know ? Ah, holy Midget !… A luvely, elegant car for refined Saussenach.

[@DMateo2524]

Bought my first Pentangle LP in 1968. Their folksongy/jazzy arrangements impressed my 18 year old self. Good times.🌿🌱⚘

[@rodmcdonough6111]

OK, having just been blown away by John Renbourne, now I am stopped dead in my tracks by their drummer... doing a fast pace, kick-ass, rudiment-intensive solo with BRUSHES! Does anyone realize how difficult that is, especially at that tempo? Please call the medics, my brains tend to explode in the presence of such gifted players as these young musicians of Pentangle

[@sunbearwizard]

Isn't it just too amazing, I feel so lucky to be alive to hear this

[@revup67]

Danny Thompson is the master. Let No Man Steal.. sends a rippling chill down to my heels.

[@davidlemargee3757]

So far ahead of their time! This ensemble is a perfect balance of two guitar geniuses a wizard on bass and the beautiful yet understated Jaquie.

[@privatetartanarmy]

David LeMargee Don't forget a fantastically jazzy drummer in Terry Cox gluing it all together. Five wonderful talents.

[@marciabroekarts223]

Yet, her voice is more versatile than Sandy Denny's

[@leeg3582]

@@privatetartanarmy Terry Cox , What a bloody classy drummer !!

[@privatetartanarmy]

Lee Griff I can't imagine their music working with any other drummer.

[@namcat53]

@@privatetartanarmy Terry is one swinging drummer; the best.

[@rodmcdonough6111]

Have listened to Pentangle but never saw John Renbourne as he played live. God God Y'all! He is absolutely phenomenal. His fingerstyle picking is truly beyond perfection. I am truly beyond 50 years late in discovering this man's genius talent.

[@nancywebb5809]

She quietly adjusts the mini she’s wearing on that impossible bar stool. I remember it wasn’t easy. Such a gift she has. Hope she comes to the states once it’s safe.

[@olliedebhal7486]

Really love this!. They all look so young...real talent,real music, real feeling.Bert & John sadly missed.

[@richieboy6825]

I guess I just slipped into a parallel universe (again?) I’ve been absorbed in music from 65-70 since I was a kid in the 80’s. I just came across this band just now FOR THE FIRST time. Completely mystifies me how I missed them all these years. God I love life!!!!

[@artyfarty7508]

You speak for me as well. I’m on the cusp of baby boom and gen X and have akways been enthralled with music from mid-60s to early 70s. Yet i just recently discovered Pentangle. They are amazing

[@TheGman858]

Absolutely stunning to see all these rare performances pop up on youtube thank you for sharing greatly appreciated

[@Zopf-international]

After the bass solo. So humbling. Very nice indeed.

[@freedomnationunited]

Pure, undiluted talent. And all so young too. Love the Norwegian version of the ‘Icelandic clap’

[@odinsplaygrounds]

I’m Norwegian, and I just realized it’s not common to clap like that other places lol

[@TheRealBoroNut]

Masters of their craft.

[@raymondpierotti8414]

Thank you for releasing this. It brings back many a fine memory.

[@bufatutuagonistes8876]

What a fantastic video. Some of my favorite Pentangle songs, the ones that swirl with mystery, soulfulness, and Celtic/jazz power: Woman Like You, Mirage, Brunton Town. After all these years and thousands of hours of listening to a diverse selection of music, Pentangle remains one of my top five musical acts ever. Thanks to Aerostatica for posting this.

[@donnlarossa9173]

FAV BAND OF ALL TIME

[@joehiggs100]

Wonderful, many thanks, a delight to see the technicians setting up and doing a great job on sound and visual mix. Special thanks to Norwegian Harold for the request for Haitian Fight Song. Nice how Bert and John start having a smoke together after that on Let No Man Steal Your Time. It wouldn't be allowed nowadays due to Health and Safety regulations..

[@charleshultquist9233]

The performance is stunning and the quality of the recording is worth mentioning as well. Listening with sophisticated modern system...the bass response is amazing.

[@gibby6904]

What a Supergroup! Love every second of music they recorded......same with Bert.....some with John....

[@jamesrobert4106]

The acoustic routes documentary is fantastic, though I imagine you have already found it. 👍

[@urgulp1554]

Very cool. I was fortunate enough to see them when they reunited at Green Man in 2008. What a band!

[@artistrunner3327]

A real super band with fantastic individual skills combined. This kind of ability comes only every 100yrs!

[@verite]

Good lord Danny Thompson is a fantastic bass player.

[@johnmanion6463]

Wow! I just discovered this by happenstance. I looked up Bert Jansch as a result of hearing Johnny Marr’s interview about the musician that influenced Marr the most. Johnny Marr is from the band The Smiths. They’re a post punk era band. He stated that Bert Jansch is the most important musician he listened to and admired, growing up in England. I can see why. He is certainly a “maverick” on guitar.

[@josiahprofenno4136]

I think they’re more emo cliche than 'post-punk'.

[@johnmanion6463]

Josiah, Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of rock music which emerged in the late 1970s as artists departed from the raw simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences.

[@jamesrobert4106]

The Smiths are more than a band. They are cultural history and without doubt the most talented band of the 80s.

[@donnlarossa9173]

BEST BAND EVER...They were so far ahead of anything in those days and now lol

[@bobbutler606]

Music from the Norwegian TV archives always seems to be top quality. i guess they knew how to store film stock correctly and file it away properly unlike the BBC who seem to have lost or destroyed hours of priceless footage over the years.

[@YorkyOne]

Thousands of hours of priceless footage!

[@baldrbraa]

Get the NRK app, it’s all online.

[@frankpeter6851]

Agreed! Those sound engineers were not messing around.

[@Anhorish]

@@YorkyOne Hancock's Half Hour amongst them. Media Archives are major assets and yet. . . What were they thinking?

[@gamers7800]

Ya the BBC wipe their ass with all that priceless footage.

[@pixelatedparcel]

Wow, am blown away by the musical artistry of this bunch! Am 55 and this is the first time I've heard Pentangle (to my knowledge) and got here simply because I mentioned John Reinbourn to someone in a comment and she turned me on to them...Thanks for this, Trombonology Erstwhile, wherever you may be.

[@keithpattison6763]

I still have a couple of LP's stored away, after being introduced to their music in 1972 and can remember going to see them when they came to Adelaide about 1973. They still send chills down my spine.

[@aasmundolsen]

another gem digged up from the vault - thank you for sharing ..amazing stuff

[@louielouiesong8376]

Great footage and great musicians. Thanks.

[@victorsuybio]

wow! nice sound mix, everything in balance!

[@thewordofgord]

Thank you for this priceless gem!

[@blueykoolhaas3130]

Zo lang terug nog steeds in mijn hoofd, marian uit Holland 😀

[@voenigs612]

Hear this group for the first time. Amazing musicians !!!

[@redosoable]

Wow! Someone opened up the vault and brought out this hitherto unknown gem. The group is in great form here.

[@jean-francoisbertrand6027]

superbe, Jackie Mc Shee, John Renbourn, Bert Yansh, and the others

[@namcat53]

Bert Jansch

[@Jonpriley]

@@namcat53 Yes and he pronounced if "J" too, not "Y".

[@danielgiraud1118]

@@namcat53 : Bonne intervention à l'intention de ces idiots de français. **** Well done ! Good intervention for these French eejits.

[@alexalexin9491]

Among all of the hippies, weed-smokers, alcohol and drug addicts (some playing guitars out of tune without noticing it) they looked like aliens, such a highly qualified band. Don't get me wrong, I love all those hippies and junkies too. But this band is something so special.

[@mikenelson1074]

when hippie fold became new age , but some good new music

[@reverendbarker650]

HAH, if you think that Bert Jansch and Danny Thompson were pure and never a drop of booze did touch their lips, i have a bridge i want to sell you , they were notorious piss heads and Danny was also a bruiser too when he was drunk. Bert had to give up or he would have died of the booze..

[@stujenner]

Never seen Danny with so much hair!

[@hippieandersen]

Drugs was all over these days. Bert Jansch was into drugs/junk. In the years before Pentangle he perform solo in my hometown Roskilde, Denmark more than once. Everybody in the club could see he was either high or stoned. Once to young lokal nurcestudents, had to go backstage and help him too fix. So we could get his wonderfull guitarmusic on the stage. This is no secret. He even read a song about it, Needle of Dead. Go check it out.

[@hippieandersen]

It was two nurses - and he did not read a song, he wrote a song. Sorry.

[@zarbithechti]

🌹Vraiment épatant. Quel groupe !

[@danielgiraud1118]

Oh l'3arbi ! C'est maintenant que tu te réveilles ? Où étais-tu en 1967 ?

[@mattreid859]

This is Gold! They were just so, so good. Thanks for sharing this. You made my day :-)

[@pentangle4444]

from 1968! can't believe I am seeing this.. do miss John and Bert as I must have seen their solo acts a dozen times in the U.S. let no man steal your thyme is a classic ! and in this case it is really is a classic (from 1689?)

[@replicas11]

Thank you for this wonderful upload 👍👍👍

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

i love the way Danny (bass player) tends to throw the general schooled bass player rules out the window and just treats his bass like any other rhythm/percussion/lead instrument! gorgeous sound from him ALWAYS

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

and guessing apart from the jazz influences he had, that a main influence he had was Willie Dixon?

[@DBMAVIDS]

Still have all my LPs of Pentangle-- had never seen this wonderful footage. Thank you so much!

[@howardquinn5911]

I remember this first album (1968?) and just imagining them in concert. This is it! Wow! Tx very much!!

[@LuisEduardoBraschi]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@Mrmusicfromthestars]

Utterly wonderful. Thanks so much. Have been a fan for a long time.

[@DjNikGnashers]

Awesome recording. I love the way it only takes them 1/2 a bar into the first song, to gel, and then everything is just perfect. No auto tune needed here millenials.

[@gamers7800]

🤭👍

[@Vingul]

You don't need to tell me, guy.

[@MIKE-TYTHON]

@@Vingul well he wasn’t addressing you personally, guy.

[@Vingul]

@@MIKE-TYTHON he was addressing my entire generation, guy dude.

[@heavybreizhad]

Merci beaucoup, Aerostatica! Superbe document

[@chrisdoan6734]

Poetry, with a beautiful Angles voice standing at the podium, reading the words of life for the world to except.

[@namcat53]

angel's voice.......accept.

[@MyVinylRips]

Thank you so much for sharing this! One of my all time favourites, this band!

[@neilpiper9889]

Great photography

[@234cheech]

amazing sound

[@Iracord]

Thank you SO much for this!!! LOVE Pentangle!!!!!!!

Great video. Many thanks.

[@scottreynolds7768]

Her voice is like an angel putting a baby to sleep

[@ramonster1972]

The first song is absolutely lovely. For my special friend F.E. from Deventer

[@cliveclerkenville2637]

Lusted warmly after Jaqui as a teenager a lifetime past.

[@orangelion03]

Fantastic. Thank you for uploading this!

[@FuzzyDancingBear]

Thank you Pentangle

[@alankilroy04]

This is brilliant. Thanks for posting.

[@ardalla535]

I had a huge crush on jacqui. Her voice was supernatural.

[@Zopf-international]

Much love for the crowd too eh, nice respect on their behalf.

[@frithst]

So very good - thank you for uploading this.

[@szatkowskijacek]

Supermusicians!

[@connorharrington617]

Bloody hell Danny Thompson is incredible on that bass

[@shakespearouac]

A retro-redux experience for an old picker like me was to get even slower, then stop and listen And watch this full 40 minutes at ¾ playback speed, without a guitar in hand or a thought in mind. New experiences are coming into range.

[@Synycom1]

Terry at circa 36 mins is almost Karl Palmer like. Wonderful archive from a truly great band.

[@FirstUsedBooks]

I don't know that I can say how great this band was. Whenever I listened to them my receptive senses had been modified by one thing or another. Afraid I think this b&w footage is spectacular, compared to what the Pentagon eventually achieved.

[@sonoraaurora]

It's a shame that we don't have Cruel Sister recorded live

[@maxadamescu431]

Just a slight correction- Terry Cox would sometimes sing as well as play drums. Thanks for posting this :-)

[@234cheech]

one of folks best and some of britans finest musicians..

[@wolftune]

masters ...

[@23igna]

first class music

[@robertomarino2496]

Grandiosi!

[@julioalonso9564]

Maravillosas bandas de folk britanicas

[@TheSecondNature]

funny how the Norwegian audience claps in time after most of the songs. sign of a very organized society I guess

[@adamfromm]

In some countries, like Germany or Russia, the rhythmic clap is/was sort of a super-sized applause, used as a call for an encore or an extra sign of appreciation..

[@namcat53]

THANK YOU! This MUST be made available on a DVD or BLU RAY immediately! How did you get this? Where can we get this? Is there more? My friend's older sister Jan saw them in D.C 1970?.; I wish I'd seen them with her; she was beautiful, too. Thanks for turning me on to them Jan.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

Danny Thompson with hair - wow

[@ginnythwaite]

And now he has embraced Allah. FFS.

[@Vingul]

@@ginnythwaite LOL, I didn't know that. Apparently he converted in 1990. What a strange thing to do.

[@CPereiraMiguel]

I love Pentangle

[@RobKandell]

Canada had Gordon Lightfoot, the UK had Pentangle. It’s a shame they didn’t cross the pond back then, but KZbin is making them known to North American audiences. Even young American artists are now covering Willie O’Winsbury.

[@danielgiraud1118]

"Wot did'ye learn in school today ?" + "Ramblin' boy" + "The last thing on mah mind" + "Talkin' Vietnam pot luck Blues" + "I give ye the mornin' " + "Fare thee well Cisco".

[@croiners4166]

Wow!

[@NavukhodonosorJJ]

How I wish I was there! But it was 10 years before I was born, and too far from the place I have to born and live

[@IgnisCygnus147]

2021!

[@therealpils]

*Terry Cox: Drums, Percussion, & Vocals*

[@musicstewart9744]

Charlie Mingus Haitian Fight Song noted and appreciated

[@taniac300]

Yes - thought that tune on bass was familiar! thanks for confirming..

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

Jackie O'Shea was just so delicately delicious when she wore her hair and make-up that way! such a doll!

[@namcat53]

Her name is Jacqui McShee.

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

@@namcat53 big fuckin deal

[@MIKE-TYTHON]

@@deejannemeiurffnicht1791 well if your just going to objectify her, you might get her name right you spanner

[@deejannemeiurffnicht1791]

ooooh! I still HAVE THE4 hots FOR jACKIE! especially when she does that 60s big french flick hair thing! (or fake french flick hair fing)

[@hardfolk]

❤️

[@penyair-x8j]

good

[@MrVulch]

Needs more Triangle!

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Wow...what great footage. A pity the sound isn't more balanced. Those pick ups on the acoustics really dont do anything for the overall sound. Some decent mictophones would have improved the balance. Danny's bass is inaudible most of the time...but still. Thank you for sharing this.

[@garyives1218]

prittay, prittay, prittay good :)

[@willkittwk]

Wizardry sheer wizardry!

[@pholkiephred]

I saw these amazing musician/singers around this time back in college. They had to allow a bit of time for their instruments to thaw out so they'd stay in tune...Bert Jansch was one of Paul Simon's guitar teachers. I believe "Angie's Song" was one of his.

[@archorg8]

I think Davy Graham wrote "Anji", which Bert covered under the spelling "Angie".

[@jane---489]

*_@ _**_8:48_**_ just exquisite ..._*

[@MoDebris60]

Not enough Renbourn in the mix.

[@thejennytree]

There never is!!!

[@jimmypsychonaut9530]

:-)