GasTank - Episode 1 | Rick Wakeman

[@mr.hitchens]

No drugs or alcohol were harmed in the making of this show...... honestly! Such great musical performances and long lost memories. Awesome.

[@ClutchEastwood]

Eric Fuck'n Burdon... Alvin Fuck'n Lee & Rick Fuck'n Wakeman... all together... This is the best of KZbin!

[@fueledbylove]

Bless you Mr. Ashton, Mr. Burdon you too Ricky. I shall watch all Gas Tank episodes with relish.

[@Saltysweetpea4769]

Oh God how hot 🔥 is Eric? Pocket Rocket❤❤❤ And Alvin on guitar!! WOW!!! The best combination ❤

[@avallon647]

Tony Ashton...my god what a musician! "I Had To Laugh". One minute of deep and soulful blues that blows most other musicians out of the water!

[@bertthomson7021]

What a thoroughly entertaining hour of top class musicians

[@wanderer1955]

I remember this the first time round. Deffo my era.

[@theresa42213]

Before all my inevitable comments to come l just HAVE to say this! During all the phases Rick went through in his life, he looked the most _STUNNING_ when he filmed this! l cant get OVER how beautiful he was here! When l bought Tormato at 16 years old.. 38 years ago ....it was the first time l saw him on a cover and thought ......GEEZ! Wakeman looks FanTAStic! He stayed like that for the next ten years! BREATHTAKING!! Now back to the music!!

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

These shows are the essence of rock n roll. To be preserved forever

[@jublaim]

Wow, Tony Fernandez is working hard and steady; drumming is almost like Richard Hughes on Johnny Winters "Highway 61 revisited" from Captured Live! This show makes my friday evening! What a great show this is! Alvin Lee also showing what a marvelous player he was!

[@thomasbutcher3593]

Quality series

[@RickGuitarPRS]

Brilliant series.

[@patrickward8144]

OMG!!!!!! This was such a great show back in the day, and I am enjoying it even more 2nd time around! B-I-G thanks for putting this up!!!

[@1e0s]

I remember this very fondly, a fore runner for Joolz Holland but much more informal just brilliant

[@andrewp.schubert2417]

What a great show. Never saw in back in the day in the U.S.A.

[@titchbek]

FINALLY! We couldn't watch this in Wales at the time. Look what we missed! They should re-run it!

[@titchbek]

Also It's nice to see that miserable fucker Eric actually enjoying himself..

[@danmist]

Tony Fernandez is a frickin' machine! Watching this was one of my first drumming influences.

[@fictionuk]

He is (or was) the long term drummer with UK Blues band 'Ruthless Blues'. I saw them in East London and chatteed afterwards regarding seeing him with Wakeman a few months before. And a right nice bloke.

[@LeeLucas]

I remember watching this show when it was first broadcasted on the TV and it does look even better the second time around.

[@albertlarroca1271]

Tha black guy playing bass with a Rickenbacker , is one of the Rick Basses from LEMMY !!!!! GREAT !!!

[@juliodicarlo5313]

Da drumma!!!

[@kevindermotodoherty5312]

Hi Rick - OMG been waiting ages to see this amazing show again - one of the best ever! The Old Grey Whistle was getting a bit dry and then along came this. I remember it first time round on Channel Four when I was at music college in Liverpool. It was all our group talked about the day after airing. I couldn't afford a VHS then. Fantastic line-ups (and Tony - Ressurection Shuffle - Ashton!), great fun, full of surprises and it had all the things in place - i.e. things we took for granted that are missing today. I'm bringing my brother to the June gig. Neither of us have seen you live. Thanks for becoming a KZbinr! Roll on June!

[@FrancisMaxino]

'The Jerks', the mind boggles at what one could do joke-wise with a band that has that name.

[@245bennyboy]

They don't make shows or musicians like this anymore sad to say. Brilliant show

[@progrocer]

What A Great programme this was, always an awesome selection of Guests

[@HazeAnderson]

"Rain" is such a fresh sound at a time like that! Rick knocked it outta the ball park with that one! Really sweet tone for your solo too, Mr. Wakeman. :) (p.s. Mr Fernandez CRUSHIN IT at the end too! xD)

[@nickpaddock6137]

Gees, i have only been searching this programme on you tube for umpteen years. I didnt understand the music side or what Rick Wakeman was all about, just used to watch it on Channel 4 (think it was a friday night programme) and seeing him with all these synthesizers with lots of buttons, lights and the word KORG all over the place, great to see this again after god knows how long for me

[@Relayer6a]

The strobe tuner on top of the bass amp brings back memories.

[@deh1301]

My one aim in life now is to invent a time machine so that I can buy a ticket to be in the audience for this show.

[@noeliacarrion5297]

🎉 que pasada!!!

[@unchattytwit]

Wakeman and Ashton: great combo - was there ever an album ( you can't tell with Rick)? In fact I can't remember dual keys partnership in a prog band - would have been great!

[@ronnieknotts2376]

good music, times change,

[@PAUL-ge1kl]

Shorry pished again. The even greater Tony Ashton😂

[@gitaneVYS491R]

I really enjoyed that. I remember watching these at the time but it's good to hear it as it should be rather than through the little speaker in a Murphy/Ferguson/whatever telly. I'll be watching more of them.

[@JuddLofthouse]

This is great thank you I always watched the show but couldn’t remember the name until now 35 years later

[@allenh6155]

I have never seen this but it's great. I thought it was Moonie on drums at first, but maybe not.

[@kenansted4245]

Must admit Rick that this programme past me by but great to see it, thanks for posting

[@Zwopper]

Ah the great days of Korg sponsorship. 😎

[@bertthomson7021]

Absolutely wonderful music. Watch all 6 episodes. The next 6 episodes are even better but were never made. Shame

[@jublaim]

Now I know who inspired Joe Leb of Les Variations; Eric Burdon.

[@andrewsmith2757]

Hi Rick, This was a fantastic show especially being a Status Quo fan. Rick Parfitt is on top form here. I'm wondering how this went out on Channel 4 in 1982-3 in stereo seeing as shows (even music shows) weren't made in stereo at this time. Were they simulcast broadcasts with a commercial FM radio station?

[@tumenihits5438]

NICAM stereo was a thing in the mid 1980s.

[@andrewsmith2757]

@@tumenihits5438 - Nicam didn't start until 1988ish. At the time of this programme (1983) there was no stereo television. Even Top Of The Pops needed to stereo simulcast with BBC Radio 1 until mid-1991. The same goes with Live Aid in 1985.

[@tumenihits5438]

@@andrewsmith2757 Oh, well. Late 1980s it was, then. Perhaps the uploader has access to master tapes, and these were done in stereo in anticipation of NICAM coming along?

[@andrewsmith2757]

@@tumenihits5438 I think that sounds a lot more like it, or they originally planned to release them on VHS (which was stereo in 1983 if you had a Hi-Fi Stereo VCR).

[@theresa42213]

There's Nina Carter (wife 3) @ 21:50 whistling at him?

[@JohnSmith-zw2ym]

Is Albert Lee playing bass?

[@g1inskyms]

Is that a Korg PS-3300 in the back, controlled by the keyboard on top of the Yamaha CP-piano?

[@ximalas]

No, it's a Korg PS-3200. You'll notice there's two big 60 pin connectors on the right of the 3200 that goes to the PS-3010 48-key polyphonic remote keyboard and the PS-3060 programmer/remote controller, both atop the Yamaha CP-80.

[@kevinbennett7615]

Who are the members of the house band.

[@qumpania]

Not only you could smoke a cigarette, you could smoke TWO cigarettes !!!

[@zackhellripper]

Anyone seeing that dude smoke two cigarettes at the same time?

[@gardensofthegods]

I always thought Eric Burdon and Shirley MacLaine looks more like siblings than to Shirley MacLaine and her real brother

[@TheFunktipus1]

I would say it would be great to have things on tv like this now, but the quality of musicians wouldnt be the same. And no i dont class Jools Hollands show as this. That show is far too stiff.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Yea that's the trouble, would not have the same feel

[@cloudfactory2000]

Great stuff(apart from the crap reggae). Its a bit like later with jools holland, but not rubbish.

[@andrewp.schubert2417]

The Cimarons sounded great.

[@cloudfactory2000]

@@andrewp.schubert2417, how can they sound great? Its reggae.

[@dukealbert7017]

Reggae is a great, respectable genre. Obviously it isn’t prog, but who cares? It’s not supposed to be. Reggae is its own wonderful thing.

[@cloudfactory2000]

@@dukealbert7017, its boring crap, that all sounds the same.

[@LeeLucas]

I detest most Reggae music but I thought they were pretty damn good in my book and I can certainly appreciate it.

[@wakerickman]

this guy is poplariesing smoking, by trying to make it "look cool" by smoking while he is singing/playing, this does not set a good example to people , smoking is not "cool" it leads to early death, shame on the producers of this show to allow it .

[@1e0s]

It was 1982 ffs!!!

[@TheFunktipus1]

Have a word with yourself mate

[@LeeLucas]

Christ! it looks like Mary Whitehouse popped in lol...

[@theresa42213]

@@TheFunktipus1 ~ A ha hahahahaha! xD

[@tomatkinson2871]

Someone completely missing the point here. Did you actually watch/listen to what he was playing? Typical of Ashton, it’s comedy/irony.