Saw them so many times at the Gasworks in '75 and '76...Brought Elton John and crew to see them at the Colonial Tavern when he wanted to see some local flavor.
@renoruth3 жыл бұрын
How did he like them?
@lindacole73932 жыл бұрын
Colonial on Halloween - '75 or so!! THAT was a night!!! : ))
@hyleslie Жыл бұрын
You would have seen me dancing as close to the stage as possible.
@lenkareznicek27782 жыл бұрын
OMG. Never saw this clip before; this is fantastic, underrated stuff.🔥
@seanferguson54603 жыл бұрын
Oh, man! I was so into Rough Trade! Caught them at the Chimney and at Massey Hall. Even after all these years they hold up. Long live Rough Trade!
@gog9o9magog Жыл бұрын
im busy writing a comic book about about how shitty goddo is/was/will alwalwies befuck they stink remember ontario-place?
@ttt6912 жыл бұрын
WOW! amazing performance. Thanks for sharing these rare Rough Trade videos!!
@donaldkerr43102 жыл бұрын
Crazy that Toronto was so up tight and yet so liberal in 1976. CBC playing Rough Trade and cops busting bath houses and gay bars. Too young to understand that time in Toronto (was a RT fan since 1981 and saw them in 1984). Glad Toronto has moved on from the gay bar raids but shouldn't we elect Carol as honorary Mayor? Carol for Mayor!
@BackToTheBlues5 жыл бұрын
I came home from a playing a gig back in the eighties, made a cup of tea (I know how to live the lifestyle, lol) and put the on the tv to wind down, and this band was on (a performance without the other singer, there were two drummers, and I think Carole was in a red jump suit). I'd never heard of them before, but I thought they were great. I stuck a tape in the video recorder and pressed play quick, had that for years until it wore out. Excellent, melodic songs, topped by Carole's raucous, in-your-face vocals, and there's something about the 'uh' that she adds to the end of some words that I really love!
@Lisa052910 жыл бұрын
Good old days in T.O. I sure do miss them
@lizthor-larsen76183 жыл бұрын
they never left, sister
@katherinehunter95263 жыл бұрын
@@lizthor-larsen7618 Yes they are gone. Now it's Much different than back in the 70's and 80's. To start with there were hundreds of venues that PAID band's for playing the week or even just a weekend gig. Now it's all jam nights or karaoke!! Big difference. Miss those wild and crazy days!!
@katherinehunter95263 жыл бұрын
Gawd I miss these early days!!
@Babaziba Жыл бұрын
I still have the direct-to-disc album that introduced me to the band and "Birds Of A Feather", which had me spellbound. That voice! And they just kept getting better.
@MrGs1072 жыл бұрын
Loved this band in the early days. Saw them at the Chimney, Gasworks,The Forge to name a few. The best was the Restless Underwear Show with Divine. Out there but awesome all the same.
@hyleslie Жыл бұрын
I was a total Rough Trade groupie. Followed Carole & Kevin all around T.O. Most memorable: The Forge & upstairs at the ElMo. So weird to see them so tame on Gzowsky's short-lived show.
@markrosenstand47964 жыл бұрын
Such lyrical command coming from this Lady of world class entertainment!
@randolfo12655 жыл бұрын
Early Rough Trade, at their BEST!
@bradsmith19346 жыл бұрын
The late great Peter Gzowski!
@TeddieWr4 жыл бұрын
I loved Rough Trade. The backup singer (JoAnne Brooks?) has a really great voice.
@alondathomas2934 жыл бұрын
Heck yeah----the backup singer sounds good even on her own.
@Staylogical Жыл бұрын
Kevan was under-rated as both a musician and arranger.
@jannyrcobs2 жыл бұрын
Historically squeezed in there somewhere between Sparks and '80s King Crimson, sharing an era with Berlin-bound Bowie and Talking Heads, is Rough Trade -- guitarist Kevan Staples comparable to Robert Fripp on even a visual level by the turn of the decade.
@Timmybear12 жыл бұрын
Why would there be? There's not a single lyric that's offensive in terms of words you can't say on television. That's part of its brilliance - it's filthy without triggering a single objection (well, except from people who think safer sex information and images for and of consenting adults should be censored - frig them, anyway ;) ).
@williambrown2294 Жыл бұрын
GREAT BAND. SAW THEM AT GASWORKS TOO.
@gog9o9magog Жыл бұрын
me and my friends we used to ... man. she was beyond glamourous ... fuck!
@brucevbracken13 жыл бұрын
Wow, quite a reinvention, eh? From typical '70s rock band to 80s dark/edgy new wave/punk! It reminds me of the bands that started in the '70s rock scene then reinvented themselves, like the Warfield Foxes becoming the Motels.
@vinylrichie0073 жыл бұрын
Love the cow bell
@garylapointe734511 жыл бұрын
The Gasworks
@BeeRich334 жыл бұрын
"Let's play a game of hide and seek. Loser gets f**cked in the ass. If you can't find me, I'll be behind the couch."
@CusterFlux7 жыл бұрын
Something tells me Carole probably did a wicked Mae West imitation …
@Ma_Ba5 жыл бұрын
All that eye rolling!!!!!!!!!!!!
@lizthor-larsen76183 жыл бұрын
more like a newmodel...like Janis, as well
@lizthor-larsen76183 жыл бұрын
wild women unite!!!!
@BillMcBirnie-Extreme-Flute10 жыл бұрын
...Take that, Miley!...
@BillMcBirnie-Extreme-Flute10 жыл бұрын
...Pick it up at 3:07 for "Birds of a Feather"!...
@creepyskulldini5814 жыл бұрын
"Mary Hartman!' (3:19)
@superhetoric3 жыл бұрын
oh wow
@randolfo126510 жыл бұрын
Peter Gzowski, must be CBC TELEVISION
@elektonics11 жыл бұрын
Waaaaayyyyy before their time
@ronnyroo7022 жыл бұрын
You look so saintly in your white Mercedes Benz, you keep insinuating there's a pleasure palace within. Sex offenders, junkies, murderers and thieves, they're on the elevator waiting for the police to leave ..... no one else writes like this
@DandyLion662a11 жыл бұрын
Man, what a great set. I saw them several times in the mid 70s, mostly at a Yonge Street bar whose name I've forgotten. These two were their most popular numbers. I liked the band better before they added the backup singer. Pope's vocals stood out better and the backup just added clutter in my view.
@urbox25 жыл бұрын
"The Chimney", upstairs from the Gasworks. Was a regular in 1975-76ish.
@nomorokay4 жыл бұрын
@@urbox2 I saw Rough Trade for the first time at The Chimney in 1977, and I've been a fan ever since. I was able to have a brief chat with Carole after a show she did at Lee's Palace in the '90s, and I treasure that memory.
@hortclamp Жыл бұрын
I saw them a number of times at the "Colonial Tavern" on Yonge St. A lot of great blues bands played there in the 70's
@notoriginals11 жыл бұрын
Yay! 3:13 rare find, but the sound :o/
@Timmybear12 жыл бұрын
I don't think it could quite be described as typical. The lyrics are a bit out there. The music is admittedly a bit more conventional, but that was probably a bit of a camp touch. If one listens to, oh, BERLIN by Lou Reed, a similar disconnect occurs - pretty music with some deeply midnight lyrics.
@lukeorjesse12 жыл бұрын
Peter Gzowski Live
@arricammarques19555 ай бұрын
The British Canadian Patti Smith.
@lukeorjesse13 жыл бұрын
iDon't understand why. There aren't any restrictions on it
@ErikWeissengruber7 жыл бұрын
And naughty school children scold ... and ah 1, 2, 3
@maxxm2812 жыл бұрын
What TV show was that? Does anyone know?
@maximilliancunningham60918 ай бұрын
It seemed like a good idea, at the time,,,
@destroyer1ism12 жыл бұрын
Great group-great babe singer-great decade. Now's what's left? CRAPPY Justin Bieber, and Selena Gomez. How extremley BOOOOOOOring!
@curtspins76267 жыл бұрын
Boring is also so your binary cliched response, FWIW.
@ianfindly32576 жыл бұрын
curt spins, I'm with you, I'm rather sick of Bieber getting cited and taking the brunt. Like aren't there any OTHER shitty acts in contemporary music to pick on for a change?
@katerigg12 жыл бұрын
@@curtspins7626 I think Carole would like being called a Babe
@lynnnleistinger82262 жыл бұрын
Cozzy Fanny tutty would been good together
@flickfiend101810 жыл бұрын
Her speaking voice sounds totally unlike her singing voice.
@kissed612 жыл бұрын
This was the Rough Trade I loved. Not a fan of the synth period.