Roy Harper - How Does It Feel - Live Studio Performance 1969 / 1970

Part 4 of some old Roy Harper footage that has recently surfaced. Five songs recorded live in studio. All five are in order in this playlist. But... recorded and filmed in which studio? Rumour has it that it's from Norwegian TV 1970. Roy has some vague recollection of the session but can't remember the 'where' or 'when'. We're working on that. Because of the songs being played, and the way some are being played, he thinks this session couldn't have been recorded after 1969.
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'How Does It Feel' was released on 'Flat Baroque And Berserk' (1970)
Available at the artist's shop on Vinyl LP, cd, flac and mp3
www.royharper.c...
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[@mortennilssen3114]

This is from a Norwegian (NRK) broadcast produced by Svein Erik Børja, August 1969. I know because I booked all of Roy's gigs and TV appearances in Norway during that amazing time period. No wonder Roy can't remember when and where, there was a lot of smoke in the air in those days. Roy is Roi !

[@CWilliams69]

morten nilssen ?

[@mortennilssen3114]

Yes - here I am - What?

[@NalinX]

One of those rare times when KZbin seems to be helping humanity preserve / reconstruct some of our history. Thanks for your comment and your work (also memory ;) . And of course, Roy Harper is incredible even when he's this stoned. Beautiful song and performance.

[@andymacc]

Can you remember the set up, mics, vocal pre amps and compressors, reverb etc used, must be valve surely, captures the abbey road feel on the album and totally awesome

[@ledzeppelin1023]

@@andymacc I mean, to remember what each knob was set at particularly and what gear was used? I think this was a much more intuitive endeavor, as most good music is, anyways, unlikely that he'll remember that. Kinda like asking what your mid and treble knobs were set to on your amp when you were 14.

[@samissomar]

Nowadays most of the Musicians cannot even reach the Power of Roy Harper's Messages...he's still one of the greatest Masters !...

[@rokit430]

There's no need to name them...epic intro. I saw Roy over 20 years ago now, he was very happy and it was a smoke filled room. But no mirrors though, it was Completely Real...and it was so good to be Thinking with Roy that evening.. Roys lyrics just trip off his tongue Your God strapped to your wrist...Watch/Time is really not real...Daddy just getting old😂 God Love you Roy, thanks for being part of my life❤

[@maxcohen13]

Every so often an artist comes along who reminds us that there are forces beyond our vision at work and we should not only respect them, but learn from them. Thank you, Roy.

[@chrisnolan5607]

Wonderful, Thank You Roy.

[@josiahp.6960]

It's funny that we can learn that so abjectly from somebody who is so against God in every way. Kind of like how HP Lovecraft taught the fear of God through his atheism.

[@lucasjharr6]

This song is really good. Thanks Roy Harper for showing us how it is done.

[@bustermoonshine]

You ruined my childhood from my mother bombarding me with your wines of depression, but now I find myself using the same music to steady my mind from a world of digital fastness.

[@lamariaedwards6290]

Haha but now its an antidote

[@rogerfindlay6836]

I first saw Roy at one of the rowing clubs alongside the River Trent in Nottingham. It would have been around 1970 and that one Sunday night left a lasting impression on my life. Thankyou. R.

[@ralfgro]

Hats off to Roy Harper... Simple love this man and his music.

[@FunkyMonkMan]

I can't believe how good the quality of the tape is after 46 years! Truly a fantastic archive of a fantastic performance!

[@ge2623]

Agreed. But he's no Justin Beiber

[@lindadote]

@@ge2623 .....thank the “blood spew heavens” for that!

[@crieverytim]

@@ge2623 Justin is technically, objectively as good a musician and a superior singer. Kid can play and sing, w more clarity and greater range (and before you say it, let me correct you - he can sing without autotune). That's not to say i prefer listening to him; not at at all. This is art, this is poetry, and the other manufactured superficial disposable pop. But to my point: Three's no need to shit on someone else to celebrate Roy. It's childish, lazy and misguided (in that whatever you might think about JB, to think he is talentless is crazy).

[@ge2623]

@@crieverytim Ok. But he still can't drive a rented Lambo.

[@stickman1742]

@@crieverytim There's a lot of people in the world who can sing very well. Kind of a dime a dozen. They have talent, just not very rare. The entire music industry of today depends on this. They love easily replaceable talent. They take one of these and surround them with a team and turn them into a huge act. That's why so many ignore it and disregard it completely. Need more than just singing ability to get people to really take interest.

[@7karlheinz]

"This is a song for the whole human race!"

[@saumann450]

What a powerful statement. I love the way he chuckles as he says it. Surreal

[@robison5396]

There's an honesty and truth in these performances that is breathtaking. I've seen Roy live on several occasions over the years and each time I've come away with his magic remaining with me long after the concert had finished....a true original, god bless him!!.

[@pamelaalsop7772]

I truly envy you!

[@terrymccullough6758]

Beautifully said Rob!

[@neilritson7445]

His rhythm guitar took no prisoners - no Anjie, no fingerpicking - just power.

[@neilcusworth1764]

I love it when he forgets the lyrics and gets muddled those were the days what a visionary a true legend

[@ixustube]

Love this song. Saw him playing at Lancaster Uni in 1969 (70?) ... mainly stuff from Flat Baroque and Berserk. I'll never forget it (I hope!!)

[@aloekairu2001]

Handmaid's Tale Season 3 Episode 3 Soundtrack.👍🏿

[@bryantrogers5596]

👍

[@BrettOwen71]

Roy IS an old master who sings like a holy shaman.

[@matthewcoombs3282]

This is just what I need at the moment. Thanks Roy for all the music over the year. First heard "Flat Baroque and Berserk" on a crappy tape machine on a beach in Dorset round a campfire. Passing around the brandy, staring into the flames.....great memories.

[@alanrogs3990]

sounds pure

[@ludovica8221]

Similar... :) those were the days.. Hampshire squat!

[@ahahahahahahaaaaaaaa]

I am eternally thankful for this beautiful masterpiece. Effortlessly timeless...

[@TeslasTeaParty]

Roy is one of those few special artists whose music and vocals pierce through your ear drums and straight into your soul...

[@troygaspard6732]

his humanity and music are breathtakingly honest

[@shunyam56]

Oh my God, I was 14 years old when I heard that song...Randomly (?) fortythree years after again and again..."I am not real", yes, yes, yes...tears obviously...

[@elayeantiquevintagejewelry7898]

One of the most beautiful songs ever! Acoustic genius. Lyrical genius.

[@TheBlocklandPlayer]

Roy Harper has been a huge influence on me as a songwriter and a human being. He has an extraordinary ability to move time, an impeccable sense of melody, and a candor rarely seen in regards to lyrical content; I dare anyone to go through his catalog and fail to realise and agree that they appreciate him.

[@kennethgibson1265]

Beautiful song, Roy! I have to admit it's funny. One of the main artifices of contemporary technology, the "algorithmic recommendation" is what helped me discover this song. It is sort of ironic , I feel like this song is a lot about dulling ourselves with modernity but in this case modernity helped me find this great song 🤔

[@mikelheron20]

Always been a huge fan of Roy Harper. I've seen him many times and not once have I known him remember the words of his songs.

[@bobgreen623]

Yep, in his earlier days he was always suffering with a throat, or a bit stoned or whatever, but no matter how many words he forgot (and he always got there in the end!) he was always wonderful to see. I even loved his between-songs introductions, explanations and general rambling.

[@555pontifex]

I witnessed this man in Clare College Cambridge Cellar (5 quid the ticket). He got absolutely wasted on pot. He could hardly walk down the stairs. But when he picked up the guitar and began to sing...

[@morris3245]

Pot was his inspiration, we need this today...……….

[@devingademan]

Thank you for sharing. Beautiful.

[@eyebrowman1]

Wow. Amazing.

[@justinframpton485]

my favorite song of all time x

[@catherinebruder9106]

Happy birthday to my best friend and lover. Many more to come!! Cheers!

[@gordondyke5265]

i want this played at my funeral

[@sinbad5079]

funerals are a con

[@alanrogs3990]

@@sinbad5079 I just want to go sit under a tree when the time comes and never be found.

[@jeanniecampbell1374]

one of the best song writers

[@bugsbaloney6200]

"Hat's off to Roy Harper!"

[@rinalore]

🌹Wow, this is so great. If I could answer, I'd say; ✨"Spiritually🥀 withered" is how it feels🎼🎓Mr. Harper. 🤦🏻‍♀️I'll forever feel like a damned sinner until the day I do, or don't, meet my maker. 🇨🇦✌🏻🎶♥️🇬🇧✨🌎💫

[@astrojules]

The sound quality is fantastic, thankx so much.

[@TINGVELL]

one of my my favourite songs,good to see it live when you was a young man,sound roy,jason here in birkenhead wirral 2014

[@sirvidia]

one of his best tunes

[@MuriKakari]

Got here by accident looking for the DC Comics character, so very glad I did. This is a beautiful and very real feeling perfomance.

[@MowerMan]

Brilliant absolutely brilliant. Your still fondly remembered at Grimethorpe Colliery also.

[@lovewavesdriftingforever]

You don’t hear anything like this today!!( sadly)((((((((((((((

[@MannyH11]

Thanks for posting the vids Roy, You have been an inspiration to me for years.

[@lsdmadman]

as real it gets...thanky for this...just played my version of this today on the banged up geetar and it was damn liberating

[@giantflyingturtles]

roy harper: genius

[@Ingramdumpkiss]

When we were all 17 in those heady days of Oz, and the International Times, Roy Harper was a genius and something of a hero to us kids, and listening to Flat Baroque and Berserk was a kind of subversion for in betweeners like us. We weren't quite ready for student sit ins but... solidarity, man! Now we're in our fifties, and Roy Harper hasn't changed at all. We all passed him before we passed 30, and there he was, and is - a thin skinned egostistical control freak, perpetually justifying and rejustifying himself, hypersensitive to all criticism when in fact the people who criticised him don't care that much any more. That makes me a little sad, but I'm sad for myself, not for Roy.

[@TheBennyGesserit]

Ingramdumpkiss you just lost sight of it - thats all , its still there , just out of reach , dont search for it

[@SuperBeanson]

very stoned, forgetting words. Still great.

[@peterfreeman6677]

He was famous for it. Well, infamous, actually.

[@neilcusworth1764]

God bless Roy welcome to the new world

[@gmedeiros5748]

Legendary Roy ... A very very good one . Close to she’s the one . Good to hear something never heard that resonates that hard .

[@YogiBear55473]

The Handmaid's Tale brought me here

[@kbcoop3249]

Yolanda Nesby me too ☹️😭

[@ranajoydutta4184]

Relatable.. 😄

[@Gwawdiwr]

Fair comment. Roy would, I think, be pleased that they used this for such a telling production. I remember watching it and saying 'that's Roy Harper! But wait a minute - this is the 'Handmaids Tale'. Both well considered. Good spot :)

[@50sFedoraMan]

Yolanda Nesby - Me too

[@terrieanndiehl58]

Yeah. Hard to watchthis one, feeling like were still spinning our wheels .... I AM WOMAN

[@opheropher9639]

Nobody does it like Harper! What brilliance!

[@IamSpartacus1984]

Great to see some classic old footage of Roy finally surface. Been a fan now for about 30 years. I`ve seen him play many times and once bumped into him before a gig in Shrewsbury( England) town centre. I got to chat to him for a few minutes and he was a truly humble and lovely man. I see he`s struggling to remember his own lyrics in this vid, as always. But who ever cared about that?? Who can`t be inspired by Roy Harper?

[@DemisCC]

They don't make them like they used to, and they only made one like this.

[@leegorman3329]

phenomenal

[@RuthNoonan-jj8zf]

My first bunking off school with my sister she's now dead I still living just about are first visit to the record store are first album we bought bunking off was Roy harper happy memories yet life changing mind blowing at are age bunking off was a good thing thanks to Roy harper still love the music unbelievable interaction with us thanks when l bunked off school and me and sister spent hours then buying chocolate biscuits to staying in man times in a kid's tree house was not war anyway we bunk off 😅

[@daleskidmore1685]

Roy is my favorite pop star. Got all his albums.

[@Gspot706]

He's up there with Robbie Williams

[@mysticalxproducer]

@@Gspot706 Robbie Williams? Ahah Robbie wishes he could write anything that touches as deeply as one song Roy Harper has composed. Roy has more talent in one of his fingers than Robbie Williams has in his whole body, that's for sure! Keep rocking people of KZbin 🔥🙌👏👍😋👑😎🤗🎶🔥

[@rsmith8365]

Blessed be...

[@johnlamb2754]

Seeing this guy in concert next week.

[@kyx9713]

I saw his name in led zeppelin III ,then i search ,listen,hours...can't stop

[@TINGVELL]

love roy harper

[@wk4max]

PURE MAGIC!

[@saumann450]

This is a song for the whole human race. why can't it be this simple. Fuck divisiveness

[@fivethumbsfrank]

The ROAR of Lust complains. Awesome, Roy is one of the very few who refused to compromise His music for outright commercialism. [in my opinion]

[@JamesMeikle-h1z]

Bliss thanks for sharing a stoned poet with out the mountement chissle.

[@Adibarum]

Excellent Footage really great to see Roy in action pre 1970

[@terrymccullough6758]

Thanks Roy

[@valtercasiraghi8920]

Molto , molto bello . Grazie.

[@Crinklechip-s]

Oh, I love this song :-)

[@terrymccullough6758]

Roy Harper!!!

[@jimboooong]

i love watching this brilliant

[@awotnot]

absolute classic and the intros on the LP likewise

[@mikewilliams258]

Seen Roy many times. Always great but never known to remember the words to his own songs. This is bad even for him.

[@peterfreeman6677]

Roy Harper - one of the original Pothead Pixies :)

[@guillermosantamarinalagune6184]

que bien! que buena grabación! gracias!

[@shemanic1]

loveit & I can still sing along

[@sleekburnslim]

I like it ..... and you too Roy my man

[@markmark8545]

same tuning as joni mitchell paved paradise...a few of the same chords too..?? total genius...as always :) With love from Mungo Nibley...quillmaker...galway 2002 ;)

[@jeremypeter]

I like this one..

[@andymacc]

Wow absolute xxxxx

[@pamelaalsop7772]

Just found this song....ya "handmaids tale".....but I'm in love w/ it! I play it daily....why oh why did we not know of this genius before he passed!??? My new favorite & will stay w/ me forever. Genius!❤❤❤❤

[@tracyharper6777]

Roy is still alive and well...

[@pamelaalsop7772]

@@tracyharper6777 I read that he passed away recently.....so sad.

[@tracyharper6777]

@@pamelaalsop7772 Maybe you misunderstood me. Roy is alive and well. A fairly healthy 78 year old. Currently working away on new material...

[@pamelaalsop7772]

@@tracyharper6777 I googled it....said he was dead.....but you're right! He's still alive! Ty ty ty!

[@captaincrash9286]

@@pamelaalsop7772 Tracy's surname is not a coincidence!

[@AntonyFleck]

He is up there with Dylan for me!!...

[@alanrogs3990]

That voice rings like a giant church bell

[@PinHead9707]

Thanks for posting! How does it feel to be thinking? Really? How does it feel to want to be a bigger wheel? Well, I'm not real either... Roy Harper - great, but who knows :) maybe greater or...?

[@markswiftmelodies]

even when he's young he looks old. I bet he had a beard and looked like an old master when he was a baby.

[@thepiperreport8198]

The Handmaid's Tale brought other people here but not me. A Pink Floyd documentary brought me here

[@NateGerardRealEstateTeam]

What Pink Floyd Documentary?

[@MikeFowlerguitars]

Roy brought me here. I got him stoned in Middlesbrough, 1991. I then saw him in Liverpool about two months later, some guy passed him a spliff, he says, "you're not from Middlesbrough are you?". Hahahaha. True story. Me and my mate jammed this song in Guisborough high street, busking around the same time. We had plums thrown at us. Happy happy days.

[@thepiperreport8198]

@@NateGerardRealEstateTeam - I believe it's - "Pink Floyd - The Story of Wish You Were Here" (2011)

[@jewelzpositano963]

Oh Man...WoW!

[@gopkmn369]

I remember this on swedish television. I know Roy from "Flat" so the broadcast has to have been sometime after the release of that album. I tried to record it to my tape recorder. It all came out as "hissss" so I'm very grateful for this. What about the the performance from "Upp o' Poppa" from sometime in the beginning of the seventies?.

[@troyjgrice]

Wow.

[@darrenmarks9310]

shit hot !!

[@LightweightUK2007]

Love you Roy, you bring meaning to it all x

[@Pebble1953]

This is the song that ruined my life - or did it?

[@garyizzard839]

This heavily influenced Bowie, Harper sounds like young Bowie.

[@caryheuchert]

@Gary Izzard - Until Ziggy Stardust happened, I believe Bowie was still searching for his own musical identity and image. I can hear many influences in his early music: Syd Barrett, Marc Bolan, Peter Hammill, Bob Dylan, and others... of course, Roy Harper, too.

[@michevicus2987]

@@caryheuchert You forgot the main influence on him: Scott Walker.

[@nickhirst999]

That guitar...!

[@bobgreen623]

Wonderful, wonderful. I wore out my copy of Flat Baroque and Berserk, and this is my favourite song on it (along with Goodbye, and Another Day, and...). Technical question - what is that guitar Roy plays? It has the archetypal early Harper sound, and I find something really emotive about it's tone, or maybe it's just the way Roy plays it?

[@7karlheinz]

It's the way Roy plays it! Bobby, you should check out a double cd on the Bridge label called "The $100.00 Guitar Project".. A cheep $100 electric guitar was sent to a number of composers to write a piece featuring that guitar on it. The guitar sounds great and the compositions exhibit a wide variety of styles, but, more importantly it demonstrates how IT IS THE PERFORMER, NOT THE INSTRUMENT THAT IS IMPORTANT TO A COMPOSER'S/PERFORMER'S SOUND! Hope you having success in finding your unique sound!

[@mortennilssen3114]

The guitar is a hand crafted Bailey.

[@7karlheinz]

***** I noticed John Fahey's name on the paper label on the inside of the guitar, do you know why it is there?

[@bobgreen623]

***** Thanks for that Morten. It does have a wonderful sound.

[@bobgreen623]

Joe Ray Oh yeah, I found my unique sound. I've played all sorts of guitars (Martins, Guilds, Gibsons etc) but my sound comes best on my cheap old 70's Epiphone Texan, made in Japan, bolt-on neck, wonderful guitar that inspires me to play like no other guitar I ever owned

[@christopherruddick905]

Got into Zeppelin after hearing Roy!

[@stonethecrow80]

Led Zeppelin made me discover Roy Harper

Ha! Great footage, great song, love Roy, but gaaah, Hippies everywhere.

[@svtrader]

This dude is John Lennon before John Lennon.

[@irisvucemilovic79]

Yeeaaaahhh

[@nazkebabs1414]

Anyone else find Roy's lyrics very cryptic?

[@Gspot706]

Yes and also no. Myriad of emotions . . .

[@ludovica8221]

Not at all. I think theye pretty plain. Maybe you need to be more stoned to have them open up to you?

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

is that a Fylde guitar?

[@peterfreeman6677]

Quote : morten nilssen 6 years ago The guitar is a hand crafted Bailey

[@simonandthelyricalpoets]

A beatituful guitar.

[@bryantrogers5596]

He was the greatest accustic singer of his time.🌈🌅😆🌈🌈🌈🌅🌈🌺🍄🌺@brbryantrogers ig ##crackbabylife

[@Gspot706]

Was? HE is the greatest acoustic singer of his time, and so much more . . .

[@Swanseawebshop]

01/03/2014 @ 00:36 again

[@ge2623]

"How does it feel to have your God (phone) strapped to your wrist?"

[@ludovica8221]

well it meant a wristwatch at the time, but yeah it works for that also

[@gerthie]

dynamite roy