The Caravan | Rockpalast präsentiert: Swing In

[@hudentdw2]

Richard Sinclair is such an amazing bassist and vocalist.

[@pasqualemuzzupappa1991]

Okay, but why you , audience, continually name Richard Sinclair and do not appreciate Pye Hastings, his voice and his skilful guitar style?

[@grahamnunn8998]

​@@pasqualemuzzupappa1991 I love Pye but his vocals could be a little pitchy live compared to Richard. Both fantastic instrumentalists too, I never think Caravan get enough credit for pushing themselves into jazz long before most prog bands. Coughtlan was one of those great "melodic" drummers who saw the big picture. Steve Miller is on fire, but was replaced first by Derek Austin (a friend and former colleague!) then the returning Dave Sinclair. Never a dull moment in this band.

[@martincoles6824]

The ever-reliable Calyx reports - 5 September 1971 London, Marquee Club (afternoon) (filming of "Swing In" for Germany's WDR TV) [also: Patto, Fusion Orchestra] Setlist: "Place Of My Own", "The Love In Your Eye", "If I Could Do It All Over Again...", "Waterloo Lily", "For Richard" (anyone ever known a seated audience at the Marquee?). Simply magnificent! The Legendary Steve Miller on Wurlitzer piano!

[@paulvincer199]

This quite a rare release. Thanks. Would love to see another "Swing In" release from Traffic that aired July 2, 1971.

[@uncannybeachboys]

Place Of My Own 1:31 The Love In Your Eye 6:12 If I Could Do It All Over Again... 12:43 Waterloo Lily 15:16 For Richard 19:27

[@dantean]

MY GOD, WHERE'S THIS FOOTAGE BEEN HIDING ALL THESE YEARS?! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! (with apologies for yelling).

[@bendream544]

Great to see the Gong Camembert Electrique sticker on Richard Sinclair's bass

[@devinmcphee7633]

Gotta love the homeage each Canterbury group pays to each other!

[@bobgreen623]

Nice to see Pye playing a Rickenbacker!

[@MrDanielphenix]

WOW what a pearl ! Fantastic ! I saw them on my birthday in 74 /24/09 in Montreal it was a great show ! i love them

[@dorianarenas1192]

....the usual Caravan ending......For Richard.....what a beauty....

[@tonydonato8523]

Wow - what a rare treasure this is. I've often wondered what they sounded like live with Steve Miller on piano and this demonstrates it perfectly!

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Yes Steve Miller was a fantastic jazz pianist and I would of liked to hear more of this Caravan line up which was one of their best

[@seamusjr]

Digging seeing this footage with Steve Miller in the band. Love his recordings with Lol Coxhill! Steve was the brother of the late, great guitarist Phil Miller. RIP Steve and Phil.

[@seesaw1969]

OH MAN , CAN YOU FEEL THAT ASTONISHING THING , AS I DID , WHEN FOUND THIS VÍDEO !!! TREASURE , AWESOME...THANKS FOR SHARING ..VERY HAPPY ...

[@brucelevy8955]

This is amazing! I've been looking for this forever. I WAS THERE! In the front row (yes, I can see myself). I was a 20-year-old college student at Florida State University's overseas program in London. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR THIS!

[@pierre-emilebertona3331]

Lucky guy !

[@brucelevy8955]

@@pierre-emilebertona3331 Yes I was!

[@tallpity4646]

Lieber Rockpalast, das ist ja eine schöne Überraschung. Vielen Dank.

[@stevestubberfield]

Love Caravan have seen them quite a few times....brilliant band...Never seen this film before though, a real treat...thanks for sharing..

[@PandPfreestyle]

Always wanted to see and hear a proper live version of Place of My Own. Didn’t think it would happen ever, so this has certainly made my day!

[@croiners4166]

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing this! Always great to see and hear some more early Caravan!❤❤❤

[@13terrors]

love the whimsical sound of Caravan

[@tommyrawlings3046]

Great group! Great songs, great musicians!

[@ShyNobleman]

Place of my own!!! The debut album is incredible

[@williamhobbs3973]

Lovely song, not heard this song before. I love Winter Wine by: Caravan

[@donnicholls9368]

Yes, there was a great early version of 'Winter Wine' on YT but it got taken down .....Why?

[@sashamoghilla2919]

Thank you for uploading another gem. WDR Rockpalast is the best!

[@thurobusch6620]

Tolle Band, großartiges Dokument! Danke! Für mich immer noch herausragend: Canterbury Tales, The Best of Caravan Caravan.

[@gabrielcervantes6852]

Pure Gold!!

[@juergendittmann5413]

The best for me !! I love this Band !!!!

[@brucevair-turnbull8082]

Lovely gig. They had an awesome rhythm section.

[@devinmcphee7633]

Pye has the most beautiful voice

[@geriesandmann4485]

Jan Cremer in the intro. Saw them twice in Paradiso Amsterdam ‘69 and Wheeley festival ‘71. And in 2004 in Lichtenvoorde. Love their first album. Great live band. Glad to see this wonderful concert. Thanks.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

What fantastic footage capturing this brilliant line up that clearly demonstrates the jazz influences of Steve Miller and Richard Sinclair. In my opinion Waterloo Lily is one of Caravan’s best albums and it is a great shame this line up didn’t produce more high quality music like this .

[@galifry1]

Love this underrated band!

[@TonyHuggins-ti4vj]

Music.at.its.best.dont.ever.forget.

[@apostolosannis198]

CARAVAN in concert Marquee Club, London Dec 17, 1971. setlist: A Place Of My Own The Love In Your Eye If I Could Do It All Over Again Waterloo Lilly For Richard personnel: Richard SINCLAIR, bass & vocals Steve MILLER, keyboards Richard COUGHLAN, drums Pye HASTINGS, guitar & vocals

[@gavriilnick4225]

great to see them...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@theclarkey100]

Great to see this classic footage, though, personally, I really miss Dave Sinclair's keyboard...

[@supersister-lookingbacknak2881]

What a fantastic band, especially in the line-up with Steve Miller!

[@mrgreengenes3132]

hi supersister

[@supersister-lookingbacknak2881]

Hey, Frank!@@mrgreengenes3132

[@mrgreengenes3132]

@@supersister-lookingbacknak2881 :)

[@eren7350]

whoaow... supersister................. wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Yes Steve Miller was a superb jazz inspired musician

[@kenpercival]

Amazing rare footage that I have never seen before - thank you!

[@bugeanuflorin1531]

Live SPIRITUAL power is here Fabulous moment.

[@uligeiger953]

Fantastic, love this!

[@Mike-pt4cq]

They've never been mainstream... they're too good to be!

[@heimomoilanen9654]

Glad they did't

[@rockingman2543]

So young....So cool!!!

[@lazypokerblues]

AAAAAHH . . . es tut sich endlich mal wieder was bezüglich "Swing In"-Material! Und da gibt es ja noch so Einiges, was in den Archiven schlummert - holt es bitte 'raus! 👍

[@croiners4166]

Yes! Please!❤

[@massimomarchesin8708]

C'è bisogno di buona musica e anche di vedere dei filmati,spezzoni di concerti o concerti interi da ascoltare e anche vedere, i vari gruppi Prog Rock e musicisti più importanti e talentuosi in azione, in questo caso i fantastici CARAVAN!!!!!!!!!!! Good choice!!!!!!!!!!

[@calogerobuttacavoli78]

WUNDERBAR !

[@wolframhohmann1300]

Wow, was für eine klasse Aufnahme der gaaaanz frühen Caravan. Der WDR ist schuld (😁) an meiner Caravan Obszession. In meiner Jugend hat mich auf WDR 2 Winfried Trenkler mit seinen Sendungen "Rock In" und der Donnerstags Radiothek auf Caravan gebracht

[@diegofernandezmoyano8052]

Grandiosos Caravan....

[@stelioss4986]

Superb!

[@neardark7017]

AWESOME💙🦊💚

[@trechen100]

just all round great.

[@honkinbubbafulton8791]

Cool band. Nine feet underground is a masterpiece.

[@valeriekrueger91]

Has Richard forgotten the lyrics on Waterloo Lily ? @ 15.35. Sounds a bit muddled... nevertheless an amazing lost masterpiece. Richard is my favourite vocalist and bass player of all time.... I saw Caravan once in 1973 when i was 16 ! Rich had already left by then but was still a great gig.😊 The land of grey and pink is one of my most played albums. I saw Richard perform with Camel several times. Also another favourite of mine. All hail these wonderful musicians - their music will live on forever ❤

[@OttoSell]

Great Gig, love it.

[@rafaa151]

Which is the date of this broadcast? I presume that this would be 1971 or 1972. Caravan is one of my favorite prog bands. Some years ago, I watch Caravan concert here in Brazil, as main band of "Rio ArtRock Festival". It is a great memory.

[@concatinate]

Another comment says Dec 17 1971.

[@KhaliLindo]

Pye's voice always reminded me of Robert Wyatt.

[@JonatasdaCosta]

Fantástico!

[@urban-ht2jt]

This is the great 1970❤

[@DemonAdvance]

awesome footage! what is the name of keyboard Dave Sinclair is playing?

[@PandPfreestyle]

It is a Wurlitzer 200a, one of the great classics! Also, this is Steve Miller playing it

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Well for a start it’s not Dave Sinclair playing but the very talented Steve Miller ex Delivery and it’s an electric piano

[@stereo123]

Great quality, which year is that?

[@knowmusicman157]

A higher quality and more musically sophisticated rock or jazz or classical fusion.

[@arepo4724]

Long live Caravan!

[@guitarchannel5676]

All due respect to Steve Miller, David Sinclair's absence is glaring.

[@fossilmatic]

This must be early days for him judging by the version of Waterloo Lily here. He certainly seems to be feeling his way. More of a pianist than organist like Sinclair was on the first three albums.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Absolutely disagree as for me Steve Miller’s style was as appropriate as Dave Sinclair’s and as good . I would of liked to hear much more from this particular line up

[@guitarchannel5676]

​@@andrewarthurmatthews6685While his electric piano work is very good, the organ is a primary instrument on much of Caravan's music on the first several albums. The omission of the organ is highly problematic without David Sinclair.

[@Flieder31]

Die Jungs konnten noch was. Kein Vergleich zu 2024 und der Langeweile und Einfalt, die heutzutage Rockmusik ausstrahlt.

[@edwardmoulin4026]

There is another Caravan concert that Used to be on youtube from the early/mid 70's that has disappeared... anyone know how to watch it?

[@robbiffa]

think on OGWT. ALSO a concert 1990 David Sinclair NINE FEET UNDERGROUND- Mesmerising! WHERE IS THAT...😊

[@Robhalifax]

My favourite line up. I know Im in a minority on that though.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Not with me you’re not ! This line up is one of their finest and captures the band in the most creative and unique period before the over commercial and lightweight song writing dominated and in so doing losing the special essence that was Caravan Shame indeed

[@JamesMurphy-ry2mx]

More!

[@goggihanseat9503]

Hallo Leute, helft mir bitte, such Informationen über eine LP. Ich habe die Caravan `Waterloo Lily als Missprint und finde nichts im Netz. Weiß jemand was über die LP?

[@TLicht-gy2bc]

Habe drei Alben von Caravan.. War mir bis heute nicht bekannt das die Band unter 'The' Caravan firmiert..

[@ChrisEchoes]

They never did, it was always Caravan.

[@oposkainaxei]

Ist einfach ein Fehler 😂

[@zeuhltube]

das liegt einfach dran, daß die jungs, die das zeug verwalten, keine ahnung von der materie haben. diese sendung lief ja auch nie im ROCKPALAST, denn den gab es als sendung noch gar nicht, als das aufgenommen wurde. hätte ich eher dem BEATCLUB zugetraut, aber die rechte für die paar sendungen von SWING IN ROCK IN (ich habe damals JETHRO TULL und TEN YEARS AFTER gesehen, wenn mich meine erinnerung nicht im stich läßt) liegen wohl jetzt beim WDR und werden von den ROCKPALAST-jungs verwaltet...

[@gavriilnick4225]

😂😂😂😂...to much weed I think did it to you

[@zeuhltube]

@@gavriilnick4225 so obviously you are my witness, that I placed a comment. and now it's gone. maybe I used some offending words???

[@canterburyscene]

They never were "The Caravan", just "Caravan".

[@written12]

Not an unreasonable error. And they deserve credit for giving the band such a fine opportunity to be heard.

[@canterburyscene]

The addition of a "The" to the name of the band came courtesy of whoever put this online in 2024. The original broadcast did not contain the mistake. No one has ever called them "The Caravan", a basic check would have been a good idea. The WDR who got them this opportunity back in 1971 are long gone from WDR, and possibly from this planet. Different people - my criticism was denefinitely NOT addressed to them.

[@officialcaravan]

The band were actually sometimes billed as The Caravan early on in 1968-1969 but not by late 1971

[@monsieurrenard6245]

​@@officialcaravan, Like The Soft Machine and The Pink Floyd.

[@concatinate]

​@@monsieurrenard6245Don't forget The Cream, and The Taste!

[@ytnsanw]

Unfortunately the worst of the early lineups (no David Sinclair) but this is amazing footage. Real time capsule stuff.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Absolutely disagree as in my opinion this line up was one of the very best with both Richard Sinclair and Steve Miller bringing a welcome jazz based approach to Caravan music. Waterloo Lily is up there with For Plump Girls, If I Could Do it , Fairfield Halls and New Sinfonia as superb and unique slices of British progressive rock

[@ytnsanw]

@@andrewarthurmatthews6685 Bit of an odd comment as Richard Sinclair was the original bass player, even though he left after Waterloo Lily. Also, Steve Miller never recorded with Caravan and was only a transitional member in between David Sinclair's comings and goings. David Sinclair was the keyboard player for the 1st *six* albums including all the ones you mention. My issue with Steve Miller was that he could never replicate the Sinclair sound using just a rather rinky-dink Wurlitzer A200. All the early Caravan albums were heavily predicated around the sound of the Hammond organ and especially Sinclair's technique of using it through a fuzz pedal. That was the 'Caravan sound' - which Steve Miller could never replicate. 'Nine Feet Underground' on a Wurlitzer? - Yecch. But whatever floats your boat, I guess.

[@marceloaraujo8728]

R o c k; anos 70

[@robbdavies7749]

Some of the 90s bands milked this sound ! Blur spring to mind

[@singlelit0]

This would sound great but there's something noticeably lacking without dave sinclair :')

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Nothing lacking musically

[@MeursaultJon]

Sometimes Pye looks like Jimmy Page...

[@rainman52652]

Place of my own without David Sinclair spacey hammond is great but not SUPER GREAT

[@williamwallace5857]

Just Caravan not THE Caravan.

[@N0rmad]

Love Caravan but I gotta say Pye's lead playing was not at the level of musicianship of the rest of the band. Very shaky solos.

[@landesart]

Caravan‘s lead instrument has always been the organ. Pye never even seemed to intend to play a LEAD guitar - but he did, because he‘s the architect of the Caravan sound. He wrote most of their songs…

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Yes the early Caravan sound was built on David Sinclair’s Hammond organ sound rather than a guitar band.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Well although a fabulous line up the performance is not one of their best . There is a definite tentative approach to the songs , maybe under rehearsed or not rehearsed at all! Pye’s guitar playing lacks the fluidity of Richard’s bass