Wishbone Ash - Vas Dis 1970

[@jurgenseibert1200]

Wishbone Ash - one of the best bands of all times !

[@MaryRaybould]

Ye Gods and little fishes. A jolly big " Yes" to that.😂❤

[@guillermolopez3675]

One of the finest progressive rock band.

[@AudioFileZ]

As a 12-year old kid this is the song that made me a huge Wishbone Ash fan. I walked into Lawrence Stereo and Hi-Fi in Birmingham, Alabama and asked to hear something on their "showcase system". Keep in mind I'm a kid who can't possibly afford the kit that these guys are about to demo to me. Anyway, they led me into their sound room and they had Bose 901 speakers powered by a massive McIntosh Solid State Amp with the huge blue meters. The cool long-haired store clerk proceeded to show me a chair and he put on Pilgrimage by Wishbone Ash. That first song, Vas Dis as seen here, came on and it was like a lightbulb went off in my young mind. I'd never heard anything live or otherwise as glorious and moving. It was like I was in a private concert with this great band. I saved up my allowance and later returned to buy the album. Lawrence Hi-Fi is long gone but this is the moment in my life I became an audiophile as well as a huge Wishbone Ash fan.

[@RoryRita]

What a great thing that guy did for a little kid. You will never forget it! Very cool.

[@brucefranklin6295]

Great story! Very cool salesman to give you that "private concert ".

[@MegaSmitty51]

Saw them do this live at least a couple of times. Satsop Festival in Washington State. Must have been around 1970. Blew my mind. The first band I'd seen with Orange stacks. I was very stoned and very impressed.

[@kamakirinoko]

Hehe . . . and I at 14! We must be around the same age-62. Alabama! I was in Africa-Kinshasa, Zaire . . . and going to boarding school in England. I was HEAVILY into Wishbone Ash . . . this album in particular was on in heavy rotation . . .hard to tell if this one is lip-synched or not!

[@tonys518]

Great story . I was 11 when Argus came out . I had older brothers who brought all sorts of music into the house. I was just starting to teach to myself to play guitar .My brother would have killed me if he knew I was playing his album ...I pretty much wore it out . I couldn't believe that album. It's been a life long friend. If you love melodic guitar playing you've got to love Wishbone Ash

[@edljnehan2811]

God how I miss the early 70s. Emerson Lake and Palmer, Wishbone Ash, jazz fusion, Jeff Beck, Return to Forever, the mahavishnu orchestra, and all of the extraordinary musicianship of the time that will never be matched in this sad state of Affairs we couldn't imagine at the time😢

[@dmc7088]

My story.... 16 years old in 1974, borrowed an 8 track cassette from a second hand shop to test out the music system in a triumph herald that 8 track cassette was by a band called wishbone ash, never knew who they were, the album was pilgrimage, loved what I heard on that album, been a fan ever since.... the end

[@michaelginever732]

I always loved their bass sound. This track in particular it sounds just beautiful.

[@jimlucas3872]

How bad ass is this!!!?Goosebumps all over body!!!!

[@dmreeoogdaq]

Sometimes music is so good that words fail to adequately describe it or convey just how good it is. This is one of those times.

[@Yannvintage]

i am a wishbone ash fan from the 70th.....great

[@johnthonig8832]

Ja Geil

[@johnthonig8832]

@Andrea Vlasis 4 times in the 70s Sept 19th 2021 in Austin tx ✌️😊

[@ivanmay7890]

If Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash had never played a Gibson Flying V, then the Gibson Flying V would not be a popular guitar. Andy Powell is a very soulful player. I wish people spoke about him in the same way they talk about Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore.

[@TheJohnGway]

These guys are so good and yet not many people recognize them as one of the great rock bands of the 70's

[@londoner752]

Some of us do! - One of the first things I did as a guitar learner was to learn Jailbait by ear! - great stuff. Such a lot of creative bands in the 70s.

[@d3lt452]

I have a problem with them being that I can't with their mellower stuff and that is pushing me back from them. Any reccomendation or tracks similar to this one to finally getting into this awesome group?

[@plantagenant]

the drumming on this is fabulous

[@garykay7418]

cool that the drummer is center stage

[@markrobinson8410]

Great band

[@G8GT364CI]

Everything is.

[@ChrisJKing-se4dp]

Yeah the great Steve Upton brilliant drummer

[@eddisstreet]

I saw this band many times in the early 70s - great live act

[@Marc-lq2qf]

Très habile mélange de rock et de jazz-blues. Dans un rhythme d'enfer!Andy Powell impressionnant à la guitare, de même que Steve Upton à la batterie.

[@johnthonig8832]

Ja

[@helterskelter1178]

Mart, Andy, Ted and Steve. Phenomenal musicians. One of my favourites from the Pilgrimage record.

[@skidco1]

All these decades later and this still sounds ace - where is the comparable compositional and playing talent today?

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

Nowhere 🇬🇧

[@TreVader1378]

Well Boober can play guit, ha ha sorry I couldn't finish that sentence.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

Jack McDuff's original version of the song also featured George Benson... now you probably know where he got his simultaneous guitar playing and scat singing from!

[@armanddimeo6575]

I always overlooked this band but they are very underrated. I first heard of them decades ago when a friend went to a concert with them and the Allman Brothers on the same bill. Now I get dual lead guitar band connection. This song is closer to jazz than rock and roll.

[@chelsea11649]

Vas Dis. A true hidden gem by one of the most talented bands of all time. Original concept with a lead guitar to die for. Check out pilgrimage if you don't know it.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Steve the Drummer brief bit in Das Boot. Sadly some of Convoy Attack scenes omitted. Other wise Great!

[@pirx0]

jeden z lepszych zespołów z dawnych czasów

[@jamiebones3419]

This song is on jukeboxes in Scotland and I put it on everytime I see it. And Pheonix.

[@SciFiArtman]

Hot damn, this is good! Haven't heard the song in decades, and don't believe I've ever seen this "performance" before - what a freakin' sonic treat! C'mon youngins, don't let musicianship die!!!

[@MassimilianoCavalera]

I'm a youngin! I just learned this song on bass. I can't keep musicianship alive singlehandedly but I'm doing my part!

[@stevebowness9435]

Top quality Band superb musicians and what an Amazing Drummer

[@nicollevelasquez1262]

Excelentes músicos 🗯️😍

[@GlennWW]

First saw them live at Sir John Cass College, London 1970, blew me away. Never heard anything like it. I was 19 yo.. They had strobes et al.... Mesmerised everyone, all stood still in a trance just listening.

[@shemanic1]

Superb Prog-rock. I have 2 of their albums.

[@edicurcan7190]

I adore this trck! One of the best track of this great band!

[@skoluba]

Great position of the drummer! It's show his skills.

[@koroba01]

One of the pioneers of the twin lead guitar and they do it so well. Saw them in New Orleans at the Municipal Auditorium back in early 70s (72 or 73, very fuzzy back then), I think Joe Walsh opened for them (who was also great). Superb progressive rock.

[@govt.primaryschoollowercam2047]

Wishbone ash is greater than many American rockacts. Double lead guitars vouch for their supreme techniques

[@danbartko164]

As excellent as this era of the band was,I am completely blown away by this incredible live film!

[@annkopfer6713]

very complimentary to the orig Jack McDuff version from the 60s....the first two slabs with Ted Turner are incredibke...

[@1963johnbhoy]

Deep profound lyrics and Bjorn Borg on drums,brilliant.

[@maxb9315]

This piece has vocals but no lyrics. The use of the voice as an instrument ( ie singing without lyrics) is not uncommon and can be found in a number of genres, eg scat singing in jazz , and sometimes in Sami joiks. Here Wishbone Ash are 'scatting' Vas Dis, an old Jack McDuff instrumental. The drummer's name, incidentally, is Steve Upton.

[@coriscotupi]

+Max B Great reply, kudos giving good info instead of feeding the troll. Incidentally, this is taped-over with the studio version. One of the giveaways is Upton's drum fill that is heard, but not seen, at 0:32.

[@mixaliskokkinos1496]

And what you propose?Can yoy do it?Greetings from Greece-Ελλαδα Μιχαλης Κοκκινος

[@harryflash4680]

Seen them so many times - top rock band.

[@rifraffer]

Wishbone Ash, Allman Brothers and Peter Greens' Fleetwood Mac, my cup of tea in 1970.

[@johnthonig8832]

Yep, I saw all 3 in small venues

[@rifraffer]

@@johnthonig8832 You are a lucky man.

[@johnthonig8832]

@@rifraffer indeed I am. And from 1971 until 1980 Armadillo in Austin had most of the best bands. Twice a week was my norm.

[@tombeasley4769]

Your not the only one John! This is bloody great, even for a kid born in 71!

[@lumanchu3386]

Jazz prognoizis. Unmatched prog rock groove.

[@sonofren]

Martin Turner was auditioning guitarists during the early stages of what would become "Wishbone Ash", and got it down to two guys. Couldn't pick which, so he picked both! And the world was better for it obviously. This is Ash gone full throttle

[@김연준-z6t]

Such a nice performance!

[@keithjb100]

Love it!

[@stevendphoto]

This is an awesome song, only tine I saw the Ash was during the US Tour for Live Dates and we had 3rd row seats! Well we actually moved up to empty 3rd row seats, when people left who came only to see the opening band, who was some lame band on their first big tour, I think their name was....KISS...!

[@tonyanderton3521]

You chose the right band, Steven.

[@valeriyblinov1573]

Legends!!! Super!!!

[@marcosbaracca3001]

Fantastic! Great musicians!

[@hilariomartinmartinez9275]

Aquí estan en plan progresivo como focus y algo de hard rock, esta canción ya está en el olimpo de los dioses del rock.

[@jayarajjohnson2476]

JUST FANTASTIC. GENIUS.

[@АндрейМаглыш]

No one mention it, but it`s the Brother Jack McDuff jazz composition which he had never recorded at studio. There's only one recorded live version on his "Brother Jack At The Jazz Workshop Live!" 1963 album. Very interesting to compare both songs.

[@tdobrov]

This is overdubbed from the studio recording. Still good! Wishbone the best!

[@keithmilburn4866]

Perfection

[@bo4koff]

Pretty cooool. I know them from the soundtrack of a russian bike documentary made in 1985 🤯

[@tombeasley4769]

This is great. I wish I was around long enough to remember.

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

very very good....................................................

[@freeconvention]

great video the first OGWT I saw September 1971 - this and Jailbait were played.

[@emanemanrus5835]

Steve Harris told Iron maiden songwriting was greatly influenced by these gentlemen. Especially by their baroque side like in the "Argus" album. If you listen that album, you clearly hear beautiful twin harmonized guitars and excellent basslines complementing guitars without overlapping with them, lessons well learned from Maiden some years after.

[@martinphillips3647]

Saw them twice, in Brighton, early seventies.

[@nealbeard1]

Listened to this on an 8 track tape when I was about 12. Now listen to it on an audiophile portable music player with God knows how many other albums on it. Being back the Trim phone.

[@solonazeredo8300]

Show eterno !

[@hoopy6781]

❤️ my youth as if it was yesterday ❤️

[@vaneipontes3279]

Simply Fantástic 🎵🎼🎶🎸😎👊 The Real "wishbone ash" 🎵🎼🎶🎸😎👊

[@Mr121953]

Back in 1970 , we booked them to play at the then brand new FE College 'West Bridgeford ' Tech in Nottingham UK. They used our office in the common room to change ... Got talking to the band and found out they came from Torquay in Devon UK, nice guys ... If anyone is out there this is for Tony Triptree, Rod , Mongie, Beeb , Zena, Adam , Richard , Rosso, Ant, Eliz , Phil- For all of you cos you were there ... Happy 2021 . Simon .

[@ronaldvanoosterbos7141]

GREAT!!

[@wimweender1306]

great stuff 🥰👍

[@nealbeard1]

When British rock was King.

[@grzegorzgryc3586]

Crazy. I spotted this song approx. 40 years ago, when I was ~15 years young. Now, "I've grown older and wiser" (a perv quote from Phil Ochs, " Love me, I'm a liberal"...). It makes me think 'bout "Take five" (Dave Brubeck Quartet)... Well done...

[@wimweender1306]

we want more ! 🥰👍

[@michaelgregory6497]

This is killer cool dig it

[@frosnen]

Marvelous perfomance

[@InvisibleYetVisible]

Incredible.

[@blesseins4658]

Vous avez dit : "en vie" ?...un si touchant moment de mecs qui en voulaient ...!!!!

[@turnerthemanc]

Powell still going, saw them 3 years ago in Bury.

[@terrydavis5915]

Hey dat wavy cymbal! And dem funny pants.

[@patrickhamilton7448]

Great versatile band. They rock, but THIS is a 96.999% jazz

[@jayarajjohnson2476]

FANTASTIC.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

Whose lives 1:17 Did it Save? In 2024?

[@rafaelrada9922]

I remember my youf.. when i was twenty or maybe ,,,, 19.... i dont now...BeAUTIFULLL

[@dalewatts1475]

First time I've heard them. Ridiculous but fun.

[@krisscanlon4051]

I think Martin was talking about that Ricky bass on a recent boxed set interview

[@tombeasley4769]

Great! Mann!

[@eudymaverickmentor]

Wished it was live.

[@tombeasley4769]

Play this again .

[@zenonzaniewski3212]

pozdrawia Was , Urszula Dudziak PL

[@lorenzo6mm]

FUSION MUSIC❤

[@mguerramd]

Wow. Wishbone Scat.

[@sun6moon9]

This songs still kicks so much AsS!!!!

[@guillermolopez3675]

Killer beat

[@anglik3954]

It's 1971, not 1970 as the post title suggest. Also, how many of you are here because of Wojciech Mann's "Bez kolejki" in Radio Nowy Świat? :)

[@marktrepka4805]

Seems like one other. .....😂😂😂😂

[@kevinwilson598]

How does the song go, oh happy days oh happy days

[@georgefromgreece4119]

Based on " I am coming home" of course

[@matthewcumberland6877]

Fookin deep and wide.

[@gevatechomri368]

Who knew James Franco was such a good singer

[@richardgarcia6855]

GevatechOmri that’s so funny I thought the same thing but this is 1971 so I’m guessing it’s his dad lol

[@tombeasley4769]

I thought I lost this!

[@gorobeikatayama7868]

Have always loved Wishbone Ash; Argus is top dozen for me; the main thing for bassists though, is that "this" is premier, iconic Rickenbacker 4001 bass tone, exhibited most expertly...while singing!

[@SciFiArtman]

Beautiful player, but his Chris Squireish upstrokes drive me nuts to watch! But hey, it sounds fantastic, like Squire's, so I'll just have to accept that everyone has their way! :)

[@bryanleigh6497]

They're miming

[@alanthorne3921]

Yeah Martin used the Ricky early on but then came the Gibson Thunderbirds.

[@gorobeikatayama7868]

@@SciFiArtman I had a theory: Is it possible "up-stroking" is a byproduct of starting-out finger-style?? I don't know, but it bugs me, too.

[@SciFiArtman]

@@gorobeikatayama7868 Interesting idea, Gorobei! From my perspective, I dabbled on guitar for a few months before buying a bass, and just picked the strings because I could play faster that way. I never thought about my picking at all, but one of the guitarists I played with later said I had "perfect picking technique". OK that's cool, but I never gave it a thought - just did it. As for Martin above, he may have just jumped into it too, and this is what felt natural! But I feel Squire was doing his upstroking for effect, as you can get a more fret-slappy sound by upstrokes, especially on the top 2 strings, and Squire seemed to love finding new ways of being sonically aggressive! Guess I'll have to put it all in the "it just feels right" box of playing styles. :)

[@Magnetron33]

Martin was an excellent vocalist and bassist. He hired Andy and gave him a chance. Still trying to get the knife out of his back I suspect

[@finalsolution79]

Martin Turner is the best bass guitarist in the world.

[@linpiao111]

Jack Bruce.....

[@alexnutcasio936]

@@linpiao111 Entwistle.....

[@johnthonig8832]

Lemmy

[@DrJetty]

Chris Squire.....

[@gillespepay4318]

Une adaptation d’un morceau de jazz

[@Mikatale]

HAAAAAAA papa frankpo i love laughin gsoooo funnyii

[@1963johnbhoy]

One never sees this on a karaoke screen/list.

[@robertcarter9350]

At 1: 34 Andy rips into a lovely lead break. Camera however is focused on the bass player. OMG, please deliver me from stupiity!!

[@ian38018a]

😁

[@linpiao111]

Not the first time in history, nor the last.....

[@HC3053suevus]

We should not forget that it is hardly possible for the cameramen and directors who do not have to record just one certain piece of music to know every detail of the many pieces of music they have to record and that it is even more difficult to always “catch” the dominant musician when recording with relatively few cameras such as in this video, which was obviously shot with "only" three cameras. In any case, I think that this video is pretty well made, and in view of the circumstances mentioned above, I also think that it's not very bad that in the scene from 1:34 in this video, the camera slowly pans from Martin Turner's bass, which is also very dominant here, to Andy Powell's lead guitar. A small disadvantage, however, is that this video does not actually contain the band's then live music, but was overdubbed with another studio recording, and it's a bit annoying that unfortunately a bit of the end is missing here.

[@marceloaraujo8728]

m o n s t r o s

[@marceloaraujo8728]

☮

[@forestsoceansmusic]

Which member was playing the Flying V? Andy Powell or Ted Turner??

[@desayuno_psicodelico]

Powell

[@forestsoceansmusic]

@@desayuno_psicodelico Thanks man, much appreciated.

[@desayuno_psicodelico]

@@forestsoceansmusic Your welcome :)

[@highhope9052]

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