Steeleye Span - Long Lankin (Live)
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- Steeleye Span performing Long Lankin. From the live DVD, Steeleye Span 35th Anniversary World Tour 2004. Available to buy from the Park shop here: parkrecords.com/product/prkdvd...
In an age when bands seem to come and go in the blink of an eye, an occasion such as a thirty fifth anniversary is one that just has to be marked. Such it was for Steeleye Span, who decided to celebrate the best way they know how - by taking their music of the people to the people across the country. With a line-up featuring names from every period of the band’s illustrious history, the music captured here also reflects every aspect of their stunning career - from their earliest adventures into electric folk through to their commercial heyday and latter work. This is not only the first time that all these individual personalities have been in the same band at the same time, it is also the first time that the magic of Steeleye Span in concert has been caught especially for DVD. Let the celebrations begin….
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This is so, sooooo good...and it gets better with each listen!! That bass, that voice!! And the violin just brings me to tears, especially the passage at the end, he could have extended that for 20 minutes and I'd have stayed to listen!! Just superb all round!!
This group, and especially Maddie, remain favourites after many years.
One of their classics! Beautiful. Wonderful musicians. Maddy is one of the great singers !
Solid voice. She's looked after it well and it still rewards wonderfully. A joy to hear the clarity and enjoy the stories. Just perfect. Thank you all :)
What a deliciously macabre lyric! I love the slower tempo which allows Maddy's voice room to breathe in the opening two verses - so beautfiul
This is one of my favorite Steeleye songs. I played it incessantly! Love the transition to the middle section, e.g., “Where’s the lady of the house, says Long Lankin...” It’s remarkable how such a creepy tale is transformed into a folk-rock masterpiece.
One of the great Steeleye songs. Beautiful version
Hauntingly beautiful. We love you Maddy x
It's the violin here that really drew me in...
Agree completely, the lyricism of the violin is incredible. Listen out for the bass, there’s a lot of Lankin-like creeping going on there too!
Peter is superb. Broke my heart that he left Steeleye.
@@moonbeamchaos I don't know steeleye span enough to render commentary it's just my dad was a fan of the folk rock movement and I never realized until I was a bit older that quite a bit of what I enjoy today was influenced by the Folk rock revival that took place late 60s and 70s. it was all horribly before my time but my dad got me to appreciate folk which I had thought I disliked before that point.
Love this one by Steeleye! Any of the few who gave it a thumbs down are idiots! Who know nothing about folk music! 🙂
Hard to pick a favourite from their catalogue but this would be very high on my list.
Absolutely brilliant..Love your peformance. Wish I had an ounce of you skill and originality. You have made an old choirister very happy.
Maddy has always come right from theatre front to rear to join with girls a-dancing. Love her to bits!
Fantastic, Maddys beautiful voice still as good as in the early 70s & fantastic instrumentalists make them a super group,loved them since they started[& still do!!]
Me too! Steeleye Span rocks!
So sad and beatiful too , i remember others times
Me too!
Interesting to hear how she evolves the song from the original recording to match it to the evolution of her voice.
It's fascinating to hear how great performers evolve their renditions of their classic songs - like hearrrrrrrrrrnJoni mitchell at Fairport in 2023 revisiting Both Sides Now. this is a surperbly nuanced performance of an outstanding ballad. "Beware!" goose bumps.
I got to see them perform live when I was stationed in England in the 80's. They haven't lost a thing. these songs aren't made up- they were written about things that happened in the Middle Ages. Likely there was a serial killer that got the nickname Long Lankin and he and an accomplice were true monsters.
Likely a leper - there was a folk belief that bathing in the blood of innocents could cure leprosy, and what's more innocent than a baby?
You' can't be that wrong, mate - there was that stuff going on hundreds of years ago, not just in more modern times with Fred &rose West etc.
But "Long Lankin" is an odd song.tale... I've never really done much research on it, but I've pondered it over the years, and also read some things about the story/name "Long Lankin".
Guess what?? I know for a start that there are *several* competing "theories" - and they aren't all what you might think! 🙂
Bit of genuine info here, so get ready! 🙂
The late fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett, for example, who was well up on folkore, seemed to think Lankin was an evil elf! (If you've read his last published work, The Shepherd's Crown.)
But the only lengthy explanation I ever heard given of the song by a folk singer, was a good few years ago on a recording, might have been by Anne Briggs but don't quote me on it!
*Guess what she said?* She said that Long Lankin was in fact a stonemason, who had been commissioned to build a hall for the lord in the song. Apparently he got stiffed by said lord, went insane, lived out on the moors because he was bankrupt - and this was his revenge on the lord and his family! 😨
Moral of the story: Always pay your builders.
You inspired me to write down all that!😄
One of this very ancient Ex R.A.F.A. County of Rutland Standard Bearer and Amateur Traditional Folk Singers, most treasured possessions, is a photo of Maddy and I. Taken by my son. She should have been made a Dame long ago!
Masters of their craft!
Beautiful 💖
Das ist, für meinen Geschmack, das beste Lied dieser so guten Gruppe, eines, das mich mein Leben lang begleitet hat.
@Hans-Jürgen Andersen Oh, you lucky man, to have had them all of your life - I first discovered them in 1974, when I was 27., with Below the Salt. What a revelation! And now, at almost 75, I still adore them.
@@moonbeamchaos Below the salt! Genius! Ich habe mir die Platte in London (während eines Schulausfluges) gekauft, das muss 1978 gewesen sein, als ich 17 war und alles noch vor mir hatte. Du bist nun 75, sei ganz lieb gegrüßt, wir sind beinahe Brüder im Geiste. So long, von Herzen alles Liebe! Hans-Jürgen Frieden und Glück!
superb band
The voice of an angel!
Real musicians and a beautiful singer ... what more is there to say?
Love it!
Be sure your doors are bolted well! Lest Lankin shud creep in! A masterpiece of grim story telling!
Only one comment, simply the best.
Haunting legend, referenced by Terry Pratchett in his last Discworld novel.
And in Lords and Ladies.
Lankin is also a character in the Tiffany Aching novels, as an evil elf lord.
Ancient theme....Fafner and Fasolt built Valhalla and weren't paid : ended badly - took the whole world to destruction. Were the Strongs ever paid for building Blenheim Palace?
You steal my kyne your ewe is myne......anglo saxon proverb.
In St. Petersburg Florida we have a beautiful church (St. Mary's). The architect was never paid, so he took his revenge in a different way from Long Lankin: Some years later the chance came for him to design a public restroom in a popular city park. he made it a small replica of the church. The two edifices are now referred to as "Big St. Mary's" and "Little St. Mary's".
I think you are right, but I am unsure.
Dang it, but happy luck! I will have to read all of Sir Pratchett's novel's again.
There are many worse ways to spend one's time...
Always a deadly live band.
YES!!! I saw them at a small nightclub called the Bottom Line in NYC in the 70's & one of the best shows I ever seen!
Classic Steeleye
Lampkin, the finest mason who ever layed stone, built a castle and received no recompense, so he went berserk, so the story goes.
Oh so you know that one too! (Is it a Child ballad, do you know?)
@@oneoflokis I don't.
Ganz ganz wunderbar!
Song is STILL creepy as Hell and disturbing on many levels but sung with such heartfelt romantic tenderness....
I've always loved the music when the plot thickens. The guitars.
@@CaptGage: Steeleye Span often mixes the macabre with the light and very few of their songs are about trivial topics. That is something I like about them and their repertoire.
Praise Steeleye Span
I don't know why I love Long Lankin but I do
Aint no good without the lyrics....... Child 93
This is how news got around before the internet, before newsprint... before print
Passed in song.
Said the Lord unto his Lady as he rode over the moss
"Beware of Long Lankin that lives amongst the gorse
Beware the moss, beware the moor, beware of Long Lankin
Be sure the doors are bolted well
Lest Lankin should creep in"
Said the Lord unto his Lady as he rode away
"Beware of Long Lankin that lives amongst the hay
Beware the moss, beware the moor, beware of Long Lankin
Be sure the doors are bolted well
Lest Lankin should creep in"
"Where's the master of the house?", says Long Lankin
"He's 'way to London", says the nurse to him
"Where's the lady of the house?", says Long Lankin
"She's up in her chamber", says the nurse to him
"Where's the baby of the house?", says Long Lankin
"He's asleep in the cradle", says the nurse to him
"We will pinch him, we will prick him
We will stab him with a pin
And the nurse shall hold the basin
For the blood all to run in"
So they pinched him and they pricked him
Then they stabbed him with a pin
And the false nurse held the basin
For the blood all to run in
"Lady, come down the stairs, " says Long Lankin
"How can I see in the dark?", she says unto him
"You have silver mantles", says Long Lankin
"Lady, come down the stairs by the light of them"
Down the stairs the lady came, thinking no harm
Lankin, he stood ready to catch her in his arms
There was blood all in the kitchen
There was blood all in the hall
There was blood all in the parlor
Where my lady she did fall
Now Long Lankin shall be hanged
From the gallows, oh, so high
And the false nurse shall be burned
In the fire close by
Said the Lord unto his Lady as he rode over the moss
"Beware of Long Lankin that lives amongst the gorse
Beware the moss, beware the moor, beware of Long Lankin
Make sure the doors are bolted well
Lest Lankin should creep in"
Classic murder ballad
Grew up punk with a soft spot for folk. Went to their concert in Sydney at the State Theatre in the 90s before a Goth club. One of the best concerts I experienced. Danced with girls in the aisles. Sadly when they retuned the guy next to me whinghed about how electric instruments ruined the purity of folk tradition.Guess after 40 years he was still new to the transitional period, Personally I was disappointed not to dance again with girls in folk dress down the aisles,,until realising 20 years later those girls were middle aged family women. Regardless Steeleye Span and the voice of Maddy are timeless, and an endless delight and I treasure being fortunate to see them twice....
スティーライ・スパン大好きです。私のお気に入りはDaemon LoverとRogues in Nationです。
Love you long time zo
Soo Kali Yuga
Shivering truth has a good one lol
Edgar C.S .... o próprio. Som cavernoso.
lest Lankin should creep in...
Happy hallows eve. Beware of the false nurse.
If a couple were to dress as them two for a Halloween party, *would anyone know who they were*? Even if it was a party for folk singers? 🙂
Great. Excuse my ignorance , but who is the guitarist and singer in the fast middle
Section? Brilliant and overlooked compared to maddie prior.
Ken Nicol
Ken Nicol
Maddy grest like 40 years before dorry bout tjat never seen you in performance
Thq
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The love of young girl
Drums x
Bob Johnson guitar. Peter Knight fiddle. Maggie Prior vocals. Long Lankin. Fantastic!
Ken Nicol on guitar, replacing Bob Johnson. It's Maddy not Maggie btw
Who's the bassist ? Thort 4 a second it was Dave Pegg 😊
Herd u @ demonfort hall licester 1964 xxx
such Medieval treachery ! ...."and the false nurse shall be burn-ed...." ........aahhhh, Maddy.....
"Beware" the false nurse ,still rings true down all the days .
think you missed the story
In certain versions of the ballad, it's the nurse who convinces Lamkin to kill the landlady.
She also allows Lamkin into the castle, having told him beforehand about her master's departure to London, so they can both carry out Lamkin's revenge (he has built the castle but has not been paid)
@@edwardamosbrandwein3583 So he must have been a member of some Guild .I had a feeling that it was mediaeval . More than meets the eye . Thanks for the background .
@@patrickcullen6298 These ballads, judging by the style and grammar, belong to the XVI and XVII centuries
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The guy on vocals/guitar can certainly sing; but his voice is out of place here; he is not a folk/rock singer.
@@edwardjohn8988 it's not Bob Johnson. It's Ken Nicol
@@spanfan7669 My mistake, apologies to all.
Totally agree!
Bob Johnson's voice has really failed.
It's not Bob Johnson on guitar here, its Ken Nicol.