It Bites - Old Man and the Angel (rehearsal).

Fun times when I worked for one of my favourite bands!
I'm in-shot somewhere when you see me panning around the drum kit.
Funny bit near the end when John Beck seems very concerned about dropping his notes with the need to retrieve them whilst continuing to play!
Level 42's Nathan King on bass standing in whilst Lee Pomeroy was away with Take That.

[@stevetaylor6488]

Thanks for posting. Great to here John's keys up in the mix so to hear all the subtleties

[@petethebeat5649]

Thanks for uploading. This is awesome. JB and RD making half of IB. FD and RN the other half and they are sadly missing here...

[@user-ys9yq7rj7c]

Thanks for posting. I used to a very royal follower of the band. It remains me a good old one day during the tour rehearsal.

[@gw2031]

The stand in singer / vocalist did a fantastic job to keep the music alive, some player .Check out Francis dunnery in the 2023 new It bites line up ,,as close as it gets to the original band sound,it's fantastic!! In the 80,s we worshipped the band !

[@paulmoran3482]

Good stuff 🎼👍

[@gideonsikk8733]

Was really interesting hearing that I think it was Steve hillage that introduced it bites sound to incorporate time signatures. Good move. Love the bites

[@schragemusik]

'to incorporate time signatures'. What does that mean?

[@gideonsikk8733]

@schragemusik well have u listened to it bites song structures . 13/8 ..7/8..9/8.and so on . In a pop song it's all 4/4 .and in a interview they said when they started writing songs they wernt based around tricky time signatures .
And I think it was Steve hillage that gave them the idea . they ran with it ..making their sound more prog based ..fans loved it they smashed it . Hope that covers All ur question. Thanx