Ep 35 - The Midnight Special Episode | September 28, 1973
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- Hosted by Seals & Crofts with special guest appearance by Paul Butterfoeld's Better Days, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Leo Kottke, T. Rex, Uriah Heep, and Wolfman Jack.
Unfortunately this tape didn't weather time as well as others and there are glitches in the performance of Sweet Freedom by Uriah Heep. We chose to leave it in as it didn't harm the audio. Thanks for understanding.
#TheMidnightSpecial #music #1970s
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:09 Seals & Crofts - Diamond Girl
00:06:03 T. Rex - Hot Love
00:10:38 Arlo Guthrie - Gypsy Davy
00:14:36 Uriah Heep - Stealin’
00:19:56 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - New Walkin' Blues
00:24:15 Seals & Crofts - Dust On My Saddle
00:27:50 T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It On)
00:36:40 Arlo Guthrie - Bling Blang
00:39:56 Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Talkin' Fishing Blues
00:44:18 Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom
00:49:51 Seals & Crofts - We May Never Pass This Way Again
00:55:27 Leo Kottke - Bean Time
00:57:34 Paul Butterfield's Better Days - Broke My Baby's Heart
01:01:18 Seals & Crofts - Ruby Jean and Billie Lee
01:05:54 Seals & Crofts - Pop Goes the Weasel
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Unfortunately this tape didn't weather time as well as others and there are glitches in the performance of Sweet Freedom by Uriah Heep. We chose to leave it in as it didn't harm the audio. Thanks for understanding.
We are very fortunate that these videos have survived! At some point in the future, Ai will be able to fix any glitches! Love the Midnight Special!
It's much better than not having it at all.
We can live with that, I got nervous the show was shown this morning again or cancelled all together, no bigggie, thanks MS.
I always worry when content providers of vintage recordings believe the recordings need to be perfect to be presented. Even if the audio was muffed, the show must still go on no matter what condition it is in. The generation who grew up with the MS did not have cable or high-quality signals. They were old TVs with rabbit ears and prone to all sorts of atmospheric conditions that guaranteed the broadcasts would be snowy, fuzzy, distorted, dropouts, etc. If anyone ever complains about anything you present not being in perfect condition, send them my way and I will educate.
Why is this streaming live? Why not just upload the video?
What I love about this series is all the acts are singing live. No lip sync, no auto tune. Just honest live music like it"s meant to be.
I was thinking the same thing. I was 9 when this was first aired, so I am just seeing it now, but I watched it all the time in '77. I was blown away be the talent on The Midnight Special then and even more so now. Once a week 90 minutes packed with huge talent that sounded even better live
And....no rap
They did some lip syncing, but rarely
WE, The Children of the 60s, Class of 69, grew up with all of these bands. Now hush up and listen , you new millennials... This is Music.
Seals & Crofts remain priceless in my heart.
I remember sitting on my dad’s shoulders at their concert in Eugene , Oregon .
Each a star on his own- both virtuoso talented as well...
Uriah jeep
In August of 73, (this same year), Seals and Crofts at a Lake side concert, Priceless also... Lion Heart.
Amen! Same here!
I miss the 70s so much, the golden age of music. I never missed a midnight special, every Friday we'd be gathered around the 25" TV.
Thanks for watching again now ... hopefully you have a slightly larger screen today. :)
@@themidnightspecialtvshow LOL, well actually it's smaller, 22" computer screen
I miss the 1970s as well. I am so happy I was born in the 1960s and got to experience life from the late 60s on. I also remember sitting by the TV to watch this show every week. This was long before we had MTV or VH1 & the internet wasn't even a topic yet. I usually had a nice pipping hot pizza or a bag of KFC and their side dishes because my first job was at the local KFC & we got to bring home a ton of food back then for almost nothing & I always did LOL. I also had other smoke-able treats but even though my parents were sleeping I had to run out on the porch when commercials came on. It was amazing what we could accomplish during those short commercial breaks. I also had whatever whiskey that was left over after my dad passed out dead drunk almost nightly but definitely on Friday's & weekends LOL My mom worked third shift as well so I basically had the 11PM-5AM block to myself because even my younger brothers did not stay up late and they were not into music the way I was and still am. I also went on to play guitar and I am still a musician and play quite often now still.
The 1970s were the best & unless you were there you can't really know just how amazingly cool it was. I had hundreds(that became thousands) of LPs 4 awesome loud speakers that were high quality along with my guitar amps so my neighbors always got to experience a wide variety of music because my collection has always gone from A-Z covering dozens of genres. That is one of the things I love about The Midnight Special, it always had extremely different groups/artists from several different genres on the same show which I thought even then was awesome. There was something for almost everyone. Neighborhood kids/friends would also sneak out and come over to my place because they couldn't watch TV that late in their homes & they also would bring along those smoke-able treats to join in on the fun as well.
Great performance T.Rex.
Dash Crofts I ran into in Bee Cave, TX a few years ago. He was driving a big Chrysler sedan, and upon recognizing him, I asked him if he was Crofts. And he replied "Summer Breeze, makes me feel fine, blowin thru the jasmine in my mind." He owns an alpaca or llama farm outside of Austin somewhere. Nice guy!
I get them confused, but I think he passed away in the last year or two
@@jamesmack3314 Jimmy Seals died. Jimmy is the one on guitar and fiddle.
@@grouchosays brother was Dan Seals?
@@user-fc6ci8dh3m Yes indeed. He was one half of England Dan and John Ford Coley. After they split he had a couple country hits.
I wanna bee bop with ya baby til the break of dawn😂❤
This is the only time that T-Rex ever appeared on American TV so this will be a real treat. Uriah Heep too . 😊
That was the case with AC/DC as well. I bet it was also with Thin Lizzy.
@@gregoryduncan3067 yeah I think so . Better one time than no time because just one appearance on American TV could really put you over in the states. Sweet or slayed never appeared on American TV and that would really have helped their careers in America. But it still didn't stop sweet from having many top 40 hits because their music was too infectious. Porcelain couldn't get that chart success in America and they were so magnificent. I think so anyways 😳
It’s hard to believe T Rex did no other US TV. I miss The Turtles singing backup like on the record.
@@moorlock2003 when T-Rex tour in America they didn't really know what to do with him because he was so huge in England but when he came over here he didn't have a big audience. He used to appear second and third on bills with people like Ted Nugent and Aerosmith . But when he went back to England he had number ones all over the charts . Go figure 😁
@@chriskroll4166 My brother went to see T. Rex as headliners (Santa Monica Civic) with The Doobie Brothers. First tour was headlining but after that, like you said, opening act. The Slider was a popular album but he just couldn’t get another hit like Bang A Gong. Metal Guru, Baby Strange, Telegram Sam, and the title song were great though.
This performance by t rex has got to be one of the best ever!!
Seals and Croft was AMAZING, Mandolin? I had NO idea! This show is a treasure.
I was born in 1970 and they capture the days I was strapped in the backseat. I have 3 of their songs in my collection including Diamond Girl, Summer Breeze and We May Never Pass this Way Again. Did I miss any?
👍🥁
@@bigneiltooLove all their music too, including “ Hummingbird “
Yes Dash played mandolin 🙄 lol
@@GuiitarBilly i would have guessed they're were from Scotland. the "deepish dive" i did was enlightening. how about Louie Shelton on guitar? AMAZING.
Thank you so much to the entire team at The Midnight Special for the opportunity to see some great footage of the classic Uriah Heep lineup! ❤
Our pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Marc Bolan was such a showman and so full of talent.
Leo Kottke is one crazy good guitar player...and still going strong...
Yes! Love Leo Kottke too, he does a stellar rendition of “ Little Martha “ by Duane Allman on his ‘86 album “ A Shout Toward Noon “. Love his live version on YT also my favorite song from the Allman Brothers, so crazy it came to Duane in a dream, Jimi Hendrix was playing it to him after Jimi had died. Tis wild.
I got to know Jim Seals a bit in the mid 70s. I was probably 16 years old and lived in Sylmar, CA at the time and there was a model race car track that opened up there. They had a sweet track and everything you needed to custom build a model race car. Back then I built real custom cars with my father so I had a pretty good idea how to build a model car and mine came out pretty good. Jim came in one day and looked around and saw me racing with a few others there and my little car was smoking them so after a bit he came over and asked me to help him build one. So we built his car pretty close to the same as mine and he was good at racing his too.
Not long after that there was some kind of national disaster in, I think it was Nicaragua, and I heard on TV or the radio that he and Crofts had donated a bunch of supplies and had them flown down there in their Airplane. I couldn't help but admire that and the next time I saw him at the track I told I admired him for that. His response was a real surprise because he told me the truth.
He said something very close to "Well, the truth is our accountant and promoter came up with that for both a write off on our taxes and a publicity campaign so we really had nothing to do with it other than agree to it."
His honesty shocked me, and it also enlightened me. It shocked me because he could've bragged about it, but he didn't. It enlightened me because I had heard of similar such things about other "celebrities" and "wealthy" folks many times over the years before that, and still do now and then.
That's not to say that it wasn't still a good thing, it did help those folks in Nicaragua, even if it was just a little. And I admired him for teaching me that lesson. His honestly gave me a perspective I wouldn't have had otherwise. Every time I hear of a celebrity doing something like that I think of Jim Seals.
Cool….Well, beyond all that those two were great together for those brief years
Interesting story, I dunno sometimes people arrive at the right place because someone booted them from somewhere else. Given their profile it might have given visibility to the cause and helped a lot, Good on him for being so honest about it and in this case I dare say the ends justified the means.
That extended T Rex performance of Bang a Gong is one of the most fantastic things I have ever seen in my life! This is what real Rock & Roll is all about folks. 😮
Never heard this version. Unreal...
Yea, it's infinitely better than that Power Station version. They really butchered that song.
Explosive, that’s what it is.
Glam ain't real
LOVE Glam Rock!
Diamond Girl is an amazing romantic song; totally mood inducing and takes us all the way back, eh??
Love their harmonies … 💎💎💎
Reminds me of Jr high, Seals and Crofts draw you into the song, it becomes a movie In my mind
I was 16 at the time.... now 66.... I thought those guys were old back then, but now I see how young they were.
Love that walking bass. 🎸
It’s a song I will never tire of hearing it’s just infectious and the fact that it goes into a bit of an instrumental rock ‘n’ roll Segway just is the icing on the cake
@@kf1000ugh slow this train down..just turned, gulp,63……
I was less than a year old when this aired but man do I love Seals And Crofts and the smooth 70s. I grew up with this. It’s amazing what you remember as an adult from your childhood in terms of the music
Great players on this show. Amos Garrett (Better Days), Jesse Ed Davis (Arlo), and Louie Shelton (S&C).
Plus Chris Parker (Stuff) on drums with Better Days and Jim Gordon with Arlo!
You forgot Jeff Porcaro on drums with Seals and Crofts
1973 was the best year of Midnight Special!
1973 was the best year of Rock and Roll IMO. Highlights were Paul McCartney Band on the Run, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, and (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) .
Can't WAIT until KING CRIMSON....
@@bigneiltoo yes great but nothing compares to 1971 with Led Zeppelin‘s fourth album, aqualung ,who’s next, sticky fingers ,LA woman and a few more I can’t remember
@@jamesmack3314 I have all those in my MP3 collection! I own about 8000 songs (my goal is to own every song I like and it's getting harder and harder to find new material, though this year I added 800 songs, focusing on Elvis Costello and The Cars. I have nearly 7000 folders in my collection because it's meticulously organized by genre, decade, band and album, each parameter in chronological order. But I'm thinking: is there software that will let us filter songs, like say "soft rock from the 70s"? Currently I can random play on any decade, and made greatest hits for years.
I like the way Seals and Crofts taps between lines on their instruments. Their voices always blended so well.
I spent the majority of my teens watching "The Midnight Special." Classic TV. Incredible performances. So fun to see again!
Wow! What an eclectic lineup! I loved Seals and Crofts.
I LOVE THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL. That is all.
Guitarist with Seals & Crofts is the great Louie Shelton. LA session player who produced them. He has many videos on here.
The camera shot of him during his solo for Diamond Girl was cool as hell with the lights and stuff until they switched to a close up of the mandolin during the second half of his solo. drag. cause you didn't see much of the band anyway, his guitar was clear though.
I think that’s Bobby Lichtig on bass.
An awesome and amazing group that graced the stage of the Midnight Special 🎉🎉
What a great show ! Arlo Guthrie, TRex , Uriah Heep and Seals and Crofts on the same show? Wow! What a lineup!
We had great music back then that was on Radio 📻 and TV 📺.
Now there’s only CZcams and it’s hard to find good music.
Thanks! 😊
Seals & Croft are incredible song writers. Don't make them like that any more. Too bad. :(
T-Rex killing it like it's 1973. Just fantastic.
Quite an eclectic mix of performers! Phil Collins' voice reminded me of Jim Seals.
Loved Seals & Croft performance. They had such a unique sound..surreal❣❤
Diamond Girl is a special song for me. You see, there was this girl...
It’s literally impossible to rock harder than T Rex here
U so right . Marc rulus 🙏
yeah, that's right!
My older brother gifted me his car-w/tape deck & tapes at age 16. T Rex were included it’s how I discovered their greatness. I Love Glam Rock! 😍
@@KittyGrizGriz have you ever heard of a band out now called The Struts . They are the kings of glam . Check them out 😁
Aired 2 days before Marc Bolan 26th birthday
Uriah Heep in their classic years with David Byron. What a treat, even though the Sweet Freedom performance suffers from tape wear. Can't wait to see their other MS special performances from 1975 & 1976. Hopefully we don't have to wait 2-3 more years based on MS full episode schedule. Thanks in advance.
Patience is a virtue ... you've waited 50 years already :) We will see if we can extract the songs and get them posted sooner. Thanks for watching and supporting.
@@themidnightspecialtvshowThank You! ❤❤❤
I saw SEALS and Crofts May 4, 1974 at the brand new Providence Civic center. At the end of their performance, they invited anyone to stick around if they were interested in learning that specific spiritual path
My mom was 2 months pregnant with me. Although she 39 in 1974 she always listened to all types of music so I love these bands on here and some that never step foot on this stage. I just love music
Seals & Crofts ruled that year.
Jim Seals RIP
No matter if you like the group or singer it is great to see the live music
There diamond girl album was one of the best in 1973, a real classic.
I met Arlo Guthrie a few years ago. We talked for awhile. Really nice guy.
Love Arlo Guthrie too, how cool you got to meet him Ty for sharing!
I like “ City of New Orleans “ written by Steve Goodman and “ Alice’s Restaurant “ songs, what a killer singer-songwriter-soothsayer for the ages…
Always loved Seals and Crofts (despite the religious nonsense) and enjoyed the time trip back to the 70s with them. Leo Kottke was a treat to watch as well. 👍👍
They were powerful propagandists for their "religious nonsense". Lots of young people (myself included) took the bait and spent years of their lives in their faith until eventually becoming disillusioned.
Jim Seals and Dash Crofts, two Texas boys who wrote some fantastic songs and contributed to the best years musically in American pop, alongside Loggins and Messina, Dan Fogleberg, and really too many to mention here. I think Dash is still alive, but Jim Seals died a while back. R.I.P. "Oh, hummingbird...."
Seals & Crofts with Louie Shelton, David Paich, Bobby Lichtig, Jeff Porcaro.
Probably the studio band that Louie put together as producer for the album. I haven't heard of Bobby unfortunately, but Shelton, Paich, and Porcaro are a super group by themselves. I don't think they were very well known to the public then.
Uriah heep fantastic band! Thanks for sharing.
I saw Seals and Crofts a couple of years after this episode. During orientation week at school, the university held a "back-to-school" concert. It was August in a packed basketball arena, crazy hot, and a fun evening of relatable songs and sound harmony. But what I can't wait to hear is Paul Butterfield, and some blues harmonica.
Absolutely 10000% waiting for Paul B
Thanks for curating all these great shows and performances and posting them on youtube in a way that is easy to enjoy!
Seals & Crofts is one of my all time favorites.
The infamous coked up T-Rex performance of Bang a Gong.
particularly his girlfriend, the backup singer.
still love em, though❤
wonderful to see Seals & Crofts... T Rex playing Bang a Gong and the great LEO KOTTKE!!!
Much Thanks for the great music and memories of my childhood. Born 1960
Thank God for the Midnight Special that preserves for Posterity these incredible live performances. Marc Bolan Get It On. Probably the only live footage from an American show and location. He didn’t Tour America much since he was incredibly popular in England. Seals and Crofts sound good here, too. Thanks!
It's great to see shows like this - nothing like it these days.
That's Jesse Ed Davis playing the Telecaster on the far right on Arlo Guthrie's stage.
RIP Jesse Ed Davis
I still have a couple of his albums
Love Seals and Croft. Always bring love to my heart and tears to my eyes.
Uriah Heep was a great band. One of my favorites.
Great show, loved it.
If you have more of this, bring it.
I remember this one because our neighbor Wesley came over to ''babysit'' his parents wouldn't let him watch Midnight Special at home so he would tell his parents he was babysitting, ask my mom if he could watch us kids and the show, while she worked, she didn't have to pay him, but she would, they were different days
when I was 7, I would babysit the 5 year old twins next door so their parents could go out on a date night, I'd get $5, a LOT of money, they got security knowing someone was watching their sleeping kids. they were different days.
I had to crank it up for Bang a Gong.
Diamond Girl was our song. Still is. Our son was born in September 1973 and I remember watching this sensational episode. Thanks for the memories.
For a shining moment Marc Bolan enjoyed being Bolan more than anyone ever enjoyed being anybody!
Hallelujah, Glory!
This may be one of the most stellar line ups of the year on the show. Uriah Heep! I got the Sweet Freedom album shortly after this episode. One of my favorites 50 years later. Thanks for uploading Midnight Specials. What a blast!
The former paul butterfield blues band.
Seals & crofts good memory.didn't realize they did blue grass to.
@@thomascramer7485Yes, a great blues band! With THE Elvin Bishop-Tulsa’s own slide guitarist at the beginnings of the group “63-68”. Loved when Elvin collaborated w/George Thorogood & the Destroyers on One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer song.
Uriah Heap had some great harmonies. Almost Three Dog Night like in harmony. Seals and Croft had great vocal harmony also.
Heep-Heep-Heep 😃😃
Three dog night is criminally underrated and they’re not even in the Hall of Fame
SEALS & CROFTS ARE SO UNDER APPRECIATED .. INCREDIBLE SONGWRITERS AND PERFORMERS ... LOVE THE MUSIC THESE 2 MADE . ...YOU CAN ALWAYS COUNT ON THE MISNIGHT SPECIAL FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES BY THE GREATS OF THE PAST .
Definitely
Uriah heep sensational. Thank yoi
Wow !!! This Video definitely a Keeper !!! With alot of different Styles of Music !!! The Female Singers with T. Rex were and are Truly Amazing !!!
I took my kids to see Arlo at the Sangamon auditorium in 2005 , they really like him..
Wow, T-Rex was wild, but great! Seals and Crofts were just what I expected. That last song they sang was beautiful. Thank you, Midnight Special. Merry Christmas!💜
You okay Stephanie, we missed you tonight, I hope all is well and you enjoyed the great show, have a Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas!🎄😃
@@KittyGrizGriz Thanks and same to you, we missed you too.
Glad to see you here. Everyone missed you. Happy Ho Ho Ho!
STEPHANIE'S ALIVE! Yay!!!🎉
Love all these groups but Paul frickin butterfield was awesome. Thanks for posting.
Yes.. I was just listening to Eastwest and the actual song that goes on for about 13 minutes is mind blowing
Yea! Like the 1st song about walking-blues-shoes
his band was fabulous here, Paul’s wearing a cool hat too.
What’s the tunes title?
Tulsa’s Elvin Bishop, sure made a name for himself with them in their beginnings.
Paul Butterfield featured many famous guitar players (Bloomfield, Bishop, Ford), I'm not sure who's playing here, does anybody know? At Woodstock Butterfield had a very young guitar prodigy, Buzz Feiten.
@@peghead Bloomfield was the absolute best….just listen to the east west song…I mean,incredible
It's great Amos Garrett.
What a stellar promising lineup, I can't wait to see Paul Butterfield (the greatest blues harp player ever) and Marc Bolan, get ready people.
U ever hear of Little Walter?
@@jonsmith848he meant white harmonica player of course. We all know that little Walter was the supreme harmonica player of all time . 🙏🙏🙏
Absolute truth, although I do like the blind Owl on harp a little better than Paul Butterfield
@@chriskroll4166 John Lee Hooker said that the best harmonica player ever was a white man. The blind owl, Mr. Alan Wilson . But I agree with you. It’s a little Walter.
@@billhorstkamp98 yeah listen to that version of boogie chillen on the hooker and heat album . Allen is tearing at the hell up . 🙋
Can’t wait. I’m loving watching these full episodes.
Merry Christmas to me --and my husband!! To find a line-up like this is like finding a diamond mine💎 T-Rex and Ramblin' Jack on one show!?! This is crazy good🎅
I remember watching this episode when it first aired. Specifically because I remember Seals and Croft headlining, as well as Butterfield Blues, who I had albums of. Brings back memories.
1973 marked the end of an era in rock and roll. The bookends were Sargent Peppers (1967) and Dark Side if the Moon (1973).
I have to almost agree with you on that. Those first few years of the 70s were just insanely good the best music ever with all the one hit wonders the black groups and the best classic rock records from the stones, The Who, Zeppelin,Tull , etc..
Wha??
Jimmy Seals always had that cool buzz to his voice…I remember when ‘Hummingbird’ came out in ‘72, and his voice was perfect for it…it was a great time to be alive, the music was never better. BTW, the guy playing lead for them is Louie Shelton who has a legendary list of songs he was a part of, as a studio musician, part of the Wrecking Crew, and buddies with Glen Campbell.
This episode rocks,with many of my favorite acts.It's better to have URIAH HEEP with glitches than not at all.Always wanted to see T-REX in person,had tickets to see them in '74 locally,but they cancelled their appearance.Keep on rockin' MIDNIGHT SPECIAL,WE LOVE IT!!!
I had no idea Seals played the fiddle! Impressive.
I think he won a state champion fiddle at age 9!!
Fifty years ago! Live, great music! Was a kid in 1973, in to all this music!
Seals and Crofts take me back to junior high, so mellow you can smell the weed wafting into the room. T. Rex was an 8-Track favorite, we played "Electric Warrior" till the tape broke. I've seen Heep in person, but not the original line up, Byron had to go off on a solo career. The Paul Butterfield, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Leo Kottke songs will all be new to me, can't wait. Another killer line up.
Did you see Uriah Heep with John Lawton on vocal 😊
@@chriskroll4166 yes it was, Heep opened for KISS. They did so well they gave 3 encores. KISS came out flat, Peter Criss accidentally got hit by a roll of toilet paper being thrown around the audience. He got mad, cussed us, threw down the Mike and the rest of the concert was cancelled. Then the riot began. That's ok Heep outplayed KISS.
@@robmatlock7675 yeah you would have to be on your a-game to plan the same bill with Uriah Heep and Lawton at the helm. That could be some heavy shit . Maybe two or three years later when kiss really got it together then there would be more of a balance and kiss could hold their own . I love the hell out of kiss but when you've got someone like John Lawton on lead vocal you can't get better than that. I saw Uriah Heep once in a club but it was years later with the Bernie Shaw guy on vocal but he was great. I was impressed 😁
What a fantastic show! I wish my parents would let me watch The Midnight Specal when I was 8 years old but our t.v. was off by 10 p.m. no exceptions☹. Thank goodness I get to watch it on CZcams. 😊
Looks like another great one from October 5, 1973 coming up. It was hosted by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and it also featured appearances from B.B. King, Earth Wind & Fire, Focus, Chris Smither, Stories, and Monda.
Hocus pocus is insane!
The great Gary Thain and David Byron. God rest their super talented souls 🥺🥺
top notch A+ Bang A Gong. "A couple of quarts of beer would fix it so the intonation would not offend your ear"
Wow! I can't wait. Should be a great show! 😎
Who's your red headed girlfriend, she looks pretty hot, ha.
Where art thou, Stephanie? Stephanie missed it. Very strange 🤔.
@@gregoryduncan3067 I'm sorry about that.
2 alumni at Woodstock on this program: Paul Butterfield (Butterfield Blues Band) of Better Days, and Gary Thain (Keef Hartley Band) of Uriah Heep.
Wasn’t Arlo there?
@@jamesmack3314 Make that 3 since Arlo Guthrie was at Woodstock! Thank you for the heads-up!
I just looked back when T.Rex started playing and I immediately knew who Curry based the look for Frank n' Furter on 🤣🤣
LoL 😆
Great to see a couple of clips of unseen Heep…..too bad the Sweet Freedom clip wasn’t better quality….long live Heep….
WOW.... Ramblin Jack Elliot is still kicking at 92, Leo Koettke is 78 an still touring in 2024, Arlo is 76 and plays occasionally (his children do the playing now), Dash Crofts is 83 and retired in Costa Rica but Jim Seals passed away last year at 80, Mark Bolan (T-Rex) died in a car crash in 77 at 30, Paul Butterfield died in 87 at 44, and The Wolfman died in 95 at 57. May God Bless Them All....
Butterfield and Ronnie Barron (the vocalist on “Broke My Baby’s Heart”) are the overlooked gems here.
Bring back the Hammond! 🎹
This is what real talent and music is...not some crappy ones we hear these days...
You are sh1tting me right? You can find a thousand people on just you tune better than Bolan. Dude couldn’t make even two nickels busking in this era. Couldn’t sing, couldn’t play guitar worth a lick and that over the top doofus poser schtick, please.
Butterfield and his band sounded great.
Those were my two favorite songs from the “Better Days” album.
T. Rex was on tour with Three Dog Night during this time.
That's almost as much a mismatch as The Monkees opening for Jimi Hendrix.
@@JamieAndersonMusic Yes. Or Simon and Garfunkel on the same bill with The Doors! By the way, it was actually Hendrix that opened for The Monkees - Micky Dolenz got him on their summer tour as one of the opening acts.
@@dakotafarm1 Oh that's right! Weird also. 😃
Three Dog Night was my very 1st concert at a wee age of 11 in 1970. Me and my best friend, no parents, we felt so grown up. Can still picture it today, thanks for this tid bit and a stirring of old memories.
special effects and virtuosity turned this T Rex version of bang a gong to a "seals and marty kroft" type thing, expecting charles nelson reilly at some point. loved the whole gang.
What Memories It Brings Back. I Would Always Look Forward To Seeing This After A Tough Week At School.
Of the 35 full episodes so far, this is Hands down t🎉he most exciting line up. Obviously Heep are the main attraction, but come on...Kottke,Butterfield,T Rex, Arlo Guthrie. Do t know of Rambling Jack. Even Seals and Crofts bring back the memories. I always have ti watch these showd live at 1am
Don't miss Ep. 3 (3/2/1973) with Anne Murray hosting. She was so beautiful then.
@@bigneiltoodid you know that Elvis covered a song by Anne Murray. 😁
@@chriskroll4166Which One? Don’t keep us guessing now, Chris 😂
@@KittyGrizGriz Snowbird 😁
If you pause at 3:43, that's The Monkees' "Last Train To Clarksville" session guitarist, Louie Shelton.
My mfing god, this episode is super dank. My fave from birth Paul Butterfield, T-Rex!, Leo Kottke, Arlo, Uriah Heep, lawd have mercy!
i used to hear these songs in the radio back in the 70s, its shown live on stage now from 70s videos. Glad to see it sang live by original artists.
T rex was great,all the players,singers...so there ya go.Better than i hoped for
Sometimes I watch concerts on TV in much lower quality than currently on CZcams. Thank you Midnight Special and waiting for the next episodes
My very favorite Midnight Special! Very very special.
They got the “Special” part of that name spot fn on man! Love this shit
Your videos make me so happy and feel so lucky! Thank you, everyday is a treasure 👏🏼
What an amazing lineup for this show. I know I saw it however I'm going to go with I don't remember it having been 50 years ago. To me 1973 may be the peak year for rock music. If you want to look at the albums and the artist from that year it's simply amazing. There was still a lot of great music to come but from my perspective it never got any better than this.
I want to add a quick edit and say sometime in the mid-90s was also an amazing time for music, too bad there wasn't a midnight special for that
I agree! 1973 was certainly the best year of Midnight Special. Other years were ok but like you said I believe 1973 may have been the peak in all of music!