Steeleye Span - Seven Hundred Elves (1974)

[JelMain]

Another voice in the same tinbre was Mike Oldfiield's sister Sally

[timmots]

Has this chap been toking?

[vaughntrapp]

worst guitar solo of ALL TIME!!!!!!!

btw...Sandy Denny destroys the buttocks of Maddy Prior...you mayest taketh thou that to the Banke!

[intuantu]

@vaughntrapp shutteth thine mouth

[jumpfart666]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TurtleDude1959]

The greatest female voice in rock music. Sandy Denny was great, Annie Haslam perhaps better but Maddy is the best of the best.

[pjotr60dvd]

@TurtleDude1959 Can't choose between Maddy and Sandy, very different voices, I am really fond of both. Sandy's death is a great loss...

[xcheesyxbaconx]

I wish I could find a video for when they played for Monk de Wally de Honk.

[agingfolky]

I think you will find that the speaker was Bob Johnson

[philbiglicks]

i remember watchin this a few years bk think it was on bbc3 at the time were can i get a copy of the full gig ?

[clarkewi]

Was Nigel Pegrem the speaker?

[ksjoyjespeace]

excellent Bass guitar !! Rick Kemp ?

[tabhorian]

Maddy has aged well.

[atfatw]

@tabhorian she most certainly has not!

[tabhorian]

@atfatw Sez you. What sort of scale of perfection are you using to determine that? I use the 'regular nice person with strong inner light shining through to express real beauty' scale. I suppose if you are going to you the 'Only sweet young things are beautiful' scale, then you might try broadening it a lot to something less objectifying and materialistic. In that way you might find beauty in yourself too, which is decidedly lacking in your response.

[atfatw]

@tabhorian Wow, what a dumbass you are!

[tabhorian]

@atfatw I am simply at a loss! Is "double dumbass on you" or "I know you are but what am I" is more appropriate in situations such as this. Oh my. What is a dumbass to do? Help, oh help, or I might expire! Woe... All is woe.

[atfatw]

@tabhorian well, gabeek you are beyond hope as you have a wobbly capacity for even very basic thought like your sister kat von D

[tabhorian]

@atfatw How quaint, a trolling stalker.

[sillybabybunnies]

this was so very long ago, I do hope that all the elves are safe and happy still

[nioc00]

Maddy Pryor has a completely unique voice... more please!

[TheGypsyette]

Yes, fetch a Time Lord and a Tardis, some good ale and whatever the band was smoking...because I want to be transported back to that ancient, drafty, firelit castle and watch this live. My inner medieval/hippie/stoner self just had a massive geekgasm!

[67tardis]

This is fantastic!!!Please post more of this gig if possible!

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

That's a lot of elves!

[moragization]

IF I WERE AS STONED AS HIM I'D BE SEEING SEVEN HUNDRED ELVES

[19davo66]

Get me a Time Lord with a Tardis and take me back to the days of Steeleye. Seen them a few times.... Maddy Prior has a voice and a half! and the arrangements are fantastic. I am from South Cumbria, we have woods, and i enjoy telling my nieces and nephews whilr driving through, to check windows, as elves are not a nice sort!

[DB557]

@MsTaramasalata thanks!

[julie223783]

cool..



[DB557]

This is great, thanks for sharing!

What an odd gig though, I'd like to know the context. (D'ye have any more from it?)

Also, what on earth is Peter Knight wearing...

[penguiiin]

how baked is he

[atfatw]

what a pathetic old fool that laird d'lyle

[atfatw]

kind of pretty nice but never again

[karmicrevolutionary]

absolutely spell-binding!!

[Drwhofanindatardis]

I've heard them play this song live too!

[tcoudi]

i found this band only recently ,thanks to jethro tull and i felt instantly in love with mady´s voice.

[planetrockford]

Lord DeLyle didn't look fussed.

[minwav]

Oops...the guitar player missed the count and came in early at 5:03

[vwendt]

tataram (just a test)

[timmots]

How stoned?!

[SnugglySara]

She looks like a female Pete Townshend, even has the nose!

[planetrockford]

@SnugglySara I wonder if she has broadband?

[SnugglySara]

Another beauty! (no I'm not gay)

[TICETOCAR]

@SnugglySara gay with these people singing about elves and all.. means something different ;-)

and now for something completely different; this somehow reminds me of another band.. Spinal Tap.

[dickhalloran]

Lord Dellile threw some party that night

[planetrockford]

@dickhalloran Is that how you spell it lol.

[FunnyLittleChap]

@dickhalloran Yes, it was a great party which the years haven't served to cloud over in my memory.

[sleakitweasel]

That guitar break starting at 2:50 was inadvisable. OW!

[HELLO2YOU3]

Is it just me or is that man a wee bit stoned

[kathen58]

saw them last fall in chicago and for my money, maddy sounded just fine!

[planetrockford]

Easy mate.....lol

[atfatw]

a real shame that maddy has gone and lost her talent and sounds soooo nasty

make her retire for her own good!

[atfatw]

elves stink! no need for them or english people. too bad maddy wasn't irish

then she would be pretty and not bi

[jpsatnav76]

yeah cos he isnt stoned!!

[snugglehound]

Now I understand why the Sex Pistols were necessary.

[NtheH]

@snugglehound You buy into that myth? Yes the Pistols were necessary, but as an antidote to "music for the kids": Middle of the Road, Bay City Rollmops and other insulting, inane, criminal (but at the same time, infuriatingly well written) pop like that. Bands like the Span and Tull were never aimed at that market.

[thedarkarse]

@NtheH

Even more of a myth when you realise John Lydon was a 'Span-fan :) And wouldn't/couldn't admit at the time he owned a copy of Aqualung.

[shaynegryn]

@snugglehound To set the low bar so bands didn't have to try so hard to compete?

[shaynegryn]

@snugglehound Ok. Let me take that back and say you're wrong, but only because REO Speedwagon is the real reason that the Sex Pistols were necessary.

[key2kingdom]

@snugglehound I'm laughing, but I'm trying not to.

[12laube12]

I graduated high school in 1974. So this video has some meaning to me. The lady singing has a beautiful voice plus it's a great song. I love this gal's outfit too--just makes for a gorgeous video.

[dariogneri]

Maddy has/had beautiful diction

[ToujoursLAmour]

I want the guitarist's exact setup. Such a mean tone!

[WAWELDRAGON]

Maddy looks nice here a

nd the sound is just like the record

[cragsterama]

RIP Tim Hart

[PaulHartXYZ]

The Span at their peak. Such a rare clip from 1974. I think Ian Anderson was producing them by then.

[soundman2002x]

what a nice clean video from 74 wow

[stylophobia]

Apparently this was part of a whole BBC series where Steeleye played at historic houses...wish they`d re-show the whole lot, if the tapes are still extant !

[tippngthevelvet]

@atfaTURK

You dropping acid again - very 1970s!

[neuronespecchio]

i don't like so much the song,but the video is rare an'precious...and maddy...oh,so cute in her shawls!

[harfarhs]

@mnemonyxx - thanks a million for posting this, didn't know such a programme existed.. have you posted/will you post more from the same??

[poodlewip]

@atfatw

and im sure you're sex on legs.....NOT!!!!!

[Clematisian]

Thank you, mnemonyxx (clever handle!), for posting this Steeleye Span gem. Excellent archived feed. For the Elves' side of things, please visit this short story authored by the writing team (& so much more) The Silver Elves, here: goodreads (dot) com (slash) story (slash) show (slash) 56672 (dot) seven_hundred_elves enjoy! ~ (•8-D

[atfatw]

MAKE MADDY RETIRE!!!

[poodlewip]

@atfatw

you make me laugh so much atfatw

dude get a life...anyone else thinks there is a bit of jealousy there???

[atfatw]

maddy pryor sure knows the value of exploiting her femininity to sell records and this garbled ditty.

[rugshort]

Check out Mondesir if you require a contemporary folkie English gal.

[psychobollox]

@atfatw

fuck off you insignificant arsewipe

[atfatw]

psychobox,

are you still in BROADMOOR thats exactly where one such as you turd, belong!

[psychobollox]

LoL

i'm way away from broadmoor!

you pretent to know so much about england, but you really know nothing. and here's a thing... i don't live in england... i live elsewhere! and yeh, i DO work in psychiatry, and yes, you WOULD be placed in compulsory treatment over here for a serious delusional disorder along with a serious personality defect. and if you were here, i could find the required two medical practitioners and approved social worker to have you committed to a very secure unit.

[atfatw]

broadmoorpyschobox,

HA you are way overdue for confinement in a fortified place for criminally insane like Jenny agutter you could really use a thorzine enema. I'm sure your kind would have me and many many jews rounded up and gassed or burned alive in a concentration camp. its written all over your bloody face you cossack!

[psychobollox]

learn to spell, you psychotic idiot. shitting jesus, you really do need treatment.

as for Jenny Agutter being criminally insane... get a life, you bloody imbecile. she's not criminally insane.

but you are!

your inability to control that nasty impulse of yours to vent your hatred of people in such a demeaning manner shows exactly what you are: in the old days, we used to call people like you "inadequate psychopaths".

you're all inadequacy, and no substance. get a life and leave people alone.

[psychobollox]

LoL

6 thumbs-downs before i managed to get a look in to see what you'd written.

You're too stupid to be on here.

[psychobollox]

what's it like to have no brain?

yep, i work. i have two jobs:

1- psychologist in a social psychiatric unit

2- consultant to a small training organisation.

i don't have a gf at the moment but that's because i've too much work on to have that sort of thing happening (women tend to like to have time with their partners and i work about 80 hrs a week). i live alone in a different country from where my mother lives.

and talk about projection. i think everybody sees through you. you need help.

[atfatw]

@psychobollox

be sure you get your daily ration of 19,000 milligrams of thorzine

[Hotelechomike]

I saw the original two BBC TV series with Steeleye Span in the eraly 70s..... In 18 days we'll be at the last night of their Winter 2009 tour. Looking forward to that :)

[SpirAn1971]

Best video I've seen in ages.

[SyvetheShairks]

Dance, dance, follow me, 'round and 'round the greenwood tree

Dance, dance, while you may

Tomorrow is your dying day.

Elves are no one to mess with, mate.

[atfatw]

syvethe shairks,

elves can do everyone a big favor by eating all the english. they roast well and make pretty steaks.

[SyvetheShairks]

atfatw:

I hear they are crunchy and good with catsup....

Slainte!

[psychobollox]

@atfatw

bugger off.... offensive person!

[thesuburbanapeking]

tune son

[rugshort]

You secretly crave English women. Tired of plastic American perfection? You want a British tart don't you?

[Gitarpunk]

I saw this Vinyl album at a record store I had gone into while high as hell yesterday, Today I searched the album name and was able to find this video. This band is awesome!

[bonniedrasco]

the album is called "now we are six"

masterpiece!

[Acappellaguy]

mnemonyxx - only one question: Have you got more of that?

It´s so great to see them from the 1970s! :-)

[cartimand]

Great song - very evocative of merrie England and well performed by a rather foxy young Ms prior!

[SyvetheShairks]

IMO, Maddy Prior, Annie Haslam, emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Maria Muldaur had the best voices of the 70s

[jwpretd]

Great voices, yes... but the list's too short.... Consider Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee, Judy Collins, Grace Slick, Nana Mouskouri.... At this level, trying to say one's better than another isn't really productive. We were blessed with a *lot* of extraordinary voices in the 60s and early 70s

[paccoloni]

You're forgetting, for me, the best one: Jacquie McShee.

[suzartfam]

OH YEAH!!!!

[phillywilly01]

I grew up listening (and singing) to Steeleye, me and my sister sitting there with my dad's treasured Vinyl collection. Maddy Priors voice and the lyrics...FAB. Seven hundred elves is my favourite song

[motorheadeakebanger]

please!give me an guinnes!

[atfatw]

maddy should try speaking clearer

I can't understand what see says... maybe its those funny little 'cigs' they all smoke ovber there best beware of england's vicious medieval laws a classic thing that tiplifies them.

[poodlewip]

GREAT

2 atfatw

"maddy should try speaking clearer

I can't understand what see says... maybe its those funny little 'cigs' they all smoke ovber there best beware of england's vicious medieval laws a classic thing that tiplifies them"

when you do better &have a following that spans 40yrs is when you can make stupid comments, untill then, if it's not constructive keep it to yourself

if you dont like the song/singer dont listen or put it in a way where you dont sound like a tosser. it's not needed

[atfatw]

poddledip, well, I am glad you finally had the MATURITY to remove your offensivity comments 'comment removed by the author' also be advised by me that the internet is NOT england not, be a long chalk and I will say or comment on anything I choose .

[poodlewip]

i agree you are entitled to say what you want to say but you also have to understand that people will not agree.

Maddy and Span have a big following and you cant be shocked at the fact that people will take offence to what you say just as you did to my post and we will say and comment on anything we choose aswell. not just to this post but to the other offencive posts you have submitted.

[atfatw]

poodlegip,

'other offencive posts you have submitted" its just too bad that you english can't spell your own language no doubt your 'superior' schools are to blame. maddy should have married Henry Root at least there is a limey who can at least spell simple words.

[poodlewip]

Spelling is not my strong point, it's that damn dyslexia, or maybe to people like you it's just word for stupid yeah?if we are going to get personal that's fine

[atfatw]

poodlewhip?,  I don't believe thats its dyslexia but rather simple laziness a classic part of the british character.

[poodlewip]

you call me lazy?, dude! you cant even copy a name off of the screen.

but i will let it go seeing as it took you 2 months to come up with a reply.

[psychobollox]

i understand dyslexia even if our 'friend' there can't be arsed to or isn't clever enough to.

fella needs treatment.

[Xithinar]

Anyone got the version of Edwin from this show?

[Johnkevinlowry]

I love this song - we play it

[gixertrickster]

i think long lankin was innocent it was those pesky 700 elves that did it..... free the lankin 1

[atfatw]

just what is it they did? I can't understand maddy 's 'accent' did they eat him barBQ

or what?

[chuckler1]

More Maddy, More Elves and Less Government!

[stylophobia]

Excellent-Health and Safety would throw a fit nowadays about that big fire right on the dancefloor...

[atfatw]

stylophobia, what the world needs less is

more excessive government elves i,e, layabouts, they are as usefull and as desirable as symphilis is.

[pappabagge]

Surely you mean "Elf 'n' safety"..

[dullsvillain]

A banquet!

[smatty1]

Hell yes!

[atfatw]

Maddy Prior is very sweet and pretty....at

least in this video. 'tis a-pity that english woman can't preserve their beauty.

like the most beautiful woman on earth can...Irish women.

[wingandaprayer]

Lord deLisle looks like hes enjoying things...not!!

would have enjoyed it more without the intro...although your man looked stoned about the eyes.....which was nice...

[atfatw]

Certainly. your'e not saying that one of england's finest peers is plastered are you?

[wingandaprayer]

Nope...but the musician doing the intro has been at the jazz cigarettes...

[drawuin]

very entertaining great vid! *****

[cuzinkevin]

Great stuff