FAMILY Glastonbury Festival 1971

[posthumanhero]

that's funny.....the hippies are trying to dance to this.......lol....and the band don't care.

[TheBulgaria2012]

What a voice, never been equalled and sounds as good today as he ever did. Wish I'd got to see them live

[bradshawvincent]

jesus!!! punk energy before punk!

[gsixties]

@bradshawvincent -OH YEAH you are right: there is a lot more to listen to; TO "PUNK" ENERGY BEFORE PUNK!!!

[AK2927]

This ain't a proper festival! Where are the middle-class kids desperately trying to get on camera? Where are the "look at me mum!" flags, blocking everyone's view? Where are the posh DJs doing links in working class accents?

[Drblooter99]

@AK2927

Yeh, and where's Beyonce and Coldplay and some electronic dance act?

[halhexha]

@AK2927 haha nice one, too true!

[Foxglove963]

Saw the Family in Hyde Park 1969, Chapman was impressive then, to say the least, a great singer, thrilling voice, a true artist.

[NeilThompson30]

This is what a festival should be like - nowadays every band goes down a storm with moshing and all this shit - what's all that about? - the last festival I went to was 1976 with Isotope and Hedgehog pie - two of the best bands ever on the same day! - can you imagine that nowadays!!! - with all the Hoosiers and Scouting for girls and that other lot - what's their name? - oh yeah - U2 - what a load of shit!!

[mickigoe]

@NeilThompson30 Well said Neil - and U2 are total shite and not just that evil leprachaun Bono.

[ovelonse]

meeeeeeeeeeeee

[bunterscuttle]

I would like to say that this, along with Traffic, was the the best night of music in my life.. thank you.

[bunterscuttle]

I was not struggling! This was the best set ever!!

[Groonblatt]

Chappo was the feckin bomb!!!

[robertlaberge]

The song is "Drowned in wine" from the excellent "A song for me" (1970).

[bluebus270]

One can recreate Chapmans singing style by simply inhaling two thirds of a can of Pledge furniture spray.

[Groonblatt]

@bluebus270

hahahaha - Send it to Letterbocks in Viz

[bluebus270]

@Groonblatt I am of the age now where i would actually get up, get dressed and climb on the stage to ask Chapman to "keep the noise down a bit", if i lived locally!!

[NeilThompson30]

@bluebus270 - yeah, you're right - Feargal Sharkey bought some Pledge - did his best Chapman voice - and he's never looked back

[ty3165]

groovy baby

[anuday]

See the guy from the crew blowing joint  at 3:00 ;)

[zfloid44]

The Rotterdam, 1970 version is even better, more intense!  yeah

[Havanagold]

I was there, too. The whole Fayre was wonderful - now, where's all the Pink Fairies footage Please?

[1modernmessage]

wow ,there's like 10 people there and they are all in the band ;)

[GeeLVee]

Oh damn is there anything or anybody that can come close to Chapman's vocal style?

[bobgreen623]

Closest you might get to it is Roger Wootton on the Comus LP 'First Utterance' from about 1970

[tommyau2006]

@GeeLVee no

[fidomusic]

@GeeLVee No.

[derryhawk]

Family were a great band...I was there, but in honesty probably far too stoned to remember this early morning singalong! Sounds like maybe I was not the only one. I think Family came across best at smaller venues, but then maybe I had a clearer head then...These days I think the music sounds best in reality, rather than a hzy smoke or chemical atmosphere. It is a wonder any of us survived.

[written12]

@derryhawk

As someone who's dabbled in drugs and can contrast stoned listening to sober listening, I completely agree with you. And then there was the music that sounded passable or even good when one was stoned but bad once the fog lifted.

I do envy your having seen Family live.

[derryhawk]

I know what you mean written12. The drugs change perception, and I guess that is true of songwriters too; but I am convinced now, for many years, that reality is best. Family were good live. It seemed so easy then to see live bands, at fairly small venues. That was great at the time.

[chinatree1]

Great song, anyone know which album this is on? Thanks for the post BQ.

[mjlewis104]

It was "Song For Me"....had a great finishing number titled...er, "Song For me"!

[chinatree1]

Thanks mjl !

[deusinad]

How weird that the whole point of Chappo's voice is wiped out in the statement 'the singer's warbly voice is totally irritating'. About as pointless a statement as 'the problem with women is they've got breasts and a vagina'!

[JeravnaBg]

your a total jerk you quere

[tedted777]

@posthumanhero

liberals are the most intolerant people.

[1elmobile]

the music is excellent - unfortunately the singers warbly voice is totally irritating - much like jesse hector of the hammersmith gorillas

[elmothman]

Que voz!!! QUE VOZ!!!!...Chapman Rlz!!!

[caravaneriam]

The debate about sheep aside and Roger Chapmans legendry status does anyone think that the dress sense of the dancers is great?

We get uniformly dressed people nowadays and its difficult to distinguish a young person from an older one.

Fat bums is what i see instead of attractive desirable ones.

To be honest half the young woman around are as desirable as a dogs dinner.

Just a thought.

[benzuckerman]

I totally agree. This is probably why the birth rates have declined so much.

[burgersoft777]

HIs voice dosn't record well does it?

[ricardokbcao26]

uhauhauhauhauhaua

[mysticdaz]

drugs... and yes it does sound kinda like sheep

[landogriffinscool]

What the f*ck is this rubbish? It sounds like a herd of sheep going through a painful slaughter...

[redrick2030]

Chapman's voice is an acquired taste.

[EyMeng]

Steve Mariott's is an acquired taste...this will take a long while to get used to

[smythe0001]

Steve Marriott an acquired taste????? surely you jest! one of the all time greats....also check out some of the Streetwalkers stuff with Chappo...wots wrong with sheep? thousand of Kiwis love em (literally)

[mcqueenmachine]

fuck off you tit.

CHAPPO IS A FUCKING LEGEND!

[landogriffinscool]

Be quiet.

[drwinkle101]

Check out Family's studio sound. Try Burlesque, it's awesome.

The sheep thing is a bit overdone here I agree!

[chedvalley]

shut the fuck up you stupid thick cunt

[Farweasel]

My instinct's to side with the 'Glastonbury's a right rip off these days and the music's poor' comments.

Then my youngest daughter comes back from it (again) having skint herself to buy the ticket (again) and very happy and able to remember somewhere between 75 & 90% of what she and her mates were doing (which is about 3x more than I could about what happened at Bickershaw which was the next concert Family played after this) and I think... Well, maybe its a time of life thing too.

[mabege1]

The trend was to go to Stonehenge Free Festival and then go on to Glastonbury which was also FREE--not £140 or whatever it is today and to see what??

[funkyalfonso]

Not to forget Windsor free festival. Roger's truly unique voice brings it all back.

[billybolaks]

i was there, happy days

[Timebandit720]

I agree, someone I know went to "Glasters" as they annoyingly call it these days and at the end, a lot of these yuppie types just left their tents there, as disposable items. I only made it to Glastonbury in the 80's, but it still had the same feel of what it was about originally, though the bands werent as good. Bollocks to all this modern culture.

[75amoeba]

THE 70'S ROCK.

[johnjarvo]

Classic Glasto with great bands like Family.

Today, it's a middle-class meeting place where they discuss the latest mortgage rates and how much the child minders are fleecing them for; rightly so, the yuppy bastards! Bring back the good times. The seventies WERE the biz...Rock on brother...

[dullsville]

wow!

Do you have Daevid Allen and Gong from this show?