Sorry if my english is not so good like the yours , but I have to give my opinion....The Move , was a good band it won't be like The Beatles , The Kinks....etc etc....But I herad about 4 or 5 tunrs of them and is wonderful......I like how the bands of that time could afford to be two or three singers.....another of many reasons to prefer and keep missing these bands....
Love this performance, the whole band's all killer. Also, as for the time concerned, they even sound in tune live, which just tells how good they really were, as there were no monitors at that time - or, had they just been installed? Great musicians no matter what, dammit! And one hell of a power tune!! And that bass guitar driven by mr, ACE Kefford is on fire!! Man!!!
The distant past. No one who hears current Record Industry Products (Dalek-singing being the shit that people are gratefully fed) will EVER hear a Band who play as powerfully as this. And they'll never stand in a club, six feet away from a band like this while they play in their faces. No big deal, it's just history, what you've never had you'll never miss.
close your eyes ,crank up the volume , and you are back in the sixties .sounds good even on a dull day . i wish everyday was like the sixties !! but then i am looking at it thru rose tinted specs !
This is really brilliant. Very talent!!! I love the track. My hobby is to rediscover all those great bands from the 60s/70s - famous and forgotten. My favorite from this period was/is a band from Scandinavia called THE ZETTLERS. Check up their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Really f........g good and with a bloody driving beat. The recordings were made 1965! Unbelievable!!!!!!!
They had to be best live band from the 60's, visually very dynamic and brilliant sound. Saw them at Wimbledon Palais just after Night of Fear was released, absolutely superb.
i met carl and he move back in 60's. the marquee club, the chasse drinking club in wardour street, firenze's italian rst in wardour st and of course the george pub. wtih doreen, angie and angela. great times!
The lead singer man, he has a wonderful voice. Nothing against the other guys who sing too, they have nice voices also, but the main guy there, he really has the best voice.
@bundyboyno1 If my memory serves me right, Carl Wayne was (and still might be) married to an Actressfrom the Soap Crossroads, and I think he also wrote the theme song for 70's taent show New Faces (not quite 100% on all of this possibly about 50-75%) so apologies if I'm wrong
I saw the move in 1968 on the Hendrix tour at Manchester and later at the Cavendish Club in Blackburn I had the privilege of meeting Roy and Carl in person two really nice friendly lads, the group themselves were sensational good memories Best regards. John c
Can we clear this up? The line up on show is Roy Wood, Carl Wayne, Ace Kefford, Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan.
Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan are currently trying to resurrect the band - can't see how that can happen without Roy Wood but who knows!
Jeff Lynne was certainly a member of The Move - himself, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan being the final line up, I believe. Wizzard member Rick Price was also involved for a while.
This is High School memories! I was the only one interested in British Pop other than the Beatles & Herman's Hermits. I was stuck to the WHO, the MOVE, the ACTION and nobody knew what I was talking about. I feel sorry for them now. Long Live The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss!!
@dukraid : Crap management, basically. Tony Secunda was more interested in sensational stunts than in nurturing his charges properly. And the trouble with then prime minister Harold Wilson didn't help - he sued them for libel after Secunda put out a dirty postcard of him to publicise Flowers in the Rain. Wouldn't have gone down well in the States.
None of them. He hadn't joined the band yet. The dark-haired guitarist with the Strat is probably Roy Wood. And the guy with the 12-string, who seems to be playing the back of his guitar and gets no close-ups, would be Ace Kefford.
@minkymott Jeff Lynne was not present in this line-up of The Move. He came later in 1969. This was the first incarnation of the great band The Move!!!
Awesome band,what let them down was the first album being completed way too late,a real shame. Even now in the world of cd reissues (hope they get royalties) I think they're still underestimated; look how long it took for Small Faces to get their due, and half of them had to die before their finances were sorted. I recall seeing Carl Wayne on some (possibly) daytime TV show singing this live,still in brilliant voice. Anyone else remember this? It would have been early 90's I suppose..
@minghungying The Move and Pink Floyd were part of a package tour around the UK in late 1967. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were the headliners, The Move were 2nd on the bill, with Pink Floyd 3rd.
Great tune....although they didnt always get positive reactions...I remember reading a review of them supporting Pink Floyd where they were described as "thugs in kaftans"!
To me, the original incarnation of the Move will always be the best. After Ace left (although fairly involuntarily), things went downhill fast. I don't care for Jeff Lynne or Roy Wood's later musical exploits, but the Move is rock 'n' roll and pop perfected.
Still doing the rounds. I saw Bev Bevan (The Move – ELO – Black Sabbath), Raymond Froggatt (Legendary UK Country/Folk Singer), Geoff Turton (The Rockin’ Berries – Jefferson), Trevor Burton (The Move – Steve Gibbons Band), Hartley Cain (The Raymond Froggatt Band), Danny King (Birmingham’s First Pop Star). At the Artrix in Bromsgrove last Saturday. These guys STILL rock!
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Had the band only toured the States with this line up, they probably could have become household names! But alas, they didn't and so obtained the status of being a cult band instead.
@MattHatter I just said on another post that of the handful of major U.K. bands that didn't cross the Atlantic(they did tour at least once), the only loss off the top of my head was the Move. So far, I can't say the same thing about the Pretty Things, Status Quo("Pictures of Matchstick Men" their lone top 40) and Picketywitch.
wow what a group..this is real music folks. and bev bevan possibly one of the greatest drummers ever..and of course roy wood.who deserves a hell of a lot more recognition than he gets..he is a very clever song writer,
My opinion which reflects many... there were 4-6 great music periods of the 20th century. Golden Years of Blues in the 30s and 40s. Late 50s-60s Garage Punk/Rock and Roll which lead to Psychedelic of the late 60s early 70s. The Motown period of early 60s to the 70s. Punk to Post Punk of the 70s and 80s. And maybe I'll throw in Early forms of rap in the 70s and lastly the Grunge Rock period which was the last great mainstream music period. You now have to go deep underground for good music
@Rikitocker The great bass line doesn't really come out on this clip. I've Just played the vinyl single ~ Fantastic ~ think this was the type of bass the Tamla Motown producers were trying to achieve where the stylus nearly jumps out of the groove! Apparenttly his 'look' contributed to the early success of the band. Pity about the Syd Barrett type disintegration after, tho'. Apparently he's O.K now.
"I Can Hear The Grass Grow", "I can see for miles and miles", "Eight miles High" were some titles in the late 60-es. The goal was expansion of consciousness.
But the music was very melodic happy-go-lucky. Everyone was possitive, joyful, creatice and loving. The first years was a happy time !
@SteveCaftdunt Ace Kefford left The Move in early 1968, and formed his own bands (The Ace Kefford Stand, Big Bertha, Rockstar) as well as recording a solo album, but he suffered a mental breakdown and spent the next few decades battling it. He's overcame his illness and is back in the music industry.
Saw the Move on their London debute,marquee club Wardour st 1966,just blew me away,no need for weed! They looked good' moved great and all sang all the harmonies,a class act!! Support band that night was the Herd[Perter Frampton] Truly a night to remember.
i mean, when they sing "i can hear the grass grow" it sounds like they were really happy because of that.
i love grass that grows, i love the fact that it grows. love the sound of it growing. ok im talking things now thatll probably sound idiotic to everybody who don't know what the 60s were about and all that stuff, but i didnt know at all how to put into words what i wanted to say.my other excuse is that im not quite sober at the moment, blame my sleeping pills.
you know whats cool compared to today's world? that they mean that grass that grows on your lawn though im sure they smoked that other kind of grass, too quite frequently. but this song is like a poignant tribute to the NATURE and all those stuff we don't notice every day. some of the people back then noticed those things, though, and that was great.
@arizonablues "I see rainbows in the evening" ... "My senses color my grown mind" ... "Get a hold of yourself now baby" ... While your sentiment is valid, I'm pretty sure this song is in fact about being high. But I guess that's my subjective interpretation.
It's hard to believe the generation that gave us these guys and all the other great music of the 60's also gave us 'The War on Drugs' or 'The War on Terror' or 'Economic Rationalism'
Cant you just smell the weed ? Still seems to me this classic stands the test of time bloody well. To be technical for a minute does this song have two middle eights ?
Ha ha, not quite. To promote the single, their manager produced a postcard depicting a scene from a porn mag. Harold's face was super-imposed on the bloke, his secretary's on the woman. (There were persistent, though unproven, rumours that Harold was having a ding-dong with his secretary). He sued for libel and won. The judge ordered all royalties from "Flowers" go to Harold's charity of choice, an order which is still in foce today (so Roy Wood gets nothing for it).
The Move were a poppy singles band in the UK but more a heavy progressive act in the US for some reason (were they pre or post' Idle race', anyone know?)
Same time! Jeff Lynne joined The Move from the 'Race about 1970 (I think) for the last couple of Move albums. Incidentaly their UK gigs rocked as hard as anyone at the time (Who, Yardbirds) - I suppose it was Roy's talent for writing great pop songs that landed them with the "pop group" tag in Britain
Here hear the song on the CAPTAIN COPTER and the FABULOUS TWIRLY BIRDS album where when you play one song backwards they say I CAN HEAR THE GRASS GROW.. I think it's a Randy California from SPIRT album
I didn't know Carl died. Shit. Good band. In '69, in Beckenham, there was a club called The Mistral. I saw The Move there. They were fucking brilliant, not to put too fine a point on it. Damn, we're all gradually shuffling off this mortal coil. Class of '69.
I heard Carl sing this along with Fire Brigade & Blackberry Way with The Hollies in 2004 and fortunately met him at the stage door. He was a lovely person. Sadly about 6 months later he died of cancer. He is much missed.
@detvardasjalva - Jeff Lynne was a member of Idle Race at this time, even though his group never made the charts he knew and respected Wood's work.. bassmanjoe is right.
@byronicals so go tell it to the Kiss fans... they are (i am a fan of 70s Kiss) often too much in their hard rock familiy... they are not enough curious...
and by the way... Dust is probably another influence of Kiss... but it still not very clear...if it's a rumour or a reality
Does anyone know anything about colourising technology? Would it be possible to get this clip colourised? Colour TV didn't start up in the UK till late '68, so there's only b&w footage left of the Move's original five-man line-up.
@Krzyszczynski - actually colour began on BBC2 in July 1967, though I don't suppose it was anything like all of that channel's airtime. But there's no reason to think that there is no colour clip somewhere. And just possibly there might be colour film from before 1967 if someone had thought them worthy of spending the money on, for cinemas and such.. maybe someone did?
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Sorry if my english is not so good like the yours , but I have to give my opinion....The Move , was a good band it won't be like The Beatles , The Kinks....etc etc....But I herad about 4 or 5 tunrs of them and is wonderful......I like how the bands of that time could afford to be two or three singers.....another of many reasons to prefer and keep missing these bands....
joseanfer100 6 days ago
Great clip of live Move. What a talented band - love Ace Kefford.
Fuzzbrain61 3 weeks ago
incredible! xx
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Love this performance, the whole band's all killer. Also, as for the time concerned, they even sound in tune live, which just tells how good they really were, as there were no monitors at that time - or, had they just been installed? Great musicians no matter what, dammit! And one hell of a power tune!! And that bass guitar driven by mr, ACE Kefford is on fire!! Man!!!
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well stop smokeing it then
bilbobagins1951 1 month ago
The distant past. No one who hears current Record Industry Products (Dalek-singing being the shit that people are gratefully fed) will EVER hear a Band who play as powerfully as this. And they'll never stand in a club, six feet away from a band like this while they play in their faces. No big deal, it's just history, what you've never had you'll never miss.
slideharp1 1 month ago
@slideharp1 you got it pal.
BakerBruceClapton 1 month ago
fantastic, give me a hit of acid quick
777oddball 1 month ago
This is what regular radio misses out on because they're too slavish to childish things like charts all the time. hahaha
bandcouver 1 month ago
close your eyes ,crank up the volume , and you are back in the sixties .sounds good even on a dull day . i wish everyday was like the sixties !! but then i am looking at it thru rose tinted specs !
pumi63 1 month ago
saw them at The marquee in London in 1967 (?) - they were great!
mostermeyer 2 months ago
This is really brilliant. Very talent!!! I love the track. My hobby is to rediscover all those great bands from the 60s/70s - famous and forgotten. My favorite from this period was/is a band from Scandinavia called THE ZETTLERS. Check up their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Really f........g good and with a bloody driving beat. The recordings were made 1965! Unbelievable!!!!!!!
TheSunbau 2 months ago 2
@TheSunbau Thats my hobby too!!!!!!
greaser183 2 months ago
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If you like this check out Stheno & Euryale..we love 60's psyche!
ernesthemingfish 2 months ago
Excellent.......What a clip!
nezichov 2 months ago
They had to be best live band from the 60's, visually very dynamic and brilliant sound. Saw them at Wimbledon Palais just after Night of Fear was released, absolutely superb.
redtinman10 3 months ago
these guys killed... very hard to top... rock and roll hall of fame... The Blues Magoos did a great cover of this song on Basic Blues Magoos...
jinxremovingxo 3 months ago
i met carl and he move back in 60's. the marquee club, the chasse drinking club in wardour street, firenze's italian rst in wardour st and of course the george pub. wtih doreen, angie and angela. great times!
TheFeckineejit 3 months ago
brilliant i didnt think they were so good live
1fht 3 months ago
what type of grass are they referring to :)
cosak23 3 months ago
The lead singer was Carl Wayne, who sadly died of cancer in 2004, aged 61, RIP. A fantastic singer and performer.
TEAKUKAMBASSADOR 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Move
The lead singer man, he has a wonderful voice. Nothing against the other guys who sing too, they have nice voices also, but the main guy there, he really has the best voice.
wouldntyoulike2know 3 months ago
carl wayne died 2008 ? he was with hollies for a while
cappoman51 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Move
What ever happened to carl wayne???
bundyboyno1 3 months ago in playlist bundyboyno1's favorites
@bundyboyno1 If my memory serves me right, Carl Wayne was (and still might be) married to an Actressfrom the Soap Crossroads, and I think he also wrote the theme song for 70's taent show New Faces (not quite 100% on all of this possibly about 50-75%) so apologies if I'm wrong
SuperKopstar 3 months ago
What ever happened to Ace Kefford?
mikedarby1950 3 months ago
Nice energy .Could the power pop of Supergrass and possibly Nick Lowe been influenced by The Herd ?
DaDa2Phlux 4 months ago
This could be the last time..........
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JoeThreeThousand 4 months ago
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Yea! ...maybe the last time, I don't know...
Thanks, I notice 'loans' like these usually - this one has escaped me, it seems.
Great songs both.
JoeThreeThousand 4 months ago
Jeff Lynne isn't in this line up. Carl Wayne, Roy Wood, Bev Bevan, Ace Keeford and Trevor Burton is the correct line up in this video!
Davmac62 4 months ago
Great'...I have an original Acetate of this single'..No label'..Just the Title written on the disc-centre..!!
Jangalene1 5 months ago
Like you say Leonardotube how can it be the Move without Roy wood, he was the main man behind it
juanbbien 5 months ago
The Move Without Roy Wood is like a body without a brain: useless.
leonardotube 5 months ago
Saw The Move last night in Belgium. BRILLIANT! 2 original members still there....Trevor Burton & Bev Bevan
rontenn 5 months ago
I saw the move in 1968 on the Hendrix tour at Manchester and later at the Cavendish Club in Blackburn I had the privilege of meeting Roy and Carl in person two really nice friendly lads, the group themselves were sensational good memories Best regards. John c
juanbbien 5 months ago
fucking BRILLIANT!
simonsbuddy 6 months ago
Can we clear this up? The line up on show is Roy Wood, Carl Wayne, Ace Kefford, Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan.
Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan are currently trying to resurrect the band - can't see how that can happen without Roy Wood but who knows!
Jeff Lynne was certainly a member of The Move - himself, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan being the final line up, I believe. Wizzard member Rick Price was also involved for a while.
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dennisleegilpatrick 6 months ago
@dennisleegilpatrick WRONG! roy wood was never in the blues magoos. what planet are you from?
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I always felt that Karl Wayne was far too straight to lead the band. But I'm impressed by his vocals on this - especially as it's live.
jimmyjam4371 7 months ago
@jimmyjam4371 Ya, he sounds terrific.
dbailey62 5 months ago
This is High School memories! I was the only one interested in British Pop other than the Beatles & Herman's Hermits. I was stuck to the WHO, the MOVE, the ACTION and nobody knew what I was talking about. I feel sorry for them now. Long Live The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss!!
dennisbmccoy 8 months ago
What a great band. HOW DID WE MISS THEM IN aMERICA?
dukraid 8 months ago
@dukraid some of us did not miss them...
fanzappa 6 months ago
@dukraid : Crap management, basically. Tony Secunda was more interested in sensational stunts than in nurturing his charges properly. And the trouble with then prime minister Harold Wilson didn't help - he sued them for libel after Secunda put out a dirty postcard of him to publicise Flowers in the Rain. Wouldn't have gone down well in the States.
Krzyszczynski 1 month ago
Time for a proper reunion of The Move.
lechaise 10 months ago
I watched the Band perform this last night at Butlins, with Bev Bevan & Trevor Burton. They were Superb !!
gazzymodo 10 months ago
@gazzymodo I agree they were brilliant I was there too.
em4llamedos 10 months ago
Ace gets plenty of closeups- check out @1:30
benjaboston 10 months ago
Which one is Jeff Lynne?
minkymott 10 months ago
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None of them. He hadn't joined the band yet. The dark-haired guitarist with the Strat is probably Roy Wood. And the guy with the 12-string, who seems to be playing the back of his guitar and gets no close-ups, would be Ace Kefford.
Baribrotzer 10 months ago
@Baribrotzer Ace Kefford is the bass player with the sunglasses on singing "Get a hold of yourself now baby"!!!
brilliantos 10 months ago
@Baribrotzer Thank you, and I hadn't noticed that about Ace, I'll check the video out again. :)
minkymott 10 months ago
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@Baribrotzer Ace gets plenty of closeups- check out @1:30
benjaboston 10 months ago
@Baribrotzer Ace gets plenty of closeups- check out @1:30 and @2:17
benjaboston 10 months ago
@minkymott Jeff Lynne was not present in this line-up of The Move. He came later in 1969. This was the first incarnation of the great band The Move!!!
brilliantos 10 months ago
@brilliantos Thanks.
minkymott 10 months ago
anyone know where i can get the juicy giants LP
stuart9968 10 months ago
OMG - love that bass!
jondoe8889 10 months ago
carl and roy ,are among te best voices of pop music
22clodius 11 months ago
this is what coooool is..........
6firebird6 11 months ago
Ace is The Face!
ecnalubma696969 11 months ago
This is just.....oh wow!
midmodgal 11 months ago
I love the drummer's shirt :')
keepitinyourpantsjoe 11 months ago
diggin this vid, The move live, nice moves!
stanleysoldman 1 year ago
bev bevan on the skins YES!!!!
scotty3861 1 year ago
Awesome band,what let them down was the first album being completed way too late,a real shame. Even now in the world of cd reissues (hope they get royalties) I think they're still underestimated; look how long it took for Small Faces to get their due, and half of them had to die before their finances were sorted. I recall seeing Carl Wayne on some (possibly) daytime TV show singing this live,still in brilliant voice. Anyone else remember this? It would have been early 90's I suppose..
OldMod67 1 year ago
Totally amazing stuff!
Makes you want to dig-out Shazam....
funksocks 1 year ago
I am just curious. Both groups had their first hit in 1967. But I thought the Move were much more popular. Did the Move really support Pink Floyd?
minghungying 1 year ago
@minghungying The Move and Pink Floyd were part of a package tour around the UK in late 1967. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were the headliners, The Move were 2nd on the bill, with Pink Floyd 3rd.
dgsyd1 1 year ago
@minghungying in 1967 the move in live was one of the best ,as arthur brown who sing fire
22clodius 11 months ago
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Roy Wood really has a cute face in this clip, I wondered why he made himself so scary I know his band was called wizard but even so
alfiesgirluk 1 year ago
Roy Wood really has a cute face in this clip, I wondered why he mad himself so scary I know his band was called wizard but even so
alfiesgirluk 1 year ago
@alfiesgirluk Someone commented that he was shy and is why he made his hair and beard white when he was in ELO which made him look old.
britfrenir 9 months ago
These guys are fucking amazing!!
jkoff76 1 year ago
Great tune....although they didnt always get positive reactions...I remember reading a review of them supporting Pink Floyd where they were described as "thugs in kaftans"!
plantagenant 1 year ago
aw man the move were fuckin deadly!
thegoodusernameman 1 year ago
great live cut..........great players
CommanderRZ 1 year ago
To me, the original incarnation of the Move will always be the best. After Ace left (although fairly involuntarily), things went downhill fast. I don't care for Jeff Lynne or Roy Wood's later musical exploits, but the Move is rock 'n' roll and pop perfected.
Izdigger5 1 year ago
RIP Carl Wayne...
BakerBruceClapton 1 year ago
I can hear it growing
Drumguitarman 1 year ago
Tancred66 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
haha I can hear the weed grow too
singinginthecave 1 year ago
3 major awards for roy wood in 2010 alone, about time the man was recognised for his contribution.
lechaise 1 year ago 2
Had the band only toured the States with this line up, they probably could have become household names! But alas, they didn't and so obtained the status of being a cult band instead.
MattHatter 1 year ago
@MattHatter I just said on another post that of the handful of major U.K. bands that didn't cross the Atlantic(they did tour at least once), the only loss off the top of my head was the Move. So far, I can't say the same thing about the Pretty Things, Status Quo("Pictures of Matchstick Men" their lone top 40) and Picketywitch.
fgldnglbs 1 year ago
Brilliant
mealys 1 year ago
WHATTA JAM I LOVE IT CAN WE GO BACK TO THAT GREAT ERA PLEASE!
THRILLAKILLA187 1 year ago 15
@VONSHTOYVEN LOL I AGREE LOL!
THRILLAKILLA187 1 year ago
wow what a group..this is real music folks. and bev bevan possibly one of the greatest drummers ever..and of course roy wood.who deserves a hell of a lot more recognition than he gets..he is a very clever song writer,
MrArnold1972 1 year ago 2
Interesting to hear Joe Boyd talk about these guys this evening...then Robyn played this acoustic!!!
strawberrygirl66 1 year ago
My opinion which reflects many... there were 4-6 great music periods of the 20th century. Golden Years of Blues in the 30s and 40s. Late 50s-60s Garage Punk/Rock and Roll which lead to Psychedelic of the late 60s early 70s. The Motown period of early 60s to the 70s. Punk to Post Punk of the 70s and 80s. And maybe I'll throw in Early forms of rap in the 70s and lastly the Grunge Rock period which was the last great mainstream music period. You now have to go deep underground for good music
paul92465 1 year ago
Bassist Ace Kefford was about 1000 years ahead of the curve on cool! Total MOD!
Rikitocker 1 year ago
@Rikitocker The great bass line doesn't really come out on this clip. I've Just played the vinyl single ~ Fantastic ~ think this was the type of bass the Tamla Motown producers were trying to achieve where the stylus nearly jumps out of the groove! Apparenttly his 'look' contributed to the early success of the band. Pity about the Syd Barrett type disintegration after, tho'. Apparently he's O.K now.
SuperNevile 1 year ago 2
looks like david j of bauhaus love and rockets fame on bass!
salvadory 1 year ago
"I Can Hear The Grass Grow", "I can see for miles and miles", "Eight miles High" were some titles in the late 60-es. The goal was expansion of consciousness.
But the music was very melodic happy-go-lucky. Everyone was possitive, joyful, creatice and loving. The first years was a happy time !
Psykelic68 1 year ago
Great performance ♠ 2:10 ♫
PAULLONDEN 1 year ago
has nobody noticed that the Electric guitars are not plugged in.
carl
fastercarl 1 year ago
Funny dudes. Gotta love the 60's.
zookydragon 1 year ago
Whatever happened to Ace Kefford ???
SteveCaftdunt 1 year ago
@SteveCaftdunt Ace Kefford left The Move in early 1968, and formed his own bands (The Ace Kefford Stand, Big Bertha, Rockstar) as well as recording a solo album, but he suffered a mental breakdown and spent the next few decades battling it. He's overcame his illness and is back in the music industry.
laineycrusoe 1 year ago
True psychydelia at its very best with roy wood and jeff lynne of wizard and elo when they were raw great musicians
johntheboymac 1 year ago 6
@johntheboymac Jeff Lynne was in The Idle Race, not the Move, however The Move's drummer Bev Bevan was with ELO
steveharradine 8 months ago
@steveharradine Jeff Lynne was in The Move [ with Bevan and Wood] , its final line up in 1972 which became ELO.
motekhall 8 months ago
@motekhall jeff lynne has nothing to do with this song
HackerGuitarist 7 months ago
@johntheboymac
Jeff Lynne wasn't part of The Move in 1967, he joined in 1969 to replace Carl Wayne, who's sing lead on the verses,
njnorth1 5 months ago
@johntheboymac jeff lynne isn´t in this band when this was performed. Only Bev Bevan and Roy Wood of ELO yet to be conceived at this point.
1559godhead 4 months ago
NO NO, HOW R U THINKING THIS IS ABOUT GETTING HIGH??? O.o
(LOL)
victorthegroover 1 year ago
I'm so naive.
With Cherry Blossom Clinique being about what it was about, I always thought this song was about some mental phenomenon.
When I'm mowing the lawn sometimes it cames to mind.
DUH.
notahemi 1 year ago
Saw the Move on their London debute,marquee club Wardour st 1966,just blew me away,no need for weed! They looked good' moved great and all sang all the harmonies,a class act!! Support band that night was the Herd[Perter Frampton] Truly a night to remember.
aliakbarlanani 1 year ago 2
The Blues Magoos did a kick-ass studio version of this song, although this live version is pretty keen.
midmodgal 1 year ago
i mean, when they sing "i can hear the grass grow" it sounds like they were really happy because of that.
i love grass that grows, i love the fact that it grows. love the sound of it growing. ok im talking things now thatll probably sound idiotic to everybody who don't know what the 60s were about and all that stuff, but i didnt know at all how to put into words what i wanted to say.my other excuse is that im not quite sober at the moment, blame my sleeping pills.
arizonablues 1 year ago
you know whats cool compared to today's world? that they mean that grass that grows on your lawn though im sure they smoked that other kind of grass, too quite frequently. but this song is like a poignant tribute to the NATURE and all those stuff we don't notice every day. some of the people back then noticed those things, though, and that was great.
arizonablues 1 year ago
@arizonablues "I see rainbows in the evening" ... "My senses color my grown mind" ... "Get a hold of yourself now baby" ... While your sentiment is valid, I'm pretty sure this song is in fact about being high. But I guess that's my subjective interpretation.
AmericanDraft 1 year ago
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arizonablues 1 year ago
It's hard to believe the generation that gave us these guys and all the other great music of the 60's also gave us 'The War on Drugs' or 'The War on Terror' or 'Economic Rationalism'
ex1le444 1 year ago
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cygnusxl5 1 year ago
I CAN HEAR THE POT GROW!
kink66 1 year ago
Cant you just smell the weed ? Still seems to me this classic stands the test of time bloody well. To be technical for a minute does this song have two middle eights ?
JILF53 1 year ago
which song were the band sued over by a cabinet minister?
1960unclemort 1 year ago
@1960unclemort
Flowers in the Rain. And it was Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister (no point doing things by halves!).
Ruskellnw1 1 year ago
@Ruskellnw1 why were the band sued? did the song critisize pipe smokers or people who liked the scilly isles .
1960unclemort 1 year ago
@1960unclemort
Ha ha, not quite. To promote the single, their manager produced a postcard depicting a scene from a porn mag. Harold's face was super-imposed on the bloke, his secretary's on the woman. (There were persistent, though unproven, rumours that Harold was having a ding-dong with his secretary). He sued for libel and won. The judge ordered all royalties from "Flowers" go to Harold's charity of choice, an order which is still in foce today (so Roy Wood gets nothing for it).
Ruskellnw1 1 year ago
@Ruskellnw1 thanks i love to know all these little details about rock music
1960unclemort 1 year ago
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12pokechamp 1 year ago
grow the grass
derekandcaroline1977 1 year ago
The very first record to be played on Radio One, introduced by Tony Blackburn if i'm not mistaken way back in 1967
bluesandtwos999 1 year ago
@bluesandtwos999 Flowers In The Rain was the first song to be played on Radio 1..
shads172 1 year ago
The Move were a poppy singles band in the UK but more a heavy progressive act in the US for some reason (were they pre or post' Idle race', anyone know?)
MarkB1ngham 1 year ago
@MarkB1ngham
Same time! Jeff Lynne joined The Move from the 'Race about 1970 (I think) for the last couple of Move albums. Incidentaly their UK gigs rocked as hard as anyone at the time (Who, Yardbirds) - I suppose it was Roy's talent for writing great pop songs that landed them with the "pop group" tag in Britain
Ruskellnw1 1 year ago
great!
BPCpresents 1 year ago
Too cool for words!!!
riceyo62 1 year ago
Thats got to be one of the coolest lookin bass players i've ever seen. Like the moves at 2:20.
squirf 1 year ago
no band ever had a better frontman than carl wayne
homolgus 1 year ago
mark e smith took acid to this song as a teenager
TheMaxlow 1 year ago
Here hear the song on the CAPTAIN COPTER and the FABULOUS TWIRLY BIRDS album where when you play one song backwards they say I CAN HEAR THE GRASS GROW.. I think it's a Randy California from SPIRT album
RetroGoop 1 year ago
fookin' great!
LocoMole 1 year ago
The Move briliant band
mealys 1 year ago
it is rare to see and hear all musicians sing in a song
22clodius 1 year ago
@22clodius : Yeah! On the record (not here, seemingly) you can even hear Bev adding his bullfrog vocals behind "I see rainbows in the evening".
Krzyszczynski 1 month ago
Alright baby yeah! Makes me wanna shag a hot chick!
Roggiedodgie 1 year ago
Anyone got their live version of "Somethin' Else?"
vonpork 1 year ago
good lad great memories
sewerbyarnold 1 year ago
Roy Wood reminds me a good deal of Nigel Tufnel in this...prolly by design.
4bibimimi 1 year ago
awesome! such surprising live footage can be found on youtube.
kommievision 1 year ago
Great band
Ashtonian54 1 year ago 2
Nice one!
Elnono306 1 year ago
THE MOVE!!!
willimoto 1 year ago 2
PLEASE LET THEM BE YOU FRIENDS!
willimoto 1 year ago
@willimoto played with the move in strathclyde uni glasgow they were great, they played there flowers in the rain which was not out yet
cappoman51 1 year ago
ADN EXTRAORDINAIRE BEV BEVAN!
willimoto 1 year ago
TREVOR BURTON-
willimoto 1 year ago
CARL WAYNE-ROY WOOD-ACE KEFFORD
willimoto 1 year ago
Brilliant kept singing 'flowers in the rain' today couldnt remeber it all so looked it up on uube and found this too :) (Y)
treedwarfgirl 1 year ago
I didn't know Carl died. Shit. Good band. In '69, in Beckenham, there was a club called The Mistral. I saw The Move there. They were fucking brilliant, not to put too fine a point on it. Damn, we're all gradually shuffling off this mortal coil. Class of '69.
anthonydansullivan 2 years ago
A great brummie band all very talented.
burns1961 2 years ago
I heard Carl sing this along with Fire Brigade & Blackberry Way with The Hollies in 2004 and fortunately met him at the stage door. He was a lovely person. Sadly about 6 months later he died of cancer. He is much missed.
45rpmSINGLES 2 years ago
Carl Wayne - a great singer and a good man. 18 August 1943 - 31 August 2004 RIP
kumpta 2 years ago 3
Ace and Trev also have great voices!
maida1982a 2 years ago
This was before Jeff Lynne entered the scene
detvardasjalva 2 years ago 5
I Think Jeff Lynne was influenced by them,
this reminds me of the Early Who. Sounds
like Keith Moons Drum Style.
bassmanjoe 2 years ago
@detvardasjalva - Jeff Lynne was a member of Idle Race at this time, even though his group never made the charts he knew and respected Wood's work.. bassmanjoe is right.
harfarhs 2 years ago
watch the Jam live and see where bruce foxton gets his moves from... THE ACE FACE!!!
markpetersound 2 years ago 2
This band is one of Paul Stanley of Kiss's early influence
byronicals 2 years ago
@byronicals so go tell it to the Kiss fans... they are (i am a fan of 70s Kiss) often too much in their hard rock familiy... they are not enough curious...
and by the way... Dust is probably another influence of Kiss... but it still not very clear...if it's a rumour or a reality
BohemianConspiracy 2 years ago
Again, "Zoot" did a great version of this one from Move.
mredsquiz 2 years ago
I CAN HEAR THE WEED GROW!
^.^
vonshtoyven 2 years ago 28
Who's the blond guy on the left ?
markrjg 2 years ago
Thats Ace Kefford
dobson1202 2 years ago
Ace Kefford Rules!
lynniesc 2 years ago 3
Does anyone know anything about colourising technology? Would it be possible to get this clip colourised? Colour TV didn't start up in the UK till late '68, so there's only b&w footage left of the Move's original five-man line-up.
Krzyszczynski 2 years ago
@Krzyszczynski - actually colour began on BBC2 in July 1967, though I don't suppose it was anything like all of that channel's airtime. But there's no reason to think that there is no colour clip somewhere. And just possibly there might be colour film from before 1967 if someone had thought them worthy of spending the money on, for cinemas and such.. maybe someone did?
harfarhs 2 years ago
So klasse,so gut, es gibt nichts besseres.
Andreagear4 2 years ago
Roy Wood -almost unrecogniseable- bt every member a great artist in their own right-groovy days :)
wiredtojupiter 2 years ago