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  • Many thanks for posting, I've never seen this early Fairport phase ever.

  • ashley was all so a member of steeleye,think he formed the band

  • I almost hear early Jefferson Airplane here, which is cool, actually.

  • This opening song on first album was absolutely amazing.

  • Judy Dyble is smoking hot, but Sandy Denny is a legend. It's a shame to see so many bands and labels ditch a talent for a face nowadays, when clearly it needn't be so. I wonder what Judy's doing now.

  • @UncleJeebus

    search for Judy Dyble Grey October Day

  • @JudyD9

    Norwegian breakfast telly, huh? Nice to see she's still working in the music business, though. As for being smoking hot, well, she's not bad for an old girl.

  • @UncleJeebus

    You're too kind:-)

  • I've been getting into Fairport Convention relatively recently and their debut album is hard to beat. I really like Sandy Denny but Judy Dyble is streets ahead in my books. It's a shame that she disappeared after their first album. Then again, with the direction that FC took, after their first recording, it's perhaps best that Dyble could go out on a high...quite while you're ahead and all that jazz....great song, fantastic scenario being sung about. What a difficult situation that really is!

  • @52Paddy1991

    You have to listen to Liege and Lief then. There's nothing like a fatal road traffic accident to bring out some emotion in an album.

  • Too short. :-(

  • Judy dyble, for me is the best singer of the Fairport Convention.

  • EMMITT RHODES!! SONGWRITER

  • Thank you!

  • Lucky enough to have seen this LIVE!!!

  • Fairport: a "supergroup" right from the start who spawned many new bands. Iain Matthews on lead vocal - had a No 1 hit with Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" and he went on to make many other superb covers from writers like Jackson Browne, Jesse Winchester, James Taylor, John Denver & Peter Gabriel - to name jusy 5. He also writes great songs Look out for Plainsong's "In Search of Amelia Earhart". What a shame the camera shots are so dreadful - have to imagine RT's young fingers working those strings

  • Those faces!  Not a single smile. Such psychedelic seriousness!!

  • @youspoppa And that would help how?

  • @youspoppa And smiling faces would help how?

  • jejeje Beetlestone!!!, a bit of everything #lol #putplay #deleplay

  • jejeje Beetlestone!!!, a bit of everything l#ol #putplay #deleplay

  • wonderful because at any moment anyone could have spoiled the oil on this one, and you think that they might but they didn't. Perfect.

  • And they keep calling Thompson a "Folkie" after all these years. That man can rock your socks off!

  • Poor Martin Lamble. And, Jenny, Richard Thompson's girlfriend - both died from a terrible van crash. Then, Sandy falls down the stairs and dies from that tumble. Swarb has had big health problems.....but through it all.....Fairport/Cropredy/Thom­pson carry on! We're glad they are....

  • Much as I love Fairport, I have to say this pales in comparison to the Merry Go Round's original.

  • @agnamaracs i thank you for turning mo onto the fact that the M_G_R's

    did this as an original?....and yes i basically always agree the originals

    are always the best of anyone else's take on it, but i have to politely disagree

    with your use of the word...pales...in regards to this version. i would pick this

    for my radio station to play over the original...check out my bio to see from

    whence i come. i think this has a tad bit more energy and pathos going for it.

  • @CHUCKLOVES1969 ... Wow... That's quite a bio there '69. I can only speculate that you never witnessed a live show of The Palace Guard nor The Merry Go Round at the Hulaballoo... This FC version in it's own right IS as good as the original, I'll give you that. But music is not a competitive sport as that of rugby. Just take this in a friendly manner from and old old old band roadie...

  • @LarrytheDuckster ...i DID see at the hulaballoo,,the seeds,the music machine, janis, buffalo springfield. BUT my biggest regret... was when the dj came out, and said next week was a guy from england we had never heard of,,, so we passed on it. it was Jimi...b4 he went up to monterey. those were the days my friend,,,oh yes they were.

  • @agnamaracs .......PLUS.....and it's a big plus.....what ur listening to here is LIVE.

    not the recorded version MGR does...that's a huge difference as far as im concerned.

    and for Fairport to pull it off this well.....is fantastic.

  • @CHUCKLOVES1969 Excellent points, good sir. Plus, my opinion may be slightly biased, being slightly obsessed with Emitt Rhodes (his self-titled album on Dunhill is one of my all-time favorites, but so is Full House).

  • @agnamaracs ..like i said,,,there's only a hand full of covers that r as good or better than

    original. the best cover i first remember is joe cocker's with a little help

    from my friends...and then when whitney houston did i will always love u

    and how great it was, then years later to hear dollies 'original', an

    why she wrote it, and simplicity of it.and how so many people still

    think whitneys is best,,,i am rampant on originals always being the one

    an only's. almost 99.3%. an thx 4 being cool.

  • They shoul have never kicked out Iain Mathews and Judy Dyble, this band, as recorded here, is too solid, too good!!

  • Trader Horne!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • For the dim bulbs only -thankfully there just a couple . I wasn't extolling the pluses of betrayal ,but rather lamenting the high down payment with a whopper of a balloon payment on the final installment.

  • Judy- the only female musician who could have played in King Crimson. She was briefly in Giles, Giles & Fripp, the band that preceded KC- ain't rock history weird?

    Anyway, Fairport were great. Unhalfbricking is one of the best albums ever recorded IMHO.

  • One of the best songs most people have never heard!

  • This was a supergroup - but they didn't know it.

    Search for Judy Dyble's personal website to see how the girl is doing.

  • that man really looks like mick jagger

  • Who is that girl singing with them?

  • @bluebird925 Judy Dyble, who, after this, sang on the Giles, Giles & Fripp album (the album before the first King Crimson album). She left the business and was a librarian for years, 'til the Fairport Cropredy reunion festivals started up.

  • Emitt Rhodes is making a comeback and Richard Thompson is involved.

  • Martin Lamble woulda been a bigshot drummer had he not been killed soon after this. I can tell!

  • What a guitarist!

  • Ahhhh...Richard Thompson. His playing has always stood alone...unique and brilliant.

  • Oh to go back to this time...

  • What i love about this is that there's just enough of everything, not over the top one bit an and leaves hankering for more of the same.

  • Unequaled now. 

  • I wish the guitar was that loud on the album. This version rocks much harder than the one on their debut.

  • sweet guitar

  • Check out Richard's axework w Rob't Plant & the Band of Joy's recent NPR concert : on 'Angel Dance' especially.

  • I love Judy's voice, and with Giles, Giles and Fripp and Ian McDonald :)

  • Seems like they smoked a little weed before hitting the stage ,,,,,,

  • @MrVinColt ....actually they didn't...:-)

  • @JudyD9 Nice to hear from you Judy! : )

  • @MrVinColt

    actually no they didn't...:-)

  • UK & US, other places....same energy wave was sweeping many.....psychic contagion, but, a good one. Why did it dissipate?

    Anybody got a match?

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  • Sublime.

  • Tight camera, but alas, distant mics.

  • I knew them little beyond the much-airplayed Matty Groves. Friends are experts, always cheering. So, reading more of the recent time/place books, I discovered more about Sandy...this led to Wiki, but then to this early clip. A different Fairport.

    Anytime converging, ganged vocals electrify me, it's mystical. Airplane, early Cream , Byrds, Poco, Vanilla Fudge...you guys go right off the same scale w that 1st 3-way, soaring - in - the clouds harmony @ 1:22. It's downright celestial.

  • Richard Thompson's eastern/modal guitar riffs....up there with Jorma, Clapton on I'm So Glad, Vince Martell w Vanilla Fudge, Steve Stills w Buffalo Springfield,etc.

    Those VOICES!..w Judy harmonizing...it sounds like it's from Atlanitis, Lumania, Ancient Greece, & future civilizations, all mixed together at once.

    This song doeth blow me away, Fayreporte.

  • That goes for the propelled motion psychedelic riffs & textures as well. Sheer Magick

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  • Richard, is still a apprentice..

  • @quarfellow Some apprentice! I could imagine him trading & converging licks w Jorma @ the time.

  • Richard is still a apprentice.

  • ooh I get little psychedelic flash back scalp chills off Judy's voice riding Richard's guitar <3

  • isn't that the same bass player as in Sandy Denny And The Strawbs?

  • @The60sMusicman - no, it's Ashley "Tyger" Hutchings. It was Ron Chesterman on double bass with the Strawbs when Sandy was with them and for some time afterwards.

  • Great Song ........ I wonder how stoned were they :)

  • @MrVinColt Copiously, no doubt!

  • Thanks smile. Simon looks a bit wooden here. But it's really poignant to see Martin RIP. Agree fully with jkoffs excellent comment on Richard below.

  • Byrds + garage punk + folk. It's seems such an unlikely combination but it works perfectly. It's a shame they didn't do more of it and it's a surprise no one else has tried something similar.

  • @danrenwick - Just about now, someone should.

  • Their music was over the heads of the heads at that time I know.

  • To love someone that is your friends wife or girlfriend is a special hell....and then you die.!

  • @TumbrelJockey

    Well, you don't choose who you fall in love with. But if you truly loved them and they were already taken, you'd let them be.

  • @cougher989 Fucking around will only end one relationship for her, and make a short one for you. Maybe you have to experience that to learn it, but once you do, never forget because its a miserable thing to do to everyone involved.

  • I don't think Richard Thompson ever progressively improved on guitar, I think he was just born great!!

  • @jkoff76 Richard is still a apprentice,good stuff to look to. 

  • @jkoff76 I consider him and Peter Green to be THE guitarists of thier generation,(and the subsequent generations have been in decline) and that generation was filled with greats.

  • @jkoff76 i would agree on the former....

  • lookin drawn and haggerd thru the dawn they staggered,with a sound that they found over FRISCO WAY!!!,or maybe even musswell hill!!or where ever they came from!!! lol

  • Those were the days..

    I love this footage

  • @greenowl2 That's why we need a rerun. Even bigger.

  • Young Richard Thompson w/Hendrix perm!

  • interesting music

  • Excellent music!

  • Just the best, rock on, where is "Jack o Dimonds"and rizing for the moon?

  • Such haunting harmony!

  • first time hearing this band

    i just followed the link from a pentangle video

    they are awsome truley awsome

    FUCK MODERN MUSIC

  • im such a fuckin hippy!!

  • Judy Dyble is my favorite singer and this song is great!

  • Wow! Pre-Sandy Denny footage... this is a real treat. Thanks for posting!

  • wow Dyble footage... a rarity.

  • Shivers down me spine!

  • They sound like the Jefferson Airplane

  • NO!!! JA sound like FPC!!!

  • @vicpur Funny you should say that - FPC originally wanted to BE Jefferson!

  • They were known as the Brithish answer to Jefferson Airplane...or is that the other way around...

  • I guess that depends on who got started first. Both good though.

  • @sullyb23511 - Cross-pollination, running back & forth from both directions. People watching & listening to one another during an era of rapid change & unprecedented innovation.

  • Got to be said though that Brighton can in no way compete with Frisco and La's Laurel Canyon, honestly! Nor Margate.

  • Sorry - that was supposed to be an answer to closertofiftythanyew, lower down.

  • got it, see below,

  • The Byrds of Britain!

  • american dream needed for that to happen...

  • AMAZING

  • @CapCakehole

    It's ripped from VHfuckingS (Ignoranttwat laughs, not at CapCakehole, just at VHS)

  • is one of those guys richard thompson?

  • @phildirt3

    The one next to the tosser singer.

  • i thought so man does he look different

  • Question: Is that Roger Waters strumming at the back? Looks like him.

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  • cheers robnaylor. No doubt made Roger Waters in PF with a lookalike in an already influential English South-Eastern band.

    Shallow, I know.

  • No, it's Simon Nicol - the only person in this clip who's still in the band.

  • if your right, well done.

    I haven't a clue!

  • Iain Matthews has been prolific while Emitt Rhodes is on the verge of releasing his first album in nearly four decades. Both men are equally underappreciated and unheralded.

  • I like these guys but the Merry-Go-Round's version of this is much tighter and better.

  • Lovely Sennheiser MD421 mic's too, although not the best choice for a female singer.....

  • I bought this LP when it was first released, along with "The Doors"...on the same day. Its funny that listening to the Doors takes me back to the era, but when I listen to this I'm almost sitting in my room, playing it on my Dansette for the first time ! The cover photo was beautiful, with the Tiffany(?) lamp, and it's such a shame that Judy Dyble left...

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  • What Airplane comparison can you make?,,,,yes its the same lineup but not the Airplane sound of 68....maybe 66

    Jim

  • @captainsoul1953 - Richard's riffs bear a great similiarity to Jorma's in the use of vibrato quavers, as well as modal, eastern-sounding scales. & string-bending wails placed dead-on. The voices are actually more convergent than the Airplane - more sky high. The 'Plane's trio would weave in & out of harmony. Judy tops off a very powerful choirlike sound. It is transcendent, in the right mood.

  • The talent of RT is obvious even at such a young age. And yes Judy was very underrated and stunningly beautiful as well

  • Moody-ish?

  • Ian Matthews, a cool cat !

  • that girl is hot

  • @RAnciD1714

    That's Judy Dyble - she still guest sings with them occasionally....

  • As some commentators noted below, the Jefferson Airplane influence here is pretty obvious. But the FC soon transcended that and found their own special voice. Great clip -- thanks for posting it!

  • It's a song by the Emitt Rhodes when he was in the Merry-Go-Round. By the way Emitt Rhodes is back in the studio.

    This band is not Emitt Rhodes, it's a cover.

  • Punk rock or what?!

  • no....not really

  • Brings back memories of the Mothers Club in Erdington, Birmingham where I saw them perform this several times. This is only one of the great songs they performed in those days. Judy Dyble was great.

  • This is pretty rock-y for them...Thompson sounds terrific. And Dyble was a good overlooked vocalist, though Sandy of course was magical.

  • Great stuff !!

  • oh my god, thank u or this!

  • That was fantastic. Thanks for posting this video.

  • This is amazing....

    Jim

  • legal!!!

  • I've got this bootleg DVD, some great nostalgic stuff here from my all-time favorite band.

    BTW, this tune was originally done by The Merry-Go-Round featuring the leader and author of this song, Emitt Rhodes.

  • Too bad they weren't at Woodstock. They would quickly have been a super group

  • That's true goodtogonow3.

  • that's not what supergroup means but i agree

  • i thank my lucky stars they werent.....

  • Don't forget MARTIN LAMBLE (RIP) tragically died in a car accident in 1969.

  • Not forgotten

    jim

  • I just got Judy Dyble's CD in the mail and it's the best album I've heard in such a long time!!! She is sheer bittersweet heavenly brilliance!!!! It's called Talking With Strangers.. It's worth buying.. I would have paid double for this now that I've heard it!!

  • I pre-ordered and got the autographs . Judy is a sweetie pie .

  • How did these guys not make the big time? They're great!

  • in the UK they were respectably known- states no.

  • a few of us yanks appreciated this ancient sound...before zepelin or renaaisance

  • Young Ian Matthews looks fantastic. Charismatic person.

  • The guy singing lead looks like the mutant mouth creature in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. That's why it's great music.

  • Roflmao XD

  • I liked Judy's vocals very much. Thanks for posting this.

  • I just hear Ian Matthew's Southern Comfort on Sirius and their version of "Woodstock " is addictive.

  • There used to be a colour version on youtube..cant find it anymore

    Jim

  • Richard Thompson's playing is smoking hot right here.  He had that "woman tone" down!! It's Emitt Rhodes on steroids.

  • daaamn check out the 17 year old Richard Thompson!

  • Never saw this before!! What a difference from all that "authentic" finger-in-the-ear, yokel accent stuff.

  • Martin Lamble too--I've never seen him in a video before. This is a very cool find.

  • This is a great version of the song written by Emitt Rhodes of the Merry Go Round--remember the song "Live"? It's on their first album. Fairport is looking and sound very Airplane-like here. Great stuff for 1967.

  • They rocked out then. Later they sounded like feudalism cheerleaders in some kind of folkie sci-fi flick. Very very but too too niche for mortal consumption. Dyble had a human sound.

  • This is groovy as shit to me............i dig it.Good vibe.

  • Like distant cousins of Jefferson Airplane.

  • I think it sounds more like a Crosby, Stills, Nash or Buffalo Springfield prototype..

  • thats just an awesome song. period.

  • Fairports at their heaviest. They have always been known as masters of their instruments and known for being sober swots rather than snoggered on the fungus. None of them cared for stardom and cared for how their music would be perceived in whatever time they were in. Ironically enough, when a boisterous nutcracking hellraiser Sandy Denny replaces the school marmed and sweet judy (she knitted on stage at concerts) did they take folk seriously. Still you gotta love their abilty to rock out.

  • The first Fairport LP was a great late 60s los6 classic. If that was the only record they ever made, it would be one of those rare collectables! Wish Judy would do a tour !

  • There was a lot more to Dyble leaving the band than 'her being asked'. The close relationship she was in at the time, with a band member had just ended.

  • Gods at play...

  • Great song. The guitarist in back looks like a cross between Chris Squire and Roger Waters. There is a live version of this song on Lasting Spirit. Does anyone know when that one was recorded? I am wondering if I should get that one or the original studio version.

  • never heard these guys but they sound good. that 1st singer looks like a complete poser even so much that it seems like he's pretending to be on drugs.

  • Judy Dyble was so fit!!!