Vivian Stanshall - "The Young Ones"

[themanfromwem]

what a load of bollocks

[shangrigreige]

my goodness

[hermitcrabbot]

Having been pushed to the limits of toleration, I fell screaming into the Czarchasm.

[CountKryzal]

Beautiful and inspired genius incredibly executed. Had I such an ounce of his talent!

[CountKryzal]

Genius or madness? Neither - a beautiful and unique amalgam of both. God bless, Vivian, my friend

[sooperheromax]

the voice of war of the worlds does cliff richard

[SuperNevile]

Fantastic!! Best Version ~ (sorry Cliff) ~ Pity this can no longer be re-released as a vinyl single with "Canyons Of Your Mind" on the 'B' side ~ a good companion piece because it has a couple of 'belching' sounds on it too.

[Broadclystboy]

One of the greatest rock n roll lines of all time

All right Lee - if you must!!!!

[minutegongcoughs]

@Broadclystboy Absolutely

[therealmikha]

Great voice indeed! And what a funny man. He also was the voice on Tubular Bells.

[Hemulen40]

Wooo....Viv beats Stiff Lichard any day . 

[atcgod777]

Yep, only can you find this cool shit on youtube.

I love it!

[flashtheoriginal]

"Alright Lee.............if you musssssssssst...." (looks skyward, closes his eyes and shakes his head nonchalantly). I heard this in 1980 on Radio Caroline. Pissed myself laughing then and felt the mirth today.

Vivian Stanshall and Kilgaron was the official credit.

[edsquidful]

Ah, so great!

[disgustingduo]

This is absolutely hysterical - Viv always could always raise a smile. :)

[WackaJawacka]

Minutegongcoughs - Try Freeganjaman, at start of this posting.

Quoting having Viv's Peel stuff...

Good luck on your half of the drainpipe!

[WackaJawacka]

Ha Ha.

I BOUGHT this NEW.

The band was Kilgaron.

I played it to a musician friend. He said "Kilgaron, We used to gig with them!"

"Once in every lifetime, comes a love like this...." etc

[minutegongcoughs]

That's the one. Kilgaron. Because it was the 'B' sideof the single it was included on the Harvest Box Set. Can anyone put up the John Peel show version?

[minutegongcoughs]

I've searched for some info on this session but cannot get a list of everyone who played on it. Viv treated it as a throwaway track I believe.

[chuckdwagner]

@minutegongcoughs

The musicians who played on this track were collectively known as Kilgaron, a Forest of Dean based rock band 1972 - 1981. The members at the time of this session were Rob Butler (vocal/guitar) Roger Byett ( guitar ), Tudor Griffiths (keyboards), Mike Hopkins (drums) and Charlie Kyte ( bass ). KIlgaron were playing @ The Golden Lion, Fulham. The set list included The Young Ones. An A & R man from Harvest Records at the gig asked them to do the session.

[nissaki63]

Young lady with her tits out?

Gemaine Greer!

[surreal12]

@nissaki63 ... sure was ... bet the sanctimonious(?) cow would like to forget this now! I often feel like posting this pic to the BBC whenever I see her on TV ... "I don't know what I want, but I want it now!" ... now read on ...

[MiszczBetonmen]

Strange but nice anyway :)

[DavidMJordan]

God wanted to be in the Bonzos but they said he was too normal.

[organaphus]

If god has a voice, this is it.

[perrymaniac]

viv stanshal is a god

[af4k]

Is Bubs White playing guitar on this one? Anybody know?

[minutegongcoughs]

It was "B" sided in 1976 w/Are You havin' any fun. 45 - Harvest 5114. It's on the Harvest Box comp. I would like to know if Bubs White is on guitar?

[strangeones4]

@minutegongcoughs God Bless Adrian Edmondson. 

[chuckdwagner]

@af4k

No, Bubs White is not playing guitar. The geetar man is Roger Byett, lead guitarist with Forest of Dean rock band Kilgaron. The story is, Kilgaron were playing @ The Golden Lion, Fulham. An A&R man from Harvest was at the gig. The Young Ones featured in the set list at the time. Mr A&R man booked KIlgaron to do a session with Viv to record the Young Ones. It was recorded @ Air London studios an a Sunday afternoon. I think it was a case of Viv fulfilling his recording contract to Harvest.

[tittetybumpety]

This is great,thanks for posting,wheres this from?

[minutegongcoughs]

It's on the "Harvest" Box Set.

[tittetybumpety]

Thanks is that Harvest as in Harvest records?

[minutegongcoughs]

Indeed. I only know this version and have never heard the version listed by the poster below, ie. the John Peel Show version. Wish he would upload it.

[TheRealInvaderZim]

Very nice, Thanks for posting on Y/T ;)

[freeganjaman]

I recorded an even better version of this off John Peel's show!