The Nice - America - HitsAGoGo 1968 (Color) presented by Suzanne Doucet & Hardy Hepp

[threeby8887]

Lee Jackson said it all about the good old U.S.A. Who knows how much greater we could have been were it not for the assassinations of King, Malcolm, the Kennedys, and also the wars in Vietnam and Iraq?

[BAKinney1]

Very early. Davy O'List was still in the group before they became a trio.

[thewordofgord]

thanks so much for posting! easily the best four man version we have!

wordofgord

[jsilence418]

Emerson Rocks!!! thanks for the great post !

[zkxb]

200 young Swiss folks just had their minds completely blown.

[lecif]

The Nuce "coloured"!! Very rare! An historic document of the european fame of group. Thank you!

[mpjgbx]

Too bad Davy O'List was fired. I heard that Emerson kept telling him to turn down his guitar.

[dragonslayers118]

im suprised ive only just heard about this band..they are awesome...im fairly new to the whole progressive rock scene...but after listening to rush, emerson,lake and palmer, king crimson, atomic rooster,and the nice im hooked..i cant get enough..and im only 16

[superspocko]

@dragonslayers118

If you're into old school check Focus or UK or Gentile Giant

If you're into new school check Ozric Tenticles.

I enjoy all of it.

[MattHatter]

In the background, at around 1:35, looks more like TITS-A-Go-Go. 

[thatmuse76]

Fantastic, and it has an interview as well!!!

[synik1979]

I'm trying to track down a performance by a German band called "The Guards" on Hits A Gogo (Switzerland) on June 30th, 1969. They performed thier cover of "I put a spell on you" which also got to Number 17 on the Swiss charts. If anyone knows the best person to contact in regards to finding this footage, please let me know. Cheers ;)

[babayaga321]

Great clip....where has all this stuff been hiding away? :-)

[IwshIcldstrtover]

A very interesting statement by Keith during the interview, where he mentions that the knives in the Hammond are "Slightly symbolic of all of the murders and the violence in America that has produced the sort of thing with the president(JFK) being shot, and that sort of thing".

[noddyspuncture]

Amazing... classic footage..!!

[gipsi2001]

Wir gingen in fast alle HitsAGoGo Sendungen. Wir schrieben and Schweizer Fernsehen welches uns gratis tickets zustellte. Schde das das die einzige sendung auf YOutube ist

[azmarkus]

Good performance; showing early on that Keith was being held by back and had to find some bandmates that could keep up with him musically (that is, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer). Hilarious melodramatic commentary at the end by the buffoonish bass player, vintage '60's nimrod.

[NeilThompson30]

@azmarkus The Nice and ELP were two different projects - I know where you're coming from cause all three of ELP were incredible players - but The Nice had a certain charm which was missing from ELP

[azmarkus]

@NeilThompson30 I agree, the Nice seemed to have a bit of an innocence about them as compared to ELP who went about business in a cold & calculating way (engineer extraordinaire Eddy Offord said as much). 

[knaus600]

Ich war 18 als Farbfernseher eingeführt wurden. Hits a Go-Go kam glaube ich jeweils am Samstag am späteren Nachmittag. Kein Teeneger wollte und konnte diesen Sendungen verpassen. Beste Erinnerungen werden in wach.

[gipsi2001]

Wir bekamen gratis tickets fuer diese Sendungen. Habe noch Photos mit den Badfinger und anderen Gruppen. Wir waren "groupies" hahaha

[ringo1308]

I never knew that colour footage of The Nice existed.This is fabulous!

[mkawaguchi]

Who is this cute boy in tight trousers? Doesn't he know it's dangerous to play with knives like that!? "Why did you put the knives in your organ" Ha!