Pentangle - In Time

[blindlou1975]

I'm sure the two dislikes are possibly Toby Keith fans.

[NjugunaMuriithi]

Danny is killing that bass



[Bumbumawangis]

These guys were masters,underrated.The level of their musicianship blows me away,pity about Bert,i think Donovan dedicated a song to him called "Berts' blues",on his majestic 1966 album"Sunshine superman".

[stphnchlmrs]

The only thing that could make this better is if they had four different cameras to show what all four of these great musicians were doing the whole time. Every time the camera focuses on one of them, someone else seems to be doing something that makes me think, "Man I wish I could see that." Rest in peace, Bert. You will be missed.

[slartibartfast68]

My mother said she met Bert at a party way back in the 60s. He was hanging in the kitchen by himself eating the chicken and asked my mom to sit with him to partake in the chicken festivities. Something like that anyway - I dunno if I believe her lol.

[grummash1]

I "discovered" this band 25 years ago.. they still blow me away. But until YouTube came along I never realised they had John Malkovich on Bass and Lenny Godber on drums! More talent in this band's piss than any chart act today.

[TheGB1950]

Sounds exactly like the Sweet Child album, live side, COOL

[StupidGoodProduction]

best...fill...ever 1:18

[TheHumbuckerboy]

Superb playing(I particularly love John's work on his Gibson 335).There is no group today that can equal their musicality!

[drtymrty]

Thank God for incredible musicians.

[Quintessence777]

0:20 shit dude, your bass is on fire

[progjazzfusion]

@Quintessence777 - well he IS playin the hell out of it, smokin on that thing for a folk group. jazz bass in folk is the only way i can tolerate folk music

[StupidGoodProduction]

VISIONARY

[rodsreel]

Musicians doing what musicians do best - period

Thanks for posting 

[Govanmauler]

thats some tight playing right there !

[edwardfranciskelly]

EXCELLENT... Thanks for reminding me of this Band

[seostattler]

blurring the lines between jazz, blues and folk

[Shroganor]

Currently sipping Jager, watching the sun set, and listening to this... ahhhhhhhhh :D

[superglootheband]

Pure Magic also Incredible drumming!

[catbird007]

thx for posting

[JoeyPencils]

where have bands like this gone...

[SupernalOne]

I first began to understand what a bass could do for a song by listening to Cream jams and to Danny Thompson in Pentangle (OK, and James Jamerson in Motown) - Thompson is both melodic and athletic in his work, and along with Jacqui is one of the two showmen in the group. Kudos to Danny!

[adric137]

great music

[brianl890]

Nothing high class about this. Just good folk/blues/jazz fusion from time gone by. Love the pentatonic phrasing of the lead guitar. Question and answer. The fretless upright bass just rules the roost. Bert Janch's acoustic guitar just makes the whole atmosphere. Bert Jansch. Ask Jimmy Page who Bert Jansch is and he will tell you! Canadian guy 46 and love that old tyme. Time intentionally spelled with a "y" LOL :o))

[brianl890]

Nothing high class about this. Just good folk/blues/jazz fusion from time gone by. Love the pentatonic phrasing of the lead guitar. Question and answer. The fretless upright bass just rules the roost. Bert Janch's acoustic guitar just makes the whole atmosphere. Bert Jansch. Ask Jimmy Page who Bert Jansch is and he will tell you! Canadian guy 46 and love that old tyme. Time intentionally spelled with a "y" LOL :o))

[TheDalaiLuke]

jazz bass

10/10

[tag4lif3]

Great music

[jhwbs123]

Just...awesome.

[Dafjalfrezi]

John Renbourn looks so badass

[Peskygee1]

I love this group, but playing jazz was pretty common amongst psychedelic and progressive bands. That being said, I've yet to hear a Pentangle song I don't like. Just an amazing group.

[Blake1234Lacour]

this soothes my soul

[cosmiclight]

I bought the Sweet Child LP on import vinyl in 1974 after hearing the title track on our local underground FM radio station as it they called that broadcast genre then. Still have that double vinyl LP in near perfect condition today. There is nothing now in a complete group effort anything like the Pentangle except the Pentangle. To categorize them as ahead of their time is a gross understatement. They were masters at what they did and they are still masters today. Thompsons bass playing [is!]

[xrcjpx]

Well music back then was not advertised on TV etc. Pentangle started in the mid 60's. The average music listener did NOT listen to them. Although the words are not radical and many based on traditional songs, Pentangle as far as I'm concerned was underground Most average Americans didn't listen to Pentangle.  you're right a Blues explosion but still that was in small circles in relation to the average American.

[xrcjpx]

High class Society music...ah come on...please understand when they were playing this music. late 60's early 70's. first of all you didn't hear this music on any American radio station back then...and Bert was a "smackhead" yeah that's real elevator music......yes, perhaps now this sounds like HC music but then it was against the grain...it was "Democracy" it was free....it was real...not a money greedy enterprise....

[jajwatt1]

everything you said there is by far, THE most pretentious thing i've ever heard. If it was 'against the grain' then it certainly wasn't democracy. There was a massive scene for blues/jazz in the early 70's.... so i think you'll find that actually being quite conformist. Just a thought...

[viking1au]

Likewise, I don't think Bert was ever known as a "smackhead". He always seemed happy, in those days, having the odd beer.

[JSWren]

Ahead of its time .......... even now sounds classy and timeless. One for the boudoir I think!

[quagmire475]

this is just so smoooooooooooth

[qs12184]

I'm probably missing the point, but what i love about this track is the lack of vocals. this tune is phenomenal, it has such a slick movement

[cliverich]

Where did Renbourne's fag-ash go? Must have burnt a hole in his jeans.

I have vague memories of watching this on TV at the time (I must have been 12) and thinking I want to play guitar like that.

[catbird007]

solid

[foxglove21]

I have this album it is a BBC concert in 1971.

pretty good!

[slartibartfast68]

even though it sounds a bit like some High Class Society elevator music.

I just love it.

[Aljazhhh]

High Class Society elevator music.

HAHAHAHAH priceless

and yeah nice sond :D

[olllHashedFetish]

Haha. Agreed.

[wozzer300zx]

WOW what a great sound ...love it ...

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[FIXIErider]

This is so very very nice.

[znatizeljac]

and your comment is so very perfect!

[wokensoulsounds07]

Pentangle are simply sublime! only heard of emvthe other day...probs yesterday...caught a video just like this on bbc. If you like this band, please check out a band from SF called the drift...they are AMAZING1!!peace

[MadDogOfist]

definitely the the 70 special, assuming Jansch wouldn't go a whole year without changing his jacket. That is not a cast iron certainty.

This is, however, sweet.

[mart3442]

Its a rare thing for Bert to buy a new shirt so he wouldnt be adverse to wearing the same jacket for a year.

[Britdrumphil]

OMG I don't like the majority of jazz that I've heard but if this is jazz as I think it is,it's frigging COOL! and Nice!!

Excellent drummer very tasteful chops!

Where are these folks from?

[gazboat]

All from the British Isles...Buckinghamshire, Scotland, London and Devon. I think though that while performing in Pentangle mark I ('67-'73) they all lived in London...not sure.

[Britdrumphil]

Cheers for that info!

[Mattboy2388]

I agree. The jazzy sound mixed with the Celtic folk/blues influence is really pulled of nice by these guys. And i dont like jazz at all.

[Noonday100]

Celtic? English Folk my friend!

[Mattboy2388]

Pentangle (Especially JAnsch/Renborune tend to play alot of traditional arrangements my friend...

[Noonday100]

They certainly do, but it's not "Celtic". Celtic music as a "traditional" genre is actually a recent construct, basically feel good mood music for Irish-Americans. In Europe it may denote Breton or Galician music in addition to Irish, Scottish and Welsh.

[mmacfarlane1]

JOHN RENBOURN: FOLK, BLUES & BEYOND; CELTIC MELODIES & OPEN TUNINGS; AND THE JAZZ TINGE by John Renbourn

Recent construct for Irish-Americans....

[99ZARDOZ]

"does anyone have any guitar tabs on this?

or any idea how to play any of it"

Not really. I think Renbourn is soling in A Dorian though. I think the underlying chords to the first bit are Em6 and something else. If anyone knows more, tell us! A great bit of music.

[simonbath]

really natty tune and playing, really nasty cigarette

[gazboat]

non smoker I guess

[gazboat]

He'd have played much better without the smokee...NOT

[neitheror]

He had smoked better without playing

[gazboat]

Now that I can agree with...Nothing ruins a good ciggy more than a virtuoso performance...It's a pretty good smoke though all things considered...Not as good however as Pete Towsend's legendary cigar solo during My Generation on The Who live at Leeds

[gazboat]

It's a pretty good smoke considering the virtuoso performance got in the way...not as good as Pete Towsend's legendary cigar solo during My Generation on The Who Live At Leeds however

[gazboat]

Sorry...I posted an almost identical reply to neitheror twice...must be smoking too much

[vavselvuv]

oh man pentangle is amazing

does anyone have any guitar tabs on this?

or any idea how to play any of it

[99ZARDOZ]

Smokin! I vastly prefer this to their more hardcore folk stuff.

Probably the best jazz by a non jazz group ever.......

[Cassandraberry]

PS. I guess you had to be there. There was no stardom, only recognition. The Folk Circuit was so small - everyone knew everyone else. What a time to be young! Geart stuff - so undated!

[Cassandraberry]

Hard to believe how long ago. Pentangle were my Gods. Boy I got old! No one else has ever threaded together so many music genres as this band.

Fawnface: thanks for the memories

[sianleah]

i was brought up on pentangle. and i have to say they are ace-if! i mean they really are. Thanks fawndace for putting these up. ^.^

[DarranCarter1966]

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[AndyJK45]

Finally- I get to check out some pentangle- clearly a big hole in my musical knowledge. Thanks for posting.

PS There are plenty of nice Yamaha guitars out there- I love my AES electric, not to mention the old Yammie classical I have.

[GABRYIRISH]

MAXIMAL..

[VladDImpala]

They were jazz, they were folk, they were blues...they were and still are......fantastic! Super clip!

[ednamaetrip]

thanks for the interduction, i had never before been exposed to these fine musicians. luv em!

[jaggajah]

Tremendous

[KWStudd]

danny thompson the bassist is as correctly pointed above, to put it mildly, good.

[slinkyballs06]

it might just be my eyes, which are totally fucked, but John Renbourne looks like Page with red hair

[wingandaprayer]

and Bert appears to be playing a battered yamaha guitar with a cheap clip on pick-up...a lesson to all the modern young guitar freaks who think you need a 5 grand guitar to sound good

[Johnny6666]

He had a sponsorship gig with them, so it's doubtful it was a 'battered' Yamaha with a cheap clip-on PU. Probably a road guitar. Jansch's early solo albums were recorded with Martins (mostly).

[mart3442]

Bert still uses Yamaha's to this day.....

[hardtravellin]

Thanks for posting this, it's really unusual to see Pentangle stuff. What a band?!

[alkimystic]

john's got the beard, curly hair, and wreath of cigarette smoke

[Sockr44e]

Which one is Renbourn and which one is Jansch? And I really like Renbourn's solo stuff, but I don't know which one he is in this video, someone tell me.

[alkimystic]

john is bearded and surrounded by cigarette smoke.

[Sockr44e]

That bassist is fuckin awesome.

[Xavi1900]

The bass player was a young Danny Thompson i think ?Went on to play with John Martyn & Richard Thompson and many more.

[acousticland]

thankyou fawnface for this great music. Should be even during our times

[alkimystic]

look for a solo renbourn titled the black ballon. sorta english in feel but ranges into new teritory. also his duet with grosman called why a duck or some such

[greengoatpie]

The irony of any commentary is that theirs, or any great music, trancends all words. All five were dazzling and in perfect league with one another. Any thought of competition is silly.

[chewingum]

Don't forget the bass player! (is his name terry cox?)

He's awesome, too.

Actually ALL of the members of The Pentangle were awesome

[Holgerstefanhart]

The name of the bass player is Danny Thompson, Terry Cox is the drummer

[chewingum]

Ah, thanks!

[tapenoise]

It's not Bert's fault that the Beebs had his mic turned too low ... Also, fretjuice, the point of having two of the worlds best guitarists playing in the same band is that they can play Different Parts! One part might be flashier than the other, one might be electric and one acoustic, etc., etc. ...

[ISB]

Jansch as I always remember him ... and as he should be remembered. Blows Renbourn away. Smokin!

[fawnface]

Hahaha, yeah, I wanted to make a cheeky comment about Fretjuice Renbourn as well.

[sandybobbins]

Yes thats cool but bert has more soul in his little finger than john ever had.But hey they were both exceptionally talented and soulful musicians.Great band.and yes indeed SMOKIN :)

[fretjuice]

Renbourn as I always remember him ... and as he should be remembered. Blows Jansch away. Smokin!

[OchreHarlequin]

Thank You so much for posting this. It's brilliant stuff. Excellent quality as well. Any Pentangle material is rare and is always appreciated.

[fawnface]

It's not bad is it? I actually have the whole half hour of this show, but it's 300MB odd and i don't know how to split it up to post it. x

[ultang]

c'est smooth,non?