Fairport Convention - time will show the wiser - 1968

From their debut Album recorded in 1967 and released in 68 this was the original incarnation of Fairport convention with Ashley Hutchings, Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Martin Lamble, Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews. At the time aluding more to American folk rock sutch as the Byrds and Dylan and due to the duel vocals of Judy Dyble and Iain Matthews they were dubbed the brittish Jefferson Airplane. To learn more just look them up on Wikipedia ;).
This is my version of the TV footage that exists of them which is unfortunately pretty poor quality. Although the original footage is actually a live recording (quite a bit faster) there wasnt really much i could do with my copy so I replaced it with the original Album version which was more or less the same (albeit slightly slower) as the live recording . The only thing you really miss is Richard Thomson's slightly different guitar licks here and there but I'm sure you'll agree he sounds phenominal on the album recording anyway.
I made this in order to give people who are unfamiliar with early fairport convention to get a treat for their ears so Im afraid the video in this case is still a bit of a sow's ear. ie I couldnt make much of a silk purse out of it ;)
Hope you enjoy it and as always if you own the rights to the video and would like me to remove it please contact me.
Enjoy!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fairport convention
• time will show the wiser
• folk rock
• Ashley Hutchings
• Richard Thompson
• Martin Lamble
• Simon Nicol
• Judy Dyble

[gdub999tube]

Holy moly what a song! Why was this not a huge hit?

[sirPUNKsir]

@gdub999tube only time will show the wiser! ;)

[rca88]

Sir PUNK! Great idea to sub in the studio recording. It must have been some work to get the timing sync'ed. What did you use to do that?

[sirPUNKsir]

@rca88 I use adobe Premiere. Its just a question of cutting the video track into segments and speeding up or (in this case) slowing down acordingly. It can be a bit of a pain in the A but when the music's good it's worth it ; )

[elbo33]

Richard Thompson is way ahead of his time here.

[khukuriguy]

I saw them live in 69 or mabey 70,God that was over 40 years ago,thay were great then and thay are great now A time of peace and love,we need to go back to those times, thanks.

[philagerryberry714]

A Huge hit, why was this not #1, because at that time SF- Rock& Roll was under way! This group

was a head of it's time, Sanny Denny & Richard Tompson were so good , in the US we didnot get much from across the pond! They were the Best group of it's time for sure!We miss you Sanny. Happy New Year to all have a Greaful Year........

[astralhed]

they can jam

[LesSouthOfVenus]

such a bliss! wow!

[nostalgiahistoria67]

The birth of brilliance!!!!!Astounding!!!Am­azing sounds!!!!!

[asajdera3]

This is really nice. Good job sirPUNKsir. Thank you m8.

[tubbytuba1]

The "fabulous version" of this song was written by Emmitt (sp?) Rhodes and performed by his group, The Merry Go Round!

[paititi]

A fabulous version was also done by The Merry Go Round...

[67psych]

Thanx For this! My fav Fairport lineup & Rare video with great Audio!!