Videos For A Saturday Morning!

October 12, 2007

Ah, it’s the weekend. And for Saturday, let’s go to the videotape.

Er, the videos on the intraweb.

Yeah, that’s better.

You know, I’ll let you in on a little secret. Each day AFTER Music Week I will post a video from You Tube. It’ll be “Smed’s Video Corner” so even if I’m writing an essay on something else totally, you can still have musical goodness.

Just what you wanted, right?

Of course it is!

Anyway, here we go with some videos for a Saturday.

We start off with some Fairport Convention. Yep, not with Sandy Denny, but Richard Thompson is on guitar. I think I recognize him, but this was 1970, and it’s 2007 now. So, yeah, he’s aged a bit. “Now Be Thankful” was a single, not on an album until they started to make compilations.

In honor of Radiohead, let’s spin the wayback machine to their first oozings. You would have never guessed they would be doing what they are doing now, right? I think I tagged them for a Bush-like (the band) career arc. Oops!

Everyone needs to party, right? Well, who does a party better than the B-52s? No one. No one at all. Dig the little porn-stache on Fred. I think he’s related to John Waters, somehow.

Liz and I requested that the DJ play this song at our wedding, and of course, most of the wedding party DID the dance, too. Heh. It was quite the sight, and our parents were, um, nonplussed.

I was so happy to find this next one. Wait, is that Kenny Rogers introducing Badfinger? I need to do some research. Hold on.

Ah, OK. Thanks internet! The First Edition hosted a show based out of Canada called “Rolling On The River” and Badfinger were a guest one day. OK, then!

The next one is truncated, but I think it was truncated on Belgain TV, or something. Anyway, it’s King Crimson doing the first half of “Larks’ Tongue In Aspic, Part One”. Percussionist Jamie Muir is a mad man! Unfortunately, because it’s TV, they didn’t really BLAST out, like they do on the record. Ah, well…