Jul 122007
There are so many — so very many — wonderful things about this video/performance. How many can you spot? Use your eyes!
I look forward to your responses,
HVB
There are so many — so very many — wonderful things about this video/performance. How many can you spot? Use your eyes!
I look forward to your responses,
HVB
How about Mick Fleetwood’s Ludwig? Nice. I love a silver sparkle! Has he always used the oh face while playing? I like the look and sound of Peter Green – Jesus-phase. Great hair/beard combo. I just watched “Oh Well” and they only used two maracas on that one and screwed up the breakdown, but Peter just laughed it off. Good times. Was four just a show of prowess? 😉 Colourful, they are though – love the 60s styled outfits and dancing, yes. Nice clip Hrrundi!
I like:
-Barbi Benton
-How Hugh refers to them as “the fleetwood mac”
-The girl in the tan top and red shorts dancing
-Mick’s open mounth drumming (was he ever a junkie?)
-The black dude in the yellow shirt
-the dual Les Pauls
The chick who dances sitting down is a particular favorite, but just the idea of all these incredibly hot women shaking it to a song about masturbation is hilarious.
there was a BAND playing during that clip?
The girl with the white top and red pants totally reminds me of Ann Margaret!!
I think that clip ends just too soon, and there’s definitely not enough shots of the band – just noticed the guy in the canary yellow shirt prancing off to the side with those crazy ballooned sleeves!
I think Mick Fleetwood is actually snacking on his own hair. I’ve never seen anyone actually eat themselves before, and I’m having a hard time getting past that.
I would actually defer to NJ Slabbert’s critique and second that Buckminster Fuller’s obscure writing and utopian synergetics impeded his quest for the ephermeralizaton of his “spaceship earth.” Geodesic dome notwhithstanding.
“I would actually defer to NJ Slabbert’s critique and second that Buckminster Fuller’s obscure writing and utopian synergetics impeded his quest for the ephermeralizaton of his “spaceship earth.” Geodesic dome notwhithstanding.”
Finally, an objective opinion! 😉
First of all, the colors are GREAT. With about 2:00 left, there’s a girl in a red shirt dancing by herself, to her own beat, in a proto-Deadhead style. Good stuff! There are a lot of folks dancing in that proto-Deadhead style (actually, Deadheads were probably already in full bloom, but you know what I mean – proto-codified Dead dance style).
I love the look on Peter Green’s face throughout. It’s clear he’s rarely seen so many beautiful people bopping to his music before. In my humble musical experiences, I’ve had moments like that, and I think I’ve made exactly the delighted face that he makes.
Go to 1:41.5 left in the countdown: EXACTLY. That’s a winning moment. Maybe my favorite moment of all in this fantastic clip. The moment lasts, in fine variations, for another 6.5 seconds. Good stuff.
The seated dancer, sitting alongside a cross between Michael Palin and Mike Brady, is also a key moment of pleasure.
Mad Props to the marracas guy!
With 43 seconds to go, there’s an underrated scene of a woman dancing that’s quickly followed by the guy in the yellow, pouffy shirt. Nice segue! Unfortunately the camera keeps moving to a woman in a light blue dress who’s a really bad dancer. Turn-offs: Bad middle-class hippie dancers.
The Ann-Margaret woman in the red blouse right near the end is excellent.
I wonder, had Green been able to play to more audiences of this caliber, would he have not needed to find solace in the Lord?
Good lord! I think in that clip, they *were* The Fleetwood Mac. Mr. Mod, do you think if they had had more audiences like that they may also have avoided recruiting the annoying members they did later? And that is the most acute case of “drummer’s mouth”I’ve ever seen. (Even at the disabled home in NJ, they had some sense of self!) I mean, all lewd comebacks aside, how do you keep your mouth open like that without something wedged in it? He still did that later somewhat with his beard, didn’t he?
And yes, the genteel controlled-hippie dancing brings several layers of disappointment and sadness with it.
I think more gigs introduced by Barbi Benton could have saved Junior Mints from oblivion. Or at least have made us The Junior Mints.
It warms my Peter Green-loving heart to see how carefully you all paid attention to this clip. Allow me to share my own observations on the reasons for its Goodness:
1. The Hef/Benton intro, is, of course, priceless. I swear, when Barbi says “you took the words right out of my mouth,” the Hef grunts lasciviously, if such a thing is possible. Listen for it!
2. The integrated audience is cool enough, but the integrated *dancing* is totally boss! The first dancing couple in the clip… man, that blonde chick is just aitch-oh-tee HOT, the way she’s moovin’ and groovin’. And her soul brother date is clearly part of the reason why. Very cool — and I ask: when would one ever see real groove-cultural cross-pollination like that on teevee today? Never, that’s when!
3. Greenie is clearly having a ball up there, in contrast to most of the performance clips from ’69 I’ve seen, where he looks downright dour. Then again, how could you not have fun playing a song about wanking at the BLOODY PLAYBOY MANSION?
4. Jeremy Spencer is thankfully nowhere near a guitar.
5. As others have pointed out, Mick Fleetwood is in full flow, which for once I think looks kind of cool, in a totaly uncool kind of way. And how can a drum part where he bashes the crash cymbal every four seconds sound so great?
6. The fashions, the colors, the unbridled, integrated enthusiasm, the seeming openness to new sounds and new grooves — this clip is just plain “upful.” I love it!
General Slocum wrote:
You mean we weren’t “The” Junior Mints?
Hrrundi, as a live video performance, how does the unbridled enthusiasm of this one compare with that of your favorite “live” video for “Join Together”? 🙂
Moddie asks: