Anyone remember the OGWT??

[whitenemesis]

From the early 70's?

A couple of hours of great music, surreal videos, viewed with the lights down low.

No slick music vids as today just some great graphics quite weird films. best viewed with plenty of alcohol / stimulants

 

[neilrr]

Who could forget?

YouTube - ogwt

YouTube - old grey whistle test

 

[ringway]

Loved OGWT.

The logo was as cool as it gets.

As a teenager and in a few bands around that time, the show was a fab thing to watch.


I've just watched Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing 1979. I was 15/16 at the time and remember watching that show.

Supertramp, Bowie, Lindisfarne.... The choice to view on you-tube is fab.


I did however come accross this OTWAY & BARRETT - Cheryl's Going Home and pmsl! How many things can go wrong.



OTTWAY & BARRETT.

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[AMG-Al]

Excellent programme!

Unlikely to be repeated as most "artists" (or their management) take themselves far too seriously nowadays.

 

[CE230]

Cracking show, one of the few TV programmes that will never see the like again. Try watching a music video these days and you'll get dizzy from constant shot changes. No wonder kids have such a short attention span.

 

[AMG-Al]

Cracking show, one of the few TV programmes that will never see the like again. Try watching a music video these days and you'll get dizzy from constant shot changes. No wonder kids have such a short attention span.

Cause or effect do you think?

 

[Gollom]

Whispering Bob Harris or Annie Nightingale? WBH for me!

I loved that he championed unknowns. Came across Janis Ian through him - IMHO one of the best artistes never to have really made it into the mainstream (although maybe that was no bad thing! )

In a lot of ways, John Peel took up the same baton but of course he is no longer with us. Leads me to wonder who on earth there is now to pick up on unknown talent (and if someone says Simon Cowell I will personally slash their tyres! )

 

[AANDYY]

Simon Cowell!

 

[Gollom]

Simon Cowell!

Be Afraid.... Be Very Afraid.....

 

[AANDYY]

It was too obvious and one couldn't resist.

 

[johnt6213]

Happy new Year !

 

[johnt6213]

Does anyone know if anyone is breaking an Audi S3 please PM me if you do ? Cheers John

 

[wemorgan]

Does anyone know if anyone is breaking an Audi S3 please PM me if you do ? Cheers John

Wrong forum I think!

 

[AMG-Al]

(and if someone says Simon Cowell I will personally slash their tyres! )

So does OGWT now = Old Gollom Wheel Trick?

 

[Deleted member 6183]

As a teenager I watched a band called 999 on OGWT and decided to buy the album on the Saturday.

Off I went to town bought the album, played it at home and it sounded very poncey compared to what I'd seen on the telly.

I'd bought the first Police album by mistake - I blame puberty.

 

[Gollom]

As a teenager I watched a band called 999 on OGWT and decided to buy the album on the Saturday.

Off I went to town bought the album, played it at home and it sounded very poncey compared to what I'd seen on the telly.

I'd bought the first Police album by mistake - I blame puberty.

An aside...

Once employed a young Geordie lad as a temp and I was telling him that I had been to see Sting at the MEN arena the night before. He said that his mum used to go out with Gordon Sumner when she was a teenager but dumped him as "he was weird and wrote poetry and stuff" :bannana:

 

[NormanC]

Old Grey whistle Test??? No - couldn't abide that modern stuff.

Six Five Special was much more my sort of thing!

NormanC

 

[Ted]

Old Grey whistle Test??? No - couldn't abide that modern stuff.

Six Five Special was much more my sort of thing!

NormanC

Over the points, Over the points, Over the points! Ah happy days!!

And yes, the OGWT wasa big part of my life.
I remember Matthews Southern Comfort doing Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock' and knowing it would be a hit, Also Buckingham Nicks before they were heard of in Fleetwood Mac.
I also remember the Dire Straits 'Sultans of Swing' set, and just being blown away by Mark Knopflers playig.

And John Ottway and Wild Willie Barrat??? Really free - Fantastic! I went to a John Ottway gig in Coventry once. Free to get in, but you had to buy his album to get out!

Happy happy days!!

 

[verytalldave]

Interesting article...............
BBC - Southampton Music - The Old Grey Whistle Test

 

[johnsco]

I was watching a program on BBC4 last night ... Called "Guitar Legends" or something like that.
Really good stuff ... Jeff Beck, etc.
Many of the sessions featured were OGWT pieces.
Good Stuff !!