The Move - Brontosaurus - Live, Beat Club! Pristine quality!

Being a life long Elo fan, its a bit odd I never sought out any of The Move catalog. One of these days I need to fix that.

Great video.

 

I just got that Lost Broadcasts DVD of the Beat Club stuff not too long ago. They were such a great band.

 

Maybe it's because of all the video processing on that clip, but it's funny to me (in an odd sort of way) how much Jeff looks like Clapton in that video. I've never noticed that before, and I don't think the resemblance lasted very long afterward.

 

I give at least two darns so thanks for posting this excellent video.

 

Who doesn't give a darn about the Move? The earlier, pre-Jeff Lynne group was the best but nonetheless "Brontosaurus" is one of my favourites of theirs; the original single version is fabulous, with a very heavy bass sound. The Move are well worth investigating; not just for Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne; Trevor Burton went on to play with Balls, The Pink Fairies and The Steve Gibbons Band, making great records with all of them.

I saw Roy Wood the other week in concert. His band came on firstly without him and started playing the "Brontosaurus" riff over and over for a couple of minutes, until Roy walked on and immediately launched into "California Man"! I've always been puzzled about why Roy faded from the limelight after Wizzard. To me, he was the major talent out of the whole Move / ELO circle.

 

They're amazing. First heard them about ten years ago and couldn't believe how great they were from beginning to end. Thanks for posting.

 

That's really pristine quality. I need to delve more into Roy Woods stuff. I'm only familiar with Move songs from hearing Cheap Trick covering them.

Can someone recommend a good Move album or comp to start with?

 

I like it.

 

Get a compilation of all their British single releases - preferably one that includes the b-sides as well.

 

How I love this jam!!!!!!

 

All their albums are good. Shazam is near perfect.

 

Thanks for posting this. I was a big fan of the Move after hearing Night of Fear once on a far away, fading distant AM station in my room in Cleveland. Didn't hear them again until reading of the first album in the NME and mail ordering it from England in the spring of 1968. They were not well served by their U.S. labels, which mystified me. Always resented Lynne and ELO for preempting my Roy Wood music.

 

Love love LOVE The Move. Although Brontosaurus is probably my least favorite of their many UK singles.

But it's nice to see such a good condition video of the band actually playing live.

That old A&M Best of the Move 2LP collection is a killer. Fantastic liner notes, too. Add Shazaam and Split Ends (itself also boasting amazing liner notes) and you have what constituted the available Move in the US in the mid '70s.

I like this footage. All live. Wish it were in color, but it's amazing to hear Roy Wood's familiar voice come out of a clean cut guy dressed so fashionably.

 

Here's 30 minutes of them playing in color, mostly live but a few of the songs are mimed. I like hearing the live versions of "Fire Brigade" and "Blackberry Way." They also turn in a nice performance of "Flowers in the Rain."



Set List:
Intro 0:00
I Can Hear The Grass Grow 0:23 (live)
Beautiful Daughter 3:40 (mimed)
The Christian Life 6:07 (live)
Flowers In The Rain 8:54 (live)
The Last Thing On My Mind 11:16 (live)
Wild Tiger Woman 16:05 (mimed)
Goin' Back 18:33 (live)
Fire Brigade 23:25 (live)
Something 25:46 (mimed)
Blackberry Way 28:32 (live)
Credits 31:57

 

Wow, just amazing. I wonder where this came from, given that just about everything from the Colour Me Pop series has been lost...

Beautiful Daughter, while apparently mimed, isn't the LP version. It might be the LP version with the strings removed...but it's definitely a different mix than what appeared on Shazam! It's pretty odd that they slotted a few mime pieces in with mostly live tracks...

 

A BBC engineer saved the Small Faces, Moody Blues and Move editions, (as well as bits of the Bonzo Dog Band edition).. also The Trapeze and Chambers Bros editions still survive by chance.

I think Beautiful Daughter is the same as the LP version, just without strings.. which means it presumably has Trevor Burton on it, though it was released a year after he left the band.

 

If you thought they looked like babies there, check this out!

 

This is a good little summary of Roy Wood's career in the Move and beyond, and there's lots of great Youtube clips at the end.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/roy_wood_the_talent_behind_the_move_elo_and_wizzard

 

Man, they were so good...

 

I have live video of them doing "I can Hear The Grass Grow," great stuff... I think it's on a Nuggets 2 DVD comp I have...

 

Thank you for sharing this clip. I like all eras of The Move, though the last era might be my favorite. The Move should have been much bigger than they were, especially in the USA. I always thought it was a shame that Roy Wood left ELO so early and pulled the plug on The Move for good.

 

I've never seen a Trapeze or Chambers bros recording but Frank Zappa also survives I think pretty much in it's entirety.

For those who don't know Colour me Pop was an off shoot of Late night Line up an arts programme on BBC2 which was often used as a test bed for colour in 1967. Colour me Pop was tacked on in 1968 after the channel went full colour in Dec 67 and what survives is an incredible time capsule of late 60's pop.

As far as i have been able to tell the earliest pop performance that survives on 625 colour VT on the BBC seems to be Manfred Mann & Jelie Felix on Once more with Felix from December 1967. There may be earlier 1967 surviving pop colour 625vt performances from europe since they seem to have been less brutal in wiping their tapes than the BBC were.