Like
most music fans, my inbox often contains several emails to YouTube links
each day.
So I thought it would be good to highlight the best of them in a new
section called
YouTube Of The Month.
This month’s YouTube is a complete no-brainer. It has to be Leslie
West performing onstage again
for the first time since his amputation. The Mountain mainman
deserves the standing ovation he receives
at BB King’s in New York on January 31, 2012. Welcome
back, Leslie…
More
soon. Please feel free to email
your suggestions for this page. Scroll
down the page for previous YouTubes Of The Month
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The suggestion for YouTube #61 came from my old editor
at RAW Magazine, now fellow Classic Rock contributor, Jon Hotten.
It’s a TV documentary on the Welsh pomp-rock combo Kooga,
the band in which Skin’s Neville MacDonald served his apprenticeship.
Look out for a hilarious cameo from Malcolm “Wales is rather
exciting!” Dome.
My fellow UFO enthusiasts will love seeing the
band performing 'Galactic Love', 'Silverbird' and 'C'Mon
Everybody'
for French TV cameras back in 1972. Yes, that's Larry Wallis
of the Pink Fairies on guitar. Awesome stuff... apart from
the garlic-eating branleur that interrupts them right in the middle.
Brought to my attention by who else but the mighty Batttttty!
Here’s a fantastic clip from a show that I wish
I’d attended… Jimmy Page jamming on a version of
‘Shake Your Moneymaker’
with The Black Crowes at London’s Shepherd’s Bush
Empire on July 13, 2011. Mouth-watering!
YouTube #64 is footage of Status Quo miming along
to one of their most underrated songs, ‘Long Legged Linda’,
from ‘If You Can't Stand The Heat...’, on a continental
TV show – great stuff!
I still cannot believe that I missed this due to a clash
with the Main Stage,
but here’s some superb footage of the long-awaited reunion between
Spock’s Beard and their former frontman Neal
Morse,
performing the song ‘June’ on the Prog
Stage at the High Voltage festival back in July.
Chose this one in tribute to Jimmy Savile
(RIP). Dom Lawson went on to become one of Metal
Hammer’s chief writers
and is a good friend of mine. More from Dom about that special day -
3rd November 1986 - HERE
Donovan Pearce from Dewsbury proposed
this selection as YouTube #67: Giant’s sublime
‘I’m A Believer’,
the opening track of 1989’s ‘Last Of The Runaways’.
A good choice, Donovan…
Thanks to my boozing buddy Mark Taylor for selecting
this little gem via my Facebook page.
It’s a first-rate live rendition of one of the first vinyl 45s
that I bought as a kid… ‘The Six Teens’ by
The Sweet. Cheers, Mark!
