DonnyTJS Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 2 hours ago, buckielugger said: Yep Geneva was the follow up single...if any one hasn't heard it, please find it on YouTube...it's a truly beautiful song. And also correct about his opening albums...some great tracks on them...Otway is a very under-rated songwriter. Another good album was his first without Wild Willy, appropriately entitled All Ballls and No Willy... And yes I'm not quite in my 20s !! I've been a good friend of John's for over 30 years and been at all his big events over those decades. Good to see there's another Otway fan on the TAMB Can't say I know the lad, but I've spoken to him often enough in drunken post-gig sweatboxes. First saw him at Sheffield City Hall, playing big venues off the back of 'Really Free' - a year or so later saw him at the Reading festival. Since then it's generally been pubs. 2 hours ago, fringo said: Can you post a link or have I missed it on an earlier page ? This is the b-side that Buckielugger rightly says would have been the sensible follow up to 'Really Free' Instead he released 'Geneve' (without Barrett's approval, I suspect), cos he was always a soppy bugger - nice song, but not exactly what the punters were expecting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonnyTJS Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Apologies for turning this, briefly, into an Otway thread, but it's not often you get the opportunity ... I meant to mention that the recorded version of 'Geneve' featured a symphony orchestra that Otway had spunked the few bob Polydor[?] had fronted up after 'Really Free'. Any road - nowt to do with B-sides, but some more Otway (whose entire oeuvre is pretty much a collection of B-sides). From one of his occasional reformings with WWB: And one of his ballady stunners ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Was listening to an old Rolling Stones compilation in the car there, some of the B-sides are brilliant, unfortunately the iron fist of their management keeps removing them from YouTube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Cheers Donny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckielugger Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 2 hours ago, fringo said: Cheers Donny. Cheers Donny indeed! Wouldn't have known how to add such links myself so great job...and chances are we have been at some or quite a few of the same events over the years....Gig 2000? Albert Hall? Abbey Road? Palladium? Dunkerque(s)? Josephine..superb song....Best Dream another one, along with some of Otway's inimitable covers such as the Roy Orbison classic In Dreams and Tom Jones's Green Green Grass of Home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l27EiQbgi54 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Craig Charles on Radio 2 just played the B side of "Young Hearts Run Free"... Classic 70's soul, great singer Candi Staton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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silverbear Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 On 2017-6-16 at 4:44 PM, Toepoke said: On 2017-6-16 at 4:44 PM, Toepoke said: Was listening to an old Rolling Stones compilation in the car there, some of the B-sides are brilliant, unfortunately the iron fist of their management keeps removing them from YouTube Absolutely. Who's Driving Your Plane - Spider & Fly - Little by Little - Bitch - Play With Fire - Ruby Tuesday You could add - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Off the Hook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toepoke Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 3 hours ago, silverbear said: Absolutely. Who's Driving Your Plane - Spider & Fly - Little by Little - Bitch - Play With Fire - Ruby Tuesday You could add - You Can't Always Get What You Want - Off the Hook I'd actually have picked Dandelion, Lady Jane and No Expectations Shows the depth of quality they were producing back then. Well done finding some unbanned vids btw... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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