albert lee and dave edmunds: studio-video

[eddiewagner]

hi guys, this is one of the best things i ever saw. just watch dave edmunds digging the picking. sorry, it´s a myspace-video, don´t know how to embed it....

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=22644191

 

[degsycaster]

Superb! Typical British rock stars - pints of ale, fags and god knows what else!! Dave Edmunds looks like he wants to give up playing guitar at the end of it - priceless

 

[Big John]

Oh i just LOVE that clip !!!, anyone else notice a very young Huey Lewis and Phil Lynott in there ?
Mind you, i dont know what Dave Edmunds has to worry about .................

 

[jhundt]

here's Dave having a little fun with some of his friends...

 

[mickeydean]

lol albert lee is playing the ugliest tele i have ever seen!!!!

 

[Tim Armstrong]

hi guys, this is one of the best things i ever saw. just watch dave edmunds digging the picking. sorry, it´s a myspace-video, don´t know how to embed it....

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=22644191

That is a pure blast!!!

I've always thought Dave and Albert were very much alike, even down to their singing voices...

Thanks, Eddie!!!!

Tim

 

[Lars]

Great clip
I have a bad quality VHS tape of this almost two hour long documentary about making Nick Lowe's Labour of lust and Dave Edmunds Repeat when necessary from 1978.
Someone taped it from Swedish tv and I got a copy in my mom's house in Norway.

But since it was a copy of a copy the quality is pretty bad.

I haven't seen it in a long long time,but I remember that before Albert came in Dave Edmunds was playing a b-bender with the track.
There are also some really cool clips of Billy Bremner laying down some guitar.

These are the records

If anybody has a copy of this tv documetary let me know..
lars

 

[DustyDave]

lol albert lee is playing the ugliest tele i have ever seen!!!!

But you could flip it over after playing and use it to chop veggies!
Thanks, Eddiewagner for posting this video. I love it.

 

[Twangmeister]

Love this clip. Two of my absolute, most favorite musicians. I saw them together at a small club/Mexican restaurant about 10 years ago, and it was a stellar night. Albert is one of the most talented, all-around musicians I've ever met- sings, writes, and he's also an accomplished keyboard player. Add humble, self-effacing and good-natured, and you have a great role model for the journeyman player.

 

[davidge1]

Dave Edmunds' jaw grinding here just reminds me of a lot of bad stuff that was going on around me when I was a young musician...haha.

 

[eddiewagner]

If anybody has a copy of this tv documetary let me know..
lars

i would also be highly interested.

 

[davidge1]

Albert Lee is just awesome on this though, I have to admit. Is he using a b-bender here? It kind of sounds like it.

 

[davidge1]

One thing interesting about this track (I just listened to a sample on itunes... I think I'll have to invest the .99 to buy it) is that it was "new wave" music from the '70s, but wouldn't sound the least bit out of place on a modern country station. I think Albert Lee is one of the most influencial artists in the entire history of country music.

 

[B Valley]

I love Dave's reactions as he's listening to Albert lay that track down, he's as blown away as everyone else.
That was my favorite track from that album long before I knew it was Albert Lee on it. I thought it was Billy until I finally read the liner notes. After that I started seeking out Albert's stuff.

 

[eddiewagner]

One thing interesting about this track (I just listened to a sample on itunes... I think I'll have to invest the .99 to buy it) is that it was "new wave" music from the '70s, but wouldn't sound the least bit out of place on a modern country station. I think Albert Lee is one of the most influencial artists in the entire history of country music.

i remember quite well when i heard that track for the first time. everybody was way into punk/new wave/ withering heights at that time in germany. and there was this piece of music with mindboggling guitarplaying.

 

[Big John]

I reckon it's an age thing eddie,

I have a dim distant memory of Dave Edmunds in Love Sulpture playing 'Sabre Dance', Wow !!!! -- what a tone.

Before punk in the mid 70's we had 'Pub Rock', bands like Brinsley Schwarz (with Nick Lowe on bass) were playing a huge pub scene that was a great alternative to the musical excesses of acts like Yes, ELP and Led Zep and this was 5 years before Punk came along to do the same thing.
Dave Edmunds 'Rockpile' was also an important part of that and you would have seen Declan McManus (Elvis Costello), Huey Lewis and a whole lot more (Albert with 'Heads Hands and Feet', Ray Flacke) who went on to mainstream or Punk (then mainstream) success.

Having a twangy, country-ish sound was no bad thing back then as peoples set lists covered everything from Chuck Berry to Berry Gordy and a whole lot of mileage in between, in a lot of ways Punk alienated that kind of playing in favour of the DIY 'can't really play' way of making a noise.

A sweaty pub gig with someone like Albert tearing up a guitar, there's not much better is there ?

 

[Fatmanstratman]

Oh i just LOVE that clip !!!, anyone else notice a very young Huey Lewis and Phil Lynott in there ?

Good spot, John! I spotted Phil (around 2:47) and Huey Lewis before I saw your post. Looked like a load of guys having a lot of fun in the studio....

I think I'll just give up playing and hang my head in shame.....

 

[Big John]

.......I think I'll just give up playing and hang my head in shame.....

Oi !!, we'll have none of that talk !!!, thats exactly the stuff that spurred me onwards not backwards !

Now, pick up thy Tele and blast !!!!

 

[byrdbrain]

Albert Lee is just awesome on this though, I have to admit. Is he using a b-bender here? It kind of sounds like it.

Yes, that's an Evans bender guitar.
I remember seeing that documentary on Swedish television,
and the next day everyone was talking about the amazing Lee.
This clip way have been what finally made me buy a tele.
There was something wrong with mine, though.
I didn't sound at all like Albert