Fil from Wings of Pegasus give his analysis of Bill Nelson's playing and Be Bop Deluxe from their Old Grey Whistle Test performance in 1976
Since one or two of us have been discussing Be Bop Deluxe during the Modern Music era, in the 'Remember your first Be-Bop gig?' thread, I thought this might be of interest.
I think Fil gives a really good appraisal of Bill's playing, technique, song composition, structure and direction etc and the band's overall dynamics...You can see he is really enjoying the performance, in particular Bill's guitar playing. To be fair, we all know how good Be Bop were and we've all seen this OGWT performance, and they absolutely nail it, as usual, 'Down On Terminal Street' is perfect and a great recording...And Fil does touch upon Bill's later/current work, which is obviously a plus....I've been checking out this guy's videos for a while on YouTube and they really are a pleasure to watch.
@Tourist with you on all that. In terms of Phil and Bobbie, in much the same way that Steve Jansen and Joe Namath look nothing alike, if you place Justin Trudeau between Steve and Joe, you might convince me they’re famille, I think Björk and Bobbie look nowt similar but if you’d place Phil in there, maybe they’d start to look like relatives. 🤔😁