hollies65 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 I have been looking for Choir video for decades...I think the only place it may exist is in the Spero archive of Upbeat.Don Webster himself told me they have tons of footage.What are they waiting for? All of us to die first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted September 7, 2007 Author Share Posted September 7, 2007 Well who knows that man - someone GET ON IT NOW!!! I live in Florida - I never saw Upbeat....We need clout - someone get one of the band or Bernie to throw their weight around lol. Why haven't they done a dvd remaster of their old shows like all the other teen shows back then? I'd email the guy - do we have a website or something we can ask that question and then everyone flood his mailbox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okstevens Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Eric Robertson and Wally wrote a song (I think) called Our Love that the Sittn Ducks did on a cassette I have some where. GREAT song. Could use a little updating and a sax solo but a GREAT song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 David Spero was or is the manager of Joe Walsh...his dad Herman produced Upbeat...one of the greatest 60 music shows.I hear David has control of the archival upbeat footage...I think it could be a goldmine but the people who would buy it want to buy it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crg2 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 hollies65 said: David Spero was or is the manager of Joe Walsh...his dad Herman produced Upbeat...one of the greatest 60 music shows.I hear David has control of the archival upbeat footage...I think it could be a goldmine but the people who would buy it want to buy it now. I wish that they would. According to that big book by Marshall Crenshaw, there is footage of the original Velvet Underground playing on "Upbeat." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Excellent video and performance! - but, ya gotta love whoever labelled this the "Bruce Detroit Medley"! Even Mitch Ryder live has given props to the originals - Shorty Long's "Devil With the Blue Dress", Little Richard's "Jenny Jenny" and "Good Golly Miss Molly", and "See See Rider", an old blues song that's been recorded probably hundreds of times (original allegedly done by Ma Rainey in the 20s)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 Mitch Ryder's version is the definitive version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 7, 2007 Share Posted September 7, 2007 On those two particular medleys - agreed. I'll still take Little Richard's "Jenny Jenny" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" (neither of which Mitch does in its entirety) over Ryder's truncated versions....but whoever had the idea of combining those particular songs into medleys (Mitch? Crewe? Somebody else?) - that was genius!To me, calling the Detroit medley "Bruce's" is kinda like referring to "David Johansen's Animals medley"....he used to do a medley of "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", "It's My Life", and "Don't Bring Me Down" live as a solo act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 The Secret still rock and I think Eric Robertson has one of the greatest rock voices ever to come out of Cleveland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 On 8/22/2007 at 2:01 PM, Don_Krider said: I believe The Secret did mostly covers on stage. There is audio and video from their shows floating around (I was fortunate enough to see the professionally shot music video for their cover of Raspberries "Hard To Get Over A Heartbreak" years ago). Jim Bonfanti often sat in with the group, too. That photo of Eric joining Wally and Dave in The Secret on stage is on page 329 of Ken Sharp's "Overnight Sensation" book. Apparently they did a 45-minute set doing Beatles covers and Raspberries tunes ("Should I Wait," "Tonight"). I've never seen any video footage of that, if it exists. Don Krider The late Don Krider's post in this old thread notes that Eric joined Wally and Dave at a Secret gig in 1981 for a 45-minute set. Bernie or Kirk or anyone: Any idea as to whether any video footage ever turned up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 No clue. At first, I thought you might be mistaking Eric Robertson for Eric Carmen, but EC was there in '81 for that gig! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 8 hours ago, LC said: Any idea as to whether any video footage ever turned up? I would be surprised if it did. Consumer home video recording devices did not exist in 1981. This was a couple of years before innovations led to home camcorders. Equipment at that time was bulky and scarce. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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