Steeleye Span - The Prickly Bush (Live)

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8 жыл бұрын

Steeleye Span performing 'The Prickly Bush', from the 1996 album 'Time'. Available to buy from the Park shop here: parkrecords.com/product/prkcd3...
Released in 1996, after a seven-year hiatus. The impetus for the album was a 25th anniversary reunion tour the year before. In some ways, the album represents a revival of Steeleye Span. After a 16 year period during which the band released only three albums, the band entered a more productive phase that continues down to the present.
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@iainfoxell8543 3 жыл бұрын

I walk round work singing this. Brilliant group.

@karlmylnere5712 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see the brilliant Bob Johnson for once, he was seldom featured on these videos, a great guitarist and arranger, so much so that the band still, to this day, play his parts as he played them, good guy, greatly missed.

@Krzyszczynski Жыл бұрын

In case anyone should misunderstand Karl's post: Bob is still very much alive! Just not (alas) with the Span any more.

@peterhobson3262 Жыл бұрын

@@Krzyszczynski Bob is 79 and has various health issues.

@gary41144 Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely stunning ❤

@ericmesser1 5 жыл бұрын

To the six thumbs down people.........you have no souls........hope you find them soon......🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@Reziac 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite song from my favorite Steeleye Span album... showcases their harmonies like no other.

@poogmonster 8 жыл бұрын

Had never heard this before. Wonderful! Couldn't get the tune out of my mind for 2 or 3 days!

@brucedeane8 2 жыл бұрын

such a gift these people

@chrisovideo4040 7 жыл бұрын

What a lineup!

@smiffy8364 Жыл бұрын

Gay Woods has a wonderful voice.

@chrisovideo4040 Жыл бұрын

@@smiffy8364 She does. I wish she had done a solo album after leaving Steeleye the second time.

@en3usiastfortesque368 4 жыл бұрын

A song with a long history.....!! The Prickly Bush.....Gallows Pole..... Traditional Folk.....thru' Huddie Leadbetter to Led Zeppelin...... Excellent....!!

@bjornskristensen Жыл бұрын

Gay Woods has a great voice!

@craigmcintosh7241 4 жыл бұрын

Saw 'em in Buffalo, NY, summer of 1970, "warm up" band for CTA. Magnificent!!

@jackjc1447 2 жыл бұрын

craig mclntosh, steeleye span's first US tour was in november 1972 supporting procol harum.

@craigmcintosh7241 Жыл бұрын

@@jackjc1447 I know who & what I saw.

@januszgierlak6056 5 жыл бұрын

Excelente version y excelentes musicos ----great band.

@General.Longstreet 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic track💖

@satinsaid 4 жыл бұрын

"All around my Pridkly Bush"! love this album. Saw them at Bristol .

@HansBerchtold 7 жыл бұрын

thank you for this beautiful song

@mrgeorgebanjoman 4 жыл бұрын

Love these live songs from this line up, the Span at their best , the harmonies, the fiddler, I had this by Peter Paul & Mary but no one tops this

@jimmymalone9139 2 жыл бұрын

Gay woods lovely voice

@stewartchristie3408 6 ай бұрын

Nice to see Gay singing with the band again. The harmonies with Maddie are brilliant. She should have stayed

@jimmymalone9139 2 жыл бұрын

GAY WOODS GREAT VOICE. GUTH IONTACH NI CHORCAIRAIN. BEST VERSION OF THIS AMHRAN

@General.Longstreet 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic 💖

@Teddyb1939 6 жыл бұрын

Just magical and don't the ladies sound good together.

@jimmymalone9139 2 жыл бұрын

Women gay woods and maddy prior

@desallen2174 2 жыл бұрын

A singer who, every time, makes all listeners aware how much she enjoys doing what she does. Maddy Prior, a complete nut. Thank god for eccentrics.

@rolandcolyer5199 5 жыл бұрын

Maddy beautiful and memorable images.😂Guy ex.techie.

@jeffmyers8456 3 жыл бұрын

groovy baby

@Teddyb1939 2 жыл бұрын

Have a listen to the lovely Ray Fisher (folk) version of this beauty.

@stanleykolodziejczyk5627 3 жыл бұрын

Peter, Paul and Mary sing this as 'Hangman". I think it's on their 'A Song Will Rise' album. Led Zeppelin performs it as 'Gallows Pole' which, I'm pretty sure dates to a Leadbelly version. All slightly different and all quite good.

@timward276 2 жыл бұрын

The LZ version definitely was taken from the Leadbelly version. I think the Led Zeppelin version is the only one where the hangman kills the condemned man despite getting to sleep with his sister anyway ("but now I laugh and pull so hard to see you swinging from the gallows pole")

@stanleykolodziejczyk5627 2 жыл бұрын

@@timward276 Indeed! Without swingin' from the pole the song has little impact. It also conjures the image of a single beam as opposed to a traditional setup with stairs and crossbeams, et all. The crudeness adds insult to the action by understatement. I've read that many crucifixions used this method of simply transfixing the condemned person to a single upright beam

@katebelton7759 4 жыл бұрын

@UrsaMajorPrime 2 жыл бұрын

I'd be hard pressed to chose a favorite version of the 'Gallows Pole' song - this version or the one off No Quarter by Zepplin

@dfpguitar 5 жыл бұрын

Are there any elements of the melody of "prickle eyed bush" or "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" that have been consistent throughout history?

@TaenzersTraum 7 ай бұрын

I love this album, and I'm sorry to say that this is not live, it's playback...

@jennycooper5364 7 жыл бұрын

finbar and eddie furey do a great version on the lonesome boatman a more tradtional reciting well worth checking out

@warrentimothy2276 7 жыл бұрын

Great song, but not truly live. Steeleye played 2 nights at this venue, and played them live to a real audience. But the whole of the "Time" documentary/concert is actually overdubbed. So it looks like they were miming, and you can see it seems like there are many cuts. Either there was a problem with sound quality of the recordings, or they wanted the studio recordings on it. Either way, it's great to see but not properly authentic.

@michaeligoe3935 7 жыл бұрын

I suspect that the one dissenter is a loyalist to Waterson orthodoxy.

@louiseed1997 Жыл бұрын

Maddy is the SPAN!!

@sudfac 7 жыл бұрын

It reminds LZ Gallows Pole, but perhaps I am mistaken? :)

@Marcortlieb 7 жыл бұрын

Same song. Zep had no issues with stealing British folk.

@TheSoulofsweets 6 жыл бұрын

This is actually an incrediably old song, you can find everything from Scandinavian to Sicilian versions. The story has been used over and over, thats the great thing about folk music, anyone can hear something diffrent in a song and make it their own.

@luxford60 6 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Zep did credit their version of this as Traditional - there are several songs where they did claim composer credits that they didn't deserve, but Gallows Pole isn't one of them.

@dfpguitar 5 жыл бұрын

do you have any links to traditional versions? Id really like to hear trad versions of the melody. And see if there is any element of the melody that was consistent throughout history, or if it is just the story within the song? The chorus of this version is the same as bellowheads. But it is nothing like Niles version.

@stanleykolodziejczyk5627 3 жыл бұрын

@@luxford60 P

@larrysdesk 6 жыл бұрын

Variant of Gallows Pole

@markvonhendy5626 7 жыл бұрын

Different words, slightly, but essentially the same song as "Hangman, Hangman," as sung by the Kingston Trio.

@susanwheeler713 7 жыл бұрын

Steel eye span

@petesmith7743 Жыл бұрын

As usual Gay makes the difference!

@RickGrafham-Kaminski 2 ай бұрын

She does indeed.This was a great lineup,with the two excellent female singers,not heard since their debut album.I was lucky enough to see them live in 1996.Unforgettable! How time flies.

@Paul-by2nz 7 жыл бұрын

Great song, but unfortunately Not live

@jamesthorne4333 6 жыл бұрын

you are talking crap

@SaundersWharfSP 6 жыл бұрын

James, what a charming reply, get your head out of your arse, of course this lip synced !!

@dutchy777 5 жыл бұрын

why is it obviously lip synced? can't really see it myself

@Krzyszczynski 4 жыл бұрын

@@dutchy777 Because if you listen to the original album track (audio only), you can tell it's identical to what you hear on this clip.

@dutchy777 4 жыл бұрын

@@Krzyszczynski maybe that's because they were that good...?

@jennycooper5364 7 жыл бұрын

gallows pole is a adapation of a leadbelly song check your facts before making crass statements l bet you think steeleye wrote gaudette

@mikelheron20 6 жыл бұрын

JENNY COOPER The song is "Gaudete". Perhaps you should check spelling before making unnecessarily aggressive and offensive statements.

@TheBigMclargehuge 3 жыл бұрын

Leadbelly's song is also an adaptation. Bitch.

@pipfox7834 2 жыл бұрын

hey everyone, if Maddy was here right now with the three of you - would she be impressed? cool it people, have a cup of tea and a good lie down

@jamessim1858 3 жыл бұрын

Don't shave the private parts and you'll be just fine!

@edwardcowley42 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Maddy Prior's bush is prickly lol

@johnfaulkner9024 4 жыл бұрын

No, not lol. Keep your crude comment to yourself.

@wailer27 4 жыл бұрын

That sort of talk is frowned upon in middle class society Mr Cowley so definitely not lol, just cut it out!