https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrrVj8LbqI&feature=related
Wait for the guitar solo around minute two.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 July 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago)
They were the houseband on Rutland Weekend Television, led by Neil Innes with John Halsey of Patto and the Rutles on drums and Billy Bremner of Rockpile on guitar. Plus two other guys who I am not too familiar with who but who seem to have extensive credits, Roger Rettig on steel guitar and Brian Hodgson on bass. Official website, which has lots of pictures and other stuff, can be found here http://www.neilinnesandfatso.com/index.htm
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 July 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago)
Reunion show, doing a Bonzos song and a Rutles songhttp://vimeo.com/2029278
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 July 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago)
These guys also pose in the Rutles booklet that came with the album, posing as some of the other fictional bands on the label.I'm very familiar with the music as the Rutland Weekend Songbook was a great favourite album of mine when I was a teenager. Never heard them referred to as "Fatso" though. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
― everything, Sunday, 8 July 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago)
Yeah, I remember that booklet but I don't have my copy handy. Never had the Rutland Weekend Songbook though.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 July 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago)
It's mostly Eric Idle being pretty funny with a bunch of Innes songs. There are two Rutles tracks on that album which are not available anywhere else as far as I'm aware. A version of I Must Be In Love done with huge crowd noises a la Shea Stadium and a song called The Children of Rock'n'Roll which is later inserted into Good Times Roll.
― everything, Monday, 9 July 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago)
What about George Harrison singing his Pirate Song?
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 July 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago)
Sadly not on the album though there are at least three other songs with nautical themes. In fact now I think about it "Song O' The Insurance Men" (a sea shanty about insurance) rather strangely seems to foreshadow the Crimson Permanent Assurance part of Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
BTW that song you posted at the top of the thread is on Neil Innes' album Taking Off with roughly the same crew.
― everything, Monday, 9 July 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago)
Seems like the bass player in this band has the same name as a different guy, the Delia Derbyshire collaborator, BBC Radiophonic Workshop stalwart and Dr. Who composer Brian Hodgson.
― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 December 2019 04:18 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip-ZL4xI5zs
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 23:32 (five years ago)