Photo help please - Ready Steady Go.

[nutbox]

Hi, nubie here.
Wondered if anyone could help me with this? These are photos from an episode of Ready Steady Go entitled "The New Year Starts Here", New Year's Eve 1965 ..........





What they have in common is that Keith Moon and Charlie Watts are both using the same drum kit - it belonged to Dave Clark. This is a photo from rehearsals ........................



Looks like it was quite a show.

THE NEW YEAR STARTS HERE (Special New Years Show) ITV network from 10:52 pm until midnight (or until close-down).

Introduced by Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan

Guests:
The Animals
Chris Andrews
Dave Berry
The Dave Clark Five
Tom Jones
The Kinks
Lulu
Kenny Lynch
The Rolling Stones - "Satisfaction" & "Get Off Of My Cloud."
The Searchers - "Take Me For What I'm Worth."
Dusty Springfield

Also guesting, but not credited, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser (Bootsie and Snudge) miming to The Righteous Brothers hit single "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"

r.adams207 submitted the following song titles:
The Who - "I Can't Explain."
Chris Andrews - "Girl Don't Come."
Tom Jones - "Chills And Fever."
Lulu - "Shout."

I wonder how many of these may have used this kit and that is the point of this thread to ask if anyone is aware of photos of The Kinks' appearance on this show.

I play drums myself and I have a small drum collecting fetish. Earlier this year I acquired this kit (just finished tidying it up)..................



This is Dave Clark's 1963 Red Sparkle English Rogers as used by The Who and The Rolling Stones above. It was presented by DC as first prize in a competition in 1966 and I bought it from the winner. I am discovering that it wasn't only DC who appeared with these drums.

Thanks for any help that you can give.

[HollyH]

There is a nice cache of photos at KindaKinks.net -- perhaps you could check there?

Good luck with your quest. Looks like a beautiful set of drums! Where do you keep them all?

[nutbox]

Thanks Holly, I looked there but couldn't find any.

My collection is small - 7-8 kits I think and various snares. They live in the attic.

[nutbox]

Someone sent me these, same show, Chris Williams with Kinks but no drum kit.

[waterloosunset]

Wow, nice drum kit. Congrats =D

[chris]

Good luck with your search nutbox - it must be fun trying to piece together the history of your drum kit. Unfortunately I haven't any pics for you but I'm pretty sure I've seen a few of Dave in that get up (possibly with something like a cowboy hat on?). From Doug Hinman's excellent book we know they played Well Respected Man on that episode and that kind of fits with the acoustic guitar in Dave's hands (isn't that Ray's Fender Malibu?). I remember back in the 80s Channel 4 TV replaying quite a lot of the Ready Steady Go episodes and I taped them all. Unfortunately I can't get my hands on them right now and even if I could I have nothing to play them on!

Just a couple of thoughts- I'm pretty sure that Dave Clark owns the rights to the Ready Steady Go episodes, have you considered getting in touch with him?

It might also be worth a try getting in touch with Mick Avory directly, and you will probably be able to get in contact with him through Konk studios
www.konkstudios.com/main.php?content=contact

or you could try and catch him at a Kast Off Kinks gig (I'm assuming you're UK based). You can find a list of their forthcoming gigs at this site
kastoffkinks.co.uk/html/gigs_.html

[sleepwalker24]

Welcome to the board Nutbox!
What a lovely looking drum kit, very cool piece of rock memrobilia you've got yourself there good luck with finding out more about it!

Chris' suggestions sound very good to me, Mick seems like a friendly bloke and like Chris says, trying to catch him at a Kast Off Kinks gig might provide you with some answers.

[nutbox]

Hi Chris, thanks for your suggestions, and thanks for the name of the number they played.

This episode of Ready Steady Go is generally believed to be "missing". It wasn't part of Dave Clark's re-editing in the 80s.

I'm following a few leads now - I'll let you know how I get on.

[nutbox]

Just thought I would try an update to see if it jogs anyone's memory. I'm looking for a photo of The Kinks on this show.

RSG! THE NEW YEAR STARTS HERE! 31/12/65
London, Television House, Kingsway.
ITV network from 10:52 pm until midnight (or until close-down).
Introduced by Keith Fordyce and Cathy McGowan
Guests:
The Dave Clark Five – “Reelin' & Rockin”.
The Animals
The Who - "I Can't Explain." and “My Generation”.
The Kinks – “Well Respected Man”.
The Rolling Stones - "Satisfaction" & "Get Off Of My Cloud."
The Searchers - "Take Me For What I'm Worth."
Dusty Springfield
Chris Andrews - "Girl Don't Come."
Tom Jones - "Chills And Fever."
Lulu - "Shout."
Dave Berry
Kenny Lynch
Also guesting, but not credited, Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser (Bootsie and Snudge) miming to The Righteous Brothers hit single "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"

The Kinks

Nothing yet. I had a nice note from Mick Avory to say he has no recollection of using DC’s drums. Until I find a photo of him using his own kit on this show and am going to assume that he used Dave Clark's like the rest. Let’s wait and see.

Here are the rest -

The Dave Clark Five




The Who




[The site below tells the story of Keith Moon borrowing the drums and that the above photo is from a rehearsal.

www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/drums/drumsborrowed.html#sdec1965dc5

Below is from the show itself. Note that at rehearsal some of the lettering at the back is not completed. For the show itself some of the lettering is blacked-in.




The Rolling Stones








The above is on Barrie Wentzell’s website.

www.barriewentzell.com/

I wrote to him asking if he had any more photos from that show. The guy is a gem, he just sent me the three photos below, no charge – top bloke! (I did make the point that I wasn’t after photographic art, I was just interested in the drum kit and these photos are each quirky in their own way, but great for my purposes.)



Notice here someone’s jacket draped over the drum kit. The cardboard bass drum logo is falling forward.






Lenny Davidson’s guitar on top of Mike Smith’s keyboard. Unique details on the drum kit very visible here.





The Animals





These photos of The Animals came from Kim Chester, a stallholder who I met at The UK National Drum Fair. He told me that he had had a conversation with John Steel, the drummer with The Animals, about the time he had borrowed DC’s drums. I thought he must be mistaken, but a few weeks later he sent me these.

The Searchers



CD cover

Check out the background – this is at rehearsals. You can just see one of the toms.





Looking for photos from 1965 it became apparent that the same thing probably happened the previous year. Kim Chester sent me a link which turned up these-

The Animals



That is a familiar looking drum kit.




Manfred Mann




These photos are from -

RSG! The New Year Starts Here! 31/12/64
London, Television House, Kingsway.
Interviews with members of The Stones
The Rolling Stones (performances from the 20-Nov-64 RSG!) - "Around And Around," "Little Red Rooster" and "Off the Hook." Also Mick Jagger demonstrates a new dancing style.
Guests:

The Animals
The Dave Clark Five
The Kinks
Manfred Mann
Freddie and the Dreamers

Susan Maughan
Sandie Shaw
Dusty Springfield
Kenny Lynch

That leaves me looking for photos of The DC5, The Kinks (again) and Freddie and the Dreamers.


Of course that makes me wonder about 1963.


Ready Steady Go! 31st December 1963
London, Television House, Kingsway.
The Beatles (on tape, from their 4 October 1963 RSG appearance)
Guests:

The Dave Clark Five
The Fourmost
The Roulettes
The Searchers

Ray Martine
Tommy Quickly
Mike Sarne
Kirby Kirby
Adam Faith
Cilla Black
Mark Wynter
Kenny Lynch


Fooling about at rehearsal.



The DC5

The photo below looks like it could be from the same rehearsal (drum kit is in the correct position in the studio, same dark jacket etc.).



And from the show ………………







The Fourmost – but no drum kit! Mmmm…..

[HollyH]

Doug Hinman's book says that the Kinks lip-synched that night, as I presume the other bands did as well. That would explain why they didn't feel it was so important to have their own gear. I don't know what a drummer does when the band lip-synchs -- surely he can't fake hitting those drums!

Wish I could help, but I'm not a photo collector. It was fun to look at all you've assembled, though!