Neil Innes of Rutles & Bonzos dead at 75

[Quad Linda]

RIP Ron Nasty.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/30/old-neil-innes-cause-death-starred-beatles-parody-rutles-11976563/

 

[Fourplay]

How Sweet To Be An Idiot

Good day old chum!

 

[blue.monk]

So sad. From the Bonzos to the Rutles and the Pythons, Neil was a treasure.

 

[bktouchstone]

Very sad to hear this. RIP.

 

[jefe1]

Wow Sad. I saw him a few years ago at McCabes guitar shop in Los Angeles. He waited after the concert to talk with his fans and signed a Bonzo Dog album cover for me.
A very gracious man.

 

[ar surround]

Ah those Rutles albums...I still listen to a track or two every once in a while. They are absolutely brilliant. RIP Neil.

 

[humprof]

Here's the New York Times obituary.

Among the trivia dots I had somehow never connected: The Bonzo Dog Band "is seen in the Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour playing its song 'Death Cab for Cutie.'"

Does that mean we can hear Neil Innes in 5.1 on the MMT Blu-Ray?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/arts/music/neil-innes-dead.html

https://retronewser.com/2017/09/18/...scene-50-years-ago-onthisday-otd-sep-18-1967/

 

[beerking]

Big Bonzo, Rutles and Python fan here.
He is indeed the very first Urban Spaceman.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...64A17B2737000D54F01964A17B2737000D5&FORM=VIRE

 

[DuncanS]

Neil Innes was one of those really talented people who you remember with a smile. I remember loving watching the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band on "Do Not Adjust Your Set" (a late-60s UK children's show!), the furore over the single "The Intro And The Outro" (with the line Quentin Hogg {a UK politician with no sense of humour} on Piggy Grunt which caused 'issues' if I remember correctly!), I have all the albums, then there was the brilliant Rutles. There is a bit in todays Times in the Obituary Column for Neil Innes where after he had fallen out with Eric Idle over the Rutles, George Harrison said "You're supposed to be sending us up, not emulating us".

Which got me thinking about having then seen years later (mid-70s) ex-Bonzo's Roger Ruskin Spear's Kinetic Wardrobe at gigs, and an even crazier one where Viv Stanshall and his band hired the PA, and although there were around 7 in the band only 3 or 4 were on stage at any time, there was band member 'rotation to the bar', Vivian Stanshall fell off the stage, then blamed us for a crap sound!

Happy Memories

 

[JonUrban]

Some of the Rutles tunes, heck, most of them, are pure genius and as good as the real thing. I love that first Rutles album - all the way through. Perfection.

RIP Neil. A true star.

 

[JerseyEd]

A true genius. He will be missed. RIP Neil.

 

[Snood]

 

[humprof]

NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, 2011:

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/30/7923...hon-collaborator-and-rutles-member-dead-at-75

 

[Soundfield]

Neil Innes was one of those really talented people who you remember with a smile. I remember loving watching the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band on "Do Not Adjust Your Set" (a late-60s UK children's show!)

Do Not adjust Your Set certainly brings back memories , particularly of Captain Fantastic and his arch enemy Mrs.Black!

 

[DuncanS]

Do Not adjust Your Set certainly brings back memories , particularly of Captain Fantastic and his arch enemy Mrs.Black!

I'd forgotten about them!
..................………...and its brought back memories of more late 60s kids TV remember "How"?

 

[beerking]

And colour me pop
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...-27&sk=&cvid=1717CC443AF7453897969EA29318952E
Wiki link to Colour me Pop:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_Me_Pop
Never knew these bands appeared on the show.

 

[Soundfield]

I'd forgotten about them!
..................………...and its brought back memories of more late 60s kids TV remember "How"?

Of course, loved it! - Another great kids show, nothing like that now, just cheap, mindless cartoons.

 

[markshan]

I believe that Spinal Tap and that whole genre of movies may not have ever happened if not for Innes. A magnificent talent to whom we all owe a great debt.

 

[atrocity]

I believe that Spinal Tap and that whole genre of movies may not have ever happened if not for Innes.

I was just thinking that the other day.

 

[Soundfield]

I'd forgotten about them!
..................………...and its brought back memories of more late 60s kids TV remember "How"?

and do you remember the rather more obscure rival show on the BBC called "Tom Tom" from around 1968?

It was sort of a cross between Tomorrow’s World and Blue Peter. But it was a bit weird, had a strange obsession with Formula 1 and had a giant Scalextric track in the studio. There was a “Junior Inventors” spot where kids could send in their inventions. I sent in my revolutionary idea to prevent drink driving which was for a breathalyser linked to a circuit that switched off the ignition if it detected alcohol in the car! I thought it was brilliant - I was sent a congratulatory certificate for my idea, which was proudly displayed in my bedroom for several years, but the programme were clearly not that impressed as I was not invited onto the show!