GasTank

All Episodes 1983

  • Ended
  • #<Network:0x00007f9fbfd1d358>
  • 1983-01-15T00:00:00Z
  • 55m
  • 55m (1 episode)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
GasTank was a music and chat show presented by Rick Wakeman and Tony Ashton that ran for six episodes from 1982 to 1983. It originally aired oh Channel 4 in the UK, and was recorded in a studio made to look like a small bar in front of a small invited audience. The house band comprised Rick Wakeman (keyboards), Tony Ashton (electric piano and vocals), Tony Fernandez (drums), and Chas Cronk and Jerome Rimson alternating bass duties. The general format of each episode was that each guest would perform one or more songs with the house band, Ashton would sing a song, and Wakeman would play an instrumental piece. Rick would also chat with one or more of the guests over a beer in the "bar".

6 episodes

Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) performs Little Lady and Rain, and chats to Rick Wakeman in the bar. Rick Wakeman performs Catherine Howard and The Cimarons play He Give Up To I. Tony Ashton performs Cigarettes! Finally, Eric Burdon (The Animals) (featuring Alvin Lee from Ten Years After) performs Heart Attack and Trying To Get Back To You, followed by a quick interview between Eric and Rick. The show culminates with Eric, Alvin and the house band giving us a rock and roll medley including Lawdy Miss Clawdy.

Tony Ashton starts the show with a solo version of Aeroplane. Andy Fairweather Low gives us Man Smart, Woman Smarter, before a quick chat with Wakeman. Kevin Godley and Lol Creme then join him for Wide Eyed and Legless and In the Midnight Hour. Godley & Creme also chat with Rick in the bar. Ronnie Scott gives us Gerrard Street (featuring vocals from Tony Ashton), and Ronnie then chats with Rick. Wakeman plays Catherine Parr. Maggie Bell duets with Ashton on Blackpool's First Twist Victim, before closing the show with Crazy.

Tony Ashton kicks us off with "TV Set", Phil Lynott & new Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes perform Growing Up and The Man's A Fool. Rick and Tony then perform an untitled keyboard piece, featuring both playing the same grand piano. Donovan sings Mellow Yellow with the band, and Lalena accompanied by Rick on the piano. Chris Farlowe (supported by Alvin Lee) perform Staring Outta Windows and Stormy Monday Blues, and are joined by Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) on guitar, and Ian Paice (Deep Purple) on Ian Gillan's borrowed bongos for a blistering rendition of the Little Richard classic Lucille. Wakeman interviews Chris Farlowe.

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