*cleaned up from a post I made elsewhere*

That Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show were a decent band is a hill I will always die on. While at face value they come off as melodromatic, they were really just a pretty theatrical group - actors and great performers in every right.

A common man's proto-Meat Loaf, the album I've always found to be pretty indicative of that viewpoint was their sophmore effort, Sloppy Seconds. My favourite track had always been "Carry Me Carrie" - written by Shel Silverstein, who penned most of what I'd say were their best songs. He's well known as a children's writer, but that overshadows the fact that he was an old school poet. The breed that lived through the beat generation, managing to barely scrape a very meagre living together through their art and performance, living in and out of rotating impermanent communal settings á la Dave Van Ronk and that bunch in the village music sphere.

The song dramatizes the final act of Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"; a ca.1900 novel about the tragedy of an affair destroying the lives of both parties. The end of the novel finds George Hurstwood (the once manager of a well respected high class bar) a penniless drunk dying alone in an alleyway; void of house and home, wife and child; the yin to his yang - Caroline "Carrie" Meeber - outwardly living an up and up lifestyle, inwardly her self worth and image slowly deteriorate as she comes to find that material gain can't fill the void. These underground classics are the litterary equivalent to the 78rpm era blues, jazz, and traditional rares that the folk scene were cutting their teeth with.

What I always loved about Dr Hook was these guys might not've performed the best songs, but they gave them the best performances anyone could ~

Robert Plant and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin featured in a frame during the opening of the 5th episode of Lupin the Third: Part 1

Anglo-Saxon arms, armour, and other depictions by Angus McBride and ‘GE’ from various Osprey Publishing books

sort of the same things you see on the official 2003 dvd and the official youtube channel, but there's some commentary with subtitles and a bit more footage of the actual concert (something like a couple more seconds of the bow solo). Also there's no anoying menues at the bottom of the screen.