Fans of the Rutles and Rockpile, are you familiar with a band called Fatso?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrrVj8LbqI&feature=related

Wait for the guitar solo around minute two.

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

Reunion show, doing a Bonzos song and a Rutles song
http://vimeo.com/2029278

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.

Yeah, I remember that booklet but I don't have my copy handy. Never had the Rutland Weekend Songbook though.

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.

What about George Harrison singing his Pirate Song?

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip-ZL4xI5zs