The Pointer Sisters
Musikladen Recording Session (Probably Incomplete)
Radio Bremen TV Studios, Bremen, Germany
Recorded sometime in 1974, first aired January 24, 2009
Tracklist:
01 Cloudbusters
02 Jada
03 Old Song
04 Yes, We Can Can
05 Wang Dang Doodle
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Pulled this down to check on the "Yes, We Can Can"- which really has its time and place in a deeper disco setting. Performance here is as good as on their first record, more stretched out, with a breakdown which is nice, but perhaps a tiny bit too loose. The other songs feature them covering the different styles of tradition that they grew up listening to. Enthusiastic performance and fine rendering to digital
A few seconds of internet searches show that there is some other footage from that year I saw mentioned:.
THE POINTER SISTERS
BBC "In Concert!"
(UK-TV 1974) 30 Min.
WTTW Chicago Soundstage set.
What's My Line?
w/THE POINTER SISTERS!
(US-TV 1974) 30 Min.
Video: Sony HC3
Audio: Nakamichi CM-700 mics>Olympus LS-10 (Recorded by JEMS)
Lineage: Everything > Vegas > DVD Architect
Screens and Sample: http://www.goodmarklar.com/modules/recordings/public/video.php?details=1650
Format : NTSC 29.97 fps
Resolution : 720 x 480
Video Bitrate : 5997 kbps
Audio : LPCM
Ratio: 16:9
Menus: Yes
Chapters: Yes
Time: 109 minutes
-Disc One-
Third Eye
Jambi
Stinkfist
Vicarious
The Patient
Intolerance
-Disc Two-
Schism
Forty-Six & 2
Lateralus
Aenima
Tool is:
Maynard James Keenan - Vocals
Adam Jones - Guitar
Justin Chancellor - Bass
Danny Carey - Drums
A friend of mine asked me to find him a Tool vid and so I pulled this down. My interest in Rock and Roll has kind of passed, and my knowledge of Tool is almost completely zero. Nevertheless, I scanned over the disks and decided to post a few screenshots. First off, the shooter does transparently excellent work and his Sony HC3 captures kick ass footage with its solid 10X optical zoom. Sound is not quite as amazing, but still very good. There were a few other shows I was debating between, and one of the commentators on the thread mentioned that this might be the best of what's out there. The best period, as there is no official concert DVD product. Which perhaps makes sense, as the band in perpetually back lit and shies away from theatrics. But this forces them to adopt a closer involvement with video than most other acts. Regardless of your attitude about the actual imagery, which, like the music, is very much a reflection of the band's aesthetic, you have to be fairly impressed by the video rig. A little internet tells me that their projection designer Breckinridge Haggerty is a innovator as far as live video is concerned. He went on on to use hardware he developed for Tool- NEV, a video controller that takes DMX instruction, and Omega Deck, a rugged storage unit with high speed access, to work with some higher profile performers such as Sting and Eminem
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Please do not encode to lossy formats and/or sell.
I haven't paused to think about Cave in what seems like decades. A friend of mine had the Grinderman vinyl and I remember thinking I should give it some more attention...Continuing with just what comes to mind watching this...I also remember picking up a Cave disc at the public library where there was a lyric about a "Frappuccino"! - at some point in 50 years, you got to expect some filler, but cmon, buddy!!!! some people actually paid for that disc...
Coincidentally, at the library yesterday, I was browsing a Heylin book about punk that discussed Cave...Now Heylin's Bootleg is required reading by anyone- and I mean anyone- remotely interested in understanding Rock and Roll...His other efforts seem to evoke the same diligence, but there is not as much primary research in them. In Bootleg, there are labels and recordings being discussed that you simply aren't going to find out more about in hardcover--- find out more about without doing the legwork yourself- if you even can, because the stories have disappeared with the industry. Just as important, the guy is reaching for conclusions that display an intelligence comparable to perhaps, say- Marcus, Reynolds, Bangs or Kent- trying to find a deeper relevance to rock music than mindless, kneejerk conformity fandom.
What was I talking about? Oh, yeah. The Heylin punk book...In it, you read quotes from Cave talking about how Birthday Party gigs were fight with the audience style confrontations...Until the audience came expecting it, so it wasn't really a confrontation anymore. He also is quoted talking about his first trip to London where his expectations of being in a real Rock and Roll country were disappointed to find a bunch of raincoat bands staring at their feet. (echo bunnyman etc.) Well, Nick...looking at the iconic wings of desire footage I'd conclude that sometimes, as a performer, you have to give the audience what it wants...eventually, the goth scene forced its reflection upon Cave as well. Of course, he adopted a lot of earlier influences, abandoned the confessional persona for storytelling theater and avoided a lot of the cliches.
For this particular show... FROMTHEARCHIVES.COM says: " Shambolic affair in which Nick often forgets the lyrics." Which just goes to`say that a lot of the birthday party style chaos is in effect here.
I was in a college radio station a few years later than this and had to absorb all of the Bad Seed LPs. From what I remember the mercy seat was the best of them...the title track and "up jumped the devil" are particularly inspired.
As for this particular footage, it is a performance that was broadcast on the Spanish Edad De Oro program.. The "Stolen Files" are discs devoted to performances on the Edad t.v show- not files documenting Cave's career...Here is some information about what remains of this program floating about on the internets...
LA EDAD DE ORO 1:"The Golden Age" Live music television from Madrid 1983 - 1985. Includes excellent live performances and interviews. On this disc in order of appearance: Lords Of The New Church, Killing Joke, Alan Vega, Johnny Thunders, Nick Cave & The Cavemen, Psychedelic Furs, John Cale & Lou Reed. Great quality. Runs 87 minutes.
LA EDAD DE ORO 2: "The Golden Age" Live music television from Madrid 1983 - 1985. Includes excellent live performances and interviews. On this disc in order of appearance: Residents, SPK, Lords Of The New Church, Aztec Camera, Tom Verlaine, The Sound, Psychic TV, Echo & The Bunnymen, Violent Femes, The Smiths & Spear Of Destiny. Great quality. Runs 98 minutes.
Arcade Fire
Reading Festival, Reading, Berkshire, UK.
28th August 2010
Broadcast 28th August 2010 by BBC three
BBC three is a digital only broadcaster
**Direct transport stream capture and authoring - No Re-encoding**
Video : PAL, 720 x 576, MPEG-2, 25fps, 4186kbps, Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Audio : MPEG-1 Audio Layer II, 256kbps 48Khz
DVB-T > Nebula DigiTV > VideoReDo > PVAStrumento demux > TMPGEnc
DVD format, BBC three logo, full menu and chapter selection by track.
Tracks
01 Introduction
02 Ready to Start
03 Keep The Car Running
04 Laïka
05 No Cars Go
06 Haiti
07 Modern Man
08 Rococo
09 The Suburbs
10 Intervention
11 Crown of Love
12 Tunnels
13 Sprawl
14 We Used To Wait
15 Power Out
16 Rebellion (Lies)
17 Month of May
18 Wake Up
Pulled down a torrent of this. Headliners of the Reading and Leeds festival last month (sharing their top billling w/Blink 182 and Guns & Roses). First off, gotta say that it's beautiful looking footage. Those who shot this and those who rendered it into something that we can watch on our computers:Man! Really fine job guys!
I don't recognize anything in this lineage, so the links represent a complete nOOb trying to tackle yr signal flow:
Kind of surprising that such a glamourless band can get top billing at one of the world's biggest shows...But the festival's policy seems to be- top bill one band less than a decade old alongside two legacy acts....And, unlike the 70's, 80's and 90's, where a well placed TV appearance could catapult a band to fame, a rock band really has to slog it out these days...And, keep reminding yourself, this band's latest album was released to first week sales of 156,000 and the #1 spot in the Billboard 2000...They made their way there social networking site after social networking site after social networking site. Festival after festival after festival. So many festivals these days. People are wanting them more, I suppose. And also, technology makes the logistics of herding all these people so much easier everyday. Some more of my rambling about the hundred thousand people festival HERE
As far as a review of the music goes, I have to confess I listened to about a quarter of it before tossing it in the bin. If you, like me, have gone this long avoiding Pitchfork and the Arcade Fire, this video isn't going to turn you over. I do remember thinking that it all might be more interesting if you could actually hear the accordion and the bowed instruments that the ladies play with such animation. The most energetic song was "Power Out"...in which they really flash the lighting rig and streak some pixels across the Jumbotron (yeah, I know, but if you are so smart, what is it? a Barco?)
Speaking of Pitchfork, the site is leading the way forward into the future of the "dead rock image" :They now can deliver to you- POV: synchronized multiple streams of camera angles- one for each musician... so you can choose when to watch your favorite bandmember from the comfort of your virtual fandom. No, I have not examined this yet. Their inaugural concert was Broken Social Scene. And I'm still trying to recover from the excitement of the Arcade Fire
((Hey Internet dorkdom, don't get so offended...and Hey----- Attention young white girls with rich parents: I really like these bands, honest...)
Just back from a little bit of a break where I was rearranging my manias. The purpose of this blog and my interest in death, the law. video, and rock and roll is all up for debate. I will say that 1500 people have clicked across these pages. I've started to title the screen shots with the band names, so perhaps that will attract some more voices to the discussion.
I've very little to say about Cheap Trick. The definitive video bootleg of them is, of course, the Budokan show. A version of which I have somewhere- along with 30 or so other Cheap Trick concert videos. And I don't even particularly care for Cheap Trick. You see, in the era of disc collecting, you would get copies of whatever you could knowing that sometime along your collecting it would help you trade for something that you wanted to s see Now it is all torrents and harddrive space...Saving what you really want to see in the fear that one day, someone will stop seeding that special file that you really need...But then you reach that critical mass of having more than you could ever view. A sudden moment of stillness.
Nothing to say about Cheap Trick, but I do have to give a shout out to Rockpalast...Was it the greatest rock TV program of all time? It's certainly outlasted all the contenders. And never pandered to the lip synch crowd...When I see that a trader is offering up a Rockpalast show, I know it's going to be well filmed, that the band will be giving it a real effort. HERE is a list of every group that has been broadcast live on the program.
I also want to take the time to thank all of the people who have maintained the tapetrader.com database over the years. Even though Web 2.0 is really making the damn thing look rather rickety. Even though I can't see spending a weekend burning dvds and making multiple trips to the post office- there is still a lot of information there that is going to be missed when the developers finally decide to pull the plug. Hours of happiness and knowledge came down that pipe. Big respect...
First off...I was actually at this show- so it's nice to have a video of it for a souvenir. I was never particularly familiar with the music, I knew the hits and heard most of the discs a couple times...but a friend who had seen NIN several times convinced me that the live shows always come correct with a great deal of energy and innovation. This turned out to be the case. While there were a few quieter pieces of music that added a little dynamics to the set, for the most part, the band stormed about the stage with all of the rebellious anger and self-loathing for which the music became famous... Equally impressive was the interactive LED rig constructed for the tour. For me, personally, it was more impressive than the actual music. I've clamped lamps onto truss for a living and seen many of the multi-million dollar Las Vegas Showroom spectacles. There were moments during this 2008 Planet Hollywood show which were some the hallucinogenic displays of light that I have ever seen (outside of when I was actually on hallucinogens, that is) Anyone would have been interested by it, regardless of their opinion of the band and the music...But I am not saying that the band was upstaged by the setting. In fact, it was just the opposite. What was so striking about the concert is that several times during the show the band's interaction with the multiple LED screens became part of the music itself.
The other thing about this show that merits discussion is how it came to exist as a video file- one of three parts of a project entitled Another Version of The Truth. It is an audience shot bootleg. But not just an ordinary one- it was edited together from footage filmed by more than a dozen audience members...The audiences' commitment to the proceedings and their unprecedented degree of involvement with it is at the cutting edge of rock and roll theater. A website was set up prior to the show and a forum was established in which all of those who were bringing in cameras coordinated which part of the stage that they were going to be responsible for filming. When the show was complete, the editing and distribution of the footage was all completed by a small army of volunteers all communicating the progress of their efforts- and the finished product, online.
Both the video and the show itself are so interesting that I foresee myself surfing through all of the discussions about how they came about in order to understand the fine details. There are other discs in the Another Version of the Truth project that I will review in months to come. And at that time, I will have hopefully digested this information in such a way that I can present it with a little more depth
1. 999,999
2. 1,000,000
3. Letting You
4. Discipline
5. March of the Pigs
6. Head Down
7. The Frail
8. Closer
9. Gave Up
10. Corona Radiata
11. The Warning
12. The Great Destroyer
13. 21 Ghosts III
14. 28 Ghosts IV
15. 19 Ghosts III
16. Ghosts Piggy
17. The Greater Good
18. Pinion
19. Wish
20. Terrible Lie
21. Survivalism
22. The Big Come Down
23. 31 Ghosts IV
24. Only
25. The Hand That Feeds
26. Head Like a Hole
My first impression of "Las Vegas" was that seemed strangely different from the show as I had seen it. For instance, from where I sat, the Ghosts landscapes did not seem particularly compelling. Yet on the video, they really do have quite a beautiful dimension to them. And then, in the other direction, I remember being really struck by the weirdly distorted halos surrounding the band members in the song x, yet the video of this doesn't seem to have the same impact.
While the disc is very enjoyable and a fantastic accomplishment, I am going to embed another video from this tour for this review- The Big Come Down from the Another Version Bonus disc...When I play this for people, they eventually get sucked into how gorgeous the lights become ((fast forward to 3:00 of the clip- when the processors really start cycling))) ...From the things on Another Version that I've watched, the widescreen aspect of this video really does the best job presenting what NIN accomplished with their Lights Across the Sky tour. It's unfortunate that a 3-D recording didn't come to pass...I'd say that the current push to add a third dimension to video will make such a rendering of such a show the next step of the future.
In North America, prior to the internet, only the most weathered record store employee had any awareness of a Krautrock beyond late Kraftwerk, late Tangerine Dream and a Can comp or two.
Looking at Julian Cope's guidebook in a mid-nineties Virgin Megastore, I thought for sure that I'd never get a chance to hear all of the bands he goes on about. Damn if I was going to drop $30 (half a day as a wage slave) on some import CD without hearing it first and knowing if it would get more than a single play. And now there's blogs with file sharing links to all of this stuff, and even posts with a scan of Cope's book itself...so I can slowly make my way through his top 50 list. It's possible that, one day, I'll have built up a significant quantity of hot air for the purpose of impassioned arguments with similarly pathetic music dorks. As far as purchasing any of it, owning some physical copy, I'd have to say that it seems sadly unlikely. I thought that I would be a more positive associate to musicians at one point, but poverty has decided that this is not my fate...Perhaps some real music will appear one day and wipe away everything we thought we knew.ln I have to say that, personally, the first couple of AmonDüül LPs don't really rise to the hype. They just aren't druggy or rocking enough for me. I thought that this live show might shine some light on the appeal of the group, but I'm still no fan. The high quality of the files making their rounds on the internet make this easy to watch, however...Its a beautifully filmed TV program with an in studio concert and lengthy discussions with the group. If you like Düül, you want this... The only bummer is the time code. Other than that the quality is ace.
running order:
01. Archy the Robot 02. Lonely Woman 03. Jam Session I 04. discussion with studio guests (part 1) 05. Surrounded By The Stars 06. discussion with studio guests (part 2) 07. Jam Session II 08. Traveller 09. discussion with studio guests (part 3) 10. La Paloma Jam
Renate Knaup Krštenschwanz - voc, percussion Chris Karrer - guitar, sax, violin, voc John Weinzierl - guitar, voc Lothar Meid - bass Falk Rogner - keys Peter Leopold - drums unknown keyboard guesting on La Paloma Jam
Attributes: Video Format: PAL Size [720 x 576] 25.00 fps 8.00 Mbps Audio : Mpeg 1 layer 3 32 kbps 44100 Hz
What is it like? It's certainly unique. On one hand, you have the cabaret styling of the frontman. On the other, you have a group embarking on muso flights of jazz fusion. Only in the serious toned interviews do you get any impression of a hippie commune counterculture that music scribes tell us was the origin of their association. Of course, this is 1974, at this point, Germany's branch of flower power was aggressively fighting a losing battle with being marginalized out of existence.
I suppose I'll just use this post to scrabble down my impressions of the peak Kraut achievements, updated as the spirit moves me. Below is a youtube linked Rough Guide for Dummies to the Cope cited 50...I've got a much less tolerant ear than most. Kosmische= synths and a groove..Prog and Flute bore me, so much of the genre gets a quick dismissal.
The Soul Jazz people, who rarely put out a record which doesn't have a good track on it, have just comped a krautrock sampler (misnamed as electronica because it rarely is)- I've only clicked the 30 second samples, and can say that there is a lot of variety to what's on hand
There is nothing on this site for sale and no links to anything that you can download. If I have embedded a file that has been uploaded to youtube, rest assured that I am not the person who uploaded the file, neither do I condone such behavior. The media discussed here are materials that have no existing commercial distribution. For many years, people have been making copies of these discs and sending to them to one another through the mail. All of this is facilitated by websites that are set up for that purpose, which I can refer you to if you are interested. The legality of such things is interesting to me, but I am no lawyer, and therefore I cannot tell you whether selling, trading, owning, seeing, or describing any of these things entails copyright infringement or criminal behavior. I am not too very interested in trading at the present time. If you have underground videos of things that are not rock and roll but more strictly subversive or psychedelic, I'd be pleased to hear from you. Keep it rolling...
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