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Andy Howells
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« Thread Started on Feb 12, 2009, 9:44am » | |
I was watching The Doors Soundstage performances last night and thought this was a nice way of tying up some rare TV recordings with commentary from surviving band members - some of the material looked like it had survived from video tape - but it was still good to see.
Wouldnt it be good if other bands could adopt similar projects with some of their archive TV?
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« Reply #1 on Feb 13, 2009, 8:12pm » | |
To be honest i hate The Doors Footage release. They chop most of it up and slice it together poorly.This is nto a good way to release archive footage. If you want to see good cleaned up archive televsion then get the T.Rex on TV dvd set. its one disk but has like 40 performances. All complete and unedited
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« Reply #2 on Feb 13, 2009, 8:25pm » | |
To be fair and honest, the Soundstage Performances DVD is the best Doors DVD since it doesn't chop everything up... the Danish TV 1968 special is there complete from opening titles to closing titles and it's there one can see just how badly screwed up the earlier videos were. For instance, "Texas Radio and The Big Beat" was actually OVERDUBBED in the 80's for that first video they did and then of course Ray Manzarek and Danny Sugarman did their usual "Jim is God" trip by splicing in photos and stuff that should never had been there in the first place. That original video "Dance On Fire" angered me so much I almost threw it out the window thanks to the tacky "artistic" tinkerings... a total travesty.
Soundstage comes well recommended by me though I can live without the modern day interviews, but these pop up between the shows, so you can easily skip them. I always find John Densmore and Robbie Kreiger interesting but Sugarman and Manzarek... please don't get me started on those two clowns.
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« Reply #3 on Feb 14, 2009, 8:36am » | |
Well I recorded it from Sky Arts the other Week who pretty much broadcast it without interruptions (no breaks), I did find the interviews a bit long in the end as I thought they didnt need to be so drawn out (and are possibly longer than the actual archive material. The Danish Tv special is simply outstanding I thought (Sky Arts actually broadcast this seperately before putting Soundstage Performances out), I like the idea where the band just play live without a studio audience - it almost doesnt seem so dated then - especially in black and white!
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« Reply #4 on Feb 14, 2009, 11:54am » | |
Led Zeppelin also did that half hour special for Danish TV which is brilliant, though there is an audience on that, but still has a nice informal feel to it.
So... here were Danish TV giving airtime to Zeppelin and The Doors. Both survive on glorious VT. The big and inevitable question? Who else did Danish TV bestow such shows upon, and do they exist?
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« Reply #5 on Feb 14, 2009, 2:08pm » | |
Feb 14, 2009, 11:54am, Peter Elliott wrote:Led Zeppelin also did that half hour special for Danish TV which is brilliant, though there is an audience on that, but still has a nice informal feel to it.
So... here were Danish TV giving airtime to Zeppelin and The Doors. Both survive on glorious VT. The big and inevitable question? Who else did Danish TV bestow such shows upon, and do they exist?
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Don't forget the wonderful Swedish show Popside which gave us:
The Who
Small Faces
Jimi Hendrix
The Pretty Things
Eric Burden and the New Animals
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« Reply #6 on Feb 14, 2009, 3:03pm » | |
Popside was great judging from all I've seen from it. There's also a half hour Manfred Mann special from mid 1967 which is very surreal in places thanks no doubt to the involvement of Peter Goldmann.
That was what was so great about that era... TV companies actually took chances. The BBC excelled with Colour Me Pop which fits in well alongside the Danish TV and Popside stuff.
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« Reply #7 on Feb 14, 2009, 3:05pm » | |
Feb 14, 2009, 3:03pm, Peter Elliott wrote:Popside was great judging from all I've seen from it. There's also a half hour Manfred Mann special from mid 1967 which is very surreal in places thanks no doubt to the involvement of Peter Goldmann.
That was what was so great about that era... TV companies actually took chances. The BBC excelled with Colour Me Pop which fits in well alongside the Danish TV and Popside stuff.
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Is there a bit on the rock and roll the greatest years 1967? They are dressed as clowns in a funfait if i remember right.
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« Reply #8 on Feb 14, 2009, 3:51pm » | |
Yes... that's the one. That opens the show... they're made up as Marionettes with white face make up with strings attached to them pretending to be puppets! At the end of the show, they reprise the song, only this time, Mike D'Abo goes loopy with garden shears chopping the strings! What's also interesting about the show is they perform "Brown and Porters Meat Exporters Lorry" which wouldn't be officially released till 30 years later in remixed form. The performance of "Box Office Draw" is pretty amusing with D'Abo performing inside a large TV screen set. It reveals that much of the 1968 "Mighty Garvey" album was already in the can by summer 67.
It's a great little show... would love to see a 1st generation copy of the whole thing since it's on VT so should look wonderful.
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« Reply #9 on Feb 14, 2009, 7:34pm » | |
The Manfred Mann one sounds cool - would love to see that.
Just back on The Doors, does anyone recall a TV documentary that was made about their visit to Britain?
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« Reply #10 on Feb 14, 2009, 8:02pm » | |
Yes... that's the Granada TV special entitled "The Doors Are Open". Been on VHS, probably on DVD somewhere and I recall Channel 4 giving it a screening in the early 90s.
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« Reply #11 on Feb 14, 2009, 8:57pm » | |
Feb 14, 2009, 11:54am, Peter Elliott wrote:Led Zeppelin also did that half hour special for Danish TV which is brilliant, though there is an audience on that, but still has a nice informal feel to it.
So... here were Danish TV giving airtime to Zeppelin and The Doors. Both survive on glorious VT. The big and inevitable question? Who else did Danish TV bestow such shows upon, and do they exist?
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There is also a fantastic Deep Purple gig from K.B. Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark - 3/1/72. This has been available on DVD for a couple of years now and is the only full length concert footage Mk2 line up as far as I know. Like the Zep gig its also sadly B&W but still a great piece of hard rock history.
Chris.
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« Reply #12 on Feb 15, 2009, 9:59am » | |
Recorded The Doors Are Open i still have it after a Sinatra documentary
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