HW: TOTP2 - the real live track?

[M Holmes]

Chris Warburton writes:

> On the above-mentioned program tonight they showed the old fil of the guys
> doing "Silver Machine"... interesting to see virtually no attempt to sync
> the film that they shot with the single...I think there  were about 3 shots
> where Lemmy's mouth was in step, but a lot more where we heard singing, but
> saw the Lemster just leaping around & tharshing his bass.  Still wish  I'd
> had a vid-tape to hand...

An interesting possibility is that I may have the live sound from the
gig on the Brian Matthews Top of the Pops BBC Transcription disc.
Certainly the live version of Silver Machine on the LP does have flute
in the background and the video clip showed Turner playing flute.

Attempting to match the live sound to the video didn't work.  The live
version is shorter than the single version by about half a minute.  It
also doesn't match what's shown.  However it remains possible that the
BBC clip is from the gig, but either isn't them playing Silver Machine,
or the BBC decided that since the video didn't match the sound (Hawkwind
were, I believe, the first to refuse to just go to the studio and lip
sync?) they'd just edit together what they thought were tasty clips
from their recording of the gig.

Whatever the case, what would be possible, if someone had the equipment
to edit video (anyone got an editing suite on their 'puter yet?) and
sync sound to it, would be to take the sound from the live track and
sync appropriate clips from the TotP video track to match it.  That's
unfortunately beyond the tech that I have.  Could anyone here give it a
try? Maybe the band have contacts who could have a shot at this?
Although it's great to finally have the TofP clip, it'd be nice to try
to have the video match some live sound from that era as a bonus.

> ChrisW

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