bronze film footage

eddie jobson eddiejobson at HOTMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 19 19:01:22 EDT 2007


I am pretty sure the Silver Machine version that I have on the Glastonbury 
Fayre album with Bob's vocals is from the Roundhouse 1972, I think the dates 
even on the 7" sibgle?, not Edmonton. The same gig that the Master of the 
Universe and Born to Go came from released on Greasy Truckers.


>From: M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
>Reply-To: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
>To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
>Subject: Re: bronze film footage
>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:56:25 GMT
>
>Stephen Swann writes:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:07:47PM +0100, Filip Vanhuyse wrote:
> > > Well,the "Silver Machine" footage with Stacia blowing bubbles is from 
>the
> > > Space Ritual.The Bronze footage is on the 2 video
> > > "concerts,festivals,private parties1979-1989/1979-1992" I think.
> >
> > Really?  I fucking love that clip - but I thought it was
> > taped off Top of the Pops.  Is that whole TOTP clip
> > artificially constructed then, or did TOTP show that footage
> > rather than have the band perform?
>
>The story as I heard it: The band refused to appear on ToTP and
>challenged the Beeb to come to a gig.  The BBC sent the Outside
>Broadcast team to record the gig.  Calculations on timing suggest that
>this was most likely the Dunstable Queensway gig on 7/7/72.  The ToTP
>broadcast included video cuts from the gig being broadcast along with
>the sound from the Silver Machine single (itself an edit from the
>Edmonton Sundown gig - the original recording appeared on the
>Glastonbury Fayre triple-LP).  The only other appearance from that gig
>that I know about was the broadcast of "Silver Machine" and "Brainstorm"
>in August of 1972 on the Brian Matthews Top of the Pops radio show.  In
>both cases the live recording was broadcast.  There would have been 24
>BBC Transcription discs made containing those two tracks (by BBC
>Radiophonic Workshop), but the local BBC stations were ordered to
>destroy these after the show. So far we've only heard of one survivor.
>
>What I don't know is whether the rumoured "Space Ritual" video without
>the sound is from that same gig. If it is, then we at least have the
>sound which can be matched to video for two tracks. However, given it's
>a BBC transcription disc they're on, there are undoubtedly some
>interesting copyright issues. No doubt the easiest thing to do would be to
>pretend the sound came from "someone's attic".
>
> > And, is the rest of the SR footage basically like that?  And,
> > and, and... where do I send my check goddammitall???
>
>I've no doubt a whipround here would net some funds with which to tempt
>the holders of the footage ;-)
>
> > Is this going to be one of those situations like when Dave
> > was surprised that we all love his guitar playing and want to
> > hear more of it?  Like, "Oh, you guys actually *want* that
> > old Space Ritual video? Who knew...?"
>
>Heh. I suspect the real issues are copyright. Then again, as a
>capitalist, I know that such questions can easily melt under the light
>of cold hard cash.
>
>FoFP

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