Thank You.
But at least it's
positive, right...?
As soon as í, by completely random dumb luck, {never normally my regular acquaintance}, found out about these lots a couple of weeks ago, í knew that í had to try. Some of this haul
could be completely astounding. Alternatively, given that Omega seemingly can't vouch for the quality of the contents of the tapes, í could have just shelled out a XXXX fortune on 30 year old static-damaged plastic tape.
The Holy Grail for me was the Palace Music Productions 3⁄4" Master Tape of what is labelled "
Morrissey Live 1991 Director: Tim Broad" which
might be the US West Coast tour doc that was due in July of 1991. Or it might not. But given that this is the first hint of it's existence since the press releases in the music rags at the time, other than conflicting rumours that the footage was destroyed, or was in nothing like a final state of assembly, or was still in James O'Brien's attic loft, í could not resist.
í am guessing all this stuff from the "Rough Trade Archive", as with alot of the lots last year from the "Geoff Travis Archive", comes from Jo Slee. Or "Joe" if you must. So the provenance would seem to offer hope.
Other possible gems are labelled Much Music Dub of a Master Tape of the Dublin concert on 27th of April 1991, presumably referring to the Much Music concert report that was broadcast in Canada, which featured interviews with local Canadian fans, fans at the Dublin concert and most teasingly various snippets of songs from
throughout the show. Assumption is they recorded the whole event and the 'Moz Archive' nabbed a '60 minute' 3⁄4" Dub? There are also VHS copies with PMI labels {EMI's music division} in PAL and NTSC format included.
Also intriguing, to me at least, is a VHS E-60 tape labelled "Morrissey interview - John Maybury", Maybury being the director of the "
Our Frank" promotional film. í have no clue what this could be...
Add in VHS tapes labelled New York July 1991, Finsbury Park, Tokyo 95, on top of your mystery '
Package' {from January '93?}. It may only be a small package, but surely worth investigating...
Apart from, obviously, being a fascist, this period of Moz is routinely dismissed as duff, and yet the prices sky rocket? And it doesn't even include any footage of the drummer lover genius Joyce, otherwise the prices would have been astronomical, surely...
So, yes, a poorer boy...but 'appy.
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