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« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2007, 07:12:22 PM » |
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I want the video. Do you know if will be available in ntsc instead of pal?
Ps If you have another vcr, you can buy a cheap macrovision overide box. It cost about 20$. You put it between the deck and the recorder and it lets you record copy protected tape. Mine uses a 9 volt battery.
I wish they would re release it all comes around on dvd with additional footage. Or make a airing cupboard dvd.
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« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2007, 04:10:06 PM » |
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I wish there was a way that those out of print Cropredy DVDs and CDs could be made available to the fans again. There has to be a way for Matty Grooves or whoever to do it. Surely Fairport own the rights to them all?
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« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2007, 04:16:17 PM » |
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I wish there was a way that those out of print Cropredy DVDs and CDs could be made available to the fans again. There has to be a way for Matty Grooves or whoever to do it. Surely Fairport own the rights to them all?
Jules
It All Come Round Again is an Island video, not a Woodworm release. I'd like all the really early Cropredy videos, especially 81, 82 and 83. The 'Boot' tapes were re-released by Talking Elephant some time ago and I did e-mail them, with no response, about a possible re-re-release. HTH Ollie |
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« Reply #23 on: September 23, 2007, 04:22:22 PM » |
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I wish there was a way that those out of print Cropredy DVDs and CDs could be made available to the fans again. There has to be a way for Matty Grooves or whoever to do it. Surely Fairport own the rights to them all?
Jules
It All Come Round Again is an Island video, not a Woodworm release. I'd like all the really early Cropredy videos, especially 81, 82 and 83. The 'Boot' tapes were released by Talking Elephant some time ago and I did e-mail them, with no response, about a possible re-release. HTH Ollie Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean IACRA, I meant the ones you just mentioned. I'd love those to be reissued too. Jules |
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« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2007, 06:03:06 PM » |
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No it isn't.
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« Reply #26 on: September 23, 2007, 06:29:24 PM » |
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No it isn't.
It's the Classsic Rock Productions stuff that has been highly controversial. Read the last couple of lines |
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« Reply #27 on: September 23, 2007, 06:48:15 PM » |
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No it isn't.
It's the Classsic Rock Productions stuff that has been highly controversial. Read the last couple of lines Is that why it's been pulled? |
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« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2007, 07:18:11 PM » |
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Is that why it's been pulled?
I don't know but it wouldn't surprise me! Robert Fripp has had a long running battle with them to stop them marketing stuff they shouldn't. It takes a bit of hunting but if you type CRP or Classic Rock Productions into the search bit on this page http://www.dgmlive.com/search_diaries.htm?diarist=3It goes on quite a bit though....  |
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« Reply #29 on: September 23, 2007, 07:38:22 PM » |
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It turns up regularly on evilBay, or you can wait till next August where the bloke at the Bridge Stores stand (Cropredy Motors?) has loads of them (well, he did this year and last year).  |
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« Reply #30 on: September 23, 2007, 08:57:42 PM » |
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Interesting - I got that piece of news from them only yesterday....someone was quick of the mark!
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« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2007, 03:18:26 PM » |
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Just received the following e-mail from Voiceprint: Fairport Convention: Maidstone 1970 DVD
2007 sees Fairport Convention celebrating their fortieth anniversary. This uniquely British Band which started out as an English answer to Jefferson Airplane soon broke free of the conventional rock bounds by mixing traditional English folk music with rock instrumentation. In doing so the band became groundbreaking musical pioneers inventing a whole new genre called "Folk Rock"
By 1970 Fairport Convention had been together as a band for some three years. During this period the band had recorded and released five studio albums with one of the albums Liege and Lief being hailed as genre defining. Some feat when you consider that most of the band was still in their early twenties!
By the time of the filming of this performance the band had recorded their most recent album Full House with the line up featuring founder members Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol alongside Dave Pegg, Dave Swarbrick and drummer Dave Mattacks.
This line up was, and still is considered one of the key line ups of Fairport Convention, although the band only managed one studio album and a posthumous live album before Richard Thompson departed. Apart from the footage contained on this DVD the Full House line up were never filmed commercially until reunions at the band's regular Cropredy Festival years later.
The film directed by renowned British film director Tony Palmer captures the band at the Maidstone Fiesta during the summer of 1970 as they run through their set of the time which included various jigs and reels and the songs Sir Patrick Spens and Now Be Thankful.
More interestingly the film also features two songs from Matthews Southern Comfort the band led by former Fairport Convention member Ian Matthews. Matthews Southern Comfort as well as having the Fairport connection with Ian Matthews would also go on to have a massive hit single with a cover of the Joni Mitchell song Woodstock in late 1970.
The film has been restored and the restoration has been overseen by Tony Palmer. The DVD also includes bonus footage of an exclusive interview filmed in spring 2007 with director Tony Palmer where he explains how he first met Fairport Convention and his thoughts on the band and the film over thirty five years later. This interview is a rare insight into the workings of one of the most unique and treasured of Britain's bands.
Due to this DVD being the only official filmed document of the Full House line up of Fairport Convention and 2007 being the fortieth anniversary of the bands inception demand for this DVD is expected to be high
Available NOW from:
http://www.classicfairportconventiondvd.com
Cost is £9.99 + £1.00 p+p which is cheap enough to make it worth looking at the restoration and Tony Palmer interview, I believe Edit: Added the http:// to the web address |
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« Reply #32 on: September 28, 2007, 03:26:48 PM » |
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More interestingly the film also features two songs from Matthews Southern Comfort the band led by former Fairport Convention member Ian Matthews.
Why is that more interesting? |
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« Reply #33 on: September 28, 2007, 03:36:20 PM » |
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« Reply #34 on: September 28, 2007, 03:58:15 PM » |
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Yes. Me! I did used to have it on video from when it was shown on TV years ago but I have lost it.
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« Reply #35 on: September 28, 2007, 07:39:59 PM » |
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I want to know if a ntsc copy will be available. I'll buy a clean copy.
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« Reply #36 on: October 12, 2007, 09:13:34 AM » |
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Looks like this is being officially released by Voiceprint: www.classicfairportconventiondvd.comTony Palmer has been involved in the restoration of the footage. No obvious involvement from Fairport themselves though... |
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« Reply #37 on: October 12, 2007, 01:56:18 PM » |
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Until I looked at the new cover, I'd completely forgotten that Gerry was in MSC..... The Pedal steel guy is bloody amazing too isn't he...
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« Reply #38 on: October 12, 2007, 02:04:23 PM » |
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The Pedal steel guy is bloody amazing too isn't he...
That was Gordon Huntley. He was a truly nice man and very talented. http://www.dawson.lu/tribute.htm |
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« Reply #39 on: October 12, 2007, 05:34:16 PM » |
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Fascinating - thanks Jude... |
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