New info WOR TV 1977 documentary Songs From The Wood films.
Feb 2, 2017 7:52:22 GMT
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Post by Tulltapes on Feb 2, 2017 7:52:22 GMT
While we can't talk details about any possible bonus material for the "Songs From The Wood Anniversary Edition" we did stumble upon something else pretty interesting. This coming Feb 8th will be 40 years since Channel 9 WOR in New York aired the documentary "Minstrels in the Gallery" featuring some nice segments of Tull live, recorded throughout New York on the "Songs From The Wood" tour. A badly washed out copy has been traded by fans for decades and the quality leaves much to be desired. I had long searched and inquired to various people on the whereabouts of the raw films assuming a full show may have been sitting around somewhere?
Several months ago I a got a break. A former WOR producer contacted me and was kindly able to fill me in on some details of the filming.
They shot at 3 separate concerts using 3/4" tape (dubbed down to 2") but were only able to shoot one entire concert which they used as the master shot. This was from THE BROOME COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL ARENA in BINGHAMTON, NY on Dec 3, 1977.(a show my family and many friends were at). Being able to only shoot one full concert and wanting to use different angles, they picked certain songs and shot one at each venue. All the cutaways were from The Nassau Coliseum,and Madison Square Garden shows. Of course Tull's choreography was so exact that you couldn't tell in the edited version that it all wasn't shot in the same place at the same time.
Q: So where's the raw tapes?
Including the entire Binghampton show, full songs from Madison Square Garden, and Nassau Coliseum shows, soundchecks, interviews, parking lot footage etc?
A: Channel 9 went through 3 or 4 owners and a move from Midtown Manhattan to Secaucus, New Jersey and all the 2" videotape ended up in a dumpster.
Q: How about A soundboard or multitrack audio recording?
A: They were originally going to let us plug into their board but then someone decided that they didn't want us to bootleg an album so we had to set up a few mics in front of speakers.
He did manage to salvage and pass along to us his own 40yr old VHS master copy of the 30min show. He believes this is "all that exists" and has entrusted it to us at the Jethro Tull group for possible usage. We will hopefully be able to make this available to the Tull fans here soon. We are working on it. The bootleggers make it very difficult. In the meantime
something else might come along before too long?
Several months ago I a got a break. A former WOR producer contacted me and was kindly able to fill me in on some details of the filming.
They shot at 3 separate concerts using 3/4" tape (dubbed down to 2") but were only able to shoot one entire concert which they used as the master shot. This was from THE BROOME COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL ARENA in BINGHAMTON, NY on Dec 3, 1977.(a show my family and many friends were at). Being able to only shoot one full concert and wanting to use different angles, they picked certain songs and shot one at each venue. All the cutaways were from The Nassau Coliseum,and Madison Square Garden shows. Of course Tull's choreography was so exact that you couldn't tell in the edited version that it all wasn't shot in the same place at the same time.
Q: So where's the raw tapes?
Including the entire Binghampton show, full songs from Madison Square Garden, and Nassau Coliseum shows, soundchecks, interviews, parking lot footage etc?
A: Channel 9 went through 3 or 4 owners and a move from Midtown Manhattan to Secaucus, New Jersey and all the 2" videotape ended up in a dumpster.
Q: How about A soundboard or multitrack audio recording?
A: They were originally going to let us plug into their board but then someone decided that they didn't want us to bootleg an album so we had to set up a few mics in front of speakers.
He did manage to salvage and pass along to us his own 40yr old VHS master copy of the 30min show. He believes this is "all that exists" and has entrusted it to us at the Jethro Tull group for possible usage. We will hopefully be able to make this available to the Tull fans here soon. We are working on it. The bootleggers make it very difficult. In the meantime
something else might come along before too long?
