Midnight Oil

Subject: RE: [powderworks] Sat. Night at the Capitol "truck mixes"
From: Kevin Yates
Date: 22/10/2010, 11:11 am
To: Chris <seeker42@gmail.com>, Powderworks <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>

I first saw the Cap theatre show on video and it looked like it had been on TV at some point as I recall a great big Australian Ch. 7 logo of the time in the closing credits.
 
Could it be that the song had to be included as it was the closer, but had to be edited to fit the show into a scheduling slot for the TV people??
 
A thought.
 
Kev
 
ALSO!! I know this has come up before - but does one access the 'secret' content on the Cap theatre dvd??
 

From: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au [powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au] On Behalf Of Chris [seeker42@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2010 9:20 AM
To: Powderworks
Subject: Re: [powderworks] Sat. Night at the Capitol "truck mixes"

 

The truck mixes seem to be audio captured on other nights in the week - it appears that they were also filmed, as evidenced by the secret US Forces clip that can be found on the disc.
 
(It also appears that this footage was not preserved, or preserved poorly, as also evidenced by the US Forces clip.....)
 
The phrase "truck mix" suggests to me that these were mixed for broadcast on the night - maybe by JJJ for immediate radio broadcast?
 
Maybe there's just a really nasty bit of feedback in the Powderworks audio, so they dropped some footage as neatly as they could?
 
No answers, just idle speculation in place of doing work....
 
- Chris
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Michael Blackwood <blackwood_michael@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

Wierd... the SiB version of Powderworks is MUCH longer than the version broadcast as part of Saturday Night at the Capitol, but they're BOTH edited?  I can't see any logic in that, so I wonder what happened. 
 
Does anybody know what the "truck mixes" are, and if the less-than-three-minute "truck mix" of Run By Night is the way the song was played at the gig, or if a verse has been edited out, or what?
 


Subject: Re: [powderworks] Sat. Night at the Capitol "truck mixes"
From: jimcwarren@earthlink.net
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:28:02 -0700
CC: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
To: blackwood_michael@hotmail.com



I don't know, but it looks to me on the DVD like Powderworks has a chunk taken out of it, basically the "getting in for one free bite" verse. And the Scream in Blue album is also missing that verse, so I am almost certain that Powderworks on Scream in Blue and Powderworks on the Best of Both Worlds DVD are the same performance.

The thing is, when I listed to Scream in Blue Live 18 years ago, I thought that the band just left that verse out for some reason, but now that I watch the DVD, there definitely seems to be an abrupt cut. I bet that they played that verse when they performed it, but somehow it got cut out of the recording. Another reason for this hypothesis is that when you watch the concert on the DVD, Peter's shirt is on and then suddenly he is running around with it off, and the discontinuity of that really makes it seem like a part got cut out. Does anyone who has seen this agree, because I've wondering about this.

I love seeing that one performed live on the DVD. That DVD does not disappoint even for the most die-hard fan with high expectations.

-Jim W. 


On Oct 20, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Michael Blackwood wrote:

 
Hey, 'Workers!
 
I've got another Oils minutia question that I'm hoping to have answered...
 
What exactly are the "Truck Mixes" that are available on the Saturday Night at the Capitol portion of the Best of Both Worlds DVD?  Were they just un-televised recordings of the live performance at the show, or are they remixed somehow?  For example, the "truck mix" of Run By Night is under 3 minutes long, and omits the second verse of the song when compared to the 1978 album version.  Is that actually how it was played on the night of Nov 27, 1982, or was it edited after the fact?  Does anyone have the bootleg of the full show (not just the broadcast portion) so they can compare?  Likewise, the broadcast version of Powderworks from that gig is significantly shortened from the album version; is that how it was played live that night, or was it edited for TV?  Because I thought the live version of Powderworks found on Scream In Blue came from that gig, but it's definitely the full-length song.
 
If anyone can clear up these mysteries, I'd greatly appreciate it!
 
Thanks,
Mike




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