Midnight Oil

Subject: RE: [powderworks] Re: MTV Unplugged
From: "Gary Badger" <garybadger67@yahoo.com.au>
Date: 17/03/2013, 7:57 am
To:

………. Or if it were broadcast again but on digital TV. I’m sure someone could record it and circulate on DVD!

 

 

 

From: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au [mailto:powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au] On Behalf Of dutchwaterman
Sent: Sunday, 17 March 2013 8:12 AM
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Subject: [powderworks] Re: MTV Unplugged

 

 

Is there any way to convince Sony or MTV to release this complete live session? (Hope, hope!) It would be a superb addition to the Oils catalog!

Dutch

--- In powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au, Chris <seeker42@...> wrote:
>
> The full setlist was something like this:
>
> Feeding Frenzy
> Sell My soul
> Short Memory
> Tell Me The Truth
> Blue Sky Mine
> Lucky Country
> Now Or Never Land
> Antarctica
> The Dead Heart
> In The Valley
> Beds Are Burning
> One country
> Earth And Sun And Moon
> Truganini
> Drums Of Heaven
> My Country
> Warakurna
> We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
>
> I've seen the footage of Lucky Country and We Gotta Get Out of This Place
> on Youtube. I've never got my hands on any of the other unreleased songs.
>
> - Chris
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Koala Sprint <koala.sprint@...>wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > ** Hi there
> >
> > What were the unbroadcast songs?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Stephen
> > ------------------------------
> > *From: * Chris <seeker42@...>
> > *Sender: * powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
> > *Date: *Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:48:20 +1100
> > *To: *Powderworks<powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>
> > *ReplyTo: * powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
> > *Subject: *Re: [powderworks] MTV Unplugged
> >
> >
> >
> > There's been a DVD sourced from digitised VHS version floating around for
> > a few years - mine is on a Fogonthetyne compilation DVD, but I think
> > there's a few other versions from the same source.
> >
> > Songs are the same as yours, since that's what was broadcast at the time.
> > Video quality is OK but not amazing - about as good as old VHS transfers
> > get, though.
> >
> > There's also a very rare source that includes the songs that were not
> > broadcast...at least one person has previously tried to share that here,
> > but its origin is a bit murky (possibly stolen from MTV if I recall
> > correctly).
> >
> > Basically there's nothing new about your version, but some members might
> > appreciate it since, AFAIK, there's no other version currently available
> > online - dimeadozen.org doesn't allow this show to be seeded because it
> > contributed songs to an officially released album.
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:51 AM, rocrusso <rocrusso@...> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> back in 1998 i was a design student at SVA in NYC and my graphic design
> >> instructor that year worked at MTV. She was able to give me a VHS of
> >> Midnight Oil Unplugged that I always meant to digitize to video and also
> >> make audio tracks, but never did.
> >>
> >> I finally got around to doing that, its only VHS quality but its better
> >> than nothing if there isn't a better copy floating out there. The whole
> >> video is 50 minutes long and just over 1GB. 640x480 stereo.
> >>
> >> first off, is there a better copy already available? if not, what is the
> >> best way to help share this with fellow Powderworkers? I am thinking i
> >> could post it on Dropbox and share that link (back in the late 90's i also
> >> used to host a MO ftp site for bootlegs, but probably couldn't handle the
> >> bandwidth for this right now)
> >>
> >> i probably could break up the songs to individual videos to help share
> >> smaller files. Let me know what, if anything, we have in place.
> >>
> >> -Rocco
> >>
> >> Set List:
> >> Feeding Frenzy
> >> Blue Sky Mine
> >> Sell My Soul
> >> Truganini
> >> In The Valley
> >> Beds Are Burning
> >> The Dead Heart
> >> Warakurna
> >> My Country
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>