S/D: Thin White Rope?

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Ah. I'm mistaken. They're there under Frontier. Just not under TWR. Sorry...

Duke, Thursday, 5 January 2023 00:55 (one year ago) link

Hey Stan/Jon and everyone, some new recordings gone up on D1m3, one a week before the last gig in Ghent, Wein 1990 & Munich 1988. All sound really solid, room for three more?

MaresNest, Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:35 (one year ago) link

oooooooooh yes please

StanM, Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link

Cool, here 'tis - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bdtwra5fqn09oi8yn677s/h?dl=0&rlkey=rueyq1ierm4dy3ygxfqdx23wm

MaresNest, Thursday, 5 January 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link

Thanks indeed!

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 January 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link

<3

StanM, Thursday, 5 January 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link

No worries guys.

For fun, I downloaded that amazing Youtube footage of 'It's OK' from the last gig, matrixed the audio with the live album, pushed it around a bit to add a bit of low end, and made the guitars even more hellacious.

It's in the folder too, if you wanna have a look, just a pity the footage is fairly low quality.

MaresNest, Thursday, 5 January 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link

<3 thanks so much MN!

willem, Friday, 6 January 2023 11:13 (one year ago) link

great idea about that clip! thank you again!

StanM, Friday, 6 January 2023 11:57 (one year ago) link

(Vienna is June 5th 1990 btw - I had uploaded the mp3s earlier but this is an upgrade)

StanM, Friday, 6 January 2023 13:33 (one year ago) link

eight months pass...

So here's an unjustly overlooked TWR obscurity. Quoting Skip King, whose longtime partner-now-husband ML Compton managed them:

While the band were touring in Italy their lead singer, Guy Kyser, was borrowed and utilized as the vocalist on a single track with a band named Avion Travel. The song, "On a Moonlit Night", was to be used as the theme song in the newest Lina Wertmüller film "In Una Notte di Chiaro di Luna" (AKA "Up to Date"). Starring Rutger Hauer, Nastassja Kinski and Lorraine Bracco, and featuring Faye Dunaway and Peter O'Toole, the film was released that year but was a huge flop internationally, and didn't even make it into cinemas in america, at least we don't think it did. To this day we've never seen the movie.

Decades later ML was able to get an audio copy of the track, and I found and bought online a region 2 (Europe) DVD of the film. I don't have a multinational DVD player so it has sat on our shelf for very many years. Just now I threw it into my computer's DVD player, for a lark, and I found that I can view it! It's a terrible copy, obviously transferred from a VHS or perhaps filmed secretly in a movie theater with a camera (!!!). but I don't care.

It is so eerie to have the DVD start up and immediately hear Guy's voice, the song used in the menu system. Then I started the film and there's the song again at the very beginning. And I fast forwarded to the end of the film and they used the same track during the closing credits. And here is Guy's credit. We didn't even know if Lina and company had credited Guy, until now.

I finally saw this credit, 34 years later.

Crazy.

And here's the track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPHqGlOHCtc

Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:38 (seven months ago) link


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