Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] Oils "live" in the 70s
From: Andrew Pye
Date: 25/01/2012, 12:50 pm
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au

Wow! I didn't think there was much I hadn't see footage wise from the Oils but apparently there's still some gems around!! I had to replay it and pause to see if that really was Martin or some other stand in or unknown that I didn't know about! Love it! That's gold!!!!


On 25/01/2012, at 11:39 AM, david earle wrote:

 

G'day all,
 
There was a mention in the thread of the absence of any live footage prior to 1980, which led me to recall a posting from a while back where someone had dug up such a clip. A quick check of youtube turned it up (see link below). It's sort of half live really - a show for TV cameras rather than in front of an audience, so I'm guessing the performance might not be as dynamic as it would have been in had it involved the seething masses. Nonetheless, it's worth a look - the picture quality is way way better than you might expect for something 35 years old, and for novelty value, you can see a bit of peach fuzz (or in Aussie vernacular, bum fluff) atop PG's head. Getting permission to use such clips in a commercial environment is probably the main reason it's taking a bit longer for the Big Release.
 
Anyway, without further ado...
 
 
 
Cheers,
David