Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: [powderworks] MTV Unplugged
From: "Koala Sprint" <koala.sprint@gmail.com>
Date: 16/03/2013, 6:09 pm
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
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koala.sprint@gmail.com

Hi there

What were the unbroadcast songs?

Cheers
Stephen

From: Chris <seeker42@gmail.com>
Sender: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:48:20 +1100
To: Powderworks<powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au>
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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@gmail.com> 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