From: danny@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Danny Graham)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: Eric Marshall Jones
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:06:17 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Sorry mate, I can't get your return path email address to work so I've
got to post the return message on the net.
I receieved your address as : emj5e@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU but that
domain appears to be unknown. Could you send me your correct address.

Reply to your mail is as follows (apologies everyone else, press 'n' now)

Subject: Re: greenday

>         OK, here's what I can tell ya. I have two video tapes of
> Greenday from when they played a show in Billings, MT. The first
> is from the summer of 1990 and is recorded from a public access
> channel. It has pretty poor sound quality and the video portion
> has a lot of cheezy production stuff. Highlights include one of
> the first performances of Holden Caufield (sp?) and Billie Joe
> breaking out into Ozzy Osbourne and Sweet Home Alabama. The
> second tape is from summer 1992 and is a much more professional
> performance. Much the same material but some older stuff from
> 1000_Hours. I don't have access to 2 VCRs to dub the video but I
> could probably dub the audio portion. How serious are you about
> obtaining these? 

The thing is, that US tv and UK tv are on different standards anyway I think.
I saw them in a VERY small club in the south of england in December '91
having never even heard of them before, and got seriously hooked. I
audio taped it at the time, but some of the recording quality is really
quite poor. Billie Joe did the Ozzy Osbourne and Sweet Home Alabama thing
then, except when he asked evryone to sit on the floor while they played
quietly, half the audience got up and jumped him which was exstremely
amusing as it took him about 5 minutes to get out from under this pile of
bodies, while the bass just continued the bass line. It was dead good.

If the audio quality on the second video is of sufficient audio quality,
I'd love a copy of it - Tell me what you think.

>         I also have heard talk of a Greenday video tape being
> released by Lookout records. The band hasn't done much since
> releasing Kerplunk so I don't know if they are still together.
>         I don't know about the Lard query you had. i know Jello
> shows up on the In_case_You_Didn't_Feel..... concert tape.

Right I'll keep a lookout for that.

>         So e-mail me back if you are interested in the Greenday
> stuff. On a related note, I'm assuming that the uk in your
> address is United Kingdom. How hard is it to find old Wedding
> Present stuff there? (specifically the Kennedy and Corduroy
> singles) just wondering. 

Yes, this is Manchester, England.
It depends which singles you're after. I've seen Kennedy and Corduroy,
special pressings of Niagra at the big record fairs several times. They
come in periodically at the second hand record shops, but you have to be
lucky to get them before someone else snaps them up. It's the same with
PWEI Def Con One.
Dalliance is still about a bit in the shops, but the hit parade singles
are absolutely impossible to get hold of at the moment.

Cheers,

Danny
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