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Post by aubrey on Aug 26, 2012 6:46:22 GMT
Or maybe "Aubrey's The Fall..." etc
If no one else likes this, I can always say it is a place for me to keep various videos that I like.
Right, first up:
The Fall kind of imploded onstage in New York in April 1998; the bloke who is The Fall, Mark E Smith ("If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall") spent a night in prison and had to go back for alcohol counseling a few months later. The rest of the group, except one, came home without him.
I saw him about two weeks after this, when he did a concert with Julia (the one who stayed) a DAT tape, a scared-looking woman from a group called Polythene on drums, and the dancer Michael Clarke on backing vocals. Glasses were thrown, and Smith appeared to be having a good time. It wasn't a great concert in many ways, but the fact that he was able to perform at all was.
About 9 months later he had got another group together, and did a Peel session:
A very rudimentary version of a song that became this:
Note the Groucho Marx quote, and also the quote from what I think is a 30s pop song - dozydotes (or something).
This is a film of part of the onstage fight (I have a dvd of the full concert somewhere; I haven't watched it all, and even this bit is very hard to get through:
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Post by aubrey on Sept 3, 2012 6:23:45 GMT
More late period Fall, this from 2007, playing at the last night of the Hammersmith Palais.
The group is a mixture of two groups, one that he picked up at a day's notice when abandoned half way through a US tour, the other the English replacement for the ones who bailed out. He would have kept the US group, but he couldn't afford to pay them to stay here. It was good while it lasted.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 4, 2012 12:56:01 GMT
From 1979.
The Fall do not do many guitar solos - there are only three proper ones in the whole of their discography - but two of them are here. The second is a wowza:
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Post by aubrey on Sept 13, 2012 7:10:52 GMT
This is one for Ev:
The costumes are from the film Little Dorrit, the one that was released in two parts, Little Dorrit and Nobody's Fault, I think.
Here is another one from the same period (it was either immediately after or just before Victoria):
Another song from about the same time. This one is a classic Fall one-note-with-a-catch song:
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Post by aubrey on Sept 13, 2012 13:27:36 GMT
This isn't the Fall, but it is someone who posts on the Fall's Forum (I think it's an official forum now, though it didn't use to be, though before that period it was official: MES got a bit pissed off with us):
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Post by aubrey on Sept 13, 2012 18:25:28 GMT
Another song from 86 (ish): about the Pendle Witches and their legacy (this version is live, on a foreign TV programme, with one of M Clarke's dancers )I think):
And the studio version, with an added video (directed by Tim Riley):
Here is a very poppy single from 86 (a more typical Fall guitar solo than the one above comes at 1.54):
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Post by aubrey on Dec 10, 2012 11:33:25 GMT
This is really funny, trust me: Beleaguered Fall fan (Downfall)Things have got better since then: (Watch for the legs at 6.44.) (As if anyone's going to get that far.)
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Dec 10, 2012 16:24:02 GMT
New Face In Hell...
Probably my fave Fall track (not that I am very well versed in their colosal output)
AH
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Post by aubrey on Dec 11, 2012 13:53:47 GMT
That's a great video. The first time I heard this song was in it must have been 1980 when they played it at the Leadmill in Sheffield (a venue without an alcohol license in those days); I thought it sounded a bit Russian.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 11, 2012 15:51:56 GMT
I meant to say, I've never seen that New Face in Hell video before. This is a video from about 5 years ago, with the American group (the Dudes, as they are known): And here is a review from the Financial Times, of a concert last week: four stars.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 17, 2012 16:21:35 GMT
Not The Fall this time, but Bowie.
A live record from 1974; this is the 4th or 5th version, and thy finally seem to have gotten it right:
(Though I did like the earlier versions, where the guitar sounded much more brutal; this is better partly because it is the full concert, at last).
This is a documentary filmed during the same tour:
Someone saw this, and told that Bowie would be ideal for the film that Nic Roeg was planning (The Man Who Fell to Earth). Roeg asked the BBC if he could borrow a copy: and the BBC wouldn't let him!. Eventually Roeg got to see an illicit copy and signed up Bowie to do the film on the strength of it, and an interview for which Bowie turned up 12 hours late, having forgotten about it and spent the day working instead.
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