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Nostellaas ketjua kun Spike Islandin keikan 20-vuotispäivä lähestyy ja kun kyseiseltä keikalta on ilmestynyt lisää videomateriaalia! Youtubessahan on ollut jo iät ajat lyhyitä klippejä Rosesien soundcheckistä Spike Islandilla ja yleisöstä päiväsaikaan, mutta nyt joku on vuotanut nettiin vajaan kolmiminuuttisen trailerin koko keikasta, yhden ihmisen kuvaamana. Laatu ei ole täydellinen kuvan tai äänen osalta, mutta tarpeeksi hyvä, että ainakin itsellä alkoi kiinnostaa suuresti. Tässä linkki traileriin ja muihin tällä hetkellä saatavissa oleviin videoihin keikalta:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SXDAXBHZ
 
Yleisen tiedonjaon nimissä laitan vielä pari postausta Stone Roses -fanifoorumeilta.
 
Ensimmäisenä I Am Without Shoes Too! -foorumille postattu viesti henkilöltä, joka laittoi trailerin YouTubeen (tekstissä mainittu ePaxB on laittanut YouTubeen Spike Islandista) :
 
The collective who apparently "own" this footage - not quite sure about the legality of such a claim given its bootleg status - have had the trailer removed from youtube for copyright infringement.
The level of excitement generated by the 2 minutes 56 of Spike Island footage was lovely to behold and as the views began to rack up - close to two and a half thousand within 48 hours I think - I did wonder whether 'ePaxB' might just see fit to release the remaining footage online.
Or at least reveal their intentions once and for all.
Sadly not...as yet.
No thanks are due - at the moment - to ePaxB who after (illegally, but never mind eh?) having meticulously documented the event twenty years ago, now sit in their various abodes huddling up to their private memories, secure in their self-appointed task as a solitary keeper of the flame but occasionally tormenting thousands with a tease of "look at what we've got".
I may be a "privileged chancer" but I also know that true fans would have shared this footage years ago. Maybe that is a laughably naive expectation given the increasingly mercenary attitude of many people nowadays but there you go.
So ....
I've done all I can - we all now know that the footage ( camcorder filmed for the most part but still worthwhile for so many reasons ) exists.
We also now know that a few people are holding onto it with a fierce determination ( so much so that they will act within 48 hours to have the trailer removed ) depriving tens of thousands of future viewers the chance to see brief glimpses of the band live.
There is a month to go before the anniversary. I uploaded the trailer to naively force the hand of those who are feverishly holding onto the footage in time for the 20th anniversary of Spike Island. Not for any personal gain.
 
The question remains the same - will we ever see the remaining footage?
 
Over and out.
 
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well my understanding was
 
1. one person has the soundboard audio
another person(s) have the video
 
2. an attempt was made to marry them up and persuade a record co. to part with some $$$ in return
 
3. said record co. was reluctant to meet the as/quality was not considered sufficiently 'pro'/legal situation unclear
 
4. other people asked them to just stick it on youtube for free ...
 
5. someone else then said the whole thing would go up for one day only on the anniversary date
 
how much of this is true ... who knows
 
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Right, here's what I've learned over the past two days. It was filmed by someones brother who was working at the gig. They have about 4 hours footage in all. The set up, soundcheck, some daytime stuff and of course the whole fuckin gig (and the fireworks at the end). EpaxB (and others) have been trying to get a deal for years to release this but it looks like no-one came across. The guy who posted the trailer did it to try and force the ones who have it, to release the footage. I would advise you watch YouTube on the day as there is talk of it appearing for the 27th for one day only. But we'll see. People have known about this footage and it's been discussed on the net since December, you really are out of the loop here folks.
 
...Ja mitä itse olen vielä saanut tietää muiden Roses-keikkojen videoinnista, niin Alexandra Palacen legendaarinen esitys on nauhoitettu Granada TV-kanavan toimesta ja Haciendan keikoista on myös paljon kuvattua materiaalia. Saas nähdä, mitä 27. päivä tuo tullessaan. 8)