Youtube links (Mazzy Star, Hope, etc.)

[Hermesacat]

Emma: Thanks for posting your upload link for those 3 tracks in FLAC. They sound great. I found online in FLAC a while back via a torrent site, uploads of two 1996 Flowers in December singles which Capitol packaged together as a 2-CD singles set. CD1 has Flowers in December, Tell Your Honey, & Hair & Skin. CD2 has: Flowers in December, Ride it On (live), & Had a Thought. Maybe instead of replacing individual songs in the "The Other Side" upload, I might post those singles to the boots list individually as out-of-print singles, & people who want to use them to replace recordings in their "The Other Side" file can do so. Still hoping someone who has a CD of "The Other Side" boot might share a FLAC or WAV file of it to replace the MP3 version listed.

Aside from in-print recordings, vinyl & CD, & new band merch, which I buy, I focus on digital recordings files, & hardly ever even look on ebay or Amazon to check out second hand singles or boot CDs. I guess it's a blind spot, & I rely on others who like to collect that stuff to share audio files that can be shared in the Forum here.

[Spoon]

Are there any Going Home songs floating around out there?

[Hermesacat]

Spoon: They're floatin' . I only know of two Going Home recordings available. One's a 7-song studio session, the other a 4-song 1985 live set. Since this is a youtube Links thread, here are my yt uploads of them:
http://youtu.be/r1xwnNIHGxc
http://youtu.be/KeRtCew_TDY
They're both listed in the boots thread with DL links in FLAC.
[Later edit: I corrected a bad link above. Both links work now].

[Hermesacat]

Some of the pre-recorded music Mazzy Star used at every show of their Nov., 2013 tour I belatedly located at youtube yesterday. The long piece they played before the band came onstage is:
The Drift - The Skull Hand Smiles - May You Fare Well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EZCtizP9lM

And my fave, though both pieces are very listenable, the music they played between songs:
Zdeněk Liška ‎: Pearls From the Deep:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfzkebQgZ54
Both pieces, in the above versions, have interesting sections that didn't get played at the Mazzy shows.
They also used some harp music in between some songs. I haven't ID-ed it yet.

Thanks go to Vanessa for tweeting the yt link to "Pearls From the Deep." The Drift one I found on my own.
I knew the titles of the pieces 'cause one of my 2013 Mazzy show yt uploads (Silver Spring, MD) received copyright claims serious enough to block the video, but only in one country, Germany. Due to claims on both pieces of music the video was blocked. Why the other uploads weren't also blocked in Germany is a mystery.
In one of the 2013 show recordings (I forget which) , as "Pearls From the Deep" is playing, Hope can be heard saying to the audience, "Don't you love this music? I love it."

[Hermesacat]

Emma brought to my attention recently a youtuber, razorstarzz, has just lately uploaded nine videos of the first nine (of thirteen) songs in their entirety from Mazzy's Nov. 4, 2013 Seattle set. Here's a link to their videos page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/razorstarz ... =0&sort=dd
Mazzy Star's down the list a ways, so you need to click on "load more" to find the 9 videos.

Sound quality's pretty good, though not as good, I'd say, as my own audio recording of the same show. The videotaper was somehow able to place a camera at the very front of the stage looking directly up at Hope. The camera stays stationary the whole time. All you "see" (using the term advisedly) is Hope, & no other band members. And Hope's face is obscured 99.999% of the time due to her mic stand + the ipad she has attached to it, &/or the darkness. There are just three songs that offer fleeting glimpses of Hope's unobscured face ("...Bridge," "...Brightly," & "Fade..."). The clearest screen capture pic of the bunch (which is not too clear) I added to the youtube thumbnail of my own Seattle show upload. So, the videos show a shadowy Hope figure close up in her dark blue dress with light coloured glittering trim (No photos from other 2013 shows I've seen show the same dress), plus her arms, with her face being the most invisible or obscured aspect of her. It's a reminder to me of how persistently dark the Seattle stage was. Forum member "creek" managed to get some much clearer video of Hope at the 2013 L.A. show.

Despite the videos' deficiencies I was still very pleased to see the Seattle videos as my own attempts to take photos of the band onstage all failed as I had the wrong settings on my camera, & no other Seattle photos had turned up anywhere that I knew of except one nice one of the Neptune Theatre marquee with "Mazzy Star." Someone else upped to yt earlier an even poorer, much farther from the stage video clip from Seattle. So, six months later some close up video from the Seattle show unexpectedly turns up! Thank you Emma for the heads up, & to razorstarzz for sharing it on yt.

[Hermesacat]

A bit of a shocker recently, my most popular Mazzy Star youtube upload (it was receiving the most views per day of any of mine for a long while), The 1994 pro-shot video of their 5-song Br*dge Sch**l Benefit set, got suddenly & unexpectedly removed from yt. I was surprised a copyright claim from a company apparently connected to N*il Y**ng did it in. N*il founded both the Br*dge Sch**l, & its annual benefit concert.

It was the first time a Mazzy Star upload to yt by me had gotten forcibly removed, although Mazzy's livestreamed 2012 Coachella set, & I think the 2012 Primavera set too, had gotten blocked when I tried upping them. But a video getting blocked is different than having a video accepted & up for a while, then being removed due to a copyright complaint. Ones yt account doesn't get penalized over blocked videos, but it does get unjustly, imo, penalized, restricted, & threatened when forcible removals occur.

Other copyright holders/claimants (including, presumably, the band) had been happily collecting ad revenue from the upload for the past 1.5 years it had been up at yt without it receiving any complaints. So, it was a surprise to see it taken down at this late date after 18 months, & 133,000+ views, due to a copyright complaint -- perhaps doubly surprising a N*il Y**ng company may have been behind it.

But it's been successfully (touch wood) re-upped to a secondary yt account here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Bobb99999999
proving you can't keep a good Mazzy Star live video down for long!

I see other copyright holders (hopefully along with the band, who aren't listed specifically, but they never are. It's always intermediary companies that get shown at yt as copyright claimants) are claiming ad revenue from the new upload, & are apparently content having the video up generating revenue for them. There seem to be some copyright conflicts happening (disagreements between various claimants?) which may help explain the unfortunate take-down of the prior upload. With luck, this one will stay up.
I still view that video as one of my most valuable Mazzy Star recordings finds I've upped that weren't available at yt before. It would be a shame if it became unavailable to view there.

[Yucef]

Earlier today I happen to run into this YT video(!) and since I didn't see it listed here, I thought I'd mention it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFgbF1GJ054

It's listed as:

Mazzy Star - I've Been Let Down @ forbidden fruit festival Dublin June 4th 2012

I wonder if there's a bootleg of this show out there somewhere

[Hermesacat]

mazzystar.free.fr member Monikerbird (Vanessa) kindly alerted me to a new video Mazzy Star posted to their Facebook page today (Dec. 22, 2014):
https://www.facebook.com/MazzyStarOfficial
of a 50 second snippet of a new Mazzy Star song whose title is, so far, unknown. It has this text posted accompanying the video:

"Thinking of you all... thank you for being so lovely... Seasons Greetings."

And the lyrics seem to be:

"May tonight's lights
Keep you all gently true
May tonight's lights
Keep us all gently soothed"

-A pleasant Christmas present from Mazzy Star to their fans!

I also downloaded the video from FB & re-upped it to yt, here:
http://youtu.be/hXp8G6iMTdU
I hope the band doesn't mind my spreading this video further via yt. Not all Mazzy Star fans
are FB users or FB frequenters, & the more fans who get to hear it, the better, imo!

[Hermesacat]

The Aug. 2, 2013 Mazzy Star interview recording with Hope & David, conducted by Sylvain, discussed earlier in other threads & downloadable via a Boots list link has been upped to youtube now too, here:
http://youtu.be/TJaFHGAEFiE
It was fun putting together a slide show for it & synchronizing mentions of people, bands, & albums mentioned in the interview with pics of them. Plus, the long section where they talk about cats gave me a perfect opportunity to
go "cat crazy" & show all the many cat images found in Mazzy Star album art, official videos & merch, plus Hope's cat cartoon she drew for a fan in L.A. in 2013.

It's interesting to check out music of the many artists that get mentioned in the interview. There are a bunch of them I'm stll not familiar with yet & want to check out. But so far, after hearing a few things by Jeff Martin/Idaho who gets a mention in the interview, I'm impressed with his voice & some beautifully moody guitar parts, etc., he writes.

[Spoon]

Any links, Youtube or otherwise, to interviews with Hope and David or even the full band?

The only one I've ever seen is one with Hope & David being interviewed by a French or French-Canadian bald gentleman. The video quality isn't the greatest.

So, I am wondering if there are any other interviews out there. To be clear, I am talking about interviews with both audio and visual, not just audio.