ADDED Dec. 10, 2023:
Mazzy Star Bridge School Benefit pro-shot live video, October 1, 1994,
Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA., 22 minutes, MP4 format
[Note: Video of Mazzy Star's second-day set from the same weekend benefit event,
Oct. 2, 1994 has been available for many years, already. This first-day set, Oct. 1,
has been the elusive, unavailable one]
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1blnNLU ... sp=sharingSet:
1)Ride It On
2)Flowers in December
3)Into Dust
4)Leaving on a Train
5)Fade Into You
[-4) Leaving on a Train is an unreleased song Mazzy Star played live many times in the 1990s, but they never put out a studio version of it]
Band Lineup:
David Roback: guitar
Hope Sandoval: vocals
Suki Ewers: second guitar
Jill Emery: bass
Will Glenn (a.k.a. Will Cooper): vielle (similar to a violin)
Keith Mitchell: drums and percussion
In a Facebook fan group in 2016, Mazzy Star's drummer, Keith Mitchell, left these comments re. Mazzy Star playing the two days, Oct. 1 and 2, 1994 of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit, QUOTE:
"What a great weekend! I got to play conga drum with Neil Young, Crazy Horse
and Pearl Jam on the second night's encore. We visited Neil's house the night before." (-Keith Mitchell)
Mazzy Star played a similar 5-song set on the second day, Oct. 2, 1994 with four out
of five songs being the same. The one song that's different is Halah is played on Oct. 2 instead of Into Dust (Oct.1).
I've seen a couple of traders' bootleg lists dating from the late 1990s that list videos available of
both the October 1st and 2nd, 1994 Mazzy Star sets. Pro-shot video of Mazzy Star's second day set from
Oct. 2 has long been available for download via the live shows downloads list at the mazzystar.free.fr site
and has also been findable at you tube for many years. The Oct. 1 set has been the set difficult to find.
In 2023, someone (who prefers anonymity) learned the October 1, 1994 day-1 performances of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit, including Mazzy Star, were streamable at Neil Young's Archives site for $10 per view. That someone informed David Morgan ("opalstardream" is David's you tube channel name, and his member name at the mazzystar.free.fr fan site).
David recorded the Oct. 1 Mazzy Star set stream with a video capture program, and shared his file of it with me.
David attempted to upload the video to his opalstardream yt channel but a copyright claimant blocked yt from allowing it up. That's a reason I'm sharing it via the mazzystar.free.fr site, so fans can access it easily.
Thanks go to David for helping make this video available to fans.
A significant difference between the Oct. 1 and 2 sets is Oct. 1 is a night time set with stage lighting, while
the Oct. 2 one is a day time set shot outside in full light of day. It makes for two different visual experiences
and atmospheres. Also, the audience is more in evidence in the Oct. 2 day time set,
with a lot more shots showing audience members.
The folder I've uploaded includes the video, plus two photos by Neal Preston of Hope on stage from the Oct. 1 set, plus a photo of a poster for the 1994 benefit signed by many artists who played it,
including some Mazzy Star band members. The signed poster was on display at one of the later year Bridge School Benefit events. Someone who attended took the photo of it.