semi-legendary stuff that you used to have to pay $$$ for on crappy vhs bootleg tapes for years that are now on youtube for free

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBEihI1qEXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrAA6VMIPb0

other examples?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVP_YYAmimg

nsfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3V_FxFXfVo&feature=related

This was $$$ on legit (albeit sorta crappy) VHS in the states (NSFW BTW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3w1Ip7AcAk&playnext=1&list=PLE898953B3879EC45

my god, how many parts has the eustache been broken up into?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTfwGTqYzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZaFXdhQ4C0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXKySxPFCI

I watched "Superstar" the other day and it totally lived up to the hype.

my god, how many parts has the eustache been broken up into?

Looks like 21 parts for 217 minutes on a playlist. Celine and Julie Go Boating is up as well as a playlist and it's 14 parts for 193 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rD4y7ZltY

most of the Cremaster cycle seems to be up there now

Begotten is there too! But you have to sign in to youtube to watch it and I couldn't be bothered.

Looks like 21 parts for 217 minutes on a playlist. Celine and Julie Go Boating is up as well as a playlist and it's 14 parts for 193 minutes.

Shoah is on there in 59 parts.

feel like watching Shoah on Youtube is not really going to give you the full experience

I dunno sounds like it would be pretty oppressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaY8W6G1vxQ

feel like watching Shoah on Youtube is not really going to give you the full experience

Yeah, especially not at 240p. Still, even the last few sections have crested 2000+ views.

celine and julie, at least in the uk, has always been fairly easy to get on legit vhs or dvd

whereas this seems to be the only fragment online for l'amour fou, which i saw in an absolutely DESTROYED print at the NFT's rivette season five or six years ago but which seems in danger of becoming a lost film...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9uzDwOdOv8

think i've linked to this before on ilx, but the richard strauss family/estate have always blocked this ken russell film abt the composer from getting a legit release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9uzDwOdOv8

lol sorry! should be this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vooM2wzwF0E

when i used to go to record shows in the 80's there would be guys with tables full of live rock shows on vhs and i kinda wonder where they all went. i mean, people must still own them. but i wouldn't know where to search for them online. i bought a cool feelies show - at the ritz maybe? - where one of the feelies got sick and had to run off the stage to throw up. action-packed feelies show.

http://youtu.be/oGWy9CthukI

Class of 1984...in French. Actually it's better in French.

pauline kael's fave diane lane movie. actually i have no idea if anyone has ever tried to bootleg this, but i have always wanted to own a copy on tape or dvd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5wVVaNwrUg

Not $$$, but about 10 years ago I got a bunch of tapes through some online tape trade (maybe through the droneon list?) of various psychedelic videos (about 4 volumes) and another two or three tapes worth of Krautrock stuff. Just everything you could imagine: beat club performances, TV show and movie appearances, weird proto-music videos, etc. At the time it was like the coolest thing ever to me to discover that things like an animated Autobahn video even existed. Now I'm sure every single one of those clips is on youtube and at better quality.

when i used to go to record shows in the 80's there would be guys with tables full of live rock shows on vhs and i kinda wonder where they all went. i mean, people must still own them. but i wouldn't know where to search for them online.

lotta torrent forums like d1mead0zen have this stuff now

^^And there are still a handful of those guys still doing the show circuit, albeit w/tables full of DVDs.

You know what record show staple really disappeared? Guys w/huge files of Concert photos.

The biggest one will always be Star Wars Holiday Special. I believe it's been on YouTube in many forms since the inception of the website. There are also the infamous crude KTMA episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 which were a treat to watch when I first found YT.

my friend says he paid good money for Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 video (that they did in the 80s) on VHS and now it's on youtube....

hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-g1mrPpwxc

GREAT THREAD

You know what record show staple really disappeared? Guys w/huge files of Concert photos.

when I was a kid I used to pore over the xeroxed/mimeo'd concert photos for sale "catalogs" for ages before finally pulling the trigger on 1 or 2 pics at 5 bucks apiece - "what a beautiful shot of Nancy [Wilson, of Heart] as she looks out toward the audience" etc - have often thought "some people must have made an OK sideline out of this for ages and suddenly couldn't give their shit away + little of it is probably saved/archived anywhere"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsWWW4VJNSM

'Thundercrack!' is amazing! Saw that at a 'shock cinema' season showing in the upstairs of a pub recently. Properly odd and a helluva watch.

yeah, thundercrack! is an all-time personal favorite, so many great lines and performances. also love the mother and the whore and barney's cremaster cycle. haven't seen the rest, but have long been curious about superstar, cocksucker blues and vileness fats

in the 80s I remember ordering this video fanzine, it was like a VHS comp of diff stuff, had like r kern and nick zedd shorts, sonic youth gila monster jamboree footage, half japanese live in hell, survival research laboratories snippets, interviews, it was just this poorly-edited thrown together thing and I loved every issue I had of it

can't remember the name of it tho

cocksucker blues is my favorite music documentary ever, totally captures the bored desperation of rock hedonism in an unblinking way, most ppl think it's boring but that's kind of the point

byron coley once did the great favor of dubbing every SRL vid he had for me, it was hours and hours of performances, interviews, and the group's history, great stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxzr6bd31io

when the crowd jumps back at 1:42 it's just the greatest thing

cocksucker blues is my favorite music documentary ever, totally captures the bored desperation of rock hedonism in an unblinking way, most ppl think it's boring but that's kind of the point

this film is a work of art in its own right, even irrespective of its take on the stones; it's made so lovingly, it's cut together like a tapestry. frank's choice of real quick shots to depict the people and the environment are really inspirational; there's a moment where you catch that andy warhol's backstage at some show, and the only shot of him is him v noticably blinking, to the extent that it captures some sort of distilled awkwardness; ditto truman capote caught in a two second shot, & ditto a funny shot on the plane of a pilot walking along the aisle just as he loses his balance & half-stumbles into a chair. and all the beautiful shots of the detritus and lawn signs of the places they're driving around, it's just so rich.

also the room service conversation.

also lol at watching le maman et la putain on youtube, congratulations on finding a way to make watching that film even more depressing

when the crowd jumps back at 1:42 it's just the greatest thing

during their european tour in the late 80s, they were told the crowds would be particularly stoic and unmoved. can't remember where it was (copenhagen? amsterdam?), but they went kinda nuts, driving the machines out into the audience, blowing the sound cannon straight at 'em, and emptying a dumpster full of curdled milk + cheese. another cool thing from one of the docs was when they heard a bunch of anarchist squatters were about to be evicted, they lent them some of their equipment to fight the police!

wish I'd gone to see them in '88 when they were in NYC, I think that was their last (only?) east coast appearance.

love the part @ 1:18 in this when the crowd tries to throw the carcass back onto the machine and it retracts its pneumatic spear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56HYbpCUsg

at last this is available!!
http://youtu.be/2ZFx_pch3Yw

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZFx_pch3Yw&feature=youtu.be

will you have to start paying for some of this?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/business/media/youtube-said-to-be-planning-a-subscription-option.html?hp&_r=2&