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USELESS INFORMATION
The Move Mailing List Digest
Issue #004
October 20, 1997


     In this issue:

     Euan reports on box set & wonders about Bruce
     Trying to tune in the Debbie Thrower radio show
     Roy on Benny Hill?
     In search of the Move box set
     Move box set - get it now!
     "Looking In" bootleg
     "Omnibus" bootleg
     Fairport Convention CD (Roy & Richard Thompson)


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Subject: New box set
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 19:35:21 +0100
From: Euan Wilson

As for sound quality, not sure its been remastered but it
does have better 'sound' than the German re-issues covering
the same period (Reportoire label)

There are a number of writing credit mistakes, all in Roy's
favour, but you can't have everything.

I can't find any hidden tracks ! so email me Rob with where they 
are.

Is it a complete record of everything the Move released before
signing to EMI? -  i.e Flowers in the Rain (single mix) (Rep CD),
Hello Susie (abridged version (refer to Great Move sleeve notes)

Euan

PS I've just caught up with my emails, I don't owe Bruce any 
money ! Well I won't when he's told me which address to send the 
money too ;0

PSS Did you want a lift from Stafford to the Trevor Burton gig, 
Mr Dumes

PSSS There's seems to be some confusion as to when Bruce is in 
the UK


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Subject: Re: Roy Wood radio interview!
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:11:16 -0500
From: John Holcomb

David Alff wrote:

> does the Debbie Thrower radio show also get played on BBC world 
> service shortwave)??

I'm just wondering if there are any U.K. stations receivable on the 
web through Real Audio.

Anyone know anything about this?


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Subject: Re: Roy Wood radio interview!
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 17:02:28 GMT
From: Jon Hinchliffe

> does the Debbie Thrower radio show also get played on BBC 
> world service (shortwave)??

I don't know about that but I do know that Radio 2 is on the Astra
Satellite in Europe on frequency 9.750H (UK Gold's Channel) Audio
Channel 7.74


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Subject: A Question Of Great Import...
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 06:26:30 +0000
From: Joe Ramsey

A rumor that I have heard for years is that there is an episode of 
Benny Hill where he does a send-up of Roy Wood in complete Wizzard 
gear and make-up. Anybody ever seen it?


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Subject: Re: In search of the Move box set...
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 13:48:09 -0700
From: Gallandro

The Move set is listed in the latest Collector's Choice Music 
catalogue (on page 12 if you have a paper copy).  They have a web 
site at www.ccmusic.com, but I've not looked at it so I don't know 
if it's any good.  They say they have their entire 35,000-title 
database online.  You can also requset a paper catalogue from their 
toll-free number, 800-923-1122.


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Subject: Re: In search of the Move box set...
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 14:17:39 +0000
From: Lynn Hoskins 

Something I was planning on mentioning tomorrow (but I'd better do it
now) is that Rob is in the process of getting a discount for FTM and
mailing list members.  If you can't wait 2-3 weeks, then buy it.  If you
don't mind waiting just a bit longer, it will probably be worth the
wait.

Collector's Choice is based in Illinois and they deal mostly with
imports.  They're charging $34.95 for the box set (plus $5.00 shipping
and handling, and possibly sales tax, depending on where you're
located.)

Rob will let us know soon.


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Subject: Boxed Set
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:01:07 -0400
From: Mike Frankel 

I just got the Boxed Set and I have to say that if you can afford it,
GET IT NOW!!! It is incredible. Just the additional songs from what has
to now be called the "Something Else Album(Eight Tracks now)are worth
it.  "Higher and Higher" and "Piece of my Heart" are infinitely better
than the BBC Sessions versions. Also the additional 90 seconds of Roy in
"Sunshine Help Me" are amazing, with Roy playing "Strangers in the
Night" Finally hearing "Vote for Me" is transcendent after 30 Years! Not
to mention "Cherry Blossom Clinic" in full stereo. There are other gems
as well and I am staggered beyond words. What a wonderful day!!


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Subject: "Looking In" bootleg
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:43:30 +0000
From: Lynn Hoskins 

A fellow Move fan (who has a mailing list phobia) wrote to me today
saying that he's found a Move bootleg called "Looking In".

Here's what's on it:

"Colour Me Pop" TV Show BBC TV 1967: I CAN HEAR THE GRASS GROW/FIRE
BRIGADE/BLACKBERRY WAY

"Radio Haus" Stockholm, Sweden 1967: SOMETHING ELSE/FLOWERS IN THE
RAIN/WHY/HEY GRANDMA/SO YOU WANNA BE A ROCK & ROLL STAR/I CAN HEAR THE
GRASS GROW

"Beat Beat Beat" German TV, 1967: NIGHT OF FEAR/WALK UPON THE WATER

Dutch TV, 1969: SUNSHINE HELP ME/FLOWERS IN THE RAIN

"Beat Club" German TV, 1970: WHEN ALICE COMES BACK FROM THE FARM

"Old Gray Whistle Test" UK TV, 1971: WORDS OF AARON

"Cherokee Studios, UK, 1974, Roy Wood's Wizzard: BALL PARK
INCIDENT/FOREVER/SALT PEANUTS/THIS IS THE STORY OF MY LOVE/CALIFORNIA
MAN/EDDY'S ROCK

He says it runs 70 minutes and the sound quality is excellent.  Anyone
here familiar with this CD?


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Subject: Speaking of Move boots...
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: braitman@sirius.com (Stephen M. H. Braitman)

I've had a boot LP for about 20 years.  It's called "Omnibus" (Melvin
Records) and includes the following:

Recorded in Sweden in 1967:

Something Else
Flowers in the Rain
Why?
Hey Grandma
So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star
I Can Hear The Grass Grow

Recorded Marquee Club, London, 1968

So You Want To Be A Rock n Roll Star
Stephanie Knows Who
Something Else
It'll Be Me
Sunshine Help Me

Recorded Fillmore West, SF, Oct 1969

Open My Eyes

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Has any of this material been re-released on boot CD, with 
cleaned-up sound?

Thanks.


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Subject: Boot info
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 22:37:20 -0400
From: Mike Frankel 

To answer Lynn and Stephen:

The CD Bootleg "Looking In" has the live material from Sweden Much
cleaned up and of course the new Boxed Set has the expanded  "Something
Else" with as good sound as it will probaly ever get, since the original
tapes were used, I think, for the first time in a CD release. Looking In
is well worth the price, but then again I will buy any Move material any
time anywhere.

As for "Open My eyes, the quality on "Omnibus" is about the best as
it gets, which is pretty horrible. It does bring up the thought that
hopefully more live tapes exist for the Fillmore shows and maybe better
quality ones will surface some day. We can only hope.

There is also a Fairport Convention CD just out with Roy playing
with Richard Thompson on one track. Perhaps my friend, and fellow
subscriber to this list, Bill Reynolds will fill in the details as I 
have not yet gotten the disc as of yet, and I know he has it.


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Subject: Re: Boot info
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 19:54:29 -0700
From: Bill Reynolds 

Everybody no doubt knows that Roy was a guest last year at a Fairport
Croperdy reunion.  A CD called Who Knows Where the Time Goes was just
released in the UK and Roy and Richard Thompson play together on a 3:50
version of I Heard it Through the Grapevine.




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