Saturday 5 July 2014

Holy grail videos - part 1

Since I have been collecting music videos, there are a number that took me years to find and get hold of, some I've found that I didn't know existed, some I've found that I never thought I would, and some I want that I'll probably never find.  Such is life.

Here's one video that took me ages to find:


Yazz 'Good Thing Going':

Although it's not my favourite Yazz track, I had to find this one, as it was the only music video of hers that I didn't have (and had never seen).  At one point I even resorted to contacting Yazz directly.  Since uploading videos to youtube, I've been surprised to learn that many artists don't have copies of their videos.  She wasn't one of them, though; but somehow I didn't manage to get my hands on this.

After several years of fruitlessly trawling eBay in the hope that a promo copy might show up, I resorted to what most people looking for something online do... I googled.  I had googled this video before, but not for quite a while.  Lo and behold, there was a (now defunct) company in Europe who specialised in distributing music videos to VJ's (that's video jockeys), and they had this video listed! (along with several others I'd been trying to find for ages).  There was no mention on the website as to whether they shipped internationally, but I tried placing an order anyhow.  They accepted my payment, but then I heard nothing.  Almost expecting to hear back from them, "Sorry, we can't ship this to you," about a week or so later I received a parcel with the DVD's I'd ordered in them.  Finally I could cross this one off my list!

1 comment:

  1. G'day mate, I didn't even know you had a blog. Obviously you have had no time to update for awhile, but what a cool blog.

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