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no commercial potential - 1967-1968 video comp dvd

FZ   1967 - 1968   MOTHERS & OTHERS
( mother people nyc archives volume two )

1967 'Inside Pop - The Rock Revolution' 13:30 cbs-tv news special on the 'generation gap'
Presented by 'establishment guy' conductor leonard bernstein featuring tim buckley brian wilson roger mcguinn graham nash & others includes great short 'semi-political apocalyptic' intvw /w/ fz

• 1967 Bitter End NYC 5:05

  • suzy creemcheese 1:37
    ( watch as fz clearly mouthes "you're a motherf*cker!" at least a half-dozen times! )

  • In Memoriam: Hieronymous Bosch 3:25

• suzy creamcheese b&w promo film 3:11

• Oct 3 or 4 ( 23rd? ) 1968 'Colour Me Pop UK BBC-TV   3:31
  ( FZ intvw   ".before america scarfes up the world & shits on it!" )

• Ruben & The Jets "in the sky" 2:00
  ( roy estrada has such a sweet voice! )

• Oct 6 1968 Beat Club Bremen Germany   39:00
  ( FZ on German TV the name of the program was 'Lieder Liches' )
  ( also known as   'Happening Im Studio' )

  • 'improvised avant teen dance party theme song'   3:11

  • June 19 1970 intvw /w/ fz 4:08

  • King Kong/Improvisation   2:18

  • 'The String Quartet' ( 'loosely' incorporating the following selections )

    • A Pound for a Brown (on the Bus)   8:30

    • Sleeping in a Jar   7:30

    • Uncle Meat   4:18

    • Afternoon of a Sexually Aroused Gas Mask ["Improvisation"]   3:45

    • Lohengrin [Wagner]   1:25

    • Let's Make the Water Turn Black / etc finale improvisation.   3:50

    • "The String Quartet" was an early number which contained melodies of "A Pound for a Brown on the Bus" and "Sleeping in a Jar" (which of course were then released on 'Uncle Meat' 2LP in April 1969 )

• "The Real Uncle Meat!"   42:00
  (which in fact is the complete 42 min "Suzy Creamcheese What's Got Into You? "
  http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/videography/video_info_60's.html#SuzyCreamcheese)
  
  RARE! ONLY FAIR QUALITY VISUALLY - GRAINY 70s FILM
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  ( soundtrack music is 'collaged' from studio recordings )

  • suzy creemcheese 3:25

  • lumpy gravy guitar song 4:40

  • some avant schtuff   1:00

  • duchess of prunes 0:25

  • lotsa avant schtuff   13:25

  • who are the brain police?   3:20

  • more avant schtuff fum unc meat   5:20

  • it can't happen here / suzy creemcheese reprise 0:50

  • lumpy gravy guitar song reprise / etc 6:55

  • call any vegetable 2:00
    ( what a pumpkin! )

• footage includes 'we're only in it for th' money' foto session. moon as a baby.garrick theatre.mothers @ heathrow. taxi in london.walking around piccadilly square.royal albert hall ( rest assured we did whatever we could to make this look 'good' )
  ( frame-by-frame digital filter-processing encoding took 24 hours! )

•  ~ 106 MINUTES ~