Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (12/12/86)
Really-From: IED0DXM%UCLAMVS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU ERRATUM: IED recently reported that there was no sign of an imminent Kate Bush video release in the United States. This was false. The video version of "The Whole Story" WILL be released domestically, on NTSC Beta and VHS, in January 1987 by MGM/UA Home Video. Not sure yet about a possible laser disc version. This information was part of yet another full page advertisement for "The Whole Story", this time in the latest issue of Optic Music, the music video trade publication. Music Plus, a big hit-music and video retail chain in California (and elsewhere), is airing a radio commercial on KROQ advertising "The Whole Story" and nothing but "The Whole Story", featuring extracts from "Running Up That Hill" and "Experiment IV". For any Kate fan planning to buy any of the recent bootleg LPs that are now turning up in numbers in independent record stores throughout the country, be forewarned that there is nothing new in any of them. "A Bird in the Hand" is nothing except a poor quality mono transfer of the audio portion from nine of the twelve songs performed by Kate in "Kate Live at the Hammersmith Odeon". The three-record set known as "Kate Bush Live in Europe 79 - 80" consists of: 1.) a true stereo transfer to vinyl of the whole of "Live at Hammersmith Odeon"; 2.) a transfer of the television sound track from Kate's 1979 Christmas special (the same TV-hum-filled audio track heard on the various video copies), which originally appeared along with 1.) as a two-record set called "Wow"; and 3.) a copy of part of a 1979 Paris concert, which previously appeared in 1984 as a single bootleg LP, purportedly by the (non-existent) Kate Bush Club of Taiwan. All of these records were pressed by the same bunch of people, under several label pseudonyms, most often "Rock Solid Records" and "International Records" of New York. For the interest of Japan fans, "Quiet Life" was finally released on CD in Japan (November 21). If it shows up here, expect to pay anywhere from $21 to $36 for a copy -- the new Riuichi Sakamoto single live CD "New Media Bahn" appeared here recently at $36 a pop, all because of the dollar-to-yen ratio. New Japanese vinyl releases now go for $21.00 at Tower. For the interest of Peter Gabriel enthusiasts, "PG Plays Live" has now been re-released here on CD, this time as a 2-CD set, in order to include the two or three tracks that were excised from the original CD -- so think of it as costing an extra $13-15 for a couple of extra live songs.