x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from love-hounds to rec.music.gaffa; Tue, 8 Jun 1993 21:17:12 EDT Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 02:23:01 -0400 Subject: ****** INTERVIEW DISKS LIST PART I *********** From: rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) Errors-To: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Comments: Cloudbuster Message-ID: Path: news.dell.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!never-reply-to-path-lines Sender: Love-Hounds-request@uunet.uu.net Approved: wisner@uunet.UU.NET Organization: NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Lines: 211 INTERVIEW BOOTLEGS by Ron Hill, Andrew Marvick (IED), and Ulrich Grepeland. Compiled by Ron Hill June 6, 1993 NOTE!!! This list is currently very incomplete, the main problem being the compiler does not have access to the early bootleg records (though he does have all the interviews on tape), and it's very confusing putting a list like this together without having access to the records. Eventually I'd like to have a more complete listing, with details as to which interviews are on which records, perhaps even the first question and answer from each interview. Interview disks mentioned in the collector's guide but not yet included here are: KB7, BUSH7P, BUSH 7, Chat with the Stars, BUSH 7S, and KATE BUSH. Interview CDs are Greyhound and Bush 7 CD. If anyone has these, I'd appreciate it if you could post the first question and answer from each (and whatever other information you see fit), so that we can determine what has what. As far as I know, I have all of the interviews, I just don't know what is included on each disk. It should be noted that unlike other Kate Bush bootlegs, interview boots are actually legal. There has been some discussion, however, as to whether or not that makes them ethical. On the "no" side it can be pointed out that Kate makes no money from any bootlegs, and the boots are often shoddy and misleading. On the "yes" side, some fail to see the fundamental difference between making a profit by selling an interview in a magazine and making a profit by selling an interview pressed in vinyl. OFFICIAL PICTURE DISCS The earliest is a picture disc of _The Kick Inside_, released first in 1978, then again (without run-out groove message) in 1981 or 1982. The second was a seven-inch pic-disc of "The Big Sky" single, UK only. BOOTLEG INTERVIEW DISCS BAK 2006 - It is a British import, originally priced from between $7.98 and $10.99. This record is reasonably well made, as such things go. It is NOT, repeat NOT an official EMI release, but an attempt has been made to make it APPEAR to be official (a pseudo-HoL type-style and EMI-like catalogue number). The two photos are in colour, and are relatively rare shots, both from early photo sessions with Kate wearing her old white dove earrings. Both were taken in 1978, probably quite early in the year. IED dates them that way because of the feathery choker she wears in one photo, a decoration which she wore during a 1978 German lip-synch. One of the photos is very distinctive: Kate stands against a blue background, and has both hands raised, as though displaying her manicure to the camera. The record appears to have been made by the same people who put out a series of SEVEN-inch interview picture-discs of David Sylvian and Siouxsie Sioux about a year earlier. This one contains an interview done with Kate in her studio by a British fan who apparently obtained Kate's participation by associating himself with an Australian group (probably the Aussie fanzine Dreamtime, who did send a couple of writers over to visit the UK KT community the year before). Kate obviously had no idea at the time of the interview that the tape would be used as yet another exploitive bootleg product. However, this is definitely not the same as the infamous "D. Cross" interview which Homeground exposed as a fraud perpetrated by upstart rival Under the Ivy, as this is definitely a real one-on-one interview, whereas the other was just a fake using Kate's pre-recorded answers from the Canadian HoL interview record and a voice-over of the cue-sheet questions. Nevertheless, in the picture-disc's "real" interview, both the interviewer and Kate are extremely nervous and ill-at-ease, especially at the beginning and end of the interview; and the questions range from the utterly banal (things like "What's 'Running Up That Hill' about?") to the completely weird and meaningless ("The cloudbuster that Ken Hill made -- What's become of it?" Answer: It's in storage in a garage, of course!). At the very end the interviewer throws in one of the questions Kate particularly dislikes getting, namely, "Do you follow current affairs and politics, Kate?". This time it was especially unwelcome because Kate thought the interview was finished, and then had to stay and answer this last question. She gives her usual non-committal answer, but this time it's also clearly intended to stop the conversation -- the closest IED has ever heard Kate get to open annoyance. The interview begins: I: When you launched the album, you had a laser show at the London planeterium (giggle) K: Yes. (laughing) Were you there? KB1011 - This one has two reddish photos, the first a shot taken during Kate's stay in New York in November 1985 (she is wearing the veddy proper white blouse and floppy bow tie in which she made most of her public appearances there), the other a still from either German, French or Dutch lip-synch performances of "Babooshka", from back in 1980 (this was the solo performance in a red jumpsuit with a bass viol as the only prop). The same group of bootleggers made this and the previous picture disks, and both have prominent catalogue numbers and copyright signs all over, to lend them a false air of authenticity (bloody cheek). KATE BUSH II - This one features two more of the 1978 feather-choker photos, and is called "Kate Bush II". The other of the legitimate interviews (found on the latest BAK disc) has absolutely abominable sound. Let IED qualify that: the sound is all right, but the interview took place in a room full of loudly chatting people (a pub, perhaps, or at a party?), and as a result it's sometimes very difficult to hear all of Kate's answers. In this record's favour is the quality of the discussion itself -- really first-rate. The interviewer is either English or Scottish, IED thinks, and he manages to do what very few Kate interviewers succeed in doing, namely to turn an unnatural "interview" session into a very comfortable, mutually respectful chat of some thirty minutes' length. The conversation, which dates from just prior to the release of the "There Goes a Tenner" single, touches on a great many topics, and Kate makes many very interesting comments about subjects no-one has ever brought up with her before. Note this interview is also included on the CD CBAK 4011, but apparently it is cut short (see that entry). This interview begins: How do you get on with the situation of only bringing out an album sort of every two years and... "Well, it was difficult 'cause.. like the last album, when that was finished, it was just a matter of doing the promotion and then I free again to do another album. the "CBAK 4011" version APPARENTLY ends at: I think 'Oh yeah, that sound that Pad had, that'd be great in there.'" Wheras this ends at: I mean there's no doubt that when people change their names, they actually do change." Kate Bush Interview, 1986 - A picture-disk 7" interview single The record contains the "official" promotional interview for _HoL_, conducted in 1986, according to the little sticker-label that is attached to the clear plastic sleeve of the record. (This label is the only identifying mark on the product; it gives a catalogue number but no label name. It is set in violet _HoL_-style italic type, and simply says "Kate Bush Interview, 1986".) The interview is the "canned" promotional interview for Hounds of Love, the questions were dubbed in later. (see The Conversation Series CD entry) The quality of the pressing is okay. The quality of the picture-disk itself is quite high. Both photos are from about 1985/6, and although the record is clearly "unauthorized", its production values are certainly as good as those of the official 7" picture-disk of "The Big Sky". "Abbey Road" - A 12" picture-disk. One side features a 1985 publicity shot (often seen) of Kate in pink; the other is a nice twist on the _TKI_ official picture-disk. It's a photo of Kate in the green body-suit from that disk, getting out of a chromium cylinder, but the shot is not exactly the same as the one from the official disk. The program is exactly the same Tony Myatt interview (47 minutes long) as heard at the Romford convention and on the CD (see the CD entry for more information). Words about Music WAM05 - Limiteded (500) comes in a cardboard box with colour photo on front, two halftone photos inside. Two interviews, both late 1985, approx 15mins each. I think they're both fairly well-known - most of what she says sounds familiar. She doesn't sound particularly cheeful on the first one (neither does the interviewer) but the second is a bit better. "Stand Up & Talk!" (1992) It's a 33rmp LP single picture disk. The picture is taken from the "Them Heavy People" video and gives the LP a weird shape. You also get a plinth (or stand) with the following instructions - - A plinth is included to enable Kate to stand up. To fit simply fit the flat area of this disc into the slit on the plinth. Put on a shelf & drool." - I assume it's from a series of interview LP's since it's numbered "Standup 2". I'm also informed that it's a limited edition and I own No. 859 of 1500. "Just Saying It (Could Even Make it Happen)" (1992) Its front cover shows a nice photo of Kate at the '87 BPI's (IED refers to the ceremony at which Kate was dragooned into handing Peter Gabriel an award), wearing a high-collared black evening dress, with her hair pinned up. On the back is a color photo from Kate's appearance at the Laserium in 1985 for the premiere of the "Hounds of Love" LP (where she was accompanied by Del Palmer for the first time in a social context). The vinyl in the copy that IED saw was a peculiar sort of purplish-Pepto-Bismolish opaque color. The same interview on this album comprises part one of the "Words About Music" interview CD. The interview was apparently conducted circa 1985. --- rhill@netrun.cts.com (ronald hill) NetRunner's Paradise BBS, San Diego CA