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Rony Kohn's Collection

Mercury Rev   01/21/1999

Astoria, London, England
Source VHS(M) > DVD-R
Media DVD-R   1 disc
Notes PRO SHOT
J-Card Comment Mercury Rev NME Premier Awards- Astoria, London, UK 21Jan99

2songs
Tonite It Shows,
Holes,

9 minutes 23


Jonathan Donohue Guitar, vocals
Grasshopper Guitar
Jeff Mercel drums
Adam Snyder keyboards
+2

the complete televised part of the set was
Tonite It Shows, Holes, Opus 40
but the 3 numbers were shown on different shows over several nights & I lent out a vhs with
the one with Opus 40 on which came back taped over. Subsequently you get the 1st 2.
Sorry but these should make you happy enough & there is a more complete audio set around

By this time a lot of the anarchic quality that was so present in the David Baker era had gone.
But this is still pretty great psychedelic influenced rock. As some of the screen text indicates
(at least in terms of guests/neighbours)elements of Americana were coming in.
I guess they were always there though, thinking back Yerself Is steam struck me as pretty pastoral
when I discovered it in my local 2nd hand shop before they became the big buzz. Still puzzles
me what the story was there, I guess promo/review copies were sold on. Anyway i think I got
a pink/puke coloured lp a good couple of months if not longer before the music rags started raving.

I really prefer that era 92-95 but this is still pretty great. Hope that my turning this up
will lead to other people uploading some of the earlier stuff. Not sure if the all too short
Roskilde Festival 92 set is still up or the 99 Benicassim Festival set dvd.


MPEG2 720x756 FRAMERATE 25000 FORMAT PAL BITRATE 9216 4x3 703MB
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A
Reference / Generation VDVD2011-C1
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Owned by Rony Kohn · Last Updated May 23, 2023