UFO-offshoot Waysted live in 1985 with Pete Way, Paul "Tonka" Chapman, Jerry Shirley from Humble Pie on drums. Singer Fin Muir has a distinct Bon Scott vibe and the British hard rock style in a UFO AC/DC, Motorhead vein.
This is the first time that this footage has been assembled since it was thrown in a skip as a discarded asset. The reconstruction has been an intense process. When the film and audio cans were opened, it was a random and totally fragmented collection of 16mm film and audio clips. It was as if some malign person had kicked a 5,000 piece jigsaw into the air and there was no box top to work out what went where. Remember, the audio and the film were recorded separately. Not video. There were no tracking information sheets or clapperboards and it was obvious that this entire collection of audio visual rushes had been stopped in early post production and simply packed into film cans with no plan or organisation. Very Marie Celeste.
Initial reconstruction and cleaning began on flatbed Steenbacks before transfering to the digital medium. It was a process of lip reading to match music and dialogue. The concert audio. although recorded at the time on 16 track had been lost, with just a damaged 1/4" guide tape for syncing the cameras in post. Plus the cameras themselves were battery powered, so ran at different speeds. And bands do tend to play faster live.
So a challenging project but certainly not a vanity project for Mick..
The intention was to show Mick's amazing musicianship and guitar playing, his great humour, his care and consideration for his fellow travellers, the strain he was under amongst the potential chaos and the infectious fun that everyone had, the camp and the pantomime. This is a fabulously unique document of that period: the people involved were seizing the day and making it up was they fearlessly staggered forward.
Quote ProfessorWolf being mick broadcast recording from 2001 with the commercials
Oh damn I forgot how FUNNY he is in this. The bit when he's working out and his response about being some old fart sittin' down at the pub talking about what he did in the 1960s... maybe Mick will outlive the cockroaches and not Keith.
Does anyone remember or know what video it is when Mick is talking to someone, I can't recall who or where, maybe on a plane? about Someone asking him what he's been up to and Mick says 'Remember when I talked with you last year on tour? I'm still doing that tour.'
I keep thinking it's the Chris Evans 1999 video but it's not in that.
The squeaking drum pedal apparently escaped notice....classic early Mott The Hoople. Things went downhill pretty fast after Mick Ralphs left for Bad Company.