Mel Saxby wrote:

If the DVD versions of B7 are ever released, it would be well worth the effort of creating my own compilations.

What, you don't have DVD versions of B7? {blink, blink}And you call yourself a fan!

Well, admittedly our DVDs aren't special or anything, they're just the videos copied onto DVDs, but it is comforting to know that the degradation process is slowed down dramatically (haven't Our Heroes suffered enough?) And it does make making a songvid a lot easier. I hope.

    If you were making your own songvid, what music and clips would you

include?

My first impulse has been to do Tommy Shaw's "Girls With Guns" (has someone already done that? It seems like a natural), and David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" (also seems a no-brainer). I'd tend to put shots of Avon or Tarrant grinning over the line, "Hot tramp! I love you so." :) I'm also tempted by Living Colour's "Glamour Boys" for a montage of Tarrant. I'm not even a big Tarrant fan, but he does seem very, well, video-genic.

These are the first music videos I've ever seen, and I did love them, esp. "Brothers in Arms." Does anyone know where I can get my hands on more, or on some tips for making a good music video?

Jen in Japan "I was a late developer." --Blake, Horizon

From: Mel Saxby harsharin@lineone.net

If you were making your own songvid, what music and clips would you include?

I had an idea once for taking all the various torture scenes set to Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You", interspersed with snippets from a certain scene in a certain film that did it slightly better than B7 ever could have.

One of the things I sometimes resort to when the night shift gets really boring (which is pretty often) is imagining the B7 History of Rock'n'Roll. The idea is to fit a band or artist to a particular episode, working through the series in something close to chronological order. So you would have to start with a blues number a la Elmore James or Howling Wolf for 'The Way Back', and end up with something fairly contemporary for 'Blake'. Given that I have the musical aptitude of a brick, this is possibly the most fruitless project I've ever turned my mind to, especially given that part of the idea is to come up with original songs (not filks) by real bands that somehow connect with the episodes. Nevertheless, I can hear certain sounds that seem to fit well with particular episodes, such as Jimi Hendrix for 'The Keeper', Hawkwind for 'Star One' and Joy Division for 'Sarcophagus'. Since 'Dawn of the Gods' is the most pointless episode ever made and falls somewhere in the early 70s, it can only go to Status Quo. 'Ultraworld' has to go to Devo, whilst 'Terminal' seems to belong to Tubeway Army. For 'Traitor' I hear Simple Minds back in the days when they were good (ie before they got popular), but I'm not sure if the Verve should get 'Sand' or 'Warlord'. Sometimes it's easier to fit a band to a character rather than an episode, so I hear a bouncy Phil Spector arrangement for Jenna, a Bob Dylan dirge for Avon, and I think Travis 2 needs Jefferson Airplane in some shape or form.

Neil