November 2002 - Yello - mailman.xmission.com

FTP site, organizing
by Franz.Gall＠gmx.de 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Is there any news about the FTP site? Can we help, prepare anything? I am really curious and desperately waiting. I still remember the FTP site, which was out there quite a while ago, I think it was yello.dhs.org or something like that. The ftp/web-site had quite a lot of rare yello tracks, but also regular yello albums. The description of the rare tracks was rather poor, there were duplicates, bad quality tracks, wrong names, etc. It would make sense to have somebody help here who has both yello knowledge AND time to manage the track listing(s). Any comments/feedback? Franz -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr fÃ¼r 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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Re: Yello and Havana Continues & More
by Ruhney 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

In my search for the Yello on Havana Tape, I even contacted Anton Corbijn. Well his site. And guess what? Today I got a reply. >From Anton Carobijn Limited: ----- Dear Ruhney It is possible that Anton Corbijn is in the film you are looking for. Sorry that you have lost your copy. Anton has never seen the film and don't have a copy either. Best regards Monica Axelsson Anton Corbijn Limited ---- >From this I tend to believe that my fellow country man remembers that there was a filmcrew seperate from the Desire Video Crew. But it surprises me that he never saw it...I mean.. we are talking 'bout Yello here!!!! :-) Anton Corbijn made several interesting pictures of Yello. There's one of Dieter Meier where only his head is visible, and his limbs and body are formed by painted trumpets. Very cool. And totaly in sync with the typical sax-thing from Boris. Today I went to a local recordstore and asked about the cd from Lightmaker. The girl started searching in her database, but couldn't find it. Damn. I know her connection to what is available is very accurate, as she always traces my special taste for certain artists. Even old stuf. -- Mayday. I have a little story where mayday is involved. A colleage of mine has spend a lot of his life in the house-scene. He even wears the 'love parade ring' on his bony fingers. And he... yes he... of all people I know, it was he who saw Boris in person. The God of Sound and Harmonic Arrangement walked passed him when he was leaning against a wall, chilling out, high on ice-smoke and marlboro cigarettes. The basterd. Why him, why not me? Oh Why? And another thing I'd like to add about mayday after reading this on their site: wie diesmal der Auftritt von SS Sputnik, dem Comeback Yellos, dem endgÃ¼ltigen Durchbruch Prodigys... What? Comeback of Yello Were they ever gone? Who's Gone? I believe that real artists like Yello and Depeche Mode, who seem to seldomly score a major hit, are never gone. The biggest problem is the candy cotton for the mind and ear that is cluttering up the charts. The radio stations, where dj's are told by contract what to play. But okay... that's a whole different story. And Chris... My guess is you can talk to them in English. With their connections... But it's all depending on who's recieving the mail. Sometimes you get lucky and get in touch with a cool dude or dudette, and they try to find what ya want, but when reach out and touch a lazy basterd with little interesst you're getting no where. he he... I wrote my mail to Anton Corbijn in Dutch. Just to give it a little push forward in the direction of mr. Corbijn himself. There's probably not too much English people out there who can read Dutch... Olli: I just got down on my knees, folded my hands and prayed to what ever god wanted to hear my words and plea. I sure hope you have what I'm looking for... Graeme: If the tapes you have from the british tv also have Dieter Boris talkling in person, I'm very interested... Have a nice weekend you lot!!! Rene

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Rhythm Devine Covered
by Ruhney 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

Oh my lord... suddenly my head started to hurt, my spine twitched... 'cause I remembered that a Dutch singer covered The Rhythm Devine. and... it got airplay enough... too much for me. http://www.gerardjoling.nl/discografie/special/bolerospecial.html

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Re: [Yello] Yello and DivX
by The Warlock 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

Hi all. At www.mayday.com you can contact MayDay and I have sent two mails asking about more info on Yello's live there. But I havn't got any answer. I suppose this don't matters, but it could help to ask them in German... What do you think? My German is not great, but perhaps any of you could send a mail to them? Chris

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Re: [Yello] Yello and Havana Continues
by Olli 29 Nov '02

29 Nov '02

Hi Ruhney and everybody else, I won't give you too much hope, but I think I have the documentary on tape. I just have to search at the weekend and can tell you on monday if I have found it. But again I'm not really sure if I still have it. Regards --On Donnerstag, 28. November 2002 23:41 +0100 Ruhney <t013463(a)tip.nl> wrote: > > Hi again, > > Well after several days of research and contacting > every German TV station that still excists and excisted > when I taped the documentary, I'm still empty handed. > > It turnes out to be very difficult for the people at the > tv archives to find a certain program. > > One has to give them the bradcast year, and date, and > if possible also the time... ????!!!! Increadible. > > But okay... If one for some reason could come up with > that information, one is facing the troubles with liscencing. > The stations are simply not allowed to make a copy > of such broadcasts. Only when a certain documentary > or show was done with themselves as producer chances > are bigger you get a copy at a low price. > > Sigh... oh well. Live was and stays troublesome. > > - > > Rene digital spirit GmbH Friedrichstraße 14 65185 Wiesbaden Fon: +49 611 99185-0 Fax: +49 611 99185-80 http://www.digitalspirit-wiesbaden.de digital spirit GmbH Friedrichstraße 14 65185 Wiesbaden Fon: +49 611 99185-0 Fax: +49 611 99185-80 http://www.digitalspirit-wiesbaden.de

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RE: [Yello] Yello and Havana Continues
by Rory Filer 28 Nov '02

28 Nov '02

<Snip> . It turnes out to be very difficult for the people at the tv archives to find a certain program. Yeah, unless there is a crisis which makes such a clip an integral part of a news story >:-(

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Yello and Lightmaker
by Ruhney 28 Nov '02

28 Nov '02

In the credits one can read on the lightmaker movie site, that the music of the film is available for purchase. Is this in fact a fact? And is the movie perhaps coming soon to our screens as a DVD?

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Yello and DivX
by Ruhney 28 Nov '02

28 Nov '02

Me again... I know it is against all rules and what not, but I couldn't be bothered less. To be on the save side with all my official Yello tapes I decided to digitize them with a five year old DC20 MJPEG card. And believe me, the card turned out to be wurth it's price. The digitizes video's are just as good/bad as the original tapes. Only the files are enormous. And so I encoded them to DivX 5.2 with audio as Mpeg3. The results are handy Yello Videoclips with a very good quality. When I set them to full screen and sit back in my chair the compression show little deformation to the images. I'm a bit more happy now. Rene

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Yello and Havana Continues
by Ruhney 28 Nov '02

28 Nov '02

Hi again, Well after several days of research and contacting every German TV station that still excists and excisted when I taped the documentary, I'm still empty handed. It turnes out to be very difficult for the people at the tv archives to find a certain program. One has to give them the bradcast year, and date, and if possible also the time... ????!!!! Increadible. But okay... If one for some reason could come up with that information, one is facing the troubles with liscencing. The stations are simply not allowed to make a copy of such broadcasts. Only when a certain documentary or show was done with themselves as producer chances are bigger you get a copy at a low price. Sigh... oh well. Live was and stays troublesome. - Rene

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Re: Yello Documentary Havana
by Ruhney 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hi, Yes... I'm possitive it was a documantary sort of thing, as it lasted longer then 45 minutes or so. Nice to mention about this is, that some scenes were in fact used in the final Yello Desire Video. But it had more. Boris and Dieter were drinking the original margaritas in a club that was visited frequently by famous moviestars in the fifities, just before the cuba crisis. And while they drank some street musicians were singing ans playing Quantaramera(?) (well you know the song). It shows bouth our holy men (B&D) in a bus on a tour through havana scouting for locations, while Boris is smoking yet another cigar. They show more of the girls and especially the one with whom the character played by Dieter falls in love with. Dieter explains the story behind the video. He also explains why the whole video has to be shot on real film instead of betacam system. He just loves the blue-ish effect of it. It shows Santiago, the choreographer... who might be the dude who's voice is used on Santiago - One Second... could be. etc.. etc... I have it in my head, it is stored on my brain-harddrive. But I want it back on tape or cd... It's a rare piece of material. a sort of hidden camera interview. And there was more on the tape I misplaced, Another interview with Dieter, where he speaks in German about the so called : Fleishwolf, meatgrinder, where young musicians get eaten up by their equipment, instead of using it as a proper tool. Sorry I have to quit now. I'll get back to this asap. Rene

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