Alex Chilton- Velvet Slego, Rimini Italy 2/5/88 xfer from low gen VHS tape Big Star Live

It's video weekend! Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I (and a lot of my friends) used to trade a lot overseas. It was a challenge trading videotapes with Europe since they used a different VHS video format and worldwide VCRs were $1000. In addition, a lot of bootlegs were being manufactured and distributed out of Italy- it was the hub of bootlegs. This was before email so you never really got to know your trading friend like you do today. It was like mailing tapes into a big black hole and hoping they would come back. Sometimes, they didn't come back and you would hear stories about people being busted and their collections being bulldozed- that's what I heard about this Italian trader. Luckily, I was never sucked into that whole legal aspect of things, probably because I never sold tapes.... or maybe it was dumb luck.
Anyway, here is one from the Italian trader whose name I have forgotten. It is an hour-long set of Alex Chilton from Italy in 1988. Sounds great for a video from back then. Picture is decent.
Recorded by: ?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: JVC HRS9800 and Canopus ADVC300. I think I might have used TBC.

[@johnmmjj3162]

OMG Alex was on fire those years. Shows from Champaign, IL in ‘89 and at Lounge Axe, Chicago in ‘92 are among the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. It was like seeing some weird Buddy Holly meets Jimi Hendrix -like guitar experience. You can hear the power and volume of his guitar on this tape. That’s why the audience is going nuts.

[@melodymakermark]

7:40 🤣 Alex was always giving the in house sound guy hell, yet he would rarely show up for sound checks.

[@johnmmjj3162]

He was the best kind of prima donna.

[@theairconditionednightmare]

01:20 - Tee Ni Nee Ni Noo (Slim Harpo cover) 04:30 - Bangkok 07:36 - Rock Hard 10:39 - In The Street (Big Star) 13:40 - Make A Little Love (Lowell Folsom cover) 18: 30 - B-A-B-Y (Carla Thomas cover) 22:13 - Thing For You 26:10 - Lost My Job 30:50 - Volare (Domenico Modugno cover) 35:05 - Little GTO (Ronny and the Daytonas cover 38:55 - The Letter (Box Tops) 41:38 - Adriano Celentano bit 42:50 - Come By Here 47:36 - No Sex 52:32 - Take It Off (Groundhog cover) 56:18 - The New Girl In School (Jan & Dean cover)

[@danielstoddart]

The Italian fans really liked that cover of "Volare." Amazing, because it's always a bit risky to do a song like that on its home turf, so to speak...you run the risk of condescending to the audience, which can backfire.

[@axehound3718]

Wow!!! Awesome! Finally, some old footage of the man!!!

[@ev_blue]

Saw them at Cat's Cradle on this tour, Alex was in a good mood and it was a great show.

[@pacorroca]

Incredible the Bangkok instrumental break. LX is in great shape here

[@axehound3718]

Back for more!!! Thank you sooo much for this one! 🙏

[@matthewmorse5736]

Alex and the band are cookin’!

[@OrangeYTT]

I can't imagine pre-internet international training. pure dedication there

[@danwuori9476]

This is incredible! Thank you got uploading!

[@melodymakermark]

Around 9:10 Alex goes off on a killer solo and the camera is on the bass player the whole time. 😡

[@markb2255]

SUPER

[@vacantmoon]

💛

[@danielstoddart]

Looks like Alex copped a borrowed guitar in Europe; he's not playing his white Fender Telecaster or his Gibson single cutaway that eventually became his main guitar.

[@axehound3718]

Was the “lost my job” song a Rory Gallagher song. Feel like I’ve heard him do it.

[@pacorroca]

No. It's Alex's. It's in Feudalist Tarts mini lp from 84

[@axehound3718]

@@pacorroca, thanks. Are you sure he wrote it though, as he did tons of covers? I'll go check the liner notes on Tart.

[@pacorroca]

Yeah. He wrote it living in New Orleans. I'm not sure but it happened when he was dishwashing in a restaurant

[@axehound3718]

Thanks! I'm in NOLA

[@melodymakermark]

@axehound3718, if you’re from the crescent city, you may know. Is that Doug Garrison playing drums here?

[@scottbrown2974]

Tee Ni Nee Ni Noo Bangkok Rock Hard In The Street Make A Little Love B-A-B-Y Thing For You Lost My Job Volare Little GTO The Letter Come By Here No Sex Take It Off The New Girl In School