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08-12-09, 03:56 AM
The 1969 Peter Clifton film ‘Popcorn’ is, as far as I have been able to find out, the source of the 'so-called' colour "Hey Joe promo". It looks very much as if this was originally when the clips of backstage /onstage/stagedoor footage from the concert at the Saville & clips of the original -all mimed - actual 1967 promo colour film were edited together.
Prior to this only a B&W print of the actual (all mimed) promo had been released and is still available on bootleg DVD. Although the copies I've seen are not in the best quality, a pristine quality of this B&W print appears to exist as clips of it can be seen in the most excellent 'Jimi Hendrix The Uncut Story' DVD. The original 1967 [U]colour - all mimed - promo can only be partly seen in a couple of clips edited into the "Popcorn" film composite - Does it still survive complete somewhere?
The colour film from the Saville concert (only the actual concert footage – none of the mimed promo) had only been used previously in the mysterious [unreleased?] 1968 Tommy Weber film "Watch Out For Your Ears' in which it was first set to the (unedited) 'Hey Joe' single, where it was shown along with the three [only existing?] songs from 'Christmas On Earth' – Sgt Pepper’s, Foxy Lady, and Wild Thing (badly cut, with horribly distorted stills of the group edited in). Alan Douglas got his grubby little paws on the Christmas on Earth film but only used Sgt Pepper & Wild Thing (with the stills cut out) in the Jimi Hendrix at Monterey film– What became of the rest, ie Foxy Lady?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
Prior to this only a B&W print of the actual (all mimed) promo had been released and is still available on bootleg DVD. Although the copies I've seen are not in the best quality, a pristine quality of this B&W print appears to exist as clips of it can be seen in the most excellent 'Jimi Hendrix The Uncut Story' DVD. The original 1967 [U]colour - all mimed - promo can only be partly seen in a couple of clips edited into the "Popcorn" film composite - Does it still survive complete somewhere?
The colour film from the Saville concert (only the actual concert footage – none of the mimed promo) had only been used previously in the mysterious [unreleased?] 1968 Tommy Weber film "Watch Out For Your Ears' in which it was first set to the (unedited) 'Hey Joe' single, where it was shown along with the three [only existing?] songs from 'Christmas On Earth' – Sgt Pepper’s, Foxy Lady, and Wild Thing (badly cut, with horribly distorted stills of the group edited in). Alan Douglas got his grubby little paws on the Christmas on Earth film but only used Sgt Pepper & Wild Thing (with the stills cut out) in the Jimi Hendrix at Monterey film– What became of the rest, ie Foxy Lady?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>