[kj] We've Crossed the YouTubicon!!!!

[Brendan Quinn]

Following on from my last post, I'd say it's the new owners. Google have a
shit-ton of cash (over $US20 bil in the bank...) with which to decorate
YouTube. They'll also obviously be wanting to make money out of it. I think
(don't quote me) that they have started signing deals with the Great Satans
who own all the big artists' works, paying them x / year to be able to show
*some* of their work on youtube. Often it's still like live versions of
songs, stuff you've already seen on MTV forever, etc, as opposed to stuff
that will cost them album / DVD sales.

And yeah I agree, it's nice to see stuff in a window larger than a postage
stamp, there's so much stuff on Youtube now you can watch whole movies and
docos in fullscreen for days on end.

Here's one of my favourites, so good you can watch it twice and still laugh
your a$$ off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kndm4wX3g0


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Sent: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [kj] We've Crossed the YouTubicon!!!!

Alexander Smith wrote:

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqUiRvp_T3k


Pardon the lame thread title, but has anyone noticed an inordinate amount of

high-quality live footage suddenly flooding YouTube of late? I'm certainly 
not complaining -- quite the contrary -- but I'm wondering what spawned it. 
Any ideas?

++++++++

I dunno, but this guy "jokkoapa6" also has the best quality footage of The 
Cult performing early pre-Electric/Peace album versions of "Electric Ocean" 
and "Love Removal Machine" during the "Love" tour I've seen of that 
particular show along with the excellent quality KJ and Bauhaus clips he's 
uploaded.

T.B. 

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