The AL-timate Video Collection

jahaase · Post by **jahaase** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:31 pm

Elvis @ Nov 16 2003, 10:06 AM wrote: And if he could include those videos, then why not also include "Green Eggs and Ham"???

Dave

Hey Dave!

What did you mean by: "And if he could include those videos, then why not also include "Green Eggs and Ham"???"

Am I to take it that a GE&H video of some kind was actually produced? If so, where did it appear!?

Post by **weirdallie27** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:42 pm

jahaase @ Nov 16 2003, 04:31 PM wrote:

What did you mean by: "And if he could include those videos, then why not also include "Green Eggs and Ham"???"

Am I to take it that a GE&H video of some kind was actually produced? If so, where did it appear!?

It was something Al did on an old Al-TV special. Marty Lick has it available for viewing on his website.

~Allison

jahaase · Post by **jahaase** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:20 am

Cool! What's the address for Marty's website?

Post by **stupidsurgeon27** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:35 am

You can either go here or here to get to his website.

Do I get imaginary weird points for pointing out we have a links section?

-CindyBob

Post by **scottidog** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:36 am

Do a google for Al-oholics Anonymous, or just follow the link from weirdal.com. It's a great site with lots of AL info.

jahaase · Post by **jahaase** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 12:46 am

stupidsurgeon27 gets oodles of points for such a WAY Moby observation!

I've actually been to Al-oholics Anonymous before but didn't realize the name of the guy who made it, and hadn't stumpled on the GE&H video yet.

Thanks for all the help evrybody!

Post by **scottidog** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 1:01 am

Driew_La_27 @ Nov 16 2003, 02:27 PM wrote: In my opinion I think the main reason why he did this was to promote the Aussie tour. Also when Al signed his new contract maybe he HAD to release a DVD with all the videos granted if had any new ones or not.

Of course we don't know the details of Al's deal, but from what he has told us, that wasn't required.

We do know that The Videos were planned for re-release and then were scrapped for unexplained reasons. I think you are right about it being done for the Aussie tour, at least that was partly the reason. Otherwise why rush it for a street date tha coincides with the tour?

I suspect Zomba wanted to re-release The Videos to coincide with the PH tour. It's the only thing in their Al catalog that was unreleased and they saw a way to make some money on it. But when the CP video fell through it made more sense to not remake the old collection (which wasn't complete) and to just make one that was complete. At least that's my theory.

Any which way, I'm happy to have it in my collection.

Post by **Bruce the Duck** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:06 am

The GE&H "video" was NOT from ALTV. It was from ALMusic, the Canadian version of ALTV. I believe it was in 1993.

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:22 am

scottidog @ Nov 16 2003, 06:01 PM wrote: I suspect Zomba wanted to re-release The Videos to coincide with the PH tour. It's the only thing in their Al catalog that was unreleased and they saw a way to make some money on it. But when the CP video fell through it made more sense to not remake the old collection (which wasn't complete) and to just make one that was complete. At least that's my theory.

Well, I think the chronology was a little bit different from that.

1. "The Videos" set for rerelease on DVD (and VHS)
2. Al starts wrapping up production of "Poodle Hat"
3. "Couch Potato" is planned for the first (and only) video
4. "Poodle Hat" release announced
5. "Videos" rerelease pulled in favor of an all-new collection to feature "Couch"
6. Remastering work begins on the older videos for the new collection (this is my educated guess)
7. Al learns that Eminem is against the idea of a "Couch" video
8. In order to have some kind of visual representation for the album, the "Bob" segment is shot for the "Al-TV" special
9. With work already started on an all-new "complete" collection, it is decided to count "Bob" for the sake of the DVD having a new "video" from "Poodle Hat"

And of course, we all know the rest about the bare bones release for Australia, etc.

The reason I'm guessing #6 happened because it was a while after "Poodle Hat" was announced and even released that the "Ultimate Video Collection" was announced. At the point that Eminem nixed the idea of a video, all Volcano had done (as far as we know) was pull the "Videos" rerelease.

So unless some money was already put into producing a new collection, Volcano could have simply resolicited "The Videos" after the Eminem situation.

Post by **scottidog** » Mon Nov 17, 2003 6:29 am

That's not so different from my scenario.

But you are probably more correct than I am. Still it must have been a fairly short time for the entire production, or wouldn't the Aussies have gotten the same stuff we did? Unless of course there were licensing issues that couldn't include Australia.