<p>Splice Today salutes <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/mitaka201" target="_blank">mitaka201</a>, the god among men who, in the last 15 days, has uploaded an embarassment of music-nerd riches to YouTube. You've got a documentary about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7M618fZanQ&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">the making of <em>Born To Run</em></a>, the superlative Dylan documentaries <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-P96yBLVg&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">Don't Look Back</a></em>,<em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOqqqCrusE4&feature=channel_page" target="_blank"> Eat the Document</a></em>, and <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkaAE4ofNgA&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">No Direction Home</a></em> in their entirety, a bunch of <em>Rain Dogs</em>-era <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTKT1yOHxzc&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">television commercials</a> with Tom Waits, some random Attractions-era <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxv3BmoosZ8&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">Elvis Costello TV appearances</a>, a 1976 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiJQXkAZ3M4&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">Patti Smith concert</a> from Stockholm, the 1984 doc <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvUbxliCZ74&feature=channel_page" target="_blank">The Compleat Beatles</a></em>, and a bunch more exciting stuff related to Buddy Holly, Fleetwood Mac, and others. I imagine most of this stuff is under pretty heavy copyright control, so it won't be around forever. But for now, most of these clips are sitting at around 25-100 views each. Insane.</p>
<p> Perhaps I'm still reeling from the <a href="/moving-pictures/i-love-the-80s-the-informers-and-adventureland" target="_blank"><em>Adventureland</em></a> soundtrack, but my favorite part of mitaka201's considerable haul has been <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0jFVIaU_Gg&feature=channel_page" target="_blank"><em>A Night With Lou Reed</em></a>, filmed at New York's Bottom Line club in 1983. This is the same tour and band that produced Reed's excellent 1984 LP <em>Live in Italy</em>, but the more intimate venue means that Reed doesn't spend the whole time yelping his vocals to the back row of a stadium. Plus Andy Warhol's in the audience.</p>
<p>At this point, Reed was playing with guitarist Robert Quine (who, both here and on <em>Live in Italy</em>, is conspicuously low in the mix) and fretless bassist Fernando Saunders, both of whom played on Reed's great 1982 studio record <em>The Blue Mask</em>. It's a shame they never get to that album's closer, "Heavenly Arms," but they do take a crack at "Women," the performance of which perhaps features the best band interplay I've heard from this group:</p>
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<p>A continuing <em>domo arigato</em> to mitaka201, a hero for our copyright-be-damned times.</p>
John Lingan
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<p>A user from Japan heroically brings us <em>A Night With Lou Reed</em>, some stray Tom Waits arcana, and a bundle of other goodies.</p>
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