ALCHEMY DVD to be released at last in 2010.!! (Am i dreaming)

[superval99]

LOG is included on "Dire Straits, The Videos" on VHS.

[dustyvalentino]

LOG is included on "Dire Straits, The Videos" on VHS.

This is on VCD too, think I have a possibly not legit copy somewhere. 

[Jules]

The fact that they put the Love over gold live video in the THE VIDEOS vhs means to me that they have the whole recording, and I always thought that when you put the old vhs to dvd / blueray you go for the original masters, and at the masters of the filming it should be all the recording, unless they decided to erase all not released material and LO still exists as it was released as a b-side in vynil single, and in the cd and tape edition of Alchemy.

[Hoops McCann]

LOG is included on "Dire Straits, The Videos" on VHS.

I forgot about that one, thanks! That's probably the source.

[Jon]

The fact that they put the Love over gold live video in the THE VIDEOS vhs means to me that they have the whole recording, and I always thought that when you put the old vhs to dvd / blueray you go for the original masters, and at the masters of the filming it should be all the recording, unless they decided to erase all not released material and LO still exists as it was released as a b-side in vynil single, and in the cd and tape edition of Alchemy.

Certainly you would imagine that there's a good chance of LOG being somewhere in the vaults in a reasonable state.  As for the completely unreleased portions, the problem is that if the other material was never intended for release then there is a good chance that the sources for the video portions of that unreleased content literally ended up on the cutting room floor.  This has happened with several 80s concert videos as the idea of a long format concert video was considered 'too much' by many labels (see Genesis - Three sides Live for possibly the worst example) and in many cases the unused footage is lost.  Rush have even been asking people who worked on the original projects to come forward if they know where the extra footage is for some of their videos.