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For Promotion Only - Tokyo Band (1984)
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Portland heavy metal band Tokyo featured on Portland Cable Access show For Promotion Only hosted by Diane Crowell broadcast live on November 28, 1984 and recorded to VHS tape. This recording is only the Tokyo featured segment of the show and not the entire broadcast. John Lowell Martin and Bill DiBacco are the interview guests and the segment includes 3 music videos prerecorded in the cable access studio from the band's demo tape cassette release Grab What You Can. This show was originally directed by Dan Halvorson and produced by Halvorson and Crowell. More info about the band can be found here: https://pdx.fandom.com/wiki/Tokyo This 2021 re-edit used NeatLab Neat Video Noise Reduction plugin for Final Cut Pro X to digitally remove a large amount of video tape noise from the 35+ year old VHS tape after it had been captured/up-converted to a high quality 1080p HD codec. The stereo master tapes of the featured songs were added to the soundtrack in order to improve the quality of the audio track and noise filters were used on the mono interview segments. Some light editing to fix original broadcast errors and modern intro/end title cards were added for the new 2021 broadcast master i…
Directors & creators
Portland Cable Access
Subjects
music, rock, metal, 1980s, portland, pdx, 1984, tokyo band, interview, cable access, vhs, video tape, retro
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