Here is another nice gem from my archive, a very good french re-broadcast.

Excellent stuff, really recommended. Artwork included. 

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NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY 1968
TV Studio
Paris (France)
December 31, 1968 
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The WHO
01 - I Can't See For Miles
02 - I'm A Boy
03 - Magis Bus

Roger Daltrey : vocals
Peter Townshend : guitar, vocals
John Entwistle : bass
Keith Moon : drums

SMALL FACES
01 - Odgen's Nut Gone Flake
02 - Song Of A Baker
03 - Rollin' Over

Steve Marriott : guitar, vocal
Ian McLagan : keyboards
Ronnie Lane : bass
Kenny Jones : drums

BOOKER T & The MG's ... "Bibelot - London (England) - unknown date"
01 - Green Onions
02 - Hooker Loo

Booker T Jones : organ
Steve Cropper : guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn : bass
Al Jackson : drums

PINK FLOYD ... "Psychedelic - London (England) - unknown date"
01 -  Let There Be More Light

David Gilmour : guitar, vocals
Richard Wright : keyboards, vocals
Roger Waters : bass, vocals
Nick Mason : drums

The EQUALS
01 - Softly Softly
02 - Equality
03 - Baby Come Back

Derv Gordon - lead vocals
Lincoln Gordon - guitar
Eddy Grant - guitar
Pat Lloyd - bass guitar
John Hall - drums

Les VARIATIONS (french band)
01 - Around & Around
02 - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
03 - Satisfaction

Joe Lebb : vocals
Marc Tobaly : guitar
Jacques “Petit Pois” Grande : bass
Jacky Bitton : drums

The TROGGS
01 - I Can't Control Myself
02 - Peggy Sue
03 - Somewhere My Girl Is Waiting

Reg Presley : vocals
Chris Britton : guitar
Pete Staples : bass
Ronnie Bond : drums

JOE COCKER ... (Tour de Nesles - Paris - unknown date)
01 - I Shall Be Released
02 - With A Little Help From My Friends

+ The Grease Band ??

FLEETWOOD MAC
01 - Homework
02 - My Baby Sweet
03 - Dust My Broom

Peter Green : guitar, vocals
Jeremy Spencer : slide guitar, piano, vocals
Danny Kirwan : guitar
John McVie : bass
Mick Fleetwood : drums

Notes : What a surprise to discover this rebroadcast on a small french tv channel (TV Melody) ... a good trip to the ending 60's.
What a dream to gather such bands in the same studio for a New Years's Eve party ...
All the sets are live except The Who & Small Faces (almost live !) ...

Total time : 94 min
Artwork : no

Lineage : ProShot video PAL - Télé Melody sur le câble (january 2010) - First broadcasted on french tv for the 1968 New Year's Eve party (4h long)

LG DVD Recorder (RH7500) on DVD-R (SQ) > DVD Decrypter > DVD on HD

video stream: PAL system MPEG2 (4800 kbps) - 720x576 - 25 f/s
Audio streams: AC3 - 224 kb/s - 48 KHz - Mono
Fully authored in TMPGEnc DVD Author 3 ...

G-Spot says:
DVD "VOB" format
MPEG-2 Program Stream << { 1 vid, 1 aud }
Sys Bitrate: 10080 kb/s VBR

Video:
PAL
4:3
kbps    4956
Interlaced
Top Field First
Pics/s       25.00
Frms/s      25.00
pic(w x h) 720x576

Audio:
AC3  CBR
0xbd[0x80]:48000Hz  224 kb/s tot , stereo (2/0)

An amazing historical document from December 1968. This period marked a crossroads in classic rock...you have bands on their way out (Small Faces, Troggs, Booker T & The MGs, The Equals) and bands on their way up (The Who, Pink Floyd, Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac).

Many interesting things about these bands during this period. For instance, Pink Floyd had just canned Sid Barrett in April of this year. So this is a very early performance of Floyd with their new guitarist/singer, David Gilmour. It also marked the beginning of Waters assuming more of a songwriting role.

The Equals featured Eddy Grant of "Electric Avenue" fame on guitar and vocals, sporting blonde hair too! A very cool band I never knew about it.

Legendary singer/guitarist Steve Mariott of Small Faces, reportedly walked offstage during this performance, leaving the band for good. However, I didn't see it in this broadcast version.

Last but not least, this is the "holy grail" for early Fleetwood Mac fans. Very rare footage of the band featuring their classic lineup. With only two albums under their belt, the Mac consisted of Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer and Peter Green (who was soon on his way out).

There's more, but you get the idea... of the American/British rock acts who played this gig, it was a nice slice of classic rock history, preserved very nicely in this 2010 rebroadcast.

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