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HAPPY RHODES VIDEOS
(live clips)

--> LIST of videos (Alphabetical, with links - quicker load)

These are in chronological order, and is not a complete list (yet). Many more have been added that aren't listed here.


1994

Prism TV - 1994 - Philadelphia, PA

Interview & Feed The Fire (from Warpaint)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyXrAyNzp_I

This appeared on cable in Philadelphia, PA. The interviewer is Helen Leicht, an early supporter of Happy's. This song became a "hit" of sorts at WXPN and was the most-requested song of 1992. They both mention Happy performing two songs, but only one was broadcast. I have no idea what the other song was. I love this solo acoustic version of "Feed the Fire."




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1995

Echoes Living Room Series - May 16, 1995 - Philadelphia, PA
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass

Temporary and Eternal


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVVkbUwprc

This was filmed as the song was being recorded live. This version of the song was released on Happy's album of acoustic versions and rarities, The Keep. The original version appears on Happy's album Equipoise. This was on a video compilation with other artists, and was only sent to a few PBS stations to promote the Living Room Series for Echoes radio show. It was never released to the public. I've been waiting for the hammer to drop and be asked to take it down, but they've been tolerant of it so far. Happy has a lot of beautiful songs about death, but I think this is the most beautiful of all. I like the (very different) album version even better. If my information is correct, Happy also performed Summer, Save Our Souls and Hold Me that day. Maybe someday videos of those will surface.




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1996

Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
May 9, 1996 2nd show
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass

Happy did two shows this night and two shows the next night. 4 shows in 2 nights was like manna from heaven to Happy fans. I had seen her twice before, in Albany, NY at the QE2 on March 18, 1992 and a couple of nights later at the University Museum Auditorium in Philadelphia, PA on March 21, 1992. Those were not videotaped to my knowledge. Between those shows and these shows, Happy performed 8 times (9 if you include the Echoes Living Room Concert), but I missed all of them. My husband and I traveled from Chicago to see these shows, and they were worth the trip. The video of the first show looks atrocious. We were far back and most of it is very shaky.

Here Comes The Flood (Peter Gabriel cover)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMatY-sCIc

That's me a little bit to the right. I was thrilled that Happy was performing a song by my musical god Peter Gabriel. I couldn't help myself and started clapping a bit early, and she bowed to me. *swoon*

If So (from Ecto)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMkLOTSfLc

 

When The Rain Came Down (a bonus track from the CD release of Ecto)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzcMmfGBjY

The mp3 of this song made the rounds of the old, sadly missed, Napster, mislabeled as being a duet between Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. I don't know who did it but I don't think it was on purpose. This song has brought more people to Happy than just about anything else on the internet.

Summer (a previously-unreleased song from RhodeSongs)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eySEHBjaM

Happy never has, to this day, told me whatever it was she was going to tell me. Consequently I have absolutely no idea what this song is about. Unrequited love, I think, based on things she's said at other concerts. I've always thought it was a creepy stalker song though.

The Issue Is (from Rearmament)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdT4cZDzEQ

At several concerts Happy would choose someone from the audience and ask them a question. She'd record the answer and then input that into Kevin's...uh, guitar, it looked like. Whatever, part of the answer would become part of the song. In this case, the answer Happy got to the question "What's the worst thing that's ever happened to you?" turned out to be very horrifying indeed. I still want to hug the guy who saw his friend hurt (dying?) and bleeding after a car crash. However, the answer turned out to be perfect for the song, which is about death, written after Happy saw a girl die in front of her.



Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
May 10, 1996 2nd show
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass

Lily of the Valley/Possessed (Queen cover and Happy original from Rhodes I)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDu8xn6jxOY

I love her mistake. It's funny and jaw-droppingly awesome at the same time. In the middle of "Possessed" Happy gives me a very cute smile because I'm grinning like a loon and bouncing in my chair, hardly able to contain myself at the wonderfulness of it all.

Hold Me (from Building The Colossus)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcXOiiyHE_c

This was the last song of the 2nd show of the evening. Halfway through the song Happy forgets the lyrics and looks right at me! I mouth the words but I'm not quite sure she got them so I call them out. She did get them though, and mouths a quick "thank you" to me. I'm also the one who calls out "You'll make it!" at the end.




The Bottom Line - New York, NY (coming soon)
August 10, 1996
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Kelly Bird: backing vocals




Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
October 12, 1996 1st show
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Kelly Bird: backing vocals

Down Down (from Building The Colossus)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ARhdyo84W8

This is a lot of fun. Happy does a bogus Calvin Klein "commercial" (back when heroin chic was all over the place) and tells the story of walking into a wing-backed chair at a wedding. This is her favorite song. It's about submarines (it was inspired by the movies The Hunt For Red October and Das Boot).

Jork (ended up on Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwaOULuOgM

When she did this song in May it was untitled. At the Bottom Line show in August she said that when she went to save it to her computer there was a Bjork album sitting there and she just took the B off. She eventually retitled it and 2 years later it became the title song of her album Many Worlds Are Born Tonight. Happy makes some amusing goofs during the song, and after she tells people who are taping that they got a really rare version of the song. Keep this running until the very end. Happy's a hoot.

How It Should Be (unreleased)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0rdSFqtMbk

She performed this song several times in concert but it ended up never being released. Well, at least in the US. It was put on the CD of Many Worlds Are Born Tonight as a bonus track for the European release. The studio version can be found on my Rarities page.




Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
October 12, 1996 2nd show
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Kelly Bird: backing vocals

There are two versions of each song because when we first started digitising Happy video, we didn't have access to the original Hi8 tapes (the tapes were fine, but the camera had died several years earlier). Chris digitised these songs from a VHS dub we'd had sitting on the shelf for years. The tape looked terrible with lots of dropouts, plus the harsh lighting over Happy washed her face out. Chris processed the hell out of these and I think it came out very cool-looking, very surreal (especially on the David Bowie song). We got another Hi8 camera on ebay and Chris was able to get a digitization from the original tape. The dropouts and VHS artifacts are gone, but there wasn't much he could do about her face being washed out. I decided to keep the original versions on YouTube.

Space Oddity (David Bowie cover)

Yes, it was as magical and hypnotic live as it seems.


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Zzt3PEwuM


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSCf15tBGqE (color version)

Come Undone (Duran Duran cover)

I love this cover, and how funny Happy is after the song. Be sure to watch it all the way to the end and don't shut it off after the song has finished. Some of the crowd had started clapping halfway through the song, thinking it's over. Happy pokes a bit of fun at them after the song has actually finished. Then she makes fun of herself for saying the next song is the last song (when everyone knows there will be an encore). It's highly amusing.


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzIIJJ-tts


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBidIWMgdY (color version)




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1997

Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA (to come)
March 15, 1997 1st show
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Kelly Bird: backing vocals


Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
March 15, 1997 2nd show
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Kelly Bird: backing vocals

Look For The Child (bonus track on Ecto CD)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMaDkk2d6w

 

All Things (from Warpaint)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACEYTQkoLA

 

Phobos (from Warpaint)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHB6oJZ3Xu0

 

Save Our Souls (from Equipoise)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPJ2HRgtquo

 



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1998

Painted Bride Arts Center - Philadelphia, PA (to come)
October 11, 1998
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Jamie Edwards: keyboards and backing vocals - Carl Adami: bass Paul Huesman: keyboards, some percussion and backing vocals - Bob Muller: drums




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1999

Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
July 24, 1999
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Bob Muller: drums

Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel cover)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyc72RiXE0

 

If Wishes Were Horses How Beggars Would Ride (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyG_g73R0wY

 

Proof (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaUqUtC4xs

 



With Project Lo
Martyrs - Chicago, IL
November 11, 1999
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Hansford Rowe: bass - Paul Ramsey: drums

Happy in Chicago (where I live) for the first time!

Feed The Fire (Acoustic Tribute version, from Happy's album RhodeSongs)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zuMeMx3tnY

 

Collective Heart (from Happy's album Building The Colossus)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l13g3FkUB4w

 

Perfection (Project Lo song, from PL's album Black Canvas)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz1Uy4RYpZc

 

Your Mind (Project Lo song, from PL's album Black Canvas)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywf1GPHrl9Q

 

Rajah (Project Lo song, from PL's album Black Canvas)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXZrt-ow760

 

Station To Station (David Bowie cover)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brf-XgsYDdw

 



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2003

meth&woj's House Concert - New Haven, CT
April 6, 2003 Bob Muller: percussion

Happy had injured her fret hand a couple of years earlier and for a while there it was unclear if she would ever be able to play the guitar again. This was her first live show since the accident. It was magical!

Immortality (Bee Gees cover)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHR1sA_dveU

Happy, a big admirerer of the Bee Gees' songwriting and harmony skills, had seen Celine Dion perform this song on the television special One Night Only.

The First To Cry (from Rhodes I)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjxKnOLRFiA

 

For We Believe (from Rearmament)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMmcFkwSYlE

 

The Chariot (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYINyJYOf28

 

Ra Is A Busy God (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbHQ0rwCBQ

 



Lynn Garrett's House Concert - Toledo, OH
November 9, 2003
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Hansford Rowe: bass - Bob Muller: drums


To Live In Your World (from Warpaint)



Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Cpi4_-i3w

 

And Dream Of Sheep (Kate Bush cover)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoNGpa9tJkg

I had been begging Happy for years to sing a full Kate song live (as opposed to a few painfully short snippets here and there). I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!




Chip&Jo's House Concert - Kenosha, WI
November 11, 2003
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Hansford Rowe: bass - Bob Muller: drums

Can't Let Go (from Happy's unreleased album Find Me)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvAvMWdlM4

 

And Dream Of Sheep (Kate Bush cover)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmxM6Rjx2u4

I had passed out these tiny glow sticks before the show, intending to break them out when she went offstage (er, out of the living room) for the encore. She decided it would be silly to walk out of the room and so chose not to do an encore. I broke my glow stick out anyway and some other people did too. When Happy asked what they were I said they were "little lights shining" to try and get her to perform this song again, which she did. She didn't kick me..ha.




Martyrs - Chicago, IL
November 12, 2003
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Hansford Rowe: bass - Bob Muller: drums

You can see how dark this is. I don't know if we'll be able to get anything else useful from this show.

Fame snippet (David Bowie song)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Ml7NW-KDQ

This clip was extracted because my husband mentioned Happy doing it and the person was very keen to hear it. From what I understand, Bowie's original used a pitch shifter and perhaps other studio wizardry to do this (not to take anything away from the brilliant Bowie).




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2005

Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
January 29, 2005
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Hansford Rowe: bass - Bob Muller: drums


Into The West (Annie Lennox cover from The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of the King)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiWrIe3UR3A

Pride (from Building The Colossus)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_H7zT42_BY

Lay Me Down (from Warpaint)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyt-5-BrvXQ

The Chariot (with story) (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFjEWaD2W1A

Fall (from unreleased album Find Me)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90j7d1xpt-M

The Chosen One (from unreleased album Find Me)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4PTtcVh5s

The Suicide Song (bonus track on Rhodes I CD)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlskPABN_zY

To The Funnyfarm (from Rhodes II)


Direct YouTube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5oE-rVOR2M



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