Paying Off The National Ransom - A Video Compilation DVD

[docinwestchester]

Available on Demonoid:

http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2522120/7313600/

"Paying Off The National Ransom"
A Compilation DVD of Promotional Appearances

Elvis Costello - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Pete Thomas - drums

The Sugarcanes:
Jerry Douglas - dobro, lap steel, mandolin
Stuart Duncan - violin
Mike Compton - mandolin, vocals
Jim Lauderdale - guitar, vocals
Jeff Taylor - accordion
Dennis Crouch - double bass

The Roots:
Black Thought - MC
Questlove - drums
Kamal Gray - keyboards
F. Knuckles - percussion
Captain Kirk Douglas - guitar
Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson - sousaphone
Owen Biddle - bass
James Poyser - keyboards
Dice Raw - MC

John McLauglin - guitar

Audio:
AC3
48000 Hz
384 kb/s
6 channels

Video:
MPEG2
720x480
4:3
NTSC

Artwork by colinb9



Elvis Costello And Dennis Crouch
Later Live... with Jools Holland
BBC
Recorded October 26, 2010

01 A Slow Drag With Josephine (version 1)
02 One Bell Ringing
03 Interview
04 A Slow Drag With Josephine (version 2)


Elvis Costello
Front Row
BBC Radio 4
October 28, 2010

05 Jimmie Standing In The Rain


Elvis Costello And The Sugarcanes With Pete Thomas
Late Show With David Letterman
CBS
November 1, 2010

06 Interview
07 National Ransom
08 Jimmie Standing In The Rain


Elvis Costello And The Sugarcanes With Pete Thomas
AOL Sessions
November 2, 2010

09 Interview
10 A Slow Drag With Josephine
11 Jimmie Standing In The Rain
12 The Spell That You Cast
13 Everyday I write The Book
14 National Ransom


Elvis Costello And The Sugarcanes With Pete Thomas
Live From The Artists Den
PBS
November 2, 2010

15 A Slow Drag With Josephine
16 National Ransom


Elvis Costello
Morning Joe
MSNBC
November 3, 2010

17 Interview
18 A Slow Drag With Josephine


Elvis Costello
Words & Music From Studio A
WFUV FM
November 3, 2010

19 Interview and The Spell That You Cast


Elvis Costello
The Colbert Report
Comedy Central
November 4, 2010

20 Interview
21 A Slow Drag With Josephine
22 All I Have To Do Is Dream (w/Steven Colbert)


Elvis Costello and The Roots with John McLaughlin
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
NBC
November 5, 2010

23 Interview
24 Audience Song
25 Stations Of The Cross
26 Black And White World


Elvis Costello
The Steve Earle Show
Sirius XM Radio
November 6, 2010

27 Interview
28 National Ransom


Elvis Costello
BBC Radio 5
Dec 14, 2010

29 A Voice In The Dark


Elvis Costello
BBC News
Dec 15, 2010

30 Interview and A Voice In The Dark

[Pigalle]

Not wishing to be greedy or anything but does anyone have an invitation code or similar way of registering. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[krm]

Thanx! "we are not worthy"

[EarlManchester]

This is an extraordinary collection!

Can't thank you enough for all your work on this.

[Jeremy Dylan]

Tremendous work, Doctor!

[jardine]

i get it. i'm old and dense. but this seems to be a site which you can no longer register on--seems to say that in the upper right hand corner. duh. am i missing something?

[sulky lad]

I didn't try to register but just started downloading and though it's taken about 24 hours I'm on 94.2% so fingers crossed and a huge thanks to the doc !!

[jardine]

when i click on "download the torrent" all i get is a five second download of nothing at all...? sulky, are you hitting a button i'm missing on the site? i'm pushing the thing right beside someting that says "here to download as text file"

man, these things are really easy if you know what to do, and they are impossible if you don't. my apologies for taking up board space on this...

[scamp]

@Jardine - You probably just downloaded the torrent file. You need to open that in your torrent client to start downloading.

[docinwestchester]

For those of you struggling with the torrent and can't get it to work for you, PM me and I'll snailmail the DVD. I already have a few requests, but please PM me again as a reminder.

BTW, the time you spend mastering the "art of torrenting" will pay tremendous dividends in the future because the amount of incredible music being shared by torrents is mind-boggling. It took me a solid 2-3 weeks and a lot of help from "the kindness of strangers" to figure it all out, but now I've got an external hard drive with > 1000 GB of music and videos that will last a lifetime!

[scamp]

BTW, the time you spend mastering the "art of torrenting" will pay tremendous dividends in the future because the amount of incredible music being shared by torrents is mind-boggling. It took me a solid 2-3 weeks and a lot of help from "the kindness of strangers" to figure it all out, but now I've got an external hard drive with > 1000 GB of music and videos that will last a lifetime!

So true. Thanks to the kindness of many. I am looking at another external 500GB or more just for my Costello stuff.

[watercamp]

A very excellent compilation of TV appearances.

Several smoking performances of "National Ransom" as well as many other fine songs from the album.

I love the duet with Steven Colbert on the Everly's "All I Have To Do Is Dream"

The Late Night With Jimmy Fallon featuring The Roots and John McLaughlin backing EC is a must see and hear.

Downloading is a reality of modern life but I also support my favorite artists by buying their art!

[docinwestchester]

A very excellent compilation of TV appearances.

Several smoking performances of "National Ransom" as well as many other fine songs from the album.

I love the duet with Steven Colbert on the Everly's "All I Have To Do Is Dream"

The Late Night With Jimmy Fallon featuring The Roots and John McLaughlin backing EC is a must see and hear.

Downloading is a reality of modern life but I also support my favorite artists by buying their art!

Thanks for the comments. Putting this together gave me appreciation for several things, including:

1. The title song is amazing live. The album version is awful.
2. I didn't care for Stations of the Cross until the Roots/JML version. Now I love the song, both versions.
3. One Bell Ringing on Later Live....with Jools Holland is hauntingly beautiful, just like the album version.
4. Check out EC after singing NR on Letterman. He's downright giddy, dancing a little jig while Dave wraps things up. Just before that, Dave calls Jim "Pete", mistaking him for one Pete Thomas, obviously.
5. EC worked like a dog for 2 wks promoting this album.
6. The internet is amazing. Thank you Al Gore for inventing it!

[watercamp]

Did I say "smoking"?...the Letterman performance is "blistering", the band is on fire, EC is giddy because he's almost passing out from lack of oxygen.

Great work putting all these together, thanks again.

[Pigalle]

Having now watched this, can I just echo everyone's comments on what a wonderful job docinwestchester has done in putting this compilation together; thank you sir, you are a star.

[krm]

Agree! agree! can´t thank Doc enough for this. Absolutely wonderful.

I suddenly realised that this is probably the first time I see web exclusive EC Video material torrented. Does someone actually have copies of Jimmy Fallon from 2009 (Chelsea w The Roots) or the wonderful version of My Three Sons from CBS, also in 2009?
None of these are available on the web as far as I can see.

ANyone????

[watercamp]

Video compilations from previous years/albums sounds like a fine idea to me (heheheh!)

[Ypsilanti]

Doc,
Would you be willing to trade a DVD of this for another batch of brownies?
Ypsi

[docinwestchester]

Doc,
Would you be willing to trade a DVD of this for another batch of brownies?
Ypsi

Of course. I PM'd you.

[docinwestchester]

Agree! agree! can´t thank Doc enough for this. Absolutely wonderful.

I suddenly realised that this is probably the first time I see web exclusive EC Video material torrented. Does someone actually have copies of Jimmy Fallon from 2009 (Chelsea w The Roots) or the wonderful version of My Three Sons from CBS, also in 2009?
None of these are available on the web as far as I can see.

ANyone????

Portion of 2009 interview with Fallon:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb8aq3 ... rview_news

The two songs with The Roots - Chelsea and High Fidelity have expired from Hulu and I can't find them anywhere either. Sad...

[jardine]

got through about four songs from this lovely thing and frankly, right now, it feels too sad to watch, somehow. hard to describe exactly why, but i don't recall in e.c.s career there being this wide a gap between quality (extraordinary) and "results" in reviews, best-ofs for the year, sales and so on.

thanks for making this. maybe in a few months i'll be able to manage watching it without a weird sense of regret and bewilderment...