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Automatic Pilot video
Live at Valencia Rose
San Francisco 12/15/1982

This performance was videotaped in 1982 and recorded on VHS. The surviving copy, saved for all these years by Automatic Pilot drummer John Orlando, was restored and formatted for the web in 2006.

NEW!! 11/13/06 View these videos on YouTube. Just click on the YouTube link next to the song title to view each video from YouTube's website, or click the following link to view all videos as one playlist on YouTube's website.

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Smart Woman
(5:02)
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Primal Beat
(5:07)
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Why Are You Asking?
(3:13)
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Bitter Taste
(5:45)
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Prelude to a Quaalude
(3:44)
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Doughnut Shop Dream
(8:33)
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(19.1 MB)
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Matthew McQueen: Variations On Blues
(2:43)
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(6.16 MB)
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(3.31 MB)
John Selby: Alien Native Son
(5:02)
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Tribute to Steve and John (spoken)
(2:37)
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(2.64 MB)
Are You In Love?
(2:56)
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(4.42 MB)
Clone Butt
(4:37)
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(6.78 MB)
Hydrophobia / Bobbing for Apples
(3:30)
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(7.66 MB)
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(4.97 MB)
Killer Purses
(3:27)
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(7.58 MB)
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(5.25 MB)
Sit On My Face
(3:14)
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(6.94 MB)
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These sessions also produced recordings of the following cover songs:
  • Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Orchestra originally by Frank Zappa
  • Little House I Used To Live In origianlly by Frank Zappa
  • Igor's Boogie originally by Frank Zappa
  • All Blues, originally by Miles Davis
DMUSIC the independent digital music community
The videos are currently unavailable due to copyright restrictions. However, the audio from these recordings may be heard at automaticpilot.dmusic.com which has licenses to host cover recordings - more info here.

Performed live by Automatic Pilot.
Personnel:

  • Matthew McQueen, lead vocals
  • Karl Brown, piano, vocals
  • Tony Kramedas, vocals
  • Tom Gschwind, violin, vocals
  • John Selby, saxophone, flute, spoken word
  • Steve Graham, string bass
  • John Orlando, drums

How to play these videos:
The hi-fi MPEG4 versions were encoded using H.264 compression technology, and require a recent version of Apple's Quicktime, the open-source freeware VLC Media Player or another player with H.264 capability in order to play properly. They look and sound great (within the limitations of the original VHS tape). The lo-fi MPEG1 versions should work on any player, but are much grainier. The links in the table below link directly to the video files on this web server. To play the video with your default video player, left click the link. To save the video on your computer, right click the link. If you are not sure what your default player is, or the video does not play properly after left-clicking, then you should right click and save it, then open it from the player that works best for you. These video files are large and may take a long time to download, especially on slow Internet connections. Please be patient. All songs by Karl Brown and Matthew McQueen unless otherwise noted. Copyright 1982, 2006 Brown and McQueen Music (ASCAP) You may download these file for your personal use only.

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