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)
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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." |
1995
Echoes Living Room Series - May 16, 1995 - Philadelphia, PA
Kevin Bartlett: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass
Temporary and Eternal
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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. |
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)
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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)
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When The Rain Came Down (a bonus track from the CD release of Ecto)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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)
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All Things (from Warpaint)
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Phobos (from Warpaint)
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Save Our Souls (from Equipoise)
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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
1999
Tin Angel - Philadelphia, PA
July 24, 1999
Bon Lozaga: electric guitar - Carl Adami: bass - Bob Muller: drums
Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel cover)
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If Wishes Were Horses How Beggars Would Ride (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)
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Proof (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)
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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)
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Collective Heart (from Happy's album Building The Colossus)
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Perfection (Project Lo song, from PL's album Black Canvas)
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Your Mind (Project Lo song, from PL's album Black Canvas)
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Rajah (Project Lo song, from PL's album Black Canvas)
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Station To Station (David Bowie cover)
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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)
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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)
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For We Believe (from Rearmament)
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The Chariot (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)
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Ra Is A Busy God (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)
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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)
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And Dream Of Sheep (Kate Bush cover)
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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)
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And Dream Of Sheep (Kate Bush cover)
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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)
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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). |
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)
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Pride (from Building The Colossus)
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Lay Me Down (from Warpaint)
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The Chariot (with story) (from Many Worlds Are Born Tonight)
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Fall (from unreleased album Find Me)
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The Chosen One (from unreleased album Find Me)
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The Suicide Song (bonus track on Rhodes I CD)
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To The Funnyfarm (from Rhodes II)
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