PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION - ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED
This performance belongs to a 4-song set that Pizzicato Five performed for a FujiTV program in 1998. These two songs that I uploaded are from the rare, 7-disc Band of the 20th Century DVD box set, disc 7. The other two songs from the set are Baby Portable Rock and Such a Beautiful Girl Like You.
What I need help with is finding the recording of those two, particularly Such a Beautiful Girl Like You. There used to be an upload here on KZfaq that contained Tokyo the Night is Young and Such a Beautiful Girl from this Factory performance, with a brief clip of their interview from the concert in-between them, but it got removed along with the vast majority of P5 uploads in a mass-copyright claim in 2019 leading up to the release of a new P5 comp. It appeared to be a recording directly off of TV, as you could hear the announcer mentioning the sponsors at the end while Such a Beautiful Girl fade out.
Since then, I have not been able to find that performance of Such a Beautiful Girl Like You anywhere, not in audio or video format. As far as I can tell, it doesn't appear to be on any official releases or bootlegs that I can find. There is a FujiTV website for the Factory venue/show that is still up and running, and that used to host RealPlayer streams of each song from the performance, both in audio and video formats. While the RealPlayer files are still downloadable, the streams they direct to are no longer present. The site also contains posters from the concert, as well as a text transcription of the aforementioned interview. I'll leave the link here:
www.fujitv.co.jp/FACTORY/LOT0...
I also found an old discussion thread on the Shonen Knife forums containing the old KZfaq link. I'll leave the forum and KZfaq links below:
shonenknife.proboards.com/pos...
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Back when the upload disappeared, I was able to do a date-based Google search, and the upload seemed to belong to KZfaq user named Yuji Nakao. There are two KZfaqr users by that name, and I believe the uploader is the one I'll link below:
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I tried leaving a comment on their page, but got no response. There have not been any uploads on it for six years, so it's hard to say whether they saw it or not.
And those are all the clues I have. If anyone can help me track down that Factory performance of Such a Beautiful Girl like you, I would be incredibly grateful. It's literally one of my favorite recordings of all-time, and the idea that I might never hear it again is profoundly distressing. It's so unfortunate that it was copyright stricken without even being something that's available to consumers. A performance like that should be preserved, and I'll be sure to do so in every way I can should I get a hold of it.
I should mention that I've tried general contact with FujiTV, Konishi and Maki, and haven't gotten any responses. I'm all out of ideas to track this down, and hoping someone seeing this video might have some information I don't, and be able to reunite me with this treasure of a recording.