From 1983 to 2007, I was a dedicated music video collector, exchanging tapes with enthusiasts across Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, and Japan. In 2017, I decided to share these rare recordings on YouTube to preserve and celebrate this incredible history. I do not claim to own the copyright of any recordings on this channel. This channel is not monetised, you may see adverts on some of these videos and the revenue from those goes direct to the copyright holders or publishing companies.
How I Can Help
If you're an artist or represent a band seeking rare video recordings, feel free to get in touch! Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of supplying rare footage to some of the biggest names in music. If I can assist, I will.
Watermarks.
Watermarks appear on all videos, so that when other channels download them from here and share them on their channels, it is clear where the source for the original recordings is from.
ScottishTeeVee
Here in Scotland, it is Friday 5th June, 17.30 and I just shared a new video which includes The Sex Pistols, Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie and more. BUT, if you are in the USA you will not be able to watch this video unless you use a VPN. Because google has blocked this video entirely to viewers from the USA, Russia and Belarus. As far as I am aware if you download the browser called Opera, you can get a free VPN, switch it on and then look for YouTube, then this channel and let me know if it worked for you. I am posting here about this, because as far as I know subscribers in those countries do not even get notified when a new video is shared by myself or others when it is blocked to you. Have a great weekend folks.
4 weeks ago | [YT] | 164
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ScottishTeeVee
This really is the 2012 version of a YouTube play button award for having 100,000 subscribers and it is mine. For another channel I still operate on YouTube but which gets far more views on Rumble
1 month ago | [YT] | 61
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ScottishTeeVee
Today, 21st May, this channel publicly went over the 80 Million views total, I say publicly because on the channel analytics which only I can see, though a screenshot is attached, I am at almost 81 Million views, I am not sure if the views from shorts is included in the public total. Another difference is the amount of videos, I have had about 40 removed over recent years and there are others which are uploaded and visible to people, but only if they watch a video until the very end at which point the links appear too other performances from bands such as Sex Pistols, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Robbie Williams and more, none of these videos is included in the total for the channel. I have not shared as many videos recently simply because I have other things going on in a life far removed from this YouTube channel, which is really just a pastime, but rest assured that lots more recordings are on the way and if this YouTube account ever vanishes you will find me already sharing video on another platform called Rumble.
1 month ago | [YT] | 96
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ScottishTeeVee
Happy New Year folks, thanks for your support over the past 12 months. I hope to continue doing this for another 12 months, but I'm not sure that is going to be possible, however we will see what may come. Yesterday I shared a Clash documentary in full, most liked it, a few moaned about it and to be fair I find it a little difficult to watch, to much padding from old news footage etc. An old friend is a mad Clash fan, but he does not like that documentary at all, so I had made an abridged version for him with all the clash material and a few bits for continuity. It was only meant to be shared with him, but I thought a few of you might appreciate the shorter version more than the long one. So here it is https://youtu.be/-wU0RrCRTcM
6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 142
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ScottishTeeVee
Unfortunately due to a copyright claim, from JOKS PRODUCTIONS LTD, of which Sharon Osbourne is a director, I have decided to remove all videos relating to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. This only amounted to around one million views. So if you are subscribed to this channel due to those videos, then I am sorry to say there will never be anything from Ozzy on this channel ever again.
6 months ago | [YT] | 96
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ScottishTeeVee
How did this channel perform in July? Well, monthly views were up by about 150,000 to over 1.1 Million, taking the channel total to over 72 Million views. Subscriber numbers were up by over 2000 to 155,000. YouTube is still refusing to award the channel a silver play button which is given when YouTube channels achieve 100,000 subscribers. Five videos were blocked outright in July by The Gogo's, Eric Clapton, James Brown & more, not specifically by those artists, but by company's who own the copyright / publishing rights of the artists music or company who originally broadcast the recording. None of the blocked videos had a significant amount of views, so no real loss to the channel. One recent video, which I shared last week, has been removed by me, it's Frank Zappa live in London, which had a 90 second improvised performance prior to the band rolling into a track called King Kong. A few friends told me that they never even got to the performance of King Kong, the improv had put them off and they had left the video after about 30 seconds. So I have edited the first 90 seconds out and will share it once again this evening. So what's on the way? Well as always with this channel, there is no plan of release, I have digitised many items from tapes, which I had considered of interest for sharing, but I had a change of mind with most of the items and now I am back looking through tapes looking for whatever.
If you have any old VHS, Beta, video8, DV tapes that you wish to share but don't have the tech to do so, then drop me a message, I am happy to accept your old tapes, share bits of them here on the channel, give you credit on every item used, keep the tapes in safe store here or return them with digital copies.
11 months ago | [YT] | 78
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ScottishTeeVee
This channel just drifted past the Seventy Million views mark and a few days ago passed the 150,000 subscriber mark. Nine videos have over a Million views with another just a few hundred short of the Million, it will probably hit the magic million tomorrow. A massive Thank You, to all you good people who watch the videos, especially those who comment, it helps the channel so much and helps to keep me going on the occasional time when I feel like giving up. I read every comment made on all the videos, I enjoy the ones where people share memories of gigs they attended, bands they met, bands or venues that people worked at.
So what's coming? I really do not know, it's all still very random, just whatever tape catches my eye and not just my tapes. Over the last few years a few people have sent me boxes of tapes, recorded from TV, shows I missed, each requested a certain degree of anonymity, so thanks to 'Gaz & Maggie" 'The Mad Jock' and 'Mike M' for sharing tapes that would otherwise have went to landfill. If you have tapes gathering dust, drop me an email scottishteevee@gmail.com
1 year ago (edited) | [YT] | 136
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ScottishTeeVee
A good few videos I have shared here on YT recently have been blocked outright, worldwide, some are not available anywhere else, such as the recent concert from YES. So I am asking you to download, share and save any videos from this channel and any others that you like, before they vanish. Go to my Patreon account for a free to view post where I advise on what to use. YouTube does not allow me to share a link to my Patreon account, so just go to Google and search for 'scottishteevee patreon'
1 year ago | [YT] | 101
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ScottishTeeVee
This channel is now on TiKTok. Since many others are taking video from this channel, editing it and sharing it on there, I thought I'd better do the same. Long versions of the videos will still appear here on YouTube.
https://www.tiktok.com/@scottishteevee
1 year ago | [YT] | 103
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ScottishTeeVee
A plug for another YouTube channel. You might have noticed that my musical taste is all over the place. So here's my brother from another mother on the other side of the world and I'd swear he is rummaging through my record collection, watching his videos is almost spooky. Tell Ben I sent you
1 year ago | [YT] | 20
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