Music Video project

When the year 2000 came along MTV2 decided to play all of their videos from A-Z. I knew it'd be crazy but I just might be able to schedule my life for a bit and be able to record in Stereo and better quality all those songs I grew up watching. See for me music, for the most part, came with the visuals of the music video. So when this was announced I planned and basically used my 2 VCRs and programmed it to record 6 hours on one and 6 hours on the other. MTV2 would show 12 hours of this a day and the start over. So If I missed something between tapes I could get it later. But it worked out fine. The hassle was coming home from work and spending the extra hour or 2 of going through them and and picking the ones I wanted to keep. So I would put a tape on video 1 and fast forward until I found something and then I had a cued a video where I would find the video and record it. and then the next. I had about 16 tapes I would use to tape. so I could be behind a few days before I would run out of tapes. I managed to keep it up until the T. at this point I knew I'd be able to finish the recording with all my tapes and took it easy. So I finished recording but didn't finish editing them. The Project took a whole 3 months and in no way MTV played every video they had, believe me, I know. but they did play most of them.
Recently I was going through my tapes, not just these but all of them. To figure out which ones had stuff I wanted to keep and which ones were just crap, like old Seinfeld episodes or Friends or some old interview or whatever. I was convinced that with YouTube and the Internets I wouldn't have a use for all these videos, but still I'm popping everything in and checking it out so I checked out one of the Mix blends that I had put together. It took but a min and I realized that I did want to keep this stuff. It comes out in CD quality stereo, the picture is much much better than YouTube and it just rocks. It was hard to stop because, like I said, I grew up watching these videos. They were my music collection, which includes these visuals. I lost a lot of time that day watching and then decided to not play those @ all and pile them up.

Right now there's about 24-30 hours of this stuff. But it's only from A-T...basically I still need to finish the project which might take a bit less time by now. I think I have like 13 tapes still unchecked that would be from T-Z @ 6 hours each tape. Thankfully I recognize most of these videos so I don't even have to stop to see what they are. Hopefully before the 10 year anniversary of this project I can finish it eh? Oh but now I have to digitize them so all the ones I already did need to go on a hard drive....more on that on another blog.