eBay?

mojo2007:

I have just received a DVD from Scotland which was sold under the John Denver 1973 banner. It includes 5 of his 6 BBC shows and Pans are on screen for over half an hour. The down side is that , whilst speckle free , many of the images are rather wishy washy, and the girls often share the screen. However the plus side is that there about 15 different occasions they are on screen and they looked beautiful and beautifully relaxed. They really did react well to an audience.

Now lets see if we can get anything from tvinsider on youtube

John

mojo2007:

I have no idea if it is legal.

The documentary that I have seen is called Diggin' the dancing Queens. I think it was repeated about the time that TOTP was dropped. It has been sold on ebay in last few years. The really rare item is In Concert, I tried to get a copy from a BBC friend about 1976/7 and he said that it was in Fort Knox. I have only seen one advert for In Concert and paid about £25 if I remember correctly.

mojo2007:

PP photo sold today to German collector. he paid £127 for a small picture signed by Ruth. I was watching it with a view to bidding but no way would I have spent so much

pastpanfan:

Quote from: mojo2007 on May 04, 2009, 09:33:40 AM
...It sold for £180 ! Why does the BBC not see that there is a profitable market for Pans to this day ?

Yep, totally agree-about the Beebs ignorance/erroneous-thinking, that is. I commented on this before. I once actually enquired to the BBC about 'Pans people DVDs'...and essentially the response I got argued that the copyright on the music would be prohibitive (presumably BBC of course still hold copyright on the actual video dance footage).

However, that argument doesn't really wash...there have been countless examples of retrospective music DVDs (TOTP for a start, and here in Oz a programme called 'Countdown', plus many other examples). So I don't buy into that argument they then peddled -about 9 years ago I asked I think! (they probably still peddle this argument of course).

What it means though is that the BBC are not doing their 'scoping/market homework' into such a venture. Nostalgic interest in the 70s is fairly high I reckon and Christmas DVDs spread over a few years -asay 30% tp 50% guaranteed present for any male of adolescent age in the 70s-you know for Grandad/Dad -plus some more younger fans would catch it. As Vivian in the Young One used to say 'the potential markets enormous!!'

I haven't yet bought any Pans stuff on ebay though. ...I'm always considering, but would seriously consider reasonably priced DVDs -esp one with the infamous rare 'Down Down' -Status Quo.
Having said that if 'official DVDs' were available then we should all be buying those... royalties should clearly be going to the Pans members themselves.

pastpanfan:

Quote from: mojo2007 on May 09, 2009, 05:16:48 PM
Before the auction ended I tracked down the seller and offered him a sum for a photocopy. Obviously I cannot make commercial use of the copied pages but I have taken a photo of Ruth from the material for this site . I will see if there is anything that others may be interested in. It does raise some questions about sources of information. Apart from here, there is the pans site which appears to be a subset of the Sarah Brightman site but never appears to be updated, Wikipedia, and BBC stuff. Is there anything else ?

Heyup ...
That photo of Ruth would be great to put up. Is that the image you used for your 'avatar' pic? Interesting one of Ruth I reckon. Could you load a bigger version? Or link to same?

As to other stuff/sites, are you speaking of the 'Unofficial Pans' site (the one with the old ATV emblem on it (for those old enough to recall that)? I wasn't aware of it being related to a Sarah Brightman site though.

The BBC microsite most should be aware of (not touched for a few years now except one or two amendments to wallpaper images-grab em now while they're still there!). That has the Ruth interview of course -[and what about that 'mucky questionable handkerchief' tale Ruth mentions. Somehow I think of an 'Albert Steptoe' (or possibly an excited spotty 14 year old) sending it in as a 'pressy' for them. Seedy or what?]

Theres the three yahoo sites, there are two (Panfans) that are precursors to this site. Panfans2 was meant to be a further repository for files/pics cos Panfans was 'filling up'. Theres also one called 'PansPeople', but these sites seem fairly dead. I think I posted last (Panfans) when this site went down a few weeks ago! Plus I put a screensaver on the Panfans site.

In terms of 'info' though...not much else I reckon to those you mention. Though there's a few retrospective TOTP type sites with sections covering Pan people. Typical standard info' available though.

I think its a shame that Dee Dees book fell through a year or so ago...that would have been a great little insiders view of info on Pans.

-be 'seeing' you

panzfan:

theres loads of free pic hosting sites like tinypic or imageshack.
you then insert the url of the pic in your forum postings by clicking
the 4th option on the lower row & inserting pic url between the brackets

heres the girls in 74 on totp to kc sunshine band

mojo2007:

There a couple of items on ebay. I may bid for the Record Mirror item.
All Cherry fans should look at the Pink item where there is a lovely picture
John