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Exclusive Video On TJI! Tom, Joss Stone At Rockwell 9-11
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
We Tom Jones fans — especially those who visit this site are — very, very fortunate because so many of this segment of the fan community are so generous with their time and resources.
Today’s case in point: Liz.
Liz went to the 02 on Friday, saw the show, recorded it and, after working to compress almost one gigabyte of raw footage down to a workable size, sent it to me to put together as one video.
In it you’ll see just about all of Tom’s performance: he and Joss Stone singing It’s Your Thing, Tom singing Sex Bomb and It’s Not Unusual and, then, the entire cast singing Let It Be, the finale chosen that evening by the audience who picked it that night over the other choice With A Little Help From My Friends.
So, with great thanks to Liz — and bearing in mind it was shot from the audience without professional video and/or sound equipment — please check out the video.
You can watch the it in the TJI.com Video Library.
Note that the band in this video is quite likely the band that will be touring with Tom in Europe.
AND! Soon we’ll have video of Rockwell, along with one of the most charming reviews I ever read from Chas and Rosina.
Until then, Dre sent TJI this link to youtube video of Tom and Joss that shows his entrance. The problem, from my point of view and what kept me from editing this and posting it in the video library, is that it’s pretty much a shoot of the jumbotron screen so it’s like a video shot while watching TV. Hoping for better soon!
September 16th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
INCREDIBLE video the vocals are so awesome and Tom looks like he really is having a BALL at the concert,there are no words to express the gratitude for the job you do Ellen FRIENDS THRU TOM Ed
September 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Thanks for post this videos here, Ellen!!!
Regards from Spain
September 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Joss is having a ball to, she really enjoys singing with tom.
There is some chemistry, they could do a re run of the janis joplin duet “raise youre hand”, but even better does anyone out there have a new great song they could record?.
September 17th, 2009 at 1:37 am
I can’t believe that I have just seen Tom reading from a sheet.This looks bad.It reminds me of when he did’nt get the words right to the welsh anthem.His advisers should get him to check the words out before hand!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:23 am
What is this obsession with Tom reading from a sheet,Elvis used to do it on stage in concert on songs he had sung hundreds of times,if we could do better we would be making the world happy with our music like Tom does,in other words get over it,I sometimes have trouble rembering what day it is and I am 15 years younger than Tom,geez enough already
September 17th, 2009 at 10:22 am
I second that Ed.
September 18th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Thank you Liz for taking the time to do this and thank you Ellen for posting. i agree with Dre on the Janis duet they sound great together.
About the sheet music the brass section used it too. My opinion awkward to see Tom doing that on stage but man that voice