We see a couple of poor quality uploads of this 1990 TV show featuring Joan Rivers interviewing Gwar, so here's a much cleaner dupe from a commercial master. The BetaGems channel also has "July 1989 music news: Batman guitar, Gwar interview," "Whoopie Goldberg on Joan Rivers Late Show 2-20-87," "Elton John jams with Cher and Joan Rivers 10-12-86," "The Bangles October 1986 late night TV performance" (including an interview with Rivers), and "1992 TV Hosts Buffalo Bob, Bozo, Soupy Sales" (a complete Joan Rivers daytime episode).

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.

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