Long rumored to exist, a rare 1977 German television performance of The Decemberists performing their hit music song “Make You Better” on The Old Blue Rock Palace Show has just been unearthed to the delight of the band’s hardcore fans among whom the fabled appearance had achieved mythical status.
The footage from The Old Blue Rock Palace Show provides invaluable documentation of the band’s early development that will be pored over by rock historians for years to come. It was discovered on the show’s website theoldbluerockpalaceshow.tumblr.com, which was previously assumed to have been defunct for decades. The malfunctioning website has also leaked illuminating outtakes of lead singer Colin Meloy’s interview with the show’s host.
