HD version that's an improvement over the low video quality version available at yt since 2006 upped by youtuber ebbnflow.
Thanks go to another youtuber, Pepe Cruzado, for first upping this HD version in 2013. But he doesn't identify his upload as being the MTV performance (as opposed to the 1994 Letterman performance), and doesn't emphasize it's an improved version, or give its broadcast date. So, I decided to re-up it to my own yt Channel with that info, plus more.
"Sometimes Always" was the first single from The Jesus and Mary Chain's fifth album, "Stoned & Dethroned." The single was released July 1994, the album in August. The album was recorded in 1993 at the Reid brothers' of JAMC's own London studio called The Drugstore.
Hope and JAMC guitarist William Reid were a couple for some years from perhaps 1993 to the late 1990s. Hope appears on one other JAMC recording, the song "Perfume" from the band's 1998 album "Munki." Hope later recorded William Reid's JAMC song "Drop" for her 2001 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions album "Bavarian Fruit Bread."
In 1994, JAMC did a tour with Hope's band Mazzy Star opening. Hope would come out during JAMC's set to sing "Sometimes Always" with Jim.
Some details about Hope's & William's reportedly rather tempestuous relationship are recounted in the "Band(s) History, Biogs, Anecdotes,Trivia" thread at the fan site where I wrote them up, here: mazzystar.free.fr/phpBB3/viewt... . I'll repeat some of those here. Here's a quote from a fan who posted his recollections in a tumblr post:
QUOTE: "I saw them [Mazzy Star] a bunch with the Jesus and Mary Chain including an awesome show in Providence where she got totally mad at her boyfriend, one of the Reid brothers, and stormed offstage without singing her part. Star crossed lovers from the start, those two."
Before the band Opal changed its name to Mazzy Star, Hope joined Opal in late 1987, replacing Kendra Smith as singer. Hope joined mid-tour on the 1987 tour's north-east U.S. leg. Opal was opening for JAMC on that 1987 tour. Perhaps that's when Hope first got to know William.
I think it's in a 1996 Mazzy Star interview where Hope, who was living part-time or primarily in California, mentioned her boyfriend (William Reid) lived in London. So, theirs must have often been a long distance relationship.
Another fan recollection I read at now defunct fan site Mazzy Star Boulevard was of a Hope fan encountering Hope & William on the street in L.A. The fan asked Hope for, & received, an autograph, and chatted with her. But suddenly William erupted, and started screaming at Hope as if he must have been agitated Hope & the fan were paying brief attention to each other instead of HIM being center of attention! After they moved on, the fan said he could still hear Hope & William loudly arguing down the street.
Richard Metzger of the Dangerous Minds site reported QUOTE: "[Hope & William Reid] were an item and it was well-known at the time. There was a public altercation between them, and I believe it
happened at the KROQ (L.A.) 'Weenie Roast' event approx 1993/94...The news was either on the radio, or MTV." Metzger said the news said Reid had actually struck Hope in public. Tsk, tsk.
Hope & William were presumably in the "Weenie Roast" audience, as their bands didn't play that particular KROQ annual event in '93-'94.
A fan site forum member contributed this passage from
"Barbed Wire Kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story" by Zoe Howe:
QUOTE: "Jim apparently was annoyed with William having Hope on the [1994] American tour because William and Hope would wander off together and couldn't be found. During the time JAMC were making Stoned and Dethroned: William's and Jim's lives were taking a nosedive. According to Jim: 'My personal life was starting to slide, broken relationships and stuff like that, likewise with William. He got it on with Hope during that record, but he was still going out with Rona. That got messy, as it would.' William himself would later explain in an interview with musician and friend Dimitri Coats that while he had fallen in love with Hope, it 'was the unhappiest time in my life. It was horrible, horrible, horrible.'* Sidenote: William had been with Rona for nine years. Jim, apparently, would get irritated by Hope's presence. "
*The entire W. Reid quote in answer to the interviewer's question re. Hope is from Gold Mine mag, and is:
QUOTE: "OK, let me tell you honestly. I was in love with Hope, but it was the unhappiest time in my life. It was like horrible, horrible, horrible." -W. Reid
-Not "a match made in Heaven," apparently. But luckily we get to enjoy a couple of memorable recordings they made together.
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