For what it's worth, I can confirm that there was a screen on either side of the stage at Earls Court. I can see it now. When I walked into the auditorium the screens were showing that test screen of vertical coloured bars. I don't remember much of what they showed during the show because I was in the front row (thanks to fan club tickets) and that made it difficult (and un-necessary) to view them.
I do remember they showed the BoRhap video during the opera section.
Another thing you don't see on the bootleg - for the rock'n'roll medley at the end (1st night) when Freddie is wearing a glittery silver number, the camera totally misses his entrance, instead focusing on Brian and John. Freddie actually rises up through a stage floor trap door.
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Indeed. But luckily there are two nights, so there most likely is enough footage to compile an Earls Court 77 DVD even with mono sound. It would sell as well as any 70s concert DVD from popular bands of the time. People understand that old footage isn't perfect blue-ray quality. Old footage has a certain charm to it. It's a document of 1977, not of 2007. The Who did it with their 1977 Kilburn concert. It's mono sound, it looks old, but it's beyond awesome.
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But luckily with Earls Court they'd never need to use the mono soundtrack - as they recorded both nights to multitrack and there are also presumably the stereo soundboard recordings. On a technical basis, a full Earls Court DVD is perfectly releasable.As a side note - MK had major issues with the poor remastering applied highlighting the marks on the screen of one of the cameras - if QPL were such perfectionists, surely that gig wouldn't have been issued? With EC the video appears to still be in amazing condition and the mono audio tracks itself suggests that the sound is great as well.
The talk of the bootleg versions being anywhere near as good as the footage that has been shown recently (with newly mixed audio) possibly on the ANATO Classic Albums DVD, and the footage that was used in the those crap montages on the ANATO DVD-A release is just daft - they're decades old cosumer grade analogue dubs from video with raw audio. The audio MAY sometime sound a bit scrappy - but from such sources it's going to isn't it?
Are we really meant to believe the QPL aren't releasing these gigs because the band think the performances are shit?
