Merry Christmas everybody !
As you surely know, Queen played 2 Christmas concerts in Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK. The first one took place on December 24th 1975, the second one was on December 26th 1979. Both concerts are excellent, and both of them are professionally filmed.
Last year I shared the first concert, so now the logical next step is to share also the second Christmas concert :-)
As usually, I joined multiple sources together, to get the longest and best looking version of this recording. Unfortunately this one doesn't look as good as my Hammy 75 DVD, but still, it looks MUCH better than 99% of the stuff you can find usually on YouTube :-) The sound mix is my work, do you remember my audio matrix which I created several years ago using a professional recording from the TV and an excellent audience recording ? I took this "matrix" and synchronized it to the video, I hope you like it :-)
[b]Lineage[/b] :
[u]Source 1 (*): [/u] PRO master > ? > QTV broadcast on convention > SVHS(0) > ? > DVD
[u]Source 2 (**) : [/u] PRO master > ? > bootleg DVD "[i]Live Crazy 1979[/i]" > AviSynth > NTSC -> PAL conversion > MPG
[u]Source 3 (***) : [/u] PRO master > ? > Japanese TV broadcast > DVD > NTSC/PAL conversion, logo removal > MPG
[u]Source 4 (****) :[/u] PRO master > ? > "[i]Absolute Greatest[/i]" bonus videos > FLV > AVI > MPG
[b]Track list:[/b]
1. Jailhouse Rock (cut) (***/**)
2. We Will Rock You (fast) (**/*)
3. Let Me Entertain You (*)
4. Somebody To Love (*)
5. Mustapha (cut) (**)
6. Death On Two Legs (*)
7. Killer Queen (*)
8. I'm In Love With My Car (*)
9. Get Down Make Love (part of the video re-created) (*)
10. You're My Best Friend (*)
11. Save Me (*)
12. Now I'm Here (***/****/*)
13. Love Of My Life (*)
14. '39 (*)
15. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (***)
16. Tie Your Mother Down (*)
17. Sheer Heart Attack (intro re-created) (*)
18. We Will Rock You (*)
19. We Are The Champions (*)
20. God Save The Queen (*)
Quality :
Source 1 : Excellent -
Source 2: Very good +
Source 3 : Excellent
Source 4 : Excellent -
I have watched this DVD yesterday after almost one year and I found 1 encoding problem (GSTQ is for some reason in the same cell as WATC - looks like a DVDLabPro problem which I didn't notice before), and I forgot to remove the BS logo during Crazy Little Thing . Also this DVD uses my matrix as the audio track, so also all problems with the matrix appear here also.
But anyway, these problems are so minor, that I don't see them as "distracting". I hope you will see it the same way :-)
Big thanks to brianswig and to the person who shared here the Japanese TV broadcast (sorry I don't remember who it was)
DO NOT SELL. DO NOT RE-ENCODE. IF YOU UPLOAD THIS TO YOUTUBE, UPLOAD IT UNTOUCHED - YOUTUBE WILL CONVERT IT AUTOMATICALLY ! NEVER MAKE AVI / MKV OUT OF MY DVDs.
And please - don't forget to seed ! I am not online 24/7 so you must seed too ! Also in the next weeks I plan to share MANY new DVDs, many of them will be new transfers of VHS tapes donated by one old Queen collector
pittrek