Brian May regarding Live 70's DVDs

popy wrote:

earwig wrote:
P.S. What I mean is that there wouldn't be any point in having the promo videos or concerts that were shot on video - e.g. Bo Rap and Wembley 86 - on Blu-ray as you wouldn't gain any extra quality...

Made a long post. Queenzone deleted it when i pressed "post message".
To sum things up: yes it would gain quality, because Blu-Ray it's not an HD format, it's a MASS STORAGE DEVICE.
If done properly, even videos like Greatest Video Hits (or any other shot on tape) would gain quality comparing it to the DVD. Why? Because Blu-ray has more space to store things. Video bit-rate would be as high as a Blu-Ray can take, and quality would be as close as possible to the original video-tapes.
Also, audio quality would be in lossless format.
Don't forget that Blu-Ray is a mass storage device, like cassete-tapes, CD's, laser-liscs, video-CD's, hard-drives, DVD's, USB flash drive, etc...

Very interesting debate! :-)

I totally get the mass storage thing: I could burn my old VHS camcorder recordings to DVD (or indeed Blu-Ray) but I still wouldn't gain any quality - even if I authored at the highest bit rate.

If Earls Court 77 was shot (and I assume it was) on PAL 2" QUAD, then even on the maximum bit rate filling a 50GB Blu-ray it will still only look like PAL 2" QUAD!!! (we could get into upscaling but lets leave that for now!)

I agree with the audio though; I have the 2 DVD-Audios of ANATO & The Game and they sound great on 24 bit 96kHz :-)

BUT... if several concerts were put together on one single 50GN Blu-ray then yes: that would be great!!

If I could get in my TARDIS and shoot Earls Court 77 in 1080i then I would haha!!! ;-)

Kevinrm15 wrote:
Maybe someone should show the band the Houston 78 DVD Springsteen put out 2 years ago. The Houston DVD is nothing but a in-house video feed with mono audio. Queen's 1977 Houston gig is the exact same story.

With a bunch of flaws:

-Brian messes up Somebody To Love solo and transition to Killer Queen
-guitar string breaks in Liar, and spare guitar is out of tune
-Deacon hits bum notes in Now I'm Here and We Are The Champions
-Roger's backing vocal is distorted

vs.

-Mercury is just about flawless

If there is no audio multi-track, then this show is not getting released in complete form.

whoops, double post

It's worth having Houston for the rarity of Deacon's mistakes, as he hardly ever made any (certainly not compared to the others)

I know that this post will be the cue for loads of you to post links to tonnes of rare bootlegs featuring Deacy's mistakes!)

And his wondrous vocals in Milan 84..

How about an official release:

Wembley 86 - Tear it Up

His E string is HORRIBLY out of tune. Funny they didn't overdub this (seeing as there's so many other overdubs throughout!!)

Pfft, he's just the bass player. Nobody listens to the bass player !

The Real Wizard wrote:
Pfft, he's just the bass player. Nobody listens to the bass player !

Queen had a bass player? Wasn't this Deacon John guy their accountant or something?

No, he was the bass player who quit due to death of the frontman. I have info from a reliable source (a 7 year old boy) who told me that after this death Deacon had to go and sell tractors for a living. The kid added that it was pretty sad.


lol

True story. I think the kid may have mixed John Deacon up with John Deere and I tried to tell him but he still holds on to what he believes.

Whilst Brian's ears are open on the subject, and as he thinks they do such a great job with their 'restoration', perhaps one or two of you with the technical knowledge regarding converting aspect ratio, frames per second, PAL vs NTSC etc, could drop Brian an email to point out your thoughts on the work 'his team' have done so far??

Sad to say,but true:

It's cheaper to master for one worldwide NTSC disc than 2. 1 PAL and 1 NTSC. Universal (who own Island) are tight gits!!!

earwig wrote:
Sad to say,but true:
It's cheaper to master for one worldwide NTSC disc than 2. 1 PAL and 1 NTSC. Universal (who own Island) are tight gits!!!

But the majority of the world have PAL...

or PAL-compatible systems. But don't forget that Universal is an American company, which means their target customers use the NTSC system. We can be lucky that they don't use region encoding :-)

If anything from the 70's is released, i think it would be better to release it to tv first, like the hammersmith show. That way they get a audience before they try selling it in the high street.