The Real Wizard wrote: I'm not lumping you in with that crowd. I'm talking about people who haven't had a decent thing to say about QP in the last decade, when they're worthy of at least as much praise as criticism.
Myself, I'm thrilled that the Rainbow shows are being worked on. But I have to admit, it's not nearly as exciting as it would've been ten years ago. One can only wait for so long before moving on to other things.
Hey Bob,
I would love to hear your explaination why the (both) rainbows shows releases would't be as excited as ten years ago ?
For me it is a opposite reaction, mainly becauese ten years ago queen didn't knew about those shows and all we had is the 50 minite edit of the
Vhs release. And ten years ago i would never expect queen to release a
Pre 1980 show. 3rd. The technology of 2012 is so mich better as ten years ago;-)
Simply put, I'm just more into other music these days. My peak of Queen listening was when I was about 19. I don't even listen to much rock anymore. Right now I'm into things like bossa nova and chamber music. So it's nothing about the material - it's just my personal journey through music.
Of course, back then we didn't know two full nights at the Rainbow existed, so without a doubt I'm sure it'll be a great release that I'll enjoy many times over.
Film quality degrades over time, so at the very least I hope they've transferred all the old stuff to digital. They may even have to bake the tapes, like Page did with all the Zeppelin footage about a decade ago.
pittrek wrote: 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 :-)
They might be a US-based company, but they don't actually have the release rights for Queen products over there, do they?
Their target audience is the entire world, and the most effective way to reach all of it is by making one version which can be imported everywhere... Which means it has to be in NTSC.
cmsdrums wrote: On a light note, I've corrected Brian's original quote of:
"and they spend many months on each one, researching the best undiscovered sources, compiling, repairing, restoring - sound and vision..."
To:
"and they spend many months on each one, ignoring offers and advice from fans as to the best undiscovered sources, compiling, repairing, restoring, overdubbing, pitch tuning and dropping in and editing from other shows - sound and vision.."
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Total Fact!!
I have send a mail to Brian a long time ago about the rights QP had according to Queen concert footage (Montreal footage). It seems QP lost the main rights over the years, as QP had to buy the Budapest footage recently. A real shame
Judging by the original credits, Budapest was shot and owned by the Hungarian company and then licensed to the video company with Queen's blessing. I guess cheaper than flying out a UK, Queen endorsed, crew. Just a guess.
