Earl's Court had a screen that was used to provide the audience with something to watch in the cavernous environs of the building - what is circulating is the mix that was used from the cameras on the night(s). I'm pretty certain that the band did not look to retain all the tapes from all the cameras that were used and, therefore, no release was planned or possible. Houston I'm pretty sure is / was the same.
All bands were filmed for the Concerts For The People Of Kampucea run for release as a film directed by Keith McMillan as a vehicle for raising more money, but, certainly where The Who were concerned, there was never any intention for the show to be released, complete, under Trinifold's auspices.
Negative Creep · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]dudeofqueen wrote:[/b]
Penetration_Guru, re:
Earl's Court had a screen that was used to provide the audience with something to watch in the cavernous environs of the building - what is circulating is the mix that was used from the cameras on the night(s). I'm pretty certain that the band did not look to retain all the tapes from all the cameras that were used and, therefore, no release was planned or possible.[/QUOTE]
You simply do not know what tapes they have. It would depend on what the production team's setup was on the night. Do you know what that was?
However, let's say they do only have the "live mix" - they have 2 nights to work with, and they WERE professional camera men filming. Broadcast quality material - no different to something filmed for TV.
dudeofqueen · Member since
Negative Creep, re:
>You simply do not know what tapes they have. It would depend on what the production team's setup was on the night. Do you know what that was?
I didn't say I did and there's no evidence to support anything other than there being just the widely circulating mix; being "pretty certain" is based on the assumption that QPL haven't tried any harder to restore the audio (a simple process given what they've thrown at us so far) for a product that would nett the organisation a huge amount of money. I'll go to 95% certain that they don't have all of the multi-camera tapes for either night.
What would YOU determie the production team's set up to be on the night? regardless, THAT wouldn't give any indication as to whether the John Reid retained the tapes from each of the cameras over just having a document of the performance to casually refer back to for the band.
>However, let's say they do only have the "live mix" - they have 2 nights to work with, and they WERE professional camera men filming. Broadcast quality material - no different to something filmed for TV.
They may have been professional camera men, but that doesn't make the MIX any better than it is with the incredibly naive focussing on Brian throughout White Queen or the dodgy panning noticeable thrroughout. Don't get me wrong, I love the film and would love it restored to releasable quality but it's incredibly amateurish as a mix and - given what we know about QPL's "standards" - unreleasable as it is.
Vocal harmony · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]dudeofqueen wrote:[/b]
Penetration_Guru, re:
All bands were filmed for the Concerts For The People Of Kampucea run for release as a film directed by Keith McMillan as a vehicle for raising more money, but, certainly where The Who were concerned, there was never any intention for the show to be released, complete, under Trinifold's auspices.[/QUOTE]
Interestingly although The Who had no plans to officially release anything from that gig they were given more TV time than any other artist on the TV special shown after the event. Wings set featured an all star jam consisting of many of the artists who performed that week.
Queen were the only band to play a full night headlining show.
The cameras in operation for those shows were there to shoot footage for the TV program and as such it really is a bonus that we've got a Crazy Tour show worth watching.
dudeofqueen · Member since
Vocal Harmony, re:
>Interestingly although The Who had no plans to officially release anything from that gig they were given more TV time than any other artist on the TV special shown after the event. Wings set featured an all star jam consisting of many of the artists who performed that week.
They had just recently taken Kenney Jones in to the fold with Moonie's death still fresh and had performed some absolutely incindiary shows up to that point, proving that they were STILL, after 16 years, the best live band and value for money in Rock. Add to that the resurgence in interest due to the Quadrophenia film as well as the The Kids Are Alright movie and soundtrack still to the fore.
>Queen were the only band to play a full night headlining show.
With The Who playing the longest show of all the bands on the bill at two and a half hours.
Toozeup · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]
No mention of Budapest in the listing above?[/QUOTE]
We are talking unreleased material here, though, pending some miracle the missing negatives turn up, we might get the full uncut show one-day.
pittrek · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Toozeup wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]
No mention of Budapest in the listing above?[/QUOTE]
We are talking unreleased material here, though, pending some miracle the missing negatives turn up, we might get the full uncut show one-day.[/QUOTE]
