Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl

Roger_in_Tigerskin_Trousers wrote:

That truly is horrible artwork Brian looks fat John looks like an escaped mental patient Freddie looks bored and Roger is nowhere to be seen!

Nobody is forcing you to buy it, you fucking piece of scum! Shut your piehole or i'll cut off your dick and stick it there, understand?

donbosco_03 wrote:

Roger_in_Tigerskin_Trousers wrote:

That truly is horrible artwork Brian looks fat John looks like an escaped mental patient Freddie looks bored and Roger is nowhere to be seen!

Nobody is forcing you to buy it, you fucking piece of scum! Shut your piehole or i'll cut off your dick and stick it there, understand?

so, no one is allowed to express an opinion anymore?

Agneepath! wrote:

donbosco_03 wrote:

Roger_in_Tigerskin_Trousers wrote:

That truly is horrible artwork Brian looks fat John looks like an escaped mental patient Freddie looks bored and Roger is nowhere to be seen!

Nobody is forcing you to buy it, you fucking piece of scum! Shut your piehole or i'll cut off your dick and stick it there, understand?

so, no one is allowed to express an opinion anymore?

I just did!

what's wrong being an escaped mental patient, fat, bored and invisible ?

at least the "ebay" boot dvd used the correct typeface for the cover
the "on fire" dvd cover - if this is the finished article uses a font from a later album and tour - they should be ashamed....anyhow...what's the point in rehashing product that's been on tv dozens of times?

Brenski, it's UNCUT. The full concert. One that many really like. That's why it's being released.

Peace,
Adam.

it hasn't been on tv in germany as far as i know. so i am actually looking forward to it.

following the argumentation of "using the wron fonts" they made a mistake there too..
btw: did you ever hear of continuity?

hey wake up! were gonna get a brand new live-dvd! and there's talking like it is a collaboration with god-knows-who...
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<font color ="green">brenski wrote:

at least the "ebay" boot dvd used the correct typeface for the cover
the "on fire" dvd cover - if this is the finished article uses a font from a later album and tour - they should be ashamed....anyhow...what's the point in rehashing product that's been on tv dozens of times?

OH DEAR!

You obviously missed the uniform style and typeface of the previous DVD covers then and you've never seen the diff in pic quality of legit DVDs and crappy, artefacty DTV esp VH1 or superb DTS 5.1 sound or UNCUT...What more do you want??

Source BrianMay.com:
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**Thu 23 Sep 04**
QUEEN ON FIRE AT THE BOWL PRESS RELEASE

Queen On Fire
Live At The Bowl
Hot Space Tour ‘82
New Live DVD – CD from Queen
EMI/Parlophone. Release 25 October 2004

“We hadn’t seen the footage for years, but when we looked at it we couldn’t believe how good it was, we were on fire”. Roger Taylor talking about the band’s 1982 concert at M K Bowl which is released in its full version for the first time – on DVD and CD, October 25.

Says Brian May: “This is the first time the Milton Keynes night has been shown in its entirety, and I have to say we all get a kick out of it – all the more amazing because we came off stage that night thinking we hadn’t done ourselves justice!!! I’m proud to say It Rocks!!”

By 1982 Queen were at a peak in terms of touring and recording. They were coming off the back of two of their biggest singles – Another One Bites The Dust and Under Pressure – and by now they were playing more than 60 sell-out concerts a year in the biggest stadiums of the world.

They were also basking in the glory of having been the first foreign band to have toured and conquered Latin America. 1981 had seen the band play football stadiums throughout Argentina and Brazil, including two sell-out concerts at Sao Paulo’s historic Morumbi Stadium.

Such was the demand on the band to play arenas and stadiums throughout the world that they managed to play only 4 dates in the UK between

1981 – 1983. The M K Bowl concert was one of these and the closest they came to playing London in these 3 years. The date was originally to have been played at Arsenal football ground, but when permission was turned down, the date was switched to the M K Bowl.

It is little wonder then that by the time they reached the gig in June 1982 that the Queen touring machine was in prime condition. “We just stormed through that concert,” says Taylor. “I’d forgotten just how tight the band was by then.”

“Queen On Fire – Live At The Bowl” is Queen at its electric best, with the band charging through 25 numbers drawn from the biggest hits and best loved live songs – Dragon Attack, Now I’m Here, Tie Your Mother Down, Sheer Heart Attack, and two versions of We Will Rock You, including the much sought after ‘fast’ version, altogether 110 minutes of live classics.

Filmed by Gavin Taylor, and only ever seen in an edited version on Channel 4’s The Tube, this release has the concert restored to its original full length, amounting to an additional 47 minutes of previously unseen footage. Not released on video, “Queen On Fire – Live At The Bowl”, marks the first time a recording of this concert has been available to own.

“I think people will be surprised, as I was, all these years later, how different the show is from the well known Queen Wembley 86 Stadium performance,” says Brian May. “A large percentage of the songs are different… It kicks off with us blasting into “Flash” and gets very hot!” The set holds up very well, and Freddie’s ad-libs are something to behold… the other things I had forgotten was how much freedom we had to stretch and enjoy ourselves on the spur of the moment”.

As to be expected from Queen, the release comes only after extensive restoration to the original footage and sound. Audio producers Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson returned to the original 24 track analogue recording and created brand new PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 surround sound mixes. “Unlike the Wembley DVD project, the only mixes available were mono, so we decided to start from scratch,” says Shirley-Smith. “We transferred the entire concert multi-track recordings onto Pro Tools HD. Then we’d listen to each track for any imperfections, distortions or crackles and meticulously remove them. For example, there’s one bit when Brian’s playing piano and it’s very soft – so soft that when we turned it up to the level it needed to be, we just got a load of hiss. Using Pro Tools you can get rid of things like t

When I first saw this press release for the DVD today, I misread and thought it said '3 hours of extras' but it actually said 'With over 3 hours of concert footage and extras'. Anyway, my mistake made me think it might have commentary, and I was thinking that might be fun to hear commentary on a live show.

Do you guys think that would be cool, or does it sound like a bad idea? 110 minutes straight of commentary might become boring. I'm not familiar with the MK show, but unless Roger has a bunch of costume changes, he'd have to keep making fun of the same attire over and over.

[ Wybren™ ] wrote:

Source BrianMay.com:

Audio producers Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson returned to the original 24 track analogue recording and created brand new PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 surround sound mixes. “Unlike the Wembley DVD project, the only mixes available were mono, so we decided to start from scratch,” says Shirley-Smith. “We transferred the entire concert multi-track recordings onto Pro Tools HD. Then we’d listen to each track for any imperfections, distortions or crackles and meticulously remove them. For example, there’s one bit when Brian’s playing piano and it’s very soft – so soft that when we turned it up to the level it needed to be, we just got a load of hiss. Using Pro Tools you can get rid of things like that. The actual mixing, however, was done using vintage analogue.”

Phew, relief. Now it's a must buy. I was fearing another Wembley-type upmix.

So there will be CD as well- GREAT!!!!
And the extras... Fuckin' hell- I'm proud of them, again!!! Haven't felt that since MIH...

They're still keepin hush about the aspect ratio though. Probably don't want to either upset the purists like me and those who like to 'fill the screen' on their WS TVs at this early stage!

the extras seem second rate. We all want more freddie which is good , but no Queen cam to watch john deacon pick his nose!

nice extras but I would have liked a 2004 interview with Brian & roger looking back at that period in queen's history.