Bad Seed 05.09.2011 04:00 |
Just thought I'd post a new topic for opinions with it being out today. Anyone noticed the mistake on the Friday night DVD menu? It says it's the Saturday night! Thought I'd put the wrong DVD in the player. A schoolboy error QPL! |
Bad Seed 05.09.2011 04:26 |
Just watched One Vision and TYMD and Freddie is on fire, really incredible. He clearly blew his voice on the first night, he is really going for it. Such a pity they didn't remix the Saturday night, Brian's guitar actually sounds like a guitar. |
Dodger Taylor 05.09.2011 05:03 |
Queen on top form,pity the camera work isnt a little better but then again it was only a practice recording not ment for release so cant complain. Maybe its just because Iv been spoilt by the Montreal bluray lol :) |
Bad Seed 05.09.2011 06:23 |
For the guitarist's out there, Brian's solo on WWTLF appears to have been dubbed. He also seems to break a string at the beginning of WWRY and used the Guild for WWRY and FWBF, you don't see him again until GSTQ where he is holding the RS. |
cmsdrums 05.09.2011 07:04 |
Bad Seed wrote: Just thought I'd post a new topic for opinions with it being out today. Anyone noticed the mistake on the Friday night DVD menu? It says it's the Saturday night! Thought I'd put the wrong DVD in the player. A schoolboy error QPL! -------------------------------------------- I thought exactly the same!! it wouldn't be an official Queen product without a stupid error somewhere along the line! Yes, I agree that Freddie's voice is in far better shape than the Saturday - Who Wants to Live Forever is stunning. I did also notice something strange in my eyes and ears telling me something wasn't tying up in parts of Brian's solo - the comment regardign this being patched up/overdubbed/replaced makes sense. I sneaked a couple of tracks of the Saturday night D in this morning too - I know it's not a new mix, but it has been tweaked with some EQ and mastering; both Brian and Roger's backing vocals seem to come across much more prominently, and the whilst the drums levels have been evened up (the top end covering the hi hats and cymbals have been calmed down for the better, and the snare is a little more subdued but still with the 'crack'), the toms (even though those Yamaha's were quite dead sounding anyway) seem to now be missing any natural decay, tuning, tone and ambience. Still, that's to be expected if Justin Shirley-Smith has had his hands on them. |
Queenman!! 05.09.2011 09:29 |
cmsdrums wrote: Bad Seed wrote: Just thought I'd post a new topic for opinions with it being out today. Anyone noticed the mistake on the Friday night DVD menu? It says it's the Saturday night! Thought I'd put the wrong DVD in the player. A schoolboy error QPL! -------------------------------------------- I thought exactly the same!! it wouldn't be an official Queen product without a stupid error somewhere along the line! Yes, I agree that Freddie's voice is in far better shape than the Saturday - Who Wants to Live Forever is stunning. I did also notice something strange in my eyes and ears telling me something wasn't tying up in parts of Brian's solo - the comment regardign this being patched up/overdubbed/replaced makes sense. I sneaked a couple of tracks of the Saturday night D in this morning too - I know it's not a new mix, but it has been tweaked with some EQ and mastering; both Brian and Roger's backing vocals seem to come across much more prominently, and the whilst the drums levels have been evened up (the top end covering the hi hats and cymbals have been calmed down for the better, and the snare is a little more subdued but still with the 'crack'), the toms (even though those Yamaha's were quite dead sounding anyway) seem to now be missing any natural decay, tuning, tone and ambience. Still, that's to be expected if Justin Shirley-Smith has had his hands on them. ========= Thanks for the review. Just listened to the guitar solo from the audience recording on youtube. Brian indeed makes a few annoying mistakes that are quite hard the replace or correct. This could be nice to figure out what was replaced and where it came from. Perhaps another show from the Magic Tour???? Something for Sir GH, Lostman or Gregsynth I guess |
brians wig 05.09.2011 10:41 |
You LUCKY people! I'm still waiting for mine to arrive.... :( |
Bad Seed 05.09.2011 10:51 |
Its possibly just a little studio trickery after listening again. Not had time to A/B it with anything yet. Anyway, very pleased with the Friday night finally getting a release, its a far better show than the 2nd night IMO. I watched the 2003 DVD the other week and was shocked at how bad the picture quality was. Don't know if it's just my imagination but this new release does seem to have better picture quality. Not so great extras and no new mix for the Sat night are the let down's. |
drjones 05.09.2011 11:18 |
Friday night gig is superb ! i really enjoyed it. Shame that they didnt have Freddie/Roger/Brian or John cam as an extra but hey ho im happy ! |
jondickens1 05.09.2011 12:14 |
Absolutely stunning!!! Friday nights show beat Saturday nights show by a mile!!!! I bought it today,but can anyone tell me how i can get hold of a cd for this night? |
jamster1111 05.09.2011 12:17 |
Has anyone uploaded some of Friday night on youtube? |
bootLuca 05.09.2011 12:24 |
jondickens1 wrote: Absolutely stunning!!! Friday nights show beat Saturday nights show by a mile!!!! I bought it today,but can anyone tell me how i can get hold of a cd for this night? You can rip the audio from the dvd with "DVD Audio Extractor"... |
koldweather123 05.09.2011 12:46 |
TYMD is immense, SO much energy, esp in the first minute! |
lazydeath 05.09.2011 13:49 |
Please, does anybody can do rip audio from video gig at stadium Vembley July 11, 1986? Thank you. |
MERQRY 05.09.2011 23:07 |
Bad Seed wrote: Just thought I'd post a new topic for opinions with it being out today. Anyone noticed the mistake on the Friday night DVD menu? It says it's the Saturday night! Thought I'd put the wrong DVD in the player. A schoolboy error QPL! -------- If there isn't any error isn't a QPL release... |
c-lebrity94 06.09.2011 02:03 |
link |
plumrach 06.09.2011 02:49 |
I ordered mine yesterday and so hopefully by the weekend i shall be able to enjoy it |
Queenman!! 06.09.2011 05:11 |
Got the DVD today and I'm pleased with the other concert. The friday concert is actually much better than the day after. It's nice to have this too. I'm only very disapponted about the project itself that could have been great. -The image/picture quality is crap; To me it looks watching an old VHS transfer. I'm quite sure QP transferred the friday concert from an old spare copy or so as this is NOT the mastertape. Also it looks like they did not restore anything from the image. Grainey lines and dust on the images. Probably the money and time that was needed from QP to tranfer the old mastertapes did not convinced them to do it.. So that feels a bit like a rip off. - The musicmix is great and well balanced. Good job! John is very clear in the mix. - The menu's are great, though a unprofessional attitude, like we seen before, caused the painful mistake with the date on the Friday disc - Extra's are not so good. Just the old known videos. Though there are some new parts like the afterparty with Freddie and Samantha Fox singing TF. But no new interviews. Just outtakes from the Days of our Lives doc that we probably see on the forthcoming DVD. I'll rate it with a 6. It could have been so much better in my opinion. |
queen79luca 06.09.2011 05:49 |
Fuck! In my country the Dvd will be released on Friday....can t wait! Can someone upload on you tube at least the first 2 songs? Thanks |
Raffy 06.09.2011 06:26 |
queen79luca wrote: Fuck! In my country the Dvd will be released on Friday....can t wait! Can someone upload on you tube at least the first 2 songs? Thanks Yes... sadly my dvd will arrive the next week on tuesday :( It would be great to see at least a small part of the friday concert on youtube... anybody could help us?!? |
LordOfAllDarkness 06.09.2011 07:01 |
queen79luca wrote: Fuck! In my country the Dvd will be released on Friday....can t wait! Can someone upload on you tube at least the first 2 songs? Thanks Diamine, ecco perché non l'ho trovato! |
queen79luca 06.09.2011 07:10 |
According to some posts before I completely agree with the energy of the show. I ve got the bootleg from friday gig, very rough, powerful, people screaming a lot in the audience in the first minutes. Looking forward to watch it! With Manchester I think its the best of UK gigs of Magic Tour! |
Raffy 06.09.2011 07:12 |
LordOfAllDarkness wrote: Diamine, ecco perché non l'ho trovato! ----------------------------------------------------------- Sì infatti in Italia arriverà nei negozi soltanto la settimana prossima o al massimo entro la fine di questa settimana... stiamo sempre indietro rispetto agli altri paesi :( |
Freddie rey 06.09.2011 11:31 |
comparison that I made between the DVD of 2003 and this new one, of the saturday show, is it just me or the new version is more longer than the 2003?: link I love the menu, with the four members of the cover of AKOM animated :) |
cmi 06.09.2011 11:35 |
Wow! It's really an improvement. |
Parararam 06.09.2011 11:38 |
Extra from DVD link link |
Freddie rey 06.09.2011 13:15 |
I uploaded on the hub the Friday show on FLAC :) I'm JJ_Queen on the hub |
fordy69 06.09.2011 13:36 |
Hi all, In my opinion a boring release to appeal to lowest common denominator or people who haven't seen this, of which there can't be many. QP should be remastering The Budapest gig ( far superior to Wembley I believe, and truly historic, Eastern Bloc and all that) and if possible releasing the Knebworth concert as an Audio CD, again historic. These would a fitting way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band and the 25th of the last tour. As some Knebworth tracks appeared on The ' Live Magic ' album surely they have the complete audio in the vaults. They wouldn't have recorded just half-a-dozen songs would they ? Thanks for listening. As I said just my opinion. |
jamster1111 06.09.2011 14:25 |
Freddie rey wrote: I uploaded on the hub the Friday show on FLAC :) I'm JJ_Queen on the hub What's the hub? Where do I go to find this? |
Mercury 90 06.09.2011 14:26 |
Has anyone noticed, that in the first verse of a kind of magic brian mays radio system breaks down, and he switches back to cable? (You can see him having the cable that goes to the transmitter on his guitarstrap till who wants to live forever) Good idea to keep the capble for the second night ;) that reminds me of his solo concert in berlin 1998 where the radiosystem broke down shortly before driven by you, so he played acustic guitar right till the middle of hammer to fall, and as it still was not working there, he had to do a 10 to 20 minute break, so the audience sang borap and we will rock you complete after he finally came back (with a cable on his guitar) he played a very long hammer to fall solo, and had almost twice the volume ;) |
jamster1111 06.09.2011 14:33 |
fordy69 wrote: Hi all, In my opinion a boring release to appeal to lowest common denominator or people who haven't seen this, of which there can't be many. QP should be remastering The Budapest gig ( far superior to Wembley I believe, and truly historic, Eastern Bloc and all that) and if possible releasing the Knebworth concert as an Audio CD, again historic. These would a fitting way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band and the 25th of the last tour. As some Knebworth tracks appeared on The ' Live Magic ' album surely they have the complete audio in the vaults. They wouldn't have recorded just half-a-dozen songs would they ? Thanks for listening. As I said just my opinion. Or they could actually pay attention to other tours besides from the Magic Tour. |
fordy69 06.09.2011 14:45 |
Good point. QP should use a bit of imagination with their releases. Maybe a double DVD/CD of some 70's shows i.e. Hammersmith & Hyde Park or Earls court. Followed by a 80's South American release: Argentina and Brazil ' 81or Rock In Rio '85 full versions. Also a Live Killers/ Crazy Tour/ Hammersmith '79 compilation would be interesting. These would show any new fans how great and hard rocking Queen were pre-Live Aid But dream on I think! |
lazydeath 06.09.2011 14:56 |
Wembley gig 11-07-1986 really awesome and almost unseen gig by the way must have |
Hangman_96 06.09.2011 14:58 |
One of the most amazingest concerts I've ever seen! Just watched it today. |
dive2063 06.09.2011 15:05 |
Friday gig is surely one of the greatest concerts I have seen. The gig is so epic, Freddie's voice is glorious and the atmosphere in the acoustic set with rain pouring is very magnificent and intimate. |
Bad Seed 06.09.2011 15:32 |
Freddie looks like he's about to pass out towards the end of Tear It Up because he's worked so hard. Love it! |
people on streets 06.09.2011 16:11 |
please seed!!!! ;-) |
Thistle 06.09.2011 16:37 |
fordy69 wrote: In my opinion a boring release to appeal to people who haven't seen this, of which there can't be many. =========================================================================================== I agree with your post about the mastering and also about concentrating on other tours, BUT, if you seen the complete Wembley first night before this release, please tell me how.... |
koldweather123 06.09.2011 18:15 |
The first night is superb, its better then Budapest overall IMO... The ENERGY is what really makes thisn concert, yes the band sound great and Freddie's vocals are on the whole part very good (I'd say it has the edge on Budapest and also on Knebworth, FAR better then the 2nd night at Wembley.) but the energy is light years ahead of the 2nd night. As someone said, Freddie really went a little mad on the 2nd half of Tear It Up, sorta running jumping thing whilst singing a fairly demanding song (which he NAILS as well!) WWTLF is also EPIC and one of the better done songs on the concert in terms of filming...and of course Bohemian Rhapsody is grand! |
Mr Prime Jive 06.09.2011 19:29 |
What really STANDS here is that we have LOOOOONG shots. No cut up montage and stuff. You're really able to see what's goin'on, you're IN the action and behind at the time. (and great sound) GREAT RELEASE. Down point, poor Brian was OUT of the gig : on Lap of the gods intro, Kind of magic solo, Who wants solo (overdubbed), impromtu and even his own Brighton Rock he really misses cues and stuff. Things starts to get better for him with the acoustic section. |
Doga 06.09.2011 23:29 |
i just saw the friday gig of Wembley and is fantastic, the image is a little poor, and i missed John (The dude that played the bass in Wembley) but is incredible. I like to see Freddie fooling around, and the quality of the audio is superb! The band was On Fire that night! |
fordy69 07.09.2011 07:22 |
To: Thistleboy 1980, I understand what you are saying about the Friday concert (it should be released) but I am referring to the Saturday one. Another Magic Tour concert could have been restored/remixed/remastered i.e. Budapest. Regards. |
brians wig 07.09.2011 09:01 |
And not ONE person has commented on the fact that both concerts have been de-interlaced and made to look like they were shot on film instead of videotape. It's no wonder QPL feel they can do what the hell they please if no one bloody notices and comments! Go and compare this with the 2003 (and even older VHS!) release and you'll understand what I'm talking about and if yoiu're not happy, PLEASE email Brian through his website and tell him! If they feel they can get away with de-interlacing this, they'll feel justified to do it to all other future releases from their archive. |
dragon67 07.09.2011 10:39 |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO............. Please tell me they didn't do this !!!! One thing that I love on the Wembley 2003 and the Live at the Bowl 2004 DVD releases, is the "LIVE" feeling the videotape recording gives me everytime I watch them... Most people complain about the so called "crappy" picture quality from these two shows(along with the Live Aid 2007 release), but in my humble opinion, I prefer them that way... And that's the reason that I don't like the Rock Montreal release although of it's superior picture quality... For me it's like watching a movie(take for example the new blu-ray release of the Let there be Rock concert with Bon Scott). I will e-mail Brian through his website,but I doubt he will ever understand what we are talking about. It's a shame they did this... it really is... |
popy 07.09.2011 13:35 |
My opinion is that it looks great. Higher image bitrate, no so visible compression artifacts like the 2003 release. that's a big improvement. this de-interlaced thing you're talking about... can you explain it, and post one or two sreen caps comparing the difference from the 2003 release? |
plumrach 07.09.2011 13:44 |
@brianswig I understand what you are sayinng about the film quality/type, i did not know the wording for it I posted on another thread but i will repeat myself here, i was very impressed and i like the rawness of freddies voice in places and the very close up shots of Roger!! |
Doga 08.09.2011 16:46 |
I prefer the film quality, from my point of view is a lot better than the videotape, Wembley Friday look like an amateur multicam made by fans nowdays, and is a shame because is a very good gig. But Montreal looks like if the gig was recorded just yesterday, If they only record Wembley like Montreal... Gavin Taylor is a great director but his cameras were shit... Queen made Wembley his emblem (but from my point of view, Budapest is a more important gig) so a good quality of the gig is important. Well, in 1986 Queen made the greatest and biggest gigs in Europe, and maybe in the world, and they were a very rich band, the could film properly, in 35 mm film, their biggest gigs (Wembley, Slane, Knebworth, Mannheim...) But they didn't Thanks to God we have Budapest! |
Gregsynth 08.09.2011 19:43 |
I'm going to buy this when it gets released in the US, but going off Youtube--I can say that this Friday concert trumps the second night by MILES! Everybody sounds more relaxed, Freddie's having a ball throughout the show (and sounds good), and the stage banter during the acoustic section is funny! What I love about this concert is that it's also very "legit." Unlike the second night, Freddie's vocals aren't freaking overdubbed on half the songs! The only differences I can hear between this, and the bootleg, is that there's some minor pitch/note correction on a few songs--but nothing was overdubbed. The only true overdubs are some of Brian's guitar solos--that's it. |