I read this on facebook, Colleting Queen fanpage.
Next Queen DVD/Blu-ray? "We Are The Champions - Final Live In Japan" from Tokyo on May 11 1985 at the National Yoyogi Stadium.
IT IS OFFICIAL. If Queen Productions didn't own the rights, that doesn't mean that is not official. This concert always been released by WOWOW, on VHS, DVD and now on Bluray, but they seems to lost the rest of the footage, like David Swimmer did with the Montreal material, he recorded the two Montreal shows, and mount the video with bits of the two, and the material that he didn't used, he throw it away
Freddie rey wrote:
IT IS OFFICIAL. If Queen Productions didn't own the rights, that doesn't mean that is not official. This concert always been released by WOWOW, on VHS, DVD and now on Bluray, but they seems to lost the rest of the footage, like David Swimmer did with the Montreal material, he recorded the two Montreal shows, and mount the video with bits of the two, and the material that he didn't used, he throw it away
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Saul Swimmer.. You have too many FRIENDS... :)
Some Japan 85 songs were uploaded to the official YouTube account a while back in HD, I don't recall the quality looking any better than the official DVD that was previously released. I guess that's just life with a SD upgrade
If this is an official QPL release and has been rush released like they did before with no audio remix and just an upscale of the original video, then it’s a real waste and a money grab.
"they seems to lost the rest of the footage, like David Swimmer did with the Montreal material, he recorded the two Montreal shows, and mount the video with bits of the two, and the material that he didn't used, he throw it away "
Just because David Swimmer or his estate didn't surrender all the raw footage to QPL, doesn't mean it was thrown away or doesn't exist. Considering the attitute Brian had towards him, I can't imagine Swimmer would have wanted to help QPL/him in any way.
And also in this case, there are all sorts of reasons why they don't utilise the masters or work tapes - cost of transferring and then remastering and editing them, or someone else owns those tapes. Even a band as big as Queen, a DVD or blu ray is ony going to shift a certain number of units without good publicity and distribution. The company that now owns the rights might not even be the company that originally filmed the gig, hence not having the work tapes. It's common for individuals to withhold tapes of all types - waiting for the big payout that won't happen, or even just having the knowledge they own something no one else has.
My daughter happened to be in Japan when this was released and picked up a copy for me.
I am old and struggle with torrents and stuff and also I have been a poor single parent for many years and had no money to buy (many) bootlegs. so I hadn’t heard it before.
The sound mix is awful. The guitar is buried under the bass and keys, and I’m not sure the mix of their voices does them justice.
But It’s always nice to see or hear a new concert - I love Queen. But I love Queen live more.
as far as i was able to look this up, this release is just the upscale bootleg we all have already, with no audio or video upgrade whatsoever, a total money grab...
fddr153 wrote:
as far as i was able to look this up, this release is just the upscale bootleg we all have already, with no audio or video upgrade whatsoever, a total money grab...
Are you sure? According to Gary Taylor the video quality is better: link
Gary Taylor did comment about this, but its not showin' footage, this spanish speakin' video did showed some footage and looks the about the same as the dvd release I own by the same publisher, but up-scaled link
It's literally the same as the 2004 DVD. Yeah, it has a slightly contrast and sharpness boost. But that's it. Nothing substantial. Not an upgrade worth noting in my eyes.
And yes, I compared frame by frame.
guild93 wrote:
Some Japan 85 songs were uploaded to the official YouTube account a while back in HD, I don't recall the quality looking any better than the official DVD that was previously released. I guess that's just life with a SD upgrade
Why would it? It was originally shot on SD video. There's no real improvement in upscaling SD to HD, your own TV can do that!
Chief Mouse wrote:
It's literally the same as the 2004 DVD. Yeah, it has a slightly contrast and sharpness boost. But that's it. Nothing substantial. Not an upgrade worth noting in my eyes.
And yes, I compared frame by frame.
I just came along a 'free copy' of this BluRay bootleg and thank God it had 24 bit 48 kHz lossless audio track, so I started to remaster it. My plan is to sync it up to the 1080i video.
I read somewhere that there is a better audio source of this show which is actually an FM broadcast. Do you know where I could find it in WAV / FLAC (or any other lossless format)?
Thank you!
bias.