I just got this on LaserDisc (finally!), and I have to say, I think this video sucks.
The camera shots weren't good, the sound editing was horrible, and please WHY the bloody audience overdubs a la WWRY Montreal?!
Tell me your thoughts...
i saw rock in rio, and i loved it, that was the first show i seen, i loved "it's a hard life" was good stuff, but it would be interesting to see it now, after i'v seen wembly or wwry and the bowl, how it is in comparison with those shows.
The Works Tour shows all could be done much better (for example: Roger's drums' sound)
Footages sometimes are really hectic and video was much edited, that's pity.
deleted user 17.12.2004 10:37
I don't like Rock In Rio much at all! I like all thier other videos and concerts though. With the exception of Made In Heaven The Films. Thats just boring. Like the music though.
I like that show.But the sound isnt very good.But a lot of great songs and Brian's outfit is worth the whole show in my opinion.But remeber:
Don't judge them so hard!its only entertaiment.
"don't judge them so hard! it's only entertainment"?????
what kind of rubbish is this????
what we're all sychophants now are we?
fuck that - if they release something shite I will say so - and judge them - no-one (not even another queen fan) can withdraw my right to criticise my favourite band
Well, nothing can be done so much about the video since that is how it is.
However, *IF* they ever plan to re-mix it for 5.1 and put it out on DVD, here's what could be done to make it more enjoyable:
1) Throw out everything that Trip Khalaf did to make it sound horrible, including audience overdubs, and take the master multitrack tapes and make it sound like Milton Keynes or the 1995 single b-side re-mix of "Rock In Rio Blues"
2) Make it complete like Wembley, Milton Keynes, etc. - both video and audio wise
3) Throw in the other Rock In Rio concert by Queen that has never been released on video or CD as a bonus
That's what would make it way better, in my opinion
speaking of south american shows on video, im in the middle of a long slow download for the argentina 81 show. how do people like this?
deleted user 17.12.2004 16:58
Dark, Trip Khalaf was responsible for their concert sound, not for the sound mix of their audio or video recordings. That's two different worlds. We have no idea how the concert sounded for those who were there.
I would like to see Live At The Rainbow, Hammersmith 75, Earls Court, Hyde Park, Paris 79 on DVD. I doubt Queen will release any of those titles though will they?
Inu: Is there only one recording with the camera angles, edits they way they are on the laserdisc? Do you mean they didn't record all the footage shot by each camera?
Weren't a couple of tracks from Rio released as a B-side to a Five Live promo cassette? I remember hearing it somewhere and even listed it on my site. Anyone have any info about this?
Adam Unger (QueenVault.com) wrote: Weren't a couple of tracks from Rio released as a B-side to a Five Live promo cassette? I remember hearing it somewhere and even listed it on my site. Anyone have any info about this?
Those tracks are "Rock In Rio Blues" (b-side to "A Winter's Tale" CD1 Single UK and US (I think)), and "Love Of My Life" (b-side to "Five Live E.P." US cassette)
goinback wrote: Inu: Is there only one recording with the camera angles, edits they way they are on the laserdisc? Do you mean they didn't record all the footage shot by each camera?
I don't know. But judging by the way the TV stations in South America seem to lose their footage so easily, whether through theft or fires (I know of a concert from Argentina where footage exists up to and including the song Fat Bottomed Girls, from 1981 I think - apparently the other half of the show was lost in a fire), I wouldn't be surprised if all independent tapes were deleted after being edited to the final master tape.
I'll have to say though, the quality is good even for a laserdisc release (though I have no idea when this particular issue - the USA issue - was released), but there are some spots where I notice things that bug me, e.g. vertical lines, grains, etc.
Speaking of the laserdisc, I transferred the whole audio portions to my PC last night, and edited the crowd endings and beginnings from side one and two, respectively, so that it flows seamlessly from after HTF ends to the beginning of BohRap.
The quality is actually much better than I thought - just only some slight humming that's noticable at the beginning of side one just before the sound really picks up.
I'm going to share it whenever I get my Internet connection back (either that, or burn it to CD and send it to someone here who can seed the whole show via BitTorrent, sometime in January)
Much better quality than Live Magic, I'll tell you that much!