QueenZone discussion #595059
Live Aid - The Legendary Performance
| Suigi 29.07.2005 19:15 |
Before I go be an idiot and upload this thing against the rules, is Queen's performance at Live Aid considered "official" material? Because I have the DVD box set, and I think the quality'll be somewhat better than any bootlegs you guys might have. |
| djaef 29.07.2005 19:15 |
It most definately is official. You have the proof in your hands (the dvd box set). |
| Suigi 29.07.2005 19:23 |
CRUD. Ah well, you guys miss out. :P Anybody else wanna state their professional opinions on this? |
| Fat Lizzy 29.07.2005 19:35 |
djaef wrote: It most definately is official. You have the proof in your hands (the dvd box set).That's the professional's opinion. Official. |
| Penetration_Guru 29.07.2005 20:12 |
Shouldn't we be encouraging all the people with bootleg copies to BUY the real thing? |
| Fat Lizzy 29.07.2005 20:16 |
Penetration_Guru wrote: Shouldn't we be encouraging all the people with bootleg copies to BUY the real thing?Everybody should buy all the "real" releases in order to be a "real" Queen fan :P |
| Suigi 29.07.2005 20:23 |
A real Queen fan with too much dang money. It cost me 44 bucks CDN just to get this dang thing. I've seen Queen, the Who, Bowie, U2, McCartney, and Status Quo. Just about everything else I skipp'd. |
| newcastle 86! 16483 29.07.2005 22:09 |
naaaaaa it doesnt matter |
| Suigi 29.07.2005 22:19 |
Nvrmnd I b quiet now. |
| deleted user 30.07.2005 03:24 |
hang on, he said hes baught the boxset yet your telling him to go out and buy it? :S and if its video of the queen performance then why is there a dvd bootleg of it? im confused! |
| djaef 30.07.2005 03:51 |
3* taylorgaga (Begg) wrote: hang on, he said hes baught the boxset yet your telling him to go out and buy it? :S and if its video of the queen performance then why is there a dvd bootleg of it? im confused!No-one's telling him to go out and buy it. Penetration_guru was suggesting that we should be encouraging people to buy this official product as opposed to downloading songs from it for free. There are video & audio bootlegs of Live Aid floating around. Why not? What he was wanting to share was mp3 rips of the official dvd. I hope that clears your confusion. |
| deleted user 30.07.2005 05:46 |
oh right! yeh that solves my confusion lol! |
| john bodega 30.07.2005 07:55 |
I downloaded the 13mb file floating around in 2002 which was the Live Aid show up to Crazy Little Thing Called Love. I did it without qualms because Bob Geldof said the show was never to be released. THEN he released the stuffing show, haven't listened to it since, on account of kind of being - poor. |
| epwchill 30.07.2005 09:55 |
Though many things were cut from the DVD, including Zepplins whole performance, and quite a bit of sabbaths performance. |
| doremi 30.07.2005 13:08 |
And the performances of Carlos Santana, The Hooters, amd quite a few more artists as well as songs being cut and left off the DVD from artists that are on the DVD. If you go on Geldof's official website they tell you that 10 hours of the 16 hour event were released on the DVD. It also goes into great detail about the source generation tapes, the broadcasts, and audio/video recording feeds. |
| doremi 30.07.2005 13:09 |
From Bob Geldof's site. Here' some of the info. For the complete info. go to the link. link Official Live Aid DVD An official 4-DVD set of the Live Aid concerts was released on November 8, 2004. It contains 10-hour partial footage of the 16-hour length concert. The DVD was produced by Geldof's company, Woodcharm Ltd., and distributed by Warner Music Group. The decision to finally release it was taken by Bob Geldof nearly 20 years after the original concerts, after he found a number of pirate copies of the concert on the Internet (see full story here). There has been controversy over the DVD release because a decision had been taken for a substantial number of tracks not to be included in this edited version. The most complete footage that exists is from the BBC, and it was the main source of the DVD. During production on the official DVD, MTV lent Woodcharm Ltd. their B-roll and alternate camera footage; this was an additional source of the U.S. footage that appears on the official DVD. Working from the original BBC and MTV footage, judicious decisions were made on which acts would be included and which ones would not (for example, Rick Springfield, The Four Tops, The Hooters, and Power Station are among those acts that were left off the DVD). Many of the artists' songs that were performed were also omitted. For example Madonna performed 3 solo songs in the concert, but only 2 were included on DVD - "Love Makes the World Go 'Round" was omitted. Two performers were left off at their own request - Led Zeppelin and Santana. The rock band Led Zeppelin defended their decision not to be included on the grounds that their performance was "sub-standard," but to lend their support Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have pledged to donate proceeds from an upcoming Led Zeppelin DVD release to the campaign, and John Paul Jones has pledged proceeds from his current American tour with Mutual Admiration Society. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown decided the VAT collected on the DVD will be given back to the charity, which will raise an extra £5 for every DVD sold. |
| Suigi 30.07.2005 15:58 |
And as it says in the booklet, two of the Who's four tunes - I think it was "Pinball Wizard" and "My Generation" - weren't broadcast because the generator blew. BTW, since the Queen Hub doesn't list Live Aid on its official list, why doesn't QueenZone let me upload it? |
| kyassor 30.07.2005 17:55 |
Suigi wrote: BTW, since the Queen Hub doesn't list Live Aid on its official list, why doesn't QueenZone let me upload it?It doesn't say 'Don't punch your boss in the face' at my work but if I did, I don't think I'd be popular. Does it say 'Don't stick metal objects directly in to the electricity supply' in your house ? No ? Well are you going to do that ? I think you are just trying to wind people up because no one can be as pathetic as you try and make out - it isn't possible :-) |
| Suigi 30.07.2005 19:13 |
Can't blame a guy for trying. ;) Just kidding. To be honest, I think you guys will just buy the DVD box set if you want it that badly. Otherwise, make do with the many bootlegs out there. |
| wstüssyb 30.07.2005 23:02 |
Went to buy it today, fucking best buy was sold out, fuckers. |
| Maz 30.07.2005 23:52 |
Suigi wrote: BTW, since the Queen Hub doesn't list Live Aid on its official list, why doesn't QueenZone let me upload it?QZ and the QueenHub are run by differnet administrators and have a completely differnet audience and set of rules. QZ is much more public and needs to be more careful than a hub with a few hundred members at most. And to be honest, I'm not sure anyone in the Hub is sharing the DVD rip. If anything, it's the old bootleg version that's been in circulation for years. |
| Suigi 31.07.2005 00:48 |
Well, if I can stankin' log in on the Hub, then I'll be sharing it. Or failing that, check the 2 GB-or-less hub. |
| kyassor 31.07.2005 04:31 |
Suigi wrote: To be honest, I think you guys will just buy the DVD box set if you want it that badly.It might surprise you to know that some people have already bought it - you are not the only one to buy what has been one of the best selling music dvds this year. I've had the Live Aid dvd since it was released - I have a vhs recording of the original tv broadcast and I have the memory of being in the crowd at Wembley for the gig itself - therefore I doubt that anything you post on here about Live Aid would be an improvement on what I personally have. Others who have not been able to buy the dvd as yet may appreciate having the Queen performance uploaded on to here but would they appreciate the site being closed down because of it ? The Live Aid dvd box set can be bought fairly cheaply and is worth it just for the Queen section alone - I paid £18 for it, you paid $CDN44 for it and it is onsale at DeepDiscountDVD in the US for $27 - these are just some easy to find prices, I'm sure there are better ones available if you look around. |
| deleted user 31.07.2005 05:22 |
the cheapest you can find it in any store in this country as far as iv see is around £35-40, ebay might have it cheapr but i bet it would end up near that price! if you want JUST radio ga ga you can buy the live aid HIGHLIGHTS DVD which is only £8 at Woolworths! £10 at HMV, features a highlight of most of the acts from the show, some which arent on the DVD and all off Radio Ga Ga, the rest are snippets! Great buy! |
| flashalive 31.07.2005 06:25 |
If your in the UK go to ASDA £29.97- I think thats the cheapest retail price ?? |
| deleted user 31.07.2005 06:52 |
WHAT?! dammit! ah well there you go! |
| kyassor 31.07.2005 11:17 |
3* taylorgaga (Begg) wrote: the cheapest you can find it in any store in this country as far as iv see is around £35-40I don't know what country you are in but if it is the UK then I don't want you to do my shopping !!! ;-) There are links on the top of this page (on my screen at least) that advertise it for £27.99 inc delivery. I bought mine from CD Wow for £17.99 (inc delivery) when it first came out but I think they mispriced it as went up to £27.99 after a day or two. Currently Amazon & Play.com have it for under £30 and if you import it from the US you can get it possibly cheaper if you don't get hit for duty & tax. For example, Deep Discount DVD in the US have it on sale for $26.60 (approx £15.10) plus $8.95 (approx £5.10) postage to the UK so that is a total of approx $35.55 (approx £20.20) : however, anything with a value of £18 or more is subject to tax & duty in the UK (plus an admin fee of about £5 in some cases) so it depends if the company say the value is the item value or the total value inc postage - it should just be the item value in which case it would be duty free ... but isn't always. If you do get hit for tax & duty then it may cost more than the UK version. And as Flashalive points out, it is under £30 in Asda too - I guess the other supermarkets will have it at a similar price too. |
| ledzeppelinfan1963 06.08.2005 17:34 |
the performance is part of the public domain now. it was shown free,and on live tv,therefore it's open game to be copied and used as long as ya do'nt sell it is'nt it? |