Movie

In Collection
#2048

My Rating:
6

Seen It:
Yes

Musical

USA / English

Awesome! The Vegas footage is unique because somebody throws something at Dave's eye during Jamie's Cryin' and he tells them off. Then, after the intro to I'll Wait, for some reason Dave isn't singing. I don't know if his eyes were hurting and he was being attended to or what. So the band realizes that something's wrong and they start playing an instrumental jam, the likes of which I've never heard before. Eventually, after a cut in the video I'll Wait starts back up again. The video ends in the middle of that.

The Chicago footage is of 7/10 and 7/11/81 and looks to be done on an old-school device. I don't know if it's 8 mm or 16 mm film or what. But it' just awesome and it has a very intimate feel to it.

The Boston footage is 1979, I think 5/14/79. All I've seen of '79 is the painfully difficult to watch Fresno 3/25/79 footage. While this isn't spectacular picture quality, it's a lot more watchable than that and the band, as with most '79 shows, was hungry and played really tight.

Overall a fantastic find! Too bad the Vegas 5/15/84 isn't circulating in audio form to my knowledge, because I'd like to hear that complete show as it clearly is unique from other '84 shows.

Region

Any Region

Date

1984-05-15

Standard Features

Menus and Chapters

Layers

Single Side, Single Layer

Discs

Personal Details
Links	IMDB

Quotes from the author:
"Yeah the sound isnt great, I looked all over for a CD boot of the audio so I could re-sync it, but nobody has it. I put the audio through both graphic and parametric equalizers as the original sound was very boomy. I improved it a little, but there was only so much I could do. The sound actually gets a bit better after the first couple of numbers anyway.... so the filmer must have reset his levels or done something to the mic. But I cannot get rid of the distortion as that happened right back at the point of the original filming.

I spent longer on the video as that needed a lot of work and it was more fixable.

As I mentioned elsewhere recently, I think that this was originaly filmed in NTSC. The main reason that the original PAL DVD that Eddie Italian hooked me up with, needed so much repair work was that it was badly converted from NTSC to PAL. Back in the 1980s standards conversion technology was alot poorer unless you wanted to spend big bucks. This DVD looks like it was done on an early cheapo standards converter, hence the picture geometry problems, bad lip-sync and the colour brightness and contrast levels were all over the shop!

BUT.... if my theory is correct, it means that someone somewhere has a much nicer NTSC copy kicking around! But until that sees the light of day, we will have to make do with my version."