Leonard Cohen - At the Isle of Wight 1970
What concert are you watching? (ALL Formats, DVD-V, BD..maybe LDs too)
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Paul Simon - Hyde Park.....stunning sound and video quality
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I have 2 concert DVDs currently sat on my player being re-viewed. Quite contrasting in their approach, but each with merits.
(yes, a cigarette complete Joni M. Pre later air brush)
Aside from a really cheesy prologue, some hamfisted attempt to explain the DVD's title that treats us like Sesame St. viewers, the Joni Mitchell performance is excellent. It is to camera - the audience here are mere set dressing - yet an intimacy is established by the cameras' clean controlled focus on the singing and playing of JM, truly demonstrating her deftness and range. Not that the band aren't excellent, they really are, naturally JM is allowed to dominate front and centre as the cameras pivot about her. The in-the-round stage here helps to project JM from studio into the living room (shame it ain't surround sound) as if she is playing especially for the DVD audience, which is of course, precisely what she is doing.
Under Blackpool Lights is also pitching for intimacy, that paired-back-to-basics schtick that WS did so well. Unlike the JM this is very much trying to convey the raw experience of an actual WS gig as it might go down in a concert venue, very far from the controlled environment of a film studio. It seeks to capture the performance on its own terms, rather than played for its recording on camera. The intimacy is in the grain of the image, an analogue patina to the show, due to being shot on Super 8 (the domestic film stock of yesteryear). As a film geek, I get an extra jolt from this, however this filmic conceit doesn't override the music, at once rich in colour and poor in definition, it houses the simplistic yet energetically bombastic rock n roll very well. I like this performance (and its recording) a great deal.
(yes, a cigarette complete Joni M. Pre later air brush)
Aside from a really cheesy prologue, some hamfisted attempt to explain the DVD's title that treats us like Sesame St. viewers, the Joni Mitchell performance is excellent. It is to camera - the audience here are mere set dressing - yet an intimacy is established by the cameras' clean controlled focus on the singing and playing of JM, truly demonstrating her deftness and range. Not that the band aren't excellent, they really are, naturally JM is allowed to dominate front and centre as the cameras pivot about her. The in-the-round stage here helps to project JM from studio into the living room (shame it ain't surround sound) as if she is playing especially for the DVD audience, which is of course, precisely what she is doing.
Under Blackpool Lights is also pitching for intimacy, that paired-back-to-basics schtick that WS did so well. Unlike the JM this is very much trying to convey the raw experience of an actual WS gig as it might go down in a concert venue, very far from the controlled environment of a film studio. It seeks to capture the performance on its own terms, rather than played for its recording on camera. The intimacy is in the grain of the image, an analogue patina to the show, due to being shot on Super 8 (the domestic film stock of yesteryear). As a film geek, I get an extra jolt from this, however this filmic conceit doesn't override the music, at once rich in colour and poor in definition, it houses the simplistic yet energetically bombastic rock n roll very well. I like this performance (and its recording) a great deal.
Metallica S&M 2
Steve Hackett - Live at Hammersmith....The mix is incredible!! 
John Williams Live In Vienna
Played through the oppo 205 Atmos layer (down-mixed) some rear action -very immersive and clear as a bell!
Played through the oppo 205 Atmos layer (down-mixed) some rear action -very immersive and clear as a bell!
Steven Wilson - Get All You Deserve, following on from Steve Hackett - Live at Hammersmith. Think I'll play Steven Wilson - Home Invasion next.
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Queen - Rock Montreal.......First viewing
Blackfield - Live in New York City
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - At The Royal Albert Hall
kap'n krunch
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Really HEAVY VIBES during this gig...
great MCH mix too...
great MCH mix too...
Eagles - Live from The Forum
musicmemorabiliashoppellc
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Van Halen's FINAL concert!!!
Mike Oldfield - Live at Montreaux 1981
1963Christopher
New member
Just a glorious time capsule ! Well done, Sir !
Robert Reed - Sanctuary live........Awesome!!
That looks like its at the Real World studios?
Yes it is.
Mark Doyle's Guitar Noir
"Out Of The Past" album performed LIVE!
http://www.markdoyle.com/bio.html
*first song out of the gate "Moonlight Mile"
, love the various guitar techniques on display by Guitar Mark (aka @Guitmark); slide, right hand claw pickin' etc, and looks like a hell of an effects pedal board. Also, didn't expect the string accompaniment! And a great mix for a live recording - NICE!!!
"Out Of The Past" album performed LIVE!
http://www.markdoyle.com/bio.html
*first song out of the gate "Moonlight Mile"
, love the various guitar techniques on display by Guitar Mark (aka @Guitmark); slide, right hand claw pickin' etc, and looks like a hell of an effects pedal board. Also, didn't expect the string accompaniment! And a great mix for a live recording - NICE!!!
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