roquer
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Post by roquer on Jul 9, 2017 20:01:52 GMT
I've heard rumours of a coloured version of the Madrid footage but these days you can't hope too much. I don't think there is a coloured version. RTVE in those days broadcasted most of the time in B&W. Even the show from Rory Gallagher in the same venue one week earlier was recorded in B&W.
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Post by vivfromcov on Jul 19, 2017 6:18:05 GMT
You're asking the number one band to have made taking the piss out of itself a career move to suddenly start appraising their own artistic merit? They. Don't. Give. A. Shit. (Unless there's tacky gimmick value to be flogged from it). Maybe that's what they should have called the new tour?
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Post by kursaal75 on Jul 19, 2017 7:10:09 GMT
The 2017 tour, should have been called, The 20th Anniversary Of The Same Set List Tour.
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Post by funk2thebone on Jul 19, 2017 15:48:39 GMT
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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 23, 2017 14:58:43 GMT
The only faith in any live footage that Quo do have... Is the Birmingham N.E.C 1989 gig, which they used on the XS All Areas DVD
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Post by frozenhero on Jul 26, 2017 12:33:14 GMT
The only faith in any live footage that Quo do have... Is the Birmingham N.E.C 1989 gig, which they used on the XS All Areas DVD Is that the "Rockin' All Over the Years" VHS? Certainly it's one of several possibilities. I'm positive we'll see these releases at some point. The problem is that there has to be enough market interest...
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gav
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Favourite Quo Album: On The Level
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Post by gav on Jul 26, 2017 17:01:05 GMT
The only faith in any live footage that Quo do have... Is the Birmingham N.E.C 1989 gig, which they used on the XS All Areas DVD Is that the "Rockin' All Over the Years" VHS? Certainly it's one of several possibilities. I'm positive we'll see these releases at some point. The problem is that there has to be enough market interest... Perhaps more likely as snippets in a video biog or live retrospective, done cheaply and badly!?
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Post by Quoincidence on Jul 26, 2017 19:16:24 GMT
The only faith in any live footage that Quo do have... Is the Birmingham N.E.C 1989 gig, which they used on the XS All Areas DVD Is that the "Rockin' All Over the Years" VHS? Certainly it's one of several possibilities. I'm positive we'll see these releases at some point. The problem is that there has to be enough market interest... Yes, that's the one. That's the thing... there is a lot of interest in all the old VHS releases being re-released on DVD. Not a lot of people have VHS copies or even a DVD transfer of some of these gigs. Haven't watched it in a while but the footage of the NEC gig on the XS All Areas DVD is definitely to good to be a VHS transfer, which means they probably transferred the footage from the edited masters to a digital format. Instead of wasting their time/money cleaning up these awful bootlegs for deluxe editions... they need to be focusing on the video legacy of the band. Who knows, they'll probably start releasing DVDs of bootlegged gigs Then again it took them 10 years to release footage from the Wembley '96 gig after people constantly wanted to see it.
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Post by Tʰᵉ Wᵃˡˡ Oᶠ Dᵉᵃᵗʰ on Jul 27, 2017 20:46:18 GMT
... (Unless there's tacky gimmick value to be flogged from it). Are Tacky & Gimmick members of the band?
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Post by bridsparegular on Jul 28, 2017 19:04:31 GMT
... (Unless there's tacky gimmick value to be flogged from it). Are Tacky & Gimmick members of the band?
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Post by bridsparegular on Jul 28, 2017 19:06:06 GMT
Yup, "bass player"? and "drummer"?, respectively...
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37
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Post by 37 on Jul 30, 2017 20:05:22 GMT
It beggars belief that there is little footage available of their 1970-1984 years. The Reading Festival 1978 has some excellent footage of some of the bands from the weekend on YouTube, but for the main headlining act of the Saturday, Quo, there is the square root of f*ck all!
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Post by frozenhero on Aug 9, 2017 15:19:33 GMT
Is that the "Rockin' All Over the Years" VHS? Certainly it's one of several possibilities. I'm positive we'll see these releases at some point. The problem is that there has to be enough market interest... Yes, that's the one. That's the thing... there is a lot of interest in all the old VHS releases being re-released on DVD. Not a lot of people have VHS copies or even a DVD transfer of some of these gigs. Haven't watched it in a while but the footage of the NEC gig on the XS All Areas DVD is definitely to good to be a VHS transfer, which means they probably transferred the footage from the edited masters to a digital format. Instead of wasting their time/money cleaning up these awful bootlegs for deluxe editions... they need to be focusing on the video legacy of the band. Who knows, they'll probably start releasing DVDs of bootlegged gigs Then again it took them 10 years to release footage from the Wembley '96 gig after people constantly wanted to see it. It's a problematic market. Whenever I suggest something like that to the powers that be, the answer is that DVDs "don't sell" (thanks to YouTube and the like). Blu-Rays might sell better but there's only so much you can do with old footage and it's more expensive to author. It's quite likely that we'll see more releases in the CD+DVD format. But the issue with almost all the video material is that it's post the glory period so Universal/Eagle have to go the extra mile to promote it to a wider public. The deluxe editions were an easier sell because they were famous LPs (well most of them). But now the FF era is through, I'm sure those videos will be considered.
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Post by The Lord Flasheart on Aug 9, 2017 22:55:17 GMT
Queen seemed to have made a good investment by releasing their old concerts on DVD. Even though they did duplicate themselves with Hungary and Wembley being from the same tour. The Rainbow 74 and Hammersmith 75 DVD's sold very well. So why Quo cannot get these releases out I don't know, I accept that up until 2010 there was a big issue with the pre 84 stuff as Legal matters were still being delt with.
However now things are getting released and it will be interesting to see how many people buy the 82 CD when it comes out. Maybe that will show the management that people would buy a DVD of the concert. After all there is enough people on FB wanting VHS/DVD transfers and if it was packaged right the fans would buy it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2017 1:00:51 GMT
Queen seemed to have made a good investment by releasing their old concerts on DVD. Even though they did duplicate themselves with Hungary and Wembley being from the same tour. The Rainbow 74 and Hammersmith 75 DVD's sold very well. So why Quo cannot get these releases out I don't know, I accept that up until 2010 there was a big issue with the pre 84 stuff as Legal matters were still being delt with. Queen and Quo are poles apart - commercially and attitude-wise. Queen have nothing from their current lineup to sell. Apart from The Cosmos Rocks in 2008, there have been no new studio albums in over 20 years. Also, their band members don't try to distance themselves from the glory days at every opportunity. That makes a huge difference when releasing gigs from the past because you know you won't have someone telling journalists that the 70s output was "mostly shite" and that they hate rock - the music that made them famous at all. Not that Brian May or Roger Taylor have to appear on Loose Women, This Morning etc (or do any promo infact) in order for product to get promoted because the record company know beforehand there is a huge market for whatever product and they will gladly throw money at an ad campaign that will undoubtedly create sales. Freddie being dead further helps push the product to the public. The royalties that Queen receive are massive compared to Quo when you consider the worldwide appeal of the two bands and the fact that Quo didn't write their biggest hits so the need for new product is less. The fanbase for Quo is smaller, and as such, when product is released it has to sell in order to turn any kind of profit. So Quo do everything in their power not to bum up the old band to prevent sales of the back catalogue. Quo created a divide amongst fans by letting the FF reunions to happen but they engineered a way to protect the current lineup by underpromoting the FF and not offering the likes of Mr and Mrs Smith to have the chance to attend gigs by playing such small venues, whereby the tiny number of tickets that were available were snapped up quickly by hardcore fans. The FF could quite easily have sold the same - if not more - tickets than CQ on the winter tour because casual punters couldn't care less about band members. Though when they found out that RAOTW, WYW, ITAN etc wouldn't be played, they'd have been pissed off and it would have damaged CQ's reputation. Management obviously didn't want that to happen.
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