HW: was Star Nation - now Nottingham

Nick Lee nick.lee2 at VIRGIN.NET
Fri Mar 29 04:56:34 EST 2002


The DVD is the tv broadcast version with the credits rolling over the end of
Damanation Alley.  The Live Legends VHS release has a full version 0of Wind
Of Change with the credits rolling towards the end of it.

Nick
> On the subject of the Live Legends/Bedrock thingy, there's a discussion
> going on over on rmp about these DVDs coming out from these performances,
> including Gong, Hatfield & the North, and others.  And folks there are
> saying that these DVDs are actually cut down (!) from the original video
> and/or CD releases, and even though it says 80 minutes on the outside,
> they're far less than that on the inside.  I didn't see any confirmation
> about HW's, but I wonder if it's complete or not.  And now I wonder about
> this CD, since this is the first pure audio release of this show.
>
> From memory, it seems as though Wind of Change was played as audio only
> during the end credits of the video, and so I'm wondering if that is in
fact
> what may (and I repeat *may*, as in theoretically) have been cut from the
> DVD (following the course of the others).  And I also seem to remember
> somebody saying that more was actually performed that night in Nottingham,
> though this partial memory seems to be that maybe one track was played
> twice, perhaps as an opportunity to adjust recording levels and video
setup
> or something at the outset.  Again, vague memories only.
>
> Anyway, I'll be curious to know whether there will be a need to buy both
the
> DVD and the stinkin' CD too!*  And I've already forgotten what the
situation
> was with the region-encoding of the DVD...are there separate Region 1 and
2
> (or whatever), or will all play everywhere?  I know somebody answered this
> before, but I've let it slip my mind.
>
> Curiously, Grakkl (FAA)
>
> *P.S.  Am I now also remembering that the Nottingham CD was perhaps going
to
> be 2 CDs?  If that's correct, then what the hell is the rest of the
> material?  That would pretty much make both necessary, although I do have
> the VHS that won't be going bad anytime soon.
>



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