Excerpts from the soundboard feed ahead?

[herlock]

Hum. So disappointed... no filming anywhere just means no Blu-Ray.
So, we can tell now that the "finger of death" is not because of the perspective of an official video release; quite on the contrary, it appears that Mark does not want to appear on screen AT ALL - be it officially ot not; that's strange, as one of the 2009 pre-show was officially released at least on VoD...
Anyway... we are not in his head.
Will be happy to purchase the official audio of course, but a Blu-Ray would be so much better; even sound wise, 5.1 sound in DTS-MA lossless is so much better than a CD, not even mentionning lossy mp3s.
The RLRR DVD was the closest thing to what I would like - a DVD (now BR) + CD combo, with some nice bonuses; too bad the sales were't there to push the idea. Maybe the concert with Emmylou was not the best product to release - I love it, not the point, by maybe a "pure" MK tour document would have sold better.
Seems like the story may end up, at best, like the Shangri-la tour with the Passalong digiital downloads. At least I hope that won't have bloody DRM on it, so that they can be used on Macs and Iphones...

[dannyjun]

Hum. So disappointed... no filming anywhere just means no Blu-Ray.
So, we can tell now that the "finger of death" is not because of the perspective of an official video release; quite on the contrary, it appears that Mark does not want to appear on screen AT ALL - be it officially ot not; that's strange, as one of the 2009 pre-show was officially released at least on VoD...
Anyway... we are not in his head.
Will be happy to purchase the official audio of course, but a Blu-Ray would be so much better; even sound wise, 5.1 sound in DTS-MA lossless is so much better than a CD, not even mentionning lossy mp3s.
The RLRR DVD was the closest thing to what I would like - a DVD (now BR) + CD combo, with some nice bonuses; too bad the sales were't there to push the idea. Maybe the concert with Emmylou was not the best product to release - I love it, not the point, by maybe a "pure" MK tour document would have sold better.
Seems like the story may end up, at best, like the Shangri-la tour with the Passalong digiital downloads. At least I hope that won't have bloody DRM on it, so that they can be used on Macs and Iphones...

well...I am a bit disappointed too...
Let

[herlock]

"A night in London" lacks energy compared to Vaison'96 (just listen to Going Home on both, to see the difference). On tope of that, it is a crime that the very nice version of SoS was released on the VHS and not on DVD, and that TR was not released at all (96 versions are the best of all time IMHO).
I find you a bit harsh with RLRR, to me it is a very fine concert, it is nice to see MK so much more energetic than 10 years before on "A night in London" ! It is a fine document of a fine album (ATTR), with unvaluable extras, such as the best version ever of Speedway (gorgeous with Emymlou, Stuart Duncan and the light show), and So Far Away and Why Worry (the only official versions of these 2 DS songs). Simply, RLRR, while a very fine thing, is no substitute for a "pure" MK tour document. It teases you with an idea a what a Shangri-La tour official DVD would have been, and yes, this one would have sold much more.
Anyway... who are we to complain... but I agree with you on a CD with booklet vs. bloody mp3 files ! 

[Rollergirl]

I'll be happy with a decent soundboard recording, I listen much more than I watch.

dito

[dustyvalentino]

Agree with just about everything you wrote herlock, unfortunately it seems the poor sales of RLRR have ruled out future video releases on cost grounds.

I'm still hoping the Montreux performance may be recorded and broadcast (in HD?)

[dannyjun]

"A night in London" lacks energy compared to Vaison'96 (just listen to Going Home on both, to see the difference). On tope of that, it is a crime that the very nice version of SoS was released on the VHS and not on DVD, and that TR was not released at all (96 versions are the best of all time IMHO).
I find you a bit harsh with RLRR, to me it is a very fine concert, it is nice to see MK so much more energetic than 10 years before on "A night in London" ! It is a fine document of a fine album (ATTR), with unvaluable extras, such as the best version ever of Speedway (gorgeous with Emymlou, Stuart Duncan and the light show), and So Far Away and Why Worry (the only official versions of these 2 DS songs). Simply, RLRR, while a very fine thing, is no substitute for a "pure" MK tour document. It teases you with an idea a what a Shangri-La tour official DVD would have been, and yes, this one would have sold much more.
Anyway... who are we to complain... but I agree with you on a CD with booklet vs. bloody mp3 files ! 

I did not want to say that RLRR is BAD DVD...just...every MK

[Ian Lewis]

I'd love a new official concert recording especially video, but with the amount of touring MK has done in the last few years I would imagine if MK had any desire to do it he would have already.

I would settle for a audio download though.  What did he do a few few years ago was it 'passalong?'. I couldn't access those recordings on my Mac.  Were they any good?

[herlock]

I'd love a new official concert recording especially video, but with the amount of touring MK has done in the last few years I would imagine if MK had any desire to do it he would have already.

I would settle for a audio download though.  What did he do a few few years ago was it 'passalong?'. I couldn't access those recordings on my Mac.  Were they any good?

Very good indeed, even if the format was loosy MP3. I bought the London one, and had no remorse to break the DRM on it to put it on my iphone.
Now that passalong is gone, they should be in public domain, unless there is an alternative offer (but there isn't). You can actually find them on the net.

[Pottel]

why does eveyone keep saying RLRR had bad sales, are there official numbers anywhere?

[dustyvalentino]

why does eveyone keep saying RLRR had bad sales, are there official numbers anywhere?

GF said so.

[ds1984]

Very good indeed, even if the format was loosy MP3. I bought the London one, and had no remorse to break the DRM on it to put it on my iphone.
Now that passalong is gone, they should be in public domain, unless there is an alternative offer (but there isn't). You can actually find them on the net.

Maybe we can hope that some 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2008 show being released later. But for the momemt the priority is set for the current tour and if sales are good enough it should be encouraging them to put more show online.

[dustyvalentino]

Now that we actually have the recordings we can close this thread, please discuss them in the other one.

[Pottel]

mm, just wanted to add that PC did mention that they would love to release more "old" shows for download, but "it" (MK) is a big supertanker that is kinda heavy to turn around that quick...