Works Orchestral Tour: Manticore Special
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• Color
• DVD-Video
• Live
• NTSC
In Theaters : 07 January, 2003
DVD Release : 07 January, 2003 |
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| It's got its moments. For ELP, this concert was a phenomenal success. As to the recording aspect, it was a star-crossed night...the irony of the poor audio of this DVD stems from the fact that the location 24-track recorder broke down during the show ( interview with Keith Emerson, 1980 ). The videotape audio for the then state-of-the-art two-inch machine was limited to one track; hence the monaural sound, although they tried to create "stereo" with reverb. The biggest flaw, and in my opinion the most unforgivable one, was the inadequate lighting for the video cameras. The "ghost" images also resulted from the relatively low light. I saw ELP twice during this 1977 tour, and the stage lighting was great for human eyes...but those big TV cameras required something like 35 lux illumination ( versus one lux for camcorders today ). Shame on the video team; they knew better. If you check out the size of ABC-TVs California Jam stage lights during that ELP set, it becomes obvious that ABC did its homework. Don't hold your breath waiting for the "new and improved" on Montreal. This unfortunately is as good as it gets. It does, however, capture ELP at a monumental peak in their career, no matter how poor a business decision it turned out to be. |
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