Rude Boy Music Machine Footage Sync'd to Audience Recording

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Rude Boy Music Machine Footage Sync'd to Audience Recording

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I tried to sync up the audience recording to the Rude Boy Music Machine Footage as I always thought the studio overdubs lacked the live energy of the band.

Youtube has the Rude Boy footage on lock down, so my upload was swiftly rejected. Consequently, I was able to upload for streaming to the Clash on Parole fb group:

If that doesn't work, here is a download link: https://mega.nz/#!ADwkXCLC!XBYtkDE08Nf2 ... zOny27PeIw

A few notes:
1. The overdubs performed by the band, particularly Joe, are impressively accurate. Safe European Home, however sounds way rougher (and better IMO) with the real live audio.
2. The audio became randomly out of sync mid-way through SEH, so you'll hear a couple of jumps in the audio that I used to catch it back up with the footage.
3. Confirmed all footage was from the third of the four shows at the Music Machine on July 26th, 1978. Per BMC, this was still in question.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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This is really great, cheers for your efforts Andrew. It feels like all that re-recording they did was a waste of time and energy really. It always sounded too sterile to me. The unpolished sound is totally acceptable in the context, I definitely prefer it to what they subsequently did with it.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:31pm
This is really great, cheers for your efforts Andrew. It feels like all that re-recording they did was a waste of time and energy really. It always sounded too sterile to me. The unpolished sound is totally acceptable in the context, I definitely prefer it to what they subsequently did with it.
I agree that the re-recorded stuff made them sound too clean. I would like to hear the complete studio takes of course. But the unpolished stuff could've been cleaned up anyway. I remixed the sound on this and gave it to Andrew but I'm not able to upload it for a while as I don't have an internet connection other than my phone.

Nice effort Andrew.
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Marky Dread wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:43pm
Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:31pm
This is really great, cheers for your efforts Andrew. It feels like all that re-recording they did was a waste of time and energy really. It always sounded too sterile to me. The unpolished sound is totally acceptable in the context, I definitely prefer it to what they subsequently did with it.
I agree that the re-recorded stuff made them sound too clean. I would like to hear the complete studio takes of course. But the unpolished stuff could've been cleaned up anyway. I remixed the sound on this and gave it to Andrew but I'm not able to upload it for a while as I don't have an internet connection other than my phone.

Nice effort Andrew.
It sounded really great blasting through the telly earlier, top work mate.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:48pm
Marky Dread wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:43pm
Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:31pm
This is really great, cheers for your efforts Andrew. It feels like all that re-recording they did was a waste of time and energy really. It always sounded too sterile to me. The unpolished sound is totally acceptable in the context, I definitely prefer it to what they subsequently did with it.
I agree that the re-recorded stuff made them sound too clean. I would like to hear the complete studio takes of course. But the unpolished stuff could've been cleaned up anyway. I remixed the sound on this and gave it to Andrew but I'm not able to upload it for a while as I don't have an internet connection other than my phone.

Nice effort Andrew.
It sounded really great blasting through the telly earlier, top work mate.
Cheers mate.
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Marky Dread wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:49pm
Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:48pm
Marky Dread wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:43pm
Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:31pm
This is really great, cheers for your efforts Andrew. It feels like all that re-recording they did was a waste of time and energy really. It always sounded too sterile to me. The unpolished sound is totally acceptable in the context, I definitely prefer it to what they subsequently did with it.
I agree that the re-recorded stuff made them sound too clean. I would like to hear the complete studio takes of course. But the unpolished stuff could've been cleaned up anyway. I remixed the sound on this and gave it to Andrew but I'm not able to upload it for a while as I don't have an internet connection other than my phone.

Nice effort Andrew.
It sounded really great blasting through the telly earlier, top work mate.
Cheers mate.
Shit, so sorry not to give Marky proper credit for the audio. It was a bit of a shit show getting this together on my end.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 7:17pm
Marky Dread wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:49pm
Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:48pm
Marky Dread wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:43pm
Heston wrote:
06 Jun 2019, 5:31pm
This is really great, cheers for your efforts Andrew. It feels like all that re-recording they did was a waste of time and energy really. It always sounded too sterile to me. The unpolished sound is totally acceptable in the context, I definitely prefer it to what they subsequently did with it.
I agree that the re-recorded stuff made them sound too clean. I would like to hear the complete studio takes of course. But the unpolished stuff could've been cleaned up anyway. I remixed the sound on this and gave it to Andrew but I'm not able to upload it for a while as I don't have an internet connection other than my phone.

Nice effort Andrew.
It sounded really great blasting through the telly earlier, top work mate.
Cheers mate.
Shit, so sorry not to give Marky proper credit for the audio. It was a bit of a shit show getting this together on my end.
It's all good my man. :cool:
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Nice work lads. Love it when a plan comes together

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