classof77 wrote:Thread resurrection time? Cue the Mott the Hoople and "Roll Away the Stone?"
1. Is Revolution Rock worth having my wife give to me as a gift in the near future?
If you've seen the other DVD's, no. It's a clip show, and too many of the live clips are either truncated or narrated over. The only reason I bought was to be able to rip the pristine Tom Snyder footage to finally get badly needed upgrades to Mag 7 and TIRC (which are gorgeously clear), and also to get GoB from Fridays (although that one is slightly clipped and has the fucking narrator talking over the beginning). Those are the only 3 pieces of concert footage not circulating elsewhere in DVD quality, and there are the unforgivable gaffes of trying to pass off the studio promo video of Tommy Gun as a "live" performance (WTF?...wouldn't the Something Else performance have sufficed?) and using a well off-gen copy of the Sun Plaza show worse in audio/video quality than the bootleg DVD's we all have. So it is pretty goddamn lame unless the viewer is a Clash newbie wanting to get a sampler of what they looked like live...in which case the PBS broadcast was a good idea.
I'm probably selling mine once I get my rips of those 3 upgraded tunes properly trimmed for use in mix CD's. There's no reason for me to actually watch it again since I have everything in equal or better quality/completeness somewhere else.
classof77 wrote:Thread resurrection time? Cue the Mott the Hoople and "Roll Away the Stone?"
1. Is Revolution Rock worth having my wife give to me as a gift in the near future?
If you've seen the other DVD's, no. It's a clip show, and too many of the live clips are either truncated or narrated over. The only reason I bought was to be able to rip the pristine Tom Snyder footage to finally get badly needed upgrades to Mag 7 and TIRC (which are gorgeously clear), and also to get GoB from Fridays (although that one is slightly clipped and has the fucking narrator talking over the beginning). Those are the only 3 pieces of concert footage not circulating elsewhere in DVD quality, and there are the unforgivable gaffes of trying to pass off the studio promo video of Tommy Gun as a "live" performance (WTF?...wouldn't the Something Else performance have sufficed?) and using a well off-gen copy of the Sun Plaza show worse in audio/video quality than the bootleg DVD's we all have. So it is pretty goddamn lame unless the viewer is a Clash newbie wanting to get a sampler of what they looked like live...in which case the PBS broadcast was a good idea.
I'm probably selling mine once I get my rips of those 3 upgraded tunes properly trimmed for use in mix CD's. There's no reason for me to actually watch it again since I have everything in equal or better quality/completeness somewhere else.
Christ, what a garbage release. I'm never buying that shit.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
It's not really worth getting - I immediately recognized about 90% of the material from other dvd's I've recevied via the generous nature of people from this board - the other 10% has been seen via other sources; thus, nothing really new - I bought it to check it out and show the powers that be that there is a Clash market - hopefully prompting a better (a complete show?) release - you know how those powers love to squeeze a market dry.
It's not really worth getting - I immediately recognized about 90% of the material from other dvd's I've recevied via the generous nature of people from this board
I don't mind it being stuff we already have on bootlegs, it's the fact that a good deal of it is worse quality then the bootlegs or incomplete (why not all of Fridays, etc).
