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Royal Albert Hall Concert
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 11:56 pm
by nightmare strand
Given the recent and much appreciated influx of TD DVD material on to the market, does anyone know if the BBC actually filmed this event and if so, did the archive footage from the 70s survive long enough to be considered for future release. Wonderful as the new technologies are, I would jump at the chance to revisit a fully improvised performance dwarfed by banks of old style analogue equipment.
Re: Royal Albert Hall Concert
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 12:05 am
by 24db
nightmare strand wrote:Given the recent and much appreciated influx of TD DVD material on to the market, does anyone know if the BBC actually filmed this event and if so, did the archive footage from the 70s survive long enough to be considered for future release. Wonderful as the new technologies are, I would jump at the chance to revisit a fully improvised performance dwarfed by banks of old style analogue equipment.
Don't think so, it's never been mentioned before
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:28 pm
by 24db
the only recording of the show was audio only made by the BBC and or Radio London (reports differ). I've never heard of any filming of the concert.
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:30 pm
by epsilon75
IMHO the greatest concert they ever did.............incredible
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:32 pm
by 24db
epsilon75 wrote:IMHO the greatest concert they ever did.............incredible
Completely top show...even if things went very wrong during the first piece. Often copied...never bettered
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:35 pm
by epsilon75
24db wrote:epsilon75 wrote:IMHO the greatest concert they ever did.............incredible
Completely top show...even if things went very wrong during the first piece. Often copied...never bettered
Andy
Ive never heard anything so incredible in the whole of my musical loving life.....totally and utterly untouchable (LIVE) music that is MAGIC
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:37 pm
by bigmoog
epsilon75 wrote:24db wrote:epsilon75 wrote:IMHO the greatest concert they ever did.............incredible
Completely top show...even if things went very wrong during the first piece. Often copied...never bettered
Andy
Ive never heard anything so incredible in the whole of my musical loving life.....totally and utterly untouchable (LIVE) music that is MAGIC
i agree
but what about albert hall 76?
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:39 pm
by epsilon75
BM
76 is great but 75 is 75
The GREATEST
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:42 pm
by bigmoog
1975
RAH
not the best td concert
no
its the greatest ever, awesome, amazing....never ever bettered....maybe
sorry, i have no words to describe
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:44 pm
by 24db
epsilon75 wrote:24db wrote:epsilon75 wrote:IMHO the greatest concert they ever did.............incredible
Completely top show...even if things went very wrong during the first piece. Often copied...never bettered
Andy
Ive never heard anything so incredible in the whole of my musical loving life.....totally and utterly untouchable (LIVE) music that is MAGIC
as far as 'mood music' with very long build ups, followed by complex otherworldly unstoppable sequencer lines are concerned it's never been bettered (it can't be copied either...read Mark Shreeves comments on how he can't get near TD's sound...even though he's tried). Improvised 'on the night' by three complete composer/performers it's the zenith of live EM (nicking a catch phrase from the Mighty Boosh 'Everything was just tuning up before it!). Another highlight of an amazing career with so many...and you had the eighties to come.
the concert was amazing for so many reasons:
1. it nearly didn't happen, the musicians union try to stop the gig, but TD had to play for the pleasure of using their own Mellotrons
2. the equipment went wrong during the first piece
3. the band reallly didn't know each other that well (Edgar and Chris never thought Michael gelled that well with them).
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:49 pm
by rattymouse
24db wrote:epsilon75 wrote:24db wrote:
Completely top show...even if things went very wrong during the first piece. Often copied...never bettered
Andy
Ive never heard anything so incredible in the whole of my musical loving life.....totally and utterly untouchable (LIVE) music that is MAGIC
as far as 'mood music' with very long build ups, followed by complex otherworldly unstoppable sequencer lines are concerned it's never been bettered (it can't be copied either...read Mark Shreeves comments on how he can't get near TD's sound...even though he's tried). Improvised 'on the night' by three complete composer/performers it's the zenith of live EM (nicking a catch phrase from the Mighty Boosh 'Everything was just tuning up before it!). Another highlight of an amazing career with so many...and you had the eighties to come.
the concert was amazing for so many reasons:
1. it nearly didn't happen, the musicians union try to stop the gig, but TD had to play for the pleasure of using their own Mellotrons
2. the equipment went wrong during the first piece
3. the band reallly didn't know each other that well (Edgar and Chris never thought Michael gelled that well with them).
Sometimes personality conflicts produce some of THE best improvised music. There are many examples of this in Jazz.
Perhaps if Froese and Franke got on stage today, they'd produce the best music ever!!!
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:49 pm
by bigmoog
thinking....the greatest td gig ......is always the next one
because one can never ever be 100 percent sure of what we will hear
td music is dalinian......i mean it is directly opposite to normal existance....its beyond
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:51 pm
by 24db
rattymouse wrote:24db wrote:epsilon75 wrote:
Andy
Ive never heard anything so incredible in the whole of my musical loving life.....totally and utterly untouchable (LIVE) music that is MAGIC
as far as 'mood music' with very long build ups, followed by complex otherworldly unstoppable sequencer lines are concerned it's never been bettered (it can't be copied either...read Mark Shreeves comments on how he can't get near TD's sound...even though he's tried). Improvised 'on the night' by three complete composer/performers it's the zenith of live EM (nicking a catch phrase from the Mighty Boosh 'Everything was just tuning up before it!). Another highlight of an amazing career with so many...and you had the eighties to come.
the concert was amazing for so many reasons:
1. it nearly didn't happen, the musicians union try to stop the gig, but TD had to play for the pleasure of using their own Mellotrons
2. the equipment went wrong during the first piece
3. the band reallly didn't know each other that well (Edgar and Chris never thought Michael gelled that well with them).
Sometimes personality conflicts produce some of THE best improvised music. There are many examples of this in Jazz.
Perhaps if Froese and Franke got on stage today, they'd produce the best music ever!!!
Chris and Edgar liked Michael...it was purely on a musical level they had problems.
If Chris and Edgar speak again...blah blah blah...you've heard it before mate. A shame, but...that's how it is
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 9:57 pm
by 24db
bigmoog wrote:
thinking....the greatest td gig ......is always the next one
because one can never ever be 100 percent sure of what we will hear
td music is dalinian......i mean it is directly opposite to normal existance....its beyond
heres to the next time 115db at the back of row 5
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:02 pm
by bigmoog
im expecting the FF concert to hit orchestral sound pressure levels
can it be true that tangerine dream were/are/will be the most out there awesome musical force (majeure)?
true
no wonder an entire generation of EM musicians attempt the impossible........