Post by Beatle Bob on Dec 25, 2008 17:39:42 GMT -5
[b]REVIEW: BRAVO BEATLES! BLITZTOURNEE (Misterclaudel 108/109/110/111)-2 DVD/2 CD Set[/b]
Part of the "Live Chronicle Series"
By Beatle Bob
For collectors like myself who dabbled very little in bootleg videos or DVD over the years (I concentrated on CDs as the quality was always better), it’s nice now to have a label like Misterclaudel that is presenting very common (and sometimes rare) footage in the best quality to date, (for the collector’s market) and now finally warrants me upgrading my collection with excellent quality DVDs and new material that I might have shyed away from knowing the previously available best versions were at the best mediocre. What’s great is Misterclaudel presents these new “Live Chronicle Series” as the last word on a show or tour, combing archival footage, 16mm and 8 mm home footage, newsreels, press conferences and soundboards combined with audience tapes to give you a complete overview. It’s nice to have it all in once place!
Finally, I have the Munich video from the ZDF-TV (on DVD #1)that is a major upgrade to my collection. It is presented in absolutely gorgeous b&w video that is stunningly clear and free of digital artifacts. The audio is sharp to go along with the image. It rocks! The tv sound engineer’s low vocal balance can’t really be improved upon so the vocals are still not evenly mixed with the music, but it’s still the clearest and sharpest audio I’ve ever heard of the Munich ’66 concert. Just too bad the complete concert doesn’t survive on video in the ZDF-TV archives. But aside from this, all we have on video from ’66 is from Japan . So it’s a blessing we have this much from the German tour. This is what makes this set a winner. There are other highlights like the color 16mm home footage shot close to the stage, and synced up with the audio. Nice to see it in color, but of course any home footage suffers from being incomplete and choppy. None-the-less, excellent to watch and gives you a different perspective. (Supposidly this has been released on an earlier DVD). Plus, the footage is in better shape than I expected. Also on this disc is a ZDF-TV report in German. For me I just skimmed thru it as with no subtitles, I was lost. (Subtitles is the next level bootleggers should try). Quality is rough on this news report. There’s also another German TV report, “100 Jahre” in color (more recent) and it’s in German again. Skipped right thru it.
The set also offers on DVD #2, 16mm home footage from Essen and Hamburg, also synced up to the lesser quality audience tapes of those shows. It’s nice to see these other concerts, but once again it’s choppy and the sound quality naturally suffers from audience tapes. There’s also two b&w news reports. But, I have to add that Misterclaudel did an excellent synch job on all 8mm and 16mm footage. No complaints. Much better than the synch jobs done on Picture Perfect DVDs. The DVD is rounded out by Hamburg color 8mm film that also includes Paul’s “My Brave Face” and a trailer for this set.
The two CDs offered include the audio of the Munich video (sounding identical to the DVD’s audio of course)and audio from newsreels, and tv reports that has some of the Beatles songs in the background. The 2nd CD offers the audience tapes of Essen and Hamburg. Being audience tapes there’s not much you can do with them to make them better, but to my ears there has been some digital enhancement that makes them sound just a bit clearer and up front. Not by much, but it’s something. The set comes also with an insert with short liner notes.
For me, it’s an essential and historical documentation of the German ’66 tour. It may resemble other sets released previously (as I don’t have those), but for a collector of factory made silver bootleg sets, this is a must-have for it’s high quality all around, and it’s near completeness. I’ve played the Munich DVD many times already just because of the visual and audio quality is superb. I highly recommend this set.
CD – Disc #1
Circus Krone-bau,Munich ZDF-TV "Die Beatles" complete remaster 24th June 1966
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers (evening show)
01. Setting noise
02. Good Good Feeling
03. You Can't Love'em All
04. C.C. Rider
The Rattles (evening show)
05. Love Of My Life
06. Come On And Sing
07. Sha-la-la-la Lee
08. Shout
09. Auf Wiedersehen
Peter and Gordon (afternoon show)
10. Woman
11. Let It Be Me
The Beatles
12. Tuning (evening show)
13. Rock'n'roll Music (evening show)
14. She's A Woman (evening show)
15. Baby's In Black (afternoon show)
16. I Feel Fine (afternoon show)
17. Yesterday (afternoon show)
18. Nowhere Man (evening show)
19. I'm Down (evening show)
News film "The Beatles in Munchen"
20. Introduction (afternoon show)
21. I'm Down (afternoon show)
News TV report by CBS
22. I'm Down (afternoon show)
News TV report by ZDF-TV
23. I Wanna Be Your Man (afternoon show)
News film "Blick in die Welt"
24. Introduction~tuning (afternoon show)
News TV report by ZDF-TV
25. TV report (before evening show)
26. Goog Good Feeling (partcial)
ZDF-TV "Die Beatles" extended remaster 24th June 1966
27. Tuning (evening show)
28. Rock'n'roll Music (evening show)
29. She's A Woman (evening show)
30. Baby's In Black (afternoon show)
31. I Feel Fine (afternoon show)
32. Yesterday (afternoon show)
33. Nowhere Man (evening show)
34. I'm Down (evening show)
"Anthology" remaster
35. Nowhere Man (evening show)
CD Disc #2
Grugahalle, Essen afternoon show 25th June 1966
01. Introduction
02. Rock'n'roll Music
03. She's A Woman
04. If I Needed Someone
05. Day Tripper
06. Baby's In Black
07. I Feel Fine
08. Yesterday
09. I Wanna Be Your Man
10. Nowhere Man
11. Paperback Writer
12. I'm Down
Grugahalle, Essen evening show 25th June 1966
13. Paperback Writer
Ernest Merck Halle, Hamburg afternoon show 26th June 1966
14. Introduction
15. La La La
16. Introduction - audience noise
17. Tuning
18. Baby's In Black
19. I Wanna Be Your Man
20. Nowhere Man - Paperback Writer
21. Nowhere Man - Paperback Writer (no overdub)
22. Paperback Writer
Press Conference
23. Essen Press Conference
24. Hamburg Press Conference
DVD Disc #1
Circus Krone-bau,Munich ZDF-TV "Die Beatles" complete remaster 24th June 1966
01.- 02. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
03. - 09. The Rattles
10. - 11. Peter and Gordon
12. - 19. The Beatles
20. ZDF-TV report
21. Color 16mm Audio Sync
22. Color 16mm Raw
23. Color 16mm "100 Jahre"
24. B&W 16mm Audio Sync
25. B&W 16mm Raw 1
26. B&W 16mm Raw 2
27. B&W 16mm "Blick In Die Welt"
DVD Disc #2
25th June Essen
01. B&W 16mm Audio Sync
02. B&W 16mm News Film 1 (short version)
03. B&W 16mm News Film 2 (long version)
26th June Hamburg
04. B&W 16mm Audio Sync
05. B&W 16mm Polis Film
06. B&W 16mm "Hamburgers voor de Beatles"
Film Archives
07. Hamburg B&W 16mm 1
08. Hamburg B&W 16mm 2
09. Hamburg B&W 16mm 3
10. Hamburg B&W 16mm 4
11. Hamburg B&W 16mm 5
12. Hamburg B&W 16mm 6
Bonus Track
13. Hamburg Color 8mm (PV"My Brave Face")
14. Trailer
Regards,
Beatle Bob
Part of the "Live Chronicle Series"
By Beatle Bob
For collectors like myself who dabbled very little in bootleg videos or DVD over the years (I concentrated on CDs as the quality was always better), it’s nice now to have a label like Misterclaudel that is presenting very common (and sometimes rare) footage in the best quality to date, (for the collector’s market) and now finally warrants me upgrading my collection with excellent quality DVDs and new material that I might have shyed away from knowing the previously available best versions were at the best mediocre. What’s great is Misterclaudel presents these new “Live Chronicle Series” as the last word on a show or tour, combing archival footage, 16mm and 8 mm home footage, newsreels, press conferences and soundboards combined with audience tapes to give you a complete overview. It’s nice to have it all in once place!
Finally, I have the Munich video from the ZDF-TV (on DVD #1)that is a major upgrade to my collection. It is presented in absolutely gorgeous b&w video that is stunningly clear and free of digital artifacts. The audio is sharp to go along with the image. It rocks! The tv sound engineer’s low vocal balance can’t really be improved upon so the vocals are still not evenly mixed with the music, but it’s still the clearest and sharpest audio I’ve ever heard of the Munich ’66 concert. Just too bad the complete concert doesn’t survive on video in the ZDF-TV archives. But aside from this, all we have on video from ’66 is from Japan . So it’s a blessing we have this much from the German tour. This is what makes this set a winner. There are other highlights like the color 16mm home footage shot close to the stage, and synced up with the audio. Nice to see it in color, but of course any home footage suffers from being incomplete and choppy. None-the-less, excellent to watch and gives you a different perspective. (Supposidly this has been released on an earlier DVD). Plus, the footage is in better shape than I expected. Also on this disc is a ZDF-TV report in German. For me I just skimmed thru it as with no subtitles, I was lost. (Subtitles is the next level bootleggers should try). Quality is rough on this news report. There’s also another German TV report, “100 Jahre” in color (more recent) and it’s in German again. Skipped right thru it.
The set also offers on DVD #2, 16mm home footage from Essen and Hamburg, also synced up to the lesser quality audience tapes of those shows. It’s nice to see these other concerts, but once again it’s choppy and the sound quality naturally suffers from audience tapes. There’s also two b&w news reports. But, I have to add that Misterclaudel did an excellent synch job on all 8mm and 16mm footage. No complaints. Much better than the synch jobs done on Picture Perfect DVDs. The DVD is rounded out by Hamburg color 8mm film that also includes Paul’s “My Brave Face” and a trailer for this set.
The two CDs offered include the audio of the Munich video (sounding identical to the DVD’s audio of course)and audio from newsreels, and tv reports that has some of the Beatles songs in the background. The 2nd CD offers the audience tapes of Essen and Hamburg. Being audience tapes there’s not much you can do with them to make them better, but to my ears there has been some digital enhancement that makes them sound just a bit clearer and up front. Not by much, but it’s something. The set comes also with an insert with short liner notes.
For me, it’s an essential and historical documentation of the German ’66 tour. It may resemble other sets released previously (as I don’t have those), but for a collector of factory made silver bootleg sets, this is a must-have for it’s high quality all around, and it’s near completeness. I’ve played the Munich DVD many times already just because of the visual and audio quality is superb. I highly recommend this set.
CD – Disc #1
Circus Krone-bau,Munich ZDF-TV "Die Beatles" complete remaster 24th June 1966
Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers (evening show)
01. Setting noise
02. Good Good Feeling
03. You Can't Love'em All
04. C.C. Rider
The Rattles (evening show)
05. Love Of My Life
06. Come On And Sing
07. Sha-la-la-la Lee
08. Shout
09. Auf Wiedersehen
Peter and Gordon (afternoon show)
10. Woman
11. Let It Be Me
The Beatles
12. Tuning (evening show)
13. Rock'n'roll Music (evening show)
14. She's A Woman (evening show)
15. Baby's In Black (afternoon show)
16. I Feel Fine (afternoon show)
17. Yesterday (afternoon show)
18. Nowhere Man (evening show)
19. I'm Down (evening show)
News film "The Beatles in Munchen"
20. Introduction (afternoon show)
21. I'm Down (afternoon show)
News TV report by CBS
22. I'm Down (afternoon show)
News TV report by ZDF-TV
23. I Wanna Be Your Man (afternoon show)
News film "Blick in die Welt"
24. Introduction~tuning (afternoon show)
News TV report by ZDF-TV
25. TV report (before evening show)
26. Goog Good Feeling (partcial)
ZDF-TV "Die Beatles" extended remaster 24th June 1966
27. Tuning (evening show)
28. Rock'n'roll Music (evening show)
29. She's A Woman (evening show)
30. Baby's In Black (afternoon show)
31. I Feel Fine (afternoon show)
32. Yesterday (afternoon show)
33. Nowhere Man (evening show)
34. I'm Down (evening show)
"Anthology" remaster
35. Nowhere Man (evening show)
CD Disc #2
Grugahalle, Essen afternoon show 25th June 1966
01. Introduction
02. Rock'n'roll Music
03. She's A Woman
04. If I Needed Someone
05. Day Tripper
06. Baby's In Black
07. I Feel Fine
08. Yesterday
09. I Wanna Be Your Man
10. Nowhere Man
11. Paperback Writer
12. I'm Down
Grugahalle, Essen evening show 25th June 1966
13. Paperback Writer
Ernest Merck Halle, Hamburg afternoon show 26th June 1966
14. Introduction
15. La La La
16. Introduction - audience noise
17. Tuning
18. Baby's In Black
19. I Wanna Be Your Man
20. Nowhere Man - Paperback Writer
21. Nowhere Man - Paperback Writer (no overdub)
22. Paperback Writer
Press Conference
23. Essen Press Conference
24. Hamburg Press Conference
DVD Disc #1
Circus Krone-bau,Munich ZDF-TV "Die Beatles" complete remaster 24th June 1966
01.- 02. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
03. - 09. The Rattles
10. - 11. Peter and Gordon
12. - 19. The Beatles
20. ZDF-TV report
21. Color 16mm Audio Sync
22. Color 16mm Raw
23. Color 16mm "100 Jahre"
24. B&W 16mm Audio Sync
25. B&W 16mm Raw 1
26. B&W 16mm Raw 2
27. B&W 16mm "Blick In Die Welt"
DVD Disc #2
25th June Essen
01. B&W 16mm Audio Sync
02. B&W 16mm News Film 1 (short version)
03. B&W 16mm News Film 2 (long version)
26th June Hamburg
04. B&W 16mm Audio Sync
05. B&W 16mm Polis Film
06. B&W 16mm "Hamburgers voor de Beatles"
Film Archives
07. Hamburg B&W 16mm 1
08. Hamburg B&W 16mm 2
09. Hamburg B&W 16mm 3
10. Hamburg B&W 16mm 4
11. Hamburg B&W 16mm 5
12. Hamburg B&W 16mm 6
Bonus Track
13. Hamburg Color 8mm (PV"My Brave Face")
14. Trailer
Regards,
Beatle Bob
