Looks like to get the blu ray you have to buy the £99.99 box set?!Originally Posted by jrw
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I'll be ok streaming this on Spotify once...
I assume this is the same performance previously released on CD as Enso Kai and Live At Budokan?
Hmm. Interesting. The previous release I have of this is atrocious sounding, muddy mono. And drops Time Again, starting the set with The Heat Goes On. I wonder if, with the restoration of Time Again, this is from a different source.
I had for years a cassette of this that I recorded from the live radio simulcast - which was also mono, with stereo simulated by sending the high end to one speaker and the low to the other. I mean, seriously it sounded like crap. The CD I bought decades later sounded like a sum of the fake stereo broadcast.
I also found online a few years ago a great sounding boot (sound board maybe?) of the next night's show.
Hoping the Bluray is a 5:1 mix?
This looks like it could be a very interesting document if done properly. If they have sourced the broadcast version from a master copy then we will finally have a high quality version of Time Again and the unedited Heat Of The Moment. Likewise with The Road To Budokan.
But the BluRay is the main draw of the set so it seems a real shame not to make it available on it's own.
Hopefully this is an indicator that the people in charge of the archives might release the unreleased footage of the 1982-83 period with Wetton in the band.
So, this is Greg Lake singing Heat of the Moment.
Somebody let Downes have a keytar.
New quotes from the original band members? That is going to be very tough. I remember liking this show quite a lot; particularly the way Howe improvised his solos and made the tracks more interesting. Lake did an admirable job on vocals, too. How many shows did Lake actually play with Asia? Just these two?
Not sure I wanna see Greg Lake getting released.
So far, the best we've gotten is that live video of a 1983 show with Wetton along with Howe's super side-of-stage 1982-83 footage. Not the greatest quality...
John Wetton mentioned a few times on his forums that MTV had a full NY 1982 show in their vault. I'd pay good money to purchase that.
"Why is it when these great Prog guys get together, they always want to make a Journey album?"
- fiberman, 7/5/2015
What footage is that??? I don't believe I've ever seen that.
As for the NY 1982 show that is news as well. What I do know is that Reelin In The Years have unedited rehearsal and interview footage of the original band in Lititz in 1982 as well as some complete songs from shows in 1982 and 1983. Whether it ever gets released is probably up to the management.
To the best I recall, yeah, just the two shows in Japan that were booked before Wetton was invited to leave the band.
It was included on the DVD in the Asia album 30th Anniversary boxset. (I noticed I was typing too fast. I meant to write "super 8" footage. Or maybe it was 16mm? Not sure, clearly film and it had audio.)
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I'd love to see that, too!
"Why is it when these great Prog guys get together, they always want to make a Journey album?"
- fiberman, 7/5/2015
I've always thought this was the best part:
Loved the Downes solo , just sort of showing all the sounds but some great licks esp the mini Moog . Also a favourite Palmer solo , the Simmons intro and blistering speed but also quite short and concise
Yes, I had a second hand copy of the commercially released VHS of this (it got chewed up, alas). The inlay listed 'Time Again', yet didn't actually include it! I don't remember the sound mix, but I doubt it was any better than what you describe.
A big label like BMG releasing this (as opposed to certain other labels I could mention, but won't!) is a potentially good sign in terms of quality, I'd say.
I remember staying up and watchign this concert live, and recording the radio broadcast. Unfortunately, my tape ran out during Wildest Dreams, so I didn't get the drum solo or the last two songs. The thing I rmeember was when the GTR album came out later, and hearing Sketches In The Sun there, and remembering it as the piece Howe did for his solo piece on the Asia In Asia concert. The funny part to me was, for a long time, I remembered him doing Sketches In The Sun on the Coral Sitar, not on acoustic (in fact, he only uses the Coral Sitar for the first part of Open Your Eyes)
As for Time Again, the story I remember hearing was that there was some kind of satellite glitch, which rendered it unuseable for the video release. That's why it was missing from the home video release (and one assumes the cover artwork was prepared before the concert so that they could rush release the video release immediately after the performance, hence the title being listed on the cover).
More info here.
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...0-jun.1138893/
The word 'remix' is another good sign here, suggesting the use of multi-track tapes. Though why two new remixes were done is less clear. (Nor which one will be on the standard one disc release.)
HEADS UP:
I just got a message from Burning Shed that the Blu-Ray does NOT contain the documentary
"The track listing we were originally given for the Blu-Ray in this boxset said that it contained The Road To Budokan Documentary.
This was a mistake and the documentary is definitely not on the Blu-Ray.
The Blu-Ray contains:
1. MTV Satellite Telecast To America - The Concert
2. MTV Satellite Telecast To America - Original Concert Laserdisc Release
We apologise for any confusion.".
"Why is it when these great Prog guys get together, they always want to make a Journey album?"
- fiberman, 7/5/2015
I also had this on VHS but Lord knows wherever it ended up. But I do have the (unofficial bootlegs) both for CD and DVD-R.
1983 was a strange year when two great band lead vocalists quit their bands (or was dismissed as someone said) at the height of their popularity. Those two were of course John Wetton (Asia) and Roger Hodgson (Supertramp) and also, Pink Floyd's Final Cut that indeed was the final studio release for the classic period of this great band, they never released any original studio material together since.
But it was a sigh of relief that Greg Lake would step at the plate for Asia but sadly did not last. It is nice to have this memento of an era when satellite live concerts were an oddity and could explain why this concert was so short (maybe transcontinental live feed was too expensive, who knows) but I would like that only the Blu-ray be released separately, this package seems to be overkill and very pricey.
Is this documentary the one where Steve Howe basically says re: John Wetton "It was him or me", and we then see Wetton walking down an airport concourse looking somewhat... tight-lipped?
I'm holding out for the Wilson-mixed 5.1 super-duper walletbuster special anniversary extra adjectives edition.
Yep, and then the record company and management realized they had made the wrong choice.
C'est la vie.
"Why is it when these great Prog guys get together, they always want to make a Journey album?"
- fiberman, 7/5/2015
I didn't like the quality of the video that they uploaded in the official account to promote the box. The video was cropped to 16:9 (the original is 4:3) and they put this horrible frame with Dean art arround. The resolution also seems odd, some blurry and aliasing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ht1Vm7-EA
This video below is my take on the Laserdisc version, but with untouched Colour Grade. Sure can be even better if i do some changes in Luminance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvoqp5R_q8c
I can only assume the frame is for promotional purposes only and that they give us the full scale 4:3 footage in the box. My real interest lies in whether they have taken the broadcast footage from an actual master or just a bootleg VHS.
Well THAT's a shame! Why would they exclude it???
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