Queen - On Fire at the Bowl
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Movie Reviews of Queen - On Fire at the Bowl
Movie Review: Awesome concert
Summary: 4 Stars
Here are the full details for this DVD from the press release:Filmed by Gavin Taylor, and only ever seen in an edited version on Channel 4's The Tube, this release has the concert restored to its original full length, amounting to an additional 47 minutes of previously unseen footage. Not released on video, "Queen On Fire - Live At The Bowl", marks the first time a recording of this concert has been available to own.As to be expected from Queen, the release comes only after extensive restoration to the original footage and sound. Audio producers Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson returned to the original 24 track analogue recording and created brand new PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 surround sound mixes. As with all previous releases in the Queen DVD Collection, "Queen On Fire -Live At The Bowl" comes with a second disc full of bonus features. The 75 minutes of extras include behind the scenes footage of preparations for the concert, together with unseen material from interviews filmed on the day with Brian May and Roger Taylor. Further interview footage shot in Munich during the European leg of this tour shows Freddie, Brian and Roger discussing the tour, the then current Hot Space album, as well as discussing the 10 year longevity of the band.In addition, disc two provides over 35 minutes of bonus live performance from the same year, filmed at the Vienna Stadthalle in May and the final show of the tour at Tokyo's Seibu Stadium in November.The disc also features a photo gallery which raids the Queen photo archive in a stunning collection of rare and previously unseen shots from the 1982 tour that took the band across Europe, the US and Japan. In a real treat for Queen collectors, the gallery is displayed to a recording of the band performing "Calling All Girls" at that year's Tokyo concert, the very first time this track has been made available.Track listing:1- Flash2- The Hero3- We Will Rock You (fast)4- Action This Day5- Play the Game6- Staying Power7- Somebody To Love8- Now I'm Here9- Dragon Attack10- Love of my Life11- Save Me12- Back Chat13- Get Down Make Love14- Guitar Solo15- Drum Solo16- Under Pressure17- Fat Bottomed Girls18- Crazy Little Thing Called Love19- Bohemian Rhapsody20- Tie Your Mother Down21- Another One Bites the Dust22- We Will Rock You23- We Are the Champions24- God Save the QueenVideo: 1.33 - full screenAudio: DTS 5.1 surround, PCM stereoRelease date: November 9th. A 2 CD set of this concert will also be made available on that date.Movie Review: Freddie's energetic concert!
Summary: 4 Stars
Ok let me start of by saying that it's not as good as Wembley, there is no Spike Ednie (I thought this guy was almost always was with them.) I don't care for Morgan Fisher on piano playing which is noticeable on "Crazy Little Thing Called Love." We Will Rock You is done twice and they finish "Now I'm Here" after Dragon Attack. It appears they did that sort of thing a lot, but I only have Wembley so I didn't know.
You have those annoying scratch marks as well that are a lot worse than on the Wembley DVD. From Memory on the video casette version of Wembley, I don't remember seeing any scratch marks on the viedo at all! Strange that! There are too many of those "Hot Space" songs. I don't know why they chose "Back Chat" live, seems as if they could have chose a better one.
On the other hand! the concert goes really fast and it's really heavy! Yeah!!! I often think to myself it's only a couple of steps away from Heavy Metal when I listen to these guys! The concert appears to move on a lot more than Queen, and that's great. Overall I think the setlist is fine because they cover a whole range of material! These Hot Space songs performed live sound so much better! Even Back Chat sounds good! As what other people have said Freddie Mercury's voice is in top form. He is very youthful on this concert and he is a bit more "riscae" on this concert. This is Queen at one of the best moments of the
career, Wembley being a bit better, even though his voice isn't his best their. And this is Queen doing what they want on "Live at the Bowl."
I don't care what people think of me saying this, I don't like the name of the group being mixed in with a title. It should be written like this:
QUEEN
On Fire
Live at the Bowl
People may think Queen is called "Queen On Fire," because the top line is written in all caps!
But it's good to see on the other DVD them live in Japan and Austria, some of these appear on rare live.
Movie Review: End of Transitional Period
Summary: 4 Stars
In the summer of 1970 former wreckage vocalist Freddie Mercury united with Bassist Tim Groce, drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May to from a band. This band was named Queen by Mercury on July 12 of that year (the actual start of Queen) but Groce left and Queen did not get thier classic and perminant line up until John Deacon joined them in February 1971 (the true start of Queen). That was also when they really became a touring band.
In 1974 at the Rainbow concert Queen started being recorded in concert consistantly and from this point to 1979s Live Killers they were at thier best as a live band. This Dvd does not capture this period with it 5 major shows from 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1979 still overdue for full official release. It features Queen near the end of a transitional period where they went from no offstage/onstage additional musician as late as November 1979 (still just Queen) to one used at every concert at the end of 1982 and no keys in concert to keys played mainly by this musision and often. Because of that progression in Live Queen this concert (from the summer of 1982) is better then Live At Wembley but not as good as We Will Rock You.
Movie Review: a most satisfying purchase...on fire, indeed.
Summary: 4 Stars
Queen delivers a fine product from 1982, an energetic show from the Hot Space tour. The band still has its raw edge intact, in spite of the occasional offstage supporting instruments. Fans will be pleased with the setlist (including a supercharged "Fat Bottomed Girls", one of my personal faves here), and in addition should be impressed with how the songs from Hot Space really opened up in a live environment...gives me a newfound appreciation of the material (especially "Calling All Girls", located in the photo gallery on Disc 2). The picture quality doesn't match up to Live At Wembley or the remastered We Will Rock You DVD, but it's satisfactory enough...soundwise 'tho, it's a sparkling audio mix that'll make most Queen diehards salivate. Here's hoping we get more concerts like this from the vaults... 4.5 stars.Movie Review: Very good.
Summary: 4 Stars
Having the chace to watch this performance is like having the chance to see why Freddy Mercury was a show alone by himself, able to shadow such a great bunch of musicians playing along with him in Queen, and even making them to look like amateurs at some points of the show... and not to talk about the "Paul Rodger's Queen", which looks like a garage ensemble if compared to the band you'll see perform on this DVD.
Quite good on the sound and image, though it still looks like an old VHS, for which it deserves 4 rather than a full five star rating.
Extras are really acceptable and fun, specially when the band talks about how good the lightning and the stage setup were by the time...
Vintage.