***Coming Soon*** US Festival 'Old No.7' DVD

[Dave's PA Rental]

Some of you know that ive been in contact with the dude who sent me the 'Old No.7' audio...the source for that audio is a VHS copy of the master video. I've finally heard from him and he expects to send me the DVD soon...

He sent me a few screen shots, and I compared one of them to the BTB version...it's clear that this will be an upgrade...

I will update this thread with more info.

This will be torrented at www.jamtothis.com when I recieve it.

If you havent already, go sign up over there and figure out how to Bit Torrent...there probably won't be a better audio/video version of the US Festival available for a long time.

screen shot 1: BTB version

[Dave's PA Rental]

screen shot 2: New version

[Dave's PA Rental]

sharper contrast, brighter colors...

by the way, the pic of the BTB version is a 137 kb jpeg, and the pic of the new version is a 36 kb jpeg...

In other words, the new version is probably MUCH better than the picture is portrays...

[thome]

Please, I will be in your debt notify me of these happenings.

Thank you..

[Alex Mogilny]

cool

[Dave's PA Rental]

BTB audio

[Dave's PA Rental]

'Old No.7' audio

[SGV]

Wow...can't wait for this!

sv

[Romeo Delight]

That is the shit!

Keep us posted. I love my copy, but I can't tweak it any more.

I thought the sound was pretty good, but had to fix the video too much. It didn't make too much difference - too grainy if I try to sharpen it. Like you say the colors were for shit.

Great stuff!

[Romeo Delight]

I have a three song version of US Festival that the band put together (RWTD, Pretty Woman, YRGM) that has some sync problems with video and audio in some spots. (In my version off Kazaa)

Way too much video editing and I prefer the uncut version. But, I wonder if the quality of this new one you promise will approach the quality of that one video wise?

One thing I noticed is that band had more camera angles to choose from for their 3-song promo (contractually bound to produce it).

Again, way cool

[Hardrock69]

I only have a heavily generated VHS copy, so somebody pleeze trade me a copy of this. Me can no hava BT.

[Dave's PA Rental]

I got this in the mail today and am watching it right now...

Notes from Matt Fuggi:

"First of all, remember that this tape is over 20 years old and was recorded on a 20 year old VCR at the LP speed. That being said, it still looks pretty damn good. There are a few glitches in the audio and video that I left intact. The story goes that this was recorded by someone in the remote truck who in turn copied it and traded it with my friend Kevin, who was nice enough to loan me his master.* "You Really Got Me" cuts and was filled using the video from the TV broadcast. The audio used for that portion is from the US Festival bootleg and runs past the end of the video portion. The last little blurb from the stage announcer about taking his mother to the Van Halen show is from the next day's stage announcements."

* I thought that Matt Fuggi's buddy was the dude in the truck, but it was his friend's friend...-DPAR

Disc One
1. Romeo Delight
2. Unchained>Drum Solo
3. Full Bug
4. Running With the Devil
5. Jamie’s Cryin’
6. So This Is Love
7. Little Guitars
8. Bass Solo>Dancing In the Streets
9. Somebody Get Me A Doctor>Girl Gone Bad Jam>I’m So Glad>Somebody Get Me A Doctor
10. Dance The Night Away

Disc Two
1. Cathedral>Secrets
2. Everybody Wants Some
3. Ice Cream Man
4. Intruder>Pretty Woman
5. Guitar Solo
6. Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love
7. Bottoms Up
8. You Really Got Me>Happy Trails>You Really Got Me

Bonus Tracks
Oakland ‘81
Hear About It Later
So This Is Love
Unchained

Promos
Dance the Night Away
You Really Got Me
Intruder> Pretty Woman


Source Information:
Video - Master video (remote truck)>VHS copy>DVD**>DVD Decrypter>Nero 6
Video mode: NTSC
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Quality: Standard play (5073 kbps)
Resolution: 720 x 480 (CCIR-601 D1)
Audio – Master video>VHS>CDR>equalization done at WHCN studios using various equipment>Nero 6
Dolby 2.0 Digital

The Oakland bonus material contains the original video with VH1 upgrades for “So This Is Love” and “Unchained”. The original audio was re-mastered using Nero Wave Editor 6 and used throughout, as the VH1 audio was clearer but heavily compressed and at a low (128) bit rate.

** I asked him if this part of the lineage meant 'VHS Copy>standalone DVD recorder' and he said yes.-DPAR

Notes from Dave's PA Rental: after a preliminary viewing, I can say that this is definately an upgrade in audio and video from the BTB version. It is by no means 'crystal-clear'. It lacks some of the bells and whistles of the BTB version, but it does include an upgrade (as compared to 'Rare Videos: The DLR Years') of two of the three tracks of Oakland '81, taken from a recent VH1 Classic broadcast of 'So This Is Love' and 'Unchained'. It also includes three promo videos that might have been on one of Cato's releases.

One last thing for now: as im watching this, all I can think of is a big 'F-U' to all the haters who say this performance isnt one of their best...

[Dave's PA Rental]

here it is:

http://www.jamtothis.com/showthread.php?t=2924

[Romeo Delight]

I'm all over it!

Nicely done!

[Hardrock69]

I will have to trade someone for this....