YesSongs in Quadraphonic - Movie Poster

[Q-Eight]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yes-Songs-V...c-/201251309553?&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276

I'm completely unfamiliar with Yes, so I just thought I'd bring this up in case anyone was interested.

 

[Circular Vibes]

If I had a mancave I'd go for it.

 

[timbre4]

Thanks I'm watching it. I still remember the advertising in the Los Angeles Times. The ads went into a scrapbook that got thrown away.


From QQ Happy New Year

 

[Neb-Maat-Re]

Wouldn't be wonderful if the team who extracted the audio from the quadraphonic Live At Pompeii could locate a print of this and do the same.

 

[timbre4]

IIRC this quadraphonic film presentation for Yes was closer to Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones. That is to say, not very impressive.

If someone has information to the contrary, I would love to be wrong about this!


From QQ Happy New Year

 

[John Svensson]

Hopefully the DVD version has a better 5.1 mix since I have it en route.....somehow I don't hold out much hope though! Should be good as a historic concert document nonetheless.

 

[quadanasaziland]

I have the Yes songs poster and a PF in quad poster that I have never got around to mounting and hanging.

 

[Wunlow]

IIRC, wasn't the original 4 channel quad mix for this concert lost? If the DVD has a 5.1 track it may not be the original.


..Had forgotten how cool that poster was. If anyone is interested in printing up their own, think I have a higher resolution scan of it around here somewhere.

 

[Neb-Maat-Re]

IIRC, wasn't the original 4 channel quad mix for this concert lost?

Yes, that's why someone would have to pull it off an old print of the film, a la Floyd at Pompeii.

 

[John Svensson]

Yes, the DVD is a nice time capsule, great song list and musicianship, but the soundtrack is stereo and a bit muddy at that.

 

[texquad]

When I saw Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen in the theater I believe it was a quad audio presentation. Can anyone else back that up or know if there's a DVD/B.R. copy with a multichannel soundtrack.

 

[atrocity]

When I saw Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen in the theater I believe it was a quad audio presentation. Can anyone else back that up or know if there's a DVD/B.R. copy with a multichannel soundtrack.

There's a DVD with a DTS track but a pan 'n' scan transfer of the film.

 

[John Svensson]

Mad Dogs, etc. That is a shame, the movie is well regarded and could use a real upgraded release....I'd buy, have the LP. I do see that the original poster (online copy) states it had a "4 Channel Stereo" soundtrack.

 

[zimmy]

The 40th anniversary special edition on Bluray has 5.1 sound and an mono track. Unfortunately i don´t think the audio matches the original LP or CD in sound quality.
What this Bluray adds is an really good documentary.
My big hope is that we get an really good Bluray audio of the original discs

 

[Ranasakawa]

The BluRay sound was awful, did not deserve a release on BluRay unless they had a better audio
I sent my BluRay back to amazon

 

[zimmy]

Yes it is strange that they didn´t work more with the audio.
The 5.1 track is much better that the original monotrack at least but is not even comparable with the audio releases.
In the documentary they discuss how much work they did with the audio for the live album.
They worked much harder than what usually were done with these albums.
If the recordings are from the same date they should of course have better audio to use for the Bluray also

 

[ssully]

They could have, at least, synched the audio from the Yessongs album version of 'Close to the Edge', to the audio of the film (it's the same performance and is in better audio quality on the album*), and then upmixed that for 5.1...but no, this is Yes product, every expense is spared ;>


(* and they could have done the same for Wurm)

 

[Wunlow]

This was a very interesting read...
http://yesworld.com/2015/03/yes-progeny-live-from-seventy-two/

Makes me wonder if a proper theatrical quad release of YESSONGS may now be possible?

 

[ssully]

This was a very interesting read...
http://yesworld.com/2015/03/yes-progeny-live-from-seventy-two/

Makes me wonder if a proper theatrical quad release of YESSONGS may now be possible?

Not unless they find the multitracks for the December 1972 show the movie was taken from.

No December shows were reported to be in the Progeny cache of tapes.

 

[Scott M4]

Wow... Rick Wakeman gets star billing!