[kj] KJ DVD availability...

[Leigh Newton]

if the background vox sound like more than they should
be it's probably because they were touched up in the
studio. so many bands do this with their live albums.
personally, i'd rather hear it done poorly than
covered up after the fact. 

Leigh

--- GregSlawson at aol.com wrote:

> Too bad a dvd as well-done as the Gathering 25 has
> to be stained w/Peter 
> West's scowl. I still can't get over the great
> sound. I've been listening to it on 
> my shitty speakers, and I can hear each instrument
> separately and clearly, 
> and Geordie's "1000 orchestras" guitar sounds just
> like it does on the albums, 
> but better. Anyone notice how when Raven sings the
> backup parts (like on 
> "Pandys"), it sounds like a chorus singing? The
> colors are vivid, and the editing is 
> as good as you can expect w/ five cameras--a good
> combination of close-ups 
> and wide angle shots (although I always wish
> concerts would be filmed w/more 
> shots of the whole band at once). And a friend told
> me that Shepards Bush is 
> where all the good shows are in London--it reminds
> me of some of the old theaters 
> in Boston, but with 3 (instead of 1) balconies and
> no seats. Plus, even though 
> the Joke have pretty much been playing the same set
> for 26 years (with a 
> couple of songs from whatever was the newest album
> thrown in), they did manage to 
> throw in 6 surprises on the setlist--although they
> could have chosen more 
> interesting tunes from "Fire Dances" and
> "Revelations". Finally, who's the guy 
> that comes on stage with the band at the end? Was
> that Mike Coles (looked like 
> him)?
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