26. Leverkusener Jazztage
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Data:
5 November 2005 |
DVD 1 Complete concert (broadcast on WDR 19.8.2007) 1. The Undercover Man 2. Scorched Earth 3. Every Bloody Emperor 4. Lemmings 5. Darkness 6. Childlike Faith In A Childhood's End 7. The Sleepwalkers 8. Nutter Alert DVD 2 1. Man-Erg 2. Killer 3. Wondering First edited broadcast on WDR 16.1.2006 4. Darkness 5. Interview 6. The Sleepwalkers 7. Every Bloody Emperor 8. Interview 9. Man-Erg 10. Killer 11. Lemmings |
Van der Graaf Generator:
Peter Hammill: vocals, guitar, keyboards
David Jackson, saxophones, flute
Hugh Banton: organ, bass
Guy Evans: drums
As the location is only 3 miles away from my home, I went to this show after I
have been thrilled by the re-union show I went to in Amsterdam a few months
earlier. As I knew that this day of the Leverkusener Jazzfestival was presented
by "Rockpalast", I expected that the show would be recorded for a later
broadcast.
I think I don't have to spend much time on the music. This show is a perfect
concert (both musically and technical in the sense of picture and sound quality)
of the 2005 VDGG reunion line-up. This is a must have not only if you're a VDGG
fan. There was the speak of releasing this show officially a while ago, but it
seems that these plans are cancelled.
An edited version of this concert (about 59 minutes) was broadcast on WDR, 16.
January 2006. It had 6 tracks, plus 2 portions of an interview with Peter
Hammill. You'll find this version on Disc 2.
Finally, on 19. August 2007, the complete show was broadcasted on WDR. In the
meantime there's a 'WDR Test A' station on Astra 19.2E, which carries exactly
the WDR program, but has a Dolby Digital audio track in 448 kbps and most of the
time a much much higher bitrate. The result is a perfect picture and a bitrate
over 7 mbps. So without doubt, this DVD provides the best SD quality of this
show that you can find.
I included the mpeg stereo audio stream as well (you can choose audio in the
menu), there's also a second mpeg audio stream included (not reachable through
menu), while I don't know how and if it differs to the other ones - there was
space for it left on the DVD anyway ;-).
The first aired edited version of the concert is included in this torrent (on
Disc 2) mainly for the interview portions. But also -because of the high bitrate
of the complete broadcast- I had to split the complete show onto two DVDs and
there was place for the edited broadcast on Disc 2. You see that I'm kind of a
completist ;-). Sorry for those of you with a slow connection.
Cheers,
Laufi
Added: 01.11.2009
