Wings Over America & Rock Show DVD Reissue CONFIRMED
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MetalGod:
Where to begin..... Last year when this set was released I could not justify buying the Deluxe set. (Saving for the Wedding in Sept of that year). Best Buy eased my pain by selling the 2cd set with the Bonus Cow Palace disc for $14.99. I was able to find an old BBC2 broadcast of Wings Over America to burn onto dvd. Along with my blu-ray purchase of Rockshow I was perfectly content on this series. 2014 was a year to catch up on adding the Deluxe Edition to my collection; McCartney II (for my 30th) and the nt V&M and WATSOS sets. I periodically looked up on Amazon if the WOA deluxe set had come down below $100; no luck but I did not think too much of it. Well my employer gave me a $100 Walmart giftcard for participating in a health screening. I held onto it thinking what can I use this card for as I don't really do much shopping there. All my xmas shopping was already complete so I figured why not check their website for the WOA set. There it was for $114. Here was my chance to finally get it; for the massive amounts of reading material and the elusive dvd in much better quality than I could find. A week later it arrived (in a decent shipped package) and my mouth just dropped. This IS the mother load of sets! Holy Crap....I thought the RAM set was huge. This set size is as large as the previous three Deluxe releases combined. The David Fricke book was amazing; although I'm not a huge fan of Rolling Stone magazine anymore. The Wings over America tour itinerary book gives a first hand window into that tour of almost 40 years ago. I'll keep my 3cd Best Buy set handy for car trips but this set will get looked at quite a few times for the reading. I would say at $114 bucks this is quite a fair price; four books and four discs. I will say that with the recent release of V&M and WATSOS - my Wings fandom was skyrocketed. I've always like Wings and enjoyed a few of their albums I had prior to the 2010-2014 releases but now I'm finding my interest going beyond that of which I had with The Beatles almost 20 years ago as an 11 year old. I hope in 2016 we can see a double release of London Town/BTTE and/or Wild Life/RRS.
Very cool, MetalGod. I've already expressed my enthusiasm for this, but it really did blow me away. I was not expecting such a rich trove of material in these books. And I hope the health screening went okay!
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MetalGod:
Where to begin..... Last year when this set was released I could not justify buying the Deluxe set. (Saving for the Wedding in Sept of that year). Best Buy eased my pain by selling the 2cd set with the Bonus Cow Palace disc for $14.99. I was able to find an old BBC2 broadcast of Wings Over America to burn onto dvd. Along with my blu-ray purchase of Rockshow I was perfectly content on this series. 2014 was a year to catch up on adding the Deluxe Edition to my collection; McCartney II (for my 30th) and the nt V&M and WATSOS sets. I periodically looked up on Amazon if the WOA deluxe set had come down below $100; no luck but I did not think too much of it. Well my employer gave me a $100 Walmart giftcard for participating in a health screening. I held onto it thinking what can I use this card for as I don't really do much shopping there. All my xmas shopping was already complete so I figured why not check their website for the WOA set. There it was for $114. Here was my chance to finally get it; for the massive amounts of reading material and the elusive dvd in much better quality than I could find. A week later it arrived (in a decent shipped package) and my mouth just dropped. This IS the mother load of sets! Holy Crap....I thought the RAM set was huge. This set size is as large as the previous three Deluxe releases combined. The David Fricke book was amazing; although I'm not a huge fan of Rolling Stone magazine anymore. The Wings over America tour itinerary book gives a first hand window into that tour of almost 40 years ago. I'll keep my 3cd Best Buy set handy for car trips but this set will get looked at quite a few times for the reading. I would say at $114 bucks this is quite a fair price; four books and four discs. I will say that with the recent release of V&M and WATSOS - my Wings fandom was skyrocketed. I've always like Wings and enjoyed a few of their albums I had prior to the 2010-2014 releases but now I'm finding my interest going beyond that of which I had with The Beatles almost 20 years ago as an 11 year old. I hope in 2016 we can see a double release of London Town/BTTE and/or Wild Life/RRS.
Very cool, MetalGod. I've already expressed my enthusiasm for this, but it really did blow me away. I was not expecting such a rich trove of material in these books. And I hope the health screening went okay!
agreed
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Cool! My employer gives us $250 off of our health insurance premiums over the year (it reduces what we pay every pay period) when we participate in a health screening. Starting next year I think we have to have good results (like normal cholesterol, normal BMI, etc. to get the discount)
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So, I've been listening to the WOA remaster and checking out Rockshow on Blu Ray. Can anyone tell me WHY are the background vocals SO under mixed on both? They weren't like this on the the original vinyl release (of cd) and the old copies of Rockshow, though with really bad sound, had the background vocals prominent in the mix. I've noticed this with a lot of Paul's live albums since WOA that he also buries the background vocals. It's a drag. I can remember the great back ups on "Go Now" and now you can't hear them. It's a drag because out of all the remasters, WOA was the only one I've gone whole hog and bought the box set. NOT a great job- even though Paul's voice kicks major ass, the backups also made that such a 'group' project and they're non-existent. While we're on the subject of Wings Over America, it's always puzzled me that "Must Do Something About It" wasn't included on the tour. Anybody know why that'd be? Joe did a great job with it.