Harvard Dan wrote:
The Police Around the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyaMGddas1kThe Police Live at Gateshead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgE6F-Aj1PYUrgh! A Music War which parts of are in The Police Around the World
I don't care for the Synchronicity Concert due to the backup singers (one had been in the Talking Heads Tour...McDonald) and although there were horn players on the Gateshead show (Ghost in the Machine Tour). I didn't mind them as much.
Around the World is a great doc I have the blu-ray. I was thinking of a concert film shot in high quality film for a theatrical release or at least the potential of a theatrical release. I would have liked if they released the Japan show on Around the World in full for example. I wonder if they did shoot the whole show. Its possible Miles Copeland has the negatives if that's the case. He has the negatives for Music War they were going to use them for a blu-ray release. He had the audio tracks so they used those for the DVD. I don't have it I was waiting for the blu-ray which doesn't look like will happen anytime soon.
I think Synchronicity is a good example of how not to shoot a concert. The production really let them down with the silly computer graphics and lame crowd shots. I thought it what was a wasted opportunity. Do you have the DVD release? I wonder how that looks I didn't bother to buy because I don't know how they can save that one lol. I think at that time bands were just slapping things together for VHS and Laserdisc without any thought of doing theatrical release. I don't even know what film format they were shot in maybe 16mm? Its been awhile since I watched that did they take the backup singers on the whole tour or just use them for the video shoot?