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Post by Marionette77 on Dec 12, 2021 8:47:39 GMT
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Post by matt on Dec 13, 2021 9:55:42 GMT
Thanks for posting these! I've never heard the full Melbourne 6th March concert before. Interesting Rock Me was performed but Sitting In The Palmtree still cut. Also Fernando was moved to after the mini-musical which I don't think happened in any other show. Cool to hear the fireworks at the end.
Funny how no recording has ever emerged from the Sydney 4th March concert.
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Post by Michal on Dec 14, 2021 7:19:22 GMT
Thank you! These recordings are priceless.
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Post by joseph on Dec 14, 2021 18:41:33 GMT
Nice one. I listened to them all. It's interesting to hear the dialogue that never made it into The Movie.
I'm baffled by the inclusion of Sitting In The Palm Tree as part of the setlist. What were they thinking? I mean, it's a bit of whimsy and I'd listen to it once in every 10 years and it brings back innocent memories and all that jazz but to perform it live? Bonkers. Ah well, I'm sure they had their reasons.
I wish there was a top notch version of Dancing Queen with Frida vibing. Her vocals were off the scale. You can tell she really loves this song. With technology the way it is now can you imagine the treats we'd have?!
In conclusion, I genuinely believe AꓭBA were better live than they give themselves credit for. All live. No backing track, no autotune....very few acts perform genuinely 'live' these days. I'm looking at you, Madonna.
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Post by HOMETIME on Dec 14, 2021 20:50:00 GMT
These are fascinating. I needed to set some time aside to listen to them - thanks for posting!
The band is so tight throughout. The extra instrumentation - sax, strings - makes for a better sound than 1979 (IMO). Some of the vocals are surprisingly ragged and I wonder if that's why Ludvig was reluctant to put together a live album? From what I can hear, he'd definitely need to create a tracklist from across all the dates.
The mini-musical is a special treat. Anything I've heard before has been in much lower audio quality. The audience reaction is interesting - they seem quite into it. Especially I Wonder. I wasn't expecting that. I imagined that TYFTM would have been the immediate hit. The sax solo in the middle of I Wonder is really lovely. It would have been nice if they'd left it in for the live B-side of TNOG and kept the piano solo for the album version. It sounds like A&F decided to be a bit more theatrical for these songs - the performances are bit shouty and West-End-Wendy at times. I was tickled to hear that bits of the music under the narration was recycled for the verses of Summer Night City. Nothing wasted! Get On The Carousel certainly has energy, but it feel like just part of a song. Even so, I wonder whether it'd be possible for Ludvig to mix/produce a live EP of The Girl With The Golden Hair?
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Post by Michal on Dec 15, 2021 10:29:46 GMT
I wish there was a top notch version of Dancing Queen with Frida vibing. Her vocals were off the scale. You can tell she really loves this song. With technology the way it is now can you imagine the treats we'd have?! In conclusion, I genuinely believe AꓭBA were better live than they give themselves credit for. You can faintly hear those extra vocals on Dancing Queen in ABBA The Movie. I don't understand why they removed them from the mix. She sounds great. I also believe that ABBA have nothing to feel ashamed of. Agnetha used to have weaker moments, especially during the 1979 tour but then she was ill at some of the concerts, so it is understandable. However, she sounds great on the 1977 recordings, as Frida does. |
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Post by Michal on Dec 15, 2021 10:34:52 GMT
From what I can hear, he'd definitely need to create a tracklist from across all the dates.... ...I wonder whether it'd be possible for Ludvig to mix/produce a live EP of The Girl With The Golden Hair? I think it doesn't necessarily need to be a complete concert from one night. With all 11 (am I right?) concerts recorded, there must be plenty of material to choose from. They say the outdoor recordings sound better because there is no reverb, on the other hand, during the indoor Perth concerts they didn't have to deal with the wind. I think they would be able to find a decent recording of every song performed. As for The Girl With The Golden Hair, I don't know if they're not against releasing it because of Get On The Carousel? On the other hand, it can be heard in ABBA The Movie anyway, so what's the problem? |
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Post by Marionette77 on Jun 16, 2022 9:23:18 GMT
Thanks for posting these! I've never heard the full Melbourne 6th March concert before. Interesting Rock Me was performed but Sitting In The Palmtree still cut. Also Fernando was moved to after the mini-musical which I don't think happened in any other show. Cool to hear the fireworks at the end. Funny how no recording has ever emerged from the Sydney 4th March concert. Yes i would of expected or hoped by now that a 4th of March recording would emerge somewhere. Apparently at one point it was but the sources are weak on that half. |
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Post by iiwftn on Sept 23, 2023 21:16:57 GMT
I wish there was a top notch version of Dancing Queen with Frida vibing. Her vocals were off the scale. You can tell she really loves this song. With technology the way it is now can you imagine the treats we'd have?! In conclusion, I genuinely believe AꓭBA were better live than they give themselves credit for. You can faintly hear those extra vocals on Dancing Queen in ABBA The Movie. I don't understand why they removed them from the mix. She sounds great. I also believe that ABBA have nothing to feel ashamed of. Agnetha used to have weaker moments, especially during the 1979 tour but then she was ill at some of the concerts, so it is understandable. However, she sounds great on the 1977 recordings, as Frida does. The thing is, those little imperfections are all part of the fun for me; warts and all laid bare. These live recordings are of part a ‘pop’ band and at times a ‘rock’ band. They are out on the road, amped up, blasting it out. It’s not always perfect, it’s not always polished. But it’s live and they are giving it everything. It’s magnificent. From watching ‘The Movie’ last week, it seemed to me like they were having a bloody good time on stage. |
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Post by gassi on Dec 14, 2023 15:39:20 GMT
Is there anyone having a source near ABBA who knows if there is anything planned to release a double live album of the Australian tour next year?
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Post by Alan on Dec 14, 2023 21:18:51 GMT
Is there anyone having a source near ABBA who knows if there is anything planned to release a double live album of the Australian tour next year? There’s no one on here that I’m aware of. However, it seems unlikely. Benny’s son Ludvig has said the quality of the tapes isn’t good enough. From www.abba-theconcerts.de/1977.html“Some short video footage does exist and circulates at Youtube, showing snippets of and around the concerts, mainly recorded by TV stations. According to Lasse Hallström in the interview on ABBA The Movie Limited Edition all Australian concerts were filmed with five cameras each, one steadycam on stage and four cameras on tripods. How much additional material has survived after the movie was finished is not clear. ”Official recordings of ten Australian concerts exist according to Ludvig Andersson: “…a while ago we sat down and talked, Mia (Segolsson) and I at Universal. We talked about the fact that there was quite a lot of live material, which I thought sounded fun, so I asked if I could have it so that I could go through it. It really was a lot – ten concerts from Australia” “There is also a live recording of the February 14 Royal Albert Hall concert (in 2014 a snippet was announced for a digital release, but it didn’t happen). Ludvig: “One of the shows was also recorded on 24-track tape by a London production company called La Maison Rouge, founded by prog band Jethro Tull. Intriguingly, on the tape box the client was listed as Atlantic Records, suggesting that the recording was made to give ABBA’s American record company a flavour of what they were like as a live act. With no apparent involvement by Michael B. Tretow, the engineers were Maison Rouge-employees Robin Black and Trevor White, and the producer was Dave Dee [...] It is not known whether this recording was ever mixed down“ “In an interwiew in January 2019 Benny’s son Ludvig Andersson said that the 1977 live material wasn’t as good as the 1979 Wembley recordings: Ludvig: “It is true that I wanted to see if I could work with some of the Australia 1977 material as well but in terms of recording quality it was unfortunately not up to the standard that we could release.“ |
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