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The 1990 PLD, was it broadcast live on TV at the time?. And if it was, does the recording exsist of the show in full with both 'Equinoxe 5' and 'Rendez-Vous 4' footage.

That has always bothered me, especially since I think he's talking about the concert being broadcast to China etc. during one of his speeches... of course he could have been talking about radio or not about it all (considering my lack of French language skills), but yeah.

I have just watched Vivement Dimanche and they shown some videos of PLD in EXCELLENT quality, I really want to know where they come from !! (INA ?)

The entire show was recorded digitally and live edited, as they always do. So the question will be if they kept the master tapes. If they did, they could easily make a new edit.

GeeJee wrote:The entire show was recorded digitally and live edited, as they always do. So the question will be if they kept the master tapes. If they did, they could easily make a new edit.

And I think they kept all because they shown some very nice videos of it, with an excellent quality

A very short clip of Equinoxe 5 was shown in a TV report from the show. It was a part of the original recordings for sure. I don't get why they removed it.

Nico or anybody else, do you have this clip? I have not been able to find it.

Equinoxe5 wrote:The 1990 PLD, was it broadcast live on TV at the time?. And if it was, does the recording exsist of the show in full with both 'Equinoxe 5' and 'Rendez-Vous 4' footage.

It was not broadcasted live on TV, A video has been made from it and it was shown few months after the concert for the first time on France 2. Images of equinoxe 5 were used in equinoxe 4 (equi4 did not have fireworks during the concert for example) and some images of rendez-vous 4 were used in rendez-vous 2 (long distance shots right after the laserharp bit for example)

Few months after that an oficial video was released just before x-mas (france>SECAM)

Autumn 1991 saw the release of the PAL version most uf us have at home, minor change in that one is that the speeches were gone since they were in french and we didn't pardon jmj's french

All those versions don't have Equinoxe 5, Rendez-vous 4 and the first calypso played (calypso was played twice in fact), also a lot of tracks were edited, made shorter. good example is oxygene 4 wich misses a chorus, bridge & verse...

The only recording that includes those is the radio NRG recording and some amature video bootlegs.

Also, there's a few (around one dozen) laserdiscs around (same as VHS except for quality) Those Laserdiscs are the jarre-world equivelent of the holy grail, so far i've only seen one (Michel Geiss gave his copy away to someone once...)

Well, MFS is maybe a bit bigger on the holy grail scale, but you all know what I mean.

One nice fact about PLD, Patrick Rondat was in the audience watching

Almost 17 years ago allready... everytime I see the DVD I relive that concert, it was the best concert I've ever seen and probably ever will see...

wow... do you own that one? I would like to have pictures from the b-side label, the front and back sleeve (even if it's "only" a 3M factory sleeve)....

Why didn't you mention you had this LD