First and formost there is NO lead
guitar in this show. Steve Boltz's guitar has been been competely erased.
Worse The Ox is once again buried, he might as well not be there.
Someone saw fit to make this PT acoustic guitar featuring 25 other
musicians in the background some of which you can hear.
Bolton is alive and well on the disc, definitely not erased. Entwistle is indeed mixed too low at least part of the time relative to the LD mix (the pre-Sparks solo is a good example). It's odd -- sometimes he's more audible than on the LD, other times he's lower. I suspect the poster above has his left speaker disconnected, since Pete is mixed hard right and Bolton and Entwistle are mixed hard left, to match their stage positions.
Still, there's no question that Pete is mixed higher (both electric and acoustic) than he was on the LD.
Apparently the show was filmed in 4X3
and has been cropped and stretched to match the filmed Jimmy parts that are
16X9.
Like I said, I was there. The Jumbotron screen was wide. If the show was filmed in 4x3, then it was cropped *as it was being shown on the screen behind the band.* I don't see the problem in presenting the same thing the audience at the show saw. (In fact, if you watch the DVD, you can see shots where the screen is visible, and the shot you see and the shot on the screen match.)
I haven't noticed any obvious stretching in the pieces I've watched. I'm guessing the poster is stretching the 4x3 DVD image to fit his widescreen TV.
Other minor quibbles are there is no footage of the band while they play
the two instrumentals. There is also more filmed sequences and dialogue
than was originally shown at the shows that "get in the way".
The first is definitely annoying, but probably unavoidable if they were stuck with the Jumbtron feed (since there were no band shots on the Jumbotron during the instrumentals either). I haven't watched the whole Quad disc yet, but from what I've seen so far there's no extra material.
FYI some of the Quad encore are from another show. Unless the band changed
clothes before walking back out.
This is correct. They only played WGFA, BBE and WAY at Dayton, so Substitute and ICE are clearly from a different show. (They're good performances, wherever they're from.) I'm 90% sure WGFA is from a different show as well. BBE and WAY are almost definitely Dayton, especially WAY -- I clearly remember Roger's acoustic guitar issues before the song, the false start, and mock guitar smashing, as well as Pete's broken string at the end. (A poster on Usenet said he broke a string at Philly, too, but unless they also did the dead acoustic guitar routine at every show, I'm still saying it's Dayton.)
Ryan