I wonder why some american bands are so much more popular across the Atlantic than in their own countries. These guys were playing HUGE venues in Europe and South America and they'd come to America and play tiny clubs. If you watch their movie, End of the Century, you can actually see the sad things you wouldn't necessarily think about. Still one of the best bands ever though. Their influence on music, in my opinion, is equal to the Beatles because they created a new genre and inspire I think around the same amount of people to pick up guitars and form bands. In pretty sure more bands were started because of these guys than Led Zeppelin.
That's because whatever is popular in the US is what Billboard 100 says is popular. This has been going on for so long that Americans have developed a different taste in music.
Nah, it is not something unique to the United States, the saying "no one is a prophet in his own land" is already two millennia old, we tend to give value to what sounds new to us, according to me, this is why the British invasion of the 60s ´s attracted so much, the accents, ways of expressing, a new world of music to discover
Saw these guys soooooo many times at StageWest/Agora Ballroom in West Hartford Ct... Holy crap, that was over 30 yrs ago and I remember like it was last weekend...good times !!
This video of this whole concert, I think when they were filming it they didn't use SMPTE timecode to line up the audio with the video, so when it came time to edit it all together with the different shots it was hell which is why just about every scene Johnnys hands are out of sync, playing different chords, why they keep using the same shots to give the illusion they are playing. Matching Joey to the vocals was easy because all you had to do is show him going to the mic as you can't really see his mouth moving. Dee you can which made it easier to match, but wow yeah, definitely they screwed up with the SMPTE on this. STMPTE timecode aligns the film with the audio, you have two things that make up a movie - this is all before digital BTW - You had the part that is filmed, then you have the soundtrack. So during this concert you had a group of guys filming it and then another group dedicated to recording it and for each one, film and sound, you have to lay down a SMPTE code that records a timescale by the millisecond so when it comes time to line up the film with the sound, all you have to do is match the numbers. If no timescale is recorded you are pretty much fucked and have to do a guessing game which back then was hell because you had these reel to reel audio tapes not to mention frame by frame film...........en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE_timecode
@dylanfan1969 Yeah, "off sync"! Ahah, I spent like 5minutes trying to find the right words, I could only find "errors in the video, like a repetition of frames" ahah Ok, thanks for the answer!
Such incredible footage of the greatest band, unfortunately this entire show has completely redone audio, none of it matches at all. Still great to hear and see tho'.
At the beginning, just before the camera zooms to Dee Dee's cigarrette, Johnny's hand is not on the guitar. Now, the intro starts with a E chord, so the left hand should be on the guitar. How can this be? I noticed some 'errors' in the video, like a repetition of frames (0:19 for example, or 0:51), so maybe the images are delayed from the audio, or something like this, and that explaines why the hand of Johnny isn't on the guitar. Can someone give me another answer? (sorry for my bad english!)
There is indeed some studio overdub on the It's Alive album, from which this audio was taken but the inconsistency between the audio and video was largely an artistic choice for the film. There was more than one camera, more than one camera angle and they simply edited the thing the way they wanted in the editing room. A skillful editor could have done it all without frame repeats and out-of-sync bits but that's not what was important to these filmmakers. What was important was the energy of the concert and the sound of the music. Because 1977 recording technology was what it was and because either the Ramones or the record company wanted better quality sound they augmented the live recording with minimal studio overdubs. Largely what you're hearing though is the live recording.
