Title: The Rolling Stones – From The Vault – Live in Leeds 1982
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Rock
Artist: Mick Jagger – Vocals, Guitar; Keith Richards – Guitar, Vocals; Charlie Watts – Drums; Ronnie Wood – Guitar, Backing Vocals; Bill Wyman – Bass Guitar; Ian Stewart – Piano; Chuck Leavell – Keyboards, Backing Vocals; Gene Barge, Bobby Keys – Saxophone
Production/Label: Eagle Rock Entertainment
Duration: 02:11:21
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 29822 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 8872 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 43.4 GB
Continuing the very successful From The Vault series of classic, previously unreleased Rolling Stones live shows, Live In Leeds 1982 is taken from the band’s performance at Roundhay Park in Leeds, England on 25 July 1982. This show was the last concert on their 1982 European Tour, in support of 1981’s acclaimed Tattoo You album, which would be their last live tour for seven years. About half of the Tattoo You album is included in the set including the hit single ‘Start Me Up’. This would be the last Rolling Stones show to feature Ian Stewart on piano. The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.
Video Quality
Rolling Stones From the Vault Live at the Tokyo Dome is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Universal Music Group and Eagle Vision, an imprint of Eagle Rock Entertainment, with an AVC encoded 1080i transfer in 1.30:1. This is another in Eagle Rock’s line of so-called SD Blu-rays, but even taking the usual lo-fi ambience of many of these upscaled releases, this one looks pretty ragged. The best news is that the concert probably looks at least incrementally better in motion than some of these screenshots might suggest, but maybe not by much. There are recurrent issues with stair stepping (jaggies), plus anomalies like rampant posterizing, tracers shooting from lights during pans, and just an overall kind of fuzzy and indistinct APPearance a lot of the time. Anemic contrast and milky blacks don’t help matters, often seeming to cover the imagery with a sort of inchoate haze. A few brightly lit close-ups of Mick pop relatively well, but this release should probably best be appreciated as an audio Blu-ray with a substandard video component.
Audio Quality
Luckily there’s no similar issue with either of the boisterous tracks included on this Blu-ray, a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround mix and an LPCM 2.0 stereo iteration. According to Eagle Rock’s press materials, the source audio has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this “first official release” of the concert, and the results are largely exemplary. The mid- to lower ranges are incredibly robust and forceful on the 5.1 track, a tad less so on the 2.0 version. Prioritization is generally quite good, positing Mick’s vocals (which are occasionally a bit on the wobbly side) on top of the propulsive rhythm section. Fidelity is top notch and there are no problems of any kind to report in this review.
Tracklist:
1 Intro: Take The A-Train
2 Under My Thumb
3 When The Whip Comes Down
4 Let’s Spend The Night Together
5 Shattered
6 Neighbours
7 Black Limousine
8 Just My Imagination
9 Twenty Flight Rock
10 Going To A Go Go
11 Let Me Go
12 Time Is On My Side
13 Beast Of Burden
14 You Can’t Always Get What You Want
15 Little T & A
16 Angie
17 Tumbling Dice
18 She’s So Cold
19 Hang Fire
20 Miss You
21 Honky Tonk Women
22 Brown Sugar
23 Start Me Up
24 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
25 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction