With the release of Alchemy on video, I was telling myself that the situation was not THAT bad wrt video releases:
-With Alchemy + On the Night + RLRR for So Far Away and Why Worry, we have at least one great version (maybe not the best of the best in every case, but still great) of nearly all major DS songs; missing are, essentially: Ride Accross the River (would be great from Sydney'86), The Man's Too Strong (from Wembley'85), and a few others great ones that were never filmed officially, like Planet Of New Orleans or Iron Hand; let's note, as complements, the great version of SoS on the Live Aid DVD and the faboulous MFN and BIA on the Montserrat DVD
-Golden Heart is pretty well covered with A Night in London DVD
-STP is covered by the faboulous Speedway At Nazareth version with Emmylou from the RLRR DVD; of course some important ones are missing, like What It Is and STP itself, but I've always thought these ones are better on the album anyway...
-TRD is covered to some extent with the official release of Why Aye Man live in 2002 (not on DVD, but on Itunes). It is a fabulous version with a "quasi DS" band, featuring John Illsley and Chris White on sax ! Of course, missing are, essentially, Hill Farmer's blues and Marbledown.
-Shangri-La is covered to some extent with the RLRR DVD with Our Shangri La and Sonny Liston; missing the great Boom, Like That
-KTGC is not covered at all, but the greatest songs were never played live anyway...
-GL, were are still keeping our finger crossed to fix all the above mentionned missing songs...
What do you think ?
