Calling Elvis (On The Night) performance video is a tremendous mix.

(Lego Cover - Dire Straits - On The Night)

I was looking at an aspect that I've always noticed on the On The Night dvd that sounds artificial, and I'd like to share with you.

Guy himself said on his forum that they didn't do anything with it, but it doesn't sound as alive as alchemy... It feels different, like they process the sound somehow, definitely a lot of post-production, it doesn't sound at all a little live.

So, on that aspect, I discovered something curious about OTN's Calling Elvis. I was analyzing the presence of the second microphone on the pedestal, which I noticed in the song YAYF, and at the same time I noticed that in every song at Feyenoord Stadium, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, this second microphone is present on Mark's pedestal. I started looking at YAYF, then followed the sequence: MFN, BIA, SR, WT, when I returned to Calling Elvis, I noticed something very interesting: Calling Elvis video starts and the second microphone is there on the pedestal, at 2:49 shows a short scene where this mic is absent, so scenes continue with the mic present when it arrives at 4:50, another short scene with the second mic absent; following scenes, microphone present, however, everything is very evident in the second solo, where there is a lot of improvisation on the guitar, and several scenes where the second microphone is shown on the pedestal and others where it is not present, as in (angle) 6:42 , (angle) 6:52, (angle) 6:58, (angle) 7:02, (angle) 7:05, (angle) 7:12, (angle) 7:15, (angle) 7: 20, (7:25 ... These scenes are not in Feyenoord stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands, it seems to me they used scenes from Les Arenes, Nimes, France 05/20/92. The scene at 7:43 of the second The microphone again (at which point Mark regains the ground by picking up the guitar and swinging.) At 11:03, he again shows a scene where the pedestal has a single microphone, this time it appears to be at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands, without However, in any other of the 4. At 11:22 am, the second microphone reappears until the song ends and Walk of Life begins.

Conclusion: In terms of Calling Elvis video performance, they used scenes from at least 3 dates, the scenes with two microphones on the pedestal are probably at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands 5/31/1992; the scenes with the absence of the second microphone (MOST) are in Les Arenes, Nimes FRA 21.05.92 and at 11:03 am where it shows a scene where the pedestal is with a single microphone, this time it seems to be at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands , it is probably 05/28/92 or 05/29/1992 (since YAYF, MFN, BIA, SR, WT are at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam, Netherlands 05/31/1992, all with two microphones present on the pedestal . )

MFN

BIA

SR

WT

All these photos with two microphones on the pedestal are live at Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Above. Note that where there is only one microphone, it was live at the stadium in Nimes, France.

Regardless, the OTN Calling Elvis performance video is a mix of scenes from Nimes and Feyenoord Stadium. The audio is basically a tremendous edit, a lot of mixes here, a lot of audio is from Nimes FRA 21. 05.92, but a lot of other parts are a lot of unknown mixes.

I made comparisons between the OTN CL with the Audio CL of Bootlegs Nimes FRA 21.05.92 and Rotterdam, Netherlands 5/31/1992, to complement my research and reach this conclusion.

And to think that I discovered this because of the presence or absence of a microphone! 😀

One thing is for me, I always felt something strange and quite artificial in this OTN Calling Elvis performance, now I understand why, it's not a whole song, it's all mutilated, a well done montage, quite the opposite of The Alchemy, it has lots of overdubs, it must have been a lot of effort to merge the scenes, sync, edit audio and video.

Brunno Nunes.