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To Infirmity, And Beyond! (2004). This is The Hamsters
The Hamsters
The Hamsters are a band from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England.They performed their first live show at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, on 1 April 1987. They initially played in local pubs with no ambitions to take themselves seriously or to turn professional...

' fifth concert video. It is the first one that was recorded totally in digital (sound and video). It was recorded in front of a live (paying) audience at The Woughton Centre
Woughton
Woughton is a civil parish in south central Milton Keynes, ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England. It takes its name from the original ecclesiastic parish of Woughton and its original village, Woughton on the Green....

, Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

, Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, UK on 28th February 2003. It is also the first to have had a DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 only release.

It was filmed using a 4 camera set-up through an on-line vision mixer
Vision mixer
A vision mixer is a device used to select between several different video sources and in some cases Compositing video sources together to create special effects...

 onto Digibeta tape. It was edited using Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors...

 and mastered to DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 using Sonic ReelDVD. Captions were designed using Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems, though it can also be purchased separately. When purchased separately, it comes...

 and Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects
Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software published by Adobe Systems, used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production. Its main uses are the origination of 2D and 2.5D animation, visual effects compositing and finishing...

.

Track listing

  1. "Switchboard Susan"
  2. "Every Woman I Know (Crazy 'Bout An Automobile)"
  3. "Straight Ahead"
  4. "Who Knows"
  5. "If 6 Was 9"
  6. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"
  7. "Brother Doctor, Sister Nurse"
  8. "Breaking Up Somebody's Home"
  9. "Junk In My Trunk"
  10. "Blonde Ambition"
  11. "Glad When I've Got The Blues"
  12. "Wanna Make Love To You"
  13. "Never Get Me Up In One Of Those"
  14. "Lonesome Blues"
  15. "Barefoot Rock"
  16. "Little Wing"
  17. "Wouldn't Lay My Guitar Down"
  18. "Hard Ridin' Papa"
  19. "Crossroads Blues"
  20. "Sweet Little Lisa"
  21. "Rocket In My Pocket"
  22. "Star-Spangled Banner"
  23. "All Along The Watchtower"
  24. "The Walk"
  25. "Sharp Dressed Man"
  26. "Encore
    Encore (concert)
    An encore is an additional performance added to the end of a concert, from the French "encore", which means "again", "some more"; multiple encores are not uncommon. Encores originated spontaneously, when audiences would continue to applaud and demand additional performance from the artist after the...

    : Chequebook"

Personnel

  • Snail's-Pace Slim – lead vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , guitars
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    .
  • Rev Otis Elevator – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    .
  • Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    .

Production

  • 'Sonic enhancements' and Mastering
    Mastering engineer
    A mastering engineer is one skilled in the practice of taking audio that has been previously mixed in either the analog or digital domain as mono, stereo, or multichannel formats and preparing it for use in distribution, whether by physical media such as a CD, vinyl record, or as some method of...

     – Phil Hilborne
  • Video recording – Exposure TV.
  • Vision mixing
    Vision mixer
    A vision mixer is a device used to select between several different video sources and in some cases Compositing video sources together to create special effects...

     - Jon Harwood.
  • Video editing
    Video editing
    The term video editing can refer to:* Linear video editing, using video tape* Non-linear editing system , using computers with video editing software* Offline editing* Online editing...

     – Jamie Speller.
  • Cameras
    Video camera
    A video camera is a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well. The earliest video cameras were those of John Logie Baird, based on the electromechanical Nipkow disk and used by the BBC in...

     – Jamie Speller, Mike Harwood, Martin Hill.
  • DVD authoring
    DVD authoring
    DVD authoring is the process of creating a DVD video capable of playing on a DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the specifications set by the DVD Forum group in 1995...

    , Captions – Kurt Adkins.
  • Cover layout
    Graphic design
    Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

    – Phil Smee at Waldo's Design & Dream Emporium.
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