Clarification on the Eagles "Farewell I" Australian tour [2004] DVD

Someone must have tracked down my email at  Amazon  [reviews] and not a problem as I welcome email as a great way to exchange info whether it's the piano or the guitar! In any event, the writer stated, "Doc -- I have that DVD [**  TWO disks for 'regular' DVD and ONE disk for the "HD" [High Definition"] version -- BTW, this is off topic but watch out for that one, the HD DVD disks now being heavily discounted because as many folks may now know, the USA has 'halted' the production of HD DVD disks [see the Amazon comment on that issue] so the result was HD DVD prices falling drastically ==but== some folks had the erroneous idea that HD DVD's were a sort of picture quality 'super enhancement' kind of thing but the fact is that HD DVD's will ONLY play on a HD DVD player! While the HD DVD --player-- IS in fact backward compatible with the ability to play 'regular' or non HD disk DVD's, the HD DVD 'disk' itself will ==NOT== play on a standard DVD machine! So too, some folks also forgot that to 'get' HD even with a HD player, one had to also have a TV or monitor that was HD ready! And you ONLY got the the top of the line 1080 "p" or "i" 'resolution'  if you used an HDMI connection cable and your monitor or TV was so equipped with an HDMI slot for the cable , otherwise you only got 720 HD resolution! Those HD DVD disks per se are 'not' backward compatible and 'require' an HD DVD player to be viewed! A word to the wise! I bought an HD DVD player from Amazon in early 2008 and when the decision was made by the industry to stop producing HD DVD disks in the USA, Amazon offered a $50 rebate credit which I got and used!]

That all said, I get, "Doc -- I have that Eagles 2004 Australian ["Oz Land"] tour and when you mention "out-takes", where are they?" At the very end of the DVD and I don't mean the bonus piece, the end of the DVD where the credits are being shown, there's a short intro to an Eagles tune and then to the right of the screen are some brief out-takes after the 2004 tour was over with comments by Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Don Henley. Funny! Example -- the usual dead-pan  Joe Walsh [great player, Joe!] and he makes with "Well, Irving  [** Irving Azoff-- Eagles management] and I lived in a car and ..  " -- at this point Frey bursts out guffawing and says, "You and Irving lived in a CAR?" and Joe Walsh says, still as dead-pan as ever, "Yeah, for a little while .. then Danny Fogelberg [** 1951-2007] moved in and things got a little crowded."  Or Henley and the interviewer says, "So at the end of a given concert, do you have any 'particularly' favorite song you like to do?", and Henley quips, "Yeah -- the last one in the set!" Great DVD that one! 20 songs and an extended band of great musicians -- I'd give anything to take Mike Thompson's place just for one tune on that 8 1/2 foot grand piano! I also thought Steuart Smith was excellent as an additional lead guitar as were the others like Scott Crago on drums, Will Hollis on keyboards and the 4 "Mighty Horns".  So the piano [in addition to multiple keyboards] was a Yamaha grand versus a classic Bösendorfer [** Ahhhh, the mellow sounds that come forth from a Bösendorfer grand!] but hey, a grand piano is a grand piano with even the 'electronic mix' versions sounding great! The word was the Eagles had some =50= mixed bag well known name guitars on hand although the Fender and the acoustic-electric Takamine [among others -- each song, different instruments] were in ample evidence. I like the idea that the Eagles themselves comment that they get just as much enjoyment going 'acoustic' and doing harmony pieces as they do 'electric' or as Walsh quips, the "jamming hour" .  "One Day At A Time" -- great tune by Walsh as was his "In the City" ! But then, all the tunes in that tour and DVD were/are great! IMO.   

Doc Tony

PS: If anyone reading this is from 'Down Under' and living in Melbourne -- the crowd at that Eagles tour looked huge -- how many folks does the Rod Laver arena hold?  And how much were the tickets for that tour? Stage or "nose-bleed" section up in those multi-tiered seats? How were/are  the acoustics in that arena?  Just curious.