Queen + Paul Rodgers live at the Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria [01.11.2008]
Basic information
Artist
Queen + Paul Rodgers
Date
01.11.2008
Venue
Stadthalle
City
Vienna
Country
Austria
Setlist
01. Intro: Cosmos Rockin' [tape]
02. Surf's Up... School's Out [intro tape only]
03. Hammer To Fall (fast version)
04. Tie Your Mother Down
05. Fat Bottomed Girls
06. Another One Bites The Dust
07. I Want It All
08. I Want To Break Free
09. C-lebrity
10. Surf's Up... School's Out
11. Seagull
12. Blue Danube Waltz
13. Love Of My Life (Brian on vocals)
14. '39 (Brian on vocals)
15. Bass solo (Danny + Roger)
16. Drum Solo
17. I'm In Love With My Car (Roger on vocals)
18. A Kind Of Magic (Roger on vocals)
19. Say It's Not True (Roger, Brian and Paul on vocals)
20. Bad Company
21. We Believe
22. Guitar Solo
23. Bijou (Freddie's studio vocals)
24. Last Horizon
25. Radio Ga Ga
26. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
27. The Show Must Go On
28. Bohemian Rhapsody
29. Cosmos Rockin'
30. All Right Now
31. We Will Rock You
32. We Are The Champions
33. God Save The Queen
Support band
none or unknown
Attendance
13700
Audio recording
Length: 141:48 Quality: VG[an average audience recording] No download link available
Video - information
no info available
Bits and pieces
Brian was apparently hesitating whether he should play the Blue Danube Waltz in his acoustic set or in the guitar solo and he decided for the acoustic set. Roger came on the B-stage for '39 in a very funny mask of a kid.
Line-up
Paul Rodgers (lead vocals, acoustic guitar)
Brian May (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lead/backing vocals)
Roger Taylor (drums, lead/backing vocals)
Jamie Moses (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals)
Danny Miranda (bass guitar, backing vocals)
Spike Edney (keyboards, backing vocals)
Memorabilia
ticket stub (from my own collection)
concert program (from my own collection)
concert poster (from my own collection)
backstage pass (from my own collection)
Photos
Photos supplied by: Zbigniew Kaminski
Fan stories
Written by Thomas Zeidler (translated by Alison Sesi)
Queen played 'The Blue Danube' Waltz - The ÖSTERREICH concert grew into a triumph
In the full Stadthalle, Queen + Paul Rodgers gave kudos to two musical masterminds: Mercury and – Johann Strauss!
"We love coming to Vienna, not just because Queen always feel at home here, but because of the great musical tradition". It was this very thing that Queen incorporated into their 30 song-strong Greatest Hits Show in front of 13,700 fans in the completely sold-out Stadthalle.
As previously announced in ÖSTERREICH, after popular hits like Hammer To Fall (the opener), Another One Bites The Dust, and I Want To Break Free, Brian May performed The Blue Danube as a terrific unplugged version.
The utterly victorious rock show got underway on the dot at 19.30. With an exhilarating, playful song (Surf's Up), funny disguise (drummer Taylor wore a 'grandpa' mask for '39) and a never-ending hit repertoire from Radio Ga Ga to We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions. New singer Paul Rodgers, thanks to comical autocue support ("Go four steps back") had Queen's yesteryear totally in his control, approaching it once for lyrical reference – on I Want It All.
Taylor won them over with his terrific drum solo, but May was the mouthpiece: "After Strauss, there now follows our tribute to another genius, to my friend Freddie Mercury", who participated at the Stadthalle 'live' twice - on a video clip on the Queen classics Bohemian Rhapsody and Bijou.