QueenZone discussion #1108561

Queen in Arena, Seattle, Washington, USA March 13, 1977 Lineage: ? > FLAC > WAV > Audacity (speed correction, editing) > CD Wave Editor (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (SBEs correction) > ClickRepair (clicks and crackles removal) > FLAC (Frontend) level 8 Quality VG+/Ex- originally shared by ups in January 2007 remastered by vlatko CD1 01 Ogre Battle 5:08 02 White Queen 5:31 03 Somebody To Love 4:54 04 Killer Queen 2:02 05 The Millionaire Waltz 3:06 06 You're My Best Friend 2:00 07 Bring Back That Leroy Brown 1:09 08 Brighton Rock 12:23 09 '39 3:35 10 You Take My Breath Away 2:54 CD2 01 White Man 4:58 02 The Prophet's Song 4:44 03 Bohemian Rhapsody 5:08 04 Liar 8:46 05 In The Lap Of The Gods... revisited 3:13 06 Now I'm Here 4:35 07 Big Spender 1:25 08 Jailhouse Rock 5:32 09 Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting 2:34 10 Stupid Cupid - Be Bop A Lula - Jailhouse Rock (reprise) 1:11 Keep lossless files lossless, unless it's for your own use. Enjoy! vlatko

BAND : Queen VENUE : Broendby Hall CITY : Copenhagen COUNTRY : Denmark DATE : May 12, 1977 FORMAT : FLAC File Size:667 MB Quality: Very Good Audience Recording Track List: 01 - Intro (0.48) 02 - Tie Your Mother Down (3.52) 03 - Ogre Battle (5.04) 04 - White Queen (As It Began) (6.10) 05 - Somebody To Love (5.28) 06 - Death On Two Legs (3.53) 07 - Killer Queen (2.25) 08 - Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy (2.27) 09 - The Millionaire Waltz (3.05) 10 - You're My Best Friend (2.03) 11 - Bring Back That Leroy Brown (1.24) 12 - Brighton Rock (11.59) 13 - '39 (3.56) 14 - You Take My Breath Away (3.23) 15 - White Man (5.29) 16 - The Prophet's Song (5.12) 17 - Bohemian Rhapsody (5.47) 18 - Stone Cold Crazy (2.13) 19 - Sweet Lady (3.54) 20 - Keep Yourself Alive (4.58) 21 - In The Lap Of The Gods (Revisited) (3.43) 22 - Now I'm Here (4.19) 23 - Liar (8.29)

Queen capped off the A Day At The Races tour with two shows at London's Earls Court Arena. The band dropped L50,000 on a new lighting rig, which was a giant crown - 25 feet tall by 54 feet wide, weighing two tons. The music of Chopin (Freddie's choice) plays as the audience enter the venue. At this point, one can barely see the stage, as the crown is only a few feet above it, with black drapes below it, so you couldn't see anything on stage (perhaps causing audience members to wonder where the band will be playing!). Procession is heard (revived only for the Earls Court shows, and never to be used again), and then the usual ADATR overture rings through the speakers. Part way through, the crown slowly begins to rise, and out comes the dry ice (the fourth picture above was taken during this moment; Brian later recalled that hearing the ADATR overture is when they would get nervous, as they knew they were about to go on at any time!). Queen then burst onto the stage to perform Tie Your Mother Down, and the show goes on as usual.
In Killer Queen, Freddie sings, "Perfume came naturally from London" instead of Paris.
Tonight the band cover Elton John's "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting" during the Jailhouse Rock medley. Freddie apparently emerged from a trap door (sporting his dazzling silver lurex outfit) for the second encore, but the videos from both nights unfortunately don't focus on him at that moment. The whole band (especially Roger) are a joy to watch during the medley. At the end of the show, the lights continue to sparkle as the crown descends to its original position.
Freddie's voice is in pretty good shape tonight, but he has problems hitting a few of the higher notes, unlike the Bristol and Glasgow shows. You can feel a slight tension in the air; nothing like Hyde Park, but they (especially Brian) still seem a bit nervous at times. It has been said that this is one of the band's greatest shows, but we must bear in mind that the high quality of the recording has made us impartial to this one. Still, there are many incredible moments throughout. Brian's Brighton Rock solo is one of his best, and he really shines at the end of Doing All Right. Freddie puts in great performances of Doing All Right, White Man, and Gods Revisited. Hearing Roger scream in the background between songs is always fun to hear, not to mention his duck quack before '39, which is also heard in many other shows at this point in the set.
The band must have listened to the recording of this show and realized how awful John Deacon's voice sounded in the harmonies of Somebody To Love. His microphone would never be turned up again (well, except for in Buenos Aires '81, but for an entirely different reason :)
During this time period, Freddie wasn't heard singing "I see a little silhouetto of a man" on the tape of BoRhap's opera section, and it isn't heard on any audience recordings earlier than Richfield 11-25-78 - this leads me to believe that the opera section as heard on the video was most likely tampered with after the fact (bearing in mind that at one point the Earls Court shows were a potential official release). It has been suggested numerous times that they panned the idea because of Freddie's "microphone problems", but we must remember that all we've heard from this show is a video feed. Similar to the Hyde Park "echo" issue, what we are hearing is what was recorded from the video feed, not the soundboard mix, what was heard in the monitors, or from the audience.
Here is the noteworthy stage banter from the show. Freddie sure has a lot to say to the hometown crowd:
Freddie: "Good evening everybody. All you ladies and gentlemen, how are you feeling tonight? Are you ready for some rock and roll? Some more rock and roll? We're gonna do just that. Thank you for coming to our first show in London after such a long time. Thank you for giving us such a nice welcome. Thank you. Ok. This is the right carnival, isn't it?

Freddie: "Thank you. And maybe next time we will bring back an orchestra, bring with us an orchestra, what you think? Costs more money. I really feel like been evil tonight." He clenches his fist while he says this. "Ok, we have two songs now for you, two songs rolled into one. They're both written by Brian. I must tell you that every night that we've done the song, these two songs on the tour, they seem to getting better every night, depending on the practice of course. But it really depends on the audience as well. Now, you've been a bit cool and sophisticated up to now, but get your asses going, ok? We can all be nice and cool, but I mean you've got to give out some time. So this a song, it starts off with White Man." Brian: "Ok, we'd like to bring back some more memories for you now, because we're getting old, see. We'd like to bring back some stuff which we did for Sheer Heart Attack, and the first thing... thank you... the first thing we're gonna do is In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited."

Queen London, UK New London Theatre Centre October 6, 1977 This is a compilation of two copies of the same audience tape of the famous We Are The Champions video shoot and short concert, both lossless - one being "Champions Shoot" on the Wardour label, and the other being a much higher generation tape. Much of the WATC video shoot is missing on the Wardour version, so I spliced in all the missing parts from the inferior version. Still, two parts are missing: The initial playing of WATC (before they started filming) cuts out after a few seconds, and the third video take of the song is missing as well. The Wardour version's pitch was 1/3 of a semitone too fast, so I adjusted it to make the two versions run at the same speed. Here's the track listing: 1. Bob Harris' speech, first listen to WATC (cut) 2. Queen introduction, WATC video shoot 1 3. WATC video shoot 2 4. Speech before WATC video shoot 3 (cut at 0:44), WATC video shoot 4 5. Tie Your Mother Down 6. Keep Yourself Alive 7. Somebody To Love 8. White Man 9. The Prophet's Song 10. Liar 11. Bohemian Rhapsody (until end of guitar solo) 12. Now I'm Here 13. Jailhouse Rock 14. See What A Fool I've Been Do NOT convert this recording to mp3 or any other lossy format, unless it's for your own use. This recording is the one that should spread because it's most complete, lossless, and the best quality. Enjoy!

dobo wrote: well it looks like I'm gunna be busy today lol, awesome thanks very much!!!!

Yankovic wrote: OMG! Rapidshare is a nightmare for anyone who don't want to pay. It takes 90 minutes before you can download the next thing.

pittrek wrote: Paris has a great sound but my version runs too fast. Does a speed-corrected version exist or should I find some time to play with it ?

pittrek wrote: Sorry :-( I thought that you will put it to mediafire :-( Do you have the same version ?

eYe wrote: I think Sir GH's 2-source compilation of 1977-10-06 London (WATC Video Shoot) is missing.

Vali wrote: Hi Peter, regarding Houston 77, I'm downloading from above links, but Part 7 does not work for me. Everytime the "click here to download" is ready, instead of downloading the file you get the page reloaded eternally, as many times as you click to download the file. Could you check to solve it ? Or it has to do directly with Mediafire? many tks dude

fatoldsun wrote: hey, thanks for the great uploads, is there a txt file for the houston show? cos it wasn't in any of the .zip's. cheers.

jumpstone wrote: Am I the only one who cannot download the third file from the Houston 1977 show? I have tried several times with no luck[img=/images/smiley/msn/sad_smile.gif][/img]

darkorian1 wrote: sorry, copenhagen concert 12-05-1977.... please!

pittrek wrote:

  jumpstone wrote:       Am I the only one who cannot download the third file from the Houston 1977 show?       I have tried several times with no luck[img=/images/smiley/msn/sad_smile.gif][/img]      

It's a mediafire problem, please try later

pittrek wrote:

  darkorian1 wrote: sorry, copenhagen concert 12-05-1977.... please!

Did you manage to get it somehow or should I reupload it ?

tcc wrote: See the mediafire links on page 2 of this thread.

thefallenqueen wrote: et voilà... link

pittrek wrote: I'm trying to reconstruct the missing links after the attacks so here are all the links I could find. 1977-03-13 Seattle, USA link link link link link link 1977-05-12 Copenhagen, Denmark link link link link link link D2part3 is missing link 1977-05-30 Apollo, Glasgow, UK link link link link link link link link 1977-06-06 Earls Court, London, UK link link link link link link link link 1977-06-07 Earls Court, London, UK link Houston, USA link link link link link link link link link Was something else uploaded ?

tcc wrote: These two tracks are in the 9th mediafire link for the houston show. The link is still working.