| The Real Wizard 20.04.2008 21:41 |
Queen Tokyo, Japan Nippon Budokan February 17, 1981 This is the definitive version of the fourth night in Tokyo, apparently from a first gen tape, according to the fine folks at Wardour. AUD Master > 1st Gen Cassette (?) > "Prime Jive" (Wardour) silvers > CDR (x) > WAV > FLAC Frontend level 8 Disc 1: 01. Intro 02. We Will Rock You (fast) 03. Let Me Entertain You 04. Play The Game 05. Mustapha 06. Death On Two Legs 07. Killer Queen 08. I'm In Love With My Car 09. Get Down Make Love 10. Rock It 11. Save Me 12. Now I'm Here 13. Dragon Attack / Now I'm Here (reprise) 14. Love Of My Life Disc 2: 01. Keep Yourself Alive 02. Drum Solo 03. Guitar Solo 04. Vultan's Theme / Battle Theme 05. Flash 06. The Hero 07. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 08. Bohemian Rhapsody 09. Tie Your Mother Down 10. Another One Bites The Dust 11. Sheer Heart Attack 12. Teo Torriatte 13. We Will Rock You 14. We Are The Champions 15. God Save The Queen Here are the links to all 7 parts: link link link link link link link Distribute these files only if they are left completely unaltered, and always include the lineage information. As always with my shares (and preferably everybody else's!), be sure that this recording is not made available at Queenzone or elsewhere in mp3 or any other lossy format. Keep lossless files lossless, unless it's for your own (ab)use. |
| Maruga 20.04.2008 21:51 |
Thank you very much Sir Bob!!! |
| Masahiko 20.04.2008 23:44 |
Fantastic, Bob! Thank you for replying my request. I completed my collection of '81 Japan tour. :) |
| Yara 21.04.2008 01:09 |
Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: Queen Tokyo, Japan Nippon Budokan February 17, 1981 This is the definitive version of the fourth night in Tokyo, apparently from a first gen tape, according to the fine folks at Wardour. AUD Master > 1st Gen Cassette (?) > "Prime Jive" (Wardour) silvers > CDR (x) > WAV > FLAC Frontend level 8 Disc 1: 01. Intro 02. We Will Rock You (fast) 03. Let Me Entertain You 04. Play The Game 05. Mustapha 06. Death On Two Legs 07. Killer Queen 08. I'm In Love With My Car 09. Get Down Make Love 10. Rock It 11. Save Me 12. Now I'm Here 13. Dragon Attack / Now I'm Here (reprise) 14. Love Of My Life Disc 2: 01. Keep Yourself Alive 02. Drum Solo 03. Guitar Solo 04. Vultan's Theme / Battle Theme 05. Flash 06. The Hero 07. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 08. Bohemian Rhapsody 09. Tie Your Mother Down 10. Another One Bites The Dust 11. Sheer Heart Attack 12. Teo Torriatte 13. We Will Rock You 14. We Are The Champions 15. God Save The Queen Here are the links to parts 1-2 of 7 so far: link link Distribute these files only if they are left completely unaltered, and always include the lineage information. As always with my shares (and preferably everybody else's!), be sure that this recording is not made available at Queenzone or elsewhere in mp3 or any other lossy format. Keep lossless files lossless, unless it's for your own (ab)use.Hi, SirGH! Many thanks for the upload. Ah, I loved your website, very well-organized and informative! I didn't find any review of this concert there and I know you're up to the neck (?always in doubt when I dare some idioms) with work, but I'd be really glad and grateful, as well as many other people, I'm sure, if you shared, when time allows and if it's not going to be a bore for you, your thoughts about it with us, just some brief remarks would be already helpful. Thank you again and congratulations for the website and the wonderful work! |
| The Real Wizard 21.04.2008 01:51 |
Yara wrote: Ah, I loved your website, very well-organized and informative!Right on... thanks a lot! I didn't find any review of this concert there and I know you're up to the neck (?always in doubt when I dare some idioms) with work, but I'd be really glad and grateful, as well as many other people, I'm sure, if you shared, when time allows and if it's not going to be a bore for you, your thoughts about it with us, just some brief remarks would be already helpful.Not too much to say about this one, really. These were just warm-up gigs for the pending South American tour. They were going through the motions, doing what they did best. I haven't listened to this one in a couple years, but I think I recall you can hear the girls crying during one of the encores somewhere. Please don't feel the need to tip-toe because I've shared a silver, which anyone could have done, really. I'm happy to answer anything you'd like! |
| little foetus 21.04.2008 02:01 |
Thank you very much. ;) |
| Yara 21.04.2008 02:56 |
SIRGH: Please don't feel the need to tip-toe because I've shared a silver, which anyone could have done, really. I'm happy to answer anything you'd like!Hi, SirGH. I'm sorry if it came across as tip-toe, really. It's just the way I am and behave here or elsewhere, and, truth to be told, it comes from me very naturally, it'd be so "unme"(lol) if I behaved differently. It has nothing to do with the share, really, but with my failing even to fancy myself acting differently. You know, it didn't have anything to do with the share, I'm sorry if it came across as something like that or...you know. It's not. It's just me...and, well, sorry. I'm a mess. The share was great and I am not sure whether "anyone could have done" that, you know? Hm, I don't know, you're being way optimistic. :) So...uh, hm, sorry for the misunderstanding and I do have your knowledge about Queen and music in general in very high regard, that's something I want to stress. It's such a sweet website, so well-organized, it was clearly done with care and patience, I found it really sweet and great. And...it's time for me to shut up, of course, and get some sleep before the day breaks (!?), I'm skinnier than ever and pale as a snowflake! It's scary, I'm looking like a zombie. And it's just the beginning of the studies. Tomorrow is holiday and I intend to swim or exercise or simply do anything unrelated to music and studying. Take care, thank you very much again not only for the share, but for the kind and gentle reply and the very helpful website. Congratulations! |
| on my way up 21.04.2008 03:27 |
thanks! Glad to add this to my collection:-) |
| PBB 21.04.2008 04:04 |
Thanks. I also completed my Tokyo series:-) |
| daffy_the_duck 21.04.2008 04:06 |
Thanks a lot, Sir Bob |
| Nummer2 21.04.2008 04:41 |
Thanks Bob, esp. for using Mediafire! |
| vivequeen 21.04.2008 10:00 |
MERCI BEAUCOUP Perfect like ever |
| Queenrockyou 21.04.2008 10:15 |
Thanks a lot ! Regards, Olivier, France. |
| The Real Wizard 21.04.2008 11:12 |
Yara wrote: It's just the way I am and behave here or elsewhere, and, truth to be told, it comes from me very naturally, it'd be so "unme"(lol) if I behaved differently. It has nothing to do with the share, really, but with my failing even to fancy myself acting differently. You know, it didn't have anything to do with the share, I'm sorry if it came across as something like that or...you know. It's not. It's just me...and, well, sorry. I'm a mess.Just try your best to be confident and assertive. You definitely have a great knowledge, love, and passion for music. The share was great and I am not sure whether "anyone could have done" that, you know? Hm, I don't know, you're being way optimistic. :)Silver bootlegs from Japan are essentially public domain. Anyone could have bought a copy and shared it here. |
| RoyThomasBaker 21.04.2008 11:22 |
Thank you! |
| rg9l 21.04.2008 17:09 |
Thank you Bob, finally I have all the 5 Tokyo gigs of '81. Thank you! |
| mogiggymo 21.04.2008 17:14 |
Bob thanks very much, it's great to have all of those japanese shows |
| Yara 21.04.2008 23:01 |
SirGH, thanks again for the share, I'm really enjoying it! Freddie does a clever choice of notes in Killer Queen. Instead of the truncated and beautifully and delicately detached G4 (built in re) F4 E4 F4 (medy), which has the disadvantage of robbing the song of energy and power, he smoothes the edges and stretches the notes a bit, barely singing "for" in order not to get out of rythm, and makes it a plain, vivid, powerful and much more fluent phrase - G4/G4(built in) G4/G4 (remedy), all in the same breath. The result: the songs starts to feel much more fluent and energetic, so to speak. The second part is done in a very ironic way and reminded me of cabaré singers. He's clearly having fun with the song, and that adds to the joy of listening to it. The "perfume comes naturally from Tokyo". :-))) In order to do that, however, and not end the bar unresolved, he syncopates the phrase and instead of singing the open (Na..turally....Pa...ris), G-based falsetto, he adds more irony and humor to it by going down to C and C# and succeding in making "Na...turally...To...kyo" sound natural and well resolved within the bar. He avoids creating an odd dissonant interval. He does a lot of pauses, interruptions, syncopations, but he doesn't get out of rythm and is very respectful of the meter. Quite thrilling to listen to, very intelligently done. There are many other interesting ideas he develops in Killer Queen and other songs, but I still have a warning to give to people who download this! Advice to people: the ending of some songs are the beginning of some tracks so I advise you not to organize the files alphabetically according to the song titles but maintaing the original order so as to avoid cuts in the end of some songs. Great show, very lively and well played, good audience (girls do scream a lot!). A very special share, SirGH. Thanks, I enjoyed a lot. |
| Ginger01 22.04.2008 18:31 |
Thanks a lot for this - slightly late but no less appreciated :) |
| Yara 22.04.2008 19:40 |
Take care, Ginger01! I'm still feeling the pain right in my chest. It's so thrilling this concert, so daring, it was indeed a great share. Because Freddie thought he was, you know, a Freddie (lol), he was very daring throughout. "Let Me Entertain You" is so beautifully played, Ginger01, you'll like it, I guess. He decides to change the melodic contour here and there, and to play a bit with modes in order to create some tension. I almost lost my breath when he started to sing "Gonna rock, gonna...dancing in the isles" - I paled. I kept telling myself: no, no, no, no, no, no, no (without counterpoint), you won't do this, please don't do this, you'll ruin the song. In the original recording, this phrase, which sets the tone for much of what follows, is done in a very beautiful way and takes some progressively higher and higher notes until reaching a climax. Now, in this one, no, he doesn't do that at all -what's left is an absolutely tourtuous phrase, with ups and downs and even minor modulations to the point that he creates such, but such tension that you bet he's not going to be able to resolve it within the bar. He resolves it. He finds just the right notes to dissolve the tension and build a different, exquisite melody which sounds much, much more interesting than in the original ("gonna rock, gonna roll you, get you dancing in the isles"). That's the line: he starts to play with the mode in "gonna roll you" and gets back to the progression of the original melody in time to sing "in the isles", though it just reminds us of the original, it's not the same melody anymore, it's much more beautiful and the intervals are more unusual, and difficult to resolve). But that's not everything, because then comes the pain! Ouch! My chest is still hurting. Why Freddie stopped caring? Why!? He did it all so beautifully in Kampuchea - he paid a lot of attention to his posture, to the positioning and moving of his head, and of course to his breathing: he does everything right, he inclines his torax backwards when it's needed, doesn't have any fear of appearing ugly by doing all sorts of strange, but necessary, movements with his mouth, he did it all. But then, he stopped caring. And you know what? He started to hurt himself. In this recording, we can "see" the exact moment when he damages his chest muscles (not the throat, I guess, by the way he sounds afterwards). The track: Mustapha. My guess: He was tired, of course. He had to go for pretty high and lenthy notes and, instead of breathing correctly as he used to do especially when tired, he must have been breathing exerting too much pression on his chest muscles (it's our tendency when we're tired). The so-called high chest breathing. The distention and spasms of chest muscles began to tamper with the air flow as he should have felt pain and discomfort while breathing. It happens after the introduction of Mustapha. When he's going to cheer up the audience with those "hey, hey!", you notice that he can't stand it anymore, he's in pain. Does he stop? Well, he could, but he didn't and gave really a kind of heroic performance of Mustapha - it doesn't sound beautiful, but he doesn't spoil the song either because the guy just can't get out of tune and rythm! His musical intelligente was really uncanny, but, wow, we feel his pain and it's really disturbing to listen to him struggling to deliver the rest of the concert in a correct way. He started to sing much more carefully, almost low-profile, and even began to avoid singing with Brian and Roger when he felt it wasn't necessary. He rested and then he recovered a bit, but not to point he was before the injury. The concert starts to get even more interesting because he has to circumvent the problem in some way, and he does it, what a surprise. Ouch! And what a musical genius. I never understood the "stop caring" thing. lol Not so muc |
| Nummer2 23.04.2008 03:57 |
Yara, I enjoy every bit you write, don't think it's too much! At last somebody on this forum (okay, there are a few ones already) who doesn't only grab what he ca get but actually listens to the concerts. |
| Luanda Queen 23.04.2008 06:20 |
Cant use mediafire. Please make a torrent of this. Txs |
| rg9l 23.04.2008 08:13 |
Luanda Queen wrote: Cant use mediafire. Please make a torrent of this. TxsI'll do it tonight. |
| Yara 23.04.2008 12:54 |
Nummer2 wrote: Yara, I enjoy every bit you write, don't think it's too much! At last somebody on this forum (okay, there are a few ones already) who doesn't only grab what he ca get but actually listens to the concerts.Kein Problem! Es (das Konzert, neutraler Name, ich habe doch ein gutes Gedächtnis!) hat mir sehr gefallen, und ich schreibe hier sehr gern! Ich hoffe nur, dass diese kleine Meldung, die ich jetzt auf Deutsch schreibe, keine Deutschen ärgert, weil es macht mir viel spaß, andere Sprachen (als Englisch!) üben und nutzen zu können. Ich danke Sie, Yara. Ich weiß nicht was mir heute passiert ist. Ich habe schon auf Französisch geschrieben...bald schreibe ich auf Portugiesisch, da ich habe es doch in Ihrem Profil bemerkt, dass Sie "Bossa Nova" gern hören. ;-)) |
| Luanda Queen 24.04.2008 04:26 |
rg9l wrote:Much appreciated, rg91Luanda Queen wrote: Cant use mediafire. Please make a torrent of this. TxsI'll do it tonight. |
| pittrek 24.04.2008 11:34 |
Thanks a lot for this one, Bob ! Now I have all Japan 1981 concerts also lossless :-) |
| pittrek 24.04.2008 14:03 |
My download always stops after approx. 20 MB. Does anybody know what could be the reason for it or does anybody have a similar problem ? |
| Queenrockyou 24.04.2008 14:58 |
Nope, all was alright for me it seems. Maybe a problem with mediafire... You should try it tomorrow and check if the problem is solved or not. Does this happen too with other links, have you tried another mediafire or rapidshare link ? If needed and if Bob is OK, I could re-upload on rapidshare, but prefer waiting for his clearance and to see if you problem has been magically solved. Does anyone have the same problem ? Regards, Olivier, France. |
| pittrek 24.04.2008 15:15 |
Well I can try if I manage to download it tomorrow |
| The Real Wizard 24.04.2008 18:42 |
ruth.olivier wrote: If needed and if Bob is OK, I could re-upload on rapidshare, but prefer waiting for his clearance and to see if you problem has been magically solved.You definitely don't need my permission to spread these files any further. Like I said before, it's a silver, so it's essentially public domain already. Go for it! |
| PBB 25.04.2008 03:00 |
pittrek wrote: My download always stops after approx. 20 MB. Does anybody know what could be the reason for it or does anybody have a similar problem ?I didn't have this problem with this one, but I used to have it quite often, and I was told that it was Windows that recognized the file as finished and stopped the download. Some I had to download from somewhere else but usually I managed to get the whole file later. Maybe after a restart? I can't remember |
| Queenrockyou 25.04.2008 04:53 |
Ok, nice to share your experience. Strage how Windows reacts sometimes ! Here is a re-upload via rapidshare for those who need : link Regards, Olivier, France. |
| tassilo 27.04.2008 02:05 |
Cool, thank you very much! |
| GuitarMay 30.04.2008 11:48 |
Hello Sir GH ! Fantastic share !!! Thanks a lot !!! I simply loved this show of 17/February in Tokyo! The atmosphere of the show from start to finish is incredible, along with the impeccable performance! Only missed Teo Torriate the setlist Without doubt, the best of 5 shows in Japan 1981. Anybody don't agree? |
| Christian77 16.08.2008 15:05 |
Please, can you reseed part 1 and 2!!!!! I don't open them!!!! Thanks a lot! Great show dear.... |
| MercuryArts 23.08.2008 15:25 |
Thank you G.H. This is a great show!!! |
| TimBHM 23.08.2008 15:42 |
Thanks Bob I've been looking for this for ages! |
| dowens 27.12.2010 22:04 |
Having a difficult time downloading the 2nd part of this? The other parts download fine... |
| bokkepoot 10.03.2011 13:05 |
Hello Everyone, 2 from the 7 files are not available more on Mediafire. I have uploaded the same concert registration to multiupload, so you can choose which downloadservice you prefer. Here are the files: Edit 25-01-2012 New links: link link link link link link link link |
| deleted user 10.03.2011 17:02 |
Is this on a par with Mr. Peach? |
| The Real Wizard 10.03.2011 20:31 |
kurgan100 wrote: Is this on a par with Mr. Peach? ========================== It isn't, but it's still a pretty good recording in its own right. And since the compression is so extensive on the Tarantura bootleg, I'd recommend grabbing this one for sure. |
| deleted user 11.03.2011 17:30 |
Sir GH wrote: kurgan100 wrote: Is this on a par with Mr. Peach? ========================== It isn't, but it's still a pretty good recording in its own right. And since the compression is so extensive on the Tarantura bootleg, I'd recommend grabbing this one for sure. Reply: Ok, thanks for the info. |
| The Real Wizard 23.04.2011 02:05 |
davemann79 - You PM'd me regarding this show, but the PM system here is messed up and I can't respond to your message. Exactly which songs are you missing? I uploaded this a few years ago, and I can't remember which songs were in each zip file.. Or you can try this torrent ... download "utorrent" if you already haven't got it.. link |
| davemann79 23.04.2011 15:00 |
Hi, I am missing Mustapha, Killer Queen, I'm In Love With My Car, Get Down Make Love & Drum Solo. Thank you for your response. |
| The Real Wizard 23.04.2011 17:43 |
Here ya go - link |
| davemann79 24.04.2011 13:25 |
Thank you. |