| Wilki Amieva 21.06.2009 02:40 |
1981.02.28 - Argentina, Buenos Aires, Estadio 'José Amalfitani' del Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield Being FIRST MAJOR ROCK a very common and the most complete bootleg from this date, I thought it would be a very nice idea to improve it a bit. So I am offering updated versions of the following tracks: CD 1 01. Overture */** 0:55 13. Dragon Attack **/* + Now I'm Here - reprise *** 5:00 CD 2 10. We Are The Champions **/* 3:13 * Source A: Soundboard -> Radio Rivadavia stereo 1/4-inch reel master -> 'Gogo' Safigueroa 90-min cassette (with fades) -> TDK SA90 cassette -> MOTU 24 I/O -> WAV (stereo 94 kHz/24-bit) Local entertainment journalist José María 'Gogo' Safigueroa's 53th birthday was on this day. He attended the concert and later received this cassette as a present. Unfortunately, the sound engineer who made the copy used a 90-minute cassette, so Now I'm Here - reprise and God Save The Queen were cut in order to fit the rest of the audio - also very long fades were applied to the end of Dragon Attack and We Are The Champions. The original reel master has been lost beyond recollection. Sadly, 'Gogo' died last year prior to the QUEEN+Paul Rodgers concert. This 2nd generation recording was provided by a kind collector. ** Source B: FIRST MAJOR ROCK, Gypsy Eye 045/046. Original silver CDs -> WAV (stereo 44.1 kHz/16-bit). This bootleg (as most from this show) comes from a ?th generation copy from the above 'Gogo' cassette, made in the late 80's/early 90's - somewhere somehow the start of the Overture was trimmed a little bit further. *** Source C: Soundboard -> Mono 120-min cassette -> ? -> Rock & Pop FM 2001 special -> WAV (stereo 48 kHz/24-bit) Some cassettes were made during the concert and handled to some media/PR people shortly afterwards - those were complete recordings copied onto 120-minute cassettes but in mono! In 2001, local FM Rock & Pop hosted a special show commemorating the 20th anniversary of the QUEEN concerts in Argentina. A fellow collector provided the radio station with some material that came from an unknown generation copy of one of these mono cassettes. Need Your Loving Tonight, Rock It, Save Me and Now I'm Here+Dragon Attack+Now I'm Here - reprise were broadcasted. I recorded the program using my PC. I extracted the CDs using Exact Audio Copy (EAC) 0.99 pre-beta 4. Editing was performed in Adobe Audition 3.0 (compilation 7283.0). Despite the SA90 cassette not being in top form, I found it was better to use this source for the audio restoration in the fades, specially in We Are The Champions. Encoded in FLAC (stereo 44.1 kHz/16-bit) level 8 using FLAC FrontEnd 1.7.1 Eltree edition. You can replace the corresponding tracks on both CDs with these and they will play seamlessly. Hope you enjoy them! It should be noted that this show was also broadcasted live by Radio Rivadavia, but I was not able to locate a FM version ...yet (I have invincible hope!) Also, a couple of local fans claim to have complete recordings in full stereo, but to this date I still have to hear a sample. As a final note: Fat Bottomed Girls was NOT played at this concert, so the only missing songs are now Get Down, Make Live and God Save The Queen. P.S: Special thanks to Mariano Sucatti. |
| Wilki Amieva 21.06.2009 03:00 |
...I had trouble attaching the file, so I have uploaded it to MediaFire (55.7 MB): link And there you have it! |
| pittrek 21.06.2009 06:19 |
Hi WIlki, thank you very much ! I just want to ask if I understood it correctly - to get the "currently" best available version it's enough to replace the affected tracks with the versions you shared now ? If yes, I have a good tip for my next share :-) |
| Wilki Amieva 21.06.2009 10:48 |
Indeed. I can upload FIRST MAJOR ROCK from the silvers, although I think it is in the 1981 mega torrent. |
| Yara 21.06.2009 10:54 |
Beautiful! Thanks a lot! The gigs in Argentina are among the very best. I love them. Thanks a whole lot! Dragon Attack is so crucial... :op I love the song. Nice job. Thanks a million. Yara |
| cmi 22.06.2009 00:37 |
Thank you very much for these patches! |
| robymacster 22.06.2009 05:19 |
Can you upload the full concert in this new version? |
| Wilki Amieva 22.06.2009 09:44 |
Sorry. Only Need Your Loving Tonight, Rock It, Save Me and Now I'm Here+Dragon Attack+Now I'm Here - reprise were broadcasted. |
| Wilki Amieva 01.07.2009 18:06 |
More improvements coming soon (I just noticed the speech before Love Of My Life is cut in GE disc 2)... |
| The Real Wizard 01.07.2009 19:59 |
Excellent... keep 'em coming! |
| brians wig 02.07.2009 07:06 |
Thanks for these updates. For those of us who are just downright lazy and don't want the hassle of sorting it themselves, May i ask if some kind soul would upload the entire updated concert once it is ready please? Thankyou. |
| pittrek 02.07.2009 07:10 |
brians wig wrote: Thanks for these updates. For those of us who are just downright lazy and don't want the hassle of sorting it themselves, May i ask if some kind soul would upload the entire updated concert once it is ready please? Thankyou. Definitely. |
| pittrek 05.07.2009 09:24 |
Hi Wilki, how is your progress with Love Of My Life ? |
| pittrek 27.07.2009 08:36 |
*bump* |
| The Real Wizard 17.02.2010 12:00 |
Can someone please re-upload these few tracks? I can't seem to locate them on my end. |
| pittrek 17.02.2010 12:36 |
Sir GH wrote: Can someone please re-upload these few tracks? I can't seem to locate them on my end. Any chance YOU have the upgrade of Love Of My Life ? |
| Wilki Amieva 17.02.2010 12:58 |
I will reupload the songs, including Love Of My Life, this Saturday or earlier. |
| pittrek 17.02.2010 13:23 |
Thanks a lot, Wilki |
| Wilki Amieva 20.02.2010 19:15 |
Hello again. CD 1 Improvements: 01. Overture */** 0:55 13. Dragon Attack **/* + Now I'm Here - reprise *** 5:00 link link 35 MB CD 2 Improvements: 01. Love Of My Life */** 4:25 10. We Are The Champions **/* 3:13 link link 47 MB Cheers! |
| pittrek 21.02.2010 05:42 |
Thank you very much, Wilki ! |
| Wilki Amieva 21.02.2010 12:19 |
...And there you have it! |
| Alejandro Siepe 21.02.2010 12:41 |
Thanks Wilki, but I'm afraid there's a problem with the CD2 link, because it says that's only a collector account or something like that, so could you move the link to another public account to allow downloading this file?, thanks in advance for all Wilki, you're great as always! [img=/images/smiley/msn/teeth_smile.gif][/img] |
| The Real Wizard 22.02.2010 12:40 |
Thanks a lot, Wilki ! Both megaupload links worked fine for me. |
| Wilki Amieva 22.02.2010 13:06 |
Glad to hear that. Excellent. |
| Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon 22.02.2010 13:54 |
Thanks a lot for the upgrade! |
| vivaqueen 04.03.2010 16:25 |
MERCI BEAUCOUP |
| FRIPPERTRONIKS 12.11.2010 13:16 |
Hola a todos, les aviso que tengo en un cassette la retransmision del show del 28 de febrero de 1981 completo desde "Death On Two Legs" hasta "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". Que quiero decir con esto : que tengo "Now I'm Here + Dragon Attack + Now I'm Here (reprise)" completo. Esto lo grabe (si mal no recuerdo) dias despues de los shows de Queen en el 81 en Argentina, una tarde de un sabado o un domingo. La grabacion es monoaural, ya que mi radiograbador de entonces ( un Sony muy bueno ) era mono. El sonido es muy bueno, esta grabado en un cassette Hitachi normal, y todavia se escucha excelente, lo comprobe hace unos pocos dias. Quisiera ver si alguno de ustedes se contacta conmigo para pasar a digital estos temas y poder asi completar con lo que hay en la net de este show. Les dejo mi mail: frippertroniks@gmail.com Gracias y saludos a todos. |
| Wilki Amieva 18.11.2010 07:31 |
¡Hola! Contáctame a wilkiamieva@fibertel.com.ar. ¡Gracias y saludos! |
| bokkepoot 25.01.2012 15:12 |
New download-links for this topic: link link |
| DepeX 04.03.2014 12:38 |
Wilki, can you upload the entire 2001 broadcast (Need Your Loving Tonight, Rock It, Save Me, Now I'm Here, Dragon Attack, Now I'm Here -Reprise-) ????? Thanks a lot in advance |