| Leonardo Venegas 21.02.2010 20:34 |
Queen Boston Garden Boston Mass Feb 9th 1977 Here it is the link from dimeadozen!!! http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=291365&viewcomm=3824166#comm3824166 Taken from dimeadozen: Don’t read this if you hate stories. I was asked to put this up by many folks. Sound quality is much better than I remembered. This was one of those nights where I was mixing a little smoke, girls, and taping. The girl I’m with decides to take a couple of qualudes while she and her friends were in the ladies room….so she is useless. I get into the Boston Garden and the row I have tickets for (14th row I think) is now the 1st row. I mean right at the edge of the stage. I cannot even see the stage, it’s too high. Queen has extended the stage out into the floor area. My seat is right in the corner where the original stage ends and the extension begins. There is a huge commotion in this area because people are pissed about where they are sitting. You are being escorted to about midway on the floor of the Garden, where folding chairs have been set up for everyone. I decide to stay with my 1st row seats. Thin Lizzy has begun their set. I try and set up to record but between the usher and the people trying to figure out what has happened, things are very difficult. So I capture the end of the Thin Lizzy set sitting in my seat. The Queen intro starts and I begin recording. I try and stand on my seat but the usher cautions me to sit down (you will hear him say this several times on the tape). So I record the first 2 songs from my seat again. About midway thru ‘White Queen’ everyone stands and there isn’t much the usher can do except to say “sit down”. I stand up holding my microphone (which I had painted black a few weeks earlier). The trouble is I can just barely see the top of the stage and the cable to my microphone is pulled taut. This causes one of the channels to cut out intermittently. After ‘Bring Back That Leroy Brown’ I sat down and changed cassettes, picked up the TC152 recording deck and put it on my seat. Then I stood on the arm rests in order to get higher than stage level and started recording. At this height, the sound off the stage was fabulous. I stayed there for most off the show, but my mic cord was still taut, so I still ended up getting an intermittent channel/noise issue. To make matters worse, some guy jumped into my seat when I tried to move the deck. As I yelled at him to get back, I ended up accidentally turning the VU Meter lights on, which caused the batteries to drain quickly. So though I was holding my mic after ‘Liar’, I just wasn’t taping anything. One other thing: something odd happened. I was standing on the arm rests; this would have been midway through the show. I am holding my mic as high as I can. Freddie comes over to my corner of the stage while singing. It was strange. I’m holding a mic and Freddie is only 20-30ft from me and he is holding a mic. I know he looked over in my direction which caused me to pull the mic towards my chest. I can’t explain it. It was an odd feeling. So many things went wrong at this show, and my deck got crushed and cracked that I almost went back to taping FM broadcasts and thought about giving up trying to do anything at the Boston Garden. ' I used Goldwav to fix the channel dropouts. However I left the intermittent mic cable blips in as I am not as proficient as others and didn’t want to butcher this recording (which was butchered already). This recording is coming from my reels as I no longer have the original cassettes in my possession. Queen Boston Garden, Boston Mass Feb 9th 1977 Audience Recording (Incomplete) Total Time: 80:35 1. Overture 2. Tie Your Mother Down 3. Ogre Battle 4. White Queen 5. Somebody to Love (Channel Drops out-switch to mono briefly) Medley: 6. Killer Queen-> 7. The Millionaire Waltz-> 8. You're My Best Friend-> 9. Bring Back That Leroy Brown Cassette Flip before Champaigne toast 10.Sweet Lady 11.Brighton Rock-> Guitar Solo-> Brighton Rock(Reprise) 12.' 39 (Channel Drops out-mono almost entire song) Cassette Flip 13.You Take My Breath Away 14.White Man 15.Bohemian Rhapsody 16.Stone Cold Crazy (Speed issues??) 17.Keep Yourself Alive (Speed issues??) 18.Liar (Speed issues??) Audience Recording: Extended stage 1st row far right Recorded on a (2) Maxell UD90's w/ Sony TC-152 Portable Cassette Deck / Tape Position 'Normal' / Dolby 'B' in using Sony ECM-99A (hand held one point stereo mic) Playback: Sony TC-152 Cassette Deck / Tape Position 'Normal' / Dolby 'B' out --> / Revox B-77 (Maxell UD35-90 7 1/2 ips) / Tascam CD-RW2000 --> EAC --> Goldwav --> FLAC 8 Heads were aligned for optimum playback. As with all Digital releases, this is for free trade or blank media trade only. Not to be bought or sold. Keep the spirit of trading alive and well. Nothing has been edited out or EQ'd!! Hezekiahx2 Thanks to hezekiahx2 who uploaded this torrent to dimeadozen!!! Cheers everyone!!! |
| Marknow 21.02.2010 20:36 |
Dime is open for new members at the moment, be quick though... link Some mp3 samples too. Tie Your Mother Down |
| Marknow 21.02.2010 20:38 |
Somebody to Love |
| Marknow 21.02.2010 20:39 |
You're My Best friend |
| Marknow 21.02.2010 20:40 |
You Take My Breath Away |
| Marknow 21.02.2010 20:40 |
A piece of Bohemian Rhapsody |
| The Real Wizard 21.02.2010 22:40 |
This is absolutely superb! If necessary, I'll share a remaster here, as the taper said a bit more work could be done on it. We shall see.. |
| pittrek 22.02.2010 02:06 |
So I've spent last 3 days clicking on dime's search button every 5 minutes and he shares it when I'm back at work :-) What is the sound quality ? |
| stark 22.02.2010 06:38 |
Sir GH wrote: This is absolutely superb! If necessary, I'll share a remaster here, as the taper said a bit more work could be done on it. We shall see.. I'm sure there's some tidying that could be done but sadly there's not much room for sonic improvement. This is one of those where it is what it is - best suggestion is to turn down the bass a little when you play it. A little touch somewhere around 200Hz ought to do it.... |
| The Real Wizard 22.02.2010 17:40 |
I actually like the extra bit of bottom end, as it feels like you're in the concert hall. The atmosphere on the recording is just excellent. |
| Nordico 23.02.2010 04:32 |
Until now I have found dropouts in Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Brighton Rock, intro '39. Fixed this with nero wave editor by coping the right channel into the left and then with stereo broadening try to fix the stereo effect. It is not perfect but at least the dropouts are gone and it absolute sounds better. Stereo issue's are mainly in Somebody To Love, Brighton Rock and '39, again with stereo broadening tried to make the difference a little less...it is better but I am not satisfied. Tried to fix the speed error at the end of Liar, but there's not much to do there. Finally cut down the bass around 200 hz as proposed by Stark. Maybe somebody can do this with proffesional equipment? It's absolutely worth it! Hey sit down people!! [img=/images/smiley/msn/thumbs_up.gif][/img] |
| lambrotz 23.02.2010 07:41 |
Great Leonardo!!! Thank you for this. Now it would be great to have a copy from master also for the 8mm video :-)) |
| A Word In Your Ear 23.02.2010 09:02 |
Nordico wrote: Until now I have found dropouts in Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Brighton Rock, intro '39. Fixed this with nero wave editor by coping the right channel into the left and then with stereo broadening try to fix the stereo effect. It is not perfect but at least the dropouts are gone and it absolute sounds better. Stereo issue's are mainly in Somebody To Love, Brighton Rock and '39, again with stereo broadening tried to make the difference a little less...it is better but I am not satisfied. Tried to fix the speed error at the end of Liar, but there's not much to do there. Finally cut down the bass around 200 hz as proposed by Stark. Maybe somebody can do this with proffesional equipment? It's absolutely worth it! Hey sit down people!! [img=/images/smiley/msn/thumbs_up.gif][/img] THANKS!!! Leonardo for sharing this, you're a star. :-) Nordico, is there any chance of you uploading you remastered version. :-) |
| Nordico 23.02.2010 11:57 |
Of course It's no problem for me, but first of all I will upload here some examples. When you like it, since It always has to do with personal taste, I will upload the rest as a seperate share. Things I have tried to fix: missing stereo effect and dropouts in Somebody To Love around 39 - 44 sec, 1 min and 4,02. cut down the bass around 200 Hz. |
| Nordico 23.02.2010 12:11 |
Example 2: Somebody To Love The first one was "White Queen" by the way |
| Nordico 23.02.2010 12:27 |
Example 3: You Take My Breath Away (Final one) |
| joesilvey 23.02.2010 13:00 |
Nordico - love the tweaks... please upload your remaster!! many thanks [img=link |
| The Real Wizard 23.02.2010 13:56 |
Sounds great! Note that the tape is a bit slow for the bulk of the show, speeds up a little bit by BoRhap where it's correct for 3 songs, and is a bit too quick by Liar, which is usually what happens when the battery is running out. Maybe you can correct this too ?? |
| last-horizon 42265 23.02.2010 15:49 |
Guys, I need some help. I am downloading at 225Kb/s but uploading at only 0.2Kb/s. I am trying to find info on how to fix this but I can't find anything in the Dime FAQ or Wiki. Could please someone tell me how to seed with a decent speed? Thanks a lot! |
| The Real Wizard 23.02.2010 23:03 |
It's a firewall issue, my friend. I've been trying to solve the problem for years, too. Some sites I can upload quickly to, but others I can't. |
| Nordico 24.02.2010 04:44 |
Ok! I'm working on it! |
| junge bizarr 24.02.2010 06:54 |
I have problems to seed this. Could anyone upload it in rapidshare, please! |
| tonyyy 30.04.2010 06:27 |
Thank you! Tony My webpage: link |
| tassilo 01.05.2010 06:25 |
Thanks! |
