Don't know if this has been shared before, but if it was - this one is probably more complete as it includes various interviews etc done at the time.
Artist: Queen/SAS Band
Date: April 30, 2002
Venue: Museumplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Line-up:
Brian May - lead guitar, vocals
Roger Taylor - drums, vocals
Jamie Moses - guitar, backing vocals
Spike Edney - keyboards, backing vocals
Eric Singer - drums
Steve Barnacle - bass
Fabba Whores - backing vocals
Patti Russo - vocals on 3 tracks (Under Pressure, Dust, Show)
Trijntje Oosterhuis - vocals on 1 track (Champions)
Tracklist:
Queen's Day Intro
Interview at Schiphol Airport
Interview at Museumplein
Soundcheck (Snippets)
SBS6 Interview
MTV Interview
Introduction
Radio Ga Ga
Tie Your Mother Down
Another One Bites The Dust
Under Pressure
Hammer to Fall
The Show Must Go On
No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
Queen's Day Outro
Lineage:
I recorded this from my VHS-tape which was taken directly from the TV-broadcast. Don't know the exact lineage, as it's almost 9 years ago I did the transfer, but it's probably very similar to this:
TV-broadcast > VHS-tape > Minidisc > Cool Edit Pro > Silver CD-R > xACT > FLAC(8)
The extra's aren't that interesting, but it's nice to have it all together on one disc. Such a shame that 9 years later they are still shamelessly plugging the musical on every opportunity they get. Enjoy :)
There indeed was a promo-cd, which was available through Heineken in the weeks after the event for a small price. This cd-rom however did not include the whole concert (only 25 minutes, Ga Ga / Pressure / Dust / Show / Champions I think). And as this disc is no longer available, nor widely sold I doubt it would be much of a problem?
True. And I think it was a very limited release, which makes it even more difficult to get a hold of. I just wanted to point out that there was a release.
Hopefully this won't be a problem for "the powers that be".
V.
I have that CD-ROM from Heineken. A Dutch friend of an ex girlfriend offered to gather and mail the Heineken beer labels (or whatever you had to do to get that CD) and then send it to me.
Many months later, maybe a year, I got the CD in the mail. I had forgotten about it, actually.
I think the CD has Quicktime videos with not too good quality. I remember thinking it looked crappy compared to the one I downloaded from the Internet the day after the event, which was sourced from the TV broadcast.
I don't remember seeing one of those on eBay. Any idea how much that CD-ROM is worth these days?
Looking back at this show though, it has to be said this is one of the worst post-Freddie concerts (not counting small one-off performances consisting of just 1-5 songs) Queen ever did. Brian's voice is shot and at times he seems unfocused, the energy is very lacking and overall everybody doesn't seem inspired but instead rather bored. I sat through this DVD recently, and I almost felt sick to my stomach just grimacing at the whole thing by the end of it!
On the plus side though, we got the 2nd (and to date last ever) performance of "No-One But You" as performed by Brian and Roger together.
Yeah, I wonder what non-fans thought of it... It was my first time I saw Roger (I also saw Brian in 1998 at Utrecht) and the whole excitement that there would suddenly be a "Queen"-concert in my country made it an awesome day... Unbelievable that less than three years later they were touring the world and performing better than ever. To be fair, it was very cold that day, lots of wind and rain - so can't really blame the guys for not being on top of their game.
Pim Derks wrote:
Yeah, I wonder what non-fans thought of it... It was my first time I saw Roger (I also saw Brian in 1998 at Utrecht) and the whole excitement that there would suddenly be a "Queen"-concert in my country made it an awesome day...
Same feeling here. I had only had 2 hours of sleep or so (partying night before) but the whole day was fucking great.
It's good evidence that they are on the right track now. If this had been the 'Queen' we see now - a very bloated touring family entertainment cheesy format - the brand would've been damaged.