ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN WITH GARY MULLEN AND THE WORKS
"Drink Your Body Weight In Queen"
State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
April 7th, 2012 link
Lineage (TSS_Killer): Lineage: Live sound output > Sound Professionals SP-BMC-2 mini binaural microphones w/ SP-EMC-1 croakie mounts > Microphone Madness MM-CBM-Mini miniature battery module > Roland R-05 (PCM @ 96/24) w/ a CoreMicro 32GB Class 10 SDHC Card > PC via USB > Reaper > FLAC
Lineage (inu-liger): FLAC > foobar2000 > WAV > Goldwave (volume normalization, fade in/out, CD tracklist timing) > WAVE > foobar2000 (with down-conversion to 44.1/16) > FLAC (Level 8)
Quality: Excellent
Recorded on location by TSS_Killer
Balcony Center Section, approx. 50ft from the stage, center view
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SETLIST
(CD 1)
One Vision
Seven Seas Of Rhye
Liar (teaser)
A Kind Of Magic
Under Pressure
Somebody To Love
Day-Oh
Another One Bites The Dust (incorporating "Staying Power", "Good Times", "Impromptu")
Killer Queen
Bicycle Race
You're My Best Friend
Guitar Solo
Brighton Rock (reprise)
Don't Stop Me Now
(CD 2)
Flash
The Hero (teaser)
Now I'm Here
Keep Yourself Alive
Drum Solo / Keep Yourself Alive (reprise)
Fat Bottomed Girls
Love Of My Life
Jailhouse Rock
Bohemian Rhapsody
Radio Ga Ga
Acoustic Guitar Improv / Banter
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen
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Inu forgot to mention that the runtime was 1hr 40min. (forgot to give the info to him...I was dead tired when I came home). One of Jonathan Evans drumsticks flew out of his hand during Keep Yourself Alive iirc. Gary came out with a Rutgers cap during Dust (as one of Rutgers main campuses is about 1/2 mile away). Gary was also poking fun of the two security guards in the front throughout the night. Awesome show...Gary is magical...that's all that needs to be said.
He really sounds past his use-by date during One Vision. Guitarist isn't much of a Brian, although he's a fantastic player in his own right by the sound of things. The fast runs in A Kind of Magic are very well executed! The singing picks up a bit for Magic although it's still sounding like he's got the flu, or something.
Skimmed through the rest of the tracks. It sounds like it'd be a fun night out, at any rate. He doesn't sound as spookily accurate as I've seen him on Youtube, I'm assuming he's either sick or tired.
Cheers for the upload!
Gary sounded a touch rough for the first five songs (he did have a throat infection a couple of weeks ago). The rest of the gig is fine. Gary seriously knows all Freddie's phrasing techniques, which is why he's one of the best out there. He's quite a showman too.
Also to note...this is his 4th night in a row, so it's no surprise he sounds a bit rough.
Gary's been suffering with some vocal problems throughout the 2012 performances. He's been doing A LOT of shows lately, and often doing 4-5 nights in a row! When I saw him in Saginaw (Temple Theatre), he had a throat infection (his timbre sounded more like Works Tour Freddie from 1984--and was pretty conservative on the higher range), but he still pulled off a great performance!
At the end of the show, he was signing autographs! He's an awesome guy, and we had a glass of chardonnay wine together! haha
am i the only one who thinks hes absolute shite? im from glasgow and seen him live and to be honest i would rather drink battery acid than listen to this mug again :(
Everyone's entitled to their own opinions. Personally, I think he's a VERY good singer, and he certainly ranks much higher than the fellows from Queen - It's A Kinda Magic (who perform the majority of their setlist a semitone down and even then can't hold the tuning down to a T)
Zebonka12 wrote:
Guitarist isn't much of a Brian, although he's a fantastic player in his own right by the sound of things. The fast runs in A Kind of Magic are very well executed!
Yup, bang on.
Whenever I hear Gary sing, I just wonder how much better it'd sound if he had a band that actually sounded like Queen. A bunch of guys playing Queen songs with the right notes is definitely not the same thing as guys who have intimately studied the styles of Brian, Roger and John. The rest of the band definitely have not done their homework like Gary has.
Thanks for the upload. Funny how Gary, after mastering every single nuance of Freddie phrasing and timbre, now also seems to have picked up his throat problems and found the same workarounds during live shows. I guess there is such a thing as singing too much like Freddie after all.
I think Gary has studied not only the official material, but I think Gary has also been looking at the unofficial material as well: At my show, he was doing the same exact phrasing on songs as Freddie did on stuff like Stuttgart 1984, Milan 1984, Vienna 1984, and some Magic Tour shows. When I was getting his autograph, he mentionedstuff like "listening to lots of audio concerts from Queen" and then talked a bit about the Works Tour.
Gary's a huge fan of Queen/Freddie, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was looking at the unofficial material!
