| inu-liger 09.04.2012 04:21 |
QUEEN - IT'S A KINDA MAGIC May 21, 2009 - Jubilee Auditorium Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Recorded on location (in first balcony center) by inu-liger 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 > Edirol R-09 (PCM @ 48/24) w/ a 4GB Elecom Class 4 SDHC memory card > PC via USB > GoldWave (editing out pre-concert/post-concert bits, track-splitting) > WAV > GoldWave (batch downconversion to 44.1/16 > WAV > foobar2000 w/ flac.exe > FLAC Level 8 Quality: EX - SETLIST CD 1 1) Intro 2) A Kind Of Magic 3) Play The Game 4) Killer Queen 5) Radio Ga Ga 6) Another One Bites The Dust 7) Day-Oh 8) Crazy Little Thing Called Love 9) Fat Bottomed Girls 10) Drum Solo 11) One Vision 12) Hammer To Fall 13) Don't Stop Me Now 14) Tie Your Mother Down CD 2 1) A Day At The Races Intro 2) I Want It All 3) Seven Seas Of Rhye 4) In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited 5) It's A Hard Life 6) You're My Best Friend 7) Spread Your Wings 8) I'm In Love With My Car 9) I Want To Break Free 10) Guitar Solo 11) Keep Yourself Alive 12) Under Pressure 13) Somebody To Love 14) We Are The Champions 15) We Will Rock You 16) Encore - Crew Introductions 17) Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) * 18) Dreamer's Ball 19) Love Of My Life 20) Bohemian Rhapsody 21) God Save The Queen *Edited to remove this recorder's song suggestion that'd been yelled out :-) Mediafire FLAC: http://www.mediafire.com/?v79mvn3v9yav5 Enjoy! Do NOT re-upload and share this in lossy MP3 form! MP3's are only for your own personal (ab)use! |
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| Gaabiizz 09.04.2012 10:27 |
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| The Real Wizard 09.04.2012 11:47 |
Is it this band? link If so, then they have another singer, as Craig Pesco is nowhere to be seen on the website. I saw them a few years back, and I was pretty disappointed. Pesco was pretty good, but the rest of the band was mediocre. The guitarist plugged a Les Paul into a Marshall, the bass player did a solo with Beatles and Stones songs, and the drummer looked like he was falling asleep at times. Pesco pretended to play piano (it was such an angle that you couldn't see his hands), and many of the backing vocals were on tape. That said, I met them after the gig and they were very nice guys. |
| john bodega 09.04.2012 12:29 |
I've heard a lot of complaints about this lot. |
| inu-liger 09.04.2012 17:39 |
Yes Bob, same band, same website. I didn't realize Craig wasn't in the lineup anymore, but he was in the line-up at all the 3 shows I've seen them, so it was probably a recent change. |
| inu-liger 09.04.2012 17:46 |
Just checked their website out further...wow, so Dios Salve a la Reina basically took over the whole QIAKOM name?? How the heck did that happen? |
| Rubbersuit 10.04.2012 09:27 |
I've posted before about seeing these guys. My impressions was pretty close to The Real Wizard's. Pesco was great, Guitarist was good but sounded nothing like Brian May, Bass was OK and Drums were gawdawful. |
| inu-liger 10.04.2012 16:00 |
Yeah the drumming is SO stiff, there is no resemblance whatsoever to RT's style! At least Gary Mullen's drummer has somewhat of an idea how RT's style SHOULD sound like |
| guild93 10.04.2012 19:01 |
Pesco and the guys left the organisation (Showtime) once their contracts ended and went out on their own as Showtime are supposedly a 4 million dollar business yes their band members were getting a crap wage by comparison (Sheffield brothers style, how ironic!) . Showtime recently hired the Argentinian Tribute band (they work for low wage by comoparison , given their local economy) and toured them in Oz, I'd rate them much more highly than Pesco and co though. |
| inu-liger 11.04.2012 04:01 |
guild93 wrote: Pesco and the guys left the organisation (Showtime) once their contracts ended and went out on their own as Showtime are supposedly a 4 million dollar business yes their band members were getting a crap wage by comparison (Sheffield brothers style, how ironic!) . Showtime recently hired the Argentinian Tribute band (they work for low wage by comoparison , given their local economy) and toured them in Oz, I'd rate them much more highly than Pesco and co though. You might rate them higher than Pesco & co., but I just found out through some poking around on Facebook that the Oz tour with the new line-up was actually unsuccessful, and punters didn't know what to make of the show and its new line-up - they were actually left wondering what show they were watching, since Showtime were still trying to sell it as the SAME SHOW! @ Zebonka: When you say there have been a lot of complaints about QIAKOM, was this mostly directed at the line-up BEFORE the members' mid-2010 departure, or the new one installed afterwards? |
| john bodega 11.04.2012 06:16 |
Ah - yeah the one I used to hear bad word-of-mouth for was Pesco and co. The South American chaps are better, although from what I was told about their last show here, it wasn't outstanding. |
| inu-liger 11.04.2012 06:21 |
What were the complaints, specifically? |
| john bodega 11.04.2012 13:21 |
For Pesco? Horrible live sound (apparently very harsh and loud). I don't remember too many people being impressed by his Freddie, but this was some years ago and I haven't seen too many videos of him. For the South American guys that are doing it now, I don't know a lot. I heard that the crowd interaction was minimal and that there might've been a bit of playback. Again, I wasn't at the show though. This was passed onto me by someone else. |
| john bodega 11.04.2012 13:23 |
Well here's Pesco. link Doesn't look or sound anything like Freddie! |
| inu-liger 11.04.2012 18:04 |
He's still more Freddie than a lot of pisspoor S. American / Italian bands I've checked out on YouTube. And he's a pretty nice guy, he and the band always took the time to meet and greet the fans after the shows. He probably would sound a bit more like Freddie if his vocal range didn't force him to sing a semitone lower |
| john bodega 11.04.2012 23:11 |
"he's a pretty nice guy" I'm sure he is .. but he's a terrible Freddie, if the criteria is 'look or sound like Freddie Mercury'. If he wasn't dressed up like him, I wouldn't be able to tell what he's doing. |
| Gregsynth 11.04.2012 23:14 |
Gary Mullen is the best Freddie sound-alike! |
| john bodega 12.04.2012 02:29 |
I think they cover different areas. Gary (when his voice isn't shot ..) is pretty powerful and he has a lot of the mid-80's articulation down. The Queen for a Day guy is probably who I'd go to for the 70's approach. The bloke I play with (Tom Crane) has a great range and excellent control. Sometimes (moreso during soundcheck when he's doing impromptu stuff) it's actually spooky to listen to. There are good singers doing Queen in other countries, but I tend not to bother with them because their accents are frankly hard to listen to. I know they're doing the best they can, but yeah. |
| Gregsynth 12.04.2012 02:43 |
I'm pretty much with you on that: Gary's got the 80s stuff down (especially the mid 80s stuff), and Gregory Finsley (Queen For A Day and Queen Nation), is the man for the 70s stuff! |
| Rubbersuit 17.04.2012 14:39 |
I only know that when I saw Pesco he was very good (and I'm pretty picky). My wife was blown away - but she's not as much of a Queen purist as me. I don't think anyone has got it down like Gary Mullen though. He's the only guy I'd pay to see at this point. |
| john bodega 18.04.2012 02:21 |
"when I saw Pesco he was very good" Was it some kind of golden age before people knew how to record him? I dunno. He seems like a nice guy from what I've heard people say when they've met him, and he's not even a bad singer - but he's nothing like Freddie in any way. |