| musicland munich 31.01.2014 19:50 |
Hi, here is a german report of the New Orleans 1978 show (Helloween) QUEEN: The Show - The Party The hall is filled with fans in crazy outfits and they are waiting for the gig. Crazy outfits ? Yes, because the third day of their USA-QUEEN-Tour was datet on Helloween. But that wasn't the only reason why this night turned into a special one. The Band itself made it special ! I saw the best Queen performance ever. Again they do the two hour show without any support act. But they do it in a fascinating manner- the show got more tempo/speed and the quality of the performance was much better than last year - back then their show had some weaker spots. QUEEN startet the show with a new and quicker version of "We will rock you"...as the music starts, a huge lightning rig with colourfull lamps appeared on top of the stage. Short after you could hear the roar of thunder and the stage covered with fog - Freddie Mercury jumped on the stage - dressed in shining black pants and a black shining jacket. "If you can't beat them, join them" a song from their new LP "Jazz" was next - an uptempo tune that Freddie performed on the piano. From that spot on the piano he startet the song "Somebody to love"...the audience honors that with a loud applause. The Production invented a new "light-trick" Roger Taylor is sitting with his drum kit on a couple of stairs where they build in huge light spots, That was used at some highlight moments during the gig. But the band didn't waste any time - so they were performing straight on. "Get down, make love","Bicycle race" and "You make me live"... At both sides of the stage were huge platforms, Freddie used them for artistic reasons and to create a more unique feeling with the fans. During the song "Spread your wings " a third platform comes from above- on that new platform ( four microphones, drum kit and two guitars) they performed a blues that was dedicadet to New Orleans, and "Love of my life"...at the first notes of "It's late" that extra platform dissapeared. "We're gonna boogie now" said Freddie, and Roger and Brian had a very long "musical shoot out". Then - the song that is dedicated to all the girls with a bigger butt -was next."Fat bottomed girls" and right after that the highlight "Bohemian Rhapsody"...Meanwhile Freddie changed his dress, and he came back with a red shining suit with short pants. At the end of the show QUEEN played "Tie your mother down" After they left the stage, the enthusiastic crowd gives applause for several minutes. Freddie( now with a silver mask) walks back on the stage for the encore..to play their Hit from last year "We are the champions" The after show party takes place at the "Fairmont Hotel". Sharp dressed gogo girls doing lap dances and even Freddie himself was seen on the dancefloor with one of those girls at around 02.30 am in the morning. That Queen Party became subject of a lot of chats in New Orleans the next day. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ |
| musicland munich 31.01.2014 19:51 |
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| CERATOPHRYS 01.02.2014 01:08 |
Thank you!! |
| Stelios 01.02.2014 03:04 |
What song is "You make me live" ? |
| Stelios 01.02.2014 03:06 |
Stelios wrote: What song is "You make me live" ?Ohhh...perhaps he ment " You're my best friend" |
| crazy duck 01.02.2014 03:07 |
I like how they called "your my best friend" "you make me live". Interesting how they say the performance the year before had weak spots. It would be interesting to know what parts came across as weak! Nice find!!! |
| The Real Wizard 01.02.2014 03:29 |
Interesting - If You Can't Beat Them is the second song. They were experimenting early in the tour with the setlist. And at last, a confirmed date of Freddie wearing his mask. Thanks for the translation ! |
| little foetus 01.02.2014 04:32 |
If the guy does not know You're My Best Friend, he might have mixed up Let Me Entertain You with If You Can"t Beat Them. |
| thomasquinn 32989 01.02.2014 05:37 |
The Real Wizard wrote: Interesting - If You Can't Beat Them is the second song. They were experimenting early in the tour with the setlist. And at last, a confirmed date of Freddie wearing his mask. Thanks for the translation !I wonder what that "blues dedicated to New Orleans" was. The 'average' setlist for that tour puts it in the place of "Dreamer's Ball", but that's hardly a blues, is it? |
| LucasDiego 01.02.2014 08:19 |
A really crazy party!! |
| noorie 01.02.2014 09:40 |
Thanks so much for sharing that. Very interesting! Is there somewhere I can see a pic of Freddie with the mask? I don't believe I have ever seen it. |
| Lord Gaga 01.02.2014 09:44 |
little foetus wrote: If the guy does not know You're My Best Friend, he might have mixed up Let Me Entertain You with If You Can"t Beat Them.He does specifically mention that Freddie sat at the piano for Beat Them, something he didn't do for Let Me Entertain You. |
| The Real Wizard 01.02.2014 11:37 |
noorie wrote: Thanks so much for sharing that. Very interesting! Is there somewhere I can see a pic of Freddie with the mask? I don't believe I have ever seen it.Here's one, from this show, in fact.. |
| noorie 01.02.2014 12:06 |
Thank you so much! I had not seen that one before.... But I much prefer seeing Freddie's entire face! :) |
| musicland munich 01.02.2014 13:30 |
First of all...Of course this is the reporters point of view...not my personal -Me- I wasn't there... -The setlist is not complete in the article...maybe the reporter was interestet in having a good story. -the original writer doesn't need to be a QUEEN-Fan -blues / Dreamers ball...I didnt know the gig as an audio source, but both is possible...because of the status of New Orleans to the music world, Queen maybe decided to do something special. ( remember Tokyo-blues in 85'- this was labelt different on some bootlegs) -maybe it simply was "Dreamers ball" and they turned it into a more" blusy number" |
| The Real Wizard 01.02.2014 18:19 |
musicland munich wrote: -The setlist is not complete in the article...maybe the reporter was interestet in having a good story.Exactly. ( remember Tokyo-blues in 85'- this was labelt different on some bootlegs)Yeah, this is because Freddie used the words "Rock In Rio blues" during the improv at the second Rio show. But it still isn't blues. It was a two chord sequence with mostly falsetto vocals. People then just started labeling similar jams from other 1985-86 shows as Tokyo blues, Leiden blues, etc. -maybe it simply was "Dreamers ball" and they turned it into a more" blusy number"I highly doubt they changed it. It was only the third performance, so they were just getting comfortable with the song. |
| musicland munich 02.02.2014 00:42 |
Another concert report ( native english) from that gig ..interesting...seems like they have added some more songs from the "Jazz" album on that night...so the experimenting theory could be true. |
| The Real Wizard 02.02.2014 01:59 |
musicland munich wrote: Another concert report ( native english) from that gig ..interesting...seems like they have added some more songs from the "Jazz" album on that night...so the experimenting theory could be true.Thanks for posting all this great stuff. The article is actually from the fourth week of November, as evidenced by the Buffalo show [on Nov 28] being on the following Tuesday night. It's a few weeks into the tour now, and the writer is just doing some guesswork about the upcoming Buffalo show, assuming more new songs will be added by this point in the tour. But the reality is - the setlist hadn't changed at all, other than shifting around the running order of a few songs. |
| thomasquinn 32989 02.02.2014 06:35 |
musicland munich wrote: -blues / Dreamers ball...I didnt know the gig as an audio source, but both is possible...because of the status of New Orleans to the music world, Queen maybe decided to do something special. ( remember Tokyo-blues in 85'- this was labelt different on some bootlegs) -maybe it simply was "Dreamers ball" and they turned it into a more" blusy number"The thing is, New Orleans doesn't hold any special status with regards to blues - for blues, you'd have to travel either east to Mississippi and Alabama, west to Texas or north to Missouri and Tennessee. New Orleans and the surrounding area doesn't fit in with the rest of the Deep South - it's a southern city, but not a Southern city. It's jazz country, and on a related note, jazz didn't touch those Miss/Ala, Tex, Mo/Tenn blues-regions until fairly recently (quite a while after WWII). Queen did once touch upon the New Orleans-vein with Big Bad Leroy Brown, so they were at least a little familiar with that. I don't know what they played, I'm intrigued, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't Dreamer's Ball, going by the description. Getting a title wrong (calling YMBF "You Make Me Live", which is a line from the chorus after all) is still a ways away from mistaking DB for a blues. |
| sgs8789 02.02.2014 11:03 |
I was the New Orleans 1978 Halloween show and the set list pretty much followed what was on "Live Killers" with the exceptions being they played It's Late and Somebody to Love, If You Can't Beat them etc. Think the writer of the article mixed up a few things and probably wasn't very familiar with the band and/or they're shows. They did play their acoustic set which included '39, Dreamers Ball and Love of My Life. Saw them on Dec 16, 1978 also, in Oakland, and it was the same show/set list. Thought they were great at both shows. I was 16 years old at the time and I distinctly remember sitting next to a lady in her mid 20's at the Oakland show who said she worked for Chrysalis Records and one of the things she said was that she hoped Queen didn't get any bigger than they already were or they would have to lose that uniqueness that was so prevalent on their first six albums, through News Of The World. |
| musicland munich 02.02.2014 12:59 |
Thank you for your informations.. I was wondering about the english article...I really should have a look at the date...:) Now it makes much more sense to me. On that blues thing...I was assuming a standard 12 bar blues because of the german report ( should have been an easy thing for professional musicians)...of course I know about New Orleans as a more "Jazzy" city. The reason because I am posting things like this . I am assuming that informations about shows/interviews etc. exsist, but they are spreaded all over the world. I would like to have a more complete picture. |
| The Real Wizard 02.02.2014 17:52 |
Well, please keep them coming ! |
| The Real Wizard 02.02.2014 17:56 |
sgs8789 wrote: I was the New Orleans 1978 Halloween show and the set list pretty much followed what was on "Live Killers" with the exceptions being they played It's Late and Somebody to Love, If You Can't Beat them etc. Think the writer of the article mixed up a few things and probably wasn't very familiar with the band and/or they're shows. They did play their acoustic set which included '39, Dreamers Ball and Love of My Life. Saw them on Dec 16, 1978 also, in Oakland, and it was the same show/set list. Thought they were great at both shows. I was 16 years old at the time and I distinctly remember sitting next to a lady in her mid 20's at the Oakland show who said she worked for Chrysalis Records and one of the things she said was that she hoped Queen didn't get any bigger than they already were or they would have to lose that uniqueness that was so prevalent on their first six albums, through News Of The World.Boy, did she ever see things in her crystal ball, didn't she ? Thanks for posting your memories - great stuff. |
| Apocalipsis_Darko 03.02.2014 06:37 |
"I was one of the journalists the band flew out to New Orleans and installed in the Fairmont Hotel. I remember that in my room - and presumably everyone else's- was an ice bucket in which sat a bottle of champagne, with a carnival mask hanging from its neck. It was Halloween. Downstairs, a huge ballroom had been transformed into what looked some medieval royal banquet - huge long tables heaving with pyramids Cajun food - shrimps, oysters. But being allergic to shellfish, I couldn't eat anything, so my intake that night was liquid, and since the liquid of the night was champagne - and every time you turned around there was a waitress or a waiter, formally dressed, offering more champagne - things did get a little blurry… These things I do remember. A New Orleans funeral band marching in from the street and playing the band into the ballroom. Dwarves carrying silver trays - some say there was coke on it, which I can't confirm or deny, but I wouldn't be surprised. And strippers of every shape, colour, sexual orientation and size. That was right near the start of my life as a rock writer, and in the 35 years since I've never been to another album launch party like it". This an answer Sylvie Simmons gave me about that party. |
| The Real Wizard 04.02.2014 23:34 |
Apocalipsis_Darko wrote: Dwarves carrying silver trays - some say there was coke on it, which I can't confirm or deny, but I wouldn't be surprised. And strippers of every shape, colour, sexual orientation and size. That was right near the start of my life as a rock writer, and in the 35 years since I've never been to another album launch party like it". This an answer Sylvie Simmons gave me about that party.And what an answer ! Thanks for that. |
| Apocalipsis_Darko 05.02.2014 16:21 |
Always a pleasure Mr. Zappa ;) |
| musicland munich 01.09.2014 23:43 |
Oh God...I'am really getting lazy :) |
| musicland munich 01.09.2014 23:47 |
...II.... |