Queen
Puebla, Mexico
Estadio Olimpico de beisbol Ignacio Zaragoza
October 17, 1981
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01) soundcheck
Previously uncirculated, this is a longer copy of the Puebla 81 soundcheck, with Mercury and co. delivering a blistering version of Rock It, followed by a partly instrumental take of I'm In Love With My Car.
A previous version had circulated with Under Pressure, but with some severe hiss reduction applied. The recording, while still not great, is at least untampered with.
Thanks to Kamenliter for the tape !
Total length - 7:38 link
Enjoy, and keep it lossless!
This is a similar run-through that, on the same tour, was ridiculed in the Rolling Stone profile from that year. Here's the writer's assessment:
Up onstage, Queen – lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor – is rehearsing "Rock It (Prime Jive)," a track off The Game. And it sounds simply awful. The acoustics are horrendous in the 3500-seat stadium: there's a thirty-second delay as the music drifts across the length of the field and reverberates off the scoreboard. Nor does the band's musicianship seem inspired. The rhythm section is sloppy and sluggish; May's guitar playing is limited to heavy-metal/hard-rock clichés and patented, though by now boring, harmonic lead breaks; Mercury's singing is lackadaisical and without conviction.
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Daniel Nester wrote:
This is a similar run-through that, on the same tour, was ridiculed in the Rolling Stone profile from that year. Here's the writer's assessment:
Up onstage, Queen – lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor – is rehearsing "Rock It (Prime Jive)," a track off The Game. And it sounds simply awful. The acoustics are horrendous in the 3500-seat stadium: there's a thirty-second delay as the music drifts across the length of the field and reverberates off the scoreboard. Nor does the band's musicianship seem inspired. The rhythm section is sloppy and sluggish; May's guitar playing is limited to heavy-metal/hard-rock clichés and patented, though by now boring, harmonic lead breaks; Mercury's singing is lackadaisical and without conviction.
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First of all, thanks to all the people who got this!, it's just simply amazing and I have no words about it!.
By the way, at the end of the soundcheck we can hear a little riff coming off Brian's guitar that sounds just like the initial part of 'It's Late' or well, sort of some 'Put Out The Fire' maybe?.
If you listen carefully to Under Pressure, we can aprreciate the last 'speeding part' that Rog introduces to the song, sounds interesting! and that means what was Queen capable of, such wonderful music it will never be missed and always keep it in people's lives and their hearts!