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QUEEN
Budokan
Tokyo, Japan
April 13, 1979
Contrast clause - this is a different source than this one already seeded on Dime: link
Complete recording of the 1st concert of the japanese leg of the Jazz tour.
It doesn't sound as good as the Tarantura bootleg, but it's the whole show.
It's definitely Mercury's best show of the Japanese tour, before his voice went south.
AUD -> master cassette -> ? -> CDR (x) -> WAV -> FLAC
CD 1
01) We Will Rock You (fast version)
02) Let Me Entertain You
03) Somebody to Love
04) Fat Bottomed Girls
05) Death On Two Legs/Killer Queen/Bicycle Race/I'm In Love With My Car
06) Get Down Make Love
07) You're my Best Friend
08) Now I'm Here
09) Don't Stop Me Now
10) Spread Your Wings
11) Dreamers Ball
12) Love of my Life
CD 2
01) '39
02) It's Late
03) Brighton Rock
04) Keep Yourself Alive
05) Bohemian Rhapsody
06) Tie Your Mother Down
07) Sheer Heart Attack
08) We Will Rock You
09) We Are the Champions
10) God Save The Queen
That month off definitely gave him a boost that was sadly very short lived. We will rock you
fast had some impressive adlibs. I also liked keep yourself alive and fat bottomed girls as well as the first half of the now I'm here improv.
NastyQueenie74 wrote:
That month off definitely gave him a boost that was sadly very short lived. We will rock you
fast had some impressive adlibs. I also liked keep yourself alive and fat bottomed girls as well as the first half of the now I'm here improv.
Indeed - the first few nights of the tour are good, but it's downhill from there.
This show is excellent. BoRhap definitely is Mercury's best of the Live Killers era.
NastyQueenie74 wrote:
That month off definitely gave him a boost that was sadly very short lived. We will rock you
fast had some impressive adlibs(the b4 at the start made me do a double take). I also liked keep yourself alive and fat bottomed girls as well as the first half of the now I'm here improv.
Holy crap! I just went through the whole concert, and it's hard to believe this was from the Japan leg! And personally, I like the sound better than Tarantura.
NastyQueenie74 wrote:
That month off definitely gave him a boost that was sadly very short lived. We will rock you
fast had some impressive adlibs. I also liked keep yourself alive and fat bottomed girls as well as the first half of the now I'm here improv.
Indeed - the first few nights of the tour are good, but it's downhill from there.
This show is excellent. BoRhap definitely is Mercury's best of the Live Killers era.
In my opinion, only the first night is a nice night for Mercury from beginning to end.
I remember the second night has a nice start but by Boh Rhap (which is probably one of his worst renditions of this song), it is really hard for him.
Well, then, the two nights in Osaka are not bad at all (but still very far from NOTW and Crazy Tour) but the end of the tour makes you wonder why they did not cancel some shows to rest his voice.
4/13 is easily Freddie's best Japanese 1979 performance. Not only is his tone intact, but just about every performance on that show beats performances from the European Live Killers Tour. He does creative conservative phrasing on songs and doesn't sound he's struggling to sing for the most part (unlike most of the other Japanese shows).
Killer_queenIII wrote:
Holy crap! I just went through the whole concert, and it's hard to believe this was from the Japan leg! And personally, I like the sound better than Tarantura.
I tried my best to clean it up and minimize the effects of the compression, making it less hard on the ears. I'll post it soon, and you can let me know what you think.