| brENsKi 05.10.2004 17:39 |
this tour has been slammed in the past as being one of their worst. but i loved it:- 1. freddie really interacted with the audience 2. the stageset was the best queen set ever 3. the jukebox medley of older hits (perhaps the inspiration for their liveaid idea) 4. it was also queen's last BIG tour in medium-sized non-stadium venues - ie - i got to see them in my local town, and it felt more personal 5. oh yeah and lastly - i was luck enough to see them because they added another date (2/9/84) and Birmingham really rocked that night!!! |
| jericho05 05.10.2004 18:04 |
I would suspect that anyone who saw a show on the Works tour would defend it. You were lucky to see them live at all... I'm sure many people on here haven't. From what I've heard from that tour it's not one of my favorites. I get the feeling of the band rushing through the set. Several medleys will do that. I've only heard a few shows so I really can't state a concrete opinion on the tour as a whole. |
| [ Wybren™ ] 05.10.2004 18:15 |
brenski wrote: this tour has been slammed in the past as being one of their worst. but i loved it:- 1. freddie really interacted with the audience 2. the stageset was the best queen set ever 3. the jukebox medley of older hits (perhaps the inspiration for their liveaid idea) 4. it was also queen's last BIG tour in medium-sized non-stadium venues - ie - i got to see them in my local town, and it felt more personal 5. oh yeah and lastly - i was luck enough to see them because they added another date (2/9/84) and Birmingham really rocked that night!!!Lucky you. The band wasn't very close at that time, so for them it's not the best tour. I do enjoy the Milan 84 (First Night) bootleg though. Great King Rat is cool :-D |
| Rich Tea 05.10.2004 18:16 |
The Works tour and The News of The World tour were IMO the two best tours Queen did! Yes Birmingham rocked on both nights. BTW I thought General Public were a great support as well although they didn't go down with the Queen fans too well. On the Works tour the improvisations and the bringing back of songs like Great King Rat really made the show interesting, Loved the Magic tour but it was more of a Greatest Hits set played for the Stadium audience. |
| [ Wybren™ ] 05.10.2004 18:23 |
How could I forget to mention the Osaka 85 show. That concert had one of the best setlists ever... I hope that one will be in the "Top 100 bootleg download project" (if that will ever happen; I haven't heard about it for a while:-S ) |
| Albyboy 05.10.2004 18:30 |
[ Wybren<font color=red>™</font> ] wrote: Lucky you. The band wasn't very close at that time, so for them it's not the best tour. I do enjoy the Milan 84 (First Night) bootleg though. Great King Rat is cool :-D... And I was there... *BLUSHES* ... I was a child, but I was there... :-) Albyboy |
| Shadysenator RHYE 05.10.2004 20:25 |
Well I think the Works tour really wasn't the best tour Queen did, I think I dislike the most. But the stage was the best. If only they did put a more Rock into it, they sound so soft, so 80's this tour. My favourite tour is the NEW OF TEH WORLD 77/78 pitty only a few good bootlegs are availble from this tour... |
| Mr. Scully 06.10.2004 02:30 |
Very nice setlist... Incredibly shitty drums... Very poor vocal performance... |
| Fenderek 06.10.2004 03:53 |
Mr. Scully wrote: Very nice setlist... Incredibly shitty drums... Very poor vocal performance...And that sums it all... |
| Regor 06.10.2004 04:13 |
Hate the electronic drums on Another one bites the dust, but the stage was wonderful... |
| Sebastian 06.10.2004 04:21 |
Yes the setlist as Osaka was great. On paper. but once we go from theory to practice we find out that: - Tear It Up - Incomplete & Shitty Drums - Tie Your Mother Down - Weak Drums - Under Pressure - Quite nice but imo both HS and Magic tours were better in this one - Somebody To Love - Incomplete - Piano Improvisation - It was nice but I'd have preferred if they did the previous song full - Killer - Incomplete & Crappy Drums - Seven Seas - Incomplete - Keep Yourself - Incomplete, misses the best parts - Liar - Incomplete (were they high when decided to cut off this masterpiece?) - Impromptu - Fine but those 3 minutes could have been used in doing one of those songs full - It's A Hard Life - Fine, but why add synths to it? It'd sound fine with only the four of them - Dragon Attack - Nice, but those crappy drums ruined it - Now I'm Here - Ditto - Is This The World - Good version, indeed - Love Of My Life - There are many better ones - Guitar Solo - I find it unnecesary in the first place, not only in this tour. But not in all tours either - Brighton Rock Finale - A great part. Roger played the drums wonderfully there, but those drums sounded awful - Another One Bites - Imo, boring. - Mustapha Intro - Nice, but many concerts have it FULL - Hammer To Fall - Those drums take off its energy. The song was waaaaaay better in Magic Tour - Crazy Little Thing - Ditto - Saturday Night - Always great. I love it. - Bo Rhap - Rock section doesn't really rock with those drums. Great playing by all four, but there are other 10 or so tours in which they also played good but in better instruments - Radio Ga Ga - Nothing against it, except for the synths. Listen to the Extreme version. With just bass, drums and guitar they did it good and it was more powerful. So why Queen put those shitty synths and e-drums? - Break Free - ditto - Jailhouse Rock - the song is nice, the rendition isn't. I prefer the ones in the 70s - Rest of Rn'R Medley - If only those drums were deep... - Rock You - Ditto - Champions - Ditto (and why on earth did they have to put synth on it?) So imo, it's not about quantity, it's about quality. Hammersmith Odeon (xmas '75) had a much shorter setlist but they played most of the songs complete, they played great music just the four of them, did awesome harmonies (e.g. Liar), and those drums rocked. |
| Shane Jazz 06.10.2004 04:29 |
Fantastic post, Sebastian...Feel free to run down more set lists, especially the US and Europe Hot Space shows.... And you are dead correct on the drums issue. |
| [ Wybren™ ] 06.10.2004 05:41 |
Sebastian: Maybe the shitty drums sound better on a soundboard recording than on the audience one? (I bet so, or do you have a soundboard recording?) They played a lot of songs so they had to shorten some. Though I like the SSOR-KYA-Liar medley. The piano improvisation and Saturday... are really cool |
| Sebastian 06.10.2004 06:41 |
The thing is, I don't mean The Works tour is bad. And I did missexpress myself with the "shitty/crappy drums" statements. Those drums sound good, only not even half as deep, powerful and authentic as in any Queen tour until Hot Space or as Magic. Sorry for the confusion |
| brENsKi 06.10.2004 07:38 |
and being there at the NEC B'ham 2/9/84 the sound was awesome...it compares well with crazy tour and wembley/knebworth and MK for sound - and i know as i was live at all five the works tour had a very good feel to it...bass/drums nice and loud - freddie playing about a bit and the "medleys" people have referred to are nothing new- they've always been there - the set was as long as wembley and mk too |
| Flo Joe 06.10.2004 15:39 |
I have the 'Final live in Japan' DVD, and I think the drum sound is weak and there are too much keyboards / Synthesizers. |
| BrianRules 06.10.2004 15:59 |
All I can say is, I wish I was able to see the Works tour. They never toured in the U.S. after 1982. So to those who did see it, consider yourself lucky they played in your area! |
| brENsKi 06.10.2004 17:24 |
and anyhow - the sound offf a pirate/bootleg dvd/cd is bound to sound hollow when compared to actually being there my wife doesn't evn like queen - but she even said they rocked at the NEC B'ham (works tours 84) i don't think anyone who didn't see them on that tour can make a coment about the sound/quality of the gigs compared to the recording quality of the bootlegs.... end of argument |
| Mr. Scully 07.10.2004 03:04 |
Sebastian is right although he forgot to mention Stone Cold Crazy / Great King Rat / keyboards solo (very nice medley) and I think the drums in Dragon Attack sounded actually better than in other songs on that tour. |
| Sebastian 07.10.2004 04:34 |
Another important point is that there's no way the sound of the release (even if it's DVD, even if it has overdubs, even if the off pitch voices are deleted or replaced) compares to the sound of the event: being there, hearing Brian's wall of sound, hearing Fred's piano through huge stereo amps, etc. I realise now that, in the gig, drums should have sounded great too. And that's just the sound, let alone the feeling. I really should see Eagles then. They're coming at the end of the month. I have to see if I can re-arrange my money. |
| The Real Wizard 07.10.2004 17:40 |
Mr. Scully wrote: Very poor vocal performance...But then there's the Tokyo 5-9-85 show. One of Fred's best. Sebastian is right although he forgot to mention Stone Cold Crazy / Great King Rat / keyboards solo (very nice medley)Probably because they didn't perform it in Osaka... :) They dropped that stuff in '85. |
| LiveAidQueen 07.10.2004 18:56 |
I thought it was alright. |
| BiggyRat 08.10.2004 22:30 |
It was my favourite concert - the only gigs I actually saw them live. They finally came to Sydney. Even though I've been a fan since '74 I was "too young" according to my parents to go to their '76 gigs in Sydney :-( |
| Lester Burnham 08.10.2004 23:53 |
Not too bad of a tour, at least the two shows I've heard of it. However, '84 and '85 weren't good years for Queen, at least politically, what with the apartheid problems, Freddie's vocal performance, etc. I wonder why they waited until six months after the release of The Works to go on tour? |
| brENsKi 09.10.2004 06:31 |
Lester Burham asked: I wonder why they waited until six months after the release of The Works to go on tour? ------------------------------------------ ...perhaps it had something to do with Roger's promotion of his Man On Fire single and his forthcoming album "Strange Frontier", as well as Freddie working on Mr Bad Guy album? |
| Lester Burnham 09.10.2004 15:36 |
Could be it, but they never let solo projects get in the way before. In those six months, they could've easily toured the US and tried to regain their popularity. Shame. |
| Sebastian 09.10.2004 16:04 |
But they never let solo projects get in the way before.What about their year off? |
| Lester Burnham 09.10.2004 16:13 |
Hmm, you mean 1983? That was more so that they could have a break from each other; certainly, Star Fleet Project wasn't delaying any serious work on a Queen album. Roger recorded his first album in between tours in 1980 and 1981, so I find it odd that Queen had product out in early 1984, yet decided not to tour until six months later. It certainly wouldn't have been because of solo commitments; in each year the band had off in the eighties, it was mostly for rest, but eventually wound up being for solo recording as they seemed to become bored quickly. |