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Post by DMS on Apr 22, 2020 18:02:06 GMT
I went to see Brian at the Birmingham NEC in 93, and then in 98 at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham. I can't remember anything about either of them.
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Post by strangefrontier on Apr 23, 2020 23:09:56 GMT
Went to 2 shows..the NEC gig at Birmingham in June and Nottingham in Dec and have a tape of the June show. Fab shows and remember them well including Cozy doing his 1812 overture thing! Cozy had so much power and could hit the kit so hard. Agree that the band may have had an extended life had Cozy not sadly passed away. Gutted I never picked up one of the original sixpences from the merch stall...happy memories and good times.
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Post by brian on Apr 25, 2020 13:40:14 GMT
Went to 2 shows..the NEC gig at Birmingham in June and Nottingham in Dec and have a tape of the June show. Fab shows and remember them well including Cozy doing his 1812 overture thing! Cozy had so much power and could hit the kit so hard. Agree that the band may have had an extended life had Cozy not sadly passed away. Gutted I never picked up one of the original sixpences from the merch stall...happy memories and good times. Oh really? Could you share this tape, please? Would be thankful.
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Post by zanzibar1 on Feb 13, 2021 17:49:06 GMT
I attended the Manchester Apollo gig...a great show,very loud if i remember. You couldve heard a pin drop when he " love of my life " . Fantastic.
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Post by peacelovingguy on Feb 13, 2021 18:32:24 GMT
I attended the Manchester Apollo gig...a great show,very loud if i remember. You couldve heard a pin drop when he " love of my life " . Fantastic. I think Brian’s renditions of Love of my life on the Back to the Light tour were incredibly moving. Grown men would be crying in the crowd. I’m a big fan of QAL, but their audience is not one personally touched by the rawness of Freddie’s passing just a couple of the years earlier. It was an intense experience.
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Post by stevedorius on Feb 14, 2021 1:01:31 GMT
The night of the Dublin concert coincided with a fairly wild storm, so it was a very small (but intimate) turnout (the capacity of the Point Depot was about 8.000 max at that time, so I doubt they would have filled it anyway) - Brian thanked the audience for attending "on such a shitty night". I was only 23, and struck up a conversation with a lovely woman several years my senior - we had a glorious extended intermittent snogging session during the gig, starting with Love Of My Life and finishing with Teo Torriate - never went any further, but I have fond recollections of that night for many reasons! If you're still out there somewhere, thanks again for a lovely evening There is a tape of that night BTW, missing the first part of the set - but it's a distorted mess, not very pleasurable listening - if anyone is interested, I can share my copy.
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Post by mkstewartesq on Feb 14, 2021 4:24:45 GMT
I saw the Atlanta stop in February 1993 - they were actually touring with Guns ‘n’ Roses but this was one of the nights between Guns ‘n’ Roses shows where they went off and did their own headline gig at a smaller theater. No opening band.
Unfortunately, it was a miserable experience. Something was gravely wrong with the mix, so the vocals were completely inaudible throughout the entire show; it was basically just one long instrumental set and even the mixing on the instruments was way off so it wasn’t very enjoyable. Was very surprised that it didn’t get corrected at all over the course of an hour and a half gig.
I was really disappointed given my lifelong admiration of Brian and the fact that this was the only chance I’ve ever gotten to see him after I got into Queen in 1980 (neither The Game Tour nor Hot Space Tour came to Jacksonville Florida where I lived at the time.). Luckily, all was redeemed when I got to see Q+AL on their 2018 Las Vegas residency. Say what you will about AL, but the sound quality was simply impeccable, possibly the best I’ve ever heard in a live concert- and getting to see both Brian and Roger in a fairly small theater rather than a large arena was about the best I could’ve hoped for.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Feb 14, 2021 4:34:21 GMT
The night of the Dublin concert coincided with a fairly wild storm, so it was a very small (but intimate) turnout (the capacity of the Point Depot was about 8.000 max at that time, so I doubt they would have filled it anyway) - Brian thanked the audience for attending "on such a shitty night". I was only 23, and struck up a conversation with a lovely woman several years my senior - we had a glorious extended intermittent snogging session during the gig, starting with Love Of My Life and finishing with Teo Torriate - never went any further, but I have fond recollections of that night for many reasons! If you're still out there somewhere, thanks again for a lovely evening There is a tape of that night BTW, missing the first part of the set - but it's a distorted mess, not very pleasurable listening - if anyone is interested, I can share my copy. Sure, would love to hear it.
...although is your snogging session captured in high fidelity ?
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Post by NastyQueenie on Feb 14, 2021 5:49:18 GMT
It'd certainly be intriguing to hear given the picture that the currently-circulating recordings from the leg paint in regard to Brian's vocal state.
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Post by stevedorius on Feb 14, 2021 5:55:57 GMT
...although is your snogging session captured in high fidelity ?
Afraid not I'll share my old transfer, maybe someone here can determine if it's worth making a fresh one from scratch and trying to improve the audio.
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Post by lemonfrume on Mar 2, 2021 11:06:40 GMT
I attended the Bournemouth show in the Summer of 1993, was on the front row and it was loud as hell. It was the first time I'd actually seen Brian. I have a tape of the whole show (un-circulated, as far as I know) which sounds great. Virtually no bands came to Bournemouth in those days (same now) so for Brian to come to where I live was pretty extraordinary.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2021 11:21:04 GMT
I attended the Bournemouth show in the Summer of 1993, was on the front row and it was loud as hell. It was the first time I'd actually seen Brian. I have a tape of the whole show (un-circulated, as far as I know) which sounds great. Virtually no bands came to Bournemouth in those days (same now) so for Brian to come to where I live was pretty extraordinary. Amazing! Are you willing to share it?
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Post by pg on Mar 2, 2021 12:27:11 GMT
I attended the Bournemouth show in the Summer of 1993, was on the front row and it was loud as hell. It was the first time I'd actually seen Brian. I have a tape of the whole show (un-circulated, as far as I know) which sounds great. Virtually no bands came to Bournemouth in those days (same now) so for Brian to come to where I live was pretty extraordinary. I remember queuing all day in the entrance hall at the BIC. They'd put a flyposter type poster up as an indicator, and we dutifully stood there all day. At some stage, the poster disappeared.... . Mid afternoon, someone was talking about the inflatable hammers dropped at Brixton, and the realisation dawned that there were probably more to be had in a seaside town in the summer. So, someone went and cleaned out a stall somewhere, which is why the back of the Brixton CD has only a handful of hammers visible, all in a group, and all larger than the ones dropped AT Brixton. I'd be very grateful to hear a tape if one exists.
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Post by NastyQueenie on Mar 2, 2021 19:28:48 GMT
I can say the same. Any new recording from the tour would be much appreciated.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Mar 2, 2021 21:09:49 GMT
I attended the Bournemouth show in the Summer of 1993, was on the front row and it was loud as hell. It was the first time I'd actually seen Brian. I have a tape of the whole show (un-circulated, as far as I know) which sounds great. Virtually no bands came to Bournemouth in those days (same now) so for Brian to come to where I live was pretty extraordinary. Fabulous - would love to hear it.
Queen stopped coming there after '75. Indeed you're lucky.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Mar 2, 2021 21:10:19 GMT
I remember queuing all day in the entrance hall at the BIC. They'd put a flyposter type poster up as an indicator, and we dutifully stood there all day. At some stage, the poster disappeared.... . To paraphrase a song from the album he was touring for - "high speed, but you know it's in safe hands."
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Post by pg on Mar 3, 2021 8:10:21 GMT
I remember queuing all day in the entrance hall at the BIC. They'd put a flyposter type poster up as an indicator, and we dutifully stood there all day. At some stage, the poster disappeared.... . To paraphrase a song from the album he was touring for - "high speed, but you know it's in safe hands." Indeed...it reappeared later when some of us waited round the back for some random fella to write his name on it....
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Post by chromant on Mar 27, 2021 8:27:00 GMT
It does indeed kick arse. A great album. A proper shit front cover though! [br Richard Gray, hate everything he did after The Miracle. His designs are always the same and can be done basically with Windows Paint
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Post by soundfreak1 on Apr 30, 2021 11:07:34 GMT
I still have the concert poster for the show in Düsseldorf 93 in the "Philipshallle" on my wall, actually a misprint with three "l" in halle...
I have weird memories of that evening, cause I wasn't allowed to take my binoculars into the hall. Some security idiot told me, that I could throw it on stage...... There were no video walls in those days, so binoculars were very usefull to watch the stage from the spectator ranks. I never liked to stand in front of the stage in those days, there were no safety barriers, so you would constantly get pushed to the front and back again...
In the 70s and 80s most rockbands were built around the combination of a great singer and a guitar hero. You heard "the" voice - you expected "the" guitar. Think of Zeppelin, Purple, Van Halen....and Queen.
Now the "voice" was no more - but "the guitar".
With Freddie's passing just 2 years behind, this concert was a positive sign, that life has to go on. The band did a great job - although it was often felt, that there was "that sound", but the voice was missing. Although Brian gave his very best, he could not disguise this. But it was great to see him carry on, he had new material to offer and also gave us nice Queen-moments.
It's sad, that he gave up his solo career at some point later. But I guess it's frustrating to come up with something new and the main reaction is, that Freddie's voice is missing.....
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