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Post by moonhead on Apr 10, 2021 19:54:57 GMT
Hyde Park '76 Kampuchea '79 Rio '85 South America '81 (Sao Poulo and/or Buenos Aires)
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Post by Emmanuel on Apr 11, 2021 2:59:52 GMT
Hyde Park '76 Kampuchea '79 Rio '85 South America '81 (Sao Poulo and/or Buenos Aires) Some soundboards from 1977, there are a lot, and a official mix of Earls Court
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Post by Sammy B. Willickers on Apr 11, 2021 17:36:23 GMT
Hyde Park '76 Kampuchea '79 Rio '85 South America '81 (Sao Poulo and/or Buenos Aires) Hyde Park would be absolutely amazing! I'd also like the Hammersmith Odeon gig from 1979 to be released, and some of the earlier gigs (1970-1973)
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Post by Lplix on Apr 11, 2021 17:54:56 GMT
apart from the concerts, which I would like to see Hyde Park 1976 come out of in good quality, in my opinion (as far as it can count and be out of place in this thread) it is time they brought out the unofficial study material we already know and also what we do not know. the fiftieth anniversary seems like a good reason to me. That material is of interest to all longtime fans, who I don't think survived until Queen's centenary (although I hope so - maybe a little deaf unfortunately).
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Post by Sakura4anime25 on Apr 12, 2021 13:00:23 GMT
Yeah the main problem with the available Hyde Park footage/material is that the sound quality is just so bad. The video is not that great and has problems, but is at least watchable. I re-watched the available video recently and the bad sound really gets in the way of being able to hear and appreciate the performances because it makes them sound all warbly and distorted, and Freddie's voice (or other parts) often get lost/drowned out, and such. So yeah, a better version of Hyde Park with better sound quality would be great to have, if that were possible.
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Post by Geddy on Apr 18, 2021 23:53:03 GMT
Out of the stuff we already kind of have, Hyde Park 76 and Hammersmith 79 would be great to have because the footage we have is either in bad quality or incomplete (meanwhile we already have Earls Court and Houston 77 in good quality, although it wouldn't hurt to see Earls Court's second night). But what I'd really find cool would be that Boston NOTW show and the 1980 first night in the Wembley Arena - those would have great performances of songs that weren't performed a lot. To cap it off, I'd be happy if we good full, good quality releases of São Paulo 1981 and Rio 1985, just because I'm Brazilian.
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Post by readyeddie on Jun 15, 2021 18:23:29 GMT
I'd quite like to hear Long Beach 77 as an official release but we already have a Grade A* recording, so I'm happy with that. Would love to see something from The Works tour, not Rio or Japan though! Definitely would love to see one of the Paris concerts or possibly a hybrid of all 3! One I'm hoping for this year, as a 45th anniversary - a weird anniversary if there ever was one-, is Hyde Park
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Post by readyeddie on Jun 15, 2021 18:25:02 GMT
Yeah the main problem with the available Hyde Park footage/material is that the sound quality is just so bad. The video is not that great and has problems, but is at least watchable. I re-watched the available video recently and the bad sound really gets in the way of being able to hear and appreciate the performances because it makes them sound all warbly and distorted, and Freddie's voice (or other parts) often get lost/drowned out, and such. So yeah, a better version of Hyde Park with better sound quality would be great to have, if that were possible. Yes, but loom at what they've managed to do with the Hyde Park footage in things like Rags To Rhapsody or DOOL; pretty top-notch!
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Post by pg on Jun 15, 2021 19:20:14 GMT
Being able to fix *some* of it doesn't logically lead to *all* of it being fixable.
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Post by warewolf95 on Jun 15, 2021 22:20:35 GMT
I think would want a release of Hyde Park '76. Other than Kampuchea '79 having cuts, I can't think of any other pro-shots in circulation that we don't have great versions of. Earls Court Houston Buenos Aires 81 etc I mean, sure we'd all love these to get the official treatment, but we're lucky enough to already have pretty damn good versions (thanks Pittrek and co.!) Give us something we know exists in better quality that is not already available to us.
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Post by Geddy on Jun 19, 2021 20:28:33 GMT
I'd quite like to hear Long Beach 77 as an official release but we already have a Grade A* recording, so I'm happy with that. Would love to see something from The Works tour, not Rio or Japan though! Definitely would love to see one of the Paris concerts or possibly a hybrid of all 3! One I'm hoping for this year, as a 45th anniversary - a weird anniversary if there ever was one-, is Hyde Park Taking away my Brazil bias, for a Works tour release I'd wish for one of the good 1984 shows since those have more rarities. 1st Brussels, 1st Birmingham or Stuttgart would do - or who knows, maybe the second Dublin show was great, or one of the Sun City dates (more doubtful).
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Post by The Real Wizard on Jun 22, 2021 10:26:40 GMT
Taking away my Brazil bias, for a Works tour release I'd wish for one of the good 1984 shows since those have more rarities. 1st Brussels, 1st Birmingham or Stuttgart would do - or who knows, maybe the second Dublin show was great, or one of the Sun City dates (more doubtful). To date we have no guarantee that any 24-track audio of 1984 shows exists.
My spidey sense says that after nearly two years of not being on the road, they weren't in any rush to properly document their gigs before Rio.
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Post by cmi on Jun 22, 2021 14:32:31 GMT
Hyde Park '76, Earls Court'77 or Paris '79 are best candidates. But I want Rio'85 show as well, finally to have it complete and in pristine quality of sound and picture to prove that the Works Tour was not so bad as it counts.
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Post by daizyujin on Aug 6, 2021 12:20:40 GMT
wembley 1986
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Post by greatsoundingmaracas on Aug 8, 2021 20:39:00 GMT
Yes, could we please have a 35th Anniversary box set but with only a DVD (!) of the 2nd night with horrible mixing? That should be possible for QPL...
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Post by georg on Aug 8, 2021 22:33:18 GMT
Yes, could we please have a 35th Anniversary box set but with only a DVD (!) of the 2nd night with horrible mixing? That should be possible for QPL... Wish we had gotten a 30th anniversary reissue of the VHS release last year…
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Post by ADAM'S REMASTER on Jun 21, 2023 12:07:20 GMT
PORTLAND 1977 would be amazing !!!!
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Post by perpetualchange on Jul 5, 2023 3:27:36 GMT
My top 5 picks would probably be:
Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston, UK, Feb. 20, 1971 (mainly because Queen supported Yes) Gaumont Theatre, Worcester, UK, Nov. 15, 1973 (cause its one of the earliest dates on their debut) Winter Gardens, Blackpool, UK, Mar. 1, 1974 (I wanna hear this leg so bad!!) Civic Centre, Saint Paul, MN, USA, Aug. 15, 1982 (Same as Blackpool + Saint Paul is the closest Queen got to my city) Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, June 1, 1986 (To have 100% of the Magic Tour public even though its my least favorite Queen tour)
Yes, I know I'm a menace.
Honerable mentions
Portland and Boston 1977 + Nov 1979 gigs.
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Post by munichqueenfan on Jul 5, 2023 12:25:26 GMT
Official releases from A Day At The Races, News Of The World and Jazz-Tour are very welcome!
Earls Cort '77, Houston '77, Hammersmith '79 would be great!
Although I doubt this will ever happen, since the available material of the first two gigs shows nothing of the audience.
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Post by davis_taylor.1984 on Jul 6, 2023 10:54:33 GMT
Look what Bruce Springsteen does with his shows... Every night of this tour is recorded and printed on cd for his fans. I went in Rome last month and I bought the CD with the soundboard mix (of course these are official releases)... No cuts, no overdubs, just music and memories of that night. Bruce and also Pearl Jam are releasing past gigs. I think that one day, with a more efficient technology (today is already amazing) and with other people leading the QPL maybe we would see something really interesting. My biggest fear is that one day fans will lose their appetite for these things. I mean, we all are growing up... Some of Queen's diehard or older fans are already dead or grew up so releasing things will be less convenient.
I think QPL has lost its chance to sell loads of stuff. In 2014 they released Rainbow, then Hammy in 2015. That could have been the right start for realeasing stuff. Earls Court, Houston, Hyde Park, Hammy 79... Who's gonna buy those in 10 years? If they released all this stuff in last 10 years with CDs, Dvds they could have made a lot of money. Nowadays (with all this stuff on streaming and with vinyl very expensive) and in the future will be more difficult in my opinion. Even the hype due to the movie is fading slowly. They missed too much occasions. Everyday people wants GHs, they gave 'em 150 reissues of any colour. But what about fans?
I was really surprised with the Miracle Box, so i hope they will do some of this kind of stuff in the future. Maybe this will appen when QAL will stop concerts, who knows that... I think we all don't give a sh** about voice cracks, guitar mistakes... They should stop making unreal tracks with overdubbing anything (Look Montreal 81...) or avoid releasing other things for the "inability to overdub". We all are human.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jul 6, 2023 11:04:51 GMT
Look what Bruce Springsteen does with his shows... Every night of this tour is recorded and printed on cd for his fans. I went in Rome last month and I bought the CD with the soundboard mix (of course these are official releases)... No cuts, no overdubs, just music and memories of that night. Bruce and also Pearl Jam are releasing past gigs. I think that one day, with a more efficient technology (today is already amazing) and with other people leading the QPL maybe we would see something really interesting. My biggest fear is that one day fans will lose their appetite for these things. I mean, we all are growing up... Some of Queen's diehard or older fans are already dead or grew up so releasing things will be less convenient. I think QPL has lost its chance to sell loads of stuff. In 2014 they released Rainbow, then Hammy in 2015. That could have been the right start for realeasing stuff. Earls Court, Houston, Hyde Park, Hammy 79... Who's gonna buy those in 10 years? If they released all this stuff in last 10 years with CDs, Dvds they could have made a lot of money. Nowadays (with all this stuff on streaming and with vinyl very expensive) and in the future will be more difficult in my opinion. Even the hype due to the movie is fading slowly. They missed too much occasions. Everyday people wants GHs, they gave 'em 150 reissues of any colour. But what about fans? I was really surprised with the Miracle Box, so i hope they will do some of this kind of stuff in the future. Maybe this will appen when QAL will stop concerts, who knows that... I think we all don't give a sh** about voice cracks, guitar mistakes... They should stop making unreal tracks with overdubbing anything (Look Montreal 81...) or avoid releasing other things for the "inability to overdub". We all are human. I think you're right about the long term. Fans are aging (and sadly dying), and I'm not sure that there's an appetite among the younger "Greatest Hits Brigade" for lavish box sets costing an arm and a leg. They need to get stuff out there while there's still folks around to buy it. It might not be popular with some, but I think an immediately good seller would be a Bluray of the last tour with Adam Lambert. Enough people went to see them around the world, so I think there's definitely a market for a concert release. We had the stream so it wouldn't take much work to release it on a physical format. Other that that, a live 70s box set, with complete unreleased shows would be more than welcomed. They (the band) don't like Live Killers, so why not rectify that issue with a better release?
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Post by davis_taylor.1984 on Jul 6, 2023 11:20:15 GMT
I agree with you... Live Killers (and also Jazz) deserve a "new mix". I think they can do it if they want to. We know for sure that also Knebworth and Hammy 79 were recorded in their entirety. (audio). They "missed the train" in 2018/19. After the movie a lot of people bought Bohemian Rhapsody OST and other queen stuff. Imagine if they did release Knebworth (audio) with the title "A Night of summer magic: the very last legendary queen concert". In my opinion that could have been a great occasion to make money. Everyday people, Vinyl collectors, Music lovers, Queen Fans... Anyone would have bought that release, the very last freddie mercury concert. What a pity! Let' see what's gonna happen in September at the Freddie birthday... Fingers crossed.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Jul 6, 2023 12:16:31 GMT
I agree with you... Live Killers (and also Jazz) deserve a "new mix". I think they can do it if they want to. We know for sure that also Knebworth and Hammy 79 were recorded in their entirety. (audio). They "missed the train" in 2018/19. After the movie a lot of people bought Bohemian Rhapsody OST and other queen stuff. Imagine if they did release Knebworth (audio) with the title "A Night of summer magic: the very last legendary queen concert". In my opinion that could have been a great occasion to make money. Everyday people, Vinyl collectors, Music lovers, Queen Fans... Anyone would have bought that release, the very last freddie mercury concert. What a pity! Let' see what's gonna happen in September at the Freddie birthday... Fingers crossed. To be honest I wouldn't be all that excited by a Knebworth release, given we've already got Budapest and Wembley from the Magic tour. It would just be more of the same.
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Post by pimderks on Jul 7, 2023 8:51:14 GMT
It might not be popular with some, but I think an immediately good seller would be a Bluray of the last tour with Adam Lambert. Enough people went to see them around the world, so I think there's definitely a market for a concert release. We had the stream so it wouldn't take much work to release it on a physical format. Indeed, that would be so easy to put out as a 2-CD/BR set. Hard to imagine that they recorded the show, edited it, mixed it etc just for 1 streaming event.
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Post by bicyclerace on Jul 8, 2023 2:35:25 GMT
From a chauvinist point of view, I'd like all the Montreal shows (except the 1981 ones, of course) to be released, especially the 1978 one. From an historical point of view, I would say Knebworth 1986. And like a lot of people here, I think any show or compilation of shows from the Live Killers tour would be really a real treat.
Apart from that, I'm much interested by the 1978-1982 era, after Queen became a real arena rock band and before they started to play mostly the hits. The thing I also like from this period is that many songs lasted only one tour (If You Can't Beat Them, Spread Your Wings, Staying Power...) and are like a breath of fresh air amidst the songs we heard live a thousand times like Tie Your Mother Down, We Will Rock You, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, etc.
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Post by Leon's Crazy Game on Jul 8, 2023 9:21:55 GMT
Actually, Spread Your Wings lasted three tours (News of the World, Jazz, Crazy) and both If You Can't Beat Them (Jazz and Crazy) and Staying Power two (Hot Space and The Works although it was dropped after a while)
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Post by bicyclerace on Jul 8, 2023 14:18:04 GMT
Actually, Spread Your Wings lasted three tours (News of the World, Jazz, Crazy) and both If You Can't Beat Them (Jazz and Crazy) and Staying Power two (Hot Space and The Works although it was dropped after a while) Well I'll be damned! This is what you get from not getting your facts straight before posting I don't see the Crazy Tour as a "proper tour" though, since Queen were not supporting a new studio album, but maybe this is just me. Anyway, can I change my song picks then? *Ahem* The thing I also like from this period is that many songs lasted only one tour (Action This Day, Battle Theme, Calling All Girls...) and are like a breath of fresh air amidst the songs we heard live on more than one tour like Spread Your Wings, If You Can't Beat Them, Staying Power, etc. Is that better?
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Post by kosimodo on Jul 8, 2023 15:38:44 GMT
One of the 86 indoor concerts. The arenas were fun, but those were lift offs!
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Post by pg on Jul 9, 2023 17:28:40 GMT
One of the 86 indoor concerts. The arenas were fun, but those were lift offs! Both nights at Wembley, Budapest, and about half of Knebworth audio already released. Mannheim broadcast on radio. The Magic Tour is covered, however incendiary you think the other 21 shows were. That said, it really doesn't matter what we say, QPL will do whatever pleases them, as we've seen for the last 30 (!!!) Years, so you vote for whatever you like - may all your dreams come in a yellow-jacketed box...
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Post by kosimodo on Jul 11, 2023 6:02:30 GMT
I have only seen Queen in indoorconcerts. All your mentioned concerts are just nice and dont give me that Queen concert feel.
Never ever have i seen a band completly exploding the hall like Queen did. That feel i miss on all their releases.
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