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Als groot Queenfan/collector heb ik het idee om mijn complete audio en video Live-collectie te gaan posten op het usenet.
Ik heb dit in het verleden ook al gedaan voor queenfans op www.queenzone.com en wil nu dit wat verder uit gaan breiden om met deze opnamen ook een groter publiek te bereiken.
Je zou toch maar bijvoorbeeld naar de Leidse groenoordhallen zijn geweest om in 1982 een Queenconcert te bezoeken.... Hier zijn dus opnamen van :-)

Ik gebruik zoveel mogelijk de bijgevoegde info-file als beschrijving hier en waar mogelijk een afbeelding van de (bootleg)hoes.
Als website-link gebruik ik steeds de desbetreffende post op Queenzone waar de opname gedeeld is en besproken is.
Van sommige opnamen zal ik meerdere opnamen posten. Download ze en vergelijk zelf de kwaliteit. Ik ga geen advies geven wat de beste opname is. Meestal zijn het opnamen die gemaakt zijn uit het publiek; verwacht dus geen superkwaliteit. Er is gewoon geen betere kwaliteit.

Het zal ongetwijfeld lang duren voor alle concerten gepost zijn (naar schatting ben ik hier wel enkele maanden mee bezig), maar uiteindelijk zal alles er op komen te staan.

Veel plezier met het downloaden van de complete serie !

Info uit de INFO-file:

My Addition:Lineage: Pittrek's Queenzone Share > Audacity > Vocal Restoration & Levels > FLAC         Level 8         This version of the famous Golders Green concert was created using SQ decoding. The original Radio programme was broadcast in matrixed quadraphonic sound. In Audacity, the original "Front" tracks were decoded, which featured a clearer sounding vocal. The front tracks were then merged with the original, creating a version with the vocals more audible. The tradeoff for fixing the problem, was unfortunately a thinned stereo field. For the original show in the best quality available, seek Pittrek's original share. But for listenability, this version is an acceptable compromise.Pittrek's Original Readme:Band : Queen
Venue : Golders Green Hippodrome, London, UK
Date : 13. September 1973

Lineage :
Source 1 : BBC multi-track master tape > BBC Transcription disc > ? > Wardour 
           "Pop Spectacular" silver bootleg > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (small 
           hiss reduction) > WAV
Source 2 : BBC multi-track master > 7" stereo reel-to-reel master > cassette 
           back-up master > cassette > mini-disc > CD-R > WAV > equalisation > 
           WAV > "Queen Will Be Crowned" (Digital Queen Archives) silver > EAC
           > WAV > Har-bal > Wavelab > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (speed correction) 
           > WAV
Source 3 : BBC multi-track master > FM broadcast > MC(x) > WAV > CD(x) > WAV

Tracklist :
 1. Alan Black introduction (*, one line from ***)
 2. Procession [instrumental tape intro] (*)
 3. Father To Son (*, middle from **)
 4. Son and Daughter (*, speech from **)
 5. See What A Fool I've Been (**)
 6. Ogre Battle (*, speech from **)
 7. Band Introduction (*)
 8. Liar (*, ending from **)
 9. Jailhouse Rock (**)
10. Stupid Cupid (**)
11. Be Bop A Lula (**)
12. Jailhouse Rock (reprise) (**)
13. Big Spender (**)
14. Bama Lama Bama Loo (**)

This is a 3-source merge of this great recording. I have done another merge
a couple of years ago, this version is a nice upgrade. I have done some hiss
reduction and speed correction, and everywhere where possible crossfades were
used instead of hard cuts.

This is the oldest Queen live recording which made it to the bootleg market.
Two older recordings are rumoured - Ewell College 1971 and Marquee Club 1972,
but it seems that Ewell College doesn't exist (the recording is actually a
slowed-down version of the rock'n'roll medley coming from this concert), and
the Marquee 72 recording was sold to Queen Productions (but they claim now that
the don't have it), which means that this is the oldest Queen show we can get.
The performance is incredible. The sound quality is absolutely excellent, the
only problem is that Freddie's vocal is mixed too low, it sounds like the band
is standing right before you, but Freddie sings from another room. But still
it's very enjoyable.

This show was bootlegged many, many times, but never in complete form. The most
complete version comes from the "Digital Queen Archives" bootleg called "Queen
Will Be Crowned", which misses one line from the introduction, and has a couple
of small few seconds cuts. When this recording was shared on QueenZone
(http://www.queenzone.com), QZ user "stark" remastered it and shared it again.
This remaster was used by me in this project as "source 2". I have found out 
that this recording runs too fast, so I had to slow it down approx. 2%.

My "source 1" comes from the "Wardour" silver bootleg called "Pop Spectacular".
This recording has much, much better sound quality then all other recordings,
because it comes from a BBC Transcription disc. The bad thing is that it misses
a big part of Son And Daughter, some speeches, See What A Fool I've Been and all
songs after Liar. It had some minor hiss in the background apparent mainly
during the first tracks, so I carefully removed it with Cool Edit Pro.

My "source 3" was a different rebroadcast of this show, I used only one line
from the intro from this source.

I have used all 3 sources to create this compilation which is now for the very
first time COMPLETE and every track has BEST AVAILABLE SOUND QUALITY.
The editing was done in Cool Edit Pro. The final wav file was split to single
tracks, which were SBE fixed and encoded to FLAC with Trader's Little Helper.
TLH was also used for FLAC fingerprints. I have added an Audiochecker log file.
Enjoy

Lineup :
Freddie Mercury - vocals
Roger Meddows-Taylor - percussion
Deacon John - bass
Brian May - guitar