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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:
Band : Queen
Venue : Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
Date : 1. May 1975
Title : Emperors of Japan

Lineage :
Source 1 : AUD > "Song Brothers" master tape > ? > "Young Nobles Of Rock"
           (Tarantura) silvers > EAC > WAV > Har-Bal > Wavelab > WAV > Cool
           Edit Pro (small hiss reduction) > WAV > Traders Little Helper >
           FLAC level 8 (*)
Source 2 : AUD > "Killing Me Softly" (Wardour) silvers > EAC > WAV > Cool Edit
           Pro (strong hiss reduction) > WAV (**)
Source 3 : AUD > ? > CD(x) > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (speed correction,
           equalisation ) > WAV (***)
Source 4 : "Queen II" (album) > EAC > WAV (****)
Source 5 : "A Night At The Opera" (album) > EAC > WAV (*****)
Source 6 : Studio > vinyl flexidisc > Thorens TD160 turnable > ADC : Sony 
           PCM601ES (emphasis on) > digi clone > Sony DCT77ES (emphasis on) >
           digi clone > Marantz CDR620 (emphasis on) > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (
           hiss and cracks / pops removal, speed correction) > WAV (^)
Source 7 : Radio (The All Japan Pop 20) > tape(x) > "A Night At The Nagoya"
           (Wardour) bootleg > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (hiss reduction) > WAV (^^)

Technical info

Comments from QueenLive.ca :

This is the last concert of the Sheer Heart Attack tour, and the performance 
is incredible. The show can be seen as a culmination of early Queen, as the 
band would move into their next epoch and mature in many ways with the
creation and success of A Night At The Opera.

The band play their guts out tonight, and perform nearly every song with 
unique embellishments. They are clearly appreciative of the Japanese fans 
throughout the show. All this, as well as some rare choices for songs, make 
this a very special final night of the world tour. Many of the songs are long 
and full of energy, even moreso than usual. Brian plays a daringly long and 
creative guitar solo in Son And Daughter (including part of the traditional 
Japanese folk song "Sakura", something which he'd often play in Japan over the 
years), and they turn in an extra long version of Liar. But there really is no 
point of highlighting individual things, as the entire concert is really 
a highlight of their career to this point.

The band came on for the encore dressed in kimonos, somehow turning up the 
excitement of the ecstatic audience a notch. The band finish up with a rare 
performance of the B-side See What A Fool I've Been, bringing a hugely 
successful first Japanese tour to a close.

One notable thing about these early Japanese shows is that Freddie is just 
learning how to communinicate with larger audiences, but he's not having too 
much success, since most the audience members don't speak English! It really 
is amazing how bands like The Beatles, Deep Purple, Queen, and Cheap Trick
were so successful in a country where most of their fans couldn't understand 
a word of their music - which goes to show how powerful music is and how it 
can transcend cultural barriers.

The show was filmed, and three songs (Now I'm Here, Killer Queen, and In The 
Lap Of The Gods...Revisited) were soon broadcast on TV, along with some press 
conference footage and a few shots of the boys having a picnic with a few 
locals. There is speculation as to whether or not the remaining footage of the 
show still exists.

The concert footage was previously attributed to the April 19 show, as it was 
labeled as such on The Magic Years documentary. But upon closer examination,
these three songs are definitely from May 1. Some of the footage of Now I'm 
Here was broadcast again on Japanese TV in 2004 in a documentary on the band 
called "The Jewels." On both documentaries, part of the audio of Now I'm Here 
is actually from London '74, a choice made by the compilers of the former 
probably because the screaming Japanese fans drowned out the music.

It is worth noting that since this is the final performance of the Sheer Heart 
Attack tour, it is the last time In The Lap Of The Gods would be performed. 
Tonight also marks the last time the full version of Great King Rat would be 
heard live. It would be revived, albeit in much shorter form, in 1984.

Comment from Collector's Music Reviews :

Young Nobles Of Rock is the very first Queen release on the prolific and
enduring Tarantura label.  This title contains a new tape source for Queen’s
May 1, 1975 show at the Budokan in Tokyo.  Several older sources exist with
the first appearing on a rare Japanese vinyl titled Kimono My Place Live (Marc
TC-75122) released in 1976 and copied on Stunning Live In Tokyo on Rodan
Records.  This tape source is very good but incomplete, covering only
forty-minutes of the two hour show and containing "Procession," "Now I’m Here,"
"Great King Rat," "Killer Queen," "Seven Seas Of Rhye," "Hangman (Shag Out),"
"In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited," "See What A Fool I’ve Been," and "God Save
The Queen."  Three songs from this source, "Jailhouse Rock," "See What A Fool
I’ve Been," and "God Save The Queen" was released on compact disc on Great
King Hangman in 2000 along with a fragment from Queen’s April 19 show at the
Budokan.  A second complete audience recording was used for First Live Attack
(Private Masters PM-007/008).  The sound quality of this is fair to good, very
distant with the screams of the girls in the audience frequently drowning out
the music.  Private Masters packaged this in a slimline double jewel case with
a replica of the concert ticket.  Wardour released Killing Me Softy
(Wardour-004) in 2004 and contains a better sounding mono recording.  "Now I’m
Here" and "Ogre Battle" are incomplete and the source from First Live Attack
was used to complete the songs.  The concert was also professionally 
videotaped and three songs, "Now I’m Here," "Killer Queen," and "In The Lap Of 
The Gods… Revisited" were broadcast on television.  The new tape source found
on the Tarantura release is a virtually complete stereo audience recording 
produced by "Song Brothers."  He was very close to the stage and was able to
capture the dynamics of the performance in detail making this one of the very 
best audience recordings for the early Queen.

This is the final live show on the Sheer Heart Attack and the end of their 
first very successful visit to Japan.  "Killer Queen" was number one on the 
charts and the band played eight sold out shows throughout the country.  The 
tape begins when the lights go down and records the entire taped introduction
"Procession" which leads directly with their travelogue "Now I’m Here."  
Freddie sounds a tad self-conscious afterwards as he speaks to the audience in 
Japanese.  "It looks like we’re gonna have some fun tonight."  After the live 
staple "Ogre Battle," the band play "Great King Rat," a real rarity.  Except 
for the BBC sessions, there are only a handful of early live references to
this song including the April 21st, 1974 New Orleans and the May 4th 1974 
Waterbury, Connecticut tapes.  It would be resurrected ten years for the Works 
tour, but it is great to have such a great sounding recording.  "White Queen 
(As It Began)," a song described Innuendoes author Sylv as pure poetry,
emotion, and the beginning and end of "March Of The Black Queen" in the story
of Lily and the Phoenix, follows and features a lyrical guitar solo from May.

"We’re gonna do a number we haven’t done in a long long while.  But as this is
our last show on the world tour, it’s very nice to end it in Tokyo, and we’ll 
do it especially for you" is Freddie’s introduction to the still unreleased
song "Hangman."  This again appears on a small number of early tapes but not 
in this sound qualit