Wembley 1986

I have the master tapes for Wembley 1986. On these you hear how Freddie really sounds at the Wembley show, the one where he doesn't really hit the high notes on most of the songs as they were overdubbed.

Is this rare? or is this in the General community now?

Mabsey

Surely the perosn with the [i]master[/i] knows how many people he's distributed it to previously

Is your recording complete?? There are already a few original pressed bootleg releases with those unedited songs from Wembley, but they are all not complete.

An audience master, right?

More info would be nice

If you're talking about the audience master, then it would be most welcome. :)

The second generation tape has circulated quite well.

I was just going through a collection of tapes I had from 10 years+ and came across 2 tapes labelled Wembley Master Tapes from Soundeck. Quality is obivousley very very good. Everything sounds complete, any song in particular I should check?

Mabsey

Well, the first thing I'd like to know is which night it is, so how about listening to GSTQ to see if Freddie says anything about putting up with the rain.

It's definately the 12th of July Version, the one you can get on video. Except on the video for example for one vision:

Freddie: Look what they've done to my dream

Sung in a high sounding voice

Soundeck - Dont get anywhere near the note he sings on the DVD / Video.

Same for a lot of songs i.e.

Hammer to Fall
Radio GaGa
Who wants to live forever
Friends will be Friends
We are the Champions

So I take it for the Video, they went back in the Studio and over dubbed the parts he didn't sing to well on the day?

Mabsey

Yeah, it seems that you have a tape from the radio broadcast... probably copied from one of the dozens of bootleg cds. Like you said, it reveals all the places where overdubs were made. Not such a good night for Freddie, was it? He was even worse in Zurich at the beginning of the month.

If it is complete, then it would be great! Can you please check if the recording is complete?

If it's the radio broadcast, it's not complete -there will be fade ins and outs for the commercial breaks

Some people here would be gratefull even for the radio broadcast :) It shouldn't be a problem to replace the missing parts with the official release. Did anybody try to do it ?

There is no fade in and fade outs so I dont think this is the radio release.

I take it because this was an official release, I'm not allowed to share this?

Mabsey

I'm afraid not, but if you're interested for trading it, pittrek@hotmail.com is the correct address :-)