Thank you Bob, finally I have all the 5 Tokyo gigs of '81.
Thank you!
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Bob thanks very much, it's great to have all of those japanese shows
SirGH, thanks again for the share, I'm really enjoying it!
Freddie does a clever choice of notes in Killer Queen. Instead of the truncated and beautifully and delicately detached G4 (built in re) F4 E4 F4 (medy), which has the disadvantage of robbing the song of energy and power, he smoothes the edges and stretches the notes a bit, barely singing "for" in order not to get out of rythm, and makes it a plain, vivid, powerful and much more fluent phrase - G4/G4(built in) G4/G4 (remedy), all in the same breath. The result: the songs starts to feel much more fluent and energetic, so to speak.
The second part is done in a very ironic way and reminded me of cabaré singers. He's clearly having fun with the song, and that adds to the joy of listening to it. The "perfume comes naturally from Tokyo". :-))) In order to do that, however, and not end the bar unresolved, he syncopates the phrase and instead of singing the open (Na..turally....Pa...ris), G-based falsetto, he adds more irony and humor to it by going down to C and C# and succeding in making "Na...turally...To...kyo" sound natural and well resolved within the bar. He avoids creating an odd dissonant interval. He does a lot of pauses, interruptions, syncopations, but he doesn't get out of rythm and is very respectful of the meter. Quite thrilling to listen to, very intelligently done.
There are many other interesting ideas he develops in Killer Queen and other songs, but I still have a warning to give to people who download this!
Advice to people: the ending of some songs are the beginning of some tracks so I advise you not to organize the files alphabetically according to the song titles but maintaing the original order so as to avoid cuts in the end of some songs.
Great show, very lively and well played, good audience (girls do scream a lot!).
A very special share, SirGH. Thanks, I enjoyed a lot.
Freddie does a clever choice of notes in Killer Queen. Instead of the truncated and beautifully and delicately detached G4 (built in re) F4 E4 F4 (medy), which has the disadvantage of robbing the song of energy and power, he smoothes the edges and stretches the notes a bit, barely singing "for" in order not to get out of rythm, and makes it a plain, vivid, powerful and much more fluent phrase - G4/G4(built in) G4/G4 (remedy), all in the same breath. The result: the songs starts to feel much more fluent and energetic, so to speak.
The second part is done in a very ironic way and reminded me of cabaré singers. He's clearly having fun with the song, and that adds to the joy of listening to it. The "perfume comes naturally from Tokyo". :-))) In order to do that, however, and not end the bar unresolved, he syncopates the phrase and instead of singing the open (Na..turally....Pa...ris), G-based falsetto, he adds more irony and humor to it by going down to C and C# and succeding in making "Na...turally...To...kyo" sound natural and well resolved within the bar. He avoids creating an odd dissonant interval. He does a lot of pauses, interruptions, syncopations, but he doesn't get out of rythm and is very respectful of the meter. Quite thrilling to listen to, very intelligently done.
There are many other interesting ideas he develops in Killer Queen and other songs, but I still have a warning to give to people who download this!
Advice to people: the ending of some songs are the beginning of some tracks so I advise you not to organize the files alphabetically according to the song titles but maintaing the original order so as to avoid cuts in the end of some songs.
Great show, very lively and well played, good audience (girls do scream a lot!).
A very special share, SirGH. Thanks, I enjoyed a lot.
Thanks a lot for this - slightly late but no less appreciated :)
Take care, Ginger01! I'm still feeling the pain right in my chest. It's so thrilling this concert, so daring, it was indeed a great share.
Because Freddie thought he was, you know, a Freddie (lol), he was very daring throughout. "Let Me Entertain You" is so beautifully played, Ginger01, you'll like it, I guess. He decides to change the melodic contour here and there, and to play a bit with modes in order to create some tension. I almost lost my breath when he started to sing "Gonna rock, gonna...dancing in the isles" - I paled. I kept telling myself: no, no, no, no, no, no, no (without counterpoint), you won't do this, please don't do this, you'll ruin the song. In the original recording, this phrase, which sets the tone for much of what follows, is done in a very beautiful way and takes some progressively higher and higher notes until reaching a climax. Now, in this one, no, he doesn't do that at all -what's left is an absolutely tourtuous phrase, with ups and downs and even minor modulations to the point that he creates such, but such tension that you bet he's not going to be able to resolve it within the bar.
He resolves it. He finds just the right notes to dissolve the tension and build a different, exquisite melody which sounds much, much more interesting than in the original ("gonna rock, gonna roll you, get you dancing in the isles"). That's the line: he starts to play with the mode in "gonna roll you" and gets back to the progression of the original melody in time to sing "in the isles", though it just reminds us of the original, it's not the same melody anymore, it's much more beautiful and the intervals are more unusual, and difficult to resolve).
But that's not everything, because then comes the pain!
Ouch! My chest is still hurting. Why Freddie stopped caring? Why!? He did it all so beautifully in Kampuchea - he paid a lot of attention to his posture, to the positioning and moving of his head, and of course to his breathing: he does everything right, he inclines his torax backwards when it's needed, doesn't have any fear of appearing ugly by doing all sorts of strange, but necessary, movements with his mouth, he did it all.
But then, he stopped caring. And you know what? He started to hurt himself.
In this recording, we can "see" the exact moment when he damages his chest muscles (not the throat, I guess, by the way he sounds afterwards).
The track: Mustapha.
My guess: He was tired, of course. He had to go for pretty high and lenthy notes and, instead of breathing correctly as he used to do especially when tired, he must have been breathing exerting too much pression on his chest muscles (it's our tendency when we're tired). The so-called high chest breathing. The distention and spasms of chest muscles began to tamper with the air flow as he should have felt pain and discomfort while breathing.
It happens after the introduction of Mustapha. When he's going to cheer up the audience with those "hey, hey!", you notice that he can't stand it anymore, he's in pain. Does he stop? Well, he could, but he didn't and gave really a kind of heroic performance of Mustapha - it doesn't sound beautiful, but he doesn't spoil the song either because the guy just can't get out of tune and rythm! His musical intelligente was really uncanny, but, wow, we feel his pain and it's really disturbing to listen to him struggling to deliver the rest of the concert in a correct way. He started to sing much more carefully, almost low-profile, and even began to avoid singing with Brian and Roger when he felt it wasn't necessary. He rested and then he recovered a bit, but not to point he was before the injury. The concert starts to get even more interesting because he has to circumvent the problem in some way, and he does it, what a surprise.
Ouch! And what a musical genius. I never understood the "stop caring" thing. lol Not so muc
Because Freddie thought he was, you know, a Freddie (lol), he was very daring throughout. "Let Me Entertain You" is so beautifully played, Ginger01, you'll like it, I guess. He decides to change the melodic contour here and there, and to play a bit with modes in order to create some tension. I almost lost my breath when he started to sing "Gonna rock, gonna...dancing in the isles" - I paled. I kept telling myself: no, no, no, no, no, no, no (without counterpoint), you won't do this, please don't do this, you'll ruin the song. In the original recording, this phrase, which sets the tone for much of what follows, is done in a very beautiful way and takes some progressively higher and higher notes until reaching a climax. Now, in this one, no, he doesn't do that at all -what's left is an absolutely tourtuous phrase, with ups and downs and even minor modulations to the point that he creates such, but such tension that you bet he's not going to be able to resolve it within the bar.
He resolves it. He finds just the right notes to dissolve the tension and build a different, exquisite melody which sounds much, much more interesting than in the original ("gonna rock, gonna roll you, get you dancing in the isles"). That's the line: he starts to play with the mode in "gonna roll you" and gets back to the progression of the original melody in time to sing "in the isles", though it just reminds us of the original, it's not the same melody anymore, it's much more beautiful and the intervals are more unusual, and difficult to resolve).
But that's not everything, because then comes the pain!
Ouch! My chest is still hurting. Why Freddie stopped caring? Why!? He did it all so beautifully in Kampuchea - he paid a lot of attention to his posture, to the positioning and moving of his head, and of course to his breathing: he does everything right, he inclines his torax backwards when it's needed, doesn't have any fear of appearing ugly by doing all sorts of strange, but necessary, movements with his mouth, he did it all.
But then, he stopped caring. And you know what? He started to hurt himself.
In this recording, we can "see" the exact moment when he damages his chest muscles (not the throat, I guess, by the way he sounds afterwards).
The track: Mustapha.
My guess: He was tired, of course. He had to go for pretty high and lenthy notes and, instead of breathing correctly as he used to do especially when tired, he must have been breathing exerting too much pression on his chest muscles (it's our tendency when we're tired). The so-called high chest breathing. The distention and spasms of chest muscles began to tamper with the air flow as he should have felt pain and discomfort while breathing.
It happens after the introduction of Mustapha. When he's going to cheer up the audience with those "hey, hey!", you notice that he can't stand it anymore, he's in pain. Does he stop? Well, he could, but he didn't and gave really a kind of heroic performance of Mustapha - it doesn't sound beautiful, but he doesn't spoil the song either because the guy just can't get out of tune and rythm! His musical intelligente was really uncanny, but, wow, we feel his pain and it's really disturbing to listen to him struggling to deliver the rest of the concert in a correct way. He started to sing much more carefully, almost low-profile, and even began to avoid singing with Brian and Roger when he felt it wasn't necessary. He rested and then he recovered a bit, but not to point he was before the injury. The concert starts to get even more interesting because he has to circumvent the problem in some way, and he does it, what a surprise.
Ouch! And what a musical genius. I never understood the "stop caring" thing. lol Not so muc
Yara, I enjoy every bit you write, don't think it's too much! At last somebody on this forum (okay, there are a few ones already) who doesn't only grab what he ca get but actually listens to the concerts.
Cant use mediafire. Please make a torrent of this.
Txs
Txs
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Luanda Queen wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Cant use mediafire. Please make a torrent of this.
Txs[/QUOTE]
I'll do it tonight.
Txs[/QUOTE]
I'll do it tonight.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Nummer2 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Yara, I enjoy every bit you write, don't think it's too much! At last somebody on this forum (okay, there are a few ones already) who doesn't only grab what he ca get but actually listens to the concerts.[/QUOTE]
Kein Problem! Es (das Konzert, neutraler Name, ich habe doch ein gutes Gedächtnis!) hat mir sehr gefallen, und ich schreibe hier sehr gern! Ich hoffe nur, dass diese kleine Meldung, die ich jetzt auf Deutsch schreibe, keine Deutschen ärgert, weil es macht mir viel spaß, andere Sprachen (als Englisch!) üben und nutzen zu können.
Ich danke Sie,
Yara.
Ich weiß nicht was mir heute passiert ist. Ich habe schon auf Französisch geschrieben...bald schreibe ich auf Portugiesisch, da ich habe es doch in Ihrem Profil bemerkt, dass Sie "Bossa Nova" gern hören. ;-))
Kein Problem! Es (das Konzert, neutraler Name, ich habe doch ein gutes Gedächtnis!) hat mir sehr gefallen, und ich schreibe hier sehr gern! Ich hoffe nur, dass diese kleine Meldung, die ich jetzt auf Deutsch schreibe, keine Deutschen ärgert, weil es macht mir viel spaß, andere Sprachen (als Englisch!) üben und nutzen zu können.
Ich danke Sie,
Yara.
Ich weiß nicht was mir heute passiert ist. Ich habe schon auf Französisch geschrieben...bald schreibe ich auf Portugiesisch, da ich habe es doch in Ihrem Profil bemerkt, dass Sie "Bossa Nova" gern hören. ;-))
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]rg9l wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Luanda Queen wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Cant use mediafire. Please make a torrent of this.
Txs[/QUOTE]
I'll do it tonight.[/QUOTE]
Much appreciated, rg91
Txs[/QUOTE]
I'll do it tonight.[/QUOTE]
Much appreciated, rg91
Thanks a lot for this one, Bob ! Now I have all Japan 1981 concerts also lossless :-)
My download always stops after approx. 20 MB.
Does anybody know what could be the reason for it or does anybody have a similar problem ?
Does anybody know what could be the reason for it or does anybody have a similar problem ?
Nope, all was alright for me it seems. Maybe a problem with mediafire... You should try it tomorrow and check if the problem is solved or not. Does this happen too with other links, have you tried another mediafire or rapidshare link ?
If needed and if Bob is OK, I could re-upload on rapidshare, but prefer waiting for his clearance and to see if you problem has been magically solved.
Does anyone have the same problem ?
Regards,
Olivier,
France.
If needed and if Bob is OK, I could re-upload on rapidshare, but prefer waiting for his clearance and to see if you problem has been magically solved.
Does anyone have the same problem ?
Regards,
Olivier,
France.
Well I can try if I manage to download it tomorrow
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ruth.olivier wrote: [/QUOTENAME]If needed and if Bob is OK, I could re-upload on rapidshare, but prefer waiting for his clearance and to see if you problem has been magically solved.[/QUOTE]
You definitely don't need my permission to spread these files any further. Like I said before, it's a silver, so it's essentially public domain already. Go for it!
You definitely don't need my permission to spread these files any further. Like I said before, it's a silver, so it's essentially public domain already. Go for it!