ANNOUNCE: Final Budokan Nights Disc 1 (May 8th, 1985)

YourValentine · Member since July 2001

26 February 2009 15:29

Folks, this is a new Japanese silver boot release from "Uxbridge" called

[b]Queen Final Budokan Nights[/b]

Disc 1 is a new incomplete recording of May 8th 1985. The recording ends with an incomplete "Love Of My Life". Apparently, the taper lost his second tape, a pity. The CD comes from the original tape. This share comes right from the silver encoded to flac with Flac Frontend level 8.

File size 350 MB

(Discs 2 and 3 are a new master recording from May 9th and will be shared later)

Set List:

01 - It's Still Rock'n Roll (Billy Joel) - tape
02 - Machines Intro
03 - Tear It Up
04 - Tie Your Mother Down
05 - Under Pressure
06 - Somebody To Love
07 - Killer Queen
08 - Seven Seas Of Rhye
09 - Keep Yourself Alive
10 - Liar
11 - Vocal Improvisation
12 - It's A Hard Life
13 - Yeah Yeah Yeah
14 - Dragon Attack
15 - Now I'm Here
16 - Is This The World We Created
17 - Love Of My Life (incomplete)

Enjoy:)

The Real Wizard · Member since August 2002

26 February 2009 15:55

[QUOTE]

[b]YourValentine wrote: [/b]

Apparently, the taper lost his second tape, a pity.

[/QUOTE]
How can you be sure there was a second tape in the first place if it wasn't bootlegged? Maybe it's being hoarded...

>The CD comes from the original tape.

There's no guarantee of that. It could be a copy, or the bootleg company could have processed it in some way before pressing it to silver.

I've already got this one, but thanks for getting it out there. It's a great find... this Uxbridge label has been pretty nice so far.

Ginger01 · Member since April 2005

26 February 2009 15:55

This sounds great! Many thanks for sharing it, Barbara! :)

daffy_the_duck · Member since February 2006

26 February 2009 16:35

Nice to see some new recordings which suddenly see the light of the day, and even better, shared on queenzone.
thanks a lot!

TimBHM · Member since January 2008

26 February 2009 16:55

Thanks YV - always nice to hear a new source, especially from the short-lived '85 tour!

david (galashiels) · Member since January 2005

26 February 2009 16:57

thank you.

RoyThomasBaker · Member since May 2007

26 February 2009 20:16

Thanks a lot!

tjleone · Member since September 2008

26 February 2009 21:55

Thank you very much!!!

Kef · Member since June 2005

26 February 2009 22:23

Thanks for the share of this alternate source.

Yara · Member since January 2008

26 February 2009 23:07

Thanks a lot, Barbara. This is great.

Best regards.

MarkRW · Member since July 2008

27 February 2009 02:07

Thank you.

PBB · Member since October 2005

27 February 2009 03:00

Thank you very much

YourValentine · Member since July 2001

27 February 2009 04:10

[b]Sir GH wrote: [/b]

How can you be sure there was a second tape in the first place if it wasn't bootlegged? Maybe it's being hoarded...

>The CD comes from the original tape.

There's no guarantee of that. It could be a copy, or the bootleg company could have processed it in some way before pressing it to silver.

I've already got this one, but thanks for getting it out there. It's a great find... this Uxbridge label has been pretty nice so far.

[/QUOTE]

The taper gave the tape to the label owner himself, why should he "hoard" a part of the recording when he wanted it pressed on silver? That makes no sense. He lost the tape, there is no need to think he lied about that. In the end it makes no difference if he lost it or never recorded the 2nd part of the show but sadly he lost it.

Even if the label mastered the recording in some way, the CD still comes from the original tape and not a copy or an edit or something.

riku2 · Member since October 2006

27 February 2009 09:51

Thanks! It will be interesting to listen to a different source of this great show.

Riku

The Real Wizard · Member since August 2002

27 February 2009 11:04

[QUOTE]

[b]YourValentine wrote:
[/b]

The taper gave the tape to the label owner himself, why should he "hoard" a part of the recording when he wanted it pressed on silver? That makes no sense. He lost the tape, there is no need to think he lied about that. In the end it makes no difference if he lost it or never recorded the 2nd part of the show but sadly he lost it.

Even if the label mastered the recording in some way, the CD still comes from the original tape and not a copy or an edit or something.

[/QUOTE]
Do you have any idea of how much bootleg labels are known to pay people for a new recording? These things aren't done for free. If not, then the taper would have leaked out his recording otherwise, or just kept his tapes for himself.

That said, tapers and collectors have been known to send an incomplete recording to one bootleg label and later a complete recording to another - not before altering the complete recording to sound worse, which brings forth the possibility that the unaltered complete recording will one day "surface," which it often does, and more money is made by everyone. There hasn't been too much of this trickery with Queen bootlegs, but the acts of some Zeppelin, Floyd, and Stones (and plenty of others) tapers and collectors over the years have led to the necessity of websites like this one: http://bootledz.com/comparisons.htm

In the world of bootlegging, the possibilities are endless. The only sure way that you are getting an unaltered master tape is if the taper shares it on their own, not through a bootleg label. This is why I ask the questions I asked. Indeed, it's entirely possible that this is all that exists and that the tape wasn't altered at all, but the only people who know the answer for sure are the people who work for the bootleg label.

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