The Sun City Gig

City-in-the-Sun .... many, many thanks for the snippets !!

I'm still ... [img=/images/smiley/msn/omg_smile.gif][/img]  ..... wow !!!

That's amazing :-) I would like to send you a pm, Anthony,  but it does not work.. Please pm me and maybe I can help you to share this recording with no legal trouble for you. If you do not want to share it for legal reasons. pm me anyway :-)

Watch out, City-In-The-Sun.

I say soak 'em.  This audio should be very valuable to the powers-that-be.  They don't have it... no matter what Greg Brooks says.  They will low-ball you all the way, perhaps even try to convince you to "donate it" for the good of the Queen community.

Soak 'em, buddy.  Keep your original.

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Hello Marknow

Thank you for your kind words ,i had to finish half a bottle of Jack Daniels and 20 fags to pluck up the courage
to do this ,my old heart cant take to much more of all this
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Are you kidding me?!! It took *me* two bottles of cognac to come to terms with the fact that this is actually real material, not yet another fraud.

Nice one guys you do make me Laugh ,im suprised that there are not more comments on this it does feel like a weight of my chest ,i would love for you all to here it but i paid a heavy price for this tape after the concert, its a long story,in 1984 security was very tight as you can imagine but  i would pay for a legal copy and a fair price
purelly because the mix is just up my street , i really need a pro studio to run  it through a high end  machine which you can adjust the azimuth ,etc and correct the pitch straight from the source ,last time the tape came out of storage was 11 years ago when i put it to mini disk and that was on a relativly cheap machine,
That tape has been held close to my bossom since the day it was recorded travelled far lands and back again
so it was nice to get just look at it again,the mini disk done a fair job but it needs some really high end gear to
get it up to scratch , so come on QPL Let me into your studio so we can put it donw in its ultimate form and
move forward with all this hype about it,i am dying to know how many fans out there have lisened to the concerts before especial the Band , they must have im sure , what do you guys think ?
Keep up the posts and comments please as we can put pressure on them a bit im sure ..
Long live Soundboard recordings....
and sites and Fans like yourselves
We Love em..
Anthony..

I wouldn't put all my hopes in QPL about this. After getting your tape, they'll probably put them in a wooden box and store it in a dark underground vault, next to the Ark of the Covenant and the Area 51 alien body.

Then they'll release Wembley for the *th time.

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the mix is just up my street , i really need a pro studio to run  it through a high end  machine which you can adjust the azimuth ,etc and correct the pitch straight from the source... it needs some really high end gear to
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Agreed.  But by bootleg/unofficial recording standards, it's still one of the best.  It's not a dry mix... it's very lively and guitar heavy.  Most people here would be happy with it as it is.

Maybe you can consider uploading it here first and dealing with QPL later... ?

If QP wants the tape, never give them the master! They'll be find with a copy, and there's a very long list of collectors who gave their rarities to QP, and never heard of them again.

Holy Shit! Thank you for sharing that snippet City-in-the-Sun. I think I've never been so surprised when reading a topic on queenzone, never in these... dog knows how many years I've been here. Thank you, even hearing that snippet was thrilling.

Oh, and take the warnings about Queen Productions seriously, never give them anything for free. These people know what they are talking about. Oh I still miss my original Man in the Shadows-mastertape so much...

It has been nice to here your comments on this and i will sleep well tonight knowing that at last some people have
enjoyed the Board mix ,hats off to the origianal engineers for doing a great Front of house and monitor mix.
I also found out this morning that im gona be a Grandad ,OMG maybe things are not so bad in life after all
I will think about what you all have said and so dearly want to upload what i have for you all to enjoy.
Thank you for all your coments and please keep them coming , iam sure some people have very strong veiws on this concert i do understand why , i was there right in the thick of all the political debate so i can understand why people get upset about this concert ,i try to just concentrate on the Band and the sound and energy they produced
on stage ,and boy did queen rock Sun City -  they certainly did..

Many Thanks
Anthony.

I have a strong opinion about Queen playing Sun City but that was 25 years ago and when Nelson Mandela can live with that I can surely forget about that, too. However, I would want to listen to the concert in any case, I am too much a collector to boycott a recording for any reasons :-)

Oh Jesus - I think I'm gonna be violently sick any second now...

Anthony -

Congrats on being a new grandpa.

This masterpiece of yours is really exciting and sounds beautiful.  It would be great and extremely generous if you could share this wonderful historic concert (with excellent sound quality too).   

Years ago, I used to listen to audience recordings of Queen concerts to and from work every day.  However, lately I have become bored with Queen and have not listened any Queen concert recordings in at least one year.

I think I will listen to Houston 1977 or Chicago 1980 next week while I commute to work, and hallucinate about possibly listening to Queen in Sun City  ... some day, one day.

Whether or not you decide to share this concert, I am very grateful that you shared your memories and the
snippet of this beautiful concert.

Thanks

Mike Van

Many people have written great message in this topic. What I'd like to add is that this particular recording has, apart from its historical value, also such amazing soundquality that hearing the entire thing would be nothing short of sensational.

It's not a dry mono soundboard recording like there are plenty from Led Zeppelin but a stereo soundboard with a glorious mix. All instruments can be heard clearly without one getting in the way of the other. You've indicated it yourself, the beautiful interplay between Roger and John(for example the intro to Under pressure with every little detail, fantastic) is really awesome. That's something you can't enjoy when listening to many audience recordings. Also, all vocals are beatifully captured with a nice balance between lead and backing vocals. This has been said before but also the guitarsound is gorgeous, the quite long 'I want to break free' -sample is fantastic prove of that, it's as if Brian is playing the guitar just for you. And there's always a great balance. The available space is beatifully used.
To my ears this is really an awesome document of this great band:-) When you get to hear all the details you understand even more, as a listener, that they were really something.



 



Congratulations with you grandchild:-) (by the way, I'll soon be uncle Raf:-)

sounds Fred had too much sin city the night before, or maybe it was a rooster in his mouth that messed up his voice? Who knows... thanks for the post