1976.09.18 London - merge/matrix, UPDATED OCT 2015

pogor1 wrote:



Sorry Bob ,i have stupid question about what is "matrix" mean, is it when you hear both AUD and SBD recordings at the same time?

Exactly.. :-)

It's very difficult to create it, as you must ensure that both sources play at the same speed, and that you don't get the phasing effect from being 0.01% off.  My friend Helmut from Germany did an excellent job on that one.

Thank you! I can not wait to listen to this :-)

Thanks for the merge of this important show.

Thank you very much!!

Dear, Sir Gh, how are you?

Thanks again for the share. I'm going to download it as soon as possible.

Why do you think this concert is so highly-regarded by Queen fans and even by the band, it seems? Do you think it's because of the performance or for a, let's say, historical reason? Was it a big deal back then to play in the Hyde Park? Was it still (?) a prestigious location for rock bands to play? I remember watching the Stones' "At the Park" and I enjoy that concert - it happened just after Brian Jone's death and I don't know how many people gathered there to listen to them. Mick Jagger sings with two or three microphones at times, it's funny.

That said, even though the Stones concert is way older, the footage is in much better shape than Queen's concert in the park some 6 years later - do you know how it was shot? What kind of film?
 
Doing an audience recording of this must have been hell, the bands could barely make themselves heard there, at least judging from the Stones' performance, which has this thing of Mick Jagger singing with 10 microphones. lol

For those who don't know it yet, here it goes again: Sir GH has an excellent website with careful analysis of each Queen live recording available out there as of now: www.queenlive.ca

Well, thanks for the great share again. I'm curious to listen to this one in better quality. Thanks for the work and dedication.

Take care!

Yara.

 

Yara wrote:







Why do you think this concert is so highly-regarded by Queen fans and even by the band, it seems? Do you think it's because of the performance or for a, let's say, historical reason? Was it a big deal back then to play in the Hyde Park? Was it still (?) a prestigious location for rock bands to play?

Not too many bands had done it up to that point, so it was indeed a pretty big deal.  The numbers themselves were huge... a free concert for 150,000+ fans wasn't too commonplace in 1976.  Plenty of people must have thought that history would view it on a grand scale.

pittrek wrote:

 



Ducksoup wrote:
Next step is synching this with a low gen video...

 



Do you have a low gen video ? Because "somebody" has this on his to-do list but owns only the QTV video

Unfortunately not. The lowest gen I have is the QTV DVD version with the B&W Roger Taylor photograph menu (I think you have that one too)

Maybe you should ask Miklos...

Thank you very much Sir GH for this great share!!! Really a nice upgrade

Thanks a lot for all your excellent work!!

MERCI BEAUCOUP FOR THIS GIFT

Thanks for sharing :-)

Thank you very much Bob !!

I guess it features the best live version of Liar I have listened to so far. Well, at least it sounds the best to me as far as Brian's guitar playing is concerned. Roger&Brian interact better too, it seems. 

In terms of performance, I think it's better than the one at Hammersmith in 1975. Freddie's vocals are a bit more daring too and sounding brighter when necessary. Quite good.

I must say, it's really amazing here how Freddie sort his way out of the wild falsetto line of the original: "father please...directed me in the right way" - he uses a bit of his falsetto register and keeps balancing it with a soft middle-tenor full singing. 

Very well done, I thought. Well, at least I liked it. I wonder whether he ever tried to sing live the whole line in falsetto. It wouldn't be hard to him at that point - he tried to give a go at that killer line from Under Pressure in Montreal, so I thought maybe he could have tried to get the higher notes in Liar using his beautiful and lovely falsetto. 

I liked the vocal harmonies too. I really enjoyed the performance of Sweet Lady from this concert: it casts the song in a different - and more likeable - light to me. Ogre Battle is exciting.

Very good concert. :-)

Thanks for the upgrade Bob! Can't wait to be in the matrix ;)

Thanks

Sir GH wrote: Queen
London, UK
Hyde Park
September 18, 1976

* Audience source
AUD > ? > CDR (x) > WAV (pitch/speed correction) > FLAC level 8

** Pro video source
Video Master > ? > DVD-R (x) > WAV > FLAC level 8

*** Official release 1
The Magic Years VHS > DVD-R > WAV > FLAC Level 8

**** Official release 2
A Night At The Opera anniversary DVD > WAV > FLAC Level 8

The first two sources are heard as a matrix (carefully done by Helmut) for most of the show, and the two official sources are spliced in wherever possible, as noted below:

 1) Bohemian Rhapsody (tape & rock part)
 2) Ogre Battle ***/****
 3) Sweet Lady ****
 4) White Queen
 5) Flick Of The Wrist ***
 6) You're My Best Friend
 7) Bohemian Rhapsody (verses) ****
 8) Killer Queen
 9) The March Of The Black Queen / Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise)
10) Bring Back That Leroy Brown
11) Brighton Rock / Son And Daughter ***
12) '39 ***
13) You Take My Breath Away
14) The Prophet's Song ****
15) Stone Cold Crazy
16) Keep Yourself Alive ***
17) Liar
18) In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TTE3LYEG
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6V0D0LQQ
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UJL8JSI7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OEQN590Y
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EOWT40OC

It runs slightly over 80 minutes, so here's a shorter version of the last track with some of the audience noise removed, bringing it down to 79:23 if you want to burn it to an audio CD: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QCEN8Z9T

While there is official material in this share, I can't picture it somehow discouraging the purchase of any currently available official product.  That said, an official release of the Hyde Park show on CD or DVD would render this share to be obsolete, anyway.  So in the meantime, enjoy!

Your version better others version that I ever heard, thanks