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The Real Wizard
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[b]Planetgurl wrote: [/b]
I was at the first night at Hammersmith for the ANATO tour... Life changing - and my first gig ever. Loved all the flashpots and explosions and they were astonishing, amazing...you run out of superlatives really... When the stage exploded, synced to the start of the rock bit of Bo Rhap and Fred took a flying leap of the drum rostrum, I was so amazed that all I could say was 'Oh my God'...
Yes the News of the World tour was amazing too and I really wish I'd seen more than one gig on it. When the Crown took off synced to the beginning of Day at the Races guitars - well, one of the highlights of my life. That gig was so wild and excessive and they were so heavy: White Man and It's Late on the same setlist: I was in heaven...
But the Crazy tour and in particular Kampuchea...They were on blistering form.. ...What a night - best night of my life!
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I can't lie... I'm ridiculously jealous right now after reading that.
[b]Planetgurl wrote: [/b]
I was at the first night at Hammersmith for the ANATO tour... Life changing - and my first gig ever. Loved all the flashpots and explosions and they were astonishing, amazing...you run out of superlatives really... When the stage exploded, synced to the start of the rock bit of Bo Rhap and Fred took a flying leap of the drum rostrum, I was so amazed that all I could say was 'Oh my God'...
Yes the News of the World tour was amazing too and I really wish I'd seen more than one gig on it. When the Crown took off synced to the beginning of Day at the Races guitars - well, one of the highlights of my life. That gig was so wild and excessive and they were so heavy: White Man and It's Late on the same setlist: I was in heaven...
But the Crazy tour and in particular Kampuchea...They were on blistering form.. ...What a night - best night of my life!
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I can't lie... I'm ridiculously jealous right now after reading that.
Saint Jiub
A Day at the Races is probably my favorite tour
Doing All Right, White Queen, and Bring Back That Leroy Brown were still being played, and the Millionaire Waltz was added to the set list. Also, although I am not that crazy about You're My Best Friend normally, but I think YMBF sounds great being segued from tMW.
Doing All Right, White Queen, and Bring Back That Leroy Brown were still being played, and the Millionaire Waltz was added to the set list. Also, although I am not that crazy about You're My Best Friend normally, but I think YMBF sounds great being segued from tMW.
rhyeking
Slightly off topic, it would be great is eventually we get a DVD/CD for every tour. I'm guess live film or video for anything for Queen or Queen II eras would be tough to come by, but after that, the pickings should be good.
Let me know if I miss anything, but so far we've been issued the following:
1975 - Hammersmith Odeon, Christmas Eve (Opera Tour) (announced)
1981 - Queen Rock Montreal (The Gluttons For Punishment Tour)
1982 - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hot Space Tour)
1984 - We Are The Champions: Final Live In Japan (Queen Works! Tour) **Japan only**
1985 - Live Aid (not a tour,but nice to have)
1986 - Live At Wembley (Magic Tour)
1992 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (again, not a tour, but good to have)
2005 - Return Of The Champions (ROTC Tour)
2005 - Super Live In Japan (Return Of The Champions Tour) **Japan Only**
2008 - Live In Ukraine (The Cosmos Rocks tour) **UK only, so far**
I didn't include the 1974 Rainbow Theatre (SHA Tour) VHS because it was incomplete and UK-only. It would be great to get that a proper release of the full concert, with CD. I also didn't list the 1986 Budapest concert, though you could say Live Magic is sort of an accompanying album (but not really). And Live Killers is from many venues on the Jazz Tour, with no accompanying video.
Let me know if I miss anything, but so far we've been issued the following:
1975 - Hammersmith Odeon, Christmas Eve (Opera Tour) (announced)
1981 - Queen Rock Montreal (The Gluttons For Punishment Tour)
1982 - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hot Space Tour)
1984 - We Are The Champions: Final Live In Japan (Queen Works! Tour) **Japan only**
1985 - Live Aid (not a tour,but nice to have)
1986 - Live At Wembley (Magic Tour)
1992 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (again, not a tour, but good to have)
2005 - Return Of The Champions (ROTC Tour)
2005 - Super Live In Japan (Return Of The Champions Tour) **Japan Only**
2008 - Live In Ukraine (The Cosmos Rocks tour) **UK only, so far**
I didn't include the 1974 Rainbow Theatre (SHA Tour) VHS because it was incomplete and UK-only. It would be great to get that a proper release of the full concert, with CD. I also didn't list the 1986 Budapest concert, though you could say Live Magic is sort of an accompanying album (but not really). And Live Killers is from many venues on the Jazz Tour, with no accompanying video.
mike hunt
The first show I saw on video was wembly 86, and thought what a great live band they were. It wasn't until later that I heard earlier shows from ANATO to hot space that I realized how brilliant they were live. I think vocally the crazy and hot space tours were the best, but those shows from 75 to 78 were amazing. the set list, vocals, brian and roger were also in their prime, very tight musically. Let's not forget freddie's piano playing was at it's best in this era.
Planetgurl
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[b]Sir GH wrote: [/b]
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[b]Planetgurl wrote: [/b]
I was at the first night at Hammersmith for the ANATO tour... Life changing - and my first gig ever. Loved all the flashpots and explosions and they were astonishing, amazing...you run out of superlatives really... When the stage exploded, synced to the start of the rock bit of Bo Rhap and Fred took a flying leap of the drum rostrum, I was so amazed that all I could say was 'Oh my God'...
Yes the News of the World tour was amazing too and I really wish I'd seen more than one gig on it. When the Crown took off synced to the beginning of Day at the Races guitars - well, one of the highlights of my life. That gig was so wild and excessive and they were so heavy: White Man and It's Late on the same setlist: I was in heaven...
But the Crazy tour and in particular Kampuchea...They were on blistering form.. ...What a night - best night of my life!
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I can't lie... I'm ridiculously jealous right now after reading that.
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[/QUOTE]Well I'm jealous of Jim (Jenkins)... Why I didn't go and see more shows I don't know.... wish I'd been at Purley Tiffany's (almost brought the ceiling down) and Earls Court for the Jubilee tour; Wembley in 1980 (flu prevented me). Nevermind. And even if you attended things like Hyde Park in 76, you couldn't see anything (about 90% of the audience)... Nice smell of dry ice and that was about it! Oh, and of course the music... :-)
[b]Sir GH wrote: [/b]
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[b]Planetgurl wrote: [/b]
I was at the first night at Hammersmith for the ANATO tour... Life changing - and my first gig ever. Loved all the flashpots and explosions and they were astonishing, amazing...you run out of superlatives really... When the stage exploded, synced to the start of the rock bit of Bo Rhap and Fred took a flying leap of the drum rostrum, I was so amazed that all I could say was 'Oh my God'...
Yes the News of the World tour was amazing too and I really wish I'd seen more than one gig on it. When the Crown took off synced to the beginning of Day at the Races guitars - well, one of the highlights of my life. That gig was so wild and excessive and they were so heavy: White Man and It's Late on the same setlist: I was in heaven...
But the Crazy tour and in particular Kampuchea...They were on blistering form.. ...What a night - best night of my life!
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I can't lie... I'm ridiculously jealous right now after reading that.
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[/QUOTE]Well I'm jealous of Jim (Jenkins)... Why I didn't go and see more shows I don't know.... wish I'd been at Purley Tiffany's (almost brought the ceiling down) and Earls Court for the Jubilee tour; Wembley in 1980 (flu prevented me). Nevermind. And even if you attended things like Hyde Park in 76, you couldn't see anything (about 90% of the audience)... Nice smell of dry ice and that was about it! Oh, and of course the music... :-)
cmsdrums
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[b]rhyeking wrote: [/b]
Slightly off topic, it would be great is eventually we get a DVD/CD for every tour. I'm guess live film or video for anything for Queen or Queen II eras would be tough to come by, but after that, the pickings should be good.
Let me know if I miss anything, but so far we've been issued the following:
1975 - Hammersmith Odeon, Christmas Eve (Opera Tour) (announced)
1981 - Queen Rock Montreal (The Gluttons For Punishment Tour)
1982 - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hot Space Tour)
1984 - We Are The Champions: Final Live In Japan (Queen Works! Tour) **Japan only**
1985 - Live Aid (not a tour,but nice to have)
1986 - Live At Wembley (Magic Tour)
1992 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (again, not a tour, but good to have)
2005 - Return Of The Champions (ROTC Tour)
2005 - Super Live In Japan (Return Of The Champions Tour) **Japan Only**
2008 - Live In Ukraine (The Cosmos Rocks tour) **UK only, so far**
I didn't include the 1974 Rainbow Theatre (SHA Tour) VHS because it was incomplete and UK-only. It would be great to get that a proper release of the full concert, with CD. I also didn't list the 1986 Budapest concert, though you could say Live Magic is sort of an accompanying album (but not really). And Live Killers is from many venues on the Jazz Tour, with no accompanying video.
[/QUOTE] I'm sure we will get Rio and Budapest on DVD at some point too.
There are also Japan 82 and 85 both on official VHS releases, so they have the film and sound for those.
[b]rhyeking wrote: [/b]
Slightly off topic, it would be great is eventually we get a DVD/CD for every tour. I'm guess live film or video for anything for Queen or Queen II eras would be tough to come by, but after that, the pickings should be good.
Let me know if I miss anything, but so far we've been issued the following:
1975 - Hammersmith Odeon, Christmas Eve (Opera Tour) (announced)
1981 - Queen Rock Montreal (The Gluttons For Punishment Tour)
1982 - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hot Space Tour)
1984 - We Are The Champions: Final Live In Japan (Queen Works! Tour) **Japan only**
1985 - Live Aid (not a tour,but nice to have)
1986 - Live At Wembley (Magic Tour)
1992 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (again, not a tour, but good to have)
2005 - Return Of The Champions (ROTC Tour)
2005 - Super Live In Japan (Return Of The Champions Tour) **Japan Only**
2008 - Live In Ukraine (The Cosmos Rocks tour) **UK only, so far**
I didn't include the 1974 Rainbow Theatre (SHA Tour) VHS because it was incomplete and UK-only. It would be great to get that a proper release of the full concert, with CD. I also didn't list the 1986 Budapest concert, though you could say Live Magic is sort of an accompanying album (but not really). And Live Killers is from many venues on the Jazz Tour, with no accompanying video.
[/QUOTE] I'm sure we will get Rio and Budapest on DVD at some point too.
There are also Japan 82 and 85 both on official VHS releases, so they have the film and sound for those.
We Are The Champions
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[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
The Works had the best setlist but that was pretty much all it had going for it.
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[/QUOTE] Their early 80's South American stuff was pretty outstanding. [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
I still don't understand why The Works tour is not well liked!!! A great set list as you say. The gigs I saw were awesome. Maybe it was the synths or whatever or the fact that Freddie did not play so much piano as in previous tours. Vocally the Hot Space tour was maybe better but the lighting rig on the Works was brilliant.
Still Think that Wembley 86 was the best live show I ever saw and their 70's shows were great.
[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]
The Works had the best setlist but that was pretty much all it had going for it.
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[/QUOTE] Their early 80's South American stuff was pretty outstanding. [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
I still don't understand why The Works tour is not well liked!!! A great set list as you say. The gigs I saw were awesome. Maybe it was the synths or whatever or the fact that Freddie did not play so much piano as in previous tours. Vocally the Hot Space tour was maybe better but the lighting rig on the Works was brilliant.
Still Think that Wembley 86 was the best live show I ever saw and their 70's shows were great.
Yara
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[b]Planetgurl wrote: [/b]
I was at the first night at Hammersmith for the ANATO tour... Life changing - and my first gig ever. Loved all the flashpots and explosions and they were astonishing, amazing...you run out of superlatives really... When the stage exploded, synced to the start of the rock bit of Bo Rhap and Fred took a flying leap of the drum rostrum, I was so amazed that all I could say was 'Oh my God'...
Yes the News of the World tour was amazing too and I really wish I'd seen more than one gig on it. When the Crown took off synced to the beginning of Day at the Races guitars - well, one of the highlights of my life. That gig was so wild and excessive and they were so heavy: White Man and It's Late on the same setlist: I was in heaven...
But the Crazy tour and in particular Kampuchea...They were on blistering form.. ...What a night - best night of my life!
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[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] Yeah. Those were the days. I was in both concerts at the Hammersmith too - in 1975 and 1979. Do you remember the most gorgeous lady at the theatre in 1975? That lady people couldn't help looking at in 1975 and who was eagerly sought after in 1979 at the same theatre? People all talking to each other about the lady and waiting for her blistering and glaring arrival. Do you remember? Well, here I am, darling.
[b]Planetgurl wrote: [/b]
I was at the first night at Hammersmith for the ANATO tour... Life changing - and my first gig ever. Loved all the flashpots and explosions and they were astonishing, amazing...you run out of superlatives really... When the stage exploded, synced to the start of the rock bit of Bo Rhap and Fred took a flying leap of the drum rostrum, I was so amazed that all I could say was 'Oh my God'...
Yes the News of the World tour was amazing too and I really wish I'd seen more than one gig on it. When the Crown took off synced to the beginning of Day at the Races guitars - well, one of the highlights of my life. That gig was so wild and excessive and they were so heavy: White Man and It's Late on the same setlist: I was in heaven...
But the Crazy tour and in particular Kampuchea...They were on blistering form.. ...What a night - best night of my life!
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[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE] Yeah. Those were the days. I was in both concerts at the Hammersmith too - in 1975 and 1979. Do you remember the most gorgeous lady at the theatre in 1975? That lady people couldn't help looking at in 1975 and who was eagerly sought after in 1979 at the same theatre? People all talking to each other about the lady and waiting for her blistering and glaring arrival. Do you remember? Well, here I am, darling.
rhyeking
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[b]cmsdrums wrote: [/b]
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[b]rhyeking wrote: [/b]
Slightly off topic, it would be great is eventually we get a DVD/CD for every tour. I'm guess live film or video for anything for Queen or Queen II eras would be tough to come by, but after that, the pickings should be good.
Let me know if I miss anything, but so far we've been issued the following:
1975 - Hammersmith Odeon, Christmas Eve (Opera Tour) (announced)
1981 - Queen Rock Montreal (The Gluttons For Punishment Tour)
1982 - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hot Space Tour)
1984 - We Are The Champions: Final Live In Japan (Queen Works! Tour) **Japan only**
1985 - Live Aid (not a tour,but nice to have)
1986 - Live At Wembley (Magic Tour)
1992 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (again, not a tour, but good to have)
2005 - Return Of The Champions (ROTC Tour)
2005 - Super Live In Japan (Return Of The Champions Tour) **Japan Only**
2008 - Live In Ukraine (The Cosmos Rocks tour) **UK only, so far**
I didn't include the 1974 Rainbow Theatre (SHA Tour) VHS because it was incomplete and UK-only. It would be great to get that a proper release of the full concert, with CD. I also didn't list the 1986 Budapest concert, though you could say Live Magic is sort of an accompanying album (but not really). And Live Killers is from many venues on the Jazz Tour, with no accompanying video.
[/QUOTE] I'm sure we will get Rio and Budapest on DVD at some point too.
There are also Japan 82 and 85 both on official VHS releases, so they have the film and sound for those.
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Budapest would be a pointless re-issue, for the following reasons:
a) We have a complete 1986 concert available in Live At Wembley
b) Budapest would require a complete re-edting in order to restore the full concert and retain the documentary footage from the original (and possible add more).
c) some of the Live Magic tracks are from the Budapest concert, plus "Tavaski Szel Vizet Araset" was released on the re-issued Wembley CD
Rock In Rio would be okay.
The 05/11/85 Japan concert has already been issued. I mistakenly noted it as 1984. It's the "Final Live In Japan" DVD.
Japan 1982 VHS, again, is a heavily edited concert (barely an hour).
What would be nice is if Queen took a cue from Rush, who a few years ago re-released, unaltered, three concert VHSs in a box set, called Rush Replay x3. They did it because fans had been hounding them from years. The DVDs are completely barebones, just remastered picture and stereo sound. If Queen did that for, say, The Rainbow 1974 concert, Japan 1982 and Budapest 1986, I'd be happy. Nothing fancy and a cheap price tag just to get them out of the way. The Rush box also contained an audio CD of one of the concerts (which had no corresponding live album, where the other two did have a live album to go with the video).
[b]cmsdrums wrote: [/b]
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[b]rhyeking wrote: [/b]
Slightly off topic, it would be great is eventually we get a DVD/CD for every tour. I'm guess live film or video for anything for Queen or Queen II eras would be tough to come by, but after that, the pickings should be good.
Let me know if I miss anything, but so far we've been issued the following:
1975 - Hammersmith Odeon, Christmas Eve (Opera Tour) (announced)
1981 - Queen Rock Montreal (The Gluttons For Punishment Tour)
1982 - Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl (Hot Space Tour)
1984 - We Are The Champions: Final Live In Japan (Queen Works! Tour) **Japan only**
1985 - Live Aid (not a tour,but nice to have)
1986 - Live At Wembley (Magic Tour)
1992 - Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (again, not a tour, but good to have)
2005 - Return Of The Champions (ROTC Tour)
2005 - Super Live In Japan (Return Of The Champions Tour) **Japan Only**
2008 - Live In Ukraine (The Cosmos Rocks tour) **UK only, so far**
I didn't include the 1974 Rainbow Theatre (SHA Tour) VHS because it was incomplete and UK-only. It would be great to get that a proper release of the full concert, with CD. I also didn't list the 1986 Budapest concert, though you could say Live Magic is sort of an accompanying album (but not really). And Live Killers is from many venues on the Jazz Tour, with no accompanying video.
[/QUOTE] I'm sure we will get Rio and Budapest on DVD at some point too.
There are also Japan 82 and 85 both on official VHS releases, so they have the film and sound for those.
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Budapest would be a pointless re-issue, for the following reasons:
a) We have a complete 1986 concert available in Live At Wembley
b) Budapest would require a complete re-edting in order to restore the full concert and retain the documentary footage from the original (and possible add more).
c) some of the Live Magic tracks are from the Budapest concert, plus "Tavaski Szel Vizet Araset" was released on the re-issued Wembley CD
Rock In Rio would be okay.
The 05/11/85 Japan concert has already been issued. I mistakenly noted it as 1984. It's the "Final Live In Japan" DVD.
Japan 1982 VHS, again, is a heavily edited concert (barely an hour).
What would be nice is if Queen took a cue from Rush, who a few years ago re-released, unaltered, three concert VHSs in a box set, called Rush Replay x3. They did it because fans had been hounding them from years. The DVDs are completely barebones, just remastered picture and stereo sound. If Queen did that for, say, The Rainbow 1974 concert, Japan 1982 and Budapest 1986, I'd be happy. Nothing fancy and a cheap price tag just to get them out of the way. The Rush box also contained an audio CD of one of the concerts (which had no corresponding live album, where the other two did have a live album to go with the video).