The "Sephiroth Mystery"

OMG, it's CLEARLY Freddie's voice singing those notes!

Gregsynth wrote: OMG, it's CLEARLY Freddie's voice singing those notes!

I agree with emrabt and gregsynth. They are not audience members, unless of the rare chance that Freddie went back in time and attended this concert as an audience member. After emrabt's clip of the 3 chorus one after another, I can safely determine that gypsy eye (or whatever source) spliced in the C5's because they are identical. However, the reason why the audience singing in the second chorus sounds different is because they are a different source.

Jamster1111:

Plus, listen to HOW the C5s are hit: That raspy, chesty tone Freddie had in the mid 80s? No one can imitate Freddie THAT well! LMFAO!

Ya i agree

Actually, I'm going to correct myself.  Having listened more carefully, there is indeed an edit.  A very small edit... like, 1/10 of a second, if that.  They take the first small piece of that high C and splice it into the second chorus to make it sound like Freddie hit the note again a second time.

But... it wasn't the bootleg label who did it.  It was done by the taper or some collector down the line.

I have a second gen copy of this audience source and the edit is there as well.  Guaranteed, it's not from the Gypsy Eye bootleg.  I got my CDR copy before Gypsy Eye pressed their bootleg, which was in 2002.  I'm glad I keep records of these things!

I'll post the recording soon.  It's a bit better-sounding than hard2handell's source, although his source was definitely done closer to the stage and has less audience disturbance.

so can we finally say mystery solved?

somewhere along the line someone tampered with the recording, it seems very pointless, any ideas why?

Thanks Sir GH and everyone who helped us solve this...But who knows why they did it. Probably to say they had a recording where he hits a C5 in every chorus

Yes! The mystery is solved! I had tons of fun though!

Gregsynth wrote: I had tons of fun though!
Me too, now we're waiting for you to come up with the next one.

I truly admire that there are people who are crazy enough and dedicated enough to notice these kinds of things. :)

GratefulFan wrote: I truly admire that there are people who are crazy enough and dedicated enough to notice these kinds of things. :)

Well i wasn't going to get involved, but that didn't last very long.

Here’s the un -edited 3, notice how the second Fighting has a slight pause before it and is nothing like the first one. in the GYPSY EYE source the start of this word (at least) is from the first chorus.

I guess I should apologies to GYPSY EYE for accusing them of tampering with
the recording.

Sir GH doesn't waste anytime updating his site does he....