NEW 'Queen Live: A Concert Documentary' book - New Edition.

Gary, there is some really good stuff in this thread. I'm glad to see people treating the thread, and you for that matter, with appropriate respect. Some good and constructive responses, and interesting offers of photos.... GREAT to see. Earls Court, not least.

Good to see you NOT getting dragged into the more provocative silly comments, as I probably would.  This is really encouraging. I hope it continues to come in. Reviews of concerts, and/or even the support acts, photos, funny stories, bad stories, recollections of anything that happened to fans enroute to gigs, etc.

This reminds me... have you asked Jimmy J for his stories of following Queen around Europe on tour?? We should defo get some of his anecdotes. These things will bring a whole new dimension to the book. Queen on tour AND THE FANS WHO FOLLOWED THEM.

Keep it coming.  Great stuff GT.... as always.

GB

Queen Archivist wrote: Gary, there is some really good stuff in this thread. I'm glad to see people treating the thread, and you for that matter, with appropriate respect. Some good and constructive responses, and interesting offers of photos.... GREAT to see.
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Greg. You were treated with respect by most people here until the day you took offence at someone's pathetic comment and threw the dummy out.
Since then, that's all you seem to do and you've done it again today in response to a comment made by Sir GH.
Come on Greg, just leave it. It's not worth the grief and stress you end up putting yourself under and your SHOUTY replies and sarcastic comments just make everyone think you're a petulant child.
Break the circle and just don't react.
Gary doesn't get publically upset and he answers questions fairly as best he can. If you start doing that again you'll soon regain respect.

Queen Archivist wrote: Gary, there is some really good stuff in this thread. I'm glad to see people treating the thread, and you for that matter, with appropriate respect. Some good and constructive responses, and interesting offers of photos.... GREAT to see. Earls Court, not least.

Good to see you NOT getting dragged into the more provocative silly comments, as I probably would.  This is really encouraging. I hope it continues to come in. Reviews of concerts, and/or even the support acts, photos, funny stories, bad stories, recollections of anything that happened to fans enroute to gigs, etc.

This reminds me... have you asked Jimmy J for his stories of following Queen around Europe on tour?? We should defo get some of his anecdotes. These things will bring a whole new dimension to the book. Queen on tour AND THE FANS WHO FOLLOWED THEM.

Keep it coming.  Great stuff GT.... as always.

GB
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Yeah, I guess if I was GT I would't give you my phone number or email address either...

So, is Mr. Greggy Brooks kissing his possible replacement's ass?

Note how Greggy-Weggy just couldn't resist having a reserved jab at everyone in that little reply.

What's the matter Greg?  What prompted a public reply on what could simply be a PM?  Gary not returning your endless voicemails?

Gary; Thanks for the polite and positive replies. I think you have brought a proper sense of gravitas to a very worthy and laudable project.

For the record: Would it be possible to include a comprehensive list of all shows "professionally" recorded? I accept that these may well be far fewer than expected, and that many of these shows will never be commercially released, but let's be frank with each other.

What I really want to know from such a publication (and before parting with any of my hard-earned cash) is: What recordings exist, what are the best sources of these recordings (official or otherwise), and are these recordings video/ and or audio only?

If this is NOT to be the case, as a fellow collector, I think your labour of love will not be appreciated - after all eveything else can be obtained freely on the internet - or in cheap second hand copies of older sources.

John S Stuart wrote:
For the record: Would it be possible to include a comprehensive list of all shows "professionally" recorded? I accept that these may well be far fewer than expected, and that many of these shows will never be commercially released, but let's be frank with each other.
What do you mean by professionally recorded? They're never going to officially confirm the existance of soundboard recordings they have of every gig - but then, is a simple soundboard recording "professional"? I'm sure there aren't that many gigs that exist as soundboard recordings.

I agree with John S Stuart - it would be lovely to know exactly which shows were professionally filmed (either by QPL or local TV stations).  Even if the film is not in the archives, or not held by QPL anymore, it would be good to know that at least once upon a time the gig existed in pro video format. 

I'd like to think from that kind of list that gigs that QPL think are long since deleted or erased, may just turn up from private collections, or from fans being able to access TV stations, film companies  etc.. in their localities that QPL just can't reach.

Cheers

Any live footage on video either pro filmed or amateur is mentioned in the book.

As a collector myself this is one of my specialities....we have gone through multiple nights at certain shows to decipher what songs are from what nights that eventually made it onto a home video release, ie Rainbow and Rio and what songs are from what nights at other shows like Paris 79, Earls Court 77 and  others, and where you can find bits and pieces of these shows on compilations too.

GT wrote: Any live footage on video either pro filmed or amateur is mentioned in the book.

As a collector myself this is one of my specialities....we have gone through multiple nights at certain shows to decipher what songs are from what nights that eventually made it onto a home video release, ie Rainbow and Rio and what songs are from what nights at other shows like Paris 79, Earls Court 77 and  others, and where you can find bits and pieces of these shows on compilations too.

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Thanks GT for all the info you are giving us on this book.

Seems as though you have put an awful lot of time,space,energy,blood,sweat and tears into this

Much appreciated.

GT wrote: Any live footage on video either pro filmed or amateur is mentioned in the book. As a collector myself this is one of my specialities....we have gone through multiple nights at certain shows to decipher what songs are from what nights that eventually made it onto a home video release, ie Rainbow and Rio and what songs are from what nights at other shows like Paris 79, Earls Court 77 and  others, and where you can find bits and pieces of these shows on compilations too. ==================== You still haven't answered the questions regarding live audio recordings, sir.

Thanks GT.

It'll be nice to get a definitive list of video footage, and confirmation of how things like Rio and Rainbow are made up.

Will you also provide answers to WHY some songs were chopped in mid song too (such as Now I'm Here from Rio) - was it that the film or audio failed, purely for reasons of a better performance on a certain part etc..?

Do you know how DoRo got dates, venues, events etc.. SO wrong when compiling things like Rare Live, Champions of The World, The Queen Phenomenon, etc..???  (Were original master tapes labelled wrongly, or were they just lazy and incompetent?)

Thanks

cmsdrums, re:

>>Do you know how DoRo got dates, venues, events etc.. SO wrong when
compiling things like Rare Live, Champions of The World, The Queen
Phenomenon, etc..???  (Were original master tapes labelled wrongly, or
were they just lazy and incompetent?)

It's likely that this was left to "fact checkers" and DoRo had no input on the captions.  It's entirely likely that whoever WAS responsible for this element at QPL simply decided that as long as there was SOMETHING to annotate the footage, then the bulk of people would be more than happy and unconcerned that the collecting community would raise eyebrows.

After all, none of the films released have been aimed at the serious fan, after all.....

Thank you Bo Rhap....it really has been a labour of love though.
A big improvement on what was a good book anyway.

You still haven't answered the questions regarding live audio recordings, sir.

Hi Inu-liger,

I expect that any mention of what sound board recordings exist will be a last minute decision and won't be up to us anyway as they are unreleased recordings that are owned by the band.
All the private recordings that have surfaced over the years and bootlegs do get a mention though.