1975.04.19 Tokyo - merge of two sources

Queen
Tokyo, Japan
Nippon Budokan
April 19, 1975

This is a merge of both audience sources from Queen's first show in Japan, to create the best-sounding recording possible.

 * Source 1 - "A Beautiful Album" silver > WAV (GoldWave pitch/speed correction on side A) > FLAC level 8
** Source 2 - as below, but with the volume increased to 130% (in both channels on disc 1, but only in the right channel on disc 2)

Source : AUD -> Master cassette (Columbia C120SP low noise cassette tape)
Transferred : Tape -> ? -> MiniDisc (Victor MD-80QX5)(ATRAC comppression) -> Sony CMT-M333NT Micro System -> Yamaha Pocketrack W24 pocket recorder (recorded with '16bit/44.1kHz recording mode') -> Fujitsu FMV - BIBLO NF75W/V notebook computer -> WAV
Lineage : WAV -> Track Splitting (SoundEngine Free) -> FLAC level 8 (Trader's Little Helper) ->Tagging (SuperTagEditor)

Recorded and transferred (from tape to MiniDisc) by Quicksilver
Transferred (from MiniDisc to PC), track splitted, encoded and tagged by Masahiko

Merged with LP source by Sir GH

Disc 1:

01. Procession [cut] **/*
02. Now I'm Here *
03. Ogre Battle **
04. Father To Son **/*
05. White Queen */**
06. Flick Of The Wrist **/*
07. Doing All Right *
08. In The Lap Of The Gods *
09. Killer Queen *
10. The March Of The Black Queen *
11. Bring Back That Leroy Brown */**
12. Son And Daughter [tape flip] **

Disc 2 :

01. Son And Daughter [continued] **
02. Band Introduction **
03. Keep Yourself Alive **
04. Seven Seas Of Rhye **
05. Stone Cold Crazy *
06. Liar **
07. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited *
08. Call for an encore **
09. Big Spender *
10. Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll *
11. Jailhouse Rock *
12. Call for an encore **
13. See What A Fool I've Been *
14. God Save The Queen *

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Enjoy, and keep it lossless !

Thank you very much! :D

MERCI BEAUCOUP  for all you work

Thank you very much!!

Thank yoy very much Bob.
By your excellent work, a little gem was reborn to gorgeous gold.
Again, I would like to tell You GREAT THANKS !

Thank both of You for this merge !!!

That was very fast!
Thank you very much Bob.

kind regards
W.

Many thanks for this compilation Bob! And also a huge thanks for the one who shared the alternate source!

Super, thanks!

I just finished listening to this. Wonderful concert with wonderful atmosphere.

Why do I have a feeling that See What A Fool I've Been WASN"T originally planned ? :-)

Yeah, I'm also inclined to believe they decided on the spot to encore again... in that atmosphere, how couldn't they.. !??

What do we have from the first Japanese tour ?

1975-04-19 Tokyo, Japan - video ?, almost full audio recording, pictures
1975-04-22 Nagoya, Japan - 2 songs
1975-04-23 Kobe, Japan - an audio recording without encores
1975-04-25 Fukuoka, Japan - nothing ? Not even a few pictures ?
1975-04-28 Okayama, Japan - almost complete audio recording
1975-04-29 Kakegawa (or Shizuoka ?), Japan - almost complete audio recording
1975-04-30 Yokohama - songs without encores appeared on youtube (as audio only)
1975-05-01 Tokyo - a 100% complete audio recording, 3 songs on video, some pictures

Is it all or did I forget something ? Or does anybody have access to (at least) some photos ? I have for example seen on eBay a book about their first Japanese tour, but it's not sold anymore. It would be great to have this tour properly "covered" :-)

The b/w pictures aren't necessarily from the first night - they could be from any show except May 1.  But with pictures from two shows and 13 recordings, this tour is pretty well-documented now.  More is always good, though .. :-)

Thank you Sir for this great work and also Masahiko for sharing the alternate source!

Thank you very much Sir GH!!