Freddie's best/worst live performances

I'd have to say that this was his greatest live vocal performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37gT7XDoWFM

He hits all the notes just like on the studio version. Hell, he even manages to double-track himself at times! Is there no end to this man's talent? :P

GinjaNinja wrote: I'd have to say that this was his greatest live vocal performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37gT7XDoWFM

He hits all the notes just like on the studio version. Hell, he even manages to double-track himself at times! Is there no end to this man's talent? :P
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I agree! Excellent version!

Everything @ H-Odeon '79. Especially Now I'm Here:)

How about best/worst vocal improv, day-oh's?
Live Aid, Montreux '86 for starters.

jaq wrote: Everything @ H-Odeon '79. Especially Now I'm Here:)

How about best/worst vocal improv, day-oh's?
Live Aid, Montreux '86 for starters.
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I've honestly never heard a "bad" improv or a "day-oh" from Freddie. Even on his absolute worst gigs in the 80s, his falsetto was still brilliant!

Gregsynth wrote: I've honestly never heard a "bad" improv or a "day-oh" from Freddie. Even on his absolute worst gigs in the 80s, his falsetto was still brilliant!
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Ok then, most creative, unpredictable maybe?
Some of them got a bit 1-2-3 Aretha (not good with dates like y'all...) He kept the falsetto shorter than usual @ last leg of Japan (smart man.)

Another "worst": charity performance of "Time".

jaq wrote: Gregsynth wrote: I've honestly never heard a "bad" improv or a "day-oh" from Freddie. Even on his absolute worst gigs in the 80s, his falsetto was still brilliant!
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Ok then, most creative, unpredictable maybe?
Some of them got a bit 1-2-3 Aretha (not good with dates like y'all...) He kept the falsetto shorter than usual @ last leg of Japan (smart man.)

Another "worst": charity performance of "Time".
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Well, I'd say that the Montreux 1986 version is extremely powerful--and really shows off Freddie's sustain and vibrato well! An AWESOME improv has to be Sun City--extremely creative, and Freddie actually hits one of the cleanest live C5s in his live career!

Kassel 1982 has one of the best improv sections on the Hot Space Tour (very soulful--and creative)!

Gregsynth wrote: Well,
I'd say that the Montreux 1986 version is extremely powerful--and
really shows off Freddie's sustain and vibrato well! An AWESOME improv
has to be Sun City--extremely creative, and Freddie actually hits one of
the cleanest live C5s in his live career! Kassel 1982 has one of the best improv sections on the Hot Space Tour (very soulful--and creative)!

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So Sun City wasn't a total bust:) Have to dig up those dates later.

Montreux '86 is so outrageous, if only every gig was playback we'd have great Day-ohs all the time:P

When you say brilliant, is it judged against other singers or Freddie's standards?

Quick, what's the best sustain/dynamics work on Liar? I really miss the effect on the record. it comes straight at you needling with charm and something unnerving. In live it kinda peters out at the end, maybe due to open space setting.

I just judge the improvs between all of Freddie's! As for the Liar performances--the best ones that keep the "record" dynamics have to be the one's from the 1973 tour up to about the Sheer Attack Tour--after that the song started getting sped up!

Thank you Gregsynth!

These are generally considered the best live versions of AKOM: Which is better?

In my opinion the absolutely worst number in queen performance history is first half of fukuoka evening concert in 1976, mainly (how Freddie said) "...the slightly different version of Bohemian rhapsody..." without any hight note in ballad part of this song. It´s very funny pseudo - romantic version, but if he sang "mama oooh" part, his voice had sound like old rusty gearbox in overloaded vehicle (as if he smoked a half million cigarettes, but at that time he did not smoke if I know)