soundchecks

Sir GH wrote: Anyone know which show this soundcheck pic is from .. ?  It's no later than 82 .. I can tell that much.
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Must be either 1980 or 1981. Roger's drumkit gave it away.

The first pic is in Japan 1981 and the second pic is from Europe 1986.

The third pic is also from Japan 1981.

Thanks so much for your help Gary!

Cool, thanks Gary !  I suspected it was Japan 81.

Soundchecks can be interesting of course, but what I would rather love to hear are rehearsals for tours.
When they were trying out new songs and especially those, that did not find their way on the final set lists.
Is there anything known about those rehearsals? Or which songs they tried and then dropped?
It's so strange that so many songs never found their way into the live-sets even though they should have been playable as a four-piece or five piece line-up.

Indeed, little is known about rehearsals.  A bit of rehearsal footage from November 1977 was shown at the Stormtroopers exhibition, and that's all we've ever seen or heard.  The only other tidbits I'm aware of are - in 1974 they tried rehearsing all of The March Of The Black Queen and gave up.  Deacon later said it was too difficult.  And in early 1977 they rehearsed Long Away but it didn't work out either.  A tape of this apparently exists, complete with the ensuing band argument.

I know they soundchecked with Mustapha at Manchester in 1986 :-)

Sir GH Wrote:

And in early 1977 they rehearsed Long Away but it didn't work out either.  A tape of this apparently exists, complete with the ensuing band argument.
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Do you know who was going to sing it? Brian May ? Or as they did it with "39" pass it over to Freddie?

I have no idea.  But I'd assume it was Freddie, as Brian has stated that he wasn't keen on singing at all on stage in those days due to confidence issues, never mind singing lead !

Has anyone got a bigger version of this picture? -

http://www.queenzone.com/queenzone/avatars/t_111803417597.jpg

Yeah, it's on Queen Concerts:

http://www.queenconcerts.com/inc/instruments/1984_works/1984_piano.jpg

Cool, thanks !

Sao Paulo soundcheck footage -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp9KTfvqJC8

It was apparently broadcast on Argentinian TV.  So it looks like there is no Buenos Aires soundcheck footage... it was probably just this footage mislabeled as Argentina.

Yes, this (The sao pablo soundcheck) was broadcasted in argentine tv as part of special tv show with footage of the nights in buenos aires and some interviews with the band in a press conference... on fact the host in this video is Juan Carlos Badia the same guy that spoke throught all the buenos aires footage...
The soundcheck is from the first night in brazil i`m 100% sure cause the host said it... The footage throught the soundcheck is of course from the 1st march argentine show.