Announce: Ideas for a new database of all Queen-related concerts

I'd propose to keep it as simple as possible. Clear website with list of all concerts in chronological order or tour by tour as seen on Martin's and Bob's websites.

If you click the date you are connected to:
1) TORRENTS of ALL available sources
2) GENERAL DISCUSSION links to QZ threats
3) GENERAL INFORMATION about the concerts (weblink to queenconcerts.com)
4) LINEAGE and FURTHER INFORMATION (weblink to queenlive.ca)
5) ARTWORK links wherever availabe (queenlive.ca/Ale Solan picasa web album.

This would combine the information and advantages of all relevant databases to limit the complexity of this gigantic intention. Think we shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Above mentinoned websites are excellent databases already! And as Bob said disussion in the QZ forum should go on. For my own use I created an excel sheet with one bootleg cover artwork for each concert and clickable hyperlinks to queenconcerts.com/queenlive.ca which makes my "database" quite simple and effective. Sth like that in a webbased version shouldn't cause huge problems for someone who knows how to design a website. And I'm sure Bob or Martin wouldn't mind to provide their list(s) of concerts for this!

Just for the record, relational databases do not make thinks more 'complex', they make things exponentially more powerful. The presentation of the data can be as simple or as involved as any individual user desires. The proposal was not to replace the excellent websites that are out there already but to complement and augment their intentions and facilitate access to them in a powerful and flexible way. It's not 'reinventing the wheel', it's putting the excellent wheels that already exist on a Maserati. Speaking purely from a technical standpoint, regardless of the subject matter, a list of manually maintained weblinks is simply not an optimal solution to organize data with the tools that are available in 2012. I'm sure whatever is done will continue to serve the community just fine, but I can picture the excellence of the end product I'm proposing so clearly, and people should make sure they're not resisting change just for the sake of it.

http://www.achtungbootlegs.com for info
http://u2start.com/ for torrents

^ exactly! We can do this for Queen, if we want. But better, because Queen deserves the best. Fully integrated with Queenzone and all the great resources already out there. It's not just about providing links to torrents for the knowledgeable - it is a whole integrated system that serves to promote, share and provide a platform for the music to live on accessible to everyone regardless of knowledge or experience.

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I think it's a brilliant idea (and of course takes lotta work) and I'm willing to help in anything you might ask ; )

and of course, I'll keep all the artwork coming ASAP... I'm always working on it.

I really appreciate your efforts to do this. There's many shows I didn't get and appreciate anything you can do.

You can start here:

http://www.queenconcerts.com/collection/downloads.html

I think it's really a great idea! Having something a bit more organized would be very useful according to me. Thank you in advance!



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