New Orleans 1978 The Show - The Party

Hi, here is a german report of the New Orleans 1978 show (Helloween)

QUEEN: The Show - The Party

The hall is filled with fans in crazy outfits and they are waiting for the gig. Crazy outfits ? Yes, because the third day of their USA-QUEEN-Tour was datet on Helloween. But that wasn`t the only reason why this night turned into a special one. The Band itself made it special !
I saw the best Queen performance ever. Again they do the two hour show without any support act. But they do it in a fascinating manner- the show got more tempo/speed and the quality of the performance was much better than last year - back then their show had some weaker spots.
QUEEN startet the show with a new and quicker version of "We will rock you"...as the music starts, a huge lightning rig with colourfull lamps appeared on top of the stage. Short after you could hear the roar of thunder and the stage covered with fog - Freddie Mercury jumped on the stage - dressed in shining black pants and a black shining jacket.
"If you can`t beat them, join them" a song from their new LP "Jazz" was next - an uptempo tune that Freddie performed on the piano.
From that spot on the piano he startet the song "Somebody to love"...the audience honors that with a loud applause.
The Production invented a new "light-trick" Roger Taylor is sitting with his drum kit on a couple of stairs where they build in huge light spots, That was used at some highlight moments during the gig.
But the band didn`t waste any time - so they were performing straight on.
"Get down, make love","Bicycle race" and "You make me live"...
At both sides of the stage were huge platforms, Freddie used them for artistic reasons and to create a more unique feeling with the fans.
During the song "Spread your wings " a third platform comes from above- on that new platform ( four microphones, drum kit and two guitars) they performed a blues that was dedicadet to New Orleans, and "Love of my life"...at the first notes of "It`s late" that extra platform dissapeared.
"We`re gonna boogie now" said Freddie, and Roger and Brian had a very long "musical shoot out".
Then - the song that is dedicated to all the girls with a bigger butt -was next."Fat bottomed girls" and right after that the highlight "Bohemian Rhapsody"...Meanwhile Freddie changed his dress, and he came back with a red shining suit with short pants.
At the end of the show QUEEN played "Tie your mother down"
After they left the stage, the enthusiastic crowd gives applause for several minutes.
Freddie( now with a silver mask) walks back on the stage for the encore..to play their Hit from last year "We are the champions"
The after show party takes place at the "Fairmont Hotel". Sharp dressed gogo girls doing lap dances and even Freddie himself was seen on the dancefloor with one of those girls at around 02.30 am in the morning. That Queen Party became subject of a lot of chats in New Orleans the next day.
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Thank you!!

What song is "You make me live" ?

[QUOTE] [b]Stelios wrote:[/b]

What song is "You make me live" ?[/QUOTE]

Ohhh...perhaps he ment " You're my best friend"

I like how they called "your my best friend" "you make me live". Interesting how they say the performance the year before had weak spots. It would be interesting to know what parts came across as weak! Nice find!!!

Interesting - If You Can't Beat Them is the second song. They were experimenting early in the tour with the setlist.

And at last, a confirmed date of Freddie wearing his mask.

Thanks for the translation !

If the guy does not know You're My Best Friend, he might have mixed up Let Me Entertain You with If You Can"t Beat Them.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

Interesting - If You Can't Beat Them is the second song. They were experimenting early in the tour with the setlist.

And at last, a confirmed date of Freddie wearing his mask.

Thanks for the translation ![/QUOTE]

I wonder what that "blues dedicated to New Orleans" was. The 'average' setlist for that tour puts it in the place of "Dreamer's Ball", but that's hardly a blues, is it?

A really crazy party!!

Thanks so much for sharing that. Very interesting! Is there somewhere I can see a pic of Freddie with the mask? I don't believe I have ever seen it.

[QUOTE] [b]little foetus wrote:[/b]

If the guy does not know You're My Best Friend, he might have mixed up Let Me Entertain You with If You Can"t Beat Them.[/QUOTE]

He does specifically mention that Freddie sat at the piano for Beat Them, something he didn't do for Let Me Entertain You.

[QUOTE] [b]noorie wrote:[/b]

Thanks so much for sharing that. Very interesting! Is there somewhere I can see a pic of Freddie with the mask? I don't believe I have ever seen it.[/QUOTE]

Here's one, from this show, in fact..

Thank you so much! I had not seen that one before.... But I much prefer seeing Freddie's entire face! :)

First of all...Of course this is the reporters point of view...not my personal -Me- I wasn`t there...

-The setlist is not complete in the article...maybe the reporter was interestet in having a good story.

-the original writer doesn`t need to be a QUEEN-Fan

-blues / Dreamers ball...I didnt know the gig as an audio source, but both is possible...because of the status of New Orleans to the music world, Queen maybe decided to do something special. ( remember Tokyo-blues in 85`- this was labelt different on some bootlegs)
-maybe it simply was "Dreamers ball" and they turned it into a more" blusy number"