New Orleans 1978 The Show - The Party

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

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

[QUOTE]( remember Tokyo-blues in 85`- this was labelt different on some bootlegs)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this is because Freddie used the words "Rock In Rio blues" during the improv at the second Rio show. But it still isn't blues. It was a two chord sequence with mostly falsetto vocals. People then just started labeling similar jams from other 1985-86 shows as Tokyo blues, Leiden blues, etc.

[QUOTE]-maybe it simply was "Dreamers ball" and they turned it into a more" blusy number"[/QUOTE]
I highly doubt they changed it. It was only the third performance, so they were just getting comfortable with the song.

Another concert report ( native english) from that gig ..interesting...seems like they have added some more songs from the "Jazz" album on that night...so the experimenting theory could be true.

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

Another concert report ( native english) from that gig ..interesting...seems like they have added some more songs from the "Jazz" album on that night...so the experimenting theory could be true.
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Thanks for posting all this great stuff.

The article is actually from the fourth week of November, as evidenced by the Buffalo show [on Nov 28] being on the following Tuesday night. It's a few weeks into the tour now, and the writer is just doing some guesswork about the upcoming Buffalo show, assuming more new songs will be added by this point in the tour.

But the reality is - the setlist hadn't changed at all, other than shifting around the running order of a few songs.

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]
-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"[/QUOTE]

The thing is, New Orleans doesn't hold any special status with regards to blues - for blues, you'd have to travel either east to Mississippi and Alabama, west to Texas or north to Missouri and Tennessee. New Orleans and the surrounding area doesn't fit in with the rest of the Deep South - it's a southern city, but not a Southern city. It's jazz country, and on a related note, jazz didn't touch those Miss/Ala, Tex, Mo/Tenn blues-regions until fairly recently (quite a while after WWII).

Queen did once touch upon the New Orleans-vein with Big Bad Leroy Brown, so they were at least a little familiar with that.

I don't know what they played, I'm intrigued, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't Dreamer's Ball, going by the description. Getting a title wrong (calling YMBF "You Make Me Live", which is a line from the chorus after all) is still a ways away from mistaking DB for a blues.

I was the New Orleans 1978 Halloween show and the set list pretty much followed what was on "Live Killers" with the exceptions being they played It's Late and Somebody to Love, If You Can't Beat them etc.

Think the writer of the article mixed up a few things and probably wasn't very familiar with the band and/or they're shows.

They did play their acoustic set which included '39, Dreamers Ball and Love of My Life.

Saw them on Dec 16, 1978 also, in Oakland, and it was the same show/set list.

Thought they were great at both shows.

I was 16 years old at the time and I distinctly remember sitting next to a lady in her mid 20's at the Oakland show who said she worked for Chrysalis Records and one of the things she said was that she hoped Queen didn't get any bigger than they already were or they would have to lose that uniqueness that was so prevalent on their first six albums, through News Of The World.

Thank you for your informations..

I was wondering about the english article...I really should have a look at the date...:) Now it makes much more sense to me.

On that blues thing...I was assuming a standard 12 bar blues because of the german report ( should have been an easy thing for professional musicians)...of course I know about New Orleans as a more "Jazzy" city.

The reason because I am posting things like this . I am assuming that informations about shows/interviews etc. exsist, but they are spreaded all over the world. I would like to have a more complete picture.

Well, please keep them coming !

[QUOTE] [b]sgs8789 wrote:[/b]

I was the New Orleans 1978 Halloween show and the set list pretty much followed what was on "Live Killers" with the exceptions being they played It's Late and Somebody to Love, If You Can't Beat them etc.

Think the writer of the article mixed up a few things and probably wasn't very familiar with the band and/or they're shows.

They did play their acoustic set which included '39, Dreamers Ball and Love of My Life.

Saw them on Dec 16, 1978 also, in Oakland, and it was the same show/set list.

Thought they were great at both shows.

I was 16 years old at the time and I distinctly remember sitting next to a lady in her mid 20's at the Oakland show who said she worked for Chrysalis Records and one of the things she said was that she hoped Queen didn't get any bigger than they already were or they would have to lose that uniqueness that was so prevalent on their first six albums, through News Of The World. [/QUOTE]

Boy, did she ever see things in her crystal ball, didn't she ?

Thanks for posting your memories - great stuff.

"I was one of the journalists the band flew out to New Orleans and installed in the Fairmont Hotel. I remember that in my room - and presumably everyone else's- was an ice bucket in which sat a bottle of champagne, with a carnival mask hanging from its neck. It was Halloween. Downstairs, a huge ballroom had been transformed into what looked some medieval royal banquet - huge long tables heaving with pyramids Cajun food - shrimps, oysters. But being allergic to shellfish, I couldn't eat anything, so my intake that night was liquid, and since the liquid of the night was champagne - and every time you turned around there was a waitress or a waiter, formally dressed, offering more champagne - things did get a little blurry…
These things I do remember. A New Orleans funeral band marching in from the street and playing the band into the ballroom. Dwarves carrying silver trays - some say there was coke on it, which I can't confirm or deny, but I wouldn't be surprised. And strippers of every shape, colour, sexual orientation and size. That was right near the start of my life as a rock writer, and in the 35 years since I've never been to another album launch party like it".
This an answer Sylvie Simmons gave me about that party.

[QUOTE] [b]Apocalipsis_Darko wrote:[/b]

Dwarves carrying silver trays - some say there was coke on it, which I can't confirm or deny, but I wouldn't be surprised. And strippers of every shape, colour, sexual orientation and size. That was right near the start of my life as a rock writer, and in the 35 years since I've never been to another album launch party like it".
This an answer Sylvie Simmons gave me about that party.[/QUOTE]

And what an answer ! Thanks for that.

Always a pleasure Mr. Zappa ;)

Oh God...I`am really getting lazy :)

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