Live At The Rainbow 1974 - Official Trailer

I mentioned here some time ago that I'd be surprised if this were to be released without overdubs. At the SSIS exhibition a few years back you could watch the full show with the dry soundboard audio, the vocals were quite awful. Anyone who heard that would probably understand why they've decided to keep a lot of them.

[QUOTE] [b]ANAGRAMER wrote:[/b]

Hmmm. Not my favourite Queen period.
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They're approaching their creative peak here, so it baffles me that anyone can say this. It's like Beatles fans preferring Yellow Submarine over Rubber Soul. 74-76 is when Queen were leaders, not followers.


[QUOTE]Forgive me but the sound like a clatter; everything on full, sounds like a loudness war
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Not really. I had a look at the waveform and it still breathes quite well. I've seen much, much worse.

What a difference between to listen it from a cheap notebook speaker and listen it with my modest good pc audio speakers.
Yeah the audio is very very good. And yeah there´s overdubs (not many by the way).

September, i´m looking foward to it.

I´d wish this is a SOLD-OUT dvd, so QP release one or two 70´s gig more. I guess Hamm 75/79 are the best choise. But hey, at the moment this release will keep me happy for a couple years.

Now i won't enjoy my summer, wanting September to come. the quality is really gorgeous.

Indeed, there are still some overdubs left but not as many as there used to be, and not as audible.

Great, great video!

When people say vocal overdubs, i don't understand. How can the record new vocals for the live recordings? Or do people mean mixing the two nights performances? Or do people mean editing the vocals digitally?

Not trying to be funny, genuinely don't know how they can do this with a Queen recording from 1974 that they've just decided to release now?

[QUOTE] [b]Supersonic_Man89 wrote:[/b]

When people say vocal overdubs, i don't understand. How can the record new vocals for the live recordings? Or do people mean mixing the two nights performances? Or do people mean editing the vocals digitally?

Not trying to be funny, genuinely don't know how they can do this with a Queen recording from 1974 that they've just decided to release now?[/QUOTE]

In this case, it means that there was a few mistakes like Freddie unable to reach a certain note, they took all those little mistakes and fixed them so now you can hear Freddie singing perfectly.
It is done so we all can enjoy a flawless performance.

Funny thing many people cant hear when a guitar is out of tune or a singer cant reach a certain note unless its pretty pretty obvious !

Interestingly enough, one gets the impression that the addition of extra vocals was planned before the concert took place. Just notice how Brian and Deacy are on mic when the "Just a new man..."bit kicks in. Now I'm sure that most of us can pull out any number of bootlegs where it is the rarest of occasions where maybe Brian joins in; not even Roger does.

Anyway, with the quality of vision and sound that is hinted at here, who gives a Fairy Fella's Master Stroke! I can't wait!

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[b]pittrek wrote: [/b] SOME of the overdubs are on Now I'm Here, but I have feeling it's less than I remember from the VHS tape.
Killer Queen sounds more "live", on the VHS it sounds very similar to the album version (which it probably is).
[b] Also why is there no March footage in the trailer is weird[/b][/QUOTE]

My guess is because the March footage is being considered bonus material

[QUOTE] [b]Nitroboy wrote:[/b]

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[b]pittrek wrote: [/b] SOME of the overdubs are on Now I'm Here, but I have feeling it's less than I remember from the VHS tape.
Killer Queen sounds more "live", on the VHS it sounds very similar to the album version (which it probably is).
[b] Also why is there no March footage in the trailer is weird[/b][/QUOTE]

My guess is because the March footage is being considered bonus material[/QUOTE]




I agree with you.

While watching trailer it's seemed to me that audio "now I'm here" taken from Hammy'75, "Keep yourself alive" hammy'75, "seven seas of rhye" taken from hammy'75 or live at the rainbow 31.03.1974. I'll be happy if I'm wrong.

Ok, so there are a few overdubs. But, in this case I think, I'm, they actually enhance the feel of the show. The energy of the live performance plus a few overdubs make these recordings sound better than the album versions, which given those God awful drum sounds on Queen 1 surely is a blessing. This is an awesome release. Let's not nit pick here, we should be grateful that this is finally being released and appreciate all the hard work that has obviously gone into this.

Hope the next release will be the long awaited Hyde Park show. and after that Hammy 79. In the meantime I hope september comes soon. and also hope that the release will be simultaneous all around the globe including Argentina.

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[QUOTE] [b]ANAGRAMER wrote:[/b]

Hmmm. Not my favourite Queen period.
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They're approaching their creative peak here, so it baffles me that anyone can say this. It's like Beatles fans preferring Yellow Submarine over Rubber Soul. 74-76 is when Queen were leaders, not followers.


[QUOTE]Forgive me but the sound like a clatter; everything on full, sounds like a loudness war
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Not really. I had a look at the waveform and it still breathes quite well. I've seen much, much worse.
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I don't disagree; it was a very creative period but I don't think they got their live sound together until much later; the guitars are just to fizzy for my taste (and out of tune now and again) and Roger's kit sounds like an explosion in a window factory

Maybe the problem is that there isn't enough compression!

I do know it's a technology thing; the mikes and off board effects maybe just weren't that good in 1974

Holy moly. This is very significant, especially with The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke turning out to be in there. Wowwww