Something under appreciated about the Rainbow release...

BelfastQueenFan wrote:

They had the decency not to slap a witty pun on the title true.

Pity they didn't have the decency not to slap some auto tune on Freddie's vocals. Just a minor annoyance.

Yup, but we're stuck with it. The November concert is almost entirely free of it, at least :)

drmurph wrote:

The Queen Archivist mentioned (somewhere) on Queenonline that these concerts are not in a state to make individual releases ...

This is always the most annoying aspect for me - yes, we'd love all those 70s gigs to be in full HD and have master tape audio from which to remix, but if they haven't got that then just give us what you have rather than nothing at all.

An example is Hammersmith 79; they have the full visual, but are apparently missing the multi track audio so won't do anything with it cos they can't remix it and add overdubs etc. However, they DO have a perfectly decent stereo mix, so this could easily be worked on and released with a restored picture. Look at stuff like The Who at Kilburn or Texas 75, or the Led Zep archive live stuff - they are not scared to say 'it was the 70s so we don't have 24 track master audio tapes, but here ya go'. Queen really should see the value in releasing this vintage stuff, and no-one is going to slag them off because there's a cracked vocal, a bum guitar note, or it's in stereo (or even mono) rather than
5.1.

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fjac1980 wrote:

Best Cover Art of a live release: Live Magic
2nd place: Live Killers
Worst Cover Art: Hungarian Rhapsody
2nd place: Live At The Rainbow
Both cause puts only Freddie in cover, forget that Queen is a four member band

Agreed completly !