A comparison of Live at the Rainbow (2014) and previous versions

Download link (pdf) (last updated November 4th 2014): 
https://mega.co.nz/#!90RjhAzB!ay4pF_2LjiV4padWS9YGx5Xy8wzOGtlxvSDc8u2Jr8o

I've listened through the 2014 releases of both the March and combined November concerts, and examined the songs in comparison to what's available on previous bootlegs and other releases.  

This is just something I wanted to do - If it's helpful to anyone, that'll be a great bonus. I reached more useful conclusions on the March concert than the November ones, as it's much easier to determine if something's an overdub, pitch corrected, etc. when there was only one night played, thus only one possible 'accurate' version.  

The fact that we know very little of what comes from what night in the November concerts made it very difficult to conclude many specifics, but I think it's worth a read nonetheless.  

There are summaries for the differences in each song, for those who don't want to read about discrepancies in the smaller details.

Interesting read, thanks for the writing :)

Really enjoyed that, excellent work. I watched the first night at the SiS exhibition but I'm afraid I can't remember any specifics about it. However, there should be a (silent) video I recorded of Flick Of The Wrist from the first night somewhere on this forum, which might be helpful for analysis. Also, it seems that they (at least for the main part of the set) had the "Queen" sign up behind them only on the first night, so that could also help to identify which nights the songs are from.

It may have been worth noting that some notable, ear-piercing guitar feedback had been removed for 2014 at the beginning of March Ogre Battle...

Excellent work Tom! kudos to you! ;)

Wow, great job!

The line "You said you'd equal any man for having your fun" from S&D (March) has been fixed too, as the word "fun" was extremely pitchy in the original.

Great work! Thanks mate

Oh man, this is gonna be good. Looking forward to it !

Excellen text, rainbow is a excellent release, but there are moments on CD and DVD, that i suspected strage effects in freddie´s voice, and this text confirmed.

Wow.

An addition - Roger's drum fill in the first chorus of Ogre Battle 3-31-74 (after "come tonight") was a bit sloppy, so they replaced it with drum parts from some other spot in the show.

Thanks!

document, re: Now I'm Here @ 0:57 says:

perhaps it was impossible to separate from the harmonies

Perhaps, but I still call bullshit because they had two nights to work with, and certainly even other Queen shows (or studio outtakes) that they could've used the vocal from. They cleaned up the Liar flub on Hammersmith 75 this way.

Also noteworthy is the edit at 3:22 that has been on every version dating back to the half-hour cinema edit in 1976. A bar of the song is missing, perhaps because the band didn't cleanly make their way into the next section. Again, they had two nights to work with...

Thanks for the positive feedback guys, I'm really glad this is of some use :)

I'll definitely check out all the suggestions and add them in. Please feel free to post anything else that I've missed so I can include it!

GinjaNinja wrote:
It seems that they (at least for the main part of the set) had the "Queen" sign up behind them only on the first night, so that could also help to identify which nights the songs are from.

Well! If that's the case, then pretty much all the wide shots in the 2014 version must be from the first night. I'll definitely look into this soon.

GinjaNinja wrote:

Also, it seems that they (at least for the main part of the set) had the "Queen" sign up behind them only on the first night, so that could also help to identify which nights the songs are from.

Interesting - how do you know this for sure?

And of course, this only counts for the video and not the audio necessarily..