brENsKi wrote:
sorry. still doesn't follow. the equipment available at that time (of a size small enough to smuggle into gigs) was the same for everyone
therefore, i'll ask again - why are queen's audience boots of poorer quality than floyd/who and zep audience boots?
A lot of the great Zeppelin, Floyd, Yes and Stones tapes are from Mike Millard, who pretended to be handicapped to get a front row seat and tape the shows with top end gear. In the 80s there was a great interest in these bands, so his friends asked him for those tapes. Millard may have taped Queen and who knows who else, but it was only tapes of those four acts that got out during his lifetime. This is some of the best unreleased rock music ever heard.
The reality is - in the US there were very few tapers who were interested in taping Queen, as evidenced by the very few tapes in comparison to shows elsewhere. Queen were most popular in the UK and Europe, and as a result there is at least one tape of virtually every show from 1980-86. Their Japanese shows from 75-86 are equally well represented as well.
But why so few 70s US tapes? There are a ton of 1969 tapes of Zeppelin when they were playing clubs, compared to very few Queen tapes from 73-74. In fact, there are less tapes from US 75 and 76 when they were headliners than from 74 when they were opening for Mott The Hoople. The only US tour with a fair number of tapes is Jazz in 78.
So Mr.QueenFan certainly does have a point about Floyd fans. It ultimately comes down to interest, and for some reason the tapers weren't all over Queen back then.
That said, there are still a lot of great sounding Queen tapes from the 70s, but not nearly as many compared to some of the other big bands.
But who knows how many tapes are sitting in the attics of America? There was a surge of new tapes that came out between 2007-12, but it came to a grinding halt for some reason. There's no algorithm - it happens when it happens.
