How many gigs were 'pro' recorded ?

Hi,

Many apologies if this has been asked before but how many Queen gigs were professionally recorded i.e. good enough to release as an album ?

I'm guessing stuff like Houston '77 and Earl's Court are a given ?

Please refer to the following thread where Greg Brooks claims this:

http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1027435/the-queen-live-archive-list-finally-sorry-for-the-delay.aspx

Somehow, I've never believed this to be the complete contents.......... Wonder what Brian has stashed away......?

RECORDED (audio)

1973 Golders Green Hippodrome - not on Greg's list
1974 3 complete Rainbow Theatre concerts - not on Greg's list ("some of Nov gig")
1975 Hammersmith Odeon
1976 Hyde Park
1977 2 nights at Earls Court, 1 night at Houston
1978 3 nights Empire Pool - unconfirmed
1979 all concerts between Brussels and Paris, at least 2 nights at Tokyo, Hammersmith Odeon
1980 unknown
1981 all concerts in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, maybe even Mexico, also both Montreal nights
1982 according to some sources the complete European leg of the Hot Space tour + Seibu LIons
1984 unknown
1985 Rock In Rio, Live Aid
1986 every concert from the Live Magic Tour - rumour, we definitely know only about Slane Castle, Knebworth, 2 Wembley Nights and Budapest and a lot of bits recorded by various TV crews all over Europe

ONLY FILMED
1975 - Tokyo

GOOD ENOUGH FOR RELEASE
unknown

^ Weren't Japan '75 and '85 recorded as well? You left out Montreal for '81 btw

Killer_queenIII wrote:

^ Weren't Japan '75 and '85 recorded as well? You left out Montreal for '81 btw

Thanks

pittrek wrote:

RECORDED (audio)

1982 according to some sources the complete European leg of the Hot Space tour

Who are these sources, if i may ask?

Also, finally a "serious" topic based on facts and not in tastes.

What about Paris 1980 and New Zealand 1985.

Although I don't personally believe the New Zealand footage exists. :(

-Chin

pittrek wrote: RECORDED (audio)

1984 Unknown 

I'd say Sun City

pittrek wrote:

1981 all concerts in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, maybe even Mexico
1982 according to some sources the complete European leg of the Hot Space tour
1986 every concert from the Live Magic Tour

These I've never heard confirmation of.

In 86 I know they recorded things like Slane and Manchester, but not much more (besides the shows that've been released, of course.

My only real hope here is that they recorded more US News Of The World shows. If Bob Harris was doing his documentary, then you'd like to think they recorded the shows from the board that were being filmed, like Fort Worth and Vegas.

Doga wrote:

pittrek wrote:

RECORDED (audio)

1982 according to some sources the complete European leg of the Hot Space tour

Who are these sources, if i may ask?

Also, finally a "serious" topic based on facts and not in tastes.

Old version of queenconcerts.com if I remember correctly.

Chinwonder wrote:

What about Paris 1980 and New Zealand 1985.

Although I don't personally believe the New Zealand footage exists. :(

-Chin

I always assumed those were only short bits recorded by local TV stations

DepeX wrote:

pittrek wrote: RECORDED (audio)

1984 Unknown 

I'd say Sun City

Unlikely.

What we've heard is a 2-track tape, which they recorded at every show from about 1975 onward.

The Real Wizard wrote:

pittrek wrote:

1981 all concerts in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, maybe even Mexico
1982 according to some sources the complete European leg of the Hot Space tour
1986 every concert from the Live Magic Tour

These I've never heard confirmation of.

In 86 I know they recorded things like Slane and Manchester, but not much more (besides the shows that've been released, of course.

My only real hope here is that they recorded more US News Of The World shows. If Bob Harris was doing his documentary, then you'd like to think they recorded the shows from the board that were being filmed, like Fort Worth and Vegas.

1981 - yes, that's why I gave a "maybe" to Mexico, but now I'm not sure about Venezuela anymore - we definitely know they recorded (at least footage) of one of the concerts.

1982 - I was pretty sure I read it on Martin's old site but I can't find it anywhere there, so maybe it's all BS

1986 - correct, I edited my original response.

The Bob Harris footage would be great, I'd definitely buy a 50 Bluray box set of uncut BH stuff :-)

The archivist said in 1986 they recorded all the UK shows and Budapest (makes sense). And yes, i too, expect some shows from 1977 and 78 to be properly recorded, it doesn't matter if they are the americans or the british in the Empire Pool.

That's a real crime perfectionists such as Queen would not record their shows at soundboard.