1981.10.17 Puebla - soundcheck (uncirculated)

Very interesting find! Thank you both very much.

sorry - double post

Very interesting ! Thank you guys very much :)

Thank you!

Great shared!

In a moment, someone, assuming safety, say:

"Do you know that you can not be here?"

Thanks both to Bob for posting and Kamenliter for the original tape.

Thanks a lot!!!

Cheers,

Ogre-

Thanks Bob, always sharing new stuff!

Thank you Bob!

Thanks!

This is a similar run-through that, on the same tour, was ridiculed in the Rolling Stone profile from that year. Here's the writer's assessment:

Up onstage, Queen – lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor – is rehearsing "Rock It (Prime Jive)," a track off The Game. And it sounds simply awful. The acoustics are horrendous in the 3500-seat stadium: there's a thirty-second delay as the music drifts across the length of the field and reverberates off the scoreboard. Nor does the band's musicianship seem inspired. The rhythm section is sloppy and sluggish; May's guitar playing is limited to heavy-metal/hard-rock clichés and patented, though by now boring, harmonic lead breaks; Mercury's singing is lackadaisical and without conviction.

Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queen-holds-court-in-south-america-19810611

Daniel Nester wrote:

This is a similar run-through that, on the same tour, was ridiculed in the Rolling Stone profile from that year. Here's the writer's assessment:

Up onstage, Queen – lead singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor – is rehearsing "Rock It (Prime Jive)," a track off The Game. And it sounds simply awful. The acoustics are horrendous in the 3500-seat stadium: there's a thirty-second delay as the music drifts across the length of the field and reverberates off the scoreboard. Nor does the band's musicianship seem inspired. The rhythm section is sloppy and sluggish; May's guitar playing is limited to heavy-metal/hard-rock clichés and patented, though by now boring, harmonic lead breaks; Mercury's singing is lackadaisical and without conviction.

Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queen-holds-court-in-south-america-19810611

^ Heh, good one!

Love that Roger letter. If they made poster-sized prints, I'd give them out as gifts.

Thanks for bringing up this gem.
regards.
W.

Amazing letter from Roger! :D