News Of The World material in the new Q+AL set

I just wanted to say, now that the first show of the tour has happened and the info is generally 'out there' already.... that I heard some of the London rehearsal recordings last week and was completely blown away. I mean SERIOUSLY impressed.

I had no idea what to expect, but I didn't expect what I heard. It's Late, Get Down Make Love and Spread Your Wings, all from News Of The World. Plus other newies too of course. My god, these songs sound so wonderfully fresh and vibrant in the new context.

The robot animated intro is breathtaking... particularly so if you've loved the old metallic fellow as much as I have this past 40 years. How amazing it is to see him up on stage with the band finally, looking as mean as ever and twice as menacing... like the show itself.

Imagine what Stewie, the baby in Family Guy, is gonna make of this if he sees it... if just the album cover traumatises him THAT much!!!!

Wonderful to see NOTW celebrated in this way, with more than a passing nod to its iconic artwork. Mr Freas would have been mightily and rightly proud.

The band and front man are very evidently in top drawer form. The sound is phenomenal. Lights amazing. Performance, as ever, second to none. Great choice of songs too, in my opinion.

Cannot wait to see this show and to hear the new material from NOTW after so long away.

These are exciting times for Queen fans.... with so much more to come this year !!!!

Enjoy the shows if you're attending. You're gonna love it.

GB

Let's hope those songs make it to the UK this time.
I was well brassed off that they dropped "Love Kills", "Procession" and "Now I'm Here" and gave us "One Vision" AGAIN.

[QUOTE] [b]GB: Queen Archivist wrote:[/b]

I just wanted to say, now that the first show of the tour has happened and the info is generally 'out there' already.... that I heard some of the London rehearsal recordings last week and was completely blown away. I mean SERIOUSLY impressed.

I had no idea what to expect, but I didn't expect what I heard. It's Late, Get Down Make Love and Spread Your Wings, all from News Of The World. Plus other newies too of course. My god, these songs sound so wonderfully fresh and vibrant in the new context.

The robot animated intro is breathtaking... particularly so if you've loved the old metallic fellow as much as I have this past 40 years. How amazing it is to see him up on stage with the band finally, looking as mean as ever and twice as menacing... like the show itself.

Imagine what Stewie, the baby in Family Guy, is gonna make of this if he sees it... if just the album cover traumatises him THAT much!!!!

Wonderful to see NOTW celebrated in this way, with more than a passing nod to its iconic artwork. Mr Freas would have been mightily and rightly proud.

The band and front man are very evidently in top drawer form. The sound is phenomenal. Lights amazing. Performance, as ever, second to none. Great choice of songs too, in my opinion.

Cannot wait to see this show and to hear the new material from NOTW after so long away.

These are exciting times for Queen fans.... with so much more to come this year !!!!

Enjoy the shows if you're attending. You're gonna love it.

GB



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Hello, Greg. How are you doing?

Is there any release plans this year?
Thank you

Agreed, Greg - love this setlist, and am fighting the urge with every fiber of my being not to search youtube for recordings (I want to be shocked & awed in Chicago, as though it was the first stop on the tour, like 3 years ago). I always loved Bicycle Race, It's Late, Spread Your Wings, YTMBA is going to be interesting... A great refresh to the classic sets of the past...

If only there was a teensy bit of room in there for a little ditty called Innuendo.... still holding out hope for a mid-tour substitution, perhaps.

Like Brian's Wig above, I just hope that the new material in the set lasts and isn't sacrificed when the show comes to Europe and the UK...I can see some stuff being shifted for I Want To Break Free, A Kind of Magic and possibly The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days of Our Lives when it hits these shores. Love Kills and I Was Born To Love You only lasted a few shows, and Save Me and Play The Game are now gone too.

Would also love to have seen Roger mix up his spotlight track and swap I'm In Love With My Car for Tenement Funster.

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Would also love to have seen Roger mix up his spotlight track and swap I'm In Love With My Car for Tenement Funster. [/QUOTE]

or Fight From The Inside! that would be awesome.

Why do they have to play every number 10 bpm slower than normal? This is the worst I have ever heard them play.

"with so much more to come this year"

Any hints?

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

Why do they have to play every number 10 bpm slower than normal? This is the worst I have ever heard them play.[/QUOTE]

Hear hear....Stone Cold Crazy, Another One Bites The Dust, Spread Your Wings especially are awful at those tempos....Dragon Attack suffered the same on previous AL tours, though was ok on its rare outings with PR.

seconded! SCC felt dragged. I guess the answer to that would be age.

It seems the guys upped their game with the stage setup. Enough to give Stewie a heart attack if he sees the robot!

There's something to be said for the fact that Brian and Roger still sing vocal harmonies - Rog especially is always very clear in the blend. Most groups wouldn't have the core members forming the basis of the vocal harmonies anymore at this stage in their career - there'd be countless backup singers dominating it.

Roger especially has taken fantastic care of his voice, it'd seem. Brian too, really - he's getting nasalier and losing a lot of the warmth and resonance in his voice, but he's held up very well compared to say McCartney (errant comparison, of course, as McCartney's done much more live lead singing in his time).

Yeah, I also hear it all slower.
Is like an engine that costs you to start.

I wonder with Stone Cold Crazy whether the vocal enunciation is hard for Lambert to do at the original speed - I struggle to sing along to the original without falling over my words - so maybe it's not just the elderly condition of the drummer slowing things down....

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]

Roger especially has taken fantastic care of his voice, it'd seem. Brian too, really - he's getting nasalier and losing a lot of the warmth and resonance in his voice, but he's held up very well compared to say McCartney (errant comparison, of course, as McCartney's done much more live lead singing in his time). [/QUOTE]

I just saw the highlight clips of their 1st night in Phoenix from their official channel, and Roger sounded solid, both vocals and drumming in Killer Queen for example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvjLiYPR4c

On the side: I'm liking Roger's new setup for this tour. The short stack he's used in the 2015 tour felt weird and sounded rather lacking to my ears. It's nice to see him use single heads again.

It would be interesting to find out why he is using single headed toms on this tour. He hasn't done so since 1981 and said in an old interview that he wasn't a fan of the sound they produced, preferring the double heads with the bottom one tuned tighter than the top one.