[b]Queen[/b]
Empire Theatre, Liverpool, UK
December 6, 1979
[b]Lineage[/b] : AUD > ? > MC > WAV > Cool Edit Pro > increasing volume on left channel, hiss reduction on left channel,
clip restoration, speed correction, track splitting > WAV > Trader's Little Helper > FLAC level 8 with SBE correction > WinAmp
> tagging > FLAC
This recording has been shared by RabinMurryEC on Queenzone in September 2017 with a small number of people. He claimed
he received it labelled as "Blackpool 79", however no concertography, official or unofficial has such a concert listed,
but after a small collective detective work this recording seems to come from the first Liverpool night from the
Crazy Tour.
The recording is a very high generation copy, the audio quality is pretty bad unfortunately. The left channel had barely
any sound information, and after increasing the volume the amount of background hiss became unbearable. For some reason
the speed was too fast, and the strange thing is that the speedup was constant, almost like it wasn't caused by a tape
running in an incorrect speed. Has it been done intentionally by someone down the line to fit the recording to 1 CD?
Because after slowing it down digitally the recording has 21 seconds more than a CD allows. Anyway, I opened the wav file
provided by RabinMurryEC, increased the volume on both channels, but mostly on the left (something like 40 dB if I remmeber correctly)
and ran it through the clip restoration plugin. Because of the insane amount of hiss uncovered by these changes I had to
reduce it a bit, unfortunately this recording doesn't contain a section which contains ONLY the hiss, so I had to use the
standard presets. I used the softest hiss reduction, because all higher settings damaged the audio too much. The final file
was slowed down to 104% of the original speed, that was just a guess, so I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that
even the taped section of Bohemian Rhapsody seems to play now in the correct speed. I am sorry if the speed is not 100% correct,
I've done it always just by ear and it does sound good to me. Then I split the file, and ran the small wav files through
Trader's Little Helper, which encoded them to FLAC and automatically corrected all SBEs. The file tagging was done in
WinAmp, which really whips the llama's ass, even in 2017.
Please note that almost all of the speeches between songs are cut, and some of the songs are cut too.
[b]Tracklist[/b]
CD 1
01. We Will Rock You (cut) [02:50]
02. Let Me Entertain You [02:50]
03. Somebody To Love [06:24]
04. Mustapha [01:58]
05. The Millionaire Waltz (intro only) [00:34]
06. Death on Two Legs [03:07]
07. Killer Queen [01:56]
08. I'm In Love With My Car [02:01]
09. Get Down, Make Love (cut) [04:52]
10. You're My Best Friend [02:03]
11. Save Me [04:10]
12. Now I'm Here (cut) [07:49]
13. Don't Stop Me Now [04:32]
14. Spread Your Wings [05:11]
15. Love of My Life [04:03]
CD 2
01. '39 [03:34]
02. Fat Bottomed Girls [03:59]
03. Keep Yourself Alive / Drum Solo / Guitar Solo / Brighton Rock [09:59]
04. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (cut) [03:11]
05. Bohemian Rhapsody [04:48]
Enjoy and convert to mp3 only for your personal use.
https://mega.nz/#!20sXyZKb!f3NDvLwbx9rxnWFY_KqXx1E8FYI9wLnOSzHqqqE9u1A
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