QAL in Vienna, Austria

Er...let's do some setlist analysis:

Hammer To Fall - regular during the 1984, 1985 and 1986 tours with Freddie; 2005, 2006 and 2008 tours with Paul Rodgers; 2016 and 2017 shows with AL
Stone Cold Crazy - regular since 2014 US Tour
Another One Bites The Dust - regular between 1980-1986; 2006 and 2008; 2012 onward.
Tie Your Mother Down - I'm annoyed this has come back in (well, it did so for the final USA show in 2017). In the vast majority of Queen and Q+ shows since 1976.
Fat Bottomed Girls - regular since 2005.
Killer Queen - regular since 2014.
Don't Stop Me Now - regular since 2014.
Bicycle Race - actually quite fresh, play the whole song, please.
I'm In Love With My Car - 2005, 2006, 2008, 2017 regular.
Get Down Make Love - see Bicycle Race.
I Want It All - along with TSMGO/Days, a predictable post-1986 song.
Love Of My Life - regular since 1979
Somebody To Love - OK, it's one of the songs Adam is best on, but it's been done to death since 2012.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - since 1979.
(Drum Battle) - pointless
Under Pressure - one I like hearing, but a regular in Q+AL shows since 2014
I Want To Break Free - Safe choice. The 2014/2017 US legs were better without it.
Whataya Want From Me (Adam solo song) - I'm OK with this.
Who Wants To Live Forever - the song Adam sings best. But it's been in the Q+AL set since day one.
(Guitar Solo - Last Horizon) - toilet break for most people
Radio GaGa - regular since 1984.

Bo Rhap, WWRY/WATC will always get played. There's no chance of them getting dropped. The original US 2017 plan to separate the final two was good. Why not end with Bo Rhap for a change? Brian talks about them being "live and dangerous" - the latter is nonsense. They're safe, bland choices.

European fans get shortchanged when it comes to I Was Born To Love You and Teo Torriate. US 2014 leg had Love Kills - give me that over 90% of this setlist. Dragon Attack hasn't featured much over here, either. Dropping It's Late and Spread Your Wings so quickly was an abomination.

One of the highlights of the 2012 London shows was Brian's acoustic spot. Solo versions of STL and Best Friend were fab (he also played Life Is Real in Moscow). Challenge the crowd, have a bit of fun. I wish he did that every night.

The go-to argument is that the fans want to see the hits. Queen have more than enough of them (not to mention the usual suspects to close the show) to satisfy both that demand AND throw in a few lesser-known tracks. I'm not talking about playing the second half of Queen II in its entirety...just something a bit different to the same tracks that litter the sets year after year.

Oooh, great, Adam rides a bike and Frank pops up out of the stage. Fab. Compare that to Roger Waters' current tour (sure, the setlist also sucks, but my god it's a visual treat) and again they fall short.

Double post, sorry.

Nick, thanks for your great post and analysis! I never saw Freddie except on live tv and on videos but love the music played live no matter how many times and which songs. Maybe I should be more picky, but I’m not!

There’s a great Periscope on Twitter!

Another audio stream:

http://mixlr.com/aprilwg/

Freddie not there at the end of BoRhap again. Lots of cheering his omission by the Glamberts on the streams and his fan forums. I tell you, piece by piece they will try to remove Freddie so they can hammer the point that the band is "moving on".

Next to go? Probably the Wembley tape, then next will probably have Adam sat on his arse on a stool singing LOML with Brian. Maybe another dropped Queen song so Adam has a second solo spot. Little things like this makes it harder and harder to support this collaboration any longer. Certainly it's harder to respect Adam from the angle of a diehard Queen fan who didn't mind, or even held QAL in a positive light. John was first to "go", now the band's main creative force, the one who embodied Queen -- turned it into Queen from 'Smile' -- is unfortunately dwindling as a spectre of the past to TPTB. This group and show were once respectful of the past, but lately they've been showing their true colors.

^ Also, said cheering goes to show that these "Glamberts" don't give a shit about Queen and are there only to support Adam. Don't mind the lad himself but his fans are abhorrent.

One thing for AL to mess up the lyrics, but to cut Freddie out? That's worse. That's really awful. No need to do that!

Folks,no offence but here is queenzone.com and AL,FU,TH,YN,VI,AS,QAL,QAS and so on is not Queen themes.
Other words:wrong forum.

You guys are sounding paranoid! Getting rid of Freddie? For being a dead person, he has been more than resurrected and honored in this show. Maybe you want to go back to the QPR shows when they showed a film of Freddie doing the whole BoRhap song?

Nope, not paranoid. A Freddie and Queen fan who thinks he should be shown~not less the current shows as a mark of respect and recogniztion.. Simple as that. You clearly don't know the first thing about Bohemian Rhapsody.
Does AL need to do everything Freddie did? No. There's no need of cutting even more of Freddie out.

I think they were having a technical problem at the end of BoRhap a couple of days ago when they show Freddie because they didn’t show him at all today.

Sweetcaroline, fuck you

Not buying that, sweetcaroline.

Freddie is loved:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=CfPABSTzyMw