ANNOUNCE: Queen - Thank You All (09-08-86) flac torrent

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Madman wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
I've finished listening to the recording... absolutely incredible stuff. This is one of the greatest Queen bootleg finds ever, right up there with things like Liverpool 73 and Houston 77.
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... and London 26th Dec 1979 :D Fabulous - performance, audience, audio quality.

Sorry but I must write it.
[/QUOTE]What version of hammersmith do you mean?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]on my way up wrote: [/QUOTENAME]hey bob, can you give us a small review of this gig?thanks[/QUOTE]

Hmm, alright. I'll paste what I said on my old website and combine it with some words about the new bootleg:

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The famous Knebworth Park concert performed before an estimated 125,000 fans is the final Queen concert ever, before Freddie Mercury fell ill. This concert is definitely a must-have. Roger, in particular, is clearly having a blast all the way through. Freddie even says "nice one" after Roger's drum solo at the peak of the impromptu. Freddie sounds pretty strong throughout, and there is a lot of classic banter with the audience. Brian tries out his harmonizer pedal on stage for the first time. He recently commented on his soapbox about how exciting that moment was for him.

This particular recording is a huge upgrade of the old "Electric Magic" version. This new version called "Thank You All" on the Wardour label is copy of the master tape. The treble isn't piercing as it was on the old copy, as the EQ is nearly perfect. The sound is so clear and punchy. It's amazing what difference a few tape generations can make! Wardour has also filled in the few short gaps with an inferior (presumably the video) source.

As for the audience, these fans by the recorder hardly seem like they're into the show at times, so they were almost surely far away from the enthusiastic ones at the front. On Live Magic (and even the bootleg DVD), listen to the fans react to the band walking (or in Freddie's case, running, as seen on the bootleg DVD) onto the stage; it's well before Brian plays a note. The fans on this bootleg seem only to hear Brian, rather than see him, as they cheer after he plays that first D-chord.

"On this recording, the fans react when they hear Brian... assumingly because they're so far away that they can barely see the band! With that in mind, it's amazing that this recording sounds so good. In '86, they surely didn't have speakers a few hundred feet from the stage to accommodate those who were further away, did they?"

I think the whole audience heard Brian before they saw him assuming from the bootleg video. He walked on stage from behind through a lot of smoke and the stage light turned bright the moment he began to play.. Most likely, the audience sound on Live Magic was not the original audience noise but mixed and patched together. I don't know for a fact but I am pretty sure they did have relay towers in Knebworth (is that the correct word?) because otherwise the hand clapping to Radio GaGa would have not worked as it did. I was on a concert without such relay towers and a video screen and the delay of the sound was painful although the stadium was much, much smaller than Knebworth.

If you have ever watched a concert next to a taper you know the looks you get when you start to get excited :-)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]YourValentine wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I think the whole audience heard Brian before they saw him assuming from the bootleg video. He walked on stage from behind through a lot of smoke and the stage light turned bright the moment he began to play.. Most likely, the audience sound on Live Magic was not the original audience noise but mixed and patched together.[/QUOTE]

Check this out... it's with the original audio source:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ8zrkT1NDs

The audience reacts before Brian plays. It's hard to tell who they see, but they see somebody! So I honestly don't think the audience was overdubbed on Live Magic. I really don't think they'd go that far.

[QUOTE]I don't know for a fact but I am pretty sure they did have relay towers in Knebworth (is that the correct word?) because otherwise the hand clapping to Radio GaGa would have not worked as it did.[/QUOTE]

But there could have been a sound delay, and the audio on any of the documentary footage could have been moved back a bit to match the hand-clapping.

Okay, now we're getting too detailed... haha!

[QUOTE]If you have ever watched a concert next to a taper you know the looks you get when you start to get excited :-)[/QUOTE]

Hahaha... yeah, I've seen that happen!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]on my way up wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Madman wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
I've finished listening to the recording... absolutely incredible stuff. This is one of the greatest Queen bootleg finds ever, right up there with things like Liverpool 73 and Houston 77.
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... and London 26th Dec 1979 :D Fabulous - performance, audience, audio quality.

Sorry but I must write it.
[/QUOTE]What version of hammersmith do you mean?[/QUOTE]

I mean complete 114min excellent powerfull audience recording. Is there another except old Lp version ? I don't think so :) This people near mic are crazy and along with loud laughing and enjoing make wonderfull atmosphere - when Queen play, Freddie joking. And audio quality is realy fab I think.

By the way, Bob do You thinking about add here alternate complete Harvey Goldsmith speek after GSTQ from that worser 3rd audience source ?

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Madman wrote: [/QUOTENAME]By the way, Bob do You thinking about add here alternate complete Harvey Goldsmith speek after GSTQ from that worser 3rd audience source ? [/QUOTE]

No problem! Here's the Wardour source cross-fading into the inferior (third) source: http://www.mediafire.com/?6mm3mjtyngu

And here's one of the third source alone: http://www.mediafire.com/?2i3hjt0mmmm


Barbara, I have another question. Do you have the Wardour silvers, or did you receive a copy of the silvers? Right now, I have my lineage as such:

"Thank You All" (Wardour) silvers (x) > WAV > FLAC level 8


But it could be this, if you received a direct copy of the silvers:

"Thank You All" (Wardour) silvers > CDR (0) > WAV > FLAC level 8


Or this, if you have the silvers:

"Thank You All" (Wardour) silvers (0) > WAV > FLAC level 8


Please let me know!

Yes, the audiencerecording from hammy is wonderful:-)Much better than the video-audio.

Hello all,

Could anyone please seed as I'm having trouble downloading from the mediashare links posted on the other thread - parts 2 and 3.

Currently downloading the torrent but only showing 2 peers connected at the moment.

Will be eternally grateful if anyone can help me out as i was actually at this concert and every Queen fan should have this recording.

Thanks in advance.

I am re-seeding it.

Bob - sorry I did not see your question: the flacs are right from the silver disc, not from a copy.

Many thanks YourValentine, much appreciated, up to 58%.

Regards.

Thanks to all the seeders, download now complete.

I will seed for the next couple of days for anyone else.

Regards.

Thanks to everyone who seeded this!

Ciao

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]YourValentine wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I am re-seeding it.

Bob - sorry I did not see your question: the flacs are right from the silver disc, not from a copy.[/QUOTE]

Ah, it's okay. Better late than never. Thanks Barbara!

Can't wait to hear how this compares to the leccy magic version!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!