Source: Mining the Live Aid radio broadcast from July 13th ’85 for two double sets. Selected were the performances by David Bowie, Bryan Ferry with David Gilmour), the Wembley Finale, Paul McCartney, F.Mercury & B.May, the Power Station and Duran Duran.
ETS 2588 A: TVC 15 / Rebel Rebel / Modern Love / Heroes / Sensation / Boys and Girls / Slave To Love / Jealous Guy ETS 2588 B: Do They Know It’s Christmas / Is This The World We Created? ETS 2589 A: Let It Be / ? / ? / ? / Murderess / Get It On (Bang a Gong) ETS 2589 B: A View to a Kill / Union of the Snake / Save A Prayer / The Reflex
[Not an accurate track list, I just tried to piece it together from various sources.]
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Volume 2 presents Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin (with Phil Collins), The Who, Black Sabbath, Mick Jagger (w. Hall&Oates, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin and Tina Turner), Bob Dylan (w. Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood) and the finale in Philadelphia.
ETS 2590 A: White Room / Rock & Roll / Whole Lotta Love / Stairway To Heaven ETS 2590 B: My Generation / Love Reign On Me / Won’t Get Fooled Again / Paranoid ETS 2591 A: Lonely At The Top / Just Another Night / Miss You / State of Shock / It’s Only Rock & Roll ETS 2591 B: Ballad Of Hollis Brown / Ship Comes In / Blowing In The Wind / We Are The World
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Meanwhile, someone in Europe went “the whole hog”and issued everything on a 12 LP box (ca. late ’85/86):
The above was offered on eBay as a “test pressing”. It certainly shows more effort than just an owner-produced replacement cover. If the image looks familiar, it was first used on TAKRL’s COMMAND PERFORMANCE in 1977.
Japan: 1985
Source: Osaka, Jo Hall, 15 May 1985; their last ever concert performance in Japan
ETS 2582 A: Machines (tape) / Tear It Up / Tie Your Mother Down / Under Pressure / Somebody To Love / improv – Killer Queen / Seven Seas Of Rhye / Keep Yourself Alive / Liar ETS 2582 B: Impromptu / It’s A Hard Life / Dragon Attack / Now I’m Here / Is This The World We Created? / Love Of My Life ETS 2583 A: Medley: Stone Cold Crazy – Great King Rat – Keyboard – Brighton Rock (ending) / Another One Bites The Dust / Mustapha (intro) / Hammer To Fall / Crazy Little Thing Called Love / Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting / Bohemian Rhapsody ETS 2583 B: Radio Ga Ga / I Want To Break Free / Jailhouse Rock / We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions / God Save The Queen [cut]
Quality: Excellent audience recording, one of the finest products by ETS. However, in 2003 an alternate source surfaced that sounds even better.
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Around 2010, a European bootlegger produced another vinyl version of this concert , called LAST CONCERT IN JAPAN (F185-515). The source used for this is unknown at the moment. If you know, please leave a comment.
Source: Audience recording from the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK on 01 September 1984 (2nd night of a three night run). This is confirmed information, so this is definitely not a Japan concert in disguise (for a change).
ETS 2563 A: Tear It Up/ Tie Your Mother Down / Under Pressure / Somebody To Love / Killer Queen / The Seven Seas Of Rhye / Keep Yourself Alive / Liar ETS 2563 B: It’s A Hard Life / Staying Power / Dragon Attack / Now I’m Here / Is This The World We Created / Love Of My Life ETS 2564 A: Stone Cold Crazy / Brian May Guitar Solo / Hammer To Fall / Another One Bites The Dust / Crazy Little Thing Called Love / Saturday Night’s All Right For Fighting ETS 2564 B: Bohemian Rhapsody / Radio Ga Go / I Want To Break Free / Sheer Heart Attack / We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions / God Save The Queen
The recording runs a bit too slow. It’s A Hard Life and Freddie’s speech after that were cut due to a tape change; B+ rating. Three further sources exist for this night.
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Out of all the Japanese Queen bootlegs, this was one of the least desirable ones over the years, when looking at the popsike data. Someone just tried offering it at 150 and then at 250 Euros (yes, in that order) and it failed to sell each time.
The “10th Anniversary” theme is repeated on the labels, which state this as well.
Japan: 1983 – a 2006 auction claimed 400 copies were pressed.
Matrix: ETS 2511 A / B, ETS 2512 A / B, ETS 2513 A / B
ETS 2511 A: Flash (Tape intro) / Rock It (Prime Jive) / We Will Rock You (Fast) / Action This Day / Somebody To Love / Calling All Girls ETS 2511 B: Now I’m Here / Put Out The Fire / Dragon Attack / Now I’m Here (Reprise) / Love Of My Life / Save Me ETS 2512 A: Get Down Make Love / Guitar Solo / Body Language / Back Chat / Under Pressure ETS 2512 B: Fat Bottomed Girls / Crazy Little Thing Called Love / Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting / Bohemian Rhapsody / Tie Your Mother Down ETS 2513 A: Another One Bites The Dust / We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions / God Save The Queen [Cut] (103 minutes total length of this recording) / Staying Power+ / Under Pressure+ / Sheer Heart Attack+
Source: Audience recording from one of the two nights played at Fukuoka Kyu-den at the start of their Japan leg of the Game World Tour, usually attributed to the first night on 19 October 1982 – ‘+’ marked tracks come from an inferior sounding audience recording taped at National Bowl, Milton Keynes, UK on 5 June 1982. The Fukuoka tracks on the first five and the following sixth side have been intentionally misrepresented as having been recorded at the Los Angeles Forum on the 14th and 15th of September ’82 (two correct concert dates), going as far as editing the source tapes and removing all references to the band performing in Japan. This was standard practice for the UD / XL label as well as other Japanese vinyl bootlegs, as the interpretation of the law meant that while concert recordings from other countries could be pressed as records and sold in Japan, those derived from Japanese concert performances could not. Thankfully (for later identifying purposes), the Japanese bootlegger overlooked that Love of My Life had not been performed at any of the US concerts and Back Chat had been dropped after the first US show.
Quality: Quote from queenlive.ca: “the original LP remains the best version.” (for all the Fukuoka tracks).
ETS 2513 B: Flash (tape intro) / The Hero / We Will Rock You (Fast) / Play The Game / Calling All Girls / Body Language / Under Pressure / Bohemian Rhapsody
Source: Identified as coming from a different/second night at Fukuoka, 20 October 1982
Quality: While deserving of its ‘Ëxs’ rating, even better is the recording from Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium (outside of Osaka, 24 October ’82) as pressed onto vinyl and released as GET DOWN (made in Italy would be my guess, first released in 1983 as well). There are big differences within each rating class after all.
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This is the only Japanese bootleg I ever remember actually holding in my hands at a record fair in my country in the early 80’s. Being a poor university student, I was shocked by the large sum asked for this rarity and was reduced to lusting after it in suffered silence (which is definitely the reason I now have so many Queen live recordings on my hard drives).
Unfortunately, a copy of this title also fell into the hands of the worst CD bootleg label ever, Imtrat Records of Southern Germany, home of the abominable LIVE AND ALIVE/LIVE USA CD releases, flooding the music departments of department stores by the dozens with this cheaply produced crap. Ïmtrat produced about 250 titles from 1991 – 1993 under the interpretation of the copyright laws that these were legal, as long as the source tapes were recorded in the USA. “The anomaly in German law, that allowed absolute protection against unauthorized live performance CDs of a German artist but only protected foreign artists for performances in Germany…” [Bootleg, C. Heylin, p. 352]
I believe that Japan had the same copyright law and this is the explanation for the large number of Japanese concert recordings actively mislabeled as recorded abroad on the vinyl boots I have presented since early 2016.
The fate of European bootleg CD labels such as Imtrat, Swingin’ Pig, Oh Boy!, Living Legend, Perfect Beat, etc. was finally severely impacted after Phil Collins and Warner Brothers (Warner over a Prince title on Imtrat) sued and the European Court Of Justice in Luxembourg decided to extend copyright extension to all EC artists as already applied in the rest of Europe and even a recording of a US artist made in America could now be illegal if one of the musicians performing was European.
Somebody in Japan decided to end the drought of Queen bootlegs (see below) and manufacture this double album out of a tape they managed to acquire – unfortunately, a tape many generations removed from the master. The finished product received a “vgs” rating in HOTWACKS.
Source: Hammersmith Odeon, London, 26 December 1979 as part of the Concert For Kampuchea benefit concert series
For space reasons, the segment between ‘ ’39’ and ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ containing ‘Keep Yourself Alive / Guitar Solo (with Silent Night)’ and ‘Brighton Rock’ was not included.
Complete set list:
00 – Intro 01 – Jailhouse Rock 02 – We Will Rock You (fast) 03 – Let Me Entertain You 04 – Somebody To Love 05 – If You can’t Beat Them 06 – Mustapha 07 – Death On Two Legs 08 – Killer Queen 09 – I’m In Love With My Car 10 – Get Down Make Love 11 – You’re My Best Friend 12 – Save Me 13 – Now I’m Here 14 – Don’t Stop me Now 15 – Spread Your Wings 16 – Love Of My Life 17 – ’39 18 – Keep Yourself Alive 19 – Guitar Solo (with Silent Night) 20 – Brighton Rock 21 – Crazy Little Thing Called Love 00 – Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Audience singing) 22 – Bohemian Rhapsody 23 – Tie Your Mother Down 24 – Sheer Heart Attack 25 – We Will Rock You 26 – We Are The Champions 27 – God Save The Queen
Fan comment regarding the master tape: “There are 2 existing sources for the Queen gig from December 26. The first one is this audience recording. It has really excellent sound quality and it’s virtually complete (there are a few cuts between songs, but musically it’s complete) The main problem is that it was recorded from a distance, so most of the time you can hear the audience much louder than the band. The speed is also fluctuating, it’s nothing major as 99.99% of the people wouldn’t notice it. The only reason why “I” noticed the speed issues is that I synced it to the “other” source 🙂 . “
The second source is the video source.
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1978 – 1982: Just Press Copy – Drought Years for Queen Bootlegs
If the comment on queenlive.ca is correct – and I have no reason to doubt it – this was the first ever Queen bootleg, released around May of 1975 on Japan’s OG label (OG-860, Aprilfool label version).
Wizardo 307 was the first U.S. manufactured Queen bootleg, released around June/July of 1975.
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Another Japanese bootleg, the black/white label pressing of LIVE IN KOVE (sic) was probably the third.
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This TAKRL release (“1957) was the second U.S. release and sold from early 1976 onwards. An analysis of the other TAKRL titles and the dates of the material they featured indicates that this probably did not come out in 1975, TAKRL 1951: Bad Company’s SCRAPBOOK featured tracks from their March ’75 Japan tour, which likely came out in mid-1975. Then, there were six more TAKRL titles until SHEETKICKERS. Further clues are provided by the recording dates of two immediately following titles: 10 CC’s GOING PINK ON PURPOSE (late November 1975) and Steve Miller THE MIDNIGHT TOKER (7 May 1976).
The rest of 1976 and 1977 then saw a lot of activity. In Japan, MARC records and an unknown producer put out four titles from their second Japan Tour, with two of them getting copied several times in the U.S. and Europe.
FREE IN THE PARK came out in the last quarter of 1976 in Japan.
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COMMAND PERFORMANCE, containing the London Christmas Eve 1975 broadcast, ended up being one of the final regular TAKRL titles (#1997) in 1977.
1978 saw the release of CROWNING GLORY, a copy of LAZING ON A SUNDAY EVENING
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In 1979 Vicky Vinyl released several copies of earlier Japan titles: MERCURY POISONING, a copy of the Japanese MARC title INVITE YOU TO A NIGHT AT THE BUDO KAN and GEISHA BOYS, yet another copy of LAZING ON A SUNDAY EVENING
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U.S. bootleggers had skipped Queen’s North American leg of their ’76 A Night At The Opera tour. After the next U.S. tour, an excellent quality tape of the first night in Seattle, recorded on a Tandberg Model 11 R2R deck with a Sony ECM-22P mic made it’s way into the hands of those responsible for the ODD label (John Wizardo and Vicky Vinyl). The taper had previously recorded a number of other artists in the Seattle area from the summer of 1972 – 1979.
The first part of this concert was released as P.N.W. {odd-3} slightly mis-identified as coming from the second night on the 14th of March and listing titles that weren’t even on the record.
Side A: Ogre Battle / White Queen / Medley: Killer Queen – The Millionaire Waltz – You’re My Best Friend – Bring Back That Leroy Brown Side B: Brighton Rock / White Man / The Prophet’s Song
A second part was issued in 1978 as Duck Soup – continuing the Marx Brothers movie titles series started with Queen’s official albums – on Vicky Vinyl’s Rodan Records.
Side A: Somebody To Love / ’39 / You Take My Breath Away / [cut] Bohemian Rhapsody / [cut] In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited Side B: Now I’m Here / Big Spender / Medley: Jailhouse Rock – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting / Liar
The first four tracks run too slow on this release. In anyway, combining both releases would not result in the complete show.
Setlist from the 13th: 01. Tie Your Mother Down 02. Ogre Battle 03. White Queen 04. Somebody To Love 05. Killer Queen -> 06. The Millionaire Waltz -> 07. You’re My Best Friend -> 08. Bring Back That Leroy Brown 09. Brighton Rock -> 10. Guitar Solo -> 11. Brighton Rock (Reprise) 12. ’39 13. You Take My Breath Away 14. White Man -> 15. The Prophet’s Song 16. Bohemian Rhapsody 17. Stone Cold Crazy 18. Keep Yourself Alive 19. Liar 20. In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited 21. Now I’m Here (cuts in) 22. Big Spender 23. Jailhouse Rock Medley* * includes Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, Stupid Cupid and Be Bop A Lula
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And that was it – although in a way, Queen were just getting started and toured North America again in 1878, 1980 and 1982, this was the last U.S. produced bootleg of a North American Queen concert performance. The early 1980’s would see European and Japanese releases fill the void.
One major contributing factor is certainly that the first generation bootleggers who would either record shows themselves like Dub from TMOQ and Contraband had already gone out of business and the second were about to (Wizardo, Vickie Vinyl, Hoffman Avenue Records). The second reason might have been that none of these operators were big fans of the band and they were content re-issuing older titles well into 1979.
The situation was even more dramatic in Japan when, unlike their first two tours, their extensive third tour in April of 1979 and their fourth tour in February of 1981 did not produce a single vinyl title. As stated elsewhere on this blog, I suspect that Japan having signed the Phonogram Protection Convention in 1978, which made bootlegs finally illegal in Japan, was too blame and led to a generally quiet period until the third wave of bootleggers started from around 1982. Queen’s 1982 fall Japanese tour enjoyed pre-1977 “bootleg attention” again with three releases in total; as if a switch had been flipped.
Even in Europe, as far as Queen were concerned, there seems to have been a gap following the famous Invite You To A Night At The Warehouse double and 1981/2 releases, such as Flash Alive (London, 8 December ’80) and The Falklands Are Rocking.
The end of the tan MARC title labels had come, it seems. Check the next posts for the labels.
By the middle of 1976, MARC had caught up with the band’s second Japan tour and released their second Queen title much closer to the concert date. Another end of tour performance – respectable but not reaching Queen’s brilliance of their final tour performance. The recording is slightly distant but still more than decent.
Side 1:Bohemian Rhapsody (tape & rock part) / Ogre Battle / Sweet Lady / White Queen / Bohemian Rhapsody (verses) – Killer Queen – The March Of The Black Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise) / Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Side 2: The Prophet’s Song / Stone Cold Crazy / Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon / Liar / In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
The likely set list that evening:
Bohemian Rhapsody (tape & rock part) Ogre Battle Sweet Lady White Queen
Flick Of The Wrist – Bohemian Rhapsody (verses) – Killer Queen – The March Of The Black Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise) Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Brighton Rock
Son And Daughter The Prophet’s Song Stone Cold Crazy
Doing All Right Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
Keep Yourself Alive Liar In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
Now I’m Here
Big Spender
Jailhouse Rock
God Save The Queen
This is the only available source for this night. “A second audience source from this show exists, reportedly the complete show, but it has been said that it will never leave the taper’s hands. ” [queenlive.ca] That, of course, is rather sad.
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COPIES:
Ken came out with the first copy on his Flat Records label, ca.1977/8:
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Vicky Vinyl released it as the first title of her SLA / Rodan sub-label in 1979:
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In 1981, someone from the UK made their own version under the same title and even copied the font & track list of the SLA version on the back of their new creation:
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Finally, three songs and half the medley were included on the 1982 European 500 copies only release CARDIAC ARREST: “Ogre Battle, Sweet Lady, White Queen, The March Of The Black Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise)”.
Matrix: (side 1): TQ75122A / (side 2): TQ-75122B The start of several Queen releases by MARC Records.
Source: Tokyo Budokan, 01 May 1975, released in Japan in 1976
Side 1: Procession / Now I’m Here / Great King Rat / Killer Queen / Seven Seas Of Rhye / Hangman Side 2: In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited / See What A Fool I’ve Been / God Save The Queen
Concert set list:
Intro: Procession (from tape) Now I’m Here Ogre Battle Great King Rat White Queen Flick Of The Wrist Hangman Doing All Right In The Lap Of The Gods Killer Queen The March Of The Black Queen Bring Back That Leroy Brown Son And Daughter Keep Yourself Alive Seven Seas Of Rhye Stone Cold Crazy Liar In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited Big Spender Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll Jailhouse Rock See What A Fool I’ve Been God Save The Queen
This title was picked up by Vicky Vinyl in the US and copied as STUNNING (BRR 06/Rodan Records):
Matrix:: SLA-00006-A/B
Above: Back cover of the deluxe version.
Also exists with Duck Records labels.
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Supposedly, there are six audience sources (five of them bootlegged) for the last night of Queen’s Sheer heart Attack Tour:
1976: Kimono My Place Live – Marc Records, Japan Vinyl source, incomplete (best sounding source until release of “song brothers” source in August of 2007)
2000: First Live Attack – Private Masters, ? CD source (first release of the complete show, “fair to good, very distant with the screams of the girls in the audience frequently drowning out the music”)
?: unbootlegged source, 119 mins. (missing most of the cheering after In The lap of the Gods… Revisited)
2004: Killing Me Softly – Wardour CD source ( “very good mono being a definite upgrade to the previous first tape source. All of the instruments are distinct and clear and enjoyable”, “…missing most of the cheering after Jailhouse Rock.”)
2007: Young Nobles Of Rock – Tarantura CD source (best sounding of all sources; “…complete, but there are three slight cuts – just after Son And Daughter, and before both encores. “)
2012: An Exceptional Legacy – Wardour CD source, complete (“clear but distant and flat, lacking in some detail and liveliness. It is sharper than the tape used on Killing Me Softly but not nearly as good quality as the Tarantura”)
The “song brothers” master cassette as pictured on the Tarantura artwork. Was the pig stamp a later addition?
This best sounding source was the lucky combination of a band performing at their best on a final night of a tour – they tend to do that in my experience, unless the tour was a disaster and/or members don’t get along – and a technically almost perfect capture (under the circumstances).
49 mins and 41 seconds of Queen’s very first concert in Japan
Side 1 has: Procession; Now I’m Here / White Queen / Doing All Right / In The Lap Of The Gods / Killer Queen / The March Of The Black Queen / Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Side 2: Stone Cold Crazy / In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited / Big Spender / Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll / Jailhouse Rock / See What A Fool I’ve Been / God Save The Queen
I assume “Modern Times Rock’n Roll” was omitted due to an oversight on the side 2 label of the reissue but is actually present on the LP.
From queenlive.ca, confirming the micro-quantities pressed by OG: “This was released in 1975 not long after the show. It was the first Queen bootleg released in Japan, and is one of the most valuable Queen bootlegs of them all.
Less than 100 copies of the “Aprilfool” version exist, and under 30 copies of the “Now I’m Here” version exist.
This recording captures a fair chunk of the show, with a few seamless edits between songs. The quality improves on side B, beginning with Stone Cold Crazy.”
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Two audio sources for this concert exist and they have been merged by collectors to create the best-sounding recording possible.
* Source 1 – “A Beautiful Album” > WAV (GoldWave pitch/speed correction on side A) ** Source 2 -: AUD -> Master cassette (Columbia C120SP low noise cassette tape)
Set list:
01. Procession [cut] **/* 02. Now I’m Here * 03. Ogre Battle ** 04. Father To Son **/* 05. White Queen */** 06. Flick Of The Wrist **/* 07. Doing All Right * 08. In The Lap Of The Gods * 09. Killer Queen * 10. The March Of The Black Queen * 11. Bring Back That Leroy Brown */** 12. Son And Daughter [tape flip] ** 13. Band Introduction ** 14. Keep Yourself Alive ** 15. Seven Seas Of Rhye ** 16. Stone Cold Crazy * 17. Liar ** 18. In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited * 19. Call for an encore ** 20. Big Spender * 21. Modern Times Rock ‘n’ Roll * 21. Jailhouse Rock * 22. Call for an encore ** 23. See What A Fool I’ve Been * 24. God Save The Queen *
Looks like a rarer release that does not turn up very often
BRR 005: Suzi Quatro – Naked Under Leather as featured in the previous post “Western Pop-Rock Acts Bootlegged In Japan 1975-76: …”
BRR & SLA 006: Queen – “STUNNING” ditto
BRR 007: Led Zeppelin – BBC Broadcast
BRR & SLA release numbers were often used interchangeably, it seems.
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SLA 001: Queen – Geisha Boys ditto
SLA 002
Image caption reads: Richie Blackmore: “I yell and scream at home, too.” The text below reads: “Loudest Pop Group. The amplification for Deep Purple on their 10,000 watt Marshall P.A. system attained 117 decibels. This was sufficient in the Rainbow Theatre, London, in 1972, to render three members of their audience unconscious.”
Mostly found with blank labels in various colors; below a copy with a “Duck Hits!” label
Matrix: SLA-00002A/B
Side 1: 01 Lucille (5:25) — probably 12 December 1970, Stuttgart, Germany 02 Mumblin’ thing blues (8:29) — Muelheim Sporthalle, Cologne, Germany, 4 April, 1970 (Progressive Pop Festival ’70) 03 Into the fire (4:16) — probably 12 December 1970, Stuttgart, Germany
Side 2: Space truckin’ (19:02) — Sporthalle, Stuttgart-Boeblingen, Germany, 10 February, 1972
Source: A copy of of the second Edition of the European bootleg LP Back To The Rock
This has been confirmed by a torrent on dime, however, the only images I can find are for the (Dutch?) LP on the Altintas label, which has a different track list and sources, altogether. Can anyone shed some light on this?
OK, hand up! Who in the audience had the recorder?
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SLA 003: Deep Purple – Made For Japanas featured in the previous post “Western Pop-Rock Acts Bootlegged In Japan 1975-76: …”
SLA 007
Vicky Vinyl obviously thought after
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the logical title for the next Queen (bootleg) album must be:
Correct concert date stated. Found with blank, Idle Mind, Duck and Ruthless Rhymes labels
Queenlive.ca dates this release to 1978. An insert, autographed by the band, sold for over $600 in February of 2012.
First 4 songs on side 1 play too slow. The master was originally taped on a Tandberg Model 11 recorder with Sony ECM-22P mics.
Two other insert variations exist:
Incorrect information given regarding the recording equipment and pointing out the date error on P.N.W. (see below) plus a ‘cheeky finish’.
and:
Looking at the set list shows how this was edited and mixed up:
01. Tie Your Mother Down 02. Ogre Battle P1 03. White Queen P2 04. Somebody To Love D1 05. Killer Queen -> P3 06. The Millionaire Waltz -> P4 07. You’re My Best Friend -> P5 08. Bring Back That Leroy Brown P6 09. Brighton Rock -> P7 10. Guitar Solo -> P7 11. Brighton Rock (Reprise) P7 12. ’39 D2 13. You Take My Breath Away D3 14. White Man -> P8 15. The Prophet’s Song P9 16. Bohemian Rhapsody D4 17. Stone Cold Crazy 18. Keep Yourself Alive 19. Liar 20. In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited D5 21. Now I’m Here (cuts in) D6 22. Big Spender D7 23. Jailhouse Rock Medley* D7,8,9,10 * includes Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, Stupid Cupid and Be Bop A Lula
D = Duck Soup + track number on that LP; P = P.N.W. + track number on that LP
Interesting notes from a remastering job of the above master:
“Remaster A copy of this recording was released on LP bootlegs, this is the first time when the original complete recording comes out. Unfortunately this master copy sounds much worse then the LP bootleg, which is pretty unusual. The original master was really heavy in the bottom end, while the LPs sound really clean. …”
2 LP bootleg of the complete master tape, taken from the 2009 torrent; supposedly only 100 copies pressed – I wonder if they used the remaster. This copy sold for a respectable GBP 155 in June of 2013.
I personally prefer the audience recording from the Boston Garden from this tour that was shared on dime a couple of years ago. Some live recordings just have that extra special bit of ‘audio magic’ and that’s one of them.
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The first release containing material from this show was on this LP, released as part of the ODD Wizardo sub label in 1977:
Still sealed copy above
Matrix: ODD THREE -A / B
Does this exist with any other labels?
1980 reissue under this title (with a mismatched The Game Tour 1980 live shot):
1996 copy/re-issue made in Germany on mcv:
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SLA 008
Matrix: ·SLA 0008 A / B
The year is actually correct: Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert, Season 1, Episode 20 [broadcast?] April 13, 1974: The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne
Regarding the location as stated on the back cover. The 46th St. Rock Palace in Brooklyn, NY became later known as ‘Bananafish Garden’ (now a furniture show & storage room) named after the J.D. Salinger short story.A few episodes of Rock Concert were filmed there but I could not confirm that this one was.
“A TV show (Howard Stein’s I believe) later used the Rock Palace for some memorable shows with Jerry Lee Lewis, The Byrds, Hot Tuna, Wayne Cochran and the C.C. Riders, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Steve Stills, and God knows who else […]”
