Queen Discussion Thread
Sept 6, 2012 7:34:58 GMT -5
Post by talon on Sept 6, 2012 7:34:58 GMT -5
The Queen Tour.
Set up by touring opening for Mott The Hoople, the band played their hardest and often upstaged the headlining band! They formed a unique bond with Mott though that would last throughout their careers. Mott was very helpful with helping to break Queen. In fact this tour went so well, that when Mott toured America a year later, they invited Queen to duplicate their experience, giving Queen their first taste of the States!
Queen learned so much that Brian wrote Now I'm Here about.
They would work together on and off with the band guesting on Ian Hunter's solo album, their keyboarding Morgan Fisher joining Queen as a keyboardist during the Hot Space tour, and Ian played All The Young Dudes at the Freddie Mercury Tribute!
9/13/73 - Queen - Golders Greer Hippodrome - London, UK
The whole gig!
This is the earliest surviving audio of a Queen concert. Recorded in front of a small audience to be broadcast on the BBC, there is hope that if Queen ever releases a complete BBC sessions package that this would be involved.
Recording quality is great and DJ Alan Black offers the in between commentary. The version of Procession was a hastily set up version specifically for this concert so that is a rarity in and of itself.
This is (most likely) the first performance of Father To Son.
John Deacon is referred to as his alter ego, Deacon John.
Sources state that Keep Yourself Alive, Hangman, and Stone Cold Crazy were also played but were either lost or were never recorded. It is also said that See What A Fool I've Been was later on in the setlist after Liar.
All in all one of my favorite Queen shows as they are very young still but starting to really gel as well.
01/27/74 - Queen - Melbourne, Australia - Sunbury Music Festival
The setlist is unknown but most likely close to the general Queen Tour set.
This is one of times in Queen's history when a concert was memorable for ALL the wrong reasons. It was basically set up to fail.
They were scheduled to play two gigs at the festival. Queen was virtually unknown outside the UK at this point and yet they were picked to be one of the headliners already setting a bit of a bad tone with the locals.
Queen ended up pissing off the locals more when they brought their own crew and lighting equipment, forcing the local union boys out of work for that gig.
Queen, being all about living the part and being the showmen, always used limo transportation even when they weren't stars as part of the theory - act the part of the star, people will think you are a star and you will be a star - well instead to the local macho rock crowd it made them look like stuck up Brits.
On the day of the gig both Freddie and Brian were ill although the show went on.
The local MC always seemed to stir up anti-foreigner sentiment and introduced the band as follows:
He then mooned the band and the audience and called the band stuck up Pommies all before the band got on.
During the show, the lights and sound crapped the bed a bunch due to sabotage from pissed off union boys...and despite all that according to most first hand reports the band won over the crowd.
Unfortunately the MC couldn't have that...There were calls for an encore but the MC manipulated the band out of it. After calls, the MC stated (and I paraphrase): "Do we want more of Queen?" *CHEERS* "Do we? We don't want those Pommies back! We want an Aussie band!" With local band, Madder Lake due up next who were very popular there at the time, the MC turned the encore of Queen into the crowd chanting for Madder Lake.
All in all it was a harrowing experience. Freddie vowed that when they returned to Australia they would be the number one band in the world. And he was just about right!
Next up we have...1974 which sees Queen II Tour and Sheer Heart Attack Tour!
Set up by touring opening for Mott The Hoople, the band played their hardest and often upstaged the headlining band! They formed a unique bond with Mott though that would last throughout their careers. Mott was very helpful with helping to break Queen. In fact this tour went so well, that when Mott toured America a year later, they invited Queen to duplicate their experience, giving Queen their first taste of the States!
Queen learned so much that Brian wrote Now I'm Here about.
They would work together on and off with the band guesting on Ian Hunter's solo album, their keyboarding Morgan Fisher joining Queen as a keyboardist during the Hot Space tour, and Ian played All The Young Dudes at the Freddie Mercury Tribute!
9/13/73 - Queen - Golders Greer Hippodrome - London, UK
01. Procession
02. Father To Son
03. Son And Daughter
04. See What A Fool I've Been
05. Ogre Battle
06. Liar
07. Jailhouse Rock medley
08. Big Spender
09. Bama Lama Bama Loo
02. Father To Son
03. Son And Daughter
04. See What A Fool I've Been
05. Ogre Battle
06. Liar
07. Jailhouse Rock medley
08. Big Spender
09. Bama Lama Bama Loo
The whole gig!
This is the earliest surviving audio of a Queen concert. Recorded in front of a small audience to be broadcast on the BBC, there is hope that if Queen ever releases a complete BBC sessions package that this would be involved.
Recording quality is great and DJ Alan Black offers the in between commentary. The version of Procession was a hastily set up version specifically for this concert so that is a rarity in and of itself.
This is (most likely) the first performance of Father To Son.
John Deacon is referred to as his alter ego, Deacon John.
Sources state that Keep Yourself Alive, Hangman, and Stone Cold Crazy were also played but were either lost or were never recorded. It is also said that See What A Fool I've Been was later on in the setlist after Liar.
All in all one of my favorite Queen shows as they are very young still but starting to really gel as well.
01/27/74 - Queen - Melbourne, Australia - Sunbury Music Festival
The setlist is unknown but most likely close to the general Queen Tour set.
This is one of times in Queen's history when a concert was memorable for ALL the wrong reasons. It was basically set up to fail.
They were scheduled to play two gigs at the festival. Queen was virtually unknown outside the UK at this point and yet they were picked to be one of the headliners already setting a bit of a bad tone with the locals.
Queen ended up pissing off the locals more when they brought their own crew and lighting equipment, forcing the local union boys out of work for that gig.
Queen, being all about living the part and being the showmen, always used limo transportation even when they weren't stars as part of the theory - act the part of the star, people will think you are a star and you will be a star - well instead to the local macho rock crowd it made them look like stuck up Brits.
On the day of the gig both Freddie and Brian were ill although the show went on.
The local MC always seemed to stir up anti-foreigner sentiment and introduced the band as follows:
"Well, we've got another load of limey bastards tonight. They're probably going to be useless, but let's give them something to think about!"
He then mooned the band and the audience and called the band stuck up Pommies all before the band got on.
During the show, the lights and sound crapped the bed a bunch due to sabotage from pissed off union boys...and despite all that according to most first hand reports the band won over the crowd.
Unfortunately the MC couldn't have that...There were calls for an encore but the MC manipulated the band out of it. After calls, the MC stated (and I paraphrase): "Do we want more of Queen?" *CHEERS* "Do we? We don't want those Pommies back! We want an Aussie band!" With local band, Madder Lake due up next who were very popular there at the time, the MC turned the encore of Queen into the crowd chanting for Madder Lake.
All in all it was a harrowing experience. Freddie vowed that when they returned to Australia they would be the number one band in the world. And he was just about right!
Next up we have...1974 which sees Queen II Tour and Sheer Heart Attack Tour!
