A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind. But a credit to this website where you found it and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Thanks.
The Show
A stereo recording from the mixing desk (mostly!) of the first of several groundbreaking gigs played in Argentina. This has appeared in various bootleg issues over the years of various lengths (the venue is also known as the Vélez Sarsfield Stadium, after the football team that plays there). I came across a copy of the most complete version of the gig. One track (Get Down Make Love) - and the outro of God Save The Queen weren't on the original stereo recording but recordings of those from the night taken from a mono AM radio broadcast (with a rather excitable radio announcer!) were mixed in at a later date to make up the complete gig.
What Was Done
The recording (the stereo parts anyway) was basically in OK shape although muffled and not very clear - not much bottom or top end; the bits from AM radio were plagued by AM radio interference. Plus of course the AM tracks (in mono) sound very very different to the rest of the gig.
After listening to the whole recording, I split apart the stereo and mono parts so I could work on them separately. The AM radio parts had the buzzing interference reduced as much as I could without affecting the overall sound, and the sound then improved and mastered, making them wider to more closely blend with the stereo recording. The stereo parts were worked on to bring more clarity and impact to the sound mix - all instruments and voices can now be heard much clearer - before mastering and then blending the stereo and mono parts back together.
The result is a big improvement I think and deserves to be played loud; I'm really pleased with this one and I'm sure
you'll enjoy it!
The All Important Download/Stream Link
As always, the restored
and remastered show is available to download or stream for free as a
single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:
Setlist
Thunderbolts And Lightning/We Will Rock You (Fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Play The Game
Mustapha
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to…)
Killer Queen
I'm In Love With My Car
Get Down, Make Love
Need Your Loving Tonight
Rock It (Prime Jive)
Save Me
Now I'm Here
Dragon Attack
Now I'm Here
(Reprise)
Love Of My Life
Keep Yourself Alive
Instrumental Inferno
Flash
The Hero
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie Your Mother Down
Another One Bites the Dust
Sheer Heart Attack
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen
Be sure to check out the other gigs from Queen I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.
Supporting The Site
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you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site,
and (if you wish to) obtain separate, fully tagged 320kbps MP3s of this
restoration for less than the price of a coffee in return, or lossless
FLACs or even a lossless copy on CDR, head on over to the Rewards For Donations tab
to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the
site. There is NO OBLIGATION to do so of course - you can take the
file on this page absolutely for free - but every single donation does
go towards this site and helps me do more shows and update some of the
software I use as time goes by. Either way, enjoy the show.
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Thanks very much! Appreciated
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