Welcome - About Live and Loud!

Live and Loud! began as a fortnightly internet radio show in 2012 taking old unreleased live concert recordings I could find and working to repair and improve them - fixing tape hiss, noise, tape drop out, clicks, speed variations, defects - before improving the sound quality by EQing the sound to bring out the instruments as clearly as possible. These are now made directly available to download for free to reach as many fans of the music as possible.

Depending on the quality of the original recording, these can often be made to sound almost like commercial recordings - but of course I can't guarantee that for every show. What I can guarantee is it will sound far better than the original files available which have been floating around the internet and on bootleg recordings for many years.

Almost all are either "soundboard" recordings (taken directly from the mixing desk used at the gig on the night) or old FM radio recordings. A few gigs, if they are of special historical importance, make an appearance even if they were recorded from the audience - these can also be made to sound better than ever.

Do your ears a favour and listen on headphones or good speakers to get most benefit - laptop speakers will always sound pretty poor by comparison.

All shows still available are listed, including a link to download the remastered show for free. If you want to support the site with a small donation, you can receive the shows as either separate MP3s or FLACs (your choice) - head over to the Rewards for Donations page and see how you can get a lot for very little!

If you want to email me, an email link is in my profile in a link in the side panel.

And finally... These are great fun to listen to but DO NOT replace original releases - support these artists and buy their music. There is nothing you can go and buy in a regular record store here. If a gig is made available as a regular release, then it will be removed (as a couple have been already).

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Show 26: Queen - The Summit Arena, Houston, Texas, USA - 11 December 1977


From their News of The World tour - which started with a warm up gig in London in October 1977 and ended there in May 1978 - comes this powerhouse of a show from early on in the tour while they were in the USA. Its a fantastic soundboard recording which it was a pleasure to work on and improve - this version sounds really excellent.

UPDATE: And now in 2018, I've made it sound far better! While preparing this old show as separate files for a donator to the site, I found I could now improve the sound quality further, over what I’d originally done to the recording several years ago. 

You can now download this new version (as of 2018) HERE as 1 new 320kbps MP3 file.
 
If you would like to have separate tagged MP3s, or even lossless files in FLAC format of the new version, head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site costs.

Setlist
We Will Rock You
(Slow/Fast)
Brighton Rock
Somebody to Love
Death on Two Legs
Killer Queen
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
I'm in Love with My Car
Get Down, Make Love
The Millionaire Waltz
You're My Best Friend
Liar
Love of My Life
'39
My Melancholy Blues
White Man
The Prophet's Song
Now I'm Here
Stone Cold Crazy
Bohemian Rhapsody
Keep Yourself Alive
Tie Your Mother Down

We Will Rock You
We Are the Champions
Sheer Heart Attack
Jailhouse Rock
God Save the Queen






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