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Queen - Young Nobles Of Rock. Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan. May 1st 1975

Queen - Young Nobles Of Rock. Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan. May 1st 1975 -
stark remaster http://www.queenzone.com.

This performance is incredible. Queen play their guts out, and perform
nearly every song with unique embellishments. They are clearly appreciative
of the Japanese fans throughout the show. All this, as well as some rare
choices for songs, make this a very special final night of the Sheer Heart
Attack world tour. Many of the songs are long and full of energy, even more
so than usual. Brian plays a daringly long and creative guitar solo, and
they turn in a long version of Liar. But there really is no point of
highlighting individual things, as the entire concert is really a highlight
of their career at this point.

One notable thing about these early Japanese shows is that Freddie is just
learning how to communicate with larger audiences, but he's not having too
much success, since most the audience members don't speak English! It really
is amazing how bands like The Beatles, Deep Purple, Queen, and Cheap Trick
were so successful in a country where most of their fans couldn't understand
a word of their music - which goes to show how powerful music is and how it
can transcend cultural barriers.

The show was filmed, and three songs (Now I'm Here, Killer Queen, and Gods
Revisited) were later broadcast on TV, along with some press conference
footage and a few shots of the boys having a picnic with some Japanese
people. The concert footage was previously attributed to the April 19th
show, because there is footage of Roger at the picnic saying how they
enjoyed their first concert at the Budokan. But upon closer examination, it
was confirmed that these three songs are definitely from the May 1st show.
There is speculation as to whether or not the remaining footage of the show
still exists.

It is worth noting that since this is the final performance of the Sheer
Heart Attack tour, it is the last time In The Lap Of The Gods would be
performed.

Venue : Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan
Date : 1. May 1975
Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Procession
2. Now I'm Here
3. Ogre Battle
4. Great King Rat
5. White Queen (As It Began)
6. Flick Of The Wrist
7. Hangman
8. Doing Allright
9. In The Lap Of The Gods
10. Killer Queen
11. The March Of The Black Queen
12. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
13. Son And Daughter

CD 2:
1. Keep Yourself Alive
2. Seven Seas Of Rhye
3. Stone Cold Crazy
4. Liar
5. In The Lap Of The Gods ...revisited
6. Big Spender
7. Modern Times Rock'n'Roll
8. Rock'n'Roll Medley
9. See What A Fool I've Been
10. God Save The Queen

Information from "stark" (http://www.queenzone.com):

Lineage: Silvers> ? >FLAC level 8 > WAV > Har-Bal > Wavelab > WAV > FLAC
level 8

**As always, I have restored/remastered this FOR MY OWN USE. I hope the
community sees it as enough of an upgrade to want it, but if you don't like
it, please don't download it.

Firstly, this recording has been crushed by excessive compression (sometime
since the introduction of digital limiters, so an uncompressed master SHOULD
exist), and it's all but impossible to undo. However, by correcting the
equalisation I have minimised the effect and increased the peak-to-average
ratio (dynamic range) by about 4dB. As the original has a ratio of about 9dB
(!), this represents a significant difference. Please note that if you are
comparing this version with the original, it will sound quieter.

The bulk of the equalisation was done with Har-Bal. I then applied high- and
low-pass filters with a Waves Renaissance 2-band eq and brought it back up
to level (-0.2dB) with a Waves L3 limiter in Wavelab. I have re-tracked the
songs, corrected the balance between left and right channels and applied new
fades.

The rock n roll medley, as requested, has been combined into one track, as
has Son and Daughter.

Very few eq boosts were used (boosts, like mp3s, are bad), and...NO
DENOISERS!! **


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