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The “THE RHAPSODY TOUR” tour
that attracts attention from all over Japan will be performed in
Japan. The vertex collection has finally been completed. The
best original recording that will be the last piece is a
permanent preservation decision.
What is engraved on this
work is “January 30, 2020: Nagoya Dome” performance. It is the
best audience recording. Following last week’s press CD “SAITAMA
SUPER ARENA 2020 1ST NIGHT (Wardour-401)” and “2ND NIGHT
(Wardour-402)”, this week’s second half of the tour, “Western
Japan Edition” is also permanently saved. All four performances
were available. First, let’s organize the ultimate collection by
date.
・ January 25 “SAITAMA SUPER
ARENA 2020 1ST NIGHT”
・ January 26 “SAITAMA SUPER ARENA 2020
2ND NIGHT”
・ January 28 “OSAKA 2020”
・ January 30:
“NAGOYA 2020”
Nagoya Dome ← ★ This work ★
* Note: Only representative press
albums are available on each day.
[Large upgrade sound that has
changed to the position] This is the Shitenno of the 2020 Japan
Tour. This work is a live album on the last day. This work is a
refined mastering of the original master of “NAGOYA DOME 2020
(Uxbridge 1210)” which was a preliminary release. This tour
reflects the unprecedented popularity, and a number of famous
recordings appeared immediately after the show and were offered
to our shop. We released the best ones in the bulletin, but in
Nagoya there were no masters who exceeded the bulletin record.
Of course, it’s not the same
as the Uxbridge version …. It’s a big upgrade that has been
reborn to the level of “another thing”. The transformation
sounds different even up to the recording position. To tell the
truth, this recording was taken from a stand seat with the stage
looking straight ahead. The original sound of the Uxbridge board
was a clear recording that cut through a space without
obstructions, but this work has a much higher core density, and
it is more on and powerful. If the Uxbridge board sounds like a
real stand, it sounds like a balance, as if it were a drone,
skipped and recorded from mid-air. It was possible to brush up
that much because the original sound had a certain amount of
extension. Remastering any recording does not always make it
better, and it is not unusual for things to change depending on
personality or to become unnatural enough to be poor. However,
this recording is a type that can adjust the beautiful sound and
the core individually, and it was possible to reduce the sense
of distance while keeping the natural texture and beauty of the
original sound as it is. This is a major upgrade that was
realized only because the original recording was excellent.
While it was premised on
“NAGOYA DOME 2020”, if you do not know the Uxbridge version,
this recording is a masterpiece used to a huge venue. He has
worked on a number of classics, and has recently become familiar
with the latest recordings by Huey Lewis, Mariah Carey, Janet
Jackson, and others. In particular, Celine Dion and Tetailer
Swift / Charlie XCX caught a great sound in spite of the Tokyo
Dome, and received a very good reputation as “Really Dome !?”
Particularly good is the extension of the treble. Adam’s high
note stretched comfortably and the width and sway of the fine
vibrato were clear. On top of that, the resounding spectacle is
added, and even majestic. Singing up, of course, is even more
wonderful, as in the first half of “Killer Queen”. Not only can
you hear the rich sound and the subtleties of the voice that can
be changed like an actor, but you can clearly see that the work
is dominating the venue. It is a live album that has refined the
original sound that draws the world of beauty because it is a
great audience recording, and has a direct feeling like a sound
board.
[Full show in Nagoya
surrounded by enthusiasm for the first time in 15 years] の It is
the last day of the Japan tour that has been heated throughout
Japan drawn with such a reborn sound. As mentioned in the
commentary on other works, this performance in Japan is almost
common among the four performances in Tomeisaka. So, here, let’s
organize the set based on successive Nagoya performances.
●
Song played in the last Nagoya
(QUEEN + Paul in 2005)
・ Hammer to Fall / I’m in Love With My
Car / I Want It All / Love of My Life / ’39 / Crazy Little Thing
Called Love / I Want to Break Free / Tie Your Mother Down / The
Show Must Go On / Radio Ga Ga / Bohemian Rhapsody / We Will Rock
You / We Are the Champions
・ Limited to Japan: Teo Torriatte
(Let Us Cling Together) / I Was Born to Love You
●
A song since QUEEN in Nagoya
・ Since 1985: Now I’m Here / Seven Seas of Rhye / Keep Yourself
Alive / Killer Queen / Somebody to Love / Another One Bites the
Dust / Under Pressure / Dragon Attack
・ Since 1979: Don’t
Stop Me Now / Bicycle Race
・ Since 1976: In the Lap of the
Gods … Revisited / Doing All Right
● Nagoya’s first song
・
Who Wants to Live Forever (Original Queen 1976 recording,
opening chorus part only, on tape)
…
and it looks like this. This
is QUEEN + Adam’s first performance in Nagoya, and last time is
QUEEN + Paul Rogers. There was also a solo performance by Brian
in 1998, but most of the songs played there were also featured
on QUEEN + Paul. Before that, we go back to Freddie’s last “THE
WORKS TOUR”. “Who Wants to Live Forever,” which did not play
during the Paul era, was premiered in Nagoya.
And this work
is also wonderful in Nagoya’s enthusiasm for the first time in
15 years since the pole era. There is only stand recording, and
you can feel the enthusiasm of the arena burning the performance
from below, which further heats the stage. Every time Adam walks
on the stage, a ripple ripples to the right and left. And the
heat spreads to the stand seats, and the nearby cheers have
large grains, while the far cheers are small grains. You can
feel the space of Nagoya Dome in three dimensions.
来 This
visit to Japan was wrapped in a wind of great success that
revived the heyday. It is a live album that you can enjoy the
glorious final day with plenty of sound. This work itself is a
masterpiece of musical difference that is packed with good
sounds, good songs, and good performances, and it is also the
end of the permanent preservation collection. One inevitable
one. Please enjoy “Glory 2020” anytime and forever with Press
2CD.