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Flash In Space documents
the first concert on Queen's Hot Space tour in North
American. Breakdown use the two-source mix that is commonly traded.
The main tape is a very good stereo recording bordering on excellent.
It is a bit fuzzy especially in the lower frequencies. The second
source is very good mono and is used to fix the gaps in the first source.
These edits are in "Now I'm Here", "Calling All Girls"
and several smaller bits in "Under Pressure", "Crazy
Little Thing Called Love" and "Bohemian Rhapsody".
The edits are handled very well and there is no loss of enjoyment of the
show.
This
was a couple of weeks after the famous Milton Keynes show and they sound a
little rusty. They play six songs from the new album with
"Calling All Girls" making its live debut. "Hello
Montreal" Freddie says before "Play The Game".
"It's good to see you back so soon" referring to Queen's two gig
appearance in Montreal the previous November to film We Will Rock You. (Incidentally
those concerts are the live debut of "Under Pressure"). Before
"Staying Power" Freddie says, "We're gonna play some new
things tonight...if you want to come on stage and boogie, we' won't hurt
you". Freddie experiments with a harmonizer on "Body
Language" and they cut the duration of the song on this
tour.
Breakdown
is a prolific label. They really like to crank these titles out.
The cdrs have a label attached to the discs and the artwork is
printed on only one side. The overall production values look like
shit but this is an essential concert for fans of Hot Space (like
me). Not only are these shows the only live source for most of that
album. In subsequent tours only "Under Pressure" would be
retained in its entirety while half of "Staying Power" was used
early in The Works tour before being dropped, never to surface
again. The early medley and acoustic set was also dropped.
This is a great sounding tape and the beginning of their final tour of
this continent which makes it special. (GS)
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