Queen: London/Rainbow 31/3/1974 Original Reel To Reel Version

Queen, Live At The Rainbow Theatre, London, UK.

This 3 source compilation was created and put together by Pittrek over at Queenzone, so huge thanks to him for this!

"This show at the Rainbow Theatre was Queen's first "big" headlining gig. The show was properly recorded and was later proposed to be the band's first live album, but ultimately shelved. It was eventually released officially in 2014.

"What a night! It was a finale of the big Queen tour throughout the whole country. It was the conclusive evening for their reputation. Their lift was meteorical. So many people had challenged if Queen had the authority to play in such a prestigious place as the Rainbow. Freddie appeared in his new specially eccentric white "eagle's" costume, bouncing and miming with even bigger ecstasy than ever and sang even better than any time before. One couldn't believe it's the first time of Queen appearing themselves in such an important place. After a while they got used to taking advantage of the big stage. After two encores they left the stage during a big applause of the audience." - Queenlive.ca/queen/74-03-31.htm

Recording Quality: A (Overall)

Lineage:

Source 1: SBD - multi-track master tape - editing, overdubbing - Trident tape - Elektra reel-to-reel tape - digital transfer
- 96kHz 32bit PCM file - Cool Edit Pro - downsampling to 44kHz / 16 bit (for making it "CD-friendly"), correcting the
speed to match it the older audio sources and the BBC video, patching the right channel gap in Keep Yourself Alive
with information from the left channel, splitting - WAV files

Source 2 : SBD - ? - "Master of Sheetkeeckers" LP - ? - CD - WAV - Cool Edit Pro (hiss reduction)

Source 3: Video master - ? - VHS(x) - DVD - WAV

More info here: http://www.queenzone.com/forums/13812...

"First of all, this was done BY me and FOR me. That's why I'm not claiming anything like "this is the best you're gonna get", only "it's as good as I was able to do it"." - Pittrek

Download the raw FLAC files here (either link should work):

http://e748pftyvb.1fichier.com/
https://mega.co.nz/#!Nc4glTKJ!GfefNjO...

Timestamps:

0:00 - Procession
1:10 - Father To Son
7:02 - Ogre Battle
11:59 - Son And Daughter
15:29 - Guitar Solo
17:51 - Son And Daughter (Reprise)
19:36 - Keep Yourself Alive
23:44 - Seven Seas Of Rhye
26:43 - Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
29:32 - Liar

For you mobile users, these timestamps will also be below in the comments so you can tap on them!

Enjoy!!

For more pictures of this gig, check out: http://queenlive.ca/queen/74-03-31