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).

Showing posts with label Queen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queen. Show all posts

Saturday, 1 February 2025

Show 214 - Queen - Live At Estadio José Amalfitani, Buenos Aires - 28 February 1981

 


 A quick request. If you plan on downloading this and putting it on your YouTube channel or your own bootleg page - I don't mind. But a credit to this website where you found it and a link back to this page would be really appreciated. It helps me gauge which artists are popular - ie more chance of other restorations coming. Thanks.

The Show
A stereo recording from the mixing desk (mostly!) of the first of several groundbreaking gigs played in Argentina. This has appeared in various bootleg issues over the years of various lengths (the venue is also known as the Vélez Sarsfield Stadium, after the football team that plays there). I came across a copy of the most complete version of the gig. One track (Get Down Make Love) - and the outro of God Save The Queen weren't on the original stereo recording but recordings of those from the night taken from a mono AM radio broadcast (with a rather excitable radio announcer!) were mixed in at a later date to make up the complete gig. 

What Was Done
The recording (the stereo parts anyway) was basically in OK shape although muffled and not very clear - not much bottom or top end; the bits from AM radio were plagued by AM radio interference. Plus of course the AM tracks (in mono) sound very very different to the rest of the gig. 

After listening to the whole recording, I split apart the stereo and mono parts so I could work on them separately. The AM radio parts had the buzzing interference reduced as much as I could without affecting the overall sound, and the sound then improved and mastered, making them wider to more closely blend with the stereo recording. The stereo parts were worked on to bring more clarity and impact to the sound mix - all instruments and voices can now be heard much clearer - before mastering and then blending the stereo and mono parts back together. 

The result is a big improvement I think and deserves to be played loud; I'm really pleased with this one and I'm sure you'll enjoy it!

The All Important Download/Stream Link

As always, the restored and remastered show is available to download or stream for free as a single 320kbps MP3. Just hit the link:

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD OR STREAM

Setlist
Thunderbolts And Lightning/We Will Rock You (Fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Play The Game
Mustapha
Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to…)
Killer Queen
I'm In Love With My Car
Get Down, Make Love
Need Your Loving Tonight
Rock It (Prime Jive)
Save Me
Now I'm Here
Dragon Attack
Now I'm Here
(Reprise)
Love Of My Life
Keep Yourself Alive
Instrumental Inferno
Flash
The Hero
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie Your Mother Down
Another One Bites the Dust
Sheer Heart Attack
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen

Be sure to check out the other gigs from Queen I've restored HERE - all similarly downloadable for free.

Supporting The Site

If you want to support the work I do on these recordings, and the site, and (if you wish to) obtain separate, fully tagged 320kbps MP3s of this restoration for less than the price of a coffee in return, or lossless FLACs or even a lossless copy on CDR, head on over to the Rewards For Donations tab to see how you can obtain these for a very small donation towards the site. There is NO OBLIGATION to do so of course - you can take the file on this page absolutely for free - but every single donation does go towards this site and helps me do more shows and update some of the software I use as time goes by. Either way, enjoy the show.

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Saturday, 12 October 2019

Show 139 - Queen - Live in Boston - 30 January 1976


This is an audience recording, originally recorded by Dan Lampinski, who recorded over 200 shows in the 70s from several bands.  He was apparently in the fifth row right of centre when he recorded this (reference from queenlive.ca/). It was released for free onto the internet some years back and quickly grabbed by bootleggers who "issued" it on CD for sale. A 2nd bootleg called A Night At Boston was then released which at least corrected the fact that the recording ran slightly too fast; it's a lossless copy of that that speed corrected recording I've used as the source for this; my version is saved as lossless also and this MP3 is saved from that.

Some studio toys removed some of the natural reverb you get on audience recordings and gave me more of the band's sound to play with. From there, it was out with the 30 band EQ, trying to give you more of the experience of sitting in that hall in front of Queen over 40 years ago! This now, to me, sounds much better than the original.

You can download all of this improved recording for free HERE as one 320 kbps MP3 file.

Or, if you would like to support the site with a small donation towards storage subscription and internet costs, in return you can have the remastered show as separate, properly tagged MP3s or even lossless files in FLAC format; head on over to the Donations tab to see how you can do this.

Either way - enjoy the show!

Setlist
Bohemian Rhapsody
Ogre Battle
Sweet Lady
White Queen
Flick Of The Wrist
Medley - Bohemian Rhapsody/Killer Queen/The March Of The Black Queen/Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise)
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Brighton Rock
Guitar Solo
Son And Daughter
The Prophet's Song
Stone Cold Crazy
Doing All Right
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
Keep Yourself Alive
Seven Seas Of Rhye
Liar
In The Lap Of The Gods… Revisited

Encore
Now I'm Here

Encore
Hey Big Spender
Rock and Roll Medley (Jailhouse Rock/Stupid Cupid/Be Bop A Lula/Jailhouse Rock)
God Save The Queen

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