Queen 1976-04-01 Nippon Budokan Tokyo, Japan

 

Queen
Tokyo, Japan
Nippon Budokan
April 1, 1976


Empress Valley released their first Queen bootleg earlier this year, and it's a monster !  It's a box set containing nine discs of all four Tokyo shows on the A Night At The Opera tour, six of which are previously uncirculated pre-LP tapes that were first released only on vinyl in incomplete form over 40 years ago.  Only 100 copies of the box set were pressed.

Nearly half of the April 1 show was heard on the "Invite You To A Night At The Budokan" LP, and a poor sounding second audience source circulated for years.  EV use the original uncut source.  Father To Son and See What A Fool I've Been aren't listed on back cover, but the recording is complete.  The first four minutes of Liar are seamlessly spliced in from a third audience source.  This is the most interesting show of the bunch, and even though it's transferred/mastered a bit too hot (particularly on disc 2), after all these years it's amazing to finally hear the entire concert in this quality.

This is Queen coming off their creative peak and at the top of their game.  Sound quality is pretty near excellent throughout.


Thanks to Masahiko for dishing out the shekels for the silvers and sending me the FLAC files, to Empress Valley for what is hopefully their first of many releases of new Queen tapes, and to the original tapers, whoever you are !


"Geisha Boys, The Complete Tokyo Tapes" (Empress Valley) silvers > EAC > WAV > FLAC level 8


Lineup:

Freddie Mercury - lead vocals, piano
Brian May - guitars, ukulele, vocals
Roger Taylor - drums, vocals
John Deacon - bass, triangle


More info:

http://queenlive.ca/queen/76-04-01.htm


CD5
 Opening - Bohemian Rhapsody
 Ogre Battle
 Sweet Lady
 White Queen
 Flick of the Wrist
 Hangman
 Medley: Bohemian Rhapsody ~
               Killer Queen ~
               The March of the Black Queen ~
               Bohemian Rhapsody (rock, end part)
 Bring Back That Leroy Brown
 Brighton Rock ~
 Guitar Solo ~
 Son and Daughter
 Band Introduction
 The Prophet's Song
 Stone Cold Crazy

CD6
 Father To Son
 Doing All Right
 Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon
 Keep Yourself Alive
 Liar
 In the Lap of the Gods....Revisited
 - - - - - encore - - - - - -
 Now I'm Here
 Big Spender
 Jailhouse Rock
 See What A Fool I've Been
 God Save the Queen (tape)


Enjoy, keep it lossless, and do not bootleg !
 

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