Queen: New York 5/2/1977 - Full Audience Recording

Queen, Live At The Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA. "This is Queen's first show at MSG, and it's a fantastic one. As thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham (and surely countless others) would later state, once you had played the Garden, that's when you had finally 'made it' on this side of the Atlantic. After Ogre Battle, Freddie speaks to the frantic audience. "Thank you. Good evening everybody! Thank you, thank you for giving us such a nice welcome. It's really nice to be back here in New York. Okay, we're gonna have some fun tonight, okay? We think you'll like it. Right now we're gonna change the mood straight away, do something a bit quieter. So take it easy. Take it easy everybody. This... this... listen to me my darlings! Let me do the talking for a change." (as a flurry of the at-the-time fashionable firecrackers go off!) "This is a song called White Queen." Brian, before '39: "We're gonna do something a little different now. We've never done this in New York before. We weren't up to it last time; we didn't have the guts. This is something off the last album. It features the dulcet tones of Mr. Taylor. And Mr. Mercury. This is '39." Freddie stops the show briefly after Stone Cold Crazy, as there seems to be a slight power issue. He continues: "This next song is a song that we do... every time we do a show we love to do it. Before Queen began [this phrase is curious]. It's called Liar." This version of the song is blistering. Brian, as Freddie sits down at the piano after Liar: "Thank you for making this a night to remember. We're gonna give you something else to remember. We'd like to leave you in the lap of the gods. Thanks a lot." - Queenlive.ca/queen/77-02-05.htm Recording Quality: B Lineage: AUD - Master Cassette - Standalone CDR (1) - WAV (GoldWave speed correction, right channel normalized) - FLAC (Transfer: Panasonic handheld cassette recorder - Denon cassette deck - Harman Kardon burner) Remaster Notes: "Here is a direct transfer of the master, now speed corrected and with the volume normalized. The sound is very good and mostly stable throughout." - TheRealWizard Original Notes: "This recording comes directly from the taper, Rob Schoorl, who also taped the 12-1-77, 11-17-78, 8-20-80, and 7-23-82 shows. Even though it's not the best quality (it was recorded in the nosebleeds), the recording exhibits the energy and excitement all around. There is a bit of tape flutter in Bohemian Rhapsody and Stone Cold Crazy, but it clears up after the next tape flip (Keep Yourself Alive to the end of the show). All previous versions of this recording cut out during the drum roll of God Save The Queen, but most of it was captured on the master tape. Tie Your Mother Down and the rest of Ogre Battle were recorded, but unfortunately the master was eaten up beyond repair at some point during the 1980s. There are three other cuts, all for tape flips on the 60 minute tapes." - Queenlive.ca/queen/77-02-05.htm Download the raw FLAC files here: https://mega.nz/#!wPQhDJ7I!pC-lApFARd... Timestamps: 0:00 - Ogre Battle [CUT] 2:20 - White Queen 8:04 - Somebody To Love 13:28 - Killer Queen 15:29 - The Millionaire Waltz 18:24 - You're My Best Friend 20:22 - Bring Back That Leroy Brown 22:13 - Sweet Lady 26:32 - Brighton Rock 29:50 - Guitar Solo [CUT] 34:26 - Brighton Rock (Reprise) 35:51 - '39 39:44 - You Take My Breath Away 43:12 - White Man 47:35 - Vocal Improv 51:09 - The Prophet's Song (Reprise) 53:16 - Bohemian Rhapsody 58:39 - Stone Cold Crazy [CUT] 1:00:23 - Keep Yourself Alive [CUT] 1:02:49 - Drum Solo 1:03:31 - Keep Yourself Alive (Reprise) 1:04:55 - Liar 1:13:32 - In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited 1:16:35 - Encore Wait #1 1:18:34 - Now I'm Here 1:22:55 - Encore Wait #2 1:25:08 - Big Spender 1:26:35 - Jailhouse Rock [CUT] 1:32:10 - God Save The Queen [CUT] For you mobile users, these timestamps will also be below in the comments so you can tap on them! Enjoy!! For more pictures and information on this gig, check out: http://queenlive.ca/queen/77-02-05.htm