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Queen
Live at Chicago Stadium
Chicago, IL, USA
January 28th, 1977
Audience Recording (Mark Moore)
Sound Quality: B+
Attendance: 18,000

1. Tie Your Mother Down [cut]
2. Ogre Battle
3. White Queen [cut]
4. Somebody To Love
5. Killer Queen
6. The Millionaire Waltz [cut]
7. You're My Best Friend [cut]
8. Bring Back That Leroy Brown [cut]
9. Sweet Lady
10. Brighton Rock [cut]
11. Son And Daughter [cut]
12. '39 [cut]
13. You Take My Breath Away [cut]
14. White Man [cut]
15. Bohemian Rhapsody
16. Stone Cold Crazy
17. Keep Yourself Alive [cut]
18. Liar [cut]
19. In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited [cut]
20. Now I'm Here [cut]

This show was taped by Mark Moore, who has sadly since passed away. The tape was generously shared to Nicky_T by Mark's son, Jeff Moore. Please give both of them your most gracious thanks. Mark also taped Thin Lizzy's set, but as I have very little familiarity with Thin Lizzy, that tape will be released by BootsAreBack.

In an attempt to save tape, Mark intended to pause the tape recorder whenever the band was not playing. Tragically, after Brighton Rock, Mark seemed to have mixed up the two states. He paused when he meant to record, and vice versa. Thus everything between Son And Daughter and Bohemian Rhapsody cuts as the song begins. Alas, the infamous "NA Races Curse" continues.

This show is Queen legend. The circumstances leading up to this show were a nightmare. Due to poor weather, the trucks hauling the band's gear were severely delayed. One truck blew off the road, which led to an emergency backup P.A. system being flown in for the show. The piano used for the tour leg was damaged, so another one needed to be rented on very short notice.

As it took a miracle for this show to be put on, the band is in a very chatty mood. Before Killer Queen, Brian and Freddie dedicate a short speech and round of applause to the Queen crew who had worked tirelessly to deliver the show. As Brian introduces '39, Roger can be heard practicing his vocal sustain ahead of the song, so Brian quips that it's the "Without orchestra, without synthesizers, but WITH Roger Taylor, version of '39."

Because of the delays, thousands of freezing fans were waiting out in the cold. The promoter pleaded with Freddie to allow the fans inside, but he refused, as he didn't want the audience to attend the soundcheck. This delay surely pissed off a certain few people in the audience, as both Thin Lizzy and Queen were assaulted by thrown objects, with Queen being pelted by about a dozen eggs. Unfortunately, Brian slipped on one of the cracked eggs and hurt his tailbone. Freddie stopped the show, and the band walked off to discuss further steps. It was decided that the show must go on, else the "bad guys would win", as Brian would later recall. The band would perform a truncated set and end after Now I'm Here, both due to Brian's injury and a miscommunication with sound engineer John Harris.

The exact incident was not recorded on Mark's tape, however it must have happened somewhere in-between White Man and Bohemian Rhapsody, as nothing seems out of the ordinary until that point. It couldn't have been during The Millionaire Waltz as was previously thought, as the medley carried on as expected through to Bring Back That Leroy Brown.

Before Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie addresses the situation by saying, "Those bleeding urchins who've brought your omelettes along tonight... You can eat 'em yourself, okay? We can do without you motherfuckers. So for the rest of you, we'd like to carry on and do the show."

During Brian's usual introduction to In The Lap Of The Gods... Revisited, he too comments on the incident by saying, "Thanks a lot-- we're having a couple of problems on stage because a couple of people think it's funny to throw things that make the stage slippery. That's really good, it takes about 10,000 people to make a good concert next to a couple that are trying to ruin it." Roger adds onto his statement, but is unintelligible.

Mark Moore comments after Bohemian Rhapsody that "these guys are true performers.", and he's not wrong. This is a surprisingly strong show for the NA Races tour. Freddie is in great vocal shape all things considered, and Roger and Brian both give it a little extra-- even after Brian's injury. Brian's playing in Somebody To Love's outro is maybe the best for the entire tour.

CREDITS/SPECIAL THANKS:
- Mark Moore for taping the show.
- Jeff Moore for sharing his father's tape with Nick.
- Both beyondthemoon and Seb for their efforts in previous years trying to get ahold of this tape .
- Nick for getting in touch with Jeff and retrieving the tape.
- Miles for remastering and speed correcting the tape.

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The mastering and compression used on these recordings ended up making the tracks seem a bit dull, a bit flat. Despite these tracks returning in later Smash Bros. games, they continue to sound quite muted and overly compressed.
These remasters aim to restore the sparkle that was lost from these tracks and give these tracks a second life, without deviating too far from what made them special in the first place.

Each remaster has a brief rundown of what changed in their respective video descriptions.

So far I've done Menu 1 and Final Destination, with Fountain of Dreams in the works.

Please let me know what tracks you'd like to hear next!