Queen Kobe 1975 description

We move back in time a few years for this upload, to Queen's 1975 performance at the Kokusai Hall in Kobe, Japan. Beforehand, we only had up through "Liar" on record, and the rest was missing. However, a new source of the show has emerged containing nearly the complete show (half of "See What a Fool I've Been" is still missing)! This has been merged into an upgrade of the common source (which goes up through "Liar") to nearly complete the show (the new source is in inferior quality compared to the incomplete one). The quality of the main source is good, and the second source is weaker but still okay. On both John Deacon's bass is very prominent in the mix, so fans of his playing should be happy!

The instrumental performances are their usual great quality, and Freddie's voice is in very good shape. He sings more stable compared to the earlier shows in Tokyo and Nagoya, though sometimes he does odd conservative phrasing (not on high notes!)

"Now I'm Here" is great with Freddie hitting both of the chorus A4s, "Ogre Battle" is very good with Freddie going for a few of the "Come tonight, come to the ogre sight" A4s and doing nice embellishments in the verses and Roger doing some crazy screams in the solo, "Father To Son" has some weird conservative phrasing (even dodging an E4) in spots but sounds very good overall, "White Queen" sounds great, "Flick Of The Wrist" is good with some interesting phrasing and a cool long pause before the "baby you've been had" line, "Doing All Right" has some flat notes but sounds great overall with lots of power, "In The Lap Of The Gods" is good, though Roger's high part is off, "Killer Queen" is great, "The March Of The Black Queen" is excellent as Freddie gets all three A4s, and "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" sounds good.

"Son And Daughter" sounds very good, with Freddie doing nice embellishments (including trilling to A4 on "an equal people PREAcher") though he cracks on the "What'll you do FOR heaven" line (or mic dies), plus the solo is great as ever, "Keep Yourself Alive" is very good with some nice phrasing and a ripping drum solo, "Seven Seas Of Rhye" has Freddie crack on "Bring LOVE to you forever" but sounds very good as a whole with Freddie hitting the other A4s well, "Stone Cold Crazy" sounds great (with a G5 at the end- not sure if it's Freddie or Roger though), "Liar" is good (plus the end section has Freddie's first (of many) vocal exchange with the audience) and though Brian seems to mess up some guitar parts at the beginning (and the rest of the band follow suit), the rest of the performance has the band on top form. "In The Lap of the Gods...Revisited" has Freddie doing some proto-"I'm In Love With My Car" arpeggios in the extended piano intro and is pretty good, though Freddie forgets some lyrics in the second verse, "Big Spender" sounds great with Freddie hitting the A4 well, "Modern Times Rock and Roll" is pretty good, albeit with some weird phrasing, "Jailhouse Rock" sounds great with an extended intro, and what we have of "See What a Fool I've Been" sounds great!

ENJOY!