Queen Bristol 1977 description

Bristol 1977 description:

Onto the final leg of the Races Tour! This is the first show of 11-date "Jubilee Tour" of the UK, of which 5 (so far) shows have surfaced. This captures Queen's performance at the Bristol Hippodrome in Bristol. The quality is pretty good, and the show is mostly complete (cuts on "Brighton Rock" and on the beginning of "In the Lap of the Gods...Revisited")

The audience is VERY enthusiastic tonight (they sing along to almost every song), and the band delivers a great performance. Freddie's voice is in very good shape throughout, though he has some rough moments.

"Tie Your Mother Down" is great (sans some weird phrasing on "I've got a sweetheart hand") with Freddie hitting most of the key A4s, "Ogre Battle" is pretty good, though Freddie does some odd conservative phrasing in the bridge, "White Queen" is pretty good overall, but Freddie rushes some of the phrasing in the verses and cracks on the "White Queen, how my heart did ache" line, "Somebody to Love" is a good conservative version, with Freddie going for the Bb4 in the second chorus (a bit rough, but he tries!), as well as hitting the Bb4 in the breakdown, "Killer Queen" is great (plus Freddie sings "Perfume came naturally from Bristol" in the second chorus and the crowd goes nuts), "Good-Old Fashioned Lover Boy" is very good, "The Millionaire Waltz" sounds great, "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" is pretty good (the final vocal line is a bit unstable), "Death on Two Legs" is one of the best versions ever (Freddie delivers the song recklessly and sounds beastly, hits 3 of the 4 Bb4s, though the "Mr. KNOW all" one is short, and ad-libs a random B4 in the intro), "Sweet Lady" is really fast and sounds pretty good, sans a crack in the second chorus, and "Brighton Rock" has Freddie switching the lyrics around, but sounds good with a great guitar solo.

"'39" is very good with Roger hitting the G#5 and Freddie doing some nice embellishments, "You Take My Breath Away" has some intonation issues in the first verse but otherwise is a lovely performance, "White Man" is good with Freddie hitting a good amount of the A4s, though a few sound rough, "The Prophet's Song" is good vocally (with Freddie going for an ad-lib B4 before the vocal part), but Brian has some guitar errors, "Bohemian Rhapsody" is a mixed bag as Freddie sounds strained in the second half of the first verse, good in the second (Hitting Bb4s on "leave you ALL behind", and "born AT all") the rock section is ok (does some weird phrasing on "leave me to die", and cracks a Bb4 embellishment on "Can't do this TO me baby"), and the ending sounds good. "Keep Yourself Alive" is very good with Freddie doing some nice embellishments and Roger doing a cool-sounding drum solo, "Stone Cold Crazy" sounds great vocally (with Freddie hitting an E5 at the end), but Brian screws up the second guitar solo, "In the Lap of the Gods...Revisited" is very good with Freddie doing nice phrasing and hitting some nice A4s at the end of the second verse, "Now I'm Here" has Freddie cracking the second A4, but the rest goes good overall with Freddie hitting a great sustained A4 before the "whatever comes of you and me" line, "Liar" sounds very good with the band on top form (song lasts 10 minutes!) and Freddie doing some nice vocal embellishments throughout (including another great sustained A4 on the last "All day long"), "I'm a Man" sounds great with a gutsy delivery from Freddie, and "Jailhouse Rock" ends the show by sounding great (and very fast) overall!

ENJOY!

NOTE: A lot of the tempos are very fast here. I'm not sure if they were performed this way or if it was the tape.