South America Bites The Dust, part 1
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 <br>Band : Queen
 <br>Date : 28. February 1981
 <br>Venue : Estadio 'José Amalfitani' del Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 <br>----My notes (g_pretender)----
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 <br>This is the most complete and best sounding version of this show.
 <br>Thanks to Wilky Ameva and pittrek for all the work done to bring this to the fans.
 <br>The info below was compiled from the info provided by Wilky and pittrek,
 <br>slightly edited for clarity.
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 <br>Originaly shared on Queenzone.com by Wilky Ameva and pittrek
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 <br>----End my notes----
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 <br>This is a merge of the following 3 sources:
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 <br>----notes by Wilky Amieva----
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 <br>* Source A:
 <br> Soundboard -> Radio Rivadavia stereo 1-inch reel master -> 'Gogo' Safigueroa 90-min cassette (with fades) -> TDK SA90 cassette -> MOTU 24 I/O -> WAV (stereo 94 kHz/24-bit)
 <br> Local entertainment journalist José María 'Gogo' Safigueroa's 53th birthday was on this day.
 <br>He attended the concert and later received this cassette as a present. Unfortunately,
 <br>the sound engineer who made the copy used a 90-minute cassette, so Now I'm Here - reprise
 <br>and God Save The Queen were cut in order to fit the rest of the audio - also very long fades
 <br>were applied to the end of Dragon Attack and We Are The Champions.
 <br>The original reel master has been lost beyond recollection. Sadly,
 <br>'Gogo' died last year prior to the QUEEN+Paul Rodgers concert.
 <br>This 2nd generation recording was provided by a kind collector.
 <br> 
 <br>** Source B:
 <br> FIRST MAJOR ROCK, Gypsy Eye 045/046.
 <br> Original silver CDs -> WAV (stereo 44.1 kHz/16-bit).
 <br> This bootleg (as most from this show) comes from a ?th generation copy from the above 'Gogo' cassette,
 <br>made in the late 80's/early 90's - somewhere somehow the start of the Overture was trimmed a little bit further.
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 <br>*** Source C:
 <br> Soundboard -> Mono 120-min cassette -> ? -> Rock & Pop FM 2001 special -> WAV (stereo 48 kHz/24-bit)
 <br> Some cassettes were made during the concert and handled to some media/PR people shortly afterwards
 <br>those were complete recordings copied onto 120-minute cassettes but in mono!
 <br>In 2001, local FM Rock & Pop hosted a special show commemorating the 20th anniversary of the QUEEN concerts in Argentina.
 <br>A fellow collector provided the radio station with some material that came from an unknown generation copy of one of these mono cassettes.
 <br>Need Your Loving Tonight, Rock It, Save Me and Now I'm Here+Dragon Attack+Now I'm Here - reprise were broadcasted.
 <br>I recorded the program using my PC.
 <br> 
 <br>I extracted the CDs using Exact Audio Copy (EAC) 0.99 pre-beta 4.
 <br>Editing was performed in Adobe Audition 3.0 (compilation 7283.0).
 <br>Despite the SA90 cassette not being in top form, I found it was
 <br>better to use this source for the audio restoration in the fades,
 <br>specially in We Are The Champions. Encoded in FLAC (stereo 44.1 kHz/16-bit)
 <br>level 8 using FLAC FrontEnd 1.7.1 Eltree edition.  
 <br>     
 <br>As a final note: Fat Bottomed Girls was NOT played at this concert, so the only missing song is now God Save The Queen.
 <br>
 <br>this resulted in the following tracks to be added/replaced in existing copies of source B:
 <br> 
 <br>CD 1 
 <br> 1. Overture */**
 <br>13. Dragon Attack **/* + Now I'm Here [reprise] ***
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 <br>CD 2
 <br>1. Love Of My Life */**
 <br>10. We Are The Champions **/*  
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 <br>----End notes by Wilky Amieva----
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 <br>----Notes by pittrek----
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 <br>I have taken the bootleg "First Major Rock" (Source B) and listened to it carefully. 
 <br>The whole bootleg runs in incorrect speed, and has many different (short) sound 
 <br>droputs. I have taken the bootleg, opened it in the good old Cool Edit Pro, 
 <br>corrected the speed (I slowed it down by 103%), corrected most of the sound dropouts
 <br>and also removed the hiss on some tracks. Then I added Wilki's tracks and 
 <br>the result is this nice share :
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 <br>Tracklist :
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 <br>CD 1
 <br> 1. Overture */**
 <br> 2. We Will Rock You (fast) **
 <br> 3. Let Me Entertain You **
 <br> 4. Play The Game **
 <br> 5. Mustapha **
 <br> 6. Death on Two Legs**
 <br> 7. Killer Queen **
 <br> 8. I'm In Love With My Car **
 <br> 9. Need Your Loving Tonight **
 <br>10. Rock It **
 <br>11. Save Me **
 <br>12. Now I'm Here **
 <br>13. Dragon Attack **/* + Now I'm Here [reprise] ***
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 <br>CD 2
 <br> 1. Love Of My Life */**
 <br> 2. Keep Yourself Alive / drum solo / Brighton Rock **
 <br> 3. Flash / The Hero **
 <br> 4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love **
 <br> 5. Bohemian Rhapsody **
 <br> 6. Tie Your Mother Down **
 <br> 7. Another One Bites The Dust **
 <br> 8. Sheer Heart Attack **
 <br> 9. We Will Rock You [slow] **
 <br>10. We Are The Champions **/*
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 <br>Do not convert to mp3 please unless for personal (miss)use.
 <br>Enjoy and Merry Christmas
 <br>pittrek @ 2011
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 <br>----End notes by pittrek----
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 <br>-- review of the show taken from www.QueenLive.ca --
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 <br>This is Queen's first performance in Argentina. The band have plenty to prove to 
 <br>their new South American audiences - something they haven't needed to do on this 
 <br>level in several years, which would lead to seven incredibly energetic performances 
 <br>over the next three weeks.
 <br>
 <br>Queen were the first rock band to play the big football stadiums in South 
 <br>America - a huge accomplishment. Just to grasp the idea of how popular the band 
 <br>were at the time, 9 of the top 10 albums in the Argentinian album chart were 
 <br>Queen albums. Reflecting on 1981, John Deacon later said it was "A year for 
 <br>discovering new audiences we didn't know existed." Similar to their first visit 
 <br>to Japan, they were being treated like The Beatles in America in 1964. As if 
 <br>that wasn't enough, radio and TV stations would interrupt regularly scheduled 
 <br>programs with special Queen news bulletins. 
 <br>
 <br>Although the venue normally attributed to the shows in Buenos Aires is "Vélez 
 <br>Sársfield," the name of the stadium is "Estadio José Amalfitani." Vélez Sársfield 
 <br>is the name of the Buenos Aires football team. South American stadiums are often 
 <br>named informally after the teams that inhabit them, as football is such a huge 
 <br>part of their culture.
 <br>
 <br>After the first song, Freddie very excitedly greets the equally excited audience 
 <br>in Spanish. The band perform their set full of vigour, and Freddie, as usual 
 <br>during this time period, is in fantastic voice. Brian, although not always 
 <br>perfectly clean with his guitar playing tonight, creates a beautiful solo with 
 <br>the delay in Need Your Loving Tonight. It must have been difficult to concentrate 
 <br>on business as usual while buzzing off the energy of their first South American 
 <br>audience. Freddie Mercury stated after the show how nervous the band were, 
 <br>particularly about how the audience, who had never seen a big rock concert, 
 <br>would respond. Much to their delight, everything ran perfectly, on stage and off.
 <br>
 <br>Like he did in Tokyo, Freddie says a few words between lines of the first verse 
 <br>of Rock It. After the first stanza he says, "Let's see if I hit it," but he 
 <br>chickens out, saying "I'm never gonna make that note," followed by a lower yet 
 <br>soulful take of "Thaaaaat rock and roll."
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 <br>The show was broadcast live on the radio, but no recording of it has seen the 
 <br>light of day. However, incomplete recordings from a soundboard tape have circulated 
 <br>for many years. 
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