Queen music download : 1975-12-24 Hammersmith Odeon DVD "pittrek edition 2009"

Queen Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
24. December 1975, Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK
2009 "pittrek edition"

This is my personal version of this fantastic concert and maybe the currently best version. The full concert was remastered for a DVD release, but since it wasn't released this Christmas, I've decided to release my own version. The video is compiled from various versions, a Japanese WoWoW broadcast, a Czech CT1 broadcast, the recent BBC1 broadcast, and 2 different tapes of the Old Grey Whistle Test TV broadcast (one with timecode on the bottom and one with the timecode at the top).

Every single frame has been taken from the best available broadcast, if there was a TV station logo, it was removed, for the missing segments both OGWT tapes were used to remove the timecode, and all the video was denoised if it was necessary.  All the segments which were "fixed" for the rebroadcasts are now "unfixed" to their original look ( a good example is the start of Roger's drum solo in Now I'm Here - now it's black screen as it should be, during John's segment in Leroy Brown you can see again darkness instead of John, during Keep Yourself Alive you can see again the chaotic search for Freddie instead the repeating segment, and during the rock'n'roll medley there are the closing credits back where they belong). My goal was to re-create the original Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast, in other words I want to see exactly the same as the people who were watching it live. For the last 3 songs a brand new video track, since the video (maybe) doesn't exist for these songs.

The sound mix is done by myself using the original TV mix, and the 2 radio mixes. I know that a new "brilliantly remastered" soundtrack exists, I have heard it and I simply fucking hate it. It's terrible. Not to mention the overdubs ! I remember how I tried for hours to create a "3D effect" to Roger's drums during his parts, the new mix makes them sound boring. My favorite Brian's part ever (the beginning of BoRhap) is terribly silent, and didn't they have a bass player there ? Why can't I hear him ? No no no, I tried to ignore the mix and I used it only for parts of KYA and LOTG, because these parts sounded better than in my old mix, but the rest of the audio comes from my old "matrix".

This DVD has 2 playlists, you can see the whole concert (with re-created video track for last 3 songs) or only the TV broadcast, so everybody can chose which version to watch.

Chapters :

Intro
Area Code 615 - Stone Fox Chase
Bob Harris - Queen introduction
Now I'm Here
Ogre Battle
White Queen (As It Began)
Bohemian Rhapsody (intro)
Killer Queen
The March Of The Black Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody (reprise)
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Brighton Rock
Son And Daughter (reprise)
Keep Yourself Alive
In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited
Waiting for encore
Big Spender
Jailhouse Rock
Stupid Cupid
Be Bop A Lula
Jailhouse Rock (reprise)
Seven Seas Of Rhye (fake video)
See What A Fool I've Been (fake video)
God Save The Queen (fake video)

Technical stuff :

Video : PAL, 720x576 @ 25fps, 9 pass VBR 6MBps (originally done with 8 MBps but it was too big for a DVD5, so I re-encoded it with CCE,
the best mpeg2 encoder)
Audio : LPCM 2.0


A coupple of notes :

This is a DVD which I have done for MYSELF. It's not a professional product, it's done on a home PC. Therefore if you keep an eye on it, you will see when the video sources were changed. Also you can HERE when the audio sources changed, but as I said, I've done it for  MYSELF and I am perfectly satisfied with it. Unfortunately there are a few segments which I don't like, but I didn't find any better sources for those parts, so until I find a source which has no timestamps on this part, I have to use it as it is.

NEVER rip this DVD to avi or something else, when it's an DVD, keep it an DVD !
NEVER sell this DVD !
NEVER claim authorship of this DVD (it really pissed me off when it happened the last time).
NEVER bootleg this ! A couple of "profesional" bootlegs look "surprisingly" similar to my online shares .
ALWAYS include this text file !

And a final note - if a miracle happens and this gets officially released, BUY THE OFFICIAL DVD ! We must show to Queen Productions that
we WANT MORE 70's concerts on DVDs !

Enjoy and merry Christmas !
PS Sorry for all the english misstakes, I'm in a hurry (and a slightly drunk :) )

PS 2 - a HUGE thanks to a british gentleman for providing me his treasure and I hope that he will not be angry that I've used a few seconds of it for this DVD :)

PS 3 - I'll seed whenever I have time, the requests for seeders will NOT change it

thank you.

Nice share, Peter:-) Merry Christmas

Thanks Pittrek! It should be a very nice DVD ! Thanks for all your work!

Hey Pittrek this is great!  Thanks for all your work putting this together - I'm sure it will be superb!�

I raise my recently refilled glass to you and wish you a fantastic 2010!  :))

What a wonderful gift! Thank you pittrek! :-)

Thanks Peter!!!!

Most likely when the official version gets released next year, it won't be as complete as this version anyway!!!

A Very Merry Christmas to you!!!!

Fantastic! (again)  Many thanks for this excellent share Pittrek.

Thank you very much and merry christmas to you!

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Thank you very very much Pittrek for your great work!!! I like the idea to recreate the original broadcast
Many thanks and Merry Christmas!!

Thank You !

Thank you

Sorry folks but we've got here serious electricity problems today :( I feel like in 19th century. I'm sorry but I won't be able to deliver it for tomorrow, so I hope you won't mind watching it on the 25th :)

Great !
Many thanks for this sharing Pittrek.
Domo Arigatou !

Many thanks - this is brilliant, and it retains the integrity of the original!�

Many thanks for your tireless work in this!�
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What a great wonderful job!

Thank you and Merry Christmas, Pittrek

I like all the videos you make Peter. I'm sure i'll like this one too!
Thanks for all the hard work and the sharing. You are far more generous than some other video traders are.

Kind regards,
D

Thank you very much Mr. Pittrek.^^;;;

And Merry Christmas.

Doggyjoy from Korea Republic of.

Thanks!!

Mostly yours. Rien's was used for a couple of seconds in NIH.

It's hard to describe. SSOR has slideshow from pics from previous Hammersmith Odeon shows with text information (you will understand when you see it), SWAFIB has basically a re-edited version of the original Killer Queen video and GSTQ features a slowed-down version of the closing credits . Nothing special, but it works

Thank You !!!! This is a wonderful gift for christmas

thank you so much for sharing this- i dream of the day that Queen fans will have perfect versions of their favourite shows and right now this is as close as we can get- thanks for your hard work i am sure THIS WILL ROCK !

Can anyone re seed, I seem to be stuck on 95.1 percent! Please help!

There are people with 97.9% right now, so I guess the first seeders will appear in a few minutes :)

Now playing this version.

AB-SO-LUTE-LY  F***ING  BRILLIANT.

Great menu opening, original announcement at start of the show, superb vision, Queen-worthy sound.
You've put quite some work into this. I can only take my hat off for this achievement.

This is what we want.

Thanks!

thanks!!!!
Merry X-Mas to you all.

may I ask for an artwork (AS?)

on beyond thanks!!!

Quick artwork...

I also got it at high resolution psd file at 300 pix per inch... please let me know of any suggestions, corrections, etc etc...

Yes, that's how I planned to do the artwork. Just 2 notes
1) the concert took place on December 24th, not 25th
2) I would recommend to put pics of all 4 members somewhere on the back side, something like Jean's cover - http://www.queenzone.com/forums/666743/more-of-that-covers.aspx

forget that last post,found the artwork link,many thanks for a superb dvd!!!

downloading...

Just saw the complete dvd and it's fantastic!  Without a doubt the best available version to have!
My compliments!

Thank you so much!!!

Hi!

many thanks for the concert (i´ve this performance in good quality,but is a good idea upload it for the people who don´t have it)

Pittrek is right... we must to show than we want more 70´s concerts (like rainbow 74,japan 75,hyde park 76,earls court 77,houston 77,hammermsith 79,etc)... if the concert is released Buy the dvd!

Cheers!

thank you ever so much for all your hard work .

So is anybody willing to do a "proper" cover and disc label ?

Amazing work, pittrek. Thank you !

Soooooooooo, like the man said, where is this "proper" artwork????

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Thanks a lot for this DVD!

Tony

My webpage

nevets wrote:

"Hi.Thanks for this website!! Just what the world needs.
I've just this week  thrown my old audio cassette of this show away - I recorded it from the actual tv set on the night via  a mike!   it was crap sound..so was looking around the internet and found your brill site, as you say they need to get more stuff out for sale , they must have masses of great quallity material. Thanks again."

Enjoy your search!  There are dozens of great recordings to find.

Actually, my first recording of this show was a microphone recording from Real Player streaming audio onto cassette.  I think mine was worse than yours!

Elgimpo or Jean, just wondering whether you kind folk have had another go at the DVD cover, incorporating the minor corrections/alterations suggested by Pittrek? Not meaning to pressure you, but just wanted to ask before I print off either of the covers kindly produced by you so far. Thanks in advance!

Definitely Freddie was the most important person on stage for the director, unfortunately. I love that "where is Freddie" bit during Keep Yourself Alive, where the director decided to cut between the cameras till Freddie was found :-)

Thank you very much. Plese keep seeeding, i'm not finished yet. Thank you

Thanks a lot Pittrek. Your work on here is much appreciated.

Tim

Good stuff, and clearly a labour of love, but , if I may ask....

1. Why has it been de-interlaced? This was all shot on PAL interlaced video and the picture has suffered from the de-interlacing.

2. Can you give me a breakdown of your sources, song-by-song?

Cheers mate
Annie

artwork I've done for this one and forgot (!) to upload... so here it is =)

as usual, previews first and full size stuff inside a RAR file on the next post, upped to mediafire,

front cover:



3 pages booklet (360 mm width, 180 mm height, printable on an A3 sheet)



DVD label:

great artwork alex! could you maybe do an artwork for pittrek's hammermith '79 concert?

queenside wrote: great artwork alex! could you maybe do an artwork for pittrek's hammermith '79 concert?

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thanks Pete!

that's the next cover I'll do today ; )

thanks for your comments queenside =)

version 2 including Queen members pics at the back:



full JPG: http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/1366/queenhammersmith1975reb.jpg

full PNG: http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5528/queenhammersmith1975reb.png

alex this is even better artwork

Thanks.

Thanks!

Brilliant artwork, Ale! :)