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This is it.
The last year.
The last year when Queen appeared on stage as Freddie Mercury (vocals, piano, guitar), Brian May (guitar, vocals), John Deacon (bass guitar, backing vocals ???) , Roger Taylor (drums, backing vocals) and an unofficial member Spike Edney (keyboards, backing vocals, guitar).

This was the longest and most expensive Queen tour ever. They even broke some rules when they decided to make a concert in a communist country - in Nepstadion in Budapest, Hungary. I've read some rumours that they planned to visit also Czechoslovakia and even USSR but I don't know if it's true.


I have chosen these concerts :

1986-06-21 - Maimarktgelände, Mannheim, Germany
1986-07-09 - St. James Park, Newcastle, UK
1986-07-21 - Vienna, Austria
1986-07-22 - Vienna, Austria
1986-08-09 - Knebworth Park, Stevenage

Every single concert is in a separate post in this thread

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Thank you very much Pittrek,
this is one of my favourite tours... :)

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Date : 21. July 1986
Venue : Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
Lineage : AUD > master tape > CD(x) > WAV > Cool Edit Pro (track re-editing, click removal on 2 tracks) > WAV > FLAC (TLH level 8, removing SBEs)


This one has been shared originally by SirGH, these are his comments :



I didn't like the strange track dividing and the few clicks so I decided to re-edit it properly, now every song is in a separate file, I hope it's OK for you :)

Mediafire links :

(I have uploaded THIS ONE CONCERT THE WHOLE WEEKEND to f*ing mediafire from my home, I hope you appreciate it !)

Disc 1 :

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d48e8de414b87addc74064dd4c81b78af5600ff3255182cf   �

Disc 2 :

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=d48e8de414b87addc74064dd4c81b78a29e93d404753f8b2 �

Enjoy

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So how should I end this thread else then with the last Queen concert ?

Date : 9. August 1986
Venue : Knebworth Park, Stevenage, UK
Lineage : AUD > master > "Thank You All" (http://www.queenonstage.com/mywebpage/thankyouall.htm  ) > WAV > FLAC (level 8)

The last track is a compilation done from "Thank You All" and the old high-gen source.
In the case you already have the bootleg from the torrent, maybe the only interesting thing for you is the last track (done by SirGH, I think)

Rapidshare links :

http://rapidshare.com/files/163611542/1986-08-09_d1_1.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163613596/1986-08-09_d1_2.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163621106/1986-08-09_d1_3.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163621751/1986-08-09_d1_4.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163622108/1986-08-09_d1_5.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163623188/1986-08-09_d2_1.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163626607/1986-08-09_d2_2.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163627272/1986-08-09_d2_3.zip �
http://rapidshare.com/files/163629678/1986-08-09_d2_4.zip

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Luko255 wrote:

Thank you very much Pittrek,
this is one of my favourite tours... :)



What wouldn't I do for a guy from the same town :-)

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daffy_the_duck wrote:



Thank you very much Pittrek! Really nice selection.
And thanks to Olivier for the One sweet moment, I discover that WMP could encode in wav...

Yep, Windows Media Player can do that. But take care of Windows Media Player. I once discovered that for some bootlegs I extracted with WMP, the resulting files were corrupted. So now I decided to stick to EAC which is known for being the best tool, and that's probably not for nothing ;o) ...



Thanks a lot Pittrek for that beautiful share, finishing with the Knebworth show, this one is a should-have anyone, if only for the part of history it represents ! If you had to download only 5 shows from Queen, this one should be among them. But of course every shows share here by Pittrek are important as they are probably the best versions you'll get to hear (at the present time) of these shows, at least that's why Pittrek worked that hard on that.  

Let's have a loud THANK YOU for this wonderful work, that took several months only for the pleasure of Queenzoners. Dedication to quality and kindness, that's really nice from you. so, THANK YOU !!!!
Hope we could continue the work and provide you more shows from the 1986-2005 period !


Regards,

Olivier,
Belgium.


Ps : you're right about Joe, aka Josedequeso, I was also wondering recently what happened to him. Let's hope nothing bad, if ever someone know him closely, it seems we can't contact him anymore, please tell us that everything's OK !

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daffy_the_duck wrote:

Pittrek you posted 2 times the same link in the Mannheim post: http://rapidshare.com/files/163661627/1986-06-21_d2_1.ZIP �

So just to be sure there is 9 links: 5 for disc 1 & 4 for disc 2, isn't it?


Yes, I think so. A stupid copy & paste error

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Thank you very very much Pittrek for all your really great work,
thanks, thanks, thanks!!!!

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Brilliant - many thanks for your work.

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Could someone please tell me is there is a thread somewhere that has links to all the "Best of the best" chapters 1974-1986? Thank you..