Forums > Sharing The Music - Announce > ANNOUNCE: Final Budokan Nights Disc 1 (May 8th, 1985)

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Folks, this is a new Japanese silver boot release from "Uxbridge" called

Queen Final Budokan Nights

Disc 1 is a new incomplete recording of May 8th 1985. The recording ends with an incomplete "Love Of My Life". Apparently, the taper lost his second tape, a pity. The CD comes from the original tape. This share comes right from the silver encoded to flac with Flac Frontend level 8.

File size 350 MB

(Discs 2 and 3 are a new master recording from May 9th and will be shared later)

Set List:

01 - It's Still Rock'n Roll (Billy Joel) - tape
02 - Machines Intro
03 - Tear It Up
04 - Tie Your Mother Down
05 - Under Pressure
06 - Somebody To Love
07 - Killer Queen
08 - Seven Seas Of Rhye
09 - Keep Yourself Alive
10 - Liar
11 - Vocal Improvisation
12 - It's A Hard Life
13 - Yeah Yeah Yeah
14 - Dragon Attack
15 - Now I'm Here
16 - Is This The World We Created
17 - Love Of My Life (incomplete)


Enjoy:)

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How can you be sure there was a second tape in the first place if it wasn't bootlegged?  Maybe it's being hoarded...

>The CD comes from the original tape.

There's no guarantee of that.  It could be a copy, or the bootleg company could have processed it in some way before pressing it to silver.

I've already got this one, but thanks for getting it out there.  It's a great find... this Uxbridge label has been pretty nice so far.

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Thanks YV - always nice to hear a new source, especially from the short-lived '85 tour!

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Thanks a lot!

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Thanks for the share of this alternate source.

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Thank you.

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Sir GH wrote:

How can you be sure there was a second tape in the first place if it wasn't bootlegged?  Maybe it's being hoarded...

>The CD comes from the original tape.

There's no guarantee of that.  It could be a copy, or the bootleg company could have processed it in some way before pressing it to silver.

I've already got this one, but thanks for getting it out there.  It's a great find... this Uxbridge label has been pretty nice so far.

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Do you have any idea of how much bootleg labels are known to pay people for a new recording?  These things aren't done for free.  If not, then the taper would have leaked out his recording otherwise, or just kept his tapes for himself.

That said, tapers and collectors have been known to send an incomplete recording to one bootleg label and later a complete recording to another - not before altering the complete recording to sound worse, which brings forth the possibility that the unaltered complete recording will one day "surface," which it often does, and more money is made by everyone.  There hasn't been too much of this trickery with Queen bootlegs, but the acts of some Zeppelin, Floyd, and Stones (and plenty of others) tapers and collectors over the years have led to the necessity of websites like this one: http://bootledz.com/comparisons.htm

In the world of bootlegging, the possibilities are endless.  The only sure way that you are getting an unaltered master tape is if the taper shares it on their own, not through a bootleg label.  This is why I ask the questions I asked.  Indeed, it's entirely possible that this is all that exists and that the tape wasn't altered at all, but the only people who know the answer for sure are the people who work for the bootleg label.

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I've got the covers on my website... provided by Olivier Ruth - thanks!

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Hmm, I get error mesages when trying to answer with a quote..

@ Bob

Yes, you are right - I have no insider knowledge of the bootleg industry. For now I have to believe what I was told and should the 2nd tape appear some day we will certainly hear about it.