LONG BEACH 1977

  2 CDR
Label: Not on label really.  The Lost and Found,  Mike the MICrophone Tapes Volume 64.
JEMS Mike Millard master series.
Country: Europe - USA ??
Released: December 2020.
Recorded: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California USA,  December 20th, 1977.
Sound: Excellent audience recording.
Comments:  Another GREAT recording from the well known & famous taper Mike Millard.
This is the first of three nights in the LA area to finish the tour and bring a close to a successful year for Queen.
The tape is complete, sans a cut just at the beginning on Stone Cold Crazy.
The performance is absolutely phenomenal and no doubt ranks within their top gigs of all time. Freddie is a man possessed tonight, perhaps giving his greatest performance of 1977, and the band are in their element as always on this tour. Releases of this magnitude happen once in a decade, so this one is to savour.
Big thanks to JEMS and the late, great Mike Millard for this one. (Text taken from YouTube).
Roots: From Mike Millard's master audience tape collection.
Time: Total around 1:53 minutte.

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 CDR ONE
 1. Intro: We Will Rock You  (tape, slow version) ~
     We Will Rock You (fast version)
 2. Brighton Rock
 3. Somebody To Love
 4. Death On Two Legs
 5. Killer Queen
 6. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
 7. I'm In Love With My Car
 8. Get Down, Make Love
 9. The Millionaire Waltz
 10. You're My Best Friend
 11. Liar
 12. Love Of My Life
 13. ' 39
 14. My Melancholy Blues
 CDR TWO
 1. White Man ~
 2. The Prophet's Song ~
 3. Guitar Solo ~
 4. The Prophet's Song  (reprise - part II)
 5. Now I'm Here
 6. Stone Cold Crazy
 7. Bohemian Rhapsody
 8. Keep Yourself Alive
 9. Tie Your Mother Down
 10. We Will Rock You
 11. We Are The Champions
 - - - - - - encore - - - - - - - -
 12. Sheer Heart Attack
 13. Jailhouse Rock
 14. God Save The Queen


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Review from Internet page.

A shocking new excavation sound source recorded directly from Mike Millard's "master tape". Most of the traditional mirrored sound sources we've heard so far are based on the 1st gen he copied to his friends at the time, and the original master tape he actually recorded. It is not the sound of.

It's reported that Millard destroyed all the master tapes he recorded shortly before his death, or that his family, who didn't know the value at all after his death, had thrown away all the tapes. So, in fact, the original sound of the master tape has never appeared to support it.
However, just the other day, the big news that overturned this long-standing urban legend was released online with images, which surprised fans all over the world. I'm sure many of you already know it, but it turns out that there are a lot of original master cassettes recorded by Millard himself, which was believed to have been destroyed or lost. It was piled up in a corner of Millard's bedroom, which remained intact after his death, and Rob, who had earned enough trust from Millard's mother in the early 2000s, with its many boxes filled with original master tape.

A person named S moved it to a cool and dry place until the end of last year and kept it. There are many famous recordings recorded by Millard himself between the latter half of 1973 and the first half of 1992, which have much better sound quality than the ones that have been on the market as the 1st gen (= that sound that we have been accustomed to for many years). Not only is it left in, but there is no part that was cut or faded when the 1st gen was created, and it is said that it still exists as the longest and complete version of the original, so this is a big incident that deserves wonder. Probably. What's more, these will be released one after another in the coming months.

This work was released by JEMS as the 64th work of the master sound source release "The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes" series, just the other day, on the weekend of the third week of December 2020, as a sound source suitable for the Christmas holiday season. , A sound source transferred from Mike Millard's genuine master tape, recorded at "California / Long Beach Arena" on December 20, 1977.

The only sound source on December 20th was 86 minutes, which has poor sound quality, but this time it was recorded for 103 minutes by Mike Millard, which is incomparable. A high-quality sound source that boasts time has been released. If you listen to the mirrored sound source that recorded the show on March 3rd of the same year / L.A. Forum, you can understand how high the sound quality is when it comes to the same level of sound source. In particular, John Deacon's bass sound, which tends to be buried in AUD sound sources, can be heard very clearly. Speaking of cheers and applause, this sound source seems to be heard farther. I personally think that it is no exaggeration to say that the sound quality is as high as ZEP's "LISTEN TO THIS, EDDIE".

In the latter half of "Somebody To Love", there is a slight cut in the head of "Stone Cold Crazy, but it became a shocking first appearance and high-quality mirrored sound source that can be asserted that such a thing is trivial. I will. While the sound image of the performance is very on-balanced, the outstanding quality of the mirrored performance, which is also wonderful in terms of presence and freshness, is still alive and well this time.