This show was recorded on Sept 12th in Kharkov Freedom Square in the Ukraine. It was a free concert that they did to start the new tour. The setlist for the concert was:
One Vision
Tie Your Mother Down
The Show Must Go On
Fat Bottomed Girls
Another One Bites The Dust
Hammer To Fall
I Want It All
I Want To Break Free
A Kind Of Magic - Cut from Movie
Seagull
Love Of My Life
’39
I’m In Love With My Car
Say It’s Not True
Wishing Well - Cut from Movie
Shooting Star
Bad Company
Bijou
Last Horizon - Cut from Movie
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
C-lebrity
Feel Like Making Love
Radio Ga Ga - Cut from Movie
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cosmos Rockin’
All Right Now
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen
Paul Rodgers was amazing, if you have seen or heard "Return of the Champions" you might be thinking I'm crazy. On that CD/DVD/Concert Paul Rodgers' voice was not good, he sounded like a guy who smoked way too much in his life and did a poor to fair job of singing most of Freddie's songs. Other than Hammer to Fall the "Return of the Champions" CD really made me wonder why they chose this guy to take Freddie's place, on that CD he didn't even really sound good on the Bad Company songs.
In this concert he was amazing as I said before, I don't know what he did in the last few years but he got his voice back. I was cringing at the beginning of each song because I was waiting for this to be the song he screwed up, that song never came. He even pulled off Crazy Little Thing Called Love. To say I was impressed would be a massive understatement. I now understand why they picked him to front the new Queen, he did a great job of taking each song and making it his own. Had he tried to mimic Freddie he would have failed because nobody will ever be able to do that.
The stage was crazy big and they had a ramp leading to a smaller center stage. After "I Want to Break Free" everyone but Paul Rodgers left the stage, he walked to the center stage and played an acoustic version of "Seagull" which I assume is a Bad Company song? After that he introduced Brian who replaced him on the center stage and did an acoustic version of "Love of my Life" letting the crowd sing a good portion of it. Him doing "Love of my Life" alone on the stage was very touching.
After that Roger Taylor joined him on the stage with one bass drum and they started '39. Half way through they had the rest of the touring band (all but Paul Rodgers) come join them on the center stage.
After '39 Roger Taylor did his drum solo, this might be the best drum solo I've ever seen! He started playing the stand up bass with his drum sticks, they brought over a single drum and he moved to that, they added one drum at a time until he had an entire drum kit on the center small stage. What an amazing solo!
After solo they did "I'm in Love with my Car" and then went back to the full band performance. During "Say it's not True" the band members all rejoined as their turn to sing came up. After a few Bad Company songs Brian May did a version of Bijou with Freddie! They had Freddie up on the TV singing, it's amazing what technology can do!
Freddie also sung most of Bohemian Rhapsody which was the beginning of the encore.
By the way, the entire concert is up on Youtube including the songs that were cut from the movie theater production. This concert was broadcast in the Ukraine on 9.12.2008.. If someone (Jessie) has a program on their laptop that can capture music from youtube videos it would be awesome if they (Jessie) would do that so that we could have this concert on our iPods! It can be found if you search for "queen paul rodgers live in kharkov 08"...
I forgot to mention - The version of Bad Company they did was the best version of that song I've ever heard. The addition of Brian May's guitar was incredible and that song ROCKED!
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Tonight I'm going to Zack and Miri make a Porno with Christian and Mara.
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