New Bad-Ass Alter Ego QAL post for Sao Paulo:
New post on My Badass Alter Ego
QAL – The Return: Sao Paulo
by badassalterego
After what has seemed like an unbearable wait, they're back. South America is rocking to QAL and they are sounding as good as ever. Since the last echoes faded away in Sheffield, there have been thousands of fans waiting for this and the anticipation has been almost unbearable for everyone.
The excitement was further built up by Brian tweeting that there would be "at least ONE big surprise", so there was plenty of speculation as to what this could be. Ideas ranged from John Deacon returning to play a couple of songs, to a whole host of new songs - including Lucy. There was a further hint from the Queen tour blog that there was some unfamiliar material in the setlist.
The early birds queueing up outside the Ibirapuera Arena in Sao Paulo were able to hear snatches of the sound check and there was a rush of excited tweets yesterday afternoon that Keep Yourself Alive and Great King Rat had been heard - and also Ghost Town. But this didn't seem to sound anything like the recorded version and a couple of tiny snippets of it posted on YouTube had a distinctly "hard rock" edge to them. Nobody reported hearing Lucy in the sound check, but there were rumours of it being included in the set somewhere.
Over here in the UK, keeping up with concerts in South America requires more than a touch of insomnia and not inconsiderable stamina. Sao Paulo kicked off just after 2.00 a.m.in my part of the world and the strains of One Vision from the audio stream woke me up. I think I must be attuned to those opening chords.
Continued here:
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