City:	Inglewood, CA, USA
Venue:	The Forum
Date:	March 3, 1977

Setlist:	A Day At The Races overture, Tie Your Mother Down, Ogre Battle, White Queen, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Sweet Lady, Brighton Rock, '39, You Take My Breath Away, White Man, The Prophet's Song, Bohemian Rhapsody, Stone Cold Crazy, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Now I'm Here, Big Spender, Jailhouse Rock, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, God Save The Queen
The second night in LA wasn't originally on the itinerary, but added due to ticket demand. Even though Mercury isn't in his best voice on this tour as a whole, tonight he puts in a gutsy performance, and the rest of the band are rock solid throughout. Picking out individual highlights of this show is a fruitless task, as every song is performed with a surgeon's precision. Queen are in their rhythm here, and the significance of headlining two nights at The Forum is surely not lost on them. The Jailhouse Rock medley is particularly riveting, and even a bit loose by their standards. The tempo of Sweet Lady was probably never faster than it is here, but it makes for an exciting listen. Having named their last two albums after Marx Brothers films, earlier in the day Queen were invited to Groucho Marx's house for tea. After he sang them a "very strange comedy song" as Brian put it in a 1977 Australian radio interview. He adds how Groucho's accompanist asked them to sing for him, saying 'OK, now you sing a song, you're supposed to be singers!' "We sang '39. We make up kind of an excuse, 'oh, we can't do it with a piano, we have to do it with a guitar', and he says, 'oh, it's alright, we've got a guitar.' So we had to!" The band gave him a tour jacket and a gold disc in gratitude for his inspiration. Good thing they visited him on this tour, as he passed away a few months later. The two sets of show photos were taken by Barry Goldstein and Jim R respectively.

Recording length:	106 minutes (incomplete)
Quality:	A
Source:	Audience
Lineage:	Mike Millard Master Cassettes > Yamaha KX-W592 Cassette Deck > Sony R-500 DAT > Analog Master DAT Clone > Fostex D5 DAT > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > iZotope RX6 > iZotope Ozone 6 > Audacity > TLH > FLAC Taping Gear: AKG 451E Microphones (CK-1 cardioid capsules) > Nakamichi 550 Cassette Recorder
Track listing:	Tie Your Mother Down [cut], Ogre Battle, White Queen, Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, The Millionaire Waltz, You're My Best Friend, Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Sweet Lady, Brighton Rock [cut], '39, You Take My Breath Away, White Man, The Prophet's Song, Bohemian Rhapsody, Stone Cold Crazy, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited, Now I'm Here [cut], Big Spender, Jailhouse Rock, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting, God Save The Queen
For decades collectors wondered if the legendary Mike Millard ever taped Queen, and the emergence of this fantastic tape in 2020 set all doubts to rest. Not only is this one of the best-sounding audience tapes of Queen, it is one of the best audience tapes ever made. It takes the front of house tech a couple songs to sort out the mix, and by White Queen the instrument separation is nothing short of spectacular. The stereo sound is ever evident in White Man when Brian May does the echoplex bit towards the end. Highly recommended listening. The only major omission is the first couple minutes of the show, as Millard was a bit late arriving at the venue. About ten seconds near the end of Brighton Rock are missing as well for a tape flip. How lucky we are that he showed up to tape on a night as excellent as this and captured 99% of the show for posterity.

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