Queenzoners for Queen Archivists !

Lester, Sir GH, Scully, John S Stuart, Sebastian, a few others : if you haven't already, you should collectively apply for the job !

I'm serious there. Greg leeches like crazy from your research on these boards anyway !

Because not only do we know Greg is not the most capable archivist and endearing human being in the whole world, but we also know a handful of well identified individuals who could do his job much better and be better ambassadors among the fan community

I mean, look at Jeroen's cool proposal for a Knebworth boxset : in comparison, The Singles boxset didn't even have a booklet, for crap's sake!

I know no business environment in which someone with credentials can insult customers with impunity and rant about how he might start working in the distant future when his employers are dead because it's easier to work with dead people. Greg's only achievment was a pre-Internet Live book which has spectacularly been surpassed by several websites managed by Queenzoners...

Send this application to QP and The Doctor NOW, boys !

If you get the job I'll send you some good champagne, I really will

i  that wish piittrek and sir gh work for QP. they're giving us fans what we want here on QZ, imagine if they had all those master tapes, multitracks... it would be heaven! queen complete bbc and queen anthology would be some of the treats they would give us

To be fair you're blaming Greg for things he has no control over, such as the wank singles box sets. Greg does not decide what is released and how it should be released. What ever gave you that idea? There is a clue in the title 'Queen Archivist' as to what his role is.
Queen zone is going to end up being re-named Queen Moan at this fucking rate, there are too many people on here bitching and moaning. It's not going to change anything and it's getting a bit tired now.

GB was already respected Queen collector before he became QA. Queen Productions' and EMI decisions are something that we don't like, I guess.

I would get fired for stealing.  Every last tape.

I'm sorry, maybe I'll get some flack on this, but I don't believe that it is GB who is posting as Queen Archivist. I just have a hard time buying it. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right.

Queen moan...fitting for some of the ppl on here, not for others. But a rather funny title if nothing else.

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I would get fired for stealing.  Every last tape.[/QUOTE]
hahahahaha ! that´s right !

I don´t want to defend Greg, not now after his ridiculous post about the unreleased stuff; but he´s not responsible for the stuff released. In fact he detailed here at QZ the project he proposed (being refused by the superior beings) for The Singles Collection. That was a good one.

But now, dear Archivist .... you talked about the anthology; you wrote about the anthology; you played unreleased stuff so many times .... and now you come here with these things to tell us.  ....

no no no .... bad boy, dear archivist ... bad boy.

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I would get fired for stealing.  Every last tape.[/QUOTE]
Unlike Greg and all other corrupt people who work for Queen and leak recordings to their collector buddies.

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I mean, look at Jeroen's cool proposal for a Knebworth boxset 

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i  that wish piittrek and sir gh work for QP. they're giving us fans what we want here on QZ, imagine if they had all those master tapes, multitracks... it would be heaven! queen complete bbc and queen anthology would be some of the treats they would give us
[/QUOTE] Pittrek, Sir GH and others are able to share what they share[b] because they donot work for QP[/b]. If they are recruited by QP and then upload stuff from the official archives, they'll probably land in prison.

Like others have pointed out, an Archivist only archives stuff. He certainly has not control and very little say (if at all) in what gets released. Having said that, Mr Brooks certainly doesn't try too hard to make freinds here at QZ. He just comes in here once in a while, starts some thread (often in the wrong section) and goes away. If QZers are already pissed off at QP, this employee of QP doesn't make things better.

There [i]is[/i], however, a way around it. I'll speak for myself of course, and obviously biased and focused on my field: even not being able to share audio, I could add loads of info I've always wanted to polish and verify: stuff like what was the backing track like (line-up, changes), who played what, which studios were used, which songs came first (in the sessions, that is), which ideas were dropped, etc.

While it wouldn't be even close to having the anthologies released, it'd be quite interesting for those who like that side of music: seeing how the songs evolved from demos to finished versions and so on. GB could do that without breaking any rules or compromising upcoming releases, but instead he'd rather alienate QZers and top himself every time in the 'most imbecile poster' category.

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i  that wish piittrek and sir gh work for QP. they're giving us fans what we want here on QZ, imagine if they had all those master tapes, multitracks... it would be heaven! queen complete bbc and queen anthology would be some of the treats they would give us

[/QUOTE] Pittrek, Sir GH and others are able to share what they share[b] because they donot work for QP[/b]. If they are recruited by QP and then upload stuff from the official archives, they'll probably land in prison.

Like others have pointed out, an Archivist only archives stuff. He certainly has not control and very little say (if at all) in what gets released. Having said that, Mr Brooks certainly doesn't try too hard to make freinds here at QZ. He just comes in here once in a while, starts some thread (often in the wrong section) and goes away. If QZers are already pissed off at QP, this employee of QP doesn't make things better.[/QUOTE]

i know that greg brooks doesn't decide what will be released. i was thinking like it was the perfect world and sir gh and pittrek are working for QP (and they do decide what will be released), then we would get all those things we wanted

Hmmm nobody here thinks GB is Brian May or Roger Taylor or Jim Beach or even a QP product manager for that matter.

But I do believe that proposing cool releases and connecting with the fanbase is part of his job. So his last post (insulting us and informing us that maybe he if feels like it he'll consider thinking about an Anthology proposal when Bri and Rog are dead) is just the most shockingly unprofessional thing conceivable.

As for awful releases such as Stone Cold Classics or The Singles Collection (AG is not so bad IMO), I'm not saying that was his decision, I'm saying he could have done a better job at convincing TPTB to put out a better product.

For bigV

Jeroen wrote:
Queen's final gig memorial disc:
-Double cd/DVD-Audio 5.1 DTS
-DVD with snippets from the show, backstage footage, fan interviews, tv-reports and a retrospective with new interviews with Brian, Roger, Gerry Stickles etc and the kid that was born during the concert.


Queen's final gig memorial box set:
-Double cd/DVD-Audio 5.1 DTS
-DVD with snippets from the show, backstage footage, fan interviews, tv-reports and a retrospective with new interviews with Brian, Roger, Gerry Stickles etc and the kid that was born during the concert.
-Commemorative t-shirt (white, one size)
-Ticket stub
-Photo set/Postcards
-Full colour booklet

Queen's fnal gig deluxe memorial box set:
-Double cd/DVD-Audio 5.1 DTS
-DVD with snippets from the show, backstage footage, fan interviews, tv-reports and a retrospective with new interviews with Brian, Roger, Gerry Stickles etc and the kid that was born during the concert.
-Commemorative t-shirt (white, one size)
-Ticket stub
-Photo set/Postcards
-Full colour booklet
-autographed colour print
-laminate backstage pass

Am I in the right direction, Greg?

^^ That would kick ass.