Question about De Lane Lea & BBC Session 2 Bootlegs

Opinions needed please... which bootlegs have the best sounding versions of the De Lane Lea demos and the BBC Session 2 recordings?  Thanks in advance.

I've heard many of the bootlegs, but none of them sounds as good as one circulating non-bootlegged tape

They all have their faults. Many play at false speed. And even those, that have a lot of hiss may be better than those that went through some overdone noisereduction or bad mastering. 

Whatever you find or buy you will have to work on it a bit to get closer to what the band really sounded like.

Confession: I own the best versions of both the De Lane Lea and the BBC sessions (Inside or outside the Queen vaults) and they exist in their original raw (not sonically corrupted) master-tape (not degenerated copies) form.
This is not carrot dangling - but fact.

They may be uploaded here under the following conditions:

First:
I do not upload them - I would not know how - and I would not accept the respnsibility of taking on Queen PLC.
If some brave proxy wanted to take that role upon themselves - that would be their decission - not mine.

Second:
They were not devalued in anyway. (ie musically equalised, MP3'd, traded or ended up on ebay).

John S Stuart wrote:

Confession: I own the best versions of both the De Lane Lea and the BBC sessions (Inside or outside the Queen vaults) and they exist in their original raw (not sonically corrupted) master-tape (not degenerated copies) form.
This is not carrot dangling - but fact.

They may be uploaded here under the following conditions:

First:
I do not upload them - I would not know how - and I would not accept the respnsibility of taking on Queen PLC.
If some brave proxy wanted to take that role upon themselves - that would be their decission - not mine.

Second:
They were not devalued in anyway. (ie musically equalised, MP3'd, traded or ended up on ebay).

I offer my services and the risks :-)

pittrek wrote:
I offer my services and the risks :-)

Send me a PM with your details.

That's very nice of you John to share these recordings.

I have 200kbs upload and would be glad to assist seeding a torrent, pm me.

Thanks again.

Thank you John.
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In other threads we have people complaining about you not sharing one track, but here you are willing to share many here with us all.[/QUOTE]
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If there is any way I can assist with the uploading of these files, I'd love to.[/QUOTE]

This is excellent news. It would be great to hear these tracks is good quality.

In the sprit of sharing I have some lossless demos that are far greater in quality to the commonly shared versions on YouTube and alike. I will upload these soon.

You see, this is the type of gesture made by someone with a genuine feeling for the collecting community.

Were that it could be the same from officialdom.

Thank you John.

Thanks John and everyone else here who shares there Queen stuff .. I have to say Ive got to hear so many great Queen tracks because of the genorosity of you guys. I think i would have lost intrest in Queen long ago if I waited for anything of intrest to come officialy... so many thanks again

Wow, this is excellent news!

 



John S Stuart wrote:



Confession: I own the best versions of both the De Lane Lea and the BBC sessions (Inside or outside the Queen vaults) and they exist in their original raw (not sonically corrupted) master-tape (not degenerated copies) form.
This is not carrot dangling - but fact.


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So far, all the De Lane Lea demos currently available are taken from a CD produced in 1994 by a Dutch fan (I'm not naming him) from a reel-reel tape he owns or owned. He apparantly had permission from Jim Beach to release them because he loaned that tape to QPL.
Therefore, this CD would be the best 'available' version of those demos as it's the original source and because nobody  knows whether subsequent CD releases taken from this disc were done digitally or analogue (it was 1994).
Whether this tape is the same generation or not as John's, only John would be able to tell... :)

Are you talking about the In The Beginning bootleg? If so, there's no chance that's sourced from any kind of master. And there's also no chance Jim Beach would allow someone to press up a bootleg of anything to sell. When referring to those demos, didn't Brian once comment on a potential new technology that could extract the wave forms from vinyl or acetate without playing it and not picking up surface noise - therefore suggesting they don't have the masters for the recordings.

I hope John won't mind me saying that I was lucky enough to hear his versions of some of those BBC tracks, and they piss all over any other version I've ever heard.

Especially Spread Your Wings, which is just immense.