Greg Brooks calling John Stuart. OPEN INVITATION/REQUEST

andreas_mercury wrote:

"i was just saying, take what you can get and don't cry to quality ... i don't care if face it alone was lossless because i have heard hte song now and am happy with that...."

Fair enough.  But if it's just as easy to do it properly as it is to do it improperly, then why not do it properly?

Furthermore, if you're not interested in quality, then you can hear the material in question on youtube, as it's nothing new.  What's being discussed here is a quality upgrade from the source tapes.  If you have nothing of value to add to the discussion, then don't waste webspace for your ranting.  In case you can't tell, this is a pretty important topic of discussion for a lot of people.

The above are the critical points of the QA's first post (cutting out the deviations). What I don't understand is this: 1.  Why couldn't GB write the above privately to JSS ?  He knows JSS's address and can always get the letter delivered by registered post or courier service.  I can't understand the motivation to publicize it. 2.  If JSS were to share the De Lane Lea Queen sessions in Queenzone , this thing would not be rare any more - would QPL still want it ?

"Furthermore, if you're not interested in quality, then you can hear the
material in question on youtube, as it's nothing new."

how can even people be so retarted here?  i am not talking specific about these items, but unheard things in general...  to have " all or nothing " philosophy in place is jsut silly, to me we should get it all out

"If you have
nothing of value to add to the discussion, then don't waste webspace
for your ranting.  In case you can't tell, this is a pretty important
topic of discussion for a lot of people."

lol ..... and you have added ..... what exactly to the threads . i am waitng.

Andreas, please stop being such a stubborn jackass. If you can't contribute anything of value to the subject at hand, you may as well stop posting because all you are doing is encouraging negative activity detrimental to the cause at hand. You're only egging people to keep fighting instead of trying to find a solution.

As someone was saying up the page, it's time ALL this stuff was out. I respect the right of people to have collections, etc, but time is moving on.

The audience interest is dwindling. At this point now, if I were Queen, I'd be looking at making the whole kit and caboodle available online and for free.

The band and their hangers-on have made absolutely enough money to do them, and their next generation. What is the point of constantly hinting and teasing at stuff that could/may/should be in the archives when it patently will not ever see the light of day? If all this material were really, really commercially viable, it would already be out there.

It's nearly 20 years since Freddie died. I might have been interested in shelling out big dough for archive material when I was in my late-20s. But I now have a mortgage, and so do many of my peers. Other things come first.

Increasingly, I don't see the commercial viability of all this stuff.

What would I propose? Well I remember a half-assed attempt by QPL to do a 100 Best Bootlegs thing - a fiver a time or something? Why bother? Get as much together as possible, get it into some sort of high quality, digital format, and get in bloody online for once and for all.

The market was there 10 years ago - it ain't there now. It will be "less" there in ten years time. These anthologies or archive materials are becoming less and less relevant. The digital download generation coming up behind me - I'm in my mid-thirties now, and have been coming to this board for years, only to see this Archivist fellow exceed his brief on here - are not in the slightest bit interested in a lovely big container with lots of CDs and DVDs any more. The Archivist - if he has done it properly - has done his job. Move on.

Get the site up, get the stuff on it, work with the fans to allow contributions, filter them for quality, and let's leave a proper, accessible, digital and FREE archive - it, at least, has half a chance of strengthening the Queen legacy, and leaving something behind for fans and newcomers alike.

" If you can't contribute anything of value to the subject at hand, you may as well stop posting"

thats the 3rd hypocrite i see say that to me.  what have you offered

andreas_mercury wrote:

"If you can't contribute anything of value to the subject at hand, you may as well stop posting"
>thats the 3rd hypocrite i see say that to me.  what have you offered

So you're basically saying you're allowed to be detrimental to the discussion, but nobody else is allowed to point it out?  Go play on the highway.

Spot on, ok.computer.

i dont necessary believe i think anyone should be allowed to post any garbage they want (moderators would be good) but dont you see the hypocrisy to your own post?  you people can act all as indignant as you want, when it suits YOU, and take offense at all kinds of the aids jokes and other comments i've seen here lately, but as soon as you think its okay you can say "play on the highway" and wish death on people ...   as long as it suits you of course.  it doesnt matter if you arent contributing to the thread; complaining is good enough.

it is sadder to hear from a man like this because i thought GH was in fact a smarter person of the forum but clearly is having a bad week.  i dont understand how you can exist with such double standards.  doesnt it get confusing doing what the hell you like with no rules?

it is like you can't even read.  i never said no one else to be detrimental - you can all do it as much as you seem to want (and you have been, quite funny) - but to then cry about it when I do it makes no sense, is this some sort of fan club that i'm not a member of?   this is a public forum and if fuckwit inu-liger can write shit that offers no substance then i am allowed to too, until i see the rules that say "no, only this person can write trash, andreas is not allowed to join in".