John S. Stuart calling Greg Brooks - Open invitation/request

John, if you are happy to deal with Queen Productions Limited and you are keen for any material you have to see the light of day for us music hungry Queen fans, can I ask if you have ever attempted to contact any of the Directors of QPL directly?

Brian for one isn't at all elusive, he reads emails that are sent to him, I had yet another reply from him in the early hours of Sunday morning, having sent him an email on Saturday. Brian is an individual who doesn't hide behind Management or a PR Team, he will deal with people directly. Please, please, please, for the sake of Queen fans, put your dispute with GB behind you (in my opinion he appears very unprofessional) email Brian, explain your position to him, I am sure he will respond to you and you will hopefully then get some positive process underway with QPL.

Please, give it a go.

That's not a bad idea. Except ... I have a feeling Roger might be more reasonable than Brian about these things. Brian's comments re: We WIll Rock You (Now Queen Rocks Montreal) suggest he has a chip on his shoulder about others owning the rights to Queen recordings.

woodi485485: If anyone here would like to contact QPL on my behalf, please feel free to do so. I have no problem with QPL, or sharing anything with the fans.

Queen Archivist wrote: John, I'm afraid you're still living in a bit of a Dreamworld there.  You want John Deacon, Roger Taylor or Brian May to contact you personally.  Do you think that is going to happen? Oh dear! I think probably not.

Do you think that is a reasonable point of view or expectation? 

Look, in my posting I said that it would be VERY SIMPLE for you to go over all your old grievances again and dig up all that bad history again, and remind everybody again about how hard done by you were in the past.... and of course that's precisely what you've done.

That stance helps no one at all. 

Never mind. It was, let's all be honest, totally predictable.   Who here expected John to do anything OTHER than rake up the past again?

I WROTE THIS...

It is VERY VERY SIMPLE for you to now list all the reasons why you WON'T do that, why you CAN'T do that. You can sit there and cite all the bad history you and I have, and all the ways in which you feel you have been badly treated, and so on and so forth, for the next 10 years, but ultimately it will lead nowhere. Nobody benefits that way. 

JOHN, YOU, RIGHT ON CUE AND AS EXPECTED BY MOST, REPLIED THUS....

First: The tape was stolen. (It was NOT returned to me as promised)
Second: It was widely bootlegged - and I made not one penny from those illegal discs.
Three: I did not recEIve an official apology - ever.
Four: I had to buy my own boxset.
What was it Ian Hunter said; "Once Bitten Twice Shy?". 

So.... I asked you sincerely John. I put to you a reasonable proposal. But you don't want to deal with Queen's Middle Man, as you put it. You'll only deal with the Band members directly!!!!!!!!!!!    You see what I mean?  You are the most irritating individual to deal with that I have ever encountered. There just is NO getting thru to you, past your resentment and obvious bitterness over things that happened TEN YEARS AGO, and which WERE apologised for - profusely - as you very well know.

You are unable to put the history behind you, in the past where it should be, in order that we might progress things for the betterment of ALL Queen fans.  I think you are selfish foolish chap, with an unhealthy grudge that does you or anyone else no good at all. It is so very you though... that's why you and I get nowhere fast.  I'll not bother again. I can rest assured (if I'm ever asked) that I did make a decent genuine attempt to reach a compromise, but you declined it - again.

Move ON John. Move forward. How long you gonna live in the past, harping on about.... having to buy your own Freddie boxed set / not making one penny from those illegal discs /  not receiving an official appology - ever, etc etc etc.....??????

I SAID SORRY 4 or 5 TIMES TO YOU, 3-4 TIMES ON THIS SITE, PLUS ON THE PHONE AND EMAIL.  WE INVITED YOU TO THE FREDDIE BOX LAUNCH IN LONDON in 2000, AND YOU CAME. YOU LOVED IT. YOU THANKED ME.   YOU FORGOT TO MENTION THAT IN YOUR LIST OF "FEEL-SORRY-FOR-ME" BITS!!

God almighty!!!! Stop harboring the grudge and resentment man. Move forward.

I tried to build bridges with you. I failed. But only because you're too mean-spirited and miserable to take an olive branch when it's offered.  How sad it must be to live that way.
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Greg, please read John's posting again. He said in no uncertain terms that he is willing to speak to any official representative of Queen Productions but he won't speak with you. Why this is bitter is beyond my understanding. For years we all have seen the abuse and insults you heaped on John Stuart on this very forum. If I were in his boots I would never speak to you ever again in my life, as well. Over and over again he offered peace to you and offered to bury the hatchet only to earn more abuse and insults from you. Please do not believe that we did not see this. Now you try to switch the truth and try to make John look like he is the unreasonable and bitter type - while in fact you have treated him with no respect at all over a very long time. You may think that a web forum is an alternate reality and your postings here have no relation to real life but that is totally untrue. John Stuart is a normal person, a father and grandfather like everybody else with normal feelings, who just happens to own a very valuable collection of Queen recordings. He is not rich, he is just a very dedicated collector and as a private person he must have been devastated to be ripped off by reps of his favourite band with no official apology and  no financial compensation for the loss of his tape. However, he is still willing to talk to QPL, he is just not willing to talk to you - after all you said here on the board for all the world to see. I remember very well how you described John's invitation to the Freddie launch party last time you mentioned it and I won't repeat what you said because it's really not necessary to add more insult to injustice. But this post alone would have been enough for me to never cross your path ever again. There are limits for a person with self respect.

As to the idea that John has some sort of moral obligation to make his collection available for the fans: there is none imo. While the rest of us spent our money on vacation or a new car, John spent a small fortune on rare Queen recordings. He did not have to post his knowledge on Queenzone, he could just as well sit back and enjoy his collection and never expose himself to all the insults and bad feelings that often occur when people are frustrated because they cannot obtain something they want really badly. We, the fans, would be happy if some of the rare recordings would be made available but if John's collection never sees the light of day I can say for myself that I am not blaming John - I am blaming you and your unprofessional attitude.

"If anyone here would like to contact QPL on my behalf, please feel free
to do so. I have no problem with QPL, or sharing anything with the
fans."

you lazy fucking shit ......  you should smell like popcorn the way you sit in your cardigon and sweat over your precious recording ... GOLLUM.

Andreas, what exactly do you think you're contributing?  Does that seem likely to move us all forward?

John, you wrote-

woodi485485: If anyone here would like to contact QPL on my behalf, please feel free to do so. I have no problem with QPL, or sharing anything with the fans.

I think that sort of attitude is poor and such an approach would be as unprofessional as Greg's attempts to deal with you in a Public Forum.

In the words of Freddie at Milton Keynes, 'It's only a bloody record, people get so excited about these things'

Penetration_Guru wrote: Andreas, what exactly do you think you're contributing?  Does that seem likely to move us all forward?
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Agreed. Your (Andreas) egging people on to continue their spats is very detrimental to our cause.

andreas_mercury wrote: "If anyone here would like to contact QPL on my behalf, please feel free
to do so. I have no problem with QPL, or sharing anything with the
fans."

you lazy fucking shit ......  you should smell like popcorn the way you sit in your cardigon and sweat over your precious recording ... GOLLUM.
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Why not post a list of what you've shared on this forum. Might be an interesting read. Or non-read, as the case may be.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]andreas_mercury wrote:[/QUOTENAME] "If anyone here would like to contact QPL on my behalf, please feel free
to do so. I have no problem with QPL, or sharing anything with the
fans."

you lazy fucking shit ......  you should smell like popcorn the way you sit in your cardigon and sweat over your precious recording ... GOLLUM. [/QUOTE]

Do you have some sort of mental problems ?

No, I think he's on drugs just the rest of his lot.

Andreas: 

I am more than happy to share, I am more than happy to work with QPL, I have approached QPL many times, but (IMO) Queen PL are a stone-faced outfit, who are not interested in my (or any other) archival material.

Everyone in here has acces to Google,and Brian May's personal forum, so I do not think it would be a bad move for as many people as possible to spread the above message.

If you really feel like contributing something why don't you (and other 'zoners) write a personal response to QPL or Mr. May?
After all a chorus of voices is louder than the lone voice in the wilderness. Perhaps, when this stone-wall is personally experienced, you may be a little more empathetic.

you just sound to be asking everyone to do your letterwriting and it makes no sense, i am not the man with the cards in his hand, why should i place bets on your behalf

I haven't been to this board for months but it seems like it's fun, just like in the old times :-D

I see nothing wrong about John's proposal. In fact, I really like this kind of attitude. "Deal with me officially or fuck off" - seriously, I'd do the same thing. Why bother with middle men whom he doesn't trust? Why couldn't Brian and Roger stop saving foxes or sunbathing on their yachts and find out what recordings they might need for the anthology? Because they don't care? Oh well... then bad luck. It's their problem, not JSS's problem.

actually when you word it like "deal with me official or fuck off" it makes more sense
i do not understand why he isn't just write that himself