Wow! I'm surprised that there's a version of this show with clean SWAFIB.
Please anyone re-upload it as all links are dead now... How I overlooked this version before, I don't know...
I had a listen, I wonder why the first two tracks are such bad quality.
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Barry Durex
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What does the Archivist have to say on the state of the master tapes?
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The Real Wizard
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Barry Durex wrote:
What does the Archivist have to say on the state of the master tapes?
Don't hold your breath for a response.
The BBC clearly wiped the master in 1973 or not long after it. The content of On Air pretty well confirms that, as their source tapes are no better than ours.
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Barry Durex
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Not really, all it confirms is they like to butcher releases.
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The Real Wizard
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Ha, fair point.
But we can still be pretty sure that they don't have a better copy. All the evidence is here in this thread.
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Barry Durex
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That's just it, there is nothing in this thread which I would call evidence of them not having a clean copy. The fact that it isn't on Queen On Air means nothing.
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The Real Wizard
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If laziness is their MO, then surely it would've been easier to use the better copy than to go through the effort of axing a song of an inferior copy for quality reasons.
Credit where credit's due - they did due diligence in seeking the best possible tapes for BBC sessions 1-6.
The tape doesn't exist. We can be 99.999999999% sure. If there was a better copy, it would've been included.
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Barry Durex
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This is QPL. If they have it, it doesn't mean we get it. We are lucky if they even tell us what they have. They axed plenty of songs on Queen On Air, doesn't mean they don't have them does it?
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The Real Wizard
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Cutting songs for space reasons is different from availability of tape.
You schooled me on conspiracy theories the other week. Maybe you should take your own advice here.
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Barry Durex
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It's hardly a conspiracy theory when I say they might have it, I accept they might not. The difference is I make no judgement until I see some actual evidence either way, and I haven't!
