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daga wrote:

[QUOTE]If these demos are from 1989 so it was end of Miracle session or early Innuendo session. What do you think?  Miracle session was January 1988 - February 1989.[/QUOTE]

The date of the Barcelona recording was wrong, so maybe these are wrong too..

Roger's snare sounds more like The Miracle than Innuendo.  But of course it's not a final mix, so it's hard to say.  But that big Innuendo snare sound is there on Robbery...

Also, if this is from the Miracle sessions, it's technically possible that it's from early 1989 - but not likely.  Chances are they were focusing on the ten tracks they had chosen for the record and the few B sides, not trying out new ideas when they're nearly done the album.

So there's my thought for the day..

Nice to have it lossless, thanks

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Does anybody else hear a few seconds of what was or was about to become "Was It All Worth It" in "Affairs", from 29seconds on?

Cheers,

Ogre-

Good one, Arnaldo.  The melodies are similar.  I think it's pretty clear that these tracks are from The Miracle sessions.  Freddie's voice developed a different quality as he got more ill.  He probably learned how to use his voice within his illness, figuring out which vocal techniques were less painful than others.  These tracks definitely sound more like 80s Freddie.

I'd be interested to find out if the tape that David Richards 'discovered' is a compact cassette copy or the original reel-reel tape?
Obviously ihis begs the question, "Did QPL previously possess the masters in their archive, or IS this the master tape? If so, then how come David Richards had it?"

Sir GH wrote: Good one, Arnaldo.  The melodies are similar.  I think it's pretty clear that these tracks are from The Miracle sessions.  Freddie's voice developed a different quality as he got more ill.  He probably learned how to use his voice within his illness, figuring out which vocal techniques were less painful than others.  These tracks definitely sound more like 80s Freddie.

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"Inu-liger" posted at the QOL Forum he had a short chat with David Richards via Facebook and the latter said these demos/jams are from the Innuendo-Montreux sessions.

Thank you very much for sharing the wav files.

As these demos were recorded in 1989 I think it is much more likely they come from the Innuendo sessions. The Miracle sessions wound up very early in 1989, and I don't think the band would be recording this raw demos by that point. Surely by that stage it would have been about finishing the tracks they had?

Anyway whenever they are from I am glad we got to hear them.

I guess people didn't read my post on the other topic...I talked to David Richards himself on Facebook the other day, and he said the jams were from the Innuendo Montreux sessions.
And they WERE on a cassette tape (though I'm told of absolute AMAZING quality, and based on the fan recordings here, I have to agree!), not reel-to-reel.

He got the date of the Freddie track wrong, so maybe he's wrong about these ones too.  It doesn't really matter to me either way, as I have no stake in the outcome... but I'm just putting it out there.  Glad we can hear the tracks, which is the bottom line.

I don't know,but to my ears it does sound a lot like Miracle stuff, like Hang On In There, Fiddly Jam or even I Guess We're Falling Out. Years tend to merge two decades later. It all becomes a little blurry. Well, like Bob said, the bottom line is that we can hear those tracks now and they are great. I'm glad I got my Queen fix again :)

Cheers,

Ogre-

Grand Dame sounds quite like Robbery to me.

My guess is that these jams were initiated in the early stages of the Innuendo sessions, which WOULD in that case place them around early/mid 1989. I think somewhere down the line after these jams, they decided to revamp the drum sound that they were going for at the time. So I can understand why a lot of people would be fooled into thinking these were Miracle session demos.

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