GinjaNinja - Thanks for the insight! I thought it might have been a long-lost snippet of home-demo version of Vagabound Outcast - which, when you think about it, sounds likely, considering it was apparently Freddie's first ever composition (somebody might have to back me up but I think I'm right on that one...). It is wonderful to know Green was recorded multiple times, because I think the 'Losing sense of rhythm, and I can easily change into a brand new system' bit at the end of the Rareties 3 take sounds like it should have led into a Mike Bersin guitar solo. When I unearth these other versions my dreams might come true.

pittrek - That's good to know! Although it might be amateur quality, considering the average-ish quality of the 09.09.69 tape already. A bonus fact about that gig - Smile later came on stage to join Ibex. Sounds great right? Three quarters of Queen on one stage. Unfortunately the tape recorder ran out before the two bands got to play one note together. Geoff Higgins, Ibex's roadie and the man who taped the performance, can give this quote about the recording. "I had two beer crates as a table, with my tape on top of them and a little old fashioned mono, crystal microphone hanging down by it’s own wire. That’s why the tape is such chronic quality. Imagine being in the audience and looking at the stage, I would have been by a pillar on the right of, and slightly on front of, the stage. That’s why the bass is so loud, because Tupp was on the right hand side. Mike was on the left. Miffer in the middle, and Fred out on the floor in front of the stage, because there simply wasn’t enough room for a singer as well." Higgins also notes he used a Grundig TK-14 reel-to-reel machine that night. Maybe TK-14s have a credit for picking up bass - if they used the same machine on the home recordings this would explain why 'Tupp' Taylor's contribution is so clearly heard on Green.