Selling Queen demos ?

http://daverfuller.tumblr.com/post/46377025398/gonna-sell-copes-mp3-wav-flac-of-some-rare

Who is this guy?

Classy.

Didn't think this twat could sink any lower, but he has managed to succeed.

huh

wow...to think that once he was a great source for Queen fans...now this?...so low of him!!! how can he have the right to do this?
I mean there are some rare things there(like the garden loudge audio tapes...but he has no right to sell those....
In the past he acused me of stealing from him and started a big vendetta against me...saying that i'm not a real Queen fan and so on...but a real Queen fan would sell those rareties to gain proffit?

We can only hope that QPL Solicitors send him a letter...

oh...im possitive that a letter will scare him...he needs more that that my friend...but...what can we do about it?

QPL are aware of him, that's why his youtube account keeps getting taken down.

This is utterly ridiculous. QPL should take action on this case as soon as possible.

They should put out stuff like this on iTunes. I'd happily pay 1.29 euros for an mp3 of an unreleased track. Ofcourse, a boxset would be even better.

[QUOTE] [b]Pim Derks wrote:[/b]

They should put out stuff like this on iTunes. I'd happily pay 1.29 euros for an mp3 of an unreleased track. Ofcourse, a boxset would be even better. [/QUOTE]

But then they would no longer be rarities :-(

I understand that's how some people feel. I was a collector at some point too, and I'm sure lots of the people in the "Fanthology"-project are people I had contact with when I was still actively collecting. I love the music and want to hear it, but it's just music for me these days. I listen to tons of other stuff these days, music which I'm sure is way better than an unreleased piano demo by Freddie. Still, I'd love to hear any unreleased music, as Queen is and will always be my first love.

For me, personally, the rarity would be the format the material was in. A 40-year old acetate, an unreleased CD-R acetate, a reel-to-reel tape. The Larry Lurex vinyl is still worth a lot of money, even though the material has been available in perfect quality for almost 15 years. The same goes for this. The Reaction acetate (or anything else, Hangman, Rainbow acetates or anything else which might exist) won't lose their value (to me!) if they're available, legally or illegally.

There was a time where I actually paid lots of money for CD-R's of unreleased material, some of which were also sold by people probably still active in the community. I know it's not possible with all the legal issues, but I'd happily pay for a Kickstarter-project to make stuff like the material on his list available to interested fans - pressed on CD/vinyl. How cool would it be to have (for example) The Reaction material on a reproduction of the original acetate (or whatever format it was on), or the Queen 1 acetate faithfully reproduced on 12" vinyl.... Never going to happen, but I'd happily pull out my creditcard for stuff like that. But paying some guy for mp3/FLAC's of material, meh.

That being said, there's still a part of me which just wants to hear all the stuff on his list NOW - stuff I had never dreamed of being 'out there' when I was still actively trying to get rarities. I still remember the buzz from hearing the demo of Polar Bear for the first time, or the unreleased Love Kills mixes, or the Hot Space out-takes. Good times.

All it would take is 1 person to buy the stuff (the 5% of stuff listed that is worth actually hearing) then share it. Its a shame though that this person seems to be trading respect for cash.

Indeed, a lot of the stuff on the list is probably material I only would listen to once or twice, out of curiosity. There's a very good reason why stuff like this was never (re-)used. I don't think I ever listened to Yellow Breezes again after receiving the FM Box on October 23rd 2000! :D

[QUOTE] [b]mooghead wrote:[/b]

All it would take is 1 person to buy the stuff (the 5% of stuff listed that is worth actually hearing) then share it. Its a shame though that this person seems to be trading respect for cash.[/QUOTE]

There was respect?

My guess is that cash is the least of David R. Fuller's priorities. Is it a coincidence that that post went up shortly after a (my) post on the other thread noted that nobody with the power to do so made any room for non collectors to participate in the system? I would doubt it. I believe what he wants far more than money is to bust up the monopolistic cabal. If I was a little more clear on the ethics involved and where that music came from I'd put together a non-collector QZ group of the willing in a heartbeat to throw in a few dollars each and buy what we could and release it all immediately for the whole community. It would surprise me greatly if Fuller wouldn't give us a whole lot for not a lot of money.