If it is exactly as described it is priceless. If the 'wrong backing track' means no one has heard it before then time to dip into the retirement fund.
Have a feeling its something and nothing though.....
pittrek · Member since
Shadysenator is a queenzoner, who collects acetates. I guess it's genuine
mooghead · Member since
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The Fairy King · Member since
Seven "Seasons" of Rhye?? o.O
waunakonor · Member since
Ha ha! What in the world is that all about?
Even if this shadysenator guy is a QZer, I don't know if I'd trust him. He's...ya know...shady.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]waunakonor wrote:[/b]
Ha ha! What in the world is that all about?
Even if this shadysenator guy is a QZer, I don't know if I'd trust him. He's...ya know...shady.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention that he's also a senator.
brENsKi · Member since
and if it really is genuine why make an accetate "for radio only" ? accetates had a very short lifespan before they degraded....wouldn't that be pretty poor self-promotion?
Dane · Member since
I guess if you wanted to get your new hit song played as soon as possible an acetate could be made of the unfinished but satisfactory song and sent to the radio stations.
Stamping "For Radio Only" on there to prevent this version being mistaken for a final version used for pressing the single..
seems to be a logical course of action to me..
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
From what I know, acetates *were* sometimes used for radio broadcasts, but as far as I'm aware only for one-time broadcasts that could, for one reason or another, not be made live.
Ghostwithasmile is BACK! · Member since
The auction is updated.
Acetates were moslty used , not for Airplay , but for the DJ to listnen to the "new"track and give a pre review when it was set to be released.
mooghead · Member since
"TAKE A LOOK AT MY TOHER QUEEN AUCTIONS !!!
A ACETATE IS :"
The attention to detail cannot be ignored. JSS.. buy this now to add to your spectacular collection or regret it forever....
GT · Member since
Myself and GB have been talking and GB came up with the following:
[b]BM has over 140 acetates, from all studios, inc many from EMI from the early period. None of them look like this.
I think it's trying way way too hard to look important and rare. There would be no reason to press acetates FOR RADIO ONLY. I've never encountered that, and for very good reason. That is precisely the sort of thing that the man on the street 'thinks' might appear on an acetate, but that's not the case. If this were a white label test pressing, then that might be more convincing. No acetate has a reason to have FOR RADIO on it - not at that stage. If an acetate pressing is deemed to be good, then the proper vinyl test pressing would be made (still without FOR RADIO on it), and then if the (label-les) test pressing is good, only then would the main mass pressing (with proper label) go ahead, and promo's too, with things like FOR RADIO ONLY on them. So I really think it's not real. Why doesn't it look anything like any other EMI acetate we have from this period? Like I say, it's cynically trying hard to look significant and valuable and rare. No acetate I've ever seen has all that stuff printed on it, at that very early stage. But the average Jo would imagine all of those things... I'm just surprised they didn't also hand write 'return to Roy' or 'Brian's re-edit' on it, just so that it has the full house!!!! Sorry but I'm sceptical. If I'm wrong, this would be the ONLY acetate I've seen from EMI that looks remotely like this.
Finally.... final nail in the coffin, in my opinion... is the SEASONS of Rhye, rather than SEAS.... again, someone is trying to be clever and fool people, probably because they went to the LOndon Stormtroopers exhibition and saw Brian's (100% real) 'Here I am' acetate... where it should have been 'Now I'm Here'.
Whoever you are out there, with your Seven Seasons Of Rhye... you don't fool me![/b]
Mkls · Member since
you trying to buy this cheap or ... ?
i am not mistaken , a withdrawn radio white label SSOR with a different version was reported 20 years ago, i think its even in the book 'as it began'.
inu-liger · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]P-Tr extinction event wrote:[/b]
you trying to buy this cheap or ... ?
i am not mistaken , a withdrawn radio white label SSOR with a different version was reported 20 years ago, i think its even in the book 'as it began'. [/QUOTE]
I think that was on a 7" pressing and a non-acetate pressing at that, if memory serves me correctly, and only a small handful of copies might be out there. This is the first I've heard of an acetate copy claiming to have a withdrawn mix.
I'm with GT on this one, I find it suspicious that it's stamped "For Radio Only." Surely the DJ's would want to be able to play something like that more than just a few times?
