I don't think it's about money, as a couple hundred or even thousand quid are nothing for those people. They probably spend more on blow and hookers each party than they'd do on having 10+ QZers on the payroll for a whole year (including benefits).
Had the idiots in charge of 'The Lot' asked a couple of fans to proof-read and proof-hear (is that a word?) the product before releasing it, they would've saved themselves a fortune in correcting and replacing later on.
My theory's that it's got more to do with 'arrogance' (not admitting someone 'outside' QPL could do a better job for less pay, at least in some areas) and/or the fact that more truthful research isn't necessarily wise from a commercial perspective ('Bo Rhap' sounds more impressive if they claim it's got 180 vocals than if they admit it's barely got more than 20).
Adam Baboolal · Member since
You know Seb, for all the good you talk, you certainly undo it quite well with talk of, "both cheated on their wives, so they had a well-trained skill in exact words, false reassurance, half-truths and convenient mixed messages." Talk about low.
Sebastian · Member since
Well ... it's true, though: they both did cheat. That's what's low.
david82 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
TBF, he only filmed two. 'Headlong' was released in '91 but shot in '90.
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Headlong was shot in 1990 (freddie in blue) and February (?) of 1991, when Freddie is in yellow.
br5946 · Member since
To add to your Simpsons rant, it's quite clear that Brian is oddly enough wearing a Bart T-shirt at one point in the 'Headlong' video. Just a random and somewhat appropriate fact.
Sebastian · Member since
Brian used to spend several months a year in LA, where The Simpsons were immensely popular back then. They were also popular in Britain of course, but not at the same level.
Sebastian · Member since
Bumped.
IanR · Member since
I wonder if IWBTLY and MIH were vetoed by the band for inclusion on the Great Pretender / Freddie Mercury albums of 1992, with a view to re-recording them as Queen tracks? Born To Love You was a big solo hit for Fred, and quite a strange omission, unless Jim Beach had blocked them to give the band first-refusal. This could suggest that also Man Made Paradise, Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow, and There Must Be More may also have been contenders for MIH at that point in time.
tomchristie22 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
'Bo Rhap' sounds more impressive if they claim it's got 180 vocals than if they admit it's barely got more than 20.[/QUOTE]
Freddie said the 180 vocals thing it himself in 1977. Of course they didn't actually overdub the vocals sixty times, but it makes it a bit less straightforward when the fact is that it's not just QPL sensationalising, or Brian and Roger misremembering today - Freddie said it in an interview two years after it was recorded, and Roger agreed with him.
Holly2003 · Member since
Bumping your own thread is the equivalent of sniffing your own farts and declaring them magnificent.
IanR · Member since
Is that the voice of experience speaking there, Holly?
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Freddie said the 180 vocals thing it himself in 1977.[/QUOTE]
He didn't. His exact words can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB6Q9e9N6gM. From 1:10 to 1:15 he says, and I quote: 'I think between the three of us we sort of, we recreated a sort of 160- to 200-piece choir effect.'
Keep in mind the key words:
* Think (i.e., it wasn't an exact figure, but a ballpark one).
* Recreated (i.e., they made it sound like there were 160 to 200 voices, when there weren't).
* Effect
* He didn't say 180.
When Brian recreated a clarinet effect on 'Good Company' with his guitar, it doesn't mean he actually turned the guitar into a clarinet. It means it made it sound like a clarinet, without being a clarinet. Same here: they made it sound like a big choir, even though they didn't add an amount of overdubs anywhere near that figure.
[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Freddie said it in an interview two years after it was recorded, and Roger agreed with him. [/QUOTE]
He didn't, for the reasons already explained. Also, when he said 'I dress to kill' he wasn't confessing to murder or manslaughter.
[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]
Bumping your own thread is the equivalent of sniffing your own farts and declaring them magnificent.[/QUOTE]
Not really, it's not.
Holly2003 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Freddie said the 180 vocals thing it himself in 1977.[/QUOTE]
He didn't. His exact words can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB6Q9e9N6gM. From 1:10 to 1:15 he says, and I quote: 'I think between the three of us we sort of, we recreated a sort of 160- to 200-piece choir effect.'
Keep in mind the key words:
* Think (i.e., it wasn't an exact figure, but a ballpark one).
* Recreated (i.e., they made it sound like there were 160 to 200 voices, when there weren't).
* Effect
* He didn't say 180.
When Brian recreated a clarinet effect on 'Good Company' with his guitar, it doesn't mean he actually turned the guitar into a clarinet. It means it made it sound like a clarinet, without being a clarinet. Same here: they made it sound like a big choir, even though they didn't add an amount of overdubs anywhere near that figure.
[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Freddie said it in an interview two years after it was recorded, and Roger agreed with him. [/QUOTE]
He didn't, for the reasons already explained. Also, when he said 'I dress to kill' he wasn't confessing to murder or manslaughter.
[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]
Bumping your own thread is the equivalent of sniffing your own farts and declaring them magnificent.[/QUOTE]
Not really, it's not.[/QUOTE]
That's inaccurate.
Yes he did.
No he wasn't.
That's not true.
A little to the left.
Bingo!
RafaelS · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]david82 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]
TBF, he only filmed two. 'Headlong' was released in '91 but shot in '90.
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Headlong was shot in 1990 (freddie in blue) and February (?) of 1991, when Freddie is in yellow.
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Here we go again. Headlong was shot entirely in 1990. When the Innuendo EPK was filmed in 1990, BOTH parts with Freddie in blue shirt and yellow sweater were in it. The reason why people are saying that they were filmed in two different occasions, it's because of a moron who had a website (which is closed) and was spreading that false rumour out of ignorance or stupidity or both.
miraclesteinway · Member since
- they possibly were filmed on two different occasions, just both in 1990!
