Freddie Mercury "Send In The Clowns" true FLAC

Ghostwithasmile is BACK! wrote:

Thanks for the gesture Sir JSS.

How about a response in kind? :-)

Mr.QueenFan wrote:
Freddie Mercury had the magic touch on the paino, and this seems to be a very well rehearsed version of this song.
Cheers

To be honest, I don't really agree with you here. :-)

I don't know if Freddie could sight-read (where's Seb when one needs him?) but this sound to me like some one who is not too confident and just making it up as he goes along. (I am reminded of all those demo's on the chop-em-out label).

I am NOT saying he is "out of his depth" here, but I am saying it does seem spontaneous and basic.

In contrast the Mike Moran "tapes" are much more technically accomplished. To me this is Freddie's "Zappruder". That is the subject matter transcends all the technical problems and records a very raw moment in history.

Freddie learnt to sight read when he studied classical piano as a teenager, but he admitted he'd mostly forgotten how to do it by 1981 (when he said he'd sometimes go back to the sheet music if he'd forgotten how to play a piece). That's why he mostly used Nashville notation (letters for chords and notes) when composing and arranging, and in fact Mike had to 'translate' some Barcelona things to that notation for Fred.

His strength, and that's something scores of classically-trained people lack, was in his ability to play by ear. He hadn't got perfect pitch, but his relative pitch was trained enough to be able to do a lot in that department, and he was also an outstanding composer and, as such, intuitively understood harmonic rules and patterns and could accurately anticipate which chord would usually go here and there.

By the way, there's no Chopin piece. It's Bach.

Yes, the well tempered clavier is out there and I've heard Freddie's rendition but I meant Chopin pieces as mentioned in the thread Ultimate Collection : 1988 ->http://www.queenzone.com/forums/704471/ultimate-collection-1988.aspx?page=2

Thanks for this JSS.

Thank you both for this. And excellent use of Zapruder by JSS.

MercurialFreddie wrote:

Yes, the well tempered clavier is out there and I've heard Freddie's rendition but I meant Chopin pieces as mentioned in the thread Ultimate Collection : 1988 ->http://www.queenzone.com/forums/704471/ultimate-collection-1988.aspx?page=2

I guess this is what you are referring to:

Freddie Mercury: Xmas At Freddie’s - Garden Lodge Home Demos - 1988 - Freddie Mercury, Mike Moran, Peter Straker, Wayne Ealing, Peter “Pheobe” Freestone

Girl From Ipanema - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc
Musical Excerpts 1 – 5 - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc
Misty - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc
Favourite Things - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc
Offenbach’s Tales Of Hoffman 1 & 2 - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc
Gilbert & Sullivan - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc

Chopin 1 & 2 - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc

Trolley Song - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc
Prelude 1 - Unreleased: Home Mini-Disc

I believe this tape has been shared before - but I do not know if it was actually "Chopin", or just some made-up title.

Again, it is one of those things where by the same "Untitled track" is called various different things by various different people.

But it is "out-there" and you may well already have it!

Mini dics = lossy. You should reconsider your archiving methods.
Not hating, just saying.

Thank you John, yes I referred to the old thread. Sadly, only few tracks from the 1988 tape have been shared : The girl from ipanema, "f*ck off and die you fag/que sera sera" and "Rock a bye dixie". The rest is still in private hands so it all depends on generosity of the owner of the tape.

Thank you for sharing that, lovely to hear and imagine Freddie sitting at the piano playing :)

Thank you ! Queenzone at it`s best !

Whilst I appreciate the share, frequency analysis does not show that this is truly lossless. Also, testing the FLAC decoded to WAV only shows a CCDA probability of 43%. I suspect this share is mp3 sourced at some stage.

^ Minidisc = ATRAC compression

Thanks for this!

Thank you so much for this one!