Queen The Demos

Greg Brookes said at convention, Brian and Roger may be looking at the unfinished Demos,
Face it alone
Robbery
Dog with a bone
etc...

And.........

Yes....for what? Did they look at them before QF? Or is this for something else...

I suppose Roger will be "looking at the demos" on the shelf of the archive, if he ever goes to that room.

That's doesn't mean he's listening to them, let alone working on them.

Just releasing them. Thats enough

Did greg tell something about the queen forever releases, for example the upcoming
singles...

I don't know of its brilliant or not saving material with Freddie. He's dead. As consumers were smart enough to recognize that so it's inherently disappointing that Queen Forever doesn't have everything they know they have or even the best of it. They should be just released an album of as much unreleased stuff as possible. I understand the creative process and you can't be mechanical and build every half song in to a masterpiece but from what I've heard there's more stuff left. Even the Michael Jackson song is something we've heard before. Where is this victory song that inspired the Jacksons so much they named the album after it. I don't know it kinda leaves a bad taste in your mouth and maybe a misstep.

in my opinion the Jacksons have their Hands on victory

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[b]khe73 wrote: [/b] Greg Brookes said at convention, Brian and Roger may be looking at the unfinished Demos,
Face it alone
Robbery
Dog with a bone
etc...
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You're speaking about the very recent Convention ?
Did he say anything else ? Did they show some video material or play tracks which weren't presented at the previous conventions ?

The truth is everything will not be released all at once.
The guys need a regular income so will be just teasing us all with a couple of tracks every album.
If they actually took more interest in us ardent fans instead of galloping round the globe with that tosser from american idol
then we may get a decent product for once instead of 3 new tracks and more of the same old songs after that.

[QUOTE] [b]khe73 wrote:[/b]

Greg Brookes said at convention, Brian and Roger may be looking at the unfinished Demos,
Face it alone
Robbery
Dog with a bone
etc...
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Did he specify those tracks, or did he just generically say "demos" and you've listed some?

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

The guys need a regular income so will be just teasing us all with a couple of tracks every album.[/QUOTE]

Greatest Hits sells about a quarter of a million copies a year. I'd guess the rest of the catalogue does the same, maybe more.

At least two tracks a year are licenced for a film/ad/Tv show somewhere in the world. A couple more will appear on a various artists compilation each year too.

UK Radio pays for playing Queen songs.

Performing rights from pubs, live cover versions are paid to the copyright holders.

I believe that licensing for merchandise is always at a rate of 25% of gross.

All of the above, WITHOUT RELEASING ANYTHING, will generate a regular income far in excess of what you and I would earn in 10 years.

So please, argue that all future archive releases will be drip-fed out. By all means. But at least have a logical argument to back it up - there's nothing more depressing than seeing lazy assumptions regurgitated as established fact.

As many Queen fans I dreamed of a finished version of Face It Alone, but I see it almost impossible...
But miracles could happen.

The thing is with demos is that usually its an idea which one person has been dealing with and all the instrumentation is played on a synth. They cant call it Queen with out all the members on the track. The reason these three track have been released is because John played on it. Without John they never would have been released. Of course, and im assuming here, if John hadnt retired they would have a whole wealth of bits and bobs with Mercurys vocals

Sure they could. There are plenty of tracks in the catalogue that only have 1-2 members on it and it's still Queen....

One example? FIght From The Inside

Fight From The Inside
Credits

Written by: Roger Taylor
Produced by: Queen, assisted by Mike Stone

Musicians:
Roger Taylor - lead and backing vocals, drums, rhythm guitar, bass guitar
Brian May - guitars

No Freddie, no John...still called a Queen song.