Gettin' Smile

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Interesting ! Never knew this. Was this common knowledge before the new Red Special book came out? (...)

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Yes. I have (or had) many different guitar magazines with that info. Among others, there was Guitarrista magazine (spanish version of Guitarist) Total Guitar, and Guitar World. All of them published between 1995 and 1998.

I dont know if I still have some of them, but if you are interested (and if I find any of them) I will try to take a picture to them (as I dont have scanner)

By the way.........another kinda funny thing about my first listen to that cd.............I was looking at the tracklisting for the "1984" songs........I was thinking, "OK these are all covers aside from the two takes of Step On Me, but I do NOT know some of these songs.....what the heck are NSU, Sweet Wine, and Remember?"

Listened to it, and I thought "Oh duh...........two Cream songs and a Jimi song that I aint heard in years.............cool!" LOL

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Interesting ! Never knew this. Was this common knowledge before the new Red Special book came

Bingo. It wasn't until the late 60s that Bri met Rory Gallagher and saw AC30s as the missing piece of the puzzle.
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Yes it's been out their since the late 70's in UK Guitar mags, and in the publications that winterspelt mentions.

Also Guitarist ran a feature on the Fryer restoration during which Greg talked about it

It seems to me that the Mini-LP Replica CD version with all those bonus tracks on Amazon for which the link is given above is counterfeit, not an official release.

It's worth saying again that QUEEN: IN NUCE and especially Pre Ordained are horrendous! That said, PO was the first place I heard some of those Straker tracks that I now adore.

I have the Japanese 'Gettin' Smile' 1982 LP release, still in shrink wrap with OBI strip.....I did play it when I first got it brand new, but haven't done since as I also have one of the CD issues for listening to. Great to hear the genesis of the Queen sound between Brian and Roger.

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[b]dysan wrote: [/b] It's worth saying again that QUEEN: IN NUCE and especially Pre Ordained are horrendous! That said, PO was the first place I heard some of those Straker tracks that I now adore.[/QUOTE]

Yup. I bought it for 5€ and it sounds absolutely crap. For whatever reason, my version also has Misfire on it lol.

The fake instrumental? I bought a bootleg called 'Golden Demos' which was essentially the same as that Misfire except with whatever early tracks the maker could fake. It was only worth it for the BBC Ogre Battle intro (which I must say, took me a while to work out what it was).

The internet has hopefully saved new fans a lot of money and heartache!

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[b]dysan wrote: [/b] The fake instrumental? I bought a bootleg called 'Golden Demos' which was essentially the same as that Misfire except with whatever early tracks the maker could fake. It was only worth it for the BBC Ogre Battle intro (which I must say, took me a while to work out what it was).

The internet has hopefully saved new fans a lot of money and heartache![/QUOTE]

It's not even instrumental. It's just the same as the studio version, except it has really horrible sound quality (like the rest of the album) and some of the guitars are buried in the mix.

A good investment! :)

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[b]dysan wrote: [/b] A good investment! :)[/QUOTE]

Haha totally! The crown jewel of my Queen collection without a doubt.