A couple of years ago I bought a 10" Queen vinyl on ebay without knowing what was on it. Basically it's an interview with a bit of Spanish banter in between it. The quality is horrific, but maybe it's something unheard before and someone can clean it up to be shared. But yeah, what is it?
That's an argentinian interview made to Queen in 1981. Very dumb questions, BTW.
The questions that were made to Queen were pure shit 'cause journalists who interviewed them weren't musical journalists. TV channels from those times were controlled by the militar process and the existent journalism in the 80s was functional to the establishment. That means that even thinkers or rockers weren't in the TV.
Also, every thing that wasn't 100% according to the government from those times was censurated. That means music, books, movies, TV programs of course, news, even the live performance of Get Down Make Love was thought lost ('cause the fact goverment deleted it from the tapes) until Canal 9 found it and televised it full in the 2000s. But the only 2 tapes that survived in Argentina had Badía's irrelevant and bothering comments all over the recording. One without Get Down and the other with the song.
In that era terrible things happened. Even we lost a lots of libraries with lots of so valorable books as historical heritage. We lost people we loved. We lost moments with people we love, that we would love to revisit if a time machine give us the opportunity. But well, I guess that's life. :/
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Going to the main topic, which I lost so badly:
The different between the video and the vinyl, is that your vinyl has some more content at the start, and that the audio of the video is in better quality (less destroyed).
gerbenletzer · Member since
Wow, thanks! Too bad it's worthless haha
BETA215 · Member since
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[b]gerbenletzer wrote: [/b] Wow, thanks! Too bad it's worthless haha[/QUOTE]
At least you have those "never heard before" moments!
Rokku · Member since
Today I watched documentary by Snow, about Argentina visited Queen, yep, that time was really dark for all people of this country.
The Real Wizard · Member since
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The questions that were made to Queen were pure shit 'cause journalists who interviewed them weren't musical journalists. TV channels from those times were controlled by the militar process and the existent journalism in the 80s was functional to the establishment. That means that even thinkers or rockers weren't in the TV.
Also, every thing that wasn't 100% according to the government from those times was censurated. That means music, books, movies, TV programs of course, news, even the live performance of Get Down Make Love was thought lost ('cause the fact goverment deleted it from the tapes) until Canal 9 found it and televised it full in the 2000s. But the only 2 tapes that survived in Argentina had Badía's irrelevant and bothering comments all over the recording. One without Get Down and the other with the song.[/QUOTE]
Very interesting read. No surprise about the censorship of Get Down Make Love.
But this suggests that the incomplete but better quality version of the show I received on CDR all those years ago is indeed from a rebroadcast.
^ do you (or does anyone) know when this rebroadcast may have been??
And do you have a copy of the version from the 2000s? It'd be great to compare it to what we have.
Ozz · Member since
OK here's a badly translated excerpt of the spanish bits:
"We asked what would they play tomorrow
and without naming songs, they said they will sing all their hits they have in our country."
"Now is the turn of Fred Mercury, Fred Mercury is the oldest, and also a bit the leader, and he says I'm too wet."
"He's the oldest by one year but he isn't the leader."
"We have read in an statement that the band took life like an irony. That they described reality from their absurdity. Why?"
"They don't do anything special, from the sadness to the rock. a whole mix."
"John Deacon is the youngest of the band. he spoke very little. We want to know why the Marx Brothers are so important to them, thay they named one of their most succesful albums: a night at the opera"
"It was an idea of the moment that stuck with it"
"I want to ask (brian) if he's afraid after what happened to John Lennon. He's a bit the Lennon of the group (he doesn't think it), because he's the thinker, the ideological support."
"You travelled with your family right?"
"He says that he's a bit afraid because his wife is pregnant and have 5 children, so he prefer to go with them everywhere (on tour)."
"We all translate to try to give you the impressions of what is being next this hugely popular band."
"he says that traveling around the world and particulary at the island of Tenerife with a lot of practice he has learned some words (of spanish)"
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Then that woman tries to plug-in the military politicians into the interview just because they ended some interview with the word: poetry. WTF!. Freddie goes along with it.
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"I can assure you all that here's like 60, 70 people"
BETA215 · Member since
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[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] [QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]
The questions that were made to Queen were pure shit 'cause journalists who interviewed them weren't musical journalists. TV channels from those times were controlled by the militar process and the existent journalism in the 80s was functional to the establishment. That means that even thinkers or rockers weren't in the TV.
Also, every thing that wasn't 100% according to the government from those times was censurated. That means music, books, movies, TV programs of course, news, even the live performance of Get Down Make Love was thought lost ('cause the fact goverment deleted it from the tapes) until Canal 9 found it and televised it full in the 2000s. But the only 2 tapes that survived in Argentina had Badía's irrelevant and bothering comments all over the recording. One without Get Down and the other with the song.[/QUOTE]
Very interesting read. No surprise about the censorship of Get Down Make Love.
But this suggests that the incomplete but better quality version of the show I received on CDR all those years ago is indeed from a rebroadcast.
^ do you (or does anyone) know when this rebroadcast may have been??
And do you have a copy of the version from the 2000s? It'd be great to compare it to what we have. [/QUOTE]
The first rebroadcast happened in 1991. And the commentaries were edited by the TV station, as them were edited in 200(3?) for a program called Recuerdos En Común, before televising the complete concert with all the commentaries.
And that broadcast in the 2000s is the source of the best versions of this concert, so I think you know it very well. It's the one without the QTV watermark. I think The Kurgan have a betamax tape with the full concert, from which he extracted this file: https://mega.co.nz/#!FJ033RKY!rk2hMCXbokYsmIWkteQ2HBMQ246837N7RgcwgkmThzU
BETA215 · Member since
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Then that woman tries to plug-in the military politicians into the interview just because they ended some interview with the word: poetry. WTF!. Freddie goes along with it.
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That's what I said: all of them were functional to the establishment.
And that woman is China Zorilla, even.
Imagine, if Freddie were really interested in that matter and he asked "But what he said before?". Maybe Freddie would have dissapeared in 1981 or problems, very very bad problems would happened. They didn't knew the risks that they were exposed
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]
The first rebroadcast happened in 1991. And the commentaries were edited by the TV station, as them were edited in 200(3?) for a program called Recuerdos En Común, before televising the complete concert with all the commentaries.
And that broadcast in the 2000s is the source of the best versions of this concert, so I think you know it very well. It's the one without the QTV watermark. I think The Kurgan have a betamax tape with the full concert, from which he extracted this file: https://mega.co.nz/#!FJ033RKY!rk2hMCXbokYsmIWkteQ2HBMQ246837N7RgcwgkmThzU
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Thanks for all the info !
Interesting that a video from a recent TV broadcast is in such bad sound quality. How many tape generations is this? The audio is not nearly as good as the 1991 rebroadcast.
BETA215 · Member since
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[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] Thanks for all the info !
Interesting that a video from a recent TV broadcast is in such bad sound quality. How many tape generations is this? The audio is not nearly as good as the 1991 rebroadcast.[/QUOTE]
No idea. You'll have to ask to The Kurgan for that.
But, like I said, "I think.". Maybe that isn't from the last rebroadcast.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]
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[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] Thanks for all the info !
Interesting that a video from a recent TV broadcast is in such bad sound quality. How many tape generations is this? The audio is not nearly as good as the 1991 rebroadcast.[/QUOTE]
No idea. You'll have to ask to The Kurgan for that.
But, like I said, "I think.". Maybe that isn't from the last rebroadcast.[/QUOTE]
Yeah. It looks like it's a decent copy of the 1981 broadcast. No TV station would air something that bad. Either that, or it has been through many tape generations - but in this day and age of digital backup, I have my doubts.
Especially interesting is the government censorship issue. If they wiped Get Down Make Love from the master tapes, this must mean Canal 9 made a safety copy prior to that - very smart of them.
BETA215 · Member since
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[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] [QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]
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[b]The Real Wizard wrote: [/b] Thanks for all the info !
Interesting that a video from a recent TV broadcast is in such bad sound quality. How many tape generations is this? The audio is not nearly as good as the 1991 rebroadcast.[/QUOTE]
No idea. You'll have to ask to The Kurgan for that.
But, like I said, "I think.". Maybe that isn't from the last rebroadcast.[/QUOTE]
I seriously have my doubts. It looks like it's a decent copy of the 1981 broadcast. No TV station would air something that bad. Either that, or it has been through many tape generations.
Especially interesting is the government censorship issue. If they wiped Get Down Make Love from the master tapes, this must mean Canal 9 made a safety copy prior to that - very smart of them. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, I think they knew what was going to happen because someone archived it between other tapes. :) Even they thought that the recording was lost until the 2000s, when someone found it between old recorded tapes they were deleting. That's why it was rebroadcasted then. :)
The Real Wizard · Member since
Fascinating.
I'm actually pretty surprised there aren't multiple copies of that broadcast floating around. There must be a way to get a copy that someone taped straight from the broadcast.
BETA215 · Member since
Snow Producciones sell the 2009 rebroadcast.
But maybe you'll have to ask to people from Argentina, first, if they taped something (me [no], Ale Solan, RafaelS, C_Matt, etc.).
