A Few Things Explained - in reference to the recent Dutch Queen Day

[QUOTE] [b]Sue Dounim wrote:[/b]

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[b]Chopin1995 wrote: [/b] Dear Mr Brooks

I appreciate everything you do and try to do. I believe you do your stuff the best you can. I'm looking forward to buy Queen 3D book and Queen Live books. I'm excited about that. I hope there won't beany mistakes or misinformation. You have contact both with the band, studio-based team and with the fans. Could you tell them that we want more live FULL concerts without unnecessary auto-tune and meaningless overdubs? Like Hyde Park, Earls Court, Hammy 79, something from South America 1981, Rio 85 (first full night) ? I know you won't release them all at the same time but we would love to listen and watch them before we die.

Yours sincerely[/QUOTE]

^this. I would like to know, would an audio-only release of a concert be out of the question? I think a CD/Vinyl/Digital release of either Hyde Park '76 or some other concert would be very successful[/QUOTE]


GB: Duly noted. I'll pass it on.

Greg unfortunately not Jim, not Roger or Brian and he can't do what he hasn't power, but I sure he's great for Queen.

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

Can you comment on the 'mega rare' BBC item that doesn't make it into ' On Air'? As it's not been included, and any anthology set is pretty much ruled out, would it hurt to tell us what this is as it seems we'll never hear it? (unless the oriignal collector/owner of it releases a copy).

GB: It's tedious, I know, but I can't go in to it. I became aware of a certain item that I hoped would be relevant to this package, but ultimately it could not be used. It might be relevant to Anthology instead. I honestly don't know. I can only react to the things I find, and suggest things, and I do, but others may have very different opinions and they know more about these things than I do.


The Monopoly set: "Lots of attention to detail, as you might expect". Sadly, no - based on so many errors and isues with previous products and releases, I would mostly NOT expect lots of attention to detail.[/QUOTE]

GB: Hmmmm! I think the Rainbow concerts, Hammersmith too, and the forthcoming BBC sessions, sound brilliant and clearly demonstrate great attention to detail and care, by people who care hugely. As do the sleeve notes and the mammoth research time that goes into all that stuff. I'm sorry you feel that way.

[QUOTE] [b]rocknrolllover wrote:[/b]

Greg unfortunately not Jim, not Roger or Brian and he can't do what he hasn't power, but I sure he's great for Queen. [/QUOTE]



GB: Every Tuesday morning, round about tea time.

[QUOTE] [b]GB: Queen Archivist wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]rocknrolllover wrote:[/b]

Greg unfortunately not Jim, not Roger or Brian and he can't do what he hasn't power, but I sure he's great for Queen. [/QUOTE]



GB: Every Tuesday morning, round about tea time.[/QUOTE]






Great sense of humour that I respect.
I hope you bring to us more coffee and tea with cakes and bakes, Greg.

[QUOTE] [b]GB: Queen Archivist wrote:[/b]
It's tedious, I know, but I can't go in to it. I became aware of a certain item that I hoped would be relevant to this package, but ultimately it could not be used. It might be relevant to Anthology instead. I honestly don't know. I can only react to the things I find, and suggest things, and I do, but others may have very different opinions and they know more about these things than I do.
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I don't know about tedious.
Annoying, frustrating and typical spring to mind.

Cheer Greg.

I'm curious as to why 'March of the Black Queen' is not included in 'On Air'? Your article in Record Collector a few years back about the BBC Sessions stated that, whilst it was close to the album version, it did contain some different vocal ad libs and was remixed.

Whilst the band may feel that as it wasn't a fully new and live in the studio version it wasn't worthy of inclusion, for completeness it would have been good. (For example, they weren't scared of hyping some tracks on 'Forever' as 'new' versions when all they were was edits ('Play the Game' without the backward cymbals intro etc).

I) Thanks a lot to GB for finding his time to come here and communicate normally with the fans, huge thanks for this.

II) If I can ask, could you give us some explanation why the BBC sessions are incomplete and some of the songs are in a different order? The same question goes for the interviews of course. Were there some technical problems, or legal problems or whatever?

III) I don't know WHO is responsible for moderating the QOL comments (which don't exist anymore), but is there a chance that the person responsible for first censoring the negative comments and later removing the comment section would be informed that it is the worst business decision which he/she/they could do? And no, I am not talking about things like profanities, insults, harassment etc., it's quite normal to delete those, I am talking about deleting absolutely harmless comments which dared to not be enthusiastic about the release. Every normal company accepts criticism of their products or services if it's done politely and constructively.

Again, thanks a lot for your time.

Personally, to make up for the fact that the album version of BLACK QUEEN was broadcast, I'd have liked an instrumental version included on this package to add a little spice.

^ The third point is probably on a completely different table than Greg's.

What I would like to know is if the BBC Sessions are actually remixed, or just cleaned up and remastered. Since some of the current stuff out there is quite rough.

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

^ The third point is probably on a completely different table than Greg's.[/QUOTE]
Of course. I hoped it was clear from my post

[QUOTE] [b]Oscar J wrote:[/b]

What I would like to know is if the BBC Sessions are actually remixed, or just cleaned up and remastered. Since some of the current stuff out there is quite rough.[/QUOTE]

My point exactly! already asked that here: http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1450748/queen-on-air.aspx?page=14

Well, since the can of worms has been opened, I would like to inquire about promo videos on Blu Ray. Post Miracle videos deserve a proper release and film-sourced promo clips should be recompiled in HD from the reels. Is this happening at all or at least being considered? Thanks.

Thanks for the Update.

Personally I`am not a huge fan of this vague Roadmap or better Pipeline in this case.

Lot of these things are "nice" but actually nothing the average Queen Fan has on his shopping list.

I can imagine a lot of moanings with some of these projects.

QUEEN isn`t a real recording act anymore...for obvious reasons...so Live Gigs and
unrelesed Material are the rational things Queen fans are asking for.

double post on a jurassic software based forum ;)