Innuendo BTT experience

Yes just the four songs. Innuendo alone was over 90 mins given the complexities and layers that had tonne peeled back.

We had to hand our phones in. No devices in the room. Justin mentioned that's why Brian gave him
Free reign to play what he wanted. nick from QOL
Was recording with one of those fancy journalist digital recorders . Suspect this was a copy for QPL to
Listen to shouldnthey need to.

As I mentioned the tech questions were becoming dominant. Justin was great saying tell me what you
Want to hear and I'll play it for you.

There was one guy in the room who was seb like in his knowledge . Intriguing though is that mid question
To Justin from this guy, the organiser said to Justin " you know who this is ". I'm wondering was he working on some kind of official project.

They played a lot of the conversations in the takes also. Great moment when they had the backing track
Of innuendo nailed and Brian was nervous to do another take in case he made a mistake. Freddie and John said let's do a another !!!!

They played a 8 second guitar motif for TSMGO that brian had done 16 takes for . It never made the final mix.noel used it as an example of what a workaholic brian was.

So there is some more gold in the archives after all? Thank you
ANATO for your share, very, very interesting!



Tom

Hello

I just want to clarify one point.

Sunshine has written above: “John didn’t contribute with any song of his own”

I believe this is paraphrasing an answer I gave last night.

I don’t believe I said that. If I did, it came out wrong and I apologise.

I only saw what happened at Mountain but most of the Innuendo sessions were at Metropolis so how could I know this?

What I meant is: I do not remember if any of the songs on the album originated from John.

I think it's highly unlikely that John did not bring song ideas to the sessions as he always did.

Best wishes
Justin

PS Thank you to everybody who came last night. We were amazed people had travelled so far and very gratified by the incredibly positive feedback afterwards. It was an honour to participate in this fundraising event for the Mercury Phoenix Trust and pay tribute to Brian, Freddie, John, Roger and David as I am sure you will all agree.

Yes ANATO is right with his comments.

Well I heard that some would have like to hear more but I think the whole set up was justifying the price. I did not regret at all.
Justin was very open to play anything we wanted. But actually I think Innuendo was the most interesting as you heard this song build within 1,5 hours.
Also it was the first song for the album, beginning in November 1989.

I especially loved the drum sounds. Roger is really a fantastic player and also without clicks. Very very impressing stuff. His drum sound sounded SO good. Fat and aggressive and natural on TSMGO.
Brian played extremely complicated parts for that song.
Noel also mentioned Brian was really always there while the rest let Dave, Justin and Noel doing their job.
Dave was the fifth band member at the time, he contributed with creative ideas but is not credited for it.

Also, they went always out for dinner at the local Chinese or Indian restaurant at the corner. When Freddie got more ill, they stopped doing that.

Also interesting, no one from the production team had to sign a contract of secrecy about Freddie’s health despite they knew it. That shows there was a lot of trust and these 3 guys were really close to the band.

Justin

I attended this event and both yourself and Noël
Were gentlemen and obvious ultimate professionals

Thank you for your time and hope we can do another event on another album !!!

Had to catch a flight home last night so missed
The chance to thank you face to face

Was there any camera recording the event so it could be possibly put on official youtube channel sometime later?

Hello Justin,

Thanks for your reply on queenzone.
I could not afford this event because of the high price plus flight and even hotel.
As a great queen lover I wanted to experience this so much.

After my phonecall with the manager of metropolis studios , he advised not to come over for such an high price and maybe too much technical information.
Not really interesting for the general queen fan, So the focus was to the producers and engineers.
So i decided not to go as I did not know what exactly to expect.

Now I regret as it was the ultimate possibility for the die hard queen fan to attend such an event.
Unfortunately no multitrack of All gods people. What I would like to hear.

I really hope, a possibility like this will happen again.
Also fair to all those queen fans to release more of this unique material.
Hope this will happen one day.

MrFunster We can only hope for it as always

Why can't they release something like this when they've got it sorted out already...?

[QUOTE] [b]Pim Derks wrote:[/b]

Why can't they release something like this when they've got it sorted out already...?[/QUOTE]

Joe Public would rather buy Wembley for the umpteenth time; as a result, QPL would rather release Wembley for the umpteenth time.

It's like QPL its laughing at us, again. Sad, really sad.

Surely, if people are willing to pay 300+ pounds just to HEAR some tapes someone inside QPL must think "hmmm.... maybe there is a market for this stuff"?

Surely, if people are willing to pay 300+ pounds just to HEAR some tapes someone inside QPL must think "hmmm.... maybe there is a market for this stuff"? BINGO!
Plus, why is there always the reference to Joe Public, turn it around, make it a market for Queen fans, collectors, diehard for that matter, or is too much to ask? So, nowadays I'm Joe Public?



Tom

Hi Justin,

Thanks for posting and thanks again for yesterday.

There was so much to take in I'm sure things will be coming back to me over the next few weeks.

If you let me know next time you're in Limerick we can listen to some Tuesday Blue!

Cheers,

Liam

Liam

Wasn't aware there was another Irish man in the room

I flew from cork

Paul