Solo box set

I see Phil Collins has released a cd box set of recordings he guested on for other people throughout his career , was there any update on Brian’s box set which was to be a similar set

He is too busy playing Karaoke with the x factor person, Las Vegas baby!!!!! KERCHING!!!!!

There are plenty of great box sets that are either out or due to be released in the coming months. All of which Queen could take a few notes from...sadly gone have the days of Queen being innovators when it comes to this type of thing

Dylan fans in particular must be like pigs in chardonnay.

That goes for Bowie,Metallica, Marillion,John Lennon and Led Zeppelin as well.
We are being left behind a little bit in recent years and whilst we have had some nice picks, can't help feeling it was probably only a 'B-' could do better kind of product.
When i think of the Queen i knew, i relate to A+ excellent.

I dunno - Bowie fans feel pretty hard done by. I'd say the volume of archival live and studio material issued in the last, say, 30 years has been equal to Queen. IE not as much as we know exists, and not as much as we'd like!

SPEAKING OF COLLECTIONS!.....I don't know about you all... but I was in High school when that awesome FM boxed set came out.


Now finding a copy of it will set you back a couple hundred bucks (if you're lucky)... they were never released in the USA only by international order. Hell, I couldn't afford it. Hence, I never got it. It'd be great if the fuckers rereleased the collection in a modest price. (unlikely)

I personally still think the best boxset to date in every way is the Freddie Mercury Box Set, the videos could do with being remastered as they're grainy as hell in today's standards, but music wise I thought was incredible as was the huge colour book. Worth every penny of £120 I paid back then.

I don't think we will get anything from Queen as good as that FM solo box set, it'll be those expensive mini box sets of the odd album I.e NOTW etc purely for money as we all know Bri and Rog are shocking cash whores, I think RT is worse than BM for the cash thing so much for being about the music.

^ I think the biggest 'cash whore' from all of them is Jim Bitch of course. Things will be much better after he will be gone...

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I personally still think the best boxset to date in every way is the Freddie Mercury Box Set, the videos could do with being remastered as they're grainy as hell in today's standards, but music wise I thought was incredible as was the huge colour book. Worth every penny of £120 I paid back then.

I don't think we will get anything from Queen as good as that FM solo box set, it'll be those expensive mini box sets of the odd album I.e NOTW etc purely for money as we all know Bri and Rog are shocking cash whores, I think RT is worse than BM for the cash thing so much for being about the music.[/QUOTE]

I thought the FM box was awesome back then. I was thrilled to have stuff I hadn't heard before, and it was a real treasure.

Looking at it now, it's 4-5 decent discs and one load of filler we didn't actually need - "Mr. Bad Guy" was easy enough to get (unless you were after the French and Japanese versions that had extra tracks and were £100-200), "Barcelona" was still available in the shops, and so was "The Great Pretender" (which is a shitty US version of the FM album).

The demo discs were a missed opportunity. They have some great stuff, but also have a lot missing. I also feel that some of the tracks were faked. "Let's Turn It On (A capella)" springs to mind - I don't really think it was "A capella", but what we can do with the leaked multi-tracks. We can even hear the music they couldn't filter out, which is dressed up as "bleeding from earphones". And "Hybrid versions"? Why couldn't they just present them as they were, rather than Frankenstein versions?

Vids were poorly done, but all we had at the time.

As I say, great back then - just a lot of filler now. I rarely look at it.

I dunno - I'm sure that is actual headphone leakage. Where do you think the music comes from if not?

The problem with the boxset was the interview disc and the rather haphazard use of disc space. I accept that stuff was left off (remixes which are largely just repeats of material included).but then why use those cover versions on menus? I think if that material was reissued, they could chop it down and add the extra material to the appropriate albums and have the interviews happily sat as audio content on the DVDs. I also appreciate that releasing such a huge set was a necessary testament to the man. Somehow less that 12 discs doesn't seem right.

And of course, it's a bit of a bugger to casually get off the shelf (by shelf, I mean attic).

The acapella mix of Let’s Turn It On is not ‘true’ acapella as such, but is the final mix all Freddie’s vocal tracks. The headphone spillage will be genuine from his headphones into the vocal mic on some/all of the takes, as he’s listening to the track to put each vocal part down over the previous one.

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I dunno - I'm sure that is actual headphone leakage. Where do you think the music comes from if not?

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There shouldn't be any music on an A capella lol. If he was using it for guidance, it's still not A capella.

What cmsdrums says is more on point as it's clearly not a true A capella, and calling it such was just nonsense. He may be right and it IS leakage from the headphones, but I am not convinced.

Play about with some of the multi-tracks that are available. Some are supposed to be just "guitar" or just "vox" but that isn't always the case. There's parts that sometimes just cannot be removed, and I feel this "Let's Turn It On" was an attempt at creating an A capella gone wrong (Just my opinion, but the track has never sat right for me)

I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your statement regarding disc space etc. It's so disjointed! And yes, a bugger to get off the shelf ;)

I ended up ripping the bits I enjoyed most and made my own comp.

I'm still not sure your point. It's obviously headphone leakage. I asked where you think the music comes from if not? I think it's fair to call it 'acapella version' as it's just the vocal tracks presented to us, with unavoidable leakage from the headphones which as you say - it happens. You can tell which vocal track has the headphone leakage to due to the erratic panning. Think of it as a bonus :)

Again, an A Capella would not have music. I don't know what part's not being understood. I feel I've addressed your question - if they attempted to make an "A Capella" from multis, there's music still there that hasn't been filtered out. If I'm wrong and it's a natural recording where he's using music for guidance whilst he's laying down the last of his vocals, it still ain't A Capella. It MIGHT be leakage from headphones, it MIGHT be what my hunch is. Either way...not A Capella. Nothing convinces me it's not faked to sound like an A Capella, and the "leakage" is an excuse to cover up the music they couldn't filter out - but again, that's just my opinion.