A question regarding 'Mad The Swine'

Fade-in intro was on weird 'Queen In Nuce' bootleg.

I'll take your word for it but I only ever had it on official releases. Can I ask someone if Queen 1 on Hollywood got a reissue correcting it's flaws like a few of the other titles did?

Although SHA and NotW had flaws initially, I am fairly certain that Hollywood did not have any issues with Q1.

And The Miracle

Didn't GKR have an error on the Hollywood version? I might be confusing my masterings.

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

And The Miracle[/QUOTE]

What was the issue with The Miracle?

Was it wrong version of I Want It All or something else?

Was it corrected later?

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

Didn't GKR have an error on the Hollywood version? I might be confusing my masterings.[/QUOTE]

That is news to me ... but given my "Miracle" mistake, I am not a very reliable source.

Yeah I Want It All. I'm sure it was rectified. Usually I'm all over this sort of thing but, you know, New Years Day and all.. :D

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]
Yeah I Want It All. I'm sure it was rectified. Usually I'm all over this sort of thing but, you know, New Years Day and all.. :D[/QUOTE]

The 2011 remasters finally rectified it, yes.

[QUOTE] [b]Saint Jiub wrote:[/b] [QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b] Didn't GKR have an error on the Hollywood version? I might be confusing my masterings.[/QUOTE] That is news to me ... but given my "Miracle" mistake, I am not a very reliable source.[/QUOTE] Not an "error" per se, like many of the other HR '91 mistakes. Queen Vault has an entry explaining this one: http://www.queenvault.com/queen1.html "For any new release, the best available source is preferable. EMI did not know where the first generation stereo master tapes were stored, so the 1986 and 1988 CD releases of Queen CD's used production masters for their source. The production masters were stored at Abbey Road and easily obtainable. Production masters were tapes created for the cutting of the original vinyl records. The process, as Brian May explained in an issue of the Fan Club Magazine, is as follows; the stereo master tapes of each track were taped together and all recorded onto one long production master tape. That production master tape would be the easiest way to cut to vinyl. The quality, however, would be one generation removed from the stereo master of each individual track. These production masters were used for the very first Queen CD releases, which explains their "hissy" sound. In 1990, Queen retrieved their original stereo master tapes and found some had been lost or damaged over time. Some tracks from Queen I, Flash Gordon, and Live Killers had some damage. When it came time for Eddy Schreyer to remaster the album for Hollywood Records' 1991 release, the best source was preferable. Great King Rat from the first generation stereo master-mix had a tape dropout three minutes into the song, which would have been very noticable. Since the first generation master-mix of Great King Rat was not available, the next best thing was used; a first generation source from a mix close to the final version. As a result, a preliminary mix of Great King Rat was used for Schreyer's Queen remaster. The performance is the same as the album version, but the mix is different. This preliminary mix is unbalanced; there are silences in the left channel on half of the guitar intro and in the right channel during the acoustic break in the middle. Also of note, later releases of Queen do have the real album version of Great King Rat from the "best available sources." The real album version that appears on the 2001 and 2011 remasters is from a safety copy, which is not ideal, but is cleaned up using current noise reduction technology. Also of note, Schreyer's remaster was also used for the 1994 Digital Master Series"

Yes that's correct. More an error in judgement than an error :)

Lesson learnt: Alway nick your masters after a session.

Does a disco version of Mad The Swine exist?