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Brian teases us!

Imagine indeed hearing a tape of Queen live in 1970. It'd absolutely blow my mind.
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Has he even looked in his own archive?
We all know that we won't live that long to see this tape to go out. But yes, it would be THE holy grail for me.
Any full concert dating prior Golders Green 1973 released in entirety will probably be the best thing Queen will do in my lifetime. The only thing that might top it is complete video footage of their March show at the Rainbow which seems even less likely.
Would be great, maybe even having the old version of Stone Cold Crazy in the list, but the whole 'Archive' thing has been hanging over us all for far too long. Tantalising, frustrating but not worth lingering on sadly.
The quality is likely to be terrible, of course. But still.
Martin
Interesting how their sound might be in 1970, I'm pretty sure Jesus sounds pretty close to what we can hear on the De Lane Lea Demo, would be interesting to hear The Night Comes Down, Stone Cold Crazy, or even Doin' All Right at this era...
Amazing if true. But yeah, the chances to ever listen to it are slim to none :-(

So, if Brian says all those songs had already been written by 1970, it must be true, right? Or could his mind be slipping once again?
Queen: The Unusual Anthology - https://queenchat.boards.net/thread/742/queen-unusual-anthology
I think it's widely known that these exist in the archive - maybe not even in the Queen vault, but in the early days shoebox in the garage. But it's interesting that this sort of thing is being acknowledged. I'd say a complete show from then is highly unlikely but a track on an anthology? *spunks up*
If we quote this:

"This invitation was sent to friends and people we thought might record us ! What did we play ? Keep Yourself Alive, Jesus, Great King Rat, Doin’ All Right, Hangman ... and others. I’m sure there must be a tape of it somewhere ! Bri"

We can see that it implies that there must be a tape of it somewhere, recorded by one of the persons that attended the concert. That's what he's implying. Any other speculations aren't derivatives of this specific comment.
Don't forget my collection of demos and outtakes: http://goo.gl/uQARhn PM me if you want any [leaked] multitrack. Ya se ven los tigres en la lluvia.
Aye. But one of their first London shows? They taped it to learn / review, probably made copies for each member to study. That's my point - probably ended up at one of their folks houses and was split off from when the later proper archiving started. We've all done it. Where it is and what shape it's in though... who knows?
Typical BM crap...………….
A 50 year old cassette tape could be completely unusable by now unfortunately unless handed to the professionals. I wouldn't expect it to be anything amazing quality wise but would be great to hear.
That's not entirely true, but would certainly require some trained hands to get the best from it.

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