Hale and Pace "The Stonk" Freddie input....?

I was up late last night and decided to look up "The Stonk", which I remember from when I was a child. I'd forgotten that Brian May was producer and played guitar, and in the video Roger is on drums.

Further googling on the subject showed that in the credits list there is a thank you to Freddie Mercury, although he's not credited as having played on the record.

However, in my opinion if you listen to one set of backing vocals from 2:42 to 2:50, one can unmistakably hear Freddie in there. What do you guys think? It was recorded late 1990 or early 1991 so it's absolutely feasible, and given the fact it's only three long notes it wouldn't have been too much for him to contribute at that time (don't want to make this yet another timeline on his demise please....)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaAn_fNqZb4

Don't hear him so you can mistakenly hear him in there.

I don't hear Freddie at all. If he's in there then it's well hidden.

It would seem odd to thank him specifically if he wasn’t involved someway - either arranging, producing, mixing or performing. If it were a simple thanks for giving up some Queen studio time for BM & RT to do it then you’d expect John to be thanked too (unless he was off skiing!) A question for Brian on his social media perhaps?

And people concerned about Brian and Roger ruining Queen's legacy by performing with Adam Lambert...

If it was even remotely possible to ruin Queen's legacy, The Stonk would have done it years ago.

My guess is that Freddie *did* appear on it, in those spatially large vocals, hidden in the mix to give it that huge sound that he was good at, and he didn't want a credit on it at the risk of it becoming a Queen track at that time. I know they'd done Man from Manhattan and You Nearly Did Me In, neither of which were credited to "Queen" but this is kind of different.....

They weren't very good comedians, but some of their song parody's were spot on.

They were very much of their time, at a time when 35-40 years old was regarded as already past it. Their humour was somewhat... how can I put it, yeah crap, but there's a word I'm looking for

in 1990 he could easily have contributed a three note chord to a single, and decided not to appear in the video.

He wouldn't have had to have been there..... if he did it, they'd have taken the recording in and Brian would have said "hey Fred I've got this to do"

[QUOTE] [b]BQT8. wrote:[/b]Freddie hated been around people he never knew so i doubt he contributed anything .[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]He wouldn't have had to have been there..... if he did it, they'd have taken the recording in and Brian would have said "hey Fred I've got this to do"[/QUOTE]

Exactly. A somewhat startling failure to grasp that appearance on a recording does not depend upon "been [sic] around people he never knew" - even back in the 1980s.

Obviously, Geraldine has absolutely no awareness of the recording process. However, given that Geraldine MUST at least be aware of the Made In Heaven LP - perhaps it's just arguing for the sake of it.

Geraldine will be telling us next that (s)he never heard of the Beatles 1990s hits Free as a Bird" and "Real Love" - both with the vocals sourced from Lennon's own 4-track home demos.

[QUOTE] [b]BQT8. wrote:[/b]@Brenski You are wrong about that Beatles question because my brother is a huge Beatles fan and has all the albums.
Queen & Beatles in the family means we have good taste in our house ![/QUOTE]
Well, if that really was the case, then you'd be aware of the fact that artists do NOT need to be present during a final recording/mixing of a track...which (more or less) casts you as the idiot we all know you to be.


then why say this:
[QUOTE] [b]BQT8. wrote:[/b]Freddie hated been around people he never knew so i doubt he contributed anything .[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] [b]BQT8. wrote:[/b]

I said that because i have heard many close friends of Freddie say he hated been around new people and old friends had to be around him to make him feel
more comfortable if new people were going to be there. In fact on the Freddie Mercury christmas story that was on CH5 last week Freddie's drive said just that.[/QUOTE]

but you don't need to be around "anyone" to record a vocal track,

[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]

My guess is that Freddie *did* appear on it,[/QUOTE]

You asked the question, nobody agreed, and so you....kept repeating your opinion.

Great discussion skills....

It could be as random as he lent his car to collect someone. If he appeared on it, it would make sense to credit him as "Backing Vocals" to increase the sale-ability.

How much drumming to we think Rowan Atkinson actually did on the recording, and yet he's credited...

Well... 'The Stonk' is still way better than 'Delilah', by far.