QueenZone discussion #1121317

Queen Archivist wrote: Dear all, I keep hearing rumours of all shapes and sizes that there's gonna be a Queen Anthology box coming out, filled with stuff that we will all love... those of us on QZ that like Queen, that is, obviously. Someone told me it was going to be 4 Boxes, issued over 8 months, with each one comprising 6 CDs and 1 DVD, but that turned out to be just silly guessing and speculation - and that's neither use nor ornament. The truth is, no-ones knows anything about it. It's pissing me right off, coz I want to work on it, and I don't think I am at the moment... last time I looked. People think I know about all this stuff, but clearly I do not. I'm as clueless as you gals and guys. I must be a useless bastard if I don't even know, after all this time, if I'm supposed to be working on it. Sorry for not being helpful. I'm in a very strange 'get up your nose' type mood this evening. It's working a fair treat here, aye! Shall I go away now? Alright! Fair do's. You couldn't resist looking, though, could you!!! Hello YV, JSS and Benn. Do you feel like beating me with a stick? You are not alone. Good night curious chums.

brians wig wrote: You Bugger. That's a wicked thing to post and you should receive a good slapping for that at the next convention! Getting people's hopes up and then dashing them like that.

Markman38 wrote: Dear Mr Brooks, or dear Greg, I've never met you (to answer another post) and I think it's great that the archivast of Queen is logging into this board once in a while. But the one thing that wonders me (I don't know if ths is correct and proper english) is that you let yourself go with people who really don't have a clue of what you're doing and on which position you are with none influence of what will be released. I don't blame you of not releasing some kind of anthology. I remember quotes of Brian who more then once stated that what wassn't good enough to release at that time isn't good enough to be released at later times. That's up to QP and I hope that they will release outtakes, demo's and obscure live things in my life. What I do understand is the enormous task you have to get trough the vaults and find out what is in it. To stand up for you. I'm a bassplayer in een not very famous band in the Netherlands. We started in 1991 and still excist. I have taken the task on me to digilize everything that we recorded so I have to go to 69 cassette tapes, 25 CD's with things and go on. Sometimes it's on the front what should be inside, but most of the time it isn't or the right source isn't in the thing. So this task is allready consuming me the last couple of weeks. Comparing to Queen this is an easy task because they recorded all over the world for more years and I thing with the same administration. So I wish you good luck with your job and I hope that some day not to far away in the future someone at QP will give the green light to release the rare stuff. My only tip is don't react so offended to some people who aren't worth it. With kind regards Mark

Ducksoup wrote:

Markman38 wrote: Dear Mr Brooks, or dear Greg, I've never met you (to answer another post) and I think it's great that the archivast of Queen is logging into this board once in a while. But the one thing that wonders me (I don't know if ths is correct and proper english) is that you let yourself go with people who really don't have a clue of what you're doing and on which position you are with none influence of what will be released. I don't blame you of not releasing some kind of anthology. I remember quotes of Brian who more then once stated that what wassn't good enough to release at that time isn't good enough to be released at later times. That's up to QP and I hope that they will release outtakes, demo's and obscure live things in my life. What I do understand is the enormous task you have to get trough the vaults and find out what is in it. To stand up for you. I'm a bassplayer in een not very famous band in the Netherlands. We started in 1991 and still excist. I have taken the task on me to digilize everything that we recorded so I have to go to 69 cassette tapes, 25 CD's with things and go on. Sometimes it's on the front what should be inside, but most of the time it isn't or the right source isn't in the thing. So this task is allready consuming me the last couple of weeks. Comparing to Queen this is an easy task because they recorded all over the world for more years and I thing with the same administration. So I wish you good luck with your job and I hope that some day not to far away in the future someone at QP will give the green light to release the rare stuff. My only tip is don't react so offended to some people who aren't worth it. With kind regards Mark

How deep can someone be in someone's arse... damn.

Markman38 wrote: Dear Mr Brooks, or dear Greg, I've never met you (to answer another post) and I think it's great that the archivast of Queen is logging into this board once in a while. Mark

Benn wrote: Greg, This post almost (but not quite) makes me ant to come to a convention just so that I can stand in front of you and laugh heartily at you for being such a complete dick. You berate people here for posting back "at" you and yet all you've ever done is the self same thing. The fact that QPL do not monitor your activity here leads me to believe that you're just a hired monkey; some kind of gopher that has agreed to jump whenever QPL tells you to. Somehow, the majority of people here think that by being nice to you and pandering to your rantings, they get to feel as if they're in the inner sanctum. What they fail to see is that you're the biggest phoney in the "Queen World" of phoneys. Greg Fans - don't fall in to the trap. This chap has absolutely no power, say or meaningful position within the Queen machine. He's a simple fan (like the rest of us, but with his very own, unique and special internet issues) and can't get anything "done". Greg - please do us a favour and give whoever it is you report to at QPL and tell them that you don't want to do anything for them any more. Your life and ours will be SO much moremanageable.

kirkpatrickuk wrote: I once made a post regarding Gregs professionalism.

kirkpatrickuk wrote: I once made a post regarding Gregs professionalism. It has always astounded me that someone in the Queen camp would on occasions leak 'inside' information onto this site and write posts that are sometimes offensive and usually quite vicious in nature. I find it hard to believe that Brian May for one would want to work with someone like this. As a pro musician myself and one who the pleasure of working with some well known people including one or two people surrounding Queen, it is an unspoken rule that as an insider, you don't go around posting offensive crap on websites, especially ones that may give the band and surrounding team a bad name....as Greg Brooks does. I did suggest that the Queen Archivist was not really Greg Brooks, only to receive a personal e-mail that was the equivalent of an attacking rottweiler!! This is a belief that I still hold onto. Just because someone claims to be a person on-line doesn't mean it is them. I find that the Queen Archivist doesn't actually give out much information that we don't already know about whereas John S Stuart's posts are a pleasure to read. By the way, don't bother e-mailing me QA, it'll just go in my spam box! Oh, and I'm John deacon everybody!!!

Queen Archivist wrote: It's pissing me right off, coz I want to work on it, and I don't think I am at the moment... last time I looked.