| PieterMC 05.12.2008 20:24 |
The new Queen + Paul Rodgers CD has an unexpected Hawaii connection - KITV anchor Jill Kuramoto. Hers is the first voice heard on the "Surf's Up ... School's Out" track. She has not started a new career as front-woman for a U.K.-based rock band, though the idea presents an entertaining visual. Rather, it is Kuramoto's speaking voice, talking about a high surf warning and "some of the biggest waves of the season" that drew surfers and spectators to Oahu's North Shore. The song is being played locally on KPOI-FM 105.9. "We are certainly the first station to play the track," said Brock Whaley, director of programming for Visionary Related Entertainment's Oahu radio stations. "I think we are the only station playing the track," perhaps in the country, he said. It was chosen for brief airplay for obvious reasons, because "it's got the surf thing happening," Whaley said. Searching the liner notes, Whaley could find no acknowledgment that it was Kuramoto's voice - or any identification. The promotions department at Hollywood Records linked TheBuzz to Joshua J. Macrae, producer and engineer, who co-produced the album, "The Cosmos Rocks." "The surf report I grabbed off You- Tube," he said via e-mail. He could not remember if the lady or the newscast was from Hawaii, but "I think it was," he said. The wave sound effects at the end of the epic song, "were recorded in Cornwall, U.K., where I surf," Macrae said. The scream, that evokes a feeling of hurtling down a monster wave, is not vocalist Paul Rodgers, but is Roger Taylor, he said. He suggested a search of YouTube to find the newsclip he found, but it proved fruitless. There are several videos of the song being performed live on YouTube, but the audio-only version of the song with Kuramoto's voice-over is also on the site. A quick check of Hawaii TV station executives and Mike Rosenberg, president and general manager of KITV, confirmed that it was Kuramoto. Whoops! As it turns out, permission was neither requested nor given to use her voice on the recording. "We are presently exploring our options," Rosenberg said. He and other station officials listened to the recording and "we had the script." It was from a newscast last December, he said. Rosenberg's e-mail address has been forwarded to Mr. Macrae. |
| Ken8 05.12.2008 21:09 |
"The wave sound effects at the end of the epic song, "were recorded in Cornwall, U.K., where I surf," Macrae said." Heh. "Surf" in Cornwall.....heh heh. Funny boy, that Macrae |
| A Word In Your Ear 05.12.2008 22:34 |
Ken8 wrote: "The wave sound effects at the end of the epic song, "were recorded in Cornwall, U.K., where I surf," Macrae said." Heh. "Surf" in Cornwall.....heh heh. Funny boy, that Macrae Newquay in cornwall, has a good surfing beach, nothing like you guys get in australia, but good, all the same for the UK. |
| Raf 06.12.2008 07:00 |
I love ads by Google :) |
| Cwazy little thing 06.12.2008 21:38 |
SURELY QPR arent so stupid as to sample something without getting their legal things sorted first - that would not only be a schoolboy error, and a ridiculous one for any signed act to make given the record company must have a legal department who look at this sort of thing, but also rather ironic given Brian has commented in the past on his page about people sampling without permission! Im not sure I believe it. |
| Marcos Napier 07.12.2008 09:47 |
God works in mysterious ways. |
| Benn 08.12.2008 11:46 |
>>SURELY QPR arent so stupid as to sample something without getting their legal things sorted first And you think that it's Brian, Roger and / or Paul that have to worry about that side of things, do you? If true, this is, yet again, another example of a poor choice of personnel when building a team to make them successful. Macrae's production is shockingly bad in every single way. Not doing his job professionally i.e. nicking something off the net and hoping no one will notice is nothing short of gross misconduct. Still, it's proof positive that the album is "doing the rounds" and being heard..... Miracle of miracles! |
| Micrówave 08.12.2008 15:59 |
Call me a homophobe, but I am NOT going to Portugal to learn to Surf. |
| inu-liger 09.12.2008 04:38 |
Benn wrote: If true, this is, yet again, another example of a poor choice of personnel when building a team to make them successful. Macrae's production is shockingly bad in every single way. Not doing his job professionally i.e. nicking something off the net and hoping no one will notice is nothing short of gross misconduct. My bandmate Joshua (no relation to Macrae) absolutely dislikes the way they mixed the drums on Cosmos Rocks. He liked the toms, but felt the bass drum didn't have enough boom to it, nor did the snare have any ring to it at all. |
| Raf 09.12.2008 05:47 |
Micrówave wrote: Call me a homophobe, but I am NOT going to Portugal to learn to Surf. Homophobe? What are you insinuating? I'm Portuguese born in Brazil and I can assure you homophobes wouldn't have any reason to dislike me. :-P |
| Raf 09.12.2008 05:48 |
inu-liger wrote:Benn wrote: If true, this is, yet again, another example of a poor choice of personnel when building a team to make them successful. Macrae's production is shockingly bad in every single way. Not doing his job professionally i.e. nicking something off the net and hoping no one will notice is nothing short of gross misconduct.My bandmate Joshua (no relation to Macrae) absolutely dislikes the way they mixed the drums on Cosmos Rocks. He liked the toms, but felt the bass drum didn't have enough boom to it, nor did the snare have any ring to it at all. Maybe it's Roger then, but I personally felt the drums were more powerful on this album than on any other previous Queen studio album. |
| stueyj 09.12.2008 09:46 |
This one??? link Was easy to find!! |
| dbruce 09.12.2008 13:42 |
stueyj wrote: This one??? link Was easy to find!! Nice find! I agree with someone else's point about this being pretty poor misconduct from Mr Macrae here if he's literally stole it from the website without permission. Not exactly going to be difficult to track down the TV station. |
| A Word In Your Ear 09.12.2008 18:25 |
Lets just hope the seagulls at the end of surf's up/ begining of Small reprise, don't start to complain ;-) |
| Raf 10.12.2008 03:03 |
Has anyone EVER seen that woman before? If she ever gets anywhere close to being a c-lebrity, it's thanks to Queen, why is she complaining? :) |
| inu-liger 10.12.2008 03:43 |
Raf wrote: Has anyone EVER seen that woman before? If she ever gets anywhere close to being a c-lebrity, it's thanks to Queen, why is she complaining? :) It wouldn't be her complaining. It'd be her exec bosses and company wanting their share of the cuts of course. |
| inu-liger 10.12.2008 03:46 |
Raf wrote:inu-liger wrote:Maybe it's Roger then, but I personally felt the drums were more powerful on this album than on any other previous Queen studio album.Benn wrote: If true, this is, yet again, another example of a poor choice of personnel when building a team to make them successful. Macrae's production is shockingly bad in every single way. Not doing his job professionally i.e. nicking something off the net and hoping no one will notice is nothing short of gross misconduct.My bandmate Joshua (no relation to Macrae) absolutely dislikes the way they mixed the drums on Cosmos Rocks. He liked the toms, but felt the bass drum didn't have enough boom to it, nor did the snare have any ring to it at all. Oh for sure. Beats the hell out of the phake drums that made up a lot, if not most of AKOM, Miracle and Innuendo. I'm glad for one this album has live acoustic drums all the way. I love the live feel to it. But I can see where Josh is coming from, because the snare in particular doesn't have a nice high-end ring to it. It's moreso for a fat booming sound factor. Can't say I share his complaints as much about the bass drum however. |
| inu-liger 10.12.2008 03:48 |
Oh and if the claims about this being ripped from YouTube on the recording are true, does that make the final product not completely 'lossless'? ;-) |
| Aussiequeens 10.12.2008 07:50 |
Kuramoto’s cameo with Queen [AUDIO] http://sonecessary.starbulletin.com/kuramotos-cameo-with-queen-audio/ |
| Marcos Napier 10.12.2008 09:30 |
inu-liger wrote: Oh and if the claims about this being ripped from YouTube on the recording are true, does that make the final product not completely 'lossless'? ;-) They've ripped it from the "watch in high quality" link of course, that's the FLACTube. |
| Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira 10.12.2008 19:44 |
inu-liger wrote: Oh and if the claims about this being ripped from YouTube on the recording are true, does that make the final product not completely 'lossless'? ;-) ROFLCOPTER [img=/images/smiley/msn/tounge_smile.gif][/img] http://web.archive.org/web/20040507031011/http://www.roflcopter.com/ |
| inu-liger 10.12.2008 22:07 |
Marcos Napier wrote:inu-liger wrote: Oh and if the claims about this being ripped from YouTube on the recording are true, does that make the final product not completely 'lossless'? ;-)They've ripped it from the "watch in high quality" link of course, that's the FLACTube. TBH, I can't recall them having that feature implemented at the time (late 2007/early 2008). The song would have been made in early 2008 I think, but the HQ feature implemented around this past summer or fall. Can anyone back me up on that? |
| Benn 11.12.2008 05:11 |
inu-liger, I can see where Josh is coming from too. It's probably due to the fact that they Macrae used a decent amount of "no-noise" in order to mask any of the other instruments that bled through on to other tracks - for example, the guitar bouncing off of the bass drun skin etc. My view is that it's inevitable, given that they were trying (admirably) to play as much as possible as a live three-piece in the studio. Clapton's From The Cradle album is a good example of this, but the bonus there is that the tracks are pretty "naked" in terms of just putting out what was recorded in the studio as opposed to over-producing after the effect and masking out some of the recorded performance. I thought MIH had, overall, the very best drum sound Roger has ever had. That and Electric Fire......... |
| Raf 11.12.2008 06:29 |
Marcos Napier wrote:inu-liger wrote: Oh and if the claims about this being ripped from YouTube on the recording are true, does that make the final product not completely 'lossless'? ;-)They've ripped it from the "watch in high quality" link of course, that's the FLACTube. But the HQ option on YouTube doesn't feature WAV sound, it features AAC. "Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at many bit rates." Damn it, I paid lossy crap! I'm sooooo gonna sue their old British asses! |
| Ken8 12.12.2008 01:50 |
A Word In Your Ear wrote:Ken8 wrote: "The wave sound effects at the end of the epic song, "were recorded in Cornwall, U.K., where I surf," Macrae said." Heh. "Surf" in Cornwall.....heh heh. Funny boy, that MacraeNewquay in cornwall, has a good surfing beach, nothing like you guys get in australia, but good, all the same for the UK. Newquay has a good surfing beach.....heh. Good one. |
| inu-liger 12.12.2008 03:16 |
Benn wrote: inu-liger, I can see where Josh is coming from too. It's probably due to the fact that they Macrae used a decent amount of "no-noise" in order to mask any of the other instruments that bled through on to other tracks - for example, the guitar bouncing off of the bass drun skin etc. My view is that it's inevitable, given that they were trying (admirably) to play as much as possible as a live three-piece in the studio. Clapton's From The Cradle album is a good example of this, but the bonus there is that the tracks are pretty "naked" in terms of just putting out what was recorded in the studio as opposed to over-producing after the effect and masking out some of the recorded performance. I thought MIH had, overall, the very best drum sound Roger has ever had. That and Electric Fire......... Ahh, OK. Josh would probably refer to that as 'gating', as he uses that on my drum tracks to reduce bleed between microphones (eg. bass drum against the other toms and cymbals). Josh got new foam material and stuff that he will be installing soon, to make for less bleed and less ambient reverb in our practice/studio space (his basement) and give a bigger, more natural sound. Should make mixing easier for him. |
| inu-liger 12.12.2008 03:17 |
Raf wrote:Marcos Napier wrote:But the HQ option on YouTube doesn't feature WAV sound, it features AAC. "Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at many bit rates."inu-liger wrote: Oh and if the claims about this being ripped from YouTube on the recording are true, does that make the final product not completely 'lossless'? ;-)They've ripped it from the "watch in high quality" link of course, that's the FLACTube. ...My ass. A lot of my MP3's sound WAY better than YouTube-quality AAC. |
| A Word In Your Ear 14.12.2008 20:30 |
Raf wrote: Has anyone EVER seen that woman before? If she ever gets anywhere close to being a c-lebrity, it's thanks to Queen, why is she complaining? :) She had a cameo in the TV series "Lost" |
| Raf 15.12.2008 05:54 |
A Word In Your Ear wrote:Raf wrote: Has anyone EVER seen that woman before? If she ever gets anywhere close to being a c-lebrity, it's thanks to Queen, why is she complaining? :)She had a cameo in the TV series "Lost" ...And now, in a Queen + Paul Rodgers album! |
| IReallyLoveQueen 23.08.2010 15:40 |
I LOVE QUEEN |