QueenZone discussion #1292927
ANNOUNCE: Freddie Mercury Garden Lodge Tapes
| TRS-Romania 03.12.2011 16:23 |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GO TO PAGE 2 FOR THE CORRECT TORRENT TRACKER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello All, It's the raw footage as I have on file, unedited, untouched, and I thought of finally releasing it all after so many years. It covers some private footage of Freddie Mercury during the time period 1986-1990 where you will see footage of Freddie at Garden Lodge in 1986, as well as Xmas 1989 also the video shoot of I'm Going Slightly Mad has been recorded, his visit to Mary Austin in December of 1990, as well as one of his last trips to Montreux Switzerland (al though in the latter he does NOT appear apart from hearing his voice in the background)....and some footage of the flowers brought to Garden Lodge after November 24th 1991 as well as some additional footage of Freddie's Garden and the Koi fish pond... WARNING: The video quality is not always great at times, but it's how it was saved on tape (and transfered to DVD). If you think you can upgrade the quality, please do!!! I really do not care if there are Queen fans who dissapprove of this video getting out in the open. Those who want to see it , can download it, those who don't want to can ignore the download link. It is that simple. I used Utorrent to create the actual upload-torrent, and I hope it does actually work link Again, this is NOT professional HD (lol!) footage of any kind, just home made video shot on a low grade video camera ... and there are 4 video files totalling 2.39 GB. I hope you enjoy and cherish this footage,and appreciate my personal "Christmas Present for 2011" to all Queen fans around the world. TRS (a.k.a. Stefan) PS I am on a 120/10 Mbps connection, so the seeding of this 2.39 GB should go pretty fast ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ GO TO PAGE 2 FOR THE CORRECT TORRENT TRACKER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Queenman!! 03.12.2011 17:01 |
Thank you... but I dindn't seem to download the actual Freddie torrent.... |
| aber 03.12.2011 17:05 |
This link doesnt work. |
| TRS-Romania 03.12.2011 17:11 |
the link link should work Currently somebody is downloading the torrent at > 500 kBs/s .... |
| TRS-Romania 03.12.2011 17:12 |
Magnet URL (I copied it from Utorrent, not sure if this is of any help) magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AC616AAB7C3DEADDA662EEAE2AD2D52B7F14181C&dn=freddie&tr=http%3a//tracker.queenzone.com%3a6969/announce |
| aber 03.12.2011 17:14 |
OK, now it's work. |
| Back2TheLight 03.12.2011 20:12 |
Thank you very much! :) |
| Gaabiizz 03.12.2011 23:27 |
no funciona el enlace capo |
| Dodger Taylor 04.12.2011 00:51 |
Something seems to be working so thanks for this. |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 01:43 |
Gaabiizz wrote: no funciona el enlace capo It does work. I've uploaded (seeded) 13.6 GB already ; the file size being 2.39 GB. Perhaps someone who has managed to download the whole torrent (4 files in total) can confirm this here ... |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 01:49 |
Here a screenshot of my Utorrent program regarding this torrent: http://i41.tinypic.com/16ie62f.jpg |
| zippo112 04.12.2011 03:21 |
hello trs romania...im from romania as well how can i download it ? |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 03:26 |
zippo112 wrote: hello trs romania...im from romania as well how can i download it ? You have to install a Bitorrent client (for instance Utorrent), then click on the link in the first post I made, and it should allow you to start the download of these video files which then will be saved on your computer. Be aware that the total file size (4 video files) is 2.39 GB, therefore if you're on a slow connection it will take some time ... Anybody else managed to download this torrent?? |
| inu-liger 04.12.2011 03:59 |
I don't get it. It doesn't seem to work, even when loading it through the magnet thingie. Like, it doesn't bring up either the tracker NOR the file lists automatically. Are you SURE you did this right? And I'm using uTorrent to boot |
| Queenman!! 04.12.2011 04:19 |
TRS-Romania wrote: zippo112 wrote: hello trs romania...im from romania as well how can i download it ? You have to install a Bitorrent client (for instance Utorrent), then click on the link in the first post I made, and it should allow you to start the download of these video files which then will be saved on your computer. Be aware that the total file size (4 video files) is 2.39 GB, therefore if you're on a slow connection it will take some time ... Anybody else managed to download this torrent?? --------------------------------- Thanks TRS, It seems to work now just fine |
| pittrek 04.12.2011 05:41 |
OK, seriously - WTF ? The download link leads to an EXE file ? Is your Christmas present a nice virus or something ? I tried the magnet link, and NOTHING happens . HOW should I download it ? I of course HAVE uTorrent installed |
| queenside 04.12.2011 06:31 |
pittrek wrote: OK, seriously - WTF ? The download link leads to an EXE file ? Is your Christmas present a nice virus or something ? I tried the magnet link, and NOTHING happens .HOW should I download it ? I of course HAVE uTorrent installed i have the same problem. did someone actually managed to download it? i hope someone can make a NORMAL torrent |
| DaveyLane 04.12.2011 06:44 |
TRS-Romania wrote: Magnet URL (I copied it from Utorrent, not sure if this is of any help) magnet:?xt=urn:btih:AC616AAB7C3DEADDA662EEAE2AD2D52B7F14181C&dn=freddie&tr=http%3a//tracker.queenzone.com%3a6969/announce More pertinently, can you upload screengrabs of your tapes? |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 06:44 |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IGNORE THIS TORRENT TRACKER. THE CORRECT ONE IS ON PAGE 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 06:48 |
Can someone who downloaded the torrent (option 3 !) to confirm that the torrent links to 4 folders (named Part1, Part2, Part3 Part4 , and in each folder there is an AVI file of around 700+ MB). If so, the torrent should be perfectly OK. If for some reason the torrent only shows one folder or one AVI file. let me know! |
| gizmo 04.12.2011 06:50 |
Great Present ....THANK YOU for uploading !!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 06:54 |
This should be a fully working standard torrent file (I removed the old one where I seeded already 18GB) There should be 4 folders (part1, part 2, part 3, part4) each holding one AVI file of around 700 MB |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 07:02 |
@pittrek, Does it work now? And does it show the 4 folders (with the 4 AVI files?) |
| aber 04.12.2011 07:12 |
Thank you for this super rare footage :) |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 07:16 |
abercjusz1 wrote: Thank you for this super rare footage :) You're welcome. Consider it my present for Queens 40th anniversary! Again, I need to stress that this really VGA quality, and sometimes even very grainy, as the footage was shot at night (Christmas 1989) without too much light. But it does give you some insight into the life of Freddie Mercury and there are some lovely snippets which we can all cherish. If someone can improve the quality of the footage, or to re-do the video files into one file, that would be appriciated. The 4 AVI files I have were taken directly from a Betamax tape (where the original video tapes were transfered to). Meanwhile below the screenshot from my Utorrent program showing that it is seeding to many users already. http://i39.tinypic.com/ev9dgn.jpg |
| pittrek 04.12.2011 07:27 |
The last torrent IS WORKING ! Thanks ! |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 07:29 |
pittrek wrote: The last torrent IS WORKING ! Thanks ! Ok, I am glad to hear this! |
| queenside 04.12.2011 07:48 |
it's working. thanks a lot |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 08:07 |
To give some more insight on the contents Part1 Christmas 1989 Tour through Garden Lodge / Tour through The Mews Short conversation with Joe Unpacking of the presents (grainy footoage) The next morning (Kitchen scene with Trevor BB Clarke) Part 2 In the Kitchen (Joe with Jim Hutton figuring out his present) Playing with the cats in the livingroom More footage of Garden Lodge Part III I am going slightly Mad behind the scenes Bath Scene Garden Lodge (full version) Jim working in the garden Joe and Terry in the kitchen Footage of Tiffany (the cat) in the garden Part IV New York daughters visiting Freddie (garden scene) Freddie signing autographs (in Garden Lodge) with New York Daughters Christmas train table in Garden Lodge (I am guessing 1991) Mary Austin + son footage in Switzerland (Freddie was there as well) 1990 Freddie making a short phone call 1990 in Switzerland (background voice only) In the plane back to London (Mary + husband / Terry + wife and Luke -son) November 1991 (> 24th) footage of flowers brought to Garden Lodge after the death of Freddie Footage of Freddie's garden 1991-1992 including Koi fish |
| Gaabiizz 04.12.2011 09:39 |
works well , thanks for posting friend!! |
| TRS-Romania 04.12.2011 13:45 |
Has anybody (out of the 70+ people who downloaded the torrent) managed to get a 100% download ? |
| Blackthorne 04.12.2011 13:45 |
Thanks for sharing :) |
| scollins 04.12.2011 15:15 |
thank you very much the download works 100% all the best and have a great xmas :) |
| people on streets 04.12.2011 16:05 |
Thanks for the rare footage. |
| people on streets 04.12.2011 16:14 |
By the way, the first torrent was working as well. It only made you upgrade to Utorrent 3.0 wich is not abig deal if you ask me. Thanks for going to the trouble for making the torrent and sharing this us all! |
| shamar 04.12.2011 17:49 |
Maybe someone could post it on Rapidshare, Filesonic, Megaupload? |
| thefallenqueen 04.12.2011 23:11 |
amazing stuff, thanks... |
| MarkRW 05.12.2011 00:48 |
Thank you. |
| MrFunster 05.12.2011 01:09 |
Sounds amazing....can some upload this or seed this, unfortenately no seeders at the moment..... thank you |
| inu-liger 05.12.2011 01:32 |
Thanks for doing the right thing, TRS! Torrent worked fine now, and it's completed :-) Footage looks great! |
| TRS-Romania 05.12.2011 02:31 |
inu-liger wrote: Thanks for doing the right thing, TRS! Torrent worked fine now, and it's completed :-) Footage looks great! Glad you liked it :). Until now I've seeded over 44 GB, and in the next couple of days I'm going to stop seeding assuming that other people will continue to seed it or share it on the Queen hub. By the way, feel free to "improve" the video quality (as in some areas it's pretty grainy) and as I mentioned before, this is a straight copy of the "original tapes" I have, and I have done no effort in editing it, or improving the video quality as there must be other people who can do a far better job than I can. |
| inu-liger 05.12.2011 03:04 |
I might know someone who COULD work on the tapes. Not sure if he'd have time for it though, but I'll inquire with him. |
| e-man 05.12.2011 05:31 |
on beyond thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| MrFunster 05.12.2011 12:52 |
Please can someone tell me which codec I could use voor this mpeg file. my mediaplayer can't read this. I have download lots of codecs but none of them works. |
| TRS-Romania 05.12.2011 13:19 |
MrFunster wrote: Please can someone tell me which codec I could use voor this mpeg file. my mediaplayer can't read this. I have download lots of codecs but none of them works. VLC player opens almost anything. Try that and let me know if it works. |
| vivaqueen 05.12.2011 15:42 |
MERCI BEAUCOUP |
| peter.last 06.12.2011 06:02 |
Hello Stefan, this videos are great...thanks for this...BIG surprise for trully Freddie fans. But I hope not exist some harder Freddie's private videos..... Peter |
| jimw156 08.12.2011 16:02 |
Thank you so much! |
| jabbo5150 08.12.2011 21:25 |
Thanks! |
| TRS-Romania 12.12.2011 08:00 |
By the way, I would like to clarify that these tapes were GIVEN to me, not sold, by the late Jim Hutton back in 2001-2002. Some of the footage had already been shown in official documentaries, but the majority of the footage remained unseen by the public at large. In the last couple of years I upload some small snippets to Youtube (with consent of Jim Hutton), al though one could argue if he had the rights to the footage, he did have the "master tapes". I am not going to get into the "legal side" of this, and I think the Garden Lodge Tapes give an innoicent but interesting view into Freddie's life and his happy times at the house and I felt it was time to share it all at once. I already noticed that some of the footage is now on Youtube, and perhaps there will be more initiatives to make a nice edit of the footage (or to improve the video quality). |
| tassilo 18.12.2011 02:47 |
Thanks a lot! |
| ninonino 08.01.2012 19:45 |
thank you very much! i'm waiting for see |
| gatto 13.01.2012 21:10 |
Artwork? dvd cover? |
| Gaabiizz 05.04.2012 16:34 |
gatto wrote: Artwork? dvd cover? No friend |
| Gaabiizz 05.04.2012 16:34 |
Thanks for sharing! |
| MartynTS 06.04.2012 21:47 |
TRS-Romania wrote: This should be a fully working standard torrent file (I removed the old one where I seeded already 18GB)There should be 4 folders (part1, part 2, part 3, part4) each holding one AVI file of around 700 MBI downloaded this torrent but I can't get it to play on utorrent or by trying to play the raw video files. It says "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's the torrent? |
| kthrss5 28.04.2012 15:20 |
MartynTS wrote:download VLC player. works great.TRS-Romania wrote: This should be a fully working standard torrent file (I removed the old one where I seeded already 18GB)There should be 4 folders (part1, part 2, part 3, part4) each holding one AVI file of around 700 MBI downloaded this torrent but I can't get it to play on utorrent or by trying to play the raw video files. It says "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file." Does anyone know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's the torrent? thanks to uploader for that surprising video (who's expected we're gonna see this sometime?). |
| unchainedheart 10.06.2012 16:53 |
it don't work for me it always send me to:file does not exist D:\web\main_site\www\queenzone\forumNew\attachments so i don't know what to do to get on it?any help?thanks Francois |
| unchainedheart 10.06.2012 16:59 |
i got it figure it out thanks anyways and huge thanks to the uploader,don't know what to expect but i'm sure it's good.thanks Francois |
| FlackoWeasel 21.06.2012 07:17 |
Thanks for this torrent, downloading now :). Cannot wait to see what's there :). |
| thefallenqueen 21.06.2012 08:19 |
a lot of private stuff Freddie would never have wanted to let this go to public... |
| flash00. 05.02.2013 20:19 |
Please seed Cheers |
| inu-liger 06.02.2013 01:58 |
Seeding... |
| people on streets 06.02.2013 09:00 |
thefallenqueen wrote: a lot of private stuff Freddie would never have wanted to let this go to public...When being alive. I dont think Freddie gave a damn what happened after his death and how people would remember him: "Dead and gone, who cares" |
| thefallenqueen 06.02.2013 11:05 |
No, I definately don't think so. If there's a private video where you sit in the bath tub and your gay friend rubbers your back then there's a point reached where you want to protect your privacy. That's something that should not be made public no matter if these tapes come from Jim or whoever made them available. Freddie was very careful to protect his privacy and people who were close to him. Freddie never talked about his relationships or partners except from Mary. I think it's not people's right to step that deep into someone's private life. And btw Freddie made a lot of sarcastic statements and most important he said to Jim Beach sth like whatever you do don't make me boring. If you really think that Freddie didn't care about these things after this death then I think you did not understand who Freddie was! |
| unchainedheart 30.03.2013 16:54 |
thank you so much for this gem,Merçi beaucoup François |
| on my way up 30.03.2013 17:16 |
thefallenqueen wrote: No, I definately don't think so. If there's a private video where you sit in the bath tub and your gay friend rubbers your back then there's a point reached where you want to protect your privacy. That's something that should not be made public no matter if these tapes come from Jim or whoever made them available. Freddie was very careful to protect his privacy and people who were close to him. Freddie never talked about his relationships or partners except from Mary. I think it's not people's right to step that deep into someone's private life. And btw Freddie made a lot of sarcastic statements and most important he said to Jim Beach sth like whatever you do don't make me boring. If you really think that Freddie didn't care about these things after this death then I think you did not understand who Freddie was!I think you're right... |
| dastard 02.04.2013 17:47 |
Only 1 seeder :-( |
| IgorMKD 15.09.2013 06:37 |
No seeds ... please seed, or if someone would like to upload this stuff on rapidshare ... |
| thefallenqueen 15.09.2013 10:47 |
please DON'T seed |
| dudeofqueen 16.09.2013 02:39 |
I've got to agree - this footage makes for pretty uncomfortable viewing IMVHO. I know I have the choice of whether to or not, but it really didn't ought to be in the public domain like this. We all know how private an individual Freddie was, especially towards the end of his life and this kind of thing just completely breaks that apart and gives people who weren't invited or ever likely to be, a key to the door. Makes me wonder under what guise did Jim give this material away; was it under the provisio that whomsoever received it wouldn't copy it or trade it? Was it SOLD by Jim to raise funds? Was Jim bothered at all where it may end up? |
| freddie46871 03.02.2015 13:26 |
PLEASE SEEEDDDD!!!!! THANK YOU |
| bokkepoot 08.02.2015 08:46 |
On request here is a MEGA-link with the same content as shared in the torrent. link Best regards, Bokkepoot |