QUEEN FEST MEXICO 2012
Dear queenzone team, queenzoners and Queen fans,
Great news!!
We gladly announce we've held the Queen Fest Mexico 2012, to celebrate Queen and Freddie Mercury's legacy and their new and amazing releases, 31 years of the Queen concerts in Mexico, and the 20th Anniversary of the Queen Fan Club Mexico.
Date: Saturday, 20th October 2012
We thank all the participants and attendants.
Review pics:link
See you next year!
Warm wishes,
Queen rocks!
Queen Fan Club Mexico (founded 1992) link - Francisco J. Arellano B.
Would be nice to get some espionage happening in order to liberate those Mexican concert videos that fan club doesn't even legally have a right to hoard ;-)
I dont want to sound rude or anything like that, but I have met a few people from the mexican fan club and it wasnt a nice experience, they seem to classify people as "real fans" and "fake fans" and they used to talk a lot about how nobody deserved to have the mexican leg of the tour...
Perhaps it was just bad luck (I refuse to believe that all so-called mexican fans are like that)... I live in Mexico, so I know a lot of those guys...
Anyway, I hope people will have a good time!
Yep! I believe we talked about these Mexican videos at XRD.
Thanks for sharing your experience with the fan club. I wonder if anyone here at QZ had a similar experience?
As a personal rule if I don't have anything good to say I usually keep quiet but in this case I think I can make an exception after 10+ years of being a grateful visitor to Queenzone.
Francisco Arellano from the "Mexican Queen Fan Club" is the kind of guy that would hoard even a newspaper clip just to feel important and better that anyone else. I think I met him back in 1985 or maybe 1986 and I vowed (just like Queen!) to never see him again...low end of the food chain really. Huge inferiority complex. He's got this persistent feeling of being inferior to the rest in some way. It is connected with a shortcoming in his physical appearance, education and social status (Did I say that out loud? Ooops!)
I was born and raised in Mexico but (thankfully, thankfully, thankfully) now Canadian and living in Canada for a bunch of years now. So I know perfectly the caliber of his type, so don't expect this little one to start acting like a grown up as he will keep taunting people with little bits and pieces of the Mexican gigs just to feel like a hero.
Just my 2 cents
Ricardo aka Garden Lodge from Vancouver
I remember reading all those long posts about collectors and hoarders and such. I limited myself to read and enjoy the fight from General Admission! I personally own a lot of material (I'm 41 and I've been a fan since I was 11) and I've been collecting since. I've met privately some key people in the Queen environment but I cannot say that I have anything unique or rare with the exception of those 7 or 8 items that were autographed to me directly. If I had anything I would've give it away for everyone to see or hear....
But these guys aren't even collectors because they don't trade or share. Again, I would say this is just poking people for the fun of it. That's all..
greaserkat wrote:
They can hoard it all they want. Wasn't there a discussion a couple months ago about owners of rare recordings owe nothing to other queen fans??
I think it's quite selfish to keep a rare recording to yourself knowing that other Queen fans would love to hear. There are good reasons (trading) for hoarding for a few years but there is no justification for hoarding for decades.
Q NUT: "Yep! I believe we talked about these Mexican videos at XRD"
Yes, we talked about them a long time ago... Nice to see you here!
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greaserkat: "They can hoard it all they want. Wasn't there a discussion a couple months ago about owners of rare recordings owe nothing to other queen fans?? "
We are not talking about that, also we are not asking them to release the shows, we are just talking about the fact that certain members of the mexican Queen fan club pretend to be "real fans" just because they have the mexican gigs (something I dont believe at all)... And their reaction towards another fans.
QUEEN FEST MEXICO 2012
Dear queenzone team, queenzoners and Queen fans,
This year's edition of the Queen Fest Mexico , to celebrate Queen and Freddie Mercury's legacy and their new and amazing releases, 31 years of the Queen concerts in Mexico, and the 20th Anniversary of the Queen Fan Club Mexico is over.
It was held on Saturday, 20th October 2012.
We thank all the participants and attendants.
Review pics can be seen here:link
See you next year!
Warm wishes,
Queen rocks!
Queen Fan Club Mexico (founded 1992) link - Francisco J. Arellano B.
greaserkat wrote:
They can hoard it all they want. Wasn't there a discussion a couple months ago about owners of rare recordings owe nothing to other queen fans??
Indeed there was. That said - it's one thing to hoard and say nothing about it. It's another to have an inferior complex (as was so eloquently described above) and dangle the carrot in people's faces.
Q NUT wrote:
I think it's quite selfish to keep a rare recording to yourself knowing that other Queen fans would love to hear. There are good reasons (trading) for hoarding for a few years but there is no justification for hoarding for decades.
You're right, when something gets hoarded for decades it seems all so silly. But there's no rule saying every recording must be made available because fans feel they should be entitled to hear them after a certain amount of time.
The Real Wizard wrote:
But there's no rule saying every recording must be made available because fans feel they should be entitled to hear them after a certain amount of time.
True we are not entitled to hear them but I know I would feel bad if I had a rare recording and kept it all to myself for decades. I guess some people aren't so generous.
Exactly. We're no longer talking about music then - it's personal development. :-)
And this is precisely why new tapes from the 70s are coming out online nearly every day. Tapers are getting older and they want their stuff to be heard. This isn't true across the board, but there's enough of it happening that if you're really into a half dozen bands you'll always have a flow of new music coming in.
greaserkat wrote:
They can hoard it all they want. Wasn't there a discussion a couple months ago about owners of rare recordings owe nothing to other queen fans??
Indeed there was. That said - it's one thing to hoard and say nothing about it. It's another to have an inferior complex (as was so eloquently described above) and dangle the carrot in people's faces.
Was the carrot dangled in this topic? I thought not. I hope you don't start raging about Fanthology next ...