The above is quoted in the latest fan club mag as being in discussion.
The way it's worded could mean a single concert, or a compilation. God forbid we get another hatchet job like 'Rare Live'!
Additionally, it's confirmed that a Roger solo/The Cross collection is being worked on for release 'soon'.
Nah, i see better fan videos in Youtube than Rare Live.
Awful editing? Check
Fake live songs? Check
Copy/Paste videos? Check
Wrong places/dates/audiences? Check.
And i could say much more.
Seriously, when DoRo made RL they must be drunk, or high, or both.
Remember that the fan club magazing is oushed through for printing long before distribution. By the time the magazing gets through to its readers, the news is old and irrelevant. I struggle to believe that they STILL manage to get people to subscribe to it in this age of @instant' news through mediums like Queenzone.
What they're refering to is probably The Rainbow or Hammersmith - and they have both been shelved as discussed here at length.
In my opinion Rare live it's a a good release. But to be a great release its has to be no edits and no songs that we already have in the dvds or blu-rays.
The problem with the stuff which could be classified as 'pre-tash' is that it's quite difficult for it to be commercially appealing. Although many of Queen's biggest hits game in the 70s and their reach as a band was arguably much greater during this period,their live presence/act is defined as Freddie's on stage persona as it developed into the 1980s. I think a reason why there has been a reluctance to released anything pre-this era has been for the reason that to non-Queen fans (and perhaps even to some Queen fans) the appeal of a live DVD without this familiar 'version' of Mercury, isn't as appealing.
Snackpot wrote:
The problem with the stuff which could be classified as 'pre-tash' is that it's quite difficult for it to be commercially appealing. Although many of Queen's biggest hits game in the 70s and their reach as a band was arguably much greater during this period,their live presence/act is defined as Freddie's on stage persona as it developed into the 1980s. I think a reason why there has been a reluctance to released anything pre-this era has been for the reason that to non-Queen fans (and perhaps even to some Queen fans) the appeal of a live DVD without this familiar 'version' of Mercury, isn't as appealing.
I'm sure they could edit-in a wee moustache for you if it makes you happy
;-)
the Rare Live video was a bit rubbish but it was nice to get My Melancholy Blues and Stone Cold Crazy as live B sides around the same time.
Do people really think: "The problem with the stuff which could be classified as 'pre-tash' is that it's quite difficult for it to be commercially appealing"? - it's really sad if that's true. I know I sound like a really nerdy fan when I say this but the early stuff is the most interesting!
Annoys me that the 'pre 'tache Freddie is seen as not marketable - Greatest Hits I is the best selling album in history in the UK and contains mostly material, and sleeve pictures inside, that are 'sans' 'tache!
