| splicksplack 04.11.2016 19:45 |
I bought the 2 cd version because i remember listening to the '77 session on Radio 1 when it went out. Of course I got SYW and MMB on the 2011 re-issues. Got WWRY (fast) on the Sun give away way back (No I didn't and don't buy the filthy rag). So, I only got it for 'It's Late'. Why is it not called "It's Late / Get Down, Make Love" cos that's what it is and no-one mentions it? I'm amazed that I even bought the 2 CD. Because these are old recordings that we have all already paid for. Done and dusted. e.g. Session 6 should have been the bonus disc on the NOTW 2011 re-issue. Not bits. To drip feed this material in expensive (and rather embarrassingly naff) packages is not only an insult to the fans but also an embarrassment to the remaining members of Queen. I am aware that RT now sports mid-life crises tattoos and BM is unwell but Jeez....What the fuck happened to such a great band? |
| Oscar J 04.11.2016 19:59 |
There is some new material on there, and there has been some cleaning up of pops and cracks etc as well. New or significantly improved material: See What A Fool I've Been, Son And Daughter (July 73), Ogre Battle (kinda), MTRNR (April 74). The other stuff has had some cleaning up, isn't brickwalled and generally handled with good care as far as I can tell. |
| master marathon runner 05.11.2016 01:49 |
.........I would hardly call it Get down make love. |
| splicksplack 05.11.2016 05:25 |
master marathon runner wrote: .........I would hardly call it Get down make love. |
| splicksplack 05.11.2016 05:25 |
master marathon runner wrote: .........I would hardly call it Get down make love. |
| splicksplack 05.11.2016 05:26 |
master marathon runner wrote: .........I would hardly call it Get down make love.1. Have you heard session 6 'It's Late'? 2. Have you heard NOTW 'Get Down Make Love'? Compare session 6 'It's Late' 3'20" - 5'57" to NOTW 'Get Down Make Love' 2'35"- 3'17" Mercifully the original GDML impro-bollocks is only 42 seconds of indulgent shite. The same GDML impro-bollocks in the middle of session 6 'It's Late' is a mind-numbing 2 minutes 37 seconds. At 4'25" FM sings "Make love. make love, make love" etc At 4'37" he sings "Get down". So I think the comparison is fair. 'It's Late' is a bloody great rocker but (in my opinion) GDML is just a (not very good) contemplation on what FM has seen/experienced in a gay sex club backroom. Something he revisited on 'Body Language'. If you're trying to do a sex song (orientation immaterial) it's best left to the likes of Frankie to do it properly (Relax). Or even Nine Inch Nails - Closer ("I want to fuck you like an animal, I want to feel you from the inside"). Of course, Nine Inch Nails did a cover of GDML. |
| splicksplack 05.11.2016 05:45 |
Interestingly, a British children's TV series - Children Of The Stones - was broadcast in early 1977, the same year that News Of The World was written. Was the theme music an influence for the improv section of GDML? link |
| splicksplack 05.11.2016 05:52 |
Weirder...... Looking up Children Of The Stones I found a fan page with pics of fans posing near the stone circle location used in the TV series... link |
| Michael Scapp 05.11.2016 09:25 |
I love most of the 6 CDs |
| The Real Wizard 05.11.2016 12:50 |
splicksplack wrote: Interestingly, a British children's TV series - Children Of The Stones - was broadcast in early 1977, the same year that News Of The World was written. Was the theme music an influence for the improv section of GDML? linkWow - well spotted ! |
| mooghead 05.11.2016 16:28 |
"So, I only got it for 'It's Late'. " So you have been a massive Queen fan for decades and this is a massive surprise to you?? Yes, it has taken the shittest bit of a crap Queen song and stuck it in the middle of a good Queen song to make it sound horrendous but your 'shock' is insincere. You have heard it before as have I. It is horrible. But it is what it is. |
| master marathon runner 05.11.2016 17:23 |
Dear moogie, Nothing about that '77 session is horrendous or horrible. Delivered for the moment, like a live performance, ,it was a fantastic broadcast. I tuned in accidently that night and couldn't believe my luck, hastily put a cassette in and recorded most of it. It was Queen at the top of their game, big stars, having a ball in fine voice. All this analysis, Get down make love bollocks, it was a moment in time when they were riding the crest of a wave and should be taken as such. Critiques, nearly 40 years later, ? - pfff! |
| mooghead 05.11.2016 17:36 |
My point is valid. Someone is pretending this horrendous noise is something new. |
| ggo1 05.11.2016 18:21 |
I'll be getting it for Christmas but I pretty much wore out my tape of that session. When it was originally broadcast I taped it but there was a fair bit of hiss cause the station wasn't quite in tune. Taped it again when it was rebroadcast on either the Saturday rock show or the Friday night rock show in about 1980 can't remember which but it was Tommy Vance. Had it crystal clear then and played it to death. I always loved the gdml bit. Helped to remind that they could still play around in the studio and try something different. They were never dull at that time. |
| master marathon runner 05.11.2016 19:13 |
/ ' play around and try something different ' - sums up the spirit of it well. |
| splicksplack 06.11.2016 02:38 |
mooghead wrote: "So, I only got it for 'It's Late'. " So you have been a massive Queen fan for decades and this is a massive surprise to you?? Yes, it has taken the shittest bit of a crap Queen song and stuck it in the middle of a good Queen song to make it sound horrendous but your 'shock' is insincere. You have heard it before as have I. It is horrible. But it is what it is.Sorry, at no point have I indicated it was a 'massive surprise' or a 'shock'. I've known the session inside out for nearly 40 years having recorded it off FM radio at the time. My initial point was that with 2'37" of GDML inserted I'm not sure why it was called "It's Late' rather than 'It's Late/GDML'. Anyway, I've done my own edit to eliminate the GDML bit. |
| master marathon runner 06.11.2016 04:13 |
.........and killed the moment. |
| splicksplack 06.11.2016 04:59 |
I take your point but I think the key word there is "moment". The moment of first hearing it's interesting, but subsequent hearings are tedious (to me anyway). |
| mooghead 06.11.2016 07:53 |
Yes. The 'moment' was nearly 40 years ago. |
| matt z 06.11.2016 08:10 |
always thought it was "trying to be like Zeppelin" in Whole Lotta Love... (*live) just funky simulated f-ing wildness. .... interesting about the children's show. the echoplex was a nice little toy |
| Bohardy 06.11.2016 09:30 |
matt z wrote: always thought it was "trying to be like Zeppelin" in Whole Lotta Love... (*live) just funky simulated f-ing wildness. .... interesting about the children's show. the echoplex was a nice little toyYou beat me to it. I've always thought the same, and always thought it was quite obvious. |
| AlbaNo1 06.11.2016 13:34 |
splicksplack wrote:The interlude on this is the best version of GDML I've heard. It's pretty freaky and segues quite well with Its Latemaster marathon runner wrote: .........I would hardly call it Get down make love. |
