just read some interesting news from jim beach, jim says brian and roger are recording three unheard freddie songs, their putting down the instrumental parts and will soon be released. is this true? we'll see.
mike hunt wrote: just read some interesting news from jim beach, jim says brian and roger are recording three unheard freddie songs, their putting down the instrumental parts and will soon be released. is this true? we'll see.
and why the fuck would THEY do that? - they have a vocalist - Paul rodgers - so they can just redo the vocals too!
why would they use Freddie's vocals when:-
1. Paul rodgers is A better singer than freddie could ever dream of being
2. Paul rodgers can rework the songs and make them better
...right. now that's put Brian's Permed Asshole in hospital with a heart attack, we can all get back to normal now ;-)
i just noticed how old that interview was, april of 2004. when i first posted i thought it was a newer interview, and no i don't think the songs would be great, mabe decent. who knows why they wern't on made in heaven, actually i think they were recently found, and brian and roger put down the instrumental parts, but who knows if this is true.
It could be that they didn't fit with the overall feel of the MIH album...despite the varied sources, the tracks on MIH felt nicely uniform in theme, etc.
Greg
In October 2004 when Jim was in Moscow he told me that there's no any other tracks with Freddie's vocal except songs which were released on MIH. Maybe he forgot about all these demos and unreleased stuff or maybe meant them also.
Jim knows nothing other than the financial side of the business - he couldn't give two shits about the music so long as whatever is released keeps the bank balance healthy.
At least he was wright about Milton Keynes DVD. I wonder why Brian never said this on his Soapbox. I guess John wouldn´t say no on puting the bass lines on this tracks, but who knows...
Take care
Wouldn't be surprised if somewhere down the road, someone discovers some lost vocal tracks by Freddie thhough.
I read all the time about lost tracks being found ten, twenty years or more by famous artists, long after they pass on. Sometimes, it's stuff that was literally lost, misplaced, or noone but the artist who passed knew about it and stored it away somewhere...then it's found years later.
I find it hard to believe that with all the recording Freddie did, even just demoing and testing works in progress (for both Queen and for his solo work), that he may have missplaced, scrapped, or deemed unworthy, maybe never even showed to the rest of Queen, or anyone else, that there isn't more material out there with his vocal tracks or even piano tracks.
Sounds like good news. Only hope they aren't just demos with Freddie's voice in it, but complete more-or-less-efforts to sing a song. You know adding instruments to demos sometimes doesn't do the trick, and listeners easily feel that is an incomplete song.
Hope John will be adding bass or they will have to call themselves 'Queen + other bassist' ;)
if it's true, mabe there just waiting for the right time to release these tracks. in the same interview jim beach said eventually brian and roger will record a new queen record, if that's true than i could see them waiting, then releasing those three freddie tracks along with brand new material, or this rumor is totally false.
Remember at around this same time, the New York At Last remix was a hot, hot topic, and someone emailed Brian's Soapbox and said they should consider finishing off some songs that had Freddie's vocals. And to my great surprise, Brian actually responded on his site that they were thinking along the same lines. That was a great surprise, and maybe someone can look up the exact quote. Of course, in the interim, the Paul Rodgers connection started up, and perhaps this idea went to the backburner. But if it's still simmering, it is yet another great thing to look forward to.
> You always have great things to look forward to. You just get them very rarely. ;)
And 8 times out of 10, you are disappointed by the results........ ('98 Remasters, Queen Rocks, The Cyberbarn Gig, Another World, FM Tribute Concert DVD etc......)
i think i remember a interview with brian and roger like 6 months ago, i remember them saying there was some freddie stuff found that sound good and roger said 'yea it would be nice to find a gem with the tracks,' but i havn't heard anything since, so that's why i think there's something to this. i don't think it's the songs that are all over the internet, i think jim said these are unheard freddie tracks.
Good news, because after "Made in Heaven" Brian said that it was the last time they would do something like this, because it was too painfully and it took a lot of Brian´s life to do this project.
Take care
bigc wrote: i cant wait for "Yeah(12" extended mix)
No More Brothers would remix it for B-side of this single with 12" of Yeah on A-side. Limited edition would contain rare live version of 'Yeah', recorded in St Peter School when Freddie studied there.