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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 25, 2020 13:12:00 GMT
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Post by queen1970s on Aug 25, 2020 14:05:22 GMT
Could you upload the video here please?
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Post by emrabt on Aug 25, 2020 14:23:00 GMT
Nobody here has the video, it, along with loads of other footage is going up for auction.
We can only hope Queen Productions doesn't bid for it, as we will never see any of this if they do.
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Post by Mustapha Ibrahim on Aug 25, 2020 14:43:30 GMT
Hopefully, Queen actually lets us see the footage (if they get it), instead of just showing tiny parts in documentaries/videos or showing it to a few people.
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Post by badboybez on Aug 26, 2020 7:57:45 GMT
If Jimmy Saville or DLT are on them it won’t be put out for a general release.
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Post by Goldy on Aug 26, 2020 8:15:34 GMT
Book it in! 31/12/2030, QPL will release the unseen footage as a B side to a Q+AL show to lure the fans in
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Post by Ri on Aug 26, 2020 8:30:34 GMT
Book it in! 31/12/2030, QPL will release the unseen footage as a B side to a Q+AL show to lure the fans in Manifesting 🙏🙏🙏 |
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Post by rogermeddowstaylor on Aug 26, 2020 11:04:45 GMT
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Post by littlequeenie97 on Aug 26, 2020 12:19:20 GMT
Well the TOTP video is complete. |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 26, 2020 12:39:04 GMT
The TOTP version has a different vocal and different guitar to the original. Not sure if it was completely re-recorded, as Good Old Fashioned Lover boy was, but it's certainly a version not previously in circulation. |
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Post by pg on Aug 26, 2020 16:48:25 GMT
For the young and/or non Brits.
Under Musicians Union rules in the early 70s, artists appearing on Top Of The Pops were required to re-record their hit before miming to THAT.
It does appear to have been adhered to on an intermittent basis (Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy and Now I'm Here are clearly different, Killer Queen and Seven Seas Of Rhye are less clear and i guess may be either the originals smuggled into the BBC, or dubbed on in the case of KQ), but that's why there's a potential variation.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 26, 2020 17:13:55 GMT
What's also interesting about the the Top of the Pops Now I'm Here performance is that Brian plays a Gibson Les Paul, instead of his usual Red Special. I've no idea why that was, or whether he's ever been seen playing it again.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 28, 2020 19:09:11 GMT
What's also interesting about the the Top of the Pops Now I'm Here performance is that Brian plays a Gibson Les Paul, instead of his usual Red Special. I've no idea why that was, or whether he's ever been seen playing it again.
Santa Monica 3-29-75 - the last known shot.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 28, 2020 19:19:08 GMT
What's also interesting about the the Top of the Pops Now I'm Here performance is that Brian plays a Gibson Les Paul, instead of his usual Red Special. I've no idea why that was, or whether he's ever been seen playing it again.
Santa Monica 3-29-75 - the last known shot.
Do we know if he used it for the whole show, or just for Now I'm Here? |
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 28, 2020 19:21:55 GMT
Santa Monica 3-29-75 - the last known shot.
Do we know if he used it for the whole show, or just for Now I'm Here? Mercury has a tambourine, so it was almost certainly Keep Yourself Alive or Liar. It wasn't intended for any specific song - it was just his spare for when he broke a string on the Red Special. The intention would be to play it for the remainder of that song while his tech quickly replaced the string. The only exception we've found to this seems to be Rainbow 3-31-74 where he played his Strat for See What A Fool I've Been. He broke a string in Liar, and probably didn't have a tech at that point - so he just stuck with the Strat for the last couple songs of the gig.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 28, 2020 19:26:58 GMT
Do we know if he used it for the whole show, or just for Now I'm Here? Mercury has a tambourine, so it was almost certainly Keep Yourself Alive or Liar.
It wasn't intended for any specific song - it was just his spare for when he broke a string on the Red Special. The intention would be to play it for the remainder of that song while his tech quickly replaced the string.
The only exception we've found to this seems to be Rainbow 3-31-74 where he played his Strat for See What A Fool I've Been. He broke a string in Liar, and probably didn't have a tech at that point - so he just stuck with the Strat for the last couple songs of the gig.
Ah, OK. Interesting. Clearly the Red Special wasn't available for the TOTP shoot. |
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 28, 2020 19:30:32 GMT
Mercury has a tambourine, so it was almost certainly Keep Yourself Alive or Liar.
It wasn't intended for any specific song - it was just his spare for when he broke a string on the Red Special. The intention would be to play it for the remainder of that song while his tech quickly replaced the string.
The only exception we've found to this seems to be Rainbow 3-31-74 where he played his Strat for See What A Fool I've Been. He broke a string in Liar, and probably didn't have a tech at that point - so he just stuck with the Strat for the last couple songs of the gig.
Ah, OK. Interesting. Clearly the Red Special wasn't available for the TOTP shoot. He also played a Strat on one of the mimed versions of Killer Queen. Who knows what the reasoning was.
It's not like Jimmy Page who specifically played a Danelectro for White Summer or a Tele for Ten Years Gone. Brian's #1 electric has always been the Red Special.
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Post by pg on Aug 28, 2020 19:55:56 GMT
My (entirely unsubstantiated) opinion on the KQ miming is that they travelled to Holland without any equipment, and mimed with whatever was lying around locally.
What does surprise me is that having had a strat as the original backup, he switched to the LP so quickly. He'd have presumably tried a dozen different guitars before choosing the strat.
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 28, 2020 20:07:46 GMT
My (entirely unsubstantiated) opinion on the KQ miming is that they travelled to Holland without any equipment, and mimed with whatever was lying around locally. What does surprise me is that having had a strat as the original backup, he switched to the LP so quickly. He'd have presumably tried a dozen different guitars before choosing the strat. The thicker tone of the Les Paul is closer to his sound in the primary middle/bridge pickup setting than a Strat, so it's entirely possible the switch was made once he realized this (or once he could afford one - they were pretty well broke in 1974).
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Post by The Real Wizard on Aug 28, 2020 20:11:14 GMT
Also of note is that Brian had a series of mods done on the Red Special. He had a switch taken out of it which was initially covered up by duct tape over a bump (seen here in March 1974):
...and replaced by a red sticker at some point later in the year with the bump flattened out.
Perhaps the guitar was in the shop when they suddenly got the call to do the next round of TOTP, and Brian had to use whatever he could get his hands on.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 28, 2020 20:20:53 GMT
Also of note is that Brian had a series of mods done on the Red Special. He had a switch taken out of it which was initially covered up by duct tape over a bump (seen here in March 1974): ...and replaced by a red sticker at some point later in the year with the bump flattened out. Perhaps the guitar was in the shop when they suddenly got the call to do the next round of TOTP, and Brian had to use whatever he could get his hands on. That sounds like a plausible explanation. Who knows, it might not even have been Brian's Les Paul! |
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Post by pg on Aug 29, 2020 12:59:12 GMT
Any guitar he used in 74 was effectively bought by Trident, as were all his AC30s. So he'd have been able to choose an LP in the first place if that was the preferred choice. It's an interesting question, but I doubt we'd get an answer out of him at this point.
On the addiotional electronics - I didn't realise the timing of their removal had been established beyond some vague quotes about early on, which I interpreted to be early in the guitar's life, not Queen's career. However, I accept it could be mid 74. What i would say is that Brian wouldn't have sent it to "the shop" - he'd already wired it in, so clearly would have taken it out himself. Maybe tinkering during his recovery?
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Post by The Real Wizard on Sept 1, 2020 14:51:12 GMT
Any guitar he used in 74 was effectively bought by Trident, as were all his AC30s. So he'd have been able to choose an LP in the first place if that was the preferred choice. It's an interesting question, but I doubt we'd get an answer out of him at this point. On the addiotional electronics - I didn't realise the timing of their removal had been established beyond some vague quotes about early on, which I interpreted to be early in the guitar's life, not Queen's career. However, I accept it could be mid 74. What i would say is that Brian wouldn't have sent it to "the shop" - he'd already wired it in, so clearly would have taken it out himself. Maybe tinkering during his recovery? If he was on the road he might've left it with his tech, if he had one at that point.
But indeed, he had a lot of free time at the hospital.
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