The Fairy-Feller's Master Stroke (Live at the Rainbow) - bootleg w/ no overdubs/pre pitch-correction

If there was, we wouldn't have been so surprised that the song was ever performed live in the first place.

I doubt it's been overdubbed at all, by the way. Pitch-corrected like hell, though.

I've been in contact with someone previously, who was at that March show and when he bought the Rainbow CD set, he said it was like being there again, and that he remembers TFFMS sounding exactly like that. But until we get a raw mix, which is very much doubt, we'll never know

exactly. there are much less arduous songs from this period - requiring none of the vocal gymnastics of FFMS, and yet this one sounds so much better than most. you just don't nail it like this, and make mistakes in the easier stuff.

i'm pretty confident that's Freddie.
If it ain't one of his own harmonies/backing vocals - then it could be his own guide vocal.

I think it's Freddie in his lower range, if it was John it would sound a bit more nasally.

-Chin

I meant with the out of key statement, that the "trumpeter" word is not holding the note, so... out of key.
It's just so odd that this was left in there, maybe by mistake.

i don't think so. read my post again. it's not about one isolated part. it's about the sum of the parts. layer upon layer upon layer - to complete the vocal take. i'm suggesting that there's a strong possibility that your "out of key" part was intentional in order to achieve an overall specific finished vocal sound - and (maybe) the finished vocal wouldn't sound quite right with your "out of key" element removed?

let me give you an example of what i mean:

Penny Lane - (IMO) one of the greatest pop tunes ever made...if you get a chance try and dig out all the different takes, overdubs etc.
listen to these in particular:
Overdub Session
Take 4
Take 6 harmonies
Flutes rs95
Trumpets rs95


these sound (in isolation) like a complete mess - but Mccartney knew what he was aiming for and when you put all of the takes/elements together it's a genuinely genius piece of song construction. The exact same applies to freddie and FFMS - you don't get the "out of key" bits, then the song might not sound the same - or as good.

just my two-bob.

I don't think the raw mix will reveal a lot, but I certainly won't deny that TFFMS has been pitch-corrected.

I'd love to think it was John, but nah.

Was listening to Queen II on headphones yesterday and it's surprisingly audible as part of the track, although the last (pitchy) bit gets a bit drowned out, so it doesn't stick out at all.

In the end it's just a low vocal part, replicating the main melody but an octave down.

Cool stuff though, always love to hear these constituent parts, particularly from the earlier albums.

Absolutely. It was a total bolt out of the blue. But I'd still like to hear it as it *really* sounded.

It will be pitch-corrected, not overdubs, one of the main points of the 2014 release of the November, was to remove overdubs. Probably not the case for the March show