Queen II 50th Anniversary

We already got the shirts 😂

I think it’s just a little strange that the Album Brian often sighted as his favourite, until Made In Heaven or was it innuendo, hasn’t even had a nod from QP.

Convention demos with alternate takes, the Queen II session of Brighton Rock, instrumentals, multitracks exist for a 5.1 remix, a 2024 remix, etc. A Queen II tour live performance would be welcome too, if they have another one in the archives besides Rainbow.

There's lots to be done with Queen II.

Yes it was sarcasm. I only imagine those being plain white and black lol

That's completely unnecessary. Beatles used four-track and eight-track recorders, Queen used 16 and 24 track. There's no need for further separation in the context of a mix.

Over-reliance on AI is going to make for sloppier product. Humans know what they're doing.

Ok, so they have no excuses and I'm actively angry about this now lol. For some reason I thought they had no multitracks left for Queen and Queen II.

Queen I and Queen II's multitracks seem to be fine. KYA and SSOR are on Queen Rock Tour with stems, and Liar has a 1991 bonus remix, meaning that that song has digitized multitracks. My Fairy King also had mixable stems at a recent Fan Club Convention. Convention demos also have their own mixes too, so I'm FAIRLY certain most if not everything from QI/QII have multis.

of course, but that's not what will be released (if anything all)

a more likely outcome would see:

Disc 1: Queen
Disc 2: Queen II
Disc 3: BBC Sessions 1-4
Disc 4: Live In Concert Golders Green (Sept 1973)
Disc 5: Live At The Rainbow (March 1974)

Yeah the part about Imperial College is true. If I remember correctly, Justin Shirley-Smith even did some remastering job on the recording but ultimately the release was scrapped because Roger was heavily against it. So even if there was a box set for the first two albums, there is no way that this show will be on it as long as Roger hasn't been talked into letting them release it

Brian said that IC actually doesn't sound too bad, and Justin Shirley Smith was already working on cleaning it up.

Brian's opinion of what sounds bad compared to the average bootleg fan, is likely VERY different. My personal guess, based on what Brian said and the context of where Queen was at the time, is that it's going to sound close to the De Lane Lea demos in terms of quality. I don't think it will be in stereo though.

Brian REALLY wants to get IC out, so we atleast have that huge name campaigning for it. The problem is, yes, Roger. Pretty much all momentum of the IC tape died out when Brian spoke on Roger's behalf about not wanting it out.

Personally, if there IS a Queen I/Queen II boxset like Gary Taylor has been talking about, and John Anthony supposedly leaked, I still don't think a release of Imperial College is likely. I'd love to eat my words on that, though. 

You know a lot of the 'denial' of items being approved isn't anything more than petty rivalry between Brian and Roger. There are often instances where it is a legit quality issue, but the majority of the time it's merely one of them over ruling the other because they can.

Ridiculous really as it all does is takes things away from the fans.

I think that's probably true. They don't need the money so there's no real incentive to issue a release where a lot of 'fans' would go, "What's this shit? They sound awful!"

I know all of us here want everything they've got, but I guess they have to consider what could be commercially damaging.

for example... The Doors. a lot of their recent releases are (not so great) bootleg-grade quality. And the performances are not exactly mind blowing in comparison to what's been previously released. 

I get exactly what you are saying here but you just never know what technology as it is today. I mean if The Beatles can get great sounding proper stereo mixes from those original mono mixes via Peter Jackson's company, then maybe it is possible for Brian and Roger too.