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Post by The Real Wizard on Oct 26, 2024 1:08:28 GMT
Protopunk sure did, and Deep Purple was already going in that direction with tracks like Speed King and Highway Star. I really object to calling Highway Star "protopunk". That's hard rock through and through. Speed King might be more debatable, Highway Star isn't.
EDIT: to elaborate: the use of a harmonic minor scale, a surprisingly complex chord progression that is not strictly diatonic, a classical-inspired guitar solo and a baroque organ solo. This is anathema to punk, not paving the way to it.
The English language is an interesting thing - my intention was for protopunk and Deep Purple to be separate ideas, not conjunctive. What I meant to say was that protopunk already existed, plus Deep Purple was going in the direction of up-tempo tracks that led the way to punk doing similar things in a simpler way. |
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Post by The Real Wizard on Oct 26, 2024 1:23:29 GMT
As stated on the liner notes of the 2011 remaster issue: "The only known original source of these recordings is a 12" acetate belonging to Brian"Now, I would like to point out that there could be a caveat here. Given how notoriously secretive and well guarded Queen have been over the years about what's in their archive, what this could have very well meant the whole time was that they didn't have the master 1/4" stereo mixdown master tape, but they could have had the multitracks the whole time yet didn't feel like making a new mix from scratch at the time the 2011 bonus EP stuff was assembled. And I say this, because it never made sense to me these claims that the master tapes were "lost," and yet it had been the De Lane Lea multitrack tape of "The Night Comes Down" that was used for the Queen album (snuck in the studio inside an EMI tape box, as we recently found out!), which had a clear difference in the way the mix sounded compared to the acetate version, especially noticeable on the drums. So, I find it unfathomable and illogical that they would have had somehow "lost" those master tapes taking that song into account. Just my two pence here... This is absolutely what I'm thinking too. I don't buy for a second that the De Lane Lea demo master tapes were lost, Queen's VERY FIRST studio sessions, and then just immediately found. I think it also very well could have been the case of QPL not FULLY knowing what was in the archive. For example, they thought the NOTW multitracks were lost but then the NOTW boxset came out, so surely that's not true. Perhaps Queen's original assets were just a mess for decades and they didn't know that they had the multitracks for the DLL sessions until further investigation into the archive. It's no secret that the state of Queen's archive was a disaster in the 1990s - Brian May even publicly admitted in 1991 that the master of Under Pressure was missing. And it was one of plenty - a decade later he was on his Soapbox appealing to the world to help them find the masters of about a dozen songs, including much of News of the World. So if they were missing the masters of final studio versions of songs, who knows what else wasn't even on their radar at that point. Sure, it's possible that they had the De Lane Lea tapes all along and things were simply disorganized on their end. But it would not surprise me if they were lost and later found. Warner bought De Lane Lea studios in 2012 (a year after the Queen remasters came out), and perhaps this led to a deep dive to search for old tapes. |
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