Anyone else listened to the commentary disc yet?
Gr�e
Lots of common Queen Fan knowledge type information, although its nice to
hear some of the more technical details, like Roger & Brian actually
splitting Radio Ga-Ga and Machines, and how Jon had Rog modify his drums
for AOBTD. Also, to hear about the genesis of Under Pressure and A Kind Of
Magic was fairly interesting, as well.
The most interesting part was listening to Brian and Roger talk about
TWTDOOL and TSMGO. It sounds like Brian gets really choked up during those
two. I also liked Rog talking about Heaven For Everyone, where he talks
about Freddie singing on a song he did the original vocals for, and how
much it shows his own limitations after listening to what Freddie did with
the song.
JeePee
I still have to buy it.
Is there more info in Heaven For Everyone? And specially the Made In
Heaven version. I really would like to know how and why that one came
about.
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JeePee
And HEY!!
Let's be careful out there.
- Sgt. Phil Esterhaus -
By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
Gr�e
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> I still have to buy it.
> Is there more info in Heaven For Everyone? And specially the Made In
> Heaven version. I really would like to know how and why that one came
> about.
Brian mentions (incorrectly at first) that it was a "Roger Solo" song,
Roger corrects him and mentions it was by The Cross, that they were
recording it in the studio when Freddie came by for a visit, and he
insisted that Roger let him have a go at the song, and that's how there
ended up two versions of the song: one with Roger vocals, and one with
Freddie vocals. Thats when Roger mentions how it makes it pretty clear
what your limitations are after you hear Freddie sing one of your songs.
Then Brian mentions that they redid portions of the song for Made in
Heaven. Nothing really that technical, just that they did it.
Its worth noting that the commentaries do not go on for the length of
the full song on any song. The songs are edited, and the comments
concise, with the longest being Bohemian Rhapsody at only 2:39. Heaven
For Everyone is actually the shortest, at only 1:19.
JeePee
> JeePee <jp.plui...@quicknet.nl> wrote in news:6f80d$4b0eb1ad
> $52d9b798$21...@cache50.multikabel.net:
>
>> I still have to buy it.
>> Is there more info in Heaven For Everyone? And specially the Made In
>> Heaven version. I really would like to know how and why that one came
>> about.
>
> Brian mentions (incorrectly at first) that it was a "Roger Solo" song,
> Roger corrects him and mentions it was by The Cross, that they were
> recording it in the studio when Freddie came by for a visit, and he
> insisted that Roger let him have a go at the song, and that's how there
> ended up two versions of the song: one with Roger vocals, and one with
> Freddie vocals. Thats when Roger mentions how it makes it pretty clear
> what your limitations are after you hear Freddie sing one of your songs.
I remember when I bought the 12" vinyl (ahh, the memories, lol) which
had the Freddie version. Sooo much better.
> Then Brian mentions that they redid portions of the song for Made in
> Heaven. Nothing really that technical, just that they did it.
>
Thanks.
I always have mixed feelings about Made In Heaven. What's the point of
re-recording the music to Freddies voice, just because you don't have
enough material to release a complete CD. Surely they must have had more
demos and stuff lying around. Stuff that's much more interesting to the
real fans, that would've made it a better album than it is now. To the
real fan I mean, not to the general public.
Gr�e
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> Thanks.
> I always have mixed feelings about Made In Heaven. What's the point of
> re-recording the music to Freddies voice, just because you don't have
> enough material to release a complete CD. Surely they must have had
> more demos and stuff lying around. Stuff that's much more interesting
> to the real fans, that would've made it a better album than it is now.
> To the real fan I mean, not to the general public.
I remember being on the fence about buying "Made In Heaven" when it came
out, and I decided to do something I never do and read a review of it in
Rolling Stone before I bought it. The reviewer wrote something about it
not being a bunch of remade old songs by Freddie, but it actually was
all new recordings, which, of course was patently false. Then they
proceeded to go song by song into the tracklisting, and I was saying to
myself "uh, waitaminute. "Made in Heaven" was a Freddie solo song, "My
Life Has Been Saved" was a Miracle B-side, "I was Born To Love You" was
a Freddie solo song, and "Heaven For Everyone" was a Roger / Cross
song". You'd think a Rolling Stone reviewer would know the difference,
seeing as how it was his job and all, but I digress.
I bought it anyway.
JeePee
So did I. A local newspaper wrote a similar review. Great new songs,
typical Queen trademark, blah blah. So I sent them a letter (pre-email
era) stating that these were re-hash and re-work at best. They published
the letter with a response from the reviewer attached to it where he
said something like: "that would be something only the die-hard fan
would know. We can't check all that kind of stuff." I sent them antoher
letter suggesting he'd review something he had an actual interest in the
next time. Never heard anything of it.