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Wow this is cool. I was reading that there have been a ton of original 24 track leaks from different bands and found this on you tube.. Killer Queen vocal tracks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwAVgEsAjG4

Thank You!! Really loved it they were and will always be a great band. Freddie is still missed to this very day.

Since my post I have located and grabbed the 24 track master of Bohemian and wow. BR is 1.3 gigs by itself consisting of 24 tracks. There are like 8 tracks of layered vocals. Holy crap it must have taken forever to record those.. No effects on anything. All dry.

Liquid_Drummer wrote:Since my post I have located and grabbed the 24 track master of Bohemian and wow. BR is 1.3 gigs by itself consisting of 24 tracks. There are like 8 tracks of layered vocals. Holy crap it must have taken forever to record those.. No effects on anything. All dry.

Loved it dry as you say.It blew me away when i heard it.Would love to hear more.

really amazing. Freddy was a real talent.

Would people not go ape shit if this happened with some Journey stuff ? Hearing the tracks dry ! Perry by himself. For me hearing all the little subtle stuff that smitty does that I am sure gets buried in the mix would be a real treat.

Liquid_Drummer wrote: hearing all the little subtle stuff.

i have heard this song a 1000x.. but 1:07 and 1:13 sounds different without the band.. i would love to hear some raw tracks like this from journey..

btw...one of the best opening lines of any song anywhere.......
i had no idea what moet et chandon was until 10 years after the song came out..

"She keeps moet et chandon
In her pretty cabinet
let them eat cake she says
Just like marie antoinette"

Great stuff. Thanks for posting!

The same thing was done on the Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road documentary. Gus Dungeon (the record's engineer) fades out the music on the title track so you can only hear Elton, Dee Murray, Nigel Ollson and Davey Johnstone sing harmonies. Totally amazing.

This...right here...is why, regarldless of genre, or stature, or how much you put a great man in his place...Freddie Mercury..will ALWAYS BE THE MAN...

Art Vandelay wrote:The same thing was done on the Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road documentary. Gus Dungeon (the record's engineer)...

LOL @ "Dungeon."

Thanks for the typo...and the laugh (btw, for those who don't know, the man's name is Dudgeon...).

;^)

johnroxx wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:The same thing was done on the Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road documentary. Gus Dungeon (the record's engineer)...

LOL @ "Dungeon."

Thanks for the typo...and the laugh (btw, for those who don't know, the man's name is Dudgeon...).

;^)

Yeah, I thought it was.

Damn you, quick Google search!!!

larryfromnextdoor wrote:

Liquid_Drummer wrote: hearing all the little subtle stuff.

i have heard this song a 1000x.. but 1:07 and 1:13 sounds different without the band.. i would love to hear some raw tracks like this from journey..

btw...one of the best opening lines of any song anywhere.......
i had no idea what moet et chandon was until 10 years after the song came out..

"She keeps moet et chandon
In her pretty cabinet
let them eat cake she says
Just like marie antoinette"

That would really be great if there were tapes like that around.Queen & Journey RULES!! Journey+SP

Few voices could stand the scrutiny of being isolated like this and still sounding great. Thanks for posting this.

I miss May's guitar though!

Here we go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMz-wi50ACU

larryfromnextdoor wrote:

Liquid_Drummer wrote: hearing all the little subtle stuff.

i have heard this song a 1000x.. but 1:07 and 1:13 sounds different without the band..

Maybe the original has Freddy backing himself on some parts?

There's an isolated vocal of DLR when he was with Van Halen doing Runnin' With The Devil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlgE5TKXWsA

Wow, that was enlightening to hear. Make you appreciate the pieces that make the puzzle.

Like someone said earlier, not many would sound that good while isolated.

They don't make'em like Freddie....what a talent.

Chad

Damn.
I mean, just damn, what a voice.

I absolutely LOOOOOVE close, unexpected, Jazz-type harmonies/chords/chord changes...

...and to have multi-track vox doing it??? WOW...!!

SO freakin' DIFFICULT....and he made it sound like a walk in the park.

Holy cow - these are great!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had to come back and hear it again. Holly Crap Batman

Well having all 24 tracks is very interesting. There are many different takes and one where Freddie cracks really bad on the "leave me to die i i i i" high part at the end. On that track you could tell he was tired and at the end he says "oh, fuck it... hehe... There is a youtube video of someone that imported all 24 tracks in to a recording program and played back with certain parts soloed.. This weekend I am going to make my own 5.1 mix. Nothing drastic really just going to use it as a learning tool for mixing all those vocals and man there are a ton. There is one track that is snare only like they overdubbed the snare for some reason. Hard to say if it was used in the final mix or not.. This is so damn cool. The whole 24 track master is 1.3 gigs btw and its out there but not for the faint of heart...

i would love to hear more of this type , i remember when the beach boys released thier box set, on the bonus disc you could pan to the left channel to hear just the vocals. amazing. the classic album series on vh1 classic plays parts with just vocals.
very cool.