isn't that from the movie 'making of night at the opera'?

Danny Danzi

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It's amazing how raw the guitar tracks sound. You have this illusion that professional recorded guitar tracks sound smooth and polished but they certainly don't. They sound great in the mix when all finished off though.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way. After the shock wore off and I was done being blown away to have the actual tracks from Bohemian, I really sat and listened. Simply amazing how some of those tracks sounded so poor yet came out so good once they were all together. Intonation issues, bad chord execution, some really bad instrument prints that I don't think most of us would be happy with if we got them in our studios...yet...the darned things sounded good together. That's the one thing I hate about this field that I wish could change. Sometimes you literally have to degrade an instrument to make it work in a mix with everything else.
 
On the other side of the coin, soloing up Freddie's tracks were just pure bliss. Even when he screwed up it was great. That's one thing about someone that is talented...it doesn't matter what quality their recording is...true talent will stick out no matter how things were printed. :)
 
-Danny

It hit me right away with the piano.  I thought it sounded like the 50 year old, out of tune upright my mom used to have.  Sounds like a huge grand after the mix.

I was absolutely amazed by the piano track.  Not in the quality of the recording or tuning issues, but rather in the composition that Freddie was playing.  Brian kept saying that all of these parts were just in Freddie's head and they were filling in the parts as he heard them.  I have listened to the song thousands of times over the years, but just hearing the piano isolated and as the back bone to the song and how the parts intertwine to a build up and then came to an end part was simply amazing.  His sense of timing, as a piano player, likened to a drummer was also very interesting.

Cool stuff.  Certainly shows that talent beats all else.

Genius, they were.

Seen this on Tv last year as part of the 20yr thing. Fascinating. I love seeing stuff like this.

GREAT post!

Probably helps that it's one of the most awesome songs of all time...most of us, in our home studios aren't...um...producing the most awesome songs of all time.

I'm going to go out a limb here and say that while it was interesting for about 20 seconds (only a few times, truth be told), all in all the video was more on the boring side for me. YMMV.