{"id":1596,"date":"2013-06-05T16:05:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T14:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/95.141.36.44\/apache2-default\/queenmuseum\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T09:25:32","slug":"keep-yourself-alive-acetate-long-lost-retake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Keep Yourself Alive Acetate (long lost retake)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3091-2\/kya_acetate_long_side.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3179 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3091-2\/\/kya_acetate_long_side.jpg\" alt=\"kya_acetate_long_side\" width=\"350\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a>\r\n<div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/rcm-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=29&p=26&l=ur1&category=prime_video&banner=145YC6XKJN2WZ21YRD82&f=ifr&linkID=04b588e03156f0ac163b0eee69e01120&t=queenmucom-21&tracking_id=queenmucom-21\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" scrolling=\"no\" border=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">UK acetate of the Long Lost version<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3091-2\/kya_acetate_short_side.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3180 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3091-2\/kya_acetate_short_side.jpg\" alt=\"kya_acetate_short_side\" width=\"350\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">UK acetate Short Version of the &#8220;Long Lost&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This acetate first was thought to be from circa 1972. But some years ago in an interview Brian confirmed that in 1975 it was re-recorded as new version for a possibly new release. Interestingly, the &#8220;long&#8221;\u00a0 track is refered to as a &#8220;long lost retake&#8221; on the hollywood version.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the &#8220;long&#8221;\u00a0 track is refered to as a &#8220;long lost retake&#8221; on the hollywood version.<\/p>\n<p>Long Lost Re-take was first published on Queen: US 1991 Hollywood HR-61064-2<\/p>\n<p>This ties in with this copy&#8217;s own timings:<br \/>\nlong version is 4.05<br \/>\nshort 3.29<\/p>\n<p>The short version\u00a0 sounds like a &#8220;butchered&#8221; edit, in that the 30 missing seconds seem to be one bit pre drum solo, and another missing piece post drum solo, but as it is unreleased elsewhere.<\/p><div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- quadrato -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:500px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6452889443\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Bt7KqqfIeo&amp;list=UUgCpf_R0qSx2W5qEFnVr6Mg\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0listen to the short version ok KYA from acetate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About the label: Master Room is indeed a London-based audio production company. It is not a &#8216;proper&#8217; recording studio; it is more like Chop &#8216;Em Out. It specializes in sound postproduction (editing, mastering, etc). Given that Trident had cutting facilities, Probably QUEEN\/Trident commissioned a radio friendly edit of the Keep Yourself Alive re-take from Master Room, perhaps considering it for a single release. This acetate might be one of the tests sent back from the company to them. It is common to include also the un-edited version in such tests, for comparison. Or maybe Master Room mastered the track aswell (prior to editing), so they needed the reference.<\/p>\n<p>While it can be figured out why QUEEN did not use this version in the single (it has an even slower opening), I wonder why they did not use it in the album. &#8230;And if it was meant for it or not. The apparent contradiction between both HR names (I mean: &#8220;re-take&#8221; but &#8220;original&#8221;???) could be solved if we think of it as &#8220;original for the album&#8221;. Of course this is all highly speculative.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I think that this version should have worked very well as an opener for the album, bearing its peculiar &#8216;noisy&#8217; intro &#8211; still better if a &#8216;reversed&#8217; counterpart is added at the end of the last track, Seven Seas Of Rhye&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>thanks to Wilki Amieva and John Stuart for help in tracing history of\u00a0 this acetate<\/p>\n<div class=\"2416a19e08873d0076105f82e7f970da\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- stretto -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:500px;height:100px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6280590296994447\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5886106757\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UK acetate of the Long Lost version &nbsp; UK acetate Short Version of the &#8220;Long Lost&#8221; This acetate first<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[28,30,15,23,14,26,34,29,27,17],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-queen-rare-records","tag-acetate","tag-brian-may","tag-brian-may-roger-taylor","tag-emi-records-uk","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-keep-yourself-alive","tag-queen-rare-records-2","tag-record-plates","tag-test-pressing","tag-top-rarity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queenmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}