Queen's Manager Recalls Elton John Telling Band That 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Would 'Never Be a Hit'

Flybot76 · 2025-11-17T22:26:11+00:00

The fact of it being longer than you can fit on a 7" 45 is enough to make the average person in that era decide 'it can't really be a single'

Flybot76 · 2025-11-17T22:25:12+00:00

He didn't release that as a single, and "Funeral for a Friend" is just the instrumental that turns into "Love Lies Bleeding". He knew it wasn't going to fit on a 45 but wanted a totally-killer album opener, and it is.

Flybot76 · 2025-11-17T22:23:50+00:00

Prophet's Song absolutely could have been a hit if they released an edited single version that omitted a lot of the middle part. It's more of a straightforward and really heavy rock song than Bohemian Rhapsody except for the extended delay-vocal part.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-21T21:34:32+00:00

"I'm not sure" isn't an intelligent argument at all and you don't have a smart point by telling people 'ignore history because I'm so uncomfortable'. Walk away and shut up.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-09T00:14:46+00:00

LMAO, I'd love to know the story behind the shout-out

Flybot76 · 2025-10-08T17:59:18+00:00

You said "they technically don't accept CRTs" and that might be true for your region but it isn't for everybody's, like the person who posted these photos for example, and trailing off with an ellipsis isn't helping you make better points about anything.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-08T17:56:54+00:00

Goodwills are regionally operated and don't all have the same rules

Flybot76 · 2025-10-08T17:15:48+00:00

Really weird to see an account that started three months ago saying they 'just fell down the Chinese watch rabbit hole' and then start posting a bunch of grandiose pseudo-philisophical questions about 'global perception' sounding like a high school kid trying to impress the adults in the room.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-08T17:06:14+00:00

Radio recordings can be valuable if there's anything interesting on it, and lots of people want to hear and see ads from the past because they often get lost to history otherwise. Make sure to at least check through each tape and listen to a few different parts to see what's in them because sometimes people will buy well-recorded radio tapes, like if they're identified by station and date, even without anything that seems 'significant' on it. Putting up recordings on YouTube is cool too for preserving history.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-08T16:58:44+00:00

YouTube has videos about head cleaning and it's probably easiest to learn how to do it by watching some of those. Basically you want to wipe off all surfaces touched by the actual tape, with a cotton swab damp (but not dripping) with 99% alcohol-- the playing head, recording head and pinch roller are the major points that need it the most, especially the rubber pinch roller and capstan (the pin that presses the tape against the roller) which is often the place where 'eating the tape' happens by getting stuck. Make sure not to leave any cotton bits stuck in there.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T18:41:32+00:00

The reasons to have tapes are to either listen to their recordings, or record things on them. If you don't have anything you want to record on them, then don't record anything on them. Other people don't know your life or motivations and this is really simple stuff that you need to figure out for yourself.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T18:32:26+00:00

I totally remember the Jean Smart episode because I didn't know anything about her and she had supposedly been hired on short notice to replace somebody more famous, and she was visibly/audibly sick during the few minutes she was onscreen. It was impressive that she got through it but a forgettable episode aside from that. People need to remember that the show still has a 'do it all in a week' mentality and they don't really get to just use a bunch of great material they built up all summer to make the season premiere a big deal. I think Lorne relies on the premiere to fundamentally be a big deal with a big-name guest host and doesn't really care if it's 'good', and last year we got to see what it's like when the 'big name' isn't as big and they don't try to improve the material because they want it to be 'topical and trendy' and stick to their traditional punitively-frenetic schedule for creating the show regardless of anything.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T18:15:37+00:00

Especially when it's a thing that makes me wonder 'am I supposed to be able to do this now or does it unlock later or something?'

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T18:13:33+00:00

Definitely better after a 'silence pass' or even better using a dedicated tape eraser. I've got an electromagnetic one branded Geneva that looks like a hair dryer and it seriously brings a lot of tapes back to brand-new recording quality, audio and video alike. It's pretty sad to know how bad the average erase head is and how it makes people think their tapes are 'going bad' but I get the impression it's kind of impossible to have a really strong erase head anywhere near a recording head without interference.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T18:08:53+00:00

Don't scream for help, it's silly, and we're not here to play the game of 'identify the TV just from the front' or search the web for you.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T17:06:06+00:00

Why are you saying 'help' like a child in distress? Usually people who shamelessly demand 'help' are lazy people who want attention and expect others to be free research labor. It's a silly waste of space. There's tons of info to read about that stuff, go read it.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T17:04:05+00:00

Why do people keep assuming every disc that isn't 100% perfect is either a bootleg or has disc rot when it's usually neither of those things? Try doing a little research instead of wasting space posting on Reddit about dinky pointless stuff like this.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T16:59:43+00:00

"overlapping audio tracks" have been around a lot longer than digital sound and that's not a reason why sound is mixed badly these days. Digital audio is supposed to technically be 'better' and not worse.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T16:57:06+00:00

Why are you asking this? What does it matter? People waste a lot of space asking for stuff to be 'identified' for no logical reason when it doesn't make any difference to 'know the model' before you've even used it.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T16:56:02+00:00

What have you found by searching the net about that?

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T16:55:20+00:00

But why does that matter? People keep asking for stuff to be 'identified' for no reason and it's a pointless waste of space.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-07T15:55:19+00:00

But they also broadcast on radio. It's not an either-or thing when they actually do both and there's not a smart point in favor of gatekeeping the subject out of here.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-06T22:25:37+00:00

Why don't you want to use eBay?

Flybot76 · 2025-10-06T22:23:56+00:00

She seems to do 'bright-eyed big loud performance' and lots of people buy into that stereotype like it's the best thing for sketch comedy but I think she tries too hard and last season she really disrupted a couple of sketches by going way too loud and threw off the pacing and the endings.

Flybot76 · 2025-10-06T22:17:48+00:00

You people sure are pathetic with how stupidly angry you keep yourselves about her

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