Inexperienced in the studio, Queen members failed to have their wishes heard
Bryan Mayguitarist of Queen, stated that band members were never fully “happy” with the sound of the self-titled first studio album. Despite this, the 1973 album was responsible for raising them to success, as pointed out by Ultimate Classic Rock.
In an interview with Total Guitar, May described the difficult experience they had at Trident Studios in London (England). “That’s not the sound we want, roy,” he told the producer Roy Thomas Baker. “Don’t worry, we can fix it during mixing,” he reportedly heard in response.
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The guitarist was uncomfortable with the use of more than one track in the same section of certain instruments: “People discovered multitrack recording and it seemed that everything needed to be done this way. So, if you play a solo, the first thing they say was: ‘Do you want to do it in two tracks?’ Maybe I wanted to, but maybe I didn’t.”
“Sometimes you want to hear the personality, the attack and the feeling of the moment you recorded that one track,” May argued. “There was a lot of that on the first record, and I would say it was unnecessary. (…) That said, the songs are very representative of where we were at that time. We were evolving, you can hear that we were finding our style,” he added.
Source: Rollingstone
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