Produced by Brian
Mixed by Mack
Engineered by Mike Beiriger and Nick Froome

Produced by Brian
Mixed by Mack
Engineered by Mike Beiriger and Nick Froome

Brian May: Vocals and Guitar
Edward Van Halen: Guitar
Alan Gratzer: Drums
Phil Chen: Bass
Fred Mandel: Keyboards
Roger Taylor: Backing Vocals on 'Starfleet'

"STOP! What you have just picked up is not your normal kind of album. Not an album which
has been "thoughfully pieced together by a coordinated band as a balanced and polished
listening experience". Not a Queen album. Not a solo Brian May album. It is a record of
a unique event.
On the 21st and 22nd of April 1983, five musicians from different backgrounds, who had
previously known each other only as friends, played together for the first time. Purely for
fun. In listening to this record, I hope you will share in the excitement we felt.
STAR FLEET is the theme tune for a superb TV sci-fi series broadcast in England for kids of
all ages; Japanese visuals and British soundtrack including music by Paul Bliss. The heroes
pilot space vehicles which can assemble into a giant robot for land battles. The laiens fly
fantastic insect-like craft which spawn smaller fighting machines, all intent on possesion
of the secret of F Zero One... Having been introduced to all this by my small boy, I became
qually obsessed by it, and formed the idea of making a hard rock version of the title theme.
A few months later, i found myself in LA doing very little. I suddenly realised that four
musicians, with whom I'd long wanted to play, were at the end of a local telephone call.
To my great surprise they all liked the ideas I had, so I took my courage in both hands,
booked a studio, and in we went. None of us had done this kind of thing before - no record
company, no plans for release, no back-up organisations - just us. Just for fun.
In STAR FLEET, recorded on the first day, you can hear a kind of nervous exhilaration. The
new situation produced a strange and different kind of energy.
In LET ME OUT - an old song of mine which found new life - and in BLUES BREAKER, ehich of
course is purely spontaneous, you can hear a much more relaxed set of people, just laying
back and enjoying the fresh inspiration of each other's playing.
I could have put these tapes in a bottom draw and kept them as a private record of one of
the best experiences of my life. But the few people I've played them for have urged be to
"publish", and it will make me very happy if others can enjoy this stuff the way I have.
I've attempted to hone STAR FLEET into something like a "proper record" - my thanks to ROGER
for helping me with the chorus vocals. But I haven;t messed one scrap with the tracking done
on the day. The rest is simply mixed 'naked'.
In BLUES BREAKER you can heqar us smiling as we search for answering phrases. In the last
solo of LET ME OUT, Edward tortures his top string to it's audible death and winds up quite
naturally on the remaining five. I'll leave the rest to imagination. It's not too hard to
figure out who did what."