QueenZone discussion #1093496

-adventure seeker- wrote: should they play boh rhap in any format on the next tour? yes or no?

-adventure seeker- wrote: should they play boh rhap in any format on the next tour? yes or no?

Thunderbolt<br><h6>Courtesy of God wrote: I know this is going to be regarded as blasphemy by some (most?) on this board: Leave the Freddie tributes at home this time around. The last tour was about acknowledging the past and preparing for the future. Freddie was the king of Queen for two decades. It took them a third decade (and then some!) to figure out how to make the band work without him. They seem to have done so to their satisfaction, and now it's time to move on. That means no video retrospective of Freddie's career, no operatic section music video collage, no empty stool and dedication of LOML (since I can't imagine they'd leave LOML off of the setlist). The band said before the last tour even ended that if another one was to happen, it would be to support a new album and show the world what the band is about now, instead of remembering what they were about in the past. Making a big deal out of Freddie's absence seems to undermine that goal. Adventure seeker, please don't take this the wrong way, but if I were Paul Rodgers and I were given the opportunity to sing BoRhap on tour, I would be insulted if there was a video of Freddie behind me as I was doing it. Here I am, trying to tackle the most difficult song in virtually any band's live repertoire, and you're taking all the attention away from my vocals by showing old home movies of the previous lead singer who's been dead for seventeen years? While I know that your heart was in the right place when you made the suggestion, that seems horribly disrespectful to Paul.

<font color=FF9900>Mr Mercury</font> wrote: LOML - maybe paul could do vocal duties on that one?

Thunderbolt<br><h6>Courtesy of God wrote: I know this is going to be regarded as blasphemy by some (most?) on this board: Leave the Freddie tributes at home this time around. The last tour was about acknowledging the past and preparing for the future. Freddie was the king of Queen for two decades. It took them a third decade (and then some!) to figure out how to make the band work without him. They seem to have done so to their satisfaction, and now it's time to move on. That means no video retrospective of Freddie's career, no operatic section music video collage, no empty stool and dedication of LOML (since I can't imagine they'd leave LOML off of the setlist). The band said before the last tour even ended that if another one was to happen, it would be to support a new album and show the world what the band is about now, instead of remembering what they were about in the past. Making a big deal out of Freddie's absence seems to undermine that goal. Adventure seeker, please don't take this the wrong way, but if I were Paul Rodgers and I were given the opportunity to sing BoRhap on tour, I would be insulted if there was a video of Freddie behind me as I was doing it. Here I am, trying to tackle the most difficult song in virtually any band's live repertoire, and you're taking all the attention away from my vocals by showing old home movies of the previous lead singer who's been dead for seventeen years? While I know that your heart was in the right place when you made the suggestion, that seems horribly disrespectful to Paul.

Cwazy little thing wrote: Hmm, Im going to take a different position to most - whilst I think Paul should sing as much as possible, and would perhaps even be fine with Bo Rap being all him, I still want Freddie, and indeed John to be referenced in these shows, in some way at least. Im not talking giant statues on the side of the stage, or backing tracks even, just something to acknowledge them - they were both an enormous part of why we even have Queen today, and it would be disrespectful to them to treat this as an entirely new venture which owes nothing to them, cos that just isnt true. That said, I hope, provided the new album is good, plenty of new material with Paul makes it into the set. In fact, ideally, I think Brian should dump the guitar solo, or put only an abridged version of it into another song, and they should kick out AKOM, IWTBF, and even Under Pressue, and thereby free up some time in the set for new songs, another carefully chosen Paul number or two, and, just for the sake of being a bit different and pleasing a few more hardcore fans, drop in a 70's number or two - the only real 70's album track I can think of we got last time was Dragon Attack, and that was only in the US. White Queen would be awesome with Paul, and Id love to hear Bri play the way he used to on that.

-adventure seeker- wrote: they should play a hardocre fans gig! with all the weird and wonerdful stuff IE drop the comercial stuff and do the hits with less of the anobtd, magic an that stuff.... yer! AND SEVERN SEAS OF RHYE SHOULD DEFIANTLY BE PLAYED ON THE NEXT TOUR, I THINK WE ALL THINK THIS DONT WE?