| random_person 20.05.2008 12:11 |
Just wondering...did Somebody to Love recently myself at school. Brief clip - link Hardly Freddie Mercury or George Michael, but oh well, it was a fun day :P Anyone else here done anything? |
| john bodega 20.05.2008 13:27 |
Never, myself. Closest I ever got would've been "Under Pressure" or "Save Me". Both were beyond me, I guess, but in the relaxed atmosphere of a jam we actually used to knock out cracking good versions of both. |
| olly1988 20.05.2008 17:32 |
I have sang them since being about 15. Not to as good a standard at that age obviously. I am now 19 and we play 'Breakthru' and AKOM in our band. link |
| Wiley 20.05.2008 17:36 |
I played drums to Under Pressure in my music school's presentation at the end of the semester but I didn't sing. I have sung a bit of Queen on karaoke nights on my birthday and on New Year's day with variable results. Nothing to write home about. |
| beautifulsoup 20.05.2008 17:46 |
Not yet. I'm thinking about it for next year, actually. Like, "My Melancholy Blues" or "Love of My life" or "You Take My Breath Away." (Hmmm...all Freddie's). Even if I don't end up doing that, I WILL someday sing "Exercises in Free Love" for an audience. (Not *exactly* Queen, per se, but still...) |
| Mab Meddows Mercury 20.05.2008 19:00 |
Yeah. In seventh grade, these girls in orchestra who really hated me (and probably still do) dared me to sing in front of the whole entire class, and some people were ditching there. I did "Bo Rhap" and "Somebody to Love". They seemed impressed with the falsettoes in STL. :D I also sang Bo Rhap really really loud on a field trip when those same girls were talking smack about me. My friend was shocked when I did Roger's "for meeeeeeeeeee...." part in Bo Rhap. She was like, "MAN! That's high!" xD |
| Freya is quietly judging you. 20.05.2008 19:09 |
I think I sang Queen when I did karaoke by mistake when I was drunk once. |
| Ms. Rebel 20.05.2008 19:28 |
I sang Radio Ga Ga on one party once. |
| Cwazy little thing 20.05.2008 19:30 |
I play Dont Stop Me Now with a covers band at the moment - we do it fairly well when were on form, and awfully when were not, particularly when my voice has given out towards the end of a gig! Sadly the latter is the only type of performance that got recorded - a better one got accidently deleted, so I have no evidence Im willing to show sadly! Might see if I can get something recorded a rehearsal on Thurs if anyone would care to listen? |
| john bodega 21.05.2008 01:17 |
There was one time where I segued from "Breakthru" into "Magic Dance", so I guess that doesn't count. |
| The Real Wizard 21.05.2008 01:33 |
Freya is quietly judging you. wrote: I think I sang Queen when I did karaoke by mistake when I was drunk once.Me too. Thankfully it wasn't caught on film! |
| random_person 21.05.2008 05:32 |
"Might see if I can get something recorded a rehearsal on Thurs if anyone would care to listen? " - I'd be interested. |
| Rotwang 21.05.2008 07:59 |
I sang Fat Bottomed Girls at my wedding reception. I have sung BoRhap a couple of times Crazy Little Thing and Another One Bits the Dust at karaoke. |
| cmsdrums 21.05.2008 08:10 |
I play (drums and harmonies) in a rock covers band, so over the years have done a few Queen songs. (Tie Your Mother Down, I Want TO Break Free, The Show Must Go On, Cray Little Thing) - I've also taken lead vocal on the fast version of WWRY before. Also some very drunken karaoke performances! (haven't we all?!!) |
| P-Staker 21.05.2008 15:16 |
We Will Rock You during a music activity at a student exchange meeting in England, back in 1997. I was fucking awful, I was. |
| Cwazy little thing 21.05.2008 18:20 |
random_person wrote: "Might see if I can get something recorded a rehearsal on Thurs if anyone would care to listen? " - I'd be interested.Alright, I'll take my camera tomorrow, and see if I can get a half decent video or something. I'll report back at the weekend. lol. |
| RMT 22.05.2008 14:17 |
Over the years I've sang many : Tie Your Mother Down We Will Rock You (slow, fast and 5ive version!) Too Much Love Will Kill You Doin' Alright Radio Ga Ga Someday One Day Strange Frontier Love Of My Life These Are The Days Of Our Lives Crazy Little Thing Called Love Brighton Rock Last Horizon Ogre Battle Probably a few more through the years but my memory is a bit short! |
| Killer Queenie 23.05.2008 07:23 |
Umm... Sang Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You and We Are The Champions as part of the school choir. Might consider doing Somebody to Love, Under Pressure, I Want it All, No-one But You, Who Wants to Live Forever or Hammer to Fall for the Summer concert at school... All WWRY based cos they are the only versions which I can sing - although Somebody to Love is a bit 50 - 50... |
| Treasure Movement 23.05.2008 14:24 |
Killer QueenieWe did this one - small audience but you have to start with something - link |
| Winter Land Man 23.05.2008 23:16 |
I was tired one morning after staying up the whole previous week and a friend and I, we sang some Queen songs on the town common, during morning rush hour so everyone could hear us. I was so tired, I only remember singing We Will Rock You, and I forget the rest of the songs, maybe we just sang it over and over. |
| Penetration_Guru 24.05.2008 06:31 |
Karaoke in Holland once. I think we did CLTCL, Big Spender and Hold The Line over an evening, so that's one and a half. Although nobody knew Big Spender once we were past the bit Queen did, so it was even more shit than it sounds... |
| tenchijin2 24.05.2008 10:52 |
A few times in various bands I've played and sung: Tie Your Mother Down We Will Rock You Crazy Little Thing Called Love |
| Vali 06.06.2008 10:15 |
tenchijin2 wrote: A few times in various bands I've played and sung: Tie Your Mother Down We Will Rock You Crazy Little Thing Called LoveHey, very close to what I've done with my band thru the years! I've sung in many gigs: Tie Your Mother Down We Will Rock You (fast) Crazy Little Thing Called Love I Want It All Resurrection and last wednesday we jammed with '39, Fat Bottomed Girls and Days Of Our Lives ! TYMD and Resurrection do still appear quite often in our shows, and since we've introduced keyboards in the band, Resurrection sounds really good!! |
| paulosham 07.06.2008 09:09 |
I like to sing Dragon Attack when I'm drunk. |
| Brian_Mays_Wig 07.06.2008 12:22 |
Somebody to Love and TYMD with my band. |
| Yara 08.06.2008 13:26 |
Killer thread. :-) Much to my disgrace, yes! It's been quite hard. It usually works like this: if we perform - me and other musicians from an Orchestra - more accessible classical music to people, and people after the presentation is over are still up to listen to music - most go away, but there are always some who stay to ask questions, to ask for us to play songs they like, so on, then, yes, I try doing some Queen. Problem is: the guys whom I play with go away too, and I'm usually left alone there, down on the stage with the piano and a staunch friend, guitar and bass player. We both do jokes. I play funny sounds on the piano, funny themes, some horrible music to make people laugh, and so on. And then, yes, we try, here and there, a bit of Queen. We used to do the Intro of "Don't Stop Me Know" as part of a medley, then the first half, more or less, of Spread Your Wings and the full, whole "Who Needs You". People love "Who Needs You". It's funny. The intro for Don't Stop Me Know and the bridge made up by Spread Your Wings became a kind of preparation for the big thing: Who Needs You, which, in our case, has to be all acoustic, because it's just me singing and playing the piano and my friend helping with the singing and playing the acoustic guitar. No percussion either. Hahaha. So, it's a disgrace. Queen fans around here hate it and say they can't even recognize the songs! Hahaha. But, well, people liked it, so it must have something of the original there, even if it's a pale reflection. But it's just for fun, I could never do live Queen's songs, not now, maybe later on, when I'm more experienced as a musician. I'm too much classicaly trained to do it, it's hard for me not to spoil the whole thing. I like emulating some of Ella Fitzgerald's renditions of Cole Porter and Duke Ellington songs, also as an effort to open my mind to other kinds of music. It's hard. Playing Queen, even for fun, has been quite a challenge. A real challenge! |
| Markman38 08.06.2008 15:44 |
Yes we (my band Lost Lovers) played over the years lots of Queen material. These days it's Tie Your Mother Down and Dragon Attack, but we also played Great King Rat (which we called Great King Fred) and Don't stop me now lot's of times. Once we opened a little exposition of an artist who made a tribute to Freddie. We opened it with Flick of the wrist, You take my breath away, Dreamers Ball. Once we played at a wedding and they asked us to play Let me entertain you (from Robbie williams but that was so boring to play that we played Queen's Let me entertain you. We rehearsed the Bohemian Rhapsody and did it once during a soundcheck but it just didn't worked out. We also tried Get Down Make Love and under Pressure but we couldn't get it right. And for fun we play Crazy little thing called love. Oh yeah and once at a karaoke bar I sung The Show must go on, but that was after a night of booz and XTC but I still remember it well ha ha ha ha with shame ha ha ha |
| Lady Nyx 11.06.2008 12:44 |
well im hoping my band is goign to cover 'tenement funster'....so when we start playing gigs, ill be singing to that. |
| Olavi 14.06.2008 15:43 |
Does drunken friends count as an audience? |
| Major Tom 15.06.2008 09:14 |
Just because I hanged around here for hours yesterday I dremt I sang Mustapha tonight. It was at some kind of festival with an unknown band backing me up. I think it went well acually. |