QueenZone discussion #1132894

PieterMC wrote: IMO you are not much of a fan if you are willing to ditch them just because you don't like their latest project.

LadySonnet wrote: Well, the time has come when my own personal career of a Queen fan of over 20 years has ended. I have never hidden the fact that Freddie was my favorite band member, though also the source of a lot of suffering prior and after he has left us. For those who might ask why "prior" - because I was born and grew up in the former Eastern block - under the communistic regime, when you NEVER KNEW IF you'd be able ever to hear The Works but at the same time you were as happy as a small child just because somebody somehow smuggled The Bravo Magazine, which said that they were recording it. And because you knew you would never be able to attend a concert as this is "retrograde" and your mam and dad would simply disappear if you'd do this even if you could. Well, Freddie is gone now. Queen -too. There is Queen+Paul Rodgers now, which is something very different as a sound, stage presence and aesthetics. However for those ready to attack -"Yet, it's Queen" I'd just suggest them to rewind ANY Queen concert prior Freddie's death to READ that "Queen are: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon" End of story. I don't want to argue. Queen fan? Not anymore. Freddie fan? Always, and by God I know how to be one because he keeps inspiring me after all this time (even without the necessary new material required to keep the business running). Something that the trio just failed to do.

Yara wrote: It is Queen. One guy died, the other quit the band. It's not as if Freddie were alive and forbidding the guys to carry on with the band without him. He's dead. The other cat quit the band, and now they have all the right to carry on the legacy the way they want - with Mickey Mouse or Paul Rodgers as a singer.

P-Staker wrote: **NEWS FLASH** Brian May (61), physicist and performer best known as lead guitarist with Queen, said he was "shocked and disturbed" that LadySonnet's career as a Queen fan has come to an abrupt end. "It was so serious for her", May said, "if we knew, we'd give up music and move into used car business. After all, music was never a career for us in the sense fandom was a career for her." "It's all so meaningless now", adds visibly shaken Roger Taylor (59), the drummer with the band. "The day that music died. I'm throwing in the towel - well, my drums." Around the world, LadySonnet's shocking decision was a signal for Queen - and Q+PR - fans to cease their appreciation of the band's music. In support of unfortunate LadySonnet, the monarch of the United Kingdom abdicated today, saying she "no longer wish[es] to bear the title reminiscent of the band that put an end to such a promising fan's career." "The loss of LadySonnet is a deathblow to Queen", said Sir Elton John (61) at a press conference yesterday, presenting his new single "End of a Career", written especially to commemorate this tragic event. We exclusively bring you the lyrics to the ballad:

DrumBrother wrote: 34 years a Queen fan and I'm loving what they're doing. I suppose I'm lucky as Paul was always one of my fave singers but apart from that you have to ask, if you are a doubter, isn't it better they do this than do nothing at all????? Roll on London and Cardiff (travelling over from Cork to see them)

DrumBrother wrote: Paul is one of the greatest blues/rock singers ever so I think you're being unfair to him Tre Mom. Is he to be ridiculed for interpreting Queen songs his way when surely people would want to lynch him for trying to 'do a Freddie'. As for the Queen sound, it's there, you can hear it on the album but it's not just them this time. I know it's all down to personal taste but I really can't understand this obvious hatred for what they are doing. It's their right. We all love and miss Freddie but life and thankfully music goes on. Brian and Roger started this ball rolling all those years ago with a note on a noticeboard, I think they have the right to take it wherever they want to.

Paul rodgers is annoying because the man cant even sing on time! extremely annoying and then chooses bluesy way of singing, its just not good.

runner70 wrote:

Paul rodgers is annoying because the man cant even sing on time! extremely annoying and then chooses bluesy way of singing, its just not good.

Damn that troll again! Listen to your own singer in your crap band and shut the fuck up! All that is annoying is someone from an annoying band coming up talking crap about a worldclass singer! All that is "ANNOYING" is Treasure Moment

queenie-taylor wrote: Lady whats your name?? P*ss off and don't come back!! I don't know how you had the neerve to call yourself a queen fan for 20 odd years or so!!!

Rick wrote: Now we only need a tribute concert.

Treasure Moment wrote:

LadySonnet wrote: Well, the time has come when my own personal career of a Queen fan of over 20 years has ended. I have never hidden the fact that Freddie was my favorite band member, though also the source of a lot of suffering prior and after he has left us. For those who might ask why "prior" - because I was born and grew up in the former Eastern block - under the communistic regime, when you NEVER KNEW IF you'd be able ever to hear The Works but at the same time you were as happy as a small child just because somebody somehow smuggled The Bravo Magazine, which said that they were recording it. And because you knew you would never be able to attend a concert as this is "retrograde" and your mam and dad would simply disappear if you'd do this even if you could. Well, Freddie is gone now. Queen -too. There is Queen+Paul Rodgers now, which is something very different as a sound, stage presence and aesthetics. However for those ready to attack -"Yet, it's Queen" I'd just suggest them to rewind ANY Queen concert prior Freddie's death to READ that "Queen are: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon" End of story. I don't want to argue. Queen fan? Not anymore. Freddie fan? Always, and by God I know how to be one because he keeps inspiring me after all this time (even without the necessary new material required to keep the business running). Something that the trio just failed to do.

I think you will like the song we are working on that is going to be called "Freddie Mercury"

Treasure Moment wrote:

DrumBrother wrote: 34 years a Queen fan and I'm loving what they're doing. I suppose I'm lucky as Paul was always one of my fave singers but apart from that you have to ask, if you are a doubter, isn't it better they do this than do nothing at all????? Roll on London and Cardiff (travelling over from Cork to see them)

well actually it would be better if they didnt do this, at least not under the Queen name as it has nothing to do with their sound at all. Its bluesy and totally the opposite of the Queen sound. Paul rodgers is annoying because the man cant even sing on time! extremely annoying and then chooses bluesy way of singing, its just not good.

Treasure Moment wrote:

DrumBrother wrote: Paul is one of the greatest blues/rock singers ever so I think you're being unfair to him Tre Mom. Is he to be ridiculed for interpreting Queen songs his way when surely people would want to lynch him for trying to 'do a Freddie'. As for the Queen sound, it's there, you can hear it on the album but it's not just them this time. I know it's all down to personal taste but I really can't understand this obvious hatred for what they are doing. It's their right. We all love and miss Freddie but life and thankfully music goes on. Brian and Roger started this ball rolling all those years ago with a note on a noticeboard, I think they have the right to take it wherever they want to.

Im not saying he is a bad singer, im just saying that his style and Queens dont mix well at all. Its like a country singer singing for a heavy metal band or something, just dont work. He sings off time and simply doesnt fit in, Queen style is just not his thing.

Treasure Moment wrote:

runner70 wrote:

Paul rodgers is annoying because the man cant even sing on time! extremely annoying and then chooses bluesy way of singing, its just not good.

Damn that troll again! Listen to your own singer in your crap band and shut the fuck up! All that is annoying is someone from an annoying band coming up talking crap about a worldclass singer! All that is "ANNOYING" is Treasure Moment

STFU! troll is your middle name. Im stating the obvious, the guy doesnt fit in.

Brianmay1975 wrote: . . . How can you say that your mom and dad would disappear if you listened to Queen?!

queenfanbg wrote: "She knew how to be a Freddie fan But now she follows a different plan A shining career came to an end Cos Roger and Brian play in a band Queen and Paul Rodgers cut her like a knife LadySonnet lost the meaning of her life If the guys knew of the tears she shed They'd bury themselves alongside with Fred" That sux ....

Zebonka12 wrote: Hopefully we'll get through this tough time without you.

Mr. Jordy wrote: I am so sorry you lost your job as a Queen fan. There are plenty more careers out there - fry cook, garbage collection, professional car washer, Rush fan, Journey fan, sewer inspector, psychology, Bob Dylan fan... You could even start a career as a fan of Robert Plant's solo work.

Treasure Moment wrote: I think you will like the song we are working on that is going to be called "Freddie Mercury"

Food Nuker wrote:

Treasure Moment wrote: I think you will like the song we are working on that is going to be called "Freddie Mercury"

I'm turning Freddie Mercury, Oh yes I'm turning Freddie Mercury, I really think so! or I get up! And Freddie Mercury gets me down. You've got it tough I've seen Freddie Mercury go 'round. And I know Baby, just how Freddie Mercury feels. You've got to roll-roll-roll with the pinches Cause Freddie is Queen. Might as well Fred (Fred!) Go ahead Fred, now.