QueenZone discussion #1178489

Queenman!! wrote: Maybe Jeff Scott Soto would fit the bill?????

Pim Derks wrote: What I don't understand is that people who say they enjoyed the shows are glad that it's over. I've been to five shows in 2005 and 8 in 2008 - and each show got better and better IMO. I really hoped the experience of them recording together and being creative and all would lead to a new collaborative album in 2010 or beyond. I always thought of QPR as a win-win situation. Brian and Roger can go out and play the music they created, Paul can make a 'quick' buck and perform for huge crowds which he probably doesn't get anywhere in the world as a solo-artist. But it seems that QPR was just another addition to Paul's list of bands he was in... 

luthorn wrote: Thank God it's over. I could not stand Paul's nasal voice. Thank you Jesus, thank you. Now, maybe it's time to release something from the archives. It's been a very long while since Live at the Bowl, but in the end Brian measures time in light years and galxies, so within next 30 light years we may see the light of the archives.

luthorn wrote: RAF: i'm measuring distance of time it takes to release quality queen material. the new unit of measure is queen years, or fred for short.

Raf wrote:

luthorn wrote: RAF: i'm measuring distance of time it takes to release quality queen material. the new unit of measure is queen years, or fred for short.

No, you just suck. 

luthorn wrote: Thank God it's over. I could not stand Paul's nasal voice. Thank you Jesus, thank you.

  Soul Brother wrote: It is kind of disappointing as I think I have watched the Ukraine show now probably on more than 100 occassions - OK certain parts of it - and the highlight is clearly the general enjoyment of seeing Roger and Brian on stage in a big context performing again - I do have to say in particular the non-Queen stuff. I have to say that it is hard to really take some of the Queen stuff with Paul singing and I simply have to skip over it.  I reckon over the course it has been a bit of an outing and a bit of fun for the boys - let's face it the money is there and they can do what the hell they like! The album was also kind of disappointing.  Some dashes of greatness on there but also a lot of filler and some incredibly cringe-worthy moments which I have listened to once and could not bear to again!  I really wanted to have something I could hold up to my friends and say - it's still there but alas no. That being said, seeing the live tour was a fantastic experience and on this basis there is merit in continuing, however there really would need to be another album in there I personally don't know if I could take it!  A Kind of Magic in Glasgow with Roger on the 'front' drum kit and Brian's extended solo is a moment that is etched in my mind as well as seeing a live performance of I'm In Love with my Car.

catqueen wrote:   And at least it was amicable.

Zebonka12 wrote:

  catqueen wrote:     And at least it was amicable.  

  How do we know that!!! :P

catqueen wrote: (...) and he also says that he's not as fast drumming as he used to be. 

Jjeroen wrote: PR wanted to do more new songs, varied setlists and spontanious things -  Brian did not, as he could not be bothered to rehearse. 

  Raf wrote:  

      catqueen wrote:   (...) and he also says that he's not as fast drumming as he used to be.   

Maybe not as fast... But from what we've seen in 2008, he's more creative and his drumming sounds a lot more interesting nowadays.                  

  catqueen wrote: (...) and he also says that he's not as fast drumming as he used to be. 

catqueen wrote: Even in 06 he was incredible, I loved Let There Be Drums more then some of his previous solos, but maybe its more of a struggle to keep a show going now?  Maybe not either, just that I remember him saying he's not as fast.  Faster doesn't necessarily equate with better, I agree.

Negative Creep wrote:

luthorn wrote: Thank God it's over. I could not stand Paul's nasal voice. Thank you Jesus, thank you.

Whilst I'm not a fan of his voice - his voice certainly isn't nasally. if you want nasal - check out bob dylan, peter perrett, lennon, brett anderson etc. Also, people are being beyond naive thinking this apparent revelation has opened the doors to archive releases. I can guarantee you that nothing has changed!

Major Tom wrote: Yes, a Tim Staffel - Smile reunion would be nice. But what is he up to nowadays? And more important, is there money to be made? I'm sure this show would  not leave the U.K.

Lord Fickle wrote: Thunder are splitting up, and Danny Bowes would make a great vocalist for Queen.  He's a better front man than PR too.  :)

Hitman1965 wrote: ... the very end of a long voyage.  "Quote" Brian May Rio 29th November 2008 The interview from Paul makes me sad -  I was lucky to see QPR both in 2005 and 2008 - only hope/wish that the opportunity does present itself again someday.  I appreciate that not all Queen fans accepted Paul for his contribution but today it makes me realise just how much I miss Queen performing as of days gone by.  Brian and Roger need to realise just how much people really appreciate all of their hard work and commitment and as for Paul we need to say a big thanks for making so much possible.  Question is what now?

  RohemianBapsody wrote:  

      Hitman1965 wrote:   ... the very end of a long voyage.  "Quote" Brian May Rio 29th November 2008 The interview from Paul makes me sad -  I was lucky to see QPR both in 2005 and 2008 - only hope/wish that the opportunity does present itself again someday.  I appreciate that not all Queen fans accepted Paul for his contribution but today it makes me realise just how much I miss Queen performing as of days gone by.  Brian and Roger need to realise just how much people really appreciate all of their hard work and commitment and as for Paul we need to say a big thanks for making so much possible.  Question is what now?  

My feelings exactly, but succinctly put :-)

Hitman1965 wrote:

 

Anyone else feels like we've all been stood up on a future date that still had a lot of promise? 

Zebonka12 wrote: I am Brian May using his computer.

Makka wrote: I'm not overly concerned by Paul leaving. I figured it was a short term thing anyway.  I guess I was one of these people who disagreed with the name Queen being used in this instance but I'm old fashioned. I'm another though who'd love to see Tim Staffel join up with the boys again and do some recording, but under the Smile name and not the Queen name.

Zebonka12 wrote: I am Brian May using his computer.

jadedlady wrote: Why is Brian being so quiet about this??

Sweet Insanity wrote:

Negative Creep wrote:

luthorn wrote: Thank God it's over. I could not stand Paul's nasal voice. Thank you Jesus, thank you.

Whilst I'm not a fan of his voice - his voice certainly isn't nasally. if you want nasal - check out bob dylan, peter perrett, lennon, brett anderson etc. Also, people are being beyond naive thinking this apparent revelation has opened the doors to archive releases. I can guarantee you that nothing has changed!

And Brian Molko, and, well, once Brian Wilson had Al Jardine hold his nose while he played the piano and sang 'California Girls', and did a great impersonation of the most nasal singer, Mike Love!

inu-liger wrote:

Sweet Insanity wrote:

Negative Creep wrote:

luthorn wrote: Thank God it's over. I could not stand Paul's nasal voice. Thank you Jesus, thank you.

Whilst I'm not a fan of his voice - his voice certainly isn't nasally. if you want nasal - check out bob dylan, peter perrett, lennon, brett anderson etc. Also, people are being beyond naive thinking this apparent revelation has opened the doors to archive releases. I can guarantee you that nothing has changed!

And Brian Molko, and, well, once Brian Wilson had Al Jardine hold his nose while he played the piano and sang 'California Girls', and did a great impersonation of the most nasal singer, Mike Love!

Jake, I'm going to put this kindly, will you PLEASE shut the fuck up about Beach Boys/Brian Wilson. No-one gives a shit about them. This is not beachboyszone.com / brianwilsonzone.com last I checked.

Sweet Insanity wrote:

inu-liger wrote:

Sweet Insanity wrote:

Negative Creep wrote:

luthorn wrote: Thank God it's over. I could not stand Paul's nasal voice. Thank you Jesus, thank you.

Whilst I'm not a fan of his voice - his voice certainly isn't nasally. if you want nasal - check out bob dylan, peter perrett, lennon, brett anderson etc. Also, people are being beyond naive thinking this apparent revelation has opened the doors to archive releases. I can guarantee you that nothing has changed!

And Brian Molko, and, well, once Brian Wilson had Al Jardine hold his nose while he played the piano and sang 'California Girls', and did a great impersonation of the most nasal singer, Mike Love!

Jake, I'm going to put this kindly, will you PLEASE shut the fuck up about Beach Boys/Brian Wilson. No-one gives a shit about them. This is not beachboyszone.com / brianwilsonzone.com last I checked.

I wish they all could be California girls! Hey, did you notice you replied to an OLD post? An old post that I made in reply to a person who posted something about NASAL SINGERS? Argh Argh Argh. Why don't you tell them no one gives a shit about Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Brett Anderson, etc... since that person was mentioning them. And why didn't you tell ME to shut up about BRIAN MOLKO? Or are you mis-behaving in this manner because I am Jacob "Brian Wilson" Britt?

Raf wrote: Old? It was posted a couple of days ago, in the middle of a discussion about Queen + Paul Rodgers breaking up.

inu-liger wrote:

Raf wrote: Old? It was posted a couple of days ago, in the middle of a discussion about Queen + Paul Rodgers breaking up.

Indeed. And unlike Jake, I don't have time to spend posting on the Internet 24/7 like Britt does. I actually WORK for a living, like any normal person would, in addition to my band activies - and my only time on the Internet is at home and sometimes on my break at work. Oh well, I guess Jake just will never get it. And Jake - I'm not for disallowing discussion of other bands and artists, but your obsession with Beach Boys/Brian Wilson is pretty much getting to the point of spamming ANY topic with mentions of them any chance you can get, whether or not it's actually related to the topic at hand. You don't see me for instance making animé references in every post I make now, do you?

YourValentine wrote:

Makka wrote: I'm not overly concerned by Paul leaving. I figured it was a short term thing anyway.  I guess I was one of these people who disagreed with the name Queen being used in this instance but I'm old fashioned. I'm another though who'd love to see Tim Staffel join up with the boys again and do some recording, but under the Smile name and not the Queen name.

No offense but this is about as realistic as hoping that Paul McCartney and Ringo reform under the name "Quarrymen".  "Smile" never amounted to much - why should Brian and Roger go back there?

Sweet Insanity wrote:

inu-liger wrote:

Raf wrote: Old? It was posted a couple of days ago, in the middle of a discussion about Queen + Paul Rodgers breaking up.

Indeed. And unlike Jake, I don't have time to spend posting on the Internet 24/7 like Britt does. I actually WORK for a living, like any normal person would, in addition to my band activies - and my only time on the Internet is at home and sometimes on my break at work. Oh well, I guess Jake just will never get it. And Jake - I'm not for disallowing discussion of other bands and artists, but your obsession with Beach Boys/Brian Wilson is pretty much getting to the point of spamming ANY topic with mentions of them any chance you can get, whether or not it's actually related to the topic at hand. You don't see me for instance making animé references in every post I make now, do you?

You're right, Richard. I was WAY out of line, and I shouldn't do things like that. I'm very sorry about that. Like I said, and you've said, it was way out of line. BTW... What band are you in now? I noticed Unbalanced has someone else's name written in, what happened?

inu-liger wrote: Oh you probably mean on our MySpace page. We WERE trying out a new drummer earlier this year, "J.T." (Joshua Thomas I think), to see if I would be able to do other stuff, like extra guitar or keyboard effects or summat like that. The guy turned out to be a fucking tool though. He didn't really learn our older stuff, and it clearly showed - he was trying to act like he was writing the songs from the ground up.

Zebonka12 wrote: It's probably the fact that more people were cheering for the dead guy who wasn't even on stage than they were for Paul Rodgers.

Benn wrote: Makka, you're absolutely right, but Tom Staffel struggled with vocals when he was IN Smile and gigging.  Now he's been out of the loop for a while, he's hardly going to have improved with age. I'd like to see the reformation of The Cross in all honesty - a really gritty band with some quality material - better than ANYTHING Queen delivered from '84 - '90.  EMI were scared that Roger would make the band a success and withdrew finance, hence their demise.  Understandable but somewhat laughable given subsequent events. Brian could then happily while away the hours gazing into the sky and banging on about orchids and stereo pictures.......sitting in the corner, bouncing a ball and dribbling from the side of his mouth, wondering why he didn;t do that solo electric blues album......

Benn wrote: Exactly Hitman - remember that, at that point, Rogers was THE voice of British blues-rock - no one sounded like him or had come close before and he was widely admired across the board.  Smile attempted to get on the bandwagon because ordinary working class guys like Rogers had made a success of performing.  Staffel did a reasonable job I guess at the time, but I have no doubt that the shows would be a commercial failure should Smile re-form for anything other than a couple of hundred people somewhere.

Benn wrote: Exactly Hitman - remember that, at that point, Rogers was THE voice of British blues-rock - no one sounded like him or had come close before and he was widely admired across the board.  Smile attempted to get on the bandwagon because ordinary working class guys like Rogers had made a success of performing.  Staffel did a reasonable job I guess at the time, but I have no doubt that the shows would be a commercial failure should Smile re-form for anything other than a couple of hundred people somewhere.

inu-liger wrote:

Benn wrote: Exactly Hitman - remember that, at that point, Rogers was THE voice of British blues-rock - no one sounded like him or had come close before and he was widely admired across the board.  Smile attempted to get on the bandwagon because ordinary working class guys like Rogers had made a success of performing.  Staffel did a reasonable job I guess at the time, but I have no doubt that the shows would be a commercial failure should Smile re-form for anything other than a couple of hundred people somewhere.

Yeah here's the other thing: Smile would NEVER get the huge audiences Queen are accustomed to, because no-one knew about them outside of the Queen fan circles. They just wouldn't sell that big.

Makka wrote:

inu-liger wrote:

Benn wrote: Exactly Hitman - remember that, at that point, Rogers was THE voice of British blues-rock - no one sounded like him or had come close before and he was widely admired across the board.  Smile attempted to get on the bandwagon because ordinary working class guys like Rogers had made a success of performing.  Staffel did a reasonable job I guess at the time, but I have no doubt that the shows would be a commercial failure should Smile re-form for anything other than a couple of hundred people somewhere.

Yeah here's the other thing: Smile would NEVER get the huge audiences Queen are accustomed to, because no-one knew about them outside of the Queen fan circles. They just wouldn't sell that big.

But would it have to be for money? Why not just for the heck of it, like what music is about!

Makka wrote:

  inu-liger wrote:  

      Benn wrote:   Exactly Hitman - remember that, at that point, Rogers was THE voice of British blues-rock - no one sounded like him or had come close before and he was widely admired across the board.  Smile attempted to get on the bandwagon because ordinary working class guys like Rogers had made a success of performing.  Staffel did a reasonable job I guess at the time, but I have no doubt that the shows would be a commercial failure should Smile re-form for anything other than a couple of hundred people somewhere.  

Yeah here's the other thing: Smile would NEVER get the huge audiences Queen are accustomed to, because no-one knew about them outside of the Queen fan circles. They just wouldn't sell that big.

But would it have to be for money? Why not just for the heck of it, like what music is about!

Zebonka12 wrote: I think it really needs to be said at this point : fuck Smile.   They were an okay band that broke up because they weren't going anywhere, and it wasn't until Freddie came along that the magic ingredients sort of, y'know, made magic.

Hitman1965 wrote: Your post made me smile - no mincing words and so direct.  Must admit totally agree with the comments.  It just wouldn't really work and to be honest I just couldn't understand why they would find the idea appealling.

You'd have an absolutely great band there who would have no one to answer to other than themselves as there would be little or no expectation outside of anyone that was properly interested in The Cross.

catqueen wrote:   That would be great - and I think misquotes have happened once or twice in the media.  :)  But if that's the case, I'm even more surprised Queen/ Brian haven't commented to clear that up.  Although there was confusion and rumours after 06 about a possible break up, if I'm remembering correctly.  But then Queen jumped in straight away saying that nothing's been decided, they really don't know, they need time to get over one tour before making more plans, etc.   But hopefully....