QueenZone discussion #1207375

A Word In Your Ear wrote: * Queen + Paul Rodgers is DEFINITELY OVER! There was a sort of fall out between Brian & Paul! * Queen will Tour again! Thanks to Thomas for the information and the picture!

* Queen + Paul Rodgers is DEFINITELY OVER! There was a sort of fall out between Brian & Paul! ------>Gotta love Roger - always good for the truth to finally be heard. See, this is exactly what I already told you all almost exacxtly a year ago - but then hardly anyone wanted to believe me. They already fell out at the very start of the TCR tour. Bottom line: Paul wanted to play new and different songs, Brian refused to rehearse because he thinks he doesn't need to - truth is Brian is getting old and he definately DOES need to rehearse! They tried new things anyway - screwed up on stage and Brian STILL refuses to rehearse. End of trying new things. Except for We Believe - which any guitarplayer can play after 5 minutes of practice. Thanks for reinstating my credibility, Rog! ;-) * A BRANDNEW Roger Taylor Single THE UNBLINKING EYE will be released THIS WEEK via Queen online & iTunes ---->Great!! I genuinely hope it is better then I expect! * Roger is thinking about an UK-Tour with Taylor Hawkings (Foo Fighters) in Spring 2010 ---->COULD be interisting.... * Queen will Tour again! ---->I fear....

Holly2003 wrote: Aaaaaagghhhhh! Doesn't anybody sing songs about sex, drugs and rock & roll any more?

A Word In Your Ear wrote: * Queen + Paul Rodgers is DEFINITELY OVER! There was a sort of fall out between Brian & Paul!

mike hunt wrote: I don't think it's a good idea for roger to write about sex and drugs at the ripe age of 60. lol. 

Kobayashi Maru wrote: Great news! I only hope that the "Queen will tour again" has nothing to to with Adam Lambert. @ Hutchence: That's Zagi, right?

pootle50 wrote: Fun In Space is a great album, and Starnge Frontier has some great songs on it. Happiness & Electric Fire pale in comparison :(

msobrevia wrote: Pollitical songs sound right on Arty. He can write whatever he wants. Hope that Queen tour on Chile again. (whit a nice lead singer) Q + Elton JohnQ + George MichaelQ + ???

Kobayashi Maru wrote: Great news! I only hope that the "Queen will tour again" has nothing to to with Adam Lambert. @ Hutchence: That's Zagi, right?

Holly2003 wrote: By jiminy, this could be embarrasing. In remembrance week too. There's a time and a place for "issues" in music, but Queen are in danger of becoming that charity/aids/"issues" band that everyone hates. And let's face it, Roger doesn't have the writing skills to construct a song about weighty political issues. Hopefully, six and half minutes of this will be a drum solo, and the other 30 seconds, Roger trying to rhyme something with Afghanistan. 

              Holly2003 wrote:       By jiminy, this could be embarrasing. In remembrance week too. There's a time and a place for "issues" in music, but Queen are in danger of becoming that charity/aids/"issues" band that everyone hates. And let's face it, Roger doesn't have the writing skills to construct a song about weighty political issues. Hopefully, six and half minutes of this will be a drum solo, and the other 30 seconds, Roger trying to rhyme something with Afghanistan.       

Holly2003 wrote: By jiminy, this could be embarrasing. In remembrance week too. There's a time and a place for "issues" in music, but Queen are in danger of becoming that charity/aids/"issues" band that everyone hates. And let's face it, Roger doesn't have the writing skills to construct a song about weighty political issues. Hopefully, six and half minutes of this will be a drum solo, and the other 30 seconds, Roger trying to rhyme something with Afghanistan. 

  mike hunt wrote:  

      Holly2003 wrote:   By jiminy, this could be embarrasing. In remembrance week too. There's a time and a place for "issues" in music, but Queen are in danger of becoming that charity/aids/"issues" band that everyone hates. And let's face it, Roger doesn't have the writing skills to construct a song about weighty political issues. Hopefully, six and half minutes of this will be a drum solo, and the other 30 seconds, Roger trying to rhyme something with Afghanistan.   

In danger of becoming one of those bands that everyone hates?...Obviously your talking about U2, one of the biggest bands in history.  In roger's dreams he could write such political songs like U2 or dylan.

  YourValentine wrote: There is no law set in stone saying that a pop song is bad when it's political or an "issue" song. Roger sang Masters Of War and while he did not sing it so convincingly as Eddie Vedder (for example), at least he cared enough to put it on record. In my very personal opinion Roger's anti-war attitude comes from his brain and logic rather than from the heart and therefore his political songs (Nazis!!) are not so great as they could be. "Old Friends" comes from the heart and is a great song. "Dear Mr. Murdoch" also came from personal emotion and it's a good song, too - too bad he forgot about it and collaborated with the SUN and American Idol. Anyway, I agree with Sir GH, we should wait until we hear the song and judge it after listening. Great news about a Roger tour with Taylor Hawkins and a Queen tour cannot be really bad:-)

Richard Orchard wrote: Roger often likes to "court" controversy in his songs, in the hope that publicity will drive sales.  e.g. Nazis, Surrender.  Obviously, it hasn;'t worked so far.... God i am curious as to what the Brian / Paul fall out was about.

YourValentine wrote: There is no law set in stone saying that a pop song is bad when it's political or an "issue" song. Roger sang Masters Of War and while he did not sing it so convincingly as Eddie Vedder (for example), at least he cared enough to put it on record. In my very personal opinion Roger's anti-war attitude comes from his brain and logic rather than from the heart and therefore his political songs (Nazis!!) are not so great as they could be. "Old Friends" comes from the heart and is a great song. "Dear Mr. Murdoch" also came from personal emotion and it's a good song, too - too bad he forgot about it and collaborated with the SUN and American Idol. Anyway, I agree with Sir GH, we should wait until we hear the song and judge it after listening. Great news about a Roger tour with Taylor Hawkins and a Queen tour cannot be really bad:-)

Thomas Tønnesen wrote: link

demonwolf wrote: - There's an idea for a Queen tour with him and Brian singing, and with Freddie on video screen a couple of times a'la Q+PR

cmsdrums wrote:   Holly2003 wrote: Hopefully, six and half minutes of this will be a drum solo, and the other 30 seconds, Roger trying to rhyme something with Afghanistan. 

david (galashiels) wrote: i dont fucking care anymore....

  Togg wrote: Personally I prefer most of Roger's solo work to Brian's I find it much more exciting and pushes the boundaries more. I aways smile a little at his political, views and views on religion,(many of which I share) but somehow he always makes me chuckle So big thumbs up for a new track, can't wait to see him Live and also another Queen tour in whatever form is great news. I am extremley interested in what split Brian and Paul? I hope we hear more about that. When and where is the full interview going to be printed? on Thomas's website I guess at somepoint but I assume it was commissioned for a mag? Which one?

mike hunt wrote:  Only in rogers dreams could he write and perform like Mr. mercury did on the barcelona album.  

mike hunt wrote: ok,  only in rogers dreams would he be able to write a song like bo rhap, MOTBQ, ECT.

Zebonka12 wrote: It's moot now but if I had a choice between seeing Q+PR and seeing Brian+Roger+ScreenFreddie, I'd choose the latter in a heartbeat.  At least that way I can shut my eyes and imagine Freddie's there.

They should rummage around in the archives and find some alternate tracks for Freddie's bits though, just to keep it a bit new and surprising. I don't care what anyone says about the Q+PR tours, Brian busting out Bijou when I didn't expect it was spine tingling, I really adored that bit.  I'd happily throw my last dime into seeing a Queen show if it was backed in parts by a screen-Freddie.

  Zebonka12 wrote:  

      mike hunt wrote:   ok,  only in rogers dreams would he be able to write a song like bo rhap, MOTBQ, ECT.  

      But why would any grown human being dream about writing someone else's songs, other than for maybe monetary reasons??  I think those are marvelous songs but I don't wish I'd written them.  Why the hell would I want to write like Freddie?  So I can become like Valensia?  (ie. tribute act).  

cmsdrums wrote: To be honest, it was banned purely because radio and TV completely misinterpreted the song and based purely on the title thought it was pro Nazi as opposed to anti Nazi; this was also around the time that Schindler's List was everywhere in the media and the song should really have been enjoying the same far minded treatment as that, as the content and message were of the same mind.

Zebonka12 wrote: I quite agree; I hope I don't make it sound like I hate the album ...  I just wish someone could strip some of the 80's off of it.

Al TurHao wrote: A new tour with a Freddie-hologram????? Am I the only one who thinks this is ridiculous and sounds desperate?

Al TurHao wrote: ... from Immortals... to regular mortals... with a chance of becoming laughable and ridiculous...

Holly2003 wrote: Hopefully, six and half minutes of this will be a drum solo, and the other 30 seconds, Roger trying to rhyme something with Afghanistan.