must be the mood I'm in today but this almost brought me to tears...he truly was the greatest singer that ever sang a song...but of course that's my opinion of freddie...you have your own.
I'm slightly miffed at the marketing fuss centered around the fact that you can solo Freddie's voice. I'd be just as excited at soloing Brian, Roger and John's drums, bass and guitar!!
As you say, slightly annoyed at these two songs though - Mother Love has programmed drums and nothing inspiring bass wise, and along with Made In Heaven has no trademark Brian and Roger harmonies...:-(
This is nice, but, it's a shame they're just pre-mixed stems. The interesting part of the BoRhap leak were all the individual pieces you could listen to. Still, I wouldn't say no if I could attend the studio to have a play on it! Thanks for posting this :)
cmsdrums wrote:
I'm slightly miffed at the marketing fuss centered around the fact that you can solo Freddie's voice. I'd be just as excited at soloing Brian, Roger and John's drums, bass and guitar!!
As you say, slightly annoyed at these two songs though - Mother Love has programmed drums and nothing inspiring bass wise, and along with Made In Heaven has no trademark Brian and Roger harmonies...:-(
I think you are missing the point, being the significance of Mother Love as FM's last vocal and therefore the emotional connotation for lots of people, in the first place the great man's many fans ;-)
cmsdrums wrote:
I'm slightly miffed at the marketing fuss centered around the fact that you can solo Freddie's voice. I'd be just as excited at soloing Brian, Roger and John's drums, bass and guitar!!
As you say, slightly annoyed at these two songs though - Mother Love has programmed drums and nothing inspiring bass wise, and along with Made In Heaven has no trademark Brian and Roger harmonies...:-(
I think you are missing the point, being the significance of Mother Love as FM's last vocal and therefore the emotional connotation for lots of people, in the first place the great man's many fans ;-)
I do indeed get the significance, and the ability to hear Freddie's last vocal. That is indeed the big selling point of this exhibition. It does however carry Queen's name, not Freddie's as a solo project, so if they opened up the numer of tracks that can be played with it would give more credit to the whole band as a phenomenal working studio band, rather than sell it PURELY on the emotional aspect of hearing a 'dying man'.
As a musician there are far more Queen tracks I'd like to pull apart than Mother Love.
I totally agree that any other instrument (including Freddie's piano or synth work) can be just as interesting as the isolated vocals but it depends on the actual song.
I think 'Was It All Worth It' would be one of the most interesting ones in that respect: guitars are magnificent, drums are marvellous (and they're live drums instead of shitty machines), bass is great, synths are lovely, lead vocals are outstanding, backing vocals are mesmerising (I'd like to isolate the 'surrealistic' bit) and, unlike 'Made in Heaven' (the song), it was actually done in Montreux.