Brian May claimed:
If we'd tried to do Good Company, for instance, or The Prophet's Song, it would have been much harder.
Really? Now, 'Good Company' is, harmonically speaking, quite a simple song, and it's got a very straightforward structure. The arrangement is genius and it'd be ridiculous to even try to replicate it live, but they could've easily performed a stripped-down version of the song. In fact, Brian has done it recently, on his own...
And on that very tour they did perform 'The Prophet's Song'. Dr Memory strikes again!
Brian May claimed:
If we'd tried to do Good Company, for instance, or The Prophet's Song, it would have been much harder.
Really? Now, 'Good Company' is, harmonically speaking, quite a simple song, and it's got a very straightforward structure. The arrangement is genius and it'd be ridiculous to even try to replicate it live, but they could've easily performed a stripped-down version of the song. In fact, Brian has done it
recently, on his own...
And on that very tour they did perform 'The
Prophet's Song'. Dr Memory strikes again!
"the arrangment is genius and it'd be ridiculous to even try to replicate it live" I couldn't agree more. But I think you should apply that line of thought to what BM was talking about. There is no way that the original could be performed live by a four piece