Saw Queen and Adam in CT and they did the video footage of Freddie doing Day-O and the crowd followed along. I noticed they did not do it in NJ or NYC the last two shows. Anyone know why??
Great part of the show.
I've heard it was a time constraint issue, but I'm not sure if I believe that. If it's because B&R caved to pressure that there's "too much Freddie" in the show, then it would be incredibly disappointing. Not disappointing enough to make me sell my tickets, but frustrating enough for me as a Queen fan who thought there had been a good balance of past and present.
Maybe Two Fux is more important.
Two Fux is definitely the low light of the show (at least for me and I'd imagine for most of us here)...I understand appeasing the Adam fans and since it's his latest release.
I can't understand them dropping the Day-O because of 'too much Freddie' in the show, though...certainly hadn't heard that. It's not like there's much of him there without the day-o to begin with.
I don't get the time constraint reason either, which is what a roadie told my friend in CT about the reason they dropped 'it's Late' and 'Spread Your Wings.'
That doesn't make sense to me...McCartney does longer shows as do other artists. Would an extra 10 minutes really make a difference? Especially when the shows are scheduled to start at 8:00 but don't begin until 8:30. You'd think all the timing would have been well worked out a long time ago.
Who knows, but, yeah it would have been great to have heard the day-o bit during the Newark and Brooklyn gigs.
Brian and Roger sucks this tour in their setlist-decisions
When you come to Europe:
* Bring We Will Rock You (fast)
* Leave Two Flux
* Spread Your Wings, It's Late on the set
* No I Want To break Free
* Try something NEW (old rare Queen songs, not a new song with Glambert)
felix ibex wrote:
If they go over the Time limit curfew by a minute they have to pay for another hour ! so they save money and its thousands of Dollars
I understand..but then why have a longer set-list to begin with?
Other performers like McCartney don't seem to have a problem playing longer shows.
felix ibex wrote:
If they go over the Time limit curfew by a minute they have to pay for another hour ! so they save money and its thousands of Dollars
I understand..but then why have a longer set-list to begin with?
Other performers like McCartney don't seem to have a problem playing longer shows.
Its the Venue that does it ,they give them a timeframe and so Queen then decide what fits and what doesnt in that Timeframe , its not Queen,each Venue is different and City . I hope that helps. Perhaps Mr McCartney has it set in the Contract ?
Its the Venue that does it ,they give them a timeframe and so Queen then decide what fits and what doesnt in that Timeframe , its not Queen,each Venue is different and City . I hope that helps. Perhaps Mr McCartney has it set in the Contract ?
Could be a possible reason, but I think there are other reasons, if you consider they dropped songs and added 'I Want To Break Free'. So they could have easily kept SYW (or Freddie's Day-O) and not added IWTBF. If they changed it from venue to venue it would make more sense because of specific restrictions at different venues.
I think it's more along the lines that they dropped those songs because they felt the audiences didn't know them as well.