No it isn't.
Carrying lighting trusses, pushing video screen carts, stacking full flight cases in trucks and pushing them up ramps, pulling chains up to rigging points running out and then clearing multi cores for lighting and sound, lifting Linearay cabs into position so they can be pinned at the correct flying angle are all much harder work than pushing the main stage platform into place.
More predictable 80's pop.
This could have gone one of two ways. When Brian said new song I thought for a minute Sleeping On The Side Walk or Fight From The Inside. . .
Yet another missed opportunity. At this rate Frank and the Bass drum head will have gone before the end of the tour!
Vocal harmony wrote:
More predictable 80's pop.
This could have gone one of two ways. When Brian said new song I thought for a minute Sleeping On The Side Walk or Fight From The Inside. . .
Yet another missed opportunity. At this rate Frank and the Bass drum head will have gone before the end of the tour!
Yawn! Totally uninspiring. "Risky, dangerous?" Hardly. It's like watching a once-proud bike rider hobbling about on glammed-up training wheels and calling it a marvelous race.
Yeah I must admit I'm starting to lose interest im seeing them again next year. I was hoping for these older tracks to be a major part of it all. Now as mentioned it's just a greatest hits concert. Needs more NOTW.
Calling this dangerous? LOL come one guys.
It's only dangerous if they perform atleast 4 songs they never done.
Something like:
Innuendo
Hitman
Sleeping On The Sidewalk
Breakthru.
But no, we get fucking, FUCKING. A kind of magic..
It's Late
Spread Your Wings
Sleeping On The Side Walk
Fight From The Inside
Break Thru
Innuendo
Head Long
I Was a Born To Love You
Made In Heaven
Long Away
Is This The World We Created
All the above should have been played, if not every night, certainly regularly in favour of the more predictable. The NOTW tracks because that's what they claimed the tour would reflect. The rest are unplayed greatest hits, therefore not unknown to joe blow in 112 row J, and somethings new for those who've been fans/ been going to see the band for years.
The last two, why not. One reflects the world we live in and hasn't been played since 86 and the other a song real fans would probably love to hear at a Queen (+) gig .
I saw the show in Amneville and have to say the performance is smoking hot.
Brian May is in absolute top shape, playing inspired and beautifully. He also looks good and happy.
Roger on the other hand...seems to have a difficult time. He was out of breath after the drum battle, it really asks a lot od him to just perform on an acceptable level. He looked tired and he really needs Tyler Warren. His voice is still good though.
I have no doubt that the shows are brilliant. I think Brian did himself a huge favour in 2012 by choosing to tour ( like the old days) without a 2nd guitarist. His style of playing seems to suit being the only guitar.
What I don't understand is Roger insisting on the drum solo/battle. He obviously needs the extra percussion to carry his parts so why choose to do something that requires still more energy and fitness which he appears to be lacking in. Don't get me wrong I'm not knocking his playing which has a very natural swing to it, just that all those years not touring are showing now.
It's disturbing, all the complaints. When Rufus drummed TYMD, it was "Roger is too old for that song". Now it's Roger drumming on TYMD, nobody says anything. They're old? Yes. They're brilliant? Yes! And the songs are greates hits, because they're not playing clib gigs but big halls and stadiums.
JomaDuckSoup wrote:
It's disturbing, all the complaints. When Rufus drummed TYMD, it was "Roger is too old for that song". Now it's Roger drumming on TYMD, nobody says anything. They're old? Yes. They're brilliant? Yes! And the songs are greates hits, because they're not playing clib gigs but big halls and stadiums.
Agreed, someone before the first dates of the US leg was saying they wouldn't play Its Late because Roger "couldn't drum it".
It's clear he can still play, but he is lacking the ferocity he used to have. Clearly whether it's Rufus or Tyler it isn't Roger carrying the rhythm section for a lot of the show.
If you watch Ginger Baker at the Cream reunion gigs 10 years ago he was playing better than Roger was then or now and he was doing it on his own