QueenZone discussion #1510486

snifflese wrote: Is there a good video for Play the Game? I would like to listen to that one a few times. I thought it has improved a lot since the first show (too much vibrato), but by the third, it was pretty good and I would love to hear it again! Thanks!

Vali wrote: Btw guys, what do you think about the current format for Somebody To Love? Starting just with Brian & Adam, then joined by Roger at the end of the catwalk, etc etc? It's intimate and I kinda like it, but when reviewing videos from a couple of years ago, I think I prefer the previous format, including that rockin'ending the guys played. It was a highlight back then to me, but now ...yes, it's just a nice performance but it lacks some punch.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Vali wrote: Btw guys, what do you think about the current format for Somebody To Love? Starting just with Brian & Adam, then joined by Roger at the end of the catwalk, etc etc? It's intimate and I kinda like it, but when reviewing videos from a couple of years ago, I think I prefer the previous format, including that rockin'ending the guys played. It was a highlight back then to me, but now ...yes, it's just a nice performance but it lacks some punch.

I hear you. They're just trying a different version this time. It's very vaudeville and kitschy. Last year they were also playing It's Late, and maybe they dropped the ending because they were too similar. And they just stuck with this version as it is.

rockchic65 wrote:

The Real Wizard wrote:

Vali wrote: Btw guys, what do you think about the current format for Somebody To Love? Starting just with Brian & Adam, then joined by Roger at the end of the catwalk, etc etc? It's intimate and I kinda like it, but when reviewing videos from a couple of years ago, I think I prefer the previous format, including that rockin'ending the guys played. It was a highlight back then to me, but now ...yes, it's just a nice performance but it lacks some punch.

I hear you. They're just trying a different version this time. It's very vaudeville and kitschy. Last year they were also playing It's Late, and maybe they dropped the ending because they were too similar. And they just stuck with this version as it is.

I wasn't sure at first but it's grown on me. I did love the other version, very dramatic but I do like this as well and it's a nice moment between Brian & Adam, the audience seemed to like it at the show I saw, but then a lot probably hadn't seen the previous version.

Vali wrote: I'm a Queen fan. I'm 42 and fell in love with Freddie, Brian, Roger and John back in 1984, when the videoclips for Radio Ga Ga and I Want To Break Free hit the TV. My collection is huge. I love music and many other artists and bands. But Queen will always be my band. And despite we like Brian+Roger still carrying the Queen torch or not, despite we liked Paul Rodgers or not, despite we like Adam Lambert or not, I found myself the other day giving a standing ovation to Brian and Roger when the show in Barcelona ended and God Save The Queen was playing loud. I can agree or not with the "artistic" decisions they've taken in recent years, but I realized more than ever that I love these guys. I really love them! They've been there all my life and have given me so much joy. And they are not young. They are rock legends that have aged but they still want to rock on stage. Yes, they won't play Tenement Funster, Innuendo or Sail Away Sweet Sister for "us", but Radio Ga Ga, Rock You and Champions instead.

Catus wrote: Sorry, here it is once again, Love Of My Life in Lisbon (hope the link works this time)

people on streets wrote: link Full show soon on youtube. Dude who taped it, takes it relatively serious. Good camera work and external audio.

Vali wrote:

people on streets wrote: link Full show soon on youtube. Dude who taped it, takes it relatively serious. Good camera work and external audio.

Great quality, really great! but I’m missing Mr. Taylor! Too much focus on Adam, I think. Hope the full show video fixes that when we get to other songs.

runner_70 wrote: NO hearing aid necessary - his voval lines are totally off- its almost as he is singing to another melody. HE plain S U C K S, Thats why we hate him don't hijack Queen songs for impromptu Yodeling

runner_70 wrote: Princeton - this guy is the epitome of an abomination. He is ruining the Queen songs each time he opens his ugly mouth. His stage antics seem to ridicule Freddie and his music. He comes across as a retarded prick, an overweight tranny not being able to sing to save his life. He may hit the high notes but is a totally soulless screaming emo wanker not worthy to be on stage with Roger and Brian. They should ditch him in the desert and leave him there for good so that he never will be able to destroy a great band like Queen

princetom wrote: HEY ! it's BM ... AND ... RT... doing stuff... live... i would have died for that stuff in the end of the 90s !

The Real Wizard wrote:

princetom wrote: HEY ! it's BM ... AND ... RT... doing stuff... live... i would have died for that stuff in the end of the 90s !

I remember that time very well. It seemed completely impossible that they would work together again after No One But You, as they each released solo albums the following year. It all seemed to be over. But then the Queen+ activities slowly began (likely because Cozy Powell died - I really am certain these two things are correlated). After a bunch of missteps, they hooked up with Paul Rodgers and everything changed. I have never heard Brian May sound so upbeat than the interviews in early 2005. It's like he got a second lease on life. The Lambert period has lasted longer and may ultimately be a better product, but nothing in the last decade of Queen+ compares to the excitement people felt before that first proper gig at the Brixton Academy in 2005. To suggest otherwise is revisionist history. It really felt like hell froze over.

runner_70 wrote: QPR could have been the final epitaph - it was believable - the pairing of three legends was daring and convincing. Who would have thought that they team up with a casting monkey and sellout as lame Greatest Hits cover band. Freddie would not have loved it - he woulöd have hated it being non creative (not to mention a guy with no talent whatsoever destroying his songs)

The Real Wizard wrote: . . . . The Lambert period has lasted longer and may ultimately be a better product, but nothing in the last decade of Queen+ compares to the excitement people felt before that first proper gig at the Brixton Academy in 2005. To suggest otherwise is revisionist history. It really felt like hell froze over.

snifflese wrote: Check out the reviews, dude, because I have not read one single positive review of QPR anywhere. Many of the QAL reviews mention how ill fit Rogers and Queen were. The only place they seem to be a resounding success is on Queen sites and that alone is suspicious. I gave Rogers a good listen on Youtube and found him boring as all get out, like watching paint dry. His voice is not suited to Queen's music ( didn't even like the heavier stuff with him) and he has zero charisma or style.

runner_70 wrote: Snifflese is a moron - completely delusional when it comes to good music. Lameturd has nothing to do with music at all. he is a manufactured casting monkey whose own career is over

runner_70 wrote: how will it? YOu still think Lamefart will be the megastar? MOst Queen Followers who visit this tragedy tolerate him nothing more. Most hate him. He ditched his solocareer to live on Maylors laurels. Noone wants to listen to Lamebert solo

The Real Wizard wrote: Paul's treatment of the end of Bohemian Rhapsody forgives any of the follies. It was done with creatively yet complete respect for the original. They liked him because he was nothing like Freddie musically or visually. He was a breath of fresh air, and the exact opposite of who people spent a decade saying they should hook up with - George Michael. And they had access to Paul's back catalog, which made for a pretty interesting show. I saw the show three times, and my resounding memory is the Free and Bad Company tunes getting equally big cheers as Queen's biggest tunes. At that first show in 2005 I learned that Queen were just another big rock band in the US, equal to Bad Company, unlike their regal status in the UK of being second to The Beatles. There were lots of good reviews: link link link I knew there was a good reason I saved these.

SweetCaroline wrote: I never saw QPR. Maybe I would have loved it. But if you have never seen QPR or QAL, you are not qualified to make a credible comparison!

snifflese wrote: Well, everyone has a different viewpoint. To some of us who love the theatrics and what you call "gimmicks", QPR does seem flat, uninspired and one dimensional. Whether or not you believe it, the bike and the couch get some of the biggest applause because it is just so silly and people love it! People are going to be entertained and sometimes "real" in this world is just not what they want. They want to go on a flight of fantasy, Of course, it is just not gimmicks, the musicianship and the singing are stellar. I do agree about the head business, I do cringe and could do without that one!

SweetCaroline wrote: Videos and streams are nice but it is a whole different world and experience WHEN YOU ARE THERE !!!!!

runner_70 wrote: She needs to be permanently banned like on QOL

runner_70 wrote: She is clearly mentally ill with her spamming. And she seems to be banned over at QOL for good now

runner_70 wrote: SHe has been banned for good over at QOL for spamming each thread with her links trying to sell the wanker to the Queen diehards. And now she is trying the same here. About time QAL is hostory and forgotten for good. Just a sad lil footnote in Queen history. Maylor will say sorry in 3 years time when they will rethink how the harmed the Queen brand with this annoying collaboration