QueenZone discussion #1517313

happystar wrote: In today's "Daily Star" a Queen fan has a letter published under the name of Mr.coffee and he says he thinks it is unfair that Queen (May & Taylor ) are been unfair to charge £300 for a ticket. Personally i agree it is disgusting considering that Queen are not a complete unit like they used to be. May & Taylor are milking Queen for every single drop they can squeeze out of the dead carcass that is Queen. What do think? ( NO ROWS ON THIS THREAD PLEASE, JUST STICK TO THE TOPIC)

happystar wrote: i thought all the Lambert shower would be on here first lol So you are saying Brian & Roger do not have a say in ticket prices? I am sure they have a little say in that somewhere?

Sealion wrote: Do you still think 69-79£ is too much? I for one don‘t think they make much money by that. The whole production is too huge. VIP-packages and merchandise must be their main income.

happystar wrote: Yes i think £69 is too much to pay for two old men and a effeminate goat lol

happystar wrote: Thistleboy : You are the thick twat and your starting again, if we were in a pub id take you outside and sort this out.

happystar wrote: Queen always toured with many many trucks so that is not unusual in Queen terms.

happystar wrote: Thistleboy you need to control that petty temper of yours and you should not reply if it annoys you that is your problem not mine matey. You do name calling as well as i have just read your other comments slagging me off which is rather funny. You sound very immature and for the record i do not take drugs cos i am not that pathetic. By the way i am not on the wrong section, this is still a general discussion on Queen. I have every right to express my vies no matter how corse they are, have you not read music magazines were journalists are brash, because Freddie had it most of his adult life.

happystar wrote: Sealion what the hell do you know about music if you think an american idol looser is justified to replace a rock legend? Go get back to your Q+ hovel.

Happystar also started the thread: ( NO ROWS ON THIS THREAD PLEASE, JUST STICK TO THE TOPIC)

happystar wrote: Sealion never accept second best then, your too tolerant of accepting what your not happy with. That is the trouble with many Queen fans saying Lambert is ok when really they know Freddie was better. I do not fall for that junk, for me it is Freddie and john or do not bother.

happystar wrote: Sealion never accept second best then, your too tolerant of accepting what your not happy with. That is the trouble with many Queen fans saying Lambert is ok when really they know Freddie was better. I do not fall for that junk, for me it is Freddie and john or do not bother.

happystar wrote: Sealion well you are entitled to your opinion but i actually think Brian's playing has become worse over the years. He was brilliant around 1976 up to 1980 then he started to get lazy and now i think his playing is flat.

Freddie was a brilliant singer so really his style was more rock n roll were Lambert is west end musical sort of Michael Ball style of singing.

happystar wrote: one could say the same about Tom Jones or Paul McCartney but there comes a time when they must step down because they start to look pathetic or die on stage !

happystar wrote: Check out Brians chords on A Day At The Races album and songs like Tie your mother down, he was on fire back then. Yes i know he is 71 and still a great guitarist but his best days were in the 70s,

happystar wrote: Of course you have to say that because your a Lambert fan. Back in 2014 i saw them on Tv and they were truly lost souls on that stage, and it showed. Queen rock Big Ben live which was aired on the BBC and i only watched at least 10 mins worth and i felt sick to my stomach. No John Deacon and no Freddie Mercury it looked so weird.

happystar wrote: Yes i guess i do compare because i have been a fan most of my life, and today seeing them the way they look is limp and there appeal for me now is zero.

happystar wrote: Queen always toured with many many trucks so that is not unusual in Queen terms.

happystar wrote: Surely "The Magic Tour" was Queens biggest tour to date as i saw a documentary about it many years ago. If anything i think the stage show is pretty poor compared to the giant stages they had in the 70s & 80s.

happystar wrote: Surely "The Magic Tour" was Queens biggest tour to date as i saw a documentary about it many years ago. If anything i think the stage show is pretty poor compared to the giant stages they had in the 70s & 80s.

Vocal harmony wrote:

happystar wrote: Queen always toured with many many trucks so that is not unusual in Queen terms.

Production wise, nothing they toured with in the 70's and 80's compares to what they're using now. The biggest arena production they toured with was The Works, it traveled in nine trucks with two crew busses. The current tour, as Rockchic has pointed out, is using twenty two trucks. There is no comparison. Live production has changed so much since the mid 80's. Staging is more elaborate, video inbthe current tour is huge , two stage width screens, nine tons of flown lights plus a stage width wall of lights. The only time Queen had more trucks on the road was during Hot Space and The Magic tour outdoor shows during which the extra trucks carries scaffold and extra PA needed to play outdoors. Both those tours used a 60x40ft stage platform, exeptance got Wembley and Knebworth 86 which used extra wide staging and a large video screen, the stage at both these shows didn't tour. So yeah, in the 80's they were known for big lighting productions and for the time a fair amount ofvtrucks but compared to now.... Not even close

Vocal harmony wrote: The type O's in my post probably didn't help, I was rushing!

Vocal harmony wrote: Back in the day the Queen shows were stunning, but so were Genisis, Pink Floyd and AC/DC and Van Halen in the early 80's.

Vocal harmony wrote: Looking back, because the way the industry has progressed, those 70's and 80's shows will never have the impact now that they had then.

Vocal harmony wrote: By the end of the 80's the production values that were associated with those acts were wide spread, to the point that whether it was U2, Madonna, Micheal Jackson, AC/DC and any number of others visually they had all caught up

happystar wrote: Who is discriminating against blood types? Was not me mooghead and for your information your are C***

Vocal harmony wrote: Indeed, the Glass Spider shows were another huge step forward at the time. I still find it exciting even today. Unfortunatly a lot of the inpact of seeing a live production now has been lost as everything is all over YouTube after the the first night of a tour. The other thing to remember, from a proffecional point of view, almost everything you see in most productions is put together using off the shelf components, or redesigned/reconfigured of the shelf products. So although the audience is seeing something new, what us "insiders" see is a development and progression from a year or two before. From a lighting point of view, for years and years the Parcan was the standard lamp, in different guises. Every 70's and 80's Queen show was based around Parcans. However in the very early 80's the Varilite appeared. Genesis who put money into the development of the varilite were the first band to take out an entirely Varilite based rig, a major leap forward, up until 86 Queen still used the old and largely outdated Parcans. The first series varilite were developed and the system is now standard, the French Klay Paky company are probably the leading and most wide spread development of the original Varilite.