There is a famous Oasis clip where they are on Top of the Pops singing Roll With It where Liam and Noel switched places as they hated miming on the show.
Imagine Queen did the same thing and they dicided to mime the performance in each others places.
Who do you think would go where?
I have to think about John on the mic for this!
(Just imagine it is I Want It All.. the big come back single of 89)
Well there’s already that documentary footage where Freddie plays drums & Roger is on the Red Special!
So I’d have to stick with Fred on drums & Rog on guitar. I’d LOVE John on vocals, but Bri on bass isn’t quite as interesting, so I guess Bri might have to do drums & Freddie bass, sigh.
Actually, I reckon Roger would be brilliant value miming as front man! I think I’ll have Roger as front man, John rockin’ guitar solos, Bri on drums & Fred bopping with the bass!
mooghead wrote:
I thought that but Roger on the mic is almost a given.. too predictable
Haha, alright then... I feel like John would be uncomfortable on the mic, but I’d be intrigued to see what Bri would do in the front man position! Would he totally go for it, Freddie-esque?
Thus it’ll have to be
Vocals: Brian
Guitar: John
Bass: Roger
Drums: Freddie
Squeeze did the same thing on Top Of The Pops when they refused to let them play live. So they all swapped instruments with keyboard player Jools Holland on guitar. link
Muse have done it too when made to mime. It’s pretty entertaining! Even keeping up the pretence of “the drummer, Matt”! link
All bands should do it when forced to mime, I think!!
Fred Mandel (AKA: MR HANDSOME) - Keyboards /Vocals/ Front man
Brian May - upright bass
John Deacon - Percussion
Roger Taylor - Guitar
Freddie Mercury - Drums
mooghead wrote:
I dont know who is in Muse so I wouldn't get it.
If I'm honest, I haven't listened to their newest material, however, here's a live version of one song I love if you're interested to check 'em out: link
They definitely took inspiration from Queen, so could be interesting to listen to if only for that reason.
I feel like the proverbial dog that has seen the rainbow and all the other dogs don't have a clue what he is talking about.
It's fantastic that Queen/Freddie get so much publicity. Rami seems like a nice guy and I don't mind good things happening to him. But there is absolutely no way he should have won an Oscar, the most prestigious film award there is, for this performance. For half of the film he was nowhere near resembling Freddie and even in the other half the brilliant moments were not that many. If this was an Oscar-worthy performance, how bad would a non-Oscar-worthy performance have been???
Happy to see a few fellow not-color-blind dogs here :D