I'd like to have seen Freddie trash a piano.
Freddie: Blasted piano! *Ungh* *Ugh* Oh, bugger that *smokes*
John: Freddie! You said you'd give up on those! You're always like this when we go out!
Freddie: Shut up, you prat.
Brian: Can we have another sandwich?
J&F: NO!
Roger: ZzzZZzzzZZZz
So there you have it a fool proof explanation about why Brian doesn't want any Christmas mail/presents.
It was the Birch replica of the Red Special, it was gold, instead of red (and you can see it in the We Will Rock You and Spread your Wings video)
Brian became angry with it and threw it off the stage
I think it was before the Hot Space tour but not sure, apparently the neck snapped and it not possible to repair it.
It was later sent to Guild so they could measure it when they made a copy, however it was nicked from the Guild factory and never seen again.
So it's out there somewhere!
"I think it was before the Hot Space tour but not sure"
If memory serves - he can be seen playing the Birch copy during Dragon Attack on The Tube special (Milton Keynes) - I'm sure he played the Birch copy at the same point at Elland Road.
I've seen Freddie trash a guitar but not Brian.
And I've read that Roger trashed his drumkit, but I never would have thought that of Brian. I thought he rarely got in to tempers. Tut-tut if so.
"I'd like to have seen Freddie trash a piano.
Freddie: Blasted piano! *Ungh* *Ugh* Oh, bugger that *smokes*
John: Freddie! You said you'd give up on those! You're always like this when we go out!
Freddie: Shut up, you prat.
Brian: Can we have another sandwich?
J&F: NO!
Roger: ZzzZZzzzZZZz
So there you have it a fool proof explanation about why Brian doesn't want any Christmas mail/presents."
LMAO!
RT threw his kit around at the end of the Rainbow show, but it does look like it's only because he's being filmed...
Not sure HOW I get that feeling. I just do.
properly trashed like Pete Townshend, or shoved over a bit like on the Rainbow vid?
...btw good memory for detail - on Martin's behalf can I ask if you still have the ticket stub?
LOL P_G :)
I believe the official sources (books) describe at least one concert after which Roger trashed his drumkit but I can't remember the dates. Wasn't it Japan 1975? Also I believe one of Crystal's stories includes drumkit-trashing too :-)
Annyone got pictures from this events? also in video "Rare live" Freddie gets pissed of and begins trashing speakers and stuff on stage..i think its on sheer heart attack.
Many years ago I used to collect newspaper cuttings about Queen from around the world, I had one that stated during a show in the US Freddie got upset about something not happening on stage at the right moment, a lighting cue I think, and kicked Rogers kit, Roger was then meant to have pushed a cymbal stand back at him and a small fight broke out, which ended with Freddie storming off stage with John in tow, and Roger and Brian left waiting for his return.
If I remember correctly it was in the NME, which if you don't know was the biggest pile of crap going, so I am confident that it was made up just to slag Queen off as that was what they did in those days.
Nothing even worth wiping your bum on was ever written in NME, but there you go just thought I'd share it.
And sorry no I don't have the clip anymore, but I think it was around the late seventies, early eighties timeframe