| n707pa 26.11.2004 23:38 |
Both times I saw David live, his bass player hit the high note in Under Pressure both times. That part where Freddie says Why? Did Freddie ever hit it live? |
| deleted user 27.11.2004 02:39 |
I'm not sure if he did hit it high, I know Freddie speak sings the song alot though when live. |
| Sebastian 27.11.2004 04:12 |
Fred didn't, at least in the versions I've heard, and I guess, rather than know, that he wouldn't risk his throat that early on stage (but he did sing even higher notes in Impromptu so perhaps he also gave it a try). As for David's bassplayer, I think she hits the note one octave lower |
| Daburcor? 27.11.2004 07:26 |
Sebastian wrote: As for David's bassplayer, I think she hits the note one octave lowerI think you're right... It doesn't sound quite the same. |
| Scirocco1977 27.11.2004 08:16 |
If you try to hit a very high note during the first part of a concert, you might ruin your vocal chords for the rest of the concert and your voice could keep on cracking like Milton Keynes Fat bottomed girls "in this locality" section... Did you ever drive to work early in the morning and sang along a Queen song with full capacity, and wondered why you had a sore throat the whole day??? |
| n707pa 27.11.2004 12:12 |
When I heard gail sing, It sounds likes she hits it. Mind you I've only seen it done twice but I've heard about 50 bootlegs. Gail is amazing. |
| Adam Baboolal 27.11.2004 16:23 |
It's not impossible to do as I have done it myself. But it's a rare thing.
Scirocco1977 wrote: Did you ever drive to work early in the morning and sang along a Queen song with full capacity, and wondered why you had a sore throat the whole day???Not the same thing. That's because you didn't "warm up" properly. How do you think singers get up on radio or tv early in the morning and deliver fine vocals? And it won't ruin your vocals for the rest of the day. Think of it like this: What happened to Bruce Lee when he didn't warm up before lifting weights? He strained his back so bad that he was partially disabled for a long time after that. Same thing with your vocal cords. Don't treat them right and you're going to cause damage for an uncertain period of time. Peace, Adam. |
| RockitPJ 27.11.2004 20:37 |
Freddie reaches this note in the studio because he uses his "falsetto" voice to reach it. The only time I recall Freddie using a "falsetto" voice live was during the intro of "Hard Life" during the Rockin Rio gig. |
| deleted user 27.11.2004 20:43 |
And about a zillion other times. All the Impromptus sprint to mind. |
| The Real Wizard 28.11.2004 00:11 |
...also in the earliest versions of In The Lap Of The Gods Revisited (Magic tour versions too) and You Take My Breath Away. |
| NOTWMEDDLE 28.11.2004 02:52 |
RockitPJ wrote: Freddie reaches this note in the studio because he uses his "falsetto" voice to reach it. The only time I recall Freddie using a "falsetto" voice live was during the intro of "Hard Life" during the Rockin Rio gig.Usually Freddie sang the there's no reason for living line in a low octave! |
| RockitPJ 28.11.2004 08:00 |
You are all right, he did use his falsetto voice frequently during live shows, but for whatever reason he didn't during Under Pressure to reach that High note during "Why". I think it would have sounded great! Freddie was the best at using his falsetto voice and full range during the same song. It makes me cringe whe I hear other singers try to do it! |
| Sebastian 28.11.2004 08:28 |
Under Pressure was one of the "biggies", so if Fred had some problem and did the wrong note he could ruin a special moment of the concert (unlike Impromptu which was... just that). So it was safer to do one octave lower. Roger did sing an equally high note every night of 1975 during Lap Of The Gods |
| Little_Queenie 28.11.2004 11:21 |
Scirocco1977 wrote: If you try to hit a very high note during the first part of a concert, you might ruin your vocal chords for the rest of the concert and your voice could keep on cracking like Milton Keynes Fat bottomed girls "in this locality" section... Did you ever drive to work early in the morning and sang along a Queen song with full capacity, and wondered why you had a sore throat the whole day???I don't think it was such a big risk, and as someone said, Freddie always warmed up his voice before the concert.. Further, it was a falsetto, and it's really not so hard to hit that exact note for anyone who has naturally high voice, and Freddie definitely had. |
| meemoe 28.11.2004 17:08 |
Actually, in the Stuttgart (Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle) - 27.9.1984 (which you can Download here) during the high note part, Freddie goes WHYYY?!? in normal tone, then he goes into a a high "woooooooooh" with the echo thing |
| Mr Mercury 28.11.2004 17:42 |
Personally I am not too bothered that he didnt go for the high note. I like the fact that he often didnt sing the songs as they appeared on the albums as to me it meant that he could put a different emotion into the song on the night. |
| RockitPJ 28.11.2004 21:34 |
I second that HeM, why pay to hear the studio version at a concert? But it's always nice to hear Freddie hit the high notes now and then! |
| Jjeroen 29.11.2004 05:56 |
Back to Bowie for this one ;-) Gail Ann Dorsey indeed reaches the note. I've seen Bowie dozens of times for the last almost fifteen years and collected as much bootlegs. So I have lots of live-rendition heard and in collection of his UP live-version. He's been playing it with Gail Ann ever since the first Outside tour in 1995. But it was only until his last years Reality Tour that Gail's high note came to full growth. This time around she not only hits the high note, on more then one occasion she even made it one more octave HIGHER! You think she's there, but what the F***... she's pushing it even further! Honestly: thé goose-bums moment of many Reality-show!! Now, back to reality... ;-) Of course Gail Ann is absolutely great wonderfull and more. But when you listen to some bootlegs of the Reality tour, no-one can deny hearing that there was indeed some electronic pitching in there. She hits the note, but she's using a pitch to get there in a clean note and to allow her to switch to headvoice without listeners realy noticing. |
| redyfredy01 29.11.2004 19:18 |
Queen23 wrote: I'm not sure if he did hit it high, I know Freddie speak sings the song alot though when live. I agree, he did speak sing alot didn't he? I have a live C.D. and i had never heard that C.D. before, but i know the songs from other C.D.s i have but i was singing along, and all of a sudden, freddie starts speaking the words instead of singing it. I was so angry that they mest up the song. |
| NOTWMEDDLE 01.12.2004 03:27 |
jeroen wrote: Back to Bowie for this one ;-) Gail Ann Dorsey indeed reaches the note. I've seen Bowie dozens of times for the last almost fifteen years and collected as much bootlegs. So I have lots of live-rendition heard and in collection of his UP live-version. He's been playing it with Gail Ann ever since the first Outside tour in 1995. But it was only until his last years Reality Tour that Gail's high note came to full growth. This time around she not only hits the high note, on more then one occasion she even made it one more octave HIGHER! You think she's there, but what the F***... she's pushing it even further! Honestly: thé goose-bums moment of many Reality-show!! Now, back to reality... ;-) Of course Gail Ann is absolutely great wonderfull and more. But when you listen to some bootlegs of the Reality tour, no-one can deny hearing that there was indeed some electronic pitching in there. She hits the note, but she's using a pitch to get there in a clean note and to allow her to switch to headvoice without listeners realy noticing.His ex-guitarist Reeves Gabriels used to hit ear splitting notes as he would play extremely higher than normal notes on his guitar. The Whammy pedal works wonders doesn't it. |
| NOTWMEDDLE 01.12.2004 03:27 |
the_hero wrote: Live in Montreal '82 from the DVD "We will rock you" it's on of the first times he did it live.Actually, it was 1981 when WWRY was shot. |
| Fenderek 01.12.2004 08:11 |
<font color=darkred><b>HeM</b></font> wrote: I thought Freddie warmed his voice enough to reach how many high notes he wanted...Show me one live version of We Are The Champions when Fred hit all the high notes... |
| kleinhond 07.12.2004 15:20 |
''no-one can deny hearing that there was indeed some electronic pitching in there. She hits the note, but she's using a pitch to get there in a clean note and to allow her to switch to headvoice without listeners realy noticing.'' can u explain this for someone not very techy minded! |
| The Real Wizard 10.12.2004 03:47 |
Fenderek wrote: Show me one live version of We Are The Champions when Fred hit all the high notes...Newcastle 12-4-79. Next? :D |