Mr. Farenheit 16.01.2006 20:32 |
I love Brian. Dont get me wrong. But his need to put up quotes of every flash in the pan band that comes along who mentions they like Queen is a bit much. His website is constantly mentioning "Band of the moment" cites Queen as an influence. He seems to have some need to be relevant. Like....look....these guys say we were good....so we were. Brian....YOU WERE GREAT....YOU ARE GREAT......ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATS....no need to cite every instance of BOHRAP being on this or that list....or acting like a schoolgirl when a bad review or something negative is said or written. He really should just pull back some and let the music and his outstanding guitar playing speak for itself. It does. |
Lester Burnham 16.01.2006 20:34 |
Methinks that Arlene is now reporting news for brianmay.com. Every time the word "Queen" is mentioned somewhere... "WOAH HEY GET THAT UP ON THE SITE!" |
Teleduke 16.01.2006 20:39 |
I agree. I think it's a common phenomenon among aging rock stars, the need to feel relevent and appreciated by the young up-and-comers. Certainly not unique to Brian, but unattractive nonetheless. Several years ago, I recall an appearance by Brian on the Tonight Show. Slash performed TYMD with him. It seemed that Brian was trotting out the "guitar hero du jour" in order to validate his own status as a legend. Ironically, Slash stank up the joint and Brian had to swoop in and propel the last solo into the stratosphere while grimacing musically and sliding across the stage on his knees! Brian is amazing, IMO. Slash? eh...not so much. |
Adam Baboolal 16.01.2006 21:26 |
Yes, isn't is Arlene that puts these stories up. That's the whole point. Not Brian's ego. *Tsk Tsk* Peace, Adam. |
Lester Burnham 16.01.2006 21:28 |
Adam Baboolal wrote: Yes, isn't is Arlene that puts these stories up. That's the whole point. Not Brian's ego. *Tsk Tsk* Peace, Adam.I can't tell if you're making fun of me or not :( |
Brian_Mays_Wig 16.01.2006 21:33 |
Yes, Ive always thought Brian has a really big Ego. There's absolutely nothing that comes anywhere near Queen! |
iron eagle 16.01.2006 22:28 |
that stuff would come from the webmistress and not the man himself... unless its yahoo related i doubt it would be doremi he is busy in atlanta rehearsing for the show.. ooops crap... i didnt say that...... |
Serry... 17.01.2006 02:54 |
Agree. But when I said few things about Brian's ego (and royalties) one guy wanted to ban me from QZ, so I'd better shut up right now. |
Fenderek 17.01.2006 04:43 |
iron eagle wrote: that stuff would come from the webmistress and not the man himself...Exactly!!! Jen is the one who posts all this stuff, not Brian... |
Ready_Coddie 17.01.2006 05:02 |
Much of Queen's great works (WWRY) & such despite being written by Brian seemed to show Freddie as the main influence... even in concerts, Brian rarely sang 39... songs like Long Away, Drowse were literally abandoned... He is recognized rarely for his composing skills but only as someone who can rock a guitar in a given note or so... Though you all are aware of his contributions do you assume everyone at Jay Leno's show did? The reason he has this ego & tries to show off is because much of his efforts were never recognized by the general public. |
stateside fan 17.01.2006 06:39 |
Brian is a wonderful musician,a good song writer and general all around good guy.But yes he seems to be all about Bri after Freddies passing.Maybe thats just natural progression as he assumes band leadership.But as the good man once said,"there can be only one!Mr Mercury was the man. |
Sharon G. 17.01.2006 06:46 |
stateside fan wrote: Brian is a wonderful musician,a good song writer and general all around good guy.But yes he seems to be all about Bri after Freddies passing.Maybe thats just natural progression as he assumes band leadership.But as the good man once said,"there can be only one!Mr Mercury was the man.So True! |
[StArMaN] 17.01.2006 07:30 |
Brian really does have ego issues > The IWIA rewrited credits from "Queen" to "Brian May" is a good example. (like Paul McCartney wanting to changes credits of "Yesterday") |
Togg 17.01.2006 07:46 |
Well he did write it so I guess he's allowed to say so! Jen puts up the quotes, and assumes that people are interested in anything about queen, pretty fair assumption really as it's a site about Brian and the band really. |
Negative Creep 17.01.2006 08:19 |
its DISGUSTING that brian has changed a "queen" writing credit to just "brian may". you won't see that happening to any songs freddie wrote but was credited to "queen". the whole q&pr tour was a huge brian may ego trip. pity it was crap though. |
That guy who digs energy domes 17.01.2006 08:40 |
Oh for christs sake |
Fenderek 17.01.2006 08:46 |
Negative Creep wrote: the whole q&pr tour was a huge brian may ego trip. pity it was crap though.IS, not WAS. Still happening. Buahahaha! |
Togg 17.01.2006 09:40 |
Negative Creep wrote: its DISGUSTING that brian has changed a "queen" writing credit to just "brian may". you won't see that happening to any songs freddie wrote but was credited to "queen". the whole q&pr tour was a huge brian may ego trip. pity it was crap though.You're right there Freddie is unlikely to change the credits on his songs.... Numpty |
Negative Creep 17.01.2006 11:49 |
the people who own freddie's estate could..... prat. exactly where did i say he would/could possibly change them himself? |
Togg 17.01.2006 12:01 |
Dear oh dear calm down sweety, did I touch a nerve? never mind. |
inu-liger 17.01.2006 12:35 |
[StArMaN] wrote: Brian really does have ego issues > The IWIA rewrited credits from "Queen" to "Brian May" is a good example. (like Paul McCartney wanting to changes credits of "Yesterday")That only happened on the 46664 DVD/CD releases, and GVH2. ROTC restores it to "(Queen)". |
Asterik 17.01.2006 12:37 |
I don't know what to think here. On one hand it was Bri who pushed Fred to include Lap Of The Gods (a Freddie composition) to be included in the '86 setlist. When asked about favourite Queen songs he always mentions The Miracle and is self- critical about his own work describing Fat Bottomed Girls as fairly banal. But he does have this tendency not to discuss Fred's songs on the ANATO anniversary set, preferring to talk about his own more. Now maybe that is because they worked seperately so he did not have much insight into Fred's creative process but it's suspicious to me. Furthermore, he made no mention of Fred when Queen were inducted into the British music hall of fame, which i thought was wrong. I think he is a complex character if anything else. |
Lord Blackadder 17.01.2006 12:52 |
Ready_Coddie wrote: Much of Queen's great works (WWRY) & such despite being written by Brian seemed to show Freddie as the main influence... even in concerts, Brian rarely sang 39... songs like Long Away, Drowse were literally abandoned... He is recognized rarely for his composing skills but only as someone who can rock a guitar in a given note or so... Though you all are aware of his contributions do you assume everyone at Jay Leno's show did? The reason he has this ego & tries to show off is because much of his efforts were never recognized by the general public.That's because Freddie was the singer/frontman/showman. I don't know where you got Freddie being credited with WWRY from. And Drowse wasn't written by Brian. You're all just Freddie obsessed and want to complain about something or someone trying to discredit Freddie which no one is trying to do. |
Sherwood Forest 17.01.2006 17:08 |
yea a huge "ego" if ego meannsss memberrrr |
kohuept 17.01.2006 17:47 |
It takes a lot more time to write and complain about something you don't want to read than to JUST NOT READ IT. |
Hooligan's Holiday 17.01.2006 18:16 |
Asterik wrote: I don't know what to think here. On one hand it was Bri who pushed Fred to include Lap Of The Gods (a Freddie composition) to be included in the '86 setlist. When asked about favourite Queen songs he always mentions The Miracle and is self- critical about his own work describing Fat Bottomed Girls as fairly banal. I think he is a complex character if anything else.mm-hmm. He also said you can't get any better than Bo Rhap. |
it was electric7 17.01.2006 19:51 |
its true..you cant get any better than bo rhap |
Freddie's #1 Fan Forever 17.01.2006 20:20 |
As is pointed out above, it is REALLY disturbing that Brian May would try to change the original songwriting credits. I guess that he figures that, without Freddie there, he can make certain claims that he could not have made with Freddie there. |
Mr. Barcelona 18.01.2006 02:17 |
Where is brian trying to change songwriting credits?...In my opinion, brian has always gave freddie his credit by praising his songs like bo rhap, It's a hard life, the miracle, made in heaven, was it all worth it, champions. he goes on and on about freddies genious. |
Serry... 18.01.2006 03:10 |
Mr. Barcelona wrote: Where is brian trying to change songwriting credits?...Open booklet from GVH2 and take a look at IWIA |
Mr. Barcelona 18.01.2006 04:57 |
ok, then brian should change the miracle credit to freddie. I wasn't aware brian was doing such naughty things. |
Togg 18.01.2006 08:04 |
Why is this REALLY disturbing? it's not like he has claimed to write Bo Rap! and he DID write the song anyway, the fact that it says so on one album doesn't make a jot of difference to anything. And it could just be a typo! can anyone prove Brian amended it? Have you people got nothing better to do than create scandals out of pure crap. |
Serry... 18.01.2006 08:15 |
Okay. So why "Mother Love" is not a Queen song as it supposed to be due to their rule to put credits of the songs to all band members since The Miracle? Why "A Winter's Tale" - last written Freddie's song - is Queen's, and "Mother Love" is credited to Brian and Freddie? Why on Spanish CD of WWRY musical (as I remember) "Headlong" credited to Brian? Too many strange typos during few years... Why Flash Gordon's producer is Brian, and not Queen? What a hell "Queen are: me and Roger" means, what should old Serry - Deaky's fan - to think about these words? Maybe because Freddie, John and Roger didn't/don't care about such things as much as Brian? Perhaps. But it's something what this topic is about, IMHO. |
FriedChicken 18.01.2006 08:49 |
"Why Flash Gordon's producer is Brian, and not Queen?" Because Brian was the most involved in the Flash Gordon soundtrack. He wrote the most important song. Almost every song has a little bit of Flash or The Hero in it. |
Negative Creep 18.01.2006 10:58 |
Togg wrote: Why is this REALLY disturbing? it's not like he has claimed to write Bo Rap! and he DID write the song anyway, the fact that it says so on one album doesn't make a jot of difference to anything. And it could just be a typo! can anyone prove Brian amended it?well every song originally credited to "queen" from the miracle onwards should be changed to whoever genuinly wrote it - fairs fair. it could not just be a typo, as the song/s have always officially been written by "queen" not an individual member. the information must have come from brians camp. was the may/mercury credit for mother love a typo aswell? |
Sebastian 21.01.2006 09:11 |
> Because Brian was the most involved in the Flash Gordon soundtrack. He wrote the most important song. Almost every song has a little bit of Flash or The Hero in it. Yes but that's not the reason why he was the producer. The reason is that he's the only one who actually produced (decided which tracks were and weren't in the soundtrack, made the mixing with Mack etc). But for that extent, if we'd like to complain, Fred should have been credited as the (co-)producer of One Vision and Under Pressure should have been labelled as "produced by Freddie, Mack & David Bowie". |