| rogertaylor88 04.02.2006 11:49 |
Have you never thought that maybe Freddie didn't sing somebody to love on magic tour because he fell in love with jim hutton, so he stopped playin' it live. I think it's a good reason (look at the lyrics), but maybe they didn't play it anymore because freddie wanted to dance around and not play piano so much, or maybe because it was too difficult to reach the notes... I don't know |
| bohemian 11513 04.02.2006 11:59 |
rogertaylor88 wrote: Have you never thought that maybe Freddie didn't sing somebody to love on magic tour because he fell in love with jim hutton, so he stopped playin' it live. ...No, I never did up until now... yeah, you may be right! But then... why did they stop playing "Body Language" in 1984... long before Fred came to know and love Jim? Oh my God... so many questions... and so few answers! :-))) |
| rogertaylor88 04.02.2006 14:08 |
Maybe because people was not satisfied with hot space (under pressure apart) |
| wstüssyb 04.02.2006 14:29 |
From what I heard he was tired of playing Piano songs, He didnt really like/love the sound of Piano live(guess rock concerts), and liked the "Move around freely" concept. |
| DavidRFuller 04.02.2006 14:33 |
wstüssyb wrote: From what I heard he was tired of playing Piano songs, He didnt really like/love the sound of Piano live(guess rock concerts), and liked the "Move around freely" concept.yeah, Freddie wanted to strut around the stage and dance to the songs which is much better than just sitting and playing the piano. |
| deleted user 04.02.2006 14:57 |
I don't think Freddie's voice suited Somebody To Love at that time. |
| Asterik 04.02.2006 14:59 |
To be quite honest I think piano songs are much better for rock concerts than IWTB, FWBF and other 80s garbage. I don't know what Freddie was playing at- Wembley needed Somebody To Love, Death On Two legs and if he wanted to do a recent one- he could have done It's A Hard Life. If he was already suffering from AIDS then you'd think that doing a few more piano songs would be a good idea- it would have given him a rest- instead what do we get, a flipping medley of 50s songs- unaccpetable. I suspect the reason was that Fred's voice couldn't handle those songs anymore- Killer Queen was awful on The Works tour. Rant over. |
| deleted user 04.02.2006 15:35 |
you know what i hate seeing? people who just want to see stuff from 70's played at nearly every tour! "they should of played death on two legs, etc on the works tour, and on the magic tour they should of played this this this and this from the 70's" are you guys stuck in one perioud or something? Queen made new music, music they wanted to play live, not make it and shove it on an album then play ANATO all over again, gods sakes, if you made new albums with lots of different songs you would want to play them live! not have people sayin "nah they should stick to this album cos i like it better than the new stuff" GET REAL! move out of the 70's and into the new eras! i love queen in the 80s better than 70s but i still like to hear stuff form the 70s too. like this recent tour i loved hearin 39, im in love with my car etc, i agree more should of been played like If you cant beat em join em, but not so much its mainyl old stuff. like one thread i seen in Q+PR 2005 forum They should play..... ... ALL 70's Stuff just cos they like it better than hte 80s! get real man! |
| escuderodelareina 04.02.2006 15:43 |
i don´t think so.if freddie don´t want to play the piano, there was spike edney. |
| luko 04.02.2006 17:01 |
has a point. spike playing them and fred strutting around could have added a whole new lease of life to some of the piano based songs, even if it is a break from tradition. |
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| Asterik 05.02.2006 07:27 |
<font color=green>taylorgaga wrote: you know what i hate seeing? people who just want to see stuff from 70's played at nearly every tour! "they should of played death on two legs, etc on the works tour, and on the magic tour they should of played this this this and this from the 70's" are you guys stuck in one perioud or something? Queen made new music, music they wanted to play live, not make it and shove it on an album then play ANATO all over again, gods sakes, if you made new albums with lots of different songs you would want to play them live! not have people sayin "nah they should stick to this album cos i like it better than the new stuff" GET REAL! move out of the 70's and into the new eras! i love queen in the 80s better than 70s but i still like to hear stuff form the 70s too. like this recent tour i loved hearin 39, im in love with my car etc, i agree more should of been played like If you cant beat em join em, but not so much its mainyl old stuff. like one thread i seen in Q+PR 2005 forum They should play..... ... ALL 70's Stuff just cos they like it better than hte 80s! get real man!That is total rubbish. I don't mind a mixture- in fact I like AKOM and Radio ga Ga live. For that reason I liked the Works tour because it ahd a mixture of old and new but the Magic tour was mainly 80s pop hits which was very irritating-not showcasing their talent. A piano medley would have balanced it, pleasing older fans instea dof alienating them. As for Spike playing the piano then no as well- Freddie could play instruemnts- the stadium factor should not change that- in fact I think him not strutting about makes the songs stand out for themselves. I do not advocate a wholly 70s setlist as you so crudley imply- what I hate are safe play the eighties hits setlists. I am not proposing a seven song piano medley that we saw on the Live Killers- just three or for songs; DOTL, STL, PTG and MOTBQ. That'all Wembley needed. |
| Munchsack 05.02.2006 09:27 |
Bohemian<font size="1"></f! wrote:Maybe because Body Language is shit.rogertaylor88 wrote: Have you never thought that maybe Freddie didn't sing somebody to love on magic tour because he fell in love with jim hutton, so he stopped playin' it live. ...No, I never did up until now... yeah, you may be right! But then... why did they stop playing "Body Language" in 1984... long before Fred came to know and love Jim? Oh my God... so many questions... and so few answers! :-))) |
| abe 05.02.2006 20:53 |
Well said Asterix, I couldnt agree with you furthermore, "Death On Two Legs" is a great rocker that would have gone down thunderously well at Wembley!!! |
| Asterik 06.02.2006 06:46 |
Quite right Abe- Fred could really have barked the "killjoy, badguy" out! |
| FriedChicken 06.02.2006 07:02 |
I think he didn't sing it anymore cause he couldn't hit the notes |
| Asterik 06.02.2006 07:09 |
Couldn't fred have brought down the key a bit- like he did for IWTB? |
| dimcyril 07.02.2006 09:42 |
i always thought it strange that even though it was the magic tour, they actually played more songs from the works than they did from a kind of magic the album. maybe they weren't too fussed on the magic album themselves. personally i wish that they had played princes of the universe and gimmie the prize instead of middling stuff such as friends will be friends |
| Rik&Roll 07.02.2006 10:54 |
<font color=red>taylorgaga wrote: you know what i hate seeing? people who just want to see stuff from 70's played at nearly every tour! "they should of played death on two legs, etc on the works tour, and on the magic tour they should of played this this this and this from the 70's" are you guys stuck in one perioud or something? Queen made new music, music they wanted to play live, not make it and shove it on an album then play ANATO all over again, gods sakes, if you made new albums with lots of different songs you would want to play them live! not have people sayin "nah they should stick to this album cos i like it better than the new stuff" GET REAL! move out of the 70's and into the new eras! i love queen in the 80s better than 70s but i still like to hear stuff form the 70s too. like this recent tour i loved hearin 39, im in love with my car etc, i agree more should of been played like If you cant beat em join em, but not so much its mainyl old stuff. like one thread i seen in Q+PR 2005 forum They should play..... ... ALL 70's Stuff just cos they like it better than hte 80s! get real man!What a load of testicles. I, and many with me, am not stuck in the seventies. I just think most of the Queensongs after that suck a bit. Specially for such a talented band. And why should I move into the eighties and Ninety´s? We´re in the 00´s now in case you didn´t notice. |
| Rik&Roll 07.02.2006 11:57 |
<font color=red>taylorgaga wrote: Queen made new music, music they wanted to play live, not make it and shove it on an album then play ANATO all over again, gods sakes, if you made new albums with lots of different songs you would want to play them live! not have people sayin "nah they should stick to this album cos i like it better than the new stuff"By the way... We are discussing the Magictour. How many AKOMsongs were played that tour? Right. Any better arguments? |
| Asterik 07.02.2006 12:20 |
but out of 21 songs by Queen, 9 were from the last two albums.. |
| MC_Sandman 07.08.2015 01:39 |
I think that the Works Tour was such a disaster in terms of Freddie's voice that they just decided not to try it on the Magic Tour lest something similar happen with his voice. StL is such a vocally demanding song that they thought it was too much of a risk to try. |
| Estranged 15.08.2015 06:44 |
To call the Magic Tour setlist the hardcore fans' ultimate disappointment is the understatement of the year. |
| Supersonic_Man89 17.08.2015 03:18 |
Yes, i think it really could have been for both reasons (he had found somebody to love) and the song was now a killer considering his range. I'm sure he could have made it work like how he made several other songs work, but they probably felt a full length Somebody to Love is around 7 minutes, you could fit two other songs in that time. (Seven Sea of Rhye and In the Lap of the Gods) |
| Dean_ 24.08.2015 18:31 |
I'd say it was more to do with the shape of his voice than anything else, although I could be wrong! The Magic Tour is the definitive setlist for me, it had a bit of everything and was so powerful, especially the order of the first few songs. Wembley is my most played live album. Despite the flaws with his voice and the re-recordings, I prefer his voice at Wembley to the Montreal gig and at Milton Keynes. I'd say the reasoning for that is the power he uses when delivering words, it's something else and the re-recorded vocal parts escalate it to new heights. Was there any confirmation if Montreal had re-recorded vocals? |
| Doga 24.08.2015 18:40 |
Do you prefer Wembley over Budapest? |
| Chief Mouse 25.08.2015 03:32 |
Dean_ wrote: Was there any confirmation if Montreal had re-recorded vocals?Montreal had some re-recorded bits. It has been covered in a few threads over the years. |
| Nitroboy 25.08.2015 09:12 |
Dean_ wrote:Was there any confirmation if Montreal had re-recorded vocals?Official statement? Doubt it. But it's very obvious if you listen to either the 2001 release, or the 2007 release. |
| Dean_ 27.08.2015 14:36 |
There was a 2001 release? |
| Chief Mouse 27.08.2015 14:38 |
Yes, a DVD called "We Will Rock You". |
| Dean_ 27.08.2015 14:43 |
Every day's a school day. Just done a bit of searching. This is a good read. link Was this a worldwide release? As I do not recall ever seeing it in stores in Scotland. |
| Nitroboy 27.08.2015 15:40 |
It was worldwide, yes. |
| AlexRocks 28.08.2015 10:04 |
Hey! The set list was great for all sorts of reasons! The 1950's songs were really good too! I also DO think some of the song selections had a basis of reasoning to Freddie's voice becoming worse over the decade. He did not care about it and practiced a lifestyle of smoking, drinking, and drugs that have some sort of indication that he also had at the least an inclination of desire for his self abuse. |
| brunogorski 28.08.2015 19:07 |
AlexRocks wrote: Hey! The set list was great for all sorts of reasons! The 1950's songs were really good too! I also DO think some of the song selections had a basis of reasoning to Freddie's voice becoming worse over the decade. He did not care about it and practiced a lifestyle of smoking, drinking, and drugs that have some sort of indication that he also had at the least an inclination of desire for his self abuse.WTF He did not care about it? Whaaat. |
| AlbaNo1 29.08.2015 07:47 |
It's an 80s set list. For an 80s tour. Had they gone into the 90s I'd like to think they would have scaled things down , reflected a bit on what was truly their best work, and put more emphasis on quality and a balanced set list. Harmony and piano are two of the Queen trademarks completely lost in the 80s. There's plenty of it on the Barcelona album though.... |