I was just wondering if anyone has a good tribute band to suggest? I've seen Q+PR. I wish I could see the Queen with Freddie but since I can't I'd like to have an "almost" Queen experience. - - -> Just for fun.
I've seen a couple and I guess they were ok but I might have been expecting too much of them.
It's been a few years but I think I've seen:
Flash Harry, Killer Queen and Classic Queen aka The Great Pretenders.
I saw a queen tribute band in Hyde Park last July. The guitarist and drummer were OK, but the singer was a bit crap, and the whole 'feel' of the show was wrong.
I've seen Ga Ga and they rocked, they don't do the look like stuff which is great, but they play really well. I was pleasantly surprised it turned out to be a good night out.
I've seen Queen For A Day a couple of times.
They have a damn good singer. He has a good voice, nothing too striking and it does sound like a poor man's Freddie in a way. Where he is gold is his incredible duplication of the way Freddie sings and forms his words, etc... You can often spot him singing a verse exactly like Freddie did in a particular live show released on dvd. You can see that the guy has really studied Mercury.
The rest of the band is fair I would say, except for the guitarist who is good, but plays and sounds nothing like Brian.
On one hand, it's cool to hear a band doing cover after cover of Queen's catalogue, particularly because a cover band tends to play tracks that Queen didn't perform live often, or in some cases ever. It's cool to get a night of Queen jamming.
On the other hand, I don't go anymore because seeing as many concerts as I have by Queen, I constantly am dissapointed by the massive difference between imitation and the real thing. In other words, how do you successfully imitate the greatest live rock band of all time?
ilvcats wrote: I was just wondering if anyone has a good tribute band to suggest? I've seen Q+PR. I wish I could see the Queen with Freddie but since I can't I'd like to have an "almost" Queen experience.
well, depends of what you'd expect from that tribute band. to look like queen? to act like queen? to sing like queen? and queen did change a lot over the years. you'd like kinda midseventies Queen? a lateseventies/earlyeighties Queen? or even some mideigthies Queen? what did you expect them to play? some exact copy of some of Queen's original setlists? and would you want them to even sing it thequeenway note by note?
there are indeed some at least interesting tribute/cover bands, but as some people already posted, there are some crucial differences between them.
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Online I did for Queen For A Day. They're pretty good, the guy sounds like Freddie, it's creepy