hey dudes, i have a f'n cool question for all you wannabe kueen fans out there. i'm talking to you north dakota fanning and all you chicago bull fans. do you think freddie ever ripped it up on the axe? i mean he wrote ogre battle and the bo rhap riff on the git. i bet some days he would come into the studio and plug in a guitar, crank up the ampes and just simply shread. i wonder if they have any of those recordings in the archives.
how about all the queen members switching on instruments? freddie on guitar, brian on drums, roger on bass, and john on piano? that would be great to hear. do you think there might be a chance that a recording was made of them doing just that? maybe greg knows.
peace. and go portland trail blazers!
Freddie was a good guitar player. Not a Vai or a Hendrix, but he needn't to. His ability to compose masterpieces came more from his brain (or soul) rather than his hands.
John was fairly good piano player as well, and he often composed at the piano. Roger was quite amateurish as bassist but he recorded during some Queen songs and his first two solo albums.
Brian's rhythm sense wasn't as good as the others', yet he was an extraordinary arranger for drum-parts.
I didn't think too much of his playing, because I can play CLTCL, too!
What's with the Chicago Bulls? Or the Portland Trailblazers?
Are we playing "Who's not making the playoffs next year?" GO SUNS.
M a t i a s M a y<h6><i>QZ's Rainmaker wrote: He was better than Vai
a virtuoso
xD
Anyway, he really wasn't a good guitar player.. What he played, he played well, but he only played a few chords...
And composing good things on the guitar, doesn't make him a good guitar player, makes him a good composer. Certanly what he composed, he composed note by note and slowly.
I never saw Freddie playing ogre battle, or bohemian rhapsody riff on the guitar.
I can compose a extreme guitar solo with 6 strings arpeggios and all that hard stuff, but if I can't play it, the only credits I get is for creating the solo not by playing it.
GriffoChubb wrote: I've heard that you can play Crazy Little thing called Love with 3 chords. Can anybody tell me wich are they?
I don't know why Freddie always said that his guitar only knew 3 chords... He plays 4.
D (with hammer on hammer off on high E string)
G
C
Bb
In no order but i wonder why he said that?
zaiga wrote: One word: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
What you mean is: One chord - Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
Freddie a good guitar player? Smell the coffee!
Hmm, the coffee smells nice.
Yeah, just like Crazy Little Thing Called Love is more than one word, it also has more chords. I believe CLTCL has 6 chords, but I'm not sure if Fred actually played them all on stage. He sure played the D, C, G, and Bb chords.
Oh, and Freddie said he could only play 3 chords to make him look crappier on the guitar than he really was. Self deprecating I believe it is called.
Anyway, all of that doesn't make Freddie a good guitar player, although it depends on who you compare it with. Compared to my mother Freddie is a very good guitar player, compared to Django Reinhardt, Freddie's not a very good guitar player at all. Certainly Fred was good enough on guitar to compose some tunes on them, and to play a simple tune on stage, and that's what matters.
He did play the E and A chords live as well. And I think his self-deprecating comment was more about the fact that his guitar ability (which was good and all that) was nothing compared to what he could do at the piano, or as singer, or as composer. Likewise Brian has said several times that he's not a good pianist, but actually he was (is) quite skillful.
If you look on the 2nd disc on the Live at Wembley Friday night concert, Freddie says , and I quote:
"I think everybody knows I cant play the fucking guitar, we all know that"
Brian qouted as saying, he had all the guitar notes in his mind and he was very masterfull at composing them, and knew how exactley how they would sound. as Freddie said I don't play the guitar, it plays me.
