QueenZone discussion #925129

Metal Head wrote: Thank you so much Lester, what was I thinking? I must have been losing it... *slaps self in the face* Their was no sarcasm their...

Adam Baboolal wrote: Oh and, WWRY was in 2001/2. They've been getting a lot of attention ever since 2000. I remember wondering why all these Queen related accolades and docus were coming from at the time. It was a weirdly interesting time. And that's from the last 5 years. Adam.

Lester Burnham wrote:

Metal Head wrote: Thank you so much Lester, what was I thinking? I must have been losing it... *slaps self in the face* Their was no sarcasm their...

I can't tell if you're actually being sarcastic -- my meter is broken -- but it's up to you what you decide. If you want to believe that Brian and Roger are taking a crap on the Queen name and are just doing it for the money, then there's no way anyone can change your mind. If you want to believe they genuinely like performing with each other and are glad to have found a catalyst (Paul) to get out on stage again, while making a bit of money as well, then there's no way anyone can change your mind.

skiqueen wrote: u know Queen: they're just bored.

mrjordy wrote:*Brian and Roger, now being the two remaining founding members who own copyrights as well as full rights to the Queen name, have every right in the book to use Queen as their current band's name.

kenny8 wrote: If they were doing this for charity like The Who, they'd have a little more credibility in the real world outside of fandom.

L-R-TIGER1994 wrote: Metal Head you're just 17,grow up

Zebonka12 wrote: It'd be fair to say they've probably given more to charity through record sales than you guys have. Let's not try and get all moral high-horsie, eh? It just sounds stupid.

mrjordy wrote: SKIQUEEN: Thank you for once again hijacking a perfectly innocent Queen-related thread. Unfortunately for you, you are not and never will be a member of Queen, so Brian and Roger's choice to continue using the Queen name will never really affect you. Don't watch their shows, don't buy "Return Of The Champions" and don't let yourself get the least bit excited when Queen + Paul Rodgers tours next year and comes to a city near you. Here's how Q+PR works: 1. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS. 2. John Deacon retired. 3. Brian May and Roger Taylor, founding members of Queen*, decide to go on tour. 4. Paul Rodgers does the singing (Freddie Mercury couldn't make it). 5. Danny Miranda plays bass (John Deacon chose not to tour. Again, he's retired). *Brian and Roger, now being the two remaining founding members who own copyrights as well as full rights to the Queen name, have every right in the book to use Queen as their current band's name. They even have John Deacon's blessing! If you'll take the "Queen" from statement 3 and combine it with "Paul Rodgers" from statement 4, you get motherfucking Queen + Paul Rodgers. Stop the bitching. Be glad that one of the greatest rock bands to ever exist are still together, in part and have one hell of a great singer fronting them. Better than Queen + Anastasia, isn't it?

ITSM wrote: About the money.. I HOPE they did "We will rock you" with 5ive, only for the money. I bought the CD-single and played it once. Or perhaps they wanted to stay popular with the "now-a-days" music-scene. But I still don't get why they did it. They still have fame and fortune and everything that goes with it.. (YES, I quoted WATC at the end, I know it's not cool). I'm really disapointed about the hole 5ive-project, and I think most of you will agree with me...?

vadenuez wrote: Cut the money crap. Being a musician is a job. A creative job, but a job in the end. The 'artist should make their art for free' is pure bollocks. Music made of Freddie a rich man and no one in this forum with a straight head would question that and no one certainly would even dare to doubt about his immense talent and the fact that he did it because he loved his music and also because that was he way he chose to get a living in this world. If we are implying that Brian and Roger are greedy bastards because they reunited again to make some money, then we should start saying that the four original members were also greedy bastards when forming Queen back in the distant 1972.

Sebastian wrote: I don't care if they do this for money, I only care about the name. I haven't heard what they did with Paul, but to my mind they're all great musicians. Still that's not Queen, it's just a cover band copying the name.

Sebastian wrote: So, if Brian & Roger were to keep on the habit of being brave and daring they should have used a new name, written new material and risked themselves to fail. But instead they kept the name, the logo, the songs ... they played the safest formula, and that's (IMO) utterly coward, unethical, immoral and thus, utterly anti-Queen.