[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Queen Archivist wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]inu-liger wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Pim Derks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Your mum and dad must be sooo proud of their son. [/QUOTE]
Taking it to a personal level now, are we?
Seems you guys really can't have a go at him without trying to bring his family into it.
Pathetic.
Greg is really a nice guy. I've talked to him several times, and to be honest, I think he's quite right about a lot of things really.
This board is a fucking joke.[/QUOTE]
I agree with you inu-liger. I'm a very nice bloke. Everyone says so - that meets me. Really lovable, I am.
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:-)
Well minus the meet part, since I've yet to travel to the UK (since I haven't had a passport since about 6 years of age or so), or you've yet to come to Edmonton, I can't quite yet say I've met you in person.
But you honestly are very pleasant and delightful to speak to on the telephone :-)
Totally nothing like people here make you out to be...."bitter", "angry", etc etc.....anything negative they can throw at you.
I just think people are like that to you cos they are fearful of anyone who is linked DIRECTLY to the band that they are (so-called) fans of, and so they must have a need to bully you.
Shame really.
I'm sure Brian would have a HUGE headache rather than loads of pleasure if he were involved in this messageboard directly.
This board, after all, also only represents a minority of Queen fans worldwide really.
And the people here tend to become like each other after joining, to the point where we can't even have a really differing opinion on certain subjects we WANT to discuss without purists or stepfords *COUGH COUGH* injecting their doctrinal beliefs on the opinional subjects.
I have YET to see a Q+PR thread that DOESN'T have anti-PR / pro-Freddie ("classic lineup") spam shite in it. Like those attempts at appreciation threads that only end up getting ruined by those with their fucking purist attitudes.
Am going to 'pull a Greg' here for a moment...
FREDDIE DIED AND HE ISN'T GOING TO RISE AGAIN LIKE FUCKING JESUS H CHRIST. OH WAIT, JESUS IS STILL DEAD, AND 2000+ YEARS LATER, HIS WORSHI....ER SHEEP ARE STILL BELIEVING AND SAYING HE WILL RISE ONCE AGAIN SOON. YEAH FUCKING RIGHT.
GET WIT THE TIMES PEOPLE. PUT DOWN THAT BEST-SELLING BEDTIME FICTION NOVEL CALLED "THE BIBLE" AND GET A REAL JOB OR DO SOMETHING THAT'S OF *REAL* ENTERTAINMENT, SIGNIFICANCE AND VALUE.
LIKEWISE QUEEN "FANS". LEARN TO ACCEPT BRIAN AND ROGER's WISHES AND WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
IF THEY WANT TO BE QUEEN, LET THEM BE QUEEN.
CHECK YOUR PURIST & STEPFORD ATTITUDES AT THE DOOR.
RESPECT EVERYONE ELSE THAT TRULY SUPPORTS QUEEN AND PAUL RODGERS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, FINE, BUT STOP FORCING YOUR DOCTRINAL BELIEFS DOWN OUR THROATS. GO ELSEWHERE OR START YOUR OWN WEB BOARD FOR YOUR SHIT, FUCKING MOANZONERS.
/rant off
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Beautiful - I'm pretty sure that's one of the first Q+PR related posts in this thread, and it contains a stanza complaining about Q+PR spam.
I think the guy that designed the Pinto should be posting here. He'd be in excellent company.
I think the guy that designed the Pinto should be posting here. He'd be in excellent company.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Zebonka12 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Beautiful - I'm pretty sure that's one of the first Q+PR related posts in this thread, and it contains a stanza complaining about Q+PR spam.
I think the guy that designed the Pinto should be posting here. He'd be in excellent company.[/QUOTE]
WTF is a Pinto?
And again, you don't fully pay attention to what someone says, and try to twist it to your advantage. Perhaps I am doing this myself, but...
I was complaining about purists spamming threads discussing Q+PR. Not about Q+PR threads spamming the board as you imply.
MAYBE I SHOULD EXPLAIN MYSELF IN CANADIEN ENGRISH. YOU SPRECKEN ZE KANADIEN??
I'm complaining about people who spam Q+PR posts saying anything cliched like the following, and this has been annoying me for quite some time, and I am just going to be frank and let it all out:
"Brian and Roger (with or without John) are NOT Queen"
"RIP Freddie Mercury 1991. RIP Queen 1991."
"Paul Rodgers sucks"
"What if Freddie..." < SHUT UP WITH THE MULTITUDE OF 'WHAT IF' TOPICS, SERIOUSLY. IT'S SO FUCKING ANNOYING. THAT'S ALL THEY'LL EVER BE, AND *NOTHING MORE*. STOP GETTING YOUR HOPES UP THAT IT'LL MAGICALLY BECOME REALITY
"What would the Miracle/Innuendo tour setlists..." < AGAIN, NOT EVER GOING TO BE A REALITY
Anything "Mike should sing for Queen" < DO NOT WANT. DO NOT WANT IMITATORS OR IMPOSTERS. WANT SOMETHING MORE ORIGINAL LIKE PAUL RODGERS OR WHOEVER BRIAN AND ROGER FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING THAT *REPLICATES* THE OLD FREDDIE EXPERIENCE, WITH OPTIONAL COSTUMES TO BOOT, GO SEE A COVER ACT LIKE "QUEEN - IT'S A KINDA MAGIC". THAT'S AS CLOSE AS YOU'LL EVER GET. (Good show btw :-)
"Freddie should never have been replaced" < THEY HAVE SAID TIME AGAIN AND AGAIN, AD NAUSEUM THAT PAUL RODGERS IS *NOT* REPLACING FREDDIE. HE IS JUST STEPPING TO FILL IN FOR HIM, BUT HE IS NOT OFFICIALLY THEIR LEAD SINGER AS A MEMBER *OF* QUEEN. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY ADD HIS NAME SEPARATELY, HENCE "+ PAUL RODGERS"???
THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THAT WOULD NOT SIT WELL WITH A SELECT FEW THE MAJORITY BEING THE LOT OF YOU.
PERSONALLY, I COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT THEY DECIDE ABOUT THE NAME.
I think the guy that designed the Pinto should be posting here. He'd be in excellent company.[/QUOTE]
WTF is a Pinto?
And again, you don't fully pay attention to what someone says, and try to twist it to your advantage. Perhaps I am doing this myself, but...
I was complaining about purists spamming threads discussing Q+PR. Not about Q+PR threads spamming the board as you imply.
MAYBE I SHOULD EXPLAIN MYSELF IN CANADIEN ENGRISH. YOU SPRECKEN ZE KANADIEN??
I'm complaining about people who spam Q+PR posts saying anything cliched like the following, and this has been annoying me for quite some time, and I am just going to be frank and let it all out:
"Brian and Roger (with or without John) are NOT Queen"
"RIP Freddie Mercury 1991. RIP Queen 1991."
"Paul Rodgers sucks"
"What if Freddie..." < SHUT UP WITH THE MULTITUDE OF 'WHAT IF' TOPICS, SERIOUSLY. IT'S SO FUCKING ANNOYING. THAT'S ALL THEY'LL EVER BE, AND *NOTHING MORE*. STOP GETTING YOUR HOPES UP THAT IT'LL MAGICALLY BECOME REALITY
"What would the Miracle/Innuendo tour setlists..." < AGAIN, NOT EVER GOING TO BE A REALITY
Anything "Mike should sing for Queen" < DO NOT WANT. DO NOT WANT IMITATORS OR IMPOSTERS. WANT SOMETHING MORE ORIGINAL LIKE PAUL RODGERS OR WHOEVER BRIAN AND ROGER FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH.
IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING THAT *REPLICATES* THE OLD FREDDIE EXPERIENCE, WITH OPTIONAL COSTUMES TO BOOT, GO SEE A COVER ACT LIKE "QUEEN - IT'S A KINDA MAGIC". THAT'S AS CLOSE AS YOU'LL EVER GET. (Good show btw :-)
"Freddie should never have been replaced" < THEY HAVE SAID TIME AGAIN AND AGAIN, AD NAUSEUM THAT PAUL RODGERS IS *NOT* REPLACING FREDDIE. HE IS JUST STEPPING TO FILL IN FOR HIM, BUT HE IS NOT OFFICIALLY THEIR LEAD SINGER AS A MEMBER *OF* QUEEN. WHY DO YOU THINK THEY ADD HIS NAME SEPARATELY, HENCE "+ PAUL RODGERS"???
THEY KNOW DAMN WELL THAT WOULD NOT SIT WELL WITH A SELECT FEW THE MAJORITY BEING THE LOT OF YOU.
PERSONALLY, I COULDN'T CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT THEY DECIDE ABOUT THE NAME.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]inu-liger wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
WTF is a Pinto?
[/QUOTE]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Safety_problems
There.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]inu-liger wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
I was complaining about purists spamming threads discussing Q+PR. Not about Q+PR threads spamming the board as you imply.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't the subject matter I was really talking about. It's the fact that you were complaining at all.
What are the people you speak of doing?
Complaining. I guess in a sense I am almost complaining too now, but really... it has to end somewhere. You could be the one to break the chain of fruitless complaints.
WTF is a Pinto?
[/QUOTE]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Safety_problems
There.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]inu-liger wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
I was complaining about purists spamming threads discussing Q+PR. Not about Q+PR threads spamming the board as you imply.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't the subject matter I was really talking about. It's the fact that you were complaining at all.
What are the people you speak of doing?
Complaining. I guess in a sense I am almost complaining too now, but really... it has to end somewhere. You could be the one to break the chain of fruitless complaints.
Greg, re:
>Benn... you're sounding more than a tad bitter there.
How do you discern bitterness from that post? What would I be bitter about?
You don't contribute anything that is in direct relation to your "Official Archivist" position other than requests for "stuff" for your book.
There's no two way exchange. You did a decent effort on the live video archive "thing", but since.....nowt.
>Benn... you're sounding more than a tad bitter there.
How do you discern bitterness from that post? What would I be bitter about?
You don't contribute anything that is in direct relation to your "Official Archivist" position other than requests for "stuff" for your book.
There's no two way exchange. You did a decent effort on the live video archive "thing", but since.....nowt.
Greg,
I was the one who wrote that you should be fired when working for Queen and insulting them like you do now, it was not Pim Derks.
Anyway, i think you need vacation, a fresh breath of air and don't go into discussion with people who are fucking it up for the ones that are truly interested.
The respect for you is gone in this way. I want to hear positive things from my favourite band, not shouting and verbal aggression. Come on Greg, if you are such a sweetheart you can do better than this.
Of course you represent QPL, because you give us information on this board about what is going to be released in the future, unreleased track information etc.
I expect to talk with a professional here when he is working for the band. If somebody is attacking you for whatever reason, handle it outside of those threads. You are making a true fool of yourself like this.
Of course there is critics because everybody has an opinion. And you will never satisfy everybody, just like Queen can never do with their setlists.
I think it is also very childish to talk about a small spelling mistake. Most of the fans don't have English as their mother language. See how perfect you can write in any other language than your mother language. You probably can't. So stop that.
Why do you come here if it is so bad, you dont have anything to look for. You can inform us as a gesture and we appreciate that, but why use this negative energy, this I can not understand.
I was the one who wrote that you should be fired when working for Queen and insulting them like you do now, it was not Pim Derks.
Anyway, i think you need vacation, a fresh breath of air and don't go into discussion with people who are fucking it up for the ones that are truly interested.
The respect for you is gone in this way. I want to hear positive things from my favourite band, not shouting and verbal aggression. Come on Greg, if you are such a sweetheart you can do better than this.
Of course you represent QPL, because you give us information on this board about what is going to be released in the future, unreleased track information etc.
I expect to talk with a professional here when he is working for the band. If somebody is attacking you for whatever reason, handle it outside of those threads. You are making a true fool of yourself like this.
Of course there is critics because everybody has an opinion. And you will never satisfy everybody, just like Queen can never do with their setlists.
I think it is also very childish to talk about a small spelling mistake. Most of the fans don't have English as their mother language. See how perfect you can write in any other language than your mother language. You probably can't. So stop that.
Why do you come here if it is so bad, you dont have anything to look for. You can inform us as a gesture and we appreciate that, but why use this negative energy, this I can not understand.
Sorry to get involved here. I've been on and off this site for many years now but rarely post.
I'm sorry QueenArchivist, I have respect for the great work on FM set, it is my favourite Queen related product, but I'm really failing to understand why you decided to start the last few posts? You seemed quite controlled in many other threads, but you're sadly throwing any composure away.
Why do you feel the need to so blatantly pat yourself on the back? I'm being unbiased here, I don't know anyone on this board or you, but you really come across as desperate in your last few posts here. Desperate that everyone knows that it's you who got Queen Archivist and not them! Desperate like a kid would boast to his classmates that he got a job that they all really wished they got! Rubbing it in with such statements as, "dave clark phoned me to discuss...", "i know Brian wouldn't visit this site..." - Well done.
And then you had the nerve to mention those other guys who worked hard on the FM box set... as if saying attack me and you're attacking them! Well no, because they haven't come here to be involved and they would probably find some of the things you're saying rather pathetic and childish.
After insulting one member quite rudely you then try and defend yourself by saying Brain May and Roger Taylor know that you speak your mind in this way and that they'd never come here. I think they'd be embarrased for you for getting yourself into such a dilemma where your asking people if they'd met you and if they liked you? And I think if you've come here called "queen Archivist"... which is your job for Queen Productions... and speak about your work on the Freddie Mercury Box set and upcoming Queen box set... then you clearly are speaking in sense as a company employee. So telling a fan to "go fuck yourself", would be just as bad as say a bank clerk telling a customer to fuck off while wearing the banks uniform. In this instance it is the bank that would be penalised and looked upon as the bad guy and I'm sure the bank manager wouldn't be totally happy with his employee acting like that to a customer.
You felt that because someone negatively questions a product that you were involved in - which remember THEY BOUGHT WITH THEIR CASH - you had to go to these lengths to persuade them otherwise. I bought the FM box set. I love it. If I didn't like a certain part of it, I have the right to ask questions surely? This is what has happened here. Someone thought it didn't provide everything that they expected out of your product...so be grown up about it and don't go in a huff... where is your customer service?
And another thing... well done mentioning those really bad things written on this forum about Freddie or the band! To me that is really clutching at straws. It's like trying to hide the fact that IF the band ever looked here they wouldn't be interested in the neediness of your posts, but instead, of all those bad things written about Freddie which they've probably heard a million times before and accept that such wild rumours or views will always be said about those in the public eye. I reckon they would though be interested on how you are openly abusing your position and trying to oddly make everyone either jealous of your job or acknowledge that you got it and they didn't. You freely came here as Queen Archivist and not Greg Brooks, so you do represent the position you have FOR Queen, thus what you say good or bad, is indirectly associated.
Please just go back to discussing the Queen material you are directly involved with (if you so wish too, nobody ever forced you, you came here!) or come here as Greg Brooks (or other alias) and get involved in ridiculous childish arguments.
Bare in mind QA, this is just how I feel. I'm by no means guaranteed to be correct about any of what I say, it is just how I have read into your posts and to why you may have written them. I'd like to think you may get something constructive out of what I've contributed... or not.
I'm sorry QueenArchivist, I have respect for the great work on FM set, it is my favourite Queen related product, but I'm really failing to understand why you decided to start the last few posts? You seemed quite controlled in many other threads, but you're sadly throwing any composure away.
Why do you feel the need to so blatantly pat yourself on the back? I'm being unbiased here, I don't know anyone on this board or you, but you really come across as desperate in your last few posts here. Desperate that everyone knows that it's you who got Queen Archivist and not them! Desperate like a kid would boast to his classmates that he got a job that they all really wished they got! Rubbing it in with such statements as, "dave clark phoned me to discuss...", "i know Brian wouldn't visit this site..." - Well done.
And then you had the nerve to mention those other guys who worked hard on the FM box set... as if saying attack me and you're attacking them! Well no, because they haven't come here to be involved and they would probably find some of the things you're saying rather pathetic and childish.
After insulting one member quite rudely you then try and defend yourself by saying Brain May and Roger Taylor know that you speak your mind in this way and that they'd never come here. I think they'd be embarrased for you for getting yourself into such a dilemma where your asking people if they'd met you and if they liked you? And I think if you've come here called "queen Archivist"... which is your job for Queen Productions... and speak about your work on the Freddie Mercury Box set and upcoming Queen box set... then you clearly are speaking in sense as a company employee. So telling a fan to "go fuck yourself", would be just as bad as say a bank clerk telling a customer to fuck off while wearing the banks uniform. In this instance it is the bank that would be penalised and looked upon as the bad guy and I'm sure the bank manager wouldn't be totally happy with his employee acting like that to a customer.
You felt that because someone negatively questions a product that you were involved in - which remember THEY BOUGHT WITH THEIR CASH - you had to go to these lengths to persuade them otherwise. I bought the FM box set. I love it. If I didn't like a certain part of it, I have the right to ask questions surely? This is what has happened here. Someone thought it didn't provide everything that they expected out of your product...so be grown up about it and don't go in a huff... where is your customer service?
And another thing... well done mentioning those really bad things written on this forum about Freddie or the band! To me that is really clutching at straws. It's like trying to hide the fact that IF the band ever looked here they wouldn't be interested in the neediness of your posts, but instead, of all those bad things written about Freddie which they've probably heard a million times before and accept that such wild rumours or views will always be said about those in the public eye. I reckon they would though be interested on how you are openly abusing your position and trying to oddly make everyone either jealous of your job or acknowledge that you got it and they didn't. You freely came here as Queen Archivist and not Greg Brooks, so you do represent the position you have FOR Queen, thus what you say good or bad, is indirectly associated.
Please just go back to discussing the Queen material you are directly involved with (if you so wish too, nobody ever forced you, you came here!) or come here as Greg Brooks (or other alias) and get involved in ridiculous childish arguments.
Bare in mind QA, this is just how I feel. I'm by no means guaranteed to be correct about any of what I say, it is just how I have read into your posts and to why you may have written them. I'd like to think you may get something constructive out of what I've contributed... or not.
what a shame ... such great work, e.g. the fm box set ... but the man is sick, as is his caps lock ...
I am sick.
I MEAN... I AM SICK!
I MEAN... I AM SICK!
I don't believe you are the Greg Brooks that works for Queen Productions.
I'll write Brian an email to check it out..
This simply can not be true...
I'll write Brian an email to check it out..
This simply can not be true...
You'll get no response at all.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]sunshine__123456 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I don't believe you are the Greg Brooks that works for Queen Productions.
I'll write Brian an email to check it out..
This simply can not be true...[/QUOTE]
A) Brian won't get your e-mail; his staff only pass on flattering ones, and those that happen to mention something Brian is interested in at the time (and that, apparently, changes four times a day).
B) This is the real Greg Brooks.
I'll write Brian an email to check it out..
This simply can not be true...[/QUOTE]
A) Brian won't get your e-mail; his staff only pass on flattering ones, and those that happen to mention something Brian is interested in at the time (and that, apparently, changes four times a day).
B) This is the real Greg Brooks.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]ThomasQuinn wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]sunshine__123456 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I don't believe you are the Greg Brooks that works for Queen Productions.
I'll write Brian an email to check it out..
This simply can not be true...[/QUOTE]
A) Brian won't get your e-mail; his staff only pass on flattering ones, and those that happen to mention something Brian is interested in at the time (and that, apparently, changes four times a day).
B) This is the real Greg Brooks.[/QUOTE]
Yeah probably you're right but in the case that he is the real Greg Brooks, he should be so ashamed of himself, how pathetic can someone be?
I'll write Brian an email to check it out..
This simply can not be true...[/QUOTE]
A) Brian won't get your e-mail; his staff only pass on flattering ones, and those that happen to mention something Brian is interested in at the time (and that, apparently, changes four times a day).
B) This is the real Greg Brooks.[/QUOTE]
Yeah probably you're right but in the case that he is the real Greg Brooks, he should be so ashamed of himself, how pathetic can someone be?
They're mounting up Greggy Boy - with each and every one of your posts........
Keep 'em coming chap!
Keep 'em coming chap!