Has anybody seen any Queen Tribute acts and what did you think of them?

- Dios Salve a la Reina, from Argentina, are great. I saw them in Sao Paulo, at a Brazilian Convention. They are very professional and very nice chaps as well. I had chats with both Pablos and they were very nice.

- Lurex, from Brazil (Belo Horizonte) is freeking awesome. Even though they are not as "technical" as DSLR, they just love Queen and do it for pleasure. I saw them playing a Queen II set at the same day I saw DSLR and I was immediately hooked. I saw them about a dozen times after that, as I often go to Belo Horizonte, their home town.

- Rivendel, from Argentina were fabulous, but I guess they disbanded.

- As 4 Rainhas, from my home town, Brasilia (Brazil) are fun to watch. Also here in Brasilia my friend Marcelo Brandao sometimes performs with well-known local musicians. He sure knows his Queen stuff and has a great rock voice.

Cheers,

Ogre-

can't believe no one's mentioned "The Queen Kings" yet. the singer doesn't sound like freddie, but he sings good and they have a GREAT band.

Or if you fancy something a little more original, check out our Queen Duo:
http://www.theroyalsqueezebox.de

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I hope you like it!

A couple of years back, I went to see Queen Nation perform at a casino in San Diego. Their regular lead singer was elsewhere, so they brought in Gregory Finsley, the lead singer of Queen for a Day, to fill in.

What happened that night sounded exactly like a Queen show. Finsley is at least as good as Gary Mullen (I'd argue better--he absolutely nails the high notes), and the band was on fire, both technically and in terms of mimicing Queen's sound.

It was a match made in Heaven, pardon the pun. Finsley's vocals with Queen Nation's musicians was, I'd argue, as good as any Queen tribute out there. For 90 minutes or so, we forgot we were in a casino lounge, and it almost felt like we were in a concert hall in the late '70s. No, seriously, that's how good they were.

I'm not to keen on Finsley, he doesn't sound like Freddie to me, but I know he has a lot of fans, and I love the fact he’s more 1973 to 1980 orientated, so it's good if your tired of the magic and works set lists the others retread.

Thanks for all your replies they are most helpful

i shall have a look at some of their websites now as well

Queen+PR

Best Queen tribute band ever.

^^ Nah.  The guys playing Queen were too old.

hehehe XD

hehehe, I'm going to be going to see a Queen tribute act soon, looking foward to it, but it would have been even better if it were Queen themselves. XXXXXXXX hehehe XD

www.celebratingqueen.com

See you at breakthru 2010

JJ

I've only seen QE11 in Blackpool.  I really enjoyed it, but I have to admit that they weren't brilliant. Too loud for a start. But the lead singer was FIT and had a cute bum, so I was quite happy watching him all night.

I went to a show with a choir of 200 people, 3 guitarist and lots of other musicians playing Queen songs.
During the show, the "main man" was playing the piano with one hand and directing the choir with the other.

I was really impressed with the selection of songs - not only hits... The opener was "Dear Friends", and some where in the middel they played Innuendo, which sounded really nice with three guitarists.

I sat a bit to the left on the first row, it was a great show!

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Two weeks later I saw Peter Freestone's show, but I didn't like that as much. But of course it was fun : )

I went to the We Will Rock You musical a month ago, and at the end Brian May and Roger Taylor came up from the floor and played the last half of Bohemian Rhapsody - NICE : )

I've seen many Queen tribute bands (both live and on the internet), and honestly, most of them are awful.  Some have great Freddies, some have great Brians, but none are the whole package.

"It's A Kinda Magic" were the most disappointing one I've seen in person.  While they have a good stage show, there is little musical resemblance to Queen.  Craig Pesco has a pretty good voice and the Freddie stage presence, but his piano playing is on tape (the piano is angled away from the audience), as are many of the vocal harmonies.

Gary Mullen is the closest thing I've seen to a good Freddie.

I'd be quite curious to know if Peter Freestone is financially compenstated for his slavering endorsement of that Australian outfit Bob just mentioned.  I've only seen them online, but, meh.  Nothing special.

I try really, really hard not to be a closed minded person, but I have convinced myself I'd hate Queen tribute bands.  Even though I've never seen one.  I think the only way I'd like it if it was comprised of genuinely great musicians who did the material complete justice and chose to forego the goofy costume schtick.   But if they were genuinely great musicians they'd probably be unsatisfied with remaining a cover band, so my dream tribute band probably doesn't exist.  Maybe what I'd like is an original band who did a great, extended Queen set as part of their own show.  Or, alternatively, maybe I don't have a clue what I'm talking about.

GratefulFan wrote:

"I think the only way I'd like it if it was comprised of genuinely great musicians who did the material complete justice and chose to forego the goofy costume schtick."

Then go see Classic Albums Live next time they do A Night At The Opera.

"Maybe what I'd like is an original band who did a great, extended Queen set as part of their own show."

You should check out Extreme.  They did an excellent Queen medley at the FM tribute concert.