paulosham
I always thought of Sweet Lady as a kind of angry follow up to Killer Queen.
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jamster1111
Gregsynth wrote: jamster1111 wrote: Gregsynth wrote: I like it because of the embellishments!
Didn't know cracks and off key singing were embellishments.
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Apparently you missed the point. I'm one of the people who excuses minor errors live. If Freddie cracked a note. So what? If he hit bum notes. So what? Nobody's perfect.
There's people on Queenzone that like Freddie's weaker gigs (Vancouver 1978, Japan 1981, etc), because of his embellishments and note choices. You apparently don't see that.
The embellishments in question that I like on this version are the "bring me down" lines.
It's not the little crack at the beginning that ruins the whole thing. It's the fact that he's off key throughout 80% of the song. I swear, the monitors must not have been working at the concert because that's one of the worst times I've ever heard him sing when his voice was actually in good shape. Just compare that version of the rock intro of BoRhap to any concert previously in the year, or compare White Queen or the Prophet's Song. He's totally off key in all of them.
Didn't know cracks and off key singing were embellishments.
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Apparently you missed the point. I'm one of the people who excuses minor errors live. If Freddie cracked a note. So what? If he hit bum notes. So what? Nobody's perfect.
There's people on Queenzone that like Freddie's weaker gigs (Vancouver 1978, Japan 1981, etc), because of his embellishments and note choices. You apparently don't see that.
The embellishments in question that I like on this version are the "bring me down" lines.
It's not the little crack at the beginning that ruins the whole thing. It's the fact that he's off key throughout 80% of the song. I swear, the monitors must not have been working at the concert because that's one of the worst times I've ever heard him sing when his voice was actually in good shape. Just compare that version of the rock intro of BoRhap to any concert previously in the year, or compare White Queen or the Prophet's Song. He's totally off key in all of them.
Gregsynth
jamster1111 wrote: Gregsynth wrote: jamster1111 wrote: Gregsynth wrote: I like it because of the embellishments!
Didn't know cracks and off key singing were embellishments.
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Apparently you missed the point. I'm one of the people who excuses minor errors live. If Freddie cracked a note. So what? If he hit bum notes. So what? Nobody's perfect.
There's people on Queenzone that like Freddie's weaker gigs (Vancouver 1978, Japan 1981, etc), because of his embellishments and note choices. You apparently don't see that.
The embellishments in question that I like on this version are the "bring me down" lines.
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It's not the little crack at the beginning that ruins the whole thing. It's the fact that he's off key throughout 80% of the song. I swear, the monitors must not have been working at the concert because that's one of the worst times I've ever heard him sing when his voice was actually in good shape. Just compare that version of the rock intro of BoRhap to any concert previously in the year, or compare White Queen or the Prophet's Song. He's totally off key in all of them.
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Well, I'm not sure that 80% off is right, but I agree that the monitors were probably fucked! Most of the note errors I hear, he corrects by "sliding" up or down to the correct note--that's gotta be a monitor issue. It's not like Sweet Lady from Fukuoka, where he just hits random/wrong notes left and right (his voice was fucked)!
Didn't know cracks and off key singing were embellishments.
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Apparently you missed the point. I'm one of the people who excuses minor errors live. If Freddie cracked a note. So what? If he hit bum notes. So what? Nobody's perfect.
There's people on Queenzone that like Freddie's weaker gigs (Vancouver 1978, Japan 1981, etc), because of his embellishments and note choices. You apparently don't see that.
The embellishments in question that I like on this version are the "bring me down" lines.
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It's not the little crack at the beginning that ruins the whole thing. It's the fact that he's off key throughout 80% of the song. I swear, the monitors must not have been working at the concert because that's one of the worst times I've ever heard him sing when his voice was actually in good shape. Just compare that version of the rock intro of BoRhap to any concert previously in the year, or compare White Queen or the Prophet's Song. He's totally off key in all of them.
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Well, I'm not sure that 80% off is right, but I agree that the monitors were probably fucked! Most of the note errors I hear, he corrects by "sliding" up or down to the correct note--that's gotta be a monitor issue. It's not like Sweet Lady from Fukuoka, where he just hits random/wrong notes left and right (his voice was fucked)!
Gregsynth
Here's Hyde Park's Sweet lady. While it's not the best version (I think Liverpool 1975 is), I really don't think it's as bad as you say it is! I agree that there's some rough notes here and there, but 80% off? Nah!
It's kinda like me saying 4/30/1979's Bo Rhap is the worst version, then you say 4/23 or 4/28!