'Days Of Our Lives' part 2

Sebastian wrote: Where exactly does Mack say it's a drum machine?
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Hi Seb

here's the link to the interview (though you've probably seen this already) http://www.queenzone.com/forums/1261276/mack-interview.aspx

I could be getting mixed up; he refers to creating the part with a loop because no one ever turned up for the sessions,  and refers to  using a drum machine on the middle section, but doesn't explicitly say the loop itself was not Roger's real playing - so I may be interpreting it wrong.

Nice pic of one of the old studio track sheets there too!

He says 'it's a drum loop'. For the record, drum loops aren't the same as drum machines.

He then mentions a machine, but not a drum machine: a processing unit (not the same).

So no, Mack does not say a drum machine was used on that song.

Sebastian wrote: He says 'it's a drum loop'. For the record, drum loops aren't the same as drum machines.

He then mentions a machine, but not a drum machine: a processing unit (not the same).

So no, Mack does not say a drum machine was used on that song.

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I'd realised that, that's why I said I'd misread the article! :-)

I loved this band through rose tinted spectacles in the 70's - this documentary made them all the more real and relevant through the insights into their human frailties - the bad business deals,  how Freddy's lifestyle influenced their direction, dealing with their own demise,  the rivalries and jealousies . It was fascinating and excellent. 

My personal highlight - the story of Brian and his father, told over the background of the live Love Of My Life - that  song rolled back the years in an instant - utterly timeless.

I'm still wondering why they didn't interview Dave Fuller.

Zebonka12 said: I'm still wondering why they didn't interview Dave Fuller.
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True that. :P

Senna wrote: Some of the documentary annoyed me because it wasn't the way i remembered it, Paul Gambaccini's assertion that they were a spent force with one hit in four years before Live Aid is plainly wrong, the year before Live Aid they had three top ten hits and i think Hammer to fall got to no.11 plus they had just come off the back of their Works tour. They were still a huge band. It makes a good story... forgotten band steals the show but its not true.
You are absolutely right - they were still huge on the Works tour. I do not ever remember this 'dip' in their career. When the band look back, I believe that remembering their low morale at that time colours their memory of it now.

It's a Hard Life was also a medium-sized hit in some territories. Globally, it outsold HTF at least three times.

It seemed strange shot where Freddie and Hatton at the club at a party in honor of thebirthday of Freddy who later served as a music video for "living on my own" and therethey kissed. Strange as it generally refers to the story of Queen

Zebonka12 wrote: I'm still wondering why they didn't interview Dave Fuller.
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yep.. and Peter Freestone.

Who was the guy with the black long hair standing behind Freddie during the Days of our Lives video? When Freddie, Roger and The Doro guy are looking at the monitor and giving comments on the performance. Is it Dave Clark?....

Well, I only got to see the first 20 minutes or so of Part 1, which I enjoyed a lot.  I did see all of Part 2, which made me cry at the end.  I don't always think that it is best for everyone to be present at a death, and maybe it was meant to be that Roger not experience that.  He loved Freddie, that's for sure.  I found all the comments to be sincere.  I was somewhat distracted by the non-Queen footage - such as Los Angeles in the 1980s, which seemed generic.  The music was so good.  Overall, I thought what I saw of it was excellent and it would be nice to see it in a movie theater.  Gosh, it could have been a 5-part documentary.  There was probably so much they couldn't use if their goal was to get it to a 2-hour length.

Hi to all
Is that really Jhon Deacon at the end of part 2, more precisely at 55.50???

Yes he looked like he had aged quite a bit as well

It was shortly before he died.

"It was shortly before he died."

What do you mean, who died???