Paul Rodgers to tour with Queen again?

Thistleboy 1980 wrote:

But is there a need for them to "move forward" with Paul?  Looks to me like PR is just trying to capitalise on Queen's recent resurgence....and you know the saying "once bitten twice shy".  I really can't blame Brian.
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Of course not.  But again it's not unrevealing that he seems willing to burn bridges with a fellow artist and one time collaborator to the point that his distaste for him has become publicly palpable, when everybody else in the mix seems willing to leave the door open for one offs etc. This is particularly true in an anniversary year, probably their last 'big' anniversary year, when it would be great to have all possibilities open.

And it leaves Roger kind of holding the bag for the public diplomacy and such.  Roger has disproportionately had to distance or differentiate himself from Brian's public statements and better known private sentiments over the years. The entire point of this is that there is an overwhelming indication that Brian is not always, and perhaps even not often, an easy guy.  These conversations usually come up when it's perceived that people are too soft on him, usually at the expense of somebody else, in this case Paul Rodgers.

Thistleboy 1980 wrote:

Well, he did beat Mick Ralphs up.... He is an ex-boxer and a 2nd degree blackbelt in oragami or whatever, so I reckon he does have some pent up anger issues lol

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Freddie Mercury threw a brick through his manager's window ... because their manager left a restaurant after Mercury broke his "don't talk to the press" rule.

He also once smashed a mirror over his assistant's head and demanded he clean it up..

Consistency, people .. consistency.

Sir GH wrote: Thistleboy 1980 wrote:

Well, he did beat Mick Ralphs up.... He is an ex-boxer and a 2nd degree blackbelt in oragami or whatever, so I reckon he does have some pent up anger issues lol

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Freddie Mercury threw a brick through his manager's window ... because their manager left a restaurant after Mercury broke his "don't talk to the press" rule.

He also once smashed a mirror over his assistant's head and demanded he clean it up..

Consistency, people .. consistency.

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Yeah, but Freddie was allowed because he was on his period lol

I like Paul as a talent and I think it was pretty nice of him to go on tour and sing so many songs he didn't write.  

We don't know what made it come to an end but we do know that Paul had intended it to be a short-term collaboration due to his solo work, as he stated in the interviews pretty early on.  

If Brian and Roger get another singer and go out on tour or just go out on their own, it would be great.

Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote: I was hoping some collaboration would happen this year, and I thought it was probable that they would play with Paul again in this process. I changed my mind when I saw the Days of Our Lives BBC Documentary (part 2). The mention to the QPR tours and to TCR was really fast and led me to think they consider it something from the past. These are all (somewhat) educated guesses, I know.

Cheers,

Ogre-

the albums wasn't mentioned. The 4 years with Paul were edited down to Roger saying "The Paul Rodgers tour was (SINGULAR!!) great. He's a great singer, completely different from Freddie"

Thanks to the Cosmos Tour my friends and I saw Brian & Roger live! It was in Murcia, Spain, in one of the five open air shows of the tour (Kharkiv,Murcia,Dubai, Argentina and Chile) This was my first concert in a stadium too.

It was the whole cloudy day and we were afraid because maybe they cancel the gig if rain, but thanks to God the night was fantastic, the band open with the Thunders/Surf's Up/YEAAAAH/Hammer To Fall and played the usual setlist. Of course Bijou and Rhapsody were the most emotive moments of the night. We saw the concert very near to Brian and the whole band was on fire, maybe they are impressed for the wild crowd (wild in the good way), we sang all the songs, Paul noticed that in Another One Bites the Dust and did a singalong with the audience (eoooo- eooooo!!) after the song end. At this point  i remember think that Paul was a nice guy. We are waiting for the I Want It All Solo and Dr. May did a great work as usual, fantastic!
Mr. Rodgers did a superb version of Seagull that night, one of my friends was very impressed and adopted ''Seagull'' as his favourite song from that day.
The Roger solo was another top moment of the night, we never saw something like this, in '39 the crowd didn't sang so much but in ''Love of my Life'' did it at top voice, Brian gave thanks to us for this, and said that this was his first visit in Murcia, but not his first visit in Spain.
The part of the Brian Solo/Bijou/Last Horizon was one of my favourites moments of that night, in the solo Brian played riffs from ''Keep Yourself Alive'' and ''Now I'm Here'' and was in top form 
With Radio Ga Ga the impressed was the band, all the stadium do the clap with the hands, and that was fantastic, but they LET US SING one complete verse of the song! I never noticed they did that in the past or in the future! Even Paul said something about this!
I enjoyed so much Cosmos Rockin', a great song live. And again all the stadium clap their hands and sing along with We Will Rock You.
It was a incredible night.

One of my friends told me that during God Save The Queen, Paul asked something to Brian, and this responsed with a negative.

We could live that night thanks to the reunion of Paul with Brian and Roger.

(again, sorry if my english is not the best)

Sir GH wrote: mike hunt wrote:

Just because he doesn't think pauls voice fits the Queen sound doesn't make him close-minded.

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Correct.  But he did say that Paul Rodgers sucks for the sole reason that he felt he doesn't fit the Queen sound.  That's a very different statement, and the very definition of closed-minded.

There's more to Paul than what he did with Queen, but some of these people are so obsessed with Queen to the point that they'll hate anyone who sings Queen songs in a new way.  Not liking his interpretations is one thing, but to hate the artist in his totality for this reason is another.

I bet most of these Queen fans who hate Paul probably can't even name a single song of his that wasn't in the QPR setlists.

I guess it just saddens me that so many people are full of hate when it comes to music.  Politics and religion are supposed to divide us, not music ... it should unite us.  To actually hate a person who makes a living off entertaining people and hasn't done harm to anyone ... I just can't understand the mentality.
I didn't want to be rude or close-minded, but I just wanted to express my opinion. I respect guys like Sir GH and Pittrek a lot, without knowing nothing personal about them. We are just talking about music, mere musical tastes. It's not something objective. It's pure subjectivity. I don't think i'm close-minded at all. I just don't like Paul Rodgers. It's just what I'm think. To me, he sucks, in every way. Even the way he is dressed. That doesn't mean he universally sucks. It's just musical tastes, not Science. I can't even find the words to express my idea. My English sucks too.

I don't care if he is a blues singer or if he like to eat another human beings. In my point of view, in my subjective experience of the world, he simply sucks. That's all. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that way.

Excuse for my English. Cheers.

This probably is a stupid question, but what's this fall out between roger and PR you guys were talking about?

hugo123 wrote: This probably is a stupid question, but what's this fall out between roger and PR you guys were talking about?

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They're fighting over who gets the letter D in their surname.

I'd be interested in knowing about the fall-out between everyone too.

I don't mind Paul, but I wish Queen would just tour and make records with Roger and Brian.  They could cover the vocals themselves and it would be great.  My favorite parts of the Queen+Paul Rodgers DVD's are Roger singing with Brian anyway.

FUCK PAUL RODGERS
He's the worst choice to ever sing Queen songs, second to myself.

Is Brian May a fucking idiot?

Even Tom Chaplin, who is not what you'd call AN AMAAAZING SINGER, did a pretty damn good job on It's a Hard Life when they played in that stupid gala. The only person who can fuck a queen song up is Paul CUNT Rodgers.

NOT TO MENTION, that with Paul Rodgers, we only manage to listen to Brian's stupid rock songs and maybe some pretty boring versions of AOBTD and IWTBF (not that Queen with Freddie had done good live versions of those songs either).

But most importantly
PLEASE
NO MORE COSMOS ROCKS!!!!!!!

FUCKING BRIAN!

"The only person who can fuck a queen song up is Paul CUNT Rodgers"

You're forgetting Axl Rose.

Immediately after the split, Roger was on Breakfast TV and was asked who he thought was the best front man they had teamed up with. Roger said " George michael".

Now this was right after TCR tour.

A major kick in the teeth for Rodgers.

As i said before, for me it was Roger who had a major problem with Paul.

I'm not a PR fan, BUT if it means a chance to hear them again, i would welcome it with immense joy :D

Zodiacal_light wrote: Immediately after the split, Roger was on Breakfast TV and was asked who he thought was the best front man they had teamed up with. Roger said " George michael".

Now this was right after TCR tour.

A major kick in the teeth for Rodgers.

As i said before, for me it was Roger who had a major problem with Paul.
That's hardly a controversial opinion though. A Queen + George Michael album/tour would've made a lot more sense than teaming up with a man who has only ever sing simple blues-rock and who is therefore unsuited to sing the more pop or theatrical-orientated  songs from the Queen catalogue. 

As for a supposed bust up, gossip aside, I haven't seen any evidence of any major disagreement.