Freddie and vocal improvisations. A maverick ?

These days seems like another one of his trademarks but i was wondering if he was a pioneer in this kind of vocal ping-pong with the audience.
Where there artists before him experimented in the same way?

i think he was, i dont believe there was anyone else who did it.

When was his first ever Audience improv?, 1978/79 ?

Something around that yeah, possibly NOTW. I haven't really looked for it though.

He started with it in Japan 75 but it was much shorter and with music

Prophet Song, i dont count that as a vocal improvisation with the audience to be honest.

[QUOTE] [b]BradMay wrote:[/b]
Prophet Song, i dont count that as a vocal improvisation with the audience to be honest.[/QUOTE]

At some point he said fuck the delay machines. Lets use the masses.

Complete and utter BS by Freddie-worshipers. Crowd interaction is as old as music itself, and call-and-response is generally accepted as the oldest structural format in music.

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
Complete and utter BS by Freddie-worshipers. Crowd interaction is as old as music itself, and call-and-response is generally accepted as the oldest structural format in music.[/QUOTE]

Crowd interactions and sing alongs is one thing. But the back and forth of small melody lines delivered with a sence of climax is another.I was talking about the second.

Yes, Freddie was a pioneer. He officially was the first to get the crowd to say "de - do - de - do - da - oh".

Life has never been the same since.

this is an example of yet another ridiculous thread. how loing before some of these utterances become uban myth and then established as fact? before making these suggestions it may be wise to use google - or even lsiten to some older bands live lps

it's rubbish to even suggest it may be the case....plant used to do this with zeppelin in the late 60s, and gillan did it as a "standard" with purple from 1972 onwards

but why don't we ignore the facts and just lets cut to the chase and accept that freddie invented everything....the lightbulb, zip fastener, microchip, radiotherapy and a few things not invented yet...how about time travel, mind reading moving at lightspeed

so, in the interests of balance i'm going to annoy you a lot now by saying that
Freddie was not a God, pioneer, inventor, maverick, or any of the other "sychophantic superlatives" used by the stepfords on QZ...he was a very promiscuous guy who died of a horrible disease but could sing a bit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dezaVVEQgXQ

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]
this is an example of yet another ridiculous thread. how loing before some of these utterances become uban myth and then established as fact? before making these suggestions it may be wise to use google - or even lsiten to some older bands live lps
it's rubbish to even suggest it may be the case....
plant used to do this with zeppelin in the late 60s
and gillan did it as a "standard" with purple from 1972 onwards
but why don't we ignore the facts and just lets cut to the chase and accept that freddie invented everything....the lightbulb, zip fastener, microchip, radiotherapy and a few things not invented yet...how about time travel, mind reading moving at lightspeed[/QUOTE]

Exactly how on earth do you suggest should i use google and key words with such a question? No way.
By the way if i type live vocal improvisation the five first results i get from google is videos from Freddie and Queen doing the ire-re-re-ro stuff.

Oh, and he did invent radiotherapy :-)

nicely sidestepped my suggestion to "listen to some older bands live lps"

i used keywords like "audience participation" "rock" and "gigs" and "history"

one reference to the monterrey pop festival 1967 cites Otis Redding's set as involving audience participation

Freddie Mercury invented the light sabre, caused the extinction of Australia's megafauna, was the world's first Zoroastrian opera singer, set dogs and cats against eachother, was the second gay man on the moon and has two degrees in astrophysics. However, he did not invent audience participation.

[QUOTE] [b]thomasquinn 32989 wrote:[/b]
Complete and utter BS by Freddie-worshipers. Crowd interaction is as old as music itself, and call-and-response is generally accepted as the oldest structural format in music.[/QUOTE]
And that should be the end of the thread.