What about a Freddie Hologram tour ?

brENsKi wrote:

Michael Allred wrote:

brENsKi wrote:
they may as well use a Freddie hologram...
cos it's the only thing the desperate tw*ts haven't done in the last 20 years
i can almost see the future "incarnations" of Queen+
2016 - "Queen 45" tour - special guest - the incredibly lifelike Freddie Mercury blow-up doll - complete with working orifices
2021 - "queen 50" tour - special guest - the Freddie Mercury and John Deacon anthropomorphic robots.
Singbot "Freddie" doesn't need autotune - cos his triple-quad core processor keys his synthetic "voicebox" to the opening notes of each tune.
And "John" is the deluxe model in cyber-bass players. his android 17.6 operating system fixes all timing issues to ensure no element of human error. for added "Deacy" authenticity - he is dressed in extremely short shorts revealing some very convincing latex JD family jewels

Wow, yet another whiny crying bitchy Queen fan. It must be miserable to be you.

if you can't tell the difference between sarcasm and "whiny crying" you really are a pathetic little tw*t. i honestly couldn't give a flying fuck what queen do next. the point i was making (however lost on your immense cranial mass) was that they've done just about every other sad undignifying sell-out, so the above would surely not be beyond them either.
surely even you can see it was a jokey comment? otherwise why mae a reference to JD's familiy jewels being on display in those shorts?
one other thing: you cite being a queen fan since 1992. that sums up the difference between us. you are desperate to suck whatever you can out of your queen existence, because you don't have any real-time pre-Freddie(RIP) memories. whereas i grew up actually looking forward to each new single or album or tour. i waited to see new videos, i remember (in real time) hearing somebody to love late at night on luxembourg in late 76, i remember seeing bo rhap video on ToTP for the first time one BBC1 in late 75. i remember things that this current inception of queen+ - no matter how hard they try, can NEVER take away. i'm not bitter, i have my memories - and they're genuine. waterfights on the M1 traffic jam on the way down to knebwroth, queues to get out of wembley after boy george being arrested the night of queen's gig there, throwing a meat pie at teardrop explodes' horn player at M Keynes.
seeing queen (deacon and taylor i think) appear on saturday morning Tiswas promoting a new album and tour and hearing "father to Son" being played to intrduce them.
i actually feel for you. because you will never experience just how good queen were as a band in the news in real time, to grow up with. all you have is the current sh*t, and that's a sorry excuse for a band

Sorry, all I get out of your sad little rants is "wahhhh, I'm a whiny little bitch! wahhh Queen doesn't do what I want them to do! wahhhhh I know better than they do! wahhh I saw the REAL Queen live and you didn't so I'm awesome! wahhhhh"

where did i say that?
don't be so pathetic.
the subject of the thread is
"what about a freddie hologram tour"
i, like everyone else made acomment on it
even adding some joking alternatives.

what i'm getting from you is "i'm so pathetic, all i have in my life is queen, i can't live without Brian May, and i really really really really hate it and scream the place down when anyoen says anyting bad about queen"

could your nose be any further up Mr May's arsehole?

brENsKi wrote:
where did i say that?
don't be so pathetic.
the subject of the thread is
"what about a freddie hologram tour"
i, like everyone else made acomment on it
even adding some joking alternatives.
what i'm getting from you is "i'm so pathetic, all i have in my life is queen, i can't live without Brian May, and i really really really really hate it and scream the place down when anyoen says anyting bad about queen"
could your nose be any further up Mr May's arsehole?

Typically clueless response. No basis in fact what so ever. Go shine up that Freddie statue you worship.

and that, is the response of someone bereft of a decent idea or response to call their own IOW - a stepford. hope you enjoy the tour this year, and the american idol sh*t - pitty you have no inbuilt quality control to recognize when queen are chucking out shit....probably because there's been so much of it these last 20 years that it dumbs down your expectations, and before you know it mediocre becomes good. well not for me

discard this!

brENsKi wrote:
and that, is the response of someone bereft of a decent idea or response to call their own IOW - a stepford. hope you enjoy the tour this year, and the american idol sh*t - pitty you have no inbuilt quality control to recognize when queen are chucking out shit....probably because there's been so much of it these last 20 years that it dumbs down your expectations, and before you know it mediocre becomes good. well not for me

You clearly do not remember the infamous soapbox comments Dr. May made about yours truly some years back because I dared to be critical of Queen. Your "stepford" response is proof positive you just have no idea what you're talking about and are grasping for straws.

These boards are starting to get cluttered with all these fucking retarded arguments. I haven't even been here more than six months and it's degraded a lot since.

On a side note, OP, your username made me think of Bone and shed a tear of joy. Because I love Bone. *sniff*

The Elvis hologram tours worked because the hologram is the centre of attention. Just as in the day the star of the show was Elvis. Not his baking band.

Queen were a band, not Freddie's backing band. If they toured with a holographic "film" of Freddie the dynamic of the show would change relegating BM and RT to no more than backing musicians.

@tomchristie : reading Bone makes for fond memories indeed
@vocalharmony : no wonder Elvis got so fat while touring with a baking band ;-)
Otherwise, I'll admit a Holo-Freddie tour would be of questionable taste, but isn't Adam Lambert's vibrato ?
The Tupac thingy certainly has given some people some ideas (the Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson's estates, for instance).
In any case they would have to play Who Wants To Live Forever

Instead of a hologram they could use a puppet, a robot, a ventriloquist's dummy, or just put his ashes on the stage and play some "robot chicken" style animation of Fred in the background. Any of these super classy ideas would be better than a hologram, which in my view, seems just a little bit cheap.

coming to a stage near you...soon...
the Freddie Mercury.....cardboard cutout

Not that I like the idea of any Freddie tour, I think footage of Freddie on a screen would work better than any of the other alternatives (just like Bijou and Bo Rhap on Q+PR)

Except not video of Wembley

Zebonka12 wrote:
It was awful. He looked like a ridiculous avatar from a Guitar Hero game. I'm just glad they did it with a shit artist, so that I don't feel bad for laughing at him.
Having said that, it'd be worth it to give Freddie the hologram treatment - just to see the reaction here.

1 - no. It was probably the best CGI human creation we've seen so far.
2 - shit artist? no comment.

Fred's hologram on tour? idiotic idea and probably technicaly imposibile.

But short apperance? Why not? We had Fred on screen on Bijou or BR. And now he can stand on stage as holo.

"no. It was probably the best CGI human creation we've seen so far"

Congratulations, you have low standards.