Queen Extravaganza

Queen Extravaganza should come to Brazil! I'd love to watch them! :'(

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[b]cmsdrums wrote: [/b] [QUOTE][b]YourValentine wrote:[/b]
Now what is the difference between the "Queen Extravaganza" and any other good cover band? (Except all the hype, of course.)[/QUOTE]

The difference is that this is a tribute band, not a cover band. There a tons of cover band out there - bands that do Queen songs but with no real feel for the nuances and style of playing, or the sound they need to capture, or the signature pieces they have to include. A tribute band however has all of those, and is not looking to radically alter songs to present their own skills, and stay true to the songs and pay attention to detail with their performance (such as Roger's hi hat/snare style of playing) etc

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I have to disagree. It does not matter if you call them tribute or cover but there are loads of excellent Queen tribute or cover bands who have a lot of love for the music and are really good.   There is definitely a weird feeling seeing musicians who devote their whole musical carreer to the music of another band trying to recreate the success of this other band on a stage but  once you have accepted this concept of a band playing nothing but the material of another very successful band  they can be great. Good Queen  cover bands do capture the sound and feeling without slavishly following a specific original reference stage rendition of  a song.

I have seen many cover/tribute bands, some are even friends but I find it more than weird that the drummer of the original band assembles his own tribute band and hypes them with the full publicity machine of the originals. I am sure the musicians are all great and have a genuine love for Queen music but to me the whole project looks like a very cheap marketing event: Bring Queen back to the USA with the  least possible money and effort and a lot of publicity.  There was a time when Roger thought that cover bands are very bizzarre but times change.

The singers are amazing. Honestly though, I hate those guitarists - especially the lefty with that stupid ass backflip and throwing his guitar in the air stuff. Why are they doing that? I wonder how involved Brian was in the selection of guitarists? When I saw that on AI I couldn't believe how incredibly stupid that was.

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]
Well this is all looking much better than I expected. It's pretty nice that Roger seems to have managed to exceed our expectations. I look forward to GregSynth's verdict (and recording if that's what he appeared to be implying) too![/QUOTE]

You implied correctly :)

I can't wait to see the QE live! Going off the Youtube videos, I love what I'm hearing!

Love of My Life by QE:

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

Uau. I'm in love with Martel.

Well... sound absolutely great! Marc is a great singer indeed!

They can tour Europe in bigger venues for sure.

Marc Martel is without a doubt the star of the show. His Love of My Life performance is stupendous.

I'm longing to see other videos, You Take My Breath Away for instance.

a visit to the uk would be nice

Also - since I witnessed it - I should mention, Marc Martel, I think, has assumed the role of the front man, as he was the only one to address the crowd. Not as charismatic as Freddie, mind you, but he did know how to get the crowd going and was not shy of the mic.

I'm pretty sure Roger will drop one of the singers as the tour goes on as Marc needs more airtime... and it won't be the girl - cuz she hardly got any, and when she did - it was in good taste, ie. the right selections for a female singer to sing.

I've just found a Brazilian girl in the Montreal show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Q5y0xqga4

At 2:16, she says: "Ai, que lindo!"

This means some like "Oh, it's beautiful!"

\o/

Full Setlist in perfect order:

Prophet Song (Intro from tape) / We Will Rock You (Fast)
Tie Your Mother Down
Now I'm Here
Love Of My Life
I Want It All
Killer Queen / The March Of The Black Queen (excerpt)
Dragon Attack
Bicycle Race
I Want To Break Free
You Take My Breath Away
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon
I'm In Love With My Car
Save Me
Bohemian Rhapsody

Intermission

Rock It (Intro from tape) / One Vision
A Kind Of Magic
Don't Stop Me Now
Under Pressure
Another One Bites The Dust
Who Wants To Live Forever
White Man (intro riff only) / Fat Bottomed Girls
Stone Cold Crazy
Drum Solo / Liar (intro)
You're My Best Friend
Seven Seas Of Rhye
In The Lap Of The Gods
In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited
Radio GaGa
Somebody To Love

Encore

We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions

What an impressive setlist. Q+AL must do something like that!!!

Save Me + CLTCL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUfyPimvA2Y

Bicycle Race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWj7J5IG3I

Definitely, I don't like Soto's inputs in Queen songs, I think he doesn't fit them.
Martel should be in charge of all the songs, his voice is phenomenal and fits perfectly in everything he has taken. He's the man!
The drummer is great too!

I think the other male singer (not Soto, not Martel) is also amazing. He's, in my opinion, the second best one there vocally.