The Real Wizard
Great to see Brian finally attempt this one live. It worked surprisingly well, even with the middle 8 mishap !
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MERQRY
I love how the song worked! it`s a nice song and sounds very well live
Dan C.
Love it! And the flubs actually made me love it more.
Holmsey
It was my original you tube good company video. I have a few more bits and some piccies also.
It was a brill night, i was second row in the middle and it was only a 500 seater theatre anyway.Brian and Kerry were on fab form chatting alot and making mistakes which was so fabulous. It was a really really great, relaxed vibe.
It was a brill night, i was second row in the middle and it was only a 500 seater theatre anyway.Brian and Kerry were on fab form chatting alot and making mistakes which was so fabulous. It was a really really great, relaxed vibe.
Holmsey
Holmsey
Holmsey
Martin Packer
I think he got Good Company right last night in Wycombe. Or at least good enough to fool ME - which doesnt' take much doing. :-) No guitar solo, by the way.
The Real Wizard
The solo requires three guitars (trombone, trumpet, clarinet), so it's a pretty safe bet that he won't be doing it live.
Or do you mean the little ukulele solo in the middle?
Or do you mean the little ukulele solo in the middle?
Sheer Brass Neck
[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]
For established musicians smaller more intimate shows are almost always labours of love and conviction in one way or another. I think often of Taylor Hawkins pounding out stuff with the Coattail Riders with everything he had for about 28 people on a Monday night in a Toronto bar. For Brian the Kerry Ellis stuff seems in large part to be about the challenge and frehness of roles like mentor, producer, arranger, provider of accompaniment and co-creator of new music combinations and energies. Similarly both Brian and Roger traded larger crowds for a shot at having their solo efforts heard. So they're both capable of 'going there' under the right circumstances, which makes the fact that they haven't telling, despite essentially assured success and fan interest.
Beyond broad and vague statements about being proud of what they accomplished as Queen I have never had the sense that they adequately valued the brilliance and worth in the finer details of heir own history. You see it for example in Roger's expressed attitude about an anthology (an uninspring future obligation to a record company) and Brian's position on unpolished rarities. So many album tracks are emotional to us but who knows what they represent to the band. The past, staleness, artistic compromise, tensions, regret, failure, boredom, nothing - all possible in varying degrees. [/QUOTE]
Agree with everything stated GF, but when Brian complains about people only knowing the hits and wishing they'd discover the albums, and Roger complains about people not knowing what a wonderful musician Freddie (and the band) was, there is something that says for all their success, they wish for more. They can do it, maybe it doesn't mean so much to them. I still think a small venue tour would do big box office .
For established musicians smaller more intimate shows are almost always labours of love and conviction in one way or another. I think often of Taylor Hawkins pounding out stuff with the Coattail Riders with everything he had for about 28 people on a Monday night in a Toronto bar. For Brian the Kerry Ellis stuff seems in large part to be about the challenge and frehness of roles like mentor, producer, arranger, provider of accompaniment and co-creator of new music combinations and energies. Similarly both Brian and Roger traded larger crowds for a shot at having their solo efforts heard. So they're both capable of 'going there' under the right circumstances, which makes the fact that they haven't telling, despite essentially assured success and fan interest.
Beyond broad and vague statements about being proud of what they accomplished as Queen I have never had the sense that they adequately valued the brilliance and worth in the finer details of heir own history. You see it for example in Roger's expressed attitude about an anthology (an uninspring future obligation to a record company) and Brian's position on unpolished rarities. So many album tracks are emotional to us but who knows what they represent to the band. The past, staleness, artistic compromise, tensions, regret, failure, boredom, nothing - all possible in varying degrees. [/QUOTE]
Agree with everything stated GF, but when Brian complains about people only knowing the hits and wishing they'd discover the albums, and Roger complains about people not knowing what a wonderful musician Freddie (and the band) was, there is something that says for all their success, they wish for more. They can do it, maybe it doesn't mean so much to them. I still think a small venue tour would do big box office .
Sebastian
[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]
The solo requires three guitars (trombone, trumpet, clarinet), so it's a pretty safe bet that he won't be doing it live.
Or do you mean the little ukulele solo in the middle?[/QUOTE]
Queen were adamant NOT to replicate the studio versions. Theoretically, Brian could arrange a live version for GC with a guitar solo that was a reduction of the jazz-band arrangement, the same way he did Killer Queen and GOFLB, and many others.
The solo requires three guitars (trombone, trumpet, clarinet), so it's a pretty safe bet that he won't be doing it live.
Or do you mean the little ukulele solo in the middle?[/QUOTE]
Queen were adamant NOT to replicate the studio versions. Theoretically, Brian could arrange a live version for GC with a guitar solo that was a reduction of the jazz-band arrangement, the same way he did Killer Queen and GOFLB, and many others.
The Real Wizard
Very true !
tomchristie22
I don't think it was trying to be different to the studio version as much as it was doing the best and closest possible version with only one guitar, and still have it sound like a coherent solo, which I think they did successfully with those you mentioned. But that was the 1970s, and I doubt Brian would be that adventurous nowadays.
Martin Packer
By mentioning "he got it right" I was comparing and contrasting to what he instantly acknowledged as "getting it wrong" - the other night. Nothing deeper than that.
jpgthfc
I went to the wycombe concert at the end of the tour- he played it then as well! great to see an old gem like that be revived