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AKOM is so much better live as is Radio Gaga
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tomchristie22
It's interesting to see how much Another One Bites The Dust live changed over a space of 6 years. I know that was the case with a lot of their material, but Dust seems particularly prevalent in that sense for me. They changed the style and feel of it entirely for pretty much every tour they played it on.
To answer the actual question, all the obvious ones have been said really. I'm gonna say Love Of My Life and '39, as they were the two songs that started the whole acoustic interlude that they'd retain for the rest of their touring life.
To answer the actual question, all the obvious ones have been said really. I'm gonna say Love Of My Life and '39, as they were the two songs that started the whole acoustic interlude that they'd retain for the rest of their touring life.
TheWorks84
Yes. Radio Gaga is much better live then the Studio version.
j0ck3
Regarding transformation towards more crowd participation.
Look no further than We Will Rock You. When introduced for the first time in '77 it had the band singing about the whole song including choruses. When they finished the NOTW tour the song became even more crowd-friendly. Or well, you could have a very shy and quiet audience for the whole concert but you could bet that they would sing a long to WWRY no matter where they played.
I do like the NOTW tour version though. Hearing the band singing the choruses together is great and it sounds so much different from versions from every tour afterwards. Of these I personally prefer Jazz/Live Killers versions of the song because it has the most audience participation and even such a small thing as Roger joining in with Freddie on the first Rock You.
Another oddity is the times where it has played after Freddie's death. I have no idea why they feel like there needs to be backup singers singing in the chorus on about every performance. They seem very reluctant to let the crowd take it over completely which sort of ruins the point of the song as well.
Look no further than We Will Rock You. When introduced for the first time in '77 it had the band singing about the whole song including choruses. When they finished the NOTW tour the song became even more crowd-friendly. Or well, you could have a very shy and quiet audience for the whole concert but you could bet that they would sing a long to WWRY no matter where they played.
I do like the NOTW tour version though. Hearing the band singing the choruses together is great and it sounds so much different from versions from every tour afterwards. Of these I personally prefer Jazz/Live Killers versions of the song because it has the most audience participation and even such a small thing as Roger joining in with Freddie on the first Rock You.
Another oddity is the times where it has played after Freddie's death. I have no idea why they feel like there needs to be backup singers singing in the chorus on about every performance. They seem very reluctant to let the crowd take it over completely which sort of ruins the point of the song as well.
Battler
I think the problem is more that the back-up artists simply aren't familiar with how the song is supposed to be handled live plus most of them are used to just reproducing studio versions live.
Holly2003
Hello mary Lou. A game changer :)