I saw this band support The Darkness two years ago and I've been a MASSIVE fan ever since.
Having seen Queen as being leagues ahead of any other band for nearly 15 out of the last 25 years of my life, I find this small, new American band Foxy Shazam coming and bridging the gap:
The Queen influence is obvious. The lead singer is a camp guy with a moustache and an incredibly unique voice and big vocal range, the band has a classically trained pianist, they play a huge variety of styles and the only thing that's really massively different is they have a trumpet player! In a rock band!
They do sound like early Queen without a doubt, that song Holy Touch sounds like the Darkness.
Great band nice to see something new instead of the tripe that dominates the music world at the moment i.e Beyonce, Lady gaga etc
Nitroboy · Member since
Sounds nothing like Queen to me
Band Forever · Member since
Band Forever · Member since
Not quite but he going to bring amateur gymnastics to the masses dearies.
AdamMethos · Member since
I like Foxy Shazam, but Queen played/experimented with such diverse musical styles. I have yet to come across any band with that depth, and that's what I would need to see before I say anyone is the new Queen or the new Freddie.
but ... indeed, Foxy Shazam is a great band and Eric Sean Nally as brought back the lost flamboyance Freddie used to deliver to the rock´n roll scene :)
PTRACER · Member since
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[b]AdamMethos wrote: [/b] I like Foxy Shazam, but Queen played/experimented with such diverse musical styles. I have yet to come across any band with that depth, and that's what I would need to see before I say anyone is the new Queen or the new Freddie.[/QUOTE]
They certainly did. I didn't want to call these guys the new Queen, they are not trying to be Queen or sound like them and I don't think Foxy Shazam would be unique if they were exactly like Queen. HOWEVER I am saying they're something new, they're in the spirit of Queen, you can hear some influence in things like backing vocals and in the energy their live performances and that's good enough for me. I wouldn't want someone to copy the style of Queen, I'd want them to be unique in their own right.
I mean this sounds nothing like Queen, but it's a sassy, big band jazzy rock mix which Queen certainly never did, but could have pulled off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpA7het7to
And their covers of Walking In The Air (the Christmas song) and Drain You by Nirvana are absolutely magic and show their diversity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu8KdLZ6OzY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spps6g129DE
Freddie would have loved these guys for sure.
Chief Mouse · Member since
From what I just saw I'm starting to like them.
Vocal harmony · Member since
What made Freddie so good and different was that he was never the new anyone. Their was never anyone like him before or since. Those who remind us of Freddie are just that, reminders of a small percentage of a far greater talent. The next anyone will never be the original. Talent is something you are born with, is copying that an equal talent? I would say not really as the blue print and half the work is already done for you.
Kacio · Member since
Nate from Fun. is great vocalist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFTiecd1c0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzSAvhNsls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqMW_EstG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Sa799B1yI
Wiley · Member since
Well, it's hard for Queen fans to accept anybody being better than Freddie but I would be surprised if he wasn't unfavorably compared with people like Robert Plant when he first started. I don't have a specific quote but I guess it wouldn't be so hard to find a not so good review from 1973 that says something like this.
Remember this is not "Live Aid" Freddie we're talking about, it's not "Bohemian Rhapsody-We Are The Champions" Queen. I'm talking about them before becoming huge, being a small band that just managed to launch their first album, with no hits under their belt.
Same case with any new artist... Are "Muse" or "Fun." the next Queen? They've certainly been called that but what tells us that 20 years from now people won't be saying that someone is "the next Muse"?
Kacio · Member since
We can't say that Nate or another singer is a brand new Freddie Mercury, the same can't said that Muse or the other band is the new Queen.
Just some of these artists and bands inspired by the work of Queen and Freddie to some extent, what we can hear, but for example Nate is good singer.
I don't compare Nate to Freddie, I never! :)
Freddie is unique and no one can replace him
Queen too. :)
PTRACER · Member since
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[b]Kacio wrote: [/b] Nate from Fun. is great vocalist [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFTiecd1c0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFTiecd1c0[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzSAvhNsls]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzSAvhNsls[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqMW_EstG4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqMW_EstG4[/url] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Sa799B1yI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Sa799B1yI[/url][/QUOTE]
He is pretty good, some elements of multitracking in there like we see from Queen. It's just a shame it's so heavily autotuned, like some of The Darkness stuff. Makes it sound less...genuine.
