Freddie Mercury = Queen Engine

[QUOTE] [b]Djdownsy wrote:[/b]

I didn't know him personally but from his interviews he doesn't seem like an amazing person to me. More like ... well some things are better left unsaid :-)[/QUOTE]

Go on, elaborate. I'm curious...

To me, a better automotive analogy would be that John, Brian and Roger were like a sports car with a good engine....and Freddie was like a supercharger.....took the car to a new level of performance that the engine wasnt capable of without......however, without the supercharger, the engine is still a good one and capable of putting out decent power......(No One But You, Long Away, Fight From The Inside, Hijack My Heart, Lost Opportunity, More Of That Jazz, Sleeping On The Sidewalk, Some Day One Day, Tenement Funster....all songs with no (or at most, minimal) Freddie involvement).......

To even carry the analogy into the present day, let's say the original supercharger broke down (1991).....and some other part uh, bites the dust later (John)......still a good engine though......later you experiment with adding different types or models of supercharger....not quite the same as the original but pretty good and with their own different character (Paul, Adam)......and some other parts to replace or augment things....(Spike, Danny, Jamie, Rufus, Neil)..........

What can I say, I like automotive analogies.......;)

Freddie could join any other band without Brian ,Roger and John and become popular and very famous easily ,but to the other side without Freddie they could never become famous cause there are many as good guitarist like Brian ,many good basist like John and many better drummers than Roger.
Freddie was truly queen engine ,queen king ,queen queen whatever ,Now queen without him is nothing special just a band like there are many

I prefer to think of Queen now as like a foot. Freddie was the foot's big toe, but had to be amputated because err... he had frostbite and developed gangrene while climbing Mt. Everest or something. Lambert is an ankle bracelet. So Queen are now like a old foot without a big toe, but with an ankle bracelet. Not as good, obviously missing something intrinsic, a bit unbalanced, and like all other things English, completely useless at football.

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[b]MercuryVenus wrote: [/b] Freddie could join any other band without Brian ,Roger and John and become popular and very famous easily 

I think this one summs it up.
He would sooner or later shine and carry the band to a new level .
In the case of Queen we had also to do with some extra decent men and musicians so the resault was truly one of kind and really nice to witnses.
Just the right amount of ingridients.
Brian, Roger and John made Mercury an even bigger superstar that perhaps any other ensemble of bandmates would ever be capable of, becouse they were intelligent, self conscious individuals.
Mercury's over the top idiosynchrasity may have lead to dubious resaults (untamed charisma),  if his colligs had lets say the same amount of musicianship but lacked the extra dimension that was brought by those educated, refined and intelligent bandnates and friends.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

I prefer to think of Queen now as like a foot. Freddie was the foot's big toe, but had to be amputated because err... he had frostbite and developed gangrene while climbing Mt. Everest or something. Lambert is an ankle bracelet. So Queen are now like a old foot without a big toe, but with an ankle bracelet. Not as good, obviously missing something intrinsic, a bit unbalanced, and like all other things English, completely useless at football. [/QUOTE]


So you're saying Freddie was their Sgt. Hulka??