Chicago Set List

[QUOTE] [b]ploughman wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]ptr wrote:[/b]

Official Stone Cold Crazy clip is truly horrible performance..... and sadly key of weakness of this performance suprisingly is not Lambert´s voice - its Roger´s drumming which is dramatically worse compared to 2008 Tour with Paul Rodgers. Maybe he will be better as tour goes on, but this performance was really very bad.

About Rufus´s drumming in Tie Your Mother Down - I have big issue with that, because that "Queen+" factor is completely gone - it´s becoming Brian May and his backing band performance. It doesnt matter that Roger wishes that, for "Queen+" name Roger´s presence is required! Or Rufus is going to be upcoming drummer for future Queen+? It´s not acceptable for me. [/QUOTE]

My point exactly.

There is a funny culture in Queen Zone today. Either there are people who are slacking everything what Brian and Roger and Queen are doing nowadays, or then there are people who don't see absolutely anything wrong with anything.

I just made this objective observation that Roger is not that fit anymore and that the "Queen-sound" is really gone because of that. I'm a HUGE, i mean a HUGE Roger Taylor fan, but my god, I'm entitled to have a negative opinion on his playing nowadays. And maybe it is because I've seen him doing 10 times bettter.[/QUOTE]

I mostly agree with you about Roger. In Chicago, there were some great moments but there were spots where he just did not seem to have enough energy/power. I just would rather focus on the good moments and enjoy it.

I have only watched a few videos but they were flat and dull compared to the live experience so I stopped. IMO the "Queen-sound" was there live.

ETA: To me the biggest gap between QAL and Queen is on bass. But that is my instrument and I am a huge John fan. My dream would be to have him return for just one concert -- and one I was attending.

Neil Fairclough had more of a John 'feel' and sound than Danny Miranda, based on having seen both with 'Queen'. I do after though, that John's absence leaves a hole far more noticeable than most account for. (Look at the Cosmos Rocks album which really missed a bassist, as opposed to just someone playing bass).

Cosmos Rocks is more of a Paul Rodgers + May & Taylor than a Queen + Paul Rodgers album. As you said they didn't have a basist, and May was busy so didn't participate too much in the composition.

I enjoyed the album, but just as an album and not a Queen album. Songs like Voodoo, Warboys, or Surf's up are good in their own genre, but don't fit very well with the rest of the Queen catalogue.