Queen announcement

Zebonka12 wrote:

Instead I get to listen to some dork wearing glitter and going "yo fatass bitches get up and riiiiide!".

Methinks your rose-coloured glasses are on, which is a rarity for you because you're usually right about, well, everything.

Even a cursory look at Mercury's stage banter between 1980-82 reveals much more vulgarity than that - dedicating Fat Bottomed Girls to "the street girls" and "people who like fucking a lot," and even a few cocaine references.

But since the old recordings aren't as easy to find as, say, Queen and Adam Lambert in an arena near you, there is a false sense of disparity between the new frontman and old.

Incidentally, I found this photo of another dork in glitter:

http://queenlive.ca/queen/live%20pics/77-12-22_Inglewood_06.jpg

;)

Marknow wrote:

SweetCaroline wrote:

The Tokyo fans LOVED it, especially "I Was Born To Love You" .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7nUaX9Hrbc

Thanks for posting that, I have not seen it yet. Can somebody upload a proper HD rip?

Cannot wait to see these guys in January, London here comes Marknow!! :)

I second that, but the video has been taken down from YouTube. Did anyone grab it ??

It's really the only good pro footage of the tour I've seen yet.

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

They're fine musicians, why can't they just make some NEW music rather than living in the past?

He wants to climb mountains he hasn't yet climbed. What's the point of diving head first into making new music when you've already created A Night At The Opera, and you could actually contribute fantastic new insights to a different field of study, like astronomy?

Most rock stars don't have other options (never mind being a scientist), so they've spent the last few decades making substandard, derivative music with nothing new to say. Brian has other options, and as a result he's had a far more productive last 20 years than most of his peers.

That's my take.

The Real Wizard wrote:

Incidentally, I found this photo of another dork in glitter:

;)

^ this .^. lol

Wow, that's a great shot of Freddie.

"much more vulgarity"

I'm not complaining about vulgarity. It just doesn't have any weight coming from him. It's like having Bert and Ernie up there sometimes.

The Real Wizard wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

They're fine musicians, why can't they just make some NEW music rather than living in the past?

He wants to climb mountains he hasn't yet climbed. What's the point of diving head first into making new music when you've already created A Night At The Opera, and you could actually contribute fantastic new insights to a different field of study, like astronomy?

Most rock stars don't have other options (never mind being a scientist), so they've spent the last few decades making substandard, derivative music with nothing new to say. Brian has other options, and as a result he's had a far more productive last 20 years than most of his peers.

That's my take.

Brian May contributed VERY little to astrophysics so far. Don't think he is about to start now. Haha! His PhD is on kinematics of star dust. Basically, he observed star dust movement and catalogued it to get his PhD. REALLY?

avonalllim wrote:
Brian May contributed VERY little to astrophysics so far. Don't think he is about to start now. Haha! His PhD is on kinematics of star dust. Basically, he observed star dust movement and catalogued it to get his PhD. REALLY?

Are you aware that it's exactly what a PhD thesis is? Hundreds of pages about a subject that looks insignificant to 99.99999% of the world (Sebastian, please feel free to correct this figure :-D).

avonalllim wrote:
Brian May contributed VERY little to astrophysics so far. Don't think he is about to start now. Haha! His PhD is on kinematics of star dust. Basically, he observed star dust movement and catalogued it to get his PhD. REALLY?

Sorry to double team you, but do you realise that long time observing is a big part of astronomy? To see how cosmic things moving around and kicking each other's butt? And it's actually a hard work. It's not all about flashy equations and calculations. Though, in 1970s Brian can do equations as much as anybody - he got three A-Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. I don't know how much of theoretical calculation went into his PhD thesis - please don't ask me to read it - but it's not a reason to diss his. Especially with such a remote and abstract subject as astrophysics, don't be too quick to judge.

During my astrophysics course, my professor often spoke about how "boring" and frustrating the astronomy work can get, how much patience and unsung observations and nameless trainees have contributed to it. It scared the sheep out of me, I ran away, and here I end up, trolling internet everyday and knowing nothing about the universe.