Your favourite Taylor licks

Holly2003 wrote:

Oscar J wrote:

Great stuff on here. And man was Staffel a stunning singer. Doing stuff Freddie could only dream of doing on Polar bear.

It hurts my ears listening to Staffel hit those high notes. That never happened with Fred,

I know what you mean:
https://youtu.be/cQa4EbGNMzs?t=2m17s

Still, you kind of have to give him the benefit of the doubt since the Queen albums were more professionally and attentively mixed than the Smile stuff. There's plenty of Freddie notes that could be ear piercing if mixed too loudly, e.g. those really high wails in It's Late.

I really like Tim's voice overall. Earth is delivered (and written) excellently, and I never found Freddie's Polar Bear vocal came close to Tim's, but then again the Queen version was just a demo as I understand it.

hobbit-in-Rhye wrote:

I think it's Tim's unstable voice (that Oscar mentioned) that put me off at first.

If you're talking about the verses, that's Brian. All the softly sung parts are him. Tim's voice is unstable in a sense too; his vibrato is very wide and wobbly.


Back onto drumming:
Not a lick or fill or anything, but I'm always astounded by the speed with which Roger hits the high-hat in the 'Born to be kings...' section of Princes are the Universe. I'm not a drummer, so maybe I'm wrong in thinking it's particularly impressive, but it still sounds awesome.

Also, I think real drums on Love Kills would've been killer - that same fill which appears throughout isn't bad in itself, but it gets repetitive (it's the one which opens the song).

I agree about the ridiculous FBG drum fill as mentioned by tomchristie22. Another cheeky bit I loved as a kid was in GOFLB after the 'you taste the wine' line. I love Roger Taylor, and dig most of his early song writing attempts. SHA, Drowse and Coming Soon are among my all time faves.

Nice pick on the little fill with the cymbal catch on GOFLB; love that!! :-)

Just saw this. I'm no drum expert, but this old guy left me speechless. .

Yeah, you can go on about Roger Taylor all you want, but these legends like Buddy Rich are on a whole other level. "Old guy" hehe.

Yeah.....but could Buddy Rich have programmed the drum machine on 'Radio Ga Ga'?!! ??

cmsdrums wrote:

Yeah.....but could Buddy Rich have programmed the drum machine on 'Radio Ga Ga'?!! ??

Probably not but he'd still keep better time ;-)

tomchristie22 wrote:

hobbit-in-Rhye wrote:

I think it's Tim's unstable voice (that Oscar mentioned) that put me off at first.

If you're talking about the verses, that's Brian. All the softly sung parts are him. Tim's voice is unstable in a sense too; his vibrato is very wide and wobbly.

I know that Brian sang the verses (Polar Bear) and I like the verses ^^
It's Tim's section that was a little bit strange to me, but I'm getting used to it, and Tim does have a good voice.

cmsdrums - glad you like the GOFLB bit I picked. Among with the FBG fill, my fav bits to air drum to.

https://youtu.be/ZCfCj3EZwWY?t=5m33s

Roger had gotten so good at those bass drum triplets by this point in his career. Giving the late, great Bonham a run for his money here.

Roger still had chops in the mid 80's, he just rarely used them other than in these big endings.