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The King Of Rhye
Any time I hear or see that name, though......I am going to think "this is the side you haven't been hearing on the Tony Blackburn show"
master marathon runner
The berk regularly slagged them off in the 70's, he resented having them on the radio 1 playlist.
. Also, I remember Elvis Costello tearing into them on radio, saying to the effect, : "I wish Queen would just disappear into a hole" and when told that Queen fans wouldn't approve of such a remark, retorted: "I wish their fans would fall into the hole with them"
There now.
. Also, I remember Elvis Costello tearing into them on radio, saying to the effect, : "I wish Queen would just disappear into a hole" and when told that Queen fans wouldn't approve of such a remark, retorted: "I wish their fans would fall into the hole with them"
There now.
brENsKi
Comedy Gold
Pingfah
Tony's a good mate of mine. He told me he actually has grown to like Queen quite a bit, but he heard Gerry is a complete prick so decided not to play his track.
gerry
ha ha you should be on stage with michael mcintyre pingfah ( another prick)
Vocal harmony
[QUOTE] [b]master marathon runner wrote:[/b]
The berk regularly slagged them off in the 70's, he resented having them on the radio 1 playlist.
. Also, I remember Elvis Costello tearing into them on radio, saying to the effect, : "I wish Queen would just disappear into a hole" and when told that Queen fans wouldn't approve of such a remark, retorted: "I wish their fans would fall into the hole with them"
There now.[/QUOTE]
I remember Costello being interviewed on R1 saying Queen were a talentless bunch of Geeks.
Of course put into context his skills as a guitarist, singer and song writer far outstrips anything Queen could achieve! What a goof.
The berk regularly slagged them off in the 70's, he resented having them on the radio 1 playlist.
. Also, I remember Elvis Costello tearing into them on radio, saying to the effect, : "I wish Queen would just disappear into a hole" and when told that Queen fans wouldn't approve of such a remark, retorted: "I wish their fans would fall into the hole with them"
There now.[/QUOTE]
I remember Costello being interviewed on R1 saying Queen were a talentless bunch of Geeks.
Of course put into context his skills as a guitarist, singer and song writer far outstrips anything Queen could achieve! What a goof.
gerry
yes i remember that on Radio 1 i think he was reviewing the weeks new singles and Queen had "Save me" just released,
and Costello was so rude slagging Queen off.
To be honest there was a lot of jealousy there!
and Costello was so rude slagging Queen off.
To be honest there was a lot of jealousy there!
master marathon runner
How he got to stand there on the Big O's black and white night, with all those legends, ill never know. He was probably part o' the catering and just sneaked onto stage.
miraclesteinway
You know, this is something that probably deserves a separate thread on a different forum, but there is a tendency for some musicians, particularly those working in rock and pop (and all the genres that encompasses - urban, dance, hip hop, folk rock, whatever) to have a blind spot for other genres. I don't know why this happens.
It can happen with Jazz musicians and Classical musicians too, but if I'm being honest in my experience it happens less with Classical musicians (not necessarily Classical music lovers, different things) who tend to be more open to getting their hands dirty with all types of music and tend to enjoy all genres.
You get hip hop and dance artists who are producing records, for instance, and they've never even seen a musical instrument in the flesh - only a plug-in on the mac, and many singers wouldn't even know which end to blow down the piano.....
Then there is the tendency for practitioners of one genre to say that their's is the superior genre. This sad fact happens ALL the time. A producer who shall remain nameless told me once that there are many in the music industry - people working in studios, producers, engineers, singers, promoters, who approach people with real talent with a great deal of suspicion - people who could sit down at a piano and read through a Beethoven sonata (no mean feat) are feared and pushed out, while people who know how to programme the cymbal on a pro tools session are lauded as talented, when in fact that is a technical rather than musical skill.
He also let me into the secret that much of what we hear as a whole song is quite often a bunch of loop samples, studio transposition, auto tune, and that even an artist like Adele very rarely sings the whole song through in one take (he cited her, that's why this producer will remain nameless), and rather the piano part is punched in on pro tools and looped, with each chord change being a copy paste into a different key, and the chorus is looped and tweaked to sound slightly different each time.
It actually upsets me when I think about bands and artists who slog away at getting it right the old fashioned way, and that don't sound as 'perfect' (read - sterile) as the studio productions and are told they're rough sounding. We now think that quantised tracks are music, and performed music is incorrect or sloppy.
Sorry, didn't mean to vent all that here. But we're Queen fans. We understand all this!
It can happen with Jazz musicians and Classical musicians too, but if I'm being honest in my experience it happens less with Classical musicians (not necessarily Classical music lovers, different things) who tend to be more open to getting their hands dirty with all types of music and tend to enjoy all genres.
You get hip hop and dance artists who are producing records, for instance, and they've never even seen a musical instrument in the flesh - only a plug-in on the mac, and many singers wouldn't even know which end to blow down the piano.....
Then there is the tendency for practitioners of one genre to say that their's is the superior genre. This sad fact happens ALL the time. A producer who shall remain nameless told me once that there are many in the music industry - people working in studios, producers, engineers, singers, promoters, who approach people with real talent with a great deal of suspicion - people who could sit down at a piano and read through a Beethoven sonata (no mean feat) are feared and pushed out, while people who know how to programme the cymbal on a pro tools session are lauded as talented, when in fact that is a technical rather than musical skill.
He also let me into the secret that much of what we hear as a whole song is quite often a bunch of loop samples, studio transposition, auto tune, and that even an artist like Adele very rarely sings the whole song through in one take (he cited her, that's why this producer will remain nameless), and rather the piano part is punched in on pro tools and looped, with each chord change being a copy paste into a different key, and the chorus is looped and tweaked to sound slightly different each time.
It actually upsets me when I think about bands and artists who slog away at getting it right the old fashioned way, and that don't sound as 'perfect' (read - sterile) as the studio productions and are told they're rough sounding. We now think that quantised tracks are music, and performed music is incorrect or sloppy.
Sorry, didn't mean to vent all that here. But we're Queen fans. We understand all this!
brENsKi
loving the New World Order we have here in Qzone - ruled by stepfords who decree that:
Anyone who doesn't like queen and dares to voice their opinion as such is an arsehole, prick, c*nt...you name it.
It'd be a crazy fucked up world if everyone liked every band...and boring to boot.
I'm sure members of queen have openly "not liked" artists or bands and i don't hear anyone here calling Roger, Brian, freddie or John a prick.
Anyone who doesn't like queen and dares to voice their opinion as such is an arsehole, prick, c*nt...you name it.
It'd be a crazy fucked up world if everyone liked every band...and boring to boot.
I'm sure members of queen have openly "not liked" artists or bands and i don't hear anyone here calling Roger, Brian, freddie or John a prick.
Vocal harmony
^^^^ very true. So much of the recording industry has become a production line. I visited a producer friend of mine, now semi retired, while he was editing drum tracks to a metal album. The band weren't in the studio, he had the live take, part real drums part triggered samples. Because of the speed of the double Bass Drums most of the bass had to be removed so that the clarity of each hit could be heard, ending up with a mid range thud. The floor toms had more Bass in them. The problem is/was that pro tools reacted in a certain way to that level in the sound spectrum.
The next step was to bring the Bass Drums, Hihat and snare into perfect counts so that everything was hit on a perfect measure. In effect taking out the human element and natural swing that good drummers have. He explained the whole process would take about 12 hours before starting a similar thing with the Bass. The reason for this was that at the time, about 8 years ago it was fashionable for recorded speed metal rhythm sections to sound as tight and rigid as a dance music loop. As he said the whole thing was laughable because no one could play live like that because people are not machines.
A guess it was a case of studio technology, which was developed to help, becoming the driving force by which the music would be judged by fans and press alike.
The next step was to bring the Bass Drums, Hihat and snare into perfect counts so that everything was hit on a perfect measure. In effect taking out the human element and natural swing that good drummers have. He explained the whole process would take about 12 hours before starting a similar thing with the Bass. The reason for this was that at the time, about 8 years ago it was fashionable for recorded speed metal rhythm sections to sound as tight and rigid as a dance music loop. As he said the whole thing was laughable because no one could play live like that because people are not machines.
A guess it was a case of studio technology, which was developed to help, becoming the driving force by which the music would be judged by fans and press alike.
miraclesteinway
brEnski, I don't agree that anyone who doesn't like Queen is an a***hole etc, but I would find it unlikely that anyone here on Queenzone doesn't actually like Queen....
I think what I was also trying to say is, that it's possible to appreciate someones music even if you don't particularly like it. Like, you can appreciate why other people like it, be it whether it's touching, or whether it is in the realms of greatness, or whether it's about its simplicity, or whatever.
For instance, I understand and appreciate why people think John Lennon was so great, I know Freddie liked him, I understand all the elements of his music, I appreciate some of it, I even quite enjoy some of the songs, but in general I don't want to listen to John Lennon, I wouldn't choose it - his music, in general, doesn't appeal to me. Don't know why. I'm probably a prick for thinking that, too!
I think what I was also trying to say is, that it's possible to appreciate someones music even if you don't particularly like it. Like, you can appreciate why other people like it, be it whether it's touching, or whether it is in the realms of greatness, or whether it's about its simplicity, or whatever.
For instance, I understand and appreciate why people think John Lennon was so great, I know Freddie liked him, I understand all the elements of his music, I appreciate some of it, I even quite enjoy some of the songs, but in general I don't want to listen to John Lennon, I wouldn't choose it - his music, in general, doesn't appeal to me. Don't know why. I'm probably a prick for thinking that, too!
gerry
Everyone mainly has a favourite Beatles song or Abba song and Queen song, but Tony Blackburn has such a narrow mind
that he does not want to know Queen in any shape or form and the arrogance of the man to even say in one of his books that he hated Queen
and could not understand why people liked them?
Many people in the uk consider Queen as Legends and as Disc jockey you would think Blackburn would have more respect,
but on a sundays he has a radio show where he keeps telling everyone all the music is from his own fabulous personal music collection,
but many people send in requests for there favourite songs and Blackburn plays them, so i thought i would test the waters, and my suspicions were confirmed
after 2 weeks of Blackburn blanking half of my text message,
Txt Message 1 : Hi Tony could please play me a Queen song as i am a huge fan and miss freddie!
Blackburn: Just got a txt of Gerry and he wants me to play him something!
Txt Message 2 : Hi Tony could you play me a Queen record?
Blackburn: Just got a message from Gerry, Hi.
I am not amused by Blackburns constant ignorance, and he is so full of himself he plays what he wants to listen too,
hardly a request show is it?
that he does not want to know Queen in any shape or form and the arrogance of the man to even say in one of his books that he hated Queen
and could not understand why people liked them?
Many people in the uk consider Queen as Legends and as Disc jockey you would think Blackburn would have more respect,
but on a sundays he has a radio show where he keeps telling everyone all the music is from his own fabulous personal music collection,
but many people send in requests for there favourite songs and Blackburn plays them, so i thought i would test the waters, and my suspicions were confirmed
after 2 weeks of Blackburn blanking half of my text message,
Txt Message 1 : Hi Tony could please play me a Queen song as i am a huge fan and miss freddie!
Blackburn: Just got a txt of Gerry and he wants me to play him something!
Txt Message 2 : Hi Tony could you play me a Queen record?
Blackburn: Just got a message from Gerry, Hi.
I am not amused by Blackburns constant ignorance, and he is so full of himself he plays what he wants to listen too,
hardly a request show is it?
brENsKi
[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]
I think what I was also trying to say is, that it's possible to appreciate someones music even if you don't particularly like it. Like, you can appreciate why other people like it, be it whether it's touching, or whether it is in the realms of greatness, or whether it's about its simplicity, or whatever.
Don't know why. I'm probably a prick for thinking that, too![/QUOTE]
no you're certainly not a prick. i wasn't having a dig at you.
for me, i can understand that someone might not like a band and even not get why others like the same band. it's one of those things if you don't get it, then you don't get it.
what i can't stand is people who say "oh **** - they're shit" - that's a nothing comment.
Blackburn and Costello never said that. their comments were in the former category.
It's amazing tho' how someone can be hated for not liking/getting a band - how petty on the part of the stepfords.
As for Gerry's comments :
[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b] Txt Message 1 : Hi Tony could please play me a Queen song as i am a huge fan and miss freddie!
Blackburn: Just got a txt of Gerry and he wants me to play him something!
Txt Message 2 : Hi Tony could you play me a Queen record?
Blackburn: Just got a message from Gerry, Hi.
I am not amused by Blackburns constant ignorance, and he is so full of himself he plays what he wants to listen too, hardly a request show is it?[/QUOTE]
he hasn't ignored you. in fact, if you give the guy his due, he's acknowledged you TWICE - which is more than the thousands who text every day will get.
I think what I was also trying to say is, that it's possible to appreciate someones music even if you don't particularly like it. Like, you can appreciate why other people like it, be it whether it's touching, or whether it is in the realms of greatness, or whether it's about its simplicity, or whatever.
Don't know why. I'm probably a prick for thinking that, too![/QUOTE]
no you're certainly not a prick. i wasn't having a dig at you.
for me, i can understand that someone might not like a band and even not get why others like the same band. it's one of those things if you don't get it, then you don't get it.
what i can't stand is people who say "oh **** - they're shit" - that's a nothing comment.
Blackburn and Costello never said that. their comments were in the former category.
It's amazing tho' how someone can be hated for not liking/getting a band - how petty on the part of the stepfords.
As for Gerry's comments :
[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b] Txt Message 1 : Hi Tony could please play me a Queen song as i am a huge fan and miss freddie!
Blackburn: Just got a txt of Gerry and he wants me to play him something!
Txt Message 2 : Hi Tony could you play me a Queen record?
Blackburn: Just got a message from Gerry, Hi.
I am not amused by Blackburns constant ignorance, and he is so full of himself he plays what he wants to listen too, hardly a request show is it?[/QUOTE]
he hasn't ignored you. in fact, if you give the guy his due, he's acknowledged you TWICE - which is more than the thousands who text every day will get.