This thread exemplifies the old adege that history repeats itself and things that go around, come around
Let's imagine ourselves in 1978 and Queen had just performed their first televised show for years...
Would we complain that the new material from News of the World was lame and not on a par with A Night at the Opera?
-probably
Would be be embarrassed by the singer's antics, wearing Najinski leotards and ballet pumps?
- I'll leave that for you to decide
Would we bemoan the fact that they didn't include Liar and March of the Black Queen in the set list?
- possibly
Would we think that they have sold-out to a global audience?
- I would
Would we think that if only they were a a good as when they played the Rainbow or the Liverpool Empire in 1974
- probably
Would we think that new fans who discovered the band by listening to We Are the Champions are not 'real' fans?
- probably
Queen were never credible, even in the 70s. There were no glory days when the fans and the band were perfectly in synch.
Fans are just people who like the music irrespective of when they became fans, you can't criticise the band for gaining a new audience in the 80s or beyond but you could criticise them for getting stuck in a rut, wearing black fingernails and ladies blouses and singing songs about Ogres while the rest of the world moved on to new things
In the fullness of time, we will all look back on events like last night and realise that we should have appreciated what we have in this moment
At this point in time, Queen have a limited shelf-life. We are all getting older and it won't be too long until Brian and Roger will simply be unable to carry the Queen banner
Yes, let's have fond memories of the past but it won't be long until we see the present as the past and wished it could have lasted forever
gerry · Member since
i do not wish for the present to be good memories in the past because if you call NOW good times with in Queen then you are Mad!
Its awful what is happening in Queen now and the band are fading fast like sinking ship.
brENsKi · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
yes your right there Lambert looks very freakish, and like a camp Bono in drag lol[/QUOTE]
AL isn't in drag. You DO know what drag is don't you? His outfit is more masculine than at least 60% of Freddie's stage outfits/makeup/varnish....
sometimes you make untruthful comments just for the sake of being negative. keep it factual.
gerry · Member since
Read that carefully , i said Lambert looks like Bono in drag,
Lots of make u, eye liner etc............
Freddie was in line with 70s glam, so the nail varnish etc..... was sign of the times in the 70s.
brENsKi · Member since
Drag: (from Oxford dictionary)
[MASS NOUN] Clothing more conventionally worn by the opposite sex, especially women’s clothes worn by a man:
a fashion show, complete with men in drag
drag is "wearing clothes of the opposite sex" - make-up alone is not drag. Makeup is generally used by all stage performers to some degree, musicians, actors etc.
and based (yet again on factual definitions) I don't recall seeing Bono wear drag.
Chief Mouse · Member since
[QUOTE]
[b]ANAGRAMER wrote: [/b] This thread exemplifies the old adege that history repeats itself and things that go around, come around
Let's imagine ourselves in 1978 and Queen had just performed their first televised show for years...
Would we complain that the new material from News of the World was lame and not on a par with A Night at the Opera? -probably
Would be be embarrassed by the singer's antics, wearing Najinski leotards and ballet pumps? - I'll leave that for you to decide
Would we bemoan the fact that they didn't include Liar and March of the Black Queen in the set list? - possibly
Would we think that they have sold-out to a global audience? - I would
Would we think that if only they were a a good as when they played the Rainbow or the Liverpool Empire in 1974 - probably
Would we think that new fans who discovered the band by listening to We Are the Champions are not 'real' fans? - probably
Queen were never credible, even in the 70s. There were no glory days when the fans and the band were perfectly in synch. Fans are just people who like the music irrespective of when they became fans, you can't criticise the band for gaining a new audience in the 80s or beyond but you could criticise them for getting stuck in a rut, wearing black fingernails and ladies blouses and singing songs about Ogres while the rest of the world moved on to new things
In the fullness of time, we will all look back on events like last night and realise that we should have appreciated what we have in this moment
At this point in time, Queen have a limited shelf-life. We are all getting older and it won't be too long until Brian and Roger will simply be unable to carry the Queen banner
Yes, let's have fond memories of the past but it won't be long until we see the present as the past and wished it could have lasted forever[/QUOTE]
Good post!
gerry · Member since
Brenski: you need to lighten up man, you take things too seriously,
imagine what Bono would look like dressed up as freakish as Adam Lambert!
Lambert is ideal for the "Rocky horror show" !
come on turn that frown upside down! lol
Bad Seed · Member since
Excellent post ANAGRAMER!
tomchristie22 · Member since
OP needs, to be a bit more judicious, with their use, of commas.
joerijoerijoeri · Member since
Amazing display of utter narrowmindedness in the first post. Congratulations, gramps.
Barry Durex · Member since
My wife turned the TV over to the broadcast last night for about a minute or so.
I honestly couldn't bear it and it had to go back to Celebrity Juice!
RMTaylorBest · Member since
you are so boring and negative on a band that simply produced songsin many different shapes over the whole career.
wake up, you are not a real fan, the truth is that you were a Queen fan and you're not anymore!! go listen to U2
The King Of Rhye · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]horse feathers wrote:[/b]
Lower than low in the 70's, by that I mean music press wise. The first time the music press started to like Queen all be it begrudgingly was after Live Aid in 85.
When I was at school in the 70's I was too embarrassed to say to my friends that my favourite band was Queen. It really was that bad. Remember Queen were not invited to the origional Band Aid recording in 1984, why was that, would you think? Queen's reputation was very, very low.
But Live Aid in 1985 changed that and saved Queen's career.[/QUOTE]
If you were embarrased to say what your favorite band was, I think you'd paid way too much attention to what other people thought back then..........
The King Of Rhye · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]horse feathers wrote:[/b]
people who discovered rhem after 1982 are not real Queen fans.
[/QUOTE]
I was born in 1977......first got into Queen in the early 90s.......so that's enough to brand me NOT a 'real' Queen fan? Oh well, I like Adam Lambert, too, so that probably makes me even less of a 'real' fan.....whatever that means anyway
tomchristie22 · Member since
I started listening to Queen substantially around 2009, so I'm about as non-real a fan as it gets. I'll show myself out I guess :'(
