Queen, well a third of Queen were awful tonight.

It`s all a matter of taste... I`m a Queen fan since 1986 and I don`t like the seventies stuff...Freddies voice sounds too young for me, from a today's view the songs are dusted old-men-stuff. Horrible. BoRap, WATC?? - Overplayed, can´t listem to them anymore. I love Kind of Magic (ok, I like it, not love), The miracle, Innuendo, it`s the music of MY childhood.
But also, I can`t stand the AL thing as I stated at several other topics.....
Saying becoming a fan in the eighties doesn`t make me a real Queen fan is brainless rubbish from an complete idiot.

I'm a Queen fan - collector since 1974, that must make me not only an old man, but not a a true Queen fan, since 1992 i collect stuff from halve a group, I wonder in what box I fit in then? Please can someone enlighten me. In other words, there is no differance, a fan who 'started out' with the band, or the fans who became fan since Freddie died and all suddenly there was a huge attention for the band. In the year Freddie died and after the Tribute Concert there was a huge demand for Queen albums, Queen in the papers, in the magazines. This is what the band 'archieved' after Freddie died. Anybody can be a Queen fan massive, or in some other way, there is no level in being a fan. There is only a level in stupdity............

Tom

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

...me having three user names on this site[/QUOTE]

I think that's painfully clear yeah. I don't think there are any moderators around, otherwise it would be easy to check the ip's. Not that's that's necessary to convince anyone.

This site is becoming unreadable and I wonder why I still bother. For what it's worth, I enjoyed the show. Given it was a TV audience the track list was well chosen, and I particularly enjoyed the return of the bo rap medley.
Brian and Roger appeared to be enjoying themselves and Adam was hitting the notes.
Getting Freddie onto the really very cool invisible screen did make you realize what we miss most, but I thought it was a good performance overall.
My sister in law hated Adam if that makes anyone feel vindicated. But strangely we just agreed to disagree and haven't spent the last few days screaming at each other.
Happy new year.

Was the point of the original post to say that Queen+AL are terrible, Brian May and Roger, Spike are washed out, or that 80s Queen is crap? I can see the link between the first two, but how is Queen+AL linked to a comparison between 70s and 80s Queen? I don't understand what the point of it was, although it seems to have started multiple arguments.

This seems to be a wanking contest started by some old cunt about who has liked Queen the longest, is that a fair enough summarisation of the thread?

[QUOTE] [b]Mark_Glasgow wrote:[/b]

This seems to be a wanking contest started by some old cunt about who has liked Queen the longest, is that a fair enough summarisation of the thread?[/QUOTE]

Ha, Ive read the thread and that's what I was thinking.

I think brian and roger and the rest seem to enjoy it, it's their band..there music..there lives, if people don't like it then they simply don't have to listen to it..there's a lifetime of music they can listen to..it's not the 1970s...people should..if they wish..enjoy queen as it is now because it won't be around forever.

Also, I have to say..fact is queen as it currently is, is a lot better than most stuff around today, I also don't think they looked washed out, guys half there age would be too unfit, fat and idle to even attempt it.

Too much moaning here..really.. :) cheers

I am younger than Queen, and didn't exist in the 1970s. Unless, of course, I had a previous corporeal existence that I have forgotten (anything is possible, think of quantum physics, anyway enough of this).

You know what, love them or hate them, I think they were awesome. I don't care if it's real Queen, half Queen, whatever Queen, not Queen, it was at least two of the original writers and performers, and a session musician who has worked with all four of the original members, plus a bassist who isn't John (sadly, but that's his prerogative not to join in), bringing Queen's back catalogue to life, to see in the new year to people who really wanted to see it.

I bet the original poster watched the whole show, rather than turn off after the first track? I mean, come on. To watch the show and sit and slag it off is just miserly, really.

I'll say again, Adam Lambert's only problem is he is not Freddie. The band's only problem is John Deacon isn't playing the bass. This seems to give people the right to put them in the firing line. It would have been nice if Freddie hadn't died, and the band stayed together.

You know what, I bet everyone who watched the show actually enjoyed it and was glued to the screen, even those who are slagging it off now.

It's fair enough to have an opinion, it's your right, but look past the fact that Freddie and John aren't performing and listen to what is actually going on. Queen are not, and never have been, gods who must be worshipped, there is nothing sacred about Queen. Freddie Mercury was not a prophet whose name must be revered, and nor is it blasphemy for his two old friends to ask another singer to work with them. No, Queen were just four incredibly talented humans who formed what became one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Now, two of them want to continue the name and tradition of Queen being a touring band by asking some other musicians to join them in performing the songs that all four of them, including Brian and Roger - remember, this is their band and their music - wrote.

It's only entertainment. Bloody great entertainment.

Mark, well done on the use of the C-word. I love the fact that in Glasgow it is still a compliment. I lived there for six years.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]Horse feathers: Queen were recording in L.A when the band aid single was recorded back in 1984
otherwise they would have loved to have been there.
Freddie was rumoured to be very upset at having missed the recording of " Do they know its christmas"
Nothing to do with been un-popular back then.[/QUOTE]

Gerry, you could be right about that ^^^ but i had a nagging feeling i'd read something different, and had a look around: i found this quote from Freddie himself - (and Germany and LA are at least 4,500 miles apart)
and also, out of interest, what were Queen recording in November 1984?

http://www.brianmay.com/freddie/cr1201/cr1201b.html

"I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record, but I only heard about it when I was in Germany," Mercury said later. "I don't know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I'm a bit old. I'm just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck."

I love the last sentence of that quote from Freddie :D

Great posts once again MM!
And you too Bully Brenski! :-)