Brian May. Common decency

That's a good question. I think it's both. Stone Cold Classics was released in conjunction with American Idol, so that stinks of corporate crap.

But Absolute Greatest is clearly the opposite.

wheres the name "7th Stranger'' coming from is what I wonder.............lol

[QUOTE] [b]7thStranger wrote:[/b]

Well, here is my two cents. As there's lots of assuming going on here.

My comment regarding Brian and John and his lack of respect for Queen's legacy stems from two things:

1) - Publicly comparing Freddie and Adam Lambert. The issue has never BEEN Adam. Out of the three of them, Adam has probably been the most precious with what he's doing.

2) - His recent comments about John Deacon were really rude and uncalled for. Even if they MAY be true, he did not need to hit below the belt. Did he think that was going to make the relationship better or what?

3) - Roger has publicly dissed songs that he didn't write including all of Hot Space and Another One Bites the Dust.

4) - Re-releasing Love Kills as a ballad and then putting it on a $17 compilation as it it were originally released under the Queen name.

5) - Selling out their music every year for another crap compilation that nobody really needs. Absolute Greatest, Deep Cuts, Queen Forever, Stone Cold Classics. It's all too much and too sleazy. This in combination with the overpriced box set for Live at the Rainbow with 5 different versions ranging from $17 to $200... those sets likely cost about $5 to manufacture.

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These are my issues with those two. I love their music, but their actions come across as careless.[/QUOTE]

1. I agree

2. I don't think his comments about John were disrespectful, really, they were just blown out of proportion in whatever thread it was a while back.

5. Brian has come out and said that the new compilation was a condition of their contract with Universal, and that they didn't really want to do it.

Which compilation? Absolute Greatest or Queen Forever? I'd love to read it in either case.

And what about that Queen orb thing? Whose lovely idea was that?

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

ludwigs: you still can not handle your jealousy over me knowing Wayne Sleep,
its hilarious that it gets to you![/QUOTE]

Of course.........(yawn)
Read me like a book.......(bigger yawn)

I know a few 'very-famous' people as actual friends rather than a passing one-time acquaintance (and have mobile numbers and have spent time as friends with them) but it doesn't make me any better than anyone else. After all.....we all shit, pick our noses etc.
Does it impress anyone??? Does it fuck, and why the hell would it or should it?
There are people on here that also DID have an association within Queens circles that could tell real anecdotes rather than an old ballet dancer that has appeared on fame-seeking publicity shows.

Jazz78 mentioned a lighting guy. That's just one example for you. 4th hand exaggerated accounts from a craving one-time ballet dancer.....hmmm, which one would I choose to take as fact?

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

I recently heard that the Newcastle gig last night was truly awful and a big fuzzy mess, so glad i never wasted my money to go and see that load of
shit.

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Do you ever post anything based on first hand experience and facts?

[QUOTE] [b]7thStranger wrote:[/b]

Which compilation? Absolute Greatest or Queen Forever? I'd love to read it in either case.

And what about that Queen orb thing? Whose lovely idea was that?[/QUOTE]

I mean Forever - I don't know what they thought of Absolute Greatest.
From a Classic Rock interview,

Roger: “I was very pleased we had three new tracks to put on it, which we laboured long and hard over,” he says. “As well as the Michael Jackson track There Must Be More To Life Than This, there is another song Freddie did with him called State of Shock [later recorded with the Jacksons and Mick Jagger], with a massive rock sound. But we could only have one track with Michael, which is a great shame. Let Me In Your Heart Again is absolutely typical mid-period Queen. And it was Brian’s idea to revisit Love Kills, which I feel works. But apart from that it is a rather odd mixture of our slower stuff. I didn’t want the double-album version they’ve put out. It’s an awful lot for people to take in, and it’s bloody miserable! I wouldn’t call it an album, either. It’s a compilation with three new tracks. It’s more of a record company confection. It’s not a full-blooded Queen album.”

Brian: "It actually wasn’t our idea. If it had been down to me it would have been an EP of these new songs, but we’d already promised the record company some kind of compilation.”

[QUOTE] [b]ANAGRAMER wrote:[/b]

Yeah, does seem reasonable but the 'first past the post' system in the UK is designed to stop small interest groups having any real influence.

The PR system works in Scotland and took us to the brink of independence which is fair enough but, in rU! if right wing groups have influence I would worry...

I don't think Brian had thought this through[/QUOTE]

Right, and PR works so well in continental Europe. Like Italy or Greece, where it takes a month after an election to cobble together an alliance government, which is so fragile it can do hardly anything because one alliance member objects, and then it falls apart after two years.

First past the post does at least usually deliver one party with a clear mandate to govern. This matters.

Look at the complex system in the US where competing power structures controlled by different parties result in it being nearly impossible to even set a budget.

First past the post also leads more often than not these days, to parties being elected with less than half he popular vote, so they don;t have a mandate for their policies. And the absolute hypocrisy of the Tories now is that they want to do away with that system for unions while retaining it for parliamentary elections. They are shameless.