Relationship between John Deacon and Brian May

Maybe I am totally getting the wrong impression.......but judging by what I have read over the years from various sources, it would seem that the closest friendship among the band was that of Freddie and Roger, with maybe Brian and Roger 2nd?

Freddie was more closest to Roger as they worked together in Kensington market before Queen ever existed,
also i remember in an interview where freddie got asked about rows in the band and freddie said "The things i could tell you about Brian you just would not believe"
the interviewer then asked fred "have you hit him yet" fred replied "no" but there's still time ha ha "
Rows within Queen could get nasty and john used to leave and Fred, Roger, & Brian fought it out.
i think john was uncomfortable a little with Brian & Roger but he adored Freddie.

You old gossipy slag you Gerry!

every site has a norris cole you know lol

A bit off topic, the other day a work colleague who does shooting in his spare time mentioned he was talking to one of his shooting friends and said that he heard that Roger and John both shoot and it was known that they both joke about Brian being a vegan and his animal rights activities. Now, at first when i heard this i thought bull shit ! Then this morning on radio 2 Chris Evans mentioned Rogers shooting party. This is the first time i have ever heard that Roger does shooting. Surely Brian wouldnt be too pleased about his band mate shooting animals ?

Edit : Just found this, apparently it is common knowledge. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2014/11/21/queen-star-roger-taylor-has-game-in-his-sights-at-shoot-near-shropshire-border/

I think Brian ang Roger disagree obviously, but he seems to be the kinda guy that it wouldnt get in the way of any relationship that he has with Roger...........he seems like a very tolerant sorta guy, I guess is what I am trying to say....

(King Of Rhye tangent alert #34587!)

It kind of reminds me of my friendship with a woman who I worked with a few years ago at a restaurant.......I'm basically an anti-religious libertarian sort. of guy....she was more or less a born-again Christian......we were the last two people that should have got along, but damn if we didnt.....:D

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Indeed. It's also not really fair to compare Brian and John's interactions to those between the others, because the symmetrical layout they usually stuck with on stage meant that Brian and John were further apart on stage than anyone else. That wasn't done because of the state of their relationship, it was done to make the stage look balanced. [/QUOTE]

I always wondered why Brian was on the right and John on the left (from the point of view of the audience).......always, without fail! (from every photo I've ever seen, anyway) Like, is there any particular reason for that, or is it just how they did it once, and stuck with it.....did Brian or John never say to the other, "lets switch sides tonight just for the heck of it"?

I'm beginning to think I have too much time on my hands.......LOL

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They swap over a couple of times in the Rainbow concert. It's easier to just do so on a stage that size than it would've been on the Magic tour for instance, I guess.

e.g. I think it's in Father to Son, they're completely swapped over for a decent amount of time.

hmmm....I havent seen that dvd yet...........maybe I shouldnt then...........it just wouldnt seem right! lol

Dave2843: I do not agree with shooting animals at all,
and i can see where Brian would be hacked off with Roger doing this terrible thing.
Brian is a gentle sensitive guy who stops and thinks about wild life and nature where Roger is wreckless and could not care less, just blow its head off sort of guy.

Roger seems more into the rock and roll lifestyle out of all of Queen, and now he seems to be growing in to the role of Country Gent, shooting and fishing, and spending money.

Brian seems to be more the sensitive moral conscience type of person.

I guess it doesn't make one person better than the other, I've no idea what either of them are like to actually interact with on a day to day level since I have never met either of them, or John, and I'm pretty much too young to have met Freddie although I do remember him on TV a lot when he was still alive. Not the same as meeting. Obviously.

I do have one little Freddie anecdote for you - a man I know who is a piano tuner once met Freddie in '75 in a venue he was tuning in, and he helped Freddie to carry his bags into the dressing room. Tough butch piano tuner with more body mass than tact said to me about the incident 'oh, aye, even then he was a little - well - effeminate, like, and I says to mysel' - oh aye, what's this then?'

I found myself kind of spitting back at him 'what did you expect?'

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A bit off topic, the other day a work colleague who does shooting in his spare time mentioned he was talking to one of his shooting friends and said that he heard that Roger and John both shoot and it was known that they both joke about Brian being a vegan and his animal rights activities.

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Shooting game is rather different to ill thought out culling badgers or having hounds tear foxes apart painfully. Many game animals have excessive populations doing damage to the countryside because we killed all their predators, the numbers have to be kept down somehow and game shooting barely makes a dent in the numbers. And most game shooters eat what they shoot or it goes into the food supply.

"No wildlife must ever be killed" is a naive statement. Humans have messed with the ecosystem so much that it cannot be left to its own devices, we took out all the control mechanisms (mostly predators). Red deer are destroying Scotland due to their excessive numbers, the trees can't grow back because deer eat all the saplings.

Right I'll get off me hobby horse now...

John played bass on some of Brian's solo tracks and also played bass on some Anita Dobson songs. If they didn't like each other Brian would have asked another bassist and or John would have said no.

I think John and Brian just drifted apart on the 90s and so John and Roger.

You don't need to like a person in order to invite them to a recording session. You don't need, by the same logic, to dislike a person in order not to have invited them to a recording session.

Yeah cos Brian doesn't know any other bassists! This ridiculous speculation about Brian and John is infuriating.