I am not jealous, I love the guy and have tons of respect for him, especially his musicianship. But , has he really had it any harder than Doctors, Nurses, Policemen/women , Firemen/women, teachers, coal miners, service men & women ?
His job has allowed him many privileges, he's seen the world many times over, hung out with the rich and famous and accumulated massive wealth.
Am I jealous ? Not at all.
Do I think he needs to stop publicly moaning about his basement ? Absolutely, it's doing him no favours.
mooghead · Member since
"has he really had it any harder than Doctors, Nurses, Policemen/women , Firemen/women, teachers, coal miners, service men & women ?"
There are too many states these days. Please eliminate three. PS, I am not a crackpot.
Sincerely,
Brian May.
brENsKi · Member since
FFS - the man will complain about everything possible. has HE ever thought that perhaps his neighbours see him as an interfering old goat, with an axe on perma-grind?
only difference is his neighbours appear to "live 'n let live"
is there NOTHING that isn't a potential badger to the Mad Doctor?
Unfortunately Brian seems to have adopted a lot of causes that do not really connect with anybody else and gets given the air time to make his points. Even if he was right about this renovations situation in Kensington or the plight of badgers most people simply don't care. It's like all the right on 80s musicians like Bono got all the juicy causes and Brian arrived late to the party to find only badgers left.
Togg · Member since
I dont understand why this is being attacked as a rich persons problem? if you worked hard saved your money and bought an £80k flat somewhere and the guy next door spent all day drilling for 7 years, and you were on night shift at Tesco meaning you had to sleep during the day, why is that different to him having a £10m home? We all choose to live somewhere and have the ability to move again
He moved a few years ago to get away from it and is now having to move again... seems reasonable to me, why attack him, this problem has no baring on how much money you have, if you spent you money on a mortgage you want to be able to live there right?
AlbaNo1 · Member since
For me it's not the merits of each individual point he makes. It may be a fair point here.In terms of absolute relative everyone has a right to a peaceful home. But he has no credit in the bank due to the number of things he is coming out with these days. And it's hard to sympathise.
Togg · Member since
Such as? he's a passionate champion of wildlife, and expresses a desire to have more open trustworthy politicians, what's so bad about the fact he has views and expresses them?
You dont have to agree with him, but what has he come out with that you are so upset about? its a pity more people dont get off their arses and do something, anything constructive, he has a public voice and he uses it for causes he believes in, why is that different to any other campaigner?
Sebastian · Member since
Freedom of speech anyway ... at the end of the day, he's entitled to say whatever he wants on his website. We're also entitled to say whatever we want on a public online forum.
Whoever's too annoyed by Brian being annoyed can simply refrain from reading his Soapbox (it's been bloody ages since he wrote something interesting about Queen or music anyway).
But, by that same logic, whoever's annoyed at people being annoyed can simply refrain from reading, let alone participating in, these threads. And so on...
Dr Wig's a public person and, as such, what he says or writes or publishes will be scrutinised by thousands (sometimes even millions). That comes with the job.
Togg · Member since
I'm not annoyed at people being annoyed at him, I just a interested to see if there is a genuine reason or people simply jumping on the badwagon of bashing without really knowing why, Queenzone is full of comments from people who only have half the facts, no facts or incorrect facts. And so I'm curious what specific things he has said are aledgedly so irritating?
Generally he is a pretty straightforward person, he wears his heart on his sleeve and tends to comment on it, I think you get more like that as you get older.
People get so het up that he isnt always speaking about Queen, or music, but he has a lot of other things in his life that interest him, which personally i think is pretty healthy.
I dont agree with his politics, I HATE Corbyn with a passion and cant see why Mr May would think he can run a country, but I am interested why he thinks that? He also brings to light a lot of the shitty stuff the Conservatives do that otherwise would be lost in the mist, so on balance I rather like hearing what he has to say, and I dont think I ever hear stuff that is ridiculous just stuff I dont always agree with, hes a highly intellegent man and I'm interested in his views.
He forgets stuff about Queen... well I forget stuff i did 30 years ago as well... it's not top of his mind I guess so if someone asks him a question he may get it wrong, but I doubt hes as obsessive as most of Queenzone is.
People hear saying this is rich mens problems.... nonesense it's a problem we all can relate to and it has nothing to do with money, which is why I can tell most of those people simply dont understand what he's saying and just focus on how expensive his house is which is irrelevant.
victorvortex · Member since
I love the guy but it's a shame he is gaining a reputation for being a grumpy old man. There's a lot to be said for Roger & John's social media absence. Long live Queen.
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
I just a interested to see if there is a genuine reason or people simply jumping on the badwagon of bashing without really knowing why[/QUOTE]
I don't really think people are 'bashing without really knowing why.' Some people will defend him no matter what, some people will attack him no matter what, some people don't care, some people will have different views depending on the situation.
[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
Queenzone is full of comments from people who only have half the facts, no facts or incorrect facts.[/QUOTE]
Yes but that applies to virtually everyone everywhere. It could be argued that Brian's probably got only half of the facts, no facts or incorrect facts whenever he speaks about home improvement or politics. If he's still entitled to express himself, why shouldn't everybody else be?
[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
People get so het up that he isnt always speaking about Queen, or music, but he has a lot of other things in his life that interest him, which personally i think is pretty healthy.[/QUOTE]
I agree. Some of those things aren't interesting to me at all, which is why, in those cases, I simply refrain from reading his website or twitter or whatever. But best luck to him on any parallel activity, being Kerry or stereo photography or activism or whatever he sets his mind into, he's entitled to devote his time to whatever he wishes.
[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
He forgets stuff about Queen... well I forget stuff i did 30 years ago as well... it's not top of his mind I guess so if someone asks him a question he may get it wrong, but I doubt hes as obsessive as most of Queenzone is.[/QUOTE]
In his defence, there are varying degrees of how wrong you can be ('oh, how wrong can you be?' - Fred). The overwhelming majority of questions he's asked about Queen he gets right, so they go unnoticed. The ones he gets wrong, he's usually not too far off.
He claimed 'She Makes Me' was from 1975 ... well, out of all the years he could've said, 1975 was the least wrong of all; he claimed 'Love of My Life' was from either 'Sheer Heart Attack' or 'A Day at the Races' ... out of fifteen albums, there were twelve options (80%) which would've been more wrong than those; he said 'Master-Stroke' was recorded at Wessex - he was off by four miles (there are plenty of wrong answers which would've been far worse); 'My Fairy King' on the second album ... same, out of fifteen options, fourteen would've been wrong, and the least wrong was the one he chose, not bad at all.
I still bring up those slips simply to show he's human and he can and does make mistakes, just like everyone else would. That doesn't mean I'm offending or insulting him, it's just the way it is.
[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
People hear saying this is rich mens problems.... nonesense it's a problem we all can relate to and it has nothing to do with money, which is why I can tell most of those people simply dont understand what he's saying and just focus on how expensive his house is which is irrelevant.[/QUOTE]
There are quite a few sides to this IMO. He's entitled to go to bed whenever he wants, since that's nobody's business but his; if that causes him to lose sleep because when he's in bed other people are awake, then there's not really much that can be done. His rights aren't more important than anyone else's, and vice-versa. An important difference, though, is that (presumably) his going to bed at four a.m. doesn't affect anyone else, whereas his neighbours' basement expansions do affect everyone around them, what with the noise and the danger to pets and children. In that sense, he could make a really good point, as long as he's civil about it. As I mentioned earlier (on a previous post), he's a public person and what he says is scrutinised. It's not fair... well, life doesn't owe him (or me, or you, or anyone else) a sense of fairness.
In that respect, sure, how much his house cost is irrelevant, but so is whether he goes to bed at four or at nine or whenever. It's not his neighbour's problem. I've pulled all-nighters in the past, only to have problems sleeping later on because my neighbours are using the lawnmower, or hosting a barbecue, or learning to play drums ... well, too bad for me - nobody forced me to go to bed at six a.m., they're not supposed to just re-schedule everything just because I decided to have a different bedtime. I just had to suck it up and be grateful the neighbour's kid wasn't learning to play the violin (which is far noisier and sloppier in apprentices).
Of course, there's a difference between that and enduring, as he claims, six days a week of drills and lorries and all that. So perhaps 'suck it up' is not a sensible advice; neither is 'move' (though, it could be argued, if that problem's persisted for so many years, he should've done something about it a while ago and/or found another place); but, for the same reason, neither is 'get grumpy and let your anger control your words.'
Graeme Arnott · Member since
I choose not to be in the same place as Adam Lambert as the noise he inflicts on my ears annoys me.
Sebastian · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Graeme Arnott wrote:[/b]
I choose not to be in the same place as Adam Lambert as the noise he inflicts on my ears annoys me.[/QUOTE]
Exactly, and I made the same decision for their New Year's Eve concert in London (2014, IIRC). Instead of buying a ticket, I could spend my money on something else, and someone else could go to the concert, someone who, unlike me, would love every second of it. That way everybody won... most of all Maylor and Lambert, who didn't lose a penny.
