mike hunt
The key for them is growth. We'll see if the 2nd album is equal or better than their first. I do like his voice, the rest of the band is kind of lacking a bit.
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mike hunt
[QUOTE] [b]flash00. wrote:[/b]
Eric Nally from Foxy Shazam is another singer who gets the same comparison to Freddie Mercury, got to say there album The Church of Rock and Roll is a great album worth a listen.[/QUOTE]
I'll check them out.
Eric Nally from Foxy Shazam is another singer who gets the same comparison to Freddie Mercury, got to say there album The Church of Rock and Roll is a great album worth a listen.[/QUOTE]
I'll check them out.
Chopin1995
Really nice list
http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-09-06/the-10-best-queen-songs-by-the-struts-luke-spiller
http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-09-06/the-10-best-queen-songs-by-the-struts-luke-spiller
LOTV
He's imitating Fred very blatantly in look and movement, even some delivery. Fair enough.
He's a huge Queen fan and I can hear the influence.
He's a huge Queen fan and I can hear the influence.
mike hunt
I don't think they will be big though. Somethings missing from their sound. Still a pretty decent band, and personall think he would of been the perfect choice to play Freddie. He's the perfect age, obviously would of been perfect for 70's Freddie, then could of made him look older with the Stache and makeup for the 80's. I know he wanted the part.
YAWN
He made a good list, I'll be fair, but I don't like his band's work. They're often hailed in the media as the next Queen, but I think people are listening with their eyes.
They're semi-manufactured and have teams of pop writers creating their sound. They take elements from top bands spanning the 60s to the 2010s, stick them in a blender and pretend to be fresh and original. Listening to their debut was like playing a game of "which artist is this nicked from" and they don't have a signature sound. I know nothing is original and everyone is inspired by some other artist before them, and I am well aware there are limited chord progressions for music, but it all seems highly contrived. Cleverly marketed though, I will give their management/publicists credit.
Not long ago, Luke Spiller went beyond paying homage to completely ripping glam era Freddie off: The dyed black haircut, Zandra Rhodes batwing costumes, barefeet-with-kimonos, toasting/throwing flowers at the crowd, audience call/response copied straight from Live Killers, moving like him and finally, rolling his R's like him. Creepy. He even claimed to call his cats on tour as well as expressing a liking for all things Japanese. It got to the point he alienated part of his fanbase and there was a backlash on his instagram!
He complained about the pressures of being compared to Freddie, but he brought it on himself with the costumes and constantly mentioning him. On top of this, he's expressed a desire to create vaudevillian rock a la Seaside Rendezvous. It wouldn't surprise me if The Struts take this direction with their second album. Having said that, he has now added other 70s artists to his repertoire of rip offs. (Moves identical to Jagger and Jackson have now been added to the Freddie act) So maybe he is learning to be himself.
They're semi-manufactured and have teams of pop writers creating their sound. They take elements from top bands spanning the 60s to the 2010s, stick them in a blender and pretend to be fresh and original. Listening to their debut was like playing a game of "which artist is this nicked from" and they don't have a signature sound. I know nothing is original and everyone is inspired by some other artist before them, and I am well aware there are limited chord progressions for music, but it all seems highly contrived. Cleverly marketed though, I will give their management/publicists credit.
Not long ago, Luke Spiller went beyond paying homage to completely ripping glam era Freddie off: The dyed black haircut, Zandra Rhodes batwing costumes, barefeet-with-kimonos, toasting/throwing flowers at the crowd, audience call/response copied straight from Live Killers, moving like him and finally, rolling his R's like him. Creepy. He even claimed to call his cats on tour as well as expressing a liking for all things Japanese. It got to the point he alienated part of his fanbase and there was a backlash on his instagram!
He complained about the pressures of being compared to Freddie, but he brought it on himself with the costumes and constantly mentioning him. On top of this, he's expressed a desire to create vaudevillian rock a la Seaside Rendezvous. It wouldn't surprise me if The Struts take this direction with their second album. Having said that, he has now added other 70s artists to his repertoire of rip offs. (Moves identical to Jagger and Jackson have now been added to the Freddie act) So maybe he is learning to be himself.
c.jory
This reviewer summed them up pretty accurately and he sees right through their marketing tricks:
http://www.sonicabuse.com/2014/07/the-struts-everybody-wants-album-review/
The problem is, many non-hardcore fans of Queen only know Magic Tour Freddie in his yellow jacket and not Queen's classic era. So they don't know where he's getting his 'unique' looks from and think he's being innovative. Luke always says things like 'who would think of wearing something like this?' RE: his Zandra Rhodes pleated numbers! Uhhh Freddie Mercury?
It's compounded by the fact that when magazines feature The Struts, they add images of Moustache Freddie or Bearded Freddie, thus throwing people off the scent haha.
The 'ripping off' would be cute and cool if he wasn't trying to make money out of it. I've also seen his instagram and I've seen him blatantly copying Mick Rock images and posting pics of Moet Chandon, trying to evoke images of the dawning of the new Queen. Here are some examples: http://anatomic-pie-hit.tumblr.com/
I can't help but be cynical and think their marketing department has said 'Freddie is dead, there is a gap in the market for someone like you. Be him.'
With his voice, I think he sounds more like Noddy Holder at times than Freddie, especially when he does the 'Baby baby baby!' growl. It's absolutely identical to the start of Cum on Feel The Noize. He is also a fan of Slade so it's no coincidence.
http://www.sonicabuse.com/2014/07/the-struts-everybody-wants-album-review/
The problem is, many non-hardcore fans of Queen only know Magic Tour Freddie in his yellow jacket and not Queen's classic era. So they don't know where he's getting his 'unique' looks from and think he's being innovative. Luke always says things like 'who would think of wearing something like this?' RE: his Zandra Rhodes pleated numbers! Uhhh Freddie Mercury?
It's compounded by the fact that when magazines feature The Struts, they add images of Moustache Freddie or Bearded Freddie, thus throwing people off the scent haha.
The 'ripping off' would be cute and cool if he wasn't trying to make money out of it. I've also seen his instagram and I've seen him blatantly copying Mick Rock images and posting pics of Moet Chandon, trying to evoke images of the dawning of the new Queen. Here are some examples: http://anatomic-pie-hit.tumblr.com/
I can't help but be cynical and think their marketing department has said 'Freddie is dead, there is a gap in the market for someone like you. Be him.'
With his voice, I think he sounds more like Noddy Holder at times than Freddie, especially when he does the 'Baby baby baby!' growl. It's absolutely identical to the start of Cum on Feel The Noize. He is also a fan of Slade so it's no coincidence.
mike hunt
I agree, everyone has influences that show in their music and performace. In the early days of Queen, Zep, Hendrix and the rest of the icons they took stuff they were influenced by, but in that process developed their own sound and Image. Let's face it, only Queen could make an album that sounds like Sheer Heart Attack And A Night At The Opera. The Struts don't have their own sound or Image, it's all been done already.
mike hunt
And far as his voice, he doesn't sound much like studio Freddie, but I do hear the 1974 live voice a bit.
Penetration_Guru
I quite like them, and don't over analyse the singer's Instagram feed....
dysan
I will say I liked his list. An impossible task, but the have Nevermore at number 1: Good work sir.
Sponge Caves
I recently watched The Rolling Stones gig in Lucca and The Struts were the support act. He literally copies every dance move of Mick Jagger, so it was strange watching him, then the real thing. He used to do Freddie's moves, but some Queen fans gave him a bollocking and he stopped. Goes to show how he literally has no ideas of his own. Dodgy cover band and nothing more.
Sponge Caves
[QUOTE] [b]Villiers wrote:[/b]
He made a good list, I'll be fair, but I don't like his band's work. They're often hailed in the media as the next Queen, but I think people are listening with their eyes.
They're semi-manufactured and have teams of pop writers creating their sound. They take elements from top bands spanning the 60s to the 2010s, stick them in a blender and pretend to be fresh and original. Listening to their debut was like playing a game of "which artist is this nicked from" and they don't have a signature sound. I know nothing is original and everyone is inspired by some other artist before them, and I am well aware there are limited chord progressions for music, but it all seems highly contrived. Cleverly marketed though, I will give their management/publicists credit.
Not long ago, Luke Spiller went beyond paying homage to completely ripping glam era Freddie off: The dyed black haircut, Zandra Rhodes batwing costumes, barefeet-with-kimonos, toasting/throwing flowers at the crowd, audience call/response copied straight from Live Killers, moving like him and finally, rolling his R's like him. Creepy. He even claimed to call his cats on tour as well as expressing a liking for all things Japanese. It got to the point he alienated part of his fanbase and there was a backlash on his instagram!
He complained about the pressures of being compared to Freddie, but he brought it on himself with the costumes and constantly mentioning him. On top of this, he's expressed a desire to create vaudevillian rock a la Seaside Rendezvous. It wouldn't surprise me if The Struts take this direction with their second album. Having said that, he has now added other 70s artists to his repertoire of rip offs. (Moves identical to Jagger and Jackson have now been added to the Freddie act) So maybe he is learning to be himself.
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Yeah it did get incredibly creepy. I am worried he will come up with the ragtime/music hall stuff on their next album and that I will actually like it! Those tunes are my shit!
Who knows what he could come up with because he has a whole damn team of writers helping them create (Red Triangle Productions who write for One Direction and many other Simon Cowell type acts)
He made a good list, I'll be fair, but I don't like his band's work. They're often hailed in the media as the next Queen, but I think people are listening with their eyes.
They're semi-manufactured and have teams of pop writers creating their sound. They take elements from top bands spanning the 60s to the 2010s, stick them in a blender and pretend to be fresh and original. Listening to their debut was like playing a game of "which artist is this nicked from" and they don't have a signature sound. I know nothing is original and everyone is inspired by some other artist before them, and I am well aware there are limited chord progressions for music, but it all seems highly contrived. Cleverly marketed though, I will give their management/publicists credit.
Not long ago, Luke Spiller went beyond paying homage to completely ripping glam era Freddie off: The dyed black haircut, Zandra Rhodes batwing costumes, barefeet-with-kimonos, toasting/throwing flowers at the crowd, audience call/response copied straight from Live Killers, moving like him and finally, rolling his R's like him. Creepy. He even claimed to call his cats on tour as well as expressing a liking for all things Japanese. It got to the point he alienated part of his fanbase and there was a backlash on his instagram!
He complained about the pressures of being compared to Freddie, but he brought it on himself with the costumes and constantly mentioning him. On top of this, he's expressed a desire to create vaudevillian rock a la Seaside Rendezvous. It wouldn't surprise me if The Struts take this direction with their second album. Having said that, he has now added other 70s artists to his repertoire of rip offs. (Moves identical to Jagger and Jackson have now been added to the Freddie act) So maybe he is learning to be himself.
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Yeah it did get incredibly creepy. I am worried he will come up with the ragtime/music hall stuff on their next album and that I will actually like it! Those tunes are my shit!
Who knows what he could come up with because he has a whole damn team of writers helping them create (Red Triangle Productions who write for One Direction and many other Simon Cowell type acts)
Sponge Caves
What annoys me most about them is not the band themselves but the music press. I keep seeing phrases like "innovative" "genius" "new and fresh" thrown about for them. When if you read Queen newspaper cuttings from 1973-1974, people called them unoriginal, identikit rock, accused them of copying Led Zep, The Who, being teen glitter rock.
The Struts literally are a teen glitter rock revival band who ape Sweet, Slade, T. Rex, Bowie, Queen and.......Oasis(!) then get hailed as 'reviving true classic rock'.
Someone rich behind them is pulling the strings. People like Alice Cooper, Dave Grohl, the guys from Def Leppard and Motley Crue can't seem to see through it and are yapping on about the new geniuses on the block. For some reason real musicians can't see through it.
They have pop writers. That's why their songs are so formulaic and catchy. Their latest song is a combo of The Jean Genie and Bohemian Like You (Dandy Warhols) so they're still up to their old tricks of taking elements from past hits, sticking them together, calling it new and getting away with it.
The Struts literally are a teen glitter rock revival band who ape Sweet, Slade, T. Rex, Bowie, Queen and.......Oasis(!) then get hailed as 'reviving true classic rock'.
Someone rich behind them is pulling the strings. People like Alice Cooper, Dave Grohl, the guys from Def Leppard and Motley Crue can't seem to see through it and are yapping on about the new geniuses on the block. For some reason real musicians can't see through it.
They have pop writers. That's why their songs are so formulaic and catchy. Their latest song is a combo of The Jean Genie and Bohemian Like You (Dandy Warhols) so they're still up to their old tricks of taking elements from past hits, sticking them together, calling it new and getting away with it.
Dr Magus
[QUOTE] [b]captainjory wrote:[/b]
http://anatomic-pie-hit.tumblr.com/
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He looks more like MIchael Jackson doing a Freddie impersonation.
http://anatomic-pie-hit.tumblr.com/
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He looks more like MIchael Jackson doing a Freddie impersonation.