Which Queen song represents what the band is all about and who they were?

vocal harmony, yeah i have just read an article and a feature on Brian's amps and yes he is still using some valve amps, not sure if they are all valve but to some extent he is. It is quite confusing what some music magazines print when doing interviews on guitarists so fact and fiction does prevail.

I think the problem is that Brian hits the Dolby (or Dobly)* noise reduction button on his guitar at the start of the show.

That comment is copyright 1984 except *copyright Spinal Tap.

Came to this thread to contribute but people are talking about Brian and valves? Was gonna say Killer Queen or Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy but..... GO VALVES!!!

[QUOTE] [b]Holly2003 wrote:[/b]

I think the problem is that Brian hits the Dolby (or Dobly)* noise reduction button on his guitar at the start of the show.

That comment is copyright 1984 except *copyright Spinal Tap.
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None more black!

[quote]happystar wrote
Marlamir, yes i remember someone asking Freddie years ago, why choose Queen as a favourite band and Freddie regally replied "Because Queen offers a wider span of music than most other bands" He was correct of course as no other band has crossed over from Heavy rock to Disco ! [/quote]
yeah this is the interwiev i meant :)

how to quote here :)
srry for offtopic

Plenty of bands did a crossover from Heavy Rock to disco, but I do agree Queen were a band that played more styles on one album than most bands play in their entire career. Only a few bands could match Queen in that area,

True, maybe this is the reason why queen have so many fans. because everyone find something they like

And because they were great and wrote some bloody great songs.

[QUOTE] [b]scottmax wrote:[/b]

Was It All Worth It, in my opinion, encapsulates everything about Queen. Big production, big harmonies, big guitar solo, fucking ace song[/QUOTE]

I was thinking some of their early-mid 70s stuff would be the most quintessential, but I think you nailed it here.

Tons of harmonies all over the place, a wonderful mystical sounding intro leading into a heavy metal intro, a heavy metal outro, plenty of big orchestra bits mixed in with brilliant guitar solos, and yet still it has that Queen campness/light-heartedness that they're famous for.

Because of the fact that The Miracle had the potential to be their last album, I think they really gave all their heart and soul (ha) to make Was It All Worth It a hell of a swansong to sum up the band just in case.

Was it all worth It Would have been a good ending, but The Show Must Go On was even better.

To clear up the valves discussion:

http://www.theguitarmagazine.com/features/brian-may-ac30/

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"Everything is point-to-point wired – no PCBs here – and, as can be seen from our pictures, is extremely neat and tidy. Reliability is the name of game, so much so that a solid-state rectifier, custom-made by Hill, has replaced the traditional GZ34 valve in all the amps, following in the footsteps of an operation undertaken on May’s amps back in the day by Pete Cornish.

“The first thing a valve does when it goes down is take the valve rectifier out,” stresses Malandrone. “The way that we came across the idea of using
a transistor GZ34 was that Mike simply made one and asked me to try it. I plugged it in, Brian didn’t notice any difference in sound, and that was it. It just adds a little more reliability to the amp, and I’d defy anybody to A/B a GZ34 rectifier valve with one of Mike’s and tell the difference.”
How about the other tubes? “Valves!” exclaim Hill and Malandrone in tandem, quick to correct our inadvertent slip into Americana."
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