Queen Extravaganza - Marc Martel booted?

He had some posts on his facebook page saying "cutting vocals in my studio for film producer overseas and this was on his website https://marcmartelmusic.com/home/blog/a-hard-couple-weeks-of-work-at-abbey-road-with-a-great-team-and-the-satisfaction-of-finishing-strong. He was also tweeting pics of himself outside the Abbey Rd studios, around the time they were filming the movie, so the timeline seems to fit.

Plus this on Music City Management website, Nashville - MARC MARTEL RECORDS VOCALS AT ABBEY ROADS STUDIOS IN LONDON!
Marc Martel spent the week recording vocals for an upcoming project he is part of at Abbey Roads Studios in London!

Think the rest of it came from some die hard fan he has who spouts all sorts of theories as if they are actual facts, especially on Marc's YouTube vids. He claimed Marc did all the vocals for the movie because the sound mix for the original stuff wasn't good enough and Rami can't sing, or at least like Freddie. Don't get the sound mix bit, there's plenty of live stuff of the band been released, why would it be good enough for that but not the movie?

Sure sounded like Martel doing the singing for that Live Aid bit

On the leaked film footage of them reproducing Live Aid it absolutely sounded like Marc. I’m still intrigued as to who is playing the music behind him because they don’t have multi tracks for Live Aid and it’s not the original audio being used, most likely in this instance because the sound quality won’t be good enough to be used in film setting.

I feel like such an uninformed moron :(

I am sitting here at Harrah's in AC, NJ and I was shocked to come in and NOT see Marc Martel. I bought my tickets long in advance, and drove 4 hours from DC to get here. I spent good money on the room we rented. the meals, etc. I also bought a shirt.and the meet & greet passes... because I thought I would get to meet Marc? I am so upset, feel sad, angry, stupid, and lots of mixed emotions. If I knew, I would not have come... :( !!! Grrrrrr

You'll be pissed if you go and see Queen then :/

[QUOTE] [b]dysan wrote:[/b]

You'll be pissed if you go and see Queen then :/[/QUOTE]


:-)

@howarddavidp I just drove three hours to get there myself showed up to the concert the music started to play I have been waiting months for this queen was the first CD that I ever owned my wife knew how much this meant to me.

And then some guy in a leather jacket comes out on stage and start singing and sounds nothing like Freddy or Marc

The guitar player was amazing is the only thing I can say positive about this

I felt like I had been duped, lied to and taken advantage of.

I left after the first song and went to the bathroom with tears streaming down my face and then I left the venue.

Something I have always wanted all my life, I was not old enough to see queen live this was as close as I would ever come and it was one of the biggest disappointments of my life.

I felt really bad for the people on stage they are trying hard but it’s people going through the motions, the original members of queen should be embarrassed by this but the almighty dollar prevails.

I have so many emotions right now I don’t know how to feel

Welcome to Maylor 2018. All about money and greed

Jwcom,
So much drama..
and you can't spell Freddie's name correctly...Whose fan are you?
Marc's been touring with his own Queen tribute band for over a year now. There is also another brilliant Freddie sound alike, Gary Mullen, if you want a more energetic show, he tours as well.

I really think they're a victim of their own good fortune in this exercise - they couldn't have asked for someone more right for the original job than Martel.

Ultimately the concept of Queen tributes has never been more ass-backwards. Martel almost gets shat on for being too much like Freddie (as if it's a bad thing??), and now Extravaganza has someone who couldn't be further from the Queen sound and he's also getting shat on, haha. You can't win!

It's a tough racket, I'm almost at peace with not doing the Brian thing anymore myself.

Maybe Bri was worried that QE was going to overtake Q+AL as the number one tribute band.

As far as I remember, it was Roger's retirement project. So QuEx was supposed to overtake Queen. The original plan was to form several QuEx bands!
Brian and Roger had no idea if they would tour as Queen + AL in 2011 when QuEx was formed.

[QUOTE] [b]AngelR wrote:[/b]

As far as I remember, it was Roger's retirement project. So QuEx was supposed to overtake Queen. The original plan was to form several QuEx bands!
Brian and Roger had no idea if they would tour as Queen + AL in 2011 when QuEx was formed. [/QUOTE]

Too bad this idea got booted. WOuld have been fitting. Then came the abysmal QAL thing. Good lord

Went to see Queen Extravagnaza last night not knowing that Marc Martel had been switched for Alirio Netto.
Wowza, he absolutely ruined the gig for me and quite a few people left at half time too.
Netto doesn't sing nor act like Freddie in any way.
His voice just doesn't suit the band.
Waited a full year for this gig and can honestly say I was absolutely gutted.
Rest of the band were fantastic but the singer ruined it for me.

[QUOTE] [b]john bodega wrote:[/b]

I really think they're a victim of their own good fortune in this exercise - they couldn't have asked for someone more right for the original job than Martel.

Ultimately the concept of Queen tributes has never been more ass-backwards. Martel almost gets shat on for being too much like Freddie (as if it's a bad thing??), and now Extravaganza has someone who couldn't be further from the Queen sound and he's also getting shat on, haha. You can't win!

It's a tough racket, I'm almost at peace with not doing the Brian thing anymore myself.[/QUOTE]

Just curious, Marc in 2017 decided to start his own Queen tribute band and then went ahead and booked shows in various places. I realize he couldn't be expected to not work and just stay home waiting for the next QEX gig but isn't it kind of biting the hand that feeds you to start a project in direct competition with the one you've been hired for, especially when he started doing official Queen covers on an album/EP? He was in his own christian rock band originally, maybe they expected him to do that or solo things in between QEX tours, just thinking aloud here. In fact between 2012 and 2017 I'm not sure what he did between tours but he didn't start the tribute band until then and that's the first time he ended up no longer touring with QEX. Also having got shows booked isn't it entirely possible Roger had no choice but to get someone else when Marc wasn't actually free to tour when they needed him. We only know what they've officially put out there but it does make me think.