Adam Lambert has to work the hardest because he has to dodge incoming objects cuz he sucks!!!
The only members of the band I've seen stuff chucked at are John and Freddie. . . but carry on.
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Togg
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Speaking as a drummer first and foremost I have to say playing a two hour gig in front of a large crowd is totally draining, your heels are off the floor most of the time, you are counting in your head, remembering lyrics, and trying to keep the pace at the correct level despite your guitarist trying to run away with it...
Never mind you have to get there a good hour before everyone else to set up and you're usually the last to leave (although the days of Roger dismanteling his own kit are long behind him), just tuning up and playing for two hours is just as physically draining as running a 5-10K trust me.
If you had to pick the easiest job in a band it would be the keyboard player, it's much less physical.
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Togg wrote:
Speaking as a drummer first and foremost I have to say playing a two hour gig in front of a large crowd is totally draining, your heels are off the floor most of the time, you are counting in your head, remembering lyrics, and trying to keep the pace at the correct level despite your guitarist trying to run away with it...
Never mind you have to get there a good hour before everyone else to set up and you're usually the last to leave (although the days of Roger dismanteling his own kit are long behind him), just tuning up and playing for two hours is just as physically draining as running a 5-10K trust me.
If you had to pick the easiest job in a band it would be the keyboard player, it's much less physical.
This!!
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dysan
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John's cocktail waiter on the '86 tour was certainly in his element.
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princesslina
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Freddie has a demanding role which I considered the difficult job.
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princesslina wrote:
Freddie has a demanding role which I considered the difficult job.
Not exactly, yes Freddie had to sing at a high standard and was the main focal and contact point between band and audience. But he could put as little or as much effort into that as he wanted. Some nights he didn't move around as much as most nights. Some nights he ducked out of difficult vocal lines or higher notes by finding an alternative.
For all the reasons listed by Togg, Roger had a much tougher job than Freddie, he as the drummer anchored the whole performance together and gave Freddie a platform on which to build.
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Ok we know Drummers have a hard time but Freddie in my opinion was the most hardest working front man ever for any band on the planet, as i cannot think of anybody else who gave there all
as much as Fred.
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Invisible Woman
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I think they all had a hard work but Freddie had a hardest work on stage.
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fras444
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To be fair Togg
This post started out as a bit of a 'Matt zz' inspired piss take on Queen as a live band and as a paid profession.... Who "worked the hardest for their wage..." and a bit of a piss take/bring to the spotlight, the sometimes thankless and hard work drummers sometimes "forgotten" members of the band (to the average joe blog watching a gig), right at the back, mostly not seen and hidden behind all of that equipment.... But it did quickly evolved into a genuine question and discussion about the rigorous of being in a live touring band and what member had a genuine most psychically/mentally/hardest job live and who was generally the most consistent out of the four.
The real wizard
So from your personal account and listening to many lifetimes of Queen live recordings... Roger was definitely the most consistent and hardest working out of the four. Drums followed by bass, would have to be the key foundation behind the live sound, fuck the drumming/bass up or having a shit day would definitely come through the sound and potentially undermine the whole show more than say, a cracked vocal or a miss chord or broken string on guitar/equipment change....
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Well i know for sure who was the most hard working member of Motorhead "Phil Taylor" he was a superb metal drummer and got knows where he got all that energy from !
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fras444 wrote:
The real wizard
So from your personal account and listening to many lifetimes of Queen live recordings... Roger was definitely the most consistent and hardest working out of the four. Drums followed by bass, would have to be the key foundation behind the live sound, fuck the drumming/bass up or having a shit day would definitely come through the sound and potentially undermine the whole show more than say, a cracked vocal or a miss chord or broken string on guitar/equipment change....
Yep, precisely.
In any band, the rhythm section is the foundation. Even on Zeppelin's worst nights when Page and Plant were drugged out of their minds, Jonesy and Bonham pretty much always held the fort.
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Speaking as a drummer first and foremost I have to say playing a two hour gig in front of a large crowd is totally draining, your heels are off the floor most of the time, you are counting in your head, remembering lyrics, and trying to keep the pace at the correct level despite your guitarist trying to run away with it...
Never mind you have to get there a good hour before everyone else to set up and you're usually the last to leave (although the days of Roger dismanteling his own kit are long behind him), just tuning up and playing for two hours is just as physically draining as running a 5-10K trust me.
If you had to pick the easiest job in a band it would be the keyboard player, it's much less physical.
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Raf
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Togg wrote:
Speaking as a drummer first and foremost I have to say playing a two hour gig in front of a large crowd is totally draining, your heels are off the floor most of the time, you are counting in your head, remembering lyrics, and trying to keep the pace at the correct level despite your guitarist trying to run away with it...
Never mind you have to get there a good hour before everyone else to set up and you're usually the last to leave (although the days of Roger dismanteling his own kit are long behind him), just tuning up and playing for two hours is just as physically draining as running a 5-10K trust me.
If you had to pick the easiest job in a band it would be the keyboard player, it's much less physical.
At the press conference for Led Zep's Celebration Day release, JPJ does say something about how he enjoyed playing Kashmir and No Quarter because he got to sit down for a few minutes. :)
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Roger. If it was possible, I'd watch a full concert of a camera soley focused on him during a Queen concert.
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Raf
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Iron Butterfly wrote:
Roger. If it was possible, I'd watch a full concert of a camera soley focused on him during a Queen concert.
A full concert would be a little difficult to find, but there are 4 songs from the Roger cams feature from the Wembley DVD :)
