"I'm Ready" -- Paul Rodgers with Brian May

Not new -- it actually dates back to 1993 -- but maybe a bit under the radar, hence the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkxri9OhD3g

Maybe not Brian's best solo. I appreciate he's trying to do something new with an old blues standard, and also putting his trademark sound on it, but it doesn't really work for me. The tone doesn't sit well with the rest of the song. As for Rodgers, this is the same lazy performance he often brought to Queen songs. When he made the effort on the right songs (usually his own!) he was very good.

Prefer the Live Version.

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

. . . . . As for Rodgers, this is the same lazy performance he often brought to Queen songs. When he made the effort on the right songs (usually his own!) he was very good.[/QUOTE]

Yeah absolutely. I enjoyed a lot of what they did, but I couldn't help thinking it was two different camps often with different views as confirmed by various story's from the tours

He is a great singer but only on his terms. Maybe his best performance on a Queen song was WATC at the UK Rock n'Roll hall of fame, but even in then when he fluffs a line on which the backing singers are singing he tries to cover it by turning to, I think Treena Morris, and tells her to "get it right babe"

Good find I'd forgotten about this

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

Maybe not Brian's best solo. I appreciate he's trying to do something new with an old blues standard, and also putting his trademark sound on it, but it doesn't really work for me.[/QUOTE]

Maybe it's his tone?

He had this weird tone in the early 90s, the same tone that's on the Back To The Light album. Is it just chorus we're hearing, or is there something else going on?

Yeah he says "Go On Fighting" instead of "Keep On Fighting". I really like Paul, but he was arrogant to do that.

Doesn't sit well on the track IMO, the track is menat to sound like a studio jam, but Brian has put a solo on that feels like it was done much later at home over four nights... no real spark or live feel
Shame really he could have done a kind of Tie your Mother Down slide solo on there that would have worked much better

Kind of a grating sounding recording all around, but Brian doesn't mesh with the thing at all. It's almost like the only thing he had to play along with was the drums, he doesn't fit in with the choices that the bass player made at all and even his own guitar overdubs are arguing with themselves.