Would Freddie have turned to the theatre if he had lived?

aristide1 wrote:

Maybe except quoting and laughing you should articulate a few words to support your view.
I may only guess you are claiming that Townsend is as great today (and will ever be) as it was in the early 70s.
If you think it's true then why don't you say it, what are you afraid of, looking stupid? Too late.

1) Your post doesn't even have internal logic (first the standards were lower in the '70s, now it's suddenly about his qualities today as compared to the '70s), let alone merit enough to warrant consideration.

2) You're not really worthy of a serious rebuttal, as you are only capable of cheap insults and incoherent babbling, so no, I'm not going to engage in what you believe to be a discussion for more or less the same reasons that I don't usually engage in debates on the relative merits of various types of microphones with ill-mannered five-year-olds.

It sounds like an official document, I'm glad there is no fine attached.

The "incoherent babbling" comes from the fact that I have below average English skills. It's not politically correct to sanction this.
A funny thing is that people suddenly don't understand what I'm saying when they don't like what I'm saying. How intriguing.

Another linguistically intriguing thing is that a native English speaker used the word "merit" twice in only two phrases.
If your logic is limited, at least you vocabulary should be extensive.

Ramnes wrote:

Freddie was incredibly talented as a song writer after all he got Queen in to the big time with those first few singles and Pete Townsend is no where near as talented as Freddie was. Are you for real or what???

"Townsend is no where near as talented as Freddie. . . " that is a hugely sweeping statement. Maybe you should go and listen to The Who albums from about 67 through the 70's

Freddie may have written some amazing songs and performed them brilliantly, but Pete Townsend was writing whole albums, are you seriously going to claim something like Tommy is not as well written or performed as anything Queen did.

Also as a live band The Who were a hell of a force, right through to the mid 90's when John Entwiste died they were still playing with the aggression and power of 20 year old punks and the musicality of a band like Led Zeppelin.

As someone has already said, they were a band that Brian, Freddie and Roger went to see live and were inspired by and that inspiration started with Pete Townsend's musical vision and writing. The only weakness Townsend exhibited was his lead playing live during some shows and on some songs.

Pete Townsend better lyric writer and guitar playing.
Freddie better vocalist, stage performer, piano player, arranger, music making/production.

right?

Ramnes wrote:

Freddie was incredibly talented as a song writer after all he got Queen in to the big time with those first few singles and Pete Townsend is no where near as talented as Freddie was. Are you for real or what???

Mispronouncing Pete's surname doesn't make you very credible.

And while speaking on The Who, I 'discovered' them last year and still listening to them on a daily basis since August. It came to the point when I like them so much that I'm going to spend all my money and see them at Wembley this year. Maybe it's only 2 members but still, I can't believe I'll see these guys who were famous before my parents were even born. And they are still doing it. This might be the only opportunity for me to see them so I don't wanna miss it. Centainly they won't come anywhere near to my country (as they never did) and this is their only European show they seem to be doing this year.

Regarding Pete Townshend - I consider him to be an absolutely phenomenal and complete musician. Very clever. Simple word but means a lot in his case. Also, taking advantage of the opportunity, I want to mention his solo band Deep End, which is quite incredible. Probably my 2nd favourite band after Queen. Those few shows they did are astonishing.