I Wrote To Brian May... and he wrote back!!!!

Yeah it's truly amazing because here is someone who is so ridiculously famous and important to the music world and who is a living legend. I honestly cannot believe it.

Hey you guys are so much nicer than at queen-online. I don't like those guys over at that message board! >:O

I know about your emails from Brian, Dan. He mentions them when I pop round his place for tea and scones ;-)

Oh yeah, I've heard about those too.. weekly pleas for an album of Queen covering Billy Joel songs. Sad but sweet ;)

Edit: Nope, don't see any extra addresses in the headers, but I didn't mean to paste them here, hehe. Sometimes it's not a good idea to post your IP address and stuff publically :)

"I know about your emails from Brian, Dan. He mentions them when I pop round his place for tea and scones ;-)"

Well good then Bob, Ask him "What's the friggin' hold up?!" for me!

"Oh yeah, I've heard about those too.. weekly pleas for an album of Queen covering Billy Joel songs. Sad but sweet ;)"

Noooooo... Two things I would never wish mixed!

I feel quite computer illiterate now but I never exactly understood what an IP address tells...

lucky you erica

I've gotten two e-mails from him privately before (replies) <

Ohh wow. :-|
So I really hope the answer is from him and not Jen! I'm sure it is... he's so ridiculously nice!

If it's in bold font, HTML, it's his

"I was referring to the overly selectivity of hers on what e-mails go and don't go through to Brian."

I think such censorship is unfortunately necessary (and I don't think she censors it all the time anyway).

I personally think that Brian usually answers only praise or naive emails and he doesn't respond to really interesting questions but that's of course his choice.

"I personally think that Brian usually answers only praise or naive emails"

- yea I also thought that was kind of obvious.

"I personally think that Brian usually answers only praise or naive emails"

+ about the musical

BTW, I've been in contact with Valensia lately. He released his Queen Tribute in May 2003 and immediately sent a copy of the album to Brian/Roger/QP. Never even got a single reply, he even mailed BM on his soapbox. Meanwhile, Brian sents handwritten letters to people making wooden Queen standups and other (IMO :-)) crap, while Valensia worked over a month on his recreation of BoRhap and would love to hear something from BM/RT, they're his heroes too (besides Freddie/Kate Bush etc)....

"+ about the musical"

- I think that probably would be incuded under 'praise', as I dont think he'd reply to any letter which slags the musical off! :-)

"I personally think that Brian usually answers only praise or naive emails and he doesn't respond to really interesting questions but that's of course his choice."

I have the same impression. I sent him a mail once because I finally wanted to be sure who played the solo in Who Needs You, all he would have had to answer was "Me." or "John." No reply. Although I did include some praise.