Defence of Paul Rodgers

Sharon G. wrote:

Freddie had more talent and class in one foot than Paul Rodgers has in his whole body!

Legends live on and cannot be replaced.

I am reading in newspapers and hearing on the
radio how Paul is replacing Freddie. This upsets me.


Sorry.

No Freddie + No John = NO QUEEN

Freddie 1991
WE love you and miss you.
RIP

Whahahahaaha..... Don't you really have nothing else to say??? You're so boring.

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No Freddie + No John = NO QUEEN

Freddie 1991
WE love you and miss you.
RIP

BPP and Sharon G speaks so same, I almost think, they are one person :-) BTW, are you two 60 or more years old ? (you seem to be soooo narrow minded).

And now to the point of this thread. I don't think it's even necessary to defend Paul in any way. He's been doing such great job during this whole Queen+PR tour and he really proved, he could fill the gap after Freddie in solid way (now, only if they'd make some new record, then I'll be satisfied). So why to defend?

Being old enough, but I never saw Queen live (that iron curtain :-(( But listening to bootlegs and official gigs with Freddie could give a good imagination, what it was. Yes, Freddie was great, but this tour is comparable to those, Queen did in 80's IMO. Agree with Fenderek.

Libor

PS. BPP ment probably Roger Daltrey from Who with that Daltery, Fenderek (I know you knew it, but this is for BPP, as he is really in doubt, who Daltery is :->

Paul is NOT replacing Freddie, thats why they call it Queen + Paul Rodgers......I think of it (as I am sure they intend me to) as a new band.....Freddie was the lead singer for Queen.......Paul Rodgers is (one of) the lead singer(s) for Queen + Paul Rodgers........and there you go....

Paul Rogers is a league in his own right, no matter if he's with Queen, Free, Bad Campany, The Firm or as a solo singer. He will never replace Freddie and he was never bought in to replace Freddie he was the missing link to get Queen on tour again it would of been great to have John up there on stage as well but he's retired from the music business now and we all have to respect his decision.

I hope the Queen/Paul Rogers collaboration go's on for may more years. I have total respect for Paul Rogers to get up on stage and work with such rock leagues like Brian and Roger.

I've said it before i'll say it again just in case. Bryans Permed Poodle are you still crying about this new QUEEN and PAUL ROGERS tour well boohoo to you get lost looser and get a life.

" Boohoo - get a life "

"pathetic small-minded, immature, and classless person" (By the way Kunte, I copied and pasted that !)

Is that really the best arguments you can come back with? Its pathetic!

The simple fact is is PR is a decent blues/rock singer with a average rock career. His record sales have not surpassed any of those true legends on BPP's list.

If he was a legend and everyone's favourite rock singer - why wasn't he at the 92 concert? Just because All Right Now is on lots of 70's compilations doesn't make him a legend. Joe Dolce's Shaddap You Face is on most 80's compilations but he's no legend.

Kunte - your mindless attack on Sharon G is just pitiable.

If anything I'm sure Freddie wouldn't have approved of delirious bigoted morons who can't have a sensible discussion about likes and dislikes without resorting to pathetic whining!

dg22 wrote:

" Boohoo - get a life "

"pathetic small-minded, immature, and classless person" (By the way Kunte, I copied and pasted that !)

Is that really the best arguments you can come back with? Its pathetic!

The simple fact is is PR is a decent blues/rock singer with a average rock career. His record sales have not surpassed any of those true legends on BPP's list.

If he was a legend and everyone's favourite rock singer - why wasn't he at the 92 concert? Just because All Right Now is on lots of 70's compilations doesn't make him a legend. Joe Dolce's Shaddap You Face is on most 80's compilations but he's no legend.

Kunte - your mindless attack on Sharon G is just pitiable.

If anything I'm sure Freddie wouldn't have approved of delirious bigoted morons who can't have a sensible discussion about likes and dislikes without resorting to pathetic whining!

I think that those argument about if PR is in some league is for nothing. The only one argument which counts is, if he is a good singer. And - he is!

1.) Look in every rock encyclopedia and you'll find there Free, Bad Company and probably even The Firm (in which PR played among others with Jimmi Page - see BPP list). Speaking about average rock career is strange - wait, no, it's nonsense. It is of no account, if you don't know PR (or his bands), that he (they) are mediocre or unknown.

2.) There wasn't such big crowd of well known musicians on 92 concert, that this page isn't enough to name them all. It's hard to say, why this or that great musician wasn't there. Maybe they wasn't invited, maybe they had their commitments and some of them probably don't like Queen music too much (apparently this isn´t Paul case).

3.) I looked one more time back on BPP and Sharon posts. Tell me, please, how good are their arguments (if you chid Knute). There are none arguments in their posts. And don´t tell me anything about that list BPP made. I myself have a lot of different musicians I like more than half of that. These opinions are always very subjective.

Libor

DG22, is the mispelling of "Knute" the best you can do to insult him?

BTW, wasn't All Right Now the first song ever to get a million radio airplays in both the UK and the US?

Whether he is classed as a legend or not is beside the point! The fact is, he is fantastic now, on this tour, with Queen. That is all that is important.

To Knute:

I have seen Paul Rodgers in Free and Bad Co.
He is OK,But is no where near Freddie's voice or talent. But then, no one is.

I guess what gets my nose out of joint on this is the media stating that Paul R is now replacing Freddie. I know thats not true, but the bigger the lie, the more people that will believe it.

As for the Strat concert, my husband and I own 2 music stores and have several pictures up of this concert. Fender is one of the lines we carry.
The 50 anniversay strat is gorgeous, we ordered one of the Custom Shop ones for our own collection. Freddie also played a Fender, A Fender tele in Crazy Little Thing........

So the last time I looked, you were entitled to your opinion, and so am I.

Freddie 1991
We love you and miss you!

PR is a great singer and is vastly underated.

whoever has doubted this tour deserves to be shot coz this tour is absolutly fantastic

PR cant replace freddie but he is the next best thing. keep rocking guys

To Sharon G

Do you know what's amazing. Me and you fundementally
believe the exact same thing. Namely that Freddie
(not Freddie, dg22) can never be replaced.
If I thought for one second that 55 year old Paul Rodgers was going to join Queen and do everything he can to wipe the memory of Freddie, I would join you and BPP in your crusade to publicly slam PR.

I've been following what little media there is about Q+PR and I can't find one instance where they are trying to suggest that Paul is better than Freddie.

To dk22

Aww how cute, you've switched my name around. Very clever.

The simple fact is is PR is a decent blues/rock singer with a average rock career. His record sales have not surpassed any of those true legends on BPP's list.

The simple fact is PR is the reason you got to see Brian and Roger on stage together in the first place. Can you get that thru your thick Neaderthal skull and somehow fit it into your pea-sized brain?
No? Oh I see...you're the kind of guy that not only looks a gift horse in the mouth, you also like to make a fist and punch the poor animal right between it's eyes.

And are you that shallow as to use record sales as a way to gauge greatness? If that were the case then
PR would deserve at least for you not to slam him for his 125 million sold. That would also make
Thriller and The Eagles Greatest Hits much better
records than ANATO.
Which we both know isn't true...or at least I think you recognize that. It's hard to tell with your apparent inability to know something good when it comes along. Like the chance to see your heroes on stage for the first time in your life(Thanks to PR)

Now piss off and don't stalk me anymore.
It makes you look like an aggressive asshole.

At Newcastle-for teh amount of time he was on, he ROCKED! He is a great singer and anyone who dislikes him should go listen to New Monkey shite!

Well put Knute. I dunno some people just don’t like change or what to try somehing new, they all must have boring lives as they all seam to be living in the past.

I have to agree with you theretaylorgaga (Begg) the Newcastle show was amazing wish i got tickets for Sheffield as well now.

Speaking about his "mediocre" career I think that paul rodgers has sold about 125 million albums up until now. Queen has sold about 130 millions.

One more time...
Paul Rodgers is not replacing Freddie.
Paul Rodgers is not Queen's singer.

Paul Rodgers is simply filling in because the wonderful Mr. Mercury is no longer with us.

As Paul Rodgers told VH1's Rachael Perry in a interview on 4-2-05:

"As for the comparisons between me an Freddie, I find that flattering, because I have a great deal of respect for the man, but when it comes down to brass tacks, I am not replacing Freddie Mercury, nor did the did the others ask me to be Freddie. They asked me to be Paul Rodgers, which is great, because for the last 55 yrs, thats all I know anyway" (laughs).

Anyone (like me) who was too young to see Queen live should be sucking Paul Rodgers ass.... had it not been for him, you wouldn't have a shot at seeing even 50% of Queen live.

No one (including Paul Rodgers) thinks that "Queen have reformed"....

and to Sharon G and Brian's permed poodle....
I understand you guys are huge Freddie Mercury fans.... I assure you, you will not find a bigger Freddie Mercury fan than me ( I can recite his birth weight, street address when his family moved to England, and both sets of grandparents on his mother and fathers side ) .....thats a dedicated fan.

If I thought for one second that PR was trying to make everyone forget about Freddie, and "take over".... I'd be shitting green twinkies, and loading an AK47 for a manhunt.

But that isn't the case.... Paul, a f**king (thats fucking) legend in his own right is very respectful of the others....knows this concert is in tribute of Queen....ges out of the way for Roger and Brian to take center stage....and from what I am told, he leaves in the middle of the show for 30-40 minutes.

Does that sound like someone trying to take over??