Queen fans in general are friendly, tolerant, helpful and have a sense of humour. That's my experience from a couple of Dutch Queen Parties and the recent tour. Mainly on the tour I was impressed by the fans who travelled the continent to see as many shows as possible and helped each other reducing the costs. They shared cars and homes and stood in the rain for hours to be in front row or to get a signature from the band. Actually, I think the band does not deserve them considering Brian's complaints about the bother they are with their requests for autographs and photos.
I think it's wrong for Brian or Roger to complain about giving autographs, but there is the stalking factor, especially with Roger, that sometimes screws it up for the rest of us normal folks. I mean, does anyone really need 20 autographs from one tour? If I was Roger, I'd be slightly gun shy about giving autographs for fear of getting tackled..
I hope that the American fans will be able to help each other out with the tour next year. Maybe some the Europeans will make the trip over? :-) Things are a bit different here, though, given the sheer size of the country it could get pricey..
I toatlly agree that we can take a psychological profile (or at least, a part of it) from a person based on what music they ear. George Harrison said that in an interview some 8 years ago an i agree.
You have to look at it with a spiritual view:
First of all, we have to admit that people only listen to music that makes them feel good, or enjoy themselves, or in many cases, that makes them cry.
Let`s analise some cases:
Gangsta Rap: In most cases, lyrics appeal to violence, or revenge, or loving a chick. In most cases can be the author biography, so Kids that listen to their music have a real example to look for. You tell me, what kind of person can relate to that kind of energy?- Not Ghandi. You know what i mean?- Because you can say you enjoy the rythm, etc, but if you go deeper and read the lines you`ll understand what i mean. For the sake of it i`m talking about fans of this type of music, people that breath this music all day long, not the guys that enjoy listen to it while they`re in the disco. Because in the end this music has a social message, and in many cases people do relate to them, so you can say that people who adopt this kind of music almost as a religion, can be part of ethnic minority groups (and so, they relate to the message). They feel that society is unfair to them and they want to fight back, so they can become violent. And due to the place where they were born they can face violence from a very early stage in their lives.
You can say- but everybody listen to this music in the states (black and white), wich is true and this is due to the other part of the question- Marketing. Thre`s a lot of money promoting this type of music, but there`s more:
Black people- probably listen to this music more because of it`s social message. They`re the minority so they need to fight back (please, read this as an extreme example, just for you to understand my point of view. Of course this can`t aply to everyone, but in the most extreme example i think it does). When i say fight back i`m not talking just about violence, i`m talking about determination to succeed too.
White people- probably listen to this music more for the fun of it other that the message. Probably they just absorve the Chicks message, and if they`re young they can be highlly influentiated about this.
Music doesn`t make you violent, but if you`re a violent person you`ll end up listen to violent music (when i say violent person i`m refering to people that can beat your ass down, or can pull a trigger, or are extremely brutal. Street fighters really, not those rich mafia guys that take decisions on someone`s lives- in most cases this guys have very refined tastes in what concerns to arts).
I compare Gangsta rap to the Heavy Metal movement in the eighties. I mean i those years, heavy metal people were alchooloic and drug adicts (most of them). You can compare an Heavy metal band (from the 80`s) with a Queen fan (from that period as well)- Can you get a conclusion?
See this as a question of energies- an energy will surround itself with equal energies.
A violent person simply don`t chill out whith Mozart- that is for winies!!
Now, people that listen to music that makes them cry- When we break a relation or someone dies what do we do?- We feel sad, but instead of trying to feel happy we for some reason won`t allow ourselves to be happy in a certain period of time. What do we do?- We listen to sad music, the kind that we already know will makes us cry.
So, if you like to listen to a lot of sad music in your everyday live, you can be dealing with some kind of depression, or there`s something in your life that needs to be resolved. Introspection is the key, meditation too. Remember the thing about the energies- You emotional energy is atracting equal energies and sometimes it`s necessary a great deal of inner strenght to breack the cicle.
The thing is, if you are with a girlfriend and you`re are laughing, you don`t wanna listen
