I post it here in case he doesn't reply. Or if he does, you saw it first on Queenzone (that looks like a commercial, doesn't it?).
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12th February 2007
Hi Brian
You've showed a nice example of double standards, haven't you? You can't resist slamming journalists you don't even know, yet complain if they say something bad about the musical or any of your mates or your hair or whatever.
So you say 'We Will Rock You' is great because it's successful ... yeah, sure ... you know Queen is a brand name, and a very good one (like Coca-Cola), and everything under its label will sell well.
It's interesting that now you're comparing success with quality. According to that, 'Queen II' is total pants, 'Hips Don't Lie' is a better song than 'Innuendo', and Vanilla Ice's album 'To The Extreme' is much much much better than 'A Night At The Opera' ... come on!
The musical is selling well because your loyal fans would pay to see you and Roger belching. I don't mean that the musical's bad or that nobody likes it in its own way, but to pretend that its longevity is entirely due to its "depth" is ridiculous.
I like some of your comments on the soapbox, like the beautiful obituaries you wrote for Maurice Gibb, Michael Kamen and Syd Barrett ... they all show you're a very good writer and a nice bloke all in all. And I agree with your comments on ecology and against smoking, but whenever anyone touches your musical you become as narrow-minded as the "wankers" you offend (or even more).
Dr May, if only people who write musicals can criticise musicals, then you should belt up about the press until the day you own a bloody newspaper. Being a music critic is NOT that easy, and it's not as simple as being a frustrated musician. I agree that there are many idiots out there, but some are actually people whose work must be respected, just as much as yours is.
And 'We Will Rock You' is conquering the world, you say? Sure, that's because it's had to be closed in several places after just some months ... face it, Dr May, not everybody HAS to love your product. And if you try to re-write history, then you're being just as unfair as those "nasty, grubby, spotty, unusually ignorant 15 year old creep" people.
So you think you can stone them ... quite funny, because sadly you're setting yourself up and looking like a sad whiney grumpy ol' tart. Why don't you use your superb creativity and your enviable vocabulary to write some poetic lyrics like 'White Queen' or 'All Dead' instead of insulting people you DON'T know and cowardly hiding behind stereotyped offences ... "spotty" ... "15 year old"? that's just as lame as attacking somebody because of being black or skint...
Cheers Bri
Seb
PS: The word 'blog' exists from 1994, which is long before you started ranting on the soapbox. If you accuse the press of getting facts wrong, you ought to practise what you preach...
PS': How can you expect people not to make jokes about your mop-top, if you call them names in the first place?
PS'': You're about to turn 60 in some months... don't you think it's time to grow up?
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I'm not going to comment on the e-mail, I'll let you keep it between Brian and yourself. But does Brian like, selectively reply to e-mails or something? Not all of them? I was going to ask him questions about "Too Much Love Will Kill You" and this disorients me...
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Saif wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I'm not going to comment on the e-mail, I'll let you keep it between Brian and yourself. But does Brian like, selectively reply to e-mails or something? Not all of them? I was going to ask him questions about "Too Much Love Will Kill You" and this disorients me...[/QUOTE]
He replies - publically or privately. Although it's hard to suspect will he reply or not and why...
He replies - publically or privately. Although it's hard to suspect will he reply or not and why...
Ouch. You have some good points, but as to this last piece where the 'journalist' simply stitched together a bunch of quotes from Brian's site and injected his own biased rubbish, I have to disagree. I feel Brian has a right to stoop to the idiot's level to defend himself if he has to.
Will be very interesting to read the reply...if there is one.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sebastian wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I post it here in case he doesn't reply. Or if he does, you saw it first on Queenzone (that looks like a commercial, doesn't it?).
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12th February 2007
Hi Brian
You've showed a nice example of double standards, haven't you? You can't resist slamming journalists you don't even know, yet complain if they say something bad about the musical or any of your mates or your hair or whatever.
So you say 'We Will Rock You' is great because it's successful ... yeah, sure ... you know Queen is a brand name, and a very good one (like Coca-Cola), and everything under its label will sell well.
It's interesting that now you're comparing success with quality. According to that, 'Queen II' is total pants, 'Hips Don't Lie' is a better song than 'Innuendo', and Vanilla Ice's album 'To The Extreme' is much much much better than 'A Night At The Opera' ... come on!
The musical is selling well because your loyal fans would pay to see you and Roger belching. I don't mean that the musical's bad or that nobody likes it in its own way, but to pretend that its longevity is entirely due to its "depth" is ridiculous.
I like some of your comments on the soapbox, like the beautiful obituaries you wrote for Maurice Gibb, Michael Kamen and Syd Barrett ... they all show you're a very good writer and a nice bloke all in all. And I agree with your comments on ecology and against smoking, but whenever anyone touches your musical you become as narrow-minded as the "wankers" you offend (or even more).
Dr May, if only people who write musicals can criticise musicals, then you should belt up about the press until the day you own a bloody newspaper. Being a music critic is NOT that easy, and it's not as simple as being a frustrated musician. I agree that there are many idiots out there, but some are actually people whose work must be respected, just as much as yours is.
And 'We Will Rock You' is conquering the world, you say? Sure, that's because it's had to be closed in several places after just some months ... face it, Dr May, not everybody HAS to love your product. And if you try to re-write history, then you're being just as unfair as those "nasty, grubby, spotty, unusually ignorant 15 year old creep" people.
So you think you can stone them ... quite funny, because sadly you're setting yourself up and looking like a sad whiney grumpy ol' tart. Why don't you use your superb creativity and your enviable vocabulary to write some poetic lyrics like 'White Queen' or 'All Dead' instead of insulting people you DON'T know and cowardly hiding behind stereotyped offences ... "spotty" ... "15 year old"? that's just as lame as attacking somebody because of being black or skint...
Cheers Bri
Seb
PS: The word 'blog' exists from 1994, which is long before you started ranting on the soapbox. If you accuse the press of getting facts wrong, you ought to practise what you preach...
PS': How can you expect people not to make jokes about your mop-top, if you call them names in the first place?
PS'': You're about to turn 60 in some months... don't you think it's time to grow up?[/QUOTE]
I bet you'd never say that to his face. Probably because he'd have you before you can get one worthless sentance out.
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12th February 2007
Hi Brian
You've showed a nice example of double standards, haven't you? You can't resist slamming journalists you don't even know, yet complain if they say something bad about the musical or any of your mates or your hair or whatever.
So you say 'We Will Rock You' is great because it's successful ... yeah, sure ... you know Queen is a brand name, and a very good one (like Coca-Cola), and everything under its label will sell well.
It's interesting that now you're comparing success with quality. According to that, 'Queen II' is total pants, 'Hips Don't Lie' is a better song than 'Innuendo', and Vanilla Ice's album 'To The Extreme' is much much much better than 'A Night At The Opera' ... come on!
The musical is selling well because your loyal fans would pay to see you and Roger belching. I don't mean that the musical's bad or that nobody likes it in its own way, but to pretend that its longevity is entirely due to its "depth" is ridiculous.
I like some of your comments on the soapbox, like the beautiful obituaries you wrote for Maurice Gibb, Michael Kamen and Syd Barrett ... they all show you're a very good writer and a nice bloke all in all. And I agree with your comments on ecology and against smoking, but whenever anyone touches your musical you become as narrow-minded as the "wankers" you offend (or even more).
Dr May, if only people who write musicals can criticise musicals, then you should belt up about the press until the day you own a bloody newspaper. Being a music critic is NOT that easy, and it's not as simple as being a frustrated musician. I agree that there are many idiots out there, but some are actually people whose work must be respected, just as much as yours is.
And 'We Will Rock You' is conquering the world, you say? Sure, that's because it's had to be closed in several places after just some months ... face it, Dr May, not everybody HAS to love your product. And if you try to re-write history, then you're being just as unfair as those "nasty, grubby, spotty, unusually ignorant 15 year old creep" people.
So you think you can stone them ... quite funny, because sadly you're setting yourself up and looking like a sad whiney grumpy ol' tart. Why don't you use your superb creativity and your enviable vocabulary to write some poetic lyrics like 'White Queen' or 'All Dead' instead of insulting people you DON'T know and cowardly hiding behind stereotyped offences ... "spotty" ... "15 year old"? that's just as lame as attacking somebody because of being black or skint...
Cheers Bri
Seb
PS: The word 'blog' exists from 1994, which is long before you started ranting on the soapbox. If you accuse the press of getting facts wrong, you ought to practise what you preach...
PS': How can you expect people not to make jokes about your mop-top, if you call them names in the first place?
PS'': You're about to turn 60 in some months... don't you think it's time to grow up?[/QUOTE]
I bet you'd never say that to his face. Probably because he'd have you before you can get one worthless sentance out.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]A bunny by any other name... wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Ouch. You have some good points, but as to this last piece where the 'journalist' simply stitched together a bunch of quotes from Brian's site and injected his own biased rubbish, I have to disagree. I feel Brian has a right to stoop to the idiot's level to defend himself if he has to.[/QUOTE]
I don't think it's a case of having the right to stoop to a level, but whether someone of his intelligence SHOULD stoop to such levels at all.
I don't think it's a case of having the right to stoop to a level, but whether someone of his intelligence SHOULD stoop to such levels at all.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Bijou In Queens Crown wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sebastian wrote: [/QUOTENAME]...[/QUOTE]
I bet you'd never say that to his face. Probably because he'd have you before you can get one worthless sentance out.[/QUOTE]
I'd have to agree.
I bet you'd never say that to his face. Probably because he'd have you before you can get one worthless sentance out.[/QUOTE]
I'd have to agree.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Saif wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I'm not going to comment on the e-mail, I'll let you keep it between Brian and yourself. But does Brian like, selectively reply to e-mails or something? Not all of them? I was going to ask him questions about "Too Much Love Will Kill You" and this disorients me...[/QUOTE]
He doesn't reply to all...still won't come respond to coming to Chapel Hill and play at UNC.
He doesn't reply to all...still won't come respond to coming to Chapel Hill and play at UNC.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Hadrian wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Saif wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I'm not going to comment on the e-mail, I'll let you keep it between Brian and yourself. But does Brian like, selectively reply to e-mails or something? Not all of them? I was going to ask him questions about "Too Much Love Will Kill You" and this disorients me...[/QUOTE]
He doesn't reply to all...still won't come respond to coming to Chapel Hill and play at UNC.[/QUOTE]
Saw Springsteen there at the football stadium in 2003.
Neat place, though the traffic SUCKED trying to get to the stadium and find a place to park.
He doesn't reply to all...still won't come respond to coming to Chapel Hill and play at UNC.[/QUOTE]
Saw Springsteen there at the football stadium in 2003.
Neat place, though the traffic SUCKED trying to get to the stadium and find a place to park.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Erin wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Will be very interesting to read the reply...if there is one. [/QUOTE]
Yeah....
Yeah....
Hey Seb, grab a chair and fix yourself a drink. Brian's answer might take ages to come your way. Though I really love to read a response from Brian, because I reckon you've hit right on the nail with your email.
Famewhore.
Have you honestly sent that?