Cwazy Little Thing said: Im afraid I have to completely disagree - these tossers who go and see him are posing as fans, and then selling stuff on at an inflated price, usually vastly inflated, and essentially making a profit from Brians hard work and patience.
Brian wants to sign stuff for people who pay face value for something, and are genuinely fans of his - people who queue for hours because they are looking to meet a hero, not because theyre seeing pound signs in their eyes when they see that they can get something signed and flog it on ebay....
I totally agree with CLT! Perhaps some of you might remember last year during the U.S. leg of the Q+PR tour there was a man who made a totally obnoxious nuisance of himself at one of the shows. He was standing up in the audience and yelling at Brian during the acoustic part of his solo, to throw him his sixpence piece. Not only was it rude to the audience, but it was distracting to Brian who was trying to concentrate on playing. So Brian finally threw the sixpence to him, hoping that the guy would settle down and let him get on with the show. Well, it ended up on E-Bay the next day with the guy bragging about how he had obtained it.
How incredibly insulting! The man obviously didn’t care about Brian or the sixpence; only wanted to hawk it for as much as he could get for it. The same with those selling his autographed book. They don’t care about Brian or are they interested in his book—only how much money they can get for it.
A Very Rich Bunny makes me so angry when he says: “Brian signed autographs to promote his book. Nobody forced him to. And I'm sure people had to buy a copy to get it signed. What a bitchy old cunt. I sometimes get the impression that he can't stand it if he doesn't get a piece of every Queen-related sale of anything, whether he's already been paid or not. Maybe he should sell his own god damn autographs thru his site if he wants to compete.”
First of all, I am sure Brian is happy to sign his book for people who are truly interested in astronomy and what he has to say. Sure people bought it to get it signed, but nobody forced them to buy it; they bought it because they wanted to. It infuriates me that people like you imply that Brian is money-grubbing and is in competition with these autograph hawkers. It seems to me you have it totally backwards. Why are you defending these people? I don’t believe Brian cares about the money; but he does care that these people don’t give a rip about him or his book and are only interested in using him and making money off of him. Now, who are the money grubbers?
And why get upset about a miniscule segment of the population who are behaving in this manner? Because it is wrong, that’s why. And when one sees a wrong being committed, one should speak out against it. If no one speaks out, then it will be thought that no one cares and that it is OK.
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At least it's most likely an authentic autograph and not some fake. Brian is just too quick to condemn people without knowing the facts. Maybe it's a true fan who bought two books and wanted to make one available to someone who doesn't happen to live in the UK. He's wasting his energy being so bitchy about this stuff.
Whether Brian is right or wrong on his Soapbox, there are things that are always going to be wrong in the world that will be caused by a miniscule segment of the population. Of course people should speak out against bad things. Most people would probably be against adultery, impaired driving and unprotected anal sex. Members of Queen indulged in these practices and it killed one member of the band, pushed another to the edge and embarassed a third. Playing devil's advocate, maybe these 'parasites', who the worse thing that they may ever do in life is sell an autograph to make some piddling amount of coin (off of a stupid person) may have a tough time with Brian May taking the moral high ground given the actions of him and his band members.
Brian,John,Freddia an Roger are my idols, i'd never send them email like this...
When i say reinvent history I'm going by the shit you write. Every song would have been better sung by brian and roger, but freddie's voice made these songs legend. according to your BS writings freddie wouldn't even be in the fucking band. Amazing the crap you read on this site.
I think the bottom line is I think brians voice is good for ballads, but othr than that is not so good. He would be be squealing like a little girl trying to sing scandel or it's late properly. You make it sound like he's the next coming of "the voice" please!....sebastion give that shit up. history has already shown us who the lead singer for queen was, and it's not brian or roger. you internet freaks try to reinvent history, it's pretty horrid reading this shit. "Is this the world we created?"....is another song freddie should have never touched according to the great sebastion.
Could you please show me where Sebastian said that?? As far as I read he was just saying what I said - in terms of range and range alone, Brian could've sung the songs we're talking about. Who would've done it better is a completely separate debate......
I'm going by the personal section written by the great sebastion. I had a few laughs reading it.
Where the hell does Brian's singing voice come into this?? He has a wonderful voice! Yes, it's more suited to singing ballads, but sonds like Resurrection and China Belle are perfect examples of the other side his voice has! I'd like to see you do any better, hmph
"I'd like to see you do any better, hmph"
Who was that directed to??!! :\
Who was that directed to??!! :\
ooook then...
*scratches head and shrugs*
*scratches head and shrugs*
> When i say reinvent history I'm going by the shit you write.
If it's shit, don't read it. Simple as that.
> Every song would have been better sung by brian and roger
Not every song, but several ones. 'Is This The World' for instance, or 'Save Me' (at least on a duet). Otoh, the middle eight in 'Sweet Sister' is something neither Roger nor Brian could have sung as well as Freddie.
> but freddie's voice made these songs legend.
How much are 'Is This The World' and 'Las Palabras De Amor' legends is beyond me.
> according to your BS writings freddie wouldn't even be in the fucking band.
What on earth is "BS"? If you mean "BD", then don't read it.
> I think the bottom line is I think brians voice is good for ballads, but othr than that is not so good.
It's nice, you think that, I think otherwise. Can't you accept that?
> it's pretty horrid reading this shit.
Then don't torture yourself and stop reading it.
> "Is this the world we created?"....is another song freddie should have never touched according to the great sebastion.
He could've mixed it, or perhaps arrange a nice string quartet for it. But as far as vocals go, I'd go with Brian for that one.
> I'm going by the personal section written by the great sebastion. I had a few laughs reading it.
Glad to read that. It's always nice to make people laugh.
> Where the hell does Brian's singing voice come into this?? He has a wonderful voice!
Indeed.
> Could you please show me where Sebastian said that??
I think I stated that somewhere in my website: that certain songs like 'Save Me' or 'Is This The World' would have been more apropriate with Brian's voice than Freddie's.
If it's shit, don't read it. Simple as that.
> Every song would have been better sung by brian and roger
Not every song, but several ones. 'Is This The World' for instance, or 'Save Me' (at least on a duet). Otoh, the middle eight in 'Sweet Sister' is something neither Roger nor Brian could have sung as well as Freddie.
> but freddie's voice made these songs legend.
How much are 'Is This The World' and 'Las Palabras De Amor' legends is beyond me.
> according to your BS writings freddie wouldn't even be in the fucking band.
What on earth is "BS"? If you mean "BD", then don't read it.
> I think the bottom line is I think brians voice is good for ballads, but othr than that is not so good.
It's nice, you think that, I think otherwise. Can't you accept that?
> it's pretty horrid reading this shit.
Then don't torture yourself and stop reading it.
> "Is this the world we created?"....is another song freddie should have never touched according to the great sebastion.
He could've mixed it, or perhaps arrange a nice string quartet for it. But as far as vocals go, I'd go with Brian for that one.
> I'm going by the personal section written by the great sebastion. I had a few laughs reading it.
Glad to read that. It's always nice to make people laugh.
> Where the hell does Brian's singing voice come into this?? He has a wonderful voice!
Indeed.
> Could you please show me where Sebastian said that??
I think I stated that somewhere in my website: that certain songs like 'Save Me' or 'Is This The World' would have been more apropriate with Brian's voice than Freddie's.
"If it's shit, don't read it. Simple as that."
Hmm... if only it were that simple! It's an unfortunate paradox - I'm sure if you hadn't read Brian's 'shit' that we wouldn't be in this thread... so I'm not sure where one can go with that one!
"I think I stated that somewhere in my website: that certain songs like 'Save Me' or 'Is This The World' would have been more apropriate with Brian's voice than Freddie's."
Indeed, I recall you've said that about Save Me at least.... I'm not playing favourites but I still think that at least the Save Me intro would've sounded nice with Brian. Not better as such - just.... nice. Hehe.
Hmm... if only it were that simple! It's an unfortunate paradox - I'm sure if you hadn't read Brian's 'shit' that we wouldn't be in this thread... so I'm not sure where one can go with that one!
"I think I stated that somewhere in my website: that certain songs like 'Save Me' or 'Is This The World' would have been more apropriate with Brian's voice than Freddie's."
Indeed, I recall you've said that about Save Me at least.... I'm not playing favourites but I still think that at least the Save Me intro would've sounded nice with Brian. Not better as such - just.... nice. Hehe.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Zebonka12 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I'm sure if you hadn't read Brian's 'shit' that we wouldn't be in this thread...[/QUOTE]
The thing is I don't consider that 'shit'. I think Brian's a very intelligent bloke whose opinions may influence loads of people, and I think his rants about the press are not only below his level, but quite unfair as well. So I deserve to try and tell him he looks stupid by complaining that much, and that he's becoming as narrow-minded as those journalists he attacks.
Mike Hunt seems to think that most of what I say is bollocks, and that my website is pants, thus it's a waste of his time (and mine) for him to browse through it. It's a different situation.
The thing is I don't consider that 'shit'. I think Brian's a very intelligent bloke whose opinions may influence loads of people, and I think his rants about the press are not only below his level, but quite unfair as well. So I deserve to try and tell him he looks stupid by complaining that much, and that he's becoming as narrow-minded as those journalists he attacks.
Mike Hunt seems to think that most of what I say is bollocks, and that my website is pants, thus it's a waste of his time (and mine) for him to browse through it. It's a different situation.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sebastian wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Zebonka12 wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I'm sure if you hadn't read Brian's 'shit' that we wouldn't be in this thread...[/QUOTE]
The thing is I don't consider that 'shit'. I think Brian's a very intelligent bloke whose opinions may influence loads of people, and I think his rants about the press are not only below his level, but quite unfair as well. So I deserve to try and tell him he looks stupid by complaining that much, and that he's becoming as narrow-minded as those journalists he attacks.
Mike Hunt seems to think that most of what I say is bollocks, and that my website is pants, thus it's a waste of his time (and mine) for him to browse through it. It's a different situation.[/QUOTE]
Ahhhhhhhh.... I see!
It's my own opinion that Brian could learn to relax a little about these things. Newspapers aren't called 'rags' for nothing.. but if he wants to shoot his mouth off over it, I suppose that's that then.
The thing is I don't consider that 'shit'. I think Brian's a very intelligent bloke whose opinions may influence loads of people, and I think his rants about the press are not only below his level, but quite unfair as well. So I deserve to try and tell him he looks stupid by complaining that much, and that he's becoming as narrow-minded as those journalists he attacks.
Mike Hunt seems to think that most of what I say is bollocks, and that my website is pants, thus it's a waste of his time (and mine) for him to browse through it. It's a different situation.[/QUOTE]
Ahhhhhhhh.... I see!
It's my own opinion that Brian could learn to relax a little about these things. Newspapers aren't called 'rags' for nothing.. but if he wants to shoot his mouth off over it, I suppose that's that then.