[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Pim Derks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Probably had to do with sucking less cock than in the 80's. [/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Pim Derks wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Probably had to do with sucking less cock than in the 80's. [/QUOTE]
I'm speechless. Moron.
I'm speechless. Moron.
If I spent enough money on gear and hired a really good engineer, these days I could sound like Freddie Mercury.
I don't think he got any better or worse. The technology did. Plus that was a lot of head voice singing. He didn't do that much in the 80s.
I don't think he got any better or worse. The technology did. Plus that was a lot of head voice singing. He didn't do that much in the 80s.
Thank you, thank you!
* takes a bow
* takes a bow
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]marcenciels wrote: [/QUOTENAME]hummmm...he had stop smoking, no choice and dringking was out !...lost's of factors changed his voice ... lost weight fast after the miracle, and you can hear the difference for innuendo, that you get on a few songs on made in heaven.
in the end, he gave all that he could, by perfecting to the max and a good dose desperation.
to add, this odd feeling i've had for year's...maybe i'm totally wrong, but when freddie died...i always believed it would have been the last time he would of toured.
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Didn't Brian May say Freddie would down a vodka or something before doing lines for the Innuendo album and perhaps some stuff on Made In Heaven?
in the end, he gave all that he could, by perfecting to the max and a good dose desperation.
to add, this odd feeling i've had for year's...maybe i'm totally wrong, but when freddie died...i always believed it would have been the last time he would of toured.
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Didn't Brian May say Freddie would down a vodka or something before doing lines for the Innuendo album and perhaps some stuff on Made In Heaven?
Freddie quit smoking around the late 80's. There are pictures of Freddie smoking a cigarette during the Miracle video, I'm quite sure he quit not long after that. Freddie did not quit drinking, drinking helped with the pain he was in, and he was in a lot pain.
Brian has told the "Freddie and Vodka" story on many occasions. I think it was for TSMGO, I can be wrong though.
As for the change in his voice, it was to do a lot with recovery. The man didn't tour in three years so his voice was well rested
Brian has told the "Freddie and Vodka" story on many occasions. I think it was for TSMGO, I can be wrong though.
As for the change in his voice, it was to do a lot with recovery. The man didn't tour in three years so his voice was well rested
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]artemismoon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Brian has told the "Freddie and Vodka" story on many occasions. I think it was for TSMGO, I can be wrong though.[/QUOTE]
It was Mother Love that that story came from.
Adam.
Brian has told the "Freddie and Vodka" story on many occasions. I think it was for TSMGO, I can be wrong though.[/QUOTE]
It was Mother Love that that story came from.
Adam.
And A Winters Tale!!!
Sorry that I spaced on Heaven for Everyone! Still, that track was recorded years ago, as most people knows, so to look for the change in Freddie's voice from Innuendo to Made in Heaven, or even A Kind of Magic to Innuendo for that matter, is going to have to really listen hard.
The change in voice for me is around The Works. That's when Freddie's voice turns downward, there's a bit of a sharp strain (I am thinking of the intro to "It's a Hard Life"), a direct result of his smoking, perhaps.
The change in voice for me is around The Works. That's when Freddie's voice turns downward, there's a bit of a sharp strain (I am thinking of the intro to "It's a Hard Life"), a direct result of his smoking, perhaps.
I agree that there is some change back to his 70s vocal range in the Innuendo sessions. He had to really shift into that falsetto, however: in "Don't Try So Hard," you can tell he is not able to really shift into non-falsetto as easily as he could have in, say, the Queen II-era.
No one has really talked about how Freddie said he actually liked how smoking changed his voice. He said this in one of the DoRo interviews, and it always stuck with me. I wonder what Brian thought of Freddie's smoking this whole time!
No one has really talked about how Freddie said he actually liked how smoking changed his voice. He said this in one of the DoRo interviews, and it always stuck with me. I wonder what Brian thought of Freddie's smoking this whole time!
I think Freddie's voice around '91 is a mix between husky and rough and pure and delicate.
On songs like 'Don't Try So Hard' it could have been recorded in the 70s to me. But on 'Hitman' it sounds quite rough like you can tell he's straining on the one and he does sound quite bad. 'The Show Must Go On' is very pure then at the end it has bits where it sounds like he's straining. But on 'Bijou' it's sounds so delicate and fragile.
But if you listen to the first album then Innuendo there are obvious differences. I know it's obvious but he sounds alot older in some ways on 'Innuendo'.
On songs like 'Don't Try So Hard' it could have been recorded in the 70s to me. But on 'Hitman' it sounds quite rough like you can tell he's straining on the one and he does sound quite bad. 'The Show Must Go On' is very pure then at the end it has bits where it sounds like he's straining. But on 'Bijou' it's sounds so delicate and fragile.
But if you listen to the first album then Innuendo there are obvious differences. I know it's obvious but he sounds alot older in some ways on 'Innuendo'.
Azzadude, I meant only "Heaven for Everyone," which started out as a single for The Cross, with a Roger vocal. Freddie sang backup on the Roger-sung track, but he also did his own vocal take, which exists in the Cross arrangement (rare B-side). Then the boys re-did it for MiH.
As for the other sessions that make up MiH, it's a patchwork of old and recent. Innuendo is as well, to a certain extent, although I can't rattle off the timelines just now. Marking papers at the end of term makes one's mind mush, as is evidence by my naming MiH Innuendo a couple days back. And the mercilessness of [Russian name here]! Gotcha politics indeed!
As for the other sessions that make up MiH, it's a patchwork of old and recent. Innuendo is as well, to a certain extent, although I can't rattle off the timelines just now. Marking papers at the end of term makes one's mind mush, as is evidence by my naming MiH Innuendo a couple days back. And the mercilessness of [Russian name here]! Gotcha politics indeed!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Adam Baboolal wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]artemismoon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
Brian has told the "Freddie and Vodka" story on many occasions. I think it was for TSMGO, I can be wrong though.[/QUOTE]
It was Mother Love that that story came from.
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And TSMGO, I just read the interview. I'll try to upload a link.
He drank Vodka quite often, it was his favorite drink, especially in his last few months. Anything to help with the pain.
Brian has told the "Freddie and Vodka" story on many occasions. I think it was for TSMGO, I can be wrong though.[/QUOTE]
It was Mother Love that that story came from.
Adam.[/QUOTE]
And TSMGO, I just read the interview. I'll try to upload a link.
He drank Vodka quite often, it was his favorite drink, especially in his last few months. Anything to help with the pain.
^i have heard that too...the pain he must have been in.
Did he ever put anything in the vodka to make it taste better?