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Queen guitarist Brian May weighs in on Pluto as a planet (he has a doctorate in astrophysics)
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| August 29, 2019
| Amanda Kooser
Posted on 08/29/2019 9:19:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:19:58 PM PDT
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DoodleBob
To: DoodleBob
Any truth to the rumor that after someone said Mercury was going to be removed from the list of planets another person said “Another one bites the dust”? /sarc
To: DoodleBob
My FAVORITE guitarist from about 12 to 15.
Still think he plays great but too bad I had to read about his enviro-wackiness.
But the music’s still great.
And Freddy was a fruit and paid the price but recorded some of their very good songs while he was quite ill.
Don’t know if he made peace with God but it must have been tough recording while so sick.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:25:50 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Oh, here’s Death On Two Legs with a spot of humor. Not bad.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:27:25 PM PDT
by
deadrock
To: DoodleBob
He looks a bit like Issac Newton
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:43:56 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:49:50 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Obscured by Clods)
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:59:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dp0622
Had friends that loved Queen. Not a big fan, but I do possess their Killer Queen live CD. Have the Killer Queen single also. The only other song I love beside KQ is “39”. Brian May did all the falsetto opera-like singing.
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posted on
08/29/2019 10:06:49 PM PDT
by
o-n-money
To: dp0622
I would like to play his guitar.
He and his father built it pretty much from scratch and he has played it all these decades as his main instrument.
They made copies of it so that he can play them in the event he breaks a string.
Its called the Red Special and he wrote a book about it.
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posted on
08/29/2019 10:12:49 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: o-n-money
Homo Freddie Mercury did the singing, they just multi tracked his voice.
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posted on
08/29/2019 10:14:15 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: DoodleBob
Well, to be fair (and I must admit I'b biased because I love Queen), May IS a genuine pointy-head PhD on the subject. He doesn't walk around calling himself an honorary 'doctor' or KBE, or any of that nonsense. He's actually put his nose to the grindstone and earned his doctorate the old-fashioned way: by studying and testing. Kudos to him for actually walking the walk, instead of waiting for some faculty administrators in an ivy-covered stone building deciding to bestow an honorary title for his works. Hell, any of us could do that. Pick a windmill to tilt, make it a hobby, lobby a little, and sooner or later, someone somewhere is gonna put you in a robe, slap the mortarboard on your head, and declare you an honorary professor of whatever bullshit you've been spouting off about.
To: nnn0jeh
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posted on
08/29/2019 10:34:31 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: DoodleBob
Brian May's great-(X20)-grandfather?
To: rfp1234
To: o-n-money
39 was the one song from Night at the Opera that was not referenced in the Mercury bio-pic. It seemed like most of the others were played (full or in part) and the rest mentioned. But not 39. Unless the reference was really oblique.
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posted on
08/29/2019 10:40:26 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: right way right
Freddie Mercury did the singing, they just multi tracked his voice.
No, they didnt. I saw them perform. Amazing bunch of musicians no matter what their flaws are.
L
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posted on
08/29/2019 10:40:54 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: ConservativeStatement; Gamecock; SaveFerris
Any truth to the rumor that after someone said Mercury was going to be removed from the list of planets another person said Another one bites the dust? /sarc"The planets of our solar system incinerating, like fat-bottom girls' flaming globes!" (Sorry, best I could do).
To: Lurker
Here it is live.
They roll tape during the choir part.
As for the recording, Im only repeated what I read more than once.
They multitracked Freddys voice.
Bands do it when recording instruments all the time, when in the studio.
https://youtu.be/3p4MZJsexEs
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posted on
08/29/2019 11:02:56 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: DoodleBob
Only song I like from Queen is “I want to break free.”
I also like The December People’s version of I heard the bells on Christmas Day, it’s done in the style of Queen. It’s a fantastic version.
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posted on
08/29/2019 11:12:23 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: DoodleBob
Looks like effing Sir Issac Newton he does eh....
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posted on
08/29/2019 11:18:25 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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