Most of the Queen recordings and touring were done with the guitar that May and his father built together, IIRC it took them two years or so to build it. May has a degree in astrophysics....Not your typical rock guitarist background.
Posted on 12/16/2004 11:47:19 AM PST by Rebelbase
AP- London) Queen is planning a tour next year with guitarist-vocalist Paul Rodgers replacing frontman Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS in 1991.
Details about what would be the first Queen tour since Mercury's death were being worked out, but it could include shows across Europe beginning this spring, the band's spokesman said December 15.
Rodgers, from the bands Free and Bad Company, impressed the remaining members of Queen when he joined them for several performances this year.
Rodgers and Queen guitarist Brian May performed Free's hit "All Right Now" at a concert in London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar earlier this year.
May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor then asked Rodgers to stand in for Mercury when the band was featured on a British TV channel's music hall of fame program.
In a note on his Web site, May said there had been "amazing chemistry" when he played alongside Rodgers, adding: "It seems blindingly obvious that there was something happening here."
The official Queen Fan Club welcomed the promised tour, even though it wasn't known whether bass player John Deacon, the other member of the band, will join it.
Queen's stadium anthems "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" were played to packed audiences worldwide. During the late 1980s, when the band had to give up touring because of Mercury's illness, Queen reached new fans with recordings such as "The Miracle" and "Innuendo."
Is it even possible to play one of those independent of the other? It never happens.
Most of the Queen recordings and touring were done with the guitar that May and his father built together, IIRC it took them two years or so to build it. May has a degree in astrophysics....Not your typical rock guitarist background.
I thought George Michael didn't sound half bad when he sang with Queen, even though I don't care for Michael's music much. At least he has a better range for Queen songs than Rodgers.
I started listening to Queen when I started playing music myself, only I didn't really appreciate them till the Miracle album and then Innuendo.
I think whatever Brian May does will be interesting though.
Check out the Vox wall on the photo at #22.
That was the late Robert Palmer in Powerstation. Rodgers was in The Firm.
I know I might get slapped here, but the best Freddie replacement would be George Michael. Brian May has even said their voices are remarkably similar.
Plus, he can be flamboyant, or IS flamboyant.
Saw him (and Queen) in '77 at the L.A. Forum, and it was a great show. May is the master of minor scales.
"They'll be just as successful as the Doors sans Morrison."
Probably true. That train left the station a long time ago. Rock or what is left of it has changed, ( & not for the better IMOP). Even an old cow still will give a little milk and the promoters and agents are not likely to ever give up a teat.
I don't think anyone expects Rodgers to come with a gay moustache and goofy overbite and act like Freddy Mercury, (pray for the souls in Purgatory).
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What is it about queers and sports fight songs? Freddie Mercury, Gary Glitter, etc.
May is quite the guitarist. The whole band worked.
"Can't Get Enough" is an all-timer, and probably covered by more 70s garage bands (including mine) than any other.
"Keep Yourself Alive" -- some of the coolest guitar riffs.
We covered it too! I was drums. You?
You know, that was my first thought, that probably only Jeff Tate has Freddie's vocal range.
I believe they both had the full Operatic spectrum (3 octaves?). Awesome stuff.
Anybody who makes a guitar out of a fireplace mantle is okay by me.
Oh good. just in time to follow hillary around her presidential bid playing "Fat Bottom Girls".
It must be...Dexter Holland of The Offspring has a master's in molecular biology.....
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