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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Did anyone see the documentary about Freddie Mercury last night?
Your thoughts please.
I miss this genus of a man and I wonder what he would be doing now and what sort of music he would be creating.
Such a talent.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I watched the documentary, I thought it was interesting and the guy who played him during the dramatic scenes was really well cast.
My mum was a massive Queen fan in the 70s and they were just one of many bands which I grew up with. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio."
MrWho! FFS you do talk rubbish sometimes.....
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio."
Bet you like Coldplay? |
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"Too me musical genius means Mozart.... 
Correct.
Albert Einstein said that 'as an artist, or a musician, Mozart was not a man of this world'.
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Yep! And that creativity not intelligence was the mark of genius...
Handel also created some sublime music |
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"He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio."
Ha, twat  Last time I get you gig tickets!
They were great on stage, apart from that one shitty night at Wembley Stadium in 1986 (one of the few gigs I've ever walked out of!)
They were hit and miss on record from the late 70's onwards, I don't think I liked a complete album of theirs after The Game.
Actually, I've just fundamentally agreed with you, haven't I? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio.
Bet you like Coldplay?"
Nope but they're only just worse than Queen.
Queen were bland. It was all just about Freddy prancing around a stage pretending to be an opera singer. They did nothing exciting, new or innovative. They were an average band with a decent singer. |
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"He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio.
Bet you like Coldplay?"
I bet you he doesn't! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"He was far from a musical genius. He didn't create anything new. He could just sing a bit, play piano and strut around a stage.
Queen, to me, are one of the most overrated bands in the history of music. They were mediocre performers on stage and boring in the studio.
Ha, twat Last time I get you gig tickets!
They were great on stage, apart from that one shitty night at Wembley Stadium in 1986 (one of the few gigs I've ever walked out of!)
They were hit and miss on record from the late 70's onwards, I don't think I liked a complete album of theirs after The Game.
Actually, I've just fundamentally agreed with you, haven't I? "
You have indeed. You simply cannot argue my logic...  |
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You see, Brian May's a good guitarist but he's a complete auteur; be can only be good within the confines of Queen, when he tries to play any other style of music, he's utter shite!
Hearing him try to play the blues with Paul Rodgers was fucking painful (but then do was listening to PR try to sing Queen tunes!) |
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"You see, Brian May's a good guitarist but he's a complete auteur; be can only be good within the confines of Queen, when he tries to play any other style of music, he's utter shite!
Hearing him try to play the blues with Paul Rodgers was fucking painful (but then do was listening to PR try to sing Queen tunes!)"
The only decent thing May did outside of Queen was the Starfleet Project and you and I both know why that is.... |
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"You see, Brian May's a good guitarist but he's a complete auteur; be can only be good within the confines of Queen, when he tries to play any other style of music, he's utter shite!
Hearing him try to play the blues with Paul Rodgers was fucking painful (but then do was listening to PR try to sing Queen tunes!)
The only decent thing May did outside of Queen was the Starfleet Project and you and I both know why that is...."
And even that was fairly shite! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Now if we wish to talk about musical genius let's talk about Les Paul. Without him the way we listen to music today would be totally different.
Musical genius or engineering/design genius? "
Both really. He and Mary Ford created some amazing music together partly because he could really play and partly because of his engineering skills.
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"You see, Brian May's a good guitarist but he's a complete auteur; be can only be good within the confines of Queen, when he tries to play any other style of music, he's utter shite!
Hearing him try to play the blues with Paul Rodgers was fucking painful (but then do was listening to PR try to sing Queen tunes!)
The only decent thing May did outside of Queen was the Starfleet Project and you and I both know why that is....
And even that was fairly shite!"
That Dutch fellow who's name escapes me played a 5 string guitar on most of it because he broke one right at the start. He still played all over May. |
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"Now if we wish to talk about musical genius let's talk about Les Paul. Without him the way we listen to music today would be totally different.
Musical genius or engineering/design genius?
Both really. He and Mary Ford created some amazing music together partly because he could really play and partly because of his engineering skills.
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Bored the crap out of me, quasi-country pap! |
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"You see, Brian May's a good guitarist but he's a complete auteur; be can only be good within the confines of Queen, when he tries to play any other style of music, he's utter shite!
Hearing him try to play the blues with Paul Rodgers was fucking painful (but then do was listening to PR try to sing Queen tunes!)
The only decent thing May did outside of Queen was the Starfleet Project and you and I both know why that is....
And even that was fairly shite!
That Dutch fellow who's name escapes me played a 5 string guitar on most of it because he broke one right at the start. He still played all over May."
And it was still shit! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Now if we wish to talk about musical genius let's talk about Les Paul. Without him the way we listen to music today would be totally different.
Musical genius or engineering/design genius?
Both really. He and Mary Ford created some amazing music together partly because he could really play and partly because of his engineering skills.
Bored the crap out of me, quasi-country pap! "
Some of it was indeed poop but for the time it was years ahead and there's no denying his impact to this very day. |
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"Now if we wish to talk about musical genius let's talk about Les Paul. Without him the way we listen to music today would be totally different.
Musical genius or engineering/design genius?
Both really. He and Mary Ford created some amazing music together partly because he could really play and partly because of his engineering skills.
Bored the crap out of me, quasi-country pap!
Some of it was indeed poop but for the time it was years ahead and there's no denying his impact to this very day."
I wasn't denying his impact, I just don't feel that it was his own musical ability that contributed to that impact.
I mean, Floyd Rose had an impact but he had a crap moustache and his albums were crap. Bizarrely, Freddie had a crap moustache too and both of their bands started with the letter Q |
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