JackG
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Post by JackG on Apr 3, 2022 9:12:56 GMT
I would have liked to have a standalone version of Killer Queen and The March Of The Black Queen.
What's yours?
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Lord Fickle
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Post by Lord Fickle on Apr 3, 2022 9:40:22 GMT
An extended version of The Hero would have been great. That's one of those songs that always seems too short.
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Post by georg on Apr 3, 2022 12:04:14 GMT
Would’ve loved it if they dragged out an orchestral harp every night for nine years for Brian to pluck for Love of My Life.
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Post by Chopin1995 on Apr 3, 2022 12:39:22 GMT
I would have liked to have a standalone version of Killer Queen and The March Of The Black Queen.
What's yours?
Agree with these 2 choices. 1. I would like to hear Dragon Attack in its entirety, like they did with AL. 2. It would be nice if they started Bohemian Rhapsody with the intro on tape, and then Freddie (sitting already at the piano) joining live with the line "I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy". |
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Post by florians on Apr 3, 2022 18:09:51 GMT
Full versions of Put out the Fire,Flash the Hero and Dragon attack, '39 sung by Brian.
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Post by deathtoming on Apr 3, 2022 20:42:32 GMT
I would have liked to have a standalone version of Killer Queen and The March Of The Black Queen.
What's yours?
For studio songs, I'd like to hear One Year of Love with a Brian solo instead of the sax, even if it's the same note-for-note. Yes, I need one more Brian solo. For live songs, White Queen is a favourite of mine, especially for the instrumental section. I always feel that part ends too early, juuuust when I'm getting lost in the music. If only it lasted a little bit longer! |
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Post by Sammy B. Willickers on Apr 3, 2022 22:09:37 GMT
First off, and it's super unrelated to this, but I absolutely love your signature. Now to actually answer your question!  I wish Action This Day was a bit faster and AKOM could actually be pretty good with the HS synth sound imo |
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Post by Frank on Apr 4, 2022 0:11:55 GMT
I wish side A of Hot Space would have been recorded the way they played it live. Surprised I'm the first to say it!
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Post by Lord Fickle on Apr 4, 2022 0:22:44 GMT
I wish side A of Hot Space would have been recorded the way they played it live. Surprised I'm the first to say it! I wish it hadn't been recorded at all! 😄 |
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Post by manymilesaway on Apr 5, 2022 18:26:52 GMT
Just off the top of my head; - I think that Imagine would've been better if Freddie had played it on the piano.
- Death On Two Legs should have been the opener for the A Night At The Opera/Summer '76 tours. (The studio piano intro as the tape)
- Sing the chorus harmonies in Bicycle Race.
- Key down Dreamers Ball like how it is on the record to make it a little bit easier on Freddie.
- Play the rest of Liar on the Works tour.
- Keep Father To Son with Procession on the Sheer Heart Attack tour. (Consequentially, move Now I'm Here.)
- Keep Freddie's piano solo in Save Me on the Hot Space tour. (As it is, he kind of just stands there.)
- Play the cut verse in The Prophet's Song
- Don't get rid of the fast ending in Spread Your Wings after the NA News Of The World tour.
- Don't shorten Teo Torriatte and keep it at every show in Japan after its debut. It's stupid that they didn't do this.
- Keep Let Me Entertain You and Tie Your Mother Down as the openers for the Crazy tour, like Newcastle 12/3.
- Play more of Great King Rat on the Works tour.
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Post by Lplix on Apr 6, 2022 9:41:28 GMT
I since Freddie's departure I have always hoped that Brian and Roger would put up, even a one night stand, an acoustic-only set for a selected tracklist of their most suitable songs… .but it is only and will remain a desire…. as well as their performance with the RPO.
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Post by mrqueenguy on Apr 6, 2022 20:22:45 GMT
I wish they would have played Dead On Time completely instead of Brian referencing to the song in his guitar solo's
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Post by The great pretender on May 30, 2022 18:45:39 GMT
I'm afraid I don't have the imagination to play one of their tracks differently in my head, I always end up humming the original
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Post by Ryan Newton on May 31, 2022 0:34:28 GMT
I don't get why they cut the final verse for Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy. Surely not to condense it, as it was only like 20 seconds, and I think the whole song would have been more enjoyable that way. Perhaps it was a technical thing?
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Post by greatsoundingmaracas on May 31, 2022 12:46:36 GMT
I also don't get why they dropped the 3rd verse of We Will Rock You (Fast) from 1980 on. It's not even 20 seconds! Why would they drop like 20 seconds, although they have played the whole thing before and it worked?
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Post by Leon's Crazy Game on May 31, 2022 13:21:59 GMT
While I also think it should've been kept they probably thought the 3rd verse was simply not needed since the full song would be performed later on anyways
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Post by thesirhc on Aug 11, 2022 1:02:50 GMT
I've never been a fan of Freddie adding "...and roll tonight" to the Jailhouse Rock chorus.
I know it's a weird way of thinking about it but it always seems like he feels it necessary to explain the "rock".
"Ok, everybody. Let us all rock AND roll and let's do that TONIGHT. Not later."
I know, it's not even a Queen song but I wish they'd played it differently.
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Post by bicyclerace on Aug 11, 2022 2:13:42 GMT
On The Magic Tour, some songs could have been shorter (Another One Bites the Dust, for instance), while others like Seven Seas of Rhye and In the Lap of the Gods could have been longer.
And on the Jazz tour, there's this little improv Freddie did on the piano just before Spread Your Wings (don't know if it was played on every show, but it was on the Live Killers album and the Montreal bootleg) that sounds vaguely reminiscent of In the Lap of the Gods (revisited), I wish it would have been developed further.
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Post by Leon's Crazy Game on Aug 11, 2022 9:07:02 GMT
I absoluteley love the extended jam sections during the Magic Tour. In fact, it is my favourite arrangement of the song by far so I'm very glad they did it like that. As for the other two, I'm happy with the cut down version of ITLOTGR as it's very effective this way and doesn't drag as the full version often does for me. SSOR should've been a different song altogether or Freddie should've at least cared about it enough to go for the A4s..
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Post by Lplix on Aug 11, 2022 16:24:55 GMT
‘39 like at Tenerife starmus….
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Post by antonio on Aug 14, 2022 12:15:24 GMT
I never understood medleys...
For me, these were a low point in Queen live career...I mean, it´s ok be able to write "impossible things" on studio, but later, you should be ready to defend them live.
I can understand the middle part of BR, but why don´t you play a full SSOR in 1984-86 ... Come on...3 minutes...
Anyway, I never was a real Queen fan "live" these medleys, Freddie´s voice shot so many times/tours. I enjoy listen to some live gigs from time to time...But I prefer other bands/artists in terms of "live stuff"
I´ve enjoyed them a lot in studio.
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Post by Frank on Aug 14, 2022 12:41:13 GMT
I think a good reason for medleys was they were an easy way to squeeze in more tunes. For example, by The Magic Tour they had too many hits (ha!) and wouldn't have enough time if they tried to play full versions of everything. With that in mind, I have no problem with them. At least they acknowledged SSOR and gave some deeper cuts like Liar the spotlight for a few moments.
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Post by vh on Aug 15, 2022 9:48:30 GMT
I never understood medleys... For me, these were a low point in Queen live career...I mean, it´s ok be able to write "impossible things" on studio, but later, you should be ready to defend them live. I can understand the middle part of BR, but why don´t you play a full SSOR in 1984-86 ... Come on...3 minutes... Anyway, I never was a real Queen fan "live" these medleys, Freddie´s voice shot so many times/tours. I enjoy listen to some live gigs from time to time...But I prefer other bands/artists in terms of "live stuff" I´ve enjoyed them a lot in studio. I’ve always enjoyed the medleys, they were part of the Queen live experience. As far as being able to play live what is recorded. Until 1982 Queen were a 4 piece and they operated within the confines of that lineup. There are many bands who couldn’t produce their recorded sound live and relied on numerous backing musicians and/or vocalists and sometimes a sound engineer with a finger on an “enhancement” button! |
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Post by Lord Fickle on Aug 15, 2022 17:30:57 GMT
I never understood medleys... For me, these were a low point in Queen live career...I mean, it´s ok be able to write "impossible things" on studio, but later, you should be ready to defend them live. I can understand the middle part of BR, but why don´t you play a full SSOR in 1984-86 ... Come on...3 minutes... Anyway, I never was a real Queen fan "live" these medleys, Freddie´s voice shot so many times/tours. I enjoy listen to some live gigs from time to time...But I prefer other bands/artists in terms of "live stuff" I´ve enjoyed them a lot in studio. If they'd played the whole of SSOR it wouldn't have fitted as well in the medley. They were quite well crafted actually, and the songs did go together quite fluently. It was a way of slipping in some older stuff while not distracting too much from the Greatest Hits vibe of the shows. Guess that's why they got them out of the way early on as well. |
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Post by BrƎИsꓘi on Aug 15, 2022 21:09:19 GMT
I never understood medleys... For me, these were a low point in Queen live career...I mean, it´s ok be able to write "impossible things" on studio, but later, you should be ready to defend them live. I can understand the middle part of BR, but why don´t you play a full SSOR in 1984-86 ... Come on...3 minutes... Anyway, I never was a real Queen fan "live" these medleys, Freddie´s voice shot so many times/tours. I enjoy listen to some live gigs from time to time...But I prefer other bands/artists in terms of "live stuff" I´ve enjoyed them a lot in studio. well, for "1" - most big bands do medleys at some point in the careers and "2" by the time Queen got to the 84-86 part of their live career, Freddie's voice was struggling with some stuff. I can easily see enough difficult parts of SSoR that Freddie's vodka-drinking. heavy smoking voice might struggle with. Cutting it to a snippet - much as we'd all have loved to hear more - was the best decision. |
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Post by antonio on Aug 16, 2022 5:06:14 GMT
The best decision could have been "being a true professional" in terms of a singer of a Top Band.
But we do know that 90% of musicians live a crazy life which doesn´t fit properly with their jobs...
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Post by The Real Wizard on Nov 12, 2022 0:14:03 GMT
I would have liked to have a standalone version of Killer Queen and The March Of The Black Queen.
What's yours?
For studio songs, I'd like to hear One Year of Love with a Brian solo instead of the sax, even if it's the same note-for-note. Yes, I need one more Brian solo. I'm not Brian, but I guess you can call me his stunt double !?
I've always wanted to do this. An afternoon well spent.
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Post by Lord Fickle on Nov 12, 2022 0:39:38 GMT
For studio songs, I'd like to hear One Year of Love with a Brian solo instead of the sax, even if it's the same note-for-note. Yes, I need one more Brian solo. I'm not Brian, but I guess you can call me his stunt double !?
I've always wanted to do this. An afternoon well spent.
Brilliant, Bob! |
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Post by deathtoming on Nov 13, 2022 14:58:31 GMT
For studio songs, I'd like to hear One Year of Love with a Brian solo instead of the sax, even if it's the same note-for-note. Yes, I need one more Brian solo. I'm not Brian, but I guess you can call me his stunt double !? :D
I've always wanted to do this. An afternoon well spent.
Nice! Now that I don't have to imagine it as much, I'd say it would have been an improvement over the sax solo. |
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Post by victorvil on Nov 14, 2022 14:10:10 GMT
For studio songs, I'd like to hear One Year of Love with a Brian solo instead of the sax, even if it's the same note-for-note. Yes, I need one more Brian solo. I'm not Brian, but I guess you can call me his stunt double !?
I've always wanted to do this. An afternoon well spent.
Bob, always bringing the magic to the forum. Beautiful playing
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