kosimodo
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Post by kosimodo on Jul 3, 2024 12:41:13 GMT
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Post by Chopin1995 on Jul 3, 2024 16:58:08 GMT
It has to be Freddie, it has his 2 trademarks:
1. arpeggiating left hand octaves
2. playing 2 or 3 quickly repeated chords off the beat in the higher register to enrich the sound
He always did these 2 things on the piano, both in studio and on stage. The piano playing on stage during this song was in a very similar manner to what we're hearing here.
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Post by kosimodo on Jul 4, 2024 17:00:22 GMT
Thx. Amazing.
Sounds like a valid answer.
But then again. This band is always better then i thought.
Had suspicion they had flown in Mike Moran.
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mister2
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Post by mister2 on Jul 20, 2024 12:01:19 GMT
On the video it is John because Freddie was too drunk, but about the Raw version, I have no idea, maybe Freddie or Spike Edney?
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Post by pg on Jul 20, 2024 12:37:19 GMT
On the video it is John because Freddie was too drunk, but about the Raw version, I have no idea, maybe Freddie or Spike Edney? Spike? Just the eight years before he started working for them..... |
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Post by vh on Jul 20, 2024 18:26:03 GMT
On the video it is John because Freddie was too drunk, but about the Raw version, I have no idea, maybe Freddie or Spike Edney? John “played” the opening section on the video as a nod to the fact he wrote the song. You may have noticed on the video no one played piano after John starts playing Bass. It made no difference if Freddie was drunk or not, you do realise that videos are mimed to the original recording. |
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Post by kosimodo on Jul 20, 2024 20:17:27 GMT
With the reminder that the raw version are of very recent date..
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Post by mister2 on Jul 21, 2024 8:19:13 GMT
On the video it is John because Freddie was too drunk, but about the Raw version, I have no idea, maybe Freddie or Spike Edney? John “played” the opening section on the video as a nod to the fact he wrote the song. You may have noticed on the video no one played piano after John starts playing Bass. It made no difference if Freddie was drunk or not, you do realise that videos are mimed to the original recording. Yes I do realise that videos are mixed with different takes. In the studio session Freddie is playing. So I guess Freddie. |
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Post by ThomasQuinn on Jul 22, 2024 10:25:28 GMT
John “played” the opening section on the video as a nod to the fact he wrote the song. You may have noticed on the video no one played piano after John starts playing Bass. It made no difference if Freddie was drunk or not, you do realise that videos are mimed to the original recording. Yes I do realise that videos are mixed with different takes. In the studio session Freddie is playing. So I guess Freddie. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "videos are mixed with different takes" - just for clarity's sake: any audio recorded when filming the video would be discarded. It's just the audio of the album or single versions dubbed over the video. The performance is mimed. |
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Post by NathanH on Jul 22, 2024 10:32:59 GMT
What I find interesting about the Spread Your Wings music video is that this is the second promo video that Queen made that features John playing piano (the first was You're My Best Friend). At this point in 1978, Freddie also was seen playing piano in only two songs (Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody To Love). If you were a general music fan as in just watching TV, you may be thinking that John played as much piano as Freddie did...
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Post by ted on Jul 22, 2024 11:00:08 GMT
What I find interesting about the Spread Your Wings music video is that this is the second promo video that Queen made that features John playing piano (the first was You're My Best Friend). At this point in 1978, Freddie also was seen playing piano in only two songs (Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody To Love). If you were a general music fan as in just watching TV, you may be thinking that John played as much piano as Freddie did... JD did play electric piano on the studio version of YMBF but yes, I can understand your last point. Although the vocals start very soon after the piano introduction on SYW, FM could have been shown playing piano at the start of the promo vid., then have him stand up to sing the bulk of the song (a similar approach to that taken in the BR vid.).
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Post by NathanH on Jul 22, 2024 12:30:52 GMT
What I find interesting about the Spread Your Wings music video is that this is the second promo video that Queen made that features John playing piano (the first was You're My Best Friend). At this point in 1978, Freddie also was seen playing piano in only two songs (Bohemian Rhapsody and Somebody To Love). If you were a general music fan as in just watching TV, you may be thinking that John played as much piano as Freddie did... JD did play electric piano on the studio version of YMBF but yes, I can understand your last point. Although the vocals start very soon after the piano introduction on SYW, FM could have been shown playing piano at the start of the promo vid., then have him stand up to sing the bulk of the song (a similar approach to that taken in the BR vid.).
Ted
Yeah, it's just that in the video for YMBF, it's a grand piano featured and not an electric piano so that's why I said that but you probably guessed. My take of it is that Freddie was meant to play piano in the video for SYW but he was drunk and wasn't that co-operative. I suppose in Queen history it was quite an important day as they signed the severance agreement with John Reid that day in the back of Freddie's Rolls Royce. Maybe he was just in a good mood?!! But seriously it was a cold day so he might've just been grumpy to do more than was required. Also, he's seen wearing gloves, would he have had to take them off to play piano? John and Brian were not wearing gloves to play guitar so that could explain why John played piano... |
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