Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    I also enjoy Queen.  As John says, it's not metal, but probably 
    as close as many of the other groups we discuss here, at least the
    old stuff.
    
    Sheer Heart Attack is my favorite album, although there are tunes
    on most of the others which I enjoy.  I saw Queen back in the summer
    of '80 at an outdoor show in Phoenix.  It was an excellent show.
    
    Interesting that this topic was started not long after someone
    mentioned the "Starfleet" project album which Brian May and Eddie
    Van Halen did.  Brian May is an excellent guitarist, I always enjoy
    listening to him.
    
    gh

    
    
    I love Queen also...
    
    Very, very, talented people in that group..
    
    
    Hi John!!
    
    F.

    
    	These guys are the gnads...
    
    	Can someone put in a discography please.
    
    	I love the songs.. One Vision, Death on Two Legs, Flash Gordon
    	 and Fat Bottomed Girls the most. This band is heavy or used
    	to be.
    
    	Brian May is a Killer guit player and Freddy Mercurie's voice
    	 is awsome even if it is processed.
    
    	Anyone know about a new album ?????
    
    	M
    	 B

    I don't know too much aboout Queen except for "Greatest Hits", but
    lotsa those songs have special meaning for me.
    
    I suppose my fav is "Under Pressure" cuz its the story of my life.
    
    jh who's always "Under Pressure" but knows how to "Play the Game".
                                          

    
        RE: Pick
    
            How about a shark/whale tooth?
    
        Queen:
    
            My favorite songs are:  Fat Bottomed Girls, Keep Yourself
                                    Alive, Killer Queen, Bohemian Rhap-
                                    sody
    
                                                       GTI
    

    re -1
    
    i do, so I won't answer!
    
    I love queen.  They have some killer tunes, and they are all great
    musicians!!
    
    I love my queen lps!

    
    
    	Re: prc/
    
    	He uses a coin I can't think of the kind a 2 pence peice or
    	 something like that.
    
    	M
    	 B

    
    
    Whats amazing about the singer dude (mind block) is I've heard he
    is tone deaf.
    
    Is this true?
    
    F.

    re .10
    
    You could be right but I heard he used 6 pence (now defunct currency).
    
    But my Fav has gotta be "I'm in love with my Car" coz I ain't.
    
    8^)
    
    Bonzo

Alright! Finally a topic I can sink my teeth into!

I am a big Queen fan, and even a bigger fan of Brian May's guitar work!
He is incredible, and definitely one of my gutiar heros.

A feeble attempt at a discography:

Queen
Queen II
Night at the Opera 
Day at the Races
Sheer Heart Attack
News of the World
Jazz
Flash Gordon Soundtrack
Greatest Hits
Works 
A Kind of Magic

More info after lunch...

cat

    Tenement Funester is another cool tuneof the S.H.A. lp.
    
    
    Flash... good tune.
    
    We Will Rock You... some more head bangin' tune-age.

    I thought he used a thripenny bit for a pick?!
    
    Flip

    	I could care less what Freddie's sexual preference is, he writes
    	great lyrics and knows how to rock me.  Brighton Rock is my fave
    	Queen song, although I love all their old stuff!
    
    	I know they've toured Japan recently.  Has anyone heard whether
    	they're ever coming stateside again?
    
    							Carla
    

    -.1 I too, think that Brighton Rock is the best Queen. I wouldn't mind
    seeing theese band een concert either. I heard they put on a decent
    show.
    
    john

    Hey I grew up on this band!  My Momma's a big fan of Freddy!
    
    I prefer the old stuff, but I like the stuff they did for Highlander!
    
    
    Flip

    re: Discography
    
    An additional one that comes to mind is "The Game"

    Just a side comment, but it's rare when I laugh as hard as I did
    when I first heard that soundtrack for "Flash Gordon"!  It's so
    awful, it's funny!  8^)
    
    gh

    
    
    I agree!
    
    
    That is with the Flash Gordon..
    
    It kind of jumps out at you and goes AAAAAAA-AAAAAHHH
    
    F.

A couple more albums I forgot about:

Hot Spaces
Live Killers (2-LP live set)
Freddie Mercury - Mr. Nice Guy (solo LP)
Brian May and Friends - Starfleet Project (w/EVH and others)
Iron Eagle Soundtrack - "One Vision"

Thanks, Greg - I forgot about 'The Game', which has some really good stuff
on there.

I've a fan of almost all of Queen's stuff, from all eras. They seem to have
three time frames - 

Early Queen - which includes Queen, Queen II, Day at the Races, and Night
              at the Opera. Lots of classic rock here, and a bunch of
              radio hits.

Mid Queen   - News of the World, The Game, Jazz. This seemed to be the 
              'hit-making' Queen, with lots of sing-along type hits, and
              a little less grandoise production.

Late Queen  - The current sound, which hasn't had much success in the
              States as of late. But they are still huge throughout the
              rest of the world.

Lineup:

Freddie Mercury - Vocals and Piano
Brian May - Guitar Extrordinairre
John Deacon - Bass
Roger Taylor - Drums


I've seen Queen twice live, and had a great time at both shows. Brian May
is a strong live guitarist, and Freddie Mercury (love'm or hate'm) is 
a good showman. 

FYI - Brian May handcrafted his guitar with his father when he was 14. It
was made from wood that was in a 100-year old fireplace. 

Some of my favorite Queen songs: "It's Late", "Stone Cold Crazy", "Let Me
Entertain You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "Sheer Heart Attack", "Spread Your
Wings", "Brighton Rock", "Year of '39", "Death on Two Legs", and many
more....

cat

    
    
    The Straw Dogs (formerly the FU's) of Boston do an intense, heavy cover
    version of "Tie Your Mother Down".  I had always thought certain Queen
    songs would be killer if they were a little rawer.  This one definately
    is.
    
    
    Paul
    

    I take it back, my fav Queen song is Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    or Keep yourself Alive, maybe its Bohemian Rhapsody. I dunno. 
    I guess I'll have to think about it.

    	If queen ever does tour again I would recommend that anyone
    who can go see them. I'v seen them two different times one for JAZZ
    and one for THE GAME. These guys don't hold anything back for their
    shows. If you can come out of a Queen concert and say that they
    are not HM then ya musta had cotton in yer ears.
    	A few of my all time favorite Queen tunes are 
    			sweet lady
    			I'm in love with my car
    			tie your mother down
    			tear it up
    			leaving home aint easy
    			
    
    				Waste Guy #1

    
    
    	Queen = MegaParty's, Memories of yesteryear, Volume knob
    	        on 10+, Air guitaring and just going crazy!
    
    
    	Favorite tunes:
    
    	Dragon Attack
    	Bohemian Rhapsody
    	Fat Bottomed Girls
    	Bicycle
    	Rock You/Champions (ya' know which ones)
    	Under Pressure
    	Another Bites the Dust (it was good until they abused it)
    	
    	and I know there's more
    
    
    	Hollywood.............it's a Dragon attack!
     

    
    Good band, although i havent much by them, only "A kind og Magic"
    so far, but there is still time.
    
             Favouite tunes : Another one bites the dust
                              Don't lose your head
    
    
    I have some pics of Brian May onstage with both Def Leppard and
    Heart. Looks as though Nancy Wilson took a shine to him at one 
    time, judging by the afectionate look she had for him.
    
    
    
    Prince Of The Dawn.

    
    `Well  you're just seventeen and all you want to do is disappear. . .'
    
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA  !   Crank 
    that mutha UP !  
    
    This  was a band I was VERY much into when I was in high school.  Talk
    about the old days !  Jeez. . .how I miss `em !  
    
    Defaintely a good band in their time. . .and their time would have had
    to  have  been  their earlier years.  Good content to their music, and
    much less on the pop side. (Gag, choke. . .)  
    
    METALord"_blew_alot_of_speakers_back_in_those_days_!

    
    
    Bicycle!!
    
    Thats a good tune!
    
    The drummer dude has put out at least one solo album that I know
    of, my girlfriend has it.  We were listening to it and its really
    good..  everyone in that band is sooo talanted, imo
    
    F.

There's another Queen song that I like, but I forgot to look up the title - 
its one of the rockers from 'The Game', and I think its on Side 1 right 
after 'Dragon Attack' (which is also a good song...).

cat

    re: back a few.  Finally Bicycle was mentioned a couple o' times.
    Brian May jams in the middle of that song!!! I love the way he goes
    up and down the scales like that...
    
    re: pick. I always thought it was a quarter, but then they're British,
    so must be a shilling of something like that. (I tried it with a
    quarter, and it really sounds good. Kinda sharp and metallic...)

    I believe the coin is about the same size as a quarter but has a smooth
    edge rather than the grooves. 
    
    The guy from ZZ Top uses a Mexican Peso (also a large smooth edged
    coin). 

    I tried several coins and didn't like them.  They were too thick
    for me.
    
    Gh

 re:- .40
    
 I wos told that the coin used by May is a Sixpence, a old imperial
 piece of coinage no longer legal tender in the Uk,  So all there 
 really good for is picks!, How he manages to keep the pick sooo
 long beats me, in the four years that I've been playing I musta
 lost about oooo say 300,
    
  I'd loose my b*llz if thay wern't in bag 8^(,
       
   Jon, "The Celt"

Another Queen song I really like is "Need Your Loving Tonight" from 'The
Game' album (that's the one I couldn't think of before...).

cat

    
        RE: Cat
    
                 Oh yeah ... thanks for mentioning "Need Your Lovin'"!!
    
                 Great song!!
    
                                                       GTI
    

    
    Queen is easily the greatest living group on the planet, although
    I doubt that they could recapture they're past glory. They have
    gone the way of so many successful bands, creating shining jewels
    in their early days (such as Queen II), only to get fat and lazy,
    decomposing into a mish mash of putrifying radio Ga-Ga. This may
    seem a bit cynical, but noone - not even Queen - has the
    right to deprive the world of their brilliant compositions. Who
    could ever again combine the ingredients of Metal and Opera the
    way they did? All bands pale by comparison. They should retire now
    and rest on their laurels. If I were a physicist, I would program
    a particle accelerator to conjour up an anti-matter Queen. And then,
    in an open air concert in front of millions, both bands would
    appear together on stage - only to disappear in a great flash of
    light.
    

        RE: The Brian May sound - notes 7,8,10,40,42,43  
    
    Although Brian May is one of the few guitarists around that use
    ridged coins to caress his strings, I think his distinct sound
    is derived moreso from the use of his vintage VOX 30 amplifiers,
    coupled with his love of ceramic magnets in his pickups. That,
    along with his choice of unorthodox scales, USED to give him a
    signiture sound. 
    
    

    
    Also, Brians hand-made guitar, and single coil pickups out of phase
    ...often played through a delay unit to create harmonies, add to the
    edge of the Brain May sound. 

     
  For those of you that are players out there I have a question,
  On the Album News Of The World, a song called It's Late, Can anybody
  give me the scale and notes used for the little fill/lick ater the
  A Magor chord, also Am I also correct in assumunig this is in A Magor?
    
  Thanks in advance,
                     Jon.      

re: -1

I dunno the answer, but if you find out, let me know - I've been spending the
last week trying to learn that song, but not getting very far. But I really
wanna play that song in a band - its Queen's best!

cat

    'Its Late' is in the key of A major, whose scale contains the
    following notes: A B C# D E F# G#. As far as the riff after the
    A chord in the verse, I thought the following pattern sounded
    reasonable: E-open 6th, hammeron F#-2nd fret on open E, A-open 5th, 
    hammeron B-2nd fret on open A. This might not be exactly what Brian 
    does, but these notes are diatonic. However, I suspect that he adds 
    chromatic notes for color.
    
    Cripes, Alan, do I have to do everything??? 
    

    	Sail Away Sweet Sister always brings tears to my eyes!
    
    							Carla
    

    RE: 54,
                
    There must be a little confusion, the riff I ment was the little
    lead fill that plays over D magor in the verse, Ie:-
     
    
      A A, then riff on 6+5 strings 2nd fet, then D,
                                                ^
                                                |
                                  The lead fill over this ??????
      I'm pretty sure there is some wicked finger work involved in this,
     But I leave it to the pros to sort out,
    
    
      Cheers,
               Jon.    
      
                               

    
    That is a great tune. I guess a lot of people think about 
    a lost love when they're listening to the sounds of the sea,
    the cries of a gull, and the wind as it carries your thoughts
    across the bay.
    
    How's that for a sensitive 80's kind of metalhead?
                   
    

    
    That D major riff is a puzzler! When you listen to the song, it
    sure does sound like he's playing that D chord AND and a lead lick
    of some kind. My theory is this. If he plays that chord with open
    E, A and D strings, all he would have to do is lift his finger off
    of the 6th string and play a D with no third to give him the following
    notes : E A E A D G# (6th string to first). All these notes are
    diatonic to the A major scale. Perhaps then, he hits the D chord
    once, then sweep picks a D no third. 
    
    Either that, or its dubbed!

    just heard a new QUEEN song today on BCN around 12:30.
    
    sounds just like the old Queen I used to love listoning to.
    
    lots of guitar.
    
    
    butchaka

    Yo Butchaka, What be the name of the tune-age? I think it would be
    really great if their noise is taking a turn back to the daze of the
    wailing guitars.... Anybody else have some info on this??? What's the
    name of this new LP ? 
    

> I think it would be really great if their noise is taking a turn back 
> to the daze of the wailing guitars.... 

I agree on that. But to a degree, Queen has always retained *some* of the old
fire - its just that most of it is buried as album tracks. Check out recent
songs like "Hammer To Fall" or "One Vision". (Of course, all the good hard
rockers are penned by Brian May - big suprise, eh?)

cat

    I feel in general that the music biz is coming full circle again and
    the next sonic wave you'll hear (and are staring to hear NOW) is a 70s
    music revival.  Yes folks, return with us now to those thrilling days
    of Angel, Sweet, Manfred Mann, Kiss, BOC, Styx, etc. etc. 

    I think Queen is smart enough to realize this and drop the high-tech
    stuff that encompassed Queen over the last few years and return
    to their original sound.
    
    Hey, reference the latest hit by Great White to hear what I'm talking
    about (One bitten, twice shy)...if that don't sound like a hit from
    1977 i don't know what does baby!
    

>    Hey, reference the latest hit by Great White to hear what I'm talking
>    about (One bitten, twice shy)...if that don't sound like a hit from
>    1977 i don't know what does baby!
    
Does't count - that's a cover of an Ian Hunter song, that was released in
the late 70's.....(and Ian did it better - his version kicked butt!)

cat

>>    Hey, reference the latest hit by Great White to hear what I'm talking
>>    about (One bitten, twice shy)...if that don't sound like a hit from
>>    1977 i don't know what does baby!
    
>Does't count - that's a cover of an Ian Hunter song, that was released in
>the late 70's.....(and Ian did it better - his version kicked butt!)
 
    So what Alan is saying is that that song *IS* a hit from 1977 (or
    so)!!!  8^)  But I see Bucks point perfectly, what motivates them to
    cover a hit from the late seventies...
    
    BTW: I liked Ian Hunters version better too, Great Whites version
    is way lame, IMO.  (Gee...I hope I'm not being too slanderous)
                                                                  
    Personally, I didn't care for a lot of the music from the late 70s.
    I could think of nothing worse than a disco revival!  
    
    ...but Queen had some (pardon the expression) KILLER stuff back
    then.  That's the sound I like to remember them by.  I'm all in
    favor of them doing some music which would seem more characteristic
    of their early style.  I think they lost a lotta fans because they
    strayed too far from it.  I'm not saying that I'm in favor of a
    70s music revival though.  There are plenty enough radio stations
    which will play only the "classic rock" stuff already!
    
    gh   

    Gee...I didn't know that tune was a cover!!!  Well, so much for
    good ears at least!  :^)
    
    I do feel that is where R&R is goin though
    
    everyone dig out their glam rock outfits!

    Well no one answere the question, so now that it's an up-and-coming
    hit and everyone knows....
    
    	The new Queen tune-age is called "I Want It All (And I Want
    	It Now)".
    
    	joe. 

    I like the tune, but one of my friends asked "if it was from the
    soundtrack to the next Rocky movie or something".  I really laughed
    at that one.
    
    ...it does kind of have that sort of sound.
    
    gh

	 I just heard Queen's new tune "Party"!!!!!!!!!!!!  What a
	 wicked, kick-a$$ song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  There I was
	 getting strange looks from all the people at the light as I
	 was bangin' my head!!!!

	 Makes me wanna run out and buy the CD so I can hear it again!

	 /wildkat

    
    If you like the tune - get the album "The Miricle".
                                             
    Its great - not one track on there that I don't like.

    Anyone else out there got the video "Rare Live" ?
    
    I know it's another one of the endless live vids that the band has
    currently kickin' around, but this one has a little more on offer.
    
    RL captures the band throughout their career, from rehearsal in
    London way back in '73 right through the "heavy years" and into
    the generally speaking "softer 80's"
    
    Included are songs from concerts that have taken place around the
    world in the last 15 years - from London in '74 to Houston Texas
    in 77 to Sydney Australia in 84 back to Knebworth in England during
    '86. 
    
    All the "biggies" are there with the exception of Bohemian Rhapsody,
    which I thought was extremely brave of the producers. Another plus
    as far as I am concerned is that the songs are captured live on
    or around the years they were first released and consequently, 
    they sound fresh and alive. 
    
    One highlight is the head-banging rubber "lady" at the Hammy Odeon
    Christmas gig in '75. I've never seen a rock and roll medely
    accompanied by such enthusiasm!!
    
    
    The only complaints I've got are :
    
    - the video ain't long enough at just around 1 hour
    
    - The last third of the video suffers from overkill in production.
      ie A song kicks off in Houston, suddenly cuts to London and
      finishes back in Houston (eg.Sheer Heart Attack) Although cleverly
      edited, the difference in tempo is obvious and tends to spoil
      the enjoyment of the song as a whole.
    
    As a die-hard Queen fan, I'd resisted the temptation of buying
    each and every video available. On the whole, I'm glad I bought this one.
    
    Gm

    
    Yup I've got it too.
    
    I can't fault your review either, I'd agree with all of it.
    
    Brynn (the other mega-Queen fan, who's on the Friends wil be Friends
    Vid).
     

Queen has published a new "old" record ! It's named 
'QUEEN AT THE BEEP' and contain the same songs like
Queen II. But there are other versions on it, wich
are very nice to listen to. It was made with old
BBC material. It's available here in Germany I don't
know if the record will be published in US.

Robert.

    
    Re last.
    
      Yes it is released here in the US, I saw the CD last weekend. I
    wanted to get it but I had a hard time convincing myself to spend
    $19.00 on a single CD. Is the recording and sound quality good on
    it? I might be talked into it if it is really good stuff.
    
                                                               mike
    

    re: -1
    
    Well, if you aren't a real queen fan it's not needet to buy it. 
    The quality is a little bit better than the original 
    recordings. ('Queen' & 'Queen II')
    It is really powerful stuff on it, but I just think
    let's buy Queen's first CD, than you can say this
    the right stuff, let's buy 'Queen at the Beep' now.

    Rob. :-)

My copy say's: Queen at the Beeb. (Beeb short for BBC Here in UK)

A good album, well mixed, but probably only for real fans, as all the tracks
are available (in one form or another) on Queen I & II.

I Like it though.


Brynn.

PS anyone going to the fan club convention in Southport ths year ?

    re.: .78
    
    > Fan club convention in Southport
    
    Does anybody know when it is? Is this event only for club members?
    Where is Southport?
    
    Robert.
   

The convention is usually around the 20th of April, I can get you the correct 
dates if you want to know.

Each fan club member can bring one guest, ie one member on non member.

Southport is a few miles north of Liverpool on the west coast of England, south 
of Blackpool.

Brynn Who will probably be there.

    re: last
    
    Are there any worth seeing peculiaritys ?? (like a member of QUEEN)
    
    Or is it only a meeting of club members to talk about Queen and
    
    drink some beer ??
    
    I'm a real Queen fan but is it worth to visit it,  come over
    
    from Germany ?
    
    
    Robert.
   

The band haven't turned up in 4 years, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

However Jacky, the person who runs the fan club is there.

Although it may sound a bit dull talking, dancing, singing, quizzing and 
listening to Queen, we always have a great time. It is well worth going to.

There have been people there from Austrailia, America and generally all over the
world.

A good time is always had by all, so be there or miss a treat.


Brynn.

    So how does Brian May get that guitar sound?  Are his pickups wired out
    of phase or what?
    
    Mike

    -1
    
    Yeah, he's got phase switches on his guitar...that, with the single
    coil pickups and the penny (whatever that thing is called) he uses
    for a pick give him that sound.

He also makes heavy use of delay in much of his material and gets a smooth 
sort of distortion from VOX AC30 amps.

gh

Also (hmmm....was this mentioned here already earlier?), he build his own 
guitar, and its the same one he's been playing ever since. It was build out of 
wood from an old fireplace in his home when he was a boy, so the wood was 
*real* old and *real* dried out. I'm sure that contributes substantially to 
his sound also....

alan

    I guess I own the wrong VOX ;-)
    
    BIG difference between an AC30 and a Cambridge Reverb!
    
    Mike

    If the guitar is electric... 
    how does the kind of wood the guitar is made of affect the sound?
    
    /Motorbreath...not techno-guitar oriented, but curious

    sustain is one way it is affected.  Hard woods (i.e., mahogany in a Les
    Paul) seems to sustain longer.
    
    I'll let the rest of the guitar technodweebs (tm) tell the rest of the
    story.
    
    Mike

Yo MotorMike,

Different kinds (and pieces of the same kind, to a different degree) of wood
have a different resonance.  The vibrations of the strings are partly passed
through the wood, so different woods (or whatever materials you use) will
have a different tone.

When I try out a guitar, I always sit down any play it without an amp
for a few minutes to get a feel for it.  They really do have individual 
characters and it's easy to feel a difference.

gh

    Different woods carry the upper harmonics differently, so as to
    radically influence a solid guitar's tone. Mahogany is a relatively
    soft wood and sounds like the bass control is pushed up. Ash is 
    alot harder and heavier, like maple, and tends to sound like the bass
    is down and the treble is up. Thats why the Les Paul has a maple top.
    It gives the mahogany a certain edge.   
    

                Oh my  head!!!    Toenail actually said something
                that made sense and I can comprehend!!!
                
                UNBELIEVABLE!!!
                
                

    
    Were'nt these guys also graduates of MIT? Would that have anything
    to do with sound creations and such?
    
    I'll shut up now...
    Spaceknight
    

re: Queen

I don't know about MIT, but I do think I remember reading somewhere that they
were well educated.

gh

    do well educated men dress in drag? ;-)
    
    The reason why I asked about May's sound to begin with is that I have
    an out of phase setting for each pickup on my guitar.  I was foolin'
    with it the other day and "whoa!  this sounds familiar!"
    
    Granted it wasn't exactly like May's sound (my guitar didn't come from
    a fireplace) but the resemblance was there.
    
    Mike

> I never heard the original, but I'm sure it sounds nothing like it!  

Don't be so sure - somewhere in this conference (a year or more ago), I called
"Stone Cold Crazy" the first speed-metal song ever written. The original
version is pretty damn hard and fast!

alan

>    "Stone Cold Crazy" the first speed-metal song ever written. The original
>     version is pretty damn hard and fast!
    
    Really?  What album is it on?
    
    <Ken>
    

    
    News of the World isn't it?

    
     Nope, Shear Heart Attack.
                               mike
    

    Thanks.  Hows the rest of the album?  Any stuff on there like "Keep
    Yourself Alive", "Fat bottom Girls", "Best Friend", "Bohemiam
    Rhapsody", or songs of equal caliber?
    
    <Ken>
    
    

    Sorry to continue the Queen rathole in the Metallica topic, but...
    
>Hows the rest of the album?
    
    It's a ripping album, definately the hardest rock that Queen put out. 
    It doesn't have any of the songs you mentioned, but there are a bunch
    of good tunes on it.  I don't remember any of them getting much
    airplay, they were probably a little heavy for most pop/AOR type
    stations.  It's one of my favorite albums by the band!
    
    gh
                                                          

I join Greg's opinion about "Sheer heart attack". It's one of the Queen's two 
best albums (the other one being "One night at the opera"). It's much closer to
heavy metal and contains excellent tracks ("Killer queen", "Mesenger from seven
seas", "Stone cold crazy" and all the rest). This is the Queen I liked the most.

Sorin

     Just to add to this Queen rathole, I think Queen II is also a very
    good album. I don't think none of the songs got any air play. As a
    matter of fact most people I know who like Queen haven't ever heard the
    album. A definite dark horse.
    						The KER
    

Queen's 'Sheer Heart Attack' album:

Brghton Rock
Killer Queen
Tenement Funster
Flick Of The Wrist
Lily Of The Valley
Now I'm Here
In The Lap Of The Gods
Stone Cold Crazy
Dear Friends
Misfire
Bring Back That LeRoy Brown
She Makes Me (stormtrooper in stilettoes)
In The Lap Of The Gods...revisited

No doubt that this is Queens most rockin' album - "Now I'm Here", "Stone
Cold Crazy", "Brighton Rock" - these songs kick butt!!!

alan

    "Sheer Heart Attack" and "Night at the Opera" were also my favorites. 
    "A Day at the Races" was okay, but not as good as those 2.
    
    Mike

    I liked virtually all the Queen albums, except maybe the latest two
    which sounded pretty lame.  One that always brings back a lotta old
    memories is "The Game".   

    The live Queen album is quite good, very reminiscent of their actual
    shows.  I remember seeing them in the summer of '80 at an outdoor show
    that was OUTSTANDING!  They sounded GREAT, it was an excellent time all
    the way around!

    gh

    
      Queen played their first American gig at Regis College in Denver
    
    opening for Mott the Hoople. Their second album had just come out
    
    and they really ripped!! I would really like to get their first
    
    two albums on CD but I don't think they are out!?!?!?   Skip

Re. Skip

I have seen Queen II on CD and I think it was a special price.

Re. my last reply about Queen in Metallica's topic

The song I mentionned as "Messenger from..." is in reality "Lily of the valley"

Sorin

    
    Re .130 Skip,
    
      Both Queen I and II are out, check at Independent Records on
    PLatte. They had them both last week or so when I was there last.
    
                                                            mike
    

All this talk of Queen made me go out and pick up the 'Live Killers' album
on CD last night. Its been sitting in Rockit Records in Nashua for almost
a year, and I always look at it, but never buy it (its a little pricey - its
an import). But I finally broke down and bought it!

Its cool! The sound quality is ok, but not great - there's a bit of hiss that
you can really hear. And the crowd noise is mixed a little too high - they 
should have digitally remixed the album, imo. But its cool to hear all these
songs without all the pops from my old album, and it does sound better than
what I had.

And these live versions kick butt! "Death On Two Legs", "Sheer Heart Attack",
"Keep Yourself Alive", "Tie Your Mother Down", the fast version of "We Will
Rock You" - phew! Brian May is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

alan

     I got the LP version of "Live Killers" for $3.00 at Recycle Records
    two summers ago. GO figure?
    

    I went to 5 record stores and a few department stores around the
    Springfield area yesterday looking for "Sheer Heart Attack" and
    couldn't find it.  Most of the places had one or no albums at all by
    Queen.  I know I've seen it somewhere within the last month.
    
    And after all that searching I ended up buying six other CDs instead!
    Geesh!...  I hate when that happens!
    
    <Ken>
    
    

Queen's CDs aren't released in the US, at least not the catalog on Elektra
(the Capitol stuff is out, but that's only the last two or three albums).

I also think that the albums and cassettes might be hard to find also, but I'm
not sure. I guess there's no love lost between the band and their old record
company....

I wish the band would tour here again. I've seen them a couple times live,
and they were very impressive! They put on a good show, and all four of them
are very talented musicians.

alan

    Last photo of Freddy that I saw, he was getting pretty fat.  Looks like
    he's putting in lots of couch time lately, I wouldn't be holding my
    breath on any big tours from them.
    
    gh

    
     All of Queen's CD's are out. I have most of them. They are imports
    and a couple of bucks more than the usual price but they are indeed
    all available in the US.
                                mike
    

    
    	I heard a new Queen song today ... it's either "Headlong"
    	or "Nothing You Can Do About It" [both phrases are in the
    	chorus].
    
    	It f***in' RIPS.  The rhythm guitar, at times, sounds
    	alot like Judas Priest's "tone".
    
    							GTI
    

      I heard the same song yesterday, it is called Headlong. I don't know
    if I would say it rips. Acually I thought it was just ok. They have
    done stuff in the past that is definitly much better. JMHO.
    					The KER
    

    Is that the one with the middle section consisting of a
    spanish/flamenco type guitar piece?

    I thought it ripped too!
    
    B.

    I've only heard it a couple of times.. Radio play is C**p. I  thought it 
    was called Inco* something.. New LP out next month..
    Should be *interesting*....
Stu.

    Its, the U.K number 1... Well so Top of the Flops says.. & guess what..
    I cant Bl**dy remember its name.
    	Tell yeah when I remember.
    
    Stu

    
    
    What is in the video?
    
    
    Goddess F.

    Queens Greatest Hits maybe....
    
    	Plus I have remembered it. The new single/Lp is called Inuedue..
    God I'm pleased I got that out.
    
    S.

    God I'm a Plonker...
    
    	Its Inuendue. 
    
    Well its late on a Friday. & I'm sticking to that.

    I've just heard "Headlong".  Nice work by Brian May, love that TONE ;-)
    I could've lived without the keyboards though.
    
    Mike

    This `New' single,
    
    Is it called Headlong in the states... As its Inuendue here in the U.K.
    
    	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
    
                           Yours bemused,
    
    				Stu.
    
    			

    The new single (in the UK), sounded like the sort of song that Planty would
    sing, melodromatic, that sort of thing. Maybe all this is 'cos I heard
    it on the Rad this morning, and was about 98% unconcious, but I did
    like it, it had more Umph than the last album (heap of $hi+ IMO)
    
    				Andy.

    
    I *hate* the background vocals in the new single but I like the rest of
    it.
    
    /prc

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>                              -< Diff. names... >-
>    Is it called Headlong in the states... As its Inuendue here in the U.K.
    
    Yes it is "Headlong", but the album title is "Innuendo".
    
    Mike

    I heard another cut today, forget what it was called, but it
    was strange... kinda reminded me of "Rawhide"
    
    /Mike...

    Hey, someone in here said they didn't like the keyboards...WHAT
    keyboards?!?!?

    I heard a new one that might have been called"Ride the wild wind"?
    Saw a vidio of Poison doing a song that was also called by the same 
    name.
    I hope"Concerned"parents don't see this one because It shows some
    of the wild stuff that goes down at a concert like that.   
    
                              Crazy_Used_to_eat_crayons_as_A_KID_Alw
                                                                    

    
    Uh uh!!  Keep the concerned parents away! :')
    
    - Crazy_Rob_who_used_to_eat_clea..... nah! :')
    

Queen was the guest on RockLine last night. Some interesting points:

 - They are talking about touring the US to support this album, but nothing is
   confirmed yet. 

 - The new album is called 'Innuendo'. They released the title track as the 
   single in the UK, but "Headlong" in the US. 

 - The new album sounds like it kicks butt! 'Innuendo' is a real amitious 
   piece, and reminds me of the 'Night at the Opera' days. A couple other 
   tracks were played, and were also real guitar-heavy.

 - "Innuendo" (the song) has Steve Howe (of Yes and Asia) playing Spanish
   guitar in the middle break. 

 - The entire Queen catalog is going to be released on CD. It's all being 
   digitally remastered. The first four albums are being released in March,
   with the rest to follow soon. They played two advance cuts: 
	o "Killer Queen" sounded really good - the piano at the beginning 
	  sounded great! And the harmonies really sound alive!
	o "Tie Your Mother Down" also sounded killer! Brian May's guitar
	  tone was nothing short of *monstrous*! 
   Can't wait to check them all out!

 - They are doing some remixes of some songs, and tacking them on as bonus
   tracks to some of the CDs. Rick Rubin was one of the people involved.

 - There are also some rare studio tracks and BBC tracks that may get tacked
   on as bonus songs also. 

alan

    I wuz tellin' Jess last night that Queen's first is a must have for any
    serious fan.
    
    Mike

     Their first and second. These to me are the roots of Queen. Check it
    out.
    					The KER
    

    Anyone heard the whole of the new album yet...? If so, is it worthy
    of a mention under the H_M flag ?
    
    Tom (an avid 'pre-Flash/Hot Space' Queen fan who'd given up on them
         a while back...but who always hopes that one day....) 

    
    Over here (England - The land of {the} Queen) The whole back catalogue
    has already been released, I know this because I have them all. There
    is also a Queen at the BBC album, which is a collection of early BBC
    sessions with the band that hadn't been released previously. This
    little
    lot has been out over for some time now, I'm surprised that there not
    already available in the US. Ah well. 
    
    Brynn (the Queen Fan who appeared in the Friends will be Friends video
           and awaits their return to Night at the Opera type albums)
    
    Long live Brian ;-)
    
    

    Gadday,	
    	Right. Now I know what Headlong sound like as I have the LP..
    Yes/No to answer to back a couple. It is worth a mention in the H_M
    conf. but it's like their last LP. No particular flow in patern. Thats
    why I have it on in the Car. The Hard bits - I go fast the Slow bits I
    go Slow.. It seems to work well. Um its still growing on me. There are
    some strange ones like `I Think I Going Mad' - Get me thinking what
    Freddie is thinking these days....
    
    	I cant place any further crit. as I still lisening to the tape, So
    I suppose its growing on me...
    
    
    Stu The_Preferred_Whitesnake_Fan - But_thats_another_story.

    
    	Finally heard "headlong" on AAF last night.  Not a bad
    	tune.  Does anyone else find there are certain parts 
    	that sound Cultish??  (8
    
    	Is that Mercury guy still lead singer??  Didn't sound like
    	a typical Queen song at all!
    
    	tigga~~~ who must admit she thought they were saying 
    	 	 "Russian eggnog" at first. (8

    
    Queen, wouldn't be Queen without Freddie.  I doubt very much that they
    have replaced him as singer.
    
    Flip

    -1
    
    Really, Freddie is the biggest "queen" in the band!
    ;^)

    
    	Well I didn't *think* they had replaced him but the voice
    	just didn't sound like Queen at all!
    
    	Maybe I'm just gettin' old. (8
    
    	tigga~~~

    Tigga,
    		
    	Nice Name. ?? . - Freddie as I think has been mentioned before,	
    has *lost* a lot of weight just reciently. Just possibly this could
    had efected his voice. But not that much. When you here 
    `I think I'm going Mad' then you will no its Freddie still..
    
    Ciao,
    	Stu. __Who *thought* Tigga was a cats name but not anymore!!!!__

    Here is the iternary of the new LP..
    Side 1.			Side 2.
    Innuedo *                   All Gods People
    I'm Going Slightly Mad *    These Are The Days of Our Lives *
    Headlong  *                 Delilah *
    I Cant Live With You *      The Hitman
    Dont Try So Hard *          Bijou *
    Ride The Wild Wind          The Show Must Go On *
                       
    I think for the most Pleasent track I go for Bijou. - Pleanty of
    Guitar..
    All the others with * rate High.
    

      
    tigga, your not getting old, Queen is.;^)
    			The KER
    

    
    	RE: .173
    
    	Whew... thanks KER. (8
    
    	tigga~~~~ who STILL thinks it sounds like Russian Eggnog
    		  despite what Shawn says about me. (8

    I heard about half of "Headlong" on the radio this morning and thought
    it sounded great!  Freddie was in good voice and Brian was scalding on
    the guitar.  I've always *loved* his tone and it's still as good as
    ever!
    
    Greg

>    Over here (England - The land of {the} Queen) The whole back catalogue
>    has already been released, I know this because I have them all. There
>    is also a Queen at the BBC album, which is a collection of early BBC
>    sessions with the band that hadn't been released previously. This
>    little
>    lot has been out over for some time now, I'm surprised that there not
>    already available in the US. Ah well. 
 
I picked that up at Strawberries.  Its called Queen Live at the Beeb.  It has 8 
tracks recorded in 1973 before they put out the first album.

Tim

    is this the real life?  is this just fantasy?
    caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
    open your eyes look up to the skies and see..
    I'm just a poor boy I need no sympathy
    becuase I'm easy come easy go little high little low
    anyway the winds blows doesn't really matter to me

    Mama, just killed a man
    Put a gun against hishead,
    pulled my trigger now he's dead.

    
    
     Did anyone else catch the Queen special on VH1 on Sunday? I really
    enjoyed it, a great video history of the band.
    
                                                     mike
    

    I was flipping through the channels and saw part of it.  Pretty
    interesting, I wish I could have seen the whole thing.  Queen's always
    been a band I enjoyed a lot!
    
    gh

    
    	Mother, life had just begun ...
    	now I've gone and thrown it all away.
    
    							GTI
    

    Mother, didn't mean to make you cry
    But I'll be back again
    This time tomorrow

    Carry on carry on cuz nothing really matters.

    too late, my time has come

    sent shivers down my spine

    Body's ach'in all the time!

    Mu-tha, ooo-ooo-oo-ooo, 
    didn't mean to make you cry 

    re.Jesse....I tink you missed some lines

    I realized it too late.  8^P

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH man, jESS.. YOU just hacked a good song..
    
    
    
    
    		wendy o'

    Goobye everybody
    I've got to go
    gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

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    Mu-tha, ooo-ooo-oo-ooo, 
    didn't mean to make you cry 

    
    	Sometimes I wish that I'd never been born at all.
    	Carry on, carry on ... 'cause nothing really matters.
    
    							GTI
    

    
    Messed that one up didn't ya GIT!!!
    
    IF I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carryon...coz
    nothing really matters.
    
    Flip

    
    Okay, so I hacked it up, but it still doesn't go "carry on...." after
    "I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all"
    
    ....there's a guitar solo.
    
    Flip

    
    
    	Boston's the Straw Dogs (formerly the FU's) did (do?) a killer cover
    of "Tie Your Mother Down".
    
    
    Paul

    
    I see a little sillouhette of a man
    shalamu shalamu will you do the fandango?
    
    

    i cant even** bgin to spell the next lines................
    
    	wendy o'
    
    		

    
    you cant spell ANYTHING so doesn't really matter, anyone can see :')
    
    thunderbolts and lightening, very very frightning
    

    Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Figaro
    Magnificococococococo

    I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.

    HE'S JUST A POOR BOY FROM A POOR FAMILY
    SPARING HIS LIFE FROM THIS MONSTROSITY!

    easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
    

    Bismillah!  No, we will not let you go (let him go!)
    
    Bismillah!  No, we will not let you go (let him go!)
    
    Will not let you go
                     let me go!
         Will not let you go 
                          let me
    
    Go-ooh-ooh-ooh
    
    FYI, the word is `Bismallah' and I think it is an arabic exclamation; 
    if you watch old films with the French foreign legion fighting arabs 
    in the desert, you can often hear the arabs shouting `Bismillah !' 
    at times of excitement or stress!

    'O mama me-a, mama me-a 
    MAMA ME-A LET ME GO!

    Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me
    
    
    		for me
    
    
    				FOR ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    [insert guitar interlude]
    
    FYI - Beelzebub is a Hebrew word for the "Prince of Demons".  The word
    is used interchangeably in the Bible with Satan, Lucifer, et. al.
    
    Mike

    Nothing really matters, anyone can see. 
    
    

    nothing really matters...

    
    
    Nothing really matterrs..........to me
    
    

    Any way the wind blows....
    
    

    clap clap clap
    
    
    ;*}
    
    

    God Save the Queen
    

    so why does Freddie Mercury want Beelzebub to set aside a demon for
    him?
    
    Mike

     Cause he thought that he might want a demon friend when he
    goes to hell?!?!?!
    
                          Frizkid
    

	
    Heaven and hell are fighting over the subject's soul, and the subject is
    not Freddie himself.

    Thanks prc.  I never paid attention to the lyrical theme long enough to
    know what it was about.
    
    Mike

    A lot of people have that problem when dealing with heavy metal lyrics.

    
    You know, some songs just gel nicely.  Queen wrote one of the best in
    that one! 
    
    Bismallah means in God's name ( I think )!
    
    But then it could be a corruption of Inshallah which means 'as God
    wills it'.  I would have thought though that they would be more likely 
    to shout 'Allah al Akhba'  which means (again I think) 'Allah is with
    us' when riding into battle.  Interpretations differ though!
    
    
    GAZ getting_slightly_cultural!
    

    Regarding the "devil set aside for me" thing, I didn't interpret it to
    mean that heaven and hell were necessarily fighting over his soul, but
    more along these lines.
    
    The subject (not Freddy Mercury) is not ASKING for one of these, he's
    saying that there's ALREADY one, presumably because of what he's done
    (killed a man).  I never took it to imply that he WANTED one!
    
    gh

    >Regarding the "devil set aside for me" thing, I didn't interpret it to
    >mean that heaven and hell were necessarily fighting over his soul, but
    >more along these lines.
    >
    >The subject (not Freddy Mercury) is not ASKING for one of these, he's
    >saying that there's ALREADY one, presumably because of what he's done
    >(killed a man).  I never took it to imply that he WANTED one!
    
    Thats what *I* thought...that there was a devil set aside for him in
    the sense that...  an answer to why all this crap was happening to him?
    
    B

>    Thats what *I* thought...that there was a devil set aside for him in
>    the sense that...  an answer to why all this crap was happening to him?
 
    Oh, that's a little different.  I didn't think it was the cause of his
    problems, but because he killed a man, they set one aside specially to
    torment him when he got there, or SOMETHING like that...   
    
    gh 

      Thanks gang, I just got to read this note. I sang the whole thing
    along with the notes. It was great. It started out my morning right.
    The only part I hate is that I wasn't around to help contribute.
    Definitely one of my more favorite Queen songs.
    						The KER
    

    Those of you that don't get Z Rock missed a heck of an interview/jam
    session this afternoon.  35 Million people across the land got to hear
    Brian May & his guitar live in the studio.  That dude can wail!
    
    I first tuned in while on my trek down here and "Tie Your Mother Down"
    was playing.  It sounded like a live recording at first because the 
    guitar was REALLY loud in the mix.  It turns out the engineers did it
    on purpose so we could really hear him rip it up.  He also played along
    with "Hit Man" (from the new album) and another old song that I think
    is on their first album ("Here I Stand...  Down in the City with Hoople
    and Me" etc.).
    
    The interview was really interesting too.  Highlights were:
    
    - He's been working on a solo album.  "Headlong" was going to be on it,
      but he gave the band first priority.  He says he has a collection of
      rockers like it, some instrumentals, and some power ballads.
    - He's joined forces with Guild again to get the Brian May model guitar
      out on the market again.  Things went sour between them when they
      started changing things without his approval.  He says they've worked
      it out.
    - He's in the states to keep in touch with the rock world and to get
      new ideas for his solo project.  He says rock musicians are still
      discriminated against in England.  They still have that "...get a
      proper job mentality" according to him.  May claims he can more
      identify with the States and feels more accepted here.
    - Talked about Def Leppard and the close friendship they've had
      together.  He's made some guest appearances with them in the past
      during concerts.  Also said Steve will be greatly missed.
    
    Mike

For those in the Boston area, there's a TV special on Queen this weekend,
being broadcast on Channel 56, Saturday at 7:00pm. I guess Axl Rose is the
guest host of the show....

alan

    Heard on the news today...
    
    
    Freddie Mercury is very sick with "double pneumonia" (whatever THAT is)
    as a result of HIV disease (read AIDS).  The future for the band does
    not look too great at this point due to Mercury's health.

    
    I was waiting for that to happen. Looks like it has. No wonder he
    didn't want to tour.

    
    Apparantly, a BBC (British Broadcasting Company - ie TV) top cheese is
    putting together a programme in memory of Freddy Mercury, so it can go 
    out on air as soon as he dies.
    
    Is this morbid or what?

    
    
    Rude!
    
    That sucks!
    
    Freddie Mercury is one of the best singers ever, IMO..  

    Not for much longer,mate. He looks as sick as a parrot. 
    
    I hate to say it,but i think he`s on the way out.
    
    JOe Strummer.
    

    >Freddie Mercury is one of the best singers ever, IMO..  
    
    Agreed!  Also, a great pianist and composer.  I mean, he's such a 
    dominant sound in Queen, I cannot see a replacement stepping in!!
    
    *Sigh*...Queen is one of my fav bands
    

    This makes me real sad!  Queen has always been one of my favorite bands
    as well.  They always had a good sound and put on a good show.  I
    remember seeing them back in '80 or '81 when they toured for "The Game"
    and they were phenomenal!  One of the best show's I've ever been to!

    gh

    
    The person I'm seeing loves Queen, she has just about all their
    releases. She's pretty bummed out to say the least.

    
    but as a friend of mine mentioned [ :) ] you could see it coming....
    
    even though it is a bummer...I love their music

"Mama.... life had just begun
 But now I've gone and thrown it all away
 Mama.... I don't wanna die..."

Sorta prophetic, ain't it?

alan
_severely_bummed_out_by_this_news_

>Sorta prophetic, ain't it?
    
    Yes, as is...
    
   "I've paid my dues time after time
    I've done my sentence, but committed no crime
    and bad mistakes I've made a few
    I've had my share of sad kicks in my face, but I've come through
    
    We are the champions, my friends
    and we'll keep on fighting til the end
    We are the champions...we are the champions
    no time for loosers cuz we are the champions...of the world"
    
    I've taken my bows and my curtain calls
    You've brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it
    ...I thank you all.
    But it's been no bed of roses...no pleasure cruise.
    I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
    and I'll never loose!"
    
    
    The song is so prophetic, it's scary!!  (moreso, because this song is 
    not about Sports, in case you didn't know)
    

    
    What is it about?

    What? No soccer? More people on this planet play it than any other
    sport. 
    
    "I was just a skinny lad, never knew no good from bad..."

    RE: /prc
    
    Freddy stated in an interview that We Will Rock You/We Are The
    Champions was written loosely as a gay anthem...basically, it's his
    outlook on the world as a gay man.  Funny, when Freddy wrote this song
    in 1978, no one knew what AIDS was, although now in 1991, Freddy has
    achieved one more gay reference with those lyrics he had not planned 
    on.  Of course, the song was misunderstood by the general public and
    adopted by sports teams as a sports anthem.
    
    RE: .240
    
    Chris, *please* don't rathole this serious discussion with your BS, ok? 
    Thank you.
    

    
    Thanks Buck, I didn't know that.

    
    Hey, man understood...I should have been thinkin' better....
    
    AIDS s*ck....
    
    Lighter news that may lift some spirits:
    
    Watching CNN last night... it seems the people that have developed AZT
    have discovered a new drug called 566 that will save or at least delay
    the effects of pnemonia/AIDS related sick people...and if I'm not
    mistaken that's what Fred has....they hoped to market it before the
    middle of next year...sooner would help...
    
    Chris

    "and bad mistakes, I've made a few"
    
    Guess so.  8^(

    Tacky ...
    
    I like it though .... 8^)
    
    "... and another one comes, and another one's gone ..."
    
    
    Scary0

    You guys would sh*t if you knew what that song says backwards!

    
    what song...we are the champions. Are you telling me there is
    subliminal messaging on Queen's album??

    
    
    Doesn't it say "Smoke P*t"?
    
                                             jazzzzzzzz

    Another One Bites The Dust backwards says "It's right to smoke
    marijuana"  I remember someone telling me that when I was in like, the
    5th grade, and I just had to find out myself.  Lo and behold, there it
    was...totally f*cked up my record...but who needs vinyl anyway?
    
    'pril (who doesn't even OWN a turntable...)

    
    
    I know when I was like in the 4th grade and that song came out...
    we had a BIG assembly about it and the banned us from using our
    radio's at school and even singing the song!!!!!!!!!!
    
                                                            jazzzzz

    re-1
    
    that is totally pathetic!What about the first amendmant(sp)
    
    
    
                                                   Staynz

      They had conferences with the parents and told them that radios were
    distracting us from learning...and also that we were being brain washed
    from the messages in music...I guess that know one made a big deal
    about it because the rule stood.
                                                           jazzzzzzz

    I also heard that Wierd Al's "Another One Rides The Bus" had a
    subliminal message on it. it said...
    
    
    It's fun to smoke salmon.
    
    
    Devil Dog who's kinda wondering how to fit a salmon in a cigarette 

    Re: .252
    
    Yeah I had heard that on the radio, and I had to find out for myself
    also!  Only it sounded more like "It's *fun* to smoke marijuana" to me.
    
    You know.... you don't have to ruin your record or needle..... if you
    have an old cassette player you don't need, carefully remove the tape
    head from the piece of metal that it's glued or welded to, and crazy
    glue it on upside down.  Your tape player will now play the side of the
    tape facing DOWN, BACKWARDS!!!
    
    |KS|
    
    

    
    RE: 252, 253
    
    jeeps I was only in 1st or 2nd grade, when this happened. I never
    realized this until now. And I used to listen to that stuff when it
    came out. Such words on such an impressionable mind 8)
    
    Chris

    
    re: .257
    
    um, actually a casette tape is one side four track, so...
    
    
    --------
    R -->
    -------- side 1
    L -->
    ========
    L <--
    -------- side 2
    R <--
    --------
    
    a casette tape looks something like that....
    
    also, also recording something backwards is called backmasking, not
    subliminal.  I heard the same thing about 'fun to smoke marijuana' when
    i listened to it, but i was influenced beforehand.  I can't say I
    definately would have heard it if I wasn't expecting it.
    
    
    

    re: .259
    
    What I meant was if you put the tape in for side A, it will play side B
    backwards.
    
    |KS|

    
    ah... now i getcha...
    
    

    
    Freddie Mercury confirmed the rumors that he has AIDS according to
    WPIX.

    I heard that too on the BBC news,the papers have been speculating about
    him for weeks.I feel sorry for the guy and I hope he gets the peace
    and dignity to live out the rest of his life as he wishes.
    
    
    
    
                                                Staynz

I found the following in today's Observer (A UK Sunday Newspaper). This
is (naturally) reproduced without permission, but I thought you'd want to
know.



Queen singer Mercury dying of Aids
==================================

Rock star Freddie Mercury is dying of Aids. In a terse statement issued
yesterday (Saturday) the lead singer of Queen said the time had come for
his 'friends and fans around the world to know the truth'.

He said: 'I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have Aids.
I felt it correct to keep this information private to date in order to protect 
the privacy of those around me. However, the time has now come for my friends
and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will
join me, my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this
terrible disease'.

Rumours swept the music industry earlier this month that the singer, aged 45, 
was close to death after he was visited at home by Brian Gazzarrd, head of
the Aids unit at London's Westminster hospital. Fans have been sending flowers
and cards to his Kensington mansion.

Mercury, an admitted bisexual, has lived as a recluse for most of the year. When
he last appeared in public two months ago he was guant and painfully thin. A
number of his closest friends have died from Aids, including his former manager.

Born Frederick Bulsara in Zanzibar, Mercury made his name with a six-minute
'magnum-opus' released in 1975, which proved the longest running British
number one record for 20 years. Sales of the record were boosted by a
promotional video -- revolutionary at the time. Disc jockey  Kenny Everett
hailed Queen 'the new Beatles' and Mercury a worthy successor to John Lennon.

His anthem "We are the Champions" was adopted as an official theme song by
the Labour Party at this year's conference.

One friend said last night: 'Freddie never boasted about his bisexuality... but
he was open about it. He bought a real gay style to public through his videos
with the leather bondage trousers and chains, although Queen were never a gay
band'.

Last year he signed a multi-million-pound contract with Hollywood Records. The
company has spent millions of pounds promoting Queen with limited success 
because of the lead singer's inability to take part in a promotional video.

    
    Well, the newspaper came pretty close.  He died sometime Sunday.
    
    

The paper that I used for that report was issued before the unfortunate event
of last night.

Keef.

    
    
    Well , I have some very sad news to report.
    
    It was announced that , Mr. Freddie Mercury died last night at his
    Bayswater , house in London , of Chronic - Pneumonia , the result
    of Aids.
    
    Mr. Brian May , has said that he has wished to be remembered by the
    Groups final song and Freddies swansong , " The Show Must Go On "
    
    Very Very Sad.
    
     

    
    Freddy died peacefully in his sleep last night from broncho-pneumonia
    as a result of aids.
    
    Flip

I would just like to add a few words to a man who will be remembered.

There have been numerous tributes to him already, as a master, a showman and the 
best. This is a sad day for us all, however we must take heart at the fact that 
Freddie is now at peace, and the only suffering is with his family, friends and 
fans.

All this news comes today, my Birthday, One of my presents being the Box of 
Flix, 2 video set of their greatest hits.

It's sad to know that there will NEVER be another like Freddie, and that Queen 
are effectively a thing of the past. But what memories they have left us...

Brynn.

    
    I just heard on the way in. 8-(

    Mega-bummer!!!
    8^(

    It was also reported that he spent the last year writing and recording
    music that was not to be released until after his death.  So, sometime
    in the near future expect either a Queen or a solo album to be
    released.
    
    Chris D.

This is a very sad day. One of the very best rock artists ever has left us.
I'll listen these days their last album just to hear again Freddie's great
voice.

Rest in peace Freddie

    God Bless Freddie Mercury.... 8(
    

    
    
    
    Is definitely a bummer! 
    
    Best stay outta the HUMOR notes file, the jokes are starting to
    break... in very poor taste.... 

    
    	RE: .276
    
    	Uh oh ... maybe I'd better cath up in there and see if Candy
    	needs any help cleaning the place out!!
    
    							GTI
    

    You shawn. Forward me the funny ones.
    
    

    
    
    
    Theres only a few of'em... I can see it starting though! 

    I was watching a music video programme on the tv at the weekend and 
    managed to catch Brian May's new single "Everything I do".The video was
    shot at the Spanish guitar festival,the backing band was phenomenal
    Neil Murray(bass),Cosy Powell(drums),Steve Vai(rhythm
    (sp)guitar).Didn't really recognise anyone else on stage but Joe
    Stariani and Joe Walsh were also there!!
    
    
                                                  Staynz

    Yeah, that was from the `Guitar Legends' thing .... some monster
    players for sure.  Joe Walsh looked like a bum ... but what's new ?
    
    Scary

VNS MAIN NEWS:                                     [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]
==============                                     [Reading, England           ]

    The 1975 single by Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, has regained the number 1
    spot in the pop charts. This is the first time a former number one has
    been re-released and gained the top spot a second time. It is just 3
    weeks since the lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury died.

    _1
    
    Not surprised...it's a killer fackin tune, man!

>    Not surprised...it's a killer fackin tune, man!
    
    Hmmm....  
    
    Interesting idea, I've never facked to it myself!

    
    Well, let's hope is remains at number one for Christmas...nice tribute.
    
    Flip

    ......and its about 150% better than most of the other shite in the UK
    charts!
    
                                              Staynz

    Speaking of `fackin' tunes' ... maybe we should start a topic on good
    tunes to `fack' to ...  8^)
    
    Scary

    
    	Not sure if the Rolling Stone article has been mentioned here
    	or not, but a box set might be on the way, including some new
    	stuff from Freddy.
    
    							GTI
    

    I`m sick to the death of this song.
    
    Joe Strummer.
    

  -1  Yup..



GAZ

    I wouldn't execpt anything less from those tattered Tinnitus ears of
    yours, Mr. Strummer!!
    
    So p!$$ off, already!

    Oh,come,come. It`s a classic song,but hearing it everytime the radio
    is put on is a bit much. It`s just not the sort of song which should
    be heard 3,000 times (being a bit epic,like).
    
    Joe Strummer.
    

    Queen have announced a Concert at Wembley Stadium, on Monday 20th.
    April.
    
    Paul.

    
    Yeah, they announced it last night at the Brit awards.  It's in honour
    of the life and career of Freddie.
    
    flip

    
    Who will be singing?

    Good question.  No one has a voice quite like Freddie....
    
             Frizkid
    

    
    It's a possibility that "guest" artists will do some of the
    singing, but nothing has been confirmed as yet.
    
    eg. Elton John, Phil Collins etc.
    
    Derzo.

    Extreme are opening the show...

    
    Figures. Nuno's lips must be considerably darker these days.

    -1
    
    ???

    I see said the blind man!

No one sounds like Freddie ??

How about the guy in Savatage ??

    
    	Surely you jest?
    
    							GTI

    
    As long as Roger Taylor is there they can fake the harmonies.

Article 34651 of alt.rock-n-roll:
From: uneec@sun.pcl.ac.uk (Ching Liu)
Subject: More info - QUEEN's live gig 20 April 1992
Date: 13 Feb 92 21:35:56 GMT

In response to people asking for more info about the Queen gig in a couple of
months time, here are some sparse details gathered.

The guests that may appear include :
Elton John, Guns N'Roses, George Michael, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart. Madonna
has been approached to take part apparently.

"It's gonna be bigger than Live Aid" - said an insider....hmmmmm!

One band that have been confirmed to take part are :   U2.
Another dead cert are gonna be Guns N'Roses...this is probably due to Axl's
infactuation with Queen and him meeting Brian May at the Gunner's Wembley date
last summer. (Axl also sang a couple of bars to "Sail Away Sweet Sister" that
night).

Tickets are priced at 25 pounds for standing on the pitch, 35 quid for
reserved seating and 50 quid for the Olympic Gallery.

Rgrds.
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    - It's strange that, the briefing does not mention two of the names that 
    have been bandied about for some time now :
    
    David Bowie and Phil Collins. 
    
    Can Phil, miss an opportunity like this ? - and what about his 1992 
    backing group ?  
    
    I'm regretably forced to become negative about all this, as 8 weeks was
    just too short a notice for me - having been booked, for that date at
    EuroDisney for the last 14 Months. 
    
    Paul. 

    I heard yesterday that the Queen show sold out in something like 3
    hours!
    
                                               Staynz

    
    72,000 tickets sold in 6 hours.
    
    
    
    8-)

    The International Fan Club, has just sent out letter's offering upto 6
    tickets per membership number. The last I heard they had several
    thousand members which suggests a good many of the 72,000 have been
    kept back. (Probably about 22,000 time EMI and Hollywood Records have
    had their greedy mittens on them !)
    
    Paul,.

    Physed...worked out a neat medley of Bohemian Rhapsody/Tie Your Mutha
    Down last night...very interesting!!

    Tie Your Mutah Down is an AWESOME tune!!!
    
    gh

    I hear Metallica has been confirmed for the "Freddie Gig".
    
    Shaping up to be a mega-bill of Live-aid proportions.
    
    Incidentally, is this show gonna be broadcast live by the Beeb/ITV ?
    
    Tom

    
    YES!@!!!!!!
    
    
    
    Stone Cold Crazy, Yo!
    
    
    

    As long as they DON'T book Warrant for this gig!!!
    
    

    
    Re: -.1
    
    
    	AMEN to that brother...
    
    

    It's a shame Freddie had to die because I think he had more talant in
    his left pinkie than ALL of Metallica!!
    
              Frizkid
    

    -1
    
    Agreed!

    
    true Freddie's vocal talents are supreme. But I doubt He could play the
    drums as well as Lars. Or the guitar as well as Kirk or James.
    
    
    

    What about Freddie's awesome piano playing???

    re:-1 I REALLY like his piano playing!!!
            Has anybody else seen the Queen video for Wayne's World/BR?
    It's the first time I've seen the video for BR...I like Wayne and Garth
    but I wish they weren't in the video. Queen was ROOLIN SUPREME!
    Heck....They even had the 'image' thing goin' down. 8)
    Kidding...Kidding.
    
                  Frizkid
    

    
    Also another true. he was fantastic in both aspects. 
    
    

    Mr. Mercury, was also quite reasonable on the gittar.
    
    Remember, Live Aids and "Crazy Little Thing" ?
    
    I hear that George Micheal is confirmed to sing ?! with Queen at
    Freddie's tribute,. I am begining to not regret so much being busy on
    other things that day. Namely, having been booked for Euro_Disney for
    the last 14 Months...
    
    Elton John - will be performing too (oh-er). I hear rumour that Freddie
    bought Elton a Rolls Royce in his dying day's. Whether that's true or
    not I dunno.
    
    I guess you just cannot turn back the clock - You just cannot turn back
    the time - Ain't that a shame,.
    
    PCW.
        

    taken without permission from Rolling Stone magazine, issue 627.
    
    
    THE INSIDER
    
    A night at the opera.  Guns n' Roses have agreed to perform at the
    Freddie Mercury tribute concert for AIDS awareness, to be held April
    20th at the 72,000-capacity Wembley Stadium, in London.  Expected to
    join G n' R are Elton John, George Michael and Extreme.  U2 won't
    appear live - the band will be touring America at the time - but is
    expected to participate, possibly via satellite.  At press time, talks
    with Madonna, Eric Clapton, Prince and Rod Stewart were taking place,
    although not all were being asked to perform.  The three-hour concert,
    which will be televised live, will feature twenty-minute sets by a
    half-dozen or so artists.  A forty-five-minute set by the remaining
    members of Queen will follow.  Tickets for the benefit sold out within
    six hours of going on sale.
    
    
    
    
    Goddess F.                       

I picked up the new (re-released) Queen video, called "We Will Rock You".
This is a bargain - an entire Queen concert, over 90 minutes long, and its
on sale at BJ's Warehouse for only $8.99!!!!

This is real similar musically to the 'Live Killers' album, except that it
also has material from 'The Game' on there. Otherwise, the arrangements (and
even the songlist) is pretty much the same. There's a ton of music here,
and most of their hits are represented:

"We Will Rock You (rocking version)", "Killer Queen", "Bohmeian Rhapsody",
"Tie Your Mother Down", "Get Down Make Love", "Play The Game", "This Thing
Called Love", "Sheer Heart Attack", "We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions",
"Keep Yourself Alive", "Dragon Attack", "Under Pressure", "Let Me Entertain 
You", "I'm In Love With My Car", "Love Of My Life", "Another One Bites the
Dust", and a bunch more! (Not to mention the guitar and drum solos that are 
thrown in.)

This really does capture the band at their peak! The performance (filmed at
the Montreal Forum) is excellent. The sound (Hi-Fi Dolby) is pretty good
for the era. My only complaint is that the lighting isn't that great, many
times its too dark onstage to get a real look at what Brian May is playing.
Oh well, nitpicking.

For the price, you can't go wrong in picking this up if you're a Queen fan!

alan

    Excellent...where is BJ's Warehouse, tho?

    
    	Buck,
    
    	There's one in Westboro MA and one in Salem NH.  A new
    	one is being built in Nashua.....
    
    	You'd have to buy a membership to get in though....
    
    	JJ
    

    >        You'd have to buy a membership to get in though....
    
    BLECK!

    
    
    	Well then you'll have shmooze with someone who has a 
    	membership!  =)
    

    I've got to get this............
    
           Frizkid..Who is on a mission!
    

    I just got off the phone with a BJ's customer rep.  Anyone can go into
    BJs on a one day pass.  They charge a 5% surcharge above what a regular
    member can get the item for.  So, they would add an extra $.45 onto the
    $8.99.
    
    Cheryl

    Anyone in here have the lyrics to Save Me?  I'm working it up as a
    piano thing, and there are a couple words I just can't hear.
    

    Ill check.... 8)

    Thanks Muffy!

    I bought the We Will Rock You videotape last night.
    
     My first impressions are:
    
     1) It's pretty old.....not much in the way of a 'show'.
     2)Freddie was ON! Not pleasing to the eyes but ON in the way of
    talant. I was just thinking through the whole thing how he said he
    was the best-looking man in rock. 
     3)It had all the GREAT songs and I was on the edge of my seat the
    whole time.
     4) BUY IT if you like Queen.
    
         Frizkid
    
    

    >    Brian May is simple AWESOME!  Beautiful phrasing!
    
    Agreed...I love his sound, playing, and compositional skills, although
    I feel Freddy was the real life in Queen, I won't deny any of the other
    members their musicianship, chops, and insight, which helped make one of 
    the best rock bands ever imvho.
    
    I think Queen, for a 70s band, blew doors on Led Zep...

>    I've been getting into this Classic Queen CD lately.  Kind of makes me
>    wish I went to see Queen when I had the chance (lots of opportunities
>    that I didn't cash in on).
    
    Don't know if you were living there then, but I saw Queen in Phoenix in
    '81 when they toured for "The Game".  ROOLIN show!!!  Compton Terrace
    was a great place back then, probably still is.
    
    gh

    
    re: .339
    
    Agreed!

    Woah...Pete and Buck agreeing???  
    
    TAKE COVER, THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!!

    I've also bought this album and find it amazing. 
        I find alot of the slow stuff really gets to me.
    
           Friz
    p.s. For what it's worth I like the original Stone Cold Crazy ALOT more
    than any version I've ever heard.
    

    >I know Brian May is a heavy VOX AC30 user, but I swear that's a
    >Marshall on "Headlong".  Anyone know for sure?
    
    A friend of mine had some really mint photos from the A NIGHT AT THE
    OPERA studio sessions, and you'll never guess what one of them showed
    in the center of the room...
    
    Yup, a 50wt Marshall half-stack!  Wonders never cease.

    
    IOs it true his guitar is channeled out?

Define "channeled out" ??

    
    
    He supposedly hollowed out parts of his guitar...hard to describe...

Got Live at Wembley '86 this weekend for $18.  Been listening to it quite a
bit.

Tim

    Hey Timbo,
    
    Is it the whole show or just the Queen segment?!?

    Oh, Wembley "86" .. never mind

    
    Rest In Peace Freddie.
    
    
    

    -1  Huh?

    re: .354
    
    Surely (don't call me surely!) he would be resting in Pieces by now..
    
    
    8*)
    
    Bonzo 

    
    Did he not die a year ago?
    
    
    

    
    He did.
    

    
    If I'm not mistaken it was on todays date.
    
    November 24th, 1991.
    
    

    Ahhh, I understand.  I somehow thought it wasn't in Nov?!?

    
    Read around notes .260 in this topic.
    
    The concert for life wasn't until December I believe that may be why.
    
    

    Buck,
    
    Who else is in the Brian May band besides the obvious guitar god?
    

    Find me somebody to love!

    
    I'm the invisible man!
    
    

>    Find me somebody to love!

    Find me someone to love- somebody somebody
    
    At least he had love...
    
    SueJ

    Her Windsor Castle home got burnt down and she`s going to have to
    pay tax!
    
    Have i got the hang of this?
    

>    Who else is in the Brian May band besides the obvious guitar god?

I believe he has Cozy Powell on drums and Neil Murray on bass. I forget the
keyboardist's name, but I guess he used to play (offstage) on Queen's tours.

alan

    
    
    369?
    
    Gotta love Queen... 

    	Bicycle races are comin your way
    	so forget all your duties, oh yeah!
    	Fat bottom girls, they'll be ridin today
    	so look out for those beauties, oh yeah!

    Buck, 
    
    Did you get the poster that went with that album?
    
    BJ

    Nope -- I'd have to ask "what poster?"

>    Did you get the poster that went with that album?

I used to have that! Too funny.....

alan

    It's about two hundred women wearing bicycle helmets, elbow & kneepads
    and cycling shoes (and nothing else!) lined on their bicycles for the 
    start of a race.
    
    I gave it to a friend of mine who was a cycling enthusiast (and the
    opposite sex, o' course ;)....)  Many people inquired where he got it.
    
    
    

    
         QQQQQQQQ  UU    UU  EEEEEEEE  EEEEEEEE  NN     NN
         QQ    QQ  UU    UU  EE        EE        NN N   NN
         QQ    QQ  UU    UU  EEEEEE    EEEEEE    NN  N  NN
         QQ QQ QQ  UU    UU  EE        EE        NN   N NN
         QQQQQQQQ  UUUUUUUU  EEEEEEEE  EEEEEEEE  NN     NN
                QQ
    
         Since the previous note on 18 Dec 92
         Now I'm here
         To say
         No time to lose you
         Cuase, you are my forever HERO
    
         - N - A - T -
         
                      
    

    
    	New Queen album comes out next month ... 11/7 or so.
    
    	Recorded before Freddie died.
    

    
    I predict mega sales!
    
    
    						ian

    My copy is as good as bought.
    
    I'm starting to really get into the later stuff which I used to hate.
    
    I've actually been learning tunes off "A Kinda Magic" in the hopes
    that I can get Metropolis to do some:  I think "One World" would make
    a killer opener.
    
    Also am in love with the instrumental version of "Who Wants to Live
    Forever".   Some incredible soulful playing by Freddie on that.
    
    	db

I hated Radio Gaga until I saw them doing it at Live Aid.  It was one of the
most appropriate tunes for that event.  Check out MTV's Rockumentary on Queen
when they talk about it.

They also play with a bit more of an edge live.  They can be a bit poppy.




Tim

    I don't think I will EVER come to "appreciate" Radio Gaga.
    
    It's right up there (or "down there") with Paul McCartney's "Silly 
    Love Songs".
    
    	db

Dave, I would have agreed with you until I saw the Rockumentary.

It was a very moving version of a song that had Wembley completely in awe

    Another Good Later One is"Show Must Go On".  IMHO

    The tune "Spread your wings" off of News of the World will aways be a
    favourite of MUFFY and myself...

    OH YES......

    
>    It's right up there (or "down there") with Paul McCartney's "Silly 
>    Love Songs".
    
>    	db
    
    I don't know about that, "Pipes of Peace" was far worse. Now, "Babe" 
    by Styx has me wretching violently. 
    
    Barry.

    
    	But at least "Cornerstone" redeems itself with "Lights" and "Why
    	Me".
    

    	Don't know if anyone's been watching VH1 the last couple of
    	nights, they've been running Queen concerts.
    
    	And last night they ran a special called The Queen Phenomenon.
    
    	Really interesting stuff...

    geez,I wished I'd known!Queen were a damn fine band.
    
    
    
    						Ian

    ...and the name of the band was so appropriate....!...;')........./K
    

    	Well, did you watch last night?
    
    	Queen live in Rio, aired at 9 pm EST.
    
    	Whajathink?