Musicians and Another Subject

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I was watching a TV show, documentary, night or two ago about the band Queen. Never mind the guys' uhh, preferences, it was about the music that so many of us grooved to when I was in high school.

EDIT: I hit "Submit" when I meant to hit "Advanced" to make paragraphs.

Freddie Mercury, all that stuff. To hear the surviving members talk about each and every song like it was a child or something. They were talking in terms I just will never get.

I do believe ...if all the rest of us are on a bus to somewhere, "musicians" are on a space ship to Venus. I mean....they're talking but it's a different language. I'll even bet if you put probes on folks and did a study, and showed us all the same vivid photo of something, the musicians would declare it's a different color from what the rest of us see.

And I was gonna do another subject to go with that, but right now I think I won't.

[studemax]

AND?
You gonna draw any conclusions?
Because typical posts from P usually have about 10 lines minimum.

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AND?
You gonna draw any conclusions?
Because typical posts from P usually have about 10 lines minimum.

Wow, good shot Stude, there's 10!

[tardis454]

Freddie's a great frontman.

[Deaf Bob]

They play "WE WILL ROCK YOU" at many derbys!
That stomp stomp clap is hard to miss.. Especially when it starts and I wonder wth is the stands shaking for...

[Barry Donovan]

They play "WE WILL ROCK YOU" at many derbys!
That stomp stomp clap is hard to miss.. Especially when it starts and I wonder wth is the stands shaking for...

about the only song I remember..
until reminded of others by the same group.

that diversity, its all but gone. Even led zeppelin slithered around on stage like some half snake man woman.

maybe the "gangstas" scared all that off.

it is funny, all those groups that were like that, they add a tease of prophetic, as entertainment. Maybe they drove crazy people crazy, abnd gangstas to take over the music.

I am one who added a pink floyd riff to some queens NY rap melody..

no need to be judged. I started off in music young, very colorful places.

As a rather selfish declaration, as music was once a big goal of mine heading into the teen years...(I am 41 today)

I ponder a similarity as nine inch nails as my own outcome.

[NewEnglandRaceFan]

That's why they made it big.. every song was their baby.. and they treated them as such.. Queens songs were odd, but not as odd as zappa's .. Queen" I want to ride my bicicle" zappa, "I'm a dancin' fool" Mike Meyers brought queen more fans from the gen after the ablums were long since out of radio play

[DanStokes]

Freddy Mercury had The Voice (I don't know how many octaves!) but Brian May is probably the most underrated guitarist in recent memory. Also a fine musician all around. I'm not sure if his guitar skills were all that special or if he just knew how to play off Freddie's voice. Either way, just delicious.

Dan

[NewEnglandRaceFan]

Freddy Mercury had The Voice (I don't know how many octaves!) but Brian May is probably the most underrated guitarist in recent memory. Also a fine musician all around. I'm not sure if his guitar skills were all that special or if he just knew how to play off Freddie's voice. Either way, just delicious.

Dan

GEOFF TATE HAS/HAD 6+(he can make dogs cry) OCTAVES,, iirc freddy had 5, rob halford had 6 and bruce Dickerson had 6
May, knew how to play as part of the band.. and feed off the others.. instead of the band feeding off the lead guitar.. Loverboy and honeymoon suit have the same type guitarist.. that when they get the chance to show off. you are like where did that come from... Rick Emmitt is another fret master that even tho he had solo's in songs never showed what he could do. until the spiral note book album.. and tour..

[Deaf Bob]

Hmmm? I read somewhere that Queen did a fair number of soundtracks and other stuff besides be the band "Queen"
Their songs were used in many movies and tv shows..
I couldn't find where they wrote and performed specific soundtracks other than "Flash Gordon"

[pdub]

When I started this thread and then goofed it up, and Stude called me on it...whatta call. Stude said how many lines I was going to type. And I was typing while he posted that, and he was absolutely right. Stude by now has me nailed and figured out more than most folks here I've actually met in person. Now, that's Bangshift. Yep.

The "other" subject that I avoided was...the reason I avoided it was, I couldn't tie it into the Queen show at the time, don't know how I was gonna do it. Make a comparison of some kind.

The subject is/was, the mood here, looking at all the threads/posts recently, the overall flow here has somehow changed. And I'm probably wrong. And I won't say how anything has changed overall.

I'll just ask, does anybody else feel anything different?

WAIT - I know....I was going to tie it all to perceived or "felt" stuff. Yep, that's what the connection was gonna be. "Musicians" "perceive" stuff. And while I'm not one of those folks, I perceive me "perceiving" stuff, something different.